Day 353 of the war in Europe. #Ukraine fights for a nation, for liberty, in the name of democracy. #Russia fights for a small man in a bunker breaking, committing war crimes.
Here's yet another daily🧵 all the news in one place.
The drone attack last night appears to have done no damage, with all 20 suspected #Iran-made Shahid drones shot down by #Ukraine air defence.
A record numbe of #Russia's soldiers fell in the meat grinder in the last 24 hours.
Even by recent standards, a phenomenal 1,140 further lives ended as the need to gain at least some ground for Putin in the next two weeks is solved by sending waves of men to their death.
It's been revealed this morning that #Russia bombed legendary Snake Island.
Sukhoi Su-24m bombers dropped payload on the tiny island in the Black Sea.
The news about snake island, plus yesterday's video of an underwater "drone" hitting the railway bridge in #Odesa region and other firing from the black sea on the south western most coast of #Ukraine, suggests a coordintated attempt to distract ZSU and lock down troops there.
#Russia's newest recruiting technique - a holy war against Satan.
Come die in the meat grinder and Jesus will save you.
Tempted?
source: Telegram
Not included the British Intel report for a couple of days, but it's more noteworthy today.
I think we know which choice #Russia will make. The one resource they have is zombies,... sorry, human lives.
In #Kyiv region a nasty surprise for one early morning walker.
The remains of a Russian rocket right in the street today.
Renewed fears about the safety of the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Satellite photos show #Russia has been releasing water from the Kakhovska damn.
If the water level continues to fall, the nuclear reactors in Enerhodar may not be able to get enough water for safe cooling.
This gives you an idea of how and why #Russia is losing so many troops. Near #Vuhledar (RU: #Ugledar) the Kremlin forces troops to push on, through open plains, with inadequate cover
In #Donetsk, higher ground, longer range weapons, better air defence all help outmanned #Ukraine
A #Russia base in Balkove, about 20km sw of #Tokmak, took out arouns 12 tanks and 12 refuelers,
15 APCs (armoured personnel carriers), several anti-aircraft guns and many troops.
No verification.
Operational update from #Bakhmut - you may wish to get it translated.
In brief: the situation remains virtually unchanged along the entire contact line. The supply route is still working well.
It's difficult but we are responding - it's not a passive defence!"
In 1919 a young Ukrainian Communist, siding with the #USSR, helped destroy early #Ukraine statehood, leading the Soviets in many victories before the brief taste of freedom disappeared
His name was Nikolai Shchors. A monument to him still exists in #Kyiv. Hopefully not for long.
Had many sarcastic messages recently, clearly from people who've never been near #Ukraine, saying things like "try speaking Russian in Kherson/Dnipro/Kharkiv"
It's RU propaganda. People can, and do, freely speak Russian as proven in this superb progamme:
A lot of shelling in #Kherson all day today.
One big blast earlier affected power in the city.
More explosions in the past hour too and blasts in occupied Kakhovka too.
Debs H - thanks for supporting me.
It takes a lot of time trying to keep across everything as well as checking my own contacts, so all support is incredibly welcome 💙💛
By the way, nothing came of the alert regarding drones flying over Occupied #Zaporizhzhia towards the city itself. Possibly they were dummy or test flights from the Russians. The all clear siren sounded a while ago.
He says some "rescuers" sent to #Turkiye could be smuggled back to Moldova for the operation there.
Personally I think it's pointless saying things like this
This is 100% true. #Ukraine was not keen on announcing the deployment of the new heavier artillery for obvious reasons but there's been no hiding it in recent days after #Russia sent 100s to die despite knowing what would happen to them:
Paul G just supported me on Ko-Fi
At the risk of offending vegetarians, I'll definitely be getting a Sunday bacon buttie with my coffee tomorrow!
Thanks Paul 💙💛
Unconfirmed reports that #Ochakiv in #Mykolaiv region was also shelled again this evening.
Welcome to the daily thread for Sunday 12 February.
It's Day 354 of the #RussiaUkraineWar and all the news and analysis you need is here in one handy thread.
If you missed something yesterday, click and scroll here:
Today's data show another 900 deaths for #Russia but also noteworthy figures of tanks and artillery systems destroyed - both well above the daily mean.
Hello and welcome to the daily thread about #Ukraine and its defence against #Russia's illegal invasion.
This is Day 352 since last February's all out attack, but now very nearly 9 years since the original invasion. The more the west did nothing, the bolder Putin became:
If you missed anything on Thursday's thread, click and scroll here.
It was particularly telling when a Russian protest group managed to find out #Russia, once cameras has gone, stole back fur coats they'd given to grieving relatives for their losses:
Last night there was a drone wave sent in to Ukraine territory and as I wrote at the time it could well be the precursor to another full missile attack.
That does seem to be happening now with launches detected and mass devastation and death again a possbility for the innocent
Here is my daily thread number 351 on the #Russia-#Ukraine war. One for each day of the war.
News and analysis of all events covering #Putin's illegal war.
Yesterday's thread was limited by Twitter.
I (and most others) were unable to post after 9.30pm UK time. #StandWithUkraine
In case you were wondering about that tweet which couldn't be loaded, I found it quite amusing as Chancellor Scholz went straight past his flag and to the #Ukraine lectern before being corrected by Zelenskyy!
President @ZelenskyyUa is now arriving in #Brussels to meet EU officials as he continues his mission to get fighter aircraft for #Ukraine.
We've had almost a year now and it really angers me that no-one foresaw this. We never truly protected Ukraine as Russia controls the skies.
We've reached day 350 of #Russia's insane war on #Ukraine
Here's another daily thread.
Tense scenes at the front with pressure mounting on #Bakhmut every hour, but fewer attacks in the rest of Ukraine. #Kharkiv was shelled last night, you can recap here
Hello and welcome to day 349 of #Russia's war of choice.
#Ukraine still defends valiantly, but the west's tardiness to act has placed them under severe pressure for the next 6 weeks until trained troops return with some new toys.
All the news in one thread, read on...
First the link to yesterday in case you were busy or just want a summary.
A lot of flim flam was written but actually you missed very little. Here's one of the shortest threads of the last 11 months so far:
The further Russification of #Ukraine's lands continue. Any wonder Ukraine has been removing all traces of past links with Russia anywhere that freedom still exists?