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Russian stuff blowing up: Thunderstruck in Kramatorsk and the Werewolves of Belgorod [1]
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Date: 2025-04-01
I had to check first to see if this was an April Fools joke.
x Russian forces didn't launch a mass drone attack at Ukraine on the night of 1 April, marking the first such instance in 2025. The reasons for this are unknown as the situation remains unpredictable amid peace talks.
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[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
But how do they know this is an April Fools joke and not reality?
x Ukrainains are having fun with the April Fool's day. Lots of Putin has syphilis diagnosis out there. — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s a cornucopia of combustion, a plethora of rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Audio on if you are an AC/DC fan.
This isn’t as sexy as a major-league bavovna, but it’s more important in the long term.
x "We modernized the combat training course, extended it to 1.5 months & introduced a mandatory adaptation period for newcomers in combat brigades. This has led to a reduction in losses this month. However, there is still work to be done—we must strive for the highest training standards," CiC Syrksyi.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’ve watched this several times and I still can’t figure out what these guys are doing.
Cannon fodder to the left; meat for the grinder to the right.
x Russia: Semi-annual army conscription draft starts on April 1st - an additional 160,000 civilian men will be forced into cannon fodder duty.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The couriers grew suspicious when there were suddenly a lot of orders for wings to be delivered to Toretsk.
x Russia: Food delivery couriers at "Samokat," a service akin to DoorDash but on bicycles & mopeds, refuse to pick up orders for fear of being sent to Ukraine as cannon fodder.
Police have been stopping the couriers en route and taking them away.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The company was baffled why their construction project was experiencing so many delays.
x Russia: Construction workers fled to the woods in a panic when they noticed a police car stop nearby in the Moscow suburb of Butovo.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I figure I must have been transported to an alternate universe because John Bolton makes too much sense these days.
x John Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Advisor called Trump’s top Middle East advisor Steve Witkoff a Russian stooge: “Witkoff knows nothing; in fact, he's more of a propaganda vehicle for Putin than anything else.”
[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Yes, Andrew. It was a great triumph of the Trump Junta.
This is typical. The Russians supposedly agree to a deal, then stall or try to sabotage it by coming up with new conditions.
x 😵💫 Russia has set new conditions for the US to lift sanctions: unblock $500 million worth of aircraft spare parts and allow repairs to Airbus and Boeing without involving foreign manufacturers, — Minister of Industry and Trade Alikhanov 🇸🇦Moscow plans to discuss these issues at talks in Saudi Arabia. — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Narrator: It was not unloaded.
x ☠️ "United Russia" MP and Chelyabinsk oligarch Pavel Izbrecht has died while relaxing at a shooting club, he decided to check if his weapon was unloaded and shot himself. ❗️Izbrecht owned the Zinc Plant in Chelyabinsk, headed the Sambo Federation, and was one of the richest people in the Urals.
[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
In Russia, even the cars fall from tall buildings.
This guy went to all the trouble of fleeing from Ukraine only to be standing in front of a window when it accidentally opened and he accidentally fell out.
x Russia: 25 year old conscript fell to his death from the 15th floor in Chelyabinsk when military police came looking for him after he deserted.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It’s touching how Russian citizens band together to get through tough times.
"So we can be f**king bombed, but Moscow Oblast is not? Let the bastards shut up and stay put!" one woman in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast said in a call released by HUR on March 29. "They live their lives without fear, without knowing anything. Let them be at least a little bit afraid," the person she was speaking to responded. In Belgorod Oblast, one woman said she had been kept awake by drones flying overhead in the direction of Moscow, according to an intercepted call released on March 30. "They should have targeted Moscow right away to make them take action," she said, adding: "Otherwise, poor people are suffering, and Moscow is dancing and singing." "If they don't take some (defense) measures, we'll all be screwed," she added. In another conversation published on March 31, two men in Belgorod Oblast speculated that the reason their TVs were not working was because of electronic warfare countermeasures being used against Ukrainian drones.
The drone-dropped grenade must have hit a pile of ammunition.
Ukraine craters a bridge in the Kursk area.
Russians are all fired up to ride their four-wheeler on an assault because it’s the “fucking Wild West.”
Yippee Kai Yea! Let’s all go become drone fodder!
