A Russian singer who had criticized the war falls from a window while the police are raiding his home.
Must have been another one of those terrible freak accidents.
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Vadim Stroykin, a Russian singer-songwriter who has spoken out against the war in Ukraine, reportedly “fell” out of a window while security officials were raiding his apartment on Thursday. Reports on Telegram suggested he died by suicide.
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— Meduza in English (@meduza.io) February 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The Netherlands delivers another batch of F-16s to Ukraine and French Mirage 2000s are also in Ukraine.
Ukraine struck at a Russian base where Shahed drones are launched.
Primorsko-Akhtarsk is across the Sea of Azov from occupied Ukraine.
Volgograd went through some things too.
Another stroll down another Highway of Death.
This is the area where Russian forces withdrew from yesterday.
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⚡️ Ukraine launches new offensive in Kursk Oblast, Russian media claims, Kyiv yet to confirm.
According to Russian military bloggers, Ukrainian forces attacked southeast of Sudzha, advancing toward the settlements of Fanaseevka and Ulanok.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ulanok is a small village to the southeast of Sudzha in the Kursk region.
Grenades for everyone!
This is the Russian GUGI (Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research) base on the shore of the Arctic Ocean just 100 km from the short border with Norway.
GUGI is a top-secret section of the Russian Navy. Its objective, according to Wikipedia, “is to operate submarines that are able to dive deep into the sea, in order to gather intelligence or to work with installations on the seabed, including sabotage.”
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Russia's top secret GUGI is based in Olenya Guba, 100 km from Norway border. Can create havoc on oil & gas installations on the seabed. Their tools seem straight out of a James Bond movie. News story with input from @inahpkvam.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/AvBL...
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— Jan Gunnar Furuly (@jfuruly.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Surprised that it took this long.
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AFP reports that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will disconnect from the Russian power grid over the weekend.
According to Lithuania's energy minister, this step will prevent Russia from using the power grid as a tool for geopolitical influence.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This video should be accompanied by Sting’s “Every Breath You Take,” which is about stalking.
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🐝 Successful Testing of the New Modification of the Fastest Interceptor – STING
The new versions of "Wild Hornet’s" fastest drones can now fly twice as long while maintaining their speed.
At 50% throttle, the drone reached a speed of 200 km/h at an altitude of 1,046 meters.
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— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Another 1,240 lucky winners, plus 18 tanks.
The oil spill from the two sunken Russian tankers continues to foul up the Black Sea.
The oil from the two tankers was heavy oil, which is more difficult to clean up because it sinks to the seabed in clumps that can take decades to dissipate.
While on Jan. 25, the Russian government officially declared that emergency services had finished an ongoing oil extraction operation, this only concerned one part of Volgoneft-239, which eventually drifted to the coast of Crimea following the wreckage.
The remaining parts of this vessel, and all of Volgoneft-212, are currently only being “examined underwater,” with no attempts yet being made to haul them to shore or extract the fuel oil left in their reservoirs.
According to Eugene Simonov, an expert with the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group (UWEC) who spoke to the Kyiv Independent, the sunken vessel parts are left untouched because Russian authorities simply do not have the appropriate equipment to extract oil from underwater reservoirs.
As a result, according to Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Volgoneft wreckages could evolve into the “worst ecological catastrophe” Russia has seen in the 21st century.
Apparently it really is rocket science.
Drones will end up being their own separate branches of militaries.
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‼️ By 2030, the Russians plan to scale up UAVs units to 210,000 servicemen, - Syrskyi
👉 "I paid special attention to the report on the formation by the enemy of a new type of troops - the troops of unmanned systems. We know about the enemy's intentions and his specific plans."
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— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Does this mean Russia will now find some American to arrest to get this guy back?
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Sergei Zharnovnikov, arms dealer from Kyrgyzstan arrested in Las Vegas for smuggling US weapons to Russia.
We need to ban all US and European weapons sales to such former Soviet republics that remain in Russia's sphere of influence.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...
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— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Azerbaijan isn’t going to let this be swept under the rug.
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Authorities in Baku have the evidence to prove that the Baku-Grozny flight was targeted by Russian air defenses, and is gathering data for a potential court case, if Russia continues to act in a prejudiced manner towards the ongoing investigation.
Source: apa.az/siyasi/rusiya-…
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Slovakia starts getting Russian gas again — through the TurkStream pipeline, which bypasses Ukraine.
If you had told me 20 years ago that John Bolton would be the voice of reason …
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🇺🇸🤔🇺🇦 "What Trump wants is for the war in Ukraine to be behind him. I’d say the same about the war in the Middle East. He said these were Biden’s wars. He doesn’t care about the terms on which they’re settled," — John Bolton
Watch interview here 👇
youtu.be/n3ykNstVVA8?...
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— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Russian claims he’s a good guy. Donkey doesn’t believe him.
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Seems that the Russian army has reached a new, qualitatively different stage of development, one that Putin had been promising. Due to a shortage of military equipment, the use of animal-drawn transport has increased, particularly DONKEYS, for transporting ammunition and performing other tasks.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Taking the message to Times Square.
