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.
Friendly 🔥 this time in #Kirov. The local police captain decided to wash a patrol car while smoking. Soon bitumen caught fire and the whole garage went up in flames including 3 patrol cars.
The anti-hero received burns to his hands trying to put out the fire.
The @FT reports that the #EU and #Japan are against a complete ban on exports to #Russia. #USA had proposed the measure ahead of next month's G7 meeting in Hiroshima.
One has to wonder if #Russia flexing its naval muscles near Japan recently had any influence, while #Hungary...?
#Russia's MoD has accused #Ukraine of breaking the grain agreement.
It claims #Ukraine used the "grain corridor" to attack #Sevastopol yesterday (and a month before) with surface drones.
Seems the Russians are desperate to end the deal - the current one expires on 18 May.
#Ukraine's universities are booming - thanks in part to the desire to avoid a military call-up.
The Constitution allows students to defer conscription.
All student numbers are ⬆️40%, but for men aged 31-40 there's a 1,285% increase.
For men over 40 it's up 1,600%
📷"our money"
It's been announced that the Pope will be heading to #Hungary this weekend.
During the 3 day trip he will meet with PM Viktor Orbán and talk about #Russia's horrific war in #Ukraine.
#Russia's state RIA Novosti news agency says they're using its new T-14 tanks for the first time.
However back in January, Britain's MoD said this would be purely for propaganda and pointed out the drawbacks of deploying the new and untrusted tanks in #Ukraine.
Another cemetery of #Wagner's dead has been found.
Taiga, one of the few remaining outlets to try to report the truth in #Russia, filmed this in #Novosibirsk
They say there are 200+ graves and many of the names on the crosses have not been reported killed before.
I'm not making this up, these are all from today.
Thanks Carolynn for finding some of these.
In #Sverdlovsk Oblast they certainly seem short of firefighters. This was daytime in the village of #Sosva but it looks like night as numerous houses burn.
A 75 year old volunteer from #Spain has been locked up in #Russia for over a year.
Mariano García Calatayud was captured in #Kherson during a protest against Russia's occupation in March 2022. Occupiers finally admit the pensioner's being held in #Crimea
Half of June has already gone and still no resolution to the war in Ukraine. But Moscow is reaping what is sows.
This is THE daily thread for Tuesday - all the news every single day.
We've reached Day 1574
I keep garnering new followers, but X keeps taking followers away without them choosing to unfollow.
But daily views of the thread are slowly increasing again, now around 12k a day.
But we used to be at 25-30k
1/2 This morning, not just Kyiv badly attacked.
In fact, at the moment, more people are known to have died in Dnipro then the capital and that's where I'll start.
5 killed and 25 injured there plus 3 more wounded in Kamianske in the wider region.
Hello again.
Day 1552. A holiday in many countries "Whit Monday" in most, Spring holiday in others (inc UK) and Memorial Day in the U.S
But after 4 years and 3 months, memorials are still being made in Ukraine because our leaders, collectively, let them down.
Here's the daily🧵
I'm still not quite sure where Saturday ended and Sunday began - the days merged into one for me.
What I do know is there were >120 new posts over the 48 hours, that's an average one story every 24 minutes, over the entire two days.
1/2 There are new murderous attacks by Russia already today in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Explosions have been heard in the city of Dnipro after an alert for ballistic missiles. Smoke can be seen, but no initial news of widespread damage, so hopefully air defence did its job.
Here we go again then. Day 1550 of Ukrainians wondering if they, their home, their relatives, will be bombed today.
About 16 million people have been born in the US and 15m in the EU since Russia started its full invasion of Ukraine.
Welcome to Saturday's daily🧵
Friday was a cracking thread, with vodka cheaper than a single tomato, legless Russians celebrating, Moscow claiming a college in occupied Luhansk wasn't housing Rubicon pilots and their drones and Ukraine causing more mayhem deep inside Russia.
#UkraineSanctions have been successfully employed again!
Lots of action in Russia last night, even before I closed the thread. Around 8am this morning another Ukraine strike in Perm' region, a distance of about 1700km.
Putin's gone from the expected capture of Kyiv before the end of Feb 2022 & annihilation of Ukraine's leaders & the country's culture, to begging China to keep it afloat & trying to quell dissenters at home as bombs fall!
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