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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.

#RussiansGoHome
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.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden…
Within the last few minutes, another nationwide air raid warning has been issued in #Ukraine.

#Russia has raised MiG-31K aircraft, which are capable of firing deadly "dagger" missiles.

#StopRussia
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?
#Ukraine's General Staff describes the "hell" near #Bakhmut.

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.

#SaveUkraine #StopRussia
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

russiafossiltracker.com
Seen in the centre of #Perm' a big city 1,300km east of #Moscow.

The banner, which appeared yesterday, says "Year of Shame" , referencing the anniversary of #Russia's invasion.

#StopRussia
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.
#Bakhmut holds. A quick view from the wasteland.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Two people have been killed by Russian landmines in #Kherson

It happened near Dobryanka village, where 3 men were cultivating a field. 2 died instantly, 1 survived but is in hospital

Also a 63yo man is also in hospital after a landmine exploded in a separate incident in Kherson
A big fire is raging at a paints and varnish factory in the northern suburbs of #Kyiv.

Emergency services are on site, local roads are blocked. There have not been any rockets or missiles.
A first Latin American country has backed calls for a tribunal for the war crimes committed by #Putin and the Russian Federation.

#Guatemala supports a special tribunal. #Ukraine is trying to improve relations with Central and South American nations where Russian money talks.
This is thought to be a photo of a ruined ARK-1 "Lynx" radar complex used by #Russia.

It was hit by #Ukraine's army on Wednesday with a high-precision Excalibur missile.
📷TG DeepState.
#Russia is complaining that #Ukraine has blown up a dam to prevent the invaders advancing on #Bakhmut (RU: #Artemovsk)

The river is surging now.
#StopRussia
#RussiaOnFire

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.

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine

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Welcome to yet another daily thread covering all things Ukraine and Russia.

It's Day 1195 and the day of the latest talks between the sides in Istanbul.

But all the buzz is still about one of the most incredible and successful military attacks ever, and Russia is hurting.
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Day 1194 of Putin's war, though let's remember the initial invasion came 11 years ago.

Since February 2014, not once have western sanctions or military support come close to being enough to restore justice and defeat evil.

Welcome to THE daily 🇺🇦 thread for Sunday 1 June
A new day, a new season. Summer officially started, but nothing is likely to change just yet.

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I want to start with events in Bryansk region.
What's happened is a tragedy even if you believe all Russians are partly to blame for the war.

7 people died - five passengers on a train and 2 in a truck. 69 were injured.

The lorry crashed down when the bridge collapsed.
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Another night of no sleep yet - dramatic action in Moscow.

Time to start another daily thread covering everything to do with Putin's disastrous 'operation' in Ukraine.

It's 5am in Russia and Ukraine, on Day 1190 of the war.
Let's begin...
I've still NEVER missed even one day since the start of Russia's full invasion.

But yesterday's thread ended up being one of the most lively. Another near 50-post story of the day, and if you like seeing "bavovna" in Russia, go right through to the end!
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Hello again and welcome to the daily thread for Day 1189 of Russia's illegal war.

While media keep hinting Trump may be about to impose sanctions on Putin's regime, there's still evidence to say he hates Zelenskyy more.

All the news from and about Ukraine in one🧵right here:
As always though, in case you missed anything yesterday, blow is the link to the start of Monday's thread

So if you don't have much time online, just bookmark my profile page and you can always go back to where you left off for a summary of all the news
A much quieter night, but Russia still fired 60 drones into Ukraine. Air Defence managed to stop 43 (35 shot down and 8 disabled via EW)

But that still leaves 17 which made it through, at a very high strike rate of 28%

#StopRussia Image
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In my opinion, Ukraine should have won this war in 2022/23.

Effective leadership is based on good, decisive decisions. Sadly, the allies have never been decisive, preferring dithering and half measures.

Welcome to my daily thread:
What I mean by dithering is endless internal political battles in most countries to give adequate weapons. Scholz (Taurus), Biden (everything) the most obvious examples, though Joe was hampered by Congress and is way better than now

But it's always enough to survive, not to win
If you missed anything from yesterday, catch up with this link to the start of yesterday's thread. Scroll down to where you got to and complete your knowledge!

But please return!

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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.
If you were with me late last night, you will know about the ballistic missiles and big drone attack on Sumy.

I think Russia moved to attacking soft targets in big numbers.

A record 46% of UAVs were NOT stopped.
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