Yeah I mean it frankly looks like what was rolling around Yugo in the 90's
But I'm talking about the actual landscape.
It is beaten and destroyed.
The thing of nightmares.
I know it is probably trivial compared to the human suffering that has been going on and in no way would I want to diminish that, but as a someone who is at the very least a low-key environmentalist, I can't help but think of the long term environmental impacts that happen during wars and the long term implications (both to human health and the ecosystems). Any time a vehicle blows up, a power stations or fuel depot is hit, or a factory, or a ship sinks, it would be considered a pretty big deal, but of course in a war, there isn't the luxury to do much about it. When this war is over, Ukraine will need a lot of help in that regard.
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I know it is probably trivial compared to the human suffering that has been going on and in no way would I want to diminish that, but as a someone who is at the very least a low-key environmentalist, I can't help but think of the long term environmental impacts that happen during wars and the long term implications (both to human health and the ecosystems). Any time a vehicle blows up, a power stations or fuel depot is hit, or a factory, or a ship sinks, it would be considered a pretty big deal, but of course in a war, there isn't the luxury to do much about it. When this war is over, Ukraine will need a lot of help in that regard.
Absolutely correct.
Also the mines and unexploded ordnance, hell they still find things from WW1.
That landscape is years and years away from being useable.
They are still clearing mines in Yugo which was 30 years ago.....
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Reminds me a bit of being in Waterton or Jasper after a big forest fire and seeing a graveyard of trees. This is such another level of destruction up from that, it's unfathomable to comprehend unless you are there. That's not even mentioning the big dam attack a few years ago that destroyed so much terrain. An absolute reckoning needs to come to the russians for the environmental disasters they have caused.
I always wondered what they do with all the junk from blown up tanks and stuff and how you even clean that up. I recall when my wife left her village from the border towards Kharkiv city and the road was littered with tanks, cars, bodies, equipment strewn everywhere for 40kms straight. Like, how do you even begin to plug away at that, haul it all away, while under the threat of being attacked.
I can only imagine the cleanup that went underway in Europe post WW1 and II. I guess we have some references here when hurricanes or wildfires come sweeping through. Still, what a job to clean up that kind of mess on such a massive scale.
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Ukrainian fighters carried out a unique operation near Kostiantynivka. A robot was returning to base after successfully delivering ammunition, food, and medical supplies to soldiers of the 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade. On the way back, it encountered troops from another brigade who were trying to evacuate a wounded soldier. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032157100000882837
Recently, due to constant threats of drone strikes, communications have begun to be jammed in Moscow. Because of this, problems have already arisen for taxis, courier services, and stores, and Russians have started buying pagers. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032110585635074275
🔥BAVOVNA at Tikhoretsk Oil Depot and Tula, 💥S-300V launcher, S-300 radar, ammunition depots, 📡GUR destroyed radar stations in Crimea, 👌SBS destroyed 19 air defense in March! https://twitter.com/user/status/2032133231567348065
The Carpathian Sich battalion is very angry with the occupiers. Drone operators of the 49th OSHB are destroying Russian logistics transport where the occupiers used to travel “relaxed” and even watch the sky. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032144945293795744
KREMINNA / LYMAN: Limited reporting of major clashes in the last 24-36 hours—mostly artillery duels, small-group probes, and drone engagements near villages like Nevske, Chervonopopivka, or Bilohorivka. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032115975227637814
CAN’T HIDE: Russia thought the Black Sea Fleet was safe 200 miles east of Crimea. They were wrong. On the night of March 1-2, 2026, a massive Ukrainian swarm of aerial and maritime drones breached the ‘impenetrable' defenses of Novorossiysk. https://twitter.com/user/status/2031795758526091739
POKROVSK [EXPANDED AO]: A decrease in the number of of Russian contacts is noted since the redeployment of Russian units from Pokrovsk to Huliaipole to staunch UKR advances there. Scattered Russian offensive ops in the Pokrovsk direction on 8-9 MAR without confirmed advances. https://twitter.com/user/status/2031792920907362417
Anti-drone nets now cover streets, sidewalks, and highways in Izium, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, designed to tangle the propellers of Russian FPV drones. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032028955813740636
Ukrainian drones struck Russian-occupied Sevastopol, with two loud explosions reported. Local channels report drones are approaching toward Inkerman, the GRES power station, and Sevastopol Bay. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032147647272726651
Orban continues his attempts to revive his sinking ratings.
