Херсонський Енот

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia killed Oleksii Yukov, the head of the Platsdarm body recovery group.

Oleksii repatriated over 10,000 bodies in more than 25 years of his work. Born and raised in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Oleksii was initially recovering the remains of soldiers from World War II.

After Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, Oleksii founded the Platsdarm group, which, to this day, is systematically searching for bodies of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, as well as civilians, in the hottest spots of the frontline.

Oleksii was fatally wounded while exhuming bodies on the frontline.

Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Hero.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

German intelligence services disrupted a Russian assassination plot on Stefan Thumann the CEO of Donaustahl a large drone manufacturing company which supplies Ukraine with vast amounts of drones he has been placed under increased protection.

What...

[Casper 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @paravxl]

For fuck's sake, how much discussion is needed here!?

Just send them already or close the skies.

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

«Протести — це для мене сигнал, що росіянам не вдалося взяти в полон нашу демократію.

Люди активні, люди хочуть розвитку, реформ, змін, люди відслідковують те, що відбувається в країні, незважаючи на обстріли, проблеми, які виникають постійно.
Що б далі не відбувалося, ми будемо рухатися вперед і врешті решт зупинимо цю війну», — Михайло Федоров

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

North Korea is literally at war with Ukraine why is this not being talked about more…

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

The cruel irony is that Oleksii Yukov was killed by a landmine while recovering the remains of Russian soldiers.

He often said that every fallen soldier deserved to come home. He called them “souls,” not bodies. His mission was to bring Ukraine’s defenders back to their families for a proper burial. He also recovered Russian soldiers so they could be exchanged, allowing more Ukrainian heroes to return home.

His death is an immeasurable loss for Ukraine. And, whether they realize it or not, it is also a loss for Russia. The very people celebrating his death are cheering the loss of someone who helped ensure their own dead did not remain abandoned on a battlefield.

Oleksii believed that every family deserved the chance to bury their loved ones. He lived by that principle until his very last day. Ukraine lost an extraordinary man.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

Finally! A russian with brain cells!

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This man is at Putin's beck and call

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Always ready to help those who help us!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

In the strike on Radushne, for the first time in a while, the Russians used a North Korean missile, according to preliminary data. Of course, more examinations will follow, and everything will be verified, but as of now – it is a North Korean ballistic missile. The alliance between the Moscow scumbags and the deranged regime in North Korea exists for the sake of missiles, North Korean troops on our borders here in Europe, and killing our Ukrainian children.

Of course, many around the world condemned this strike today. There were many expressions of sympathy over the loss of life. European countries also made many statements because a Russian missile flew into Polish territory and exploded somewhere in a field near Lublin. What matters most, however, is not mere sympathy and condemnation, but air defense missiles and pressure on Russia that can stop this dumb Russian war. Air defense missiles – for Patriots in the first place, but also for NASAMS, IRIS-T, HAWK, and our other systems – are the key priority.

I hope that all of our partners – above all our American partners, as well as our friends in Europe – will feel that real human lives depend on whether they help us.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.

[CSIS @CSIS]

Canada sent more visitors to the United States than any other country in 2024. The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the decline in Canadian visitors to the U.S. cost the U.S. economy $5.7 billion in travel spending in 2025 alone.

What is the price of economic coercion against Canada? https://t.co/AkEXJUK1sK

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, there you have it: Putin has crawled out of his bunker and is reviewing a parade in honour of “Russian Navy Day” -- on foot, alongside a handful of sailors in costume, somewhere in a backyard in St Petersburg, with a printed photo of a submarine stuck on the wall behind them, because apparently it’s too scary to do anything more.

You could hardly find a better illustration of the “naval greatness” of modern Russia.

Strangely left out of frame are the burning oil refineries and ports, the Black Sea Fleet that has barely dared to stick its nose out to sea for the fourth year running, its flagship lying on the seabed since 2022, and even the fact that internet service was shut down across St Petersburg today just in case Ukrainian drones might frighten the tsar.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

By the way, General Drapatyi is from Kamianets-Podilskyi, and I absolutely recommend the city for a weekend trip.

This historic gem is often overlooked, very unjustly. It is like a miniature Lviv, but without the huge tourist crowds, with equally excellent food and drinks, old streets, a huge river canyon, a spectacular fortress, and very nice prices.

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

Fedorov said he identified 11 major problems after his first month as minister of defense:

"1. Ukraine's Armed Forces are fighting at the tactical level, although increasingly at the operational level too. Still, fundamentally, "we are still fighting tactically".

2. The corps system has not yet fully taken shape. "We have corps that are successful, that advance every month and do not lose territory. And we have corps where the commander is replaced every month. There are corps that have developed their own school of thought and philosophy, and there are corps where we do not even know how many brigades they have or what is happening inside them. Everything depends on organization, but there are corps that do not distribute all their resources internally," Fedorov said.

3. Brigades and corps have been fragmented. "There are brigades that cannot even determine how many battalions they have. A battalion is pulled out of one brigade and thrown into another. It is impossible to build a management system under conditions like these," the defense minister said.

