#Ukraine: Today's updates from #UkraineWar: 1. UA military says it is advancing in several directions at once in S in #counteroffensive, up to 2 km in each direction. RU counterattack successfully defeated:
#Ukraine: 2. N of #Bakhmut, in a series of coordinated attacks, UA have breached several key RU positions & yesterday retook heights overlooking the city. #Prigozhin, seeing RU losses said collapse of RU N flank is "only a matter of time". #tweet100 (Map: @ChuckPfarrer)
#Ukraine: 3. In #US, current draft of Nat. Def. Authorization Act for 2024 includes $80 million for supply of ATACMS to UA. #Germany delivering 64 Patriot missiles & #Belgium M113 APCs following Ramstein meeting. #tweet100. Update on #Counteroffensive:
#Ukraine: 4. #Sweden has confirmed training of UA pilots on JAS 39 Gripen fighters & to send 60 soldiers to UA's neighbours to maintain & repair Swedish weapons such CV90, Leopard 2s, Archers & RBS-70. #Spain to send 20 armoured vehicles (APCs) & 4 Leopard 2A4s to UA. #tweet100
#Ukraine: 5. UA downed all 6 Kinzhal "hypersonic" missiles & 6 Kalibr cruise missiles in RU strike on #Kyiv today at 11.00am during African "peace" delegation visit. Falling debris destroyed 3 houses, damaged 15. SA Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa (posh!):
#Ukraine: 6. UA Ground Forces Commander, General Syrskyi, visited his troops nr #Bakhmut again today. UA 45th Brigade destroyed a RU armoured vehicle (BMD?) somewhere in #Kreminna forest area.
#Ukraine: 7. Power outages reported in #Sevastopol & #Alushta in #Crimea tonight & Ministry of Emergency building in #Belgorod, RU, is also on fire. (UA Special Forces/partisans busy?)
#Ukraine: 8. RU channels report that some troops from #Syria have arrived in UA, "volunteers" that Assad promised more than a year ago. RU losses yesterday: 590 dead, 16 APV, 10 tanks, 19 artillery systems, 24 drones, 13 other vehicles/tankers + another Ka-52 tonight! #tweet100
#Ukraine: 9. #Estonia with #Iceland to send field hospital to UA & #Spain a 2nd one for emergency treatment nr frontlines. Another thermal power plant on fire, this time nr #Moscow. + UA is taking a lot more RU prisoners.
#Ukraine: 10. 149 rare salamanders, on the Red List, were destroyed by Dam flood & swept to Black Sea. They cannot endure salt water. Once again UA soldiers come to the rescue:
#Ukraine: Latest news from #UkraineWar: 1. Around #Bakmut UA continue to make gains & N of the city operations are in play along #Rozdolivka-Krasnopolivka & #Berkhivka-Yahidne frontlines. UA forces have advanced another 1 km nr #Vuhledar. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 3. Reports RU have lost 7,000 troops killed & 15,000 + injured since June 4th & start of UA #counteroffensive. UA also destroyed RU Borisoglebsk-2 electronic warfare unit & a counter-battery radar system Zoopark-1 (worth $ 20 million).
#Ukraine: Latest updates from #UkraineWar: 1. RU channels report that General Akhmedov kept large gathering of troops in #Kreminna out in open waiting 2 hrs for a pep talk before battle. UA HIMARS struck, 100 reported killed incl general, 100 wounded. #tweet100
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#Ukraine: 3. Armed Forces of Ukraine say casualty rates around #Bakhmut are 1 x UA to 8.73 RU & at #Zaporizhzhia front 1/5.3. RU remains superior in aviation & artillery resources. Many more RU prisoners taken in the last week, a sharp increase.
#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: 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: 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.