POLITICO: The Hungarian Prime Minister, he helps Russia. You think he's an ally? ZELENSKYY: Yes, of course. He's standing on the side of the Russian leader. He's blocking everything for Ukraine: money, weapons, our way to EU. And he's personally sharing Russian narratives. https://twitter.com/user/status/2031907095574937652
Russian forces are being driven back in parts of Ukraine, following the Starlink shutdown and degradation of Telegram. This has prompted one Russian warblogger who is fighting in Ukraine to post a blistering denunciation of the leadership in Moscow https://twitter.com/user/status/2029500674224893963
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Russians at the front are complaining that Ukrainian forces over overwhelming them with swarms of 300-400 drones which are then followed by mobile infantry that advance through their positions. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032344859923595720
Russian fingerprints are all over Orban's attempts to provoke Ukraine before April's vote:
🔹Illegally seizing $80m in Ukrainian bank assets
🔹Sending a team to "inspect" Druzhba without permission
🔹Social media videos claiming Ukraine is threatening Orban's family https://twitter.com/user/status/2032009449049899150
I hope in about a month from now, updates to this thread include Orban being removed from office after the election. Polls have consistently shown him behind. Unfortunately, democratic institutions are so damaged right now that you can't count on a fair result.
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HUR special forces took out the railway ferry Slavyanin and hit the vessel Avangard, both key to Russia's Kerch crossing for shipping weapons and ammo. The port of Kavkaz in Krasnodar region was also struck. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032849479146103180
Ukrainian border guard drone operators from the "Steel Border" took out a "Murom" system, five occupiers, a bunker, an ammo depot, a vehicle and an antenna. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032754973298110569
HULIAIPOLE: Following the arrival of Russian reinforcements deployed from the Pokrovsk AO, the military situation in Huliaipole remains highly active and contested.
The head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee, Ebrahim Azizi, has called for considering all of Ukraine's territory a legitimate target: https://twitter.com/user/status/2032791749995716648
CHEMICAL WARFARE: Despite explicit prohibitions by the Geneva Convention, Russia continues to use chemical weapons against Ukrainian military and civilian targets. https://twitter.com/user/status/2032953179663425823
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Supposedly large amounts of Russian troops are gathering around the Kharkiv region to reopen / put pressure on a new front, who apparently have no answer to Ukraine's new drone tactics and the loss of Starlink.
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Supposedly large amounts of Russian troops are gathering around the Kharkiv region to reopen / put pressure on a new front, who apparently have no answer to Ukraine's new drone tactics and the loss of Starlink.
good let the bodies hit the floor
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Mobile internet in Russia is becoming increasingly restricted. This is happening even in major cities - Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Social media platforms are being shut down, and Telegram is being slowed. Russians are being pushed onto the state-controlled platform MAX, which is under full government control.
Why is the Kremlin lowering an iron curtain now? There are no mass protests, the opposition is silent, and everything remains strictly controlled.
I made a mistake in engaging with Dugin last night. To try to win arguments about the stupidity of Russia's war, I made claims that I no longer believe. Deleting those tweets.
Russian propagandist Ilya Remeslo is calling for Putin to face trial as a war criminal, insisting it be done "within the law." He argued the war is fueled only by Putin’s personal complexes and blamed him for "devastating Russia's economy." https://twitter.com/user/status/2034223966118641844
Prymary unit of
@DI_Ukraine
struck another modern Russian “Valdai” radar system in occupied Crimea.
Also destroyed:
• EW jamming station
• UAV relay for “Geran” drones
• GLONASS navigation system
• 2 BK-16 assault boats with crews https://twitter.com/user/status/2034274816321106299
I would like the U.S. not to perceive Ukraine as a country that merely asks for help. That is not the case. Ukraine is defending interests and values. Of course, the U.S. is right when it says it is farther from this war than Europe. That is understandable. But we see U.S. allies in the Middle East, and we see what – and who – threatens them. https://twitter.com/user/status/2033833622373818423
Couldn't find a good good video to summarize it, but it looks like Ukraine has taken a notable step ahead in the drone race, both in terms of quantity, quality and tactics.
