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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine says it killed two Russian assassins [1]

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Date: 2025-07-13

Ukraine says it has killed the Russian agents responsible for the assassination in broad daylight in Kyiv of one of Ukraine’s top intelligence officers. The assassination was allegedly carried out by a man and a woman. There is a photo of the two dead assassins (allegedly, of course), which you can see at this post, but be warned that it is graphic.

x The Security Service of Ukraine has eliminated Russian FSS agents involved in the murder of Colonel Ivan Voronych militarnyi.com/en/news/the-...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM

x Russia’s foreign hit squad that killed an SBU colonel was eliminated in a shootout on 13 July. They resisted arrest. SBU chief Maliuk: “The only future for the enemy on Ukrainian territory is death.”

euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/13/r...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM

A Russian Buk air-defense system takes a direct hit from a Ukrainian drone.

Ukraine also struck an oil refinery in Kstovo, which is about 400 km east of Moscow.

x 🔥 Unknown drones struck an oil refinery in Kstovo, Russia, at night. As a result of the attack, many areas were left without electricity, and explosions were heard even in cities west of the regional center.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM

A Russian cruise missile with an airburst detonation that spread cluster munitions, which of course is a war crime when used on civilians. This is reportedly in the western city of Chernivtsi.

x The video I posted earlier turns out to be a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile with a proximity fuse deploying a cluster munition warhead. #OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Big bavovna

A reminder that there is a unit composed of Belarusians that is fighting for Ukraine.

Looks like the 417th needs the 4077.

Russia can still produce more missiles, but they can’t sustain this rate of usage.

x Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s advanced ballistic missile arsenal shrinks by nearly 50% since May The drastic depletion includes hundreds of Iskander-M and North Korean-supplied KN-23 missiles.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/13/r...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM

Ukraine has been reorganizing its tank brigades into mechanized brigades.

The famous 1st Tank Brigade, which fought at Luhansk Airport in 2014, Donetsk Airport in 2014 and 2015, and more recently led the successful defense of Chernihiv during the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022, is no longer a tank brigade. The unit follows the trend of other tank brigades and has been reformed into the 1st Heavy Mechanized Brigade. The first to undergo this reform was the 17th Tank Brigade, followed by the 5th Tank Brigade. This change for the 1st Brigade was revealed by the brigade’s Pegas assault drone company. As part of the reform, the formation loses one tank battalion and gains an additional mechanized battalion. Its new composition will include two tank battalions, two mechanized battalions, and two rifle battalions.

But in the meantime, here is the 3rd Tank Brigade lighting up a treeline infested with Russian soldiers.

x Ukrainians attacking Russian positions at close range with a T-72 and BTR-4E armoured fighting vehicle.

🇺🇦3rd Separate Tank Iron Brigade in Kharkiv region.



[image or embed] — Challengerinua (@challengerinua.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM

Shares the same name as one of my favorite Bond girl actresses.

x Ukraine’s sabotage-ready river drone Ursula now deploys UAVs mid-mission The new Ukrainian Ursula river drone can strike surface targets as kamikaze boat or deploy a UAV for recon in contested river zones.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/13/u...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Another 1,240 Russians. Plus 3 tanks.

x These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of July 13, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM

This thread outlines how Russia has had a long history of executing its own soldiers in far greater numbers than other armies. I did not embed the first post in the thread because it has a graphic image of a hanged soldier, so be warned about that.

x 3/ World War I:

🔺 United States – 11 men

🔺 Germany - 48

🔺 British Empire – 307

🔺 France – 650

🔺 Austria-Hungary - 1,148

🔺 Russian Empire – 10,000-20,000 — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM

x 4/ World War II:

🔺 British Empire – 40

🔺 France – 100

🔺 United States – 102

🔺 Japan – several thousand

🔺 Nazi Germany – 15,000-20,000

🔺 Soviet Union – at least 157,593 Up to 2,000 soldiers were also reportedly executed in the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War. — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM

11/ A big difference between the Soviet era and now is that extrajudicial executions are almost entirely confined to common soldiers. In only the first year of the Soviet-German war, 107 senior officers were arrested for various political and military offences. 12/ They included a marshal, 72 generals, six admirals and commanders of divisions and head of political staffs. 45 were sentenced to be shot, including 34 generals. Ten more died while under arrest. 12% of all senior Soviet officers killed in the war were executed. 13/ They were shot for suspected disloyalty, failure to achieve objectives, theft, drunkenness, and very rarely punishment for crimes against their own men, such as shooting them randomly while drunk. Nowadays, officers appear to have virtual impunity to commit such offences.

At first glance this seemed like a case of FAFO. But I do feel sorry for her.

x The tragedy is that this woman is natively fluent in both English and Russian, an extraordinarily rare and valuable skillset on which she could've built a thriving career.

Instead she succumbed to Kremlin propaganda and destroyed her life exactly because of her Russian fluency.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM

This guy could probably win the GOP nomination in a lot of states.

x Russia: State Duma member Lt. Gen. Andrey Gurulyov, former commander of the Southern Military District called to conscript all childless men —

"If you can't get a broad pregnant, go defend the Motherland."



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM

What we need to keep illegal immigrants out is a big beautiful wall with barbed wire on top.

Oh, wait ….

Meanwhile, South Korea remains on the sidelines.

x 🇰🇵 North Korea supplied Russia with over 12 million 152 mm shells to support its war against Ukraine, — South Korean intelligence has said. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM

Russia blames sanctions for everything. It’s a convenient scapegoat.

x ⚡️Russia blames Western sanctions for collapse of UN food deal. A day earlier, the United Nations announced that the three-year agreement would end on July 22. The deal "will not be renewed" because of disagreements, a source close to the discussions told the AFP.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Sanctions imposed on Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 did not directly target Russian grain and fertilizers, but transporters were wary of violating international law and insurance premiums shot up as a result. The U.N. and Russia worked intensively to establish a framework for insurance and financial transactions in line with U.S., U.K., and E.U. sanctions. Russia nonetheless complained regularly that the deal was not doing enough to facilitate exports.

I have no idea what this is, but I want one.

Blah, blah, blah.

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Money talks and bullshit walks. Don’t hold your breath until this actually happens.

x Trump considers allocating additional funds for military aid to Ukraine This was reported by CBS, citing sources among U.S. officials. They noted that the US president can still use the remaining funds approved for assistance to Ukraine ($3.85 billion) - 👇



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Spain, which earlier balked at the idea of spending a much higher percentage of GDP on defense, gets a bit more serious about defense spending.

Normally you’d expect to read a story like this from Florida.

x Meanwhile in Russia… Doctors at Hospital No. 1 in Kyzyl in the Republic of Tuva removed 👉 27 lighters

👉 1 coin From a 56 year old man’s stomach. “doctors cannot understand how these objects got into the man's stomach. The patient refused to give an explanation.”



www.mk.ru/social/2025/...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM

Next month the locust are scheduled and the frogs and rats after that.

x Meanwhile in Russia… “Mosquitoes are preparing a bloody surprise: experts have assessed the real threat” 🦟: 😈 “Experts predict a mosquito invasion in the Moscow region in the coming days.” www.mk.ru/mosobl/2025/...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM

Kharkiv already has enough to deal with.

More on daily life in Ukraine.

x I’m scared to schedule messages to people – what if they get them on Monday morning when I’ve already died from a Shahed attack on Saturday night? Would be creepy. #UkrainianView — Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 (@poliakova.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM

A breathtaking photo.

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