#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the mayor of #Mariupol is holding a press conference. He states the city has been facing heavy Russian shelling since the early morning but as of this moment remains under Ukrainian control.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: fighting is ongoing around #Kharkiv. Sounds of shelling and rising smoke can be witnessed
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces have been captured on CCTV footage moving through Nova Kakhovka (#Kherson region), on their way to cross the Dnieper river.
This position is ~65% out of #Crimea, meaning they advanced quite far.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: first map of territorial losses to the Russian invasion force
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: footage claiming to show Russian invasion forces moving through the town of Kalanchak in #Kherson, 25km west of occupied #Crimea
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces have raised the 🇷🇺 flag over the occupied town of Nova Kakhovka in #Kherson.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces took a pounding close to #Kharkiv. Photos and videos of damaged vehicles and dead soldiers by the side of the road.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: massive Russian helicopter assault ongoing on Hostomel and its vital airbase, just 15 km NW of #Kyiv
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: first footage of a downed Russian attack helicopter, reportedly around Hostomel near #Kyiv.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian helicopters moving over Novi Petrivtsi, probably shit before they started their assault on Hostomel
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: at least two soldiers belonging to the Russian invasion force have been captured by Ukrainian soldiers around #Kharkiv.
It's photos like this that could make Russians back home question the war.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian attack helicopter has been downed over Vyshhorod (north of #Kyiv). Pilot can be seen with his parachute left of the smoke.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: airbase of #Melitopol now reported to be under fire by the Russian invasion force.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian strike on the town of Ukrainka, just south of #Kyiv.
The invasion forces is launching attacks all around the capital.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: small-scale protests have erupted in #Russia 🇷🇺.
In #Yekaterinburg several dozen people chant "no to war"
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: insane video reportedly shows Russian invasion forces trying to cross thr Dnieper river in #Kherson today, warplanes fly over to support the advance.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: reports that a Russian military convoy was ambushed close to Hlukhiv in the #Sumy region. ukrainian soldiers targeted the vehicles with javelin missiles, inflicting some heavy damage.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: people are rallying in #Tyumen (central #Russia 🇷🇺) to protest the war.
Police are busy arresting everyone before it takes off.
Absolutely shocking footage of a Russian warplanes firing missiles into a residential area in #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
A child screams in terror.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 BREAKING: president #Zelensky confirms Russian invasion forces try to breach to #Kyiv through the #Chernobyl Exclusion zone, any indiscriminate shelling in this area could be disastrous for all of #Europe.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: in #StPetersburg (#Russia 🇷🇺) it apparently takes six policemen to arrest a single peace activist.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protest breaking out in #StPetersburg tonight.
Small rallies are taking place in several cities across #Russia 🇷🇺.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces are moving through the regional capital of #Sumy, meaning the city has probably fallen.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protesters fill the streets in #Moscow tonight, showing many people in #Russia 🇷🇺 reject the #Kremlin's aggression
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: hundreds of people also marching against war in #NizhnyNovgorod (western #Russia 🇷🇺) tonight.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: looks like the Russian invasion forces suffered some substantial losses as they entered the city of #Sumy
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 BREAKING: The #Chernobyl nuclear power plant has fallen into the hands of the Russian invasion force.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the Hostomel airport has also fallen into Russian hands, meaning they can now land troops and supplies for a further assault on #Kyiv
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protests are growing tonight in #StPetersburg (🇷🇺).
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: footage from earlier today allegedly showing Russian invasion forces in the #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
"Putin, withdraw your troops!"
From the streets of #Russia 🇷🇺 tonight.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: more footage of Russian military hardware being knocked out on day 1 of the invasion.
This one was reported to be recorded outside of the town of Snovsk (#Chernihiv region).
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war rally by the Belarusian community in #Bialystok (🇵🇱).
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces have set up position outside of #Melitopol, as they continue to face little resistance down in the south.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: civilians are crowding in the subway stations of #Kharkiv as heavy fighting continues around the city above, not knowing whether they will find a free or occupied city when they return back to the surface
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: meanwhile this is #Kharkiv above ground. A massive barrage of rockets is hitting is city this evening.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: multiple reports of renewed fighting in #Sumy tonight. If true it would mean the Ukrainians are conducting a counter-attack.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Ukrainian forces blew up a bridge over the Oskil river at the village of Senkove as they hope to slow down the Russian invasion in the #Kharkiv region.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: a column of tanks and vehicles belonging to the Russian invasion force was knocked out by Ukrainian forces somewhere in the #Kherson region.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: heavy fighting is currently ongoing in #Kyiv as the Russian invasion forces hopes to occupy the capital city and subject the Ukrainian government to an occupational regime.
Russian occupational terror at work in #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
A tank belonging to the Russian invasion forces drives over a bypassing car without any regard to the driver's life.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: miraculously the driver appeared to he unharmed. Bystanders are doing their best to free him.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the new reality in #Kyiv. People run for cover as the air sirens go off, warning for impending Russian bombardments
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 is not rolling over.
