Russia-Ukraine War - News, Discussions & Updates
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Soldier35
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Footage of Ukrainian FPV drones attempting to attack and drop munitions on a Russian soldier from the Aleysky Motorized Rifle Unit of the Center Forces Group. Thanks to his skillful actions and the application of skills honed during training, the soldier successfully evaded the Ukrainian drones and continued his combat mission. The location of the footage is unknown, and the drone models are unknown.
Soldier35
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Footage of a combined strike by Russian Lancet-51 and Geran-2 drones on a Ukrainian UAV and FPV command and control center. The video shows Ukrainian service members from an unknown unit preparing the drones for takeoff. The video was filmed near the border village of Pohoreltsy in Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast. Russian units are using Geran-2 drones with direct control.
Distant_Observer
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Abdul q
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Full sapport sir they cant help themselves when they see fair skin the muscle memory immediately kicks in
Watandar
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Russia is so desperate for manpower it has been deceiving international students who would traditionally come to the country to study. They come to nonexistent colleges and end up being forcibly drafted into Russian army.
Ukraine war: Indians who fought in Russia return home with tales from war zone
Dozens of Indian men have been discharged from the Russian army and are making their way home.
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Hendarto
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US Patriot missiles face growing problems as Russia changes tactics.Alarming reports suggest Russia has unveiled a new class of missiles capable of "thinking" mid-air adjusting their trajectory in real time to outsmart U.S.-made Patriot defense systems.
According to military insiders, these advanced projectiles use Al-powered guidance that allows them to evade interception, making traditional air defense shields increasingly obsolete. For years, the Patriot system was touted as the backbone of NATO's protective wall -
but now experts warn its dominance could be coming to an end.If confirmed, this breakthrough would mark a game-changing moment in modern warfare, raising questions about whether the West can keep up with Moscow's accelerating weapons technology.
U.S. officials have yet to publicly address the reports, but defense analysts are already calling it a "nightmare scenario".The development underscores a chilling reality: the arms race is no longer just about speed or firepower but machine intelligence guiding missiles with deadly precision.Is this the moment the balance of power tilts towards Moscow? Or can the U.S. and NATO find a way to counter Russia's latest military innovation before it's too late?
Viet
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Russia invasion army needs constant influx of human flesh, almost 1,000 men a day minimum. Luckily Putin is rich. He pays anyone who can hold a gun $40,000 signing bonus. Then coming month salary, kill bonus, etc.Russia is so desperate for manpower it has been deceiving international students who would traditionally come to the country to study. They come to nonexistent colleges and end up being forcibly drafted into Russian army.
Ukraine war: Indians who fought in Russia return home with tales from war zone
Dozens of Indian men have been discharged from the Russian army and are making their way home.
Those contract killers won’t live long. days if they are lucky, but most of them are killed within hours.
Viet
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what world? I see ony dinosaurs win.
this war is such primitive. primitive killings for nothing for the russians.
worst than wars in middle ages in Europe. at the end dying for nothing.
Soldier35
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Kharkiv residents have published footage of strikes by Russian Geran-2 drones. The drones targeted the city's Industrial District and the 330 kV Losevo electrical substation. The drones also disabled the Ukrainian Thermal Power Plant No. 3 in Kharkiv's Nemyshlyansky District. In total, approximately 25 drones were used, and strikes were also carried out on other targets in the city.
Soldier35
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Footage of the results of an unusual attack by a Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" drone on a Russian Buk-M2 air defense system. For an unknown reason, the drone's warhead failed to deploy, and it simply landed on the Buk-M2 air defense launcher. In this state, the Ukrainian drone traveled 15 kilometers and was delivered to the rear of the Russian army. The video has been shortened.
F-22Raptor
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The Russians are now massively drawing down its T-72A tank reserve. Their reserves get smaller and smaller
F-22Raptor
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Time is no longer on Russias side and analysts are finally catching on.
F-22Raptor
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The Russia–Ukraine war has entered a new phase
Western officials are reportedly puzzled by the sudden wave of Russian drone and fighter incursions into their airspace. They should not be. Russia’s actions are the logical result of four wider developments that are reshaping its calculus. The first three are policy choices of America, Europe and China. The fourth is Russia’s own deteriorating domestic condition. Russia’s response has ushered in a new and more dangerous phase of its war in Ukraine.
