Don't know what they're referring to when they say "recent developments" but the guy who ran the "История Оружия" ("history of weapons") youtube channel (500k subscribers), Kirill Fedorov, was arrested in Riga today for his coverage of the war, supposedly for "treason"
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AFU still shelling residential areas in Donetsk - Kirovsky district, today
What strikes me the most when I see footage from Donetsk is how the people are... used to this. Everyone knows what to do when they hear artillery, "duck & cover", fire brigades move swiftly on muscle memory. 16-year-olds have lived half their lives like this.
In mid-February I started reading local Donetsk group chats to keep track of what's going on, teenagers discussing the shelling, afraid to go to sleep, talking about which districts are getting hit, how they haven't stayed up this late in forever, trying to joke through it
New episode! Frontline Sitrep, mobilization(?), Ukrainian TikTok PsyOps, newest Russian weapons, lend-lease, Victory Day, the bloody spectacle, French dogs. Go check it out, the episode is free:
Speaking for myself (Kirill), all of my great-grandfathers fought in the war, one was a pilot & was shot down in the first days of the war, one was head of a railway station & joined the partisans, one was an artillery officer, one was a surgeon
Don't know much about the pilot — he was pretty young when he died, leaving behind a family & only one or two photos that I've seen, he was shot down somewhere in Belorussia in late June 1941.
The train man had suffered an injury to his leg & couldn't walk properly; he sabotaged the railway, derailing several trains with German supplies & went into the woods to join the partisans when he was discovered. He survived the war.
@im_1776 "Mobilization" can mean a lot of things, from putting БАРС into action, to calling up reservists, to grabbing random men on the street, like in parts of Ukraine currently. Lately, there have been rumors about the announcement of a "general mobilization" in Russia on May 9th.