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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine names Russian major responsible for attack on children's hospital [1]
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Date: 2025-07-08
Russias new long-range drone hits an apartment building — in Russia. Russia supposedly had three prototypes of this drone. Now they have two.
There were also reports that Russia attempted to launch one of its new Oreshnik ballistic missiles from Crimea but it failed. If true, that would be the 7th such launch failure.
x Russia’s newest combat drone, Altair (Altius-U), crashed into a residential building in Kazan during testing. Weighing 6 tons with a 28m wingspan, the long-range UAV exceeds 10,000 km in flight range and 24+ hours in endurance. It’s seen as Russia’s answer to the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A fully loaded Russian rocket launcher is sitting out in the open.
Guess what happens next.
Glad they were able to get the hell out of there.
x 🙏 One of the cameras of a soldier of the 5th OZSP "Omega", who was sitting in the cabin of ROSHEL armored vehicle, recorded the epicenter of the explosion after Russian drone attack.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
x A Canadian-made armored vehicle from the Roshel company withstood a direct hit from a Russian FPV drone Since 2022, Roshel has delivered 1,700 Senator vehicles to Ukraine. In 2025, the company launched joint production in the country
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/07/c...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It’s been a while since there was a good turret toss.
Another careless smoker.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence fingers a Russian major as responsible for the cruise missile attack one year ago on Kyiv’s children’s hospital. Let’s see if he is indicted at the ICC on war crimes.
x ❗ Ukrainian intelligence has named the Russian who prepared cruise missiles for the strike on the National Specialized Children’s Hospital “Okhmatdyt” in Kyiv a year ago. militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
They reported that one of those responsible for preparing the massive missile strike on Ukraine on July 8, 2024 – including the attack on the children’s hospital – was Major Denys Oleksiiovych Sheynov, chief of the special engineering service of the 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Armed Forces. It is noted that this particular unit was directly involved in the terrorist attack on the medical facility, where 627 children were undergoing treatment at the time of the strike. “Major Sheynov, in his capacity as the chief of the special engineering service, was responsible for organizing the technical preparation of Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles for deployment by strategic aviation aircraft,” the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported.
Pull!
Something about this makes me worry about the future.
x Europe just ran its first war game with drones and robots—Ukraine helped design it At a test site near Rome, EU armies tested drone-to-robot resupply missions, using frontline scenarios developed with Ukrainian experts. euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/06/e...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is a good demonstration about how Shaheds have changed.
x Their size in 2023 and 2025, they used to be mainly air defense distractors but now they’re actual killer machines
[image or embed] — Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Pipelines to hell.
When an attack with 54 Shaheds is considered a slow night.
x Russia hit Mykolaiv with 54 Shahed drones overnight. One man was wounded, homes caught fire. Ukraine shot down 34. The reduced drone count may point to stockpiling before a larger strike.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/s...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The Russian Transport Minister who was fired yesterday — and then resigned with extreme prejudice — met his end in a Tesla. I’m sure Elon is very proud.
x Footage shows the scene of Roman Starovoyt’s potential suicide. Preliminary reports say the ex-Russian Transport Minister shot himself with an award pistol in a Tesla, per sources.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This thread explains what happened to Starovoit and why.
It would definitely make a great Netflix series. It starts with Starovoit skimming millions from money meant to pay for defensive structures in Kursk. One of his comrades got busted and ratted him out.
x 10/ This morning, Starovoit is said to have "held a working meeting as a minister. He arrived at his workplace in the morning and behaved as usual. He held a standard working meeting (plans for the work week, control over the implementation of instructions) with his deputies." — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
11/ "According to the source, he guessed about his upcoming dismissal, but found out only this morning. At 09:15, the news about the president's order [for his dismissal] appeared." 12/ "Exactly 5 minutes later, Roman Starovoit ordered his secretary to "leave at 09:35" and locked himself in his office. At the appointed time, the official left his workplace without saying goodbye to anyone." 13/ He drove to Malevich Park near the village of Razdory west of Moscow, went into a wooded area nearby and shot himself with a pistol awarded to him by the Interior Ministry in 2023. His body was identified by a young female friend. 14/ Although Smirnov is said to have implicated Starovoit in testimony given back in April, Starovoit's fate is said to have been the focus of an intense three-month struggle between rival oligarchic clans who have large stakes in the Transport Ministry's spending programmes. 15/ A VChK-OGPU source says: "Roman Starovoit was 100% a man of the Rotenbergs [left picture]. They fought for his position and freedom. And Andrei Nikitin, who replaced Starovoit as Minister of Transport, was 100% a man of the Kovalchuks [Yuri Kovalchuk, right]." 16/ "They defeated the Rotenbergs in the fight for the Ministry of Transport and, at the same time, [for] Starovoit's freedom." 17/ Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and their allies have been notable beneficiaries of the multi-billion ruble investment plans of Russian Railways (RZD), which have gone ahead even as the company has fallen into a deep crisis. 18/ Despite being short of resources elsewhere, in 2024 RZD spent over 200 million rubles buying a skyscraper in Moscow. The building is believed to have been owned by businessman Grigory Baevsky, a business partner of the Rotenberg brothers, and a company associated with them. 19/ Starovoit's arrest indicates that he had lost the 'krysha' – protection – provided by the Rotenbergs. The brothers have been close partners of Putin in seizing control of Russian companies in an ongoing 'soft privatisation'. 20/ It's not clear what this might mean for the Rotenbergs themselves. It may simply be that the evidence against Starovoit was too strong, and the political pressure too intense, for him to be saved by their influence.
