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Russian stuff blowing up: Death toll in attack on Kyiv rises to 28 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-18
A Russian tank blows up with style.
Makes you wonder if they saw the drones coming.
x Strike drones from the 413rd Battalion of the Special Purpose Service critically damaged a rare and expensive Russian "Yastreb-AV" radar system in Donetsk region. Most sources cite a cost of approximately $250 million per system.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
That was a close one.
Russians see a drone diving at their buggy and bug out.
A Russian armored column gets chewed up.
x Today, in the direction of Kostyantynivka, Russians attempted an unusually large-scale mechanized assault, which is not typical nowadays. As a result, Russians lost 15 units of heavy equipment. t.me/Zigun_Mangus...
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Russian drones hit a market in Zaporizhzhia.
x Surveillance cameras recorded six UAV strikes on market stalls in Zaporizhzhia.
According to Russia, these are probably also considered part of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
On the plus side, Zelenskyy didn’t have to sit and listen to any of Trump’s bullshit.
x 🇺🇦🚫🇺🇸 Ukraine is in trouble after Trump left the G7 summit without meeting Zelensky, — The Guardian. The Ukrainian delegation was left disappointed and even embittered by the fact that Trump did not make Ukraine a priority at the summit.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The death toll from yesterday’s blitz on Kyiv has risen to 28, including the young man whose parents maintained a vigil hoping for his rescue.
x The body of a young man was recovered from the rubble of a building in Kyiv. His parents had been hoping he would be rescued. The parents stayed by the ruins the entire time, waiting for news. Russia is a terrorist state.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
x 💔 "He adored mountains": details about Kyiv student killed in Russian attack; parents waited for him at ruins of their home
[image or embed] — Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 (@pravda.ua) June 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
x Did I show you the ukrainian SES rescue dogs that help search for people under the rubble
[image or embed] — Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The corgi is named Elton, his vest says “search for the dead”
Ukraine makes big leaps in long-range drone development.
x Ukraine develops cheaper bomber drones that devastate 4x more Russian targets. Ukraine uses newly-developed Batyar-S and B-1 drones for deep strikes on Russian military factories, airbases and key logistical routes.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/18/f... — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Recently, Ukrainians presented the new Batyar-S strike drone, which resembles the Russian Shahed and Geranium strike drones, but only on the outside. Designed from scratch, the new Ukrainian drone has an effective flight range of over 800 kilometers (497 miles) while carrying an 18-kilogram explosive warhead. Additionally, the drone is lighter than Shahed, weighing only 60 kilograms, which allows the Ukrainians to deploy it using trucks as launch platforms, making it easy to quickly and efficiently deploy it for any strikes. On top of that, it features superior optical systems that analyze landscapes and terrain in real-time, combining them with satellite footage to adjust its flight trajectory towards the target, and stay as low as possible to evade radar detection and air defenses. However, one of its biggest advantages is that the Batyar-S drone costs approximately 4 times less than the Ukrainian strike drones currently in use, meaning that Ukrainians will be able to produce four times as many drones and strike 4 times the targets. As the Ukrainians focus their development on drone technology for various purposes, they have also developed a new bomber drone, the B-1. B-1 drones are ultralight bomber drones designed to destroy concentrations of manpower, trucks, armored vehicles, and military strongholds on the frontline and in the rear. Bomber drones are designed to carry repurposed drone-droppable hand grenades, artillery shells, or other explosives on Russian positions as they fly over their target. The light weight of the drone and its low-noise engine allow it to fly towards Russian lines almost unnoticed, while the drone itself can stay in the air for several hours. Early frontline reports suggest the drone is extremely resilient against Russian electronic warfare, making it a deadly precision weapon that can hit targets far beyond the range of pre-existing Ukrainian bomber drones like the Vampire hexacopter, already nicknamed the Baba Yaga by both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers for its deadliness.
Ukraine will come out of this war as Europe’s most effective and battle-hardened military.
x ⚔️🇺🇦 Most NATO armies do not meet Ukrainian standards of combat effectiveness. The Alliance should learn from Ukraine's experience in using drones, sea drones and more, — Ben Hodges
[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Another 1,040 Russians plus 7 tanks.
The account called Killed in Ukraine hasn’t posted on Bluesky for a while but still posts updates on Twitter on Russian officers killed in the war. The latest update can be found here at Twitter. It shows another 81 dead officers for a total of 6,431.
Ukraine also has to deal with the remains of Russian soldiers that Russia included in the exchange.
x 🇺🇦🕯️ It will take more than a year to identify the bodies of dead Ukrainians transferred by Russia. Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko reported that 6,060 bodies of dead citizens have been returned to Ukraine. The remains of one soldier can be in several packages.
[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Am I allowed to say good riddance to this guy?
x In the Andriivka area, an assault group from the 1st Assault Battalion "Black Swan" of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment reached the command post of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian army. Inside was the battalion commander — Major Yartsev. He was eliminated during the assault.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Ukrainians seeking medical help in Israel fall victim to an Iranian missile.
x 🕯️💔 Shattering. Seven-year-old Nastia Borik came to Israel from Odesa seeking a chance to live. She was undergoing life-saving treatment for leukemia at one of Israel’s hospitals. On Saturday, Iranian missiles ended that chance — ki##ing her, her mother, grandmother, and two little cousins.
[image or embed] — 24Hours Ukraine (@24hoursukraine.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
x The family had only been living in the building for a few months, and their trip to Israel was a last hope for their child's recovery. The victims were identified as 30-year-old Maria Peshkuryova, her 7-year-old daughter Nastia Buryk, who was undergoing treatment for a severe form of cancer,
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Maria's 60-year-old mother Olena, and two nephews, 9-year-old Kostiantyn and 7-year-old Illia. Nastia's father, a soldier, remained in Ukraine serving in the military while simultaneously raising funds for his daughter's treatment.
Oh no! Does this mean no Nobel Peace Prize for Trump?
x 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Indian Prime Minister Modi told Trump that the ceasefire with Pakistan in May was the result of direct military-to-military talks, not US mediation. 👀 This was a response to Trump's statement that it was the US that helped achieve peace.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Transnistria is a basket case. I’m shocked (not).
x Russia-occupied Transnistria in Moldova is on the verge of economic collapse. Less than 1,000 Russian soldiers remain and the puppet government doesn't have money to pay the enforcers of its own regime.
They're going to ask Russia for another $100 million.
ipn.md/en/the-trans...
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
What is the point of Kellogg visiting Lukashenko? Is he looking for something to do?
x According to Reuters, Keith Kellogg is planning to visit Belarus soon to meet with Alexander Lukashenko. Trump’s special envoy sees this trip as an opportunity to launch peace talks aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Maybe Kellogg is going to arrange an emergency shipment of humanitarian food aid.
Vultures of a feather flock together.
x The International Economic Forum is taking place in Russian St Petersburg today. The Taliban delegation has arrived. They are now welcome partners in Russia. Locals report that Internet has been down since last night in St Petersburg.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Plane pilots complained that due to GPS jamming, they have been receiving false alerts about possible aircraft collisions. They say that when the alerts go off, the pilot must descend or ascend sharply, but often there are actually no other planes nearby. Some pilots started ignoring the alert system now which can lead to accidents later on.
You can tell the Russian version of this robot because it drinks from puddles and makes videos complaining about being sent on meat wave assaults.
x 🤖 Lol… The newest Russian robot was presented at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. 🇨🇳 It turned out to be… the long-existing G1 robot from the Chinese company Unitree Robotics.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A brigade of boars on the front lines. They should steer clear of the Russians or they’ll end up as pork chops.
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