Hello everybody - let's get the show on the road for another week!
It's the original, the one & only daily🧵with all you need to know about what's happening in #Ukraine's defence against #Russia, which has reached day 446.
#Ukraine's figures show almost 7% of all destroyed artillery systems happened in the last 24 hours.
Vehicles, fuel tanks and special equipment also above the mean as well as killed soldiers. #RussiansGoHome
The British update today questions #Russia's air defence.
It's always been a problem for Moscow after sending most of its domestic protection to #Ukraine, only to have to bring some back as #Kyiv shows more ability to hit long range targets.
Already an early morning hit on #Russia's forces in #Luhansk.
The Occupiers say this is a "former" flight school (VVAUSh)
Again they're "convinced" it's #StormShadow.
Clearly they have any idea of the destructive ability of the UK/French missile. They will know when it hits!
In the #Russia region of #Bryansk, a building of the local administration was hit by shelling.
This was the village of #Khoromnoe in the Klimovsky district. Mash media spoke to someone who claims his house had been destroyed too.
The commander of #Ukraine's Ground Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi says their advance is the first success of offensive actions.
Dep Defence Min Hanna Malyar noted that heavy fighting is ongoing there and #Russia is bringing assault troops to the outskirts. #StopRussia
Bromance in Britain.
Rishi and Ze embrace as the #Ukraine leader touches down in the UK.
Britain has announced training of Ukrainian pilots will start in the summer and pledged 100s of attack drones to help in the defence against #Russia's aggression.
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1/2 Yet another explosion in #Luhansk. This looks to be the work of #Ukraine's resistance and may have been an assassination attempt on the so called LPR Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Kornet.
A reminder of what Britain's pledged for #Ukraine today Defence Sec Ben Wallace says it will ensure the West would not be tempted to force Ukraine to make concessions.
No plans for jets, but the pilot training shows the coalition is likely to oblige soon.
A former employee of the US embassy in #Russia has been charged with illegal collaboration.
62 year old Robert Shonov of Vladivostok worked in the US Consulate in the city. He's been ordered to be detained for 3 months in notorious Lefortovo prison.
He faces 8 years in jail.
Occupiers in #Luhansk have released a new video showing clips and photos from inside the building bombed today.
The so called Interior Minister was among 7 people injured in the barber's shop.
Could be an attack by partisans, but may well be #Russia trying to eliminate a problem
It's only on quieter days I get to remind you of the daily shelling and destruction of places in #Sumy oblast or #Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk.
Today 30 shells hit the latter. Two people were injured.
Guess which country has blocked the 8th tranche of the European Peace Funding to Ukraine?
Yep, #Hungary!
€500 million was due to be allocated for weapons for #Ukraine next Monday.
The spokesman for #Ukraine's eastern forces said of #Bakhmut this evening:
"if the enemy does not find an opportunity to replenish forces there, then we will simply destroy them."
Serhiy Cherevaty said they've made gains of between 350-2000m on the flanks. #BakhmutHolds
Five #Ukraine policemen have been injured after evacuation teams came under fire in #ChasivYar
A car belonging to the "White Angel" police unit came under fire while trying to evacuate remaining citizens in the town in #Donetsk, just a few km from #Bakhmut'
#Russia tried to destroy #Ukraine, particularly targeting the energy industry.
The Ukrainians came through the dark and freezing winter and in a big sign of its recovery, the country is now exporting electricity to #Poland from its nuclear power plants.
Day 445 of the illegal and repugnant war waged by #Russia on its peaceful neighbour - #Ukraine has never invaded or threatened another country.
The main story tonight is the #Eurovision timed attack on Ukraine which has shocked the world.
This is THE only daily thread you need:
Before we get to the Eurovision related attack, a quick reminder of Saturday's astonishing events.
Four of #Russia's aircraft shot down over Russia as they headed to bomb #Ukraine, more #RussiaOnFire and big explosions in west Ukraine, plus lots more⬇️
Well to mark #Ukraine's "hosting" of the final in #Liverpool tonight, in my tweets today there will be winning song titles🎶 in some of the posts (not all)
Just for fun. Reply if you spot one, as it will help fight the shadow ban on my a/c
Give yourself bonus points if you know the country and year the song won!
Anyway if you missed anything yesterday, you can review Friday's thread here. A day when we had all kinds of everything going on:
First a strange tale from the far east of #Russia where a private helicopter cut through power lines during a "hard landing"
The Mi-2's landing cut off power to the Transneft station in Primorsky Krai.
It's so remote it took 2 days to find the chopper & the pilot's disappeared!
A big increase in #Russia's manpower losses in the last 24 hours. Still a lot of equipment being hit by #Ukraine too.
#Russia's losses in the last 24 hours show a marked decrease in he amount of equipment destroyed compared to the recent trend.
However, #Ukraine is killing more and more soldiers as Russians continue kamikaze tactics in #Donetsk with the one resource they have plenty of: people.
Welcome along to the daily thread for Day 440 of the war in #Ukraine
More deadly missile attacks launched in the early hours this morning by #Russia on what is supposed to be one of the sacred days in the calendar, 9 May. #Russia has no victory to celebrate.
All the news here⬇️
It was another busy day yesterday, a lot of news from the battlefields of #Ukraine and beyond too.
For a catch up on anything you missed on Monday, click and scroll down from this link: