The Head of Britain's spy base, GCHQ will today say #Russia is running out of weapons and #Ukraine is "turning the tide".
Sir Jeremy Fleming's speech in London will accuse Putin of flawed decision making. “The use of prisoners..and mobilisation, speaks of a desperate situation."
After launching almost 100 missiles and drones on #Ukraine on Monday, there's been an almost country-wide air raid warning already in the early hours of Tuesday.
It comes hours after a phone call in which Joe Biden promised to give Pres Zelenskyy air defence equipment.
It looks like all 854 miners who were trapped underground during the mass missile attack yesterday, have been rescued safely.
The workers were in #KryvyiRih when power was cut, but emergency services said the last of them should be brought to the surface an hour ago.
Another of #Russia's richest people has renounced his citizenship because of #Putin's war.
Yuri Milner was in the top 15 of Forbes' Russian rich list and he's known as the richest Russian in Silicon Valley.
His website was updated to show he ceased being Russian in August.
#Russia admits missiles were fired at the #Antonivskyi bridge again yesterday evening.
They say two fell "in the area of the bridge" while "the rest were shot down by air defence"
#Russia is preparing for a new round of Caliber missile strikes.
Odesa spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk says there are 6 enemy ships in the Black Sea, located off the coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea. Among them, 2 are rocket carriers. The total salvo can be 16 missiles."
In #Lviv parts of the city are without water and electricity after more air strikes today.
One person has been hospitalised following #Russia's latest attack. There were 3 explosions in 2 energy facilities. All photos have been banned, supposedly to avoid Russia adjusting aim.
#Ukraine's defence says 3 missiles shot down over #Odesa, earlier 3 kamikaze drones were intercepted.
The Primorsky district is without power + water
The air raid warning for the city recently ended after over 5 hours.
A missile did land shortly after dawn in the #Odessa region
Communication also a problem in many cities, particularly #Lviv right now.
Word quickly spreads in which places you can get a mobile phone signal.
Repeated explosions reported in Occupied #Melitopol'
No photos yet, but confirmed on chat sites in the town and by the exiled Mayor that #Ukraine has hit at, or near, the airport which #Russia's troops have made their de facto base.
Cruise missiles seem to have been launched today by #Russia from both the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
I understand #Germany's long promised Iris-T state of the art air defence system, which was finally given the go ahead by Chancellor Scholz, may be in #Ukraine tomorrow.
Finally found out what happened in #Crimea yesterday.
An 11 year old girl was hospitalised after a tank being repaired "accidentally" fired a shell, which flew 8km and hit the wall of a private house in #Dzhankoy.
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#Ukraine claims all 6 units at the nuclear power plant in #Enerhodar are shut down.
Furthermore they say the Occupiers are forcing employees of the #Zaporizhzhia NPP to sign contracts with #Russia's Rosatom instead of Ukraine's Enerhoatom.
#Russia declared @Meta as terrorists and extremists😅
The owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc., is the latest to be added to the Kremlin's blacklist of companies.
#Kyiv, reportedly a short time ago. Gunfire heard.
In #Lyman bodies are still being exhumed to be examined for evidence of war crimes and to be given a proper burial.
Reuters published these photos of a mass grave, including the body of a #Ukraine officer taken out here.
Heartache for #Shakhtar as they're denied victory over mighty Real Madrid by a 95th minute equaliser.
But they still have qualification in their own hands.
Something's gone wrong in #Russia... a woman charged with "discrediting the army" has been released by a court in #Tyument.
The woman wrote "Peace to the world" on a pavement. Amazingly the judges decided this phrase did NOT contain an offensive message or discredit the army.
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#Zaporizhzhia was subjected to a new wave of rocket attacks in the city.
Rescue workers are already at the scene, there are reports of casualties. #Ukraine has asked not to publish photos yet, but this CCTV gives you an idea of the power of the incoming #Russia|n missiles
A new week in #Russia's deadly war on #Ukraine and this morning explosions have returned to the capital #Kyiv two days after the #Kerch bridge from #Crimea was hit.
This is Daily thread number 229. All the news in one place, and here's the link for y'day
The criticism from some about #Russia's war effort is very much controlled and serves a purpose.
For a start everything Kadyrov does is for Putin - his father was a traitor who switched sides in the Chechen wars. #StopRussia
Following Boxing's Governing Body taking the incredulous decision to readmit fighters from #Russia and #Belarus, the sport could be heading for a split.
#Sweden outright refuses to attend any tournament featuring boxers from 🇷🇺or🇧🇾. The next event is in Montenegro next week!