Russia invades Ukraine

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Most of those vehicles look like they are from the 50's.

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.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

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.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

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.....

[Huntingwhale]

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.

[Cheese]

Ukraine has installed anti-drone protection along 42 kilometers of roads in the Dnipropetrovsk region

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032152519888032159


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


During February, the "Ghosts" unit of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence struck many Russian facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032076133290697176


Péter Szijjártó accused Ukraine of attacking the infrastructure of "TurkStream" in Russia.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032040388077269288


🔥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


Perhaps one of the most effective uses of kamikaze drones: 1 FPV = at least three occupiers.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032114057730236446


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.

🎥In today’s episode, he casts himself as the anxious family man, blaming Ukrainians for alleged threats against his family.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2031788342233251980


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

[Cheese]

Russians near Tendrivsk Spit used friendly fire on their own unmanned boat with an FPV drone and are joyfully howling about their remarkable victory.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032490520413454520


Donald Trump's full statement on Ukraine and how the US doesn't need Kyiv's help with drone defense.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032483820063048081

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032339014737379570


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


A heavy bomber of the Armed Forces of Ukraine covered the Russian Armed Forces' ammunition warehouse.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032494070719803794


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


So it seems like Ukraine has the last words if sanctions on russian oil to be lifted.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032002863912927502


Ukraine’s SBU thwarted a Russian attempt to assassinate the commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps, Andriy Biletsky.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032388919967318063

[FlamesAddiction]

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.

[Cheese]

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

Orban randomly announced that Hungary won't become a Ukrainian colony and Zelensky isn't the boss there.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032783147071324281

Ukraine downed 100% of Russian cruise missiles overnight

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032771533232345468

Ukrainian air defense downed 460 of 498 targets overnight.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032725603120480401

Magyar's Birds drone operators wiped out a dozen Russian occupiers in a trench with one perfect strike.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032769706994577912

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

KOSTIANTYNIVKA AO: Large scale Russian assault comes to grief SE of the urban area. Tanks, IFVs, APCs and vehicles externally malfunctioned.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032855459221184898

HULIAIPOLE: Following the arrival of Russian reinforcements deployed from the Pokrovsk AO, the military situation in Huliaipole remains highly active and contested.

In the last 24-36 hours Russian assault attempts are met with Ukrainian defensive/ counteroffensive actions.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032570962143740278

What a disgrace. Trump has removed sanctions on russia’s oil.

I am truly sorry to the Ukrainian people.

This is a direct backstabbing of Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032300058830344421

Just unpacking it here.

Ukraine is helping us with Iranian drones, resulting from the war we launched against Iran.

And we're easing sanctions on Russia because of the oil market fallout from the war we launched against Iran.

And Russia is helping Iran with medical aid and intel, in the war we launched against Iran.

And Trump is frustrated with Ukraine because it's still at war with Russia.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032276902535184694

Iran Threatens Ukraine with Strikes 🚨💥

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

A week after the Gargoyle Midget Czar took away the internet, Russia's popular military bloggers now openly say that Russia is becoming North Korea.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032527294808412664

Petraeus: Ukraine will make 7M drones this year. They're already throwing 10,000 a day at the Russians in various forms, suicide drones, surveillance.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2030389166966501795

Ukraine is driving Russian forces out.

Ukrainian troops have pushed Russian positions out of nearly all of Dnipropetrovsk.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2032059583825322219

[Cheese]

“Russian world” ideologue Dugin suggests shutting down the internet in summer

In his view, the internet in Russia should follow the “seasonal cycles of bears and butterflies”:

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033568068715020713

A complete blockade of Telegram has apparently begun in Russia.

The popular messaging app has been down for three days and is crashing in several regions.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033474394371043390

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033569776220492232

Russian combatants should be banned from entering the Schengen Area.

Our message is simple: there is no place in Europe for Russian war criminals.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033486844856254736

This is why all Ukrainian kids that Russia kidnapped must be rescued .

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033213746701578522

⚡️ Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033537975431184641

Normalising relations with Russia while it kills Ukrainians is not diplomacy. It is surrender.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033524819547836656

Russia is drafting a massive 3sq km "protected zone" around Putin’s Sochi residence.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033570993529082085

The border guards of "Hart" brigade "walked" well through the enemy positions.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033572738976092297

Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russia: “Just to be very clear, we’re not really talking about a negotiated peace in Ukraine.

Trump still wants a personal relationship with Putin and to change the nature of the US-Russia bilateral relationship, just as he tried at Helsinki.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033180095523770433

https://twitter.com/user/status/ 2032968870529503516

HULIAIPOLE: In the last 24-36 hours (15-16 MAR 26), Russian forces have maintained high offensive pressure, making incremental advances.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033547259309117803

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

[Cheese]

Good video explaining Fibre Optic Drones

https://youtu.be/6u0dqJ0EovM?si=kqsnnOw7BAnb4zNl

[Firebot]

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.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Firebot

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

[Cheese]

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.

One possible reason why Russia is now building a digital concentration camp and restricting the internet is a future mobilization.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2034273576166047871

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.

Here's what I wrote in 2023 that I still believe.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2034270987362161088

Clown

https://twitter.com/user/status/2033953270360596630

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

Moscow collects dictators.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was secretly evacuated to Russia after being wounded in US-Israeli strikes.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2034002480577798494

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

1,710 enemy troops eliminated in one day.
March 17 marks the highest daily loss for Russia in 2026.

https://twitter.com/user/status/2034239945414455435

https://twitter.com/user/status/2034148709164851621

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

[Itse]

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.

[Itse]

...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.

EDIT:
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.