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A minibus driver was killed in a Russian drone strike on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, local authorities say.
The strike hit a terminal stop where the vehicle was parked at the time and the 56-year-old was killed.
Russian forces continue to target civilians across Ukraine.
📷DSNS
Alex Panchenko
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👇.
Euromaidan Press
Official original source (in Ukrainian):
www.facebook.com/energoatom.u...
An eyewitness photo of the actual fire in that Chornobyl nuclear facility last night, via @antongerashchenko.bsky.social .
Alex Panchenko
Alex Panchenko
Alex Panchenko
Excellent! European leaders meeting Zelenskyy in the UK today need to read this: stop talking about negotiations, step up the military and economic pressure on Putin.
The "Crimean Wind" Telegram channel claims that Russian occupation forces plan to use civilian vehicles - including bread trucks and mail delivery vans -to transport fuel along the route to occupied Crimea, forcing civilians to act as human shields to disguise their logistics.
My latest for @policymag.bsky.social
“we should not be looking for a change of heart in the Kremlin, but for signs of a systemic failure [..]
Until then, hopes for a “negotiated settlement” serve only to prolong the bloodshed. Russia will not take an off-ramp; it needs to be defeated.”
On one hand, we have President Volodymyr Zelensky’s open letter to Vladimir Putin, a document that invites the Russian president to a face-to-face meeting to
🧵Indications are that Russia has escalated an info op targeting Germany ahead of state elections in the East this autumn. Some signs:
-Putin’s meeting with former chancellor Schroeder, who remains Russia’s most important asset because his popularity extends beyond the extreme right and left 1/
