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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian assault on Kyiv leaves more than a dozen dead [1]

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Date: 2025-06-17

Russia unleashed a vicious assault on Kyiv and Odesa. At least 15 are dead — 1 in Odesa and the rest in Kyiv. One of the dead is an American.

x 💔 The number of injured in Kyiv due to massive attack has increased to 139. There are also 15 known deaths.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM

x Ukrainian parents sitting in front of a partially collapsed 14-floor-building in Kyiv They are waiting for news about their son, who is missing under the rubble 17 civilians were killed & 114 wounded by the 200 Russian drones & missiles fired at the city



[image or embed] — Tata Tedoradze🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@tatatedoradze.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM

x "We tried calling him, but he’s unreachable... But… I’m hoping for a miracle..." Kyiv resident hopes for her dad to be found under the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike. In Kyiv, it is already known about 139 injured.15 people were killed.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM

x The Kyiv's multi-story apartment building hit by Russian ballistic missile this night was attacked again by drones to kill the UA rescuers

via @lavrovskyi.bsky.social



[image or embed] — Moskva 121 is DONE 🇺🇦 (@moskva-121-is-done.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM

This is from Odesa.

x In #Odesa, an inclusive resource center that provided services to thousands of children with disabilities was destroyed by the Russian attack. Two animals participating in canine therapy (a method of treatment and rehabilitation using specially trained dogs) were killed as a result of the shelling.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM

This goes on virtually every day. And yet the ICC has not issued any indictments for killing civilians. What are they waiting for?

x Images of Russian brutality emerging from Kyiv and Odesa, where at least 15 people were killed and more than 130 injured in a relentless, all-night missile and drone attack. 🎥: via Andriy Yermak/Telegram



[image or embed] — Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) June 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM

x ⚡️Cluster munitions used in overnight Russian strike on Ukraine, Kyiv mayor says. "On the capital's Nyvky neighborhood, emergency workers are now finding these kinds of cluster munition parts," Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a statement.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) June 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM

Speaking of war crimes.

x ☢️‼️ The Russians have been poisoning Ukrainian military personnel with chemical weapons in the Siversk direction for three weeks in a row, — press service of the "Rubizh" brigade NGU



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM

Is there such a thing as a zombie brigade?

x 1/ A single Russian brigade has lost more than 12,000 men – more than five times its authorised strength. Its soldiers say they are subjected to violence, abuse, torture and robbery by their own commanders, who throw them into bloody attacks where thousands die. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM

2/ The 15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade is based in the Samara region, but recruits from across Russia. Personnel from at least 77 regions have been listed as missing or dead, with the largest number being from the Volga Federal District and the Astrakhan region. 3/ At least 12,689 soldiers from the 15th Brigade have been listed as missing or killed in social media posts. At least 7,436 were killed, and another 5,253 are reported to be missing. This contrasts with a normal peacetime establishment of around 2,000 personnel. ... 7/ A soldier called Vladimir Zaitsev spoke about the brigade's losses in a May 2024 video. "No one from our company survived. Everyone died ... My first day, February 29th, I arrived here. We immediately went to the front line, where I spent three days." 8/ "I got fucked up by a blast wave from a mortar. I also got a concussion. And the boys were all lost. There is no one alive. 9/ "If I’m sent [to the front line], then my chances are 50/50 [for survival], because we are sent simply for meat. No-one returns alive, no-one is left. Those who are in the unit are [temporarily alive], and the rest are among the 200s [dead]. 10/ "Someone is running away to the 500s [deserting], I would run away myself, but I can’t, because they will 'zero' me, that is, they will shoot me."

A Russian tanker burns in the Gulf of Oman after being rammed.

x The tanker „Adalyn“ is burning in the Gulf of Oman after being rammed by the tanker „Front Eagle“. What is interesting is that the Adalyn is part of Russia‘s shadow fleet.



[image or embed] — (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM

More drones make their debut in Ukraine.

x 🕹️ Thanks to Taras-P interceptors, Ukrainian forces have successfully taken down 258 high-value Russian drones. The Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation reports that seventeen units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces are now equipped with these advanced interceptors. militarnyi.com/en/news/tara...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) June 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM

x 📌 Ukraine’s military has been armed with a new MV-25 OSKAR French loitering munition of the MATARIS line. KNDS France reported that the drone has already received positive feedback from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 👉🏻 Find out more: militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) June 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM

The Potato Paucity in Belarus has brought out Lukashenko’s sympathy for the people.

x ‼️ Belarus Potato update: “Amid a potato shortage in Belarus, the country's President Alexander Lukashenko called on citizens "not to howl" and to tend their own gardens. He also addressed the youth and told them that potatoes "don't grow on the Internet."” www.kommersant.ru/doc/7800508



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM

Someone woke up and smelled the coffee.

