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Day 403
Welcome along to Sunday's thread with all the news and analysis from #Russia's illegal war on #Ukraine.
Yesterday saw dogs, drones, drunks and dodgy priests. Read anything you missed by clicking and scrolling here:
Welcome along to Sunday's thread with all the news and analysis from #Russia's illegal war on #Ukraine.
Yesterday saw dogs, drones, drunks and dodgy priests. Read anything you missed by clicking and scrolling here:
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1641987217986912256
Firstly someone "proved" Elon Musk decided to "hide" news of #Ukraine on Twitter. Now why would he do that?
Now Ukraine news is as 'dangerous' as disinfo and needs silencing🤬
The only action we can take is to retweet and repeat as much as possible.🇺🇦
Now Ukraine news is as 'dangerous' as disinfo and needs silencing🤬
The only action we can take is to retweet and repeat as much as possible.🇺🇦
https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976925064245249
#Russia's daily losses (estimated by #Ukraine) get lower and lower.
A total of just 21 pieces of any equipment whatsoever destroyed in the last 24 hours.
560 more soldiers won't be returning to their families.
Dead of alive - your choice - #RussiansGoHome
A total of just 21 pieces of any equipment whatsoever destroyed in the last 24 hours.
560 more soldiers won't be returning to their families.
Dead of alive - your choice - #RussiansGoHome
British Intel is interesting today.
Maybe #Ukraine should be dropping alcohol from drones over enemy lines? The secret weapon to let the highly disciplined #Russia army defeat itself🤡
#FriendlyFire
Maybe #Ukraine should be dropping alcohol from drones over enemy lines? The secret weapon to let the highly disciplined #Russia army defeat itself🤡
#FriendlyFire
Late last night the President of the European Commission weighed-in on #Russia now presiding over the @UN Security Council.
https://twitter.com/JosepBorrellF/status/1642266407369834499
More destruction evident in #Avdiivka.
#Ukraine's President's Office publishes photos of the town's administration (council) building after it was hit.
With everyone in shelters there were no casualties.
By the way I've been told some families return to Avdiivka AFTER evacuation
#Ukraine's President's Office publishes photos of the town's administration (council) building after it was hit.
With everyone in shelters there were no casualties.
By the way I've been told some families return to Avdiivka AFTER evacuation
#Russia has murdered 262 athletes from #Ukraine and destroyed 363 sports facilities in the country.
That was the message given to the President of the International Gymnastics Federation, Morinari Watanabe who's visiting #Kyiv.
president.gov.ua/news/kerivnik-…
That was the message given to the President of the International Gymnastics Federation, Morinari Watanabe who's visiting #Kyiv.
president.gov.ua/news/kerivnik-…
The ex-President of #Russia's neighbour, #Mongolia, says ethnic minorities are being turned into 'cannon fodder'.
Elbegdorj Tsakhia confirms what #Ukraine watchers knew for a long time: Buryats and other minorities in the far flung regions die for Putin
24tv.ua/mobilizatsiya-…
Elbegdorj Tsakhia confirms what #Ukraine watchers knew for a long time: Buryats and other minorities in the far flung regions die for Putin
24tv.ua/mobilizatsiya-…
A mobilised soldier from #Samara has taken "around 10 hostages" in #Bryansk.
Independent media Baza reports the 35 year old man later surrendered and released the other soldiers after negotiations.
He was angry to learn his nephews were killed in #Ukraine for Putin's war.
Independent media Baza reports the 35 year old man later surrendered and released the other soldiers after negotiations.
He was angry to learn his nephews were killed in #Ukraine for Putin's war.
A year ago today, the last of #Russia's troops left #Kyiv region.
Later followed #Chernihiv, #Sumy, #Kharkiv, #Mykolaiv and half of #Kherson regions. Hopefully more to come with illegal aggression going unrewarded and indeed punished.
#SlavaUkraini
Later followed #Chernihiv, #Sumy, #Kharkiv, #Mykolaiv and half of #Kherson regions. Hopefully more to come with illegal aggression going unrewarded and indeed punished.
