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Mar 9, 2023 43 tweets 39 min read Read on X
Day 379 of #Russia's attack on #Ukraine, here's my daily thread.

The fierce fighting around #Bakhmut and other hotspots in the east continues.

Bakhmut is 35 miles (55km) from #Kadiivka in #Luhansk region which has been under Russian control since 2014.
35 miles in 379 days!
Yesterday's link for the thread is here⬇️
Luckily, a quiet day with #Georgia's heavily Russian influenced Govt taking most of the headlines.

More death and destruction from #Russia already this morning.

Four people are dead in #Lviv region after local officials say a rocket hit a residential area.

Rescuers are still searching debris in #Zolochiv.
Another attack and another death in #Dnipropetrovsk region.

Drones and rockets were used by #Russia, leaving a 34 year old man dead and two injured according to Serhiy Lysak, the regional governor.
Energy infrastructure has been damaged.
No photos yet,
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Russia's daily losses in #Ukraine are down a little today.

Here are the figures, estimated by #Ukraine.
Britain's update today sheds more light on the recent attack on an airfield in #Belarus and damage to a Russian radar plane.

#StandWithUkraine
#Ukraine's nuclear energy regulator has issued an urgent warning about Europe's largest nuclear plant.

Energoatom says the #Zaporizhzhia plant in #Enerhodar has been completely de-energised after Russian shelling.

Here's the translation of their post:

#RussiaIsATerroristState
This morning's attack by #Russia was unique according to Yuriy Ihnat, spokesman of #Ukraine's Air Force.

In total, 81 missiles were launched including 6 Kh-22 and 6 "Dagger" warheads.
There were 8 more guided air missiles and 20 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea.
1/2
Multiple explosions in #Kyiv..

Two people hospitalised in the #Sviatoshyn district of #Ukraine's capital, while there was also an explosion in the #Holosiiv area.

Mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko says 40% of residents are without heating.
2/2

First photos on social media in #Kyiv show damage to cars on the street following #Russia's attack.

5 vehicles were completely destroyed and another 15 were damaged.
There are also reports of damage to the fronts of many residential buildings.
... and here's a video of the moment a car was ruined in #Sviatoshyn area of #Kyiv during the attack by #Russia.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
3 civilians killed in #Kherson after #Russia shelled a bus stop

It's a frequent, therefore not accidental, occurence in the de-occupied region, that the Terrorist Regime is targeting queues & public transport stops

Other shells hit elsewhere in the city
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Kharkiv is without power after missile stikes hit the city.

Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov reports transformer substations were hit, but for critical institutions, hospitals etc, they are able to run off generators.

15 missiles targeted the region, 11 aimed at #Kharkov itself.
A fifth body has been recovered from #Zolochiv in the western #Lviv region of #Ukraine. A rocket smashed into residential housing - the devastation clear to see in this video.

Mass missile attacks by #Russia across the country took three thermal power plants offline.
#StopRussia
Of #Ukraine's cities/regions I've not yet mentioned in today's thread, the following were also targeted by #Russia today:

#IvanoFrankivsk
#Kropyvnytskyi/#Kirovohrad
#Odesa
#Vinnytsia
#Zhytomyr
and in #Zaporizhzhia 5 missiles were fired at one power plant.
1/
My analysis of the mass missile attack by #Russia

Firstly, the Terrorist State targets energy infrastructure, but also civilian targets, with plausible deniability of "unguided weapons" or that #Ukraine's defences must have knocked them off course.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
2/

Today's attack is the first mass missile launch on #Ukraine for 3 weeks, the longest gap since #Russia began such attacks in October. This likely shows they are worried about depleting stocks, but the worry is the Kremlin is being resupplied by Iran (likely), N.Korea or China
3/

#Ukraine desperately needs air defence:
(more) Patriot systems are "on their way" but the delay of any supply costs lives as we've seen today.

The fact that #Russia used so many types of missile, including 'Kinzhal' hypersonics, could be them striking before Patriot arrives.
4/

Without China/Iran help, without a further wave of mobilisation, #Russia is struggling

Bank reserves are used to keep 🇷🇺 economy stable. With no victory & no end to the war in #Ukraine in sight, pressure mounts on Putin

When any star dies it burns itself out in a final fury
I need to say Arigatō (thanks) to Konomi @Z6N8t5nNIk6IRaj for a kind donation to my Ko-Fi fund (link on my bio if you want to support)

Konomi does good work translating many of my tweets into Japanese for their nation.
💙💛
President @ZelenskyyUa says he held an emergency meeting this morning with key figures in Defence and Energy following the mass missile attack.

As he published his post on Telegram, another nationwide air-raid warning sounded with #Russia's planes active again from #Belarus.
#Poland's Deputy PM says they've already given #Ukraine the remaining 10 of the 14 Leopard-2 tanks.

