ukraine@war

Day 827

Ukraine’s Air Force shot this morning down seven of 11 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles launched from Russian strategic bombers and all 32 Iranian Shahed drones buzzing around Khmelnytsky, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia, Odesa, Kherson, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions. None of the eight S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles aimed at Kharkiv region were interc…

Reactions: 0

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 212

Day 826

Ukraine’s president, the head of the President’s Office, parliament speaker, prime minister, along with dozens of others, have all expressed condolences on the passing away of Oleksandr Martynenko, the founder and general manager of Ukraine’s largest information news agency

Reactions: 1

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 300

Day 825

A kid fishing for something near the Metro Bridge.

Reactions: 0

Comments: 3

Wordcount: 148

Day 824

Separating Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Uncle Joe and Xi Jinping with a comma and publicly urging them all to attend Global Peace Summit on June 15-16 is arguably not a great idea.

Reactions: 1

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 496

Day 823

Most of the missiles during today’s first missile attack were aimed at Khmelnytsky. As of this writing (10.30), Russians were still shooting missiles at Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr and the capital.

Reactions: 1

Comments: 1

Wordcount: 188

Day 821

It does feel like a little bit 1939. That’s when Bernard Shaw won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for Pygmalion, which later became the famous Broadway musical My Fair Lady. A lot of other stuff, much of it bad, happened that year. For example, the start of World War II.

Reactions: 0

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 205

Day 820

Team USA’s self-deterence approach to helping Ukraine repel Russian invaders is a dud. The pink blobs continue to grow and mushroom in southern, westward and northern direction, depending where you are standing along our nine fronts. CNN’s Nick continues to duck in and out of root cellars near

Reactions: 0

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 166

Day 819

Ukrainian photographers Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov published a photograph of two dead middle-aged women near Volchansk in the Kharkiv region, the town Russian invaders are attempting to flatten. They asked to circulate it widely, along with the vid.

Reactions: 0

Comments: 2

Wordcount: 233

Day 818

Oh, dear.

Reactions: 1

Comments: 3

Wordcount: 487

Day 817

Just consider the many ways in which mopey preening can be given timeliness and vitality through subtly invasive placement. Three articles appearing in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post, tell us Team Ukraine was unprepared for Russia’s attacks in northern areas of Kharkiv region last week.

Reactions: 3

Comments: 0

Wordcount: 234