Deteriorating conditions, growing disquiet
Firstly, United States President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 initially raised Kremlin hopes that his stated goal of ending the war quickly could be used to engineer a decisive shift in favour of Russia and a split in transatlantic relations. Despite intensive diplomatic efforts, culminating in the Alaska summit in August 2025, Russia has failed to achieve this. Although America made unilateral concessions – abandoning demands for an immediate ceasefire and dropping threats of new sanctions – it has not decisively broken with Ukraine or Europe. Trump has uttered harsh words about Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time and continues to provide weapons – now sold, not given – to Ukraine. Nine months of turbulent diplomacy have realised neither Russia’s greatest hopes nor Europe’s deepest fears.Secondly, Europe is stepping up. At the June 2025 NATO summit, member states agreed to spend 5% of GDP on defence by 2035. Since Europe’s total GDP is ten times larger than Russia’s, this represents a huge increase in military capability. The EU is also intensifying pressure on Russia’s economy. So far this year, it has adopted four new sanctions packages – the fastest rate since 2022 – and is close to agreeing a fifth. This will be the 19th such packagesince Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Most significantly, the EU is now working on an ambitious plan to provide a €140 billion reparation loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian Central Bank assets. If agreed, this will keep Ukraine afloat and enable it to fight for the next two to three years, while alleviating the burden of support on European taxpayers.
Thirdly, China has tilted more decisively towards Russia. In 2024, NATO designated it a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war due to its sale of military and dual-use goods and complicity in massive sanctions evasion. Last month, Beijing finally agreed to build the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline. Russia had been begging it to do so for years. When completed, it will more than double Russia’s pipeline gas exports to China.
The fourth factor is Russia’s domestic condition. Like two blades of a pair of scissors, war and sanctions are cutting ever deeper into its economy, distorting the financial system and eroding productive capacity. Russia’s real interest rates are now the highest in the world. The labour market faces record shortages. The civilian economy is stagnant. The main driver of growth is war production, demand for which will only rise as Russia’s huge equipment stockpiles are exhausted. Yet Putin told his Military Industrial Commission last month that defence production was ‘at maximum capacity’. Compounding these problems, Ukraine’s potent attacks on oil refineries are now causing significant disruption to Russian civilian life.
All this is instilling disquiet. The complacency that swept elites two years ago – when growth was strong, sanctions seemed survivable and Ukraine’s counter-offensive had failed – is gone. Instead, there is growing anxiety, alarm and even plans for ‘escape routes from the country if everything falls apart’. Last month, Dmitry Kozak, a Putin confidant since the 1990s who argued against Russia’s invasion, resigned as deputy head of the Presidential Administration. The mood even among ‘Z-bloggers’, the online influencer-enthusiasts of the war, has also darkened in the face of military setbacks.
Inevitable escalation
The strategic context of the war is thus shifting. Russia’s summer offensive has failed at enormous cost in troops. Its diplomatic strategy for America has fallen short. It faces a slow tsunami of European defence spending and growing strains at home. China will ramp up military supplies but, not until at least 2030, the new gas purchases that could sustain Russia’s dwindling finances. This support not only emboldens Russia to take greater risks but impels it to do so. A defeat would devalue Russia as a partner and shift the balance of influence in their relationship even further towards Beijing.In short, time may no longer be on Russia’s side. The balance of material and technological potential vastly favours its adversaries. Russia can now prevail only if it prevents them from turning their collective latent strength into usable superiority by undermining their resolve. This compels it to accelerate its theory of victory – to grind down Ukraine militarily and outlast the West politically – before the window for winning closes forever. For this reason, Russia is now inflicting record drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities to wear down morale and resistance, and is carrying out unprecedented incursions and sabotage operations to deter and divide Europe.
Russia’s behaviour will inevitably grow more risky and aggressive unless it faces unacceptable costs. The question is whether Europe will demonstrate, not only in word but deed, that it is ready to impose these. Failure to do so will merely postpone, not avert, confrontation. To fear escalation is to invite it.
Soldier35
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Footage has been released of a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile striking a Ukrainian drone assembly plant. It was not possible to determine what drones the facility was assembling. The drone assembly plant was located on the premises of an industrial facility in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson. It's worth noting that the strike occurred during daylight hours, suggesting the plan was to also target the personnel.
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