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More Russian stuff blowing up, plus Russia’s helicopter base in Berdyansk [1]

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Date: 2023-08-02

Big bavovna

x Destruction of the Russian 2S7 Pion 203mm self-propelled cannon. Eastern front. https://t.co/WxDTnoW5MB pic.twitter.com/iNpG8TNCN9 — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 2, 2023

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The Russians conveniently left a big pile of mines on the side of the road.

x Zaporizhia Front ... dragon's teeth and mines pic.twitter.com/uIlyKldO1d — Getty (@region776) August 2, 2023

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The hard thing will be deciding which of these will be prosecuted.

x ⚡️Prosecutor: 98,000 Russian war crimes identified in Ukraine.



Yurii Bielousov, the head of the War Crimes Department of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office, has stated that his team had recorded 98,000 war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The Prosecutor… — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 2, 2023

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A huge fire erupted when Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian port of Izmayil on the Danube River and the border of Romania.

x Fire allegedly in the port of Izmayil after the Russian nighttime kamikaze drone attack on Odesa Oblast in southern Ukraine on 2 August.

📹https://t.co/LKLYcXvmR6 pic.twitter.com/7kjS895IBN — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) August 2, 2023

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Adapting Soviet/Russian equipment to use Western weapons continues.

x The Hydra rocket's integration onto Ukraine's Mi-24s is the latest example of Western munitions joining the country's Soviet-era air arm. https://t.co/GpiPFpx8Qu — The War Zone (@thewarzonewire) August 2, 2023

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With decoy cruise missiles you can launch a swarm of 20 or so at a target with only 5 being armed and let the Russians waste their air defense missiles on the decoys.

x Ukraine has created a decoy cruise missile that will exhaust Russian air defense

@FRANCE24 journalists report on the "people's" Ukrainian cruise missile "Trembita". It is being developed by volunteers and PARS design bureau.



"Trembita" is created in two modifications: a… pic.twitter.com/VywJm6MH9H — Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) August 2, 2023

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And they come in pastel colors.

x A group of Ukrainians making 3D-printed bombs has produced more than 30.000 bombs in the past 4 months while the production increased. Another group makes cases for 800-gram anti-personnel bombs and said they make about 1,000 bombs a weekhttps://t.co/YERifhrkdL — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) August 2, 2023

Hand grenades are designed to be thrown, so they are light. But when they are dropped from drones, this can be a drawback. With a typical weight of just 300 grams, grenades are short on “killing power”, says a man nicknamed “Lyosha”, who is an amateur weapons-maker based in Kyiv. After one goes off, he says, targeted Russian soldiers “often just keep running”. Three months ago Lyosha and a group of friends, working in their homes, designed an alternative: an 800-gram anti-personnel bomb called the “Zaychyk”, or “Rabbit”. The group uses 3d printing to produce the bomb’s casing, before sending it to be filled with C4, an explosive, and pieces of steel shrapnel. In tests, Lyosha says, this shrapnel cuts into wooden planks “like butter”.

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That’s still a lot of missiles left, but if Russia keeps firing them at the rate they did in July this stockpile won’t last too much longer. Kyiv has a Patriot system that can intercept all of these cruise missiles but other cities like Odesa don’t. Ukraine needs several more Patriot systems.

x Russia’s Missile Stockpile (July 31st) pic.twitter.com/PYoMuLxRGp — Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) August 1, 2023

x ⚡️ Air defense forces shot down 70% of air targets launched over Ukraine during July, Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.



In total, russians used 415 missiles and drones. Among them: 54 "Kalibr", 41 Kh-101/555, 20 "Onix", 4 "Kyndzhal", 265 "Shaheds".



👉Follow… pic.twitter.com/VejZiOPGSm — FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) August 2, 2023

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Interesting thread on why Ukraine hasn’t been able to neutralize Russia’s helicopter base in Berdyansk on the coast.

x 2/ The russian air threat persists in this counter-offensive, demanding additional consideration. One strategy involves neutralizing helicopters on the ground before they take flight. While the airfield is within Ukraine's long-range capabilities, the situation is more complex pic.twitter.com/lkU5bjVzTS — Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA) August 2, 2023

The rest of the thread:

3/ One major challenge is the significant spacing between helicopters, making it difficult to effectively target them with a single missile. Given the limited availability of long-range weapons, using a missile that may or may not destroy some Mi-24s becomes hard to justify. 4/ The reason why I use "may or may not" is due to the presence of substantial air defense systems both inside and outside the airport perimeter. This means that launching a missile doesn't guarantee success, as it could face countermeasures. 5/ Other options, like a massive missile launch combined with drones to overwhelm defenses, may seem viable, but cost-efficiency becomes a significant concern in such scenarios.This is where GLSDB (Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb) can prove highly valuable 6/ The weapon's operational range, relatively low cost (compared to ATACMS or Stormshadow), and capability to evade specific countermeasures make it a potential game-changer in situations like this

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She should be in school instead of having to take up arms to defend her country.

x Terrible war.



Children of fallen heroes also go to the frontlines.



Yaroslava Zhuravel grew up and became a soldier.



Her father, a marine intelligence officer, Yaroslav Zhuravel, died in 2020. His daughter decided to become a soldier too.



📷: Ihor Zakharenko and Marusia… pic.twitter.com/Gu8hBrV9L3 — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 2, 2023

This baby-faced kid should have been home instead of being thrown into the meat grinder.

x Fresh combat medic, graduated in 2022, Lieutenant Акчурин Айрат Наильевич (Akchurin Airat Nailevich) was killed in Ukraine on 26 July ’23.https://t.co/TKdRx63kJo pic.twitter.com/nHOzyDCW7u — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) August 2, 2023

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Rest in peace.

x Our friend,and we will always cherish the time he was with us.

Lance was enlisted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He was not a mercenary out for blood or excited for combat. He came because he thought what was happening in Ukraine by Russia was wrong.

Rest easy, brother. — Ryan O'Leary (@IhateTrenches) August 2, 2023

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Serves him right.

x Wagner PMC mercenary Denis Kuzmin was headed home to Omsk across Russia but stopped in Moscow and hired prostitutes in a banya (sauna). After he passed out, the prostitutes stole 790,000 rubles ($8,500) in cash, his entire salary for serving in Ukraine for 6 months. pic.twitter.com/tWGKkYlv4a — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) August 1, 2023

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Bless her heart.

x A popular Russian blogger has decided to leave Moscow and return to the countryside. In the material, the blogger also advises others to return home, as no one can feel safe here anymore after the drone attacks 😂#Ukraine #Ukranian #Russians #Russia #RussiaIsCollapsing #moscow pic.twitter.com/yBvM0KJPHW — Intermarium 24 (@intermarium24) August 2, 2023

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The trauma of this war, in Mariupol and elsewhere, will live on long after the war is over.

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I was chatting with my mom’s friend and she told me about a woman from Mariupol she met. The woman herself lives in the US and when the war started she lost all contact with her sister for over 3 months. When she finally reconnected with her she found out that her sister and her kids spend weeks sheltering from the Russian invaders in the tunnels of Azovstal. Oftentimes thirsty and hungry. I don't know how the woman managed to get her sister and her kids out of Mariupol, but they are safe now. However, her sister’s youngest child who’s only 6 years old has serious psychological damage… This is just one Ukrainian story out of millions. If the civilized free world doesn’t throw all its might behind Ukraine there will be more and more stories like this one… Stories of traumatized people and children scarred for life…

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Good dog.

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