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Starting in traditional way with a chance for you to check back through yesterday, in case you missed Orban's undiplomatic words about #Ukraine, the latest big blaze in the series #RussiaOnFire or anything else during Friday.
Speaking about Orbán's stupid remarks, he's not alone in the region with #Russia also having culivated useful political idiots in #Croatia#Slovakia + #Czechia
Hopefully an election in 🇨🇿 today will sideline one more (Babiš) as @motytchak explains here:
The total of dead Russian soldiers* passes the 125,000 mark today. Another 800 sacrifices - though #Ukraine is also suffering heavy losses in the east.
A lot of equipment destroyed in the last 24 hours too, including two more of #Russia's aircraft.
#BakhmutHolds but the intensity of #Russia's attacks is getting worse and worse.
This video is said to be from #Bakhmut this morning. The time stamp, weather and lighting check out. I cannot verify more than that, but I suspect it's genuine and within the last few days.
No shelling in #Dnipropetrovsk overnight, which is a welcome change.
But free #Kherson is still being hit.
The local authority says there were 19 attacks by #Russia.
Two people were killed and seven civilians injured.
Two more people were injured when #Russia's rockets hit more civilian targets. Apartment blocks, a hotel, garages and cars were all damaged in the town in the free part of #Donetsk region.
The strike reportedly happened in #Novoaidar roughly 40km east of #Lysychansk and about 60km north of #Luhansk city.
They claim 14 patients and medics were killed, 24 injured.
If #Ukraine has hit a working hospital it's a war crime.
But let me give a timeline:
Occupiers in #Luhansk say the attack was at 07:30 today
13:10 Russians report "shelling" in #Novoaidar - no mention of #HIMARS or a hospital.
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The founder of the illegal mercenary group, Wagner, says they've captured another village near #Bakhmut.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin's Telegram channel claims they now control (RU: #Blagodatnoye)
It's just along the T0513 road from #Soledar and will now increase pressure on Krasna Hora.
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The Occupiers claim Ukraine "launched two strikes on Ilovaisk from the MLRS in 10 minutes, firing a total of seven missiles."
This presumably was the moment one hit.
#Ilovaisk is an important transport hub, so this strike, if confirmed, is much more likely than the supposed hit on a public hospital Russia reported earlier.
The town in Donetsk is also etched in all #Ukraine's memory as the site of a "humanitarian corridor" massacre in 2014.
Looks like a concerted attack on #Donetsk region by #Ukraine once the curfew was underway.
Just north of #Ilovaisk in the Occupied territory is #Khartsyzk where this is visible.
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It's been a difficult morning for #Ukraine with #Russia launching missile attacks already, after drones earlier in the night.
But the traditional way to start is to give you the chance to review yesterday's news, inc more gains in #Kursk and 🇷🇺burning!
Hello & welcome to Day 908 of #Russia's disgusting, and now disastrous, all-out war on #Ukraine.
Throughout history the independence, strength and rebellious nature of Ukrainians has caused problems for imperialist rulers and dictators.
History is biting Putin on the bum again!
This is THE daily thread, the only one you need for all the major news about #Ukraine's fight for freedom and its very existence.
Sunday was quiet, but still plenty to get your teeth into. Click here if you were offline some of the day & need a catch-up:
A new week, and coming to the end of the first week of #Ukraine's decision to take the war directly into #Russia's territory, more than 10 years after Putin invaded sovereign🇺🇦land.
It's Day 901 of the all-out war. All the news, all the time, in one handy thread. Read-on!
We start again with a look back to yesterday.
Lots of news once again. Not least from #Kursk region, but please remember #Ukraine has a media silence from there. Some battalions post selfies, but mostly it's only #Russia and locals uploading photos.
I want to revisit what happened at the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
I've now read and spoken to a few who know more than me about the plant. Everyone agrees it's a cooling tower, with nothing to burn there.
So it's almost certain #Russia burned something as a provocation.