Ukraine continues to press its offensive in the Kursk area southeast of Sudzha and to the area west of Malaya Loknya.
But don’t worry about this guy. Pavel will get a new assignment. There are plenty of openings for meat wave assault participants.
This is interesting as well as embarrassing. Forbes ran a piece yesterday claiming that Russia launched another Oreshnik ballistic missile at Kyiv but it malfunctioned and blew up over Russia instead.
Turns out the report was false.
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I'm very surprised @Forbes runs a story for which there is zero proof.
The air alarm in #Ukraine earlier today warned of possible #Oreshnik launch. 3 minutes later the alert was rescinded, leading to wild speculation the missile crashed in #Russia.
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— Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is the story that Forbes now labels false.
Three months later on Thursday morning, the Russians reportedly launched another Oreshnik—this one apparently targeting Kyiv. Air raid sirens wailed. City residents scrambled for shelter. But then … nothing. No scream of incoming reentry vehicles. No thunderous impacts as the non-explosive vehicles slammed into the ground.
According to Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian war correspondent, the Oreshnik “did not fly far.” It reportedly malfunctioned and exploded—on Russian soil.
Everyone knew an attack might be coming. A week after the first Oreshnik strike, Putin threatened to fire additional Oreshniks—and
specifically warned he’d target “decision-making centers” in Kyiv, where Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky, top officials and commanders and their staffs work.
And yet Putin is determined to fight Ukraine to the last Buryat and the last Yakut.
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⚡️More Russian soldiers died near Pokrovsk in January than in entire Second Chechen War, military says.
Spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said that 1,000 more Russian troops died near Pokrovsk last month than in the 10-year war on Chechnya.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Another 1,340 Russians and 10 tanks.
Ukraine has also put together numbers for the 6 months of the Kursk offensive:
Maybe it’s time for the ICC to indict this guy.
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⚡️Bucha massacre suspect becomes top official in Russian region.
Nursultan Mussagaleyev, a former Russian army commander suspected of involvement in war crimes, has been appointed as an acting deputy minister in Russia's Orenburg Oblast.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ukrainian cruise missile takes out a Russian facility in the Krasnodar region.
Spectacular bavovnas.
I don’t think China did Russia any favors by sending them all those golf carts.
WARNING: The video below shows Russian hurtling through the air.
Some duct tape will cover that hole in the roof nicely.
Russian soldier is dragged onto a bus to be sent back to the front despite his open leg wound.
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A Russian soldier complains that he and others are being forcibly taken to serve straight from the hospital the day after their surgeries. He mentions that they are transported to units without proper conditions and have been 'promised' that they won't be sent into combat immediately.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“It just blew the fuck up.”
More Russian nuclear saber rattling.
That’s really all they have.
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Russia has begun covert ballistic nuclear missile launch drills.
Russian Ministry of Defense released a video showing "Yars" missile launchers moving through a snowy forest. The "Yars" system, in service since 2010, has an intercontinental ballistic missile with a flight range of up to 12,000 km.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When one group of oligarchs helps out another it is called professional courtesy.
It would be nice if Ukraine were given some of these, but the problem remains how to deploy the weapon without getting shot down.
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RUMINT: More Trump FAFO
The Trump Administration has approved the transfer of GBU-43/B MOAB's ("Mother Of All Bombs"), which are extremely effective at destroying underground infrastructure like uranium enrichment facilities, to Israel.
#Israel #Hamas #Hezbollah #Iran #Lebanon #Gaza #OSINT
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— OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
You could say that all of Russia is drunk and on a collision course.
There are more details on the Russian war criminal who was blown up while leaving his apartment in Moscow. The suicide bomber is reported to have used a Soviet version of an American claymore mine.
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5/ Sarkisyan's bodyguard Oleg Kasperovich, a former special forces colonel who survived the bombing, has given details. He says that Sarkisyan believed he was under constant threat and had a variety of protective measures, including a portable signal jammer.
— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
6/ The suspected bomber was seen several times at the building's elevator or sitting on a couch in a lobby, carrying a flat briefcase with him. At the time of the explosion, he was sitting on the couch and reading a newspaper. Kasperovich believes he spoke Armenian.
7/ Kasperovich identifies the explosive device as a MON-50 from fragments found at the scene and in his own clothing. It nearly missed Sarkisyan, with most of the blast hitting the ceiling and leaving a long strip with shrapnel grouges.
8/ It's speculated that the bomber was leaning back at the time of the explosion, holding the device vertically rather than horizontally, thus greatly narrowing the width of the kill zone and inadvertently directing the blast upwards rather than across the lobby.
