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Russian stuff blowing up: Russia facing a kill zone at the Dnipro River [1]

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Date: 2025-03-15

Ukraine destroyed a section of the bridge that spans the Konka River, which runs alongside the Dnipro and is just upriver from Kherson. Russia bombed this bridge in October fearing a Ukrainian offensive.

From the video it looks like the supporting piers were hit, perhaps with charges placed on the structure or naval drones.

x /2. Recently, Russian attempts to conduct offensive actions in the direction of the Dnipro river from the Oleshky side have intensified. I assume that this is why the attack was carried out now.



[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM

Russia has sent wave after wave of assault groups across the Dnipro River only to have almost all of them killed.

x 1/ Russian forces on the Dnipro river are suffering huge casualties – which one soldier puts at 80% – and an acute shortage of boats and supplies as they attempt to make crossings against fierce Ukrainian opposition. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM

3/ Russia's difficulties in the area are highlighted by a video appeal to Vladimir Putin recorded by Ilya Leonidovich Nezhivenko, a member of Russia's 810th Separate Marine Brigade, before he was sent on a combat mission from which he appears to have not returned. 4/ He says that his unit is trying to "cross only [at] one place. About 600 people have already died there. Those who managed to get to the other side are still missing – a lot [are] 200 [dead]." 5/ "Those who are 300 [wounded], they are not being taken out. The battalion commander ordered not taking out the wounded." 6/ He says that most of those who try to cross are killed, due to having to make the crossing in the open under constant fire. "On this crossing, out of ten people, only two survive who cross. The rest are 200." He asks for his commanders to be punished. 7/ Very high casualties have also been reported by the Ukrainian-Crimean resistance movement ATESH. In December 2024, it reported that an attempt by units of the 70th Motorized Rifle Division to storm the right bank "ended in disaster". 8/ "Entire platoons did not return, which seriously undermined the morale of the servicemen. Despite this, the military leadership continues to send its people to certain death, hoping to find a more advantageous place for the next landing." 9/ As a result, it says, "Many soldiers are trying to avoid being sent to the assault boats. Many are making desperate attempts to get to the hospital, to pay [bribes] for transfer to other positions, or deliberately damaging equipment and weapons." 10/ ATESH says that Russian "soldiers intentionally break engines, puncture rubber boats and even transmit coordinates to the Ukrainian Defence Forces about the location of boat bases and fuel reserves." They are also said to be deliberately injuring themselves.

Russia’s very expensive air defense systems being turned to junk by cheap disposable drones.

x Ukrainian ACHILLES drone regiment destroyed 4 Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems worth $56M inside Russia. These systems protect Russian military sites—now they’re scrap metal.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM

The Tuapse oil terminal is still burning like crazy.

This attack is reported to be the first use of Ukraine’s new Long Neptune missile, a variant of the home-grown Neptune anti-ship cruise missile with a range of 1,000 km.

Note: Moscow is about 850 km from the Ukrainian border.

x 2/2

Tuapse in Krasnodar The oil refinery, one of the largest in Russia, may have been hit with Ukraine's new "Long Neptune" missile and not drones as was first thought. It comes after President Zelenskyy said the new 1000km range missile had already been used in combat.



[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Ukraine hits Volgograd again.

x 💥 Russia: Ukrainian drones struck something very flammable around the Sarepta rail station in the Red Army district of Volgograd (Stalingrad).



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM

A Russian driving through Kursk takes inventory of all the blown-up vehicles, noting they got “smashed real hard.” Seconds later he is smashed real hard.

x A Russian soldier filmed a road-graveyard of equipment in Kursk, shocked by the sight, when suddenly a Ukrainian drone turned his car into a new exhibit of this "museum."



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM

Russia closes in on 900k casualties. Does Putin care? Nope.

