Todd Gladfelter

Enjoy Photography and a supporter of defending freedom and democracy.

[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore….Rev 21:4
#UkrainianArmy #UkraineNeverSurrenders
#ukraine

[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

Chipmunk Raids the Snack Pile on the Deck 🐿️ #Chipmunk #Wildlife #BackyardWildlife
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[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

Backyard Fox Caught on Trail Cam at Night #fox #wildlife #shorts
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[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

Raccoon Visits the Water Bowl at Night 🦝 #TrailCam #Wildlife #raccoon
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[OSINT Intuit™ @UKikaski]

Tonight's marvelous Ukrainian drone strike package includes over 330 prop- (red) and jet-driven UASs.

Areas currently reporting drones in their air space include:

- Crimea (explosions)
- Tambov
- Volgograd
- Voronezh | Lipetsk | Tula | Ryazan ➔ Nizhny Novgorod

Map: https://t.co/hKF9FOp9x4

#OSINT #Ukraine

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Oksana Rubaniak, known by the call sign "Xena," entered the war as a nineteen-year-old volunteer.
She later became a machine gunner with the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade and fought near Bakhmut, Vuhledar, and Marinka.

In March 2023, she was hit by Russian shelling near Vuhledar. Yet, the injury did not stop her; after rehabilitation, she returned to the front line.

Oksana currently serves with the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade
And operates within the Unmanned Systems Battalion.
She commands the 2nd Strike Unmanned Aerial Systems Company.

In 2025, this brave woman received the Order for Courage, 3rd Class.🫡

A young woman in uniform who chose to defend her country rather than seek safety.
Absolutely respect 🇺🇦🫡

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 REMEMBER HIS NAME: GRADY KURPASI.

Grady Kurpasi was not Ukrainian. He didn't have to go to Ukraine. He had already given 20 years of his life to military service. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, he chose to go anyway.

Grady was born in Korea, adopted, and grew up in New York City. After the September 11 attacks, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 29. He became an infantry assaultman and later a Marine Scout Sniper, deploying to Iraq three times.

During two decades in the Marines, he earned numerous decorations, including the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals and three Good Conduct Medals. He was selected for an enlisted-to-officer commissioning program, studied at UCLA, became an infantry officer and eventually reached the rank of Captain. He was also a Tillman Scholar.

After approximately 20 years of service, Captain Grady Kurpasi retired from the Marines in 2021. He had already done more than enough. He had a wife, a daughter, a home, and had survived three deployments to Iraq.

Then Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In early 2022, Grady went to Ukraine. His original intention was to help evacuate civilians and train Ukrainian soldiers. But Ukraine desperately needed experienced combat leaders, and Grady eventually joined the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine.

On April 26, 2022, while operating on the southern front, Grady went out with British volunteer Andrew Hill to investigate the source of enemy fire. They reported over the radio that they were under attack. Hill was captured by Russian forces.

Grady disappeared.

For his wife, daughter, friends and fellow Marines, there was no grave and no definitive answer. Days became weeks. Weeks became months. Months became a year. There remained hope that he might have been wounded or captured.

In April 2023, the United States officially confirmed his death. Then another mission began: bring Grady home.

Searchers entered the former frontline after Ukrainian forces liberated the territory. Human remains were eventually discovered near Oleksandrivka, between Mykolaiv and Kherson. Nearby were military items associated with Grady, including his helmet, body armor, boots and backpack.

DNA testing provided the final answer.

It was Grady.

On May 19, 2023, more than a year after he disappeared, his remains arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York before being returned to his family.

Grady Kurpasi was 50 years old. He left behind his wife and daughter.

Think about his story: Korean-born American. Adopted child who grew up in New York. Marine after 9/11. Three combat deployments to Iraq. Scout Sniper. Purple Heart recipient. UCLA graduate. Marine officer. Captain. Husband. Father.

After twenty years in uniform, he could have simply lived his life.

Instead, when another free nation was attacked, he crossed an ocean to help people he had never met. He went to help civilians and train Ukrainians. When Ukraine needed experienced fighters and leaders, he stood beside them.

Ultimately, he gave Ukraine everything a human being can give.

His life.

Grady Kurpasi wasn't Ukrainian by birth. But Ukraine will forever remember the American Marine who chose to stand with us when our country needed friends the most.

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 Honor, glory and eternal gratitude to Captain Grady Kurpasi.

Semper Fidelis, Marine. Rest in peace, brother.

Ukraine remembers you. America should remember you too.

🕯️ April 26, 2022 🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

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[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

Cats will square up with a bear like they’ve got something to prove, but the minute the vacuum comes out, they act like the end of civilization is here.
That cat looked back like, “You boys got this on tape?” 😂🐈‍⬛

[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.

[April Huggett @AprilHuggett]

While I was on the road, journalist @darja_stomatova came to meet me and created a lovely report about my walk and, most importantly, my soldiers.

https://t.co/F7WeduUKXx

The story was later broadcast on television.

Several people encouraged me to contact journalists along the way, but I was never particularly interested in marketing myself. I’ve been making these videos for years, and I’ve always believed that if someone was genuinely interested, they would reach out.

Darja did exactly that.

I’m deeply grateful to her for telling this story, for showing up along the route, and for offering to help so many times. Thank you to Darja and her entire team.

