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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukrainian attacks target Moscow, train system in Rostov [1]
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Date: 2025-07-19
Ukraine launched an attack on the rail system in Rostov that appears to have brought rail traffic to a halt.
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In the early hours I reported Ukraine's attack on Rostov region and how virtually all trains were stopped. As well as hitting two transformers, rail infrastructure was also damaged including a Russian railways control building.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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There are now huge complaints from passengers stranded on trains in Rostov region. Many complain there is no air conditioning on board with temperatures over 40c and little or no water.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
x Massive overnight drone attack on Russia hit Rostov region hard. Over 50 long-distance trains are stuck in extreme heat after strike damaged rail lines. In Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russian air defense hit residential buildings. Five villages lost power. MoD claims 71 drones downed.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Moscow also came under attack, forcing closure of the city’s main airport.
There were reports of smoke at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is occupied by Russia, and a major blackout in the area. But it appears to be a grass fire in the area.
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The latest reports are that the smoke is far less than shown here and it may have been a grass fire behind the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar. Much of occupied Ukraine has been without power after overnight attacks on electricity infrastructure by Ukraine.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Russia launched an attack last night on an apartment building in Odesa.
x The Russians are just mercilessly attacking Ukrainian cities at night.
Right now, an apartment building in Odesa is on fire, and it's not known what's happening to the people, whether they survived or not.
[image or embed] — Katerina Horbunova (@blue-eyed.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The city of Pavlohrad was also struck.
x ⚡️Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad suffers 'hellish night and morning' of Russian strikes. Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast that has become a key humanitarian aid hub for those evacuating the front lines, suffered one of its most severe attacks of the war, Governor Serhii Lysak said.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I know a great place to test these in actual combat situations. These can be launched by air, land or sea.
Ukrainian drones have a thing they call Radar Love.
x Drones of the PRYMARY special unit of the Defense Intelligence of #Ukraine continue to systematically weaken Russian air defenses - this time in Donetsk direction.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Another Sunday drive down another Boulevard of Bavovna.
x Russian supply route somewhere on the front and dozens of destroyed Russian logistics vehicles on a small section of road
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ukraine hits a diamond factory.
x There's been a very large and long attack on the Oryol region of Russia. Supernova reports a diamond company was hit, with 5 explosions heard. Oryol-Alrosa carries out diamond cutting and production.
[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Russia’s real interest in Africa.
x A shooting at a mine controlled by the Russian mercenary group Wagner in the Central African Republic killed at least 11 people yesterday. The mine is some 280 miles east of the country’s capital of Bangui. apnews.com/article/cent...
[image or embed] — Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) July 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Spanish soldiers see off their Ukrainian comrades.
If only America had a commission that would refuse to allow pro-Russian Republicans to participate in elections.
There is no indication whether this took place at the OK Corral.
x ☠️ In Tyotkino, Kursk region, Russian Major was eliminated in a gunfight — the assistant chief of staff of Military Unit 51620. ❗️Either he made a serious mistake, or things are not so good with the personnel in Russia and even majors are being sent into battle...
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Another 1,120 Russians but no tanks. Since passing the 1 million mark Russia has fed another 40k-plus into the meat grinder.
Ukraine charges an enlistment officer over an incident in which a recruit ended up dead.
This is what happens to a forest during a war.
Well, at least it isn’t covered with raw sewage.
Two Russians on a motorcycle are hit by a drone and then they argue over who needs medical attention first.
WARNING: Video shows wounded Russians.
x The epic journey of a Russian assault trooper and his trusted "Tundra" ends as a Ukrainian kamikaze drone takes out their motorbike. Bleeding and disconnected, they’re left alone in a field late at night, far from salvation.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Riding with four wheels is overrated.
