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.
Here is the daily thread for Day 281, with #Russia now 9 months behind schedule in its plan to conquer #Ukraine & kill the democratically elected President.
Thursday's already started violently. News on the latest attack on Ukraine and all the developments in one handy thread⬇️
If you missed anything from yesterday, including evening explosions in occupied #Donetsk, here's the start of Wednesday's thread - scroll through at your leisure!
It's Day 279 of #Russia war and this is the first tweet in the daily thread. Update on the situation in #Ukraine and all linked news throughout the day in real time.
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If you need to review yesterday's news, including the night attack on #Dnipro, you can click and scroll here:
Today is Day 278 since #Russia declared all out war on #Ukraine
Many battles have been won by those defending their homeland, but the war against Putin's hordes continues.
Every day I bring you the important news in one handy thread, starting right here⬇️
A late start today and a travel day for me, so I'll update as and when I can.
Thankfully it remains pretty quiet in terms of attacks and destruction. So not too much news the last 24 hours or so, but you can catch up on yesterday's thread here:
First, I wanted to highlight this report by #Ukraine's respected @pravda_eng
It looks at how, and why, President @ZelenskyyUa gained his own TV channel, while other oligarchs were squeezed out of the media market. This echoes my own concerns:
#Ukraine's officials are not saying much, but we do know there were two explosions at, or near, the railway station in the city in #Dnipropetrovsk region.
It's Day 276 of #Russia's full invasion of #Ukraine.
It's also Holodomor Memorial Day, commemorating those starved to death by Moscow's regime in the genocide of the 1930s.
This is the daily news thread with all the news, views and analysis on events around the illegal war...
Another fairly quiet night. Long range missile attacks by #Russia confined to outbursts every few days it seems, while artillery pounds the usual targets in southern and eastern #Ukraine
If you missed anything on Friday's news feed, scroll through here:
But yesterday evening they also passed a resolution against #Belarus with Lukashenka "sharing responsibility for war crimes with #Russia", calling for justice at the Hague. europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…