Iryna Matviyishyn
@IMatviyishyn
🇺🇦independent reporter in Ukraine | @RFERL Havel Fellow, contributions to @bbc, @npr, others.| Find me on threads @matviisha
Russians again targeted Odesa, slamming Shahed drones into apartment buildings. Just daily mass murder all over Ukraine as Europeans plan their weekend shopping, cycling, and Netflix.
Chinese comrades are proudly helping Russia kill more civilians in Ukraine
What an irony. Following tonight's massive Russian air attack on Ukraine, we discovered in Kyiv a component of a Russian-Iranian "Shahed-136"/"Geran-2" combat drone, which was made in China and supplied just recently. And right on the eve, the Chinese Consulate General's…
There’s something about Ukrainians that neither the Russians nor the current Ukrainian government can truly grasp: when their freedom is threatened, they don’t give a damn about anything else. Google the word volya to understand it better. Here’s Kharkiv today, video by me
It kinda is when you’re bombed every night by Russian drones and forced to sleep in a subway
⚡️Update: 'I don't think 50 days is very long' — Trump defends timeline for Putin deal. Trump was asked why Russia needed 50 more days to attack Ukraine before agreeing to a peace deal. "I don't think 50 days is very long," he said. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-shoul…
After the russian attack with 700 drones and missiles, there are dead, injured, and destroyed buildings – especially in western Ukraine. And yes, Polish fighter jets took off to burn our taxpayer money, not to help Ukraine. And yes, our incompetent politicians are celebrating…
🔴 Russia conducted one of the most massive attacks on Ukraine to date tonight. Preliminarily, Russian troops deployed: - Between 560 and 700 drones. - Over 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles. The main targets of the assault were Lviv, Lutsk, and Chernivtsi.
4 a.m. most of Ukraine is under a massive Russian drone and missile attack. Each night russia is able to launch more and more drones.
It’s almost 4 a.m. Russia keeps attacking Ukraine with multiple missiles and drones this night
Since Trump was inaugurated, the size of Russia's missile and drone attacks on the people of Ukraine have grown by 5x.
Russia has launched drones on Kyiv again. Air defense is working
Can you imagine that defense weapons were sitting in Poland waiting to get transferred to Ukraine and got cancelled the other day. Meanwhile, Russia launches an 8 hour attack as the U.S. betrays Ukraine. And FFS can Trump stop calling Putin? Every single time this is the result
Sitting under Kyiv skies right now, ballistic explosions in the background, am genuinely struggling to think of a time in modern western history when such serious issues of security have been dependent on such unserious people.