#SlavaUkraini
⚡️Breaking⚡️
Explosions in #Melitopol.
It's reported rockets have hit near the railway station in the key occupied city in #Zaporizhzhia oblast.
Explosions in #Melitopol.
It's reported rockets have hit near the railway station in the key occupied city in #Zaporizhzhia oblast.
Interesting exhibition in #NewYork this weekend.
Seems the artist make a Red Star of #Russia's Army and filled it with the boots of dead Russian soldiers, sacrificed for the Tsar Putin.
#StandWithUkraine
Seems the artist make a Red Star of #Russia's Army and filled it with the boots of dead Russian soldiers, sacrificed for the Tsar Putin.
#StandWithUkraine
Even the Occupiers have confirmed the attack in #Melitopol'
"...arrivals (shelling) at the railway depot were recorded."
"...arrivals (shelling) at the railway depot were recorded."
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1642423192831553537
Ooh feel the hate today. Lots of vitriol in the messages. #Russia must be close to losing or something? 😂🥳
https://twitter.com/ExilioUn/status/1642410856536326145?t=hcgH1gq_KDC0Jbfr1IXEpw&s=19
Death and destruction in #Kostyantynivka (RU: #Konstantinovka) in #Donetsk region.
#Russia hit the town with S-300 anti aircraft missiles. Andriy Yermak in the President's Office says there are at least 3 dead and 6 wounded.
#StopRussia
#Russia hit the town with S-300 anti aircraft missiles. Andriy Yermak in the President's Office says there are at least 3 dead and 6 wounded.
#StopRussia
Depite being ordered to leave, priests of the #Moscow-aligned church in #Ukraine held another service in #Kyiv-Lavra today.
But UOP-MP leader is absent - Metropolitan Pavel is tagged and under house arrest after yesterday's court case.
Everything is calm at the church complex.
But UOP-MP leader is absent - Metropolitan Pavel is tagged and under house arrest after yesterday's court case.
Everything is calm at the church complex.
A new artwork was unveiled by 🇺🇸Ambassador Bridget Brink in a rainy #Borodianka near #Kyiv this morning.
"A Girl Under The Sun" is a sculpture by Yevgeniy Pryimachenko. It's based on a photo of 11yo Alina on a swing, which went viral amid the devastation wreaked by #Russia.
"A Girl Under The Sun" is a sculpture by Yevgeniy Pryimachenko. It's based on a photo of 11yo Alina on a swing, which went viral amid the devastation wreaked by #Russia.
#Melitopol' update
Locals reporting #Ukraine today hit both an electricity substation and a depot containing trains used by the Occupiers for the war.
It's the 3rd strike in a week. #Russia's engineers were already repairing the substation from previous damage when hit again.
Locals reporting #Ukraine today hit both an electricity substation and a depot containing trains used by the Occupiers for the war.
It's the 3rd strike in a week. #Russia's engineers were already repairing the substation from previous damage when hit again.
How very religious!
Moscow-backed priests beat a military man in #Khmelnytskyi, #Ukraine
The men in cloth didn't like his question "How many more people have to die for you to stop going to the Moscow Patriarchate?"
A local Councillor reports Police later detained the soldier!
Moscow-backed priests beat a military man in #Khmelnytskyi, #Ukraine
The men in cloth didn't like his question "How many more people have to die for you to stop going to the Moscow Patriarchate?"
A local Councillor reports Police later detained the soldier!
This is a huge blast in #Crimea.
May not necessarily be anything to do with the war, but these sort of things usually register about 1.25-1.35 so this really is remarkable.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
May not necessarily be anything to do with the war, but these sort of things usually register about 1.25-1.35 so this really is remarkable.
#CrimeaIsUkraine
https://twitter.com/ukr_satflash/status/1642460976841740289
#Vuhledar (RU: #Ugledar) has become one big graveyard for #Russia - troops and equipment.
