Ukraine’s Delta links every drone, sensor and weapon into one network.
It creates a "kill zone": spot Russian movement, log it, and hand it to the nearest shooter in 3-5 minutes.
US Army Secretary Driscoll: Delta is absolutely incredible. America must catch up — NYT. 1/
russian terrorists attacked a city bus with a drone in central Kherson this morning.
People were injured.
Attacking public buses has become a routine russian tactic.
They are deliberately targeting civilians.
So now they’ve revealed the real purpose of the CIA director’s visit to Moscow. The purpose was to warn Putin against attacking the Baltic states — Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. It was no coincidence that the flight departed from Riga, and that the CIA director returned to Riga as well before heading home. And this time there were no two days of persuasion like there were before the attack on us. It was an ultimatum: he delivered the message, issued the warning, and left.
Although many people had already written about this.
But no one is even trying to explain the actual purpose of such a hypothetical offensive.
The point is that Putin cannot simply walk away from the war with Ukraine, because that would amount to defeat. But losing a war to NATO would not be nearly as humiliating... So the idea is to start a war against NATO countries in order to have an excuse to stop, something along the lines of: “They’re stronger, and you knew they were stronger, but we showed them our strength and then stopped.”
Although... the Kremlin is quite capable of capturing at least one Baltic country. Estonia, at the very least. Latvia is also a candidate for a rapid occupation, while Lithuania would hold out the longest — although Lithuania is precisely the country that interests the Kremlin the most.
What would that mean for us?
There would be no reason for despair, because our war would become part of a NATO–Moscow war, and we would become one of its strategic fronts. That would remove all restrictions on weapons supplies and strikes against Moscow’s most vulnerable points. It would also force Russia to divert significant forces and resources away from us — both equipment and manpower.
So... a hypothetical attack on the Baltic states would mean the end of our war, and a rapid end at that... regardless of Putin’s own wishes.
Slovak cops just crushed another Russian sabotage plot. Three foreign operatives were busted trying to torch a Ukrainian-owned Skyeton drone factory in eastern Slovakia.
Two nabbed on site, the third grabbed in Germany. The plan was serious: massive quantities of incendiary mix, tools, cameras, burner phones, and a handwritten attack blueprint.
Around 70 people were working at the facility when the attack was supposed to go down. A huge fire and serious damage were narrowly avoided.
Photos from the raid show the suspects face-down in cuffs and the arsenal of arson gear laid out on the grass like the amateur hour it was. This is targeted, premeditated violence.
Moscow's hybrid war spilling into Europe, targeting the very production lines that help Ukraine kill Russian invaders. Every failed plot proves they're losing the conventional fight so badly they resort to terrorism and arson.
Slovakia did good. More of this.
This is once again revealing!
The Russian Embassy in Belgrade offers its condolences following the death of General Ratko Mladić, a convicted war criminal.
In the comment section, people are thanking the embassy, posting Serbian and Russian flags, and praising their "hero".
BREAKING:
A Russian influence operation trying to influence ChatGPT has been revealed.
The Russians were promoting a fictitious Israeli “research institute” called the International Burke Institute (IBI).
The influence campaign was built around a website containing copied academic work, a ‘sovereignty index’ that presented Russia in a positive light, and efforts to conceal the Russian origin of the activity.
The influence campaign was uncovered after OpenAI identified a cluster of ChatGPT accounts whose operator wrote prompts in Russian to generate posts and comments on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Most of the comments were in English, and the operator asked to conceal linguistic signs of a Russian origin.
The influence operation targeted the U.S., EU, Germany, France, Poland and Turkey.
Сили оборони уразили Ярославський НПЗ. На місці вирує масштабна пожежа.
Це підприємство є ключовим постачальником палива для Москви та всієї Московської агломерації (1).
У Саратові та Енгельсі вночі лунали вибухи. Попередньо, під ударом перебував аеродром «Енгельс-2». Чекаємо на деталі (2).
