Imagine it is a religious holiday, it is sunny, families are outside and suddenly a ballistic missile with warhead of 300-500kg equivalent of TNT strikes in the middle of the city.
— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) August 19, 2023
This is what happened today in Chernihiv. The Taras Shevchenko theater was the target and it is… pic.twitter.com/oJ5CxqJXEF
#UPDATE "It is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians," Denise Brown, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, said in an online statement. pic.twitter.com/YxhNKaYeIK
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 19, 2023
Ukrainian actor and soldier Oleksiy Khilskyi was killed at the front while performing a combat mission, his wife Nadiyaa Khilska reported on Facebook.
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) August 19, 2023
Oleksiy, 35, joined the Armed Forces in the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion. pic.twitter.com/MjOewkginE
This is surely the hotchpotch ideology of Putin’s Russia at its worst
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) August 18, 2023
An Orthodox priest blessed a new statue of Stalin before telling the assembled crowd: "Yes, the Church suffered under Stalin. But, thanks to this, we now have lots of new Russian martyrs to whom we can pray" pic.twitter.com/80qt65vTP0
”…current account surplus for January-July this year was just 25 billion dollars, or 85 % less than in the same seven-month period last year.” https://t.co/zjvL6YbJka
— Iikka Korhonen (@IikkaKorhonen) August 18, 2023
Ukrainian forces from the 30th Mechanized brigade conducted a number of recent FPV loitering munition strikes targeting Russian equipment, hitting 2x D-20 towed howitzers, 1x D-30 towed howitzer, a Strela-10 SAM system, and a KamAZ 5350. pic.twitter.com/fJqXXdlqIx
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) August 19, 2023