I cannot verify these are recent hits, but the #Volnova Council publishes shots of wrecked tanks after "the work of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion in the Volnovasky district."
I cannot verify these are recent hits, but the #Volnova Council publishes shots of wrecked tanks after "the work of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion in the Volnovasky district."
But also in #Vuhledar there are heavy losses for #Ukraine too - but all indicators are much, much lower than #Russia's losses on the offensive.
In the interests of fairness, here Russian war bloggers show a column of #Ukraine equipment wiped out.
#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
In the interests of fairness, here Russian war bloggers show a column of #Ukraine equipment wiped out.
#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
There will be so many more sickening sights when #Russia leaves #Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/PaulNiland/status/1642471977930637312
Hundreds of thousands dead and hundreds more thousands disabled.
And worse for #Russia, expecting a huge rise in those in need, authorities admits "great concern" over the quality of rehabilitation products. The average age of the disabled is just 27.
pnp.ru/economics/v-mi…
And worse for #Russia, expecting a huge rise in those in need, authorities admits "great concern" over the quality of rehabilitation products. The average age of the disabled is just 27.
pnp.ru/economics/v-mi…
#Ukraine is making its own ammunition for drones.
Ukroboronprom showed the various new bombs on its Facebook page.
Six new shells of different sizes are shown, to be attached to UAVs. The company says they have a fragmentation effect.
#SaveUkraine #StopRussia
Ukroboronprom showed the various new bombs on its Facebook page.
Six new shells of different sizes are shown, to be attached to UAVs. The company says they have a fragmentation effect.
#SaveUkraine #StopRussia
Sadly, but it seemed inevitable, the death toll in the attack on the centre of #Kostyantynivka (RU: #Konstantinovka) has increased.
Six bodies have been recovered and 8 are wounded.
#Russia claims it hit an ammunition dump.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Six bodies have been recovered and 8 are wounded.
#Russia claims it hit an ammunition dump.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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#Melitopol' update - new videos.
First CCTV of the moment of an explosion at a railway depot in the city this morning, the third such hit in a week.
This could seriously hamper #Russia's efforts to move troops and equipment.
#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
#Melitopol' update - new videos.
First CCTV of the moment of an explosion at a railway depot in the city this morning, the third such hit in a week.
This could seriously hamper #Russia's efforts to move troops and equipment.
#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
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#Russia claims 6 residents were injured in #Ukraine's strikes on #Melitopol'
But the Occupier also says cluster munitions were used. Furthermore this morning they admitted strikes were on rail depots, but now say "there are no military targets anywhere near."
#StopRussia
#Russia claims 6 residents were injured in #Ukraine's strikes on #Melitopol'
But the Occupier also says cluster munitions were used. Furthermore this morning they admitted strikes were on rail depots, but now say "there are no military targets anywhere near."
#StopRussia
#Poland is still holding women's Fencing World Cup events even though Russians can compete.
However, Poland will only allow athletes at the Olympics qualifying event if they sign a document saying they disagree with the war.
#Russia has just said it WON'T send a team to Poland.
However, Poland will only allow athletes at the Olympics qualifying event if they sign a document saying they disagree with the war.
#Russia has just said it WON'T send a team to Poland.
More trouble on the railways for #Russia.
This is #Samara region. Four wagons were derailed.
Officials say "3 were carrying gondola cars, and one more is a grain carrier" (unverified)
Sabotage is a possibility on a route used for transfer of troops and equipment from the east.
This is #Samara region. Four wagons were derailed.
Officials say "3 were carrying gondola cars, and one more is a grain carrier" (unverified)
Sabotage is a possibility on a route used for transfer of troops and equipment from the east.
Spotted in #Crimea, heading towards the front...
This is apparently a T-12 gun, snapped in #Evpatoria. These were manufactured in the 60s and 70s and phased out of use in the late 1980s.
Honestly it will be a surprise if it fires correctly with any accuracy.
This is apparently a T-12 gun, snapped in #Evpatoria. These were manufactured in the 60s and 70s and phased out of use in the late 1980s.
