#Ukraine: Latest reports from #UkraineWar: 1. In a surprise but not totally unexpected move, #US Pres. Biden visited Kyiv today, travelling by train from #Poland. “I thought it critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about US support for UA”. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Pres. Biden walked openly around Kyiv, though RU had been advised in advance. He also pledged a further $500 million package to UA, Javelins, howitzers, HIMARS & 155mm ammo +.
#Ukraine: 3. At #Kreminna, despite major offensive, RU forces not gaining ground. UA reported to have regained territory to S around #Yahidne. RU losses running at almost 900 a day over last 2 weeks. UA also reported to have retaken land nr #Vuhledar. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. At #Bakhmut, fighting intense N of city where RU said to have crossed M-03 road & captured T-05-13 junction. Fighting less extreme to E & S. RU trying to force breakthrough at any cost before 24th Feb. Report from Kiyanyn, dated 19th. #tweet100 (Map: @ChuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: 5. RU jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny (who has not supported UA in past), now urging through his team, restoration of UA’s 1991 borders, including #Crimea & payment of restorations. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. #UK’s King Charles lll met with UA troops training in UK today. Italian media, La Republica, reporting the #Italy might donate 5 Tornado jets or AMX fighters to UA if other countries will do the same thing with aircraft.
#Ukraine: 7. Today is 9th anniversary of day in 2014 when the UA Parliament voted to condemn violence against demonstrators in EuroMaidan Revolution, including members of the President’s Party of Regions. Demonstrators demanded Pres. Yanukovych’s resignation & he fled. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 8. RU launched 75 rocket & shell attacks on UA’s #Kherson region yesterday. At the same time RU lost another 820 dead yesterday + 8 armoured vehicles, 6 tanks, 7 artillery systems, 1 plane & 13 other vehicles/tankers. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. RU has blocked the rotation of IAEA personnel at #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, preventing them from leaving and their replacement, while continuing to hold the plant with military equipment & troops.
#Ukraine: 10. #Japan has pledged a further $5.5 billion aid package for UA. With Biden’s visit and all the support worldwide, the spirit in UA remains high. #tweet100
#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.