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Russian stuff blowing up: Russia deploys elite drone unit to Kursk [1]

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Date: 2025-03-09

Is the third time the charm for taking out the Kerch Bridge?

Are they already getting Taurus cruise missiles from Germany to do this? That would be the best Western weapon in their arsenal for bridge demolition. Or have they developed their own bridge buster?

Ukraine used a truck bomb in the first attack, which took out bridge spans and heavily damaged the railroad line alongside the bridge.

But don’t hold your breath or bet the mortgage on this. Ukraine had said last year that the bridge would be attacked by summer.

x Ukraine is preparing a third strike on the Crimean Bridge – Navy Commander Neizhpapa. The Ukrainian Vice Admiral is optimistic that Ukraine can destroy the Kerch Bridge, writes The Guardian. There is a saying: ‘God loves a trinity’, he said www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM

The story comes from the 14th paragraph of this Guardian story.

The vice admiral said he was optimistic Kyiv would be able to destroy the Kerch bridge, built by Russia to connect its territory with Crimea. Two previous strikes damaged the road and rail structure. Russia’s military was no longer able to transport heavy wagons across the railway bridge, Neizhpapa said. “The Russians understand we are actively discussing a third operation. There is a saying: ‘God loves a trinity’,” he said, grinning.

The situation in Kursk remains fluid.

At least some of the other 20 Russians in this colossal fuck-up are reported to have suffocated inside the pipe. There are also reports that Ukraine was waiting for these dudes because some Russian channels that knew about it in advance were running their mouths about it.

x At least 100 Russian special forces were killed in a 1.4m diameter gas pipeline on the outskirts of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast they attempted to flank Ukraine defenders. This is the biggest special forces catastrophe since August 6, 2011 when the US lost 15 Navy seals in a helicopter crash. — Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM

And this post says that a Russian soldier who was part of the operation got on Telegram to beg for oxygen tanks.

Here are Russians on their way to get killed. Only Russians would smoke in a gas pipeline.

x 1/n: More videos and images of Russians in the "pipe" near #Sudzha, #Kurks sector. In the last video, the ChMobiki are resting and having a smoke, in the gas pipeline. I am not sure how they ventilated it as they had to travel 12km. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM

x Video filmed by the Russians who attempted to enter the rear of AFU positions in #Sudzha, #Kursk AO, by traveling through an abandoned gas pipeline. They ended up being destroyed as soon as they exited the pipe. Reference: x.com/UKikaski/sta... #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Russia has a new elite drone unit operating in Kursk and elsewhere.

This comes from Andrew Perpetua's Bluesky feed.

The exact nature of Rubicon remains unclear. It is uncertain whether they operate as a single drone unit, a large coordinated force, or if they source videos from multiple existing drone groups. What is known is that Rubicon focuses on three main areas: Kursk, Pokrovsk, and Velyka Novosilka. However, their most intense and damaging operations are

concentrated in Kursk. Rubicon employs advanced drone tactics. They often target short sections of roads—100 to 300 meters long-and saturate these areas with drones. Attacks are frequently carried out in groups, sometimes striking the front, back, and sides of a vehicle almost simultaneously. This approach has also been used to hit multiple vehicles in a convoy at once, compounding the damage. They also set traps by landing drones on roads and detonating them under passing vehicles, functioning like anti-tank mines-likely using upward-facing shaped charges. Rubicon's drones are notably difficult to jam. Although they primarily use standard FPV drones, particularly night-vision variants, these drones appear to resist common electronic countermeasures. In practice, this makes them more effective than fiber-optic drones, which are typically harder to jam but more cumbersome.

The lack of new videos from Kursk could suggest that Ukraine has adapted to some extent—or it could simply mean Rubicon is releasing older footage for propaganda purposes. Regardless, the threat Rubicon poses will not be limited to Kursk. If Ukraine retreats, these drone tactics are likely to follow, extending the problem to new areas unless countermeasures improve significantly.

A Russian air-defense system goes bavovna.

Russia having to use MPs in assaults now.

x Russian manpower shortages:

The 🇷🇺 90th Tank Division is using military police in their assaults, specifically the 152nd commandant's company the 159th commandant's office, MUN 35822.

They have been used in attacks against Nadiivka, Donetsk.



[image or embed] — Unit Observer (@warunitobserver.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM

A Russian soldier complains that Ukraine hit them with cluster munitions and destroyed three of their vehicles.

x A Russian soldier is whining that Ukrainians struck his positions with cluster munitions, leaving him with three damaged vehicles. He calls Ukrainians "fascists" for hitting the "good Russian’s" combat positions.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM

Ukraine hit the oil refinery at Ryazan again. I have lost count how many times this place has been hit by drones.

x 1/2: Successful Ukrainian UAV strike last night on the oil refinery in #Ryazan, #Moscow Oblast, Russia. As a result, NASA FIRMS thermal imagery identified a fire at the distillation process unit located at (54.562504, 39.739748). What Russian air defenses doing? #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT (Uri) (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Might be some opportunities for Ukraine soon if they can overcome the loss of U.S. aid.

