Putin doesn’t like the truth speeded up. Russia’s media regulator 🤪 has warned internet providers to stop increasing #YouTube loading speeds. Kremlin had decreased load speeds, making it hard for Russians to watch content such as 🇷🇺 invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/19sWoeZpYA pic.twitter.com/DDNvb6XAhj
— Glasnost Gone (@GlasnostGone) August 29, 2024
Day: August 29, 2024
⚡️ Four Ukrainian films are in the running for a Best International Feature Film nomination at the Oscars.https://t.co/Ajhbll4vn5
— UNITED24 Media (@United24media) August 29, 2024
⚡️BREAKING: F-16 fighter jet crashes in Ukraine, military confirms.
One of the F-16 fighter jets recently delivered to Ukraine crashed while repelling a Russian mass attack, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Aug. 29.https://t.co/ha3lPXRrXM
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024
BREAKING:
Wall Street Journal reports that Ukraine lost an F-16 fighter jet during the large wave of Russian missile strikes on August 26th.
Before losing his life in the crash, the pilot Oleksii Mes shot down 3 cruise missiles and 1 suicide drone.
Rest in Peace Oleksii pic.twitter.com/1EFAExz07w
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 29, 2024
Olena Stiazhkina’s “Ukraine, War, Love,” a diary documenting the start of the events in 2014, can perhaps be best summarized by the line: “What’s it like when Russians come to ‘save Russian speakers,’ and then kill them?” https://t.co/wtGd9s7GwG
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024
Ukraine’s Air Force announced on Aug. 29 that a pilot had been killed during Russia’s mass attack on Aug. 26, shortly after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that one of the recently delivered F-16 jets had been destroyed in a crash on the same day.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024
⚡Updated: WSJ reports F-16 crash, Ukraine’s Air Force announces death of pilot.https://t.co/sHoTB8uB2Z
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024
Restricting Kyiv’s military actions, including the Kursk incursion, only serves to prolong the war and bolster Russia, write Alfonso Prat-Gay, Karin von Hippel, Greg Mills, and Juan-Carlos Pinzon of the Brenthurst Foundation. https://t.co/IVqRAyctuk
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024
In this week’s edition: Russia launches its largest attack since the onset of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine tests its first ballistic missile, and Nova Poshta prepares to enter Austrian and Dutch markets by the end of the year.https://t.co/iAbR6kAqjQ
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 29, 2024