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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine commander says Russia suffers 7,000 dead at Pokrovsk in January [1]
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Date: 2025-02-02
Pokrovsk has become a killing field, but Russia doesn’t seem to care.
Syrskyi estimates almost half of those were killed.
x ⚡️ 15,000 Russian troops 'neutralized' in Pokrovsk direction in January alone, Syrskyi says. In a post that included a video of combat footage, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said the area "remains one of the hottest" on the front.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Russia bombed some trees.
x A Russian cruise missile mistakenly hit Russian Lipetsk region in an recent upsurge in Russian bombs killing other Russians.
Unfortunately, it appears in this instance the only casualties seem to be trees and wildlife.
[image or embed] — Shaun Pinner (@olddogua.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Does it count as “total” if there is no turret toss?
Russia never dreamed it would need so much air defense.
x Ukrainian drones recently struck the Novozybkov Pump Station. This facility is part of the strategic Druzhba pipeline and it is located 30 km (20 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
[image or embed] — (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) January 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
x This incident highlights another major strategic problem Russia is facing. The Druzhba pipeline has around 20 pump stations and hubs ranging from Syzran at the Volga river and all the way to Belarus.
[image or embed] — (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) January 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The death toll from the Russian attack on an apartment building in Poltava is 14.
The death toll from the strike on the school building in Sudzha is four.
x 🙏 Sudzha. As of 22:00, work is underway to clear the rubble and provide assistance to the affected civilian population, - General Staff ❗️During the work to clear the rubble, 84 civilians were rescued and provided with medical assistance, 4 are in serious condition, and 4 died.
[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
x Apti Alaudinov recorded a video attempting to justify the attack on the boarding school in Suzha. He claimed there should not have been civilians present and discussed tracking missiles and aircraft Full video on the Telegram channel:
t.me/wartranslated
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Another 1,320 Russians who were killed/wounded for nothing.
And 39 more dead officers in the last week.
x At least 5 500 Russian officers have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
Weekly update: +39 newly registered.
[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
He is from the Vladivostok area. His vehicle ran over a mine in Ukraine.
He should have stayed home.
x Vice-Governor of Primorsky Krai, Russia, Sergei Efremov, could not sit still in his homeland with his family and decided to go kill people in Ukraine and ended up dying somewhere 7,000 km from his home.
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The first post in this thread — about the life cycle of a Russian soldier — was blocked by content moderators at Bluesky for some strange reason. Looking at the Twitter version I don’t see why it would be blocked.
x 2/9: • Phase 3: Dedovshchina (Дедовщина) -- Get gangraped and beaten by your barracks-mates and/or a dozen of the Brigade's senior NCO's;
• Phase 4: Have all of you bonus stolen by the MoD and give all of your pay to your commander to avoid going on meat assault for 2-weeks; — OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
• Phase 1: Mobilization; • Phase 2: Four days of training (mostly drinking vodka and being taught how to kill yourself if wounded or being captured); • Phase 3: Dedovshchina (Дедовщина) -- Get gangraped and beaten by your barracks-mates and/or a dozen of the Brigade's senior NCO's; • Phase 4: Have all of you bonus stolen by the MoD and give all of your pay to your commander to avoid going on meat assault for 2-weeks; • Phase 5: Walk to the frontline staging area where you are issued a shovel, a rusty AK from the Korean War, and six bullets; • Phase 6: Take Rambo selfies in front of your own destroyed equipment and post them on TG for the family; • Phase 7: Drink from puddles; • Phase 8: Delouse; • Phase 9: Torture mice; • Phase 11: Get brave on salts or krokodil; • Phase 12: Go on assault with North Koreans who were all given much better uniforms, kit and weapons than you received; • Phase 14: Extinguish all fires on your body; • Phase 15: Get abandoned by the medical evacuation team; • Phase 16: Listen to exploding grenades and gunshots all around you as the North Koreans demobilize themselves to prevent capture; • Phase 17: a) Die from wounds; b) Surrender and live as a POW; c) Lay down in the fetal position and give up on life; or, d) Demobilize yourself; • Phase 18: a) Get bagged and tagged; b) Become fertilizer; or, c) Get exchanged and go back to the toiletless steppes of the mir having gained a few pounds, getting you wounds tended to, and very upset that you will no longer have access to working indoor plumbing. • Phase 19: Take a bus to the nearest reeducation and filtration camp and spend 1-month being mentally and physically tortured for surrendering (time may be shortened if reserves from the military hospitals with at least three functioning limbs are running low); • Phase 20: Return to your unit where your commander will have some ex-Wagnerites beat the living tar out of you with a stick before handcuffing you to a tree or throwing you in a pit for a week (time may be shortened if reserves from the military hospitals with at least three functioning limbs are running low); and, • Phase 21: Return to Phase 3 and start over.
