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May 18 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
There are preliminary reports that today #Ukraine air defense shot down the second in a row Russian newest light bomber Su-34 ($40-50 mln) in the sky above the northeastern #Kharkiv province.
Audio from the downed today Russian Su-34: [Woman’s computer voice] "Aircraft #1-6. Left engine fire. Turn on the fire extinguisher." [Pilot] I was shot down [W] "Right engine fire. Fly-by-wire system malfunction (СДУ)" [Pilot screaming at the end].
"Here are $50 mln on fire," says a #Ukrainian soldier from #Mykolayiv while filming the burning rubbles of the newest Russian multirole jet Su-34. (Very interesting shrapnel holes are in its nose. What anti-air missile could have downed it?)

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[2] "By May 9th, Russia got a strategic defeat - it couldn't destroy the #Ukrainian state through military intervention and replace the government with the Russian marionettes. We forced it to lower the goals to the operative-tactical level," said @oleksiireznikov.
[3] "We are entering the new, long-lasting phase of the war. To win it, we need to plan our force in a way that the enemy will finally break. Since Feb 24, we knew that the confrontation will be long, and last till our full victory," said @oleksiireznikov.
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May 10
The #Ukraine intelligence volunteers from the @InformNapalm community shared an audio intercept of a radio exchange between panicking Russian Marines & indifferent Russian Navy HQ in Crimea. Marines were under attack on the occupied #Ukrainian Snake Island in the Black Sea.
[2] On audio, Russian servicemen onboard their Raptor boats are panicking, crying, and lamenting to their Crimea Navy HQ about every Bayraktar missile that one by one hit and destroyed their boats.
[3] The Russians on their Raptors used an open Maritime rescue frequency begging from Crimea HQ for the air support to save them from the hostile Ukrainian attack drone in the Black Sea.
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May 1
UPDATE - Yesterday's #Ukraine attack on the Rus. HQ in #Izium was designed to liquidate the high-value target - chief of Gen. Staff of RAF Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov. The Kremlin sent him to get a victory for the May 9 parade. Gerasimov was close to the blast but wounded. [Thread⬇️]
[2] Yesterday, at the moment of the #Ukraine attack more than 40 high-ranked Russian military officers gathered in the HQs in #Izium. Reportedly, up to 20 of them are confirmed killed incl. Gen. Andrey Simonov, a commander of electronic warfare forces of the West district.
[3] Gen. Gerasymov suffered a minor shrapnel wound to his right shin without breaking a bone. Source: former minister of Internal Affairs of #Ukraine Arsen Avakov via his sources.
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Apr 26
Due to the Putin's invasion, in the first quarter of 2022 #Ukraine registered an increased amount of 802 cyberattacks from Russia and Belarus, said the Ukrainian govt cyber group CERT-UA. [Thread⬇️]
Here is the list of top 5 Russian and Belorussian groups of hackers (connected to the military and security services of those aggressor countries) which conduct #cyberattacks on #Ukraine ⬇️
[1] The hacker group of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB): UAC-0010 aka Armageddon (GammaLoad, GammaDrop, HarvesterX). This is APT (advanced persistent threat).
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Apr 22
The Kremlin launched the next wave of repressions against the Russian military brass for failing "the special operation" in #Ukraine, especially after sinking the cruiser Moskva - said the representative of the Intel. Dept. of Ukr. MoD Vadym Skibitskiy on Ukr. TV. [Thread⬇️]
[2] First, the Kremlin dismissed the Black Sea fleet commander, General Osipov. He's under arrest.
[3] Second, Russian MoD dismissed the Lt. Gen. Vladislav Ershov from the post of a commander of the 6th Army. He's arrested for more than 2,000 killed Russian troops, incl. 180 conscripts who should not be sent to war in #Ukraine according to Russian law.
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Mar 31
BREAKING - The #Ukraine state enterprise EnergoAtom reports that the #Russian Army units that captured the defunct #Chernobyl nuclear power plant are leaving the plant in two convoys of about 100 vehicles to #Belarus. [Thread⬇️]
[2] On the morning of March 31, the #Russian Army commanders expressed to the #Ukrainian personnel at the #Chernobyl nuclear power plant their intentions to leave the station for Belarus. Sources: #Ukraine state enterprise EnergoAtom + State Committee of Special Communications.
[3] Yesterday's information had been confirmed by EnergoAtom that the Russian soldiers indeed dug the trenches in the highly radioactive Red Forest. After the first symptoms of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) Russian soldiers began panicking, revolting, and demanding retreat.
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