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David Patrikarakos

Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Ukrainians continue to send me footage of the destruction being visited in their country. 🧵

1. The center of Mykolaiv, one of the main shipbuilding centers of the Black Sea, after night fighting.

2. The results of shelling in Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv (Buchma Street). One woman died, two people were hospitalized, the apartments on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors were destroyed..

3. An apartment building in Bucha, Kyiv region, hit by a Russian shell.

Note these are all civilian targets.

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