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Jan 21 39 tweets 33 min read
Welcome to another weekend, but in #Ukraine just another day of uncertainty. Hoping for the best but forgiven for fearing the worst.

It's Day 332 of #Russia's illegal war on its' peaceful neighbour. Here's the daily thread with all the important news and analysis.
#StopRussia
First thanks to Simon S, who last night tipped me for my work (see profile for link).
Cheers, drinking coffee, enjoying a cake now!

So Friday was errr... eventful? Yes, that's the word! Catch up by scrolling through here:

#Russia has now lost over 120,000 soldiers from its' regular army. Another huge daily number of sacrificial lambs on the altar of Tsar Putin: 860, one of the highest ever.

Also decent equipment numbers hit by #Ukraine according to their estimates.

#StopRussia
The frontline is "deadlocked" says the daily British update.

Yet, they warn #Russia may advance around #Bakhmut.

#RussiansGoHome #StandWithUkraine
Well that was quick. Let it be a warning to others in #Russia

Yesterday news stories like this, that former World champ MMA fighter and kickboxer Vladimir Mineev had joined the war. Today it's rumoured he's already dead, killed near #Bakhmut.

📷Tapology
earlybulletins.news/sports/226915.…
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#RussiaOnFire
A nice early addition to the collection in this series.

This comes from #Angarsk with some nice photos released by the Terrorist State and a short video in the next tweet.

A mysterious fire among railway transport.
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Here's the video of the railway trucks burning in #Angarsk.

It's highly likely these fuel tankers were on their way to help #Russia's war effort.

#RussiaOnFire
Vielen danke @gtorges, who's tipped me this morning via the Ko-Fi link.

After yesterday's further delay from the German government it's even more pleasant to see the country's citizens not accept Berlin's decision.
💙💛
#CzechRepublic has denied reports in some media (not here) that they are ready to give Leopard-2 tanks to #Ukraine.

German publication FAZ said #Czechia and #Slovakia could transfer about 30 units when their orders arrive from #Germany. Other media picked up on it.
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Hundredsof people, including the President and First Lady, attending the various services around #Kyiv for those killed in this week's helicopter tragedy

Here in #Brovary the funeral of Milana and her mother Yelena who were killed at the kindergarten when the crash happened
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In the centre of #Kyiv there's a ceremony for the Government employees killed when their helicopter crashed.

This is the scene at Ukrainian House:

#StandWithUkraine
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Here @ZelenskyyUa and 1st Lady of #Ukraine Olena Zelenska pay their respects to the Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky and two other junior officers in the department.

#RIP #StandWithUkraine
Another corruption scandal appears in #Ukraine

Journalists have discovered the MoD is massively over paying for food provisions for servicemen and women.
What's more, the deal is struck with a company and a CEO with a murky past.

pravda.com.ua/news/2023/01/2…
Yesterday Gen Mark Milley said "Russia's losses were significantly above 100,000"

US Intel has now apparently told The Sun it estimates the figure to be 188,000. That includes disabled as well as killed. Likely half dead as #Russia often leaves the dying
thesun.co.uk/news/21115234/…
LOL, look at the new exhibit in the Science Museum in #Lviv

The sinking of the #Moskva just months after being told to "Go F**k yourself" by #Ukraine's Defenders of Snake Island.

#SlavaUkraini #StopRussia
In #Russia - news just in. This is NOT a joke:

"A girl fell out of the window onto a passerby. Both died."

More questions than answers. Was she anti-war? Well known? I'm digging for answers.
Earlier today, all three Foreign Ministers of the Baltic countries released this statement.

Another plea for #Germany to act quickly.
#Russia will carry on killing until stopped. Whether we stop Putin in #Ukraine, or #Berlin is your choice Herr Scholz.

Border Guards in #Sumy report Russian forces crossed the border. Likely an undercover advanced scouting or sabotage party - testing #Ukraine readiness.

Defenders fired and the invaders fled.
Unconfirmed.
Billionaire owner of #Wagner mercenary group is outraged after one of their dead was refused a hero's funeral.

