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Mar 12, 2023 25 tweets 20 min read Read on X
This is the daily thread (number 382) for Sunday 12 March 2023, covering #Russia's illegal war

All the relevant news from #Ukraine, reliable reporting, verified where possible and updated around the clock.

Missed yesterday? No problem, click and scroll:

A small part of Antarctica has been de-Russified.

#Ukraine scientists at the Vernadsky Academy changed spellings on the signposts for cities such as #Odesa and #Kropyvnytskyi, while they added symbolic places such as #Mariupol, #Kherson and #Bucha.

#SlavaUkraini
Near #Kreminna towards the north of the active frontline in this war, there is an admission from #Ukraine's Command that #Russia has gained a little ground.

They report enemy units moving forward in the forest with the aid of armoured vehicles.
#StopRussia
Meanwhile in #Donetsk the Occupiers reveal a new addition to the war fight.

#Russia seems overly proud of this "armoured train"

I have every confidence #Ukraine knows exactly the direction it's travelling in at all times, and it cannot move sideways to escape missiles.
Ths scene is being repeated quite often in #Russia now

Wives from #Moscow region now complaining “our mobilised are thrown like meat to storm fortified areas; 5 people against 100 well-armed”

They also say men are being trained in artillery but then thrown into assault infantry
#Ukraine troops have been valiantly holding out in #Mariinka , west of #Donetsk.

"This is how it looks in Mar'inka" says the man with the camera.

#StopRussia #RussiaIsATerroristState
#Bakhmut
Not only fighting is risky - if anything it's even more dangerous trying to rescue and evacuate the wounded.

This extraordinary video from Ukraina LIFE shows the difficulties and realities of life (and death) on the front lines.
Smoke seeps across the occupied city of #Donetsk this morning. Local officials say air defences worked, but cannot explain the reports of loud explosions and smoke.

#StandWithUkraine
This resident in the Kalinisky district of #Donetsk says there were two rockets a couple of minutes ago.

#StopRussia
Very nearly a record number of #Russia's invaders have been eliminated in the last 24 hours*

1,090 more sacrifices to Tsar Putin to gain 15 metres of #Ukraine.

Equipment losses lower today though.

*Kyic estimate
This is reportedly the only road for #Ukraine to get into and out of #Bakhmut'

I cannot verify the location, the date, or whether the situation has changed after attempted counter attacks by ZSU.
But it looks recent and genuine.

#StopRussia
Unverified post from front line south of Bakhmut.

"Unpleasant events east of #Avdiivka. Russians have gained a foothold in Krasnohorivka and are trying to take control of Kamianka.
They cannot take Avdiivka head on so they'll go to Stepovoy and Orlivka in order to surround us."
On the border between #Ukraine and #Belarus, it's "Poster Wars!"

Anyone entering Belarus sees a giant billboard saying "Belarus Remembers" and images of World War 2

Ukraine goes for "We will help Ukraine find real occupiers" and the U.S. flag!
On occupied #Crimea the Occupiers are counting on huge losses continuing for a long, long time.

Newly mobilised here are at least avoiding immediate death as they're being forced to build a new military hospital in #Sevastopol, with more than 20 buildings on the complex.
The exiled Mayor of #Melitopol has told #Ukraine TV's "news marathon" that #Russia started shelling the city it occupies

After reports of 10 explosions yesterday, Ivan Fedorov said Russia's implementing the "Donetsk scenario" - firing at residential quarters then blaming Ukraine
Pro-#Ukraine Resistance group Atesh has sabotaged a main railway line between #Kherson and #Zaporizhzhia.

They say the attack happened yesterday between the villages of Radensk and Abrikosivka. It will disrupt the supply of troops and equipment to ZP.

#StopRussia
Oleksandr Matsiyevsk, the unarmed soldier murdered by #Russia's troops, has been posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine🇺🇦

President Zelenskyy said he was "A man who will be remembered forever. For his courage and for his "Slava Ukraini."

"Cecil Von Tessa", thank you for your generous donation and kind words.

It's take many hours each day to speak with contacts, verify and compile these threads. If you can support, please see the link in my profile.
Dyakuyu💙💛🇺🇦
Scandal in #Ukraine after a junior lieutenant was caught on film assaulting a conscript soldier.

An investigation's underway after Commander of the 2nd platoon of the guard company, Viktor Vitusevych, kicked the conscript in the village of Guiva, #Zhytomyr region.
While Olympics bosses continue to pretend "sport and politics don't mix", tell that to the pregnant wife of Oleksiy Khanilevych, another sportsmen killed by #Russia

The 24yo was a basketball star with Kremin (Kremenchuk) in the Higher League. He was fatally wounded near Kreminna
Despite being "close to death", ex-Georgia President tells citizens to "be ready to mobilise at short notice, because of the vengeful mood of the oligarchs' regime."

The pro-Russie govt still refuses to let #Saakashvili leave #Georgia for treatment

news.sky.com/story/pro-west…
Russia's Commissioner for Children's says an agreement's been reached with Kurds, on the "return of another 200 Russian children from Syria in the near future"

What #Russia kids in Syria? Sounds like more kidnappings to me.🇷🇺 is so de-populated forced repatriation is rife.
Thomas I, thank you for your donation to help me with this work 💙💛

My morning coffee will be from you!
16 people have been injured in occupied #Luhansk region.

#Russia claims #HIMARS hit the town of #Perevalsk, about 25 miles/40km south-west of Luhansk.

The Occupiers cannot explain why all previous #Ukraine HIMARS attacks have been during the curfew and hit military targets.
Two massive explosions ring out across #Mariupol'

The noise could be heard across the city. A few minutes before air defence missiles looked to have been fired from the occupied city.

#StandWithUkraine

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The genocide continues as I type, with a massive missile attack underway.

For all the news as it happens, keep checking back. This is THE daily🧵
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What makes me a little suspicious is there are no photos from the scene. Image
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It's Monday, the second day of the 2nd month.
Day 1440 of Russia's illegal full invasion of its sovereign neighbour.

As we approach another round of "peace talks", Russia seems to be preparing by committing an ever growing number of sickening war crimes.

This is THE daily🧵
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16 people were killed. Another 14 are in hospital, seven of whom are in a serious condition.
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Saturday 27 December 2025 is Day 1403 of Russia's war of choice.

The day began with missile attacks on Ukraine shortly after midnight and the terrorism continued with drone strikes, may into residential areas, with Kyiv bearing the brunt of the damage.

Here's THE daily thread
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But there were also 'direct sanctions' taken by Ukraine on war criminals and military targets:

News is still coming in from Kyiv especially after the awful bombardment. Mayor of the city, @Vitaliy_Klychko has just issued an update saying 28 people have been injured, with 13 hospitalised

Although the city's had the air raid warning lifted, it's still affecting Kyiv region Image
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The seemingly random attack on police officers in Moscow last night, may have been a Ukraine targeted attack.

Two "traffic officers" died overnight on the same street where a Lt Gen was eliminated the day before.
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