Honestly it will be a surprise if it fires correctly with any accuracy.
Occupied #Horlivka has been shelled today.
Obviously the Occupiers from #Russia say the damage to the #Donetsk town came from #Ukraine's firing.
#DonetskIsUkraine
Obviously the Occupiers from #Russia say the damage to the #Donetsk town came from #Ukraine's firing.
#DonetskIsUkraine
#Ukraine police confirm they have spoken to both the soldier and the man who assaulted him.
The unnamed serviceman earlier threw a bible on to the floor, which led to the violence in #Khmelnytskyi.
The unnamed serviceman earlier threw a bible on to the floor, which led to the violence in #Khmelnytskyi.
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1642459014674935808
An inspiring thread about recovery and hope in #Kherson region.
Thanks @NeneOriginal for spotting this:
#SlavaUkraini
Thanks @NeneOriginal for spotting this:
#SlavaUkraini
https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1642457428414406657
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A well known Russian military blogger has been killed in St Petersburg.
He was hosting an event in the city when an explosion ripped through the café. Six other people are reported injured.
#StopRussia
A well known Russian military blogger has been killed in St Petersburg.
He was hosting an event in the city when an explosion ripped through the café. Six other people are reported injured.
#StopRussia
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This is the immediate aftermath inside the cafe where war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is said to have been killed.
It has all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
#STOPrussia
This is the immediate aftermath inside the cafe where war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is said to have been killed.
It has all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
#STOPrussia
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This is the victim of the bomb blast in St.Petersburg - Vladlen Tatarsky was a popular pro-#Russia war blogger.
And this is believed to be the moment which caused his death. It's said that the "present" contained explosives.
This is the victim of the bomb blast in St.Petersburg - Vladlen Tatarsky was a popular pro-#Russia war blogger.
And this is believed to be the moment which caused his death. It's said that the "present" contained explosives.
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The number of injured has risen to 16, in addition to Tatarsky's death.
The prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Viktor Melnik, has already arrived at the site of the deadly explosion - Street Food Bar No. 1 cafe on Universitetskaya embankment. This video was taken 5 minutes ago
The number of injured has risen to 16, in addition to Tatarsky's death.
The prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Viktor Melnik, has already arrived at the site of the deadly explosion - Street Food Bar No. 1 cafe on Universitetskaya embankment. This video was taken 5 minutes ago
A swift response today to the scandal in #Khmelnytskyi where a soldier was beaten by Moscow-aligned priests and acolytes.
They've now been expelled from the church and a hasty vote ensured it and all the property will be handed over to the State commission.
Cameras filmed events
They've now been expelled from the church and a hasty vote ensured it and all the property will be handed over to the State commission.
Cameras filmed events
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Somewhat predictably #Russia's already managed to find a Ukrainian to blame for the killing of Vladlen Tatarsky, the convicted thief turned soldier turned blogger.
Maria Yarun from Ivano Frankivsk has been detained; she supposedly handed over the statue full of explosives.
Somewhat predictably #Russia's already managed to find a Ukrainian to blame for the killing of Vladlen Tatarsky, the convicted thief turned soldier turned blogger.
Maria Yarun from Ivano Frankivsk has been detained; she supposedly handed over the statue full of explosives.
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First who would benefit from the assassination?
#Russia says #Ukraine. But really?
What is to gain for Ukraine to kill one quite-well known person in Russia's second city?
I think nothing.
First who would benefit from the assassination?
#Russia says #Ukraine. But really?
What is to gain for Ukraine to kill one quite-well known person in Russia's second city?
I think nothing.
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So who else gains?
Tatarsky will certainly have made enemies along the way, both in his military career and likely other jealous bloggers.
But only police would be able to access messages, emails, documents and speaks to friends to assess any potential threats.
So who else gains?
Tatarsky will certainly have made enemies along the way, both in his military career and likely other jealous bloggers.
But only police would be able to access messages, emails, documents and speaks to friends to assess any potential threats.
