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Russian stuff blowing up: Russia assaults Kharkiv apartment buildings with cluster munitions [1]

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Date: 2025-04-18

Russia launched ballistic missiles with cluster warheads at Kharkiv that sprayed dozens of residential buildings with shrapnel.

x 💔🇺🇦 The number of wounded as a result of the morning strike on Kharkiv has grown to 103, including 8 children.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM

One of the survivors.

x Rescuers pulled a kitten from the rubble after russian missiles struck Kharkiv—small, dust-covered, alive. One fragile life spared in a war that shows no mercy.



[image or embed] — Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM

Russia also attacked a bakery in Sumy.

x In Sumy, a bakery that made Easter cakes, was attacked by Russia. A person who came to pick up the cakes was killed.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM

And an apartment building in Kupyansk.

Girls Just Wanna Have Bavovna

x ❗️A 🇷🇺Russian column of armored vehicles comes under artillery fire; the commander of the artillery gun is a 22-year-old woman with the call sign "🇺🇦Iskra."



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM

A fiber-optic drone takes out a Russian tank.

x ❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the SIGNUM battalion attack a 🇷🇺Russian tank hidden in a hangar using a fiber optic FPV drone. Liman direction



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM

A bevy of bavovna

x Time for a break!☕️🔥 Gonna enjoy this!

A massive Russian assault was launched in four waves in the morning and one in the evening, but they were met by heroes with FPV drones, air-dropped munitions, artillery fire, and mines.

Part 1



[image or embed] — Challengerinua (@challengerinua.bsky.social) April 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM

A Russian soldier shows off his Scooby van, which he describes as legendary, indestructible and eternal. Well, except for that massive hole in the roof where the drone hit it and the soldier inside who was killed.

x Russian soldier films one of three "unkillable" UAZ Bukhankas (two "unkillable" already wrecked). A roof hit sent one unlucky passenger to fertilize the soil.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM

How do you say Evel Knievel in Russian?

Russians in Sudzha in the Kursk area receive a “desperately” needed shipment of body bags and gloves to handle the bodies.

Oh, look! It’s a shiny object.

WARNING: Video shows Russian soldier getting blown up.

x An izgoy, doing what most izgoys do for a living, is searching the ruins of a village, not unlike the one he is from in the mir, for anything he can loot or eat when he finds something "shiny". His katsap instincts get the best of him and he triggers an IED trap set by the AFU. #OSINT



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM

It’d be a shame if the occupation government building burned down.

Another 1,350 Russians who chose poorly along with 312 other vehicles. It’s likely many of those other vehicles were motorcycles.

Ukraine brought 909 fallen soldiers home.

x Ukraine recovered the bodies of 909 more fallen soldiers This marks the 77th repatriation effort since 2022. The soldiers fell in the Kurakhove, Pokrovsk, Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Kharkiv directions. Bodies were retrieved from morgues in Russia

📷 t.me/Koord_shtab



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM

And a prisoner exchange is set to take place tomorrow.

x Russia & Ukraine to hold major prisoner swap tomorrow, over 500 people, per Sky News. UAE-mediated deal: each side releases 246 prisoners, including 46 wounded. Total exchanged via UAE mediation to reach 3,233.

news.sky.com/story/ukrain...



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM

Witkoff must thinks he’s God with the right and power to carve up Ukraine however he sees fit. Ukraine should tell him to go fuck himself.

x ❗️Russian-speaking regions may be “less important” for Ukraine. Of the 5 occupied regions, Putin may get some, but not all, – Witkoff for WSJ. ▪️During the negotiations, Putin was fixated on Ukrainian territories.



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Here’s a bold prediction — there will be no ceasefire and Trump will stomp off and blame Biden and Zelenskyy for his miserable failure.

x ⚡️ US may soon abandon Russia-Ukraine ceasefire efforts, Rubio says. The U.S. will cease its attempts to negotiate a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia unless there is clear progress within the next days, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on April 18, Reuters reported.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) April 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM

Private citizens step up.

Japan steps up.

x ❗️🇯🇵Japan will provide 🇺🇦Ukraine with a loan of $3 billion under the G7 ERA program — Ministry of Finance of Ukraine The loan will be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets.



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM

Hopefully SkyUp will be able to resume flights to Kyiv soon.

x ⚡️ Ukrainian airline resumes first regular flights since 2022, flying from Moldova to EU. Ukrainian airline SkyUp Airlines has made its first regular flight since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, flying on the Chisinau-Paris route on April 18.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) April 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM

The Russian front lines can be divided into danger zones based on the type and density of Ukrainian drones.

x 1/ Commenting on a video showing a huge number of destroyed vehicles on a 'road of death' in the Belgorod region, a Russian warblogger describes how the area behind the front lines has become defined by the ranges of various types of Ukrainian drones. ⬇️

bsky.app/profile/anto...



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM

2/ The author of the 'Vault No. 8' Telegram channel comments that whereas in 2023 the rear was defined by the ranges of various types of artillery, aided by Ukrainian observation drones, it is now defined by the various types of drones that Ukraine uses: 3/ "– The rear 15 km from the front line can now be safely called close, since in this zone the enemy FPV forces [troops] to move quickly, in single vehicles (from 7 to 15 km, closer than 7 km to the front line - only buggies and motorcycles). From 0 km to 5 km – on foot. 4/ "– 15-40 km from the LBS - the middle rear. The impact of enemy FPVs from 15 to 30 kilometers is regular, unnerving, and can put logistics nodes out of business when concentrated. 5/ "– 40-80 km from the front line – the far rear, with the possibility of enemy aircraft-type UAVs, HIMARS missiles, Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and ATACMS operational-tactical missiles arriving there. 6/ "– 100 km and further – the deep rear. With aircraft-type UAVs and ATACMS operational-tactical missiles arriving there.

Sometimes quantity beats quality.

x Conventional artillery, not long-range missiles, is decisive factor in the Russia-Ukraine war, said Armin Papperger, Rheinmetall's CEO He also announced that Rheinmetall would boost production of artillery shells at its Unterlüß plant in Lower Saxony

buff.ly/6wBcobi



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM

Patriot launchers without missiles aren’t good for much.

x Without continued US supplies, Ukraine’s Patriot air defense systems risk becoming useless “piles of metal,” said expert Yevhen Dykyi "There’s no alternative, at least for intercepting Russian ballistic missiles," he added



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM

They sold one car in six months. That’s some seriously shitty salesmanship.

When it comes to Republicans in Congress and supporting Ukraine, my attitude has become — Money talks and bullshit walks.

x ⚡️President Volodymyr Zelensky met with pro-Ukraine Republican U.S. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick on April 17, to discuss peace and security guarantees for Ukraine. He also noted that Congressman Fitzpatrick plans to visit Ukrainian troops near the front lines.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) April 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM

The Easter Bunny is using drones for deliveries these days.

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