1/7 In the fourth year of the war, Ukraine suddenly found a real weak point for the Russian Federation. This is air traffic. Due to massive drone attacks in the European part of Russia, flights are paralyzed today. Airports are in collapse.
2/7 Planes are canceled or delayed for 8-10 hours. Thousands of passengers have accumulated at airports and cannot take off. To achieve such an effect, you don't even need to hit anywhere.
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A drone can simply fly and cut circles, and this is enough to stop the operation of airports. Ukraine has nothing to lose in this regard - our airports have been closed since 2022. But in Russia, air traffic has still been maintained everywhere, except for border regions.
4/7 And then in the last day or so, the situation has changed. Russians felt what Ukrainians felt in 2022. Air traffic has been disrupted. And most importantly, it has been disrupted in Moscow, which is a key hub. Russian bloggers are already sounding the alarm.
5/7 They write that the collapse of air traffic in such a large country as Russia could lead to disintegration and feudalization. Domestic air traffic in Russia is very developed due to the long distances.
6/7 It takes 3-4 days to get to some regions from Moscow by train or car, so a plane is the only fast option. And if it is not there, the connection of remote regions with Moscow will actually simply stop.
7/7 I don't know why Ukraine didn't do this earlier and didn't use this trump card. But now we can state that a very unpleasant pain point for the Russian Federation has been found.
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Breaking: Attack on Russian gas platforms in Black Sea; Russians sound alarm over new
Ukrainian naval weapons
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Russian Z-bloggers are actively discussing the successful attack of the Ukrainian army on the night of May 1-2 on a gas production platform in the Black Sea captured by the occupiers. avia.pro/news/ukraina-a…
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The attack was carried out using a surface drone, which was probably armed with a guided missile.
Judging by the video published in Russian public groups, the drone fired a missile, after which it turned around and went on the return course.
1/4 Two Russian Su-30s were destroyed by AIM-9 missiles fired from the Magura-7 air defense system — Budanov
This is the first time that the fighter jets have been shot down by drones and the first time an AIM-9 from a drone has been used to destroy an aircraft.
2/4 According to Budanov, the GUR used three MAGURA-7 drones in the attack, two of which fired shots at the aircraft. He explained that the MAGURA-7 is an air defense version of the MAGURA-5.
3/4 Budanov said that the crew of the first Su-30 survived and was picked up in the Black Sea by a civilian ship. According to preliminary reports, the crew of the second plane was on board, he added.
According to Budanov, the GUR began installing AIM-9s on drones in January.
1/6 In the early morning of May 16, Ukrainians conducted a massive drone attack on Sevastopol and Novorossiysk. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims they managed to neutralize over a hundred drones, including 51 over Crimea itself.
2/6 The exact number of drones that ultimately reached their targets is unknown. However, images of the devices used by Ukraine for the strike have started appearing online. One of the images shows an unmanned boat armed with an R-73 missile designed for engaging aerial targets.
3/6 The photo depicts a Ukrainian surface drone that washed ashore in the Sevastopol area. Experts from the open-source intelligence account Ukrainian Front on the platform X point out that the drone is armed with an R-73 missile (NATO code AA-11 Archer).
1/14
BREAKING: Donald Trump backtracks on a key campaign promise and claims that he was speaking in "jest" and it was an "exaggeration" when he vowed to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
MAGA voters are the most gullible marks in history...
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In a new interview with Time, Trump was asked to expound on the "role" that he's "playing on the world stage."
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"It’s interesting because you see the relationship. I didn't want to wait, you know, have you leave the room, but you see the relationship," rambled Trump. "I have that relationship with many leaders."
1/8 Pentagon chief discussed plans to strike Houthis in chat with wife and brother - NYT and CNN
According to the publication's sources, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared plans for strikes against the Houthis in a Signal chat that included his wife, brother and lawyer.
2/8 The chat was allegedly created during his congressional confirmation process and included Hegseth and a dozen other people from his inner circle.
3/8 He continued to use this private chat even after being approved for the post of secretary, posting there a detailed plan for attacks on the Yemeni Houthis.
The Pentagon chief's brother works in the Department of Defense, but his wife is not on the military staff.
The techniques to deceive employed by the Russian authorities are interlaced with delusive trickery and shady methods. Typical Russian oddities are used to fool an audience.
2/7 Current Russian deception operations largely take place in the information environment and consist of active measures, dezinformatsiya and reflexive control. Other methods of deception are also used, such as imitation, diversion, stratagem1
and feints,
3/7 but these methods are nowadays less prominent in Russian security operations. All these forms of deception together are referred to
in the Russian language as maskirovka. There is a hierarchy in those terms, which is shown in this figure.