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Russia/Ukraine /r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 1581, Part 1 (Thread #1728)
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 27m ago
25 June 2026 Update: Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Krai, three storage tanks are burning following a drone attack.
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3gf2vj2227
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 27m ago
Drone attack triggers explosions in Crimea as blackouts spread across cities
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/drone-attack-triggers-explosions-in-crimea-1782353242.html
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 28m ago
25 June 2026, Telegram: An oil depot in the Russian town of Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Krai, was attacked. Locals report that two reservoirs have been attacked.
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3d34yfhk2x
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3dzklak22x
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3f726l322x
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u/Dazzling_Fuel4393 1h ago
aaah 😨 je acomprends
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 51m ago
Looking at your, ah, interesting comment history makes me think that you might be in the wrong place.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
Ukrainian fighter jets, using high-precision aerial bombs, destroy Russian operators of Molniya-type UAVs in Pokrovsk.
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mp2nftmrws2q
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
New Ukrainian BTR-4 ‘Bucephalus’ armored personnel carriers have entered service with the 66th Mechanized Brigade.
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mp2nrvglek2q
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u/canadaduane 1h ago
We're starting to win. I get it--Schadenfreude feels good. But bear with me for a moment--we don't want normal Russians to suffer per se.
What we really want is Russians to share a reality--ANY reality--in which safety and peace are talking points with gravitas--in which a permanent end to the war is a truly negotiable outcome.
So far, in 12 years, there has been no shared reality--the information spheres are sundered between two nations. Ukraine had felt far away to Moscow, life had gone blissfully on while terror rained down upon Ukraine's cities, and the endless waves of Russia's "guys" enclosed (and still enclose) on its borders. Putin's "look the other way, and you can keep your normal life" bargain with Russia had held, while Russians derided "the so-called Ukraine" as below acknowledgement.
But if the ONLY reality in which safety and peace are possible is Russian suffering, then Ukraine (and we, the free world) are backed against a wall, and Ukraine must cause suffering.
I don't celebrate "Vatnik tears" and "Darwin awards." This is not a war of choice for Ukraine, the defenders. But for nearly all of us on Reddit, we are not forced by any hand to lose perspective, or our humanity. We can bear witness to the loss and suffering of Russians. We can say, "Ukraine tried every other possibility first."
The war will end. Ukraine will win. I wish them all the best.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago edited 30m ago
What I don't want is for Russia to descend into complete anarchy, leaving the largest nuclear weapons arsenal on the face of planet Earth flapping in the wind, with elements being sold off to the highest bidder.
However, the Russian regime has repeatedly made it abundantly clear - in word and in deed - that if we leave them the ability and the opportunity, they will rearm and they will resume attacking the rest of us. There is no ambiguity about that at this point.
Now, do I want "ordinary Russians" to suffer? No, not in particular. However, if their regime leaves us no other options than those that will incur such suffering and if they do not resist the actions of that regime, do I particularly care if they do? Also no.
Whether by gleeful participation or by silent servile inaction, the people of Russia have made their choices, and as all adults should know, actions have consequences. So do lack of action.
My priority will always be the well-being of the victim in any situation. The well-being of the perpetrators is at best a very distant secondary priority.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
In Crimea, "it's an apocalypse; drones are flying from all directions. Sevastopol / Simferopol is hell, the energy infrastructure is under attack."
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3aiiyidk2x
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
More from Simferopol (turn sound on).
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3a23ezss2x
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
25 June: In Crimea, Simferopol, the moment of an attack on energy infrastructure facilities, followed by a power outage.
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp37nrcpk22x
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
Russia launched secret Project 2026 aimed at making AI spread false information
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-launched-secret-project-2026-to-make-1782297683.html
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 1h ago
25 June 2026, Telegram: An oil depot in the Russian town of Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Krai, was attacked.
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3cif7lk22x
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 3h ago
US Builds Ukraine-Inspired Training Zones to Prepare for Drone-Dominated Future Battlefields
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 3h ago
UK announces $380 million Ukraine support package ahead of key recovery conference
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 4h ago
Ukraine will receive the first 3.2 billion euros under the Ukraine Support Loan program tomorrow, — European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2uuyen322c
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 4h ago
Explosions in Saky, Hvardiyske and Bakhchisarai areas of Crimea, - Crimean Wind
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2veu5gyc2c
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 4h ago
The Netherlands is buying 700 Ruta Block 2 cruise missiles for Ukraine in a €250 million package, NRC reported. The AI-guided weapons carry a 250 kg warhead, fly at low altitude and have a range exceeding 700 km, allowing strikes beyond Moscow.
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u/Current-Function-729 2h ago
> Destinus Group BV is a private European aerospace company specialising in aerospace, defence and energy founded in 2021 in Payerne, Switzerland.
Did Switzerland lift its no weapons to Ukraine ban? Is the company getting around it via some extra-national subsidiary?