Ivan Savkin was a convict and a council in #Sverdlosk did not pay or help with the burial of the criminal.

Prigozhin promised to deal with "scum" in the Mayor's office
#Kherson has been hit again.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia
#Germany's previous Defence Min banned an inventory of Leopard-2s in a bid to "stop pressure on Scholz" and effectively stop the tanks reaching #Ukraine

Hopefully the new DM can clear this hurdle and #ReleaseTheLeopards
Thx @gtorges for seeing this story

businessinsider.de/politik/deutsc…
Shelling of occupied #Lysychansk.

The town is in #Luhansk oblast, but relatively close to both the #Ukraine offensive here and also the state border with #Donetsk.

#RussiansGoHome
A video's appeared on Telegram channels of the moment a🇷🇺 "war correspondent" was injured.

As I reported yesterday, the female propagandist was in #Soledar when hit in the leg by shrapnel.

I don't want to show it, but link here:
t.me/supernova_plus…

A frightenng experience for this motorisy in #Bilozerske (RU: #Belozerskoe) in #Donetsk oblast.

It's about 45km south west of Kramatorsk.

#StandWithUkraine
So called "Invincibility Points" have sprung up in most cities in #Ukraine.

Here's another new one in #Kyiv. They're designed to help people during power cuts, providing free heat, light, charging points and WiFi.

📷TG channel kyiv_polit
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Let's have a look what's been happening in that bastion of forward thinking and freedom which allegedly doesn't like fascism:

In #Moscow they've been commemorating the 99th anniversary of the death of #Lenin, a man who executed 25,000+ a year.
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In #Barnaul this dangerous terrorist has been arrested.
Of course it's not illegal to protest in "free" #Russia but this small sign saying "no war" is clearly a threat to the nation.
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And what about this in #Russia? A memorial to the #Dnipro massacre - police stand guard 24/7 now to stop flowers being laid.
This woman tried to place a piece of paper there and still got led away!

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Some semblance of decency in #Yekaterinburg though, which has always been quite independent.

By the memorial to Stalin's, and all political repression (only 6 years old) flowers are permitted to be laid with notes about the #Dnipro victims.
Occupiers in #Donetsk say one person died in shelling of the city earlier.

There was reported to be quite a bombardment of heavy artillery, but #Russia took hours to release any photos.

#RussiansGoHome #StopRussia
Following the scandalous reports of #Ukraine's MoD overpaying by almost three times what was needed for army provisions, the government's announced an urgent investigation.

Meanwhile #Ukraine's anti-Corruption bureau NABU today arrested the Deputy Minister of Development of Communities, Territories & Infrastructure.

Vasiliy Lozynskyi is accused of embezzling budget funds.
"Yesterday's views lead to tomorrow's problems" says Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann as #Germany still refuses to give #Leopard tanks to #Ukraine

The Chair of🇩🇪Defence Cttee says SDP's Rolf #Mützenich "is no longer able to adapt his worldview to reality"

#Ukraine recorded its highest January temperature for 70 years today, with the thermometer hitting 20 degrees in occupied #Crimea.

Even Kyiv was over 10 degrees Celcius.
19 Leopards could be given to #Ukraine by #Germany.

Spiegel says the inventory (which other German media reported had been deliberately stopped) has been done after all. 19 of the tanks have already been tagged as suitable for transfer to Kyiv.

spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
#Wagner this evening claims it has taken control of the northern route out of #Bakhmut (RU: #Artemovsk)

If true, it leaves #Ukraine's forces with only one route in/out of the town, to the west.

Without a highly risky, successful, counter-attack, it seems only a matter of time.
Of course if #Ukraine had already been given aircraft and Leopards, #Bakhmut would not fall.

For all the west's help, it once again comes down to even the most Hawkish leaders being too dove-like and timidity of Putin has repeatedly cost Ukraine the initiative.

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Jan 23
Thanks for reading! This is the start of Daily Thread number 334.

