A Russian small drone purposely hit a group of senior civilians in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine this morning, with the youngest victim being 48 and the oldest 85 y.o.; a 70 year-old woman has been killed, further 6 civilians wounded: local governors on social media.

An unexploded Russian OWA drone was left wedged in an apartment block's wall after last night's RU strike on the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. Two more Russian drones struck the pavement taking out storefronts.

In Ukraine news other than The War, 12 people have been killed, further 6 wounded as an intercity bus rolled over and head-on crashed into a truck in the southern part of the country this morning(

A hilarious Kremlin TV gaffe: an unfortunate audience camera angle showed sleeping ex-president Medvedev and Boris Gryzlov, the recently-humiliated RU Ambassador to Belarus, just as Putin on stage was speaking about Russia "having enough strength, resources and political will" to defeat the West.

Long 24/7 cues for motor fuels in Siberia is an anecdotal evidence of Russia being Europe. All that propaganda about Eurasianism, pivot to the East, China co-operation etc. - and yet the bulk of RU fuel refining, logistics and consumption is still where it was: in the European part of the empire🤷‍♂️

So painful and dramatic was the process of adopting the current Ukrainian Constitution that its lead author, MP Mykhailo Syrota, a career Soviet engineer turned democratic politician, burst in tears upon adoption. He died 12 years later, at only 52. 2/2

30 years ago on this day, Ukraine's Constution was adopted. As everything real, it's imperfect and requires regular amendments. The ones adopted in 2004 have made the Consitution even more imperfect. And yet Ukraine is a genuine democracy, much freer than it was under Soviet occupation. 1/2

Another very post-modern visual of The War: a Russian Army fuel truck dodges a Ukrainian OWA drone on a highway in RU-occupied part of Ukraine, with a wind farm on the background.

IMPORTANT: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issues yet more thinly threats towards the Russian vassality of Belarus in his today's evening video address, vaguely demanding that the Belarus leadership do "things that would show us that Belarus is against this war".

President Volodymyr Zelensky says he told Donald Trump that Ukraine's position in The War "has strengthened". The occasion for the call was Trump's 80th birthday.

It took Britain an obscene amount of time to finally start seizing Russia's illegal tankers. Sweden led the way; even Trump's pro-Kremlin New America has taken some steps. Better late than never, and every little bit helps🙏, but this is not leadership lads( This is not superpowerness.

An eyewitness photo of the actual fire in that Chornobyl nuclear facility last night, via @antongerashchenko.bsky.social .

IMPORTANT: A Russian drone targeted Ukraine's main storage of spent nuclear fuel☢️ in Chernobyl last night. Ukrainian nuclear energy company Energoatom says no actual fuel rods breaches or radioactive leaks occurred, but the explosion and subsequent fire damaged a fuel container handling bay👇.

PHOTO: A nest a wild bird made after the tree it had lived on in Donbas was knocked down by a Russian glide bomb. Look closely, and you'll see that the nest is made mostly with spent fiber-optic cable from small drones. Vast frontline areas are now covered with that cable, like a giant spiderweb.

The sanctions against Russia are so lax that even Putin's cronies are able to buy western jets and expand their luxury lifestyles. - exclusive @wsj.com story.

Your irregular reminder that the Democratic party in the US is just as infested with Kremlin stooges as the GOP. And I'm not sure who's more honest: GOPers sincerely saying they wanna make dirty business with RU, or Leftie extremists offering BS disinfo excuses for their treason.

In the Decline of The [Old] West news, a recent Ukrainian drone strike badly damages a [small] Russian warship that has escorted illegal "shadow fleet" tankers through Baltic Sea and English Channel, successfully deterring the mighty NATO from boarding them.

"If the West is "standing with Ukraine" — it shouldn't be standing on a huge pile of frozen Russian assets that could be used to save Ukrainian lives."

Here's Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian fascist thinker influential in Putinist elite, kinda admitting that today's Russia is "an extremely corrupt authoritarianism, shamefully disguised as a tarnished liberal democracy with a phantom pain of imperial and superpower greatness".

Here's that 3 year-old boy's body being recovered in a plastic bag (folded in half, I guess they don't use specialist body bags for children yet). Don't look away.

At least nine people (incl. a 3 year-old boy) have been killed, dozens injured by Russian missile in this Dnipro apartment block alone last night. As you can see, this was clearly a military target.

It's dawn in Kyiv, Ukraine, and much of the Right-Bank [western] part of the city is covered by black smoke (as far as I can see briefly peeking out of my windows). It's not thick but is spreading fast by wind.

Good very early morning to you from Ukraine where we're having a massive Russian missile strike on the capital Kyiv and at least two other big cities, plus the usual RU drone strike across the country.

Kharkiv Region in eastern Ukraine is famous (or is it notorious?) for putting some of its schools underground - to save children form hourly Russian airstrikes. It started with one school in the city relocating to a subway station, and now there are 10+ schools with fully subterranean instruction.

Russian drones purposely attacked a functioning rural school in eastern Ukraine this morning. All children and staff are fine, as they were holding lessons in the underground part of the facility.

Estonian Ambassador in Ukraine reacting to Russia's threats to bomb diplomats in Kyiv:

IMPORTANT: the European Union must change accession system to cater for Ukraine, EU enlargement chief tells @financialtimes.com .

A simple truth reminded, again, by Ukrainian General Denys Prokopenko in his recent op-ed: Russians are unlikely to be good at fighting wars because their military command system prioritizes political control over combat effectiveness, and "leads to operational paralysis".

Because of Ukrainian middle-range interdiction strikes, Russia is back to its 2023 Square Two: its occupation of the "land bridge" in southern Ukraine is strategically untenable, again.

In plain sight, Kremlin's stooges advocate for a de facto Russian re-colonization of Germany.