Russia’s largest steel plant was burning after an attack by what is reported as being Ukrainian drones. The plant is in the city of Lipetsk, which is more than 400 km northeast of Kharkiv.
There are reports that the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian drone called Lyuty, which is made by Ukroboronprom, but the drone is apparently something of a mystery.
Ukraine didn’t just shoot down the prized A-50 command and control plane yesterday. They also claimed to have downed an Su-34 in the Kherson region and an Il-22M3, which is used as an airborne command post, that in the same area as the A-50. Ukraine says they used modified longer-range S-200 missiles.
The A-50 that went down had a crew of 10, all of whom died.
A-50 crew:
•the commander of the aircraft- Major Borovykov;
•assistant commander - Major Chantsev;
•navigator – captain Provalov;
•flight engineer - captain Vasiliev;
•senior air radio operator - Ensign Khrulev;
•head of the calculation, head of the shift - Major Fedosov;
•guidance navigator - Major Rulyuk;
•guidance navigator – lieutenant Telmanov;
•senior flight engineer – captain Belov;
•flight engineer - Major Soldatkin.
One lone Ukrainian soldier holds off 10 Russians until artillery and drones arrive to help and clear out the Russians. This is from December.
WARNING: The video at the end shows a Russian soldier being blown up by a grenade.
A Russian truck with a Lancet drone launcher goes kaboom near Kherson.
Meanwhile, soldiers in Belarus put on a demonstration of their awesomeness.
The polls show a close race between the boot lickers and the ass kissers.
An American fighting for Ukraine gives first aid after a Canadian fellow soldier is hit.
The pullback at Avdiivka continues.
Burn, baby, burn.
On the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion, this is how it started as Russian troops reached a Ukrainian checkpoint at Crimea.
Here are some of the rallies held around the world in support of Ukraine today.
Ukraine is interested in acquiring 59 Abrams tanks that Australia is planning to replace with newer models but Australia’s defense minister poured cold water on that idea.
Below is from a thread that starts with a photo of a Russian soldier who has been hanged, so I won’t post it. If you want to see it, it's here.
But it describes the brutal life and death of Russians at Krynky.
1/ Hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine have reportedly led to an upsurge in extrajudicial punishments in the Russian army, with soldiers being hanged from or tied to trees for days, forced to rape each other, or thrown naked into open pits in freezing temperatures.
2/ Verstka reports on a series of interviews with frontline Russian troops over the past few months. Many have been fighting at the Ukrainian bridgehead at Krynky on the left bank of the Dnipro, which they describe as a scene of slaughter with 60-100 people dying every day.
3/ "It's hell here," says one Russian soldier. "They're killing each other. The Ukranians are killing each other. The orders are stupid. Everyone understands that you can't succeed, but they send them to die anyway."
4/ Group after group was sent to assault Krynky since November 2023 and "almost no one came back ... This task was set constantly. During the whole time, a single person came [back] out of there. But they still sent and still send people there."
This is one of many reasons why it’s like a game of Whack-A-Mole trying to plug all the holes in sanctions. Gabon is a country on the Atlantic coast of Africa that was once a French colony. Interesting fact about Gabon — one of their tourist attractions is a national park on a beach that has hippos that surf.
A B-1 bomber in Sweden.
The F-16s are coming.
I could have guessed that Orban would somehow manage to extract some blackmail.
What a great NATO ally Erdogan is.
After a day of standing in front of the Bosphorus, the ships made a “breakthrough” to #Novorossiysk. Sometimes, at the exit from the strait, a convoy of warships of the #ruZZian Black Sea Fleet awaits them - this indicates the value of the cargo.
By using merchant ships, #ruZZia is circumventing the ban on the movement of warships through the #Bosporus and #Dardanelles straits, imposed by #Türkiye since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in accordance with the Montreux Convention.
What can ya say? Shit happens.