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The Ukrainian transport aircraft An-124 Ruslan (UR-82029) landed in Plovdiv on August 14 and reportedly loaded at least three Mi-24D/V attack helicopters (in the photo) intended for Ukraine.
According to available data for 2025, there are currently 12 Mi-24D/V helicopters in Bulgaria [presumably, 40% of them are combat-ready].
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⚡️A plane of the Egyptian airline heading to St. Petersburg with Russian tourists made an emergency landing at Tallinn airport due to an attack by Ukrainian drones, reports Interfax.
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From September 1st, pharmacists in Russia will face a fine of 100-200 thousand rubles if they do not inform customers about cheaper drug analogues.
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According to supporters of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army is losing too much equipment and personnel on the front lines, people no longer want to fight, and there is little money and weaponry.
"The army loses more than 300 trucks, pickups, motorcycles, minibuses, quad bikes, and other equipment daily on the fronts.
About 40-50 tanks, artillery pieces, armoured vehicles, air defence systems, and other armoured equipment are also lost."
"Heavy losses have led the Ukrainian army to now fight only with light infantry, equipment, and drones. This increases losses among infantry and drone operators. The Russians have learned to prevent this. The number of experienced drone groups has decreased because they can no longer survive for long. In 2024, the average drone crew lived from five to eleven months, with a survival rate of 70%. Now it is two to five months, and the survival rate has dropped to 30% and continues to decline."
"Translate all this into money — you will understand that the war is becoming more expensive every day. Constant budget cuts, reduced donations to the army, and Ukrainians' unwillingness to fight have created conditions leading to this catastrophe."
Ukraine constantly tries to hold the front line using trenches, minefields, and drone teams, as well as by every person gathered from trenches and streets in the rear, to slightly prolong this process and buy time.
Their only hope is NATO intervention, which is still seriously preparing and planning whether to start a decisive bayonet attack.
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🤡The IAEA is aware of reports that a transformer caught fire at the Kursk NPP as a result of "military activity."
Whos military activity?😐
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The Pentagon has not allowed Ukraine to use long-range weapons to strike Russia for several months, writes the Wall Street Journal.
According to the publication, there have been no attacks using American ATACMS since late spring. However, Kyiv still tried to strike with them, but Washington put them on "stop".
The matter is the "review mechanism" created under Pete Hegseth. It gives him the right to have the final say on whether Ukraine can use ATACMS.
Hegseth can even prohibit the use of missiles from other countries, such as the British-French Storm Shadow.
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Strike of FAB-1500 with UMPK on the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka.
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Drone operators of the 144th division are disposing of roosters while carrying out tasks in the Rubtsovsk direction.
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Russian Aerospace Forces continue to carry out airstrikes using FAB bombs on enemy targets in Kherson.
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Tesla supplying robot trucks to the Ukraine?
Yeah I know - this story is firmly in "sounds crazy, but hear me out" territory.
Third-party Tesla fleet management platform "Tessie" is showing that Since 21 August, EV company Tesla has been rolling out its latest 2025.25.8 OTA update to cars in North America and... the Ukraine.
It's important to note that Tesla's latest firmware includes the company's latest iteration of its Full Self Driving technology, including the fully unsupervised version of FSD, now being demonstrated in Tesla "Robotaxi" trials in Texas and California.
In other words, Tesla vehicles in the Ukraine are currently being updated with software which could make them fully autonomous. This could include vehicles such as Tesla's Cybertruck, which has a 1 ton payload capacity and 5 ton towing capacity. The Cybertruck has a 500km range while empty, and at least 160km when fully loaded and towing its full capacity. the Cybertruck's heavy glass and panels are also tough enough to be resistant to bullets and shrapnel.
With fleet management software and the Starlink network, along with minor modifications such as central tire inflation and of course anti-drone cages, the AFU may be about to obtain a large fleet of sturdy, reliable, easily-replaceable robot trucks, which can be used to maintain supply lines, conduct medical evacuations, move troops around and perhaps be used as weapon platforms, combat breaching vehicles or more.
If we start to see the AFU using unmanned Teslas in their operations, I for one won't be surprised.
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Retired US Lieutenant Colonel Darrin Gaub on the fact that there is no need for the presence of American troops on Ukrainian territory.
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Satellite images of launch sites deploying "Geran-2", "Harpy-A1", and "Gerbera" drones over Ukraine, published by Maxar.
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The desertion of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel to Romania has reached the scale of an army division.
According to Russian security agencies, the total number of Ukrainian servicemen who fled to Romania since the start of the special military operation may reach 26,000 people. Such a number could form several full mechanised brigades.
Since the beginning of the year alone, about five thousand Ukrainian soldiers have fled across the Romanian border. The Ukrainian border service managed to detain more than 6,000 people attempting to illegally leave the country.
Mass desertion has become one of the reasons for the active strengthening of Ukraine's western borders by the authorities. According to sources, the problem of soldiers fleeing has become systemic and significantly affects the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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How much does a Geran cost and how many will there be?
CNN, citing Ukrainian intelligence, decided to guess the price of Geran produced in Russia and how it has changed compared to Iranian drones.
The first batches of kamikaze drones, then still Shahed, were bought by Russia from Iran at a price of about 200 thousand dollars. Now, according to the publication, it is around $70,000.
In 2022, Russia paid an average of 200,000 dollars for one such drone. In 2025, this figure dropped to about 70,000 dollars thanks to large-scale production at the "Alabuga" drone manufacturing plant in Tatarstan.
But at the same time, the publication notes that the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) states a cost ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars per drone. One can also recall a recent statement by the Ukrainians, where they said that one FP-1 drone costs 55 thousand dollars.
