1/ Thread on #Uzbekistan
Very difficult to obtain information following the State of Emergency in #Karakalpakstan.
A reminder that the President has done a U-turn and won't now try to deprive the region of its autonomy.
GRAPHIC VIDEO
Last night many died, over 1,000 injured
2/ #Karakalpakstan capital #Nukus saw many deaths after riot police tried to break up a huge rally in the centre
In tactics identical to those seen in #Belarus + #Russia when confronted with domestic protests, armed police were this morning brutal arresting suspects
(unverified)
3/ #Nukus appears to be calm this evening, at least I've not seen reports of gatherings, which would be illegal under the new emergency measures
However, the #Uzbekistan riot police snatch squads continued their terror tactics on the streets throughout the day (unverified video)
4/ A couple more videos showing evidence of the #Uzbekistan snatch squads in action in #Karakalpakstan earlier today.
These videos are all unverified, but I checked the time stamps.
The President may have relented, but with this repression it doesn't augur well for the future
Welcome to Day 1285 of Russia's war of choice.
Sunday 31 August, the last day of summer in the northern hemisphere and Russia's summer offensive is the latest failure.
Here's another daily thread - all the news all the time.
If you were busy on Saturday and missed some, or all, of the news from Ukraine, just click this link and find out what happened step by step throughout the day.
This time y'day I was reporting on Ukraine strikes on occupied Ukraine. Now satellite imagery and analysis from @avivector shows 2 Russian helicopters may have been destroyed in a drone attack on Simferopol airport.
There are signs of fire where Mi-8 + Mi-24 choppers had been.
20 past 6 in the morning in Kyiv and none of the nightmare of 24 hours ago.
Here's the current air map and it's been like that for a few hours. For real 'nerds' it's maybe interesting that the air raid alerts in Chernihiv and Sumy are now not region-wide but more specific.
Day 1282 of Russia's all-out war is another very grim day with at least 15 civilians murdered by Putin's regime in clear attacks on residential buildings and areas of Kyiv.
Here's the Ukraine-Russia thread for Thursday 28 August 2025
A quiet start to Wednesday exploded into life - more importantly death - in the early hours in Kyiv.
To catch up with anything you may have missed click and scroll from here:
For anyone who missed it yesterday, I am on a different time zone, explaining a later start. It's 07:10 in New York where I am for a few days. So my apologies if you were looking for me earlier.
In the coming days I'll try to start the thread before I go to sleep here.
Good morning world! It's Day 1281, so it must be thread number 1281 (4205 since the start of the Crimea invasion)
Every day documenting the news, without gratuitous gore, and the war crimes as Russia continues its unprovoked all-out war against a sovereign neighbour.
If you missed anything on Tuesday, it's simple to catch up. Just click this link for the start of yesterday's thread and scroll down to where you last read and then continue reading through to the end.
But remember to come back here!