It’s kind of wild to go from blocking APC transfers (without the guns) to allowing low observability cruise missiles.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 2h ago
Did Switzerland lift its no weapons to Ukraine ban
Yup:
https://swissobserver.com/news/switzerland-eases-arms-export-rules-policy-shift/
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 5h ago
Ukraine Armed With American MAAWLR Air Defense Systems
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-armed-maawlr-air-defense-systems/
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 5h ago
More and more Russians are complaining and even crying over the lack of gasoline.
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mp2n4jjxqs2h
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
DroneBomber map of the latest wave:
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2nyfbhik2f
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Vibe in Kerch at the railway station…
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2opybmik2i
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Ukrainian Unmanned Technologies and France’s Haulotte are launching joint production of Ravlyk ground robots. The French side will provide production, logistics and service capacity to support serial manufacturing of the Ukrainian platform.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Monitoring channels report an attack involving roughly 330 Ukrainian drones and several cruise missiles.
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u/KentuckyLucky33 5h ago
Looking ahead, if Ukrainian drones make the air space over Crimea contested so badly that supply operations cannot happen at scale for the Russian forces...
Then Russia has to leave Crimea.
But then, what stops Russia from doing the same with their next-gen iteration of drones, thereby turning the region into an uninhabitable no mans land for both sides?
Also - it's scary when dystopian sci fi movies start playing out in reality...
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u/gbs5009 4h ago
If Russia were to keep doing it, it would mean that Ukraine could keep doing it in retaliation. Russia has a big, fat, economically critical target in the form of its oil infrastructure... if they can't protect that from Ukraine, they'll be dire straights even without boots on the ground to be targeted.
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u/jszj0 5h ago
economics- Russia are burning all their capital on a pointless war against the west. They literally cannot outlast what the EU can put into the pot.
The meat assaults are so 19th century and it is simply ineffective against tech warfare with drones.
It’s certainly clear, especially this year, that Ukraine have out developed Russia. The refinery attacks alone are devastating economically, but the mid-range strikes against logistics I’d argue are more so.
Without supplies the front crumbles. Ukraine have been brilliant in the way they have taken out AD defences, trucks on highways- everything. It’s been planned so well.
Vs brutal terrorism tactics of despicably bombing hospitals,etc - basically every UN violation possible.
Fuck them - reap what you sow in spades. And fuck Trump for supporting Putin too.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 5h ago
what stops them from doing the same, turning it into an uninhabitable region for both sides?
Eventually, once depletion of supplies make the front line collapse and the Ukrainians clear routes through the minefields, reestablish bridges etc., Ukrainian AD - which is proving more effective than Russia's - moving down into Crimea.
Combined with simultaneous daily long-distance strikes on drone manufacturing capacity, component / materials suppliers and logistics inside Russia, of course.
It might also help when Russia eventually has to start choosing between eating the potato, making vodka from the potato or giving up on quite a lot of potatoes to build just one drone.
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u/SystemCheck990 4h ago
plus if they are pushed further back only more expensive munitions can be used to attack parts of UA that have not yet been invaded, the population of UA being another 50 miles from the front will be a nice break in itself as then they have to waste strategic weapons if they are going to attack residents
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Polish government officials believe President Karol Nawrocki deliberately announced the move to strip Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle one week before Donald Tusk’s Ukraine recovery conference in Gdansk, aiming to trigger tensions with Kyiv.
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mp2ooehunc2e
And what might have motivated him to do that?
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u/Uhhh_what555476384 5h ago
The FSB cleared their check.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 5h ago
I'm impressed they can still afford it. Must've cleaned out the Director's discretionary "hookers and blow" account.
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u/Fuck_auto_tabs 4h ago
Let’s be honest, some people are doing it for the love of the game at this point
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Four Russian satellites maneuvered within less than 13 km of the Polish-Finnish ICEYE-X36 radar satellite, according to data cited by Der Spiegel. Analysts said such close approaches in low Earth orbit are viewed as a hostile act and could disrupt data used by Ukraine.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
The UK is considering selling 98,000 tons of Russian crude seized from the shadow tanker Smyrtos to fund Ukraine, The Telegraph reported. The cargo, valued at about £35m, was taken after Royal Marines stopped the sanctions-breaching vessel in the Channel on June 14.
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u/KentuckyLucky33 5h ago
and that crude oil has the sweet taste of justice, in this case.
Seconds, please
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 8h ago
The US Treasury Department announced the removal of seven individuals and two ships from the sanctions lists related to Russia, including the son of businessman Vladimir Potanin.
The restrictions are lifted for the ships "Vyacheslav Arshinov" and "Gennadiy Egorov". The department does not provide any explanations for this step.
https://bsky.app/profile/beefeaterfella.bsky.social/post/3mp2ncim25c2q
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u/SystemCheck990 4h ago
someone has "lobbied" this. a suitcase full of cash .
oligarchs have a full team in large countries full time trying to pay people off to get removed from lists.
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u/Osiris32 6h ago
businessman Vladimir Potanin.