And thank you to every one of you who has helped make this walk known to the public by sharing, commenting, donating, and supporting my soldiers.

Because ultimately, that is why I did it.

That is why I am still doing it.

For them.

The West has been the easier part of this journey. As I move into the East, the danger grows with every kilometre.

But every single step is worth it if it gives even one of my soldiers a better chance of surviving.

#Support93 #SupportUkraine

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

"we started with the intention to win the war and destroy the Russian Empire"
-Fire Point CEO @iraterekh

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[The Ukrainian Review @UkrReview]

🇺🇦‼️ Jesse Eisenberg witnessed the Russian shelling of Ukraine during a visit and reacted to it: “What if they bombed New York?”

"We were woken up by anxiety, we went down to the shelter, and in the morning I saw the consequences of the shelling. It was devastating, terrible, outrageous and tragic.

I thought about what would happen if they bombed New York, or if they bombed my house, because Lviv reminded me a lot of the city where I live."

[распад и неуважение @VictorKvert2008]

July 2026 will go down in the history books of urban guerrilla warfare as the month when the anti-fascist underground finally shifted from isolated actions to the systematic strangulation of Putin’s regime’s war machine. While the security services staged frantic activity and hunted teenagers in chatbots, the partisans carried out 25 coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure and eliminated two regime collaborators. The map of fire and sabotage this month proves one thing: there is no longer a safe rear for the military-industrial complex.

Transportation and logistics chokehold

Russian Railways and the Defense Ministry’s logistics network suffered blows in July from which the system will take months to recover. Knocking out traction power and specialized equipment is the most effective way to halt frontline supply lines:

5 locomotives disabled at key marshalling yards. Amid a severe shortage of locomotive crews and spare parts, this directly disrupts military train traffic.
1 self-propelled rail welding machine destroyed. This extremely rare engineering vehicle is indispensable for repairing blown-up railway tracks.
4 railway signaling relay cabinets destroyed at critical points, from the Arctic to frontline areas.
1 fuel tanker turned into a fireball, destroying scarce fuel directly on the tracks.
Strike on “SKIP Master”: Fighters of the Right Bank Action Committee (KPD) set fire to a major logistics hub in the Stavropol Regional Industrial Park. This was a direct blow to the regime’s supply chain and industrial base in southern Russia.

Blinding and cutting the power

The regime’s coercive apparatus depends on coordination, but in July the partisans systematically deprived it of communications and electricity:

5 mobile communication towers destroyed. Security forces’ communications and FSB telemetry channels were blinded across entire sectors, from Makhachkala to Russia’s interior.
1 substation transformer burned, leaving government facilities and industrial zones without power.

Strikes on the arteries of the energy and military-industrial sectors

Fuel and gas are the blood of the dictatorship. July showed that any strategic giant can be reached:

2 gas pipelines and gas distribution stations blown up (including one in Makiivka), demonstrating the underground’s technological sophistication.
Operation “Black Spark” and Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces: The largest and most coordinated strike of the month. The Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical complex and a Rosneft-Opt fuel depot were attacked. It was the systematic burning of the Leviathan’s resources on an industrial scale.

The wheels of war and eliminating its brains

6 military vehicles, including heavy KAMAZ supply trucks and Z-marked vehicles, were turned into scrap metal. A new partisan movement, Direct Action, made its first major appearance by using nighttime FPV drones in the Luhansk region. The tactics of rear-area warfare have changed forever.

2 regime collaborators eliminated. The worst nightmare for those carrying out the Kremlin’s will. The attack on Tula drone designer Cherezov, the developer of the “Ovod” drone, right in the entrance of his apartment building, showed that those who create weapons for a criminal war will face retribution at point-blank range.

The Russian fascist regime is mortal, porous, and vulnerable. Its infrastructure is collapsing under relentless strikes.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

In 1969, Peter Sellers switched voices the second the cameras rolled… with zero warning.
Dean Martin, Nipsey Russell and Dom DeLuise never recovered. 😂🤣
Happy heavenly birthday, Dom.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

This young girl holds on to her father the way you hold on to what you love most.

He's returning to his service so that she can keep on living.

This scene plays out in Ukrainian cities every day.

This is the price Ukrainians pay to remain free.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

A man clapped once during public comment at a data-center zoning meeting in Emporia, Kansas.

They arrested him.

Remember... no dissent allowed!

Just be silent like an obedient domesticated taxpayer while they fast‑track a data center in your backyard.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱 🦩🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 @TheDeadDistrict]

The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire.

The new era of warfare arrived unnoticed.

Zaporizhzhia region. Ukrainian ground robotic systems (UGVs) equipped with machine guns are destroying a ruSSian assault group.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Michael Clarke: When people in the States say, "Oh, look how corrupt Ukraine is," I’d say, "First of all, pal, I think Ukraine, objectively, is less corrupt than United States is these days."

You can construct sensible argument, which says: "Ukrainians talk about corruption because it bothers them. You guys have stopped talking about it because it doesn’t bother you anymore. You’ve normalized it."

I think there’s sensible argument to say that Ukraine is less corrupt than the United States.

[Todd Gladfelter @TAaron1939]

@ItsTheEnforcer I’m pretty sure you don’t need a bill to impose sanctions on a country.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Elektrostal, Moscow region. Everything is burning.
The war is coming to Russia.
Beautiful.