Hello again. It's Day 295 of the #RussiaUkraineWar
It's Thursday 15 December and this is the daily thread with the news, views and analysis as #Ukraine fights for its very existence.
Quite a lot happened yesterday, if you need to catch up, scroll here:
Almost 600 more dead Russian soldiers in the last 24 hours according to #Ukraine.
But as I've said in these threads many times, and as the President's Office confirmed yesterday evening, these figures don't include mercenaries used by #Russia. So they say the real total is >100k
Puppet "head" of the illegal '#Donetsk People's Republic' says "#Marinka is 80% taken" by #Russia's forces.
Of course this cannot be verified.
2/2 #Russia's occupiers say shelling of #Donetsk saw a nursery and here a hospital hit by #Ukraine's strikes.
Many independent observers concur there is no proof Ukraine is responsible for these and similar attacks. Russia may be trying to stoke hatred to introduce conscription.
At just before 2am this morning I wrote about the explosion and fire at a refinery in #Russia.
It's the largest such field in Siberia.
Here's a video of the fire earlier, but management say the blaze has now been extinguished.
#Kherson city centre is attacked again, with #Russia hitting a medical help point.
Unconfirmed: a 31 year old medic and a 70 year old man died in the latest missile attack, just 100 metres from the regional government building which was hit yesterday.
EU Diplomat says "It’s like an abusive relationship: they keep promising it will be different next time, but deep down we know we will get hurt over and over again"
Good evening or good night to my Australian friends and followers.
A massive thank you to Aly in particular for just gifting me "some food and a beverage"
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The European Parliament has now officially recognised the #Holodomor as genocide of the people of #Ukraine. Deliberate starvation by the regime in #Moscow.
This is probably another hit on #Russia's officers and even FSB, according to locals in the occupied part of #Kherson.
The Salimar hotel in Zaliznyi Port, was visited by some missiles. The town is a popular Black Sea resort, about 70km south from Kherson city. #SlavaUkraini
An accredited journalist has been arrested in #Dnipro after reportedly getting drunk and firing a pistol in to the air.
The incident happened on vul. Shinna in the city yesterday evening.
His identity has not been made public.
Blood on the streets of #Kherson again today after #Russia's shelling, as this video from the local government shows.
People describe where and how the damage was caused and an old man being treated for light shrapnel wounds says he's lucky it wasn't worse.
A few minutes ago I heard about the hit on an hotel in southern #Kherson oblast, and now it looks like another one a few miles away in the occupied part of the region.
This unverified photo is said to be from #Skadovsk, about 60km from #Crimea as the crow flies, 90km by road.
A crazy story from #Poland where the Commander in Chief of Police was injured when a grenade launcher, gifted by #Ukraine, was accidentally set off in the police HQ.
Ceilings were damaged and some say Gen. Jarosław Szymczyk himself fired the device.
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I've literally just finished Friday's thread, with an extraordinary flurry of late news from inside Russia rounding off another bumper thread, stretching to 60 posts.
A late start to today's thread on Day 1216 of Russia's war of choice, after another late finish due to the latest murderous attack on civilians by Putin's horde.
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Kyiv was again the target overnight, details at the end of yesterday's thread.
But a lot of important and interesting stories Sunday, including how the animal kingdom took revenge on one traitor, but more pain for Ukraine as a training ground is again hit
Zelenskyy is visiting my shores today, speaking with Sir Keir Starmer to discuss joint defence protection, which will probably see an agreement on manufacturing.
Ukraine's leader points out the hypocrisy of Russia, condemning the US strikes in Iran then hours later hitting Kyiv
Russia displayed outright Nazism + Fascism on Friday.
From killing in Ukraine, more utterings from the war-criminal in chief, to locking up young women and taking legal action against small independent new sites.
Thursday 19 June is Day 1212 of the conflict in Europe.
Russia continues to make ground, expending its soldiers at will for a few more metres as Ukraine fights for its existence having been shamefully let down by the USA.
I'm here every single day, so here's today's daily 🧵
Wednesday saw the death toll in Kyiv rise throughout the day, ending at double the number it started at. Then later Putin cynically told journalists they only hit military targets
Elsewhere another traitor to Ukraine met his fate - click here to catch-up
Trump is now 150 days late in promising "peace within 24 hours" of taking office.
It's also, as @andrii_sybiha points out, 100 days since🇺🇦 agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, as tRUmp demanded.
Russia did what it always does: delay, lie, kill.