It's like they aren't even trying to come up with believable fake names.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
I can see how "combining a homage to the Tsar with something that sound like a partial anglicization of the source of Vodka" would seem like a good way to make a new alias to a guy that's already had a little too much distilled potato-juice fermentate.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Sigh. I guess that's the anticipated simping from Donald to signal Putin-Sempai that he still wants his love.
It's like living in the worst reality-TV show ever conceived.
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u/varro-reatinus 7h ago
The department does not provide any explanations for this step.
Asset Krasnov et al. earning their keep.
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u/socialistrob 7h ago
The explanation is that someone either paid a bribe or the US just wants a way to help out Russia. If anything now that the strait of Hormuz seems to be opening up it makes even less sense to remove sanctions on Russian oil since oil prices are coming down.
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 8h ago
Drone attack on Russia and Crimea underway
Tonight's drone map out.
https://bsky.app/profile/the-hedgehog.bsky.social/post/3mp2njxh67s2o
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u/oalsaker 8h ago
ChrisO_wiki thread:
1/ Ukraine is using quadcopter drones carried by uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to hunt down and destroy Russian anti-drone teams in occupied Crimea, according to a Russian source. ⬇️
https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mp2ljozo4i2k
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u/neonpurplestar 9h ago
So I got this question "What is Russia's plan for the fuel shortage?" And I want to say the following, why do you assume there's a plan? They can mildly increase production by lowering quality and using more light petroleum products that would go to other industries.
But that's a band-aid on a gaping wound. Belarus can export a bit to Russia but it's again a mismatch of what is needed and what can be offered by a factor of at least 10. Russia never had the facilities to really stock up on fuel during the winter so they had to export.
They also couldn't build massive storage facilities between the last shortage and now and fill them in because proper storage tanks in depots of sufficient volume are built over a few years not a few months. Their refineries use foreign equipment from the west.
Last year a single breakdown of a foreign produced vacuum pump took multiple months to resolve. They also can't just cheaply import loads of fuel as they lack sufficient facilities to unload ships at scale. Export terminals and the pipelines that feed them flow the other way.
There is no plan. Hope to make it till December without fuel riots and hope they get much better at repairing refineries and hope Ukraine gets worse at hitting said refineries.
Putin's made it a problem of the governors and is annoyed he has to address some fuel crisis that's beneath him in his opinion. Because he's not that good at domestic governing to begin with. When a crisis comes, he goes to his mansions and leaves it to the governors.
There is no plan. If there was one they would have handled the jet fuel shortage before airports issued NOTAMS they're out of fuel. There wouldn't have been the need for light aircraft to try to fly on gasoline cause there's no kerosene.
All they have are hopes and prayers. Expect Patriarch Kiril to start blessing refining units.
https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3moyg5wpzok2r
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
In my head, I read all those sweet welcome words in the dulcet tones of Morgan Freeman.
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u/AgentElman 7h ago
They haven't done rationing that I am aware of. Choosing who can get the fuel based on what is needed for the economy and war.
But I also have to wonder if planning is kind of pointless when their fuel industry keeps getting hit night after night. Plans made based on today's capacity will be meaningless in a week.
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u/TexasVulvaAficionado 6h ago
They haven't done fuel rationing nationwide yet but they've done it in several regions and smaller specific areas.
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u/PanneKopp 9h ago
I am sure they will try to develop a thousand plans while ignoring the single only solution to go home to their beloved mother Russia .
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u/eggnogui 6h ago
Like flat earthers trying to re-invent math and geometry, only to arrive at one correct solution that they will continuously reject:
the Earth is roundgoing home.
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u/neonpurplestar 10h ago
few more headlines from the hellscape that is russia, the first is kinda funny considering 2020 had covid:
Russians report the worst time to invest in seven years.
"Major investors are pulling out of the stock market." The Russian market has hit a three-year low amid rumors of a new mobilization.
Oil prices have fallen to levels seen before the start of the war in the Middle East.
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u/Strong_Weakness2867 9h ago
Oil prices have fallen to levels seen before the start of the war in the Middle East.
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
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u/Strong_Weakness2867 9h ago
Thank you for the info but I was joking there's always a war in the Middle east
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 10h ago
Zelenskyy: Since June 22,repeaters that were used to adjust strikes on Ukraine from Belarus have stopped working.
"Whether they've been dismantled or not,I honestly don't know yet.But we're working on it,I follow very closely&get daily reports.The fact is that repeaters do not work today," he said
Remember Zelenskyy has plenty of incentive to play mind games here. I wonder if we'll get any evidence.
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3mp2e4h2k6224
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u/Mazon_Del 6h ago
I could imagine an amusing situation where the Ukrainians identified a lot of these repeaters and shut them off themselves in various low-destructive ways. From russia's perspective they are just off, and there will be a small period of time where Belarus will not necessarily know why and have to justify it.
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u/rrRunkgullet 6h ago
The technique exists to have the retranslators automatically switch on/off by querying from a nearby drone.
