Liz 🌻

I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
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Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️US military assistance shipments "have begun arriving" in Ukraine, White House official tells CNN on April 16.

The assistance includes 11 Mi-17 helicopters, 18 155 mm Howitzer cannons, and 300 more Switchblade drones.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Ukraine. Has. Sank. A. Russian. Black. Sea. Fleet. Flagship.
And it doesn’t even have a navy, if we’re being honest.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Are.
You.
Just.
Kidding.
Me?!!
Viktor Medvedchuk, Putin’s main man in Ukraine, busted as a result of a Ukrainian spec op.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This is one of the greatest videos the internet has ever seen.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Ukraine now also operates T-72B3s seized from Russia.
The tank family’s modified version of the 2010s now combats its former masters.

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

(Reuters) - Slovakia says it has donated its S-300 air defence system to Ukraine, in the first known such donation to Kyiv, which has appealed for air defenses.

The Slovak army website said the S-300 has range of 75 km and can strike targets up to 27 km above ground.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Reuters: Czech Republic ships tanks, rocket launchers, artillery to Ukraine.

Czech Republic recently sent a shipment of five T-72 tanks and five infantry fighting vehicles, undisclosed Czech defense sources told Reuters on April 8.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Sumy region completely free of Russian forces.

Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky announced on Facebook that the region is clear of Russia's forces, but that explosions may still be heard as rescue service workers dispose of ammunition left by the Russian military.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

It sounds unbelievable, but Ukrainian troops surrounded by Russia in Mariupol are still getting equipment and supplies from the mainland

[Liz 🌻 @FutureGoldenGrl]

@IAPonomarenko Ukrainians are built different! Absolute legends!

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Always cautious, the Ukrainian military says this: "As a result of offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy lost control over the settlements of Dobryanka, Novovoznesenske and Trudolyubivka. Fighting continues in the area of ​​the settlement of Alexandrovka."

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

A Ukrainian counter-offensive made progress in the northern part of Kherson region, enveloping and fixing Russian forces against the Dnipro River.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This is it.
Russian forces are not present in Kyiv Oblast anymore.

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

(Reuters) - Britain and its allies have agreed to send air and coastal defence systems, longer-range artillery and counter battery capabilities, armoured vehicles as well as provide wider training and logistical support to Ukraine, British defence minister Ben Wallace said

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

(Reuters) - In Trostyanets, recaptured by Ukraine:

"We spent 30 days in the basement, with small children. The children are shaking, even still. They ask: 'When will we go to kindergarten? When will we go to school?' They don't understand what has happened," said Larisa

[Michael A. Horowitz @michaelh992]

In Kherson, #Ukrainian forces recaptured three cities south of Kryvyi Rih (Orlove, Zahradovka, Kochubivka) according to the head of the Dnipro Admin

Map shows Orlove (all three are in the same area)

[UK Report @UK_REPT]

🇺🇦🇷🇺Kherson-latest status

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Ground Forces: Five villages in Zaporizhzhia Oblast liberated.

The Ukrainian Ground Forces wrote that Ukrainian troops are back in control of villages – Zatyshshia, Malynivka, Vesele, Zelenyi Hai, and Chervone – east of Zaporizhzhia.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Ukraine's military: Ukrainian forces regain control over southeastern Orlove, Zahradivka, Kochubeyivka.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the announcement on Facebook on March 30.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Bedingfield also told reporters that Washington believes Putin is also misinformed on “how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisors are too afraid to tell him the truth.”