Ukraine

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Emboldened?
https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/20 ... 9816902726
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2067464916055814326
https://x.com/AdamKinzinger/status/2067585466279370990
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/20 ... 9421857173

Wow. Congrats to the new nation of North Ukraine!

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Who would have guessed that USA USA USA and Russia would lose their Wars of Choice in the same year?

Ukraine launches major drone attack again on Russia

Ukraine has mounted another large drone attack against Russia overnight, launching hundreds of drones and once again targeting oil infrastructure and military sites near St. Petersburg.

Videos online appear to show large smoke plumes rising from an oil facility in St. Petersburg's port. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had successfully hit oil infrastructure in the port as well as military targets around the Kronstadt naval base.

Russia's defense ministry said nearly 500 long-range drones were involved in the attack. Moscow's mayor said 200 targeted the capital.


In this screen grab from a video released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, smoke rises after a Ukrainian drone strike near St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 4, 2026

Ukraine is now successfully hitting oil refineries and infrastructure, as well as defense industry facilities, deep inside Russia on an almost daily basis, as its long-range drone campaign grows.

Many Russian regions are suffering fuel shortages as a result, with people filming themselves waiting in long lines at gas stations.

The Ukrainian drone strikes are bringing the war home to Russians not previously seen.

[Russia’s fuel crisis is so bad that a mom and her baby waited in line for 18 hours to get gas — ‘Are we in the Soviet Union?’
Ouch.]

At the same time, Russia's troubles of the battlefield have appeared to mount. An increasingly effective campaign by Ukraine using medium-range drones is targeting Russia's logistics and seeking to cut off supply lines into occupied Crimea.

Authorities in Crimea have declared a state of emergency over fuel shortages and imposed curfews amid power outages caused by Ukrainian strikes.

... The Russian gains are also coming at enormous cost. Russia's forces are taking tens of thousands of casualties, according to independent analysts and Western intelligence assessment.

A report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) this week assessed Russia's military has now suffered around 1.4 million casualties, including as many as 450,000 deaths.

Ukraine has suffered between 525,000 to 625,000 casualties, the CSIS report found.

Slava Ukraini!

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Ukraine may be feeling more optimistic about their chances.

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Ukraine may be feeling more optimistic about their chances.

The question is:

Which dumb ass - Putin or Iran will blink first?

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The question is:

Which dumb ass - Putin or Iran will blink first?

Neither will probably blink, but Russia may be defeated militarily and monetarily.

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The question is:

Which dumb ass - Putin or Iran will blink first?

Neither will probably blink, but Russia may be defeated militarily and monetarily.

The bloom may be off Vladimir's rose.


Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker



Vladimir Putin has ventured out of his safety net for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails.

Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stunt in Irkutsk on Friday—where the Russian leader, flanked by bodyguards, made a show of inspecting aircraft—Putin sat down with Kazakhstan's president in the Russian city of Omsk on Saturday.

The 73-year-old Russian president could barely conceal his nervous grimace as Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev used the meeting that was supposed to be about Russia-Kazakh cooperation to throw Putin under the bus.

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3D chess.