Much lower figures today as #Ukraine publishes the daily losses suffered by #Russia in the last 24 hours of the war. Still another 470 Russian families will be grieving at some point in the future when they realise their relative won't be coming home.
Yesterday I reported on the Governor of #Bryansk in #Russia describing how they'd foiled a border crossing by #Ukraine, implying soldiers tried to attack
Turns out it was a man on a bike! Unfortunately he died when hitting a mine.
First video from #Kherson where at least six are wounded in heavy shelling.
Most badly hit seems to be the market in the centre.
Here someone films as they try to flee one strike which shattered glass, but explosions continue as they move away. #SaveUkraine
#Egypt has reportedly agreed to supply Ukraine with 152mm and 155mm shells.
A blow to #Russia, but it's likely Egypt is carefully playing both sides.
A drone appears to have fallen in occupied #Donetsk this morning.
This video's been published showing the UAV near school number 57 in the Kyivskyi district of the city.
Pictures emerge from heavy attacks by #Russia on #Sloviansk (RU: #Slavyansk) in the early hours of this morning.
Attack drones & rockets damaged 5 high-rise buildings, 7 houses, a security facility, a medical facility plus entertainment and business centres.
No casualties.
Three civilians have been killed by #Russia's airstrikes in #Luhansk.
This house in the village of Novoiehorivka was hit. This is about 20km SW of #Svatove, close to the state border with #Kharkiv oblast.
Despite rains easing, more water from upstream means large areas of #Kyiv region are now under water.
Flooding has caused widespread damage in 3 regions of #Ukraine in the past week.
#Russia is banned from Basketball at the Paris Olympics.
@FIBA has stuck to its guns and continued to refuse to allow the Russians to participate because of the country's illegal war. So Russia will miss the qualifiers and cannot go to next years #Olympics.
Less than a week ago I reported this.
Now Pernod Ricard has accounced, because of the threat of a boycott, it is withdrawing Absolut Vodka from the Russian market.
It's reported tonight that at least one Patriot air defence system is already in #Ukraine
#Germany has officially handed over the US made system along with the missiles.
With a range of 160km, this equipment can go a long way to ending #Russia's air superiority. #SaveUkraine
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A drone hits an Enlistment Office in the #Bryansk oblast of #Russia.
Regional governor Aleksandr Bogomaz immediately said a #Ukraine UAV attacked the Military Commissariat of #Novozybkiv. Windows were broken but no injuries.
Are they sure it's not angry Russians?
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The level of #Russia's losses in the last 24 hours remains in line with recent days. Another 690 killed in #Ukraine and we remain on course for 200,000 in mid-May.
British Intel today comments on the figures. They are slightly behind the 8-ball because as readers here will know, the trend is slightly up again. But yes, down from the insane numbers when #Russia was launching non stop attacks with cannon fodder.
I'll start in #Russia where a drone "stuffed with explosives" has been found near #Noginsk in Moscow region.
The 3-metre UAV weighing 85kgs "fell from the sky".
Media are saying it's one of #Ukraine's UJ-22 drones, with Canadian M112 explosive charges (unverified)
Yesterday we saw #Russia's brotherly love for Eton Musk. Russian advances in #Bakhmut. Explosions in occupied #Melitopol as well as usual attacks on the liberated part of #Kherson and #Kharkiv.
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And so begins the daily thread for Day 423.
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670 more soldiers losing their lives needlessly and at some point today the 185,000th troop will be killed in #Ukraine fighting a non-existent cause for a regime in Moscow as sick as Hitler's Nazis.
Fuel tanks destroyed high again.
Overnight #Russia launched another drone attack, this time in the #Dnipropetrovsk region.
All six attack UAVs were shot down.
So far at least relatively few reports of attacks on population centres today. #SaveUkraine