Mariusz Blaszczak added "In addition to these 14 tanks, this battalion also includes four tanks from Canada, eight from Norway, and six from Spain,"

In what I see as a pure diversionary tactic, #Russia, immediately after striking civilians and civilian infrastructure in #Ukraine, announced they'd foiled an assassination attempt on the "leader" of #Transnistria, the unrecognised Russian occupied strip of #Moldova.
Another video from #Kherson of the damage from the ongoing shelling by #Russia's forces over the river.

These houses are on Korabelnaya Square, in the centre. Zero military value. Pure destruction, targeting of locals.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Russia may have two new friends.
Military exercises are planned with #Mongolia and #Laos according to the Kremlin.
One person has been killed in occupied #Volnovakha and another injured according to #Russia.

The Occupiers claim a HIMARS missile hit the bus station in the town in #Donetsk region, midway between #Mariupol' and Donetsk city.
Some reports of explosions in #Dnipro region. These are purely planned work on unexploded enemy munitions. Sappers will also be working in #Kyiv region this afternoon.

#StandWithUkraine
Seen in a shopping mall in #Austria: "Not our war"

#Vienna was, and likely still is, the absolute hotspot in the EU for #Russia's spies and the Kremlin at one point managed to exert big influence on key political figures.

🇦🇹 seems to have come to its senses, but danger remains
#RussiaOnFire

A gas explosion in the city of #Chita in east #Russia.
Amazingly no injuries reported. Eight people were rescued from the building.
Oh, now I'm convinced. Aren't you?

#Russia's come up with a video of a Land Rover which it claims was going to be used to assassinate the so called head of unrecognised #Transnistria.

8kg of explosives, screws and nuts were allegedly found in the door.

#Slovakia and #Poland agree to send MiG-29 jets to #Ukraine.

Defence Minister Yaroslav Nagy confirmed the news after Poland consented at a meeting yesterday.

Hopefully the usual delay between "agree" and "arrival" will be minimal this time.

#StandWithUkraine
'High-ranking officials' of the US Defence Department believes #Iran is using #Ukraine as a testing ground for its weapons.

The CNN report comes just a couple of days after Sky proved the Iranians had given 100m bullets and 300k shells to #Russia, but no ballistic missiles yet.
A fourth person has now died in the earlier shelling of #Kherson.

City officials now say #Russia almost certainly fired from a tank. They hit a queue at a bus stop and a shop.

Video 18+
Power has been fully restored in #Ukraine's capital #Kyiv.
However 30% of homes remain without communal heating according to Vitaliy Klychko (Klytshchko)

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine
Power has been restored to #Ukraine's and #Europe's biggest nuclear power plant.

Earlier today #Russia's shelling saw the #Zaporizhzhia plant need to rely on diesel generators to avoid a catastophe.

After the repair, it can now power its own needs from Ukraine's energy system.
I've not seen this verified, but it's reported somce channels in #Russia were hacked, resulting in a warning of a nuclear attack.

"Everyone quickly to the shelters" urged the notice as the threat spread eastwards.

Probably not a good idea for a joke.
Speaking of poor judgement, none worse than idiot rapper from #Russia David Nuriev.

Going by his stage name, Ptakha y'day released a video, getting friends + PR people to hint he was killed on #Donetsk.

It was just a sick publicity stunt, which he tries to pass off as psyops.
The #USA has imposed sanctions on five companies in #China and one individual, for supporting Iran’s drone procurement efforts.

They are accused of the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
#Ukraine's Intel is warning that #Russia is planning a deadly false flag operation in #Belarus.

Desperate efforts are being made to get the Belarusian public to hate Ukraine and let the country join the war.

Ukraine says TV propagandist Solovyov is traveling there for the event
In #Bulgaria, Atanas Shtefanov, a #Russia loving politician, threw the #Ukraine flag from a balcony of city hall in the capital #Sofia.

Below the massive crowd... oh sorry, one person, cheered and made typical Kremlin propaganda rubbish about fascism.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
Explosion heard in #Zaporizhzhia. No official confirmation but since then locals report problems with the electricity in the city.

#StopRussia
Protests continue in #Georgia even though the Russian loving government caved in to the people's demands. Arrested protesters were released and the legislation on "foreign agents" was scrapped.

Glory to #Ukraine appeared on the parliament building during tonight's demos.
Time for another in our series of #Russia vs Camels.

Looks like the ships of the desert are too strong. This makes it 3-0.

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Catch up here:

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It's simple: #Russia accuses others of what it does itself.
Democratic elections?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Jewish President?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Previous Pres Jewish?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Far right MPs?🇺🇦❌🇷🇺✅
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Please share, boost, do your NAFO thing to raise visibility!💙💛

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This is THE daily thread covering the war in #Ukraine
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All the details coming up right here on Friday's thread.
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