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Russian stuff blowing up: Reports claim Russia has lost a bomber in Africa [1]

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Date: 2025-06-14

Russia has reportedly lost another bomber. This one happened in Mali in West Africa.

x 👀 In Mali, a combat aircraft returning from a combat mission crashed near the Gao River. Reportedly, the plane was identified as a Russian Su-24. 📹: Jean Baptiste Zongo/X



[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) June 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Ukraine targets plants that produce explosives and fuel, including one of Russia’s largest chemical plants.

x ✅ The Ukrainian General Staff confirms strikes on Russian explosive manufacturing facilities.

Targets included the NNK plant in Samara region and the Nevinnomyssk plant in Stavropol Krai — both key producers of explosive components, munitions, and rocket fuel.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) June 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM

Hammer time

There was another prisoner exchange today.

x Good news: A fourth prisoner exchange in one week has taken place, President Zelensky announced.

Among those freed today are soldiers of the Armed Forces, National Guard, border guards, and transport unit fighters — many held captive since 2022.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) June 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM

x 🇺🇦💔 This is a Ukrainian soldier originally from Slovyansk, Donetsk region, who was returned to Ukraine during today's exchange. In captivity, the Russians took away his finger, "justifying" it by saying that "he no longer needed it."



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM

Meanwhile, a Russian prisoner is reassured that he won’t be tortured or shot.

x We are not you,” said a National Guardsman from the 12th Azov Brigade, responding to a Russian POW who feared execution after surrendering. This fear, fueled by Kremlin propaganda and the justice that awaits those guilty of war crimes.



[image or embed] — Shaun Pinner (@olddogua.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM

This Russian journalist seems shocked that Russians in the army would sell information to Ukraine.

x 1/ Corrupt Russian officers are suspected to be selling information to Ukraine, contributing to the destruction of high-value assets such as this Iskander missile launcher, according to a Russian journalist. ⬇️

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[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM

2/ On 5 June, Ukraine destroyed an Iskander ballistic missile launcher and its rockets. According to Russian journalist Maxim Kalashnikov, the launcher was destroyed and 8 personnel from the 26th Missile Brigade (military unit 54006) were killed. 3/ Kalashnikov says that “the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine [are working] to actually knock out our operational-tactical missile units, those same Iskanders. They started hunting them.” 4/ He says that the Ukrainians appeared to know the effects of the attack very quickly, including accurate knowledge of casualties. He suggests that the Ukrainians are using AI. Many Russian military personnel also believe that their headquarters has been infiltrated: 5/ “They know everything, the other side, you can even see, names, surnames, photographs, well, there is definitely betrayal going on: someone from here is leaking everything to Ukrainian intelligence, apparently for money.” 6/ However, he says, corruption is so ingrained in the army that Russian military counterintelligence is unable to deal with it: “Military counterintelligence cannot cope with the fact that some commanders there… 7/ ...we will not point fingers, are actually trading in collected humanitarian aid, they are scheming with prohibited substances, they have established a system of collecting or extorting money from people, for everything you need to hand over money.”

Iran suddenly realizes it needs all that stuff it has been sending to Russia.

x 🚨🧵 Iran is reportedly suspending all weapons supplies to Russia.

Although Iranian Shahed drone components are now largely manufactured domestically in Russia, powerplants were still being imported from Iran in significant numbers: Mado MD-550 piston engines & Tolue micro-jet.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM

x During an Israeli airstrike on Iran, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, was reportedly killed. This general was directly involved in the transfer of Shahed drones to Russia and sanctioned for it. Good riddance.



[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM

War criminal Girkin writes from his prison that the Russian summer offensive is FUBAR.

x 1/ The imprisoned Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin has given a gloomy prediction of the likelihood of Russian success in the Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine. They're well-defended by the Ukrainians, he says, while Russia has insufficient forces to capture them. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM

2/ Girkin writes: "The offensive in the Sumy region had been in preparation for a long time. The enemy knew about it very well, the enemy began building defensive structures against this supposed offensive several months ago, built several defensive lines to the east of Sumy." 3/ "And now they are already reporting construction to the west – well, apparently because everything they could build to the east has already been built. The distance from the front line to Sumy is now about 20-25 km. 4/ "From the border, in principle, also a little more than 30 km. Therefore, the depth of our advance in several days of the offensive, let's say, is not very impressive for week-long battles. 5/ "Once again, we are performing a remarkable "example of our military art": firstly, we attack where the enemy is waiting for us; secondly, he has prepared there; thirdly, we attack exactly when the enemy is waiting for us;… 6/ "...fourthly, we have not collected enough forces for this operation. Therefore, unfortunately, my forecast for this offensive is negative. 7/ "I consider the probability that we will take Sumy as minimal. The probability that we will come close to them - well, it may be, but nothing more.

Whoever ordered this strike deserves to end up in Kryazhskoye cemetery (see below).

More video of that Russian Su-25 that crashed either from friendly fire or shitty maintenance.

Another 1,130 Russians and 3 tanks.

I realize that Transnistria is a complicated and touchy problem for Moldova, but enough is enough.

x 🇲🇩⚠️ Sandu reported on Russia’s attempts to destabilize the situation in Transnistria before the elections in Moldova. “All these years, Russia has been using the residents of Transnistria and at any moment can provoke an even greater crisis if this suits its plans in Moldova," she said.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM

Lukashenko blinks.

x 🇺🇦🥔 "Lukashenko is already afraid and will move the training away from the border of Ukraine. He understands that after our steps in the Kursk direction, if we feel a threat, we will react accordingly," — Zelensky.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM

Remember that guy with the Putin T-shirt screaming in outrage in a video about a Russian military cemetery covered with raw sewage?

Well, Russia now promises to fix it.

x “This is Kryazhskoye cemetery, all flooded with feces.That's how you value your ancestors,huh?" Russian,wearing a T-shirt with Putin,showing that the cemetery of Great Patriotic War veterans in Samara is flooded with sewage.Reportedly,it was only after his tantrum that officials promised to fix it



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM

Gaslighting at this extreme level often occurs following mass consumption of hallucinogenic substances.

This link to the Google Docs spreadsheet reveals how many of each tank is left in decent shape or shitty condition. This rates tanks as either Decent, Poor or Worse. There are no T-80 or T-90s rated as Decent.

x The latest sat pics confirmed 4000 russian tanks removed from storage. T-80 is close to extinct. Details about bases, types and conditions are in the spreadsheet by @ jonpy99 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...



[image or embed] — Sven-Erik Volberg (@volberg.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM

Putin is so full of shit it’s oozing out of his ears.

Kombat kitten rescued in Zaporizhzhia.

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