1/8 Getting a taste of their own medicine: Ukraine is increasingly targeting russians with their own glide and rocket-assisted bombs.
2/8 Recently, several videos have surfaced showcasing Ukrainian strikes on russian troops and infrastructure using glide bombs and rocket-assisted bombs. The bridges in the Kursk region serve as a notable example.
3/8 Ukraine has integrated JDAM-ER, GBU-39 Paveway IV, and Hammer bombs into its MiG-29 fleet. The introduction of the F-16 is expected to enhance these missions as well. Additionally, Ukraine is working on developing its own glide bombs.
4/8 Glide bombs represent one of the few genuine successes of russia's defense industry during the war, and russia continues to maintain a significant advantage in this area.
5/8 The arrival of F-16 jets equipped with AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, along with additional Patriot batteries, should help Ukraine keep russian Su-34 bombers at a greater distance.
6/8 Ukraine should be capable of targeting russian air bases with Western weapons, which would help maintain greater distance between Russian Su-34 bombers and the front lines, thereby reducing issues related to glide bombs.
7/8 For Ukraine to win the war faster, its allies need to substantially increase their military and financial support while also lifting any unnecessary restrictions that result in daily Ukrainian casualties.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a major drone attack in Russia. Drones were spotted in Murmansk, which is more than 2,000 km from Ukraine and currently the farthest point that a Ukrainian drone has ever flown to. There was also a hit on an airfield in Volgograd, 1/7
after which a fire started there. Residents of the Kalachevsky District of the Volgograd Region reported a drone attack on the Marinovka military airfield, where Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft are stationed. The region's governor, Andrei Bocharov, confirmed the fire "on the 2/7
territory of a Defense Ministry facility." According to NASA satellite data, the fire also broke out on the site where the aircraft are parked. Details. The governor reported a UAV crash on the territory of a military facility, as well as a drone attack near the village of 3/7
Perhaps 2 to 3 thousand soldiers remained cut off in the Glushkovsky district. The Proletarsk oil depot has been burning for the third day after a Ukrainian drone attack. There is not enough plain water to put it out, so they decided to pour holy water on it too. Maybe it
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will help. But while his army is retreating, Russia is losing the Kursk region, and the oil is burning. Putin does not appear in public, distancing himself from the problems in every possible way. Putin always avoids the topic during times of crisis and distances himself.
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When the Kursk submarine sank, he did not even interrupt his vacation. After a trip to Baku, Putin went to Grozny. This is his first time in Chechnya since 2011. He visited the grave of Akhmat Kadyrov, who was killed in the terrorist attack on May 9, 2004. Then he met with
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1/9 Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi has disclosed statistics regarding russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine. Ukraine requires additional air defense both before winter and for the long term! Take by @joni_askola
2/9 On August 20, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stated that since the onset of russia's full-scale invasion, more than 9,600 missiles and nearly 14,000 attack drones have been deployed against Ukraine.
3/9 Of the missiles launched, 5,197 were directed at civilian targets. In a meeting with local and regional authorities, Syrskyi disclosed that Ukrainian air defense has successfully intercepted and destroyed over 2,400 missiles and 9,200 drones.
After the withdrawal of troops from Germany, Russia retained ownership of several buildings in the Berlin district of Karlshorst. They have been empty for exactly 30 years. Now local politicians are calling for them to be taken away from Moscow and handed over to Kyiv.
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Today, the buildings are fenced off, and sometimes, according to local residents, an elderly Russian-speaking couple clears the area of leaves and garbage. Old-timers have repeatedly asked the Berlin authorities to solve the problem of these virtually abandoned houses.
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The requests have intensified against the backdrop of an acute housing shortage in Berlin. Now, a member of the Berlin parliament from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Ukrainian-born Lilia Usik, is proposing, amid discussions about frozen Russian assets, to take these
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Ukrainian military, explaining the difficult situation in the Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions, point primarily to the mistakes of their command and the lack of normal communication between units. In his Telegram channel
Stanislav Bunyatov writes -
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"Battalion commanders do not present the actual situation even to adjacent units in order to absolve themselves of responsibility in the future. Some battle formations are disoriented. There are no clearly coordinated work plans between brigades, sometimes even battalions.
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The policy of commanders with crowns on their heads: "I have my own area of responsibility, I am not interested in the rest", "who are you to teach me". The Commander-in-Chief reports to Zelensky that the situation is under control, they report to Syrsky that the
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The Ukrainians destroyed the third bridge over the Seim River. Now, the supply of Russian troops in the Glushkovsky district is possible only through pontoons and by boats. In this direction, Russian troops are commanded by General Alexander Lapin, who led the crossing of the 1/7
Siverskyi Donets River near the villages of Bilohorivka and Dronivka in 2022. Then, the losses during the failed operation became one of the largest one-time losses of Russian troops during its war with Ukraine. The advancing Russian forces lost more than 80 tanks and 2/7
armored vehicles and about 485 soldiers killed. Now that Russian troops are cut off, Ukraine can completely capture the Glushkovsky district. Putin is ignoring the problem in the Kursk region with all his might and is in no hurry to transfer forces from the Donetsk region of 3/7