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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 5h

(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 · 5h

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 · 7h

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

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 19h

Russian air defence missile hit residential building on n Belgorod.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Satellite images of a Russian oil depot in Feodosia, where a fire has been raging for more than a day and a half following the Ukrainian drone attack.

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

Russian oil refinery in Tyumen, located 2000km from the front line, was hit by at least two drones. Drones damaged a distillation column and part of the water supply system. According to Astra.

Tyumen oil refinery has a total capacity of 7,5mln tons of oil per year.

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

A new Ukrainian missile was demonstrated. It appears to be a modified Neptune missile. mod.gov.ua/news/mi-zakl...

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

Logistics donkeys in Russian service

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

The Rarog unit of the hunts Russian infantry using FPV drones with night vision.

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

Russians mounted a turret from a BMP-1 with a 73mm 2A28 Grom on a roof of a civilian Moskvich

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

More than a day later, the Russian oil depot in Feodosia is still burning.

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

/2. The strike radius during an explosion reaches up to 25 meters in diameter. The maximum range of the missile with this warhead is up to 3 km.

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

European manufacturer Thales has developed a compact mini-missile to help counter Shahed-type attack drones — FZ123 warhead for the 70 mm missile is filled with thousands of tiny steel pellets and nearly one-kilogram charge. New system is already being deployed in Ukraine.

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

Trump, responding to a reporter's question regarding Tomahawks for Ukraine:

"Yeah, I sort of made a decision pretty much, if you concider… Yeah. I think I want to find out what they're doing with them. You know, where they're sending them. I guess I have to ask that question."

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

AASM Hammer air bombs dropped by the Ukrainian Su-25

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

Ukrainian naval drones serving as a platform for large bomber drones. Video by Lazar unit. youtu.be/9SggeSTU4_I?...

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

Russia attempted a massive mechanized assault in the Kostyantynivka direction!

The Russians hoped to use that worsening weather conditions to carry out a mechanized offensive. Ukrainian units destroyed 5 tanks, 8 armored fighting vehicles, 2 BMD-4s, and 3 BMPs.

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

Explosions have been reported near a Russian oil refinery in Tyumen, with Russian officials claiming that three drones were “neutralized.” The consequences remain unclear.

What is striking, however, is the distance involved — Tyumen is located 2,000 km from the front lines.

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

/2. • In the area of Novostepnoe, Dzhankoy district, a UAV strike targeted the radar station of an S-400 complex belonging to military unit 44750;

• In the area of Udachne, Krasnogvardeisky district, a UAV strike hit the personnel quarters of a Russian Armed Forces unit. 4 servicemen were wounded.

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

The “Dosye Shpiona” information from which, as a rule, always finds confirmation later writes about some results of a mass attack on Crimea last night:

• Dzhankoy, a UAV strike hit an S-400 system: one launcher was destroyed, the command post sustained minor damage, and a crew member was wounded;

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

The fire still continues after the Ukrainian strike on the Russian oil depot in Feodosia, Crimea.

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

A unique operation by the Lazar unit: a drone with explosives lands on a Russian BUK air defense system on the move, tracks its route, and ultimately explodes.

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