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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Also @ToniScottSays reminds me it's Shakespeare's birth (and death) day adding "may the bard be with you!"
As long as you don't think this thread is much ado about nothing, I'm happy.
Cheers for all the replies + retweets helping overcome Twitter restrictions💙💛
More on the #Kherson "landings" by #Ukraine troops on the other side of the river.
Here's one, sent by @VASILIS11O - again I'm told these have been happening for weeks and are getting more common, but I'm not convinced there's a "permanent" camp (yet!):
Also in occupied bits of #Kherson & #Zaporizhzhia regions, many reports of #Russia's invaders grilling locals to know how many fighting age men remain in their village.
Trying to get occupied peoples to fight against their own is a war crime, but as UK says, 🇷🇺 is desperate
A gradfather on the outskirts of #Moscow says he found this American weapon in the garbage.
"Valeriy" found the Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) grenade launcher in a waste truck behind a supermarket while he looked for cardboard.
Yesterday I posted a video from #ChasivYar, from where the supplies and rotating troops come from for #Bakhmut
Between the two on this route is the village of #Khromove. Sadly, the drone footage shows how many casualties there have been, and continue to be, on this deadly route.
The #Kherson landings again now.
My assessment confirmed by spokeswoman for 🇺🇦 South Command, Natalia Humeniuk
"When the front line passes through the wide and powerful obstacle of Dnipro river, it's a very difficult task. That's why the 'Study of War' needs to be patient."
A very nice surprise this morning to find a 'Ko-Fi' donation from #Bavaria - thank you Dr! Sunday wouldn't be Sunday without a nice cappuccino!
Vielen dank!
Baza also has a story about this poor man, who suffered a stroke and a brain haemmorage in #Moscow
Such is #Putin's #Russia, that police arrested him for being drunk. The next day police just dumped him on the street, without his expensive rings but with bruises from batons.
WTF? Another startling example of life in #Putin's #Russia!
Employees at "Wildberries" are forced to strip to their underwear and pass over belongings for "inspection" before starting work.
A work by @banksy on the outskirts of #Kyiv is being dismantled, but protected.
In Irpen, the council installed a structue of concrete blocks as the bombed building is demolished. The artwork is being cut out and placed in a metal frame, to be displayed elsewhere. #SaveUkraine
#Russia is throwing a hissy-fit over the U.S. refusing to give visas to so-called journalists from the Terrorist State.
FM Lavrov, who'll chair UN meetings said it "showed the worth of solemn assurances on freedom of speech”, conveniently ignoring Russia jailing a US journalist.
#Wagner owner Prigozhin promises to "destroy everyone who is on the battlefield and not take a single prisoner anymore."
He was responding to a recording, suspected by many to be fake, allegedly of #Ukraine military discussing how they killed a captured wounded Wagner soldier.
The headline from today's update from #Ukraine's General Staff is that #Russia suffered heavy losses in #Avdiivka.
Kyiv claims the invaders tried unsucessfully to advance.
Ukraine also says "heavy battles are on-going for the city of #Bakhmut."
Neither claim can be verified
Please allow me to say a few thank yous for coffees received this afternoon.
@p_o_funke, My scientific friend from USA and here EODmo bought me a virtual cuppa!
Love and peace to you all💙💛
#Russia's state news agency reports the mystery disappearance of three diplomats in a pleasure boat in the Red Sea.
My first thought is they're fleeing something and faking death. Why was the ID tracking switched off?
A couple of people alerted me to the fact that I have started appearing in searches again today.
Surely not unconnected is the fact I have more new followers today then in the past 10 days combined.
Thanks to everyone who retweets, replies and likes to beat Twitter's algorithm!
Suspicious?
The deaths of two MPs in #Russia has been announced on the same day.
56 year old Dzhasharbek Uzdenov had reportedly been ill for a long time, while Nikolai Bortsov who was 77 has also died. Both were from the majority "United Russia" party.
A Ukrainian oligarch who's under investigation for helping #Russia, has turned up in #Switzerland after managing to flee the country.
Vadim Novinsky, who's also suspected of fraud, now masquerades as a deacon at the Russian Orthodox Church in #Zurich.
I'm delighted to say that 4 years after losing half a leg when stepping on a landmine, Roman typified the #Ukraine spirit and completed the London Marathon today.
Welcome to November, which becomes the 46th different month to see fighting in Ukraine
And yet Russia is nowhere near its aim of Kyiv in 3 days.
Indeed 1,344 days behind schedule as we start today's thread on Day 1347 of the full invasion
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Friday saw a lot of damage in Russia, an attempted counter-attack in Pokrovsk, Trump blank Orbán, power cuts in Moscow and so much more.
Clicking here⬇️will take you to the start of yesterday's🧵. Scroll through, catch-up then remember to come back here
Hello again, on Day 1346 of the war.
Russia's genocidal war, that's both the intent and the reality as Ukraine fights to keep not only democracy, independence and freedom but also to avoid its culture and language being eradicated.
This is THE daily thread. Happy Hallowe'en
Due to various different events, I am still awake & instead of adding to y'day's thread, I thought it best to start a new one, then get some sleep.
First, the link for Thursday's🧵which started with Russia's mass missile attack but ended with🇺🇦 attacking
Russia will not stop until it's stopped.
The war ends the moment Russia leaves.
Russia lies repeatedly (we won't invade Ukraine, we didn't kill Litvinenko, didn't kill 300 on MH17, didn't use Novichok in the UK etc etc)
We MUST NOT trust Putin.
Day 1345. Here's my daily thread
It's proved a very difficult morning for Ukraine, especially in the west. Russia tried to ensure misery and destruction, hits everyone across Ukraine.
At dawn missiles rained down, the start of the overnight attack was covered at the end of yesterday's🧵
It's Day 1336 of Russia's full invasion, but that only started because the world didn't provide a deterrent almost 12 years ago when Putin first tested the west's response by invading Crimea
The west failed the test. Are we about to fail the biggest exam too?
It's Tim's daily🧵
There was a big drone attack on western Russia last night, with Rostov in particular feeling the heat
There was also plenty of heat again on Russia's largest gas facility, the Georgian 'government' doing Russia's fascist work, and an a tragedy in Kherson
An explosive start to Day 1334 of Russia's 10-day operation to erase Ukraine from the map.
Not quite #EATP for Putin.
An early start to Sunday's thread as we have news from central and eastern Russia.
All the news, all the time, every damn day. Here we go again!
So much happened yesterday and the fireworks really started in the last couple of hours.
Do yourself a favour and have a quick skim through what you missed from Saturday's news about Ukraine's battle for survival. Incredibly only 14,000 views😳🫣