You don’t suppose there is alcohol in those wipes, do you?
Nah, they wouldn’t do that.
x Russians at the front are surviving however they can. They even came up with the brilliant idea of extracting water from wet wipes.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
No, really. We were on y’all’s side all along.
x The "Predators" from the Patrol Police brigade captured three Russians in Toretsk, and now they want to join the Russian Volunteer Corps. Yesterday, they were "liberators," and today they dream of fighting against Putin.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Another 1,540 Russians along with 9 tanks.
Everybody assumes this is the poster boy for nepotism. But, hey! Maybe he’s a military genius, a brilliant tactician, a natural leader of men, an amazing …. oh, forget it.
x Meet Adam, the 17-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov - now the proud "curator" of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Russian media, this brilliant appointment was, of course, made by daddy’s orders.
What a surprise!
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Most non-shithole countries discourage teen pregnancy.
x 1/ Russia aims to make up its huge war losses and declining population by encouraging schoolchildren to marry at 18, as part of a "special demographic operation." Some regions have introduced bonus payments for pregnant schoolgirls. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This from the country where unemployed drunk husbands beat their wives and wives are relieved when their drunk abusive husbands don’t come back from the war.
9/ Apart from its support for teenage pregnancy, the textbook otherwise takes a very conservative line on family values. 10/ It declares that "the main goal of marriage is the birth and upbringing of children," and in marriage, Orthodox Christians should "fight selfishness and be tolerant of the shortcomings of loved ones." 11/ It tells children that "Husbands should teach their wives with love and exemplary instruction; wives ask their husbands about strict order, about how to save their souls, please God and their husbands, and arrange their homes well, 12/ … and submit to their husbands in everything; and what the husband orders, they willingly agree with."
“Werewolves of Belgorod,” with appropriate apologies to Warren Zevon.
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese golf cart and a gun
Riding through the streets of Belgorod in the snow
He was looking for conscripts with cash to burn
Gonna buy a big bag of top-grade blow
x 1/ Ukraine's recent incursion into the Belgorod region east of Sumy has led to a windfall for Russian traffic police. Calling them "werewolves in uniform", Russian warbloggers accuse them of systematically robbing Russian troops responding to the Ukrainian offensive. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
With apologies to C.W. McCall
'Cause we got a little 'ole convoy
Rockin' through the night
Yeah, we got a burnt-up convoy
Ain't she a beautiful sight
C'mon and join our Convoy
Don’t let no drones get in your way
We’re all gonna die in this fuckin’ convoy
Thanks to the USA
Did Russia put Louis DeJoy in charge of their postal service?
x ‼️ “Russian Post's net loss for 2024 has increased almost threefold to RUB 20.5 billion, according to the company's published financial statements under Russian accounting standards.” 🍿 oh dear… www.kommersant.ru/doc/7621809
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Maybe his grandchildren can go back to Russia one day.
If it hasn't changed in the few years of freedom that Russia has had, if people haven't gotten a taste and decided to go back to that Brezhnev-era gloom... I don't know," he says. After the occupation of Crimea, Tequilajazz refused to travel to the peninsula, while actively touring Ukraine.
x Evgeny Fedorov, the lead singer of the Russian rock band Tequilajazz has no intention of returning to Russia, even after the fall of Putin's regime: "I don't want to go back there. I don't believe that anything will change quickly⤵️
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Russia’s newest demand — Ukraine must withdraw from the South Pole.
x On January 14, 2025,Latvian alpinist Juris Ulmanis completed his Antarctic expedition with the aim of raising funds in support of Ukrainian medics via UNITED24 plarform. Juris traveled 120 kilometers across Antarctica. Upon reaching the South Pole,he unfurled the Ukrainian flag. Thank you, Sir!
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
When getting bombed becomes routine.
x One of the Kharkiv coffee shops on March 29. People often ask me how businesses manage to stay open when the city is under constant attacks. This is how.
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A hug for a soldier.
x No words will ever be enough to thank our soldiers — not in this lifetime. 💙💛
They give us safety, hope, the chance to live. And sometimes, all we can give in return is a silent, tearful hug — unexpected, real, full of everything we feel but can’t say. 🫂
They fight for us. We hold them close.
[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Early Warning Cats
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