The first ship to legally leave #Ukraine's Black Sea ports with food since the war, has still not managed to dock
The #Razoni has now headed back to dock near Mersin on #Turkiye's southern coast. It left #Odesa last week with its cargo of corn, but supposedly cannot find a buyer
Interesting news overnight in #Belarus where around 8 small explosions were reported at the Zyabrovka airfield.
#Russia has taken over this site near #Homel and launched numerous strikes on #Ukraine from here.
Belarus says "an engine fire" was to blame, which seems unlikely.
#Russia's credibility is collapsing says British Intelligence.
The Kremlin's important "defence" export market is in danger of shrinking rapidly because of inability to fulfill orders and nations perhaps seeing it's not as effective in battle as they thought.
Three civilians have died in #Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of heavy Russian shelling.
The Governor says over 120 grads were fired at #Nikopol alone.
Scores of high rise and residential buildings were hit. 9 others are injured.
You may be interested in this new "infrared" satellite image from the "mystery" explosions in #Crimea
The destruction of #Russia's Saky air base looks even more devastating here. That's some big bang on the occupied territory. #Ukraine strikes do seem most likely.
Two private Robinson R44 helicopters disappeared in #Krasnoyarsk at the same time. Two tourists are reported to be on board. Both flew from Norilsk to the Putoransky Reserve.
A search is underway but there's no signal from emergency beacons.
The @UN Secretary General urged a safe perimeter to be made around the Nuclear Power Plant in #Enerhodar, to ensure security.
Meanwhile Germany's Environment Minister said they don't have information about any radioactive leak, but the situation is “unclear and dangerous”.
#Ukraine's nuclear energy agency, #Energoatom says Europe's largest nuclear power plant was shelled on four separate occasions today.
#Russia controls the territory but stores weapons and soldiers inside the site. Ukraine argues Russia is trying to weaken the West's support.
Meanwhile the @UN Security Council is meeting in New York to discuss the situation around the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in #Ukraine.
Head of @IAEA, Rafael Grossi, called on 🇺🇦 &🇷🇺 to allow its representatives to visit the station as soon as possible.
But 🇷🇺 controls the site!
Former President of #Russia, Dmitry Medvedev allegedly turned up in #Ukraine today.
Whether to boost his image, or sent by Putin, who remained behind in his Kremlin fortress, Medvedev was said to be in #Luhansk for a meeting with leaders of puppet states of #Donetsk and #Luhansk
It really has been a quiet day in #Ukraine, but now things are hotting up in occupied #Kherson.
Maybe it's feeding time for #HIMARS or other western MLRS? #NovayaKakhovka has reportedly seen multiple explosions in the last few minutes.
Hello at the start of another weekend, Day 1151 of the war in Europe.
Day by day the US paves the way for capitulation.
Trump may pretend there was no war in his first term, but his administration said it would never recognise Crimea.
This is THE daily thread for Saturday.
Here's the link for the start of yesterday's thread.
Visibility is still low - 15k views.
Plenty to get your teeth into.. 100 fleeing Russian refuseniks, tRUmp on the verge of failure, and of course the attacks on Ukraine.
Catch up here:
With even tRUmp slowly realising he's been played by Putin all along with no intent on peace, Russia has upped the aerial attack on its next targets for invasion.
Sumy, Kostiantynivka + Kupiansk feel the full force.
In the latter 10 glide bombs in one day with 5 people injured.
This is the start of THE daily thread covering all things Ukraine.
Reliable, accurate information for 1124 days as Russia and its willing accomplices (Iran, North Korea and MAGA-land) try to destroy Ukraine, its culture and its democracy to make it a vassal state.
Here's the🧵
Yesterday started with shocking lies and propaganda from the White House and ended with another massive attack by Russia, knowing tRUmp and co don't mind at all.
Find all the details by clicking and scrolling here⬇️
The war Russia inflicted on Ukraine enters Day 1120
Ukraine, a country which never invaded another, never killed anyone abroad; a fully democratic nation where only one President has ever won a second term in office.
Here's THE daily thread for Wednesday, with all the news.
Yesterday was all about the ritual humiliation of tRUmp, dished out by Putin, and the US president's brain being too rusty to realise.
I also indulged in a long sub-thread on my fears about what's happening in Washington DC.
Catch up here:
It's official. tRUmp's supposed skill at making a deal is absolutely RANK
Russia
Afghanistan
NK (North Korea)
#TraitorTrump promised a deal with his mate in NK, got nothing.
He handed the Taliban everything, got nothing.
Now, ending the war in 24 hours turned into humiliation
Putin, the aggressor, the war criminal, presiding over countless heinous crimes, executions, kidnapping of children, is about to be given a pass by Donald J Trump.
The despot and the wannabe talk today.
This is THE daily thread
Yesterday saw an explosive end to a day which started with mystery surrounding a Ukraine hit in Russia, and moved through the thread with some harrowing and shocking tales and scenes from Kherson.
Welcome to my daily thread, covering all things #Ukraine every single day since even before the first day of Russia's full invasion.
This is Day 1110 of Putin's long promised land grab - he's also pledged to reunite the rest of the USSR.
More atrocities overnight, let's begin:
For those loving people who urge me to get more sleep, you will be pleased to know there was no alarm this morning; I am refreshed and ready to tackle JD TRussia again.
A busy Friday ended with news of the awful attack in free Donetsk, catch up here:
Today sees the completion of 3 years of full scale war unleashed by #Russia on #Ukraine.
As signs point to an end to this war relatively soon, the ONLY question which should be asked is: are you happy to reward war-criminal terrorists with land?
Here's THE daily thread:
It's Day 1096 of #Russia 's war.
If you missed anything yesterday, catch up on Saturday's news here:
1/2 The #UK is in full focus today.
As @Keir_Starmer prepares to fly to Washington, new sanctions will be unveiled tomorrow.
Foreign Sec @DavidLammy says it will be "the largest package of sanctions against #Russia since the early days of the war eroding its military machine."