Ukrainian soccer player Roman Yaremchuk comes on as a substitute for Benfica in Lisbon.

Starting this thread a couple of hours early.

Time in Ukraine is 5:52am.

Dawn is at 6:11am.

Things have gotten very quiet.

Fighting around and in Kharkiv seems to have died out.

No word at all from the southern front after the siege of Mariupol was lifted.

No sign of the Belarusian troops on the northern front.

No further word about that pontoon bridge in the NW Kyiv suburbs.

tickticktick...

Folks...

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@Bemet_Or They just don't seem to be coming to grips with the fact that light infantry is the one and only category that the Ukrainians outnumber them, anywhere and everywhere in the country.

It's just not working out for them, at all.

Is there anything Zelensky cannot do?

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I absolutely believe him. 🔥🔥🔥

The only problem with Zelensky is that he has accidently set the bar for Jewish-Ukranian-former-comedians-who-can-also-dance-pretty-good-turned-presidents almost unattainably high.

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ho'k...new thread.

Russian units are indeed still holding and reinforcing their gains north of Kyiv. Fresh Chechen units seen on video there.

Rumors that Belarus ABN troops are also being added to the northern front above Kyiv.

Mariupol is still surrounded and refusing to capitulate.

Not seeing any other movement on the southern or eastern fronts. Ukr still recovering or destroying abandoned Russian vehicles in both regions.

My man slapped on his Under Armor, grabbed his rifle and helmet, and rescued a cat and a fish.

Because humanity...

Welcome to hell Ivan.

Now go home.

@BlueStateBabe They are really *that* incompetent.

Adding yet another location where abandoned out of fuel Russian vehicles are being found, NW of Kyiv, where the Russian ABN got mauled.

They're so wedded and enamored by the "Thunder Run" concept by but they forgot a crucial detail.

Need gas or no run, no run no thunder.

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Russian light recon unit broke through into Kharkiv. Got lit up by defense in depth.

It's good they were stopped.

It's bad that the Ukr lines there are thin enough now that the Russians found a weak spot.