'Three soldiers penetrated a two-storey house on the outskirts of a populated area and engaged the enemy in this building.'
3/ "Report 1:
We are [reporting] from a building on the outskirts of a populated area and are engaging the enemy.
Reflection 2 :
Since the soldiers are in the building, the building has good control of the street.
4/ "Report 2:
My soldiers control the outer street in the populated area and are engaging the enemy.
Reflection 3:
Since the street is controlled, that means part of the populated area is under control.
5/ "Report 3:
We control part of the populated area and are engaging the enemy.
6/ "Reflection 4:
Since part of the populated area is controlled and engaging the enemy, that means he has practically been driven out, and the adjacent terrain and nearby roads are very well controlled from this populated area.
7/ "Report 4:
We have taken the populated area and control the terrain next to it.
8/ "Reflection 5.
Since the settlement (according to the report) is occupied by us, artillery and support units should be brought in.
Report 5:
The settlement is in our immediate rear. Neighbouring units can use it for rotation.
9/ "Result.
A ban is placed on strikes with KABs [bombs] and other heavy weapons on targets in the settlement, because, according to the report, it is ours. Neighbouring (flanking) units begin to try to rotate through it, paying with their lives for reflections and reports.
10/ "The unit that reported taking the settlement receives the next task, and now this settlement is a headache for those who came to replace it.
11/ "The commander of the replacing unit, very conflicted about the current state of affairs, writes to a blogger he knows. The blogger publishes a post about yet another lie. An expert review of the post and a defamation case immediately appear." /end
1/ The fatal capsizing of a Russian floating crane in Sevastopol has highlighted the inability of the Black Sea Fleet's principal shipyard to build the cranes needed for the construction of new naval vessels, as a critical Russian commentary notes. ⬇️
2/ The PK-400 "Sevastopol" floating crane capsized at the Sevastopol Marine Shipyard in Sevastopol's South Bay on 28 October 2025. The crane has been under construction since 2017, was launched in October 2019, and its 400-ton lifting boom was installed in August 2021.
3/ As 'Military Informant' highlights, this is not the shipyard's first failed crane-building project:
"This situation is the final demonstration of Sevmorzavod's true ability to build anything worthwhile."
69 years ago, the Hungarian Revolution reached a crucial point. With revolutionaries now in control of the country, jubilant crowds hailed a new era of freedom for Hungary. But how far would the Soviet Union let the Hungarians go?
2/ On 30 October 1956, the eighth day of the revolution, violence breaks out again in Budapest as a unit of the newly formed National Guard attempts to seize the headquarters of the Hungarian Communist Party in Republic Square.
3/ The building is occupied by ÁVH secret policemen, despite the abolition of the ÁVH by the new government on the day before. Shooting breaks out, leading to casualties on both sides. Revolutionary insurgents lay siege to the building.
1/ The Russian government is to implement what it calls a 'dronification' rating for Russia's regions, in which they will be assessed for their success in producing UAVs. However, as Russian warblogger 'Military Informant' warns, it's ripe for cheating and perverse incentives. ⬇️
2/ "The "dronification" rating of regions developed by the Ministry of Digital Development and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (what a term—it makes you want to spit and wash your mouth out) promises, as usual, unprecedented benefits and prosperity for Russia. In the future.
3/ "You can read about it on every fence or hear about it on every radio. But what is likely to happen in reality—in the near future?
1/ Poor-quality Chinese-made lithium batteries for drones are exploding in frontline dugouts, endangering their occupants, according to a Russian warblogger. He highlights Russia's failure to find viable alternatives to Chinese components of dubious quality. ⬇️
2/ Platon Mamatov writes:
"I won't delve into the depths and abysses of import substitution, the agony of choosing between a "domestic drone that doesn't fly at all" and "something assembled from Chinese components that somehow works," or other pressing issues of our time.
3/ "Instead, I'll give a very simple example from my personal biography.
Look, there's a dugout. Six people are sitting in the dugout. Husbands of their wives, fathers of their children, sons of their parents.
69 years ago today, the Hungarian Revolution was entering its seventh day, with a new government in power, official acceptance of the revolutionaries' demands, and Soviet troops leaving Budapest. But tensions were soon rising again.
2/ After days of fierce fighting in Budapest and massacres elsewhere in Hungary, the Soviets finally complete their withdrawal from Budapest after fresh clashes in the city centre. The police, military and insurgent leaders meet for negotiations.
3/ The new government under Imre Nagy, which includes non-communist politicians for the first time since 1948, takes steps to create a new National Guard alongside the police and the army to integrate the revolutionaries into a new political framework.
1/ Anti-drone technicals seen outside the Kremlin recently are said to be a hastily improvised response to Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb. However, many are said to have been redirected away from strategic targets to protect Russian generals' dachas. ⬇️
2/ Commenting on the recent viral photo of Russian soldiers manning a machine gun mounted on the back of a Toyota truck in central Moscow, the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel comments on the back story according to a source:
3/ "These are the "last" Toyota vehicles sent to Russia, which were modified to resemble Syrian "shahid-mobiles." Machine guns were mounted on the vehicles immediately after Operation Spiderweb, when UAVs flew out of trucks and attacked military airfields.