EU Commission President has caused controversy today.
In a speech pledging ongoing support to #Ukraine, @vonderleyen spoke of #Russia killing 100,000 Ukraine military + 20,000 civilians.
The clip & text were swiftly edited to remove the reference
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A teenager has been killed when #Russia bombed a hospital in #Sumy region.
It happened in #Bilopilla and nearby houses and cars were damaged.
The border villages of Sumy are under almost constant shelling, with 186 such attacks in the last 24 hours.
#Odesa city council has finally passed the motion to remove the Catherine the Great monument.
Councillors voted unanimously backed the plan to dismantle the statue, along with monuments to the "Founders of #Odessa" and Oleksandr Suvorov. They'll be moved to the city's Art Museum
A pensioner with a false leg was callously shot dead by a Chechen soldier in #Izium during #Russia's occupation.
The latest war crime is revealed by @pravda_eng
70 year old forensic expert Fyodor Zdebskyi was killed for asking "why have you come here?"
500 people have been evacuated from the power plant. Authorities are worried the fire will spread to other buildings. All the city's firefighters are attending.
#Ukraine attack in #Bryansk?
Local officials report "an unidentified munition, dropped from a drone" hit a tank of diesel in the Surazh district. The explosion lit two more fuel tanks
Amusingly, #China's state TV channel CGTV referred to the "#Bryansk People's Republic" in its' report on the fire!
Does Beijing know something we don't? Are they supporting an independence referendum?
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Survival specialist @BearGrylls may find his new mission among his toughest!
He's just arrived in #Ukraine in sub zero temperatures and frequent power outages! Locals are joking they can teach him a thing or two on survival!
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In #Kherson, another school was shelled today.
This will continue every day until #Russia is forced out of artillery range, i.e. out of all of Kherson.
#Ukraine partizans in occupied #Zaporizhzhia say another collaborator has been killed.
Recent artillery strikes in Tokmak are said to have accounted for the so-called head of the Internal Affairs Department in the town, Alexey Koshel.
President @ZelenskyyUa takes a swipe at Elon Musk's ill-informed statements.
Zelenskyy says Twitter's owner is invited to see the damage done to #Ukraine by #Russia's forces so "he can understand the situation before making pronouncements about it."
A lot of discussion today about how many of #Ukraine's troops have died in this war.
Ursula @vonderleyen was chided earlier for saying it was over 100,000 which the EU later said meant killed and injured.
Now Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says just over 10k have died.
A fair bit of shelling in Occupied #Donetsk this evening.
It's reported the shopping centre "Donetsk City" was damaged as missiles landed in the Kyivskyi district in the centre.
Day 1201 of Europe's war.
But the pre-conflict hybrid war has already been waging worldwide for years. Hacking, election interference, sabotage - we're all targeted by Russia, even if we don't all realise it yet.
Ukraine can stop the war criminal with our help.
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Maybe Sunday will bless Ukraine with a quiet day?
Saturday was another full-on journalistic stint, catching sleep when I could.
Kharkiv shattered overnight then a daytime attack on a kids' railway.
Operation Web 2.0 & a factory hit in Russia.
It's all ⬇️
1/2 Early this morning, just before the end of the previous thread I showed the Azot chemical plant in Tula region on fire.
Not long afterwards, Ukraine hit another facility, this time in Russia-controlled 🇺🇦
This is the Hydromash factory in Melitopol' in occupied Zaporizhzhia.
Day 1194 of Putin's war, though let's remember the initial invasion came 11 years ago.
Since February 2014, not once have western sanctions or military support come close to being enough to restore justice and defeat evil.
Welcome to THE daily 🇺🇦 thread for Sunday 1 June
A new day, a new season. Summer officially started, but nothing is likely to change just yet.
Y'day's thread had some great stories, but everything paled into insignificance when justy before midnight came news of a disaster in Russia's Bryansk region:
Another night of no sleep yet - dramatic action in Moscow.
Time to start another daily thread covering everything to do with Putin's disastrous 'operation' in Ukraine.
It's 5am in Russia and Ukraine, on Day 1190 of the war.
Let's begin...
I've still NEVER missed even one day since the start of Russia's full invasion.
But yesterday's thread ended up being one of the most lively. Another near 50-post story of the day, and if you like seeing "bavovna" in Russia, go right through to the end!
Good morning on Day 1176 of the war in Europe.
In my opinion, Ukraine should have won this war in 2022/23.
Effective leadership is based on good, decisive decisions. Sadly, the allies have never been decisive, preferring dithering and half measures.
Welcome to my daily thread:
What I mean by dithering is endless internal political battles in most countries to give adequate weapons. Scholz (Taurus), Biden (everything) the most obvious examples, though Joe was hampered by Congress and is way better than now
But it's always enough to survive, not to win
If you missed anything from yesterday, catch up with this link to the start of yesterday's thread. Scroll down to where you got to and complete your knowledge!