⚡️ There are clear fragmentation patterns of an air-defense missile on the walls of the Odessa church, caused by the thousands of metal fragments expelled from the S-300 missile.

There is nothing that can resemble such an effect in any of the missiles used by Russia last night. This is without doubt the fragmentation caused by an air-defense warhead, not a cruise missile.

The Russian MoD has clarified that the powerful missile attack in Kramatorsk targeted the commanders of the 56th Brigade of Ukraine, whose gathering was presumably leaked.

I don’t condone the strike in the same way I don’t condone war, but it’s inadmissible to place a high-value… https://t.co/xETE1qHAoDtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
❗️“There’s soldiers under this ruble all over”

It saddens me to see people suffer, but Ukrainian propaganda is once again sharing opportunistic and shameless lies.

Putin is making an important address to the nation right now: thanked the Russians for endurance, solidarity and patriotism, noted that any blackmail and turmoil are doomed to failure

Summary

- Prigozhin prepared an armed rebellion with loyal Wagner personnel, and launched it in tandem with a fake video about a strike on a Wagner camp by the RU MoD, which was meant to be the trigger.

- he’s not getting any support from anyone as far as I’m aware - he has been building up to this with constant ridicule of the Russian Defense Minister and Military leadership

- he has valid points about the incompetence and mistakes of these people, and claims to be on a crusade against them and no one else

⚡️ The war in Ukraine explained to Americans by analogy ⚡️

2023 - Texas secedes from the USA by peaceful agreement. Texans see a new path and a bright future ahead of them. Despite its independence, Texas and the USA are deeply connected.

Most Texans have a fluid Texan/American identity, family & friends in the USA, and use English as their first language.

Spanish is the other official language, but few use it outside southern border areas.

I can’t believe I missed this one today, the editing is unbelievable.

A 12 minute clip of Ukrainians conducting what was sadly a suicide attack on Russian trenches

.. just to be pummelled by Su-25’s, infantry, heavy mortars, a tank, MLRS and finished with an Su-34 bombing run. PART 1 (previous)

- Ukrainian soldiers get dropped by an APC and begin storming the trenches north, unoccupied by Wagner and LPR soldiers. They also used a civilian vehicle.

PART 2
- a pair of Su-25’s attacks their armoured vehicles
- trench combat
- heavy Russian artillery

Disaster of Ukrainian paratroopers in Svatovo and Kremennaya

The 25th and 80th air assault brigades were ordered to capture two different road sections yesterday morning

The 25th didn’t even get close.

The 80th was left without comms due to Russian electronic warfare and (1/2) … and contacted command via open channels, which was recorded by the Russian Shipovnik-AERO electronic warfare complex, after which their positions were hit by Giasint-B artillery.

Both groups were sent on the raid without support… (2/3)

Ukrainian terrorists blew up a truck full of explosives over the Crimean Bridge causing damage to the road section.

At the same time the explosion was timed to hit a passing train with fuel tanks, causing it to catch on fire over the rail section of the bridge.

ISIS style. The suicide bomber truck is visible here.

At least one car with civilians was obliterated by the explosion, but that of course isn’t an issue to a terrorist state.

It happened very close to shore, which will make repair work easier.

A Ukrainian offensive with 2 reinforced battalions was repulsed near Kupiansk.

80+ soldiers died, 5 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 10 vehicles and a German self-propelled howitzer with guided munition were destroyed. Near Lyman, an attack on a Ukrainian crossing on the Zherebets river resulted in 30+ soldiers killed, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 5 armored vehicles and 5 picku trucks destroyed.

People don’t really appreciate how much Ukraine’s existence as a functional country is hanging on Russia’s odd sense of moral righteousness and good grace.

Russia has the capability to destroy the entire Ukrainian power grid in a single day, and do it over and over again. It has the weapons and it has the motive, but somehow, to the astonishment of many within Russia and outside it, it refuses to do the thing that would single-handedly not only end the war but also Ukraine as a 21st century country.

(1/-) You guys have no idea how much damage Russia causes DAILY with air-defense, ballistic, cruise & air-to-ground missiles.

Every day the Russian MoD runs a briefing and moves on.

I will let you know what got destroyed today, so you understand the scope of Ukrainian losses: 1- unspecified number of Ukrainian helicopters destroyed in the ground by and Onyx missile in Artsiz, Odessa region

2- 1 ammunition depot destroyed near Gulkhov

3- 4 MLRS “Smerch” and 1 S300 in the Bohodukhov area

4- air-defense shot down 2 MiG-29 in Iverskoe and Novodonetskoe

What's actually going on around Snake Island as Ukraine frenetically tries to take control over it? Why is Snake Island, located on the Southwestern fringe of Ukrainian territory, such a crucial target?

Crazy how losing a 40 y/o cruiser became "a devastating Russian defeat", even though the Black Sea is an uncontested pond;

yet the Ukrainian Military loses half that cruiser's worth in equipment and infrastructure daily and no one bats an eye.

It's all a matter of perspective. coping

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1514709360483749893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

(1/14) Mariupol is used by uninformed members of the public as evidence to demonstrate how Russia is running a failed military operation in Ukraine.

Yes, the Russian coalition is still not in complete control of Mariupol (95%) after 40 days or so.

But why? (2/14) To understand why Mariupol is not at all a failure, but a controlled success, we need to look at what's going on there.

Ukrainian channels are spamming this info: it seems like the Americans commanding the Ukrainian Forces, I mean, advising them, are recommending a retreat from Donbass into large cities that can be fortified further West, but the General Staff of Ukraine won't go with it The US military believes that fortifying Poltava/Dnipro/Zaporozhye would stop the Russian Forces, and that keeping troops in the Eastern Front will end with more than 50000 encircled in as little as 2 weeks from now.

(1/?) Jesus, I want to believe the bodies in the streets are actually alive people, but the pieces are starting to fall into place and it looks like the truth might be a lot more dreadful and cynical.
It looks like the ultimate barbaric act completely flipped upside down. (2/?) Russians might have completely fucked up this one, but not the way you think. They did not mass murder civilians on their way out, as should be obvious given the absolute counter-productiveness, timing it perfectly for Ukraine to conveniently use as atrocity propaganda.

NATO/Ukrainian estimates are fake, #Russian losses as stated by the Russian MoD are as accurate as you will get, and from now on the ratio between Ukrainian/Russian losses will increase exponentially. #Ukraine is gonna lose most of its military soon if Zelensky doesn't back down. It's gonna be a complete slaughter house once the bulk of the Ukrainian military gets encircled in Donbass.
They have little fuel, command chains are being repeatedly targeted and destroyed, they have close to no mobility under aerial threat and lack of fuel.