'Ukraine Update' liveblog test

by kos for Daily Kos Liveblogs

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022 Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022 at 2:58:22pm PDT

Demonstrators protest against Russian strikes on Ukraine during a rally organised by Ukrainian refugees and activists, in Tbilisi on October 10, 2022. - President Vladimir Putin threatened on October 10 more 'severe' attacks against Ukraine after Russian missiles rained down on the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in what Washington branded 'utter brutality'. The biggest wave of strikes across Ukraine in months killed at least 11 and wounded more than 80 in retaliation for an explosion this weekend that damaged a key bridge linking Russia to the Moscow-annexed Crimean peninsula. (Photo by Vano SHLAMOV / AFP) (Photo by VANO SHLAMOV/AFP via Getty Images)

I’m going to add intro text, so I can update below this as events unfurl.

UPDATE: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 · 10:03:07 PM +00:00 · kos

Testing this out. Where does this update show up?

UPDATE: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 · 10:00:53 PM +00:00 · kos

Second update just because.

UPDATE: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 · 10:00:23 PM +00:00 · kos

Update update update with some critically improtant breaking news!

With the front lines temporarily stabilized, Russian Telegram sources like Rybar are back to inventing fantastical claims of glorious advances, multitudes HIMARS rockets shot down by air defenses, and lots and lots of supposedly dead Ukrainians. Yesterday they were busy celebrating a supposed Russian counteroffensive out of Kreminna that was retaking lost territory toward Lyman. None of it was true, of course, pure nonsense. Pro-Russian Telegram is at its most honest when they’re panicking. And right now, they’re too busy celebrating Monday morning’s terrorist missile attacks.

Along with Russian leadership, Russian Telegram has surrendered any notion of winning on the conventional battlefield. Rybar teamed up with state television network RT to make a list of Ukrainian electrical substations, because heaven forbid they actually hit military targets in, you know, a war. They think that freezing Ukrainians this winter from lack of power (along with Ukraine’s European allies) will somehow deliver their elusive victory. At the very least, people will suffer, and Russia is happiest when others are suffering.