There was some excitement earlier when it was reported that the factory in Moscow that makes MiG fighters had caught fire. Unfortunately it turns out the building on fire had been leased out a while back.
Meanwhile, authorities say there were no fires in Moscow. None.
That big bright ball in the photo is actually a really big flashlight.
Speaking of fires, there must have been some fuel or ammo being stored in this dugout.
This is a seriously intense close-quarters firefight from back in August between a unit of international volunteers for Ukraine and Russians near Avdiivka. Near the end of the video two Russian soldiers run toward the volunteers and are apparently taken prisoner.
WARNING: There are soldiers getting shot in this video.
Ukraine’s Fort McHenry, sort of.
Russians tried to blast the flag off but the it was still here by the dawn’s early light.
Russian drone fortunately just misses this truck evacuating a wounded Ukrainian soldier.
Better call a tow truck for the tow truck.
A plethora of Russian armor blowing up.
Quick quiz: You are in the Russian Army in Avdiivka and your commander is trying to kill you and your friends. What do you do?
A. Die like obedient cannon fodder.
B. Make a video appeal for help because surely Putin doesn’t realize these bad things are going on.
C. Frag the commander.
Another 1,000 Russian soldiers, 8 tanks and 19 artillery systems removed from the battlefield.
Among those nearly 400k Russian casualties are a lot of Dagestanis. Dagestan is in the Caucasus region and borders Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Caspian Sea.
Instead of fertilizing Ukrainian farm fields their lives would have been better spent at home pushing for independence. Dagestan has been the site of anti-mobilization protests and that shameful mob that stormed the airport in Makhachkala looking for Jewish passengers.
Eventually repairs to systems like these will need to be done in Ukraine.
Russia has put the prime minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, on a wanted list for removing Soviet memorials.
The name of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas appeared on the Russian Interior Ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. While independent Russian news outlet Mediazona first reported Tuesday that Kallas was on the list, it said she has been on it for a while. The list includes scores of officials and lawmakers from other Baltic nations.
Russian officials said that Kallas had been put on the list because of her efforts to remove World War II monuments.
This is an interesting story about reporters from Radio Free Europe checking out the seized super yacht allegedly belonging to Vladimir Putin. Allegedly because an oligarch named Eduard Khudainatov claims he owns the Scheherazade, which is sitting in a port in Italy, and that he is totally not a straw man for Putin.
I’m thinking of setting up a BuyMeACoffee account so I can buy this and rename it the SS Russian Stuff Blowing Up. Then I’ll take it out for a three-hour tour 🛟 .
I just need another $324,999,999.
The cost of the yacht is estimated at 325 million dollars. The US government pays 600,000 dollars a month for its maintenance, including for the crew, fuel for the yacht, technical maintenance and garbage removal.
This is not a good idea, but understandable from a country that has reason to worry about Russia’s future war plans.
This crap has been tolerated for far too long.
Here is an interview with a farmer published on the government’s website about working fields on the right (western) bank of the Dnipro that have been mined. I doubt the Polish protesters have to farm under conditions as bad as this.
“Is it safe to work here? We finished demining somewhere in May. From my fields, which are about 1,000 hectares, I collected about 4,000 mines. Thanks a lot to the military for taking and neutralizing these mines. Some were detonated on the spot, some were taken away. From May to September, we were preparing to sow winter crops. So I’m calm: every centimeter of the field here has been plowed. There are no mines.It’s dangerous where there are weeds. Those fields are not ours. There could be anything there, even bouncing mines. We have found those several times. So I instructed everyone working with me: don’t walk in tall grass, don’t enter others’ fields, don’t pick up anything,” the farmer says seriously.
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“In seven months, two guided aerial bombs hit our enterprise. Luckily, some of our equipment was in the fields at that moment. We gifted the GAZelle vehicle to the military; otherwise, it would have just burned down. So now we hide all our machines in villages around the area. We don’t want everything in one place. Keeping machinery in Beryslav is dangerous: [Russian troops – ed.] can drop something from the drones or shell us with artillery,” the farmer complains.
It’s not too safe even in villages in the rear: locals regularly spot Russian drones conducting reconnaissance. Usually, shelling begins after that. But the villagers say: the hell with it, it’s better this way than under Russian occupation.
Public service announcement: Don’t travel to Russia.
Rest in peace.
Hopefully they will be reunited soon.
Somebody’s in a good mood.
Why do those silly humans dig holes and crawl into them like that?