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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine strikes infamous Russian brigade near Vladivostok [1]

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Date: 2025-09-16

A Ukrainian operation struck the base of the infamous 155th Naval Brigade near Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast. The 155th is the brigade that has taken horrendous casualties and was implicated in war crimes at Bucha.

x 💥Update on the explosions at a military base in Vladivostok, Russia: Operation was carried out by Ukraine's GUR against the 155th Marine Brigade in Shitova.

Multiple soldiers dead and wounded.

The unit is responsible for mass executions of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha & Irpin in 2022.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Is there a mass surrender coming in the Doborpillia salient northeast of Pokrovsk?

Short answer: Maybe.

x Ukraine: Hundreds of Russian soldiers surrounded in two pockets on the eastern front north of Pokrovsk. Russian command denied their pleas to retreat.

Mass surrender possible in the coming days.

Ukrainian counteroffensive threatens to encircle a much larger 40km² salient as well.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM

x Ukraine: Hundreds of Russian troops are trapped in two pockets north of Pokrovsk. Command has refused their retreat requests, leaving them cut off. A mass surrender may follow in the coming days, as Ukraine’s counteroffensive threatens to encircle a larger 40 km² salient.



[image or embed] — Shaun Pinner (@olddogua.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Oleksiivka is a village north of Sumy and close to the Russian border. Russian troops had pushed into the village in a salient that now appears to be in danger of being encircled by Ukraine.

x Russian sources report the situation in Oleksiivka, Sumy region, is deteriorating rapidly. "Officially it's being called operational encirclement, but it looks more like a complete disaster for our troops on the ground," they write.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM

If your defense depends on “pensioners, drunks, the unwanted,” you are officially in trouble.

x Another Russian channel admits the situation in Sumy is getting worse. It claims Oleksiivka will likely be abandoned, comparing it to Kondrativka where entire regiments were destroyed. Reinforcements from the 30th Motor Rifle Regiment are described by an officer as “pensioners, drunks, the unwanted”



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM

Russia launched a vicious assault on Zaporizhzhia.

x Zaporizhzhia right now! Russia carried out at least ten strikes on the city. As of now, one civilian is reported dead and seven others injured, including a child.



[image or embed] — Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM

And a home improvement center near Kyiv.

And a pharmacy school in Kharkiv.

x The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM

Russia also attacked farmers harvesting their crops in Sumy.

x Today Russian army bombed combines that were gathering harvest in Sumy region, Ukraine . They bombed them with 2 missiles. 12 people were wounded. — Margo Gontar (@margogontar.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Russian soldiers also looted one of their own churches in Sudzha in the Kursk region.

x Russia: Russian soldiers raided their own Holy Trinity Church in Sudzha, Belgorod region - they breached the doors and stole the valuables.

Russians retook the city after it was under Ukrainian control for 7 months.

The Russian church was not touched under Ukrainian occupation.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM

Another 910 Russians who chose poorly.

Russian soldiers honor Charlie Kirk.

Maybe the forest elves got him.

x ‼️ Russia: “Military official disappeared into the forest” 👉 Daniil Sukhanov, former deputy director of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense His case “is being heard in absentia, since he has gone abroad” www.kommersant.ru/doc/8041397



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM

“He is accused of accepting bribes and abuse of office: according to the investigation, his actions made illegal logging possible in areas subordinate to the military department.“

Coordinated drone swarms are on the way.

x ⚡️ Ukrainian swarm drone AI startup secures $15 million in record defense investment. "This funding enables us to scale our operations and offer advanced swarming capabilities to every unmanned vehicle, in Ukraine and across NATO-aligned nations," Swarmer CEO Serhii Kupriienko said.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) September 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM

Let’s check in on the Russian economy.

Two drones were seen flying over government buildings in Poland. They appear to have been launched by a couple of kids.

x ❗️🇵🇱Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that just 15 minutes ago, the State Security Service neutralized a drone flying over government buildings (Parkowa) and Belwederem Two Belarusian citizens were also detained. Police are investigating the circumstances of the incident.



