Ukraine launched a drone swarm attack in the city of Donetsk.
The target appears to be a Sigma Hypermart, which is sort of like Costco, being used as a drone warehouse.
These two videos really speak for themselves — Russian soldiers outside the hypermarket before the strike proclaiming that victory will be theirs.
And Donetsk residents filming the strike while one of them practices drifting in the parking lot.
These villages are just a few kilometers east of Kamianske, a town on what used to be the big reservoir on the Dnipro River south of Zaporizhzhia. Just yesterday there was a post about Russia’s top general saying this area would be a focus of Russia’s attention this winter.
Gonna need new shocks on that car.
Here’s an update on the situation with the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, has been in blackout mode for nearly three weeks since the end of September, posing a threat to nuclear safety.
Russian troops reportedly struck a power line on Sept. 23, severing the plant's connection to Ukraine's electrical grid. As a result, the plant has been forced to rely on backup diesel generators to maintain critical safety functions and provide electricity.
"Not only is this an attempted theft of a peaceful Ukrainian nuclear facility. Unauthorized actions of Russia's (state nuclear energy corporation) Rosatom violate internationally recognized nuclear safety protocols, contradict Ukrainian license, and directly threaten a nuclear incident," Sybiha said on X.
The minister said that Russia must halt its attacks on the plant and allow repairs to the power lines to end the blackout. He also called on the international community to recognize Moscow's actions as illegal and "critically dangerous," and urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to put pressure on Russia.
Destroying Russian logistics in Belgorod, one truck at a time.
Should I make a joke about being toasted on your birthday? Nah. That wouldn’t be nice.
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Former Smolensk official Oleg Ivanov burnt in a camper fire on his birthday.
According to reports, his body was found in a burned-out van. Ivanov had previously overseen youth affairs and patriotic education in the Smolensk region, Russia.
Burned out at work, huh? 🙃
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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
The Ukrainian Navy grows by one.
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Ukraine has received a Dutch Alkmaar-class minehunter, Navy commander Neizhpapa confirmed. Another is expected by the end of the year, with crew training already underway. The vessel is equipped with underwater drones, remote-controlled mine disposal systems, an automatic cannon, and machine guns.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) October 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Is there a major purge on the way for Russia?
2/ The Russian journalist and warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova reports that a purge is being prepared against numerous individuals. As well as officials and soldiers, it seems likely from what she says that various warbloggers will also face prison or being sent to the front:
3/ "According to my information, our security forces/intelligence agencies are monitoring approximately 70-80 cases.
4/ "The legal charges against these individuals include: false or distorted information about the state of affairs at the front/economic level, discrediting the armed forces (real discrediting, meaning deliberate lies and fabrications), theft of humanitarian aid,…
5/ …embezzlement/misappropriation of funds collected from individuals, various fraudulent schemes involving aid to the SVO [Special Military Operation], and the public release of military personnel and unit data.
Here’s an update from Pokrovsk.
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👀 The Russians claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have flooded sewer collectors to stop the occupiers in Pokrovsk.
❗️It is also reported that the collectors are being sealed and clogged with construction debris, and gas pipelines are being mined.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Russia is in full victim mode.
They just want peace but those nasty ole Ukrainians and their European allies want more war. Everyone hates Russia. It’s Russian Derangement Syndrome. Poor Russia. 🙄🙄
So how are Russian civilians feeling about the war these days?
This Russian marketing exec says his interviews show that there is a great deal of war fatigue among Russian population, which sees everything it has worked for being stolen or pissed away on the war. He said the level of emotion about the war and the amount of hatred has decreased as people are just worn out and have become detached.
At the same time, he says, Russian propagandists have turned up the heat, becoming even more hysterical.
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‼️ Russian society is cracking…
This is a very interesting clip that provides incredible insight into what is currently happening inside Russia.
The speaker is Evgeny Minchenko, president of Minchenko Consulting, a company that specializes in communication strategies for politicians and businesses
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— Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Another 1,240 Russians.
There is a solution to this problem of a commander throwing wounded soldiers into a pit. It’s called fragging.
