Hello and welcome to Wednesday's daily thread with all the news from and about #Ukraine, still fighting to maintain its freedom.
#Russia's war has reached Day 406.
This thread is updated throughout the day (and night when it's busy) using my own sources and aggregating news.
Yesterday started with attacks on #Odesa/#Odessa but was generally quiet in military terms.
But lots of other stories as Germany admits shame at not helping Ukraine earlier, Moscow's Church continues to be driven out + more 🇷🇺corruption. Review it here:
#Russia's losses in the last 24 hours are interesting. While troop deaths remain in the 500-650 range we've seen for the past 2 weeks, look at the number of artlliery systems/MLRS destroyed.
These are significant figures. New western donations having an effect? #RussiansGoHome
In its daily update, #Ukraine's General Staff says its planes made 9 strikes on Russian "areas of personnel/military equipment. A high-precision "KUB" type UAV was also shot down."
Artillery units also struck control points, 2 Grad rocket systems + electronic warfare station.
ATESH, the #Ukraine resistance movement has published this video, which it says its agents took from inside an ammo production plant in #Russia
It claims the Svobodny Sokol pipe plant in #Lipetsk has been converted to manufacture shells.
Atesh hints at sabotage to come.
Not 100% war related, but with #Russia spending so much on the war, sanctions biting & with fewer qualified workers, more + more accidents are occuring.
Here in St Petersburg a huge "spill" of boiling water literally melted the road and swallowed up this car. 3 people got burned
In #Kramatorsk heavy flooding is inflicting further misery on the lives of remaining residents.
Not only heavy rains are to blame - #Russia's persistent shelling of infrastructure, including flood defences, have hugely exacerbated the problems. #RussiaIsATerroristState
Oh thank you, thank you...
The flow of coffee has resumed after a few "dry" days!
I am extremely grateful to the support and donations this morning from Michael G and @MorganBrv
If you like what I do, see my profile for the Ko-Fi link to buy me a drink💙💛
A seemingly dull, but extremely important, update from UK Intel today.
#Russia unable to finance its debt, is openly begging for help from "friendly states" which almost certainly means China and maybe India.
This is literally selling the country's future to kill Ukrainians.
Ivan Fedorov, the exiled Mayor of #Melitopol says collaborator Maksym Zubarev lost an arm and a leg in this car bomb attack.
Angry locals storm a church in #Chernivtsi region in west Ukraine. It happened after priests of the Moscow-aligned church apparently refused the burial of a soldier in the village of Zadubrovka. The man's body can clearly be seen.
As Pres. Macron visits #China, some pleasing words from his hosts
China doesn't recognise #Ukraine's occupied territory as Russian, doesn't help Russia militarily & doesn't support the war
1/2 Leader of the Terrorist State holds a Security Council meeting, flanked with four traitors, so called "Heads" of #Ukraine's occupied regions.
The life expectancy for Pushilin & Co is pretty low and most likely to be bumped off by #Russia/FSB if Ukrainians don't get them first
2/2 #Putin droned on about the occupied regions and said security forces must do everything to ensure the safety of the people.
So Vova, get your murderous war criminals out of the foreign country, then everyone's safe!
In the words of UK advertising legends, "Simples!"
This time in St.Petersburg, a scary blaze took hold of an apartment block in the Krasnoselsky district of #Russia's second city.
Spotted by and thanks to Carolynne.
UEFA Execs have decided to allow #Belarus to continue competing in @EURO2024, despite protests from over 100 MEPs.
Belarus lost both qualifiers so far, but there's a problem for #Ukraine. Legislation may make it illegal for Ukraine to play in any sport which allows🇧🇾or🇷🇺to play.
Two more explosions (unconfirmed) reported in #Melitopol.
The blasts were reportedly half an hour apart in, or near the villages of Myrne and Tambovka.
In Myrne local channels say the Occupiers have been making defences recently.
Mixed news for the President of #Ukraine Football.
Andriy Pavelko was re-elected to UEFA's committee for four more years in Nyon, Switzerland today.
However a Swiss court sets an October date for a hearing where Pavelko is accused of threatening and trying to bribe a journalist
Constance, you know who you are, and thank you for your ongoing support
One of the buildings of #Russia's Defence Ministry in central #Moscow caught fire!
Prigozhin, where were you at 6pm this evening?
#Russia reports a Ukrainian light-engine plane has crashed in #Bryansk region. The pilot has been detained.
🇷🇺media report the man saying he is a civilian pilot on a job to take a picture and did not realise he had crossed the border. Russia say it was a #Ukraine recon mission.
A top adviser to @ZelenskyyUa is quoted saying talks are possible if Ukraine's army reaches the border with Crimea.
FT is paywalled, but you can read it here: westobserver.com/business/ukrai…
I've been expecting this to happen for a while. #Russia's first step to restoring the death penalty (though of course summary executions happen regularly 'off the book')
Looks like Putin has got Sergey Mironov, of the Just Russia - For Truth party to propose the legislation.
In the southern #Russia republic of #Ingushetia there's a shootout between police + rebels.
More details at the start of the new thread in a few minutes...
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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: