A Russian Antonov 22, the world’s largest propeller-driven military cargo plane, crashed into a reservoir near Russia’s Ivanovo Air Field about 250 km northeast of Moscow.
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‼️ A Russian Ministry of Defense An-22 military transport aircraft has crashed in Russia’s Ivanovo region.
All seven crew members on board are believed to have died. The aircraft was conducting a scheduled test flight after repairs.
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— Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) December 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Russia also lost 2 pilots yesterday and probably more today, with news of an army An-22 transporter crashing into the Uvodskoe Reservoir in the Ivanovo Region.
Seven military were on board - none has been found.
It's the second An-22 to crash in the same region in 18 months.
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— Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
According to preliminary information, the crew tried until the very end to divert the aircraft away from a residential area- the village of Ivankovo is located just 150 meters from the crash site. There was no damage on the ground.
The plane disappeared from radar without sending a distress signal. The air traffic controller reported a loss of contact, after which rescuers were dispatched to the possible crash site. An EMERCOM helicopter discovered debris in the Uvodskoye Reservoir -fragments of a wing and landing gear are visible above the water.
Ukraine’s campaign against shadow fleet tankers has already paid dividends. Besiktas Shipping is a Turkish company based in Istanbul.
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Two tankers destroyed, one damaged. That's all it took for Besiktas Shipping to pull 15 tankers from Russia's shadow fleet
Half of Russia's 500 sanctioned-crude tankers are foreign-leased. If others follow, Moscow loses $100bn+ yearly
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Ukraine's strategy of targeting Russia's shadow-fleet logistics has already resulted in 3 naval vessels taken out of commission in rapid succession, raising the risks of operating anywhere near Russian export routes.
The results of this strategy turned out to be much more immediate and devastating than expected, with companies already pulling out their ships from the Russian shadow fleet and reassessing whether they can remain in the Black Sea and continue enabling the illicit Russian oil trade at all.
The loudest signal came from Besiktas Shipping, which stopped all cooperation with Russia after one of its tankers was damaged near Senegal. The company emphasized that it had operated within formal sanctions rules, even though its vessels still ended up serving routes connected to Russia's shadow-fleet logistics.
Besiktas controls around fifteen oil and chemical tankers, removing several hundred thousand tons of annual carrying capacity from Russia's rotation the moment it withdrew.
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🛳️🛢️ Almost 180 million barrels of Russian oil are in tankers — 28% more than at the end of August, — Bloomberg.
Russia is loading oil onto tankers at an unprecedented pace, but the cargoes are piling up at sea. This puts pressure on prices and undermines Moscow's ability to finance the war.
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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A Russian soldier goes airborne the hard way.
WARNING: Video shows him being blown up.
An update on the Ukrainian drone strike at the port of Temryuk, which is east of the Kerch Bridge.
Two Ukrainians take six Russian soldiers prisoner near Oleksandrivka.
A Russian ammo-carrying drone suffers rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Declaring a state of emergency is all well and good, but taking concrete action would be better.
Another 930 Russians who should have deserted.
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
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In true Soviet fashion, mainstream Russian TV begins getting Russians ready for the irrevocable death spiral that their economy has become.
A clearly nervous head the Samara region, Fedorishchev explains that in every sector, "there is growth, but in a negative direction".
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— SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre (@stratcomcentre.bsky.social) December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Ukraine is gradually converting to F-16s, Gripens and Rafales, but the Su-27 has to carry the load in the meantime.
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Russia shot down another Su-27 over eastern Ukraine on Sunday. Lt. Col. Yevhenii Ivanov, the pilot, was killed. It's the 19th Su-27 loss since February 2022.
Ukraine may have only 12-23 left. And unlike MiGs or F-16s, no ally operates Su-27s—so there's no donor pipeline.
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Zelenskyy has had enough of China’s phony peace posturing.
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China won’t stop Russia’s war, Zelenskyy said, because a weak Russia doesn’t suit Beijing while it confronts the US.
He said Beijing supplies machines to Moscow and “definitely does not support ending this war” — leaving Ukrainians to suffer the consequences.
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Trump went off the deep end (more than usual) yesterday. He’s gone full frontal fanboy for whatever Putin wants, demanding that Ukraine hold a presidential election and ridiculing European leaders as weak.
Even Thailand is back to fighting Cambodia.
FIFA might have to revoke that coveted peace prize.
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Trump’s peace deals are falling apart fast. While he brags about ending eight wars and blames Zelensky for blocking his “biggest breakthrough,” the truth is simpler, he strong-arms sides into shaky truces without fixing the real issues. From Gaza to Congo to Thailand, violence keeps flaring up.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Could be worse. He could be drinking puddle water while being extorted by his commander and awaiting a one-way meat assault.
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1/ Injured Russian stormtroopers say they have to lie untended in their own blood, pus and feces while under armed guard in hospitals that are more like prisons. They get expensive, inedible food which they have to pay for themselves, and are sent back to fight before they are healed. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2/ A Russian stormtrooper who has been seriously injured twice describes the grim conditions in the hospital where he has been sent. His account is consistent with accounts from other men of overcrowded, insanitary facilities for the war wounded.
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4/ The stormtrooper portrays a prison-like hospital which patches up men and sends them straight back to the front, despite being unhealed:
"They just operated on me. They only removed three of the ten shrapnel fragments. The rest are lodged deep in my bones."
5/ "They'll treat me and send me back into battle. Oh, how I don't want to! And not so much because of the fear of dying. Rather, because of the contemptuous indifference towards the wounded. Our hospital is like a prison. I'll say more — it's worse than a prison.
6/ "Machine gunners [guard us]. You can only walk from corner to corner. Civilian shops are literally just on the other side of the. But we are forced to buy from visiting the VOENTORG [military commissary] kiosks. At exorbitant prices.
7/ "Guys with intestinal injuries need special food. But there isn't any. You can't go out yourself or ask the staff to buy what you need in the shop. It's strictly forbidden. Absolutely. People are literally starving. Because they can't eat the food in the cafeteria.
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9/ "And some people don't care what happens to the wounded. Sometimes it reaches the point of idiocy. For example, you need the drug “Flexotron” — a lubricant for joints. The hospital doesn't have it. But it's available at a nearby pharmacy. But you can't buy it.
Putin might need them when he is forced to flee the country and seek asylum with his pal Kim Jong Un.
The faces of heroism and sacrifice.
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The wall near St. Michael’s Monastery in #Kyiv
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine
Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country
This is the price Ukraine is paying
📹Oleg Kiy
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Nora, Busya and Joy made it to their new home.