Update from Velyka Novosilka.
x Russians are trapped in Velyka Novosilka, the 110th Mechanized Brigade reports. "Battles continue, but Russian forces are caught in a fire pocket—unable to advance yet forced to reinforce. Our drones track their movements, FPVs & artillery strike their hideouts, burying them alive," they add.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) February 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Russians at the front line go out to attack but no one comes back.
x In an intercepted conversation, a Bryansk resident described heavy Russian losses near Kupyansk, noting that their people go but no one returns.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A Russian medic who deserted lays out the grim realities.
x 1/ A Russian medic who has deserted from the Russian army and is seeking asylum in France has given a vivid account of the grim conditions on the Russian front line in Ukraine, the brutality of the Russian commanders, and the threats faced by Russian troops. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
2/ 40-year-old Alexey Zhilyaev from Murino near St Petersburg deserted from the Russian army in August 2024 after nine months of service as a medic. He fled Russia with the aid of a dissident group and is now in France, where he is seeking political asylum. 3/ Interviewed by Radio Free Europe, Zhilyaev says that he had trained as a medic as a student. He was inspired to join the army by seeing "crowds of people without arms and legs, on crutches and in wheelchairs, getting off the train" in St Petersburg. 4/ He was taken to Ukraine only a week after signing a contract with the army, but found the 'liberated' territories a desolate wasteland. "Everything is destroyed. Everyone who remains works in markets, shops, car repair shops, hotels." 5/ "There is nothing else left there – no production, no work ... No one is waiting for us there as liberators. Even if they smile at you, for example, in a store, you can tell from their look that they hate you. These are the ones who, according to Putin, must be liberated." 6/ Zhilyaev was sent to the third line of defences, behind the front lines, where he was sent almost daily on evacuation missions to recover the wounded and dead. It was an extremely hazardous task because of the aerial dominance of Ukraine's kamikaze drones. 7/ Although the Russians had electronic warfare systems, they often weren't effective. Zhilyaev says there were entire "swarms" of Ukrainian drones in his sector, averaging five per Russian soldier. Men were killed within minutes of arriving at the front line.
The future of warfare is AI and some of it is already here.
x 1/ Russian military blogger lists the potential threats from Artificial Intelligence in modern combat: "Camouflage is impossible. Computing power will allow AI algorithms to constantly review all the material obtained by reconnaissance and not miss anything..." t.me/kotsvzst/3901
[image or embed] — Samuel Bendett (@sambendett.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Camouflage is impossible. Computing power will allow AI algorithms to constantly review all the material obtained by reconnaissance and not miss anything and any change, for example, on the surface of the earth with grass (like a bump that just appeared) will be analyzed almost instantly, and if our sniper is under this bump, then some means of destruction will attack him immediately." 3/ "Radio reconnaissance is impossible - GPT chats will support real radio exchange of voices of real people, hacking radio networks and gaining access to their negotiations will only confuse reconnaissance. Electronic warfare loses its meaning - each combat unit is autonomous." 4/ "Swarm weapons appear, not necessarily just drones, these can even be modifications of missiles that are already in service. The entire array of our intercepted radio comms is immediately translated into English, systematized and reported to the adversary command. 5/ "...this, by the way, already exists, just on a smaller scale. All weapons are learning. An anti-tank missile, which a vehicle or tank managed to dodge at the last moment, manages to transmit a dataset to the carrier..." 6/ "... like an "Apache" helo, and it instantly launches a new missile, it will fly to the target already "knowing" about the trick of avoiding earlier attack. The same with torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, air-to-air missiles, with any guided weapons." 7/ "Intelligence is acquiring previously unimaginable capabilities, for example, all American soldiers have headsets built into their helmets, and AI will be able to receive background interference from them, identify enemy artillery guns firing against them and, due..." 8/ "...to the number of microphone sensors on soldiers, accurately identify the position of these adversary guns. And the same with any sound source, for example, the noise of tanks from somewhere in the undergrowth."
The Netherlands steps up.
x Ukrainian Ministry of Defense: The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with more F-16's, €400 million from UAV's, assistance in the development of long-range weapons, and artillery and air defense ammunition and missiles. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar
[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
She has her priorities.
x The wife of a Russian occupier fears she won’t receive compensation if her husband dies in the so-called "Special Military Operation," given that she already received a payment for her first husband in 2022.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
He has all the finesse of a chain saw in a crystal shop.
x U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to freeze foreign development assistance for 90 days has thrown Ukrainian organizations into turmoil, in some cases threatening their very existence and leaving the people they support in limbo.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
HOTEL MANAGER TO STAFF: So, if Sergej calls to make a reservation, tell him we’re all booked up.
x A long list of hotels in Ukraine where I stayed once, and which got hit or totally destroyed by the Russians, continues to grow.
1) Bristol, Odesa
2) Kramatorsk, Kramatorsk
3) Ukraina, Chernihiv
4) Myr, Severodonetsk
5) Reikarz, Mariupol
6) Reikarz, Kharkiv
7) Bakhmut, Bakhmut
8) ???
[image or embed] — Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Further evidence of Putin’s genius.
x After starting the process 10 years ago, the three Baltic States will finally disconnect themselves from #Russia's energy grid within a week. #Lithuania #Latvia and #Estonia will join the European grid via Poland the next day. Spotted by @amaragraps news.err.ee/1609586915/e...
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
They decided to play Mine Roulette.
NARRATOR: They lost.
When the ice isn’t as thick as you thought it was.
x Russia: Special emergency vehicles for "search & rescue, underwater operations, and seabed oil cleanup" fall through the ice during Ministry of Emergency Situations exhibition exercises in Archangelsk.
Now, who are they gonna call?!
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Meanwhile, in Georgia protests continue.
x 🇬🇪✊ Protesters block highway in Tbilisi. Harsh arrests underway ❗️Protests against the suspension of European integration continue in Georgia. Protesters blocked the highway near the Tbilisi Mall. This road connects the capital with the western regions of the country.
[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Rest in peace.
x Olena Skliar (left) &Anastasiia Kolvakh (right)were both killed in yesterday's Russian strike on Poltava Olena was a nurse,died in the hospital due to injuries from the strike.Anastasiia was an actress,in her spare time, she volunteered at UAnimals My thoughts go out to the families of the victims
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
x ⚡️ 18 year-old injured in Russian drone attack on Sumy dies. Denys Zhurba's father was among those wounded in the attack.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just glad to still be here.
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