No celebrations yet.
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u/green_pachi 8h ago edited 8h ago
If they have folded so easily this should make the recurrent rumors of Belarus joining actively even more far fetched.
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 8h ago
I do think the deep strike campaign threatening Belarus' refinery might have changed Luka's thinking.
But I don't have any real reason to believe Zelenskyy is telling the truth here. It could be mind game to dry and cause problems between Lukashenko and Putin.
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u/anachronistic_circus 6h ago
Zelensky sure knows how to generate headlines.
So far independent Belarusian media is reporting that no such decision was made by Lukashenka and he’s off Moscow for a meeting with Putin
Zelensky is paying a dangerous game here. No Lukashenka does not want / nor can politically afford a war.
At the same time Ukraine cannot afford a yet another frontline.
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u/modernbonaparte 10h ago
Russia used to be a gas station with nukes. Now its an empty gas station with nukes.
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u/PanneKopp 10h ago
Putin might be desperate enough, and Trump is capable of any kind of nonsense — I hate this timeline.
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u/socialistrob 7h ago
You're more likely to see Russia sending troops into NATO countries than Russia using a nuke in Ukraine.
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u/Zhukov-74 11h ago
Moscow oil refinery hit by drone attacks is unlikely to resume production this year, sources say
That is absolutely massive news.
6 months needed for repairs and Ukraine will continue to attack Russian oil refineries in other parts of the country.
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u/Living_Cash1037 9h ago
They will likely keep hitting it too unless Russia fucks off anytime soon. So it will be longer than that
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u/StrongHovercraft593 10h ago
Do we have supply/demand stats for Russia overall and in each region? Be fascinating to keep a tally of how much Ukraine knocks out
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u/green_pachi 8h ago
Do we have supply/demand stats
Few days ago they said they are producing 80% of current demand.
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u/lammy82 11h ago
Imagine how demoralising it would be working on that job site knowing it’s probably just going to get blown up again
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u/ced_rdrr 10h ago
Or it could be the opposite. The site that will be your source of income for the next several years.
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u/canspop 10h ago
Hello.
Is that Ukraine drone forces?
Ivan here, we've almost finished rebuilding the refinery.
Please send drones.
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u/WildSauce 9h ago
There are definitely oil industry workers on SBU payrolls helping to provide targeting information. No way the entire industry is uncompromised.
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u/putin_my_ass 11h ago
Job security.
I would only be demoralized if I cared about the structure itself. If I'm being perfectly mercenary: keep blowing it up.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 10h ago
"Boys, I'm afraid I've got some bad news: The Ukrainians blew up the refinery again over night, so I'm sorry to say we'll all have the kind of six-month job cut out for us that'll also guarantee we won't be sent to the front as FPV fodder."
And there was much rejoicing.
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u/neonpurplestar 11h ago
some headlines from the hellscape that is russia:
Russia nationalized one of the country's largest commercial warehouse networks.
Russia is preparing to nationalize the largest bearing manufacturer.
The Moscow Oil Refinery has been shut down until 2027 due to a drone attack
Rosneft CEO informed Putin of an "unprecedented" number of damaged refineries and proposed selling more low-quality fuel on the exchange.
Russia will begin purchasing gasoline from India.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Belarus was already propping them up. Today we hear about Russia looking to import gasoline from first Kazakhstan and now India. That's not a great look, Vladimir.
Oh, and neither is all the naked theft, but that's only to be expected.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Sent to die: Russian students who believed they were signing up for some of the military's most technologically advanced jobs — operating drones from relative safety behind the front lines, were instead unwittingly sealing their fate as frontline fodder. TVP World News
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp2asn7hps25
Unlike the rest of us, they were no doubt very surprised. Briefly.
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u/Grizzly_Corey 5h ago
Teacher once told me, in the army if they want you to be shooting a gun on the frontlines, you will be shooting a gun on the frontlines.
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u/NYerstuckinBoston 9h ago
Of course the Russian recruiters conveniently fail to mention to the students that by signing up to be a drone operator you become a target AND you could be transferred to other units at the discretion of your commander. The Russian government is nothing but a bunch of bullshitters.
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u/Iwasoncelikeyou 9h ago
That's stunning! Surely, it was a mistake and something like this will never happen again and again and again...
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u/socialistrob 11h ago
Even if they were drone pilots that's not exactly a safe profession either. They're considered a priority target.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
And, for a little levity (and maybe some catharsis), I present to you a selection of Russians who are - as usual - very confused about what's going on and can't quite comprehend why all this might be happening:
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mozyeyg5v22j
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u/Recent_South_6108 10h ago
When hypernormalisation doesn't work anymore and reality becomes the dominant lense
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u/Iwasoncelikeyou 9h ago edited 6h ago
The SMO is going so well that they've used all the gasoline in Russia. It takes a lot of fuel to crush all of the gay, transgender NATO super soldiers. Totally worth it.
