Kupiansk keeps getting worse for the Russians.
Russians getting droned for Christmas.
WARNING: First video shows dead Russians.
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Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps reports significant results on the Lyman direction. Drone crews destroyed 25 Russian vehicles, including trucks, vans, quad bikes and motorcycles, and took out an MLRS, a SPG, nine artillery pieces and a UGV.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Russia keeps sending out armored columns that are met by waves of drones.
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A Russian column moving toward Kostiantynivka ran into heavy fire. Fighters of the 49th Separate Assault Battalion Carpathian Sich, together with the 100th, 28th and 36th brigades, smashed the tanks fitted with mine clearing gear. Dismounted infantry was finished off by Ukrainian drones.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Unknown explosions in a parking lot. This incident is notable because of where it is — way over near the borders with China and North Korea. Ussuriysk is about 100 km north of Vladivostok.
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Explosions were reported on December 24 at a military base in Ussuriysk, near the borders with North Korea and China. Two blasts hit the parking area of the 80th Vitebsk Red Banner Brigade. Emergency services and the FSB were deployed to the site.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Russia attacked Kharkiv once again.
The horse knew what to do.
Ukraine struck the oil refinery at Volgograd.
The two Ukrainian soldiers who held their position for 130 days had a Russian prisoner with them, who eventually started to fight alongside his captors.
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Our side hardly ever takes anyone prisoner.”
— Daniil Sichov, a Russian POW captured by Ukrainian soldiers from the 93rd Brigade.
Sichov spent over 2 months helping his captors defend their position, knowing that Russian forces would have killed him along with them.
Source: Новинарня
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— Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) December 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sadovenko was 56 years old and is reported to have died of a heart attack. That’s certainly possible. It’s also possible I could grow a long beard and play bass for ZZ Top.
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Russian media report the death of former Deputy Defence Minister Yuriy Sadovenko, the Colonel-General played a senior role in Russia’s military leadership during the invasion of Ukraine and was sanctioned by the US & UK. He was dismissed in 2024 and has now reportedly died of a heart attack.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Another 840 Russians plus 3 tanks.
This Russian ship has departed from a port in Togo and is scheduled to head for a port on Russia’s Black Sea coast. The question is whether this ship is carrying the shipment of yellowcake uranium that was trucked from Niger through Togo.
No word today on the Qendil, the shadow fleet ship attacked in the Mediterranean, but other tankers in the vicinity are chilling out.
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Sanctioned #shadowfleet #tankers idling off #Greece. Afraid of attack a la #Qendil ?
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#View IMO 9271327 #IMO9271327
#SouthStar IMO 9263186 #IMO9263186
@tankertrackers.com
@maritimekiwi.bsky.social
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— vesselspotter.bsky.social (@vesselspotter.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
Putin says Russians will welcome his new tax increase to fund the war.
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Putin is getting ready to raise Russian taxes again to fund the war.📈
He is already preparing Russians by saying publicly that they would be "fully understanding" and "support" tax increases if the money was used for war.
This will accelerate the ongoing economic collapse.
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— Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I think we are not yet at the point of Russian collapse but we are getting there. Russia is like a family with a bunch of credit cards, bank accounts, family jewels, some expensive cars etc. One by one they are emptying the accounts while the neighbors still see a rich family.
— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When the accounts run dry they sell the jewels and increase debt on the house. Still few knows what is going on and it takes time to get thru all the assets. But as keeping the facade up is more important than anything else it will be no gradual collapse but a sudden one.
The question is if some rich friend will step in to bail Russia out when it collapses? If not the war will soon come to an end as the collapse eventually will impact the armed forces. Then Ukraine will not have to beat the Russian army. It can drive to Moscow without resistance.
There’s always a grift when it comes to Trump’s approach toward Ukraine.
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Kommersant claims the US discussed using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for crypto mining and joint control without Ukraine, allegedly with Putin’s knowledge.
If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Trump and Zelenskyy are scheduled to meet again this weekend.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: "We have a broad agenda, it will be on the weekend, I think that it will be Sunday, Florida - we will have a meeting with President Trump.
We will discuss security guarantees, and there are several documents in this block, it is desirable to find an opportunity to discuss everything.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
There are reports that Russia has agreed that a ceasefire would be needed for Ukraine to hold a referendum.
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Trump & Zelensky to meet Sunday to try and close out peace plan
According to the senior #US official, the 🇷🇺 who have previously opposed a ceasefire until a deal is final have agreed that a ceasefire would be needed to hold such a referendum
#Ukraine #Russia
www.axios.com/2025/12/26/z...
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— Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 (@blue24world.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This might be the world’s first monument to a combat drone.
Russian TV has a comedy about the war in Ukraine. Is this the Russian version of Stripes?
Comedy? Seriously?
The plot is simple: “A group of volunteers arrives in the combat zone. The newcomers are placed under the command of an experienced fighter with the call sign ‘Cuba,’ who doesn’t want to babysit recruits but follows his commander’s orders. Their first task is to set up a temporary base in a ruined house. Thus begins the everyday lives of young fighters under the supervision of experienced commanders.”
Right. It’s a story of everyday life filled with smiles, soaked in camaraderie and the guidance of wise leaders … Not exactly the experience of Russian soldiers we know about.
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The idea of turning the war into a comedy didn’t go over well with high-profile pro-war figures, either. Mikhail Ivanov, deputy chair of the World Russian People’s Council and a United Russia deputy in the Bryansk Regional Duma, called the idea “deeply flawed and immoral,” noting that mocking how mothers and wives lose and mourn sons and husbands is unacceptable.
With his outrage, “council” deputy Ivanov should address the already-mentioned Putin administration. There he’ll be quickly told that this series is just what people need — and that he’d better keep quiet before an article on “discrediting the army” sticks to his tongue.
Take in the beauty of bombed-out Bakhmut.
Revel in the razed ruins of Pokrovsk while you check out the sun reflecting off the fiber-optic cables.
Soak up the sun in Soledar and crawl through an authentic gas pipeline at Kupiansk.
Sip puddle water in Donetsk and chat with genuine Russians while you all wait in line for gas in Luhansk.
This Russian soldier admits to killing two children, says not affected him so much that he started smoking and drinking after that.
Yep. They look like dangerous counter-revolutionaries to me.
It’s a little cold and snowy in Yakutia in Russia’s Far east.
If I even tried doing this back when I was younger and more flexible I would have ended up in the emergency room.
Despite getting pummeled by Russian drones and having the city plunged into blackout, Odesa residents still celebrated Christmas.
Shchedryk around the world.
Dad’s home.