Now he gets to try to walk back.

x A Russian filmed this video in Kursk region. He probably detected a drone nearby through some monitor, left the car and hid nearby. He is a drone operator, meaning the vehicle probably carried critical supplies.



[image or embed] — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Putin snuffs out/ruins the lives of 1,180 more of his soldiers.

I saw him first.

No, I did.

x KILL STEAL!

Ukrainian drone pilots are stealing each other's kills.

That's what happens when you produce 250,000 drones per month.

The war will end when the Russian fascists withdraw from Ukraine.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Trump is going out of his way to find to find ways to screw Ukraine.

x US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has. What is important to understand is that this could deprive the Ukrainian Air Force of its most important air countermeasures. news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...



[image or embed] — Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM

Zelenskyy should tell Trump to go fuck himself.

x Trump, per NBC News, won’t aid Ukraine after the resources deal unless Zelensky agrees to peace with Russia, including territory handover. He also wants elections and possibly the president’s resignation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM

All those CEOs and other honchos from the military industrial complex who voted for and/or donated to Trump should be cleared out by shareholders.

x Imagine seeing US weapons performing marvelously in the war in Ukraine and by doing so giving the best promotion of the technological edge US weapons theoretically possess, however, ...



[image or embed] — (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM

… only seeing the Trump administration now completely ruining it by showing the world how erratic and unreliable those products are from a political and therefore effectively military point of view. Nobody in his/her right mind would consider buying US weapons right now, if there is a viable alternative, and I say this as long-time military blogger. For defense and technology companies in Europe, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Australia and elsewhere, gold rush times have begun.

And I’ll bet Germany isn’t the only customer having second thoughts.

x 🇩🇪✈️🇺🇸 Germany plans to buy 35 F-35A fighter jets from the US. But fears are growing that Donald Trump could remotely switch off fighter jets, - BILD



[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM

Romania steps up.

x 🇷🇴🇺🇦 AFU have received the Romanian SA-95 short-range anti-aircraft missile system, - Militarnyi ❗️Romanian SA-95 system is a copy of the Soviet Strela-1 adapted to local requirements.



[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Russian propagandist extraordinaire Solovyov is tired of hearing about falling debris and how the fires at refineries were bravely extinguished.

x Russian propaganda is frustrated, having to invent new excuses every morning for their failures in repelling Ukrainian attacks on critical economic targets in Russia while trying to cover up the shortcomings of their air defense system.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM

Trudeau didn’t really think Trump was going to go for that, did he?

x 🇺🇸❌🇨🇦 The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers, - Bloomberg The US is pushing to strengthen language around China while watering down wording on Russia.



[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM

JD Vance says the pro-Ukraine protesters who followed him and his child are “shit.”

No, JD, those protesters were not chasing your child. They were following you. And they engaged you in a civil conversation.

The people who are shit are the anonymous assholes who phone in death threats to judges, their families and anyone else who doesn’t slavishly back Trump.

Our president is a toddler.

Allies of the US President have made clear to UK officials in America that pictures of the King with the Ukranian leader made him feel 'less special' about the monarch's invitation for a state visit to Britain.

x 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸 Donald Trump has 'gone cool' on Britain since King Charles welcomed Zelensky to Sandringham, diplomatic sources in Washington have claimed, - Daily Mail



[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM

Yep. The possibility that Republicans in Congress have the spine or the cojones or any other body parts capable of getting Trump to reverse course on Ukraine are slim and none.

x I came across this report: Republicans in Congress are increasing pressure on the White House, hoping to secure a resumption of arms, equipment and intelligence sharing as early as next week. >We all know this is pure BS right? Republicans will do nothing. It's a cult of the orange turd. — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM

A free election in Ukraine would not turn out the way Trump and Putin want. But an election would give them time to fuck with it and try to delegitimize it.

x Zelenskys support in Ukraine went up 15 points to 67 after the Oval Office meeting. — Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM

A war’s toll on innocence, indeed.

x In a café’s shadow, a child in Ukraine weeps at the sound of air raid sirens, fearing separation from her mother. Handing her a croissant, the mother soothes her. The child whispers, “I’m just afraid to die without you.” A war’s toll on innocence. Text: Lesia Sukhodolska

Art: @olga.art



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Today is the 211th birthday of Ukraine’s national poet.

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