Thread by @anno1540

Ann MacNaughton: ( a friend to me )

DAY 275 of Ukraine’s heroic defense of its homeland ended with Kherson city still under heavy air attack and after yet another Russian missile barrage cut power and water across Ukraine.
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It’s nearly 8 am Thursday morning now, hopefully with Russia about to be sidelined from its occupancy of the former Soviet Union’s seat on the UN Security Council.
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Who else thinks that seat should rotate among Former Soviet Union nations? Ukraine to representing FSU starting now? THAT would be a good start on a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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NYT WEDS: “outages struck Kyiv & the surrounding region, as well as Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa, and Kharkiv. Ukrainian Half of Moldova, whose grid is tied to Ukraine’s, also lost power.
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by now, Russia has damaged almost all of Ukraine’s thermal power plants, large hydroelectric power plants.
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RU’s missile attack Wednesday on a hospital maternity ward killed a newborn baby in the Zaporizhzhia region where the big nuclear power plant is situated.
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https://twitter.com/euromaidanpress/status/1595339252023595010?s=46&t=YN_XwmHpGh2TwJ2UaIh0rQ

AFU General Staff reported that Russian forces on Weds struck residential buildings, thermal power plants, and substations in the city of Kyiv as well as in:
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Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Zaporizhia provinces. UKR, RU, and social media sources claimed RU forces also struck targets in Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, and Kharkiv provinces.
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Ukrainian officials reported widespread disruptions to energy, heating, and water supplies as a result of the Russian strikes. understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r….
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🇺🇳 On Tuesday, the annual session of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly adopted a series of resolutions that urged member nations to “state clearly that the Ru state under the current regime is a terrorist one”, and to establish mechanisms for reparations & a war crimes tribunal
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🇪🇺 Weds, the European Parliament declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Earlier this month, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (“PACE”) did the same.
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🇺🇳 At Ukiraine’s request, the UN Security Council met at 4pm Weds in Emergency Session. President Zelenskyy addressed tthat meeting over Russia’s objection:
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“Energy terror is an analogue of the use of weapons of mass destruction.

“When the temperature is below zero outside, and tens of millions of people are left without electricity, heat, and water as a result of Russian missiles hitting energy facilities, /13

this is an obvious crime against humanity.”
Regarding Russia’s veto power on the UN Security Council, where it occupies the permanent seat of the Former Soviet Union, he said:
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“The terrorist state should not participate in any voting on the issues of its aggression, its terror.”
president.gov.ua/en/news/ukrayi….
AGREED ❗️
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🇷🇺 🏴‍☠️ Accordimg to the DC think tank Institute for the Study of War (“ISW”), the Kremlin again is believed to be setting “info conditions for a false-flag attack”,
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this time in the Belgorod province in Russia. Belgorod is located near the Russia-Ukraine border, along the upper Donets River,
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@ISW reported last night that this anticipated ‘false-flag operation’ likely is an effort to regain public support for the Kremlin’s war, understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
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,“Russian claims of an imminent Ukrainian attack on Belgorod Oblast are absurd and only aim to scare the general public to support the war. Ukraine has no strategic interest in invading Russia and no ability to do so at such a scale.” understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
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BATTLEFIELD UPDATE

Kenneth Gregg’s Wednesday update said
⚡️the Armed Forces of Ukraine (“AFU”) are taking more control on the ‘Russian’ side of the Dnipro River,
⚡️Wednesday saw a massive drone attack on RU positions in Crimea, and
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⚡️ AFU’s newly established brigades are getting ready to start heading towards “the front” (wherever that may be, with operational security still keeping a tight lid).
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🇺🇸 A bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators — many of whom sit on the Armed Services Committee — is pushing for USA transfer to Ukraine of advanced MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can carry Hellfire missiles. defensenews.com/congress/2022/….
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“HELLFIRE”: “developed for precision drone strikes against other target types, especially high-value targets. . . . It has a multi-mission, multi-target precision-strike ability and can be launched from multiple air, sea, /23

and ground platforms, including the Predator drone.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_H…
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“Their letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday objected to “press reporting“ that the Pentagon has opted not to send the drones to Kyiv and pressing him for more information. defensenews.com/congress/2022/….
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CNN reported last week that the Defense Department is studying potential modifications to the Gray Eagle drones that would lessen the concern about technology falling into Russian hands should the U.S. send them to Ukraine. cnn.com/2022/11/14/pol….
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#CloseTheSkies
#RussiaIsATerroristNation

Slava Ukraini!
Herojam Slava!
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#SlavaUkraini
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