Oh man. That was an absolute game changer moment when those planes exploded. My fear is that bad people took note of those tactics to do things to countries they don't like...
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Tough to say if the pillar actually took damage, and the fact they cut away before you see the smoke clear might be an indication it wasn't too damaging.
Reports this time the target was the underwater supports themselves with a meticulous operation, in a sequence of timed detonation. Explosions ongoing at the moment.
Oh man. That was an absolute game changer moment when those planes exploded. My fear is that bad people took note of those tactics to do things to countries they don't like...
Guaranteed this is just a matter or time unfortunately. In my opinion.
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Reports this time the target was the underwater supports themselves with a meticulous operation, in a sequence of timed detonation. Explosions ongoing at the moment.
The dolphins had one job!
Keyword here is first.
Bye bye Kerch bridge, possibly for good
According to the armchair generals on Reddit, the damage is extensive and significant. Based on what I am seeing, it is not.
According to the armchair generals on Reddit, the damage is extensive and significant. Based on what I am seeing, it is not.
I wonder what the true extent is.
This was an underwater attack on the seabed supports themselves.
The explosion could have been set as deep as 50 meters. If several of those thin pylons were destroyed, it may be standing today, but depending on damage could have high likelyhood of collapse..
It may not look as impressive as the road platform toppling in the water that happened in the past, but much harder to repair if several of those pylons were taken out.
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To add insult to injury, UA's military intel (HUR) has hacked into RU's Tupolev Design Bureau, which is responsible for designing & making almost all of RU's strategic bombers. The UA hackers removed 4.4GB of secret data & left an owl clutching a warplane image behind. https://twitter.com/user/status/1930371394161803465
At the Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting today at NATO HQ in Brussels, UA's Defence Minister, Rustem Umerov, received a warm welcome after Sunday's operation. US Defence Sec, Peter Hesgeth, declined to attend in person or by video link. https://twitter.com/user/status/1930371397127164259
#Trump spoke to Putin for 1.25 hrs today & issued a statement indicating that it will not lead to peace. Seems to be diverting to dealing with Iran now. Reports say #Trump has already asked the US Senate to delay a vote on its RU sanctions bill. What a surprise! https://twitter.com/user/status/1930373020474060876
Facts are stubborn things. Since the beginning of this year, the Russian army has carried out attacks against Ukraine using nearly 27,700 aerial bombs, almost 11,200 Shahed drones, around 9,000 other types of attack UAVs, and more than 700 missiles, including ballistic ones. And that’s in less than half a year. https://twitter.com/user/status/1930350828113830392
I haven't seen proper confirmation of this from major news sources, but I'll put it here anyway.
"Spider Web 2.0", if the reporting is accurate, was an attack where Uktaine had managed to sneak a grain car hiding drones into a Russian train transporting tanks and other military vehicles. Again a remotely triggered attack sent the drones out and caused massive damage to the train ans vehicles. Ukrainians claim 13 destroyed tanks and over a hundred destroyed other vehicles.
Ukraine has lately been aggressive in attacking Russian railways, destroying at least a couple of bridges, a train station and a fuel train. For whatever reason this part of the war is less reported on and Ukraine hasn't been claiming credit for some things that were extremely likely their doing.
I've read people claiming this has to do with the involvement of pro-Ukrainian partisans and infiltrated Ukrainian special forces, which I think is very credible because Russia is also being fairly silent, and they have been extremely reluctant to discuss the existence of any anti-Putin activity inside Russia.
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Russia hit Ukraine overnight with its largest drone attack ever. Ukraine's air defence units downed 460 out of 479 drones and 19 out of 20 missiles launched by the Russian forces.
A returned Ukrainian POW will forever be reminded of the tortures he endured at the hands of his Russia captors... Who took the time to burn the words ‘Glory to Russia’ into the flesh of his abdomen. https://twitter.com/user/status/1932066736695611624
On the night of June 9, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, in coordination with other Defense Forces, struck the "Savasleyka" airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
Russia is now producing over 5,000 long-range drones monthly—about 2,700 Shahed-136s and 2,500 decoy drones—marking a fivefold increase since summer 2024, Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) reports. Decoys are used to overload Ukrainian air defenses and for reconnaissance. https://twitter.com/user/status/1932057653389193552
Anyone else confused by Orban's sudden 180? He now says that force is the only language the Russians understand and Europe must build up its military strength. https://twitter.com/user/status/1932002940140896567
Ukraine unexpectedly wins air battle, F-16 shoots down Russian Su-35, — BILD The battle took place over northeastern Ukraine. Ukrainian Air Force sent a fighter jet to attack Russian positions in the Kursk region. In response, the Russians raised an Su-35. https://twitter.com/user/status/1932030238856188000
AFU struck Savasleyka airfield, located in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Two units of enemy aircraft were hit (probably MiG-31 and Su-30/34 aircraft). The results of the combat operation are being clarified. https://twitter.com/user/status/1931967475832496207
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I haven't been following where the situation is at exactly, but EU has pretty much run out of patience with Hungary. They've already made moves to freeze funding directed towards them (or possibly done that already, not 100% where that's at). They've also been threatened with the removal of it's voting rights in EU, and the idea of throwing them out of EU altogether has become popular enough that it can be considered a real possibility. They've also been slapped with more than 500 million in fines for violating EU migration laws. I could go on. The EU - Hungary spat has been heating up on many fronts, not just over Ukraine.
Orban doing a rhetorical 180 on Russia is pretty clearly an attempt to fend off some of that pressure. My cynical read is that he hopes to give on the rhetorical front in hopes to not have to do anything real. I doubt this does much, EU is just running out of patience there. (As much as you can make such a broad statement about a federation as large as EU.)
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