Good morning and welcome to the daily thread for Day 367 of #Russia's full invasion of #Ukraine, although we're now into the tenth year of #Putin's troops being illegally on Ukrainian territory.
As always, all the news you need in one handy place, updated throughout the day...
To catch up on yesterday's developments on Europe's eastern border, click and scroll on the link below.
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Another large number of tanks destroyed by #Ukraine's army in the last 24 hours*
Also, another helicopter downed and 650 further invaders killed. Although this is down a little on some recent days the total figure will reach 150,000 on Tues or Weds.
*Ukr official figures
Britain's Ministry of Defence Intel briefing focuses on "kamikaze" drones.
As pointed out frequently in these daily threads, #Russia now mainly seems to use UAVs to test and reveal #Ukraine's air defences, often prior to a big cruise missile attack.
So no missile attacks on #Ukraine yesterday and #Russia's media completely ignored the anniversary of the invasion.
I believe it's because Putin had ordered #Donetsk (or at very least #Bakhmut) to be taken, but they failed.
The next date is the start of spring on 1 March.
Joe Biden has promised to "respond" if #China starts giving weapons to #Russia.
Speaking to ABC, @POTUS says he's pointed out the economic impact for Beijing if it supplies arms to kill Ukrainians.
Anger among Ukrainians this morning to some media reports in the west that #Germany#France and possibly the #UK too, are trying to push #Ukraine into resuming peace talks.
I don't know a single Ukrainian who trusts Germany and France after previous negotiating debacles.
The illegitimate President of #Belarus is heading to #China soon. Obviously too far and risky for Bunker Boy to head there, so he sends his lackey from the neighbouring New Soviet/Fascist Republic.
Risky for Lukashenko though. Can I hear the word "coup" in #Minsk?
They claim around 70 separate attacks by #Russia were repulsed on the eastern front, around Kupiansk, Lyman, Avdiivka and Shakhtars'ke near #Vuhledar, as well as Bakhmut and it's also still hot around #Kreminna
#Ukraine says it is putting further defences along the entire border with both #Russia and #Belarus.
The whole strip will be completely mined and the width of the defensive mine field and anti-tank defences will be 2km.
Most of the air raid alerts in #Ukraine were lifted by the way, but then new ones were imposed in most southern areas of #Ukraine because of ships and aircraft being active in the Black Sea.
New explosions reported in occupied #Melitopol' in the past few minutes.
During the night residents heard two blasts near the city centre, but because of curfew and secrecy from the Russians, no further details are known so far about these or the new explosions. #StopRussia
It's also very difficult getting verified information from #Mariupol' the big port in #Donetsk.
There have been reports of attacks by #Ukraine's military there for the past 4 days. Today a video's emerged supposedly of the latest blast site, a Russian base in the city.
I've not featured #Nikopol and #Marhanets in these threads for a while. They are located just over the river from the invaders in #Dnipropetrovsk region.
The shelling continues, almost every night.
Here are some photos from the latest damage
📷TG huevyi_dnepr
Support for the war in #Russia appears to be growing. A reliable poll shows that compared to two months ago, those in favour of continuing the conflict in #Ukraine has increased from 45% to 49%.
Of course many respondents refuse to answer, so the real figure may be lower.
In the 1st year of war, the #EU gave well over twice as much cash to #Russia than it did in support of #Ukraine.
The staggering statistic is the result of Europe buying so much fossil fuel from the Terrorist State, although graphs here show it's reducing
Also in #Perm' a one-person anti-war demo was daringly started on a bus.
He then got off, stood outside for a while with his "No War" poster. It's not known if police got to the mystery man or if he escaped
As more and more body bags come home, we have to hope protests increase
Emergency services in #Kherson have just released a video of a major fire at a kindergarten in the city after #Russia shelled the building last night.
They report that the invaaders continued to fire at them even while tackling the fire. Thankfully there were no injuries.
In #Kostyantynivka (RU: #Konstantinovka), Russia hit a kindergarten and four five-storey buildings with an S-300 missile (photos). Only one person was injured.
Also in free #Donetsk, the invaders fired two S-300s on #Lyman. 2 private houses were destroyed, no injuries reported.
In central #Moscow, a dormitory of a State University (MIIGAiK) caught fire.
The blaze broke out on the 16th floor. 52 people left the building on their own. It's believed everyone escaped without injury.
Fancy that. Just so happens #Russia had a drone monitoring the exact place in occupied #Donetsk at the exact moment rockets landed killing four people.
This was on Thursday in the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk.
The start of a new week and simultaneously almost the end of 167 weeks of Russia's attempt to liberate Ukraine from its leader and remove the country from maps.
It's Day 1167 of Putin's full invasion. Welcome to Monday's daily thread.
First the link back to Sunday's thread for those who were busy y'day
It started with Ukraine counting the cost of yet more strikes on civilians and infrastructure but there were more strategic hits on Russia during the day, incl a night attack on Moscow.
Day 1163 of Russia's war of choice, invading a peaceful neighbour.
Another bloody and murderous night in Ukraine, but the pressure is all on Russia today as Ukraine signs the minerals deal, the US (finally) continues its shift against Putin and the oil price dives
Here's THE🧵
Good morning and happy May (or MayDay).
I have to say a new month brings new optimism for Ukraine following the US/Ukraine agreement.
That was the biggest news story of a near 50-post thread.
It took me ages - least you can do is read it!😂
Day 1158 of the war in Europe.
This is the daily thread for Saturday 26 April, and as I mentioned last night, the anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.
A later start today, sorry if I kept you waiting, but let's waste no more time...
Yesterday we saw Russia attack civilians of course, but we also probably also got a reminder of the power of Ukraine's Military Intelligence, as a Russian general and a weapons designer were both confirmed dead.
Hello at the start of another weekend, Day 1151 of the war in Europe.
Day by day the US paves the way for capitulation.
Trump may pretend there was no war in his first term, but his administration said it would never recognise Crimea.
This is THE daily thread for Saturday.
Here's the link for the start of yesterday's thread.
Visibility is still low - 15k views.
Plenty to get your teeth into.. 100 fleeing Russian refuseniks, tRUmp on the verge of failure, and of course the attacks on Ukraine.
Catch up here:
With even tRUmp slowly realising he's been played by Putin all along with no intent on peace, Russia has upped the aerial attack on its next targets for invasion.
Sumy, Kostiantynivka + Kupiansk feel the full force.
In the latter 10 glide bombs in one day with 5 people injured.
This is the start of THE daily thread covering all things Ukraine.
Reliable, accurate information for 1124 days as Russia and its willing accomplices (Iran, North Korea and MAGA-land) try to destroy Ukraine, its culture and its democracy to make it a vassal state.
Here's the🧵
Yesterday started with shocking lies and propaganda from the White House and ended with another massive attack by Russia, knowing tRUmp and co don't mind at all.
Find all the details by clicking and scrolling here⬇️
The war Russia inflicted on Ukraine enters Day 1120
Ukraine, a country which never invaded another, never killed anyone abroad; a fully democratic nation where only one President has ever won a second term in office.
Here's THE daily thread for Wednesday, with all the news.
Yesterday was all about the ritual humiliation of tRUmp, dished out by Putin, and the US president's brain being too rusty to realise.
I also indulged in a long sub-thread on my fears about what's happening in Washington DC.
Catch up here:
It's official. tRUmp's supposed skill at making a deal is absolutely RANK
Russia
Afghanistan
NK (North Korea)
#TraitorTrump promised a deal with his mate in NK, got nothing.
He handed the Taliban everything, got nothing.
Now, ending the war in 24 hours turned into humiliation