4/ In those days Amnesty contacted me on Facebook to ask me about the situation. I gave them my Ukrainian phone number. Nothing. I contacted the person again, he read and didn't even reply. Then that report comes out. Totally decontextualised from the ongoing conflict.
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Living near the Dnipro under Russian bombardment, with no Ukrainian artillery in the village
3/ Then I moved 5 km away from the Russians and lived for about ten days in a village on the Dnipro river. Same situation. Constant Russian shelling of the village. The Ukrainian artillery was not in the village. It was far away.
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Italian Journalist’s Testimony from Ukraine
The Italian journalist Cristiano Tinazzi (@tincazzi), who has been reporting from Ukraine, has posted a long and informative eyewitness account of her experiences in Ukraine in response to @amnesty's controversial report on Ukrainian military tactics. English translation below.
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Daily Russian artillery, missiles and cluster bombs in Mykolaiv
2/ From @tincazzi
: In June I was in #Mykolaiv, in the south of the country. Every day the Russians bombarded the neighbourhood where I was with artillery, missiles and cluster bombs (one exploded 300 metres from me). -
Russia-Ukraine War: Critical Phase and Tensions at Plant
Day 164. Russia’s war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phase. Russian forces are massing in the south in anticipation of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Russian forces reportedly fire rounds near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and accuse Ukraine.
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Russian treatment of DNR/LNR forces: Brutal, but not yet cannon fodder
Bad as it is, it's not quite at cannon fodder levels (yet). That fate appears to be reserved for the forces of the two separatist puppet republics, the DNR and LNR, who have been treated unbelievably brutally by the Russians. I'll tackle that in another thread some time.
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Russia shells Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, calls for demilitarization
military shells Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to destroy its infrastructure and turn it off from energy system,- Energoatom
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GSUA says RuAF tried to advance, author assumes opposite
GSUA stated RuAF tried to advance Prechystivka->Novomaiors'ke but I'm just going to assume its the other way around. pic.twitter.com/75qfzz3xZb
— Def Mon (@DefMon3) 6 août 2022GSUA stated RuAF tried to advance Prechystivka->Novomaiors'ke but I'm just going to assume its the other way around.
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Unsuccessful advance of the 58th CAA of RuAF near Pavlivka
In the Pavlivka area, the 58th CAA (RuAF) attempted to advance from Kyrylivka toward Pavlivka, without success.
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No progress in Avdiivka and Krasnohorivka, backup lines ready for 8 years
In the Avdiivka and Krasnohorivka I don't think they have made any progress at all. If they would manage to break the AFU line of defense, they have backup lines that has been prepared for 8 years.