Russia unleashed another vicious assault on the city of Dnipro, including an iconic floating landmark restaurant/hotel they burned. They also targeted residential buildings.
Four people have died
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That's the interior of the Sea U Greek Restaurant at the Bartolomeo River Resort in Dnipro, moments after a Shahed-136 one-way drone hit the 3-masted ship recreation it was located in.
Apparently, they served weapons-grade Greek mezze platters.
This is what Russian "peace" looks like.
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— Malcontent News (@malcontentnews.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Russia admits to targeting the restaurant.
Russia concentrates its drones in one place and attacks all at once instead of one at a time.
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‼️ Russian Armed Forces are using new tactics to strike with Shaheds, - BILD
Instead of flying to targets one after another at intervals of several minutes, UAVs now gather several kilometers from the attack site at an altitude of 2-3 km, and then all dive together at the appropriate object.
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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Bavovna!
Urban combat is slow, grinding and brutal.
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Frontline report: Ukraine’s elite Azov stormtroopers dig Russians out of basements near Toretsk – one grenade at a time
Azov Brigade specialists methodically extract Russian soldiers from underground hideouts where they had been living since winter.
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This attack was in the town of Pogar, which is just across the border from Ukraine in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast northeast of Chernihiv.
According to Wikipedia, Pogar is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Federation and was sacked by the Mongols almost 800 years ago.
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⚡️ Ukraine strikes Russian border checkpoint to disrupt drone attacks.
The Air Force struck a border checkpoint in Russia's Bryansk Oblast on March 27, destroying its military infrastructure and killing dozens of Russian troops, the General Staff said.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Gee, that’s a shame about that nice car.
Meanwhile, in Bakhmut.
They should just go ahead and paint a bull’s eye on that anti-tank holder.
Drone warfare is a constant game of new measures vs. countermeasures.
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⚡️ Ukraine can produce up to 5M FPV drones per year, with over 150 domestic manufacturers and one factory making 4K drones daily. Drones now account for 85% of frontline strikes, and Ukraine has surpassed Russia in UAV production. The main challenge remains funding.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is a well-written and fascinating story about three teenagers kidnapped by the Russians and their journey home from a detention camp.
Here is how it starts:
As the sky began to darken, Vladyslav Rudenko slid a pair of underwear into his hoodie and pretended to go for a walk. The 16-year-old Ukrainian boy had to hurry. He only had a slim window of time before the lanterns lit up the campgrounds of the reeducation camp, potentially exposing him to the Russian counselors.
He left his dorm alone around 6 p.m. and wound through the campus enclosed by a two-meter-high fence topped with barbed wire. He arrived at an outdoor stage overlooking an open square where the camp’s children were required to gather every morning to sing the Russian national anthem. Vlad climbed up the stairs of the stage, dodging the security camera pointed right at it, and turned right toward a row of flag poles: a rainbow flag for the camp; another for occupied Crimea; and the blue, red and white flag of Russia.
“Why should that be hanging there?” he thought to himself. The Russian flag didn’t represent him, a boy from the Ukrainian city of Kherson. It represented the armed men who took him from his home in balaclavas. What really belonged there, if not the Ukrainian flag, was his underwear.
Vlad did one last scan to ensure no one was around and then grabbed the rope on the flagpole. He untied it and tugged, lowering the Russian flag as fast as he could. Once it reached the ground he unhooked it, fastened his underwear and hoisted it up the 4-meter pole. He felt his eyes popping out, his heart dropping to his stomach — the flagpole was so high — and then, a resistance. Vlad looked up and saw his blue and white checkered boxers hanging in the twilight.
“Yep,” he thought. “That’ll do.”
Another 1,740 Russian plus 23 tanks.
Here’s how Russia treats TB among its soldiers — send them back to the front where they get killed. Problem solved.
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1/ Tuberculosis has become rife on Russia's front lines, with thousands of soldiers being treated for infections. The disease has spread from conscripted prisoners, but many men are being sent back to the trenches untreated or are simply not being sent for treatment at all. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
2/ The independent Russian media outlet Tochka reports that the Burdenko Hospital in Pushkino, Moscow Region, is overrun with military patients with TB. A prison guard who contracted the disease before he joined the army says that over a thousand men are being treated there.
Seems like a classic Kobayashi Maru scenario for one soldier named Ivan:
12/ "He was on a mission for 21 days, and they said: if you come back alive, we will take you away for an examination. He came back alive, but they never took him anywhere." Eventually he was hospitalised with a health crisis and was diagnosed with TB, and now needs surgery.
13/ However, Ivan faces a dilemma. If he does not get treated he may die, but if he does get treated he will likely be sent back to the trenches and may also die, and is almost certain to get TB again:
14/ "The phthisiatrician says there is a choice: not to do the operation, but then the tuberculoma may burst after a while and he will die. And if he does, the [medical] commission may then declare him cured, and therefore fit for service.
15/ "But in the conditions of the front, he will 100% get tuberculosis again."
In the Russian army no good deed goes unpunished.
This Russian died one piece at a time.
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(1) Aleksandr Sergeevich Kovalev went missing in action on January 26th 2025, near Udachne, Donetsk Oblast, under questionable circumstances. He was a thrice wounded veteran of the 15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade "Black Hussars" (15th MRB), MUN: 9 0 6 0 0.
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— Unit Observer (@warunitobserver.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
(2) "He was undergoing rehabilitation after his third injury, and was invited to receive awards and to the VVK, since his last injuries were very serious. After the battle for Avdiivka, he partially lost a lung, liver, intestines...
(3) ...and there were still fragments that had not been removed. He was supposed to undergo surgery. But instead, he was sent to the front lines. As they later said, by mistake." This information was provided by family members searching for Aleksandr and is linked below.
(4) Stories like Aleksandr's are not uncommon in the Russian army, especially in units like the 15th MRB where a disdain among officers for the lives of their troops exist. They paint a picture of an army desperate for manpower.
Loitering will get you killed.
Here’s an even better idea — send Evgeny to the front. Assign him to the next meat assault. I’m sure God will protect him.
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A Russian priest Evgeny says that "any normal boy wants to be on the battlefield":
"Any boy who loves his country, he says, 'I want to be where the fate of my country is being decided. I want to be there on the battle line.' Any normal boy who wants to serve his country."
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
They love Putin so much in Russia.
That didn’t go as planned.
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A pro-Kremlin blogger Patrick Lancaster was eager to film a story about "Ukrainian atrocities" in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region.
However, locals told him that the Ukrainian military did not treat them badly, did not hurt them, but on the contrary always greeted them& brought them bread and water
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Serbia, Georgia, Hungary, Slovakia and now Turkey.
A reminder that Belarus has an active exiled opposition and they are in danger too.
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⚡️ Belarusian exiled opposition's chairwoman Melnikava reported missing.
"We hope for the best, but we understand that representatives of Belarusian democratic forces remain priority targets of security services of the Belarusian and Russian regimes," the Belarusian Coordination Council said.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Rest in peace.
Excellent trolling.
Maybe they should let Putin try to pet the tiger.
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Good morning to our readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Pre-war humanitarian work has been forced to adapt to address issues that have arisen in Ukraine during wartime.
Zoriana visited a rehab center rescuing wild animals from frontline as well as circuses.
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— Tim Mak (@timkmak.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
If his skills with the assault rifle are as good as his singing voice, Russia is in a lot of trouble.
