(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



Russian stuff blowing up: Russians mass for assault on Konstiantynivka [1]

['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.']

Date: 2025-05-29

Good riddance.

Gurtsiyev was a major in the Russian special forces and was deputy mayor of Stavropol.

The bomb was an IED in the backpack of the guy he had met on an online dating site and was meeting up with in person. Both were killed.

x Career ends for Russian SVO “veteran” Zaur Gurtsiyev — a key figure in Russia’s air campaign over Mariupol and Avdiivka. Born in North Ossetia and trained in St. Petersburg, Gurtsiyev led deadly airstrikes that killed thousands of civilians in Mariupol, actions now investigated as war crimes.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM

It isn’t clear from reports if this was a Ukrainian operation or whether the guy Gurtsiyev was meeting knew about the bomb.

x According to VChK-OGPU sources, Gurtsiyev was drawn into a scheme involving a homosexual honey trap. He met a man on a gay dating website, and they exchanged explicit photos. 2/4 — Anton Shekhovtsov (@shekhovtsov.substack.com) May 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM

The man was part of a set-up. When they eventually agreed to meet in person, he was given a device supposedly intended to record compromising material on Gurtsiyev. 3/4 But this, too, was a deception. The “equipment” was not for recording; it was a bomb. When the two met, the device detonated, killing both men. 4/4

Russia masses 60k troops in an effort to take Konstiantynivka.

An awful clash is imminent along the villages and fields south of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. An industrial town with a pre-war population of 67,000, Kostiantynivka is the last major settlement between the front line and Kramatorsk, a city of 147,000 buttressing the last line of Ukrainian defenses in Donetsk. Capturing Donetsk is one of Russia’s top objectives in its 39-month wider war on Ukraine. Holding Donetsk is one of Ukraine’s top objectives. Both sides are surging forces into the area around Kostiantynivka. The fighting is escalating. Casualties are piling up. And the worst is yet to come. “The occupiers are trying to advance toward Kostiantynivka,” the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade reported last week. In fact, they’ve been trying for weeks now. An assault by around 150 Russian motorcycle troops on the village of Yelyzavetivka in mid-April may have signaled the beginning of the Russian offensive. The 93rd Mechanized Brigade is one of no fewer than a dozen Ukrainian brigades—each with thousands of troops, thousands of drones, and hundreds of armored vehicles and howitzers—that have deployed battalions around the town.

x Ukraine sees what's coming: twelve of their best brigades now hold a 30-kilometer defensive arc around the town. The stage is set for one of the war's biggest battles. Next stop if Russia breaks through: Kramatorsk.❌ — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM

Another careless smoker.

x 🔥 Russia: Factory of the defense contractor Avangard is on fire in Saint Petersburg.

The company makes components for air defense systems.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Lots of Russian equipment and ammo going bavovna.

The biggest threat to Russian civilians is Russian air defense.

x Russian air defense in the Moscow region shoots down a drone over a residential area, causing it to crash onto a high-rise building.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM

Snip, snip.

Maybe he failed to pay off the right people. Or maybe he owes the wrong people money. Or maybe he was messing with someone’s wife.

Or maybe it is the consequence of a shitty harvest. Nah, can’t be that. This is Russia.

I especially like the drone that found an entire room built out of ammunition cases.

x 🔥🔥🔥 Ukrainian FPV drones on fiber optics destroy Russian equipment and ammunition hidden in hangars in the Toretsk direction.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM

It’s HIMARS o’clock.

x A HIMARS strike wiped out a Russian military facility in Korenevo, Kursk region — initially claimed as a hospital. The site was a permanent base for Russian troops involved in attacks on Sumy region.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Russia has been making some gains in the Sumy region and elsewhere.

x 🤬 The Russian army is advancing further in the Sumy region, — DeepState Judging by the gray zone, the Russians have begun an offensive in several more sections of the border, entered Vodolahy, Bilovody and Loknya, and also captured Basivka. The gray zone approached Oleksiivka and Yunakivka.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM

x ‼️ Russia is advancing at its fastest pace this month since November 2024: they captured an average of 5.5 square miles per day throughout May, — NYT and DeepState



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM

And Ukraine targeted a building full of Russians in Kursk.

