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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian rail infrastructure goes up in smoke [1]

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Date: 2025-05-31

Ukraine strikes a plant in Tula that produces rockets for MLRS systems. This attack was on May 22.

Ah, the pungent odor of burning rubber.

Train in vain.

Irkutsk is in Russia’s Far Eastern area.

x 🔥 Major Fire at Locomotive Depot in Irkutsk Region Taishet Locomotive Depot (Паровозное депо – Тайшетская история), a critical railway facility for maintaining and repairing rolling stock in eastern Russia. 📍Taishet, Irkutsk Oblast 55.930356, 98.021577

🚒 Response: 16 rescuers, 7 fire units



[image or embed] — Radio&Nukes (@radioandnukes.teamosint.social) May 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Speaking of burning rail yards.

Bavovna.

x 🔥✊ The 414th Brigade "Birds of Magyar" showed what a complex use of different types of drones is - some scout where Russian equipment is hidden, while others turn it into scrap metal.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM

Nice video of a Ukrainian helicopter launching rockets.

If your business is drones and you aren’t in Ukraine, you are missing out.

Fiber optic lines from drones cover a field.

Two weeks. It’ll be ready in two weeks.

x ⚡️ Zelensky doubts June 2 talks will yield results as Russia withholds ceasefire plan. "The Russians have been unable to present the so-called 'memorandum' for over a week," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Russia will think about a ceasefire if Ukraine disarms.

x ⚡️ Russia may 'consider' ceasefire if Ukraine stops mobilization, arms deliveries, ambassador says Russia's envoy to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, pledged that Moscow would "continue and intensify military operations for as long as necessary."



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM

Reliably taking out Shaheds would be a big step forward.

x ⚡️The Czech company TRL Drones has created two types of autonomous interceptor drones to counter Shahed-type drones, which can automatically take off, fly to the target, and automatically hit the target. militarnyi.com/en/news/trl-...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) May 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM

Further proof that this is the Drone War.

x ⚡️Over 89,000 Russian targets struck in May using drones, Ukraine's commander claims. Ukrainian soldiers hit and destroyed in May more than 89,000 Russian targets using drones of various types, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on May 30.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) May 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM

There is a new documentary about to be released called Kherson: Human Safari. This is the trailer for that.

x YouTube Video

Another 1,250 Russians, 54 artillery systems and 2 tanks.

Too bad. Take the bus.

x Russia's largest domestic airline has begun canceling flights due to a lack of spare parts for airliners. S7 Airlines has canceled direct flights from Novokuznetsk to Moscow and on a number of other routes due to problems with the delivery of spare parts for its aircraft



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM

China continues to insist it isn’t providing military aid to Russia.

x 🇷🇺📹 Russian sources have released footage showing the use of the Chinese Low-Altitude Laser Defending System (LASS) to shoot down Ukrainian drones in the combat zone. These appear to be the first documented visuals of the Chinese laser system in operational use in Ukraine.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) May 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM

Russia turns a Scooby van into a helicopter.

Russia can’t even be trusted to be straight with a prisoner exchange.

x Russia manipulates prisoner exchanges by returning Ukrainians trapped in deportation centers for ordinary crimes instead of war prisoners — Suspilne News.

⤵️ 📷Suspilne



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM

Multiple returnees reported that Russian authorities offered them enlistment in the Russian military in exchange for release and citizenship. They refused and now some of them express interest in joining the Ukrainian army instead. "They [Russians] kidnapped these people to trade with them. Previously, deportation of this category of people happened through Georgia. Now an order was given from above to hold them to use them like this," said the head of the organization "Protection of Prisoners of Ukraine" Oleh Tsvilyy.

Remember the video from a few days ago of a Russian soldier who was just sitting still in a field while a drone hovered over him before killing him?

Well, that’s apparently a big thing now for the pro-Putinists who cry and whine that it was a war crime.

Sorry, not sorry. He was a soldier fighting for the invading army. He was a legit target.

x Every russian invader deserves an FPV drone into their face for all that they have done, and are doing to my people. And they are doing a lot. It is documented, it is reported, it is proven. Truth doesn't care, it just is, no matter how much empathy for russians you have. #Ukraine #UkrainianView — Roman Yeremenko (@roalyr.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM

Rest in peace.

x Shan-Le Kearns, a 26-year-old volunteer from New Zealand, died defending Ukraine. His death was confirmed by family. They said Shan-Le wasn't on the front line but had been trained in combat when he arrived there so he could help rescue those who were injured on the battlefield.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Life in Kharkiv

x A writing on the wall of a cafe in Kharkiv.

Our current life is in those four lines written by Vitalii Lisovytskyy: "Put on your warmest pants,

Or your feet will get cold in the shelter.

I have loved you long before the war,

And I'll say that on Victory Day."



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM

Last bell.

Another wartime school year comes to a close.

This is a very moving video.

x Today was the last day of school in many Ukrainian schools. The childhood of many #Ukrainian kids is very different from their peers in other countries. This video gives a glimpse of their experiences.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM

x Just school kids in Kyiv, Ukraine, dancing their prom waltz in the very heart of the city. Just days after massive Russian drone and missiles attacks on Kyiv.



[image or embed] — Margo Gontar (@margogontar.bsky.social) May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM

x In Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr Obl, graduates marked the Last Bell not with dances but with mourning.

Three siblings killed in a Russian strike were buried the day before. Classmates brought cake, toys, postcards to their graves.

This year, there were no waltzes, no applause - only silence and tears.



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM

He didn’t bring any clothes or mementos, but he made sure he brought his dog.

x This grandfather's name is Anatolii, and he was evacuated from the village of Myropillia, #Sumy region, two kilometers from the Russian border. Anatolii did not take any belongings with him at all, he only took his pregnant dog Dana. 📹: Kordon Media



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) May 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM

Happy birthday. He’ll remember this one for the rest of his life.

x No one will wish you a happy birthday more sincerely than a comrade who went through hell with you in the war.



Soldier, may you celebrate your birthday at home healthy and happy! 💙💛





[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) May 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM

Taking big risks to rescue a dog.

The music goes on. This is from the western city of Lviv.

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