#Ukraine: Today's news from #UkraineWar: 1. In #Kreminna, fighting still goes back & forth, UA breaking up RU attacks & probes with counter-attacks. UA holding in the W forests with intense close fighting N of #Dibrova & around #Kuzmyne. #tweet100 (Maps: @ChuckPfarrer)
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#Ukraine: 2. At #Bakhmut heaviest fighting is nr #Paraskoviivka where RU is attacking UA positions from 3 directions. RU seem to have fire control over M-03 N of #KrasnaHora but being driven back S of #ChasivYar. UA special forces strike back:
#Ukraine: 3. #Vuhledar: Military assessment of the RU Vuhledar disaster is that the Russians, as well as losing 100s of men, lost 40 tanks & 130+ infantry fighting vehicles. One of their worst defeats since WWll. #tweet100 (Map: @chuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: 4. In the early hours of Feb 16th, RU launched its 15th mass missile attack on UA critical infrastructure. 16 missiles were downed but others hit. UA was able to maintain its electric supply without any outages or shortages. #Ukrainewinning#tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. Marina Yankina, RU officer in charge of financial supply for the RU W Military District apparently "committed suicide" by falling out of window in St.Petersburg. This is what UA is up against, what is the matter with these people?:
#Ukraine: 6. #US to send UA, Iranian weapons intercepted on their way to #Yemen - 5,000 rifles, 1.6 million rounds of ammo, anti-tank missiles & 7,000 fuses for artillery shells. #Netherlands confirms it's buying 18 x Leopard 2 tanks + ammo from #Germany for UA. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. #Israel to send UA $200 million for development of the medical infrastructure & a smart early warning system. Reports that #France's AMX-10 fighting vehicles will be on their way to UA within "2 months". #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. #Belarus's banana republic dictator, Lukashenko, seems to live in some strange fantasy land all of his own making!
#Ukraine: 9. UA Defence Ministry says Wagner Group have been losing up to 80% of their troops in some assaults around #Bakhmut with "evacuation of the dead & wounded limited, if carried out at all." Here is a case in point:
#Ukraine: 10. Another 101 UA POWs returned home today, the 16th, in a prisoner exchange with RU. Many fought at #Mariupol, including 63 who defended Azovstall steel works. UK Intel says the RU air force continues to underperform in UA, often based too far away. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 11. Keeping fit in #Bakhmut with a little help from a canine coach. Plus more RU failure at #Avdiivka.
#Ukraine: Today's latest news from #UkraineWar: UA carried out a combined drone & ATACMS missile attack on the Beriev Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex in #Taganrog, RU, 150km from the UA frontline. At least a dozen explosions & 14 burned vehicles in the parking lot.
#Ukraine: 2. The #Taganrog complex is responsible for producing the RU A-50/100 AWACS planes. RU soldiers have rioted over poor treatment of the injured. #UK MOD summarises the situation: x.com/DefenceHQ/stat…
(Infographic: @ChuckPfarrer) x.com/UKikaski/statu…
#Ukraine: 3. UA used its new "Peklo" (Hell) missile for the 1st time, 6 missiles successfully striking the Transneft oil depot in #Bryansk. x.com/LXSummer1/stat…x.com/i/status/18666…
#Ukraine: Today's update on #UkraineWar & other related events: 1. Today's news is dominated by #Syria, where Islamic rebels completed their overthrow of the Assad regime by taking #Damascus overnight. This evening Assad & his family appeared in Moscow where RU has given them asylum "on humanitarian grounds." x.com/bradyafr/statu… (Map: @Loveuamap)
#Ukraine: 2. The Syrian Army seems to have melted away, showing little resistance to the rebel tide, many Assad troops defecting. Assad's core Alawite sect (Shia Muslim like Iran) along the coastal strip were expected to support him, but in the end they defected too, many tearing down statues of Assad & his father.
#Ukraine: 3. So ends the 54 year-old dynasty of the Assad family, which in the end collapsed completely in 11 days. When rebels entered the coastal cities of Tartus & Latakia, Assad's overthrow was complete. Women & children released from prison in #Saydnaya: x.com/ThomasVLinge/s…x.com/RamiSafadi93/s…
#Ukraine: Today's latest info THREAD on #UkraineWar: 1. UA forces have cleaned RU forces from #Kupiansk city, #Kharkiv region, & driven them back beyond the outskirts where UA now maintain control. RU channels calling RU withdrawal a "disgrace." RU's FSB "Hammer" bombed in #Tyotkino, #Kursk region: (Map: Deep State)
#Ukraine: 2. Last night, RU launched a record 188 Shahed drones against UA. UA Air Force downed 76 drones across 17 regions & 95 were "lost" as a result of electronic warfare (EW) intervention. 5 drones flew on to Belarus. 2 people killed in Sumy region & 40
injured across UA.
#Ukraine: 3. Despite UA's continued resistance, analysts say RU has gained 600sqkm (232sqmls) since Nov, 234.79sqkm (90sqmls) in the last week. The advance is fastest near #VelykaNovosilka, Donetsk region. RU have also advanced 33sqkm (12.7 sqmls) nr #Pokrovsk, a key UA military hub in Donetsk.
#Ukraine: Today's reports from #UkraineWar: 1. UA forces launched counterattacks E of #Pokrovsk & are reported to have recaptured the #Novogradovskyaya mine, as well as retaking territory S of M-30 highway. THREAD (Map: @ChuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: 2. In #Kursk region a 14km road is being called the "Road of Death" by Russians as it is under UA fire & drone control & is strewn with destroyed RU vehicles. RU's 155th Marine Brigade, accused of war crimes against UA POWs, suffered most damage.
#Ukraine: 3. UA forces destroyed a BM-27 Uragan 220mm MLRS using FPV drones. A vehicle carrying RU troops hit an anti-tank mine dropped in place earlier by UA: x.com/GloOouD/status…x.com/front_ukrainia…
#Ukraine: Today’s latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Last night UA successfully attacked a RU warehouse containing as many as 400 Shahed-136 drones nr #Yeysk, #Krasnodar region of RU, using UA Navy R-360 Neptune cruise missiles. THREAD
#Ukraine: 2. The RU oil depot at #Feodosiia, #Crimea is still burning 3 days after an attack by UA. RU sources say the fire will not be extinguished until the fire burns itself out.
#Ukraine: 3. #UK’s Telegraph reports that RU has suspended production of its Su-57 fighter jets because of sanctions preventing it from obtaining crucial electronic parts. UA troops capture a fully intact satellite comme station:
#Ukraine: Today’s latest reports from #UkraineWar: 1. UA last night attacked with drones, the RU missile & ammo storage facility at #Kotluban in RU, #Volgograd region. Reports say a delivery of missiles from #Iran arrived the night before. THREAD
#Ukraine: 2. Also in RU, the “Wildberries” warehouse at #Barnaul, with tanks nearby, was set on fire & burnt down. Cause of the fire is still unknown. In #Kursk region another turtle tank was eliminated:
#Ukraine: 3. Also in #Kursk region, a RU BMD tried to attack UA defensive positions but it was hit by a grenade launcher. Nr #Pleghovo, UA FPV drones + artillery, blocked another huge RU armoured attack.