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Russian stuff blowing up: North Korea destroys its own destroyer [1]

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Date: 2025-05-22

Uh oh. Sounds like somebody will be put in front of an anti-aircraft gun for this screw-up.

South Korea says the new destroyer is lying on its side with damage to the hull. Kim was not happy. 😅

x DPRK media reported their newest destroyer capsized when the stern slipped of the launch rails while the bow stayed attached. The tarps covering it are to prevent assessment of the damage. Kim is promising to "punish those responsible." Source: #https://t.me/kiber_boroshno/... #OSINT



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM

The Ryazan oil refinery and a defense plant in Tula get hit again.

x Ukraine conducted a UAV strike on the Ryazan Oil Refinery yesterday and about 2-hours ago. Both NASA FIRMS and NOAA 20 thermal imagery show two fires which were detected yesterday 5/21/25 at 22:31 UTC. OSINT

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[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM

x The AFU hit the workshop of the defense plant in Russian Tula,ASTRA Tg channel reported.This is the 2nd attack on the plant in May Splav produces MLRS,air missiles,heavy flamethrower systems. Three days ago,Putin awarded the plant's employees for their contribution to weapons development



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM

Russia claims its heroic forces heroically shot down hundreds of Ukrainian drones.

They must have missed this one.

x 🦅💥 A drone strike hit the "Patriot Expo" center near Moscow, damaging two exhibition pavilions and injuring a security guard with shrapnel. 🚗 Several cars in the parking lot were also hit.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM

Another incursion into Russia?

Sounds like another operation to force Russia to move its troops from other sections of the front.

x There have been reports of fighting and other military activity today in the Vygonichsky District of the #Bryansk region, Russia, which is 90-km (55-miles) from the border. Currently, Russian sources claim it was an AFU GUR "DRG" team ("Artan" unit???).

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[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM

x 🚨Russia: Ukrainian forces currently invading Bryansk region.

According to a leak from within, the Russian government is lying by minimizing the scale.

Recon groups advanced 80km into Russia.

Heavy fighting continues into the night on the border.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Drones keep evolving but Switchblades keep getting the job done.

Somehow he survived.

Can ServPro make this like it never even happened?

Maybe we could send Elon to Russia to fix their government spending issues. 😅

x ‼️ Russia: “The government is sharply cutting spending on key economic support programs after the collapse of oil and gas budget revenues” 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/05/22/p...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM

Ukraine and Russia are still working on that big prisoner swap.

Ukraine should send at least one drone per day in the general direction of Domodedovo Airport in Moscow. It’s not necessary that they actually hit anything to cause chaos.

x Russian Telegram channels report chaos at Russian airports due to drone attacks. Hundreds of passengers are stuck at Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports. Planes cannot take off, arriving flights are also delayed.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Meanwhile, in Kursk near the border town of Tetkino.

x Ukrainian jets demolished 2 bridges outside Zvannoe, 19km NE of Tyotkino, using precision glide bombs dropped from MiG-29s&Su-27s kilometers away This aerial interdiction cleared the path for Ukrainian troops to Tyotkino outskirts after 2-week advance🧵

euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/22/u... — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM

Russia's forces are already threatening to cut them off, advancing toward the border checkpoint just 1.6km south of Tyotkino.It's a dangerous echo of the Sudzha salient, where Russians trapped Ukrainians after a 6-month occupation. The first Kursk operation was costly—Ukraine lost as much equipment as Russia did, a ratio they can't sustain in a war of attrition against a larger adversary.This time, the aerial bombardment is less intensive, suggesting this is a raid, not an occupation. For Ukraine to avoid repeating March's disaster, when elite Russian drone teams decimated hundreds of vehicles along a single supply route, they must avoid getting invested in another exposed salient.Their current position is tenuous, but not yet disastrous—unless they try to hold Tyotkino.

Four Chechens have their tourist visas revoked.

x 💥☠️ GUR: On May 20, 2025, UAZ Patriot car exploded between Skadovsk and Antonivka. There were four officers of the Russian occupation forces from the so-called “Akhmat” unit inside, none survived. 🔥 After the first explosion, the car with ammunition transported by the invaders also detonated.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM

Unfortunately he survived.

x 🇷🇺 Russian sources say Ukraine has struck the car of Nikolai Volobuyev, head of the Belovsky district in Kursk with a drone. He was reportedly injured in the leg and arm and taken to the hospital, according to acting Kursk governor Alexander Khinshtein.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM

Russia plans to steal power from its stolen nuclear plant.

x ❗️☢️ Zaporizhzhia NPP will be connected to the Russian energy system in the coming weeks - this cynical step of the enemy is reported by the former advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Andryushchenko. For this, Russia has completed the construction of a distribution hub.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Only 870 dead/wounded Russians.

Russia is to the internet what Jesse James was to banking.

x 🇷🇺 Russia’s GRU is accused of hacking thousands of border & security cameras across Europe to spy on Western aid heading to Ukraine — including at rail stations, military sites, and crossings.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM

Who the fuck puts a nuclear warhead on an air-to-air missile? Are they going to use it to shoot down a plywood recon drone?

x 🚨 Russia is now fielding nuclear-tipped air-to-air missiles, per U.S. intel. Likely based on the R-37M, this Cold War-style weapon marks a rare and dangerous escalation in Moscow’s nuclear arsenal.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Poland continues to ramp up its defense spending.

x 🇵🇱 Poland wants to purchase 1,400 high-precision GBU-39 aerial bombs and nearly 800 missiles for Patriot air defense systems from the United States. The purchase of these bombs and missiles is preliminarily estimated at nearly $6 billion. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/pola...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) May 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM

Blah, blah, blah. Just do it already. And don’t forget Slovakia.

x 🇪🇺⛔️ A group of MEPs is calling for the full suspension of EU funding to Hungary, reports LRT. They argue it's unacceptable to support PM Orbán’s “corrupt, pro-Russian regime” that openly undermines EU values — urging an immediate halt to all payments using all available legal tools.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM

It’s pretty embarrassing that the EU has to bail out RFE.

x Radio Free Europe kept alive by EU after Trump freezes funding RFE/RL is still awaiting its May payment as it battles the Trump administration in court over a $75 million funding freeze.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/22/r...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Trump doesn’t give a shit about kidnapped Ukrainian children or the opinion of senators.

x US senators demand return of abducted Ukrainian children before any peace deal is reached. The bipartisan resolution declared that Russia’s systematic deportation of Ukrainian minors constitutes an attempt to “erase the Ukrainian nation and identity.”

euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/22/u...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM

There hasn't been a government program this funny since Gerald Ford’s WIN buttons.

x 🥔 Lukashenko advised everyone to plant potatoes to avoid problems: "And I advise even those who have not grown potatoes to do so. There is still time."



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM

How do you say misogyny in Russian?

Every life matters.

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