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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 10h

€76,400 of the €77,200 goal has already been raised — just €800 remain.

This stage will provide 20 “Chuyka 3.0” drone detectors to enhance the safety of long-range UAV launch crews of the 14th Separate USF Regiment.

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Special Kherson Cat 14th NAFO Campaign

The one and only Special Kherson Cat is back on the move — with trucks to deliver and drones to launch.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11h

Moment of one of the drone strikes on Donetsk

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12h

Fire in Donetsk after drone attack on Russian targets.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12h

Just now, Russian targets in Donetsk under drone attack.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 14h

Just €1,425 remain to complete the campaign for 14th USF.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18h

Only €2,450 remain to complete the €77,186 goal of the campaign supporting the 14th Separate USF Regiment.

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Special Kherson Cat 14th NAFO Campaign

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 16h

Drone operators of the Rarog unit found a weak spot in the improvised anti-drone armour of the Russian tank.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18h

Only €2,450 remain to complete the €77,186 goal of the campaign supporting the 14th Separate USF Regiment.

📌 Join in and help bring it to completion: help99.co/patches/special-kherson-cat-14th-nafo-campaign

Special Kherson Cat 14th NAFO Campaign

The one and only Special Kherson Cat is back on the move — with trucks to deliver and drones to launch.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 20h

Liyty drone on its way to Ufa to strike some Russian oil refineries

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21h

Russian Bashneft UNPZ oil refinery burning after the SBU drone attack.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21h

Bashneft (total capacity: around 23-26 million tons per year) is a complex of three oil refineries located right next to each other:
•Ufimsky refinery (UNPZ) – ~7.5 million tons/year
•Ufaneftekhim – ~9.5 million tons/year
•Novoil – ~7.1 million tons/year

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21h

🔥🛢️ This morning, drones hit the Russian oil refinery complex Bashneft in Bashkortostan — 1,400 km from the frontline.

Specifically its claimed that UNPZ oil refinery was hit in the area of the AVT-6 unit.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 22h

Russians are showing off their new expensive anti-drone electronic warfare system.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

❗️Sources associated with Russian military aviation report the loss of the Ka-52 military helicopter along with its crew

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

/5. Additional footage of the same attack

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

€73,600 of €77,200 raised — only €3,600 remain.

After the regiment’s initial needs were covered, this phase is focused on delivering 20 “Chuyka 3.0” drone detectors to protect long-range UAV launch crews of the 14th USF Regiment.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

/4. Volodymyrivka: Russia managed to land 32 infantry; 12 were eliminated immediately, the rest hid in ruined houses and basements. In the evening and night, heavy bomber UAV crews struck those shelters.

By the morning of Oct 10, no Russian infantry movement remained in Volodymyrivka.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

/3. Assault came in several waves from multiple directions: motorcycles first, then tank/AFV with infantry. Thanks to pre-laid minefields and coordinated actions by artillery and UAV crews, Russia was forced to reroute, lost orientation, abandoned vehicles, and dropped infantry in unplanned areas.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

/2. Oct 9 — Ocheretyne axis: Russia launched a massed assault, 35 tanks & AFVs, preceded by waves of motorcycles, aiming to seize Shakhove.

Results:
•Personnel: 107 Russians KIA, 51 WIA.
•Vehicles destroyed/damaged: 1 ARV, 3 tanks, 16 AFVs, plus 41 motorcycles and 2 light vehicles.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

❗️/1. After a long pause, Russia is again sending big armored columns into attack. A mass assault with 35 tanks & AFVs on Ukrainian positions took place in the area of responsibility of Azov 1st Corps.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

Trump thanked Putin for his support after he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Flattering Trump remains the easiest investment for dictators.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

FPV drone operator tracks a Russian infantryman in dense forest.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

🔥SBU strikes Russian positions with Ukrainian FP-2 long-range guided drones with 105kg warhead

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

€71,100 of €77,200 has been raised — only €6,100 left for the 14th USF Regiment.

After the initial request was covered in record time, we are close to the expanded goal: 20 “Chuyka 3.0” drone detectors.

📌 Help bring it to completion: help99.co/patches/special-kherson-cat-14th-nafo-campaign

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

Rheinmetall will deliver Leopard 1-based Skyranger 35 air defence systems to Ukraine. The order worth a three-digit million Euro figure is financed by an unnamed EU country using frozen Russian assets.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2d

It seems there was yet another attempt by Russians to attack with a large columns of mechanized equipment. In the Unmanned Systems Forces daily report for October 9, it’s stated that 8 tanks were hit, 36 IFVs were damaged, and 2 more were destroyed.

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