All the news on the #RussiaUkraine war for Mon 23 Jan

To scroll through yesterday's thread see here:
It continues to be fairly quiet in #Ukraine with no major missile attack for 9 days and even mortar attacks are less frequent in some of the usual hotspots.

In #Sumy for instance 'just' 15 mortars in Novoslobidsk and Shalyhinsk was shelled with artillery just once.
No injuries.
#Russia's Occupiers in #Zaporizhzhia oblast claim they've "kicked Ukrainian troops out of" the village of #Kamianske (RU: #Kamenskoe)

Traitor Vladimir Rogov of the Occupying admin says it's now in the "grey zone"

#Ukraine insists it's disinformation, they've not retreated
Read 5 tweets
Jan 22
All the threes. Day 333 of this dreadful war in #Ukraine

But there are not 3 sides. Succinctly you're against #Russia killing civilians, or you're in favour.

Being "neutral" is just allowing war crimes and worse these countries likely profit from the genocide, just as in WWII.
So this is the daily thread for Sunday 22 January.

If you had a busy Saturday and main stream media didn't tell you what you need to know, I can help! Scroll though yesterday's thread right here:

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia

#Russia still losing above average numbers of troops every single day even though today's figure is lower than of late.

600 more estimated (by #Ukraine) to have been killed in the last 24 hours

5,470 Russian militia have died in the last week.
#RussiansGoHome Image
Read 35 tweets
Jan 20
331 days (and counting) of killing and war crimes by #Russia.

#Russia's "we'll take #Kyiv in 3 days" mantra aged well😅🤡

Welcome along to Friday's daily thread with all the news and analysis you need, and already important news on a big day, so scroll through:

#StopRussia
Need to catch up on yesterday's news?
Missed the one about Russian doctors setting their own patient on fire, or the suspected #Ukraine hits of #Russia's bases in two regions?

Check what you missed here:

#StandWithUkraine
Today may be a landmark day in the war.
All eyes on #Rammstein where the regular meeting of #Ukraine's allies will take place, and I am confident a number of nations will supply #Leopard-2 tanks to Kyiv even if #Germany continues to object.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Read 53 tweets
Jan 19
Hello and welcome to the #Ukraine daily thread for the 330th time.
Yes, Thursday is Day 330 of #Russia's illegal war and still the bickering goes on between Freedom allies about whether to give Ukraine tanks to defend itself.

All the news throughout the day in one handy thread..
Busy yesterday? need a recap?
Scroll through Wednesday's news from #Ukraine here, where there was only one big story, as yet another tragedy hit the country.

#Ukraine starts three days of mourning following the horrific helicopter crash just outside the capital #Kyiv yesterday morning.

The period of mourning comes just as grieving for the victims of #Dnipro ends.
One long punishment for the people of #Ukraine

Read 33 tweets
Jan 18
Let's go again! Day 329.
This the daily thread for Wednesday 18 January with all the news and developments around #Russia's illegal war in #Ukraine.

Tuesday proved relatively calm, but the storm is never far away. If you missed anything, here's the link:

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I have to begin with yet more war crimes in the #Kherson region.

#Russia just cannot cope with #Ukraine de-occupying the city and tries to take revenge each day.

Tonight it was yet more thermite incendiary devices in civilian areas - two videos to show:
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Important to stress this is NOT phosphorus being dropped on #Kherson's residents by #Russia's army.

However using thermite near residents is a war crime, and we can see here, people filmed the display from windows of their apartments

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Read 23 tweets
Jan 17
Day 328 and the war continues.
So do the war crimes.

This is my 328th daily thread with the news from #Ukraine as #Russia seeks to destroy a nation, a culture.

Quite a bit of late news yesterday - catch up here:

No rest for the wicked they say.
That was true in #Oslo overnight where it was loud outside #Russia's consulate.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
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Also loud in #Russia, at least in #Belgorod region.

Air Defence spent a long time trying to catch something in the sky.
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