These Russian GRAD launchers habe been torn to pieces in the #Kharkiv region.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: this missile failed to explode as it was fired at #Kharkiv.
What's telling is that this missile is in the middle of a neighborhood, not a single military target around. Shows you the disregard to civilian life by the #Kremlin.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: thousands of Chechen paramilitary (known as Kadyrovites), preparing as they leave for Ukraine to join the Russian invasion.
Unknown but likely this footage is a couple weeks old.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: weapons being distributed among defense units in #Kyiv as locals prepare to defend the capital from the Russian invasion
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: latest video from #Chechnya as the rally appears to have been today.
The #Kremlin is sensitive about Russian casualties in Ukraine but won't give a damn about Chechens dying in their thousands to seize the country.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces gathering outside of #Kherson, possibly preparing for another attack on the city
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: scorched earth in Starobilsk this morning following extensive Russian shelling on the #Luhansk region.
#Putin said he'd start a war to save #Donbass, and then went in to burn it.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: fighting has started in #Odessa, unknown what's happening but could be a Russian amphibious assault.
The #Kremlin war machine showing no regard at all to civilian lives across #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
From #Kyiv today
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: people in #Chernihiv doing whatever they can to stop the advancing Russian invasion force. Some even climb the tanks or lay down across the street.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: a column of the Russian invasion force was completely wracked in the southern #Kherson region.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian forces stuck by the side of the road, out of gas and fuel. A Ukrainian pulls up : "you guys need a tow back to Russia?"
The Russian invasion ladies and gentlemen.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces struck an ambulance in #Kherson, medics are among the victims.
War crimes for the entire world to see.
One of the guys behind all the burning Russian tank videos coming out of #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Further in the video you can see some more wreckages in the back.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Belarusian volunteers are participating in the defense of #Kyiv.
#Lukashenko has made the territory of #Belarus complicit in the invasion, but Belarusians are making it clear they oppose the #Kremlin.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: burned out tank in #Chernihiv
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: a Russian attack helicopter goes down after being hit over Kakhovka (#Kherson region).
This is why stingers make a difference.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: utter destruction in Volnovakha (#Donetsk) following relentless Russian bombardments.
So much for #Putin's special operation to "save" #Donbass
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: this Russian military truck was reportedly knocked out of action by Molotov cocktails in #Kharkiv.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: fires in Volnovakha (#Donetsk) tonight.
The #Donbass is burning under the Russian invasion.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: very first video of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone taking out an entire convoy of the Russian invasion force.
Recorded in #Kherson.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: more Russian military losses, this time near Sribne (#Chernihiv region)
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian military losses in Trostyanets' (#Sumy region), including several armored personnel carriers and rocket launcher systems.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: warplanes roaring in the skies over #Gomel (#Belarus), on their way to attack Ukrainian territory.
The video of the day:
Russian invasion forces abandoned one of their armored vehicles (MT-LB) besides the road somewhere in #Ukraine 🇺🇦, locals were more than happy to take it over.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: vehicles belonging to the Russian invasion force, burning tonight somewhere in #Kharkiv.
A selfie for the history books:
Big smiles in Bucha, just west of #Kyiv (#Ukraine 🇺🇦) as locals managed to get their hands on an abandoned Russian BMP.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: as a Russian occupation force arrives in the center of #Berdyansk (#Zaporizhzhia region), locals gather on the main square to sing the Ukrainian national anthem.
Ukrainian civil resistance to the #Kremlin's invasion.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: smoke rising over #Chernihiv today.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: if this footage shows what it says it does than the Russian invasion force just used cluster munition on the city of #Kharkiv.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: another video of Russian shelling on #Kharkiv, this missile smashed right into an apartment building
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: in Energodar (#Zaporizhzhya region), locals have set up barricades to protect their town.
Russian invasion forces are standing in the distance, not really sure what to do.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: scenes in #Berdyansk (#Zaporizhzhya region) which is the latest town to be occupied by the #Kremlin.
Ukrainians have gathered in front of city hall and are chanting "go home! Go home!" To the Russian invasion force standing guard.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: Russian invasion forces are leaving the city council in #Berdyansk as protesters chant "Ukraine is ours".
Doesn't mean they're giving up the town though, probably positioning on the outskirts to prevent a confrontation.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: extensive damage to a #Kharkiv apartment after a Russian missile tore through the roof.
More proof of indiscriminate fire on civilian targets by the Russian invasion force.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: more footage of Bayraktar TB2 drone strikes on Russian invasion forces. This time on a group of supply trucks.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: port of #Berdyansk is under fire.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: CCTV footage from the eastern edge of #Kharkiv shows how residential areas are being targeted by the Russian invasion force.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: separatist leader Denis Pushilin raises the the #DNR entity flag over the village of Hranitne in SE #Donetsk after the Russian invasion force made advances around Volnovakha.
If you still have any doubt about the resolve of Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion force, watch this video!
The people of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 resist their occupiers wherever they are.
#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the human side of war.
Children sing about #Kyiv while the sit in their bunker underneath the Ukrainian capital.
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