Thread by @TWMCLtd

You've found the start of Tuesday's 🧵covering all he developments and everything you need to know about #Russia's illegal war in #Ukraine

It's day 377. We are in danger of suffering public fatigue. Please don't let this happen.
Ukraine's soldiers cannot quit, morally or legally

If you missed anything yesterday, fear not!
Here's the link to Monday's thread, click and scroll at your leisure.
#RussiaUkraineWar️

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1632637016885149697

This is how I ended yesterday's thread.

There is a lot of speculation as to who the man is, it seems he may originally be from #Donetsk.
However his sister has identified him and asks not to name him yet - the least we can do is respect that.

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1632889263162548224

The second worst day ever in the war for #Russia in terms of soldiers killed by #Ukraine*

Well above average figures for numerous categories, but the one which catches the eye is over 1,000 dead troops in a day.

Also, one more jet was shot down in #Donetsk.

*Kyiv estimates

Here's the daily British Military Intel update.
#Ukraine is desperately trying to "open" one of the other proper roads into/out of #Bakhmut, which had been under fire control.

Temperatures are rising rapidly now which means more mud and almost impossible to cross fields.

I saw this posted a couple of times, but having searched the #Crimea/Simferopol govt websites, I cannot find reference to it.
Possibly it was removed, but could also be propoganda from pro-#Ukraine bloggers.
The story is Occupiers in Melitopol are preparing to flee to Crimea.

They scoured the prisons, took murderers, thieves and other reprobates. Now they open youth clubs and recruit in gyms. #Wagner has new recruitment centres across #Russia

But a new low as the mercenary group recruits psychiatric patients to die in Ukraine

moscowtimes.ru/2023/03/06/vag…

#Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is reported as saying forcing #Ukraine to cede territory for "peace" would be wrong.

In a (paywalled) interview with Der Standard, the FM also fears "not all levels of escalation have been reached yet" referring to Putin's nukes

Another day, another attack on a military enlistment office in #Russia.

In #Murmansk senior offices were standing guard at the registration building, but "left for an hour" in the night, whereupon the wannabe arsonist struck. Their attempt was not very successful though.

Some reports of explosions at the Belbek airfield in occupied #Crimea.

However, it could be training exercises. Impossible to be certain about anything at this stage. If it was something big, eventually satellite data will give a clue.

#CrimeaIsUkraine

The personal adviser to the so-called "Head of #Donetsk" admits #Ukraine "may try to breakthrough in #Bakhmut (RU: #Artemovsk) to try to hold the city."

Yan Gagin claims at the moment Russian forces "control almost half" of the town.

#BakhmutHolds

#RussiaOnFire

So just how did the Metropolitan Police building in central #Moscow catch fire?

A blaze at the 'Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' on Petrovka St. seems to have started on the 3rd floor. Everyone evacuated the building and it's now extinguished

An unathorised pro-Ukraine group is most likely to have blown up the underwater NordStream gas pipeline.

US investigators brief the NYT that neither US nor UK was involved, but the perpetrators may have previously had specialist training.

nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/…

I've read that apparently squirrel tastes nice.
But I still don't know anyone who's eaten it.
But hey facts don't matter in #Russia, the brainwashed will lap this up.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1633136675567153153

Another prisoner exchange took place today with 130 freed from captivity.

Among the #Ukraine fighters back on home soil are 87 Defenders of Mariupol (71 of whom were at Azovstal) and 35 from Bakhmut/Soledar.
Many of the men have bad injuries.
An emotional video has been released

When a drone struck at a military airfield near #Minsk, the group organising the flights said the perpetrators had safely fled across the border.

So it's quite a surprise to see a guy waiting at home to be arrested, immediately admit the attack and working with #Ukraine Intel!

In response to the last tweet and illegal President of Belarus, Lukashenko's claims of arresting a terrorist,
#Ukraine quickly responded.

Advisor to @ZelenskyyUa, Mykhailo Podolyak, reminded the world what is, and what isn't, a terrorist attack.

https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1633085862786285568

This is bizarre...
#Russia says only 90 people were exchanged in today's prisoner swap.

Moscow media complain that "#Kyiv refused" the usual 160 to 160 exchange.
Did another 30 Ukrainians manage to secretly walk out, or can't Russians count?

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1633152570666680322

Saw this earlier and didn't have chance to tweet.
Apparently satellite photos showing in good quality the defensive lines being made by #Russia in occupied #Zaporizhzhia.

Recently a lot of residents have reported columns of RU equipment heading towards the ZP frontline.

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In #Kharkiv people are amazed.
Streetlights in the centre are back on for the first time since the first days of the war.

It's only a test right now, but signs are it will become permanent soon enough.
#Kharkov #Ukraine #StopRussia

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And how good does this look in the centre of #Kharkiv tonight?

The Blue and Yellow, still standing, is beautifully lit up.

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Earlier today in #Kyiv funerals took place for soldier "scouts" killed on Christmas Day in a combat mission in #Bryansk just over the border with #Russia

The four were mourned in a cathedral, after which on Maidan public saluted the heroes and chanted "Putin Kh**lo"

This is so reminiscent of being stood on the streets of #Kyiv in December 2013.
But this is #Tblisi tonight after #Georgia's Russian-influenced government passed Moscow-style "foreign agent" laws, which effectively end the country's hopes of joining the EU.

Something caught my eye on occupied #Berdyansk.

This is a port town in southern #Ukraine which was probably the very first notable place to be seized by #Russia following the invasion.

#RussiansGoHome

The Secretary General of the #UN is on his way to #Ukraine.

@antonioguterres will meet President Zelenskyy tomorrow.

Wonder if they will be discussing #Russia becoming Chair of the Security Council, or why a Terrorist State can veto anything despite being a concerned party?

#Russia hugely celebrates 8 March as Women's Day including a big holiday.

In occupied parts of #Kherson this poster was seen, it says "beauty will save the world"

Sheer hypocrisy.

#Wagner head Prigozhin, asked why he is airing dirty linen in public, re his argument with #Russia's MoD: "We are talking about the lives of our fighters. It takes decades to make a soldier."
Says the guy who recruited criminals, sent them to death after a week.