Day 998 of #Russia's all out war, and Sunday 17 Nov is the day #Moscow's war criminals chose for the big missile attack on #Ukraine
It's such a difficult time for anyone associated with Ukraine. With the election of Musk/Trump, Putin's convinced terrorism will win.
Here's the🧵
Before I forget, here's the link for yesterday's thread. I know many of you like to catch up on what you've missed in #Ukraine and stories connected to the war.
Two more deaths reported, this time in #Dnipropetrovsk region.
The victims were railway workers. UZ says three more were injured.
#StandWithUkraine
It's relatively mild in #Ukraine today. Temperatures in #Kyiv and many regions will reach +10c.
However nights are cold with sub-zero expected on 2 or 3 nights in the coming week
The lack of power can also mean no water. Queues already formed at pumping stations. This is #Odesa
Authorities in #Lviv region confirm what I wrote earlier in the thread. The person killed is a 66 year old woman who was in her car in #Chervonohrad during #Russia's missile attack. Two others injured too.
Photos are from nearby #Dobrotvir, north-east of Lviv city.
This is #Kremenchuk in #Poltava oblast.
Please bear in mind with all these posts, they are subject to Martial Law and very rarely will the infrastructure sites themselves be shown.
The Mayor of Kremenchuk says there are injured but doesn't give further details.
#Ukraine under attack..
Latest casualty figures/damage from #Russia's massive missile attack
Minimum: 5 Dead, 13 Injured
Two women needed treatment in a fire in #Kyiv that is likely linked to #Russia's missile attack.
The blaze in the central Perchersk district is thought to have been caused by debris, but that's not confirmed.
#Xodus update
I'm down almost 3,000 followers.
On B Sky I've built up a following of almost 2,000 in 10 days (some follow me on both)
@standardnews published this list of entities quitting Xitter. In addition celebs like Greg Davies, Jamie Lee Curtis + Bette Midler also quit.
Some good news from #Ukraine - power has returned to #Kyiv and some other regions, but not yet #Odesa which suffered a lot of damage.
Emergency services say 3 private houses caught fire and 4 others were partially destroyed. One teenager was injured.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
I've often written about #Ukraine, and #Kharkiv in particular, having to move its education system underground in order to teach children.
Sky News went back to the city to see how things are going.
1/2 There was one important strike inside #Russia overnight.
Drones hit the Kupol Defence Plant in #Udmurtia region/republic.
Local officials admit an attack but say a "factory workshop" was hit in the city of #Izhevsk.
#StopRussia
2/2 The Kupol plant is over 1600km from #Ukraine.
Astra quotes residents of #Izhevsk saying "We should have thought about it earlier, when the factories were churning out drones in the middle of the city."
Again, Ukraine pinpoints pure military targets with no civilians hurt.
Exactly 30 years ago #Ukraine gave up the world's 3rd biggest nuclear arsenal, assured by the Budapest Memorandum protecting its territory.
Kyiv gave up 3,000 tactical nuclear weapons, over 40 strategic bombers and much more.
2/2 One protest which has already been and gone took place in #Adelaide, South #Australia.
What's important to see are the blue and white flag of independent #Russia, but also, the support for #Ukraine, not just a demand for (an unjust) peace.
I've worked over 4 hours without a break so far and only 5,000 views of the first post in the thread - please retweet, quote tweet it. We need to raise visibility of the severity of #Russia's attacks.
Another 1640 invaders killed/maimed while APCs/AFVs destroyed ticks over 19k.
No apologies for reposting this from yesterday.
We are expected to believe Vladimir Shklyarov, a magnificent ballet dancer, who was anti-war, fell off a balcony in #Russia 🤔
I scour RU media and even among opposition channels there is no traction.
Also this week, #Russia's losses hit a new weekly record.
11,990 dead or badly injured, which works out at 1,713 per day. Just astonishing and shows #Putin has no care about his people, his country or anything other than himself and his wet dreams.
1/2 "Houston, we're gonna need a bigger graphic"
Just look at the amount of stuff shot down by #Ukraine this morning.
