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Russian stuff blowing up: Russian attack kills at least 24 pensioners [1]

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Date: 2025-09-09

A Russian strike on the village of Yarova has killed 24 civilians and wounded 19 more who gathered for pension payments. The video of the aftermath is here, but be warned: it shows victims lying on the ground.

Yarova is north of Slovyansk. Reports indicate Russia used a 250 kg guided bomb in the attack.

x 🔴 At least 20 were killed as Russian forces targeted civilians gathered to receive pension payments in Yarova, Donetsk region.



[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) September 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM

x The death toll in Yarova has risen to 24 after a cynical russian airstrike on the line of elderly people for pension. An additional 19 people were injured in the attack.



[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM

Russian drone/missile attacks have increased greatly this summer.

x ‼️ Since the beginning of 2025, the number of Russian attacks on Ukraine has increased fivefold, - WP There were no quiet nights in Ukraine this summer. In June and July, the occupiers launched a total of 11,739 drones — a record since the start of the full-scale war.



[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM

In addition, Russia attacked Ukraine with 433 cruise and ballistic missiles in just two months.According to the UN, these two months were the deadliest for civilians in three years: 518 people were killed and more than 1,500 were injured.

Ukrainian missiles blast the Topaz plant in Donetsk used by the Russian military.

x Ukraine launched domestic cruise missiles and drones at Russian command HQs in occupied Donetsk — including a hidden base inside a research lab. Analysts say Peklo or Bars missiles may have been used.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/r...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM

Militarnyi notes that although it remains unclear which exact weapons were used in the strikes, footage released by local residents supports the theory that Ukraine used domestically produced Peklo and Bars cruise missiles. Visual evidence from the scene, including the configuration of the jet engine and wing mount, appears to match the characteristics of the Peklo missile.

Ukraine also hit pipelines and fuel pumping stations.

x Ukraine's 14th UAV Regiment struck the “Vtorovo” pumping station in Vladimir region, targeting infrastructure supplying diesel to the Moscow ring pipeline. Unmanned Systems Commander Brovdi confirmed the attack, calling it a blow to Russia’s fuel logistics.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM

x 🔥At around 4 a.m. on September 8, at least four explosions were heard in Penza, Russia, damaging a main oil pipeline and two gas pipeline lines. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/expl...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) September 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM

Russia bombed another hospital in Kostiantynivka.

x Russian troops have destroyed the 5th hospital in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. Doctors have saved the lives of many wounded there. The city is being systematically reduced to ruins by artillery strikes and KABs.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Russia is getting quite brazen about its spying.

x 🇩🇪/1. Germany: Russian spy ship seized in Kiel Canal German special forces boarded the freighter Scanlark in the Kiel Canal, uncovering espionage equipment on board. Investigators suspect the vessel was used by Russia to launch drones over critical infrastructure.



[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM

/2. According to authorities, a drone had already been deployed on August 26, 2025, to monitor a German Navy ship. The 40-year-old vessel, officially sailing under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, is linked to an Estonian operator, while the crew is Russian.

Ditto for Belarus.

x 🥔🇪🇺 A spy network being built in Europe by Belarus was broken up by intelligence services from Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, - CNN ❗️BIS said in a statement that a team of European agents discovered spies in several European countries from Belarus’ KGB security agency.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM

A Ukrainian unit brings down an Iskander cruise missile with a vintage ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun. The ZU-23-2 was developed in the 50s and uses two 23mm auto cannons.

x The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published a video showing a mobile unit with a ZU-23-2 shooting down a Russian Iskander-K cruise missile.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM

Another 950 Russians.

Ukraine to receive German Skyranger anti-aircraft units.

x Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger announced they will supply Ukraine with Skyranger air defense systems in a contract worth hundreds of millions of euros. Deliveries will start by the end of 2025 after the contract is signed on September 10th at DSEI-25 in London. #OSINT



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM

Hungary finally gets around to weaning itself from Russian gas.

This Belgian journalist describes the perilous bus journey from Odesa to Kherson via drone tunnel.

x YouTube Video

And this video report illustrates life among the drone pilots in Pokrovsk and how the remaining residents of the city survive.

x YouTube Video

The fuel crisis rocks on.

x How empires collapse: Fuel crisis has reached Russia-occupied Abkhazia in Georgia.

This gas station only has the lowest grade gasoline, and the price skyrocketed by 12% from 56 rubles per liter on Friday to 65 rubles on Monday.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Trump has found a Ukrainian he cares about.

Rest in peace.

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