The details are sketchy about what a Drone Line actually is or how it makes Russian assaults impossible, but it seems to be further evidence of the prominence of drones in this war.
Presumably the idea is to saturate an area with so many drones that it is impossible for Russian troops to move.
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Ukraine launches revolutionary "Drone Line" project to strengthen defense forces, Defense Minister Umerov announced. 5 elite units will integrate infantry & UAVs into a single strike system, creating a 10-15 km kill zone where no Russian moves unscathed.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) February 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Ukrainian tanks take out a Russian-occupied building in the Donetsk area.
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🇺🇦 A concentration of Russian infantry was destroyed. Intelligence revealed Russian positions in the Donetsk sector. Two Ukrainian tanks struck at the coordinates provided. There were up to 10 occupants in the building. They are now classified as ‘200’ (killed in action).
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk to the southeast of Sudzha continues.
At least his comrades dragged him off.
WARNING: Video shows Russian getting blown up.
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A Russian soldier decided to become a hero. Showing his middle finger, he approached an unexploded Ukrainian drone. At that moment, a remote detonation was triggered. A lesson in good manners from a Ukrainian drone operator of the 3rd Separate Tank Brigade. Kharkiv region.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A nylon mesh tunnel? I can’t wait to see the new Scissors Drone that Ukraine develops to counter this.
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To protect themselves from Ukrainian drone attacks, the Russians have fenced off the road from Bakhmut to Chasiv Yar, creating a 2-km mesh tunnel. In this way, the Russians are trying to rescue their equipment and personnel from threats from drones.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Three explosions? I’m gonna guess that that’s a bad thing on an oil tanker.
Russia seems to be having a lot of shipping problems lately. Sakhalin is a large Russian island north of Japan.
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Last night, the Chinese tanker Ang Yang-2 ran aground near Sakhalin. It carries 56 tonnes of diesel, 706 tonnes of fuel oil, 1,000 tonnes of coal, and 20 crew. The vessel has a leak, but no spillage. Russian authorities struggled to communicate with the Chinese crew for a long time.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I don’t think I’ve seen a tank explode quite like this one.
Bavovna on the water.
Bavovna on the flagpole.
More drone-on-drone violence.
Torching turtle tanks.
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Reducing the population of Russian 'turtles'. 2 tanks, 2 IFVs, 2 APCs and 1 ARV in turtle modifications destroyed by the forces of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Also, for burning through the shell of disabled 'turtles', Drones with thermite are again well used.
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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A three-vehicle Russian column provides target practice for Ukraine.
You could say Russia no longer has power over the Baltics.
They live like rats? Good.
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Russian soldiers of the 810th 'Sevastopol' Marine Brigade complain about terrible conditions: "We live like homeless, haven’t washed in almost a month, sitting here like rats." They’ve been without rotation for a month, constantly under fire, with an ATGM next to the trench.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sounds like a shakedown to me. Or am I just being cynical?
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🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The US intends to discuss the issue of "reimbursement of costs" that were provided for aid to Kyiv, in particular through agreements on Ukrainian natural resources, — Mike Waltz
— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Ukraine destroyed a US-made APC that had been captured by the Russians.
Another 1,460 Russians who should have stayed home, along with 11 tanks and 127 other vehicles.
I’d say that among the suspects are:
1. Russia, 2. Russia, and 3. Russia
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In Germany, unidentified UAVs observed Ukrainian Army training on Patriot at a military base.
This happened in January 2025. A total of 6 cases were recorded. The Bundeswehr says that the drones could have been launched from ships in the North or Baltic Seas. Among the main suspects is Russia.
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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Rest in peace.
There was a neo-Nazi demonstration in Budapest (actually, do we really need the neo- prefix anymore).
If you look at that first photo, you will see a guy dressed in Russian Army Z gear.
A couple of assholes think they are striking a blow for Tsar Vlad and Mother Russia.
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Two unidentified individuals, acting on behalf of Russian intelligence services, defaced a street sign in Lviv named after Ukrainian language advocate Iryna Farion.
In Ukraine, we have a saying: live in such a way that Russians fear you even after death.
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— Devana (@devana.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This camo is perfect if you are driving through a field of cattle.
I saw another post with a photo of a Russian decoy drone laying in a field with the caption that the Russians do that to make Ukraine use up its drones. Yeah, right.
Wait! Let me guess. One group is happy to be going home and the other group is dreading it?
The dog knows the way.
This is the opening to a story in the Guardian about a Russian teacher and war opponent who created a film about how the war is affecting Russia’s youth.
As Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin was waging a parallel battle on the home front – one fought not with weapons but with ideology, reaching deep into the nation’s classrooms.
In a high school in Karabash, a small industrial town in the Ural mountains, teacher Pavel Talankin knew he had to document it.
Almost overnight, the school – and the tight-knit community where the free-spirited Talankin, known as Pasha to his students, had embraced his role as a nonconformist educator – was overtaken by militarisation and war propaganda. As the school’s longtime videographer, Talankin was instructed by his superiors to document the implementation of the Kremlin’s new directive: shaping a generation steeped in ultra-nationalist views and ready to soon join the ranks of the army fighting in
Ukraine.
Fiercely against the war, Talankin instead set out to capture and showcase to the world an unfiltered, insider’s view of how Putin’s war on Ukraine was shaping the lives of Russia’s children. “I immediately knew this had to be preserved for the historical record. I quickly realised this material can’t be lost,” Talankin told the Observer.
And here’s an interesting story from the Sunday Times on a top FSB agent who infiltrated Zelenskyy’s administration.
Inside the complex at 12 Krasnopresnenskaya is the headquarters, secret until now, of an international spy network that infiltrated the highest ranks of President Zelensky’s government.
The operation is run by Vladimir Sivkovich, a grey-haired businessman with a luxuriant moustache who was once the deputy chief of Ukraine’s national security council. He fled Kyiv a decade ago, accused of giving orders to shoot dead nearly a hundred of the pro-European protesters who in 2014 brought down the pro-Kremlin regime he served.
Today, Ukraine says he works for the FSB, the main Russian successor agency to the Soviet KGB, and alleges that he masterminded a network of Russian agents working in Ukraine, Britain and the US to return Kyiv to the Kremlin’s control.
‘One of those agents, said to be Sivkovich’s best, is on trial behind closed doors for high treason 500 miles to the southwest, in Kyiv. Oleh Kulinich enjoyed a stellar career in Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, rising to become a senior commander — and a trusted aide to the chief of Zelensky’s political party.
“Kulinich was the most valued Russian FSB agent in Ukraine,” a senior Ukrainian counterintelligence official said. “His activities can be compared to those of Kim Philby, who destroyed MI6 from the inside. His position allowed him access to vital secret data about defence capability.”
If it’s real, I feel sorry for the camel.
Took me a second to get this one.
And now for the most important news of the day.
Until this war started I knew nothing about Eurovision or what a big deal it is in Europe.
