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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian shipyard burns [1]

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Date: 2025-04-03

A Russian shipbuilding site is burning. Russia claims it was due to a gas cylinder exploding.

Petrozavodsk is the capital of the Karelia region, which is east of Finland.

x Russian media report that the Onega Shipbuilding Plant in Petrozavodsk is burning intensely. They claim that a gas cylinder explosion caused a fire in a workshop where fuel containers are stored.

[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM

And in Bataysk, which is 15 kilometers south of Rostov, Russian air defense ignited a fire that threatens the air base there.

x After Russia’s air defense “intervened,” debris is now actively advancing toward the airfield — in Bataysk itself. Once again, Russian defenses proving they’re a greater threat to Russian infrastructure than any drone ever could be.

[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM

This tank got off one last shot before it went bavovna. Something (didn’t look like a turret) got tossed.

x The 63rd Brigade captured a rare moment - the last shot of a Russian tank just before it was hit.

[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM

Russia sends yet another armored column to yet another disastrous result.

x Russians started using large mechanized columns again, now near Andriivka in the Kurakhove direction. It seems the Russians have shifted focus to this sector. Yet, after three years, they still come up with the same tactics, with the same outcome. Russian lost 7 units this morning.

[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) April 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM

On Russian TV it is open season on Trump.

x Meanwhile in Russia: state TV pundits have been obviously given permission from above to shred Donald Trump for his failure to immediately deliver everything the Kremlin was anticipating — and Vladimir Solovyov's guests have unloaded upon Trump with gusto.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXx...

[image or embed] — Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM

This story analyzes Ukraine’s “Mad Max” tactic of sacrificing armor for speed and territorial gains.

x “Mad Max” tactics: Ukraine is sacrificing Bradleys for speed and blood in Russia’s Belgorod Defense expert Yan Matveev reveals Ukraine’s new high-risk tactics: abandoning heavy armor to save soldiers and secure fast territorial gains. euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/03/m...

[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM

Each attack deploys about an infantry battalion with 15-25 equipment pieces. At the heart are Bradley IFVs, which appear in virtually every assault. The formation typically includes one to three engineering vehicles for breach clearing, plus mine-resistant MRAPs like the American Maxxpro or armored personnel carriers like the Striker and Ukrainian BTR-4E Bucephalus. Tanks? “They play a secondary role, sometimes not appearing at all—they’re slow, heavy, and offer little transport capability. The transport function comes first,” Matveev explains. “The main task is rapidly moving infantry into the attack area and, if possible, providing fire support.” Engineering vehicles push aside concrete barriers and clear minefields, inevitably taking casualties—one or two vehicles lost per pass. Then come the Bradleys, well-protected against mines. When they do hit explosives, infantry simply bail out. These abandoned vehicles, ramps open, now litter the Belgorod border—silent evidence that troops have already disembarked and pushed forward. Once through the lines, the column races toward open terrain, ideally onto a good road, accelerating toward the target. This is when Russian drones begin their attacks. The critical task? Stay focused—abandon damaged vehicles and keep moving with the infantry. If the border breach is already made, half the battle is won. The objective lies just 2-3 kilometers away, manageable on foot through fields. Ideally, troops reach a settlement, disembark infantry, and send surviving armor back to prepare for the next wave.

Another 1,390 Russians made to suffer for Putin’s imperial fantasies. Plus, 6 tanks and 49 artillery systems.

The next prisoner exchange should include these donkeys.

What are they making these out of? Iron?

x ‼️ Russia: “In the Vladimir region, prosecutors have uncovered cases of supplies of defective lower limb prostheses under state contracts, which rusted right from the start of use.” I’m not surprised www.kommersant.ru/doc/7623019

[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Drone cages for buildings in Belgorod.

Trump left four countries off the tariffs list — Russia, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea. Even though our trade with those countries is either small or zero, it is certainly more than our trade with tiny Pacific and Indian Ocean nations.

x US Treasury Secretary admitting Belarus and Russia are not on the Tariffs List. As I posted earlier, he is lying because the US does still trade with both countries. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar

[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM

Russia isn’t on the tariffs list but Ukraine is.

x ⚡️'Difficult, but not critical' — Ukraine's economy minister reacts to Trump's tariffs. Ukraine's exports to the U.S. in 2024 amounted to $874 million, including $363 million in cast iron and $112 million in pipes, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said.

[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) April 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM

Grotesque and hideous only begin to describe this.

This is gestapo-level shit.

Is this guy still hanging around?

x 🇺🇸 "The war in Ukraine is moving toward a ceasefire, but both sides must make concessions. No one will get everything they want," – Keith Kellogg. Trump’s special envoy told Fox News that he is frustrated with both Kyiv and Moscow but still aims for a full halt to hostilities.

[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) April 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM

The Czech Republic has been a leader in supplying Ukraine with ammunition.

x 🇨🇿🇺🇦 "Czech initiative: We were able to secure funding, and now this initiative has enough resources to provide Ukraine with artillery ammunition every month until September," — Lipavsky This was made possible thanks to contributions from 🇨🇦Canada, 🇳🇴Norway, 🇳🇱the Netherlands and 🇩🇰Denmark.

[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Add this to the massive pile of war crimes committed by Russia.

No coal, but lots of trash.

The Latin saying tattooed on his arm is supposed to say “Memento Mori, which means “Remember you must die.”

Even though his tattoo was misspelled, he remembered.

x Lieutenant with a tattoo containing an error Шкунов Роман Владимирович (Shkunov Roman Vladimirovich), commander of a platoon of the “Alga” battalion, 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, was eliminated near Svitlodarsk, Ukraine around 30 August ’24.

vk.com/wall-5132493...

[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM

A Russian soldier liberates a store.

x "We're just looting a store, what kind of store? No idea." - face of the "Russian world" in all its glory in this video. They come, "liberate," destroy, and loot.

t.me/c/1377735387...

[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM

Unfortunately, this scumbag survived his stint in Ukraine.

x 1/ A paedophile who committed murder, theft, robbery and rape, and served four prison sentences before joining the Russian army to fight in Ukraine, has been arrested for raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl while on leave in Russia. ⬇️

[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Russian values.

x Olga Bykovskaya, wife of a Russian soldier, was sentenced in absentia to 5 years for urging him to rape Ukrainian women. A 2022 SBU intercept caught her telling him to “say nothing” and use contraception. She has been on an international wanted list since.

[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) April 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM

The UK welcomes a Putin apologist.

x 🔴 Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko, a supporter of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, will return to London’s Royal Opera House after a six-year hiatus.

[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) April 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM

Ukraine never fails to honor its fallen.

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