Conflict intel

Posting relevant information from conflicts, mainly the Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨

I just conducted an exclusive interview with Ukraine’s newly appointed Minister of Defense Evgeniy Khmara. We spoke about the current state of the war with Russia, how he envisions Ukraine’s long-term military relationship with the United States, and how Ukraine can help the United States lead the world in drone manufacturing and modern day combat warfare so the two countries can defeat their mutual enemies and keep Russian aggression at bay.

Report and full interview coming soon!

This is the first interview Khmara has done since acting in his new role after being appointed acting Minister of Defense of Ukraine by President Zelenskyy @ZelenskyyUa. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@DefenceU @DeptofWar @PeteHegseth

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

In the frontline city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, I just met with the renowned General Andrii Biletskyi, founder of the Azov Battalion and commander of the Third Army Corps in Ukriane @ab3army. Combat operations against Russia are ongoing just 30 kilometers from Kharkiv, and Russia attacks the city with ballistic missiles and drones almost daily.

It was very dangerous for me to travel to this city in Eastern Ukraine amid nonstop air raids, but I went there anyway to speak to the founder of Azov and ask him what every taxpayer in America wants to know:

Is it true or false that Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Army are full of swastika waving Neo-Nazis? Are our tax dollars funding an army of Nazis to fight the Russians? I asked the General and Founder of Azov himself. No questions were off limits.

General Biletskyi gave me a tour of the city and showed me Rymarska Street, where Ukrainians fought their first armed battle against the Russians in 2014.

He answered all of my questions and walked me through the detailed history of Azov Battalion and the Third Army Corps. We also spoke about the future of modern warfare and how Ukraine’s fight is relevant to the USA and America’s long term national security.

Full interview coming soon! You don’t want to miss it!

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

JUST IN: The U.S. Senate advanced Senator Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill in an 86-12 vote.

The measure would slap 100% secondary tariffs on nations still purchasing Russian oil and gas while cracking down on Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy @ZelenskyyUa was present in the Capitol and observed the vote from the visitors’ gallery.

The 12 senators who voted against advancing the bill were:

• Rand Paul
• Bernie Sanders
• Elizabeth Warren
• Lisa Blunt Rochester
• Maggie Hassan
• Mazie Hirono
• Andy Kim
• Ed Markey
• Jon Ossoff
• Alex Padilla
• Peter Welch
• Ron Wyden​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

All of these Senators should be shamed. Why would they want Russia to get off easy when Russia is assisting Iran with killing US soldiers and they are slaughtering innocent civilians with ballistic missiles in Ukraine?

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

You don’t want Russia to be hit with more sanctions?

How do you feel about Iranian national Trita Parsi running around Washington DC with @SohrabAhmari telling everyone they are advising JD Vance and the White House on Iran? Sohrab is literally writing the Vice President’s biography as a Muslim communist, despite pretending he has had some type of spiritual reawakening. 🤡

Trita Parsi @tparsi is not a US citizen and he’s likely going to be deported soon… yet he appears, many would say, to be “lobbying” in a sense for Iran, a foreign country that is killing US soldiers.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Maybe people don’t believe me, that’s fine, but visiting Ukraine has been deeply touching for me. It has opened my eyes to things I was blinded to before and has really impacted the way I view human suffering and how I perceive humanity and threats to US national security. My time in Ukraine has been life changing. I’m never going to forget this and I’m interested in seeing what else it inspires me to do and report on in the future.

You’ll have to travel to Ukraine yourself and see it yourself to understand what I am talking about. Never thought I’d say this. But, I see why Lindsey Graham loved Ukraine so much. I see it now.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

If Trump was in the White House in 1942:

There were some explosions on navy ships at Pearl Harbor … biggest explosions ever.

Fake News say it was Japan. But I talked to General Tojo (great guy … very respected leader) and he said he had nothing to do with it. I trust Tojo.

[Critical Threats @criticalthreats]

MORE | Pro-Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and Puntland state forces clashed amid a standoff between the two sides in northern Somalia’s Puntland state, a dispute that is part of a broader political crisis between the FGS and the leading national opposition coalition.

A prolonged political crisis could distract from US-backed counterterrorism efforts against al Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates in Somalia. ⬇️🧵

[🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸Midobecker 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @midobecker_1]

The moment several 🇺🇦#Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck
the Wildberries logistics hub in St. Petersburg, russia, one by one. No air defense present⬇️

[Aleksandr X @AleksandrX13]

Ukraine uses russia's own Air Defence...
...to shoot down an advanced russian jet fighter!!!

Ukrainian hackers and intelligence experts intercepted control parameters and altered operational data for the 'BARS Moscow' air defense system.

They then exploited severe software vulnerabilities to trick the Russian air defense crew - deployed to protect Moscow - into misidentifying their own high-tech fighter as a hostile threat, triggering the fatal launch.

This unprecedented operation resulted in the complete destruction of a russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet valued at over $100 million.

