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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine recaptures village near Pokrovsk [1]
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Date: 2025-02-26
Ukraine has recaptured the village of Kotlyne southwest of Pokrovsk. There are no details yet -- that I have seen — about how this was accomplished.
x ⚡️Ukrainian forces liberate Kotlyne village near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast. Kotlyne and Pokrovsk are connected by the T 0406 highway, which also leads to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) February 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
x Thought I'd post a map of a section of the frontline where #Ukraine's been turning things around. This is just SW of #Pokrovsk where #Russia had been rolling through loads of villages. But compare the maps. #Pishchane was regained, push-back in #Uspenivka and #Kotlyne liberated!
#SlavaUkraini
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Ukraine again targeted the oil refinery in Tuapse, which is a town on the Black Sea.
x It was loud in Russia last night. Local media reported a massive UAV attack on Kuban and occupied Crimea. In Tuapse, reports indicate around 40 explosions. The city hosts a seaport and an oil refinery, which was already attacked in the summer.
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[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
x A UAV attack has caused damage to the pipeline and oil refinery system at the #Tuapse refinery. The #ELOU-VT-12 oil refinery unit was partially damaged, and the crude oil pipeline was also affected. The incident resulted in an oil spill covering an area of 5 square meters
[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A Russian drone torches a house in Kyiv.
x In #Kyiv region, a teenager was hurt in this house fire. A drone struck the two-storey building, though it's not yet clear if it was a direct hit or downed debris to blame. #RussiaIsATerroristState
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Russian shelling killed at least five in Kostyantynivka, which is northeast of Pokrovsk.
x The center of Kostyantynivka after a Russian air bomb strike. At least five people are confirmed dead and eight wounded in the city and surrounding areas.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Another careless smoker.
Ammo Dump Jesus approves this message.
x The Ukrainian intelligence has confirmed that the strike against the 107th GRAU arsenal in Toropets last year in September destroyed 160,000 metric tons in Russian ammunition. Around half of all 122mm shells in Russian inventories was destroyed.
[image or embed] — (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This story says those Russian shadow tanker fleet ships that have been mysteriously blowing up and sinking were victims of limpet mines.
Overnight on February 14, a blast damaged the Greek-owned Seajewel off Savona. Reports indicate that divers found a two-foot by four-foot hole with plates driven inward, indicating external forces were at work. Dead fish found near the blast site further suggested an explosion. Other recently-damaged tankers with Russian trading ties include the Grace Ferrum, Koala, and Seacharm. The Russian military cargo ship Ursa Major also went down in December near the Strait of Gibraltar after a series of engine room explosions, and the Russian operator claimed that it had been sabotaged. Without specifying which particular incidents, three sources confirmed to Reuters that at least two blasts were likely caused by limpet mine attacks. One source said that the munitions used were Soviet BPM-type limpet mines, a time-delayed shaped charge with a magnetic casing that can be hand-placed by divers. The time-delay fuse can be set for durations as long as a month, according to open-source data, allowing the vessel to transit far from the point of placement before detonation. The BPM has a small main charge of just seven pounds of tritonal, but placed directly on a ship's hull it is enough to be effective. When activated, it has an anti-removal plunger that detonates the mine if another diver tries to pull it off.
Another 1,170 Russians plus 19 tanks.
Russians in Dagestan complain that they are freezing, their children are sick, their men are dying in the war and they’ve been enduring all this for years. So naturally they make a video appeal to Tsar Vlad, who would surely fix it all if he only knew how his people were suffering. 🙄🙄
The greenhouses get gas, but we don't. So cucumbers and tomatoes for them should not freeze, but ordinary people are freezing? We live like in the 18th century, fetching water in buckets. Children get pneumonia and don't go to school.
x Residents of Russian Dagestan beg Putin to help with their unbearable living conditions. But Putin is too busy making lives of Ukrainians unbearable. He doesn't care about his people. "How many of our men are suffering in the war? How many mothers of their dead sons are suffering? We have no gas.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It would be even better if South Korea supported Ukraine with weapons.
This is a long thread (40 takes) that details the experiences of a 44-year-old mobilized into the Russian army who figured out early on that it was a one-way ticket to the cemetery.
He managed to desert but was captured, sent to prison and tortured. He ended up escaping twice more before finally getting away after being sent to Kaliningrad.