But that won’t happen. Instead, these two guys make a video because surely someone in authority will see it and fix this problem, right? I predict Ahmed and Georg will be given the honor of leading a meat assault across an open field that’s been mined with drones buzzing overhead.
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1/ Sick and wounded Russian soldiers have been held for months in an open-air pit in the ground to 'remotivate' them, according to two military paramedics. They say that their regiment's deputy political officer is removing soldiers from hospital and imprisoning them. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
2/ Ahmed Gadzhi and Georg Vladislavovich Kurbanov, two military paramedics with the 135th Motorized Rifle (Assault) Regiment of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division, have recorded a video message describing abuses carried out by their deputy political officer, Major Karnaev.
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4/ According to the soldiers, Karnaev – whom they call "the Butcher" – is abusing the wounded and sick by holding them in a pit for up to three or four months at a time. The Russians have been using open-air pits, known as zindans, as a routine means of punishment since 2022.
5/ Gadzhi says that the length of detention "varies [from person to person], that is, Major Karnaev himself sets the terms of their detention." He reports that people are being taken from hospital and placed in the pit to force them to agree 'voluntarily' to join assault squads.
6/ The two soldiers also say that Karnaev is threatening other soldiers with being sent on an assault – essentially, to their deaths – to intimidate them into not reporting what is being done to the sick and wounded.
7/ "In other words, people are sent there, in essence, on their final journey, all those who are undesirable, those who want to get the truth out there, to make it known and publicised. They are trying to stop this with [sending to] assaults, and everyone sits there, terrified."
This post examines Russia’s current strategy about the use of armor.
With only 2,500 tanks left in storage — and 642 of those being mothballed T-64s — Russia has to decide how to use armor and whether it is worth it to put together the infrastructure necessary to get those ancient T-64s back into combat shape.
Russia this year had pulled back its armor along the fronts and went with infantry assaults with motorcycles. That preserved their armor, which recently was thrown back into battle in the Zaporizhzhia area, resulting in more armor being destroyed.
So it comes down to what Russia is willing to keep losing in large amounts — soldiers or armor.
The chances of Russia coming anywhere near this goal are roughly the same as me winning the Powerball.
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Russia’s T-90 tank production in 2024 reached around 240 units, including both new and modernized tanks. But internal planning papers analyzed by Frontelligence Insight show Moscow’s plan to lift output by 80% and launch production of a new T90 variant. 🧵Our Special Report:
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— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A doctor held prisoner for seven years describes the living hell Russians put him through.
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Russians seized Donetsk doctor Ihor Kirianenko in 2018. He was 57.
They tied him to a table like a cross, wired his feet and fingers, and electrocuted him until he screamed. Then they tore out his teeth with pliers and broke his ribs and fingers, writes Hromadske. 1/
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— Tymofiy Mylovanov (@mylovanov.bsky.social) October 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When he screamed, the guards joked: “Don’t shout, there’s a kindergarten upstairs.”
After torture they took him home, smashed his antique shop, searched for “bugs,” and found nothing. Then they arrested his wife too. 2/
On New Year’s Eve they got drunk. “They knocked out all my teeth. Pulled my fangs with pliers. I heard a crunch and blacked out,” Ihor said. When he woke, they were kicking him, breaking ribs and fingers. 3/
When they brought him to a cell, guards refused to accept him — he was too bloody. A doctor checked him and said: “He won’t die overnight, don’t worry.” They forced him to sign a paper saying he had fallen down the stairs. 4/
“They cut me under the nose down to the bone. The pain can’t be described,” Ihor said. Later they connected wires to his genitals and ears. Sparks flew. He passed out again and again. 5/
At trial he told judges about electrocution, broken ribs, teeth ripped out, and the cut under his nose. They concluded: “No evidence of torture.”His confession came after threats to bring his wife and torture her “on the table in front of him.” 6/
Zelenskyy and Trump talked twice in two days.
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⚡️ US reportedly helping Ukraine strike Russian oil sites for months.
FT says American intel has guided drone routes and timing since Trump’s July call with Zelenskyy, sharing data on weak points while Ukraine chooses the targets to make Moscow “feel the pain.”
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— UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) October 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
A heartwarming message from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Absolutely amazing that she can do that so well.
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9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"
In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation
Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) October 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
