Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s energy and transportation grid.
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⚡️Ukraine's state-owned energy company says all of its power plants are down after Russia's 'largest-ever attack.'
The recent Russian attack destroyed all restored capacity, leaving the plants generating no power, the state-owned energy company Centrenergo said on Nov. 8.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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❗️Russian forces have destroyed the locomotive depot in Hrebinka, Poltava region.
I spent all my childhood summers in my grandfather’s village near Hrebinka. It’s where I had friends, laughter, and some of the best memories of my youth, many of those friends are now gone, killed by Russia’s war.
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— Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Russia turned its terror machine on Dnipro.
Across Ukraine at least 11 were killed.
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🇺🇦Dnipro. A russian missile tore through a residential building — entire floors wiped out.
People trapped, lives crushed, just another day of russian terror.
How many more have to die before the world stops pretending it’s “normal”?
Source: x.com/NAFOvoyager/...
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— Taras Melnyk (@taras19921.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Rescuers in Dnipro pulled a Yorkshire Terrier out from under the rubble after a strike by the Russian Armed Forces
The dog named Michelle was pulled out from a partially destroyed 9-story building, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
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— Lewi (@anno1540.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Ukrainian rescuers in Dnipro pulled a cat, Claire, from the rubble of destroyed apartment building’s fourth floor
Her owner, Valeriia, said rescuers freed her from an apartment, but the frightened cat bolted during chaos. Two people were killed in the attack
📹Suspilne Dnipro
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Children play on a swing set in Dnipro, in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike last night.
The search and rescue operation continues right in front of them. At least two people were killed. Maybe more. This is their childhood, the only one they'll ever have.
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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The daily attacks, night after night, wear on people.
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😡Every day in Ukraine, we’re just trying to survive. We want to live — not die. Who will stop Russia? Nearly four years have passed, and we’re still running, still searching for safety, just trying to stay alive. Every day and every night, Russia continues its terror against Ukraine.
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— 24Hours Ukraine (@24hoursukraine.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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i had a beauty Friday today. had my masseuse and nail technician appointments. we don’t talk much, so here’s Ukrainian small talk:
> i want to be cremated instead of being buried. i don’t want my kids to feel obliged to visit my grave;
> so what kind of drones attack Kharkiv nowadays?
#UkrainianView
— spirtanniemal (@spirtanniemal.com) November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hearing "What are you planning to do after the war?" feels like a physical blow every time.
I know people think they're being kind, that they're "focusing on the positive." But our reality in Ukraine is a life without certainty.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My plan? I plan to live, if I survive. With my family, if they survive. In my city, if it isn't bombed into rubble. In a free European Ukraine, if we are accepted, and if we ever achieve a truly lasting peace.
Sound on for these.
From a bombed-out building comes the sound of a piano.
Another 1,190 Russians who should have stayed home, plus three rocket launchers.
This is another tally that is available to track Russian losses.
That helicopter crash in Dagestan was captured on video.
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Yesterday’s helicopter crash turned out to involve staff from the sanctioned Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant. Today it’s confirmed: the chief engineer, chief helicopter construction instructor, and deputy director for construction all died.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Any day that an S-400 system gets turned to scrap is a good day.
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Ukrainian Special Forces destroyed a Russian S-400 launcher and an ammunition depot in occupied Crimea. The ammo stockpile of Russia’s 18th Army was hit in Udachne, while the S-400 system was taken out in Ujutne near Yevpatoria, both on October 6.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) November 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This video will come in handy at The Hague.
This is an assessment of the situation at Pokrovsk/Myrnohrad by Kyiv Independent reporter Francis Farrell from the email newsletter they send out called War Notes.
The fact of the matter is that although Pokrovsk has done its job of holding back Russia’s attempts to take all of Donetsk Oblast — and of grinding through unreal amounts of Russian manpower and equipment in doing so — this final act of the city’s defense is looking to be quite a tragic chapter in Ukraine’s defense of its existence.
As I’ve said in a couple of interviews and podcasts for foreign media over the last two weeks — and also written in stories on our website — it’s important to understand that talk of an encirclement of Pokrovsk isn’t accurate.
Instead, the city is simply being overrun by hundreds of Russian soldiers who have broken into the city limits and begun fanning out through Pokrovsk’s urban area, causing chaos, ambushing Ukrainian soldiers inside the city, and often finding it easier than usual to escape Ukraine’s kill zone of drones, thanks to the concealment provided by the dense urban landscape.
