Earlier #Sloviansk was badly hit, as I reported in yesterday's thread. Now hearing that the nearby village of #Yasnogorka/Yasnohirka has been badly hit.
Electricity is out and reports of casualties.
A little further on the road #Kramatorsk also reports another explosion
#Finland trolling Russian tourists.
I saw this earlier in Russian, now @AFP has the story in English.
When they cross the border one of the first photo-stops for many Russians is a music and water show - but now there's a twist💙💛
Enjoy!
#Kharkiv - one of the many arrivals to evade air defences in the north-eastern city.
It's reported here that #Ukraine Partisans in #Crimea are posting leaflets with the coordinates of "the next targets for the Armed Forces" and "Save your life - evacuate".
The Resistance names airbases and Sevastopol's Belbek international airport.
Occupying authorities in #Crimea claim the track has already been repaired and will undergo safety inspections. They hope to reopen the line this afternoon.
Meanwhile passengers are being transferred to buses to start (or complete) their journey to #Russia.
Read the translation in the speech by Putin.
Now remind me who invaded a European country?
Which country bombs its neighbour every day.
How many missiles in Russia?
#Russia's FSB just issued this statement:
"Ukrainian saboteurs on 4, 9 + 12 August blew up power transmission towers through which the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant supplies industrial facilities, transport, social infrastructure & the population of #Kursk and neighboring regions."
#Kharkiv has been attacked again this afternoon.
Under martial law, early videos have to be censored to avoid identification of locations until the authorities permit it.
Catching up with a few stories while I was at the tennis:
First, more sabotage inside #Russia, and again in the #Kursk region
The saboteurs chose a railway line which only carried freight. An IED which investigators say had "about 200 grams of TNT" was detonated under the rail.
#Russia has unexpectedly closed the #Crimea bridge. Drivers have been told all traffic is stopped until 06:00 in the morning.
#Ukraine sources say this is not a safety measure - more likely some of the top personnel are escaping to the mainland under cover of darkness.
Still no photos released from #Zhytomyr, bombed earlier.
#Ukraine says a military airfield was damaged when Russian Su-34 planes took off from Belarus, pretending to be on a training flight when they fired X-59 guided missiles on the city.
Day 1261 - the White House thinks the war in Ukraine is coming to an end.
Especially as the Kremlin has this morning announced Putin and Trump will meet in the coming days.
But is the war criminal just duping the US Pres again and buying more time?
Follow me & today's thread:
Much of Wednesday was taken up with the politics surrounding US envoy Wirkoff's latest chummy chat with Putin.
But then it turned dark, literally as the sun went down, but Ukraine looks to have had the better of the drone exchanges.
Catch up here:
1/2 The big story since the last couple of hours of y'day's thread has been Ukraine's multiple successes in breaching Russia's air defence at military targets.
The Kremlin says it destroyed 93 drones, 60 over the Black Sea. There's no mention of how many they missed!
Exhibit A:
Even the most ardent peaceniks are realising one side doesn't want to stop fighting. At least until, as a state new agency said recently, all Ukrainians are killed.
Each + every day you'll find all the news here in one handy🧵
Let's go!
If you missed anything of yesterday's developments, well not as much to catch up on.
Click the link to review, things only really started going late at night..
Trying to compile threads on a train, using mobile only so far, is a nightmare. My first typo was rather important. It's Day 1256, so the observant don't need to message me 😊
Family day out today, going to see "Evita"
But always a thread and as up to date as I can be.
"White rabbits" is what I have to say to you this morning.
An old British custom is to say 'rabbits' or 'white rabbits' (often 3 times) at the start of a new month to ensure good luck for the month ahead
August is the 43rd month of Russia's war.
Today is Day 1255. Here's the🧵
Yesterday was a depressing day.
Not just Russia's horrific attacks on Kyiv, but the general lack of response and condemnation. The world just shrugs its shoulders.
2 weeks ago I said things could move quickly on air defence. One system had reportedly already been delivered to Ukraine
Remember Switzerland's order was bumped down to give priority to🇺🇦?
Now Germany says 2 more Patriots will be sent by October, starting with launchers in days
Putin's response was to bomb the cr*p out of Ukraine's capital again overnight.
It's decency against inhumanity. Which side are you on?
Welcome to THE daily thread.
Wednesday was a fairly quiet day, punctuated by the odd Russian missile attack, before another enormous attack centre on Kyiv.. and it's still going on.
But Ukraine hit back in Russia.
Missed anything? Click and scroll, but please come back!
Tuesday 29 July. Day 1252.
Documenting all the important stories and developments in Ukraine's ongoing fight for survival against an invading horde.
Every Single Day. No break, no days off.
All the news from the war in Europe, all the time.
Monday was probably a better day for Ukraine.
We saw Trump appear to lose patience with indicted war criminal Putin, we saw a Ukraine flag replanted in one reclaimed village & late in the thread more strikes on Russia's rail infrastructure.
I'll begin in Rostov region, where earlier Ukraine hit railway infrastructure in the town of Salsk.
Pretty much the whole of the rail network in Rostov oblast is crucial to Russia's military. The proximity to occupied parts of Ukraine & the route to Crimea run through here.