However, #Ukraine's Defence staff says they beat off a Russian offensive yesterday.
"the enemy shelled civilian infrastructure in #Siversk + #Hryhorivka. (we) inflicted significant losses on the enemy during his attempted offensive. The occupiers left." facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua
Despite successes on the battlefield in recent days - still problems for #Russia at home.
The largest plant in the Russian Federation for the production of secondary lead, Fregat, has stopped.
Several other businesses are preparing to close or are undergoing renovations.
Is this the start of USA's real assistance for #Ukraine?
This video was published last night, supposedly from #Baltimore.
Derailing on Sunday: #Khalilovo station on S. Ural Railway.
Small acts of rail damage at night are encouraged:
low risk
non fatal
many repair staff needed
weapon transit delayed
The #Russia rail sabotage group also take credit for this incident a week ago.
14 freight cars derailed on the famous Trans-Siberia railway, closing the line for a while. 330 workers were needed to clear and fix the line.
#Ukraine isn't finished with #Donetsk yet.
More explosions this morning.
Again precision weapons look to have hit fuel storage looking at the smoke. This is in the Azotniy district which was also hit a fortnight ago.
In occupied #Mariupol residents are being urged to come forward to register on a "DNA database of relatives of missing persons"
Not sure I'd be happy about Russians having even more data on me. The blood test is supposedly to help establish the fate of those 🇷🇺 army murdered.
Residents of Azotniy, #Donetsk report 13 rockets landing so far. The sound of one of the arrivals was caught on this video where now white smoke is visible alongside the darker stuff, indicating other hits in the area.
Not a good day for #Russia's leadership to try to brush off bad news:
#Kazakhstan reported to be about to introduce sanctions #Norway restricts deliveries to Svalbard #Austria - Kremlin ally, Putin's friend ex FM Kneisl flees the country #Japan - standing firm against Russia
To try to be even handed, here is a video from #Russia's army propaganda channel where they proudly show #Ukraine equipment destroyed in #Luhansk.
#Russia's updates not unduly crazy recently. Maybe as they were doing well.
In which case things must be bad now. A series of outlandish claims today inc hitting SIX #Ukraine command posts, one pilot shooting down 3🇺🇦aircraft and we should believe this is 2 HIMARS being destroyed
Even the money markets are moving against #Putin now.
The fall in the oil price is of course linked to this
$ vs Ruble last month
#Greenpeace says it all.
Inexplicable decision on so many levels.
Very close to #Raihorodok, another shell hitting a residential building in the district of #Mykolaivka. This is just a kilometre or so away from the #Sloviansk Thermal Power Plant.
Here's the scene at one of the new McDonald's replacement restaurants in #Russia.
For some reason they store food outside and the birds seem to love the bread rolls. Not sure what the customers think after seeing this. Still "just tasty"?
credit: TG Инсайды⚡️Украина
#Moscow has told #Indonesia that Putin will be taking part in the upcoming G20.
It was thought he would be too scared to travel and also may not receive an official invite.
#Norway has now allowed containers destined for the "Russian part" of Svalbard access.
Although territory is sovereign Norwegian land, under a treaty 100 years ago, Russia has rights to exploit the land for natural resources and many Russians live on the island.
More missiles landing on #Donetsk as I type. Three areas reporting explosions.
Also smoke following an explosion can be seen below, in occupied #KrasniyLuch (#Khrustalnyi in Ukrainian)
This war suddenly looks a bit different in the last 2 days.
More rockets landing on occupied #Donetsk
This is the Kirovsky district of the city.
The fightback continues against #Russia's defences and supplies inside occupied #Ukraine.
This I reported earlier is causing a bit of a stir in #Kherson.
The previous #Ukraine adviser to the city authority claimed equipment had been hit here, but quite a lot of locals (even on 🇺🇦chat) are saying just a gas cannister blew up in the warehouses.
It's Friday! The weekend approaches.
It's also the 814th day of #Russia trying to destroy #Ukraine, its language, culture and people, and over 10 years since the first invasion.
For all the news on Day 814 keep clicking back here.
No coffees for 2 days - please help if you can.
Thursday was another busy one.
A day which saw Putin humiliated, #Ukraine attack #Crimea (again) and a load of other stories and videos.
Missed any of it? Just click here and scroll through the day's news:
#Ukraine, a democratic nation, desperate to keep it that way, remains under intense pressure from #Russia, an autocracy led by a despot and indicted war criminal.
All the news all day long in one handy thread. Read on..
#StandWithUkraine
Yesterday we only really had two stories, but they were big ones.
#Putin exiling & side-lining top names from the Kremlin.
And 25 years after the #Russia apartment bombings, 13 were killed in a new attack - but who did it?
Review the news here:
Hello and welcome to Day 807 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine.
Each day documenting the news and war crimes committed by indicted war criminal Putin and his Moscow horde as the neo-imperialists try to steal more land and wipe out another culture.
Here's another daily thread...
As always, the quick link back to the starts of yesterday's thread for those who missed some, or all, of Thursday's developments.
And right at the end of the day we saw another oil target inside #Russia being hit by drones!
So confirmation of another attack on an oil refinery in #Russia, the second in 2 months at this partuicular site.
Pershiy Zavod is the largest refinery in the region - the main complex for the processing of commercial oil and gas condensate, and the capacity is 1.2m tons/yr
Day 803 of #Russia's full invasion continues. The war criminals are super confident, tossing away lives of the plebs and useful idiots from Asia, Africa + the Americas.
But #Ukraine fights hard for its existence and supplies filter through to the frontlines.
This is the daily🧵
Today is a holiday in most of the UK, so I allowed myself a later start (no school run!)
Coming up news of #Ukraine hitting a Rusdian boat...
But first the link to yesterday's thread, which turned out to be quite busy.
Many across Europe celebrate a holiday today, the first day of May.
In normal times in #Ukraine it would be a big celebration, with Labour Day followed by Easter and Remembrance/Victory Day. But these are far from normal times. No respite from war. Welcome to the daily thread:
Tuesday saw #Russia's world bring more death to #Kharkiv and to #Odesa for the second time in two days - a video proving the sickening cluster bomb attack on the people the day before.
All yesterday's news can be found here if you missed anything: