Thread by @PeterClifford1

#Ukraine: Today's news updates from #UkraineWar: 1. RU forces made gains at #Soledar yesterday taking the salt mine & other positions. UA withdrew to avoid flanking in the north. UA 46th Airmobile Brigade counter-attacked overnight. #tweet100 (Map; @mhmck)
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#Ukraine: 2. Pic from journalist,Yuriy Butosov, this morning 7/12 at #Soledar shows salt mine regained & devalues RU claims of "taking the town". More like strategic manoeuvring. #tweet100 (Gif: @MILChronicles)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611783723099340800

#Ukraine: 3. At #Bakhmut UA Border Guards repelled RU advance & killed RU unit commander. Waves of RU forces sent against city and many dying. This pic shows at least 46 RU dead nr #Bakhmut. RU troops so exhausted they accuse UA of using "chemical weapons". #tweet100

#Ukraine: 4. As a result of Christmas shelling in #Bakhmut (Putin's ceasefire), 2 civilians killed & 30 injured. Report here from Bakhmut, and UA Chechen volunteers in action against RU troops. #tweet100

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611680819738808321

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611647991185645568

#Ukraine: 5. RU has lost so many troops that UA Intel indicates that RU will launch another mobilisation of conscripts on Jan 15th for as many as 500,000 men. UA estimates that RU lost another 490 soldiers yesterday 6/12. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 6. Nr #Lutugino, #Luhansk region, partisans blew up a pipeline & at #Schastia a section of railway. UA has also hit a RU base at #Tokmak, #Zaporizhzhia region and in #Kherson region struck another, wounding at least 100 RU troops. Death toll presently unknown. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 7. #Finland has said it is ready to give UA 2 Leopard tanks if other EU countries agree and #Greece has told #Germany it can wait on its order for 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles if it wants to forward them to UA 1st. #tweet100 (Pic: @igorsushko)

#Ukraine: 8. Pres. Zelensky signed a decree sanctioning 119 Russians & pro-RU Ukrainians who support RU's war. He has also withdrawn UA citizenship from 13 pro-Ru Ukrainian Orthodox clerics aligned to Moscow. Pro-UA Orthodox Church held 1st service at Pechersk Lavra. #tweet100

#Ukraine: 9. Supported by the Embassy of #Kazakhstan, a "Yurt of Invincibility", where people can warm up, feed & charge their phones, has been opened in "massacre town" of #Bucha nr #Kyiv. #tweet100 (Pics: @maria_drutska & @Gerashchenko_en)

#Ukraine: 10. Lastly, Russia has lost so many fuel tankers, that it has apparently been attempting to disguise them as wood-carrying trucks! (Hey, Ruskis, I think UA forces will see through this one really quickly!) #tweet100