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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine hits explosives plant in Bryansk [1]

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Date: 2025-01-13

Ukraine used ATACMS to hit an explosives factory near Bryansk and also launched missiles/drones at Sevastopol in Crimea and against targets in Belgorod.

x 1/2: The target of the AFU #ATACMS strike was the "Bryansk Chemical Plant named after the 50th Anniversary of the USSR" located in #Seltso, #Bryansk Oblast, Russia at 53.387553, 34.116887 #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri Kikaski) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM

x 2/2: The primary product produced at the factory is explosives. You can see the storage bunkers/magazines located in a wooded area west of the factory. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri Kikaski) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM

x Russian sources report that both land-based ballistic missiles (ATACMS and Neptune) as well as air launched (Storm Shadow / Scalp-EG) were use in a coordinated strike on the #Belgorod Region of Russian and #Sevastopol, Ukraine. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar — OSINT (Uri Kikaski) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM

Tula is about 190 km south of Moscow. Reports indicate faulty wiring might be the cause.

x Russian media report on a fire in Tula. A military hospital is on fire. According to preliminary information, the fire has engulfed one of the floors, and evacuation is underway. It is not yet known what caused the fire.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM

Another train derailment in Russia.

Russian forces continue creeping toward Pokrovsk.

x Ukraine halts coal production at Pokrovska mine due to advancing Russian forces, – Reuters. Pokrovska is Ukraine's only mine producing coking coal, essential for all metallurgical plants. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM

US sanctions on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers is quite effective so far. India steps up.

x India will block oil tankers sanctioned by the US for transporting Russian crude, allowing only those chartered before Jan. 10 to discharge by March 12. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) January 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM

x New US sanctions on Russia have left three major tankers, carrying a total of 2 million barrels of Russian oil, stranded off the coast of China per Bloomberg. The most recent US sanctions package, announced last week, appears to have strangled Russia’s seaborne oil exports.



[image or embed] — OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM

x www.bloomberg.com/news/article... The tankers Huihai Pacific, Mermar, and Olia are all holding off the coast of China after departing with loads of oil from Russia, per AIS data from MarineTraffic.



[image or embed] — OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM

Another 28 Russian officers confirmed over the last week.

x At least 5 400 Russian officers have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.

Weekly update: +28 newly registered.



[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) January 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Another 1,510 Russians and 37 artillery systems.

Many of Ukraine’s best and brightest have lost their lives in this war.

x Russian aggression has killed 145 Ukrainian artists and 95 journalists since 2022, according to the Culture Ministry Among the casualties are seven foreign journalists who were covering the war and sharing Ukraine’s story with the world, said the agency



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM

x Ruslan Ganushchak, Ukrainian Warrior,military journalist and filmmaker, died defending Ukraine



He made a documentary Two Days in Ilovaysk. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Ruslan Ganushchak went to defend Ukraine in the 92nd Brigade. Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Hero.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM

The Kyiv Independent interviewed Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, one of the few among Russian opposition figures to call for Russia’s military defeat in Ukraine.

The interview is long. Here is an excerpt.

I remember, back when I was younger, my friend Yury Afanasyev, a brilliant historian, said that Russian literature was one of the most fertile sources of Russian nationalism. At the time, I instinctively disagreed. But now I see he was right. American exceptionalism is rooted in tangible concepts like living standards, respect for human rights, and the rule of law. Russian exceptionalism, on the other hand, leans more toward the mystical. It's tied to the notion that being Russian means having a special connection to a higher power. However, Russian history provides no evidence of such a unique connection. We need to delve deeply and understand, on a fundamental level, why the idea of the "Russian soul" remains so resistant to external influences. The war in Ukraine has shown us that when we celebrated the fall of communism in 1991, we failed to grasp that communism was merely a facade for an underlying imperialist matrix. Whether it's the tsars, the Bolsheviks, or Putin, this imperialism always finds a way to emerge.

