Recently in #Bashkortostan they've found another way to sabotage #Russia's rail network, and no explosives are needed.
Forcing open relay boxes and setting light to them will severely hamper the movement of freight for a while. These boxes control automated signalling etc.
#Ukraine now has #NASAMS, the CEO of the manufacturer confirms.
Two are already been installed, with 6 more promised by Washington later.
But CEO of Raytheon Technologies, Greg Hayes, admits they're blocked from sending the Patriot missile system to Kyiv just yet:
📹CNBC
#Russia's soldiers continue to sacrifice themselves for a small, old man in a Moscow bunker in huge numbers.
As I precited a while ago, the total will reach 70,000 (#Ukraine estimate) this weekend.
Almost no UAV attacks last 24 hours so drone numbers down, but tanks/APVs well up
More empty pedestals in #Kherson as #Russia's invading criminals continue to steal anything for scrap or resale. This time the legendary 18th century military leader and Prince, Grigory Potyomkin's statue has been swiped in the Occupied city.
Turns out the "Brazilian" arrested yesterday by Norwegian police had studied in #Canada and even helped in an election campaign in the capital #Ottawa for politician Sean Devine who said he's 'shocked'
The exiled Mayor of #Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, claims y'day's car bombing in the occupied city was NOT due to #Ukraine's Resistance, but a continuation of a war between #Russia's army & the FSB.
He says Rogov is pro FSB, Balitsky pro Army. This was outside Balitsky's office:
New video of the destruction of a rail pontoon bridge over the Oskol River in #Kharkiv oblast.
#Russia's troops built this at the end of June to carry supplies to Kupyansk and Izyum. #HIMARS took care of it in moments.
Tomorrow will be 90 days since the massacre of #Ukraine Prisoners of War in a prison in Donetsk.
A reminder that #Russia has still refused to allow independent investigators, @UN or @ICRC to visit the #Olenivka jail, which they likely bombed themselves:
Bit of a scandal in #Russia where TV figure, socialite and daughter of the first democratic mayor of St Petersburg has fled to #Lithuania just as FSB arrived at her house in #Moscow.
Her commercial director Kirill Sukhanov & ex-Tatler Editor Arian Romanovsky have been arrested.
oops, forgot to say in the previous tweet it is Kseniya Sobchak, one time associate of Navalny
It's reported yesterday she booked tickets to fly to Dubai and today booked flights to Turkey. Seems it distracted the FSB as she drove into Belarus and then made her way to #Lithuania
Another army enlistment office set on fire in #Russia.
Unfortunately no photos of the firebombing in #Kyzyl in #Tuva region, but it has been confirmed by the state.
Free RU media think it's 21 such attacks since mobilisation and 54 since 24 February.
It's reported @rafaelmgrossi, Head of the @iaeaorg will tomorrow discuss the creation of a safe zone around the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant with the UN Security Council.
#Russia enhancing its story about the "dirty bomb" theory
Apparently there's also a dummy rocket now! The Kremlin tries to convince people #Ukraine intends to fire the rocket, filled with radioactive material, then shoot it down over Chernobyl, blaming🇷🇺
Even as recently as this morning, #Russia's MOD and war bloggers were saying that #Ukraine advances on the village of Nevske in #Luhansk oblast, had been repelled.
However in what remains of the admin building, the famous blue and yellow is raised to replace the "aquafresh"
Head of the regional council, Oleksandr Samoilenko says museums are being emptied and the Occupiers even removed an irradiator used to treat cancer patients in the city
Meanwhile Soviet General Vasiliy Margelov is the latest statue to disappear
Still in #Kherson, evidence of the new defensive positions put in place by #Russia.
Looks like the invaders will throw a few mobilised recruits in here when #Ukraine's army arrives to liberate the city. Hopefully it's of use to Ukr Intel!
📷TG just_visotsky
A big hit and bigger fire on the railway at #Shakhtarsk.
This is a small town east of #Donetsk city about halfway between Donetsk and the border with #Russia.
There are unconfirmed reports tonight of explosions in #Belarus.
A couple of reports mention locals hearing loud bangs in #Osipovichi which is in north-west Belarus, approximately midway between the capital #Minsk and the border with #Lithuania.
Did someone say mobilisation in #Russia had stopped?
In the same way Russia said it was leaving Syria and wasn't in Crimea and was returning units at Ukraine's border to base and not attacking!
Call up papers handed out in shopping centres in #Ivanovo
... and following on from the previous tweet and not so far away, news from #Yaroslavl that men were being intercepted as they turned up for work at a factory.
They must now swap work and home life for quite a high probability of death for #Putin's ego
A lot of #Russia's drones seem to be falling under #Ukraine's air defences tonight.
There have been three waves of the Iranian made "kamikaze" drones across the south of the country in the past couple of hours. Multiple reports of successful air defence in different cities.
In #Odesa (#Odessa) a drone can clearly be seen receiving a hit from #Ukraine's air defence.
The only problem is the expense of the anti-aircraft missiles.
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I've literally just finished Friday's thread, with an extraordinary flurry of late news from inside Russia rounding off another bumper thread, stretching to 60 posts.
A late start to today's thread on Day 1216 of Russia's war of choice, after another late finish due to the latest murderous attack on civilians by Putin's horde.
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Kyiv was again the target overnight, details at the end of yesterday's thread.
But a lot of important and interesting stories Sunday, including how the animal kingdom took revenge on one traitor, but more pain for Ukraine as a training ground is again hit
Zelenskyy is visiting my shores today, speaking with Sir Keir Starmer to discuss joint defence protection, which will probably see an agreement on manufacturing.
Ukraine's leader points out the hypocrisy of Russia, condemning the US strikes in Iran then hours later hitting Kyiv
Russia displayed outright Nazism + Fascism on Friday.
From killing in Ukraine, more utterings from the war-criminal in chief, to locking up young women and taking legal action against small independent new sites.
Thursday 19 June is Day 1212 of the conflict in Europe.
Russia continues to make ground, expending its soldiers at will for a few more metres as Ukraine fights for its existence having been shamefully let down by the USA.
I'm here every single day, so here's today's daily 🧵
Wednesday saw the death toll in Kyiv rise throughout the day, ending at double the number it started at. Then later Putin cynically told journalists they only hit military targets
Elsewhere another traitor to Ukraine met his fate - click here to catch-up
Trump is now 150 days late in promising "peace within 24 hours" of taking office.
It's also, as @andrii_sybiha points out, 100 days since🇺🇦 agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, as tRUmp demanded.
Russia did what it always does: delay, lie, kill.
No time to waste. Kyiv is under the most immense attack.
It's Day 1210 of Russia's increasingly desperate attempt to eviscerate Ukraine and all Ukrainians.
Here's the daily thread, continuing to document the night attacks...
Just gone 04:35 in Kyiv.
A hellish night is not yet over.
Apartment blocks, student dormitories hit.
6 districts of Kyiv city damaged, plus other injuries in the wider region
Here's the link for Monday's thread with all the last half showing the chaos:
If you're just waking up, here's an idea of what's happened to Kyiv while you were sleeping.
Ukraine's capital has not slept.
Many are without homes due to Russia's ongoing war crimes and one person, an American, has lost his life during the attack.