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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 8h

Saturday afternoon a Russian drone deliberately attacked a group of village children in the field in Nikopol area in central Ukraine: posts by the regional governor and other officials. 11 year-old boy was killed by a fragmentation bomblet; a boy (12) and a girl (10) got wounded and hospitalized.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 14h

A Russian OWA drone targeted a municipal outpatient clinic in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine this afternoon, wounding 5 civilians. The entire building is put out of service for weeks if not months (with winter setting in in the area in about 7 weeks at the latest).

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: "Several elements of the power grid that supply electricity to parts of Kyiv and the Kyiv region were damaged, leading to power outages (...) a significant portion of consumers in the region are without electricity": Ukraine's national grid operator shortly before the latest RU missile strike.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 22h

IMPORTANT: Just as I suggested earlier, Donald Trump's supposed Russia diesel "deal" might be illegal under US law, unless and until US Congress receives an official explicit "certification" from POTUS stating that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ended.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 22h

VIDEO: First hour of the rescue operation in the city of Zaporizhzhia in central Ukraine last night where a Russian glide bomb strike killed at least 11 civilians. Rescue Service and policemen work in body armor and helmets due to the high risk of Russian follow-up strikes on first responders.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 22h

Meanwhile, a Russian glide bomb strike on residential areas in the city of Zaporizhzhia in central Ukraine last night killed at least 11 civilians (incl. 3 children), wounded at least 16: governor. Rescue Service were still digging through the rubble of several apartment blocks as of 11:53 AM.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Impact math quickly done by @euanmacdonald.bsky.social : the pretext for lifting sanctions off Russia was a volume of Russian diesel that, IF delivered to the US market, would only cover THREE DAYS of domestic American consumption.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BRKNG IMPORTANT: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has just given his reaction to Donald Trump's alleged diesel deal with Russia.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

IMPORTANT: US Treasury "temporarily" lifted US sanctions off export of diesel fuel from Russia. It's certainly a relief for the Russian war economy, but I'm not qualified to say how much of a relief. All I know is that Russian export of diesel has always been MUCH smaller than crude oil export.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For Ukrainian drone companies, there's no such thing as too weird aircraft design. In this case, Skyeton Stormbird👀.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Unfortunately, there is extensive damage to power grids and electricity transmission facilities" after Russian strikes this week, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted this afternoon.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The October 8 massacre in Kramatorsk*, Ukraine made it to front page of @financialtimes.com . Not at all how this once important industrial city wanted to be covered by the top British business paper💔.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Kyiv entering 'survival' mode amid Russian strikes surge", with disruption to city's water infrastructure being potentially a "quite large-scale" crisis, Mayor Klitschko told @afp.com (as republished by @france24.com ).

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes here in Kyiv have continued throughout the day (incl. right now). Three people have been killed and 14 injured. Among the military targets struck by Russians in Ukraine's capital today: a shopping mall; a construction supplies storage (tiles and cement bags seen).

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: At least 12 civilians killed, up to 14 wounded in the Russian glide bombs strike on a street in the city of Kramatorsk in Donbas this morning, authorities say. The victims were travelling in two city buses which were hit by shockwaves, fragmentation and then caught fire.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someone's apartment is engulfed in flames after a fragment of a downed Russian jet drone fell onto a residental mid-rise in northeastern Kyiv ~an hour go. Actually, two homes: those are adjacent apartments.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A very Ukrainian video: Kyiv metro personnel continue their nightly maintenance work underground despite 10,000s of people sheltering from Russian airstrike at the stations last night.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

VIDEO*: Entire residential quarters (431 homes) were destroyed or damaged by Russian missile strike in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine last night. Two people have been killed, 34 wounded. Meanwhile, there's a new Russian drone strike in Kremenchuk area right now.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New video* of the rescue operation in the Pryluky apartment building which was collapsed by a Russian ballistic missile last night. 9 people, including 3 children, are known to have been killed in this house as of 11:10AM today. Three have been rescued.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A child is carried out of a collapsed apartment block after the Russian missile strike this morning: heartbreaking video from the city of Pryluky in northern Ukraine. It is unclear if this particular boy survived but we know that a child was among at least six people who had been killed there.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"As a birthday “gift” to Putin, Russian army destroyed a residential building in Pryluky (...) It was an ordinary five-story apartment building. (...) One of the key targets was our energy infrastructure. The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively." - Ukraine President V. Zelensky.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday in Odesa, an old style Russian piston engine drone was shot down the old way: with machine guns and an interceptor FPV drone. Kyiv is swarmed by mostly jet drones nowadays.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Northern Bridge in Kyiv is being wrapped in fishing nets: an anti-drone measure typical in the near-warzone areas of Ukraine. The public is somewhat sceptical as this type of fortification only helps against smaller drones which are so far rarely used in Russian attacks here.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet another step in Kyiv's traumatic adaption to The War: only one metro train at a time, in any direction, will be allowed to the Southern Bridge in the peak hours😣 due to the threat of Russian terrorist strikes on bridges. The bridge, of course, was designed to carry more than two trains.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PHOTO: Gaping hole in one of the apartments damaged by the Russian glide bombs strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine this afternoon. By Pavlo Pakhomenko, Nakypilo.ua .

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Video showing aftermath of the Russian glide bombs strike on a residential area in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine today. 39 civilians killed, 39 wounded. Up to 80 apartments are left windowless. Tonight the temperature in Kharkiv will drop to at least +5 degrees Celsius (~40F).