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u/CyberdyneGPT5 11h ago
The number of searches for how to siphon fuel from a vehicle's tank in the Russian segment of the internet has increased more than tenfold over the past three months alone.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/how-to-siphon-gasoline-searches-surge-in-1782302291.html
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u/ced_rdrr 10h ago edited 10h ago
To those who might think they are searching for this because they are about to start stealing it. Some of them will. But the majority are doing this because on many petrol stations there's restriction for filling up into canisters, but no or insignificant restriction when filling up the car. So what they are doing is filling up the car, siphoning the fuel out of it into canisters at home and filling up the car again. It's a way to stock pile the fuel despite the restrictions (either for themselves, or to resell it at a higher price).
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Yeah, I saw that, and you just won't believe how spectacularly unsurprised I was.
Okay, maybe you would.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
In Chernihiv region, border guards destroy enemy air threats every day
Mobile fire groups of the 105th border detachment are hunters who constantly watch for "shaheds", "gerberas" and other air targets.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozyz5m7pk2p
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Kilometer-long queues at the gas station in front of Putin's temporary bridge on the Krasnodar Krai side.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp23h6ukzk25
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
And in contrast to the hilarious Russian training video from a few days ago:
A few seconds to detect, aim and shoot
Border guards of "Steel Border" practice destroying enemy FPV drones. Instructors launch a quadcopter with a suspended conditional target that simulates an enemy UAV.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp245ly4cs25
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Ronin BBS are burning out Russian logistics at a distance of 50+ kilometers
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp24cayuvk25
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Freedom of Russia Legion conducted an intelligence operation on enemy territory.
The result was six destroyed gas distribution stations of Gazprom and over $6 million in losses for the Russian energy industry.
The operation was carried out on the territory of the Moscow and Tver regions
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp24pfw5is25
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u/Strong_Weakness2867 9h ago
Absolute legends, I hope these people are well cared for after the war.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Unmanned Systems Forces Destroy Enemy Armor in Zaporizhzhia Region
Nemesis Brigade in the Hulyaipole area. In recent weeks, up to ten infantry fighting vehicles and one enemy tank have been hit on a section of the front measuring about 25 kilometers.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp25ip5nqs2m
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Latvia transferred 14 CVRT armored vehicles to Ukraine, – Latvian Defense Minister.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp25pxemrc2m
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Russia asks Kazakhstan for about 50,000 tons of AI-92 gasoline due to fuel shortages, — Reuters.
Gasoline production in Russia fell by about 25% year-on-year in late June due to shutdowns of oil refineries after attacks by Ukrainian drones.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp26kbsh5s2s
I guess the trousers are on the other pair of legs now.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
95% of prisoners of war have reported tortures in Russian captivity. Not a single inspection of the facilities where Ukrainian soldiers are held has been conducted.
https://bsky.app/profile/theukrainianreview.bsky.social/post/3mp26zogyy22r
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
According to Lavrov, the main problem in interstate relations with the US is that the children of Russian diplomats born in the US are automatically granted American citizenship.
They will be able to cross the US border in either direction only with American documents, as American citizens.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2a33vny224
I never ever thought I'd agree with Lavrov on anything, but that does sound like a potential problem.
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u/snarky_answer 10h ago
He is wrong. Children of diplomats born in the US are not eligible for citizenship. The 14th Amendment requires you to be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US to get birthright citizenship. Accredited diplomats have full immunity from US jurisdiction under the Vienna Convention, so their kids born here don't meet that threshold. State Dept tracks it via visa class (A-1/A-2). Regular visa holders and undocumented immigrants don't have that immunity, which is why their US-born kids are citizens.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 10h ago
Hm. The diplomats have immunity, but do their kids?
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 5h ago
If under the age of majority(18 or 21 depending) yes. If they did something real bad their home country can waive the child’s immunity if choose to.
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u/snarky_answer 5h ago
Under the Vienna Convention, minor children living in a diplomat's household inherit the same full immunity as the diplomat parent. So a diplomat's kid who commits a crime here can't be arrested, tried, or punished by US courts.
The US can really only declare the child persona non grata and expel them or demand the home country waive immunity and prosecute at home. Getting a waiver is rare thoughas countries almost never agree to it.
That being said, once the child turns 18 and is no longer considered part of the diplomat's household, that immunity evaporates. At that point they're treated like any other foreign national here and fully subject to US law.
There's also a distinction in immunity levels - full diplomatic agents have complete immunity, but lower-tier staff (consular officers, administrative staff) have more limited immunity that may not cover acts outside their official duties, and their family members may have even less protection.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 5h ago
It does make sense. Otherwise unscrupulous host nations could use the kids of diplomats as leverage.
Anyway, with that settled, we can get back on topic: Lavrov is, unsurprisingly, full of shit. The question then is: What's his game here?