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM

x 👀🇵🇱 The drone that flew over government buildings in Poland was piloted by a 21-year-old Ukrainian and a 17-year-old Belarusian citizen, — TVN24 — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM

This report on the status of Russia’s fleet of tanks says that Russia has ordered new production of T-80 tanks, but the factory in Siberia hasn’t made one from scratch in almost 35 years.

x Russia paused new T-80 tank production in 2001. After losing ~4,000 tanks in Ukraine, Omsk is trying to restart the line—critics say it’s more show than steel.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/t...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM

The Russian tank factory in Omsk, in Siberia 2,300 km from Ukraine, stopped building new T-80 gas-turbine tanks back in 2001. The simpler diesel-fueled T-72 and T-90 would be Russia’s main tanks for the next quarter-century. But then Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022—and Ukrainian forces got to work wrecking the Russian tank corps and its 3,000 active tanks, including around 500 upgraded T-80BVs and T-80BVMs. Forty-three months later, Russia has lost more than 4,000 tanks, including a staggering 1,200 T-80s. That’s essentially all the active pre-war tanks plus another 700 older T-80s that Russian forces fetched from long-term storage and refurbished in Omsk before shipping them off to the front line.

It’s a lot cheaper to just send sick soldiers back to the front and feed them into the meat grinder than it is to treat them for decades to come.

x 1/ Russian soldiers with HIV and hepatatis are pleading to be released from military service and allowed to undergo treatment. Instead, many are being sent back to the front lines without any treatment, and some are being sent into suicidal assaults as an apparent punishment. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM

I haven’t heard the phrase “no-fly zone” for a while. Don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen though.

x 🇷🇴❗️🇺🇦 Romania currently does not support the creation of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, fearing a direct confrontation with Russia, — President Nicusor Dan "There are international customs regarding what it means to be in conflict (…), doing something in a certain way means entering into conflict."



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM

The Ukrainians have been doing this for a while. But now Russia tries out air defense by light aircraft.

Viktor Orban continues to make friends among his fellow European leaders.

A local resident of the town of Myski in Russia visits a cemetery filled with the dead from the war in Ukraine.

Myski is north of where the borders of Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet and is east of Novosibirsk.

x "The number of those killed,guys,will be enormous.I think when we learn the whole truth about how many there are,the whole country will be horrified." A native of the town of Myski in the Kemerovo region of Russia recorded a video at a local cemetery, which he visited after a long absence



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM

This is one of the pensioners who were murdered when the Russians bombed Yarova recently.

x Terrorussia murdered Zinayida Orlova by targeting the line of elderly people waiting for pensions in Yarova. Journalists interviewed her in 2022 after the liberation of her village, recalling as optimistic and caring despite what she's gone through under occupation. So tragic.

Story: Haiane Avakian



[image or embed] — Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM

Just add a lot of vodka to that puddle water and kill all the cholera and other nasty stuff floating around in there. Problem solved, right?

x Got Worms? Today's katsap drinking from a filthy puddle video... And we aren't talking about some DRG LRP Sniper Spetsnaz here that is way behind UA line reconning and shit. This is some Storm-Z who left his bunker because he got thirsty and they ran out of donkeys. #OSINT



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM

Proof that shit flows downhill.

Russian TV warmongers threaten to use nuclear weapons against France and Poland. This has become a regular feature on state TV. Russia wants to continue to be a superpower but with its army getting an ass whipping trying to seize Ukrainian fields and villages, nukes are its only claim to destructive fame.

x ❗️Attention, Poland and France! Russian propagandists threaten to strike the Polish territory with tactical nuclear weapons because France deployed 3 Rafale fighter jets to help Warsaw protect its airspace in response to a Russian drone attack.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM

This video is making the rounds online. It was one of the toughest I have watched in the 3 years or so I have been doing RSBU.

It shows a Russian soldier shooting a horse for no apparent reason — just plain cruelty.

I won’t embed it. If you want to see it, you can go here. But BE WARNED. It is graphic.

I am mentioning it to show how cruel some of these fuckers can be.

I’m surprised they didn’t shoot it.

When choosing where to live in Ukraine, there are more important considerations than having an open floor plan or a nice view.

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