A very warm welcome to Sunday 8 December and another daily thread covering all things #Ukraine, #Russia and associated things, such as #Georgia and #Syria (but not for long!)
It's Day 1019 of #Russia's invasion. Here you will find all the most important news, updated real time.
It's Day 1019 of #Russia's invasion. Here you will find all the most important news, updated real time.
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There hasn't been a great amount of news coming out of #Ukraine directly. The President went abroad, while #Russia's been busy trying to support failing dictatorships in Georgia + Syria
https://bsky.app/profile/twmcltd.bsky.social/post/3lcorl7n3vc2y
So just to repeat #Russia's colony in the Middle East has gone. #Syria has fallen to the rebels, with the army ordering its troops not to fight the rebels who have taken the capital #Damascus.
Assad is reported to have fled in a plane, which some speculate crashed after..
..disappearing from radar on flight-tracking apps, with a steep descent recorded. Although it's possible, I wonder if it was spoofed & "went dark" for a while to hide Assad's final destination, or even a "dummy" plane to help deflect attention from Assad, now an ex-dictator.
It's amazing how quickly #Russia and #Iran turned on Assad and try to rewrite history. Media in Tehran now saying what a bad leader he was!
Whatever comes next, it is unlikely to be pretty with more internal conflict + external powers, like Moscow, trying to cosy up again.
In #Novoshakhtinsk, quite close to the border with #Ukraine, beyond #Luhansk, locals say 3 drones may hit the town.
#StopRussia
Explosions were heard in the city and the sounds were captured on security cameras.