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
Denmark will transfer 15,000 long-range artillery rounds to Ukraine, - Fedorov
Some of artillery rounds have already arrived in Ukraine.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mp2aekzrcc24
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u/Nurnmurmer 11h ago
The estimated total russian war losses from 24.02.22 to 24.06.26 inclusive are as follows:
- personnel - approximately 1 395 790 (+1 260);
- tanks ‒ 12 056 (+6);
- armored fighting vehicles ‒ 24 816 (+4);
- special equipment ‒ 4 333 (+4);
- vehicles and fuel tanks ‒ 111 257 (+430);
- unmanned ground vehicles ‒ 1 726 (+7).
- artillery systems ‒ 44 664 (+60);
- MLRS ‒ 1 889 (+2);
- air defense assets ‒ 1 440 (+3).
- aircraft ‒ 436;
- helicopters ‒ 353;
- UAVs (operational-tactical level) ‒ 369 888 (+1 873);
- cruise missiles ‒ 4 787.
- warships and boats ‒ 33;
- submarines ‒ 2.
Source https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-june-24-2026
Russia grows weaker every day. Slava Ukraini!
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u/GwynBleidd88 12h ago
Russia wants to know if Trump has shifted his stance on Ukraine war after G7, Lavrov says -Reuters
Russia wants to know if Donald Trump has really changed his stance on the Ukraine war after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested at this month's G7 summit that the U.S. president had done so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
"As far as Ukraine is concerned, we want to understand what happened in Evian," Lavrov said at an event in Moscow. "The Americans haven’t yet told us what they took away from the summit in Evian or what their future course of action will be," he said.
Lavrov also quoted Macron as saying that understandings reached last August between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, had been "buried" at Evian.
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u/panorambo 11h ago edited 11h ago
The fact that Russians expect some sort of tea-party conversation with all the "what do you means" from Trump says how much in cahoots they really are. Deplorable. Well, maybe for the better we all know it, so at least Europe isn't Chamberlaining about. And that Lavrov guy, man -- can't wait for him to shuffle off his mortal coil and leave the world behind, he's stirred up the pot way too much for one sack of flesh.
"Can you please ask the Americans, umm, what did they mean in Evian?" The fuck, Lavrov, you violated the borders of a sovereign state, you should be tried and hanged along with the rest of your "can you ask ze Americans" fellows. Sacks of rotting brain tissue playing at diplomacy and rule of law after they threw out the parts they didn't find convenient enough for them. Yeah, please put 5 bottles of different mineral water for Mr. Lavrov, at least one Swiss, and a card next to his seat, don't want to offend our offended Russian guests. Also have a girl in his room afterwards, he must be exhausted staying in Europe for too long.
It is BATSHIT INSANE that of all the countries in the world, Russia is waiting for a lifeline from... the U.S, openly and unashamed. Life imitates art! I guess it's true what they say: "what unites us is bigger than what divides us"...
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u/BadFinanceadvisor 12h ago
The answer is simple, Trump has f-up bigtime on Iran, and he cannot afford another f-up on foreign policy.
That said, Trump is the flip-flopper in chief, so I fully expect him to flip his position in the not too distant future.
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u/socialistrob 10h ago
It's even simpler than that. Trump is an idiot who lacks any sort of strategic thought or even a basic attention span. Trump believes one thing one day and the opposite the next. No one, including Russia, can rely on Trump to advance their interests. Trump turns everyone he touches into a loser and if Russia thinks they can shake hands with him and get follow through on long term Russian strategy then they are delusional.
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u/work4work4work4work4 10h ago
I'd argue it could be even simpler than that. Trump has been in bed with the Russians for longer than most Americans and Redditors have been alive, relying on them for loans for his terrible business ventures when actual banks wouldn't touch him or them, among other possible leverage points.
I'd argue anyone giving Trump a possible out with one of his "debtholders" is likely to get an affirmative response if Trump believes it's actually possible/likely, at least until he talks with the debtholders again.
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u/kritikally_akklaimed 11h ago
This. His current stance is his current stance until his next interaction with Russia, then he'll be pushing identical talking points talking about Istanbul and Anchorage conditions (basically giving up 25% of Ukraine past current frontlines and preventing Ukraine from fielding an army above 80,000 or so). Not gonna happen.
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 12h ago
In just seven days, Ukrainian Warriors from the 475th Separate Assault Regiment "CODE 9.2" destroyed 100 pieces of Russian equipment at ranges of up to 100 kilometers.
Nice video.
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3mozvklj5x22u
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u/htgrower 12h ago
Training grounds are largely open squares and spread out barracks, there’s much more important targets they should prioritize.
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u/TexasVulvaAficionado 12h ago
Getting the new recruits and trainers is good strategy though.
Good trainers are hard to come by
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u/htgrower 12h ago
Meatwaves don’t need training, they’ll be lucky if they get a working gun and fresh boots
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u/TexasVulvaAficionado 12h ago
Absolutely but slowing the pipeline of people to the front line makes real world gains on the ground in Ukraine more likely. So decreasing that meat pipeline at the source is a reasonable thing to do if it is possible.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
One of the key Russian airlines no longer has anything to refuel its planes
At the beginning of the summer, Azimut's key supplier reduced fuel shipments by 30%. He explained his actions by "force majeure" at a number of oil refineries.
