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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes factory that produces drones, air defense missiles [1]

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Date: 2025-07-01

Russian air defense was unable to stop a Ukrainian drone from hitting this military plant.

Izhevsk is a city roughly halfway between Moscow and Yekaterinburg. This plant produces Tor surface-to-air missile systems and radar stations, or at least it used to.

Burn, baby, burn.

The war comes home for the residents of Izhevsk.

This is the drone that struck the Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant.

x 🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany to finance production of 500 Ukrainian drones for AFU, - WELT 🦅 An-196 "Lyutyi" kamikaze drones, which can carry up to 50 kg of explosives and have a range of up to 1,200 km. AFU will be able to use them in the coming months.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Russia loses another Su-34. Oh well.

The navigator reportedly was killed.

x 💥 A Russian Su-34 bomber, mistakenly identified as a Su-27, crashed in the Nizhny Novgorod region during a training flight. The plane crashed while landing due to the failure of one of the landing gear wheels. militarnyi.com/en/news/su-3...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM

Oh no! Russia lost another jet!

Ukraine unleashed a large assault in the occupied city of Donetsk on the HQ of the 8th Combined Arms army.

Do not pass Go. Do not collect a bag of onions.

x ☠️ In Donetsk, the commander of Russia's 8th Guards Army was eliminated during yesterday's missile strike, according to Russian media and local chats.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM

A railroad junction was also hit.

Note to self: Do not ride past a pile of mines as a drone hovers overhead.

x WOW 🤩🤩🤩 One drop activates the detonation of anti-personnel mines, which leads to the defeat of an entire group of Russian assault bikers.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM

The luckiest dude in Russia.

x A Russian soldier on a quad bike with a trailer miraculously speeds through an anti-personnel minefield in Donetsk region, somehow avoiding detonation.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM

Ukraine pays a visit to Russians in Kursk.

x 🚀 Kursk region, 29.06. the result of a HIMARS missile attack on the position of the 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment. ☠️ 4 injured and 2 killed!



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM

x 💥 The company of unmanned systems of the State Border Guard Service "Prime" destroys enemy targets in the Kursk direction: armored vehicles, 3 vehicles, a mortar position, a take-off and control site for enemy drones, and 8 dugouts were hit.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM

Another 970 Russians dead/wounded. Some of the wounded, no doubt, will be given a free ride back to the front to try to make this list a second time.

Sounds like something the Q branch would come up with for 007.

Ukrainian troops also captured a trophy: an NRS scout knife that combines a blade with a built-in single-shot firearm. The soldiers say this is a unique development from the 1970s, manufactured at the Tula Arms Plant in Russia. The NRS features a high-quality blade with a spine-mounted saw designed to cut through metal bars up to 1 cm thick. Its main feature is a single-shot firing mechanism with an effective range of up to 25 metres.

Shouldn’t have taken this long to figure out that such gatherings are prime targets.

x ❗️🇺🇦 No more military concentration of soldiers: Syrskyi banned mass gatherings of personnel, military equipment, and placing military personnel in tent camps or training centers.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM

Things heat up between Russia and Azerbaijan.

Apparently Russia hasn’t stirred enough shit lately.

x Russian Telegram channels report that two prominent Azerbaijan citizens,leaders of the local diasporas,have been detained in Russia Yusif Khalilov,co-owner of a local market,was detained in Russian Voronezh.Shahin Shykhlinsky,head of the "Azerbaijan-Ural" organization, was detained in Yekaterinburg



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM

x Russian propagandists received instructions to threaten Azerbaijan. Propagandists Marsan and Solovyev started to scare Azerbaijan with "economic losses." They said that Russia is their third-largest trading partner, and if anything happens, "the situation could change dramatically."⤵️



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Kellogg says Russia can no longer stall for time while it bombs civilians.

Of course they can. They’ve been doing it all along.

Not a good graph for a country that depends so heavily on rail transportation.

x And here is the crazy part. They were finding that it was significantly cheaper, just on delivery price, to ship via truck instead of by train. That’s bonkers



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM

If this guy is willing to say this publicly without fear of Rapid Unscheduled Defenestration, things must be 10 times worse than what he admits.

They haven’t been paid since March? Too bad. Quit whining and get back to work or it’s off to the front with you!

x "Our families are left without financial support, and our children are deprived of a proper summer vacation." Workers employed by Gazprom's contractor, Zapsibgazprom-Gazifikatsiya, went on strike in Russian Vilyuchinsk, complaining that they have not been paid since March.



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

Gagauzia is a mostly pro-Russian region of Moldova that has a degree of autonomy but has not seceded as Transnistria did.

x 🇲🇩❗️The Moldovan Prosecutor's Office has requested nine years in prison for the head of Gagauzia, Eugenia Gutsul, in a case of illegal financing of political parties.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM

This sounds like something Republicans in Texas would try to do.

x Instead of pinning medals on the few people in Russia willing to adopt a child, St. Petersburg child services are now demanding that prospective adoptive parents and guardians produce official records proving that they’ve never had a “sex change.” meduza.io/en/news/2025...



[image or embed] — Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) June 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern for videos being shown of Russian POWs because it might endanger their lives. Meanwhile ….

x Today a video was published of russian soldiers tying a Ukrainian POW to a motorcycle and dragging him to death. That’s all. — Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM

This might explain why in videos of prisoner exchanges the Russians aren’t smiling.

x Families of returned Russian POWs say their husbands, brothers, and sons weren’t allowed home even for a single day after being exchanged. Instead, they were sent straight back to the front.

meduza.io/en/feature/2...



[image or embed] — Meduza in English (@meduza.io) July 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Amelina died two years ago from injuries received when Russia struck a restaurant in Kramatorsk.

x Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina died on July 1, 2023 from injuries sustained during a Russian strike on the city of Kramatorsk the previous week. Her manuscript, "Looking at Women, Looking at War" remained unfinished, leading her closest friends to do what they could to see it published.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM

Reunited after three years.

x " I still can’t believe it. And I think she can’t either." #Ukrainian border guard Denys recently returned from Russian captivity. He was reunited with his dog Jilly, who was rescued from occupation. They hadn’t seen each other for more than three years. 📹: Radio Liberty



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM

And finally.

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