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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian major general dies of 'heart attack' [1]
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Date: 2025-07-20
This war criminal is alleged to have died of a heart attack, although there is at least one report saying Ukrainian special services got to him.
Of course, the heart attack story might be true. Maybe he had a heart attack as he was falling from a 20th-floor window. Or maybe he had a heart attack when he realized what was in his tea. Or maybe he had a heart attack when it was discovered he was extorting millions and not sharing any of it.
If you die of a heart attack, does your widow still get a bag of onions?
x Russia: Major General Alexander Kornev, commander of the 7th VDV Airborne Assault Division, has died of a "heart attack."
He was on Ukraine's kill list for committing war crimes against the civilian population in Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Bringing down a drone with a shotgun — the hard way.
Baba Yaga strikes again.
x A Ukrainian “Vampire” strike drone, known as “Baba Yaga,” tears apart a Russian assault team of three near Pokrovsk with a precise, brutal hit.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
That's a shame about your train. Big mess to clean up, no doubt.
x In Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, a train carrying hazardous chemicals exploded near the city of Dzerzhinsk—just 40 km from a major urban center of 1.2 million people. Firefighters arrived in hazmat suits, yet there’s been no official word in local media.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Russian TV is now accusing Azerbaijan of involvement in Operation Spiderweb.
x Russian state TV has aired a new "exposé": it turns out that Azerbaijani special services, "using their diasporas in Russia, assisted Ukrainian intelligence in carrying out the sabotage-terrorist operation Spiderweb, which aimed to strike Russia's strategic air force."
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
x Ukrainian journalist Olena Kurbanova has gifter the chevrons of Ukrainian combat units to President Aliyev. The President of Azerbaijan has gratefully accepted the gift. This caused an explosive reaction in the Russian media.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This award of $6.9 billion is from Russia’s seizure of assets owned by Ukraine’s Naftogaz in Crimea in 2014.
x ⚡️Ukraine to secure $6.9 billion in arbitration from Russian Gazprom, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian ambassadors will receive detailed instructions on July 21 on how to proceed with the recovery of the awarded funds.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A Shahed taken down by one of Ukraine’s light aircraft.
x Detonation of a Shahed drone shot down by a Yak-52 light mobile aircraft. These aircraft are used to chase and shoot down these drones.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Russia has gone all in on mass drone assaults against Ukraine’s cities.
Hopefully this video contains enough to be able to geolocate this site and blow it the fuck up.
x Video clips of Russians launching drones at Ukraine from a catapult. A huge generator makes the catapult work. The drones are set on the catapult by a crane. Some drones are launched separately from pickup trucks. Russia keeps expanding its drone production.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A Russian inventories the damage done to his Scooby van by a drone.
A Ukraine kamikaze drone hits a Russian ground drone carrying ammo.
Moscow came under another drone assault.
x Moscow faced one of the heaviest drone attacks since May. Russia claims:
♦️98 drones intercepted in total
♦️19 shot down over the Moscow Oblast Debris from the intercepted aircraft struck the upper floors of a residential building and ignited cars in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd.
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
x Airports and airlines in the swamp continue their collapse. In the last 48-hours, at least 134 flights were redirected to alternate airports and scores more were canceled. Lucky for them they have manmade marshes in the airports. #OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar
[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The drones will find you. Resistance is futile.
x A Russian soldier tried to escape a Ukrainian FPV drone by running along a tree line and hiding in the woods. Operators from the 152nd Ranger Brigade located him with a thermal camera and eliminated him.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Another 1,040 Russians who chose poorly.
x Russian losses per 20/07/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff +1040 men
+3 tanks
+9 AFVs
+52 artillery systems
+1 MLRS
+270 UAVs
+23 cruise missiles
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The rumor mill continues to believe that Trump might send Tomahawks to Ukraine.
Don’t hold your breath. Trump is as erratic as Tesla stock, so either this is actually in the works or it’s complete 💩💩
But if it did happen, it would be an upgrade to Ukraine’s long-range strike abilities. While Ukrainian long-range drones have improved immensely, many still get shot down and they deliver usually a warhead of about 50 kilograms.
A Tomahawk cruise missile delivers a 500-kilogram warhead and is far more sophisticated at evading air defenses.
x The weapons for Ukraine rumor mill went into overdrive this week when it was reported that U.S. President Donald Trump was considering supplying Kyiv with Tomahawk cruise missiles, which analysts say could be a significant upgrade for Ukraine’s arsenal.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Tomahawks would make strikes in Moscow and St. Petersburg far more effective. But perhaps most significantly it would be bad news for the Russian Air Force.
Another target that would likely be high on Ukraine's target list are the airbases from which Russia launches mass missile attacks against Ukrainian cities. Ukraine has long struggled to target them as Moscow has kept its air fleet out of range of weapons Kyiv has developed itself as well as those supplied by its Western countries. This changed with Operation Spiderweb which saw the audacious use of first-person view (FPV) drones deployed inside Russia itself to target and destroy a significant number of Russian aircraft. But the operation was a year-and-a-half in the planning and appears, for now at least, to have been a one off. Tomahawk missiles would be able to regularly strike Olenya air base in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, one of the main launchpads for Russian mass missile attacks against Ukraine.
This site in Alabuga where Shahed/Geran drones are produced that would be far more vulnerable to Tomahawks. Alabuga is in Tatarstan about halfway between Moscow and Yekaterinburg to the east.
x Russian media are also publishing footage of Shahed launches from pickup trucks and stationary catapults at a specially equipped airfield.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Another expensive, supposedly sophisticated Russian anti-drone system is taken out by a couple of drones.
The KOP-2 is described as an experimental Russian platform designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles by scanning a wide radio frequency spectrum, detecting the control frequency of incoming drones, and attempting to jam their signals with high-powered interference. Russian forces reportedly use such systems to protect high-value assets, including air defense installations. Despite its intended purpose, the KOP-2 failed to withstand the precision of Ukrainian drone operators. The system, considered both rare and costly, was destroyed in a two-stage operation.
Drone nets are now appearing over city streets.
A massive Russian bombardment of a tree line in the Sumy region ended up being useless.
x Russia’s jets dropped 250 bombs to stop Ukraine’s advance—the Bradleys rolled anyway Russia fired hundreds of KAB glide bombs at a single treeline—then retreated from Sumy anyway. euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/16/r...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Russian air force recently dropped 250 glide bombs on a single treeline near Andriivka in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, potentially making that roughly 3-km-long copse the most bombed place on Earth at the time. It didn’t help. The Russian regiments and brigades the air force was supporting with its intensive—some might say “insane”—aerial bombardment have been defeated and forced to withdraw from the area. ….. Shrugging off the bombardment, mechanized Ukrainian troops flanked the de-mechanized Russians near Kindrativka last week. The Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies noted Ukrainian counterattacks in Sumy that could “complicate the enemy’s advance and threaten the encirclement of Russian troops operating in Andriivka.” But the Russians escaped just in time, fleeing northeast and straightening the Russian line in Sumy. The end result, however, is that the Russians control less of Sumy now compared to a week ago. Even a record number of glide bombs pummeling a tiny fragment of forest hasn’t been able to reverse the Russians’ declining fortunes in the oblast.
A Russian war blogger claims Ukraine is also using chemical weapons.
x 1/ A Russian warblogger fighting in eastern Ukraine says that an unprecedented number of Ukrainian FPV drones is causing huge casualties. He claims that both sides are using chemical weapons and complains about the quality of reinforcements.
bsky.app/profile/mili...
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
"1. Walking through the forest belts to the Dnepropetrovsk region, there are many corpses, I have never seen so many during the entire war. There are really a lot of them." 3/ "2. We are not angels either, we also use chemical weapons somewhere, but we are somewhere with them, I can't see, but when they were poisoning us, when I was running from an FPV to the dugout (knowing that it was there). 4/ "I ran in there, saw foam-covered corpses and smelled the smell... I ran out right away, I didn't give a damn about the FPV. 5/ "3. [The drones] fly in a swarm, they sit in the grass and take off. So many guys die from these waiting ones. This has never happened before, life did not prepare me for this. ….. 10/ "7. Reinforcements come, there are few ideological ones, or old men who will die themselves, and the guys who will save them will be dragged along with them. 11/ "Those who have not found a role in civilian life or need money [come here], and here they go nuts, and there is no way back. Those who are running from the law, killed someone – only [joined] 7 days ago and already earning money. Those who want to quit drinking or drug use.
Another intelligence coup for Ukraine, unmasking Russia’s FSB units responsible for electronic surveillance and computer espionage.
One of the rarely discussed benefits of having Ukraine in NATO would be taking advantage of Ukraine’s ability to penetrate sensitive Russian institutions.
x 👀 An OSINT investigation has uncovered the internal structure and geographic footprint of one of the Russian FSB’s most secretive units responsible for electronic surveillance and cyber espionage.
[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) July 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
An open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigation has uncovered the internal structure and geographic footprint of one of the Russian Federal Security Service’s most secretive units—Center 16—responsible for electronic surveillance and cyber espionage. The findings were made possible by analyzing images of commemorative and service badges shared online by FSB personnel and collectors. According to a report published by Finnish research group Check First, over 200 photographs of badges related to Center 16 were collected from resale platforms, collector forums, and websites of manufacturers such as Breget, SpetsZnak, and GosZnak.
You’ll shoot your eye out!*
*If you don’t get the reference, you don’t watch enough Christmas movies.
x Meanwhile in Russia… “15-year-old teenager shot in the eye with air gun in St. Petersburg” Mothers everywhere: SEE! THIS IS WHAT I WARNED YOU ABOUT! www.mk.ru/incident/202...
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world after Saturday’s fight in London.
Adrian! Adrian!
x Ukrainian soldiers at the front are gearing up to watch Usyk vs. Dubois. Usyk (38) holds WBA, WBO, and WBC titles. Dubois (27) holds the IBF. Tonight’s fight at Wembley will crown the undisputed heavyweight champion—one man, all the belts.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How fucked up is your agricultural sector if you need to import food from North Korea?
It is especially ironic that this involves apples, which originated in Central Asia.
x 🤨 North Korean apples have begun to appear on the shelves of Russian supermarkets, marking a visible shift in the expanding economic relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang.
[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) July 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A Ukrainian veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan who died defending Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Rest in peace.
x Kostiantyn Oborin, head of the Odesa Aviation Club, died while carrying out a combat mission to defend Ukraine. Kostiantyn was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. In 2014, risking his own life, he rescued 29 Ukrainian warriors from captivity.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Thank you for your service.
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