๐ฅ/1. This morning, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was passing by the Volkswagen Golf when the planted IED was triggered and explosion happened. Immediately after that, his body was thrown several meters away.
As Russian media now report: โPreliminary, the car filled with explosives could have been specially driven to the house where the soldier lived. The IED was filled with striking elements with a diameter of about 6 mm. The car did not belong to him.โ
/2. Moment of the detonation of the planted IED device wich killed Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow region this morning.
/3. Footages of Volkswagen Golf in which IED was planted
/4. Site of the incident shortly after the explosion
/5. Body of the Russian Major General Moskalik
/6. A surveillance camera was installed in the exploded car - the explosion occurred when General Yaroslav Moskalik left the entrance of a residential building.
/7. Russian media โThe improvised explosive device (IED) was constructed using VOG-type grenades, originally designed for under-barrel grenade launchers. The VOGs were distributed throughout the vehicle, with the highest concentration located in the left section of the trunk.โ
/8. The initial moments following the detonation of the explosive device that killed a Russian general in the Moscow region were captured on camera.
The footage records ongoing secondary detonations, likely caused by additional VOG grenades continuing to explode inside the vehicle.
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๐ชก๐งต/1. Footage shows the NEMESIS unit of the @usf_army โbombardingโ NATO armored columns during drills in Estonia.
NEMESIS, a Ukrainian unit that participated in major NATO exercises in Estonia, helped simulate a drone-dominated battlefield for the Alliance.
Below is a thread with NEMESIS drone operators insights and the experience they gained during the drills.
/2. The military exercise Hedgehog-2025 took place in Estonia in May last year.
More than 16,000 service members from 12 NATO member states, as well as Ukraine, participated in the drills โ including operators from the 412th Nemesis Brigade.
/3. Under one of the exercise scenarios, a large NATO battlegroup numbering several thousand troops conducted an offensive operation.
Playing the role of the opposing force was a Ukrainian UAV unit โ bomber drone crews from the 412th NEMESIS Brigade, along with several FPV drone teams from the 427th Rarog Brigade and the International Legion of Ukraineโs Defense Intelligence (HUR).
/1. (WSJ) - NATO conducted large-scale military exercises in Estonia, the Hedgehog 2025 drills, bringing together more than 16,000 troops from 12 member states, with Ukrainian drone operators serving as a simulated adversary.
The exercise laid bare a sobering conclusion: Alliance is not ready for a battlefield where drones dominate the sky and make every move visible and vulnerable.
/2. The exercises goal was to recreated a battlefield packed with threats and constant drone activity, pushing units to operate under pressure and testing how well they could adapt in real time.
From the outset, things did not go as smoothly. In one scenario, a NATO battle group of several thousand troops, including a British brigade and an Estonian division, advanced as if the battlefield had not fundamentally changed, effectively ignoring the drone threat as though it did not exist.
โThe NATO battle group simply moved around without camouflage, setting up tents and armored vehicles. Everything was destroyed,โ said one participant who acted as the opposing force.
/3. A single Ukrainian team of about 10 personnel acting as the simulated enemy managed within half a day to replicate the destruction of 17 armored vehicles and carry out 30 additional strikes on other targets.
According to Aivar Hanniotti, who commanded the roughly 100-strong opposing unit, more than 30 drones were operating in an area of less than 10 square kilometers โ only about half the drone density currently seen along Ukraineโs front line.
โThere was no possibility to hide. We quite easily found cars and mechanized units, and we were able to take them out quite fast with strike drones,โ
(1/8) In Sweden, nuns from the St. Elisabeth Convent, originally based in Belarus, embedded in 20 churches, worked for Russian intelligence and raised funds for the Russian army while posing as a charity.
(2/8) This exposure forced the Swedish Church to issue an official warning to other Catholic communities, stating that nuns of the St. Elisabeth Monastery direct their earnings toward supporting Russian nationalism and Moscowโs aggression against Ukraine, while maintaining close ties to the GRU.
In Sweden, those nuns became known as the โZ-nuns.โ
(3/8) What Z-nuns sold as โsouvenirsโ in Swedish churches actually served as a funding tool for Russian military units.
Thus proceeds from the sales were channelled directly towards supporting Russia's war effort.
Vehicle complies with STANAG 4569 Level 1. Protection covers 7.62ร51 mm non-AP fire beyond 30 m and the effects of a 155 mm HE-fragmentation round at โฅ80 m.
Mine protection withstands a 3 kg TNT equivalent and DM 51 grenades detonated under the hull center.
/3. UAT-FOX
Vehicle is an armored conversion project based on the Mitsubishi L200, while fully retaining a civilian exterior appearance.