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Oct 17 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Explosion heard in downtown Kyiv #breaking
I just heard another. Local media had reported Iranian drones flying towards the city.
Reports of still more in the air.
Another explosion heard
Residents are advised to remain in shelters as there may be more flying.
Railway chief: Passengers not hurt in shelling
Mayor: Fire in commercial or official building after drone attack. Several residential buildings damaged. Unclear if there are injuries #developing
Reports of a new wave of drones flying towards the city. Security forces trying to down them.
I just heard a shot and then received a report a drone had been downed.
Confirmation that security forces are opening fire with machine guns to try to down the drones.
If you’re wondering how the drones get to Kyiv, hundreds of kilometers from the frontline: Several weeks ago, Ukrainian authorities reported their arrival in Belarus.
Town hall: Attack continues
Just briefly went outside the shelter: The city is blanketed in smoke.
Confirmation indirectly that these were Iranian drones.
Alert lifted for Kyiv
This morning’s attack in images
German television captured one of the drone explosions earlier.
It has been flying through Ukrainian cities for weeks now, and there is already photos of the debris online. @JosepBorrellF

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Oct 18
Leaving Kyiv for a few weeks to see my family abroad. Hard for people in the EU to understand how difficult life in Ukraine is right now. 1/x
I listen to the radio on the way to the station. The reporter says Putin’s killer drones, bought from Iran, are already in the air. In the capital, there were two alerts before 7:00 a.m. Elsewhere, in Kriviy Rig for example, explosions are already reported. 2/x
The atmosphere is tense: Only back passages are open at the main train station. Passengers wait underground. As the train rolls out, messages over its loudspeaker tell you to mind unattended valuables, in case something has been planted.
3/x
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Oct 17
Yet another air alarm in Kyiv, with unconfirmed reports of drones in the sky from Belarus. This morning’s death-toll has risen to four.
Local media are uploading all sorts of dark videos featuring drones “being shot down” on Kyiv’s left bank and in Beliya Tserkov, a town south of Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has just put out a statement about “the involvement of Iran in Russia’s terrorist crimes”, officially accusing the Islamic Republic of involvement in the war. Image
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Oct 17
Again, the sirens sound this Monday. Death toll from the kamikaze attack has risen to three. Now, Ukrainian media are reporting that rockets may have been launched from the Caspian Sea.
Three rockets were shot down north of Kyiv, and the alert has now been lifted. Many people are becoming more and more nonchalant as the mayhem grows evermore frequent. My barista remained open all through the drone attack.
Some, though, look visibly upset. I saw a thirty-something woman with black curly hair sitting, holding hands with her boyfriend in the shelter. Tears were rolling down her face silently for about 15 minutes.
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Oct 16
#Breaking Ukrainian media: Russian planes with transponders turned off launch missiles towards Ukraine. Direction of attack and its intensity unclear. Some rockets headed towards the capital.
Officials: Iranian drones cited flying over central-western Ukraine.
Ran into my barista in the shelter. He’s just stopping by: “Today is not a nightmare. It’s just a mini-nightmare…so far.”
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Oct 15
German politics: The Greens’ conference was set to debate calling a parliamentary enquiry into #NordStream2 and Germany’s dependence on Russian gas. But the conference commission has now taken the motion off the agenda. 1/x

ndr.de/nachrichten/me…
The motion is set to be “referred to the parliamentary party”, a procedure that’s sometimes called “giving it a first-class funeral”, a delegate says. Despite widespread calls for a probe within Germany and abroad. And the fact that the party most likely to champion the issue.
*Is the one most likely to champion the issue.

Att: @berlin_bridge @bctallis @derJamesJackson @MKarnitschnig
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Sep 30
My, Putin’s speech is an incoherence that would even make Trump envious
“Entire nations were made drug dependent,” Putin says during his mind-bending tour through world history.
He’s trying to present Russia as “anti-colonial” while it is stealing and incorporating parts of another country.
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