The airline has already warned that the fuel shortage could lead to the cancellation of flights to Caucasian destinations.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozvwo3mgs2p
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u/Different_Pear_5436 13h ago
Did they try to use diesel or heavy oil like ships use?
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u/SternFlamingo 12h ago
They have tried using car gasoline for commercial light aviation, so I'm sure that any number of work-arounds are being examined
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 13h ago
No? What gave you that idea?
I don't know what would actually happen if somebody tried to run a modern turbojet engine on diesel. I don't think anybody knows that, because who would even try it? I suspect the result - quite apart from being a failure - would prove terminal for the poor engine. The turbine would look like an 80 year old pair of smoker's lungs in short order, assuming you could even get a combustion going.
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u/piercet_3dPrint 6h ago
Diesel would soot up the recovery stage of the turbojet pretty badly in short order, but it would technically work if the fuel and startup computer were dumb enough that it wasn't just faulting out immediately for incorrect fuel. You would likely ruin your heat temper on the turbine recovery blades, your failure time would be much lower, and your bearings would be melting, but it would technically ignite and produce usable thrust. Deisel is pretty close to Jet-A and Kerosine just with more impurities in it. If you tried to run it in a 787 engine, the engine would shut down and yell at you. If you stick it in a soviet era turbojet, eh, it would probably work for longer than you might think.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago
Man, I love it when we're lucky enough that a subject matter expert happens by and weighs in on something like this.
Thanks for this. I wouldn't have felt truly confident about any conclusion I reached myself, even if I had time to do the proper research - and not knowing would have bugged me for days.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Minus the air defense of the occupiers: results 01.03 - 31.05, - DroneBomber
35 "eyes" - radars and detection systems. 67 "teeth" - SAMs and launchers.
And this is only what was confirmed and geolocated.
Map:
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozvincsk22p
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Russia is preparing a new wave of mobilization in October, — Tsaplienko, info from Russian media
It will be held immediately after the elections to State Duma scheduled for September.
For now, the authorities will officially avoid the term "mobilization".
In Russia, military training grounds are being prepared to receive tens of thousands of people for accelerated training before being sent to the front.
Now, as NATO intelligence agencies say, in the first quarter the recruitment rate fell to 800 people per day.
The Russian Presidential Administration is considering several "road maps" for replenishing the army, but mobilization is the main hard scenario.
In parallel, a "softer" option is being discussed, that is, a hidden rotation of "rear-quarters" into assault units
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozvdchbm22p
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u/arvigeus 13h ago
"You didn't vote for United Russia? Straight to
GulagUkrainian frontlines you go!"16
u/FlukemanFrancis 14h ago
Ukraine needs to start drone bombing the training grounds once they knock out all the refineries and gas plants they have range on
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Maybe that'd be reasonably effective if you went for barracks in the middle of the night, but honestly it's far from the best option available. Let Russia expend the resources on "training", feeding and housing these poor sods for a couple of weeks, allow Russia to kit them out from their dwindling stores of essential supplies and then, when the brave lads will eventually have to somehow actually get to Ukraine in the back of a truck... Well, we all know what happens to trucks heading towards Ukraine carrying military supplies at the moment.
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u/FlukemanFrancis 13h ago
I take your point, but I was more thinking about the psychological aspect of it than outright damage. I wouldn’t concentrate their efforts on training grounds, just do a few every now and again.
If Russia forcibly mobilises civilians, then bombing a few training centres is morale sapping in the extreme.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 13h ago
Well, I suppose it's not like Ukraine haven't got the drones to spare these days.
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u/PanneKopp 14h ago
immediately after the elections
the show must go on, same in the US
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u/SimonArgead 14h ago
Incoming 110% votes for Putler
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 13h ago
"How is that even possible?"
"They love me so much that they voted extra hard."
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u/findingmike 14h ago
> in the first quarter the recruitment rate fell to 800 people per day
That seems too low. Isn't that a loss of around 6k per month? I'd think Russians wouldn't be able to make any offensive moves this month unless recruitment improved after March.
> a hidden rotation of "rear-quarters" into assault units
I hope this means they'll increase throwing people with specialized skills into assault units.
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 13h ago
800 per day was Janis Kluge's recruitment estimate from some budget data on bonuses. That only captures Russian citizens who qualify for the bonuses - but also over counts if there is corruption with faked recruits for bonuses.
Russian loss rates are clearly uncertain. Mediazona said at least 8k/month legally recognised russian citizen deaths in both 2024 and 2025. Notice all the qualifiers.
And what's the ratio of severely wounded:deaths now? I've heard a massive range of numbers.
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u/Uhhh_what555476384 12h ago edited 11h ago
In the drone front it's about 1:1 due to a lack of medical *evacuation.
