Tweets On The Russia - Ukraine War

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 8 May 2023.

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🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/fEVdSbv4Kq

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) May 8, 2023

Russia launched a large-scale wave of strikes on Kyiv and across Ukraine sowing destruction and injuries, officials said early on Monday, as Moscow prepares for its Victory Day holiday.https://t.co/ewxSFfEI2d

— DW News (@dwnews) May 8, 2023

Here are today's control-of-terrain maps of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats.

Interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/hwgxTnU2Tr

Archive of time-lapse maps, updated monthly: https://t.co/IT6FiqwgGO pic.twitter.com/9JhQJbX2GR

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 7, 2023

Ukraine air defenses shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv in Russia’s latest nighttime assault, as attacks across Ukraine by the Kremlin’s forces killed four civilians, officials said Monday. https://t.co/XIMyMEH71G

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 8, 2023

In a break with Ukraine's Soviet past, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country would shift its commemoration of the the defeat of Nazi Germany from May 9 — like Russia — to May 8.https://t.co/0MUn35HBLK

— DW News (@dwnews) May 8, 2023

⚡️The new missile strike is atypical even by NVO standards.
Actively flies on the positions and objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in several directions at once.
Everything that can be used is used: Geran-2 drones, Kh-22/32 missiles. There are at least five to seven… pic.twitter.com/n1g6tTLnwX

— Victor vicktop55 (@vicktop55) May 8, 2023

Russian secret services are reportedly staging demonstrations in major western European cities to create anti-Ukraine sentiment. https://t.co/OO5i5t1xm4

— DW News (@dwnews) May 8, 2023

In Latvia’s capital Riga, dozens of elderly Russians wait to take a basic Latvian language test, as a proof of loyalty to a country where they have lived for decades. If they fail, they may face expulsion https://t.co/wT1Wy4htwJ pic.twitter.com/F1AI039o8y

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 8, 2023