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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets Russian defense electronics plant [1]
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Date: 2025-07-26
Ukrainian drones strike a facility in Russia that produces radio electronics and tank modules for the military. One of the drones looks like a Ukrainian version of a Shahed. Stavropol is about 420 km southeast of Mariupol.
x Ukrainian Telegram channels, citing SBU sources, report that one strike at the Signal radio plant in Stavropol hit Building 2, which contains expensive imported CNC equipment. Another strike hit Building 1, home to a key radio-electronics workshop.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
x I may not look like a serious hit but immediately after the strike, the company's website went dark (see image) indicating the target may have been the facility's data processing center. The Google street view image below was used for geolocation. 3rd & 4th images show the Tank PKT MG module.
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[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The luckiest man in the Russian army.
x An FPV drone strikes the ground just dozens of centimeters from a Russian motorcyclist but miraculously fails to detonate.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Apparent sabotage at a Russian airfield.
x A Russian Su-27UB fighter jet was destroyed overnight at the Armavir airfield in Krasnodar Krai, HUR reports. The base and its aircraft are mainly used for training cadets from the Krasnodar aviation school. Locals say communications in nearby towns are down.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Another Ukrainian cyber attack on Russian government systems, this time in Crimea.
x Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence executed a bold cyber operation targeting the Russian-installed occupation government in Crimea It exfiltrated a staggering 100 terabytes of classified files. After extraction, the Ukrainian cyber team wiped the servers clean
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/25/u...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An update on the Russian war correspondent who was thought to have been killed. He lives to blog another day.
Russia launched drone/missile attacks once again last night.
A gas explosion in Russia makes for a close call for some children.
My car burned up but it looked beautiful doing so.
x Ukrainians are the most positive people on earth, bar none. Listen to what this Odesa resident says about her car, which was destroyed in a Russian attack on the city.
[image or embed] — Natalka (@natalkakyiv.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Another 1,080 Russians, plus seven tanks.
He doesn’t look old enough to shave.
x At least 245 18-year-old Russians killed in war against Ukraine since April 2023 - BBC reports This happened despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated claims that no 18-year-olds would be sent to fight
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/26/b...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This Ukrainian medic reached her breaking point.
x I fought to save a wounded soldier under enemy drones. Hours of struggle, one last vein, he lived. Minutes after evacuation, a huge blast—our team was gone. I joined to save lives, even enemies. Not anymore. I will never treat a Russian again. Let them bleed. Photo: combat medic Nadiia Bila
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk the water shortage is critical.
x In the first video, people in Donetsk are seen greeting a water tanker. In the second video,during the rain, people try to collect at least a drop of water because the water pipeline from the Siverskyi Donets was destroyed by the Russians⤵️
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
x When Donetsk was not occupied by Russia, the city hosted the European Football Championship, as well as concerts by Rihanna and Beyoncé. Now, there is no more running water in the city. According to the schedule, water only appears in taps once every three days, and
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Russia tests a new naval drone.
x ❗️Video from the 🇷🇺Russian Navy's military exercises "July Storm", which are taking place from July 23 to 27 in the waters of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Caspian and Baltic Seas.
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
An update on Russia’s reserve supply of tanks.
x For less than 1% of GDP over three years, the West has enabled Ukraine to deplete almost all of Russia’s Cold War tank reserves, according to satellite data. Less than 2% of stocks remaining are in good condition. About half require some serious repairs, and the rest are junk.
[image or embed] — Ukraine War Brief Podcast (@ukrainewarpod.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
More evidence that Russia is planning a big push in the Zaporizhzhia area and Pokrovsk, likely prior to the end of Trump’s 50-day Bomb for Free Period.
x Heavy Russian armor, including tanks and air defense, is being moved toward the Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia axes—on a scale not seen in a long time. Main supply routes run through Uspenka and Voznesenka, reports Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the Mariupol mayor.
