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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukrainian cyber attack targets top Russian drone manufacturer [1]
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Date: 2025-07-16
Wars are fought online too.
According to the source, HUR gained access to over 47 terabytes of technical data related to the production of Russian drones. All data stored on the company’s servers was allegedly destroyed. "The stolen data includes confidential questionnaires of the company's employees, and most importantly, full technical documentation on the production of drones, which was handed over to the relevant specialists of the Ukrainian Defense Forces," the source claimed. They added that the cyberattack disabled Gaskar Group’s internet services, production software, and accounting systems, effectively crippling operations at its development center. The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify these claims. As of publication, Gaskar Group’s website remained operational.
x Ukraine’s HUR reportedly hacked Gaskar Integration, a top drone supplier to Russia, accessing 47TB of drone production data and deleting 10TB of backups in the cyberattack.
www.rbc.ua/rus/news/gur...
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This post, which was not made available for embedding, says Germany has busted a Russian hacker network.
Ukraine made a small advance in the Sumy region near the border with Kursk.
x Ukrainian forces have advanced further into Kindrativka, now pushing out remaining Russian troops from the village in Sumy region. A small but strategic gain right on the border.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Tetkino is that Russian town tucked away in the corner of the Kursk region, just west of where Ukraine had occupied..
There was a major Ukrainian drone strike in the Russian city of Voronezh. One of the strikes was caught on video. I haven’t seen anything on what was in that building.
x One person injured in Voronezh yesterday has died in hospital according to Russain officials. The city was under attack from Ukrainian UAVs, though a Russian helicopter was seen apparently shooting towards the ground during the incident, presumably at drones.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Here’s a Russian Ka-52 helicopter shooting down Ukrainian drones.
Russia bombed a store. I guess there were no kindergartens or hospitals available.
x 🤬🤬 russian terrorists hit a store. A place where people buy shampoo, notebooks, maybe a toy for their kid. Not a military base. Preliminary reports say many casualties after russians dropped a KAB bomb on the “Avrora” store in Dobropillia, Donetsk region.
[image or embed] — Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 (@angel-shalagina.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It all burned down. Boo fucking hoo.
x The aftermath of a Grad MLRS strike on the rear positions of Russian troops. They’re very sorry — but not because they invaded another country, rather because their sauna burned down.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
A whole lot of bavovna goin’ on.
This drone cage did its job.
A Russian drone team near Tokmak was taken out.
x Ukrainian intelligence reported the destruction of a Russian recon team and their “Skat 350M” drone near Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia. A UAZ-452 vehicle carrying two specialists and the drone was blown up, disabling equipment used to locate Ukrainian positions and adjust artillery fire.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A Latvian mayor delivering vehicles to Ukrainian troops has been wounded.
x Egils Helmanis, mayor of Ogre, Latvia, was wounded by Russian shelling while delivering aid to Ukrainian forces. This marks his latest mission since 2022, during which he brought around 20 vehicles. Details of the attack remain limited, but his condition is stable.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
It’s been relatively quiet in Kyiv. Maybe Kellogg should stay there.
x "The Kellogg shield" is how some Ukrainians and Western diplomats referred to it in conversations this week. Indeed, since Kellogg's arrival on Monday, Kyiv has been relatively quiet. Air defenses were heard targeting drones passing through the region but they were not targeting the capital.
[image or embed] — Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) July 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
But that didn’t stop Russia from bombing other cities.
x At night, Russia shelled Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Odesa regions. The attack involved an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 400 UAVs, about 255 of which were Shahed strike drones. Fifteen people were injured, including one child.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A Russian teacher made a film called Mr. Nobody Against Putin in which he documents propaganda programming in the schools. He worries in this clip about whether he’ll get in trouble.
x Pavel Talankin is a former Russian school event coordinator and videographer at School No. 1 in Karabash, a town in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. He filmed "patriotic" lessons and school events for official reports submitted to the Russian ministry of education
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Together with colleagues from various countries, he created the Danish-Czech documentary project Mr. Nobody Against Putin. The film was shot over two years using secretly recorded Mr. Nobody Against Putin shows how Russian schoolchildren are forced to march, attend lectures about "denazification," and participate in militaristic ceremonies - documenting the arrival of Wagner Group mercenaries, patriotic events, and even fragments of funerals. The project sparked a strong reaction in Russian Karabash: pro-government media accused Talankin of "anti-Russian propaganda" and "treason," his mother was fired, and security forces showed up at local schools.
It is going to take a long time to rebuild expertise at the State Department once the Visigoths has been driven out.
x Gutting the offices America needs most: among the roughly 1,350 workers laid off at the State Department last week were senior analysts in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, commonly known as INR, including people who specialize in Russia and Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
[image or embed] — Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) July 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
No need to come down to the recruitment office. We’ll just sign you up automatically.
x Mobilization in Russia: Kremlin is now auto-submitting 'voluntary' military enlistment applications within the State Services mobile app (Госуслуги) on behalf of account holders.
When they say they didn't apply, they are told the enlistment process can't be canceled. 😂
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Another 1,170 dead/wounded and three more tanks.