Well, butter my biscuit and call me Martha White.
Slap my ass and call me Spanky.
x Trump: “Putin showers us with bullshit. It sounds nice but means nothing. I’m very seriously considering sanctions against Russia. I’m not happy with Putin—he’s killing a lot of soldiers, his own and theirs. We’ve given the Ukrainians the best weapons ever made.”
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This is good, but Ukraine can go through this many missiles in a few hours.
x ❗ U.S. President Donald Trump, during a recent phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, pledged to immediately transfer 10 interceptor missiles for the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine. militarnyi.com/en/news/axio...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The buck doesn’t stop here.
x WSJ: Trump told Zelenskyy he didn’t freeze Ukraine arms—blamed the Pentagon. Now shipments are resuming, as Trump says Ukraine is “getting hit very hard.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/w...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Ukraine will be sending a new ambassador to Washington. My initial, admittedly cynical, reaction, was that she is being replaced because Trump doesn’t want a woman who isn’t hot by his standards in that job.
x This would potentially be a very positive move, depending on who replaces Markarova. Ukraine’s current diplomatic staff have, unfortunately, proven relatively ineffective at engaging with Congress as well as navigating the arms export process, even before Trump took office.
[image or embed] — John Ridge 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@johnridge.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another 1,070 Russians, but no tanks.
A couple of Nazis with shit for brains (is that redundant?) get themselves arrested.
x Two foreign men came to Kyiv flaunting a Nazi flag and wearing swastika T-shirts only to end up detained. I can’t imagine why anyone would travel all that way just to pull a stunt like that, into a country at war, with closed airspace… unless they were paid to. Did Russia wanted a
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is a very long thread that details the experiences of a young Russian lieutenant and his men at the hands of some sadistic commanders. Why they didn’t just kill the commanders is beyond me.
x 1/ A Russian lieutenant who deserted from the Russian army after serving under a commander who murdered his own men for their salaries has spoken of his experiences in Ukraine. His unit was wiped out at Krynki and he witnessed soldiers being whipped and executed with grenades. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
2/ Daniil from Volgograd was one of the original batch of 300,000 men mobilised from September 2022 onwards. He had never previously served in the army, and was given minimal training before deployment – firing a single magazine of cartridges "for show". 3/ Despite his inexperience, he was made a lieutenant in the Black Sea Fleet Marine Corps. His first commander in occupied Crimea "was constantly smoking weed" and disciplined the men and soldiers under his command with an electric shock device confiscated from some Dagestanis. 4/ In February 2023 his unit deployed to the left bank of the Dnipro in the occupied part of the Kherson region. Daniil says the men lived in fear of Ukrainian partisans, who were blamed for the death of a soldier who was found naked in the forest, with matches in his eyes. 5/ Daniil and his men then spent a relatively calm six months at Enerhodar near the destroyed Kakhovka dam, before the Ukrainians crossed the river to establish a bridgehead at Krynky. The Russians were taken by surprise and reacted chaotically. 6/ "The Russian military screwed up everything there – alcoholism at the positions played a role. And there was also a rumour that one officer helped the Ukrainian Armed Forces for money – he showed them the paths." 7/ "There were few Ukrainians on the bank itself, but they were well fortified. The right bank of the Dniepro is much higher than ours – we were in the palm of their hand. They also had a battalion "Birds of Magyar", completely specialised in UAVs. Our air defence was not particularly effective." 8/ Their barge, reinforced with concrete, sailed along the Dnipro with impunity, from which they launched drones. There were a lot of drones – swarms of eight. A tank was shooting from the other bank, and artillery – the positions were well-aimed. 9/ Russian commanders became enraged at the Ukrainians' tenacity and threw assault group after assault group against the bridgehead, incurring huge losses, including Daniil's entire unit. 10/ "To be clear, our entire battalion – about 200 people from the force present on the scene – was gone in two weeks: some were 200 [dead], some were 300 [wounded], some refused, like me."
