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Feb 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Woke up to two loud bangs in central Kyiv, around 04:20 am.

Videos (unverified!!) shared by residents on social media show an explosion in the sky raining burning shrapnel onto the city.

Twitter suggesting it is the work of Ukraine’s air defences intercepting a missile
Others reporting they heard it too
on it being likely air defence system:
More here:
Military here confirms it was an intercepted strike:
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Feb 25
#BREAKING - Gunfire heard in the government quarter of central Kyiv @AP is reporting
Shooting in the centre, Russian troops entering Kyiv from the north.

Ukraine’s army called on residents of the northern Kyiv district of Obolon to resist.

“Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!” the defence ministry said.
At the same time, Ukraine armed forces reporting intense fighting in several settlements north of Kyiv while social media users sharing videos of lines of Russian military vehicles Image
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Feb 24
Our report out of Kyiv this morning as it awakes to the sound of explosions and the Russian invasion begins.

led by ⁦@JohnReedwrites⁩ on.ft.com/35hwOQp
Lines of cars jammed the main roads out of the capital as residents fled, leaving the city centre deserted.

People with suitcases in hand crowded into metro trains, tried to buy medical supplies at pharmacies, and lined up at ATMs to withdraw cash.
A few people, some with children, camped out in the metro, huddling on the floor and checking the fast-moving news on their phones, which showed Russia bombing a string of targets across Ukraine and intense fighting in the country’s east — @JohnReedwrites witnessed
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Feb 24
Explosions reported around Kyiv’s airport and heard in the city. It’s 05:30am here.
Ok now I can hear them
Ukraine’s foreign minister right now:
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Feb 23
An incredibly powerful and moving speech by Ukraine’s president Zelensky tonight.

He addressed the Russian people directly in a bid to prevent the potential outbreak of a major and full-blown war —
Listing his deep personal ties to the Donbas region in east Ukraine, he stressed Kyiv wanted peace and urged Russians to question the information presented to them by state TV.

“You are being told that we hate Russian culture. How could we hate a culture, any culture?” he said.
“Many of you have been to Ukraine, many of you have relatives in Ukraine… Listen to us, hear us. The people of Ukraine want peace.”
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Sep 25, 2021
Last night in the early hours of the morning Valentina Chupik, the most dogged defender of migrants’ rights in Moscow, said she had been detained trying to return to Russia.

In a series of anxious msgs she said she’d been banned from Russia until 2051. I can no longer reach her
Chupik is the first point of call for thousands of migrants from Central Asia working in Moscow if anything happened, constantly fielding calls about bosses who didn’t pay up, bad landlords, abuse by law enforcement, deportation and so on
Here is TV rain coverage:
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May 15, 2021
Russia has produced just 33 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine so far. We spoke to people across the supply chain to find out why:

with @ykymykovna
reuters.com/business/healt…
1. Initial scale-up was hard.

The chief exec of one firm described working as if "blindfolded" at first.

"Vaccine production takes 1-1.5 months... Then, you compare output to the reference sample. If it matches, you're lucky. If it doesn't, you pour out the product you made."
His firm was gearing up to make 10 million doses a month but by late March had still not produced 1 mln. It began the process of cell growing in November.

Its new plant - a Soviet-era car factory turned into a state-of-the-art biotech facility - has yet to open officially.
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