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.
Eyes on the war in Ukraine have been dragged from the frontlines to political battles in Kyiv. It's Day 2 of public protests against Zelenskyy's siding with a Soviet-era General against a young Defence Minister.
This is Friday's daily thread:
The People of Ukraine mobilised on to the streets yesterday, for the first time since forcing Zelenskyy to back down over his attempts to silence NABU, the anti-corruption agency.
But lots more news too on Thursday. Click the link to see what you missed
Please go easy on me today as I start the daily thread on Day 1604. I think I am suffering from DIMS.
Double Incompetent Management Syndrome - resulting in losing a football match and a very good, well respected reformer as Head of Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.
OK, let's go..
There's already huge fall out over the make up of 🇺🇦 new cabinet, particularly the sacking of Mykhailo Fedorov as Defence Min.
The rumours were true. Zelenskyy confirmed his decision last night.
Ukraine still had time to attack a 🇷🇺airbase.
Catch up here
Here's the more traditional link, back to the start of yesterday's thread. Saturday was a day which saw more Russian ships fail to outrun Ukraine's drones and the establishment of the "Magyar Triangle"
Loads of news yesterday, and you should check it out
Half of June has already gone and still no resolution to the war in Ukraine. But Moscow is reaping what is sows.
This is THE daily thread for Tuesday - all the news every single day.
We've reached Day 1574
I keep garnering new followers, but X keeps taking followers away without them choosing to unfollow.
But daily views of the thread are slowly increasing again, now around 12k a day.
But we used to be at 25-30k