But the real and dire threat of encirclement is there for the sister city of Myrnohrad, just to the east — a city I used to enjoy seeing in the distance while approaching along the highway from Kostiantynivka, which has long since been cut by Russian advances.
The front lines in Myrnohrad and the surrounding fields have actually been held firmly by the Ukrainian forces fighting there — itself an extraordinary thing, given the incredible pressure on their logistics, which have been constantly harassed by Russian drones and distance mining over the last few months.
As one deputy battalion commander put it to me, Ukrainian lines around Myrnohrad have already been in a kind of de facto encirclement since summer, because every trip in and out of the city made by Ukrainian soldiers is fiercely hunted by Russian drones — and over the last month or so, has only been possible on foot.
Consequences for an incredibly stupid act.
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⚡️Commander charged with negligence after Russia hits military award ceremony in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian strike in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed 12 servicemen and seven civilians, while 36 others were injured, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) November 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Where’s Sergey?
The Russian foreign minister hasn’t been seen for a while. Is he hanging out with Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa and D.B. Cooper?
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RUSSIAS FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV?
Nobody has seen the man who has held the position since 2008 since early September.
Long serving Foreign Ministers are a Russian tradition, Molotov at 13 years, and Gromyko for example held the post for 28.
Has the occasionally humorous
— The Analyst (@militaryanalyst.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Has the occasionally humorous but deathly serious and urbanely manipulative Lavarov fallen out of a window or just finally been sidelined by his boss for not getting what he wanted? The Russians insist everything is normal. Yet he isn’t heading the G20 delegation and there’s not been a single word from the man in weeks.
Russia works in mysterious ways. Admitting something is wrong would undermine the appearance of continuity at the top.Yet this is a regime that said an Admiral everyone knew had been blown upIn his office by a StormShadow, was still alive 7 months later by recycling video from previous years.
A regime lies everyday to Russians saying it’s a malfunction that blacked out the electricity for days on end, not a drone strike. They’d rather admit incompetence than admit an attack. Lavrov is the worst of the bunch really, lies for a living to your face and makes you feel your the fool for not believing.
Transactional president makes a transaction. What Orban doesn’t realize yet is that this deal is only good until the next person talks to Trump about sanctions.
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The US has granted Hungary a one-year sanctions exemption to continue importing Russian oil and gas, Reuters reports. The decision followed a meeting between President Trump and PM Orban at the White House. Hungary also agreed to buy $600 million worth of US LNG.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Good use for old fishing nets.
He’s the Audie Murphy of Russia — unless, of course, this is all just bullshit.
If anyone needs to get high and chill, it’s this guy.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has stated that it is inappropriate for Russians to laugh and enjoy life because for them, sorrow is joy and bliss.
"Our mentality is different; we even look sorrowful..," Pitirim, Bishop Skopinsky, said.
One more justification of war for them.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Banning corruption in the Russian army would be like banning oxygen.
What are the Vegas odds on the success of this operation?
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1/ The Russian Minister of Defence, Andrey Belousov, is reported to have ordered a crackdown on corruption and physical abuse in the Russian armed forces. In particular, the widespread practices by commanders of extortion and murder ("zeroing out") are coming under scrutiny. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
2/ According to a private post to subscribers of the Razvedchik Telegram channel: "Belousov instructed [Chief of the General Staff] Gerasimov to purge the army of banditry among commanders this winter, a high-ranking military official at the Ministry of Defence reported."
3/ "The head of the ministry demanded the urgent creation of commissions to investigate cases of extortion and so-called "zeroing out"—when soldiers are sent to certain death.
4/ "Inspections will soon begin in those units where complaints of non-payment and missing property have been recorded. The commission will include representatives from the FSB, the military prosecutor's office, and Gerasimov's headquarters.
5/ "They have been instructed to personally report to Belousov on each inspection of a given troop group.Sources note that the head of the Ministry of Defence has threatened dismissals and criminal prosecution for attempts to cover up fraud or conceal information on bonuses and allowances.
6/ "According to sources, Belousov bluntly stated that combat operations were gradually slowing and it was time to restore order.
They were going to throw them off the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but they figured it would take a month to hit bottom.
Solovyov is losing it.
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Meanwhile in Russia: everything went wrong for state TV host Vladimir Solovyov, who accused his own team of sabotaging him and threatened to fire them. He directed fellow Russians not to pity Ukrainian civilians, describing them as "collateral damage."
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— Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Real or AI? You be the judge.
Leaves for cocoa.
Ukraine has its own version of an Angel Tree.
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So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
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— Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
And finally …. some beauty.