x On May 29, a strike was carried out on a permanent deployment point of Russian troops in the village of Korenevo, in the Kursk region. Search efforts are ongoing under the rubble for dead Russian soldiers who took part in the assault on the Sumy region.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM

Switzerland is willing to sell tanks — as long as they are not used in a war.

x 🇨🇭 The Swiss federal government has permitted RUAG to sell 71 Leopard 1 tanks to Germany on condition that they are not transferred to Ukraine. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/swit...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) May 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Russia’s central bank economists should win the Nobel Prize for Economics for miraculously keeping the whole creaking Russian economy from imploding with a combination of begging, bullying and bullshit.

x The ruble is crashing. Inflation is rising. Russia says all is fine—but the numbers say civil unrest may be near. Prof. Prof. Volodymyr Lugovskyy warns: "This isn’t resilience—it’s controlled collapse." The truth behind Russia’s economic spiral: www.kyivpost.com/videos/53580



[image or embed] — Kyiv Post (@kyivpost.com) May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Where would Russia be without North Korea’s help?

x 🇰🇵❗️Yonhap: North Korea has supplied Russia with more than 20,000 containers worth of military supplies since September 2023. The shipments include 9 million rounds of artillery and multiple rocket launcher ammunition, 100+ ballistic missiles and 200+ heavy artillery pieces…



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM

Serbia has provided nearly $1 billion worth of ammunition to Ukraine.

x ⚡️ 'Shooting Russia in the back' — Serbian companies supplying ammunition to Ukraine, Moscow claims. "The Serbian defense industry is trying to shoot Russia in the back," Russian foreign intelligence (SVR) claimed.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM

his is one of many good ideas that are happening today but should have happened two years ago.

x 🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany intends to allocate funding to Ukraine to develop and serially produce cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/bild...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) May 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM

Russia’s newest drone is an older model that was used as a target.

x Russia launched a new jet-powered strike UAV, the "Dan-M," in an attack on Ukraine from Crimea. Originally a target drone for air defense training, it has been modified for strikes. The Dan-M has a flight time of 25–40 minutes, speeds of 400–750 km/h, and operates at altitudes up to 9 km.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 5:49 AM

Ukraine’s newest anti-drone device

These might be effective at killing Russians, but they will cause problems for many years.

x 🇺🇦🦅👀 Samples of mine camouflage—disguising mines as dirt piles or tree parts—are being dropped by Ukrainian drones on frontline roads and fields.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM

This guy should stay out of tall buildings with flimsy window latches.

x "If you were the Russian authorities, what would you do for victory?"

"I would stop the war altogether." Russian "Z-blogger" Maksim Kalashnikov went to the frontline in Russia's Kursk region&interviewed a Russian officer who said that the war must be stopped,it makes no sense



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM

Russia can’t grow enough potatoes but they can reverse aging.

x 😂 HIGHLY BELIEVABLE News from a country facing a potato shortage: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova declared that in less than 5 years Russian scientists plan to develop drugs that will reverse aging by restoring aging cells.

🔽



[image or embed] — Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Speaking of potatoes, Lukashenko seeks to lead the world’s potato cartel.

x 🥔 Russian Potato Shortage Saga continues - Lukashenko to the rescue, but at a price! 😁 While the ‘Great and Powerful Pu’ already has to bow down to Kim Jong Un to get weapons, it looks like he’ll have to do the same to get some potatoes for his nuclear superpower of a country.



[image or embed] — Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM

North Korea and Iran should also be banned from international sports competitions.

Here’s an Odometer of Death tally that attempts to explain the lower numbers. No tanks this time.

x The Ukrainian claims of damaged/destroyed Russian equipment continue to be down a lot on most days. IMO, it is now a clear sign of a Russian policy of not using AFVs in most most assaults. What isnt clear are the reasons for that policy change.



[image or embed] — Jakub Janovsky (@rebel44cz.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM

The guy in the video wonders if all those bodies being cremated 24/7 are placed in urns.

I’m going to guess the ashes get dumped in a landfill.

x "The crematorium works around the clock.The stench of burning bodies hangs over the district.Who is being burned at night at such a terrible speed that the pipes are red-hot?" Residents of the Russian Rostov region complain on the crematorium. Putin's "SMO" is going according to plan



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Refusing to quit.

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/29/2324837/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russians-mass-for-assault-on-Konstiantynivka?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web

Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.