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Turns out there was a Russian glide bombs strike on the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine 2 hours ago. At least three civilians have been killed, at least 39 injured; a five-storey apartment block is heavily damaged, as per mayor's and governor's posts.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Three years ago on this day, 59 civilians were murdered in the Russian terrorist missile strike on the village of Hroza in eastern Ukraine, so far the single largest loss of civilian life in The War. Russians went great lengths to prepare a deliberate attack on a wake for a single fallen soldier.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last night Russian small drone targeted a civilian ambulance in rural eastern Ukraine. Miraculously, nobody was hurt but the vehicle (donated by Italy) is likely totaled.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Meanwhile, Elon Musk's "superintelligence" LLM Grok farts out blatant Kremlin disinformation on X, apparently because it's trained to tailor its "thinking" for each individual user's language, X history, prompts etc.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IMPORTANT: For the 1st time since 2021, the US is importing potash from Belarus, via Russian port. Belarus, a de facto part of RU economy, used to be under US sanctions: first for the brutal 2020 crackdown on protests, than for the MASSIVE aiding and abetting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"... Public transit in the country's main city cannot stop (...) that's why we are talking to you like responsible adults.": social media post by the urban rail service in Ukraine's capital Kyiv addresses passengers to explain the physics and geometry of "Russian drone vs. a train on a bridge".

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Speaking of Russian plague: a notorious RU channel posted a video of a Russian bomber drone dropping a fragmentation grenade on civilian Ukrainian firefighters in the city of Kherson. Russia works on a plague but Russia is itself the plague of the Earth.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my understanding, the most recent Russian drone strike on Kyiv's Northern Bridge today successfully targeted the heating pipe under the road surface. Mayor Klitschko warned about disruption of hot water supply for 100,000s of homes in the Left-Bank neighborhoods due to an enemy strike.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

BRKNG: River Dnipro will be dammed in several places across Ukraine ASAP to prepare emergency pontoon bridges in case Russian airstrikes succeed in damaging the existing bridges, UA Minister for Recovery, Infrastructure and Transport Mykola Kalashnyk tells Suspilne.media .

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Children in my newsfeed, please🙄 If you (hopefully) know that Phukah Car-Sloan is a well-documented liar and character assassin slinging fakes on a regular base, why would you LEGITIMIZE and AMPLIFY him by mentioning his name and quoting him🙃?

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A good analysis of Vladimir Putin's most recent strategic speech at Valdai fascist conclave dropped yesterday by @nicolange.bsky.social , a German expert on Russia. I'll post key quotes from an automated translation from German ⬇️ 🧵

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today Russians are hitting the Northern Bridge. At stake is the main link to Troieshchyna, one of Europe's largest bedroom districts on Kyiv's Left Bank. Million+ people live there (incl. 100,000s of war refugees). If the bridge is closed, they will be commuting to work 6 hours daily (round trip).

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

President Zelensky asked Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese firms building Rassvet, a rival satellite network to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink. Ukraine warns that the Rassvet terminals, when operational, are certain to be built into Russian drones and missiles' guidance systems.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Speaking of global maritime shipping: right now, 10 Russian Banderols [budget cruise missiles] swarm the ports of Larger Odesa in southern Ukraine, from 3 directions. There are few feasible alternative routes, so less Ukrainian grain will pass, and more Arabs and Indonesians will skip their meals.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, kids, there won't be a "decrease in global demand for fossil fuels in 5 years" or 15 years for that matter. "Experts" saying otherwise are shameless agendists paid by the Green Mafia to ignore all evidence to the contrary. Like the fast growth of cities or massive re-militarization worldwide.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While news media concentrate on the attacks on bridges in Kyiv, Russians hit the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine with three glide bombs this afternoon, killing two women and wounding at least 33 civilians (incl. 3 children); there's extensive damage to homes and businesses: governor Synehubov.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

US aid to Ukraine is largely halted while Ukraine is forced to urgently buy cheap-ish but shitty Chinese civilian pickups for frontline military logistics. Washington should resume Biden-era direct vehicles aid, not least to keep Ukrainian defense procurement dollars out of China automakers' hands.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile, teenage fashion in Ukraine:

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ukraine has an urgent need to repair its handful of American-made F-16 fighter jets protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian drones - @wsj.com editorial. United States has all the F-16 maintenance capabilities, and THOUSANDS of surplus F-16 planes, but never gave Ukraine a single one.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hilarious twist of traitor's fate. In 2014, a prominent firebrand Ukrainian lawyer moved to Russia-occupied Donetsk, apparently due to mental issues from mourning husband's natural death. Yesterday she posted she was about to be arrested and killed in RU jail, called for everyone to flee Russia.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A quick guide of what to do if a Russian airstrike / shelling began when you are in town with your child, just published by Ukraine's Rescue Service and UNICEF.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Consistent reports: Russians are using new sophisticated tactic of terrorist deep strikes targeting specifically the pylons holding the high-voltage power transmission lines in Ukraine. The tactic involves aiming drones at particular pylons [not an easy task] and new specialist anti-steel warheads.

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A positive Ukraine story: Stewards on a train that was halted and evacuated in the middle of nowhere due to imminent Russian drone attack challenged distressed passengers to go mushroom-hunting while they wait out the threat.

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