While we are still talking about fairly slow and relatively small movement, the Ukrainians have been steadily pushing back the Russians in several parts of the front for weeks now. Apparently a big difference maker has been an adaptation into even heavier drone usage.
The area of constant drone threat is currently as much as 150km deep into the Russian side of the frontline, making gathering of troops and logistics increasingly difficult. Offensive pushes now typically start with large swarms of drone-only forces, with the infantry only following (often on foot) once an area is mostly under control. Supposedly this has made it possible for Ukraine to have smaller casualty rates than the Russians despite being on the offense, which is a really significant strategic and tactical advantage.
It does need.to be said though that so far these counter-attacks seem to have mostly focused on taking back fairly lightly fortified territory that was only fairly recently captured by the Russians. (I wish I had more time to really dig into this.)
The stated main objective of the Ukrainians at this point is actually less about taking back captured territory, and more about pre-emptively degrading Russias ability to launch their planned new spring and summer offensives by attacking their logistics, taking key tactical positions near the frontline, and forcing Russia to commit troops meant for the offensive into defensive duties.
It's difficult to have a reliable big picture understanding of how the war is actually going, but signs very much point to Russia currently being on the backfoot and struggling to cope with Ukraines constantly growing and improving drone forces and tactics.
Another important storyline is the extreme level.of internet crackdown inside Russia. Many areas inside.Moscow have suffered from mobile internet blackouts for weeks.
Apparently Putins ultimate plan is to basically build their own version of the Great Firewall of China, essentially blocking all sites that aren't explicitly whitelisted. This move has been really unpopular inside Russia obviously, and there is a lot of skepticism whether or not Russia actually has the technical ability to go through with this. What's significant of course that it's move that's impossible to ignore by even the most passive and disinterested citizens, and there is simply no pretending anymore that things are in any way normal, or that they could return to normalcy under the current regime.
When people in Moscow are going back to walkie talkies, pagers and paper maps (sales of all three have skyrocketed), there's just no ignoring that sudden retro vibe.
Whether that leads to anything is a different question.
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...I want to emphasize that this is still currently a very straightforward war of attrition and aerial bombardment, with insignificant movement of the frontlines when zoomed out to the strategic level.
We're still discussing fighting around Pokrovsk.
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There might in fact be an argument made in the future that Pokrovsk has been the Stalingrad of this war. Some estimates suggest that as much as a quarter of all casualties Russia has taken in this war have happened around Pokrovsk.
It's also.worth noting that Putin is very much back in the "increasingly paranoid man hiding in a bunker" phase. He's rarely been seen in public at this point, and many "appearances" are pre-taped statements, and some of them are ridiculously generic, suggesting those "statements" might have been taped before the event that's supposedly being commented even happened.
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The Russian lawyer-blogger that spent yesterday calling for Putin to be put on trial as a war criminal has already been disappeared into the Putin's dungeons to be treated for a "mental disorder". https://twitter.com/user/status/2034588299524743464
War Diary Day 1,483
The Killer In The Kremlin has gone quiet.
Soldiers on the streets of Moscow.
The internet down.
An old regime patsy denouncing his war against Ukraine.
Orbán arrived at the European summit and once again stated that he will not unblock the loan for Ukraine. According to Politico, EU leaders failed to convince Orbán to lift his veto https://twitter.com/user/status/2034661594714472554
Just after complaining I couldn't find videos worth sharing on the quite interesting tactical and technical developments by Ukraine, I found these, which are super informative.
This has the best general overview. The first half is more about what the new developments mean on the strategic level, and the latter half is about the truly horrific way Russia treats it's own troops. (This doesn't even get into the worst stuff I've seen. Nothing gory on any of these videos.)
This video really gets into the latest drone tactics Ukraine has developed, and I found it really interesting. Basically certain classical artillery tactics adapted for drones. (You really only need to watch the first half.)
This gets into the way the Russia uses small unit infiltration as a strategy, and into the way this is currently countered by Ukraine. This was probably one of the most informative videos I've seen on how this war actually works now on the ground level. (Once again the best part is in the beginning of the video.)
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