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🧵 This is the picture the Kremlin wants you to see: thousands of people who support President Putin and the "special military operation" in Ukraine, crammed into Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. We went there today and talked to dozens of people who attended... 🧵 pic.twitter.com/RGgWL2fSej
— Will Vernon (@BBCWillVernon) March 18, 2022
One man, who works in the Moscow metro, told us that he and other employees had been forced to attend the rally. "I'll be here for a while and then I'll leave… I think most people here don't support the war. I don't," he said.
— Will Vernon (@BBCWillVernon) March 18, 2022
⚡️Ukraine's Air Force: Fourteen Russian aerial units destroyed on March 17.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine’s air defense destroyed seven aircraft, one helicopter, three UAVs, and three cruise missiles.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 18, 2022
Confirmed: Colonel Sergey Sukharev, Russia’s 331st Airborne Regiment commander, has been eliminated in Ukraine.
He was directly responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre of 2014. pic.twitter.com/3nnY9p8Aup— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) March 18, 2022
#Ukraine: Another successful hit with a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile - a Russian tank was targeted and destroyed by the Ukrainian forces recently. pic.twitter.com/1H1zeh2glM
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 18, 2022
According to local resident Anastasia, civilians from occupied parts of Donbas are forced to be at front-line positions. Otherwise, Russian forces threaten to shoot them.https://t.co/0rESlpdusO
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 19, 2022
Good morning from Ukraine.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Putin held a stadium rally last night; while Zelenskyy gave a one-on-one appeal to the camera...
Zelenskyy said 180,000 have been rescued by humanitarian corridors, including thousands from embattled Mariupol... pic.twitter.com/B2w3zljvBR
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 19, 2022
#Ukraine: Likely in #Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian forces destroyed more tanks: 3x T-72B, a T-72B Obr. 1989, and a T-72B3(M). We are unsure of precise location but the vehicles are previously unseen. pic.twitter.com/eATAmwuAgh
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 19, 2022
So, talking to people in various parts of Ukraine today, the mood is— we have to win in 3 weeks so planting season is not delayed.
— Kateryna Yushchenko 🌻 🇺🇦 (@KatyaYushchenko) March 18, 2022
Social media users in China are posting pictures and videos of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, showing civilians killed by the Russian military and downed Russian aircraft in defiance of ruling Chinese Communist Party directives against war posts. https://t.co/ZNZKwbofpF
— Radio Free Asia (@RadioFreeAsia) March 18, 2022
🇨🇳 Chinese state media have started to report on civilian casualties in the Ukraine war as part of a subtle departure from the pro-Russian narrative https://t.co/I61yolgL4r
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 19, 2022
⚡️Ukrainian media quote Fan Xianrong, China's ambassador to Ukraine, as telling Lviv Oblast Governor on March 16 that China 'would never attack Ukraine' and would provide economic aid to the country.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 17, 2022
⚡️Russian shelling kills Holocaust survivor in Kharkiv.
Boris Romantschenko, 96, who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War II has been killed during shelling in his apartment block in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Photo: Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. pic.twitter.com/icxHAikhWh
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 21, 2022
⚡️Russia attacks Ukraine using 40 airfields in western Russia, Belarus and annexed Crimea.
Map: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pic.twitter.com/MLZ3p7HWLo
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 21, 2022
⚡️8,057 people evacuated from besieged and occupied cities and villages using humanitarian corridors on March 21.
Source: Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 21, 2022
⚡️Mariupol city council said that two families evacuating by cars from the besieged city were shot at by the Russian forces.
At least two children have been wounded and are in serious condition. Besides the cars, 20 buses with people left the city on March 21.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 21, 2022
A group of Ukrainians on a small boat tries to block Solaris, a yacht belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, from docking in Bodrum, Turkey, on March 21.
Photo: Irina Demiroglu/Facebook. pic.twitter.com/LyC8fjpdb9
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 21, 2022
#Ukraine: A VERY rare Russian T-80UK tank was captured by the Ukrainian forces. In total, the Russian army has only a few of these tanks - and two of them were already lost in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/SjnmVjml3L
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 20, 2022
Good afternoon everyone, I've been missing in action since Paddy's Day but I've sobered up eventually. Hope everyone had a great weekend!☘🇮🇪😉
Welcome back, Barney. You missed your St. Patrick's Day greetings from your adoring fans- go back a page. 😘
Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of #Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40°C) warmer than average and areas of the #Arctic more than 50 degrees (30°C) warmer than average.
Read more https://t.co/dP18svAEGJ pic.twitter.com/5PqWaFQvtB
— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) March 22, 2022
What do you know - sanctions DO work, if you actually put some effort into them. https://t.co/unHCEG10Wn
— Euan MacDonald (@Euan_MacDonald) March 22, 2022
Those 31 Republican Senators voted against:
-$13.6 billion for Ukraine
-800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems
-9000 anti-tank weapons
-7000 small arms
-20 million rounds of ammunitionOur assistance is making a difference on the ground, and the President is delivering more
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 18, 2022