Today's News: Ukraine update

Here is some recent news from Ukraine:

While the famine is growing around the world, harvests in occupied by Russia Kherson region are burning all the time. Reported by the media and the local residents pic.twitter.com/95UnIDaZOt

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) July 9, 2022

Farmers across Ukraine are increasingly feeling the financial strain of Russia’s Black Sea blockade, and the sector’s economic collapse is affecting food security across the world.

Ukraine accounted for 10 percent of global wheat exports in 2021. https://t.co/5Uu98KGoWl

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 8, 2022

Here is a significant update from Phillips O'Brien about Ukraine troop strength and the intention to take back the south.

The most important point is that the Ukrainian defence minister @oleksiireznikov isn making it very clear that the Ukrainians actually have many 100,000s of soldiers that they can deploy into the fight than the Russians. Says a million here... pic.twitter.com/nQ61jvhnDK

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 11, 2022

Now, we have the Ukr changing tone, preparing the population for the army to go on the offensive in the south (Zelensky yesterday), and saying that the army is very large and getting better equipped and trained. https://t.co/oRf28qiepN

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 11, 2022

Worth noting that Ukrainian armed forces are prominently tweeting this story. https://t.co/CmGF3GEWGh

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 11, 2022

Also, this:

Ukrainians being very open telling civilians to get out of the Kherson area. https://t.co/HYpdDXXqvz

— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) July 9, 2022

I am amazed at this courage:

#Lithuania has expanded restrictions on the transit of goods through its territory to #Kaliningrad, Reuters reports.

As of today, cement, timber, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals are banned, a #Lithuanian customs official said. pic.twitter.com/DcS5dP5ve2

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 11, 2022

Turning to other news, this video is crazy:

Témoignage, et surement crédit original:https://t.co/oV2bWEFiAp

— Romain 💉💉💉🚲🌱🌤 (@rom1gre) July 10, 2022

A bunch of climate change denyers are questioning the tweet, but the instagram story explains the background and how this hiker got the footage. Also, he did survive. 

Funny:

and I’m here, to remind you of the grass you left when you went away… 😂 https://t.co/3ISMFESryx

— Alanis Morissette (@Alanis) July 10, 2022

And also this:

It of course gets worse 😂 pic.twitter.com/Ll4N79RjmH

— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) July 8, 2022

Here are some more twitter stories:

Saw this man sitting by himself at a Waffle House in Midway, Florida.

So I said hello and asked him what he was doing with that money. pic.twitter.com/UY2uBW7hXE

— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) July 9, 2022

I witnessed a genuinely surprising & impressive moment in a Wendy's yesterday. A bunch of young men, early 20s maybe, were behind me in line, dressed like the boys I used to skateboard with in the 90s: wide leg pants, stupid hats. black tattoos. 🧵

— Maggie Rahr (@RealMaggieRahr) July 9, 2022

The first time I ever heard the fear of death in a voice. A thread

— Tinnitis Emeritus (@pbontoast1) July 10, 2022