In Ukraine, getting ready to sleep often means getting yourself prepared to survive the night.
It can be quite a complex routine.
And it’s terrifying that it has become a habit for millions🧵
Ukrainian defenders spotted a damaged vehicle on the road Druzhkivka near Donetsk, with brothers-in-arms trapped inside under russian fire.
Every minute could have been their last.
But they did not leave their own behind.
Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly has launched his second ambulance fundraiser via UNITED24 🚑
Our ambassador, who used to drive ambulances before flying space shuttles, is raising $1,200,000 for 10 vehicles to help save lives🧵
Join in:
https://t.co/FZvSItfmww
As a Ukrainian soldier, thank you to everyone still standing with us after four years.
The world has a short attention span. You didn't.
We will not forget who stayed. 🇺🇦
❗️President Zelenskyy and the entire Ukrainian people have been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for their contribution to the defense of the country during the war.
There's one moment from the liberation of Bucha that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
At the entrance to the city from the Irpin side, near the railway line, there's a very nice and cozy apartment complex, I once wanted to buy an unfinished flat there, but it was out of my price range.
When we returned to Bucha alongside Ukrainian forces, that same complex had been badly hit. The Russians had positioned artillery in the courtyards nearby, so shell and fuse crates were scattered everywhere. Burnt, torn-off BMP tracks lay strewn around.
In the parking lots, among mountains of debris and wreckage, Teslas burned to the ground. Nearby, rows of small buildings with little shops, cafes, bakeries, riddled with bullets, looted and torched.
All around -- grayness, darkness, the feeling of an exhumed grave, as if you could feel with your very skin that something evil had happened here.
And there, on the basketball court, a man was wandering aimlessly in silence. Just walking in circles, over and over again. He still couldn't come back to himself.
All 33 days of the occupation he had hidden in a basement right there under those buildings, literally right under the Russians' noses, hiding so as not to end up among those who, as captured on camera, were marched in single file with their hands behind their heads and taken around a corner to be shot.
But that guy was lucky.
Several days had passed since the Russians left, and he was still walking there in circles, in silence. I tried to talk to him, to ask if he needed anything, and he raised his eyes to me and said: "Do you know why they hate us so much?"
He started to sob, wiping away tears. "Do you know? Tell me, why, why, what did we do to them? Tell me."
I think that evening I came home to Kyiv after a day in the field reporting on the atrocities in Bucha, and for the first time in a long time, I got drunk.
Ukraine just opened its first drone production plant in Britain.
That matters for 3 reasons:
• it moves part of Ukraine’s war industry into NATO space
• it creates industrial spillover inside Europe
• it shows Ukrainian defense tech is no longer just “surviving” — it is scaling
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@joni_askola And lost a staggering 1.2M people afterwards. Plus refineries, oil hubs. Black fleet. Strategic bombers. All their cold war era stuff. Gazillion of ammo.
And what a horrible price Ukraine paid for it. And still pays every day