A Russian Tupolev-22M3 variable-sweep-wing strategic bomber, also known as a Backfire bomber, crashed and at least one crew member, the pilot, is reported dead.
Irkutsk is in Russia’s Far East.
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A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region. The pilot is dead, while one crew member made it out alive.
When the Russian plane came down, it destroyed power lanes and left two nearby villages in the dark.
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— (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Big bavovna
Russia bombed its own dam near the village of Popivka, which is in the Belgorod area where Ukraine is operating.
Ukrainian soldier tosses a satchel bomb into a dugout in a complex of trenches that Ukraine had built to defend Avdiivka. The explosion in the video, however, shows an earlier bombing in the same area.
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1/ An AFU fighter is seen exiting a HMMWV which provides covering fire while be tosses a TM-62 satchel bomb into a Russian dugout. The UAV footage also provides a great view of one of the katsap earthworks they built to defend the Avdiivka...
#OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar
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— OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ukraine’s attack on a Russian airfield a week ago using tungsten balls from a HIMARS rocket left this helicopter well ventilated.
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Consequences of the strike on the field airfield on March 23, located in Ivnya, Belgorod region (approximately 60 km from the Ukrainian border).
The strike was carried out using M30A2 rockets (equipped with tungsten balls) from the HIMARS MLRS.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Russia attacked Kharkiv and Kryvyi Rih again.
Another 1,410 Russians but only 24 artillery systems.
He fucked around. Now he is finding out.
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⚡️Ukraine caught Russian propagandist in Poland. He was extradited to Kyiv after joint Ukraine-Poland🇺🇦🇵🇱 operation and now faces 12 years in prison - SBU.
The suspect, reportedly Kirill Molchanov, appeared 35 times on Solovyov's (another propagandist) show justifying Russia's invasion.
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📷SBU
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
First it was 24 hours. Then it was by Easter.
What’s the new deadline, Christmas?
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The Telegraph writes that the White House has acknowledged that Trump will not secure a ceasefire in Ukraine by Easter.
And he promised to end the war in a day. Sure, sure.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The economic indicators are all bad, but somehow Russia’s economy manages to limp along.
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Here's what we're reading today:
Russia's industrial sector hit its lowest since April 2022. This is the fastest decline since July 2022.
The sector’s output has shrunk in the face of declining demand, while energy and shipping sanctions have hurt Russia's budget.
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— Tim Mak (@timkmak.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not a big deal, but better than lifting sanctions
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🇺🇸🚫 The US imposes new sanctions against Russia. The US has added 4 individuals, 3 legal entities and one dry cargo ship to the sanctions lists, the US Treasury Department reports.
🤔 At the same time, Boris Rotenberg's wife was excluded from the sanctions list.
— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Nobody who is serious about a peace agreement calls up 160k more troops. And the way the war has been going, half of them are either going to be dead soon or wounded.
We’ll see if that realization sinks in with the Russian public and leads to any increase in draft evasion.
But Putin is still loath to start drafting ethnic Russians from Moscow.
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‼️ Russia: “About 7.5 thousand people will be called up to the army in the Moscow region in the spring”
Out of a total 160 thousand to be conscripted.
That’s (7.5/160)*100= 4.688%
Seems a bit low doesn’t it? 🤨
www.interfax.ru/moscow/1017935
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— Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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"If we keep fighting,we'll stumble upon the need to mobilize reservists.Just like in the fall of 2022,that's a mortal danger for Russia"
‘Z-blogger' Kalashnikov,an associate of terrorist Girkin,says Russian leadership is doing everything to avoid mobilizing reservists because it can cause problems.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Those being mobilized are being coerced into signing contracts with threats to be sent on meat wave assaults if they don’t.
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1/ The Russian army is forcing mobilised men to sign contracts to become professional soldiers, or face death in suicidal assaults against Ukrainian positions. It likely aims to save money on salaries and ensure that the men can't go home if a ceasefire is declared. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
2/ The private Telegram channel 'ZOV Insider' has published a recording of the Chief of Staff of Engineers of the 82nd Motorised Rifle Regiment, Captain Yuri Mikhailovich Grechukhin, in which he threatens to send his men to a stormtrooper unit unless they sign contracts:
3/ "Mobilised servicemen, [if you] fucking don't sign the contract, fuck it. A fucking contract is being made. Tomorrow, all the fucking mobilised who stand here, fuck, I'm handing over to storm, fuck. All of them, for fuck's sake. No fucking exceptions. All of them.
4/ "All of them, warrant officer, officer, dickhead, I don't give a fuck. Everybody fucking goes to storm, fuck.
5/ "If there's no fucking contracts by tonight, tomorrow, all the fucking mobilised men who are fucking standing here at the deployment point – at the command post, I mean – fuck it. We're doing the fucking contracts.
6/ "You're all going to fucking storm. Twenty people? Twenty people are going to fucking storm."'ZOV Insider' comments, almost certainly correctly, that Grechukhin "is simply an executor. Such an order comes from the commanders above him."
This pretty much sums up why there won’t be a lasting peace without a Russian military collapse and a new government.
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According to Russian TV&radio host Anna Shafran,"there can be no compromises –the Ukrainian people&language do not exist":
"I’ve both Ukrainian roots&Belarusian roots.I know for sure that they are one people.There is no separate Ukrainian language.There’re dialects of the Russian language"
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This sounds to me like more escalation management. Russia has been demonizing Poland and “Polish mercenaries” every chance it gets. It doesn’t need any excuses.
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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski believes that the participation of the Polish army in Ukraine could be used by Russian propaganda for false claims about Warsaw’s territorial ambitions.
He also noted that this could be an additional reason to mobilize Russians for war.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The UK steps up with more helicopters.
Germany steps up.
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"Germany will provide 11 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine." - German Foreign Minister Berbock.
According to the foreign minister, 3 billion euros will be provided this year. Another 8.25 billion euros will be provided in 2026-2029.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Russia’s new cavalry.
The soldier says the motorcycle is a “trophy,” which might mean it came from a Ukrainian unit, but I’m going to guess it was looted.
Here’s a Russian who is welcome to compete in international matches.
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Star Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina will now represent Australia — a country she began calling home after publicly opposing the war in Ukraine and coming out as gay. Athletes and politicians back in Russia aren’t too pleased.
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— Meduza in English (@meduza.io) April 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This guy ran a cult in the Russian city of Novosibirsk for years before he was finally sent to prison for human trafficking. He turned up in Argentina and is back in jail.
Find a man, marry him and then collect the death benefit.
But what if he doesn’t die?
Dad’s home.
