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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 29m

/2. The crew reportedly ejecting. The unmanned aircraft went down in a wooded area. Both pilots survived and were located by rescue teams. They were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 29m

‼️BREAKING: A MiG-31 fighter jet crashes in Russia’s Lipetsk region

MiG-31 interceptor crashed during a routine flight in the Chaplyginsky district of the Lipetsk region. Preliminary reports suggest the aircraft experienced a landing gear malfunction.

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

FP-5 Flamingo missile debris somewhere on Russian territory

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6h

/4. 🎥 Here’s a look at how the Chuyka 3.0 works in action. Intercepting signals from enemy drones when those fly in proximity to your positions.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6h

/3. A new target has been set at €77,200. So far, €69,050 has already been raised toward this expanded goal. With your continued support, we can deliver this next package to the 14th as well.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6h

/2. Because of this strong support, we can now also help with additional equipment the regiment has asked for: 20 “Chuyka 3.0” drone detectors, to make launch crews of long-range UAVs safer during operations.

📌 Join in here: help99.co/patches/special-kherson-cat-14th-nafo-campaign

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6h

/1. Thanks to your incredible support, the initial €66,000 goal was reached very quickly. This has already secured the vehicles and systems originally requested for the 14th Separate USF Regiment.

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 · 8h

The work of a mobile air defense fire group armed with the French Mistral MANPADS in the Kherson region.

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

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

Just now, Ukrainian drones targeted Russian oil depot in Matveev Kurgan, Rostov region.

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

Mi-8 shoots down Russian Shahed

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

Ukrainian tunnels of anti-drone nets along logistics routes

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

/2. Before the strike

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

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed that on the night of October 9 Defense Forces struck the Korobkovsky Gas Processing Plant (Kotovo, Volgograd region, Russia). The plant is one of the largest in southern Russia, with a capacity of 450 million m³ of gas and 186,000 tons of liquids annually.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 15h

/2. The Yefimovka oil pumping station, located 8,5km to the south was also targeted.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 15h

/1. At night, drones hit a Russian gas processing plant in Kotovo, Volgograd region.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 23h

Russian TOS-1A being chased and destroyed by a heavy bomber drone on the Zaporizhzhia front. t.me/Klymenko_MVS...

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

FPV found a weak spot in the Russian Bukhanka with a huge anti-drone structure.

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

(Reuters) - Belarus quadrupled gasoline exports to Russia in September as Moscow faced fuel shortages due to Ukrainian attacks on its energy infrastructure. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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

Russian servicemen torture each other: Russians tied the hands of three of their comrades with duct tape and ran electricity through all of them as punishment for leaving positions.

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

A Russian drone operator catches a Ukrainian drone while launching his own.

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

Estonia has sentenced a serviceman to nearly five years in prison for spying for Russia’s FSB.

Estonian citizen, Ivan Dmitriev, in March and May 2025 cooperated with FSB officer. He was a member of the voluntary defense organization, where he carried out various tasks, including operating drones.

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

Russian air defence missile hit residential building on n Belgorod.

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

Ukrainian long range kamikaze drones “Morok” flying over Belgorod right now.

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

The reconnaissance unit of the 35th Brigade, Aeronavty, requires support to return three vehicles to service.

PayPal: [email protected]

Part of the expenses has already been covered by the soldiers themselves. The remaining amount needed is approximately $2,000.

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