Maybe he was going to use them to study the stars. 🙄🙄
x Russia: 25-year old Russian caught trying to fly to Qatar from Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow with $370,000 worth of domestically produced Dedal-NV thermal scopes and mounts in his luggage.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Could have been worse. They could have sent him to Pokrovsk.
x ⚡️Russia jails former top general for 17 years in massive military graft case. Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, a former head of the Russian military's communications unit, served as deputy chief of the army's General Staff from 2013 until his removal in 2020.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Being a member of Russia’s elite is almost as dangerous as being sent on a meat assault in a Chinese golf cart.
This is quite a list.
x Some time ago, I read an account by a Soviet GRU officer who had served in Africa. He described a tribe with a tradition of regicide: they would elect a chieftain, and once the spirits were believed to have “abandoned” him, they would kill him. Now consider this list:
1/
[image or embed] — Alexander Khara (@alexanderkhara.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
• Leonid Shulman, Head of Transport, Gazprom Invest (2022) • Vladislav Avayev, Vice President, Gazprombank (2022) • Alexander Tyulyakov, Gazprom executive (2022) • Mikhail Watford, oil and gas tycoon (2022)
• Sergey Protosenya, Former Executive, Novatek – found hanged in Spain (2022) • Ravil Maganov, Chairman, Lukoil – fell from a window (2022) • Vladimir Egorov, Member of the United Russia party (2023) • Anton Cherepennikov, tech tycoon (2023) • Gennady Zhidko, Deputy Defence Minister (2023) • Gennady Lopyrev, FSB Lieutenant-General (2023) • Vladimir Egorov, politician – again, listed (2023) • Mikhail Rogachev, former Vice President, Yukos – fell from a window (2024) • Magomed Khandayev, Defence Ministry (2024) • Andrey Badalov, Vice President, Transneft – fell from a window (2025) • Artur Pryakhin, Head of a regional division of Russia’s Antimonopoly Service – fell from a window (2025) • Roman Starovoit, Minister of Transport (2025) • Andrey Korneychuk, head of division, Rosavtodor (2025) These are just a few of the high-profile figures from the upper echelons of the russian government, military, and business sectors who have died under suspicious or unexplained circumstances since 2022. The causes are often described as suicides, fatal falls, gunshot wounds, or sudden and mysterious deaths.
Uh oh. Looks like there’s a new name for the list.
x The 37-year-old Russian-appointed deputy head of the city of Yevpatoriya (Crimea), Mikhail Ivanovich Kolganov, died unexpectedly. The causes and circumstances of death are not specified. Some kind of season of sudden deaths among Russian businessmen and politicians has begun.
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
So what was this dude doing at the front? Who did he piss off to get sent there?
x ❗️At the front in 🇺🇦Ukraine, the former director of the Orsha Aircraft Repair Plant from 🇧🇾Belarus, Vladimir Troitsky, who fought as part of the 🇷🇺Russian troops, was eliminated.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
How much does it suck to be a Russian farmer?
Oh no! Not the washing machines!!!!!!
It might not be very sexy, but it gets the job done and Ukraine is now cranking them out like Christmas fruitcakes.
x 🇺🇦 Ukraine has begun mass production of 155-mm towed howitzers "Bohdana-BG". ❗️"From the beginning of 2025 to July 2025, five batches of towed howitzers were delivered to the army," — Major General Ivan Lisovyi.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Come visit our exciting medieval theocracy. Don’t worry! We won’t take you hostage.
x Russian Tg channels are sharing this video a lot
After news emerged about tourist trips from Russia to Afghanistan,the Taliban released a 📹showing how visitors can spend time According to reports,the authorities assure that tourists are in no danger&that the risk of being taken captive is ruled out
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Kids can have fun even with a water hose, even during a war.
Dad’s home.
Definitely turn on the audio.
While some children get their dads back, others don’t.
A Russian on Sakhalin Island, which is south of Kamchatka on the Pacific coast, teases a fox but the fox gets the last laugh.
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