Tim White Profile picture
Oct 17, 2022 42 tweets 43 min read Read on X
Welcome to the start of another week and the start of my daily thread with the news and views from #Ukraine as #Russia continues the illegal war.

We're on Day 236 now as #Putin brings terror to #Kyiv again.
Here is where you'll find yesterday's stories:

#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."

#RussiaIsATerroristState
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."

#StandWithUkraine
Attacks are ongoing in other parts of #Ukraine

26 of #Iran's 'Kamikaze' drones were fired at the south of the country during the night and morning

In #Kyiv it's known 4 targeted the centre. Rescue work continues in the city.
Frightening photos from @AFP
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopIran #StopRussia
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.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine
Here's how things look now in the centre of #Ukraine's capital #Kyiv after #Russia's attack using #Iran's 'kamikaze' drones.

Also, a before and after look at one of the destroyed buildings.

#SaveUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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.

#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Aside from rockets on the front line, #Russia also attacked #Sumy #Nikopol and #Odesa this morning.

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:

#RussiaIsATerroristState
As battles rage on in #Kherson, there's little official news: #Ukraine's military adopted what's effectively a media blackout.

But this is interesting; currently pondering if it's a 🇺🇦 attack or a defensive measure by #Russia's invaders in #NovaKakhovka

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!

#SaveUkraine #RussiansGoHome
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.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
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.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia
Europe's biggest nuclear power plant (#Zaporizhzhia NPP, #Enerhodar) is again on diesel back up generators after #Russia's attacks

#Ukraine Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko calls on the world to stand up to "this nuclear blackmail" by the #Kremlin

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Kyiv update:

Mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko had just confirmed at the scene of the drone attacks, one person has died and four are wounded.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia
A traumatised cat was rescued from the rubble of the attack site in #Kyiv.

#StandWithUkraine
Mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko says 28 kamikaze drones were fired on #Kyiv. 23 were shot down with only 5 landing.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SaveUkraine
Explosions reported in the last hour in both #Vinnytsia and #khmelnytskyi regions of #Ukraine.

#StopRussia #SaveUkraine
Also on the border of #Lviv and #Ternopil, power infrastructure has been hit.

Emergency shutdown of electricity in many parts of Lviv region.
EU has voted in favour of training #Ukraine's military.

Surprise, surprise, #Hungary was the only nation to object and will NOT take part in the initiative to help the invaded country.

#StandWithUkraine
This poster was unveiled yesterday in occupied #Melitopol'

Despite the ever present threat from #Russia's military, it's already had red paint thrown at it by partisans of #Ukraine️

#SlavaUkraïni #RussiansGoHome
In Occupied #Crimea, the Russians suddenly say they've been carrying out defining. How else to explain loud explosions near the air base in #Dzhankoy?

Doesn't seem to occur to them to that neither #Ukraine or anyone else has laid mines there!

#SlavaUkraini #RussiansGoHome
The #Kyiv death toll has risen to four.

Two rescue workers were injured in #Russia's drone attacks this morning. Mayor Klychko says 16 families lost their apartments in the raids.

None of the four victims bothered to go to the bomb shelter when the air sirens were sounded😢
It's getting a bit worrying how many of Elon Musk's tweets look like they're dictated by #Putin.

Almost like they had a chat or something...

Merkel went the same way.

It's been announced a worker at a critical infrastructure site in #Sumy has died.

It was one of the many morning attacks by #Russia. Two other employees were wounded.

📷Ukr Prosecutor General

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine️
1/3
A big disaster in #Russia tonight.

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:
2/3

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.

#Krasnodar #Russia #StopRussia
3/3
#Yeysk #Krasnodar
The plane was one of #Russia's Su-24 on a training flight.

The first 9 floors of the apartment block are on fire.
The pilots ejected... leaving the plane to smash into residents?

No news on victims yet.
Update on #Yeysk plane crash.

Here a parachute can be seen from an ejecting pilot as the Su-34 smashed into people's homes.

thx @CarolynnePries1
#StopRussia
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."

#StandWithUkraine
Reports that there was an explosion in #Kyiv region during the alarm

Residents of #BilaTserkva say there was a loud bang. This unverified photo reportedly from the town.

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#StandWithUkraine
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.

Earlier this evening people of #Kyiv staged a protest outside the Iranian embassy.

#Iran denies giving killer drones to #Russia but somehow these drones arrive and kill Ukrainians after cargo planes fly from Tehran to Moscow.

#StandWithUkraine

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Tim White

Tim White Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @TWMCLtd

Aug 28
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.
Read 27 tweets
Aug 27
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!

A few people are asking about my health after my emergency trip to hospital.

I feel ok, and the eye is no worse, which is good news I think. Follow-up appointment in just over a week.

I've been given the ok to fly today - which will mean no updates later on in today's thread.
Read 11 tweets
Aug 21
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:

So let's break down Russia's aerial attack, which consisted of 40 missiles and 574 drones.

Ukraine's air defence intercepted these missiles:
1/4 Kindzhal hypersonic
0/2 ballistic
12/14 Kalibr cruise
18/19 Kh-101 cruise
0/1 unknown

and 546/574 UAVs = 95%

11 locations were hit. Image
Read 34 tweets
Aug 20
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. Image
Image
Read 23 tweets
Aug 16
There's an angry reaction from a wide cross section of society to Trump's compliant acceptance of Putin doing just what he wanted on U.S. soil

Welcome to my🧵on Day 1270 of Russia's war. I've never missed a day, if you want to support my quest for truth
ko-fi.com/twmcltd
Yesterday proved to be about a 26 hour long thread, which even for me was crazy!

Ukraine had great success striking military targets, while eventually, Putin had great success manipulating Trump.

Here's the link if you're catching up:
1/2
It's distasteful seeing leaders pussy-foot around, scared to upset Trump's fragile ego

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
Read 34 tweets
Aug 15
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

1/4
So, as I posted a few minutes ago at the end of Thursday's thread, a big, successful attack on another oil refinery in Russia.

This time it's the Rosneft plant in the city of Syzran, in Saratov region.
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(