Our soldiers quickly captured two enemy columns of armored vehicles, including modern T-72B3s and even T-90Ms. Instead of simply blowing up the tanks, they did something the Russians certainly did not expect.
Ukrainian crews got into the captured Russian tanks, switched on the radios, adopted the Russians' call signs, and set off on a deep raid behind enemy lines, posing as friendly forces.
The Russian columns moved calmly, believing they were safe. Our tank crews quickly neutralized the original crews, mastered the equipment, and blended into the Russian traffic flow. They spoke Russian over the radio, used the correct call signs, and imitated the style of Russian communications. At checkpoints, they were waved through without suspicion: "Go ahead, guys."
The Ukrainians then calmly drove straight onto the grounds of a Russian brigade headquarters.
Once inside, they suddenly turned their turrets and opened fire. The headquarters, supply depots, and vehicle park were turned into an inferno within minutes. Russian troops ran in panic between tents, firing in every direction, but it was already too late. They had allowed a "Trojan horse" onto their own base.
The operation was carried out brilliantly. Ukrainian forces seized the headquarters, captured officers, destroyed key facilities, and withdrew with minimal losses.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russia is losing 35,000 troops a month. The Ukrainians want to push that to 50,000.
In an exclusive interview, US Senator and combat veteran @CaptMarkKelly just got back from Odessa. He finished his panel at the opera house and went straight into a bunker.
"We get our panel done and then we've gotta go into the bunker because Odessa's under attack."
This is what the war actually looks like. Not the ceasefire theatre. Not Trump's phone calls. The ground truth.
Full interview in first comment ↓ | Extended cut for X subscribers! @SenMarkKelly
5,000 tons of Russia’s Navy ammunition near St. Petersburg is gone.
Eight Ukrainian deep strike drones got through air defenses and triggered a massive secondary detonation — United24. 1/
What happens when an ammunition warehouse blows up.
Footage from Russia’s Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border this morning. All this stuff won’t kill Ukrainian civilians anymore.
UKRAINE UNVEILS A NEW BALLISTIC MISSILE CAPABLE OF REACHING SAKHALIN
Ukraine has successfully tested a new ultra-long-range ballistic missile. This unique domestic development is reportedly capable of striking strategic targets at distances of several thousand kilometers, theoretically allowing it to reach as far as Sakhalin Island.
Military analysts note that the emergence of such a weapon could significantly alter the strategic landscape. The new missile would enable Ukraine's Defense Forces to hold deep rear-area bases, logistics hubs, and other military facilities of an adversary at risk.
Ukraine's defense industry continues to expand its capabilities, developing advanced missile systems intended to strengthen the country's defense and deterrence posture.
Europe Wins Again. Obviously.
Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.
They chose Europe.
This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.
Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.
Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.
Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.
Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.
So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.
The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.
Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.
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Teaching my toddler before bedtime where her home, Ukraine, is on the map minutes after packing a fresh emergency bag because we will get bombed tonight. Our lives are absurd.
This was Kyiv last night.
Those very, very fast missiles are probably 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. Russia fired eight of them at us yesterday.
Imagine this was your city, and this was happening a few hundred metres from your home.
AMERICAN AIRPOWER: New footage shows B-52 Stratofortress bombers taking off as the U.S. military continues pressing the Iranian regime.
B-52 bombers struck Iranian ballistic missile targets and command posts in the first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury.
Get the latest updates on Iran here: https://t.co/WT673OU2FT
STING by Wild Hornets — a Ukrainian hunter drone against Shaheds
The Wild Hornets team worked on STING for over a year: hundreds of tests, dozens of trips to the front line, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment — all to create a mass-produced, simple, and affordable Shahed interceptor. As of now, STING interceptors have already shot down more than 3,000 such targets.
It is a fast and maneuverable drone that can be deployed in 15 minutes and launched from any flat surface. It intercepts targets at distances of up to 25 km and can return if the target is not detected or already destroyed.
We also have big plans and upcoming updates that will improve and make the work of Ukrainian defenders easier.
More on the Wild Hornets website:
https://t.co/B4atGFnIbA
❗️Ukraine has sent interceptor drones and a team of experts to protect American military bases in Jordan, – Zelenskyy.
The United States requested assistance on Thursday, and the Ukrainian team departed the very next day.
On 5 March 1940, Lavrentiy Beria submitted a memo to Stalin proposing the liquidation of Polish POWs as hardened, uncompromising enemies of Soviet power. Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov and Mikoyan signed it that same day. The order was clinical: shoot them all.
What followed was the systematic murder of 21,857 Polish officers, police, doctors, engineers, lawyers, professors and priests, the entire trained leadership class of a nation, executed with a single NKVD bullet to the base of the skull, hands bound behind their backs. Katyn wasn’t a war crime of opportunity. It was a deliberate decapitation strategy: destroy the elite, and Poland can never reconstitute itself as a sovereign state.
When Germany discovered the graves in 1943, the Soviets didn’t just deny it, they tried to indict the Nazis for it at Nuremberg. The tribunal quietly dropped the charge for lack of evidence. Moscow maintained the lie for 47 years. It wasn’t until 1990 that Gorbachev admitted Soviet guilt, and 1992 before Yeltsin released the original signed documents.
Putin attended the Katyn commemoration in 2010 briefly, and only after the Smolensk crash killed Polish President, who was flying there to mark the 70th anniversary.
The pattern Russia has never broken is this: commit the atrocity, deny it for as long as possible, offer the minimum acknowledgment when cornered, then quietly rehabilitate the narrative when attention fades. Katyn. Holodomor. Bucha. The details change. The doctrine doesn’t.
Same empire. Same logic. Different century.
We’re glad interceptor drones are getting global attention.
The footage shown in this segment features STING — a Ukrainian interceptor drone developed by Ukrainian engineers at Wild Hornets and used by Ukrainian air defense units to destroy Shahed-type drones.
You can see more interception footage and feedback from Ukrainian soldiers on our page.
More about STING:
https://t.co/B4atGFnIbA