Ukraine continues to put pressure on Russian oil infrastructure with a hit on the Ryazan oil refinery and an electronics factory in Bryansk.
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Over 130 drones attacked Russia last night, one of the largest since the invasion began. Key hits: the "Kremniy" factory near Bryansk, oil refineries & power plants in Ryazan. Explosions near Dyagilevo & Engels-2 airbases, but no confirmed damage yet. Russian MoD reports 120+ drones destroyed.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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1/2: Critical Russian electronics factory closed due to Ukrainian air strike
Last night, the Ukrainian SBU in cooperation with AFU SSO units conducted a successful aerial strike on the "Gruppa Kremniy El" (group-kremny.ru) microelectronics plant in #Bryansk, Russia.
#OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar
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— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The plant produces microelectronic components for the RT-2PM2 Topol-M (land mobile) and RSM-56 Bulava (submarine-based) ICBM's, S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, and critical electronics for combat aircraft. The plant has suspended operations due to the damage.
There are reports that Ukraine launched a limited counter offensive on the outskirts of Pokrovsk to retake a village recently taken by Russia.
On 23 January, the biggest news comes from the Pokrovsk direction. Here, Ukrainian forces launch a daring counterattack to retake Kotlyne, exploiting the exhausted and disorganized Russian troops in a methodical assault.
With Russian forces so depleted that even the wounded were forced to fight, these tactics chip away at Russian forces’ combat capabilities while forcing more Russians to hurl themselves into the meat grinder.
With Russians recently taking tactically valuable positions in Kotlyne, Ukrainian forces initiated a series of counterattacks to retake the settlement from Russian forces with overwhelming firepower. The main advantage of Kotlyne is that it is located on both sides of the railway line, and a dense tree belt runs through it.
The industrial plant to the north provides strong structures, large buildings, and underground facilities. It protects against artillery shelling and allows for the deployment of forces and an ammunition depot. Controlling this settlement is a crucial advantage for both Russians and Ukrainians in the larger battle for Pokrovsk.
Here is another article on Pokrovsk from the Kyiv Independent.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has been forced to withdraw from Velyka Novosilka.
Another 1,500 Russians and 87 other vehicles
Things are going so well for the Russian economy.
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‼️ Gazprom complained about the lack of money and demanded to raise gas prices for Russians and gas transportation tariffs for independent producers three times.
👀 The tariff, frozen since 2015, is 62.5 rubles, and the company's costs are 109 rubles. Gazprom needs a price of 170 rubles.
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— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
There is no shortage of small nations that will take up the slack, like Sao Tome, which is along the Atlantic coast of Africa near the Equator.
Wait! Now they want nuclear arms reduction?
What happened to nuking London and Berlin and marching all the way to Portugal?
Military aid to Ukraine is still flowing. Let’s hope that continues.
Hopefully this is either a decommissioned Patriot system going to Ukraine or captured Hezbollah weapons.
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Earlier today, a USAF C-17 transport flew from Ramstein Airbase in Germany to Nevatim Airbase in Israel, before flying directly to Rzeszow International Airport, the gateway for western aid headed to Ukraine.
The C-17 spent roughly 3 hours on the ground in Israel.
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— OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The cream of Russian manhood marches off to join the army. These guys must be Spetsnaz.
The Make Russia Great Again crowd over in Russia isn’t impressed with Trump.
The old orange clown has delivered such a fatal and surreal speech over the past two days that it's already clear no one will accept his peacekeeping efforts. All the ultimatums of the senile huckster have been rejected-that much is obvious.
But the fact that he publicly allows himself such extreme arrogance, with words like "must," "immediately," and so on, is beyond the boundaries of diplomacy and even beyond the boundaries of anything reasonable. His disgusting manipulation of casualty figures-each time citing a new number 200,000 in either direction-as well as his statements about the decisive role of the U.S. in World War Il, have trampled all over our fundamental values.
He needs to be more careful, much more careful. Entire states are burning in the U.S. these days, and every now and then, presidents get shot at. Let the old man sit back and continue fighting with transvestites in his army. And let him keep his snout out of matters where, to put it mildly, he has a deficit of information.
Trump blames Obama for Russia getting hypersonic cruise missile technology, so naturally that means we’re going to have super duper hypersonic missiles.
Maybe he can order them from Acme. Wile E. Coyote gives them 5 stars on Yelp.
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🇺🇸🚀 Trump accused Russia of stealing hypersonic missiles.
According to him, during the Obama administration, "bad person" gave Moscow the blueprints, which is why the US still does not have hypersonic weapons.
So, Trump has already given the order to create superhypersonic weapons.
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— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Transnistrians: We demand that Moldova allow gas supplies to reach us.
Moldova: OK
Transnistrians: Why won’t Moldova allow gas supplies to reach us? It’s genocide!
The oil from those two sunken Russian cargo ships is the gift that keeps on giving.
They can now rest in peace.
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Ukraine has repatriated the bodies of 757 fallen defenders, most from the Donetsk region, according to the Coordination HQ for POWs. 34 were returned from morgues in Russia. The process was assisted by the Red Cross and Ukrainian forces.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Here is the trailer for the Oscar-nominated documentary about the war in Ukraine, Porcelain War