#Ukraine's President @Zelenskyy publishes this video from the capital #Kyiv, writing
"All night & all morning, the enemy terrorises the civilian population. Kamikaze drones + missiles are attacking all of Ukraine. A residential building was hit in Kyiv."
In his reaction to the bombing of civilian districts of #Kyiv, Mr Zelenskyy continued:
"The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us. The occupiers will get only fair punishment and condemnation of future generations. We will get victory."
There were separate attacks on the centre of #Kyiv this morning. The first drones hit shortly before 7am while around 90 minutes later more drones hit.
Fires caused further explosions. 18 people have so far been rescued from the rubble, with two more trapped. Fatalities unknown
As the deadly drone headed to the centre of #Kyiv it was caught on film.
Rescue workers, police, journalists were all in the centre of #Kyiv following the first strike when the second attack happened. A cynical "double tap" from #Russia's terrorist regime.
Attack drones were also sent to kill citizens and civilian targets of #Dnipropetrovsk region. Some were taken down by air defence, but it's officials report energy infrastructure has again been hit.
In #Odessa the regional command say they shot down drones - explosions were heard but hopefully only the Iranian killing machines being taken out.
Back to #Kyiv and @Reuters just released this video showing emergency services desperately trying to take an old lady to safety with a drone about to hit the streets of #Ukraine's capital:
Am I reading too much in to this?
Amid the media blackout in #Kherson region, the British daily Intel update specifically mentions #Melitopol and #Russia's "aviation presence"- we've had reports of big explosions at the airfield recently!
Back to #Kyiv and in this video as defenders try to shoot down one of #Russia's Iranian kamikaze drone, you can clearly see it heading towards its target and a second later the impact, explosion, smoke and alarms.
The number of #Russia's soldiers killed in the war continues to be above the daily mean.
Obviously, numbers of drones shot down has increased dramatically since #Iran starting feeding #Russia weapons.
Artillery systems destroyed above average too in #Ukraine's figures today:
Last night I wrote about a huge fire in #Mykolaiv (#Nikolaev) after #Russia strikes. The Kremlin, as always, says they hit critical infrastructure, with fuel dumps thought to have been hit
However, 15 tons of sunflower oil flowed onto the streets with storage tanks hit by drones
All schools and universities in #Kyiv have reverted to remote distance learning for the time being.
It follows the drone attacks on the capital of #Ukraine this morning.
A military aircraft has smashed into a block of apartments in #Yeysk in #Krasnodar region. The resort town is only about 40km from #Ukraine over the Taganrog channel.
Three videos to bring you. First the crash happening:
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Next the panic of residents in #Yeysk when they saw the plane crash.
I guess they fear the worst when they know their country is bombing the f**k out of innocent civilians just across the water.
Another big prisoner swap, with 108 of #Ukraine's female service personnel freed from #Russia's jails.
37 were survivors of the #Azovstal siege in #Mariuopol'
Russians report 110 of their citizens were freed, including "72 sailors from civilian ships."
I had the pleasure to speak with Andriy Shevchenko when he was with Chelsea and also later as Ukraine manager. Unfailingly polite and passionate. I didn't always agree with his politics, but 100% admire his conduct throughout the war. #Legend
At least 4 dead and 25 injured when a Russian military plane crashed into an apartment block in #Yeysk.
The pilot said he wasn't shot down, the plane developed a fault.
Now six people confirmed dead.
The families of those who died in the #Yeysk accident are promised 1m rubles, but as we've seen with many military deaths, victims rarely get the full amount, if anything.
Day 1282 of Russia's all-out war is another very grim day with at least 15 civilians murdered by Putin's regime in clear attacks on residential buildings and areas of Kyiv.
Here's the Ukraine-Russia thread for Thursday 28 August 2025
A quiet start to Wednesday exploded into life - more importantly death - in the early hours in Kyiv.
To catch up with anything you may have missed click and scroll from here:
For anyone who missed it yesterday, I am on a different time zone, explaining a later start. It's 07:10 in New York where I am for a few days. So my apologies if you were looking for me earlier.
In the coming days I'll try to start the thread before I go to sleep here.
Good morning world! It's Day 1281, so it must be thread number 1281 (4205 since the start of the Crimea invasion)
Every day documenting the news, without gratuitous gore, and the war crimes as Russia continues its unprovoked all-out war against a sovereign neighbour.
If you missed anything on Tuesday, it's simple to catch up. Just click this link for the start of yesterday's thread and scroll down to where you last read and then continue reading through to the end.
But remember to come back here!
Welcome to Thursday's thread with all the important news on Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.
It's Day 1275 - the day Putin openly mocks Trump.
After China + India upped oil purchases, the indicted war criminal ordered his army to bomb a US company in🇺🇦
Let's begin:
Ukraine is recovering from the predicted massive overnight attack.
Russia launched more than 600 missiles and drones.
The mayhem started in the last third of yesterday's exhausting thread. If you missed it, click and scroll here:
It's Day 1274 of Ukraine's incredible defence of its people, land, culture + shielding many NATO states, next on Putin's hit-list from his long stated dream to reunite the USSR
Somehow Trump & his cults (I nearly misspelled that) seem intent on helping Putin.
Here's the daily🧵
Tuesday was another 50+ post thread, packed full of some more untold insights into Ukraine news and life, including the resurgence of Covid and a language 'foul' on the football field.
But politics and Russian atrocities are omnipresent.
Here's your link
Let me start with an unwanted shock for residents in Poltava, who were warned of a radiation threat this morning, I imagine sparking all sorts of horrific thoughts.
Thankfully, the governor says it was human error, Myrhorod should've had an air alert, not the radiation warning.
Zelenskyy's forced to be careful, but Ukraine's always been ready for the unconditional ceasefire Trump first demanded 5 months ago. So no surprise he's travelling to Washington on Monday
It's Alaska Day, or a couple of half-baked Alaskas meeting later as Russia hopes to carve up Ukraine, with Trump's approval.
That's much later on Day 1269 of Putin's war.
As I start this thread at around 02:30 GMT, 05:30 Ukraine, there is a big attack on Russia.
Let the🧵begin
In a rush to get to sleep, so let me waste no further time in giving the link to yesterday's thread.
Both X and BSky have been a bit crappy scrolling through threads. One thing you can do is click my profile and then "replies", click one + scroll up