Russia can cause blackouts in Ukrainian cities but it can’t keep the lights on in its own.
Belgorod has reverted to the 18th century thanks to HIMARS strikes on the city’s power infrastructure.
x
It’s pitch black in Russia’s Belgorod region after Ukrainian HIMARS strikes hit key energy infrastructure, sparking fires at the Luch and Belgorod thermal power plants and the main substation. Governor Gladkov urged residents to buy generators, admitting there’s no clear timeline for restoring power
[image or embed]
— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Hiding in the reeds didn’t help much.
They should have stayed home.
Hey, look what I found. Boom.
Regarding Russia’s use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile against Lviv:
It seems that just like the first use of the Oreshnik against Ukraine in November 2024, this missile did not carry explosives in its warheads. It relied on the kinetic energy of the multiple warheads to penetrate its target, which was either a very large underground gas storage site or an aircraft repair plant. Fortunately, that failed.
Russian bloggers say Russia wasn’t trying to hit anything, just show Europe what big cojones they have.
Russia doesn’t have many Oreshniks, not enough to make regular use of them. But Oreshnik has the advantage of not facing defenses that can bring it down. The Patriot system is not designed to intercept missiles moving at Mach 10 and descending from high altitudes.
The American THAAD system and the Israeli Arrow-3 can bring it down (in theory, since it hasn’t been tried in combat), but Ukraine doesn’t have those systems. And even if they acquired some, they couldn’t acquire enough to cover the entire country.
Having said all that, Oreshnik is not the dire threat to Ukraine it seems (as this article points out) simply because there are so few of them. Russia has a battery in Kapustin Yar, which is a shithole of a town about 100 km east of Volgograd. And supposedly some have been supplied to Belarus.
Overall, the use of a single Oreshnik IRBM without warheads and the possibility that nothing of military value was hit, suggests that the missile was primarily used as an instrument of intimidation. It’s also unclear how many of these expensive IRBMs have actually been manufactured at this point, and whether Russia would even be able to fire multiple examples in any kind of sustained campaign. According to an assessment from the U.K. Ministry of Defense, Russia currently has only a handful of Oreshniks.
We should soon find out how good Russia is at intercepting ballistic missiles.
x
🇺🇦🦅🚀 According to Forbes, Fire Point has invested about $100 million in the FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missiles, which are already being tested.
➡️ The company is technically ready to produce three FP-7 units per day, aiming to reduce the price of the missile to less than $1 million.
[image or embed]
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Iran? No, they weren’t our strategic allies. All they did was fetch coffee.
x
After events in Venezuela&as events in Iran escalate,Russian 'Z-bloggers' started saying Iran was never a Russian ally,but rather a"complicated partner,"so no big deal if Iran's regime falls
"Arguments that 'we have lost Iran' are invalid for one main reason.To lose something,u must first acquire it
[image or embed]
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Scratch one artillery piece.
The rocket launcher at the end of the video puts on a good show.
Another 880 Russians dead/wounded for the glory of Tsar Vlad. Plus four tanks and more than 650 drones.
This is what some Kyiv residents have to do to keep warm.
x
Kyiv after the Russian attack:
The temperature is -9°C, dropping to -15°C overnight.
Tens of thousands of people are without heating, water, electricity.
Those who have gas are trying to keep warm by heating bricks on their stoves.
This is what genocide looks like in the 21st century.
[image or embed]
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Stalin captured Berlin after 1,418 days. Putin hasn’t taken Pokrovsk yet.
x
Tomorrow, the Russian invasion of Ukraine will reach 1,418 days, the exact same number of days as the German invasion of the Soviet Union, from the border crossing on June 22nd to the official proclamation of Victory on May 9th and capitulation of Berlin.
— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 8:28 AM
I’m sure that none of Trump’s cronies plan to profit from this, because that would be so wrong.
x
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine and U.S. on the Verge of a $800 Billion Reconstruction Deal
The document outlines a comprehensive package of loans, grants, and private investments aimed at rebuilding critical infrastructure, Ukrainian economic growth.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/ukraine-and-...
[image or embed]
— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
The word I would use is impotent.
When you invade a country that has a 54-year-old woman who wants to be a sniper so she can kill your sorry ass, you have already lost.
Good for Iraq.
And it’s only going to get worse.
x
⚡️Violence is surging inside Russia as soldiers return from the war, with civilians paying the price.
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service reports over 1,000 civilians killed or injured by ex-combatants, including at least 551 dead, many after murders, beatings, or crashes.
[image or embed]
— UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) January 9, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Dugin is just an eternal optimist.
x
Panic is reaching a fever pitch as Russian collapse nears: propagandist Dugin is predicting "the end of the world".
Sounding exactly like he should be on a street corner with a sign, Dugin is warning Russians to go get baptized ASAP.
Maybe the end of the Russian world.💅
[image or embed]
— Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Well, there shouldn’t be any trouble finding clowns for this circus.
x
🤡🎪 Circus performances about "Heroes of SVO" will begin in Russia.
The circus studio "Air Project" has applied for a 4.7 million ruble state grant to stage performances dedicated to those who participated in the invasion of Ukraine and the Great Patriotic War.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
He’s drunk with power.
Trump suspects that Putin might not be sincere about peace.
x
Trump sees Putin as an obstacle to peace and is reportedly “tired of his games,” according to The Telegraph. His recent support for seizing a Russian oil tanker and backing tougher sanctions was meant as a warning. A source close to Trump said, “He’s out of carrots. Only the stick is left.”
[image or embed]
— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 10, 2026 at 3:52 AM
And it isn’t one of Elon’s shitty driverless vehicles.
For the cost of that one missile (about $40 million) they could have paved a lot of the streets in Kapustin Yar.
Why are so many Europeans eager for Russia to return to international sports competitions?
This is what it looks like when you have no fucks left to give.
x
I am legitimately so tired I didn’t know I could get through this much it’s fucking freezing and dark and it’s explosions over and over and frankly the world doesn’t give 2 fucks since it’s no longer an entertaining cause so I’ll sit here and complain and taunt on smug millennial lefties
— Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
She can grow up proud of who her father was.
Got any seeds?
Dad’s home.