Air defence forces destroyed 102 missiles and 42 drones. #Russia fired 210 weapons at Ukraine during the attack.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
2/2 #Ukraine hit these missiles: 1/1 x Zirkon hypersonic 7/8 Kindzhal/Dagger aeroballistic
85/101 Kh-101 Kalibr cruise 0/1 Iskander-M ballistic 4/4 Kh-22/Kh-31P cruise 5/5 Kh-59/Kh-69
42/90 drones were shot down.
41 stopped by EW
2 flew to #Russia
So 18 missiles + 5 UAVs hit
In case you wondered what the skies above #Ukraine looked like during the early hours this morning..
Monitoring sites showed the flight paths of the various missiles. Literally no person in Ukraine was safe from #Russia's territory.
Let's hear it for the women defending #Ukraine!
Nataliia Grabarchuk, who used to be a pre-school teacher, destroyed one cruise missile on what was her first combat launch.
Natasha hit the missile with an "Igla" MANPADS
#StandWithUkraine #HeroiamSlava
This is said to be the sound of 2 cruise missiles flying over #Moldova this morning.
The video is genuine, but it can not be authenticated what the sound is caused by.
#StopRussia
Don't know where, don't know when... but a couple of posters in #Ukraine say another dam has been hit today. Obviously unverified right now.
#StopRussia
Divers have removed the remains of a drone from the #Kyiv Reservoir.
Authorities in #Odesa now admit two employees at one of the energy facilities targeted by #Russia, were killed.
A 17-year-old boy was also wounded by shrapnel in this morning's missile attack.
#Kharkiv is unable to generate any power.
More hits on the infrastructure means the city has lost all its capabilities, said Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
He told the TV news broadcast they are now completely reliant upon other regions for electricity.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
New explosions in #Sumy region.
Tentatively, I report, aerial bombs may have been shot down by air defence.
Because of the close proximity of #Russia's aircraft, they are difficult to intercept.
A big protest march is about to begin in #Berlin, with #Russia's highest profile opposition figures (Navalnaya, KaraMurza + Yashin) staging an "anti-war" event, as no-one is allowed to protest inside Russia
However the BBC reports "only a couple of thousand" are there right now
In #Lviv region, the second biggest tennis facilities in all of #Ukraine is on fire.
It's not known what caused the blaze at the "Lirt" centre in #Zhovkva, just north of #Lviv. The facility has been closed for two years but it's acted as a humanitarian aid storage since.
#Russia has also killed a 73 year old man, who was fishing in #Sumy region.
He was fishing on this lake in the village of Znob-Novhorodske (just 4km from the border with🇷🇺) when shells landed.
A medical facility + 7 private houses were also damaged.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
So here's the updated information on #Russia's attacks today on #Ukraine society and infrastructure in SIXTEEN regions.
Amazingly, power has been restored to most of the country now.
In the #Kursk region of #Russia, the Editor of a local newspaper's been killed.
The Governor says a #Ukraine drone hit a car in which Yuliya Kuznetsova was travelling.
One of her colleagues at Narodnaya Gazeta + a police officer were also injured in Bolshesoldatsky district.
Nothing to see here!
This is definitely not #Putin's caring, sharing government stealing from kids!
First school children in #Krasnodar region, without any state brainwashing whatsoever, chose to give away their pocket money to #Russia's army so they could kill in #Ukraine.
Video from the anti-Putin rally in #Berlin today, organised by @vkaramurza @yulia_navalnaya @IlyaYashin
World leaders are on their way to #G20Brazil2024 summit.
UK PM Sir @Keir_Starmer hopes to be able to convince others there to "double down" on support for #Ukraine
Eight more civilians murdered in #Sumy this evening.
Another #Russia air strike on a residential block.
Among the dead is a child. 10 more people are injured.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
FIFTY injured in #Sumy as well as the 8 killed.
#Russia again hit a civilian target.
The building is being evacuated with more than 400 people helped away from the scene.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Sumy UPD
Officials have just revealed that among the 8 killed are 2 children: a boy aged 9 and a girl, 14.
Emergency responders are searching every apartment "to check every nook and cranny to find all the victims" said the mayor.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#Sumy UPD
The death toll rises to 10.
51 now injured.
Simoly awful scenes from the impact site.
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#Sumy UPD
The injury count in the city rises to 52.
It seems #Russia fired a rocket direct into an apartment block.