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Could Putin's Government gain from the killing?
Well funny you should ask that..
Tatarsky gained some notoriety by instantly declaring #Russia would kill, rape and plunder as needed to defeat #Ukraine.
Come the war crimes later, this did not look good and likely angered some
Could Putin's Government gain from the killing?
Well funny you should ask that..
Tatarsky gained some notoriety by instantly declaring #Russia would kill, rape and plunder as needed to defeat #Ukraine.
Come the war crimes later, this did not look good and likely angered some
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Furthermore Tatarsky nailed his allegiance, grovellingly so, to Prigozhin and the Wagner group.
He was, I believe, a mouthpiece for "Putin's Chef", the wannabe President.
Prigozhin likely told him what to write on occasions as he criticised #Russia's army and MoD.
Furthermore Tatarsky nailed his allegiance, grovellingly so, to Prigozhin and the Wagner group.
He was, I believe, a mouthpiece for "Putin's Chef", the wannabe President.
Prigozhin likely told him what to write on occasions as he criticised #Russia's army and MoD.
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The Kremlin will also benefit now in another way. They just launched a desperate military recruitment drive, which seemed lifeless. Doubtless now they can stoke the "hate #Ukraine" rhetoric and get more gullible cattle fodder to sign-up.
Think that's far fetched?...
The Kremlin will also benefit now in another way. They just launched a desperate military recruitment drive, which seemed lifeless. Doubtless now they can stoke the "hate #Ukraine" rhetoric and get more gullible cattle fodder to sign-up.
Think that's far fetched?...
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Please remember the Kremlin used a FAKE crucifixion to stoke hatred of Ukraine when it needed volunteers in 2014, just as #Russia looked likely to lose the Donbas war there and then.
And then let's remember how Putin came to power in 1999.
As acting President he was outsider
Please remember the Kremlin used a FAKE crucifixion to stoke hatred of Ukraine when it needed volunteers in 2014, just as #Russia looked likely to lose the Donbas war there and then.
And then let's remember how Putin came to power in 1999.
As acting President he was outsider
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..to win the coming election, until an extraordinary event. Terrorist bombings of #Russia.
Immediately Chechens were blamed and Putin started another Chechen war, sending his popularity soaring as the man to protect Russians.
Very few Russians over 40 have ever lost this view.
..to win the coming election, until an extraordinary event. Terrorist bombings of #Russia.
Immediately Chechens were blamed and Putin started another Chechen war, sending his popularity soaring as the man to protect Russians.
Very few Russians over 40 have ever lost this view.
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Except, one of the "terrorist bombs" didn't go off.
The apartment bombings killed 300, injuring >1000.
But not in #Ryazan. Here there's enough evidence to suggest the whole plot was organised by the Kremlin itself. Watch this documentary on the story
Except, one of the "terrorist bombs" didn't go off.
The apartment bombings killed 300, injuring >1000.
But not in #Ryazan. Here there's enough evidence to suggest the whole plot was organised by the Kremlin itself. Watch this documentary on the story
Tatarsky UPD
Media reports in #Russia about a Ukrainian woman being detained are incorrect. Or at least another young woman is now in the frame.
Investigators now name 25 year old anti-war protester Dariya Trepova, from St Petersburg, as a suspect; she's here on security footage
Media reports in #Russia about a Ukrainian woman being detained are incorrect. Or at least another young woman is now in the frame.
Investigators now name 25 year old anti-war protester Dariya Trepova, from St Petersburg, as a suspect; she's here on security footage
Prigozhin claims his Wagner troops have captured #Bakhmut
In this bizarre video he says he's by the main council building in the centre + will raise the Russian flag which belonged to Tatarsky.
Prigozhin says the town is "legally ours" then admits #Ukraine army is in the west.
In this bizarre video he says he's by the main council building in the centre + will raise the Russian flag which belonged to Tatarsky.
Prigozhin says the town is "legally ours" then admits #Ukraine army is in the west.
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