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Russian stuff blowing up: Well-known Russian war correspondent disappears at the front [1]
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Date: 2025-07-25
A well-known Russian war blogger is missing and presumed dead near Pokrovsk.
Too bad, so sad.
x Russians claim that the famous Russian military propagandist Filatov disappeared on the Pokrovsky Front after the FPV drone attack. There is currently no contact with him. Russians are also publishing footage from a camera that was installed on his motorcycle and was found at the site of FPV attack.
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ukraine struck a Russian base northeast of the city of Donetsk.
x The moment of arrivals in occupied Donetsk. The strikes reportedly targetted the area near the Zasyadko coal mine, where Russian forces were gathered.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
So I guess 💩 doesn’t float after all.
x Ramzan Kadyrov nearly drowned in the sea while vacationing in Turkey and had to be hospitalized, according to Turkish media.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
[image or embed] — Meduza in English (@meduza.io) July 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ukraine continues its drone campaign against rail and factory targets in southern Russia. There was a mass drone strike on a rail hub in the town of Peschanokopskoye, which is southeast of Rostov.
x A drone attack overnight on July 25 disrupted rail traffic in southern Russia, delaying more than 20 trains and damaging infrastructure in several regions. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/dron...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
x 🔥 At night, drones attacked the chemical plant "Nevinnomyssk Azot" in the Stavropol Krai, more than 20 strikes. 💥 Tambov gunpowder plant in Kotovsk was reported to have been hit - a fire broke out on its territory.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The guy who jumped out was the smart one.
Ukraine exacerbated Russia’s already short supply of armored vehicless.
Russia destroyed a Norwegian aid station in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
x A Russian drone strike overnight destroyed a Norwegian humanitarian aid base in Mykolaiv, according to the head of Norwegian People's Aid. The facility played a key role in delivering support to civilians affected by the war.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Russia also hit a tuberculosis clinic in Kharkiv.
x russian strike on one of Kharkiv’s hospitals earlier today is yet another cynical war crime with zero military purpose. Terrorists.
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Anti-tank mines make much bigger bavovnas than those drone grenades.
In the Russian city of Saratov what is being reported as a gas explosion destroyed a big chunk of this 10-story building.
Zelenskyy is also asking European nations to fund a salary increase for Ukrainian troops in an effort to attract new recruits.
x 🇺🇦 Zelensky: 10 Patriot air defense systems are being funded. ▪️Defence team working on up to $30B drone deal with U.S. ▪️Ukraine urgently needs $6 billion to scale up production of interceptor drones, and $25 billion annually to sustain production of missiles, drones, and EW systems.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Russia forms an army unit made up of Ukrainian prisoners they claim don’t want to go home.
x 😡 Russia is forming a "Ukrainian battalion" of captured Ukrainian military personnel who allegedly refused to be exchanged. ❗️They will be transferred under the command of the occupying army, - said State Duma deputy Vodolatsky.
[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Another 980 Russians and three tanks.
I guess they didn’t want to take the risk that one of the ships in the parade might accidentally blow up.
If you haven’t seen this in the news yet, Thailand and Cambodia are shooting at each other. I don’t think we can call it a war yet — maybe a skirmish. Anyway, there is a Ukrainian angle to it.
Ukraine is managing to squeeze some military support out of the Trump Administration.
x ⚡️US approves $330 million in military sales to Ukraine for artillery, air defense support. The U.S. State Department has approved two proposed military sales to Ukraine, valued at a combined $330 million, to bolster the country’s artillery & air defense systems, the agency announced on July 24.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Russia apparently wants to kill Ukrainians twice.
For a country that is willing to bomb kindergartens, hospitals and apartment buildings, a crowded restaurant is par for the course.
x Ukraine’s Security Service has detained a woman who planted an explosive (photo) in a Kyiv restaurant under instructions from Russian intelligence. It’s a clear act of terrorism, in line with Russia’s strategy of Shahed strikes across Ukraine and “human safari” in Kherson.
[image or embed] — Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
It’ll take a sustained bombing campaign to put this facility out of business. Russia is reportedly using teenagers who have finished the ninth grade as labor in this plant.
x ❗️The Russian Federation has significantly expanded and continues to expand the Shahed production plant in 🇷🇺Alabuga — CNN On the active expansion of the plant:
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Russian Central Bank bends to heavy political pressure and lowers the key interest rate from 20% to 18%.
Interesting that he went to fight for Ukraine.
x ❗️🇩🇪German politician Tim Schramm, a member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, secretly went to fight for 🇺🇦Ukraine and fought against the 🇷🇺Russians for several months.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The first question I had when reading this was why is a lieutenant colonel working on defusing a drone.
x FSB Lieutenant Colonel Пименов Максим Анатольевич (Pimenov Maxim Anatolievich), explosive technician of the “Grom” special unit, senior expert-criminalist of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Obl., was eliminated in Kursk Region, while demining a drone. vk.com/wall5932063_...
[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
But is this higher than the defenestration rate?
India seems to not believe Trump’s threat of sanctions.
So, this would have been an even better idea if it had been proposed two or three years ago.
x ⚡️Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs. The Netherlands & 40 other OSCE members have called for an independent investigation into the torture & mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said July 24.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rest in peace.
A daughter gets ready to greet her father after he was released in the latest prisoner exchange.
x 13-year-old Karolina can't hold back her tears of joy as she prepares to finally meet her father - a #Ukrainian Defender returned from Russian captivity. A very touching video. 📹: TSN
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A somber rendition.
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