A lot of interesting news came in late last night, including explosion and deaths at a gunpowder factory in #Russia and freedom for two more villages in #Kherson.
If you want to catch up on yesterday's stories, here's the start of Saturday's thread:
After some quiet days, numbers are moving up again quite rapidly in #Ukraine's daily total of losses incurred by #Russia in its' disastrous war.
Before the end of October we should reach 70,000 Russian troops killed.
2 more helicopters downed as well as many drones/missiles.
The US is raising the alarm about what will happen to world oil supplies and prices "in a few weeks" when Europe's sanctions fully bite at the Terrorist State.
A shadow fleet of tankers ready to try to bust the restrictions on #Russia's ships.
In Occupied #Enerhodar an hotel has been hit with 3 shells.
#Russia says an American M777 howitzer caused the devastation but they claim there are no victims.
The building is at the entrance to the town. Invaders have repeatedly taken over hotels in the occupied territories.
Last night #Ukraine arrested the owner of a well known manufacturing company Sich.
Security Services have now announced that Vyacheslav Bohuslaev and another employee are charged with collaboration with #Russia.
Media allege Sich illegally supplied goods for🇷🇺 attack aircraft.
#Ukraine shot down 16 more of #Iran's "Shahed-136" UAVs overnight, according to its Air Force Command.
11 of the "Kamikaze" attack drones were intercepted over #Mykolaiv oblast in particular, although the region suffered heavy damage in cruise missile attacks...
This time yesterday morning Kalibr cruise missiles hit critical infrastructure in #Mykolaiv, but this morning it was back to anti-aircraft S300 missiles used to hit residential buildings.
Here a 5 storey apartment block destroyed by #Russia
Overnight, the illegal administration in #Luhansk reported that 8 #HIMARS missiles had been fired on the Occupied territory.
Six were said to have arrived in #Novoaidar with others in #Zolote and #Svatove - yet somehow not one photo of damage or the downed American missiles.
A new dashcam video has been published on the internet showing the moment one of #Russia's military jets flew into a tower block in #Yeysk, #Krasnodar region last Monday.
15 people died in the incident.
#Bakhmut, #Donetsk region.
More shelling, more damage.
Little change in the front-line with #Russia supplying huge pressure from the south and east.
Also in #Zaporizhzhia, the armed forces of #Ukraine claim to have killed around 100 Russian fighters and destroyed 5 units of weapons + military equipment in strikes on #Russia's positions in the occupied part of the region.
The Scum count is really high right now.
This is #Russia's state propaganda news channel, still broadcast by many countries around the world, and not banned in #UK though no longer transmitted via satellite.
I've never seen helmet-cam footage of a pilot surviving being shot down. Here one of #Russia's air force serviceman ejecting moments from death in #Ukraine a few months ago.
Remember the #Israel strikes on #Syria a couple of days back? Straight after Israel refused to send defensive weapons to #Ukraine... well it may be the next best thing, destroying Russian weapons/drones before they even get their hands on them!
One of #Russia's best known war-propagandists, Semyon Pegov has been wounded in #Donetsk.
Founder of WarGonzo, he's previously been arrested for being drunk/abusive in a Moscow hotel, caught faking reports but has now supposedly just come round from surgery after this incident
Nothing to do with the war, but it did happen in #Moscow, at a warehouse for internet store Wildberries.
I shouldn't laugh, oh too late! LOL
More newly mobilised Russian troops enjoying life in the "second army of the world"
These conscripts say they were left in a hangar without food, water, electricity or heat.
1/2 This morning, not just Kyiv badly attacked.
In fact, at the moment, more people are known to have died in Dnipro then the capital and that's where I'll start.
5 killed and 25 injured there plus 3 more wounded in Kamianske in the wider region.
Hello again.
Day 1552. A holiday in many countries "Whit Monday" in most, Spring holiday in others (inc UK) and Memorial Day in the U.S
But after 4 years and 3 months, memorials are still being made in Ukraine because our leaders, collectively, let them down.
Here's the daily🧵
I'm still not quite sure where Saturday ended and Sunday began - the days merged into one for me.
What I do know is there were >120 new posts over the 48 hours, that's an average one story every 24 minutes, over the entire two days.
1/2 There are new murderous attacks by Russia already today in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Explosions have been heard in the city of Dnipro after an alert for ballistic missiles. Smoke can be seen, but no initial news of widespread damage, so hopefully air defence did its job.
Here we go again then. Day 1550 of Ukrainians wondering if they, their home, their relatives, will be bombed today.
About 16 million people have been born in the US and 15m in the EU since Russia started its full invasion of Ukraine.
Welcome to Saturday's daily🧵
Friday was a cracking thread, with vodka cheaper than a single tomato, legless Russians celebrating, Moscow claiming a college in occupied Luhansk wasn't housing Rubicon pilots and their drones and Ukraine causing more mayhem deep inside Russia.
#UkraineSanctions have been successfully employed again!
Lots of action in Russia last night, even before I closed the thread. Around 8am this morning another Ukraine strike in Perm' region, a distance of about 1700km.
Putin's gone from the expected capture of Kyiv before the end of Feb 2022 & annihilation of Ukraine's leaders & the country's culture, to begging China to keep it afloat & trying to quell dissenters at home as bombs fall!
The daily🧵
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Wednesday 20 May is Day 1547 of Putin's catastrophic full invasion of its peaceful neighbour.
Russia has lost a large part of a generation of men - dead, dying or those who managed to emigrate. Reserves spent, economy collapsing.
Putin, not Zelenskyy, is Russia's biggest enemy
Let's start the daily thread in the traditional manner with the link for the start of Tuesday's thread.
A lot more destruction on both sides, as Putin grovels in China. Click, but remember to come back for today's news...
Welcome to THE daily thread on Day 1546 of the war.
Russia is showing small signs of desperation.
More economic woes, more Ukraine air attacks deep inside Russia, a desperation to strengthen ties with allies and having to make new nuclear threats.
All the news in one place:
Here's the link back to the start of Monday's thread for those catching up.
A day when Russia lost more equipment, including a helicopter, but also bombed the hell out of Dnipro, while the EU looks for a lead negotiator to meet Putin.
One thing I learned last night I'll repost here as very few people saw it last night, and for Ukraine watchers it's very interesting and potentially important.
Will Zelenskyi dare fire Zaluzhnyi so he has no platform in the run up to an election?