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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine shoots down a Russian Su-35 over Kursk [1]
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Date: 2025-06-07
Ukraine shot down a Russian Su-35 over the Kursk area. The pilot was reported to have been rescued.
Ukrainian drones strike this facility in Kstovo. There is some dispute as to whether it is a refinery or a bitumen plant.
Kstovo is a town 450 km east of Moscow.
x Russian Telegram channels report a drone attack, subsequent explosion and fire at Lukoil oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. Let's try and get closer, the person filming in the first video tells someone near them.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
x 1/2
#RussiaOnFire I've been checking out this fire in Kstovo in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and while it's impressive, I don't think it's a hit on a refinery. There were Ukraine drones flying around the time the fire broke out, but this is a bitumen-producing factory ablaze.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This warehouse for drone parts was also attacked.
Speaking of drone parts.
I wonder if those wooden circuit boards worked.
Another careless smoker.
A Switchblade drone takes out a Russian air-defense system.
The latest anti-drone device — scissors.
Russia launched 53 Shaheds at Kharkiv overnight.
x Kharkiv faced its deadliest airstrike since the full-scale war began. Russia launched 53 Shahed drones, 4 KABs, and a missile overnight, killing 3 and injuring 21, including a 1.5-month-old baby and a 14-year-old girl. 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes damaged. — Mayor Terekhov
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Russian tanks are easy prey. Took several hits but they eventually went bavovna.
Four Russians who chose poorly.
x A Ukrainian special ops team carried out a raid in Russia’s Kursk region, taking out four Russian soldiers and capturing another alive.
Full video: t.me/wartranslate...
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Another 1,120 Russians on the road to a million, plus 15 tanks.
Russia can’t even follow rules when it comes to exchanging the dead.
x Today was supposed to see more POWs released, but Ukraine's govt accuses Russia of reneging on the deal. 500 young/wounded soldiers are supposed to be handed over by both sides, as agreed in Istanbul, but Kyiv says Russia's list "doesn't correspond to the agreed approach." — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
x Russia releases footage of alleged refrigerated trucks with Ukrainian soldiers' bodies at the border for repatriation, manipulating this topic in its info space. Ukraine’s Coordination Center says Russia’s unilateral actions, bringing bodies to the border for exchange, violate agreed protocols.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Unfortunately the range on this won’t reach Moscow, which is about 850 km from the Ukrainian border. But it should be difficult for Russia to defend against it.
x A new Ukrainian ballistic missile successfully passed tests in May, covering nearly 300 km and destroying a Russian command post, says military expert Badrak. The missile is now entering serial production, featuring a warhead weighing over 400 kg—significantly more powerful than comparable systems.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) June 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Russia is getting dangerously close to Sumy.
x ⚡️ In the Khotyn region, Russia managed to reach a distance of 20km from Sumy, so over time we can expect FPV drone strikes on the city, — DeepState. ❗️The main resource of the Russians is the overwhelming number of infantry, which is simply does not end.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
x ❗️Some categories of the population of the city of Sumy should consider evacuating to safer regions, — former speaker of the General Staff Seleznev ⚠️ The situation for Sumy is already very difficult, because the enemy is actively attack the city.
[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
New video from Operation Spiderweb shows a drone’s flight from truck-top launch to hitting a Tu-22 bomber.
x Here's a Ukrainian drone's complete journey from truck launch to striking a Russian bomber. The footage captures an FPV drone taking off from a wooden building roof and flying a long distance before hitting a Tu-22M3 aircraft at Russia's Belaya airfield.
⤵️ 📹SBU
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Good riddance.
Remember that item from yesterday about Kazakhstan and the UK signing an agreement for military cooperation?
x Russian Z-bloggers are fuming over Kazakhstan’s “betrayal” after it signed a 2025-2026 military cooperation plan with the UK. Kazakh troops will train in British military schools, learn English, and prepare for “peacekeeping missions.” This, despite Kazakhstan’s membership in the Russia-led CSTO.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s easy to dismiss this kind of talk as crazy, but Russian media is eaten up with this kind of delusional thinking that all-powerful Russia can nuke anything and everything with impunity and march all the way to Lisbon.
x 1/ Russian warbloggers are advocating various ways of taking revenge on Ukraine, but Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist and propagandist Dmitry Steshin has proposed an option which even the warbloggers aren't sure about: nuking Chornobyl. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Hmmm. 🤔🤔 How could this have happened?
