Ukraine War, Day 377: Zelenskiy - No Withdrawal from Bakhmut - EA WorldView

Ukraine President Zelenskiy says Ukrainian defenders will not end their resistance to the 10-month Russian assault on Bakhmut in the east of the country.

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#Zelenskiy: There is no part of #Ukraine about which one can say that it can be abandoned"

Analysts says #Russia unlikely to surround city in near-future

#WagnerGroup's #Prigozhin warns Russian positions will collapse unless more ammo supplied to fighters

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#Belarus regime gives exiled opposition leader #SviatlanaTsikhanouskaya 15-year prison sentence

Tsikhanouskaya: "I don't think about my own sentence. I think about 1000s of innocents, detained & sentenced to real prison terms"

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Amid warning of #WagnerGroup's #Prigozhin that #Russia assault on #Bakhmut may collapse, mercenaries reportedly recruiting pyschiatric patients for frontline service

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Footage on social media shows #Russia troops killing #Ukraine POW

Captured Ukrainian stands in shallow trench & smokes a cigarette ---- Says “Glory to Ukraine” and then shot w automatic weapons

Ukraine FM Kuleba calls for action by International Criminal Court

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#NATO intell: #Russia forces losing 5+ troops for every #Ukraine defender killed in battle for #Bakhmut

@TheStudyOfWar: "Russian military will likely struggle to maintain any subsequent offensive operations for some months, giving Ukraine chance to seize offensive"

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#Ukraine requesting cluster munitions from US

Air-dropped submunitions, w "better armor-piercing capability", to be used v. #Russia "human wave" attacks

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#Russia court sentences Dmitry Ivanov, founder of an opposition Telegram channel, to 8 1/2 years on charges of "fake" info about Russian military

Ivanov: "Literally the entire indictment, from first to last word, contradicts reality. I subscribe to every word I wrote a year ago"

#Russia FM Lavrov & other senior officials not informed of #Putin invasion of #Ukraine until hours before launch

Lavrov: “He has three advisers. Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. Catherine the Great”

W war going badly, Putin creating new rationales for invasion

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"Western officials": #Russia has 20,000 to 30,000 killed and wounded in assault on #Bakhmut

Death rate "significantly higher" than 1 killed to 3 wounded

(15K Soviet troops killed in Afghanistan from December 1979-February 1989

#Ukraine losses “significantly less”

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#Ukraine and #Russia exchange total of 220 prisoners of war

126 Ukrainian troops, 4 Ukrainian civilians, and 90 Russians

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US officials: Review of new intell suggests "pro-Ukrainian group" carried out Sept. attacks that damaged 3 of 4 #NordStream gas pipelines from #Russia to #Germany

No evidence that #Zelensky or senior officials involved in operation, or that attackers directed by #Ukrainian gov't

@ScottLucas furthermore, anti-Putin russians are far from being Ukrainian, pro-Ukrainian or acting on Ukraine's interest or behalf. "Pro-Ukrainian" to some (Reuters included) is now a "catch-all term" for "not wanting to die in a war created by the kleptocrat currently in power in russia, and his ilk, to perpetuate him a few more years"?