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Aug 24, 2022 37 tweets 39 min read Read on X
🇺🇦Happy 31st birthday #Ukraine🇺🇦
It's Independence Day, but it also marks exactly 6 months since #Russia's jets, tanks + troops invaded the country (8 years after the start of the war)

This is daily thread number 182. All the news all the time

Y'day⬇️
Firstly, Hero of #Ukraine, Boris Johnson made sure famous 10 Downing Street was decked in the colours of Ukraine.

The British PM has just 10 days left in Office.

#SlavaUkraini #UkraineIndependenceDay

📷@AP
Not directly related to the war (unless sabotage) but a breaking story in #Russia

Three ships have been ripped from anchor in a storm at Baidukov Island in the #Amur Estuary - that's the very far east of Russia near #Sakhalin

54 were on board and a rescue operation is underway.
The start of the night was noisy and scary in many areas of #Ukraine.

Governor of #Kharkiv confirms the Novobavarsky district was the latest to be hit in the third round of missile attacks in the city so far.

No new details - this was an earlier strike:

In #Dnipropetrovsk a new attack in the last few minutes.

Flames visible at the scene. Further information cannot be given under the terms of martial law.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
Some are reporting explosions in #Odesa. From what I'm hearing, #Ukraine's air defence likely shot down a drone. No rockets arrived.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Also on the Southern Defensive line, #Ukraine's military says it hit another #Russia ammo dump in #Novovoskresensk

They also claim they eliminated 13 Russian troops and destroyed a Howitzer and army vehicles, during helicopter strikes in Novovoznesensk, #Arkhangelsk + #Pravdyno
It's being reported that the goons who invaded #Ukraine from #Belarus, taking over #Chernobyl, may already have died of radiation.

President @ZelenskyyUa said nothing is known for sure, but they had information those soldiers were no longer alive.

24tv.ua/okupatsiya-cho…
Ukrainians are very excited that @Google has recognised #UkraineIndependenceDay with a special doodle.

However I cannot see it in the UK.

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
A withering attack on #Russia today in the #UK's daily Intel report.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
9 people have been injured in the latest shelling of #Mykolaiv oblast.

In total there were 3 attacks. Firstly shelling of the Bashtansky & Bereznegovat communities damaged buildings.

Then the casualties, inc 2 children, happened in Novyi Buh when rockets hit private houses.
#Ukraine's Resistance has killed the Head collaborator of the Occupied part of #Zaporizhzhia/#Zaporozhe region.

A car bomb exploded in the village of #Mykhailivka, killing Ivan Sushko.

#Russia's state news agency TASS just confirmed the news.

#StopRussiaNOW
Virtually the last prominent Putin critic in #Russia is arrested.

Popular ex-Mayor of #Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman detained for “discrediting the Army"

@roizmangbn told reporters it's "basically for one phrase, 'the invasion of Ukraine'. I say it everywhere, say it now"
Important to get across the point that #Ukraine and its people are so resilient. #Kyiv is recovering, eventually so will the whole country

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

In #Poltava region Russia has bombed military targets.

It happened in #Myrhorod, with regional head Dmytro Lunin confirming 4 X-22 (air to surface) missiles had hit infrastructure, but no civilian casualties are reported.

#StopRussianAggression #StandWithUkraine
One of last night's mysteries is solved.
In #Kharkiv some even thought a plane had been shot down, but what happened is an Iskander cruise missile malfunctioned, exploding before impact.

Fragments of the rocket were found in the roof of a house in the centre

#StopRussia
Major incident in occupied #Donetsk...

The "Galaktika" shopping centre has been ablaze for a couple of hours and fire is still raging. It's thought a missile strike was to blame, but not confirmed.

#Ukraine has no history of, or need to, attacking shopping centres.
You've probably already seen, but Boris has turned up again in #Kyiv.

The British PM now has a plaque in his honour by #Ukraine's Parliament and went for another walkabout with President @ZelenskyyUa

The @washingtonpost reports that The Kremlin called Zelenskyy on the first day of the war to offer #Ukraine the chance to surrender.

Two days later #Belarus' Defence Minister called his counterpart in #Ukraine to again try to negotiate a surrender.

pravda.com.ua/news/2022/08/2…
A road in #NewYork has been renamed "Ukrainian Way" to show solidarity with the nation.

#Ukraine's ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova reported on her Facebook page. The road is in the Brighton Beach area, which is known by many as "Little Odessa"

#StandWithUkraine
The mid-western city of #Khmelnytskyi has been hit with rockets. Around 300km west of Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi has seldom been targeted before.

4 missiles were launched from #Belarus just before 5.30pm, probably from Russian jets

No word on casualties yet
#RussiaIsATerroristState
In #Vinnytsia, air defence has shot down a Russian drone.

Air defence also working in #Kharkiv and may have done the same.

#SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #StopRussiaNOW
An 11-year-old child has been killed by #Russia in #Dnipropetrovsk.

Rockets hit the town of #Synelnykove (RU: #Sinelnikovsky), about 40km south-east of #Dnipro city.
📷TG hyevuy_dp

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine
Almost all of #Ukraine is under air raid warning right now. Mainly due to Russian jets patrolling border areas and occupied territories.

Confirmed in #Kharkiv two incoming missiles have been hit by air defence, but in the region, something has been on fire in #Chuhuiv for hours
A big fire in #Siedove in #Donetsk oblast.
This is a coastal village just 5km from the Russian border.

I doubt #Ukraine's army can reach this far from the frontline, so the cause of the blaze remains unknown for now.

#StopRussia
There's to be a football league of Occupied States according to a new announcement by #Russia.
Sadly they've chosen the farcical name of "Commonwealth Football League"

Teams from #Luhansk #Donetsk #Abkhazia #SouthOssetia, #Kherson #Zaporizhzhia #Kharkiv + #Crimea will take part.
Quite a few rockets launched towards #Donetsk today.

This was the result of missiles hitting the Petrivskyi district of the occupied city.

#StandWithUkraine
The Vatican has announced The Pope will NOT meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church when they both attend a gathering of religious leaders in Kazakhstan next month.

The Kremlin says preparations were "unilaterally suspended" by The Vatican.
Earlier I reported on the major strike on a shopping centre in #Donetsk.

I still think it's unlikely #Ukraine did this. There's been little outrage from the occupiers to be honest.

This is how the Galatika centre looked this afternoon:
Looks as if #Ukraine's army did hit something in #NovaKakhovka though...

This in occupied #Kherson region.

#StopRussia #RussiansGoHome
On #UkraineIndependenceDay
the deadliest attack on the country for 3 months.

#Russia has hit a train in #Chaplyne in #Dnipropetrovsk region.

President Zelenskyy announced at least 15 dead and 50 injured.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Social media in Russia (and #Ukraine) is abuzz about why #Putin's cavalcade has made a late night dash to the Kremlin.

What can the matter be?

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
The fire I reported on earlier in #Donetsk region, near the border with #Russia, is spreading.

This is the scene in #Novoazovsk this evening.
There were reports of explosions of #Pavlohrad in #Dnipropetrovsk oblast.

However pretty sure it was just patriotic Ukrainians celebrating #UkraineIndependenceDay

#StopRussia

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