Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #5

[JennieM]

Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky​

A Russian guided air bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing and injuring people, Ukraine's president has said.

Volodymyr Zelensky said rescuers were now trying to tackle a blaze after the strike on the Kupiansk community in the Kharkiv region on Saturday night.

"Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life," he added.

Russia has so far not publicly commented on the reported attack.

In a post on social media, Mr Zelensky described the perpetrators as "beasts" who were seeking to "destroy everything that simply allows to live".

"This was crime alone says everything about Russian aggression," he said.

He did not say how many people were killed and injured in the attack.

The BBC has not been able to immediately verify the report.

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Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a "war crime" and perpetrators as "beasts".

www.bbc.com

 

[JennieM]

IMAGE SOURCE, TELEGRAM/VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY

President Zelensky posted a photo purportedly showing Kupiansk's blood transfusion centre on fire after the Russian attack

Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a "war crime" and perpetrators as "beasts".

www.bbc.com

 

[JennieM]

Zelenskiy condemns attack on blood transfusion centre as ‘war crime’​

Ukrainian president says ‘dead and wounded reported’ after strike on facility in Kharkiv

Zelenskiy condemns attack on blood transfusion centre as ‘war crime’

Ukrainian president says ‘dead and wounded reported’ after strike on facility in Kharkiv

www.theguardian.com

 

[PommyMommy]

The strike on Novorossiysk is the latest in a growing list of reported attacks on Russian territory since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688180179544276992

From Moscow to Novorossiysk: The list of attacks on Russian soil

On the morning of Aug. 4, the residents of the Russian city of Novorossiysk woke to a 112-meter-long Navy ship being towed back to port after it was hit by a drone attack on the Black Sea overnight. While the Russian Defense Ministry claimed there were no casualties or damage,

kyivindependent.com

 

[PommyMommy]

Ukraine's Air Force: 30 missiles, 27 drones shot down overnight. Ukraine's Air Force reported on Aug. 6 that 30 missiles and 27 kamikaze drones were shot down by air defense overnight during Russia's latest mass attack that came in several waves

According to the Air Force, Russia launched 14 Kalibr missiles and three Kinzhal missiles in the first wave of the attack on the evening of Aug. 5. Twelve of the 14 Kalibr missiles were destroyed but no information has been provided on the Kinzhals.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688095219202347008

Storm Shadow missiles damage Chonhar Bridge in occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian officials say

The Chonhar bridge, which connects occupied Crimea and the occupied part of the Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, is currently closed to passenger vehicles.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688188442469978113

Earlier today, missile strikes damaged the bridge at Arabat Split

The aftermath of the Ukrainian strike on the bridge at Arabat Split that leads from the occupied Kherson Oblast to the northeastern shore of the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688193206578487296

 

[PommyMommy]

Ukrainian troops destroy 6 Russian ammo dumps within 24 hours in one operational sector alone Apart from ammo dumps, the Ukrainian Army destroyed 21 military trucks in the Tavria sector (southern Ukraine), according to the Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi.https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1688280682038976512

Nighttime Video Appears To Show Ukrainian Naval Drone Hitting Russian Warship​

A Ukrainian naval drone carrying 450 kilograms of TNT struck a Russian Navy base at Novorossiisk in the Black Sea on August 3, causing extensive damage to a Russian warship, sources in the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) told RFE/RL. The Russian Defense Ministry denied any damage or casualties. SBU sources shared a video with RFE/RL purportedly showing the landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak from the perspective of a camera mounted on the naval drone that ceases its video feed at the moment of the alleged impact. The warship was seen tilted and being towed to dock on August 4.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 7, 2023

Ukraine: Woman detained in plot to assassinate Zelensky​

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has detained a Russian informant "who was preparing a Russian airstrike in the Mykolaiv region during the visit of the President of Ukraine." CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports. #CNN #News

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 7, 2023
Woman arrested in foiled assassination plot against President Zelenskyy | WPDE
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Officials said the woman who is from Mykolaiv was being questioned after being part of the plot during Zelenskyy's visit to Mykolaiv last week.

The suspect had been caught "red-handed" as she handed information to the Russians, a release stated.

Ukraine officials alleged she was passing information to Russian forces about Zelenskyy's location and his full itinerary. The Russians would have then ordered an airstrike to assassinate him, officials said.

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[PommyMommy]

National Resistance Center: Russians set up sham 'election schools' for youth in occupied Kherson. The schools' stated purpose is to prepare high school students for the Russian presidential "elections."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688403598164537345

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Aug. 7, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688453215119884288

Defense Ministry: Russia increasing attacks on eastern front.

Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Aug. 7 that over the last week, the eastern front became the "epicenter of hostilities."She reported that Russian forces are "desperately trying to surround Avdiivka" in Donetsk Oblast and attempting to regain the positions around Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast that they lost last autumn during the Ukrainian surprise counteroffensive.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688462537233158149

 

[PommyMommy]

Ukraine's missile strikes on vital road bridges connecting occupied Crimea and Kherson Oblast prompt Russian military to redirect traffic, causing logistical challenges and disruptions in supply routes, ISW reports.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688477337032011776

Another 22 Ukrainian soldiers came back home from Russian captivity; The oldest of them is 54 years old, and the youngest is 23 years old. There are wounded among the liberated – President's Office Security Service of Ukraine https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/07/officials-another-22-ukrainians-released-from-russian-captivity-photos/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688520902290374656

UK Defense Ministry: Russia deploys its air force "without decisive operational effect".

The Russian Air Force lacks "decisive operational effect" in its support of Russia's ground troops in Ukraine, the U.K. Defense Ministry wrote in its intelligence update on Aug. 7. Though Russian combat aircraft are carrying out over 100 sorties a day over the summer, Ukrainian air defense almost always prevents them from flying beyond Russian-controlled territory, the ministry believes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688492356499095552

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 7, 2023

Institute for the Study of War

Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations on at least two sectors of the front on August 7. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations in the Berdyansk (western Donetsk-eastern Zaporizhia Oblast

www.understandingwar.org

Key Takeaways:

• Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations on at least two sectors of the front on August 7.
• Russian forces and occupation administrators continue to seek to mitigate the impact of recent Ukrainian strikes on logistics nodes along key Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) connecting occupied Crimea with occupied Kherson Oblast.
• Russian opposition media outlet Verstka suggested that the Russian Investigative Committee and its head, Alexander Bastrykin, are directly involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and the forced placement of Ukrainian children into Russian military training programs.
• China's increasing misalignment with Russia on any settlement to end the war in Ukraine was reportedly evident at the talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on August 5-6.
• The Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Saudi Arabia presented a 10-point peace plan that reportedly included calls for global food security, nuclear safety, environmental security, humanitarian aid, and prisoner releases.
• Ukrainian officials reported that Ukrainian and Russian forces conducted a prisoner-of-war (POW) exchange on August 7.
• Russian forces conducted offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line, near Bakhmut, along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line, along the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast on August 7 and made advances in certain areas.
• The Kremlin continues efforts to portray itself as adequately mobilizing the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) for a protracted war effort.
• Russian occupation authorities continue to use maternity capital benefits to coerce Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories to accept Russian citizenship and increase social control in occupied areas.

 

[PommyMommy]

Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
Another war crime committed by the russians. Two missiles struck the city center. Several apartment buildings were damaged. Rescue efforts are currently underway. At least five people were killed, and thirty one were injured.
We will do everything possible to hold the murderers accountable for their crimes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688636028603555840

Interior Minister: 5 killed in Russian attack on Pokrovsk, including Emergency Service official. Russian troops struck Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast on Aug. 7, killing at least five people and wounding 18, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.

The city center was hit two times in less than an hour, the regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported. The attack damaged apartment buildings, private residences, a hotel, restaurants, shops, and administrative buildings, Kyrylenko added.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688625511054901248

Today, russians dropped four guided aerial bombs on the village of Kruglyakivka, Kupyansk district, destroying several homes.Two local residents, a woman and an elderly man, were killed. Five people were injured. With the methodicalness of serial killers, as today in Pokrovsk, russians launched a second strike just as rescuers arrived. Two of them were injured.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1688657767714738176

 

[PommyMommy]

U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are destroying Russian positions in areas where Ukrainian troops had struggled to advance, the Wall Street Journal reported on Aug. 8. WSJ: Cluster munitions provide 'fresh impetus' to Ukraine's counteroffensive

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689002995986595840

Zelensky described the counteroffensive as "challenging,"; Ukrainian forces hold the initiative on the battlefield in the Bakhmut direction in Donetsk Oblast despite heavy Russian shelling; and more. Ukraine war latest: Counteroffensive is 'challenging,' says Zelensky as Western pressure mounts

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689025329623351297

ISW: Russian milbloggers continue their silence on Ukrainian bridge attacks Russia is once again keeping its normally vocal military bloggers silent on Ukraine’s strikes against key logistics bridges in Crimea, @TheStudyofWar says, likely to avoid panic. https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/08/isw-russian-milbloggers-continue-their-silence-on-ukrainian-bridge-attacks/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689026196246614016

 

[PommyMommy]

AUG 8, 2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-briefings/index.html

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The primary challenge for Ukrainian forces is the continued difficulty of breaking through Russia’s multi-layered defensive lines in the eastern and southern parts of the country, which are marked by tens of thousands of mines and vast networks of trenches. Ukrainian forces have incurred staggering losses there, leading Ukrainian commanders to hold back some units to regroup and reduce casualties.

