#Ukraine: 2. #Prigozhin again lamented loss of RU flanks at #Bakhmut: "Those territories, which were taken with the blood and lives of our fighting comrades for many months, every day - walking tens or hundreds of meters - today are abandoned almost without a fight." #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. ISW points out that the RU units falling to hold the #Bakhmut flanks are once again from the 72nd Motor Rifle Brigade, who have already suffered 2 crushing defeats in #Kharkiv & #Kherson regions at the hands of UA forces. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 4. Apart from successful counterattacks, indications that UA forces are in contact with RU airborne troops at #Klishchiyivka. Another RU ammo depot was destroyed in #Bakhmut. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. Igor Girkin (RU critic & wanted war criminal for MH17 downing)+ others mock RU's "latest" fighting tank seen in UA - a T-55 tank with a double cope cage from 1950s. "Meet the new miracle of RU military equipment - T-55-MPK-2 (modernised with 2 spring beds)" #tweet100
#Ukraine: 6. Ben Wallace #UK Defence Minister, confirms in Parliament that Storm Shadow long-range missiles have been sent to UA. Delay has been to work out how to get this missile attached to Soviet Mig-29s for air launching. Export models have range of 155miles/250km. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 7. Storm Shadow is only slightly inferior to #US ATACMS with range of 185 miles. StormShadows will allow UA to hit RU targets in #Crimea & almost all the way to the RU border. #tweet100
(Map: @NOELreports - expand for 250km yellow target rings)
#Ukraine: 8. #UK Intel says RU forces (NOT Wagner) likely recruited 10,000 more convicts for UA war in April. RU MOD is using convicts to avoid another unpopular mandatory national mobilisation. RU losses yesterday included 610 dead, 14 artillery systems & 4 tanks. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. Near #Bakhmut, UA 45th Brigades destroys another RU Pantsir-S1 air defence system belonging to Wagner. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Today's new updates from #UkraineWar: 1. At #Bakhmut UA East Command claims they have liberated 17.3 sq km N & S of the city. UA commanders say better weather & arrival of US IFV & weapons have made significant difference. #tweet100 THREAD
#Ukraine: 2. RU forces NW of #Bakhmut have been pushed away from 00506 supply road back towards the #Berkhivske reservoir. In yet another rant, #Prigozhin says UA now threaten the "surrounding of RU in Bakhmut".
#Ukraine: 3. UA commanders, contrary to what #Prigozhin said, say it was Wagner troops that fled, NOT RU regulars. RU MOD claimed that its troops were relocating to more "advantageous defensive positions". Reportedly a video of RU troops fleeing:
#Ukraine: Today's updates from #UkraineWar: 1. Whoa! RU cracks begin to show. UA Command/#Progozhin both confirm UA advances in #Bakhmut. UA have regained several sq.km in the city & routed the 6th/8th companies of RU 72nd brigade in the S. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. Following grinding down of Wagner forces over last few months, they were replaced on the #Bakhmut flanks by RU regular forces. UA 3rd Assault engaged RU on SW flank & they ran away, abandoning land Wagner had lost 500 men capturing. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. According to UA Azov Commander, Andrey Biletsky, a strip of land 3km long & 2.6km wide in places, has been recaptured in SW #Bakhmut. RU also lost a bridgehead over the Siversky-Donets canal S of the city. #Tweet100 (Maps: @Tendar)
#Ukraine: Today's updates from #UkraineWar: 1. While frontlines remain fluid around #Kreminna UA has retaken new ground in the forests S of the city & repelled attacks both here & S of #Spirne, #Donetsk region. Captured RU T-72B3 tank:
#Ukraine: 2. RU forces claim to have captured train station #Bakhmut-1 & taken NE of the city admin area. 200 RU troops reported to have surrendered in last week though & UA forces still fighting hard.
#Ukraine: 3. Igor Girkin, RU war criminal, does not rate RU's chances of taking anything. Time lapse does not show much of a #Bakhmut RU advance in last month, 9 months after they started. UA fighters have lucky escape.
#Ukraine: Today's news from #UkraineWar: 1. UA forces yesterday pushed back RU troops on Korsunskogo Street in #Bakhmut using a charge fired from UR-77 Meteorit mine clearing vehicle, at least 13 of which have been captured from RU. Devastating! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 2. UA came under 70 attacks by RU yesterday, 32 of them in #Bakhmut. UA E Command said "building" #Prigozhin "installed" his flag on had long been destroyed. The flag was "dedicated" "Good Memory to Vladlen Tatarsky," the mil-blogger killed in St. Petersburg. #tweet100
#Ukraine: Today's news reports from #UkraineWar: 1. #Prigozhin claimed last night that he had placed a Wagner Group flag on top of the Admin building in #Bakhmut but daylight revealed the flag was stuck in a pile of rubble. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. While RU forces are still making small gains, UA Gen Staff says fighting is still going on around the central Admin building, and #Bakhmut still holds. In SW UA has pushed back RU troops from Korsunskogo Street. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 3. From the N at #Bakhmut, RU forces have moved S from the AZOM plant but overall it appears RU has given up trying to encircle the city & now trying to move through it. Flanks are stable & UA has counter-attacked at #Ivanivske to SW. #tweet100 (Map: @ChuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: Today's reports from #UkraineWar: 1. UA says the most intense phase of the fighting in #Bakhmut is underway. "The situation is stubbornly difficult." RU still attacks despite massive losses of men & equipment. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 2. No large counter-offensive possible around #Bakhmut in immediate future because of snow conditions, probably followed by mud when it melts. UA Gen Staff says more than 50 RU attacks yesterday at Bakhmut, #Avdiivka & #Marinka.
#Ukraine: 3. RU forces launched 2 missile attacks on #Avdiivka causing serious damage to infrastructure. Among those killed in the town were a 5-month-old boy & his grandmother. #tweet100 (Pic: @GlasnostGone)