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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1h

The occupiers put up fierce resistance and launch an air attack with drones. The gun battle continues, and the continuous fire crushes the enemy not only physically, but also morally. Soon, a radio interception is heard: the surviving PIs are ordered to leave the dugouts. 3/3

FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1h

Almost immediately, the fighters' combat vehicle is knocked out by the enemy. The stormtroopers take cover, quickly gather their courage and break into the landing, where the enemy is teeming. 2/3

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1h

GoPro footage from recent battles of the Third Assault Brigade. Before dawn, a group of fighters from the 3rd company of the 2nd mech battalion advance to storm sections of the Donetsk region. The task is to knock out the enemy and take positions on the approaches to Karpivka. 1/3

«Нас 30 людей, вам п*зда!» — Третя штурмова зачищає посадку в районі Карпівки

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

FPV drones are shooting down Russian reconnaissance Mavics. Artillery from both sides is also working intensively.
📌South direction. No changes 7/7

FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

foothold in the latter settlement, a direct path to Huliajpole will open for them. There are 16 km left to this communication hub.
📌Zaporizhia direction. Heavy fighting continues on the Plavni-Prymorske-Stipnohirsk sector. The Russians complain about the huge number of ZSU drones. Ordinary 6/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

🖇No changes in the eastern flank and central sector.
🖇Western flank. The aggressor reached the Yanchul River on the southern edge of the sector, it is not ruled out that it crossed it in separate places, for example. Okhotnych northern edge and Poltavka. If the Russians manage to gain a 5/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

📍Syversk. The aggressor's war propagandists admit that yesterday's official Russian statement about the occupied Fedorivka is "too optimistic." The fighting continues.
📌Donetsk direction.
📍Konstyantynivka. No changes.
📍Pokrovsk - Iskra. 4/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

(Sumy vs Pokrovsk).
📍Ukrainian attacks from Sadki to the eastern flank of Yunakivka are still recorded.
📌Kharkiv direction. No changes.
📌Luhansk direction.
📍Heavy fighting in the Kupjansk and Lyman sectors, no changes recorded on the contact line. 3/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

Ukrainian counterattacks. So it can be assumed that this is just a map correction. Also, Russian telegrams provide information that the Ukrainian 425th Assault Regiment is attacking here. If so, then it seems that it has exchanged areas of responsibility with the 225th Assault Regiment 2/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 3h

📌Kursk direction.
📍Tense situation on the western flank of the Sumy sector. The Deep State map records that the Russians have occupied no man's land near Novomykolaivka. The aggressor's channels do not report any success, they report 1/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 6h

Dvizhucha (action) 😆😅🤣😂

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6h

Everything is just as Putin said — Russians love "action." And now they have it: a burned-out position, ashes, and scrap metal.

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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 8h

Happy 3 year Crimea Bridge Bombing anniversary!!!

There will be more such events going forward. Deeper and deeper :)

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 12h

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 13h

Yesterday ZSU congratulated the Russian Führer and pedophile Putin on his birthday. An impressive 209 drone hit on strategic objects. Could there be a better gift? 😉 Some Russian cities are gradually getting used to living in medieval conditions. FAFO.

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

“strategic communication”. This is politically inconvenient, so it is easier for many to pretend to learn than to actually change.

So Grybauskaitė’s words are apt: the problem is not drone technology, but mindset. Europe is still preparing for parades, not war. 18/18

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

shifting to small, resourceful, quickly adapting nations – not to bureaucratic defense giants. And that hurts political egos.

Learning from ZSU would mean admitting own weakness – that deterrence does not work, that defense is expensive, that societies need to be prepared for real war, not 17/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

Such structures have destroyed Soviet thinking in Ukraine, but NATO countries still have a “PowerPoint war” – more slides than actions.

Third, the West is afraid to admit that the future of war is not in its hands. The Ukrainian experience means that the initiative is 16/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

Second, NATO military planners are stuck in 20th-century doctrines – where war is orderly, fronts are straight, and communication goes through generals. In Ukraine, everything is different: the war is won by decentralized, small groups supported by technology and drones, who have the initiative. 15/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

are not aimed at efficiency, but at supporting economic cycles. As a result, tanks are still being built for millions, when real war requires hundreds of thousands of cheap, quickly produced equipment and tactical improvisation. 14/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

They do not want to learn because it would require rethinking their entire military and bureaucratic culture.

First of all, the Western defense system is enslaved by industrial lobbying. Decisions are made not by military strategists, but by contract managers. Equipment purchases 13/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

Grybauskaitė put it bluntly — the problem is not only technological, but also civilizational. Western militaries are not learning from Ukraine because they lack information or opportunities. 12/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is that Putin has not been deterred in Ukraine or anywhere else. He has not been deterred by Europe or the United States. That means that our priority now is not deterrence, but defense. Defense. And that is a huge and different situation that we are in now.” 11/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

And then we are talking about billions in Europe, discussions about procurement, what to buy, what to produce. And again we are talking about very expensive equipment, which may be a good deterrent for demonstration, but not for fighting on the ground. 10/

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 1d

The Ukrainians are showing, inviting. They have been inviting for 3 years now. "Come and learn." Today, the strongest and most experienced army in Europe is the Ukrainian. Not the German, not the British, not even the Turkish, but the Ukrainian. And we are still trying to ignore reality. 9/

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