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Russian stuff blowing up: Mass prisoner swap begins [1]
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Date: 2025-05-23
The 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner swap has started with 270 military personnel and 120 civilians coming home. It will take place over three days.
x Latest: Ukraine and Russia begin biggest prisoner swap of the war.
Officials said 1,000 POWs – mostly military personnel – on each side will be swapped in 3 groups over 3 days. An official said Russia did not want to release high-profile prisoners.
www.ft.com/content/efd4... via @financialtimes.com
[image or embed] — Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) May 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
x Our boys are home! 270 POWs and 120 civilians have returned to Ukraine as part of the 1000-for-1000 exchange. The first stage of the prisoner exchange within the framework of the “1000-for-1000” agreement has just taken place. Photo: Zelensky/Official
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Russia reasserts its deep commitment to a lasting peace. 🙄🙄
x 🤡 Russia intends to "liberate" all of Ukraine, especially Russian speakers, from Zelensky's "junta," — Lavrov ▪️"There are millions of people in Ukraine who speak Russian, and leaving them under the rule of a junta that has banned even speaking Russian would be a very big crime." — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
x Lavrov called the suggestion to hold the talks between Russia&Ukraine in Vatican an "inelegant one" Earlier,Bloomberg also reported that Russia is not keen on holding talks in the Vatican:
▪️Italy is a signatory to the International Criminal Court,which issued an arrest warrant for Putin in 2023⤵️
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The Russian Church opposes the Vatican’s involvement in the peace talks,people with knowledge of the issue said. ▪️The Kremlin expects the negotiations to resume in Istanbul,one of the sources told Bloomberg.
Oh well.
Kondratyev is the deputy general director and chief designer at the company and was attacked in the city of Kurgan, which is southeast of Yekaterinburg and close to the Kazakhstan border.
x Andrey Kondratyev, the head of the Russian defense enterprise Kurganpribor, was attacked, Russian media outlets report. It is reported that on the evening of May 22, an unknown person struck Kondratyev on the head with a hammer as he was returning home. He was hospitalized in serious condition.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
x Law enforcement authorities are considering a version of the connection of the attack with Kondratyev's professional activities
Kurganpribor is an enterprise producing a wide range of items for the defense industry: ▪️ components for multiple launch rocket systems;
▪️ detonation mechanisms& devices; — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
▪️ a number of items included in various aircraft missiles; ▪️ percussion caps; ▪️ mine fuses; ▪️ component parts and fuses of aerial bombs; ▪️ component parts of engineering mines.
Oh well, Part 2
x Russian Tg channels report a helicopter crash in the area of a village in Oryol region of Russia about an hour ago.There is a fire&explosions at the crash site According to Russian Telegram channels,it might have been a military helicopter carrying ammunition.There are reports that both pilots died
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Burn it down.
The Battle of Tetkino continues.
x Over the last 24-hours, the AFU has held the initiative in the battle for #Tetkino in the Kursk region of Russia. Katsap attempts at counterassaults are being defeated with heavy artillery and FPV strikes. Also, verified reports are emerging of Russian security forces... #OSINT
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[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Also, verified reports are emerging of Russian security forces in the region actively arresting their own troops for looting civilian properties on Russian soil. "A free toilet is still a toilet," as they say in the mir.
Ukraine hits a Russian command center in Bakhmut.
x ⚡️💥 Forward Command and Control node of the enemy was hit, - General Staff On May 21, 2025, Air Force successfully struck the 3rd Army Corps Forward Command and Control in Bakhmut. This strike severely degrades the ability of Russia to plan and conduct operations in the Pokrovsk direction.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Russia has a breakthrough in the Pokrovsk area.
x Russian forces have broken through Ukrainian defenses near the Pokrovsk–Kostiantynivka highway. There’s still time to send reinforcements, but Ukraine’s only available reserves are in the Sumy region, where Russia is also advancing.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
[image or embed] — Meduza in English (@meduza.io) May 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Better start running.
Drones have been proliferating faster than spam emails. The swarms will only get larger.
x Before this war is over, we will see Ukraine attacking Russia with 1,000 drones on a near-daily basis.
Last night Ukraine launched over 500 drones. Tonight might be a similar story.
Lots of military-industrial targets are getting hit in Russia even if most drones get shot down. — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Russian channels report that due to drone threats the airports all the way to Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslav and even Kostroma had to be closed. Overall, air travel in at least 15 Russian regions, including Moscow, was disrupted by increased drone activity.