Well, that explains why they always look so dour on the bus ride back home.
x 1/ At least 133 Russians POWs freed from Ukrainian captivity are reported to have have died or gone missing in action after being sent back to the front lines, in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Some are said to have been executed. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
3/ Data from the 'I Want to Live' project identifies a total of 133 people from 49 Russian regions and three occupied regions of Ukraine. They comprise a mixture of mobilised men, career military and Wagner Group mercenaries. 4/ Of the 133, 71 people – more than half – died within a year of returning from captivity. The harshest treatment appears to have been reserved for Wagner Group POWs, most notoriously in the case of Yevgeny Nushin. 5/ Wagnerite Viktor Strebkov has spoken on camera of seeing returning POWs being publicly executed. 6/ "There were two people from my company who had previously been captured, they were exchanged, they returned to the unit and they were brought back to Bohdanivka [near Bakhmut] to continue participating in the fighting. 7/ "When we were standing in formation, [the company commander with the call sign] "Black" approached one of them, call sign "Nephew," and started saying, who are you, what are you, why did you surrender, why didn't you cut off your own head if you ran out of grenades. 8/ "At that moment, "Black" takes out a pistol and shoots him point-blank in the chest. 'Nephew' falls, convulsing on the ground, he finishes him off in the head.
Here’s another instance of a commander taking out one of his own troops.
The executions will continue until morale improves.
x ⚡ A Russian commander from the 155th Marine Brigade was heard ordering the execution of his own wounded soldiers, according to a radio intercept released by Ukraine’s intelligence agency.
[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) July 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has released a radio intercept in which a Russian commander from the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet is heard ordering the execution of one of his own wounded soldiers, as was reported by Hromadske on July 19. The audio, made public on July 19, captures the officer stating: “Shoot him… There are no sick in the Marine Corps — only the living and the dead. He has no other options. I order you to shoot him if he doesn’t move.”
When you empty your prisons to fill the trenches, this is what you end up with.
x 1/ Organised crime is now thriving in the Russian army as a result of its recruitment of tens of thousands of convicts. Former inmates extort, rob and torture soldiers with impunity to extract millions of rubles in pay and bonuses from them, as two recent accounts highlight. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
2/ Aleksandr Vladimirovich Efreemov of the 9th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 71443) told his wife that "If you don't find the money soon, they'll kill me". After arriving at a location in Ukraine, he was thrown into an open-air pit along with many other men. 3/ His wife says: “He spent all this time in a pit, and there were boys sitting there with him. They were beaten every day with clubs and rebar, and money was beaten out of them.” 4/ They had to write a report that they were volunteering the money to pay for the unit's needs. “They force you to write these reports, that supposedly it’s not under pressure.”
Russia thinks it can quell discontent by banning an app.
Easy for him to say.
x Trump reportedly told Zelensky in a phone call that Ukraine needs to go on the offensive if it wants to change the course of the war.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
[image or embed] — Meduza in English (@meduza.io) July 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Those decommissioned Abrams tanks from Australia have started to arrive in Ukraine.
x More than half of the promised 49 Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine!
Australia decommissioned the tanks in July 2024.
Biden admin refused to grant permission for the US-made tanks to be sent to Ukraine.
Trump admin approved in May 2025.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The EU’s new package of sanctions is already starting to have an effect.
x Bahamas-flagged Russian vessels subject to sanctions will likely be stripped of their flags, the Bahamas Maritime Authority said. In its alert, the BMA urged Russian shipowners and operators to be aware of significant sanctions risks, stating that ⤵️
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This Russian official says the economy is circling the drain and it’s much worse than official statements admit.
x “When we say that food prices have already risen in stores - folks, it’s not even autumn yet!” This is a very interesting clip in which Vladimir Boglaev, the head of the Cherepovets casting-mechanical plant, explains how the problems in manufacturing will affect the Russian economy.
[image or embed] — Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Maybe we could have a similar project here that splashes the cold water of reality in the faces of MAGAs.
x Czech skeptics who thought the war was a media conspiracy have been brought to Kharkiv. A documentary film project, initiated by director Robin Kvapil, brought three Czech individuals to Kharkiv, Ukraine, who had previously believed the war was merely a media fabrication.
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) July 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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