Emergency services released another video.
#Sumy has just started 2 days of official mourning for the dead in the evening attack.
Then #Russia struck again. Another suspected ballistic missile hit infrastructure & knocked out electricity again.
The city won't update (about casualties or damage) until the morning.
Almost 60 posts in today's thread... but not a single "KoFi" arrived.
I still have thank yous to give though, to
@NeneOriginal @la56316893 @Tango9_Ali + @amaragraps for story suggestions over the last couple of days.
DMs always open for tip-offs.💙💛
It's been loud in parts of #Russia tonight - only drones, not ATACMS/StormShadows (yet!)
The Kremlin claims to have shot down 26 attack drones in #Bryansk region, while another UAV also reached #Moscow region - the video shows it allegedly being shot down (watch top of screen)
Don't know about you Fellas, but I had real trouble dodging those javelins #Russia reciprocated with in 2022. Don't even get me started on🇷🇺 tanks causing traffic jams on the M62 when they reciprocated.
After StormShadow, I'm sure🇷🇺 missiles caused more rain here.
Elon🤡🤡
I've just done the late round of checks and sadly one more death to report - in the #Kharkiv region.
A 61 year old woman died when #Hlushkivka was hit. A man aged 84 was also injured.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
What an awful day. 16 regions attacked. 19 killed in #Russia's attacks and over 70 injured.
If any good does come, it's that finally Biden was stung into action.
Here is the final round up of the attacks and effects.
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Aww, sweet.
Thank you to both Doc Hillz on bsky and SK(anon) who bought me a late coffee each. One is saved for the morning (one wasn't😇), but don't worry I can sleep after numerous coffees.
Let me start today's news in #Sumy, because sadly the number of killed + injured after #Russia's strike have both increased.
An 11th person died during the night while 89 people required medical treatment. Medics, rescuers, psychologists and volunteers worked through the night.
Hello and welcome to Day 996 of #Russia's barbaric war.
Putin's band of war criminals is throwing everything at #Ukraine's defenders for 2 months as the Kremlin is certain tRUmp will force negotiations and wants to be in the strongest position possible.
Here's the daily thread
#Russia is literally teetering on the edge of economic meltdown. If the west does not take this opportunity to ensure justice, protect borders and prosecute war criminals, historians will look back and shake their heads. They may also ask why do anything in the previous 3 years?
Anyway, let's get on with the stories of the day, although we start as ever with the link back to Thursday's thread.
It was a day which saw more problems for #Russia, more war crimes with a civilian shot dead on the street and a terrible attack on #Odesa
Very near 1000 days of war in Europe, but also we should remember that #Ukraine's allies were pretty happy to let the first invasion by #Russia in 2014 go unchecked.
Weakness, appeasement or shady deals for cash only store up and multiply problems.
Here my daily🧵on Day 995
First thing first, the link for the start of yesterday's thread.
Plenty of evidence of #Russia's pending economic collapse, especially masses of airlines. Plus rioting absconders in Russia and assassination of one of their war criminals. All in here⬇️
Day 993 of #Russia's three-day bid to take #Kyiv.
The invaders are still mired in #Donetsk, not that far from where they started.
This is my daily thread with all the news, all the time. Please remember how much work goes into this and help if you can: ko-fi.com/twmcltd
Monday's thread was tough, documenting horrendous attacks on #Kramatorsk #KryvyiRih #Mykolaiv and #Zaporizhzhia as well as attacks on many other places which were foiled.
But also proof of #Russia hitting its own and a happy anniversary. Catch-up here:
Hello and a very warm welcome to Monday's #Ukraine thread, documenting all the important news (and no gratuitous gore) from the country's defiance in the face of outright fascism and war crimes from invading #Russia.
It's Day 992, another day stained with blood.
Let's go
Sunday was another very busy day with a near 50-post thread.
Unrest in #Russia
#Belarus attacked by 🇷🇺
Strikes on military targets in #Moscow + #Bryansk
Help from #France
and Ukraine hating Trump Jr being a tw*t
It's all here⬇️
Though it may have not have sounded much, this blast was a 5-storey building being hit in the last hour.
Governor Serhiy Lysak says information about victims is being ascertained.