Russia used this new drone to attack Odesa.
x Russia launched a new, little-known strike drone in a morning attack on Odesa, says military expert Kovalenko. The drone, larger and more powerful than the "Lancet," flew deep into Odesa at 200m altitude and was previously undetected by Ukrainian air defenses.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A new Russian strategy being deployed.
x ‼️Russia is deploying a military strategy known as “triple chokehold” to grind down AFU troops, - The Telegraph Putin’s forces are launching ground assaults to pin troops down, then dropping mines from drones and calling in strikes to restrict movement before glide bombs target defensive positions.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This battery plant in Yelets was also targeted.
x Videos showing multiple unidentified UAV strikes and fires at the PJSC Energia battery production complex last night in Yelets, Lipetsk, Russia. OSINT
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A Hawk gets its prey.
They should have turned around and gone back.
WARNING: Video shows Russians getting drone-bombed. Also, the audio is annoying.
x Although barbed wire is not capable of stopping the advance of Russian infantry on its own, it does give time to react including to drone operators.
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Another 1,050 Russians who should have stayed home.
The South Korean model is the best of these options, but I don’t see a ceasefire by the end of July.
x ❗️🇺🇦 Ceasefire in Ukraine By The End Of July This Year, Georgia's Most Likely Scenario for the Country's Future, — JPMorganChase There are four most likely scenarios for the future of Ukraine:
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
▪️South Korean. Ukraine will not receive NATO membership or full restoration of territorial integrity, but European troops will be present on its territory. This will allow it to embark on a significantly more stable, rich and democratic path of development; ▪️Israeli. Ukraine will have strong and long-term military and economic support, but without a significant presence of foreign troops. Ukraine will be able to create its own deterrence mechanism, but the war will always be nearby; ▪️Georgian. Ukraine will not receive foreign troops or strong military support. External support will fade, the integration process with the West will stop and the country will return to the orbit of Russia's influence; ▪️Belarusian. The US will abandon its support for Ukraine, and Europe will not be able to fill this gap. Russia will strive for the complete capitulation of Ukraine and will effectively win the war, divide the West and irrevocably undermine the world order.
Zaluzhnyi is correct in this assessment. Short of some kind of cataclysmic event in Russia like a coup that deposes Putin or an economic collapse, Ukraine will not expel Russia from all of the occupied territory any time soon.
x ⚡️Ukraine can only wage a 'high-tech war of survival' against Russia, Zaluzhnyi says. Ukraine cannot expect to return Russian-occupied territories as long as Moscow has the resources to continue its war, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former commander-in-chief and current ambassador to the U.K., said on May 22.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"I hope there is no one left in this hall still waiting for a miracle — for some white swan to bring peace to Ukraine, restore the borders of 1991 or 2022, and after that there will be great happiness in Ukraine," said Zaluzhnyi.
Sadly, this is true.
x 🇨🇿 Czech President Petr Pavel recalled that only Ukraine and Russia today know how to use modern means of warfare. 🗣️ "If you ask me whether NATO is ready to conduct serious military operations, my answer will be: "With many limitations".
[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Dear Lindsey,
The next time you are on your knees groveling down at Mar-A-Lago, try explaining this to Trump.
x 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺"Russia is the problem, not Ukraine. Ukraine didn’t invade Russia; Russia invaded Ukraine. We need moral clarity on all these issues," - US Senator Lindsey Graham Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports.
[image or embed] — 24Hours Ukraine (@24hoursukraine.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Is Rubio going rogue?
x 🇺🇸 Rubio pushes daily for new Russia sanctions, hoping Congress passes the Graham bill with a veto-proof Senate majority to block any reset with Moscow, a source close to him told New Lines. Trump resists, despite privately admitting to EU leaders that Putin thinks he's winning the war.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’d get excited over this, but this will be the eighth such hearing.
x ⚡️Stripping Hungary's EU voting rights on agenda for May 27 meeting. The Council of the European Union will hold a hearing regarding the potential loss of Hungary's voting rights at a meeting on May 27, marking the eighth hearing regarding Budapest's alleged violations of founding EU principles.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The hammer should be dropped on this company.
x Here’s what we are reading today: A German tech company may have exported technology to Russia via Slovenia, Politico writes. This happened despite EU sanctions meant to block exports of advanced and dual-use tech to Russia.
[image or embed] — Tim Mak (@timkmak.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
From tulips to tunnels.
x 🇳🇱🤝🇺🇦 Dutch gardeners have donated nets to Ukraine for easier cultivation of bulb plants. These nets will be repurposed on the frontline to protect logistics routes from FPV drones.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Damn shame.
x Sergey Serebryakov, director of Kirov Tractor Plant, shared that the sale of construction equipment for a number of Russiaj industries - coal, oil, and construction - has dropped by 70%, and the industries themselves have been hit hard.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Rest in peace.
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