x 1/ A civil engineer who was mobilised into the Russian army despite ill-health has escaped to Germany and spoken about the chaos and brutality he saw. His regiment was told by its commander: "You came here to die." He was later arrested and tortured for trying to flee. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
2/ 44-year-old Georgy from Lyubertsy near Moscow has told his story to Radio Free Europe. He was mobilised in September 2022 despite serious heart problems and was sent to a training ground where he "wandered aimlessly" and "fired a few times from rusty automatic rifles". 3/ He had protested against being mobilised but was assured initially that he would be sent to a construction battalion, where his skills as a civil engineer would be valuable. Despite this, he was sent to a front-line Russian unit fighting in Ukraine in November 2022. 4/ "The feeling was that no one knows anything, terrible chaos, no coordination, no supplies… It was as if we were transported in a time machine to 1941, when the Germans were advancing on Moscow, complete chaos, only the form was different. 5/ "Late autumn, rain, mud, muddy roads, destroyed villages, war passed over the land." 8/ "I immediately realized that this was a one-way ticket. Judging by the attitude of the officers, the command staff, it was clear that they weren’t considering us as a combat unit, as soldiers,… 9/ ...they had simply brought a portion of cannon fodder that had to play its role and die heroically. It was clear from how they saved on supplies – why feed them and water them if they would be killed tomorrow? 6/ He and his comrades were sent to a forest near Svatove in the Luhansk region, without raincoats or tools to chop wood for shelters. They bought supplies from local people at their own expense. 7/ "The first days were like Robinson Crusoe on a desert island – surviving in the wild without anything, they didn’t give us anything, we slept on the ground in the rain and snow, lit fires. And I was thinking about how to escape from there.
But then a colonel general showed up to give the men a motivational speech.
12/ "He lined everybody up and said: ‘You came here to die.’ At least he was honest. ‘If you want to go on holiday - 300‘, i.e. wounded, “if you want to go for good – 200”, i.e. killed,’ he said. That's the kind of motivational speech it was."
It also talks about something called Refusenik Mountain west of the town of Svatove.
26/ He was sent to a hill west of the town where thousands of men who had left their units were forced to live in the open with no food or shelter. (Other refuseniks have given similar accounts of the so-called 'Refusenik Mountain'.) 27/ While some men waited there for days or weeks, Georgy was almost immediately press-ganged into a Storm Z unit, comprised of convicts and deserters, who were routinely used as cannon fodder in assaults. However, his frontline career did not last long.
This is a good point — with the change in government in Germany, Ukraine might get Taurus cruise missiles. But folks shouldn’t get too excited that it will turn everything around. They won’t be supplied in mass quantities.
Taurus will be good for select targets, such as the Kerch Bridge, but it won’t win the war.
x Ukraine's military aid must focus on stopping Russian advances and minimizing losses. Obsessing over Taurus-Huyaryus missiles and "wonder weapons" risks wasting resources, leaving us broke with no further support, as some will claim they've already given us "too much."
[image or embed] — Constantine (@teoyaomiquu.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Well-known Russian blogger says satellite-guided munitions have been rendered nearly useless.
x Russian pilot "Fighterbomber" says that the effectiveness of Russian guide bombs fell off a cliff recently due to widespread EW interference on both sides, and that Ukrainian countermeasures have now rendered satellite-guided corrections useless.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
All satellite-guided correction systems have officially left the chat. Both Russian and Ukrainian EW specialists have mastered portable and mobile EW stations, which now saturate the front line on both sides, rendering satellite-guided corrections for all munitions (not just UMPKs) useless.
Just like radio-controlled drones are slowly getting phased out. Sure, against large-area targets like factories, industrial plants, and cities, a lone UMPK will still land. But there are no such targets on the front line. Sure, the tactics could be changed-like using not just one UMPK per target but maybe 8 or 16. With statistical error compensation, perhaps one bomb out of the bunch would actually destroy the target. Back in the day, this was called volley bombing, the standard bombing method for all bombers. But as you can imagine, this would mean reporting that out of 16 bombs, only one actually hit a target. Maybe.
And who wants to do that?
You get the idea.
Romania isn’t playing around with its pro-Russian opposition.
x 🇷🇴 Pro-Russian Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu has been detained just minutes before submitting his candidacy, his press service reports. Meanwhile, 47 raids on his allies uncovered weapons, ammo, and €900K in a hidden safe. www.bbc.com/news/article...
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) February 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
JD Vance is such a shitbag.
x "I tried to politely but firmly explain to him that the war needs to end as soon as possible. But, obviously, he didn’t understand that." - U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on his meeting with Zelensky. — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Lithuania steps up.
x The third solidarity campaign "Radarom!" in Lithuania has concluded, aimed at purchasing drones for Ukraine. Through this initiative, 5.614 million euros were raised from Lithuanian citizens and businesses. This final amount will be adjusted after all corporate donations are received.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Groveling Ass-Kissing Softball Question of the Day.
x REPORTER: What's gonna be more challenging -- a PGA-LIV deal or a Russia-Ukraine deal? TRUMP: I think the PGA deal is much more complicated
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Russian Soldier 1: Hey, did you make sure the chains securing the tank were secure?
Russian Soldier 2: I thought you were doing that.
Smart Russians.
One Ukrainian took six Russians prisoner.
x One against six: A Ukrainian Warrior from the 4th Force of Freedom Battalion of the Rubizh Brigade single-handedly captured a group of Russian occupiers. Glory! 📹: Force of Freedom Battalion
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Rest in peace.
x 🕯️ Yesterday, a well-known oncologist Pavlo Ivanchev and his wife, journalist Tatyana Kulik, burned alive near Kyiv. Neighbors tried to save the couple after Russian UAV strike, but the fire quickly spread.
[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Cool. Very cool.
Poor thing. Glad he found some help.
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