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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine brings 909 fallen soldiers home [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
Q: What’s better than a Russian vehicle going bavovna?
A: 12 Russian vehicles going bavovna.
Russian air defense is just a smidge too late.
x 1/ A katsap Pantsir-S1 fired two missiles at an AFU FPV drone which both immediately dove into the ground prior to it striking the command vehicle for a very modern Russian Kasta-2E (VME) radar system in #Crimea. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ukraine struck a plant in Saratov that produces batteries and fuel cells for the Russian military.
x 💥 Russia: Scientific-Research Institute of Chemical Current Sources in Saratov has been struck by Ukrainian drones.
The facility develops batteries and fuel cells for the Russian military.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just to clarify — a fuckload is approximately 2.6 times more than a shitload, which is about 5 times more than a buttload.
I imagine the guys in this vehicle needed a change of underwear.
The guy standing in front is the platoon commander.
x Azov Brigade captures 20 Russian soldiers in Donetsk Oblast's Toretsk sector Most of the Russian POWs are from the 9th Motor Rifle Brigade and have surrendered after a failed assault in the area.
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This is from a newsletter called The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak to which I subscribe.
The subject matter is how the war will end up poisoning much of Ukraine’s territory.
As Ukraine prepares for a potential ceasefire and considers its future reconstruction, it faces a poorly-noticed but deeply dangerous crisis: toxic land. The years of mass shelling has led to severe and widespread contamination, largely by dangerous heavy metals like mercury and lead. This is not just Ukraine’s problem but a warning to the world. Two world wars left Europe with poisoned soils that took decades to cleanse. France still has ‘red zones’ where toxic levels remain deadly 106 years after 1918. Ukraine risks facing a similar reality. In such turbulent times, when new conflicts can erupt, the Ukrainian experience may be key for other countries to understand how to restore areas ravaged by modern total war. ….. The war damages soil in four ways. The first is mechanical pollution, which occurs when the fertile top layer of soil is destroyed or mixed with other layers. This can happen due to digging trenches or the movement of military equipment, and mean the soil loses its fertility. Demining – which will be the first step of the reconstruction across much of Ukraine – further disrupts the land, mixing deep, less fertile layers with surface soil and burying essential organic materials. “When we clear landmines, the process is like a giant mixer,” explained Iryna Komarova, a Ukrainian biologist and ecologist. Next comes physical pollution, caused by explosions and fires. After that, soil properties and structure change – becoming compacted, mixed, less fertile, and less able to retain water. The third type of soil damage is chemical contamination, caused by fuel spills, explosives and destroyed factories. Currently, more than 20 percent of Ukraine is contaminated by explosive ordnance. Experts have found mercury, arsenic, lead, and other substances in regions where active combat last took place in 2022. They pose high risks to human health – mercury damages the nervous system, arsenic causes cancer and organ failure, and lead impairs brain development and cardiovascular health. The final type of soil contamination is biological damage – when the tiny organisms that usually keep soil healthy and fertile die. Earthworms, insects, fungi, and even small invertebrates that maintain soil health are lost, causing long-term disruptions in soil fertility.
This video shows the damage to the bridges in the Belgorod area that were blown up by Ukraine.
x YouTube Video
x Russians bombed the staging area for Ukraine's incursion into Bilohorod region, conducting air strikes on Uhroyidy, Myropil's'ke, Krasnopillya, Petrushivka and Prokhody in Sumy region. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 16:00 on 28 March 2025 1/2
[image or embed] — Dr. Michael MacKay (@michaelmackay.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This video shows one drone dropping a grenade on another drone. The grenade doesn’t explode but it takes down the drone anyway.
Russia has a new shrine — Our Most Blessed Lady of the Sacred Pipeline.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who actually went on this tragic mission and managed to survive are hacking up their lungs from having to breathe the hydrogen sulfide gas in the pipe.
x Russia, the world's biggest cult, has a new ritual. A blessed pipe, symbolizing how Russians tried to enter (and where lots of them died) Sudzha, now stands at a church entrance. Pilgrims crawl through it for "purification and grace."
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The reality of war. It isn’t glamorous.
x I’ve seen guys break down and understandably scared, even petrified beyond belief. I listened to one guy screaming in the background of a radio transmission while I was on duty, it’s extremely uncomfortable but he was evacuated off the fighting position in Mariupol despite the shortage of numbers.
[image or embed] — Shaun Pinner (@olddogua.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Some people go off to war all gung ho about how they are going to fuck up the enemy, only to get a rude awakening when it’s the enemy that fucks them up.
WARNING: Video shows wounded Russians.
Speaking of war not being glamorous.
The Ukrainian photographers association has condemned the award for the photo of the Russian soldier.
x World Press Photo selected 2 pictures as winners in the Single Photographs category: -6-year-old Angelina from Kharkiv region.She suffers from panic attacks after Russian shelling.📸 by Florian Bachmeyer
-A wounded "Donetsk People's Republic"soldier fighting for the Russian army.📸 by Nanna Heitmann
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Angelina is the victim. The soldier is the aggressor. Romanticizing the soldier's suffering, equating it to the suffering of Ukrainian children sends a false and morally wrong message that it is the Russian soldiers/those fighting for Russia who should be pitied.