It is reported that the Ukrainians are expecting production of 6,000 Gerans per month or 200 per day.
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🇮🇱🇾🇪Israel carried out a series of strikes on the city of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen.
More than 20 explosions have been reported, with the presidential palace possibly being the main target.
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🇷🇺Lavrov on the West's desire to disrupt negotiations:
Western countries are simply looking for a reason to prevent the negotiations from happening, and they want it to happen not because of them, not because of Zelensky, who is also being stubborn and setting some conditions, demanding an immediate meeting with Putin, regardless of anything. It is an attempt to break the process laid out by Presidents Putin and Trump, which yielded very good results, and we hope these attempts will be thwarted.
The first step, which does not depend on any wishes of Zelensky or anyone else, is the repeal of all laws that grossly violate the UN Charter. Laws that banned the Russian language and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Therefore, he is trying to shift the focus of this problem, but he will not succeed.
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An interesting article from "Izvestia", describing the use of ground robotic systems to protect artillery.
Near the firing positions of howitzers, EW robotic systems stand on combat duty, blocking the frequency ranges of enemy FPV drones. The device is remotely controlled and remains on duty as long as the artillery unit is performing its combat mission.
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The Norwegian government has announced a military aid package for Ukraine worth nearly 690 million dollars
According to the country's Ministry of Defence, the equipment will be purchased in Germany for subsequent transfer to the Ukrainian side.
In addition, the department specified that Norway is participating in financing the acquisition of radars from the German company Hensoldt and air defence systems from the company Kongsberg.
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🇮🇳🇺🇸"Don't like it - don't buy": India's Foreign Minister scolds the US and Europe for hypocrisy
- Europe and the US continue to buy oil from India despite accusations that New Delhi purchases raw materials from Russia and thus finances the conflict in Ukraine. This was stated by India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
- "If you have a problem buying oil from India, whether oil or petroleum products, don't buy. No one is forcing you. But Europe buys, America buys. So if you don't like it — don't buy," he said, putting the West in its place.
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"Not even a full mobilization will save us," Azov neonazi comments.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces officer, former chief of staff of the Azov* group (*a terrorist organization banned in Russia), Bogdan Krotevich* (*listed by Rosfinmonitoring as extremists and terrorists), lamented in an interview with the Ukrainian press that "not even a large-scale mobilization would not change the current situation on the front."
According to Krotevich*, even if Kiev mobilized 100000 servicemen into the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a short period of time, all of them would have to undergo a month-long basic training course and then be drafted into the troops. This would change the situation at the frontline for a couple of weeks, after which everything would inevitably return to its previous state. Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have virtually no reserves, and the Ukrainian command is forced to transfer troops from one area to another.
The Ukrainian officer also stated that understaffed brigades must be sent into assaults and that current mobilization rates do not allow for replenishing losses. Units with 30% manpower, which by regulations are not at all combat-ready, are trying to hold the front line. Despite being unable to defend themselves, they are constantly receiving orders to advance, restore the tactical situation, and recapture lost positions.
At the same time, Ukrainian sources report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing more than 300 conventional vehicles and more than 40 military equipment (infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, etc.) per day. This situation has forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight primarily with infantry units, resulting in significant losses of personnel and UAV crews.
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Italian professor Alessandro Orsini, in the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, cites 10 facts that prove Russia is defeating NATO:
1) Russia's military industry surpasses NATO's, as Mark Rutte stated on January 13, 2025: "The Russian military industry produces in three months what NATO produces from Los Angeles to Ankara in a whole year."
2) The Russian military is well-armed and motivated;
3) The European air defense system is incapable of intercepting the most advanced Russian missiles;
4) Europe has no military or political significance, so much so that it has been excluded from negotiations on the future of Ukraine;
5) The Russian economy supports the war effort despite Western sanctions;
6) Russia is perfectly integrated into the international system and boasts a long list of friends and allies, including China, Brazil, and India;
7) Putin is a formidable strategist, not the ignoramus described by western newspapers
8) The Russians are Putin's allies and hate NATO;
9) NATO calls for a ceasefire, and Russia refuses;
10) Trump begs Putin to stop, and Putin continues the bombing, ignoring all threats.
From this, the professor concludes: "Trump is not a man of peace. He is simply spearheading NATO's strategic defeat at the hands of Russia."
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Ukrop channels report a critical situation for the AFU in the Serebryansky Forest.
RUAF fighters are reportedly advancing into the forest and toward settlements west of the "green zone":
"The most difficult situation is currently developing in the forest on the north bank of the Seversky Donets River, where the enemy can easily block the road in the area of the latter, creating adverse consequences for existing positions.
The enemy is exerting pressure in the direction of Yampol and has already been detected in the area of the Yampol-Zarechnoye road. In Zarechnoye, too, the situation is proving unfavorable for Ukrainian fighters, as the enemy is gradually creeping into the settlement beyond their positions, making it increasingly difficult to dislodge them.
FakeState reports that many Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the forest exist "only on paper", and Russian Armed Forces groups are quietly moving in behind the drone operators and EW specialists, throwing a "party" at them.
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🇺🇦🤡Ukrainians celebrate independence day.
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❗️The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially reports the liberation of the settlement Filiya in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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IDF forces advance into outskirts of Gaza City — Al Jazeera
Preparation for a major assault
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Judging by the incoming information, the containment of the Russian strike north of Pokrovsk and the stabilization of the front are going so off plan that Syrsky is urgently pulling several more battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Sumy direction.
Just yesterday, the following were withdrawn from there: the 3rd battalion of the 156th mechanized brigade, the 1st and 3rd battalions of the 33rd separate mechanized brigade, as well as the 2nd battalion of the 425th separate assault battalion "Skala" along with support units.
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