4. No one is held accountable for anything. "Responsibility is always pushed down the chain. Someone else is always made to carry the blame, there is always talk of an investigation and of 'finding out who is guilty'," Fedorov said.

5. Supplies are not routed through the corps. Fedorov said the supply problem is "fundamental": "Over the past five months, we have bought more drones than in the whole of last year, but most units have not felt the impact, because everything is distributed manually: if you are loyal, you get something, if you are not, you don't... That is why we launched this system. It was four months of hell, because it took us four months to agree on a simple project for baseline drone provision to brigades."

6. Constant replacement of commanders.

7. Isolation and toxic treatment of those who deliver results. "If you succeed, you become a star, and then you hit a dead end. [General Mykhailo] Drapatyi received his third reprimand, goodbye. Sorry, Drapatyi, I think after this speech there will be a fourth reprimand for you. I wouldn't want that to happen, but we have no choice left but to talk about it," Fedorov said.

8. It is impossible to carry out any systemic project. "Because you constantly run into the same questions: 'But why?' and 'But how?'" the acting defense minister explained.

9. Human capital is being worn down without proper analysis. Fedorov said they had carried out "a great deal of work", including analyzing losses. "But decisions about who should be supported, who should not, who should be reinforced and who should not are not based on data. They are based on loyalty," he said.

10. The blocking of initiatives and the "bureaucratic crossfire". "In six months at the Defense Ministry, we have not been able to change the organizational structure because the General Staff refuses to approve it: the name is supposedly wrong, something else is not right, or there is allegedly no need to bring in new people," Fedorov explained.

11. Constant dishonesty. "This applies to me too: claims that I ordered the investigation into Skelia, that I launched a media campaign, that I did this or that," the acting defense minister said. [The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal probe into the Skelia unit – 425th Separate Assault Regiment – following reports of at least 26 noncombat deaths, physical abuse, and inadequate medical care for recruits. The unit's commander was suspended, and authorities are currently investigating allegations of systemic abuse – ed.]

He added that he had proposed changes on all points.

"What solutions were proposed at the time? Radical personnel decisions. That meant changing both the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff… It meant creating an environment where strong leaders could develop instead of being held back or constantly reprimanded. It meant working with IT specialists and smart people. It meant a different management approach. It meant appointing strong corps commanders. Drone-assault units are a fundamental change in the way we think about deploying infantry: technology must be at the forefront of combat. We should lose drones, not people, and only then should infantry move in," Fedorov said.

He also proposed "levelling out" the front line and implementing a doctrine based on the principle of "not losing personnel where it can be avoided", while taking the terrain and the situation into account.

"The allocation of all resources through corps – that means personnel, drones, artillery, training… Because there are situations where, ultimately, no one is responsible for a section of the front line," said the acting minister.

He also said he had proposed establishing an Academy of Modern Warfare to train new leaders capable of commanding headquarters and units, creating a consortium of Ballistics and Anti-Ballistics units, closing the skies, achieving victory in the economic war and, more broadly, transforming the defence forces and rooting out corruption in procurement.
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[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, the ability to unite in a dark hour, take matters into our own hands, go out into the streets, and speak out against those in power has more than once saved our people when they stood on the brink of destruction.

Today, the fact that Ukraine remains a democracy despite everything has finally placed its best and most decent battlefield general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, at the head of its armed forces in this terrible war—a man supported almost unanimously by both the people and the army.

This is a great victory, one of the very many hard-won steps toward the light amid the darkness that have already been taken, with many more still ahead.

Today, the entire free world has something to celebrate.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Des vagues de chaleur extrêmes et une sécheresse sans précédent sont à l’origine de l’une des saisons de feux de forêt les plus intenses de l’histoire du Canada. Les feux sont particulièrement dévastateurs dans le nord-ouest de l’Ontario, où plus de 10 communautés ont déjà été évacuées.

Face à ces feux dévastateurs, le Canada mobilise toutes ses ressources.

Plus de 5 300 pompiers ont été déployés dans tout le pays. Près de 300 aéronefs sont sur le terrain, qu’il s’agisse de bombardiers à eau, d’hélicoptères ou d’avions d’évacuation. Nous exploitons les données, les drones, les nouvelles technologies et l’imagerie thermique de pointe pour soutenir les efforts de détection et d’atténuation en temps réel.

Au nom des Canadiennes et des Canadiens, je tiens à exprimer toute ma gratitude aux premiers intervenants et aux bénévoles qui sont aux premières lignes. Nous mobiliserons toutes les ressources nécessaires pour assurer la sécurité de la population canadienne.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

For months, Ukrainian drones have done the quiet work of holding Russia back—blowing up the trucks, trains, and ships resupplying its push toward Sloviansk.

The man who built that campaign is now gone.

Zelenskyy fired defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov on 15 July.

Thousands of Ukrainians protested in the streets.

And the drone campaign buying time at the front lost its most powerful champion in government—at the exact moment it needs to hit harder.
https://t.co/LIoSROeps0

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Unprecedented situation of Ukrainians protesting not to remove a high ranking official, but to keep a high ranking official