Another Russian makes yet another video appeal to Putin, complaining that their commanders make them buy everything. They think that if only the Tsar knew the conditions his men were forced to fight in, that he would fix it. 😂
x A Russian officer, in a plea to Putin, gripes that their commanders force them to buy gear, fix equipment, and even purchase lumber for bunkers out of their own pockets. Anyone who resists gets tossed into a forest pit for days without food for “re-education.”
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Adios. До свидания
I’m sure his widow will appreciate the nice bag of onions she’ll receive as compensation.
x ❗️It is reported that the commander of the 🇷🇺Russian Guard special forces fire group, Major Marat Tibilov, was killed in the Kursk area. A month ago, Putin personally awarded him the star of the "Hero" of Russia.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
You can tell this is from the 50s because there is still a photo of Uncle Joe Stalin in the glove compartment.
Russia claims Ukraine hit the gas metering facility in Sudzha, breaking the ceasefire that Russia hasn’t complied with yet.
It was another banner day of losing for 1,860 Russians, plus 17 tanks, 122 artillery systems and 210 other vehicles.
And they were NOT dumped in a landfill.
We’ll have a peace agreement at the same time Trump unveils the Republican health care plan.
x 🤷♂️Trump is no longer promising to end the war in 100 days. His Secretary of State, Rubio, says it will take as long as it takes.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Here’s a better idea — let’s bring Poland and Lithuania into the talks.
Here’s another better idea — how about we have an interim government led by the UN in Russia instead.
x Putin: Russia is ready to cooperate with the US, Europe, BRICS, China, and North Korea on Ukraine. Kyiv’s rule is "illegitimate." He suggests a UN-led interim administration. White House: "Ukraine’s government is set by its constitution and people." Full video: t.me/wartranslated
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Is it possible that Trump grew a conscience?
Is the pope a Rastafarian?
x The U.S. has reportedly extended funding for documenting the abduction of Ukrainian children. This will help gather more evidence of forced deportations and ensure those responsible are held accountable. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’m afraid he is going to be disappointed.
x 🇺🇦 Ukraine will prepare evidence of Russia's violation of the energy ceasefire regime and provide it to the United States, expecting an appropriate response, — Zelensky
[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hopefully we will have a strong and decent president in 2029 who will tear up this extortionist exercise and have Trump arrested on the street and sent to El Salvador without a hearing.
x ❗️ The new U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal could trap Ukraine in $120B debt, analysts warn. Under the deal, Ukraine must repay all U.S. aid (military, budgetary, humanitarian) since 2022, with the sum growing 4% annually. 🚩Extorting mafiosi www.eurointegration.com.ua/articles/202...
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here’s what the minerals “deal” includes:
A brief summary: The management consists of 5 people, 3 of whom are from the U.S. with full veto power.
It covers all minerals - oil, gas, both new and existing deposits.
It applies across the entire territory of Ukraine.
Both state-owned and private companies are involved in extraction.
Funds are immediately converted into foreign currency.
The fund's money is transferred abroad. If something is delayed due to our side, we have to compensate.
The U.S. contribution is the aid provided to us since 2022. And they can receive profits at their discretion. They are the first to get "royalties" from the Fund (before Ukraine) +4%. • The agreement is indefinite. Changes or termination can only happen with U.S. approval. "First rights" on all new infrastructure projects and veto power over resource sales to other countries.
No security guarantees. Not even a hint of them.
As you can imagine, the “deal” is not going over well in Ukraine.
x ❗️Ukraine will NOT recognize US military assistance as debt, - Zelensky. ▪️An urgent meeting will be held in Kyiv within a week in a narrow circle of representatives of the general staffs of the main countries. France, Britain will definitely be there;
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
2/▪️Umerov will hand over evidence of Russia's disruption of the ceasefire to America; ▪️We received a draft of a new agreement on minerals from the US, which is a completely different document than the previous framework agreement; 3/▪️Kyiv could go to negotiations with one of the Russians if they have a vision of how to end the war, but not with Putin; ▪️We will reduce the accumulation of Russian troops a little below the Kursk region to prevent an attack on Sumy region; 4/▪️Ukraine has expanded access to intelligence, military warehouses and has been given licenses for air defense; ▪️Putin is afraid of talking to me.
Maybe Russia can also supply some Chinese golf carts or electric scooters.
x ‼️☢️ Russia could supply a small nuclear power plant for a mission to Mars planned by Elon Musk, Putin's envoy Dmitriev said, - Reuters 🤔 Kirill Dmitriev said Moscow could discuss the offer with Musk by video conference.
[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is good news. Constantine is a former Ukrainian soldier who has raised a lot of money for the purchase of engineering equipment.
x A bit of good news Our new humanitarian aid convoy with equipment to build protection against FPVs drones: 🚚🏗️Two Mercedes 4x4 Trucks with cranes and augers Total value: ~$70,000
[image or embed] — Constantine (@teoyaomiquu.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Turn on the audio for this one.
Hopefully they can return to Ukraine one day.
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