While the Russian Ministry of Defense publicly attributed the crash to a 'technical failure', Russian military channels and pro-war media quickly confirmed that the jet fell victim to friendly fire.
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[Uubaale News @CivicPulseh6nc]

🚨 UPDATE: Federally Aligned PSF Forces Surrender to Puntland After 12-Hour Battle Near Bosaso

Most of the PSF unit that left Bosaso in eight armed vehicles, carrying around 75–80 soldiers, has surrendered to Puntland forces after being encircled from two directions near Laag. The battle lasted more than 12 hours, leaving deaths and injuries on both sides, while Puntland forces seized the convoy’s military vehicles. The PSF reportedly requested medical assistance, food and water before surrendering. At the same site this morning, Puntland Daraawiish forces captured 30 PSF soldiers, including officers, and transferred them to a military camp in Bosaso.

The violence later spread to Xaafuun and Qardho, turning last night into one of Puntland’s most chaotic in recent memory, with fighting breaking out across several locations. The crisis followed Puntland’s earlier ban on all federally aligned forces moving through its territory, which the PSF defied today by forcing its way past the Bosaso checkpoint before Puntland forces confronted the convoy. The PSF force had recently been incorporated into Somalia’s federal army as its 17th unit, a move Puntland strongly rejected.

[Mohamed Salh @MohamedSelh]

#UPDATE: Puntland defence forces said they seized eight technicals and weapons from members of the PSF positioned between #Bosaso and Laag after a roughly 16-hour standoff that ended without fighting.

Sources said most of the PSF personnel left the area on foot overnight before Puntland deployed additional forces. The incident comes after Puntland banned Somali federal government forces from operating or transiting through its territory amid tensions over federal recruitment efforts and escalating political disputes. #Somalia

[Mohamed Dek Abdalla @MohamedDekAbdal]

#BREAKING: Fighting broke out on Sunday between the Puntland Defence Force (PDF) and the Puntland Security Force (PSF) near Laag, outside Bosaso, following escalating tensions. The PSF, a U.S.-trained force that later became part of Somalia’s National Army under the Federal Government, was involved in the clashes. Puntland has previously banned federal forces operating under Mogadishu’s command from moving through its territory. The Bosaso–Garowe road was closed, while casualty figures remain unconfirmed. #Somalia #Puntland

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Russia’s “African Corps” was ambushed by Tuareg fighters in Mali

Russian mercenaries and troops of the Malian junta suffered heavy losses in the attack, while the rebels also captured captured military equipment as trophies.

Things have been going badly for the former Wagner fighters in Mali: Tuareg forces have repeatedly inflicted serious losses on them.

In retaliation, Russian mercenaries have resorted to what they are most known for — carrying out punitive attacks against civilians.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

How on earth are Americans not rioting over this?

The news here is real. It is not a fake news story.

Trump openly admits that his announcements on Truth Social about wars, tariffs, etc., manipulate the stock market. And now he's selling the ability to engage in insider trading to banks so that he and his friends can get even richer, while the average person is getting f***** over in the stock market by these super-rich a******, because they will be told when stock prices will go up and down and the average man will not.

It is corruption on a scale never seen before. Riches worth billions, if not trillions, of dollars are being stolen this way.

No Europeans would ever accept this from anyone in power. Not corruption on this astronomical scale.

But Americans are just sitting there, watching it happen without doing anything about it.

You need to wake up over there.

[MT Anderson @MT_Anderson]

🇺🇦 Strikes Sea of Azov
Sentinel 2 (11 Jul): A ~100m 🇷🇺dark fleet tanker (likely) is burning (~61km from Berdyansk, ~113km from Kerch). False color visualization likely indicates an active fire.

Have you seen this reported anywhere else yet? 👇

[Conflict intel @ukraineintel22]

@CivicPulseh6nc Sad development. Hope they get paid soon. What’s your source for the videos?

[Antonia Juelich @AntoniaJuelich]

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.

"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."

My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9

[Conflict intel @ukraineintel22]

@SMSSomaliTV1 https://t.co/oUnPxxCRoW

[Conflict intel @ukraineintel22]

@BaidoaOnline https://t.co/oUnPxxCRoW

[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

These last 5 days, Ukrainian 🇺🇦 videos showed 193 Russian 🇷🇺 trucks and vehicles hit by drones on key roads.

Yesterday, it was 47, today 56, which shows the results of the strikes during the last few weeks. On average, we have nearly 40 trucks destroyed per day this week.

This comes amid the intensification of strikes to isolate Crimea, with bridges destroyed, forcing Russian trucks to use pontoon bridges, where they are easier to target. 1/3 of the trucks hit are seemingly "civilian", most with fuel or used by the army. The aim is to slowly cut all logistics.

In total since early May, nearly 800 trucks and vehicles have been hit more than 20 km from the frontline, which gives a 15/truck a day average. Remember that you don't need to hit all the trucks to stop the traffic.

Russian countermeasures are too few and inefficient to change anything, we've seen numerous mobile fire teams hit or fleeing, with too few examples of successful downing from the ground. Drone interceptors teams are too few and concentrated on key roads, while radars and EW continue to be relentlessly hit.