[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Here is a brief tutorial on the physics of long-range drones.
x When it comes to the results of Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia, one of the most asked questions is why Ukrainian drone strikes cause damage that often appears insufficient. The answer lies largely in engineering trade-offs: the balance between range and payload. Thread 🧵:
[image or embed] — Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
2/ Drones that fly far have to allocate a lot of their weight and space to fuel/batteries, which leaves less room for explosives. Long range also creates aerodynamic issues - to carry more fuel, drones needs to be bigger, which makes them heavier, slower, easier to intercept 3/ Advanced materials and engineering could help mitigate these limitations, but such solutions often dramatically increase costs and reduce scalability, which are critical factors in a war of attrition. And even high-end drones remain vulnerable to simple and cheap air defense 4/ Russia, by contrast, have a certain geographic advantage here. Targets like Kyiv or Kharkiv are close to border and fall within range of drones with heavier payloads and shorter flight distances. As a result, Russian drones can prioritize impact over "endurance". 5/ In Ukraine’s case, achieving sufficiently destructive effects would require medium-range ballistic or cruise missiles. But developing and producing such systems is far more complex and expensive than assembling drones. 6/ Iran, for example, spent more than a decade building its "own" MRBM program. For Ukraine, developing and scaling missile production in wartime conditions, when Russia can hit any facility across the country is a major industrial and logistical limitation. 7/ On a more optimistic note, Ukraine has made significant progress. Compared to 2023 and 2024, it has taken a major leap, not just in designing long-range drones, but also in scaling production to the point where strikes inside Russia are now almost a daily occurrence. 8/ Ukrainians have also advanced in hybrid propulsion, improved explosive mixtures that boost impact even with smaller warheads. Work continues on flight path optimization and other refinements, but such progress takes time - a resource increasingly scarce for Ukraine.
This is a major advance in the survivability of Ukraine’s F-16s.
x Ukraine's fleet of F-16 fighter jets have been given a badly-needed boost with the creation of new mobile maintenance and operations modules which will help them evade Russian ballistic missile strikes.
[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
"There is only a short time lag between finding the F-16s and then launching ballistic missiles," Peter Layton, former Royal Australian Air Force officer and Associate Fellow at RUSI, told the Kyiv Independent. "The key to F-16 survival when on the ground is not being found," he added. The extensive amount of crew and equipment needed to maintain F-16s has up until now limited where they could be deployed, but Layton said the new mobile complexes would open up the use of "less likely airfields, such as short and civilian air strips, or remote parts of large military airbases." "The F-16s are then widely dispersed so if one is found and targeted not all will be destroyed. It is a shell game," he added. …. The new system reduces the number of personnel needed to load a munition from 10–12 to three, making the process less manpower-intensive and faster.
Yet another bullshit excuse from Putin to drag his feet on negotiations.
x ❗️Zelensky is now an illegitimate leader and cannot lift his own ban on negotiations with the Russian Federation, putin said. His other statements:
▪️He also says, “It is possible to hold negotiations with Zelensky, but not to sign anything.”
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
There is nothing stopping the 14% who want to join Russia from going there.
x Poll showed 14% of Slovaks openly want to join Russia, and another 18% consider this possibility The least support for such idea is observed among people with higher education, urban residents, and citizens with above-average incomes
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/26/p...
[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Is she related to RFK Jr.
x Meanwhile in Russia… Operation Spiderweb Part 2 “A spider settled in the ear of a resident of Bashkiria and spun a web” 🕷️: sweet dreams 😈 www.mk.ru/social/2025/...
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The sound of fear
x The buzz of a drone doesn’t just signal danger — it can foment lasting psychological damage. What does that mean for modern warfare? warontherocks.com/20...
[image or embed] — War on the Rocks (@warontherocks.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Perhaps the most cunning use of drones on the battlefield is their psychological impact. While reporting confirms their effectiveness in hitting targets, it also reveals the growing mental toll drones are taking on both soldiers and civilians. Drones are seemingly unstoppable — appearing from everywhere and nowhere in overwhelming numbers and known for blowing heads off shoulders. Tactically, drones are an advantage to special operators focused on precise targeting. But it’s the resulting paralysis that offers strategic opportunity to both sides of a fight — mostly the underdog. This apprehensiveness helps sustain a deterrent stalemate that works to the disadvantaged force’s benefit, characterized by largely static lines of control and entrenchment — a dynamic seen in the Russo-Ukrainian War. But this is hardly a good thing — it means pinning down forces, prolonging a war, and introducing new forms of trauma. Military commanders hoping to use drones to inflict mass casualties or take and hold terrain may be overlooking how humans cognitively respond to these systems.
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’m going to venture a guess that the guy who is trying to crawl into the hole is either drunk or stoned or both.
Residents of Kharkiv go about their lives in spite of the daily bombings.
x Today's morning in Kharkiv. These people and this city have been under russian attack half of last night. Yet look at them.
[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A Fightin’ Finch (or maybe a Tactical Thrush) provides recon for a Ukrainian drone.
When I saw this I tried to remember if I have ever seen video of Putin petting any kind of animal. I haven’t.
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