В окупованому місті Щастя на Луганщині після атаки спалахнула пожежа на тепловій електростанції (3).
У Павловському Посаді Московської області загорівся с��пермаркет «Магніт». Перед цим мешканці чули звуки роботи ППО (4).
russia’s fuel crisis just got worse.
One of russia’s five largest oil refineries — Yaroslavl — is burning after multiple drone strikes.
~300,000 barrels a day.
Another hit to the russian war machine.
We've obtained technology about secret Russian UAVs from the database of "NIK" LLC ("НИК" - Научно Исследовательская Компания)
This time, we didn't even have to break anything. "Thinking" people within the company understand whose side the truth is on.
A few weeks ago, one of our members passed on to us some extremely valuable documents from the database of "NIK" LLC.
After analyzing the data we received, we can confirm that we've gained access to many of the company's cutting-edge developments:
The Lancet, Condor, and Harpy drones, Zontik, Orion, a drone interceptor fighter, as well as the MiG-29 SMT, Il-103, and Il-96 aircraft - and this is by no means the entire list.
(You can find more materials on our Telegram channel https://t.co/MjXXyOdir3 )
It's no secret that prior to the start of the so-called "special military operation", "NIK" LLC collaborated with Boeing. We have obtained evidence of industrial espionage by "NIK" LLC against a number of European companies;
however, what's more important to understand now is that all this data has already been deleted from the servers. We're talking about hundreds of terabytes of data. And now we have it.
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Grateful to introduce the bipartisan SRBIJA Act! Under President Vucic, Serbia has deliberately drifted further from Rule of Law and nearer to enemies of freedom like War Criminal Putin, the Chinese Communist Party, and the terrorist regime in Tehran. Despite widespread protest of corruption, the Vucic government threatens to destabilize the region and beyond. The people of Serbia deserve better.
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In 1968, the #KGB laid out precisely, in an internal manual, how cultural institutions were to be used for espionage and subversion. Today, in 2026, the successor organization runs the Russian House in Berlin 1/10 🧵
The analysis from @deepstateua paints a grim but precise picture of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration right now. The fight for Kostiantynivka has moved past simple assaults on the outskirts. Russian forces are infiltrating the city itself. That forces our troops into constant clearing operations through houses, basements, and rubble. After seizing Illinivka they are using it as a springboard to widen the pocket westward, trying to tighten the noose. Chasiv Yar sits in even greater danger. The flanks are under heavy pressure. If those collapse, the defenders inside the city will be completely cut off and finished.
Further north the picture is mixed but worrying. Raihorodok holds for now, yet Mykolaivka shows those familiar unpleasant signs of enemy infiltration. Same story around Kryva Luka. The orcs are probing for soft spots they can exploit. Every undetected penetration costs us later. Orihuvativka remains out of reach for them for the moment, but Rai-Oleksandrivka sees repeated attempts to dig in despite our successful strikes there. The problem is manpower. Brigades are stretched thin. Holding these positions becomes exponentially harder without fresh rotations.
The change in command of the 11th Corps is the one piece of relatively good news. Previous leadership fed unreliable reports that masked how bad things were getting. New leadership has already started correcting the situation in the Malynivka-Mayiske area, where the terrain favors infiltration toward Kramatorsk. Hope requires a plan. Competent command that actually reports reality instead of fairy tales is the bare minimum we should have demanded years ago.
Moscovian grinding warfare proceeds through relentless attrition. They destroy the cities with endless shelling, infiltrate small groups, widen salients, and prepare the ground for the next big push toward the last major Donetsk hubs. They do not need spectacular breakthroughs. They just need us to bleed faster than we can reinforce. Every meter they creep forward with these infiltration tactics makes the eventual defense of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk that much bloodier.
NATO’s entire eastern flank is being tested by an industrial meat grinder, not a regional quarrel. While European capitals debate another round of watered-down sanctions and American isolationists whine about "forever wars," Russian forces are learning how to fight the exact kind of high-intensity drone-artillery war that would face any NATO member stupid enough to let moscovia keep its empire intact.
