#Ukraine's strikes against #Russia's positions & bases continue in the south.
News just in: Ukraine's destroyed a makeshift pontoon bridge at #Darivka in #Kherson oblast. The invaders were trying to replace the bridge over the Inhulets river.
2 x 🇷🇺Command posts also hit say 🇺🇦
Another blow for #Putin in his attempt to create a new Soviet Union
He's been wooing ex-Soviet states in south & east, but a stinging rebuke of the USSR from #Uzbekistan
Pres. Mirziyoev said "USSR was guilty of destroying the Uzbek nation to suppress its desire for freedom."
Another British volunteer died recently in #Ukraine.
48 year old Craig Mackintosh from Norfolk was shot a week ago, while working as a medic with Ukrainian forces.
Occupying authorities in #Donetsk report a #Ukraine attack on #Makiivka hit a prison - and guess what? Ukrainian Prisoners of War died.
Call me cynical but just a month after the Olenivka massacre it seems too much of a coincidence. Russians say 3 died
Russians=Nazis? Surely they don't share any similarities with 1930s/40s Germany?
First day of school: it's now law for kids to sing the national anthem and they will be brainwashed with lessons on "historical education" and in occupied #Ukraine taught about "heroes" of #Russia .
Putin delivers the final blow to the last President of the #USSR.
Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachyov) will NOT be granted a state funeral. "Punishment" from the little man in the Kremlin now for "giving up" the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev will be buried on Saturday.
I'm not a big one for maps of the front line. Reliable news is often slow to emerge and settlements can sometimes swap hands on the same day.
#Ukraine did undeniably make some ground in the south, but it looks like they suffered a lot of casualties and #Russia retook some ground
BTW I'm basing the last tweet on my own information and some Open Source intel indicating an uptick in arrivals of injured troops in #Ukraine hospitals in the south.
Important to stress though this is not 100% verified just as no other reports are, but I only post when confident
Sometimes you find news in unusual places
#Ukraine's rail company reports a young woman fleeing the frontline, started giving birth on an evacuation train.
Pictured are train staff & medics among passengers, who helped the 22 year old. Mother and baby son are now doing fine💙💛
Air raid warnings over much of #Ukraine again now, where it's 04:18 in the morning.
Touch wood, so far there has been very little in the way of rocket attacks compared to usual.
Many of the previous warning sirens were due to #Russia's planes being in the sky.
Some reports of explosions in #Odesa (#Odessa), however authorities in the #Ukraine port city say it was only air defence working well and no missiles landed.
Another bumper haul for #Ukraine's armed forces in the last 24 hours.
#Kyiv's official estimates on #Russia's losses is again at a daily high and all the first four totals are significantly above the daily average, particularly artillery systems.
A number of dolphins have died and been washed ashore - the author of this post⬇️ says it's down to the war. He also claims only 5% of bodies are washed ashore, so many more beautiful creatures must have died facebook.com/rusevivan/post…
One of #Russia's richest men has had his assets in #Ukraine confiscated by the Higher anti-corruption court. It's the first such order from the court
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is one of #Putin's favoured oligarchs, with an estimated wealth of $3.4 billion.
Meanwhile another even richer oligarch and Putin buddy has lost 11 villas in #Italy today.
Courts seized the properties in Sardinia of Moshe Kantor. The sanctioned 68-year-old is the owner of fertiliser company Akron and is worth well over $6 billion
Soldiers from #India have arrived in #Russia to participate in a week long military training exercise.
India buys a lot of defence equipment from Moscow and went ahead with sending troops to the "Vostok" manoeuvres despite "concerns" from the United States.
Local officials in #Belgorod in #Russia say they were shelled 3 times in the last 24 hours - but they don't say whether any of the hits was from their own misfiring rockets😂
Bodies of murdered civilians are still being found in northern #Kyiv region.
Police chief Andriy Nebytov confirmed "They (Russians) tied their hands, put a cover on their heads and executed them."
He says it's the 16th Russian vicitm's body they've found
📷TG kyiv_politycnyi
While the illegitimate "President" of #Belarus was droning on today lecturing students about the wonders of the country, one young guy didn't seem to agree!
He was caught on camera with a message "Save me" clearly shown.
I suspect he may really need saving from the dictator now.
Something is burning strongly near the centre of #Kherson this evening.
This is less than 1km north of the centre of the occupied city.
Since 24 Feb invasion, Kherson remains the only provincial "capital" to have been captured by #Russia.
#Donetsk's Russian controlled officials announce 3 people were killed in shelling of the Kirovsky district of the city earlier.
They also report another 3 were injured.
Zelenskyy says despite agreements, no independent journalists were allowed in to the plant, only Russian propagandists. He also accused #Russia of forcing locals to lie to IAEA
So the first day of school was a little different for some..
Students without schools or shelter, such as here in #Kharkiv have to improvise - lessons taking place in a metro station.
Hello again. Day 860 of #Russia's all-out war on #Ukraine, but for newcomers, we only got here because the west did nothing when Putin tried to subvert democracy in 2013/4 & invaded #Crimea and east Ukraine in Feb 2014.
Let's start another daily thread - not a single day off!
Monday was another busy thread.
More signs #RussiaIsCollapsing, big blackouts and record losses for the invader.
In occupied #Ukraine there was an important hit on #Crimea, and how drones hit a moving train used by Russia.
What times we live in.
#Russia takes over the revolving Presidency of the UN Security Council, while Putin's biggest ally in the west, #Hungary holds the EU Presidency for 6 months.
This morning Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán arrived in #Kyiv for the first time since 2012.
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It's Day 849 of #Russia's full invasion of its peaceful neighbour. But it's well over 10 years since the original illegal incursion into #Ukraine territory.
This is another daily thread with all the important news, presented without exaggeration, updated all day long every day!
#Russia's favourite mantra, repeated by trolls, useful-idiots, MAGA types etc, is of Nazis in #Ukraine.
It's simple: #Russia accuses others of what it does itself.
Democratic elections?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Jewish President?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Previous Pres Jewish?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Far right MPs?🇺🇦❌🇷🇺✅
Thursday ended with a lot of activity in #Russia's #Krasnodar region, explosions and nice videos.
You can see them at the end of yesterday's thread, a mammoth 60-post effort.
To catch up, click and scroll:
Hello and welcome of Day 838 of #Russia's full invasion of #Ukraine, a country which never fired a shot at any other until the initial 2014 invasion by its imperialistic neighbour.
This is THE thread for all the news, analysis and a bit of comment on the situation. Let's dive in
Regulars will know I (try to) always include a link back to the previous day for those who missed something, or like to just browse the main stories in one place, in a few minutes.
Please share, boost, do your NAFO thing to raise visibility!💙💛
It's Day 835 of #Russia's war.
A conflict based solely on the ego of one very little man. But Putin managed to remove all freedoms & opposition and then brainwash the public into supporting his tyranny, just as Hitler did.
This is THE daily thread covering the war in #Ukraine
It was another very difficult night for the people and air defenders in #Ukraine.
All the details coming up right here on Friday's thread.
First though, your chance to look back on Thursday's news. If you missed anything, click + scroll here:
First I want to point out the seemingly random number of "views".
Yesterday's thread-header has the lowest view count I can ever remember, despite almost identical likes/retweets to the previous day.
The last 3 days: 35k 22k and 9k
However of those 35k, 2/3 came after 2am GMT