Just back from the site of last night’s Russian strike, the target was definitely the building directly next to the TV tower. There is a narrow street between it and the small park the houses the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial site. There was no ordinance found inside the site.
Here is the location I was stood on Google Maps, the building that was destroyed is the one in between that point and the TV tower.
Debris was scattered deep into the park, it fell just short of the Cornerstone of the Holocaust memorial site.
This tree was about 10 metres away from the cornerstone, the pieces of debris from the building was bombed were comprised mostly of clay bricks, they were travelling fast enough to shred the bark off.
The Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said 5 people were killed last night near the blast, which also damaged the road and several near by buildings were completely severely damaged by the blast.
The damage done to the building targeted by the TV tower itself is extensive.
My exclusive dispatch for @JewishNewsUK from the scene of Babyn Yar today
European leaders need to stop saying to themselves that it can’t get any worse than this, it can and it will, and a European defence strategy against Russian invasion is critical.
Defence spending needs to be significantly ramped up and Europe must re-arm to prepare for the threat.
To not do so now is not folly, it’s sheer madness.
War is coming, whether we want it or not. The only way to prevent it is victory in Ukraine, and if European leaders aren’t prepared to stomach the costs for that without Washington, then it will be their own children who will be fighting Russian troops in the near future.
The same people who told you Russia would never invade Ukraine are now telling you Russia would never invade the Baltic States.
They were wrong in 2022, and they’re wrong again today.
I don’t want to be tweeting this from Vilnius in 3 years time.
Europe is not going to get any clearer warning signs than this.
To prevent catastrophe, we must all prepare for war.
I want all dictatorships to be replaced with democracies.
As a liberal democrat, by definition, I oppose all regimes.
I support revolutions to overthrow regimes.
Put “regime change fanatic” on my tombstone, that’s fine.
I am a regime change fanatic & you @aaronjmate are an accomplice to Assad’s war crimes, who advocated for him at the UN, at the invitation of the Russian government, and you and your colleagues, for pay, were the propaganda wing of a regime engaged in industrial human slaughter.
@aaronjmate Both of us are still relatively young, but I need you to understand this, I promise you, I will spend the rest of my life making sure none of you ever truly know of a moment of peace.
And when I am in Syria, I will be searching through Mukhabarat documents for your names.
What is happening in Syria today is happening in spite of those foreign policy decisions, and in spite of those who presented Assad’s victory as the only possible resolution to the Syrian civil war.
Now the conflict is no longer in the hands of the western powers.
The US & Russia effectively came to an agreement that Assad should stay in 2015, and 9 years later, the consequences of that monstrous, despicable decision are rippling out across Syria.
These people always fundamentally misunderstood why Syrians tried to topple the regime.
Imagine having a discussion about Lebanese sovereignty vis-a-vis Hezbollah without even acknowledging Hezbollah’s very existence violates my country’s sovereignty.
I’m insulting you because you are no longer even attempting to disguise your deference to Hezbollah.
You aren’t talking about Lebanon in this, you’re talking about Hezbollah, no matter how much you want to backpedal when called out on it.
Yes, you are right that Israel violates Lebanese sovereignty and we Lebanese want that to end permanently, but you aren’t even paying lip service to the fact that our entire state has been hijacked by an Iranian proxy terrorist organisation, that has murdered our people for generations, launched a war without the consent of the country, which it then lost, at huge cost to the Lebanese people, and your only comment on this so far is to complain that Hezbollah don’t get favourable enough terms in their defeat agreement.
I’m so beyond respectful disagreement on this, if you want to have your arse kissed, go back on Owen Jones’ show, where you will get the kind of ill-informed ignorance that will never challenge anything you say.
Denying being deferential to Hezbollah/Iran while wholesale accepting Iran’s “resistance” narrative for financing, training and arming groups who brutalise and oppress their native populations.
There is such a deep rot in academia on this issue, it’s beyond absurd.