We hold. We clear the rats from the basements. We rotate the exhausted brigades. And we stop pretending that "freezing the conflict" would be anything except an invitation for the next round in five years under even worse conditions. Kostiantynivka is not falling today. But the margin is shrinking. Time to match the enemy's tempo with real resources instead of performative concern.
russians continue hunting Ukrainians like animals in Kherson.
Today. Same pattern.
They spot a civilian car from the sky.
They chase it.
They strike it.
It’s a human safari.
It happens every day. And the world pretends not to see it.
In 2026, at least 28 Russian 🇷🇺 refineries⛽️(out of approximately 48) were hit in 81 separate strikes.
Seventeen of the twenty largest Russian refineries were struck during the first eight months of the year, sometimes sustaining significant damage, such as at Orsk, Perm, or Ryazan.
The repeated strikes on major refineries (6 at Yaroslavl; 5 at Ilsky, Saratov, Syzran, and Tuapse; and 4 at Kstovo, TAIF-NK Nizhnekamsk, Ufa Bashneft, and Volgograd) disrupt the restoration of damaged key components, which typically take weeks or months to repair.
At the same time, Ukrainian 🇺🇦 forces continue to target crude oil and fuel storage tanks, both near refineries (in Moscow or Perm...) and at transit points (11 strikes: Perm, Yaroslavl, Vladimir...), storage facilities (26 strikes on major storage sites, excluding occupied Ukrainian territories), and export terminals (11 strikes: Novorossiysk, Ust-Luga, Primorsk...).
These strikes, targeting both production (which has become intermittent, slowed, or sometimes halted in certain regions) and storage, are contributing to widespread fuel shortages across a number of Russian regions.
In total, nearly 130 strikes on key Russian oil and fuel production, storage, transport, and export facilities have been recorded since the beginning of the year. This represents a tangible loss of revenue, only partially offset by the Iranian conflict and rising oil prices. While refineries are usually repaired quickly, the relentless succession and precision of the strikes are placing a strain on critical infrastructure. While the strikes hitting the storage tanks caused a lot of media attention, given the smoke they generated, it is the strikes hitting the critical parts of the refineries that matter.
My map of Ukrainian 🇺🇦 strikes on Russian 🇷🇺 refineries (red) and other oil/fuel related targets (small pink round) :
Преговорите са стигнали до задънена улица, Путин се готви да ескалира войната до степен на използване на тактическо ядрено оръжие, – съобщава Bloomberg, позовавайки се на източници, близки до Кремъл.
Това се разпространи в социалните мрежи. Изглежда като стандартен набор от заплахи от Кремъл.
Разгледах всяка теза поотделно. Ако и без това не реагирате на заплахите от Кремъл и просто се тревожите за ядреното оръжие, пропуснете всичко и веднага преминайте към точка 14.
1. Русия се готви да ескалира атаките, като е решила, че преговорите са стигнали до задънена улица.
Преговорите и без това бяха в задънена улица през цялата тази година и половина, тъй като Русия никога не ги е водила добросъвестно и през цялото това време се е занимавала с преструвки.
2. Русия се готви за засилване на ударите с балистични ракети по Киев, включително центъра на града, както и по инфраструктурни обекти в други градове.
Знаем, че Русия се готви за засилване на ударите, особено в навечерието на зимата. Но и преди това Русия засили ударите по Киев, започвайки от май. Русия нанася толкова удари, колкото ракети има, и не може да нанася повече, отколкото разполага.
3. Всички преговорни схеми на практика се провалиха, воюващите страни се върнаха в изходна точка.
Всички преговорни схеми бяха обречени на провал и произтичаха от болната фантазия на Тръмп да принуди Путин да седне на масата за преговори с икономически отстъпки, като успоредно с това накара Украйна да предаде Донбас. На което, между другото, Тръмп отново намекна в поздравителното си писмо по повод Деня на независимостта на Украйна.
