#Ukraine: Today's updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Horrific Russian attack on central #Kherson today on Christmas Eve, 1 rocket landing nr a supermarket. 10 killed, 50 injured, 17 seriously. Christmas Eve! #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. UA artillery are now bombarding Russian positions that fired on #Kherson today from across the #Dnipro River. Better news from #Bucha. Japan has donated 3 powerful generators & 6 heaters - & McDonald's reopened today! (Pics: @NikaMelkozerova & @ToddKolod) #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Suspiciously, Russian forces in the occupied #Kherson town of #Hornostaivka have imposed a curfew from Dec 25th-Jan 3rd, telling residents to not leave their homes. New offensive? #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. Zelensky's message to Christians today: "We will not wait for a miracle, we're creating one ourselves." Previously UA & Russia, celebrated Christmas on Jan 7th. This yr Ukraine Orthodox Church has allowed parishes to celebrate on 25th. Next move forward? #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. UA Border Guards say there is no sign of troop or equipment movement nr #Belarus border. Russia has tried to raise alarm by filling trains with troops & sending them to Belarus border - & then back again. An old WW11 carousel tactic says UA Intel Chief! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. UA Border Guards better look out for this one! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. Reported Dec 23rd, attack on former Russian Deputy PM & head of space agency #RosCosmos, Dimitry #Rogozin at #Donetsk. Latest info suggests shrapnel took his penis! Someone said UA "Precision Guided Munitions live up to their name". ( I'm not laughing!) #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. UA Eastern Command says 90 Russians were killed & 100 injured nr #Bakhmut yesterday (24th). (Total Russians killed in all UA sectors on 24th, 480). Russia launched 225 attacks on the #Bakhmut sector yesterday using multiple weapons - but it still holds. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. Nr #Bakhmut, reliable info says Russian troops were pushed back from #Ivangrad & #Optyne suburbs on 24th, tactical gains. UA forces overall, destroyed 8 RU armoured vehicles, 4 artillery systems, 4 multi-rocket systems & 8 drones. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 10. Four Russian soldiers have been sentenced to 11 years in jail for brutally torturing 3 UA war veterans in #Borova, #Kharkiv region, including beating them with a hammer. #tweet10 (Pic: #GlasnostGone)
#Ukraine: 11. UA Intel Chief, Kyrylo Budanov, says Russia has received 1,700 drones from Iran, used 540 already & most were shot down. UK Intel says, Russia's "key limiting factor" in launching further offensives is a critical "shortage of munitions". #tweet100
#Ukraine: 12. On 23rd Dec explosions nr an oil depot at #Rozlyvy, 95 km NE of #Simferopol, #Crimea after drone flew by. No comment on that, but UA Gen Staff says 70 Russians were injured after 2 artillery systems & ammo were destroyed in #Zaporizhzhia region on 22nd. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 13. Not Christmas lights! Russians launched illegal white phosphorous cluster munitions on #Kherson city residential areas. But this camo net caught 2 Russian armed drones! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 14. UK Rock band Pink Floyd has raised $600,000 for UA with their song "Hey,Hey Rise Up", featuring vocals by Andriy Khlyvniuk, UA lead singer from Boombox. Slava Pink Floyd! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 15. If anyone deserves our thoughts this Christmas it is the people of UA - the displaced, the injured, the grieving families and the extraordinarily courageous men & women of the UA armed forces. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Latest news updates from #UkraineWar: 1. UA Gen. Staff says up to 150 Russian troops were killed in a strike on #Khakovka, #Kherson region + 20 units of Russian military equipment destroyed. In total, another 550 Russians were killed yesterday. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. In #Bakhmut, this drone footage shows Russian forces trying to advance in the east of the city - for them a deadly result. #tweet100 (Map: @Tendar)
#Ukraine: 3. The US has assessed that the Russian Wagner group has around 50,000 personnel fighting in UA, 10,000 contractors & 50,000 convicts, costing them $100 million a month to support. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Today's updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Last night in the USA President Zelensky delivered a powerful speech in English to the US Congress, receiving a standing ovation on entry and chants of "Slava Ukraini! #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. As Congress members chanted "Slava Ukraini!, Zelensky replied with "Geroyam Slava" and struggled to hold back tears. Earlier President Biden told Zelensky, "It's an honour to be by your side".
#Ukraine: 3. Cleverly, Zelensky said UA had never asked Americans to fight instead of them & that Ukrainians could "perfectly operate American tanks & planes". "Your money is not charity, it's an investment in global security & democracy". #tweet100
#Ukraine: Latest news reports from #UkraineWar: 1. Pres. Zelensky confirms that UA forces have now liberated more than 30 settlements in the #Kharkiv region. Believed to be 1,000 sq. km now back in UA hands. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Pres. Zelensky also confirmed that fierce battles are continuing in the #Donbas and #Kherson regions. Report that #Blahodativka in the Kherson region is also now under UA control. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. I don't know how accurate this animation is, but an outstanding advance by UA forces towards Kupyansk and Lyman, where fighting is reported this evening. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Latest updates - lot's happening in #UkraineWar: 1. In the NE #Kharkiv region UA forces have liberated 700 sq km, taken 20 settlements & penetrated 50 km into Russian defence positions today. Freed villagers in tears. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. UA forces have confirmed they now have control over the city of #Balakliya, #Kharkiv region and the UA flag has been restored to #Borschivka just to the north-east. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Russian troops ran away so quickly from #Balakliya that they left a lot of equipment and ammo - much of which will be shot back to Russian targets. Raising the flag over Balakliya:
#Ukraine: Latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. A lot happening in #Kherson and #Kharkiv regions. Videos/pics suggest UA forces are gaining ground & making substantial progress. Suggestion UA has acquired so much equipment that Russia is now UA’s biggest supplier! #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. As we await confirmation from UA General Command, UK intel says heavy fighting has taken place in the last 24 hours nr #Kharkiv, #Donbas & #Kherson regions. Russia facing threats over 500 km which will test their operational ability, as earlier in the war. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. Claimed that UA forces have wiped out a Russian Special Rapid Response Unit at #Balakleya , #Kharkiv region
and many Russian prisoners taken elsewhere, including a lieutenant colonel. Reports some Russian units surrounded. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 2. This evening UA strikes are reported in #HolaPrystan , another location which the Russians are trying to use as a port for barges and ferries to supply their troops on the #Kherson frontline. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. In #Berdyansk, currently Russian occupied, the Russian appointed commandant of the Azov port city was severely injured today when his car was blown up nr the civil-military admin building. Partisans busy. #tweet100