BREAKING – The FAA has issued a NOTAM which now covers the entirety of Ukraine, Belarus and a western portion of Russia.

FAA bans U.S. airlines from flying over Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of western Russia

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Belgorod is shelling the territories of Ukraine. The video was shot 10 minutes ago #RussiaUkraineConflict #StopWar #Putin

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BIG ⚠️ 🇺🇦⚡Territorial Defense Force pushes back an attack near the city of Sumy north-east of Kyiv, deputy defense minister says.

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🇺🇦⚡UKRAINE – Looks like a Ukranian AF SU-27 was shot down last night, separate from the other shootdown over Kyiv.

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https://news.1rj.ru/str/TwitterInfos/4866

BREAKING – Russian tanks column approaching Kyiv from North-West, violent clashes now near Ivankiv. Bridge blown up to prevent further advance

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⚠️❗Russia launched more than 160 missiles in Ukraine in a day

✅ This is reported by The Washington Post and other publications.

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BELARUS – About 10 units of Russian equipment for the transportation of personnel was spotted today (25.02) moving along the R-99 Baranavichy-Slonim highway.

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Ukrainian forces are in hard defense of the Antonisky Bridge across the Dnipro River in Kherson.
Heavy fighting all night long, the enemy still can’t cross the river.
As I understand, much to the south of the river is under Russian control.

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Russian Z-marked Urals and BMPs in Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast
#Ukraine 🇺🇦

🔗 Aleph א #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@no\_itsmyturn)

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Turkey cannot stop Russian warships accessing the Black Sea via its straits, as Ukraine has requested, due to a clause in an international pact that allows vessels to return to their home base, the Turkish foreign minister said on Friday.

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Thousands of Kadyrov's troops prepare to deploy to #Ukraine
https://t.co/YyyWy9uF3y

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Ukrainian ‘BUK’ anti-air system was targeted in an air strike:

https://t.co/qQVUNsBKlL

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BREAKING – 🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡U.K. says Russian forces have opened a new route of advance towards Kyiv having failed to capture Chernihiv city

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🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85):
Agreed. The Russian military decided to not maximally employ its fires capability, which could have inflicted thousands of casualties. Russia likely thought a large number of Ukrainian casualties would make it more difficult to achieve a long-term political solution.
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🔗 Anton Barbashin (@ABarbashin):
What can we surmise from Russian official statement. This need this operation to end as soon as possible. To limit the number of civilian casualties to the minimum.
Do they hope Zelensky will surrender the country?
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So instead the emphasis has been on speed and reaching Kyiv as rapidly as possible, but not on maximally targeting the Ukrainian military. Russia can escalate if it can't achieve its objectives with its more limited use of force though.

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There is no guarantee that Russia can translate this military force into achieving its ambitious political goals, and determined resistance in cities would force Russia to use more force, which would lead to more civilian casualties and make conflict termination more difficult.

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The longer this goes on, the worse it gets. The risk of greater Russian and Ukrainian casualties, domestic disapproval, foreign anger economic costs, and difficulty achieving a political solution are all exacerbated the longer this goes on. Speed is critical.

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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