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Russian stuff blowing up: Russians complain about poor quality of artillery shells [1]

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Date: 2025-01-25

Ukrainian soldier gets hit twice by bullets in his helmet — and survives.

x 1/3:Heart pounding video of an AFU soldier who took two bullets to the helmet and survived. Video 1 (Part 1): Long-format video of the event. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri Kikaski) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM

Ukrainian Bradley vs. a Russian T-90

More on the evolution of drones.

x The Ukrainian Navy has released footage of a ship-mounted VAMPIRE SAM system successfully intercepting a Russian Kh-59 short range cruise missile. This appears to be the first footage of a L3Harris VAMPIRE intercepting a Russian cruise missile with an APKWS laser-guided rocket



[image or embed] — OSINTtechnical (@osinttechnical.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 6:50 AM

This Russian oil depot was saved by a protective net.

x The night before last, #Ukraine came close to hitting ANOTHER oil depot. On the night of one of their biggest ever drone attacks, #Ukraine also tried to strike the Orelnefteprodukt oil depot in #Livny in the #Oryol region. A protective net saved Russia's oil on this occasion.



[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM

Big Buk Bavovna

What’s the oceanic version of another careless smoker?

x “Ecological bomb” — Another Russian tanker, this time drifting off the coast of France, raises alarm ▪️A Russian tanker broke down and is drifting in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France. The ship, named Unity,lost power in stormy conditions on January 23,according to the publication Splash247



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM

x Recently disabled tanker UNITY seem to have regained propulsion and is doing six knots NNE towards English channel. Interesting to see what they will do now. I doubt they will seek refuge in West… which leaves a badly working tanker in a storm in 36h.



[image or embed] — auonsson (@auonsson.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM

Ukraine was reported yesterday to have withdrawn from Velyka Novosilka, so take this with much salt.

x Unverified, but..

#Russia state media says they have destroyed "the blockaded part of #Ukraine's Armed Forces garrison in the southern part of the village of Velyka Novosilka ( #Donetsk region) their death is on the conscience of the Ukrainian command and the Kyiv regime." bsky.app/profile/twmc...



[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM

Another 1,650 Russians who should have stayed home.

These guys were lucky they didn’t make the casualty list.

x A Ukrainian fiber-optic FPV drone flew right up to the entrance of the occupiers' dugout in the Kursk region, but they got lucky—it failed to detonate.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM

Corruption being rooted out.

x Chief Military Psychiatrist Oleh Druz detained for $1M illegal enrichment allegedly planned villa purchase in Turkey, bought luxury items during wartime, including Toyota hybrid for adopted daughter The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv imposed on 22 Jan. a pre-trial restraint on Druz. — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM

Good infantrymen would be appalled at being sent out on meat wave assaults.

x How North Koreans fight. North Korean soldiers are in many ways superior to the Russian military: they are young, well-trained physically, disciplined, ideologically charged, and skillful with small arms. They are good infantrymen⤵️



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Seems pretty typical for the Russian Army.

This thread details all the technical reasons for the problem.

x 1/ Russian artillerymen are reportedly having significant problems with inconsistently filled propelling charges for shells, which is undermining their accuracy, but have been forbidden by the Russian General Staff from trying to fix the problem themselves. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM

Russians in the Kursk area who are unhappy with what’s going on there tell the new governor to stop telling them fairy tales.

Are they unhappy that Putin is prosecuting an illegal and immoral war? Nope.

They are unhappy at being displaced and being given housing they say is unlivable.

x No matter how many fairy tales experts tell about the insignificance of Kursk, or how much the Kremlin maniac swears its liberation is near, the truth still finds its way out. The newly appointed governor of the Kursk region Khinshtein got a generous helping of crap from Russians who have suffered..



