Zaporizhia 🇺🇦, 40km from the front, 746 000 inhabitants, 6th city of Ukraine, targeted by Russian🇷🇺 glide bomb under the view of a drone.
Where is air-defense ?
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Sumy, 30km from the border, 270 000 inhabitants, 21st city of Ukraine under Russian aviation strikes.
Where is air-defense ?
Kharkiv, 35km from the border, 1.4 million inhabitants, 2th city of Ukraine, under Russian Iskander strikes, BM21 Uragan destroyed.
Where is air-defense ?
Okhtyrka, 40km from the border, 50 000 inhabitants, old artillery under Iskander strike.
Where is air-defense ?
South of Kharkiv, S300 destroyed by missile strike under drone eye. 55km from the border.
What is air-defense doing ? Why does this drone could enter 55km into Ukrainien territory ?
FAB 500 strikes on 93rd mecanized brigade training camp in Tchouhouiv (Kharkiv oblast), 50km from the border.
Where is air-defense ?
North of Zaporizhia city, NASAMS air-defense destroyed by Russian missile, 55km from the frontline.
What is air-defense doing ?
Odessa, 80km from the front, 1 million of inhabitants, 3rd city of Ukraine, S300 destroyed.
Where is air-defense ?
Power stations, radars, air defense, tanks, anmunition depos, power plants... Every military and critical civilian facility close to the front (~60km) can now be reached by Russian glide bombing.
Drones can freely fly over Ukrainian airspace...
This is not only a Ukrainien problem since Russia couldn't avoid Ukrainian drone stikes, however, Ukraine doesn't have thousands of missiles and guided FABs in reserve Russia has.
This is actually worrying for Ukrainin armed forces.
Indeed, as the battle for Tchasiv Yar is slowly beggining, FAB 500 are litteraly destroying the western edge of the city.
In the city, Russian armed forces have reached the last Ukrainian defenses before their main defensive line, the Bakhmout canal. On this canal, there are a few bridges which will be crucial to hold and destroy when they will retreat.
Every frontline village can now be striked by FABs 500/1500 which are destroying many positions and killing soldiers.
Example here, Rivnopil, a village liberated last summer by Ukraine.
The new strategy of Russia is simple :
1- FAB 500 strikes 2- Lancet strikes angainst Ukrainian mecanized reinforcement 3- Mecanized "meat assault" to take a position.
For Ukraine and its western partners, it will be crucial to find means to destroy Russian air assets, in particular Su-34, drones and missiles.
In the coming months, Russia will be able to destroy the city of Kherson if they want, since it is located on the front...
Ukrainian 🇺🇦 forces liberated most of Kupiansk city in a rather uncommon counter-attack
Despite setbacks in Pokrovsk, Siversk or Vovchansk, counter-offensive operations in Kupiansk managed to save the city and its surrondings for additionnal months.
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Few days ago, Volodymyr Zelensky filmed himself at the entrance of the city of Kupiansk, less than a month after Vladimir Putin claimed it was liberated by russian forces, inviting western medias into it.
A year ago, russian forces crossed the Oskil river for the first time in Dvorichna area.
Back then, the infiltration remained small. However, during the spring and the summer of this year, they accumulated forces, using underground pipes to enter Kupiansk city.
La République Démocratique du Congo 🇨🇩 est-elle coupable d'héberger et d'armer les FDLR, des rebelles qui nourrissent l'ambition d'envahir le Rwanda 🇷🇼?
Entre mythes et réalités, la question des FDLR est au cœur de la guerre dans l'est de la RDC.
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Après avoir perpétré le génocide contre les tutsis (et les hutus modérés) en 1994 (800k à 1 million de morts), les Forces Armées du Rwanda et les génocidaires interahamwe ont pris la fuite avec 2 millions de Hutus vers le Zaïre.
Contrairement à ce qui a souvent été dit, l'Armée Zaïroise et les forces de l'ONU/françaises, n'ont pas eu ni la volonté ni la capacité de désarmer entièrement et efficacement les hutus fuyant le Rwanda.
Ainsi, dans l'est du Zaïre, de nombreuses armes lourdes sont arrivées.
Au Yémen 🇾🇪, le coup de force des Emirats-Arabes-Unis 🇦🇪 pour contrôler le sud du pays
Les forces du Conseil de Transition du Sud (STC), un proxy pro-émirats, ont lancé une vaste offensive militaire, s'emparant d'une grande partie du sud du pays.
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Le STC s’appuie sur un réseau armé sudiste fortement soutenu, équipé et entraîné par les Émirats Arabes Unis, et ancrées dans un puissant sentiment identitaire sudiste pro-sécession.
Ils contrôle le sud du pays.
Les forces du gouvernement se composent d’un ensemble hétérogène : Armée nationale (ANY), brigades du MOD, unités tribales et islamistes, appuyées par l’Arabie saoudite ; elles disposent d’effectifs théoriquement importants mais fragmentés, sans cohésion stratégique forte et dépendants du soutien extérieur.
Analysis of Russian 🇷🇺 airstrikes north of Sumy in 2025
This year, I've closely followed russian airstrike campaign.
In Sumy, I mapped around 4 000 strikes. With recent satellite images of a small 153 km2, I found 1641 airstrikes impact !
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I found very recent sattelite images from May or June 2025.
What they are showing is really crazy. Multiple airstrikes impacts and wiped out villages, it helps to understand russian strategy.
Thus, I have decided to cover this small area of 153km2 with airstrikes visible on the high resolution images of june in white and the ones on mid resolution from october and november in pink.
Pourquoi la RD Congo 🇨🇩, le Rwanda 🇷🇼, le Burundi 🇧🇮 et l'Ouganda 🇺🇬 sont ils tous en guerre dans l'est du Congo ?
Depuis 1994, les trois Etats organisent ensemble le pillage des ressources minières congolaise, changeant régulièrement d'alliance, CARTE :
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Le principal Etat impliqué est le Rwanda. Mais pourquoi est-il en guerre dans l'est du Congo ?
Lors de la guerre entre le FPR (tutsis) et l'Etat Rwandais (Hutu) entre 1990-1994, le FPR est soutenu et armé par l'Ouganda 🇺🇬, la Grande Bretagne 🇬🇧 et les Etats-Unis 🇺🇸
Battant les forces armées rwandaises (hutus) pendant le génocide, le FPR prend le pouvoir, avec à sa tête Paul Kagame.
Il devient dès lors la vitrine anglo-saxone en Afrique, recevant armes et financements. Les USA organisent via le Rwanda la chute du dictateur Mobutu au Zaïre.
The use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs): the new revolution in the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 war.
Replacing infantry, UGVs fulfill several roles: combat support, troop evacuation, mine-laying, or logistics...
The revolution of ground drones in Ukraine 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 :
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Like images from the future, ground drones are becoming increasingly visible on the ground in Ukraine.
While the arrival of aerial drones and their variants, as well as naval drones, has been well covered, the arrival of ground drones has been almost forgotten.
Multiple videos from the last few weeks are showing a wider use of ground drones for various missions.
Even if they are often targeter by aerial drones, they are still being very useful.