Sabotage in Sweden.
x ❗️In 🇸🇪Sweden, unknown persons damaged more than 30 communication towers In all cases, the attackers cut the cables and damaged important elements, without stealing any equipment.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Trump blames Ukraine again and tries to water down the Senate’s sanctions bill.
x Trump says Ukraine gave Russia a reason to "go in and bomb the hell out of them" with its attacks on Russian military airfields.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
x ⚡️'Putin is a murderer' — Zelensky rejects Trump's claim that Russia, Ukraine are like 'kids'. President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s comparison of Russia’s war against Ukraine to “children fighting in a park." kyivindependent.com/zelensky-ref...
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) June 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
x White House quietly pressures Senate to ease Russia sanctions, per WSJ. Trump’s team urges Sen. Graham to soften his bill, prioritizing Moscow ties over Ukraine invasion punishment. Aides say they’re pushing to change “shall” to “may.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A group of Russian soldiers fragged their commander and deserted. I am not embedding the Bluesky post because it includes photos of the dead bodies, but you can see it at the link.
One of the worst jobs in the Russian Army is evacuating the dead/wounded.
This guy who eventually deserted, talks about looting the dead and how evacuators themselves died at a high rate.
x 1/ A Russian deserter has described how Russian evacuation teams loot bodies for items to trade for alcohol and leave the wounded to die. He had most of his teeth pulled out to force him to join a stormtrooper squad, after which he deserted and fled to Germany. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
2/ 34-year-old Anton Shirshin says he was forced by the Russian police to sign a military contract after he crashed his car and ended up with a 200,000 ruble ($2,500) debt which he couldn't pay off. Despite being rated unfit for service, he was told that if he could walk he was fit to fight. 3/ Shirshin was sent for a week of 'training', consisting of firing two clips from an automatic rifle, before he was sent to the front. His commander decided he would be more of a danger with a weapon to his own side than to the enemy and assigned him to evacuation duty instead. 4/ Evacuation teams recover the dead and wounded, but have to perform gruelling work at very high risk to themselves. In many areas of the front, constant drone attacks have made evacuation of the wounded nearly impossible. A serious or immobilising wound often means death. 5/ The evacuators worked in two teams of six people. Every night they had to travel 5-6 km each way between the dugouts and the front line, with one stretcher between them. They made two trips per night for a total distance of 20-24 km, carrying bodies and injured men. …. 8/ "If a drone flew in or a mortar attack started, we would simply scatter in different directions, abandoning the stretchers," Shirshin says. "And when it was all over, the one we were carrying was no longer there." 9/ "Either a grenade dropped by a drone killed him, or a mortar attack. Then we would simply take the stretcher and leave, saying on the radio that we were going empty-handed. It was absolutely necessary to take the stretcher, no one would give us any replacements. …. 11/ Shirshin says that looting the dead is commonplace, with their weapons being smuggled off the battlefield to be traded for illicit moonshine alcohol. (The weapons are likely being sold on to criminals.) The evacuators keep other items for themselves. 12/ According to Shirshin, the exchange rate is one weapon for one and a half litres of moonshine. Corpses are preferred for weapons smuggling, as you can only fit one assault rifle under a wounded man but can hide two under a dead body. 13/ The turnover among the evacuators was high, due to the constant threat of drones. They lived a nocturnal existence, sleeping all day in a cellar and going out at night. They often had to carry back the corpses of their fellow evacuators who had been killed the night before. …. 18/ Some of the team decided to cripple themselves so that they would be sent home. One man detonated a grenade fuse in his hand to blow off his fingers, but was taken away for punishment when the grenade ring was found, probably being sent to his death in an assault squad. 19/ Shirshin looted a vial of painkiller – a prized find – from a corpse and injected himself with it before deliberately stepping on a PFM-1 anti-personnel mine. It didn't detonate, despite him jumping up and down on it. Other men shot themselves to escape from the front line.
This guy is Egyptian and was at a university in Volgorod with a young wife when he decided to join the Russian Army .
He thought he was a bad ass.
x YouTube Video
Would you buy a used car from this man?
x 🇵🇱🇺🇦❗️Poland's President-elect Nawrocki: I oppose Ukraine’s accession to the EU at this moment. However, I recognize that we need to support Ukraine from a strategic and geopolitical point of view.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Rest in peace.
x Polish journalist Krzysztof Gorzelak, founder of Nasze Kielce, was killed fighting for Ukraine. He was 45. He leaves behind his parents, brother, and daughter. Known for exposing abuses of power, he will be buried in Ukraine. Photo: rmf24.pl
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
x 🙏 The head of the children's railway in Kharkiv, where an air bomb landed today, died: she was appointed to the position only 2 weeks ago, — UZ. ❗️Meanwhile, more than 40 people have been injured in Kharkiv, — Zelensky.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Dad’s home.
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