Russia’s new innovative program to control health-care costs.

x 1/ Russian commanders are dumping unwanted sick, wounded, mutinous, drunk or disobedient men, whom they call 'illiquid assets', into assault squads. They aim to get rid of them by sending them to a likely death. As a commentary points out, this is counterproductive. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Maybe Ukraine should put Trump’s face on recruitment posters.

x One Ukrainian unit accepting foreign volunteers received a few thousand applications after the Oval Office meeting between Zelensky and Trump.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Germany steps up.

x ⚡️Germany to commit $3.2 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Merz says. A parliamentary coalition has agreed to support the new aid package, part of a plan to dramatically scale up Berlin's defense spending, incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz announced on March 14.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Hungary needs to either: 1. Get rid of Orban or 2. Get out of the EU and NATO.

x Orban must be failing his Moscow Masters.

How else to explain the Budapest Barrel going in to overtime on anti-EU propaganda? The one time anti Russian who suddenly saw the rubles/light, lists his demands. But he's a hypocrite & chicken. The answer is simple = HEXIT.

But he's thinks he'll lose.



[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM

Thousands of Hungarians in Budapest choose Option 1.

Orban is reported to have shut down public transportation to prevent people from traveling to Budapest for this protest. Looks like it didn’t work.

x ❗️Mass protests against Orban are taking place in 🇭🇺Budapest. Hungarian Opposition Leader Peter Magyar: "Spring is here, the spring of the Hungarians, and together we will end Orban's winter."



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM

That remark from Trump about ending the war in 24 hours? he was just kidding.

Oh, don’t worry, Donald. We already knew you were full of shit.

x In an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson, President Donald Trump explained he was being sarcastic when he claimed during his campaign he could resolve the Russia-Ukraine war within a day



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM

The good news about Netflix:

x Netflix CEO Reed Hastings donated $2 million to Ukraine's White Stork charity The funds will be used to purchase drone jamming systems and other critical supplies for combat medics on the front lines

euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/14/n...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM

The bad news about Netflix:

Maybe this asshole can get a Netflix deal too.

x Not all Russian soldiers have had the chance to "demilitarize" on the so-called "SVO," yet in the heart of Moscow, they are already being laughed at and mocked. In one of Moscow's stand-up clubs, a comedian tells how "a legless idiot who blew himself up on a mine literally ran into him."



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Russia launches a Shahed from a moving car.

And Ukraine looks to deploy drones from balloons,

x Ukrainian startup Aerobavovna is developing a balloon, which is a platform on which an aircraft-type interceptor drone will hang in standby mode. The technology is designed to intercept Russian Shaheed-type strike drones. www.aerobavovna.com/ua/home



[image or embed] — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM

Ukraine is no doubt one of the world’s leaders in drone development.

x Ukraine proudly unveils the first thousand FPV drones, masterfully assembled using 100% Ukrainian components. A remarkable achievement showcasing Ukraine's technological prowess, all without the reliance on 🇨🇳 Chinese spare parts!



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM

He switched sides effortlessly.

Those dirty Poles were rapin’ and rapin’. Russians like to blame the Poles for everything.

x Meanwhile, Russia hosts a grand parade of propaganda genius. State channels, in a frenzy of florid absurdity, compete to weave the most exquisite tale of Sudzha’s ‘martyrs.’ Their style: bombast, lies, even a nod to Poles. Humanitarian aid, it seems, demands a fresh fable of ‘torture’ on camera.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM

This Russian commander just now figures out his superiors are “assholes” and “dickheads.”

I’ll be looking for the next installment of his video series in which he apologizes to his commanders from the tree he is tied to and left as a sacrifice to the drones..

x It seems a commander of a Russian army tactical group has rebelled. In a video, he complains that soldiers are sent to hopeless positions like cattle, valued only for equipment, not their lives. He notes the command doesn’t care about operations.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM

Serbians express their dissatisfaction with President Vucic.

Russian drone pilots vs. trees.

How did I miss this major news story from a few days ago?

I’m all in favor of placing curses on Vance. As the Ukrainian text below says, “Fuck you, Vance.”

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