I am actually amazed they have lasted this long.
Supposedly they were tolerated because they were very good at raising private funds for Russian troops at the front.
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THE DAY OF THE RUSSIAN MILBLOGGER SEEMS TO BE OVER
The Putin regime has decided that it’s time to bring down the people who support its aim of conquering Ukraine, but who complain about the maladministration and corruption inside the military from the front to the command.
Existing legislation
— The Analyst (@militaryanalyst.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Existing legislation is being used to cast them as ‘foreign agents’ - barely a step down from terrorist in the Russian system. This is step one in getting them to stop voluntarily speaking out before the next stage of imprisonment and likely death.The fact that the regime is willing to silence even what could be
described as constructive criticism and one of the last bastions of free speech. It has been a vent, a way for the military to see its complaints are being aired while supporting the overall war aim. That Putin is now at the point of crushing even this tells you how weak the military and the regime
have become. Zero opposition of any kind, none whatsoever will now be tolerated.All that can do in the long run is demoralise what’s left of the morale in the Russian army. Now I’m not especially bothered about any of that. Anything that destroys the Russian army and intensifies the decline of the
regime is all good news to me. Yet it shows us clearly that the terror of internal repression is now extraordinarily complete. This is now Stalinism, a vast dead hand of oppression and state controlled economic activity designed to maintain Putin’s power. It will only hasten the end.
The 220mm Uragan rocket launcher is a Soviet design intended to deliver cluster munitions.
There was a post in the comments recently asking about Ukraine’s BARS drones. Here is a report on its usage.
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Ukraine struck Russia’s Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara region and the Rubikon drone depot using BARS jet drones. Hits also targeted a UAV storage site and fuel transfer station in occupied Donetsk. The Ryazan refinery sustained damage to processing units, fuel tanks, and pipeline racks.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) November 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Meanwhile, in Volgograd
Time to hit it again.
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❗️Russia's Novorossiysk port resumed oil loadings on Sunday after a two-day suspension triggered by strikes, - Reuters.
Novorossiysk temporarily suspended oil exports - 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of global supply. Global oil prices rallied by more than 2% on supply.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Seven people died in this attack on a nine-story apartment building in Kyiv.
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Kyiv. A nine‑story apartment building lies in ruins after a massive combined Russian strike in the night of November 14.
Dozens of people were left without a roof over their heads. Some without those they loved. Beneath this rubble, lives ended, voices were silenced, entire families extinguished.
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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A small sample of the intensity of the fight around Pokrovsk.
Which bark do you suppose tastes better — maple or oak?
This Russian relates a familiar story — soldiers are driven to attack with no fire support and less than a bare minimum of supplies.
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1/ Russian soldiers fighting near Pokrovsk say they are eating bark to avoid starvation, while they face systematic extortion, embezzlement, and violence from their commanders, who send numerous men to their deaths and routinely execute others who are deemed inconvenient. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
2/ Vladimir Valerievich Dulyaninov, serving in the 6th Guards Tank Regiment (military unit 93992), has recorded a series of videos which his aunt has released in an apparent effort to pressure the Russian authorities to take action against the regiment's commanders.
3/ Dulyaninov has given a detailed account of the abuses in his unit, which reflect many similar accounts across the Russian army. He says that he is the commander of an assault platoon, but "I've lost many soldiers due to the reckless commanders, the rush and all that."
4/ In a video recorded on 12 September 2025, he says that his men are sent "on meat-grinding missions, calculating that no one will survive, and arranging everything necessary for this."
5/ Before launching an assault, his commanders ordered him to execute five of his own men (he does not explain the reasons for this) but he refused to go through with it:"They asked me to zero out my own people before the assault, people like me who came after the assault."
6/ "They had no provisions, no ammunition, and they were being driven forward. At that moment, I was like a repeater; communication through me was fine. I received both of [the commanders]. They told me to zero five [men].
7/ "Do you understand? What should I do? My conscience wouldn't allow it, I listened to it. The guys, I understand them."
8/ He says that he "personally received such an order from a lieutenant with the call sign 'Twilight,' but I refused to carry it out." Instead of murdering his own men, he persuaded them to join him on the assault so that they would have a chance of living. They all died anyway.
Russia should also issue its troops dress uniforms for the victory parades.
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⚔️ Joint Forces Group: Russian soldiers in Kupyansk have been ordered to simulate control over the city by waving Russian flags wherever their small groups are present.
The occupiers have begun to insert flags into supply packages, which are being dropped using drones.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Another 860 Russians whose luck ran out. Plus 3 tanks.
Self-defenestration.
Drone netting being used in Kherson.
Russia hit a playground in Kharkiv. Fortunately there were no casualties reported.
This dog receives better training than the typical Russian fodder for the meat grinder.
In a separate announcement Pope Leo also said that the Vatican send Ukraine a million rounds of 155 mm ammunition plus several cases of communion wafers.*
*yes, I’m just kidding
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🇻🇦🇺🇦 Pope Leo XIV has expressed concern over new attacks on Ukrainian cities and called for prayers for a just and lasting peace.
"These attacks are causing deaths and injuries, including children, and are destroying civilian infrastructure, leaving families homeless in the cold season."
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A Ukrainian soldier learns to love the mud. This post doesn’t allow embeds so I am including a link because it is a great photo.This is how I looked the first time I went to watch a late model dirt race and sat in the front row.
France steps up in a big way.
Those Aster 30 B1 NT missiles are designed to intercept medium-range ballistic missiles and even supersonic anti-ship missiles. Other variants of the Aster system have been used in the SAMP/T air-defense systems that Ukraine has been using for a while.
Sounds like we should all become raging alcoholics — except for that thing about the liver.
Well, bless his heart.
But the cupholders work just fine.
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For the presentation of the new Russian Lada Niva Sport,a model with corrosion& oil leaks was exhibited
The off-road vehicle,which costs $21,120,looks as if it has been in use for a long time:oil was leaking from the differential, the doors close crookedly, the bolts and drive shafts are rusty.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Look, ma! We got water again.
Rest in peace.
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I just remembered my friend Dania . Brewed his own ale, big Guillermo del Toro fan. Dania’s dead now. We spent the 1st winter of war Russia threw on us together and the colder it gets the more it’s triggering the more I remember . The fires he taught me to
— Margo Gontar (@margogontar.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The fires he taught me to start. The gin tonics we made. It’s hard for me even to look at pictures but I will show them soon. He deserves it. I’s so sad. Russia takes the best of us. Oh what our lives could’ve been if Russia wasn’t a greedy insatiable murder machine.
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🕯️Yesterday, during another night attack by Russia on Kyiv, a teacher of the Preschool structural unit of the Lyceum "Dominanta" Vashchenko Svitlana was killed.
💔 "Svitlana was a teacher devoted to her profession, a kind and sensitive person who gave care, attention and love to children every day."
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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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🕯️ Combat medic Anastasia "Pandora" Osintseva died during a combat mission, the press service of Lyceum No. 7 of Dnipro reports.
💔 She served in the aerial reconnaissance unit of the 71st separate brigade of DShV. During her school years, Anastasia was the president of the school self-government.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
“Because they are very bad people.”
Indeed
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“Why won’t they let us sleep”
a child asks her parents after another russian attack on Kyiv.
There’s no answer to this question, except #RussiaIsATerroristState
The only answer is to help stop this terror:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
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— UNITED24 (@u24.gov.ua) November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Love in the ruins.
Dad’s home.
