" DOD: Russia’s use of Starlink will be a ‘continuous problem’ in Ukraine.
The Pentagon and #SpaceX have been working together to shut off Russia’s use of #Starlink."
#BBC can’t get its mind whether they want to present #Russia narrative or international law, so some dumb editor pictured #Crimea as part of Russia but at the same time Donbas as part of #Ukraine. For this map, the editor would be arrested in Russia as it doesn’t show the “new territories” (Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts) but they would be (and already are) criticised in the West 🤦
#Ukraine Weekend Update 81: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction
What we have seen to now is still a long-way from the success that is being portrayed by #PhillipsPOBrien
"... well-coordinated 🇺🇦 attacks on #Crimea and 🇷🇺 itself... airfields, naval bases... oil refineries... and anti-air and sea defenses.... 🇺🇦... sunk another Russian warship... 🇺🇦 are slowly but steadily eroding... 🇷🇺 Black Sea Fleet..."
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine’s Navy said on May 19 that it had “destroyed” Russian sea minesweeper Kovrovets overnight, refuting Moscow’s earlier claims of having repelled strikes on occupied #Crimea
80 years ago at the orders of #Stalin the #Crimean Tatars -around 220 thousand of them,- were deported to Central Asia. Nearly half of them died en route or in the first few years of their forced exile.
According to reports by Crimean media, last night there was a direct hit to the main Russian warehouse of missile and artillery weapons where most of the missiles for the Su-27, Su-30 and MiG-31 aircraft were stored in occupied Crimea.
#Israel bombing #Hisbollah targets in Baalbek#Lebanon, while #Ukraine bombing Belbek air base in #Russia occupied #Crimea (yes, for the second time). Did they agree on these targets or what? 🤔
P.S. this made me curious about the etymology of these names 🤔
CRIMEA MASSIVE ATTACK: BELBEK AIRFIELD ON FIRE & ROBERT FICO ATTEMPT
by #AnnafromUkraine
09:26
Russian airfield in #Belbek, #Crimea has been struck by Ukrainian missile attack.
Assassination attempt on Robert #Fico, Prime minister of #Slovakia.
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Anna Danylchuk is a professor of linguistics at Volyn National University in Lutsk, she vlogs every day, giving a perspective of an Ukrainian from inside war-torn #Ukraine.
🇺🇦 hits area near #Belbek airbase in occupied #Crimea, destroying large amounts of 🇷🇺 ammunition and equipment.
🇷🇺 has brought fighting to the streets of #Vovchansk but invasion in #Kharkiv has largely been slowed down by 🇺🇦 forces, leading to 🇷🇺 abandoning plans to enter #Sumy.
🇷🇺 losses continue to mount, with over 1,500 soldiers lost in the past day.
Fire broke out in Khimprom chemical plant, one of the largest in 🇷🇺, located in #Novocheboksarsk, over 1,000km from the border with #Ukraine.
Explosions were heard in the city and fires are still burning near the Belbek military airfield after an alleged missile attack against occupied Crimea on May 15.
The Russian air defense military base on Mount Ai-Petri was damaged as a result of the morning missile attack on #Crimea. The commander of the military unit died
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#RUSSIA SLOWS USE OF CRIMEAN BRIDGE DUE TO UKRAINIAN ATTACKS:
Last July the Kerch Bridge connecting Russia to #Crimea was attacked — and since then Russia has not used the railway portion of the bridge to transport military cargo, analysts for Molfar write.
🔥GUR in #Crimea destroyed Russian patrol boat "Mongoose", 🇺🇸Last Sunday #Ukraine received a shipment of anti-armor rockets, missiles, artillery shells, 🇪🇸#Spain confirmed the arrival of PATRIOT missiles to Ukraine!
Russian proxy: Missile attack causes fires, explosions in occupied Sevastopol (kyivindependent.com)
Explosions were heard in the city and fires are still burning near the Belbek military airfield after an alleged missile attack against occupied Crimea on May 15.