Day 2️⃣4️⃣8️⃣
Here is the daily #Ukraine news thread for Saturday 29 October, documenting the important news around #Russia's war of choice on its neighbour.
Missed something y'day? Need a round up? Scroll here:
Yesterday #Russia declared mobilisation finished with 300,000 poor souls forcibly called up.
But wait... a Russian 'war blogger' quoting 🇷🇺 MOD sources says the real figure of frontline fodder is 700,000
And the only reason they paused drafting is because of lack of transport!
It's been a reasonably quiet evening and night so far in #Ukraine️. However, the usual places are being pounded.
#Sumy oblast was subjected to over 40 missiles from MLRS while at the other end of the country, the #Nikopol area is being hit again.
Update on the attack on #Wagner group I reported late last night.
#Ukraine now confirms that in #Maiorsk, about 15km south of #Bakhmut, about 300 invaders who were preparing for an attack were wiped out by missile strikes.
No hard proof, but a lot of circumstantial evidence that #Ukraine may have suffered quite heavy losses in #Pavlivka in #Donetsk.
#Russia's aircraft helped an offensive by the invaders from #Vuhledar. This is approximately midway between #Donetsk and #Mariupol'.
Back to #Crimea and #Russia of course denies the frigate "Makarov" has been hit.
They do say a minesweeper 'Ivan Golubets' received minor damage. "The attacked ships are involved in ensuring the security of the grain corridor for export of agricultural products from #Ukraine."
Britain was responsible for this morning's attack on #Russia's fleet in #Crimea.
That's in addition to sabotaging #NordStream pipelines, while being in southern #Ukraine.
Who makes this stuff up?
Occupied #Donetsk has Swine Fever.
Pork is a very popular and relatively cheap meat in almost all of #Ukraine and #Russia.
As yet the Kremlin has not blamed American or British biolabs🤡🤡
Also in #Donetsk air raid sirens have been sounding for a while. Rpeorts of explosions in Kyivskyi district of the occupied city, and out towards #Makiivka (RU: #Makeevka), this is #Shchyhlivka district (RU: #Shcheglovka)
The prisoner exchange has happened, with 52 freed POWs returning to #Ukraine
The men are from a wide range of services in the Armed Forces and include the head of the surgical department of the #Mariupol military hospital, who was in #Azovstal
Recently the owner of the Wagner group, and increasingly influential Progozhin has been highly critical (and ordered his followers to be) of Aleksandr Lapin, who commanded #Russia's troops in #Donbas/#Kharkiv.
Today he's been sacked.
Wagner is winning the war vs 🇷🇺 MoD
Today's developments have, if possible, even worsened relations between the warring countries.
Chair of Britain's Defence Select Committee, Tobias Ellwood has warned to expect an 'escalation' from #Russia after 'the false flag'
Here's #Ukraine's response:
In #Orsk, just 10km from the border with #Kazakhstan there were reports of an explosion and fire at a tyre store. Later authorities said a car crash and caused the blast.
#Kherson - #Russia's Occupiers have stripped the city of statues, medicines, cancer machines, dialysis machines, ambulances, doctors, the people are forced to leave too and now even the city's buses.
This was the scene at a cold storage plant in #Dmitrov
86 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze which broke out in the shrimp production shop!
Chemical experts were called to monitor for harmful gases.
Hello again. Day 1203 of Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine
Anyone with a brain slightly larger than that of a chihuahua knows it. Russian history and Putin's own words spelt it out, but peaceniks, Naziniks and idiotniks are still in denial
More proof coming up in🧵for Day 1203
Yesterday's thread lasted well over 24 hours, but nothing to be proud of.
I know I'm crazier than you, and thankfully you all have lives to live. So you will be needing the link to the start of yesterday's thread so you can catch up on what you missed..
Day 1201 of Europe's war.
But the pre-conflict hybrid war has already been waging worldwide for years. Hacking, election interference, sabotage - we're all targeted by Russia, even if we don't all realise it yet.
Ukraine can stop the war criminal with our help.
Welcome to the🧵
Maybe Sunday will bless Ukraine with a quiet day?
Saturday was another full-on journalistic stint, catching sleep when I could.
Kharkiv shattered overnight then a daytime attack on a kids' railway.
Operation Web 2.0 & a factory hit in Russia.
It's all ⬇️
1/2 Early this morning, just before the end of the previous thread I showed the Azot chemical plant in Tula region on fire.
Not long afterwards, Ukraine hit another facility, this time in Russia-controlled 🇺🇦
This is the Hydromash factory in Melitopol' in occupied Zaporizhzhia.
Day 1194 of Putin's war, though let's remember the initial invasion came 11 years ago.
Since February 2014, not once have western sanctions or military support come close to being enough to restore justice and defeat evil.
Welcome to THE daily 🇺🇦 thread for Sunday 1 June
A new day, a new season. Summer officially started, but nothing is likely to change just yet.
Y'day's thread had some great stories, but everything paled into insignificance when justy before midnight came news of a disaster in Russia's Bryansk region:
Another night of no sleep yet - dramatic action in Moscow.
Time to start another daily thread covering everything to do with Putin's disastrous 'operation' in Ukraine.
It's 5am in Russia and Ukraine, on Day 1190 of the war.
Let's begin...
I've still NEVER missed even one day since the start of Russia's full invasion.
But yesterday's thread ended up being one of the most lively. Another near 50-post story of the day, and if you like seeing "bavovna" in Russia, go right through to the end!