1/ Kherson Weekly: 15–21 Sept. 2025

This week:
– Former mayor’s testimony after 3 years in captivity
– New drone unit exposed: Kasper Group
– Civilian casualties & evacuations due to bombing in Inhulets
– Weekly data updates

🧵 Link to article w/sources on Substack at end 2/
After 3 years of torture, former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolaienko recounts broken ribs, pressure to collaborate, and irony of hearing church music before being beaten. Yet he remains unbroken: “You can torture Ukrainians, but you will not make Ukrainians into Russians.”

To follow up on this tweet, here’s a short thread of some very recent #HumanSafari strikes on farmers all across Ukraine.

So far, Russian drone strikes just in July have killed 3 farmers and 3 injured more.

📸 Gov. Ivan Fedorov TG
All sources at end.

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https://twitter.com/kelley7622/status/1944361199191105547

🗓️ 13.07.2025
📍 Stetskivka, Sumy Oblast

A 57 y/o man was killed and his brother was injured in a Russian drone strike while they were driving a motoblock walk-behind tractor to Khotin.

Based on record-distance Molniya drone strikes from 14 April on the village of Vysoke, the recently-rotated 337th VDV regiment of the 104th VDV division could be responsible for today’s murder of a 14 month-old child, Dmytro, in Pravydne, Kherson.

I’ll explain in a short thread.

https://twitter.com/warunitobserver/status/1942954206953972011

In the Kherson direction, Molniya’s are exclusively employed by VDV units and Naval Infantry. I personally believe the common denominator is the air assault component of both VDV regiments and the air assault battalions included in each Naval Infantry brigade. 📸 @battle_order

Kherson Weekly Special

In this edition, I unmask the suspected war criminal & Russian drone pilot, Ernest Spartakovich Strupinskiy, aka “SUETA,” formerly from the infamous KHABR Group and I begin the work of investigating the toll of his crimes with KHABR. #HumanSafari


Let’s dive into SUETA's personal background to get a fuller picture of who exactly this war criminal is, and then we will review his connection to the KHABR Group, accusations of fraud against him by his former comrades, and the brand new unit he is serving in now.

Kherson Weekly: 08-14 Feb

This week's post is a bit different.

As an American, I am outraged by the gutting of USAID, as I know that #USAIDsaves. So I aggregated 50 USAID programs/deliveries/consultations from the Kherson Admin during the #HumanSafari to show the true impact. #USAIDsaves

Between June and the slashing of USAID's staff this year, during one of the darkest times in Kherson's history, USAID's vital support allowed residents to repair damaged homes, restore the power grid, restore drinking water access and irrigation systems for farmers.

Kherson Weekly

Published yesterday, this edition has a video & photo of the week, a compilation of geolocated footage from the area, a collection of stories regarding evacuations, and data from the National Police.
#HumanSafari
Overview and link to full report at end⏬ Video of the Week

The 208th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade "Kherson" shot a Russian missile out of the sky in a video shared on Christmas Morning by the Ukrainian Air Force.

Source: t.me/kpszsu/25655

1/In my latest for @tochnyi, I provide crucial updates on data, contextualize that data within recent events, and delve into the history of the units & individuals who perpetrate these drone attacks against civilians.
Data: @AndrewPerpetua
🧵tochnyi.info/2024/09/preyin… 2/Data Updates:
266 total casualties since June 21. No change to mortality. Some in age (increase b/w 40-60).
1st week of Sept. was quiet, but saw deadly strikes, which killed an Oncologist & injured his wife. Infrastructure objects & vehicles were popular targets in that week.

1/ Two weeks ago, Russians began targeting the funeral parlor outside Antonivka's cemetery. "Signal," a source on the ground, said that it could be targeting those picking up headstones, or rather it presents an easy stationary training target for a drone pilot's grenade drop.
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https://twitter.com/kelley7622/status/1835836548308210129

2/ This location is the funeral parlor for the larger cemetery in Antonivka. Many deceased military members are buried there, in addition to civilians that have recently died. While posting these strikes, Russian also posted the following video.
Source: t.me/osvedomitell_a…

Using @AndrewPerpetua's data, I compiled statistics on drone attacks against civilians in three neighborhoods of Kherson: Antonivka, Kindiyka, and the Dniprovskyi district in the east of the city. I wrote an article for my free Substack about it. Some thoughts and data below.
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https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1828073794927558775

2/Starting in late-May, we began mapping reports in the suburbs of Kherson of drones harassing and attacking civilians. One such incident from May 26th was shared by milblogger Kot Dobrokhod. A middle-aged man is stalked by a quadcopter drone.
Source: t.me/KOT_DOBROHOD/1…