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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes Russia's only fiber-optic plant [1]

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Date: 2025-04-05

Ukraine blows up a Russian cruise missile with an anti-aircraft missile at low altitude.

The video includes it in realtime, slow motion and super slo mo.

x Video of the AFU shooting down what looks a lot like a Russian Kh-59 air-launched cruise missile with what is reported to be an S-300 SAM. Source is ExileNova with my video edits. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Ukraine last night hit Russia’s only fiber-optic cable plant and then tried to hit it again with an unmanned light-aircraft that failed to explode. Saransk is about 630 kilometers east-southeast of Moscow.

x Overnight, drones hit Russia's only fiber optic manufacturing plant in Saransk, the capital of Mordovia. The attack cripples Russia's ability to produce jamming-resistant drones for military use.



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM

x Last night, Ukraine conducted a UAV strike on the Fiber Optic Systems plant in Saransk, Mordovia Republic, Russia at 54.224, 45.195. A later attempt this morning to strike it with a light-aircraft UAV failed when it did not detonate (see video). #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM

Here’s the unmanned light aircraft flying to the target at slow-as-molasses speed. Can someone explain how Russia failed to shoot this down?

At least one Russian military blogger was mad as hell about the strike

x Meanwhile, a full-blown tantrum is raging in Russian Z-channels about a wrecked optical fiber plant. None of them can figure out how it happened and are tripping over themselves trying to sort out who’s actually to blame.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM

Ukraine also struck an explosives plant.

x Overnight, drones allegedly struck an explosives manufacturing plant in Russia's Samara Oblast. On 22 March, Ukrainian forces have already targeted this plant in Chapayevsk, resulting in a fire. Promsintez is described as one of the main producers of industrial explosives in Russia.



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM

Another 1,390 Russians who drew the short straws, plus 13 tanks and 67 artillery pieces.

Let them almost finish the ship and then blow the fuck out of it.

x In occupied Kerch, Russia is building a new flagship to replace the sunken cruiser Moskva. Satellite imagery shows the construction of the Ivan Rogov — a larger vessel, reportedly capable of carrying up to 900 marines, 75 vehicles, 3 landing craft, and 15 helicopters. Sea trials planned for 2027.



[image or embed] — Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM

Chechens on the front are not having a good time.

x Kadyrov’s men filmed their "harsh daily life" on video, but this time not for TikTok. Their commander is dead, and a Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" drone is hitting their positions. The trench situation looks far from ideal for Putin’s so-called "heroes."



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM

This video shows a harrowing escape by Ukrainian fighters who found themselves cut off near Toretsk.

x Ukrainian fighters from the "Luhansk" regiment of the "Liut" brigade tried evacuating from Toretsk, but their M113 hit a mine, leaving them cut off in enemy rear. Despite shelling and injuries, they broke through and safely completed the evacuation. Full video: t.me/wartranslated



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Russians demonstrate their rolling grenades.

x Russia’s "people’s defense crew" showed off their DIY rolling grenades, meant to tumble through terrain and take out bunkers. This invention supposedly boosts attacks on fortified spots.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM

How long do you suppose this rust bucket will last driving into mortar fire and drones?

x Another group of Russian fighters is showing off their Z-mobile, planning to drive through mortar fire and drone attacks. Prayer is the only "EW" they’re counting on for protection.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM

Another Russian armored column gets chewed up and spit out.

They’re like those lemmings in the myth about marching off of cliffs. Lemmings don’t actually commit suicide but the myth persists and is nonetheless a good cautionary tale about blindly marching off to destruction.

I just don’t see Russia being able to cross the Dnipro River to get to the city of Kherson.

x 1/7 Strategery: The Russians have been transporting several of the 200 Korean M-1978 Koksan 170mm self-propelled guns they received from the DPRK to the northern part of the Crimean peninsula, which is part of Ukraine. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM

2/7 IMO, this may indicate preparations for an offensive operation to recapture the right-bank of Kherson for which reconnaissance in force operations have been ongoing for a couple months or more. 3/7 If Putin has to give up on capturing the western part of Ukraine, at least for now, he is not going to give up on creating a land-bridge through Mykolaiv and Odesa to Moldova. 4/7 That gives him complete control of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast and puts him on the border of Moldova and Romania, both of which he has already been undermining politically, then Hungary, then beyond. Trump and his team will eventually learn Putin is not giving up.

Trump couldn’t be bothered to interrupt his golfing and show some respect to the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, but Lithuanians gave them a hero’s procession.

Russia followed up its murderous cluster munitions strike on Kryvyi Rih that killed 18, including nine children, with another attack on the city. This new attack was with Shahed drones.

x Russia attacked Kryvyi Rih for the second time with Shahid kamikaze drones. Immediately after killing children with ballistic missiles, they probably tried to hit rescuers.



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM

x Locals bring flowers to the playground where a Russian Iskander missile killed at least 9 children yesterday This attack on President Zelenskyy's hometown Kryvyi Rih killed 18 in total and injured 72. It came just days after an attack on 2 April which killed 4 people

📹https://t.me/onekrua1/134718



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM

Two of the young victims of the attack.

x Seven-year-old Radyslav Yatsko was killed in a Russian strike on Kryvyi Rih while riding home with his family. His father and grandmother are in hospital. His mother and 8-month-old sister were also injured and are receiving treatment. Photo: Svoyi Kryvyi Rih



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM

x The boy in this photo is Tymofii, 3 years and 9 months old. He didn't survive... His mom Valeriia shared that Tymofii was returning home from the playground with his grandma when Russia launched the missile. Mom ran to them. Valeriia says Tymofii loved space and rockets.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM

Zelenskyy blasted US Ambassador Bridget Brink for not even mentioning Russia in a statement about the attack.

x "The response from the US Embassy is surprisingly disappointing – such a strong country, such a strong people, and yet such a weak reaction. They are afraid to even say the word 'Russian' when speaking about the missile that murdered children."



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM

The following is from a newsletter on Moldova about how Trump came up with his bogus tariff figures.

Economists have been scrambling to make these numbers add up. Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman, on his excellent Substack, notes that the EU charges less than a 3% tariff on US goods. Trump claims 39% and uses that number to justify 20% new tariffs. Krugman notes that even if you add in Value Added Tax (VAT), which is not a tariff, you can’t get anywhere near 39%. Similarly the 61% number for Moldova is simply ludicrous. Unless… it isn’t what they claim it is James Surowiecki on X appears to have been the first to crack the code and figure out where all of these number come from. His conclusions were subsequently reported out by the NYTimes and later confirmed by the White House. Basically, what Trump is calling “Tariffs charged to the U.S.A. including currency manipulation and trade barriers” is actually the "Trade Deficit as a Share of Imports." Here’s how it works in the case of Moldova. In 2024 the US-Moldova trade relationship was the following: US Exports to Moldova: $53.6 million

Moldova Exports to the US: $136.5 million

US-Moldova Trade Deficit: -$82.9 million ….. Plugging in the 2024 numbers above you get a ratio of 60.7%. Trump rounded this up to 61% and then halved it to levy 31% tariffs on Moldova.

Losing 2 trillion banknotes is a serious problem. How is Russia going to replace all that toilet paper?

Here’s a diabolical plan — send Russia $1 billion worth of kudzu roots and tell them it makes great vodka.

Those must be NATO-trained mosquitos.

Could be worse. It could have sawdust in it.

OTOH, maybe it does.

x ‼️ Russia: “Every fourth pack of butter in Russia turned out to be counterfeit” 🧈 “with non-dairy fats, starch and soda, as well as food additives and the prohibited "meat glue" - microbial transglutaminase.” 🇷🇺: Um…👉👈…but prices went down? www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/04/04/k...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM

At 292% interest it will only take you 8,867 years to pay off your loan.

x ‼️ Russia: “Russians have sharply increased demand for loans from microfinance organizations (MFOs), which, according to the Central Bank, provide short-term loans at an average of 292% per annum.” YIKES! 👉 292% APR www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/04/04/r...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) April 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM

Good boy.

x Today’s dog of war is a dog comforting its owner in Kyiv, washed in the blue light of an ambulance attending to an emergency.



[image or embed] — Tim Mak (@timkmak.bsky.social) April 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM

The fighting isn’t limited to Russians and Ukrainians.

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