4. Путин няма да прекрати войната под икономическия натиск от санкциите.
Няма да я прекрати. Това не означава, че не трябва да се оказва натиск чрез санкции.
5. Путин няма да прекрати войната заради украинските атаки срещу руските нефтопреработвателни заводи и логистичната инфраструктура.
Няма да я прекрати. Това не означава, че не трябва да се нанасят удари по нефтопреработвателните заводи и логистичната инфраструктура.
6. Москва все повече разглежда украинските удари като удари от страна на страните от НАТО, защото членовете на алианса предоставят на Киев оръжие и разузнавателна информация.
През всичките 4,5 години НАТО доставяше оръжие на Украйна и предоставяше разузнавателни данни. Но изведнъж Москва ще разгледа това като удари от страна на НАТО.
7. Настоящата фаза на военните действия все още не е връхната точка на ескалацията.
Това все още не е връхната точка на ескалацията, да. Страните засилват ударите с ракети и дронове. Русия продължава да увеличава военното си присъствие в Украйна, макар и бавно. Хипотетична мобилизация може да ускори този процес.
8. При липса на дипломация Москва не вижда алтернатива на по-нататъшната ескалация, за да постигне своите военни цели.
Дипломацията отсъства вече 4,5 години. През цялото това време Русия се о��итва да постигне капитулация на Украйна. Нямаше нито един момент, в който Русия да е била готова да обмисли дипломатически път, а всички „предложения за дипломация“ бяха предложения за капитулация на Украйна – от Истанбул до Анкъридж.
9. Кремъл счита, че по време на тази война вече е правил отстъпки, които са отслабили руската позиция.
Това отстъпление на Русия от Киев ли беше отстъпка? :)
10. Кремъл смяташе Анкъридж за още един компромис, който се провали.
Анкъридж не беше компромис. Анкъридж беше де факто предложение за капитулация на Украйна.
11. Все повече чиновници в Кремъл стигат до заключението, че Путин в крайна сметка може да приложи тактическо ядрено оръжие като крайна мярка.
Защо изведнъж? Защо преди година Кремъл условно не го приложи, а сега ще го приложи? Какво се промени оттогава?
12. Напоследък разговорите за ядрено оръжие от страна на привържениците на твърдата линия в Москва се зачестиха.
Прилаг��нето на ядрено оръжие зависи не от разговорите в Кремъл, а от сдържащи фактори, включително от реакцията на САЩ и Китай. Дори Китай се противопоставя на използването на ядрено оръжие в Украйна.
13. Тази крайна опция се счита за възможна, защото за Путин поражението във войната е по-лошо от нейното продължаване.
Тоест в Кремъл смятат, че ако не приложат ядрено оръжие, ще загубят войната?
14. Засега няма признаци, че Русия възнамерява да нанесе удар с ядрено оръжие срещу Украйна.
Оттук можеше да се започне.
Тем временем топлива в путинской России становится всё меньше — бензина АИ-95 нет уже на 80% российских заправок. Не исключено, что в сентябре он полностью исчезнет из продажи – в РФ осталось около трети всех мощностей по производству бензина.
Хороший пример того, что случается со страной, власти которой решили сделать своей главной целью не благосостояние народа, а уничтожение соседей.
Just another normal day in Romania because Romania and NATO are accepting this as normal.
Russia is mapping the location of radars and measuring response times.
In military speak, this would be called setting conditions.
Doing this takes steel balls.
70-year-old Ukrainian Svitlana Loi was sentenced to 15 years in a russian prison for making 24 donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces — about ₴33,000 ($740) from her own pension.
Before the verdict was announced, she stood in a russian courtroom and sang “Ridna Maty Moya” — a Ukrainian song about a mother.
The russian court called her donations “treason.”
If she serves the full sentence, Svitlana will be around 85 when she gets out.
70 years old. A pensioner. $740 sent to help her country.
15 years in prison.
This is russia.