So, that means another 1,600 will be available for meat grinder duty in Ukraine.

x ⚡️ Russia's energy giant Gazprom plans major layoffs as Europe market shrinks, media reports. The Russian energy giant Gazprom is preparing to lay off 1,600 employees from its central office, Russia's local 47News media outlet reported on Jan. 13.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM

Meanwhile, in Kursk.

x Ukrainian soldiers send their regards from newly liberated villages in the Kursk region, captured during the ongoing offensive. putin once claimed Ukraine would be driven off russian soil in just a few days—yet Ukraine has now held ground in russia for nearly six months



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM

Meanwhile, Engels continues to burn.

This new drone for Ukraine is called Shield AI MQ-35A V-BAT. It is a recon drone capable of both vertical takeoff and landing and horizontal flight. It needs a better name though.

"They (the UAV operators) started from about 40 kilometers from the front, flew 100 kilometers past the front line of troops, and then found these 11 Buk air defense systems, targeted them and called in HIMARS fire,"

x The first photos have appeared confirming that the Defense Forces are armed with Shield AI MQ-35a V-BAT drones resistant to Russian electronic warfare. "They (the UAV operators) started from about 40 kilometers from the front, flew 100 kilometers past the front line of troops,



[image or embed] — PS01 (@pstyleone1.bsky.social) January 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM

The EU steps up with humanitarian aid.

x ⚡️ EU announces additional $143 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine. In addition to this sum, the EU will allocate 8 million euros ($8.16 million) to Moldova to support Ukrainian refugees and their host communities.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM

NATO’s secretary general says it’s time for Europe to wake up and smell the coffee.

x 💯 "You will have to learn Russian in 4-5 years or go to New Zealand, if you do not allocate significantly more money for military needs than the current 2% of GDP," — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in a speech to European Parliament.



[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM

x 👀 Mark Rutte: "Russia’s economy is no bigger than the economies of the 🇳🇱Netherlands and 🇧🇪Belgium combined. But they produce in three months what all of NATO produces in a year. They don’t have our high salaries, our bureaucracy, and they have created a military economy." What do you think? 🤔



[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Putin is such a brilliant strategist that in addition to prompting Sweden and Finland to join NATO, he has also succeeded in having the Baltic Sea teeming with warships.

When announcing the deployment of Swedish forces to the mission at a security conference in Sälen, Prime Minister Kristersson said: “Sweden isn’t at war. But there is no peace.” He stressed that everything must be done right now so that the situation doesn’t not escalate as in 1939

x Sweden will send three warships and a surveillance plane to protect infrastructure in the Baltic Sea – Yle



They will be a part of a joint NATO operation aimed at deterring further Russian hybrid attacks on undersea cables. Such attacks have become increasingly frequent over the past several months



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM

This Russian never made it to the Ukrainian positions to surrender.

x Pilots of the Khyzhak Brigade found a wounded occupier who was begging for mercy The drone operators decided to take him prisoner& led him to the Ukrainian positions,as well as dropped parcels with water, medicines.But before he could reach AFU's dislocation,he was killed by his own fellow soldiers



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM

Apparently he thinks the “I was just following orders” excuse will work.

He’s still a war criminal.

x Russian soldier Yevgeny Ulantsov,who took part in the shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war,has been captured in Russia's Kursk region He signed a contract less than a month ago.He said that it was commanders who gave orders to shoot POWs. So this is a deliberate policy of the Russian leadership



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM

After slamming Zelenskyy publicly, Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico now wants to meet. He even suggested meeting at the border and even suggested what train Zelenskyy should take to get to the meeting, which sounded rather suspicious to me.

Zelenskyy’s response is perfect.

x “Let’s meet at Ukraine border and discuss Russian gas,” Slovak PM says. “Come to Kyiv on Friday,” Zelenskyy replies Robert Fico wants to renew halted Russian gas transit via Ukraine to Slovakia.



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM

So North Koreans must see Kim Jong Un as some kind of God/Santa Claus hybrid.

x With the help of translators, Ukrainians managed to learn interesting facts from the North Korean prisoners. For example, they are afraid that their leader is watching them 24 hours a day, reading their thoughts and knowing about all their sins



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM

Ukrainians step up for LA fire victims.

x Ukrainian food trucks in LA for victims of fire in California. Time for us to help the ones who help us. 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇦



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM

Keeping morale up.

Riki is living large on the front lines.

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