Here is my daily thread number 351 on the #Russia-#Ukraine war. One for each day of the war.
News and analysis of all events covering #Putin's illegal war.
Yesterday's thread was limited by Twitter.
I (and most others) were unable to post after 9.30pm UK time. #StandWithUkraine
In case you were wondering about that tweet which couldn't be loaded, I found it quite amusing as Chancellor Scholz went straight past his flag and to the #Ukraine lectern before being corrected by Zelenskyy!
President @ZelenskyyUa is now arriving in #Brussels to meet EU officials as he continues his mission to get fighter aircraft for #Ukraine.
We've had almost a year now and it really angers me that no-one foresaw this. We never truly protected Ukraine as Russia controls the skies.
#Russia has now lost over 135,000* soldiers, dead in the disastrous illegal invasion #Ukraine.
Not many equipment losses today, but again more than 900 sacrificial lambs to Tsar Putin.
* Ukraine estimates.
Founder of #Wagner (though he denied it for years), Yevgeniy Prigozhin has "announced" they are no longer recruiting prisoners. So,
1) No one else is stupid enough to sacrifice their lives 2) The only benefit of the war for #Russia is saving a ton of money locking up prisoners.
I cannot verify this, but the photo is reportedly of a queue for bread in Occupied #Mariupol'
The British MOD says no-one should plann an offensive in difficult weather conditions.
However, Putin doesn't care about conditions or tactics. Like Hitler, he won't accept "no" or "retreat".
The 24 Feb anniversary and the start of spring on 1 March are near, he demands results
The Russian run KHL ice hockey league, has told the team from #Novosibirsk to stop its fans from chanting "glory to Siberia" during the Russian national anthem.
Meanwhile, in #Novosibirsk today a suspected gas explosion in a block of flats.
As a result, the entrance completely collapsed . At least two people died and seven more were injured.
#Russia's Occupiers in #Berdyansk release a long video (I've edited this down) showing how they foiled an "assassination attempt" on collaborators
There are separate videos of two arrested men "admitting" to their crimes obviously under duress.
Just a bit surprised no Mein Kampf
President @ZelenskyyUa begins his speech in the European Parliament in Brussels with "Slava Ukraini"
Some German media already report that #Zelenskyy did enough to convince both Scholz and Macron to provide fighter jets to #Ukraine.
If this is true it will at last be something I would call a potential game changer. As long as the game is still in progress. Speed of the essence.
A standing ovation again for #Zelenskyy as he finishes his speech in Brussels, also ending with the words "Slava Ukraini"
The President of the European Parliament presents Zelenskyy with a flag of the EU.
The Ukraine national anthem is now being played in Brussels.
In #Kyiv's beautiful Mariinskyi Park, work is already underway to remove the statue of Vatunin.
Nikolai Vatutin was a WWII Soviet Commander, operating mainly in Ukraine, helping to fight off the Nazis, but keeping #Ukraine under subjugation by Moscow.
A fire in a prison has killed two convicts.
Surely just coincidence that no more prisoners are "volunteering" to sacrifice themselves in the war?
Ran out of characters - Thanks to @CarolynnePries1 for spotting the last story.
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News just in - the 2025 World Swimming Championships, scheduled for #Kazan in #Russia have been moved by the governing body FINA, to #Singapore.
Following rumours that #Germany and #France will offer #Ukraine fighter jets, the Head of the President's Office in #Ukraine, @AndriyYermak has just said "The issue of long-range weapons and fighter jets for Ukraine has been resolved."
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Since 2 December, the number if #Russia's troops killed in #Ukraine has increased 50%.
That means a third of all 135,000 deaths happened in the last 69 days of the 351 day war.
Sad to learn that under Elon Musk's new plans for Twitter many, useful, automated services such as thread unroll, earthquake monitors, ground flash reports and possibly vid translators will all likely be unavailable as he starts charging them for automated tweets. @TwitterLive
Astonishing photos from near #Vuhledar in #Donetsk. There's an obsession to, or a fear of not, delivering Donetsk to Putin by the anniversary in 2 weeks.
Another #Russia unit decimated and no fewer than 31 T-72B3 tanks, BMP 1/2, MT-LB + 1 IMR were destroyed.
#Ukraine is being menaced by Iranian "mopeds" again.
There's an air raid alert in many regions with multiple drones reported in #Zaporizhzhia district now.
The fear is that drone "attacks" recently have been a precursor to a large scale missile attack the next day or two.
Wow! #Ukraine has confirmed this and it turned out to be significant.
The strikes were on #Berdyansk airport.
Ukraine claims 100 invaders were destroyed.
A warehouse with ammunition and fuel plus a radar station were also damaged.
Remember the smiling widows and mothers who got given fur coats to make up for their pain? Even then #Russia can stoop lower...
They took back the coats, one widow says, pretending they were getting better quality ones and now no-one answers their calls.
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It's Friday! The weekend approaches.
It's also the 814th day of #Russia trying to destroy #Ukraine, its language, culture and people, and over 10 years since the first invasion.
For all the news on Day 814 keep clicking back here.
No coffees for 2 days - please help if you can.
Thursday was another busy one.
A day which saw Putin humiliated, #Ukraine attack #Crimea (again) and a load of other stories and videos.
Missed any of it? Just click here and scroll through the day's news:
#Ukraine, a democratic nation, desperate to keep it that way, remains under intense pressure from #Russia, an autocracy led by a despot and indicted war criminal.
All the news all day long in one handy thread. Read on..
#StandWithUkraine
Yesterday we only really had two stories, but they were big ones.
#Putin exiling & side-lining top names from the Kremlin.
And 25 years after the #Russia apartment bombings, 13 were killed in a new attack - but who did it?
Review the news here:
Hello and welcome to Day 807 of #Russia's war on #Ukraine.
Each day documenting the news and war crimes committed by indicted war criminal Putin and his Moscow horde as the neo-imperialists try to steal more land and wipe out another culture.
Here's another daily thread...
As always, the quick link back to the starts of yesterday's thread for those who missed some, or all, of Thursday's developments.
And right at the end of the day we saw another oil target inside #Russia being hit by drones!
So confirmation of another attack on an oil refinery in #Russia, the second in 2 months at this partuicular site.
Pershiy Zavod is the largest refinery in the region - the main complex for the processing of commercial oil and gas condensate, and the capacity is 1.2m tons/yr
Day 803 of #Russia's full invasion continues. The war criminals are super confident, tossing away lives of the plebs and useful idiots from Asia, Africa + the Americas.
But #Ukraine fights hard for its existence and supplies filter through to the frontlines.
This is the daily🧵
Today is a holiday in most of the UK, so I allowed myself a later start (no school run!)
Coming up news of #Ukraine hitting a Rusdian boat...
But first the link to yesterday's thread, which turned out to be quite busy.
Many across Europe celebrate a holiday today, the first day of May.
In normal times in #Ukraine it would be a big celebration, with Labour Day followed by Easter and Remembrance/Victory Day. But these are far from normal times. No respite from war. Welcome to the daily thread:
Tuesday saw #Russia's world bring more death to #Kharkiv and to #Odesa for the second time in two days - a video proving the sickening cluster bomb attack on the people the day before.
All yesterday's news can be found here if you missed anything: