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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian troops reported to have entered Pokrovsk [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

Russian troops are reported to have entered the ruins of Pokrovsk. Whether this is the start of Russia securing the city and a Ukrainian withdrawal remains to be seen.

Russia has been trying to take this city for at least a year and has suffered horrendous casualties in the process.

x Small groups of Russian infantry reached the southern districts of Ukrainian Pokrovsk, a critical Kremlin objective that Moscow’s troops have fought a bloody campaign to capture for more than a year. www.kyivpost.com/post/56756



[image or embed] — Kyiv Post (@kyivpost.com) July 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM

The only thing the Russian crew of this rather expensive air defense system didn’t do to get it blown up was set up a billboard saying “Attack Here.”

x 💥 Russia: Ukrainian forces struck a Russian S-300P air defense complex and a Nebo-M radar positioned completely out in the open in Belgorod region.

The $100 million Nebo-M radars are used to identify and track incoming ballistic missiles. Russia only has a handful remaining.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Bombs away!

x A Ukrainian drone drops a thermobaric munition with precision on a house used as a shelter by Russian forces in Donetsk region.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM

Three Russians shoot a civilian riding a bicycle, then get hunted down by drones.

x 🤬 Three Russian soldiers shoot a resident of Torske who was riding a bicycle. 💀 After which all three were destroyed by Ukrainian FPV drones and artillery.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM

Azerbaijan ratchets up its conflict with Russia.

x 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan Arrests Wagner Fighters as War Criminals, - Euromaidan Azerbaijan has arrested and charged former Wagner mercenaries for crimes committed in Ukraine. The arrested — Ramil Aliyev and Ismayil Hasanov — served time in Russian prisons before joining Wagner’s Project-K pipeline.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM

Ukraine strikes again at Russia’s defense infrastructure.

x ⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Samara plant making raw materials for Russian artillery, bombs. The target in Samara was the Novokuybyshevsk Petrochemical Company, a major gas-processing and petrochemical facility that supplies raw materials used for explosives, said Andrii Kovalenko.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM

This is being reported as an ammunition depot in Melitopol being blown up.

x An air-raid alert went off near occupied Melitopol after a bomb threat — and not long after, locals were treated to the unmistakable sound of Russian “military infrastructure self-destructing.” A heavy detonation was reported, but the occupiers are still deciding what didn’t blow up.👇



[image or embed] — Meanwhile in Ukraine (@meanwhileua.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM

Unfortunately he wasn’t in the car.

x Ukrainian media report that in Moscow, unknown individuals set fire to a Mercedes-Benz ML350 belonging to Volodymyr Petrov, the head of “Petrov Engineering” — a company that produces drones, motors, and generators for the Russian military. The incident occurred on July 21.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM

I don’t know about the politics of this situation to pass judgment on its merits, but at a minimum it’s not a good look for a country that wants to join the EU.

I think I know why he is being “shy.”

x A Russian "volunteer" came to Russian-occupied Avdiivka, Donetsk region, and showed residential buildings destroyed by Russia. She also met with an African mercenary, Brian, and told him about the need to improve demographic statistics in Russia.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM

Russian bombs killed a 10-year-old boy in Kramatorsk.

There is video (linked here) of rescuers trying to revive the boy, but be warned that it is tough to watch.

x A 10-year-old boy has been killed after a russian guided aerial bomb struck an apartment building in Kramatorsk. The Military Administration also reported five injured.



[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM

A strong storm in Kyiv blows over a construction crane.

Another 1,090 Russians

This is a quarter of a million soldiers in just six months.

This is 100 dead Russians in one area just from ground drones.

x The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine has eliminated up to 100 Russian invaders in the Donetsk region using ground-based robotic systems militarnyi.com/en/news/grou...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM

He seemed normal.

x ☠️ Russian Nazi with the call sign "Hedgehog" was liquidated in Ukraine. He sat down in prison in Russia in 2010, and after leaving the camp, he joined the "militia" of the Strelkov-Girkin group, fought in Kramatorsk. He was liquidated by a Ukrainian drone near Chasiv Yar.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM

The beatings will continue until you sign up.

x 1/ Convicts are being violently press-ganged into the Russian army, according to relatives. They say that hundreds of prisoners have been beaten en masse until they have agreed to sign a military contract. The army "really needs meat", says one relative. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM

7/ Now, however, convicts in Russia's Central Federal District, the Volga region and Siberia are reportedly being put under heavy pressure to sign up for the army. A prisoner in the Kemerovo region says: 8/ "The cops have completely gone wild. They beat the phones out of convicts in every possible way. They say that over the last month, beatings have become a mandatory event, like lining up for roll call. Everyone is being dragged to the front indiscriminately. 9/ "The prisoners are turning on each other. If you die today, I'll die tomorrow." Svetlana, a female former convict, says that convicts' phones have been confiscated en masse in the Volga region, prompting the few remaining phones to be concealed in prisoners' body cavities: 10/ "For a detachment of 80 people, they had 10 phones. Every second prisoner was regularly in touch. Now there are 2 (!) phones left for the entire zone of 10 detachments. They are so careful that they are kept almost in the ass. ….. Svetlana says that prisoners have been beaten up indiscriminately to force them to sign contracts: 14/ "They opened the gates and hundreds of “cosmonauts” [helmeted prison guards, riot police and FSB personnel] flew into the colony and started beating everyone up indiscriminately. If you barely put your hand out, they would call you a resister. 15/ "They simply beat the entire colony up with truncheons along the spine. And with broken bones – almost half were taken to the front. That is, some signed contracts right there. 16/ "And some were taken “to Moscow”, and on the way [were told] – well, we’ll get to Lefortovo [FSB headquarters] and cut off your ears. He signs the contract right there."

Ukraine has been accepting recruits from prisons, but those recruits committed mostly property offenses.

x 🫡🇺🇦 Almost 9,500 convicts have already joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among them — almost 100 women convicted of various crimes. State Criminal Enforcement Service: 55% of them were convicted of property crimes — in particular, theft and fraud. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM

This story outlines Zaluzhnyi’s path to victory for Ukraine — continuing to innovate with drones and degrading Russia’s capacity to wage war.

But he also lays out a troubling aspect — the need to develop “ruthless” drone swarms that are independent of human decision-making.

Zaluzhnyi’s analysis carries urgency. By 2027, technological advances will restore the possibility of massive conventional operations using “totally ruthless” autonomous weapons. If Ukraine hasn’t established decisive advantages in attritional warfare by then, it could face much more dangerous scenarios. “Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies continue to develop at a rapid pace,” he writes. “For the first time ever, human involvement will be fully or partially removed not only from the process of control, but also from decision-making about target engagement.”

Good for YouTube.

x YouTube removed nearly 11,000 channels in Q2 2025 linked to state propaganda campaigns from China, Russia, and others. Over 2,000 of them were Russian, pushing pro-Kremlin narratives while attacking Ukraine, NATO, and the West.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM

If this is what passes for Spetznatz these days, Russia is in serious trouble.

BTW, I did have to look up consanguineous. It refers to inbreeding.

x You can tell by his uniform that this product of Russia's inordinately consanguineous population is Spetsnaz. The giveaway is how his brown loafers and garbage bag socks complement his Ali Express woodland camo uniform and fake North Face jacket. #OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM

He should have stayed home with his students.

x ⚡️Moscow's 2022 'Teacher of the Year' killed while fighting in Ukraine, Meduza reports. Gennady Starunov, named Moscow’s "Teacher of the Year" in 2022, was killed while serving in the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine, school officials confirmed on July 21.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Hungary is determined to continue getting Russian oil.

x 🇭🇺🇷🇸🤔 Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó has announced an agreement with “Serbian and Russian colleagues” to build a new oil pipeline between Serbia and Hungary, aimed at consolidating imports of Russian crude oil, — Euractiv



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM

What’s worse than having workers assemble drones for your genocidal invasion of a peaceful neighbor? Doing it with child labor.

x A thoroughly depressing story: Russia's military-industrial complex is pulling young people out of high school so they can build instruments of death. For motivation, they're telling these teenagers that "Stalin's DNA" courses through their veins. Poor kids. meduza.io/en/news/2025...



[image or embed] — Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) July 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Dad’s home.

A kitten for Mykyta.

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