9/ The bodyguards were at the edges of the kill zone and escaped serious injury, but Sarkisyan is said to have stopped momentarily to greet Kaspirovich. The bomb was detonated at this moment.
A glimpse of life in the besieged city of Kherson.
A glimpse of life in a Russian hospital.
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Women filmed a video in the hospital of Temryuk,Kuban region, Russia.The level of devastation shown in it is impressive
An Iskander missile that Russia used on Izium 2 days ago costs about $3 million.That amount would be enough to fix problems in hospital.But Russia prefers spending millions on war
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’d be a shame if it sank.
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🛳️🔥 A Russian spy ship caught fire off Syria’s coast, - AP News
❗️The broadcast came from a Russian spy ship "Kildin", as the vessel packed with intelligence-gathering equipment drifted temporarily out of control off the Syrian coast on Jan. 23.
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— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I don’t know what that black drone in the foreground does, but it looks cool as hell.
Good news — glide bombs are no longer unstoppable.
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💥 Ukrainian forces confirmed the interception of a Russian guided aerial bomb (KAB) in Zaporizhzhia. This is not the first such interception. Russia uses KABs from tactical aircraft to evade Ukrainian air defenses, but they are no longer considered 'unstoppable.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It sucks when you want to steal parts off a car but someone else beat you to it.
I’ll bet the Israelis wish they had thought of this.
Remember the story from yesterday about a Russian using a donkey to haul supplies?
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1/ News that 'combat donkeys' are being issued to Russians on the front lines in Ukraine has baffled and enraged Russian warbloggers. "Are the Ural [trucks] on fire? They are on fire. Here's a donkey. A real, fucking, live, fucking donkey," says one soldier.
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
2/ Warblogger Dmitry Steshin records a soldier friend's reaction to encountering Russia's latest military innovation for the first time:
3/ "Well, dude, please don't pester me with questions. I just heard it, then I saw it myself, I was shocked, and that's it, and I don't give a shit. Don't ask where it came from, why, who, for what, how. But the fact is, they gave us a donkey.
4/ "It's parked in the logistics platoon. They say, here's a donkey. You have shitty transportation, right? Shitty. Are the Urals on fire? They are on fire. Here's a donkey. Use it to carry ammo to the front. A fucking donkey. A donkey. A real, fucking, live fucking donkey.
5/ "They gave it out, fuck. A fucking Ural convoy vehicle that went to receive supplies there, fuck, they issued a fucking donkey there."Sheshin comments:"There are two aspects to this development."
6/ "1. Practical. Anyone who has carried tons of cargo - from ammunition to gasoline - will understand. And will be glad to have a donkey.
7/ "2. Perplexed. Where, in the third year of the Special Military Operation, is the unified transporter of the front line, corresponding to the realities of war?Summary: guys, paint the donkey in pixel [camouflage]. It can be in cartoons or 'moss'.
8/ 'Dead Heads' says that "it doesn't surprise us much. Machines suitable for work on the front line are obviously much more needed at checkpoints and demonstrations than on the front lines, where they can be lost. So here's some draft power for you.
The blogger goes on to have fun with this but points out that donkeys have advantages.
18/ "For some reason, this news was extremely negatively received, but in places where there is a wild muddy road and you have to drag all the crap for several kilometers on your own, this is a real solution.
19/ Yes, you can use high-cross-country robotic vehicles, agrodrones, s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶r̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ and much more, but we have what we have."'Alex Carrier' comments:"By the way, I didn't really understand why everyone was laughing and being angry."
20/ "Donkeys are a good thing in terms of load capacity and unpretentiousness, and you don't feel as sorry for them as you do for people. And you need someone to pull the supply line to the front line.
21/ "And it's better not to do it on people, because they get really tired of such an existence and often die under drones. And donkeys don't need diesel fuel, they are less picky about the road surface and cannot stall at the most critical moment.
22/ "In short, combat donkeys are such a cool wonder weapon, almost on the level of a king-barbecue [anti-drone protection] made of logs." /end
Well, they do kinda look like Port-o_lets.
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TLDR: everything 🇷🇺touches turns to shit
Great news from Voronezh where entrances to concrete bomb shelters have been boarded up by authorities because they were being used as toilets.
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— Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires in Exile (@umarf.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I haven’t seen this but it sounds worth checking out:
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This is a great movie. It’s available on many streaming platforms,including @netflix.com (unfortunately,with regional restrictions)
The film We Were Recruits, directed by Ukrainian film director Liubomyr Levytskyi, combines real footage shot by the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Before the war it had never occurred to me that Ukraine would be an interesting place to visit. But I’d love to see some of the places I have been writing about.