“Russians have a number of defensive lines and they [Ukrainian forces] haven’t really gone through the first line,” said a senior Western diplomat. “Even if they would keep on fighting for the next several weeks, if they haven’t been able to make more breakthroughs throughout these last seven, eight weeks, what is the likelihood that they will suddenly, with more depleted forces, make them? Because the conditions are so hard.”

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“We all recognize this is going harder and slower than anyone would like – including the Ukrainians – but we still believe there’s time and space for them to be able make progress,” this official said.

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[PommyMommy]

Moscow mayor claims more drones shot down over city. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed that Russian air defense successfully targeted and eliminated two drones near the city's periphery on the night of Aug. 9 .

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689114152025886720

ISW: Ukrainian military crosses Dnipro; China's stance on Russia cools. Ukrainian forces seem to have crossed defensive lines in Kherson Oblast after a raid across the Dnipro River, though their position remains uncertain.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689141764735619072

Air raid alert has just been announced throughout all Ukraine's oblasts

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689266529001472000

 

[PommyMommy]

Russia shells kindergarten in Kherson, 1 civilian injured. Russian artillery shelled a kindergarten in Kherson, injuring a 75-year-old locksmith, the Kherson Oblast Military Administration reported on Aug. 9.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689290304958947331

Update: 2 killed, 1 resuscitated after Russian missile strike against Zaporizhzhia. Two people have been confirmed killed in a Russian missile strike against Zaporizhzhia while one civilian previously reported as dead was resuscitated, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Aug. 9.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689364045055336448

Berlin announced two additional Patriot missile systems for Ukraine; Ukraine will need at least $42 billion in foreign financial aid in 2024; Russian media claimed an explosion occurred at an industrial plant northeast of Moscow; and more. Ukraine war latest: Germany transfers 2 Patriot launchers to Ukraine in latest aid package

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689370542128689153

 

[PommyMommy]

Mayor: More drones shot down over Moscow. Two attack drones were intercepted en route to Moscow at 4 a.m. local time on Aug. 10, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed via Telegram.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689466589928710144

National Resistance Center: Wounded Russian soldiers overwhelm health clinics in occupied territories. Medical clinics in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine are overwhelmed with wounded military personnel, providing no services to civilian residents. National Resistance Center: Wounded Russian soldiers overwhelm health clinics in occupied territories

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689477437418016769

11 drones intercepted over Sevastopol, Russia claims. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that air defense units destroyed 11 drones traveling toward the city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea on the night of Aug. 10.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689491847893094400

 

[PommyMommy]

Zelensky: All enlistment office chiefs to be dismissed in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Aug. 11 that the heads of all regional military enlistment offices across Ukraine would be dismissed.

The decision comes after a nationwide inspection of Ukraine's recruitment offices revealed multiple violations, including corruption, power abuse, and fraud.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689990346292277251

 

[PommyMommy]

Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow should expect more attacks, Kyiv says (theguardian.com)
07.09 EDT

Kyiv: Moscow should expect more attacks​

A spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence told Kyiv Post that people living in Moscow should expect more attacks, especially as Russia’s air defences appeared incapable of protecting their citizens.

“Given the dynamics of recent months, the number, geography and intensity, it would be logical to assume an increase in daily attacks,” Andriy Yusov, spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence, said.

Yusov’s comments come after a dramatic increase in Ukrainian attacks in recent weeks, with a drone forcing the closure of Vnukovo airport and Russian forces downing a Ukrainian drone over Moscow this morning.

Yusov noted that “the concept of security is increasingly distant from the residents of Moscow”, and hoped that this increase in attacks would open residents’ eyes and break through Russian propaganda.

“The whole world continues to see that the Russian defense system and the country – which claims a leading role in the arms market – is ineffective, outdated, and cannot adequately respond to modern challenges,” he said.

 

[PommyMommy]

Washington Post: Ukrainian pilots to complete F-16 training no earlier than next summer. The first Ukrainian pilots to undergo F-16 jet fighter training will not be ready to fly them until summer 2024, the Washington Post reported on Aug. 11, citing Ukrainian officials.

Only six pilots, which is about half a squadron, will undergo the first round of training, with two more pilots as reserve candidates, the Ukrainian officials reportedly said.

Washington Post: Ukrainian pilots to complete F-16 training no earlier than next summer​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1690054258014461972

On 10 August, Russian soldiers killed three and injured 50 Ukrainian civilians In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, two women were killed in the regional center and Preobrazhenka village

Russian soldiers killed three and injured 50 civilians on 10 August​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1690081241465229312

"Putin has shot himself in the foot. His recent expropriations of Western companies will actually help the West by damaging the Russian economy," writes Mark Dixon founder of the Moral Rating Agency, in his recent op-ed.

Mark Dixon: A global ‘Democratic Market’ is needed to protect democracy​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1690086090433064960