What are the odds this new batch of personnel from the Stalinist paradise end up being thrown into the meat grinder?

x 🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un has decided to send 1,000 sappers and 5,000 military construction personnel to assist in the reconstruction of Russia’s Kursk region, according to secretary of the Security Council Sergey Shoigu during his visit to North Korea.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) June 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM

Remember that North Korean ship that was being launched and ended up getting damaged?

x DPRK has ceremonially commissioned the second "5,000 tonne multipurpose destroyer" in an event held in Rason at Rajin Shipyard. The destroyer got towed to this dock for repairs after its capsizing on the slipway in May. The hull appears superficially intact.

Via 琴石2022/Wb.



[image or embed] — Alex Luck (@alxluck.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM

Apparently the guilty have been identified.

Russia loses another 1,060.

A Russian soldier makes the smart decision. He might just live to play with his grandchildren one day.

x 👀 A Russian soldier surrenders to a drone of the 63rd Brigade. 🇺🇦 Just before surrendering, he showed the drone's camera a leaflet calling for surrender, which Ukrainian fighters had recently scattered around the area.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM

This Ukrainian unit made a highly questionable decision to form its own motorcycle assault group.

x Ukraine’s new bike unit mirrors Russia’s dumbest suicidal tactic — and that’s a strategic problem Ukraine’s new bike unit adopts a Russian-style tactic: fast, deadly, and often doomed. It’s a gamble Kyiv may not be able to afford. euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/15/u... — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM

But Ukraine doesn’t have a durable manpower surplus. So it’s worth questioning the decision by one elite Ukrainian unit to form its own motorcycle assault group. The 425th Separate Assault Regiment organized its bike company, the first in the Ukrainian armed forces, last month. “During the training, the fighters spent hundreds of hours behind the wheel and practiced shooting in motion, firing thousands of rounds,” the regiment announced. “As a result, we have a modern cavalry whose main task is to rapidly break into enemy positions, carry out assault actions and quickly change the direction of strike.” But can the regiment afford to lose almost all the bike troops it sends into battle? And will the Ukrainian people accept the loss of life?

While the Russians lose a lot of troops in these assaults, they do sometimes work.

The thinking behind the Russian bike attacks is perverse, but not insane. “It involves heavy losses, but it still has certain results,” the Ukrainian Peaky Blinders drone unit explained. “For example, 20 motorcycles are going, some of them are destroyed by artillery, some by drones, someone is eliminated by mining and our infantry will get someone in a gun battle. But several motorcycles still have a chance to jump into the landing.” It only takes a few infiltrating Russian troops to create a lodgement inside Ukrainian lines—one that can grow into a larger breach. In deploying large numbers of bike troops, Russian commanders are playing the odds—and betting that a few will eventually ride unscathed past Ukrainian mines, drones and artillery.

Russia has been trying to erase Crimean Tatar culture for many, many years.

x russia is actively destroying Bakhchisaray Palace – the only surviving example of #CrimeanTatar palace architecture – under the guise of "restoration." They want to hide their crimes and erase the cultural heritage of indigenous people on a land where they are foreign occupiers.



[image or embed] — Lina from Crimea (@linafromcrimea.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM

They burned our libraries, they defiled our language, they paved their foreign architecture on the peninsula with the gravestones of our ancestors. They destroy everything that is ours, just to say we never existed here.

Rest in peace.

x A Ukrainian story Dmytro Shapovalov survived the front and over a year in Russian captivity marked by torture & hunger. He returned to duty, saying he knew what he had to do. On 9 June, he died in his sleep. This is what Russian captivity does to Ukrainians. 📷 Anastasiia, sister



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM

x I’ve just read that Ukrainian monumental and decorative artist Mykhailo Klymchenko was killed while defending Ukraine. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture, 208 artists have been killed since the start of the full-scale invasion. 📸 Stained glass window and mosaic by Mykhailo Klymchenko



[image or embed] — Yaroslava Antipina (@strategywoman.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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