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.
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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.
Today sees the completion of 3 years of full scale war unleashed by #Russia on #Ukraine.
As signs point to an end to this war relatively soon, the ONLY question which should be asked is: are you happy to reward war-criminal terrorists with land?
Here's THE daily thread:
It's Day 1096 of #Russia 's war.
If you missed anything yesterday, catch up on Saturday's news here:
1/2 The #UK is in full focus today.
As @Keir_Starmer prepares to fly to Washington, new sanctions will be unveiled tomorrow.
Foreign Sec @DavidLammy says it will be "the largest package of sanctions against #Russia since the early days of the war eroding its military machine."
Day 1083 of the war in Europe and the 1083rd of my daily threads.
Three years ago we knew #Ukraine wouldn't go down without a fight. Now, for the first time in over a year there's genuine reason for #Russia to be worried about the outcome.
Plenty to learn and from in Sunday's thread.
In #Russia, ships crashing and exploding, faking capture of a key town in #Ukraine and late at night drones attacking again.
On the other hand, Moscow attacks civilians. Take a look at what you missed:
While #Ukraine hurt #Russia infrastructure during the night (covered at the end of last night's thread), the terrorist state still has success with its own drone attacks.
More than 11% got through 🇺🇦defences overnight, with 38 of 71 UAVs being stopped and 25 likely decoys.
Sunday 19 January is Day 1061 of #Russia's all-out war in #Ukraine. We are also just 2 weeks away from the 4,000th day since #Moscow's initial invasion with the start of its illegal takeover of #Crimea
Welcome to another daily thread with all the news you need in one place 💙💛
Thankfully a quieter start to Sunday than yesterday, which means I get a later start today.
Saturday was all about #Russia's double ballistic attack which brought death to 2 #Ukraine cities.
Catch up on that and all yesterday's stories here⬇️
Hello on Day 1054 of #Russia's terrorist campaign in #Ukraine.
I've been working for a while today, tidying up loose ends, but a late start to the daily thread - the only feed you need for all the important news and analysis.
So a lot to catch up on, let's go again!
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So, it's even more important I post a link back to yesterday's thread. Here we are
Christmas Day 2024. Day 1036 of the war inflicted on #Ukraine. The third Christmas for Ukrainian people to suffer. Empty chairs at the dinner table, that will never be filled again. Others at the frontline fighting for their lives and the life of the country.
It's the daily🧵
So Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to those celebrating.
A special shout out too, to those working this special day. Also working today, emergency workers in #Ukraine after another massive missile attack