The ratio of combat deaths/MIA to wounded for this Russian battalion is off the scale.
x 1/ A leaked list of casualties from a Russian battalion taking part in an offensive suggests a killed/wounded ratio of 1:36 to 1. According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, losses stand at over 100,000 dead this year alone. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
2/ A reported list of the losses of the Russian 3rd Motorised Rifle Battalion of the 9th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 71443) lists 163 casualties in only a month. Daily casualties are stated to be between 5 and 10 per day. 3/ This is almost certainly an underestimate, as commanders often underreport losses to make themselves look better or to exclude those who have been executed or tortured to death by their own side. The brigade is known for cruelty towards its men. 4/ The following losses are recorded: 🔺 killed - 24 (14.7%) 🔺 wounded - 65 (39.9%) 🔺 captured - 1 (0.6%) 🔺 missing in action - 64 (39.2%) 🔺 deserters - 9 (5.5%) (The MIAs are almost certainly all dead as well.) The ratio of killed/MIA to wounded is thus 1.36 : 1. 5/ According to an officer, most casualties are caused by artillery strikes, kamikaze drone attacks, and air-dropped ammuntion from UAVs.The 9th Brigade currently appears to be involved in Russia's incursion in the Sumy region of Ukraine, which has been particularly bloody. 6/ Men from the battalion are frequently reported to be wounded or going missing after being sent on combat missions without proper support, coordination and reconnaissance. Its chief of staff, Major Artem Fyodorovich Makarov, is being blamed for poor operational planning.
Speaking of Russian battalions where life is cheap.
x "The battalion commander gave orders to his deputy&the battalion's chief of staff to finish off wounded guys with munition drops" A Russian soldier from the 139th Assault Battalion,who went AWOL,accused battalion commander Kurabek Karaev of killing wounded Russian soldiers&selling humanitarian aid
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
They seem nice.
x Four captured Russian soldiers have escaped in free Donetsk region today. Somehow, this quartet managed to break free from a convoy near Kramatorsk.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An American Nazi group whose leader lives in Russia is claiming responsibility for assassinating the Ukrainian intelligence officer in Kyiv.
x ‼️ American group The Base has claimed responsibility for the murder of SBU colonel in Kyiv, — The Guardian. In 2024, the EU Council announced the addition of American neo-Nazi group The Base to its terrorist list. Its leader, former FBI and Pentagon contractor, lives in Russia.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I think this qualifies as FAFO.
x Texas man joins Russian army to “earn respect," gets lied to as he is sent to a front line instead of a promised welding job. Derek Huffman joined Russia's army in May expecting to work as a mechanic.
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[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Germany wants American Typhon launchers for Tomahawk cruise missiles.
x 🚀 Germany is exploring the possibility of acquiring Typhon mobile launchers from the United States, which are capable of launching long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles. militarnyi.com/en/news/germ...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The Viktor Orban Circus is in town.
x ❗️Hungary plans to propose EU sanctions against Ukraine tomorrow, Telex reports, citing the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. Budapest will raise the issue at the next EU meeting, following the alleged fatal beating of an ethnic Hungarian at a Territorial Recruitment Center in Zakarpattia Oblast.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yep. Soft tacos on the menu.
Zelenskyy has learned which buttons to push with Trump.
x 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky: Trump realizes that Putin is lying to him, and it is important that Trump sees this for himself. Biden was not able to end this war, I am confident that President Trump can do it. I think that will be the main difference.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Hundreds of thousands of traumatized, concussed, wounded, tortured and abused soldiers who have seen how cheap life is in the Russian army returning home. What could go wrong?
x I wonder what will become of this Villiy Maslov, an associate professor at the MVD’s Ural Law Institute in Yekaterinburg (besides needing to endure the Internet’s insufferable “don’t go near windows” quips). Maslov hits on some of the war’s major criminal ramifications. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
[image or embed] — Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) July 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Maslov contends that recidivism among war-pardoned inmates is “only a matter of time,” due in part to a lack of targeted government intervention — from psychological services and employment assistance to housing support — necessary for social reintegration. Other reasons to expect repeat offenses, he argues, include seeking revenge for their past prison sentences, “loss of control over their actions” due to afflictions such as post-traumatic stress disorder or alcohol abuse, and the inability to earn an honest living. PTSD may drive increases in criminal activity not only among former inmates but across the broader veteran population and even within their families. According to Maslov, additional education centers should be created to train qualified specialists to help military personnel and their families. “Absent adequate intervention with combat veterans, the authorities should expect more violent crime, including assaults and injuries. Particularly troubling is the potential for members of veterans’ households to engage in criminal conduct,” he warns. ….. Russia’s crime rates may also increase because, after returning from the front, some soldiers are unwilling to take jobs where they would earn significantly less than in the army. Not everyone will turn to crime in pursuit of “easy money,” but a number of veterans have already been convicted of robbery and theft. Another factor that could contribute to rising crime rates, says Maslov, is that veterans acquire skills in war that are “not especially in demand by the state in peacetime, but may be valued in the criminal world.” He specifically highlights the risk of more crimes involving the use of guns:
Bonuses for not being corrupt.
This sounds more like a pretext for a coup. The PMR is Transnistria.
x 🇷🇴🇲🇩NATO, according to a politician of the unrecognized “Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic” (PMR), allegedly has a plan to seize the unrecognized country by force. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/loca...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
x 📌 Russian intelligence agencies have set up training camps for mercenaries in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to prepare participants for a coup attempt in Moldova. militarnyi.com/en/news/inve...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Let’s look in on the Russian economy and see how things are going.
This soldier has more cojones than 90% of the Russian army.
x Mykola Shot,a 40-yr-old veteran from Lviv,lost both arms&legs on war.But even four amputations didn’t stop him from returning to one of his greatest passions -driving Mykola has 20yrs of driving experience.For him,getting back behind the wheel after such a severe injury was incredibly important
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Combat cat.
Ukrainian special forces operatives disguised as bears seize a Russian truck.
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