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM

x Who said the "Russian world" is only for occupied countries? Take Korenevo in the Kursk region, for example. It wasn’t captured by Ukraine’s defense forces, but the fighting reached its outskirts. Now, it’s a true embodiment of the "Russian world," and the locals have had more than their fill of it.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Maybe all the unhappy Kursk residents can get some free parking.

x Russians are celebrating the attacks by Ukrainian hackers and even asking for more because, thanks to them, parking in Russia has become free. 🚗💻😆



[image or embed] — Devana (@devana.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM

This sounds encouraging, but two things:

1. It’s Trump, so it’s bullshit until and unless it actually happens.

2. Money talks and bullshit walks.

x ⚡️US considers buying weapons for Ukraine using frozen Russian assets, Kellogg says. The U.S. government is considering purchasing weapons for Ukraine with money received from frozen Russian assets, Keith Kellogg, peace envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said. kyivindependent.com/us-exploring...



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Serbia just can’t resist shooting itself in the foot by continuing to suck up to Russia.

x 🇷🇸🙄 "I will not impose sanctions on Russia or other friendly countries," — Vucic ❗️Serbian Presidential said that he will soon speak with Putin to address US sanctions on Serbia's oil industry.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM

We’ll see how long Transnistria is willing to wait for Russia, which said it would resume gas shipments but hasn’t done so.

x 🇺🇦🇲🇩 Ukraine and Moldova are ready to meet the energy needs of the residents of Transnistria, — Zelensky and Sandu at the meeting. ❗️Earlier, Transnistria said that they only have gas for a few days.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Mass protests in Slovakia against the rule of Robert Fico.

x Fico, commenting on the protests, stated that the organizers of the actions are deceiving the participants, and a third of those taking part in them are allegedly Ukrainians. — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Speaking of creative protests.

x Someone hacked the payment system in Tbilisi public transport, and it’s playing protest chants and speeches. This is, by far, my favorite form of the #GeorgiaProtests.



[image or embed] — Anna Gvarishvili (@annagvarish.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM

Kharkiv is under daily attacks from missiles/drones.

x For nearly three years, every morning begins with a surge of anxiety. I wake up terrified that a drone or missile strike may have impacted my family or friends while I slept. — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM

My first instinct is always to grab my phone and check for any news of attacks I might have missed. I know how it sounds, but it is true. For three years. All i want is to get back to starting with coffee. These new russian 'Molniya' drones are completely silent. I had no idea we were under attack until one exploded. They just keep finding new, more effective ways to kill us.

Here is a Financial Times story about a program to train winemakers in Ukraine and elsewhere.

As a direct result of the war, Ukrainian wine is eventually likely to improve. In 2022, Artémis Domaines, the group of top quality wine estates owned by the family of French entrepreneur François Pinault, decided to start offering scholarships specifically to wine professionals who are “victims of geopolitical conflict”. It did so in partnership with the Gérard Basset Foundation, a charity for diversity and inclusion in the wine industry of which I am a trustee. As a result, seven Ukrainians, and one Armenian caught up in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 2020, have been given the chance to intern at some of the best wine estates in the world. The wine industries of Ukraine and Armenia can only benefit from this exposure. Sommelier Maryna Revkova decided to leave Ukraine in March 2022 when a missile fell so close to her house that it blew out all of the doors and windows. She was given an internship at Bordeaux first growth, Ch Latour. “Such chances are rare,” she emailed recently, “and I realised that I had no right to sit and suffer from psychological distress while some of my fellow sommeliers have swapped corkscrews for guns and are fighting for our independence. But it was hard to realise the dissonance between the calm, measured European life and the constant news updates and worrying about my loved ones during the constant shelling.” With her first grant from the Gérard Basset Foundation, she bought a generator for her relatives in Kyiv, “because due to constant power cuts they had no communication, heat and internet”. She has now returned to Ukraine, where she’s winemaking director of a new winery near Odesa. “Is it dangerous here? Of course, but we get used to everything.”

It’s been more than 24 hours.

x Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline mockingly ask Trump if they can come out of the trenches now since he "ended the war".



[image or embed] — Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM

No one can resist a swing.

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