Many in #Kyiv were woken by loud explosions this morning, especially two blasts in the central area of #Ukraine's capital.
Mayor @Vitaliy_Klychko reports 15 of #Iran's Shaheed killer drones were shot down. But one did hit more critical infrastructure. Two injuries reported.
Today's strikes by #Putin are even more heartless as it's St Nicholas' Day. In view of New Year celebrations being largely a Soviet/Moscow doctrine, more and more families in #Ukraine focus on 19 December as the day for children to receive most presents. Instead they got this:
While #Russia's attack this morning was largely centred on central #Kyiv, there were other drones too.
All told, 30 out of 35 of the #Iran-made murder-missiles fired at #Ukraine were shot down.
The daily British intelligence update underlines just how brutal and unscrupulous #Russia is. Quite simply lives do not matter - people can be replaced with more mobilisation. Replacing armed vehicles and tanks is much more difficult. Yet still the brainwashed fight for Putin.
The photos show yet another ruined Russian helicopter.
For the second time in 3 days a Mi-8 was destroyed in a crash landing in #Russia. It happened today in the Siberian region of #Magadan, 8 time zones east of Moscow.
Just one of the three on board was injured. #StopRussia
Police in #Kyiv have released more photos following the drone attack on the capital this morning.
Andrii Nebytov, police chief for the capital region, says 9 houses were damaged as well as critical infrastructure. 3 people were injured.
12 people needed treatment when scaffolding collapsed in #rasnoznamensk. No reason was given for the accident, but several workers are said to be seriously injured....
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Worse was to follow for the injured after the scaffold collapse near #Moscow.
#Russia's ambulances couldn't get to the seriously ill victims because of the snow (no sniggering please!)
#Putin is currently flying to #Belarus. This is the likely reason for the raising of #Russia's aircraft, with both fighters and bombers currently active.
These craft are the reason for the air raid warnings over most of #Ukraine.
Some #Ukraine media reporting that the election campaign is underway.
It's seen that #Lviv businessman Heorhiy Kozlovsky has started an advertising campaign on Facebook seemingly designed to unseat Zelenskyy.
In #Russia they still happily feed their sons and partners to the meat grinder the war in #Ukraine has become.
This is in #Saratov an ordinary city in #Putin's Terrorist State. The monument on the "Alley of Heroes" is already full of victims' names, with others still "missing"
For the third time, #Russia has hit the local government building in #Kherson.
CCTV of strikes in the Kalininskyi district of #Donetsk, one channel reports the same hospital has been hit as yesterday
Don't let the fog of war sway you to #Russia's words. Remember they occupy this city illegally, #Ukraine has never been proven to fire on non-military targets
#Russia's occupiers seem to have realised their repeated stories about grads hitting #Donetsk have been rumbled (#Ukraine's army is not close enough)
Tonight propaganda outfit RIA says 15 MLRS rockets hit the hospital and surrounding district.
Real problems for people in #Kyiv since the morning drone strikes.
Just one in five people has power and to make matters worse many have lost internet too even with fully charged devices and power banks they're still cut off.
I recently wrote about a controversial new planning law proposed by #Zelenskyy's "Servant of the People" party.
Today one MP, Halyna Yanchenko has resigned from the party after parliamentary leader Olena Shulyak visited a war hero in hospital when he criticised her bill.
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Yesterday was all about the ritual humiliation of tRUmp, dished out by Putin, and the US president's brain being too rusty to realise.
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This is Day 1110 of Putin's long promised land grab - he's also pledged to reunite the rest of the USSR.
More atrocities overnight, let's begin:
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Today sees the completion of 3 years of full scale war unleashed by #Russia on #Ukraine.
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1/2 The #UK is in full focus today.
As @Keir_Starmer prepares to fly to Washington, new sanctions will be unveiled tomorrow.
Foreign Sec @DavidLammy says it will be "the largest package of sanctions against #Russia since the early days of the war eroding its military machine."
Day 1083 of the war in Europe and the 1083rd of my daily threads.
Three years ago we knew #Ukraine wouldn't go down without a fight. Now, for the first time in over a year there's genuine reason for #Russia to be worried about the outcome.
Plenty to learn and from in Sunday's thread.
In #Russia, ships crashing and exploding, faking capture of a key town in #Ukraine and late at night drones attacking again.
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