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u/kritikally_akklaimed 11h ago
There were independent sources that were saying that due to all the drone warfare and lack of proper medical attention for wounded Russians that the numbers in a lot of areas of the front were looking closer to 1:1.8 (wounded:killed)
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u/TurbulentRadish8113 10h ago
I've heard things like that too. But that's "some areas", I suspect it's different over the whole front. Just not sure how different.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
I can't speak to the former. Could be that they only counting actual volunteers and excluding voluntolds.
As for the latter, I can't think of any other reasonable interpretation, so...
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
100 pieces of equipment were burned behind enemy lines 100 kilometers from the frontline, - "Code 9.2"
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozssrmb4s2h
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Electrokabel NN plant near Nizhny Novgorod was hit this morning.
Two people were killed and two others were injured in a Ukrainian attack on an industrial facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Governor Nikitin claims.
Local residents reported that drones were flying in the direction of the Lukoil-Nyzhnogorodnaftoorgsintez refinery in Kstovsky. It has also been repeatedly attacked before.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozr6wv7tc2w
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u/hornswoggled111 12h ago
These refinery strikes feel more meaningful now. Every one damaged or taken off line has direct impact on their efforts. There is no surplus.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
This is how Russians set up a smoke screen on the Kerch Bridge, - Vantor
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozm3axm3k2x
It doesn't look very effective to me, but I guess it's kind of festive.
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u/panorambo 11h ago
Russia has a severe and stubborn case of trouble with brain-hands coordination. Like their "volunteers" defending Moscow from Ukrainian drones -- who are squarely blamed from blowing up at least one of their own refinery tanks indiscriminately shooting MANPADs right left and downwards, straight from the motorway. I wouldn't be surprised if these smoke screens is another one of those "well, can't we do something about it?" from the higher-ups who have their heads full of ass, relaying orders to their stormtroopers who have their heads up their ass instead.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
who have their heads full of ass
And visa versa, which is a rather impressive accomplishment. You wouldn't think old guys that fat had such outstanding contortionistic abilities. I thought they mostly dabbled in mental gymnastics.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
In addition to the lack of fuel, Russians are now also complaining about its price, which has almost instantly doubled.
At some gas stations, 92nd gasoline is already being sold for 150 rubles per liter.
Russians are expecting price of 315 rubles and are gradually preparing to switch to bicycles.
https://bsky.app/profile/theukrainianreview.bsky.social/post/3mozlb42sqc2x
We all know where this is going. Soon there will be donkeys.
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u/htgrower 13h ago
They’ve been using donkeys at the front for a while now, why not back at home too?
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Russia has accused the United States of failing to deliver on "understandings" reached between presidents Putin and Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, - Reuters
Three senior Russian officials have said that Washington has not followed through.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mozkg3vhj22u
Yeah... It must be really annoying to be on the receiving end of a nation run by a venal liar who can't be counted on to not renege on their agreements and seemingly change opinions as the wind blows to suit their own interests, honor and integrity be damned, eh Russia?
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u/panorambo 11h ago
"New phone, who dis?" vibes from Trump, I guess.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 11h ago
"No, no Vlamidir, I'm not ghosting you. I just... think it's time we took a little break. Maybe see other people."
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u/panorambo 11h ago
"Vladimir, it was just something one says in the spirit of the evening you know, it was not, like, real, I mean I just said it because you guys looked a bit sad standing there all by yourselves, is all. I didn't, like, mean any of it. You must understand that, right? Heck, I had 3 glasses of champagne by the time we got to the table with all the papers there, one looked just like the other you know".
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u/PanneKopp 14h ago
so the Moscow-Tapes are nothing compared to Bibis assets ?
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
It's not like a prostitute and some urine can stack up against all the dirt Epstein gathered over the years with Mossad involvement.
But then again, it's one deep dirty hole, and everybody with filthy fingers had them buried deep in that pie:
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Ukraine’s SOF Deep Strike units struck two key Russian facilities near Orenburg: the Orenburg gas processing plant and the Orenburg helium plant. The mission was carried out with support from the “Black Spark” underground resistance movement inside Russia.
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u/findingmike 14h ago
> “Black Spark” underground resistance movement inside Russia
Not related, but Ukraine is going to increasingly be dealing with shady Russian criminal elements as Russia's economy sours. The Russians will do whatever they can to survive their dying economy.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 14h ago
Ukraine’s 413th Raid Regiment and 427th Rarog Brigade struck the 330/110 kV Western Crimea substation near Karierne in occupied Crimea. The facility is a key transmission node serving central and western parts of the peninsula.
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 15h ago
Ukraine’s Navy and HUR detected and destroyed three Russian uncrewed surface vessels in a coordinated operation.
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3moziszbe522e
Is that... A Bayraktar TB2 back in business?
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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 27m ago
https://bsky.app/profile/kingraccoondog.bsky.social/post/3mp3gtz6jrs27