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.

🔗 Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko)

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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

🔗 marqs (@MarQs\_\_)

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

https://t.co/qQVUNsBKlL

🔗 The Intel Crab (@IntelCrab)

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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.

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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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.

🔗 Rob Lee (@RALee85)

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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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Russian troops on the approach to Kherson.

🔗 Aldin 🇧🇦 (@aldin\_ww)

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Again many videos of Russian troops on the move in Belarus today. There is still a lot of equipment ready to go in.

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137 Ukrainian soldiers died today in order not to let Ukraine be conquered. And 20hour long battle against a mighty state showed they succeded. 316 wounded. – Zelensky said. 57 civilians were killed by Russia, 169 were wounded according to Health Ministry.

🔗 Nataliya Gumenyuk (@ngumenyuk)

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UKRAINE – A Reuters witness said that there was intense gunfire in western part of Kyiv.

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Some very early impressions of the last two days. It's an operation with maximalist war aims, and Moscow's thinking on this war seems to have been colored by war optimism. It looked as though Russian forces were expecting a quicker UKR military collapse and easier gains. 1/

🔗 Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael)

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Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Markarova says Russian forces did not advance as planned but adds their attack on Ukraine on Friday have "been more brutal"

🔗 Hümeyra Pamuk (@humeyra\_pamuk)

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🇺🇸⚡U.S. troops in Latvia tells Putin 'don't mess with us,' minister says

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Russian saboteurs have entered Zhytomyr, western Ukraine.

🔗 Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠ (@DrAlakbarov)

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JUST IN ⚠️ US President Joe Biden ordered the deployment of additional military units in Europe in support of NATO allies

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Landing of Russian troops in Odessa Nikolaev: Information about the landing of Russian troops

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