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.
It's also Thursday 17 July, a beautiful mid-summer's day, and on this day 11 years ago Russia murdered almost 300 crew and passengers when shooting down flight MH-17 over occupied Ukraine.
The Terrorism never stopped.
Here's the daily thread
Wednesday is well worth catching up on if you missed anything from yesterday's🧵
Numerous new Russian war crimes including a sickening town centre attack during evening rush hour, a Latvian mayor injured in the war the maiden flight of Ukraine's Big Bird
A very warm welcome and thank you for joining me on Day 1239 of Russia's war of choice, Putin's choice to attempt to remove Ukraine from the map and commit genocide on its people.
Every single day I put all the important news in one handy thread. Here is Wednesday's feed:
Yesterday was Ukraine's Day of Statehood.
Kyiv celebrated with successful attacks on military targets in Russia.
But the night saw more huge drone swarm attacks on a number of Ukrainian cities.
Catch up on anything you missed, here:
A series of cities in Ukraine clearing up this morning after night attacks.
Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Krivyi Rih, Odesa and Vinnytsia were all hit. So far no authorities have reported any deaths overnight, but there are many injuries.
1/3 So Trump has, crucially, for the first time, allowed US weapons to go to Ukraine, so it is a step forward. And while no specifics, let's hope the best long-range weapons are to be given.
But no confirmation about the U.S. using Russia's frozen assets in favour of Ukraine.
So why a special day?
@generalkellogg has arrived in Kyiv to convey expected good news.
The sanctions guys - @LindseyGrahamSC + @SenBlumenthal meet with @SecGenNATO + Trump later, with the US President virtually confirming sanctions and releasing Patriot air defence systems:
It may be Sunday, but no rest!
I'm back again, for Day 1236 of Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine.
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So Russia is currently 1233 days behind schedule in its expectation to control Kyiv.
I've documented it here every day. Saturday had some more blatant Russian war crimes, starting with more death and destruction.
If you were away from screens, catch up⬇️
Starting with breaking news as Ukraine has announced it has killed the assassins of an Intel officer gunned down in broad daylight in Kyiv a few days ago.
Intel boss Vasyl Malyuk says a special Russian FSB/combat group murdered Col Ivan Voronych.
Hello again and welcome to the weekend and another daily thread. All the important Ukraine news, fact-checked, every single day (never missed one yet).
It's Day 1235 and signs that Russia is becoming increasingly desperate. Let's begin:
Don't know about you, but I was up most of the night documenting another huge Russian attack.
If you missed it, you can catch up on that, as well as the rest of Friday's news by clicking here for the start of yesterday's thread:
23 missiles + almost 600 drones flew from Russia overnight, trying to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure, culture & people.
Air defence did well, shooting down 25 of 26 Kh-101 cruise missiles.
Of 597 attack UAVs, 319 were shot down, another 258 stopped via EW, or decoy drones.