Day 165 of #Russia's illegal war on #Ukraine - welcome to my daily thread on events surrounding the conflict.
Of all the war crimes committed, the biggest was when #Putin decided to invade. Without this stupid, needless aggression, there would not have been one other war crime.
In case you missed anything last night, you can scroll back through the previous day's thread. I've been asked to include a link, so here it is.
Y'day evening we saw proof of Russia bombing #Donetsk, which it controls and the confirmed death of a traitor
It seems to have been a little quieter overnight than in previous days, but of course the regular hotspots on, or near, the front line have been hit including #Kharkiv and #Mykolaiv, more on that shortly in the thread.
The daily British update concentrates on #Russia's problems with its highest command.
London reports "at least" 10 Generals have died on the battlefield in #Ukraine and six Commanders have been sacked.
#Kosovo police arrested a Russian "journalist" at the border overnight at a time of heightened security. Dariya Aslamova was suspected of being a spy.
A Kosovan Minister said "many countries have proven she was engaged in espionage for #Russia."
However she's now been released.
I'm not a naval expert, but I can't understand what's happening with that first ship to legally leave #Odesa with #Ukraine corn.
The #Razoni is at anchor near where I reported y'day, just south of #Turkey, in Intnl waters. It's around 250km from Tripoli
Any idea @YorukIsik?
"Military priests" arrived in #Kharkiv, the propagandists of #Russia say.
Absolutely sick that these guys can live with themselves if they profess to be religious. Oh, I forgot, the Russian church is an extension of the FSB - now it makes sense again!
An MP calling a German journalist a Nazi + threatening to kill
An economist saying it's too expensive to feed prisoners, make families pay or let them starve
And the usual crap about Nazis in #Ukraine, the west.
Whos' fascist?
The dangers facing #Ukraine's farmers are manifold.
Recently we saw tractors battling to harvest before flames engulfed the crops.
Now a reminder of another danger. In #Kherson region a combine harvester was destroyed by a landmine.
1/2 #Kharkiv was hit by at least 4 rockets this morning, possibly six.
Authorities admit #Russia his "civilian critical infrastructure" in the Nemyshlyansky and Industrial areas.
No photos from there yet suggests perhaps a military target was hit.
#Russia's latest firing on the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at #Enerhodar hit directly next to the station's dry spent nuclear fuel storage facility according to Energoatom.
Three radiation monitoring sensors around the site were damaged due to enemy rocket attacks.
"Amnesty International deeply regrets the stress and anger caused by our press release about #Ukraine's military tactics" it said in an email to Reuters, but no statement on its website and no apology from @AgnesCallamard for saying we're trolls!
Bizarrely, #Russia's censors have today blocked the website "Grammarly"
Could backfire this one - it won't help the trolls write even half decent posts now!
A first close up look at what are said to be radar reflectors hanging on the sides of the Antonivskyi Bridge in #Kherson.
Many believe they won't work as #HIMARS operate through GPS and even scramblers may struggle to stop the US rocket systems.
#Ukraine's emergency services released video of the shelling in #Mykolaiv earlier.
One of he rockets hit the roof of a building in he Inhul district.
The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel carrying Ukrainian grain has changed its route.
It's apparently waiting for instructions on a new destination after its original destination from Tripoli in #Lebanon.
Still with #Ukraine's attack on the main road bridge in #Kherson.
A longer video now, which clearly shows a second hit on the #Antonivskyi bridge. One fire was already alight when the second explosion happens a few metres away and later you hear the sound wave.
The bad news for #Ukraine this evening comes in the central-western city of #Vinnytsia.
It's been confirmed there are casualties after missiles hit military bases. The local Governor says they're investigating why air defences did not work.
What a shame for #Russia that they forgot to tell #Ukraine...
Just this afternoon the occupiers proudly announced they'd destroyed the #HIMARS which had been firing on bridges in #Kherson region!
As Homer would say, Doh!
Unverified:
There is also a fire and explosion reportedly in #Chaplynka in #Kherson region.
This is occupied territory too, east of the city of #Kherson. Waiting for details, but could be a small warehouse on fire.
Also unconfirmed reports earlier in #Kherson that rockets may have hit the hydro electric power station. Personally I'm not so sure, nothing further written on this on news or chat sites for a while.
#Ukraine says 4 civilians were killed and six were injured by Russian shelling in #Donetsk today.
#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:
Welcome to Sunday morning.
I'm starting early for the daily thread on Day 760 of #Russia's full invasion of its peaceful and sovereign neighbour #Ukraine.
There is a big danger of another missile attack from Russian aircraft. Follow for all the news all day (and night!)
It proved another marathon thread (almost 70 posts) on Saturday with the consequences of the #Kransogorsk terrorist attack dominating the agenda.
Playing catch-up? Click and scroll from the start, right here:
Across #Ukraine, millions are on tenterhooks. Anyone asleep will soon be woken by air alarms, with monitors sensing launches of cruise missiles from #Russian planes.
Meanwhile attack drones are also causing problems. Explosions recently in #Lviv but these seem to be air defence