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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine attacks Moscow with waves of drones [1]
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Date: 2025-05-07
Ukraine has been sending a swarm of drones to Moscow.
x Zhukovsky International Airport has also introduced the 'Carpet' mode. Suspending all incoming and outgoing traffic. During the whole day Ukraine launches one UAV after another. At this moment another 50 UAVs are reportedly heading for the Moscow region.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
x Russian air traffic remains paralyzed due to ongoing drone threats — meanwhile, the Kremlin's military band, stuck at Domodedovo airport, decided to pass the time by giving a live concert in the terminal. 🕺🎺
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
By “key targets” I presume Russia would go after Ukrainian government targets.
Of course, escalating to that level would mean the Kremlin also becomes a target.
x "Russia may hit key targets in Kyiv with the Oreshnik intermediate-range (IRB) ballistic missile if Ukrainian leadership undertakes provocations against Russia on Victory Day." -- Kremlin #OSINT
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Two of the targets were defense-related factories.
x ⚡️ Long-range drones operated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck two key Russian defense industry plants overnight, igniting fires and prompting mass flight disruptions in the Moscow region, sources within the SBU told the Kyiv Independent on May 7.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
According to the SBU, Ukrainian drones targeted the Bazalt plant in Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Oblast, Russia’s primary manufacturer of munitions and weaponry for all branches of its military. Residents reported at least seven explosions followed by a large fire at the site. Simultaneously, another strike hit the Splav plant in Tula, a city located about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Moscow. Splav is reportedly the only facility in Russia responsible for designing and producing multiple-launch rocket systems and related ammunition. Footage from the scene appeared to show heavy smoke and flames engulfing part of the facility. The strikes, according to the SBU, triggered heightened alert measures across the Moscow Oblast, forcing Russian authorities to enact “Plan Cover,” a security protocol that includes grounding civilian air traffic. Airports across Moscow and the surrounding oblast temporarily shut down, stranding thousands of passengers and forcing airlines to cancel or reroute hundreds of flights. Pro-Kremlin sources, including the Telegram channel Mash, reported a near-total “collapse” of air operations across Moscow airports on the night of May 7. Around 350 flights were reportedly affected, with over 60,000 passengers impacted, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia. Some passengers were forced to wait on board planes for hours without food or clear information.
Russia has a new anti-drone system called Black Eye that jams a drone’s video. It is said to be very effective and Ukraine is making it a priority to attack these systems.
x It's a high-stakes game of electronic cat and mouse: Russia's Black Eye jammers vs Ukrainian drone hunters. Here, a single Ukrainian FPV takes out two such jammers, located on heights: 📹 @GrandpaRoy2
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
x Ukrainian EW expert Serhii “Flash” has just published an (unrestricted) manual on “Black Eye.”
He emphasizes that the system must have line-of-sight to Ukrainian drone operator video receivers many km away, and so the distinctive antennas will be located as high as possible.
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[image or embed] — Roy (@grandparoy2.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Russia also has a new advanced drone.
x ⚡ Russian forces have begun deploying a new type of loitering munition with advanced autonomy features, signaling a shift in the country’s approach to drone warfare.
[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) May 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
And Russia shows its desire for peace by ramping up production of cruise missiles to destroy even more apartment buildings, schools and hospitals.
x Russia has significantly increased production of Kh-101 cruise missiles but is facing shortages of key components due to Western sanctions militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) May 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Russians on motorcycles try to cross open terrain. It goes very badly.
Yakutia is way the hell in Russia’s Pacific East.
x 🔥 A powerful explosion occurred at a coal preparation plant in Yakutia, Russia. Methane exploded in one of the finished goods warehouses.
[image or embed] — MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
OK, who left the door open?
North Korean stuff blowing up.
How not to lay mines.
x Things go very wrong for Ivan the Izgoy when he attempts to mine a road... Just another day serving in the "2nd Army of the World." #OSINT
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Former Russian commander/blogger and current prison inmate Strelkov (Girkin) rears his ugly head to play Nostradamus.
x Strelkov sees the fighting in Tyotkino (Kursk region, RF) as a UAF diversion to force Russia to shift reserves. He believes the main offensive is yet to come, likely targeting Crimea or weak Russian positions in Donbas.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Regarding the military actions that have begun in the Tyotkino direction of the Kursk region, regarding the enemy's attempt to break through to Tyotkino and further to the Kurchatov direction, I would like to note that I believe this enemy offensive is a distraction and is only significant for the movement of our reserves in this direction. Naturally, it is advantageous for an enemy with superior manpower to stretch our front line as much as possible, so that all our possible reserves are involved in protecting the so-called "old territories" of the Russian Federation. And they will attack in a completely different place, with strategic goals. I agree with those authors who say that the most probable directions of the enemy's offensive are Crimea (as well as the landing area between the mouth of the Dnieper and the Crimean isthmuses) and, unfortunately, Donbass, where our offensive actions have led to a very strong weakening of personnel and equipment, and where our troops, advancing, have gone beyond the boundaries of long-term defensive structures. Therefore, I do not exclude the possibility of the enemy delivering a strong counterattack there with large territorial losses for our troops. Not to mention the losses of people or losses
in equipment. The enemy has accumulated reserves for this. As far as I understand, the enemy has forgotten how to waste personnel "for meat" since 2023 (and that is why he has failed in this regard) and acts more competently and carefully. Overall, the situation continues to deteriorate. I read Yulin's commentary in which he challenges my view that the fighting will be significantly intensified, that is, significantly increased in scale and ferocity. Well, I believe he has already realized his own error. He assumes that ours will surrender on some conditions, will strive for a truce, for a "freezing" of the conflict. But I proceed from the fact that there will be no "freezing" since there are two sides to the war. And if one side does not want to continue the war, then the other side should not at all follow the decisions of the first side. At the very least, it is going to win this war. And it is interested in using its reserves, using its saved forces in order to win against us territorially and strategically. And they will be the ones to attack. Therefore, no matter how much our leadership would like to create some semblance of the Minsk agreements, when the enemy was shooting and we kept silent, nothing like that will happen. We will be attacked - and we will be forced to defend ourselves.
I’m surprised Trump didn’t ask Russia to take deportees. Russia would send them to the meat grinder.
x Shameless people. "The Trump administration earlier this year urged the Ukrainian government to accept an unspecified number of U.S. deportees who are citizens of other countries" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
[image or embed] — Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Another 1,270 Russians fed into the meat grinder. Plus 14 tanks.
x These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of May 7, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
What is left to sanction?
x The EU Council has prepared a new sanctions regulation in which Russia is, for the first time, officially accused of using CS tear gas on the front lines in Ukraine as a method of warfare.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Serbian President Vucic discovers that flying to Moscow is no easy task.
x Latvia and Lithuania blocked Vučić's plane from entering Russia for the May 9 parade. Latvia cited "politically delicate" reasons, while Lithuania refused due to "technical and diplomatic issues."
www.novosti.rs/vesti/politi...
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
He took the long way around but he finally got to Moscow. This is like flying from New York to Seattle by way of Mexico City.
x Serbian President Vučić's plane, which was flying to Moscow for the Victory Day parade, was forced to land in Baku. Local authorities state they cannot get clearance for it to continue to its destination (most likely due to Carpet Plan in the Capital region). #OSINT — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Apparently no one wants to gamble on Russia’s air defense protecting them
Slovakia’s Fico plans to attend wreath-laying and other ceremonies but will skip the parade.
x President of Azerbaijan canceled his visit to Moscow. Putin's aide said weakly, "they explained that he should participate in internal events in honor of Aliyev-senior." Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban also won't join the parade. ◾️Pakistan canceled their visit altogether;
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
There has been a Kellogg sighting.
x ⚡️ Kellogg says Ukraine proposed 30-km demilitarized buffer zone, admits Putin main obstacle to ceasefire. U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg said the main obstacle to reaching a deal is Russian President Vladimir Putin's refusal to accept a ceasefire.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Putin doesn’t care who he feeds into the meat grinder as long as there is a steady supply.
x 70-year-old Yatskov Vladimir Ivanovic Vyaznikich, from the Vladimir Region of Russia, died in the SVO because Putin could care less about the Russian people including this grandfather. #OSINT
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Poor thing.
x 😭 Family who took in 10 cats killed in Russian attack on Kyiv: one cat found alive with burns – video
[image or embed] — Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 (@pravda.ua) May 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Rest in peace.
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