A young Australian volunteer has lost his life in #Bakhmut.
Sage O'Donnell from Victoria, was 24 years old and a former soldier with the Australian Army.
Heavy loss of life on both sides as #Russia's illegal invasion continues.
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The strike(s) on the Engels air base while not officially confirmed, look real.
It's exactly 3 weeks since the previous hit in #Saratov.
Some #Ukraine Telegram channels happily showing this satellite pic of the base, where 🇷🇺 wrote "Death to Nazis" - maybe they got their wish!
So #Russia admits 3 people died in the drone attack on its Engels air base in #Saratov.
They claim the ground crews were victims of falling debris when the #Ukraine UAV was shot down. This is almost certainly a lie. One drone hit the target.
A personal representative of hated Ramzan Kadyrov is arrested by #Russia's police in occupied #Crimea.
Four lieutenants of the Akhmat SOBR regiment as well as Hasan Ibragimov are on security cameras beating a guy. The man objected when one of the Chechens groped his girlfriend.
Oops. Missed the thread.
Twitter app is misbehaving for me this morning.
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Sensible words from #Ukraine Air Forces spokesman Yuri Ignat on the "TV Marathon"
While #Russia says no aircraft were damaged at the Engels base, no one trusts that & Ignat says only satellite photos will reveal the truth.
The fact 🇷🇺admits 3 deaths in the attack shows it's bad
New video of the damage following one of the latest attacks on #Kherson.
#Russia shelled the city 33 times in the last 24 hours, but luckily no residents were killed or injured.
He's being operated on in Moscow, but some say he is likely to be paralysed. I put this more into the "speculation" category, but moving him hundreds of kilometres shows it was very serious.
Hundreds came to the opera on Christmas Day. However there was an air raid warning which lasted an hour and a half. Cast, crew, workers and public alike had to gather underground until #Russia's planes returned to base.
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But as soon as the air raid all clear was sounded, the show in #Kyiv began.
No surprise the first 3 are involved in military aggression in the last 24 hours, while #Iran just fights its own people for the time being
Russia needs other wars; others emboldened by Russia's war
Head of #Wagner who enriches himself at the expense of African states + grieving Russian families, has called for rich Russians to be stripped of their wealth.
Prigozhin: "It's necessary to take away everything, the faster the better, then everyone will be on an equal footing."
Thousands more Russian troops are being sent to defend #Melitopol as the invaders see they are in real danger of losing the town.
Petro Andriyushchenko, exiled advisor to Mayor of Mariupol' posted this secret film of some of the convoys heading to occupied #Zaporizhzhia region.
Sanctioned Chief Propagandist says "Russia is bombing #Ukraine without pleasure"
Margarita Simonyan: “I don’t know a single person in Russia, including Putin, who would enjoy what is happening now.”
RU says the dead are
Cdr Yuri Gorovets (callsign Svyatosha) and 3 sappers Maksim Mikhailov, Taras Karpyuk + Bogdan Lyagov
#Ukraine's anti-corruption agency NABU is conducting searches relating to fitness trainer Yana Khlanta.
She's been linked to Dnipropetrovsk Head Valentin Reznichenko. The region awarded Khlanta's company a $40m contract to repair roads despite the start of the full-scale war.
In #Kherson, shelling by #Russia damaged monuments to World War II heroes. This is in Slavy Park.
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It's emerged a few messages were posted on local media in #Russia saying five planes had been damaged at the Engels air base in #Saratov. They were swiftly deleted.
Meanwhile reports indicate the Kremlin is moving its planes east to the "Ukrainka" airfield in the Amur region.
They're taking the mickey now, surely?
Air raid warning in Saratov and the Engels airbase.
😅😅😅🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
In #Kharkiv region loud sounds after air raid warnings rang out there. However it's believed to be only air defence for the moment.
I do wonder if they're so embarrassed at what happened they're pretending there is a threat and that this evening they bravely shot all the (non existent) #Ukraine weapons from the sky?
Another monument to a famous Russian writer is dismantled in #Ukraine.
The Maksim Gorky statue is taken away by authorities in #Dnipro.
1/2 A couple of days ago I wrote about a team of volunteers taking Christmas hot meals to liberated, but still under fire, #Lyman in #Donetsk region.
Just been sent videos by Brian and the Alex21/Ukraine Aid Intnl team. They're sponsored by @westportctgov and Germany's Hamburg.
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#Lyman is back in the firing line again with #Russia publicly saying they're launching a new attack to try to occupy the town again.
For the residents it's already a struggle just to survive. Great effort from these guys to risk their lives to help others.
Indeed, there was apparently little danger of paralysis. The operation on Rogozin to remove shrapnel from his buttocks, proved routine and he is said to be comfortable in hospital.
Hello again. Day 860 of #Russia's all-out war on #Ukraine, but for newcomers, we only got here because the west did nothing when Putin tried to subvert democracy in 2013/4 & invaded #Crimea and east Ukraine in Feb 2014.
Let's start another daily thread - not a single day off!
Monday was another busy thread.
More signs #RussiaIsCollapsing, big blackouts and record losses for the invader.
In occupied #Ukraine there was an important hit on #Crimea, and how drones hit a moving train used by Russia.
What times we live in.
#Russia takes over the revolving Presidency of the UN Security Council, while Putin's biggest ally in the west, #Hungary holds the EU Presidency for 6 months.
This morning Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán arrived in #Kyiv for the first time since 2012.
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It's Day 849 of #Russia's full invasion of its peaceful neighbour. But it's well over 10 years since the original illegal incursion into #Ukraine territory.
This is another daily thread with all the important news, presented without exaggeration, updated all day long every day!
#Russia's favourite mantra, repeated by trolls, useful-idiots, MAGA types etc, is of Nazis in #Ukraine.
It's simple: #Russia accuses others of what it does itself.
Democratic elections?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Jewish President?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Previous Pres Jewish?🇺🇦✅🇷🇺❌
Far right MPs?🇺🇦❌🇷🇺✅
Thursday ended with a lot of activity in #Russia's #Krasnodar region, explosions and nice videos.
You can see them at the end of yesterday's thread, a mammoth 60-post effort.
To catch up, click and scroll:
Hello and welcome of Day 838 of #Russia's full invasion of #Ukraine, a country which never fired a shot at any other until the initial 2014 invasion by its imperialistic neighbour.
This is THE thread for all the news, analysis and a bit of comment on the situation. Let's dive in
Regulars will know I (try to) always include a link back to the previous day for those who missed something, or like to just browse the main stories in one place, in a few minutes.
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It's Day 835 of #Russia's war.
A conflict based solely on the ego of one very little man. But Putin managed to remove all freedoms & opposition and then brainwash the public into supporting his tyranny, just as Hitler did.
This is THE daily thread covering the war in #Ukraine
It was another very difficult night for the people and air defenders in #Ukraine.
All the details coming up right here on Friday's thread.
First though, your chance to look back on Thursday's news. If you missed anything, click + scroll here:
First I want to point out the seemingly random number of "views".
Yesterday's thread-header has the lowest view count I can ever remember, despite almost identical likes/retweets to the previous day.
The last 3 days: 35k 22k and 9k
However of those 35k, 2/3 came after 2am GMT