A large fire broke out in eastern Moscow. Locals reported hearing an explosion before flames spread. Thick black smoke began drifting over nearby residential areas, while the exact cause of the blaze remains unclear. #Russia

Ukraine expands strikes across Russia in new campaign. youtu.be/XueZGkU71MY

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1/ The stress of Russia's worsening economic problems, Internet shutdowns, and the war in Ukraine is reportedly causing a huge decrease in Russian citizens' happiness, and a corresponding surge in antidepressant prescriptions and morbidity. ⬇️

Ryazan air defense apparently worked actively for the Ukrainian side last night.

A busy day for the oil refinery in Ryazan, Russia.

Russian losses per 15/05/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff +1150 men +4 tanks +12 ACVs +32 artillery +1 MLRS +1780 UAVs +7 GRCs +41 cruise missiles

❗️A Russian Be-200 Altair amphibious aircraft with a K-27 fuselage in Yeisk (Russia) was destroyed by Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces! Last night, the USF launched 55 strikes on 23 military targets on Russia and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Their targets included: ◾️Be-200 aircraft

Ukraine’s Defense Forces recaptured Odradne and nearby territory in the Dvorichna area of Kharkiv region. Assault units, including the 129th Heavy Mechanized Brigade of the 16th Army Corps, pushed Russian forces out of fortified positions, tree lines and strongpoints, killing 56 occupiers. #Ukraine

DT and Rheinmetall announced plans to protect cities and critical infrastructure across Germany. The system would use sensors to detect drones and could disable them using jamming technology or interceptor drones.

Fire Point has launched 2 satellites this year and plans dozens more in 2027, FT reported. The Ukrainian arms maker is expanding drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, and a Freya air-defense shield to reduce dependence on US and Western systems. #Ukraine

Ukraine has destroyed Russia's critical Perm Pumping Station and is now focused on Russia's Nurlino Pump Station. Once both are offline Russia's entire oil pipeline infrastructure will be fractured and completely split in half.

Ukraine is now targeting Russia's Nurlino oil pumping station for destruction. Russia's pipeline infrastructure is in chaos.

Russia's military has failed to capture Ukraine's tiny village of Mala Tokmachka after directly assaulting it for over 4 years now.

#Kyiv. The body of a 12-year-girl was found under the rubble after the massive Russian attack. She had her whole life ahead of her. Deepest condolences to her family. Russia must pay for its crimes.

STING interceptors downed more than 300 targets over the past day and night during Russia’s mass attack. Three units destroyed over 200 drones between them, with one unit hitting 120 targets and two records broken for shootdowns by a single crew. #Ukraine

🔥🛢️Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck the “Tamanneftegaz” oil terminal and the Port of Taman on Russia’s Black Sea coast overnight. The facility, located on the Taman Peninsula more than 300 km from the frontline, plays a major role in Russian oil and fuel export logistics.

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The Iranians are telling people that they will never give up their nuclear material for American security guarantees because Trump is not honoring the security guarantees that America made to Ukraine when Ukraine gave up their nukes.

Russian city of Engels remains without sewage for the second week now. Locals complain that the smell of feces is overwhelming. There is stinking water everywhere. But Russia's priorities lie in destroying Ukraine, not fixing destructions in Russia. 📹: CurrentTime

Russians losing their land bridge to Crimea.

Nothing brings me more joy these days than talking about Ukraine's kinetic sanctions that are being applied to Russia's oil infrastructure.

Kiitokset molemmista tämänpäiväisistä lahjoituksista! 🙏 Jos jollakulla muulla on mahdollisuus osallistua samalla tavoin, teidän avullanne keräys voi vielä päästä maaliin!

The Economist: For the first time in nearly three years, the momentum in the war appears to be shifting in Ukraine's favor. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin thinks things are terrible in Russia, which is "being beaten and will continue to be beaten" and is being "humiliated before the entire world" due to the failures of "the cretins in power." He also ridicules his prison's motley Victory Day parade. ⬇️

The video shows the Crimean highway just before Dzhankoi. Russian logistics are already being hit 100 kilometers away from the front line.

In Russia’s Volgograd Region, the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant "Severstal" is reportedly on fire. According to reports, barrels containing benzene and oil are burning, and the fire has already spread across an area of 300 square meters.

❗Ukraine and Germany are launching joint development and production of drones with ranges from under 100 km to 1,500 km, Pistorius said in Kyiv. Berlin also plans to join Ukraine’s Brave1 defense innovation platform and study Ukrainian battlefield systems. #Ukraine

1/ A recent video filmed by Russian soldiers shows Ukrainian Hornet AI-controlled drones hunting for Russian targets near Mariupol. A Russian UAV specialist warns that advanced AI processing will soon turn the Hornet into a fully automated system. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/wart...

Ukrainian MiG-29s carried out a precision strike with 2 GBU-62 JDAM-ER bombs on a Russian UAV command post in Zaporizhzhia region. #Ukraine

1/ If yesterday's Victory Day parade had been a true reflection of Russia's frontline army as it is now, it would have been a chaotic display of battered vehicles, motorbikes, exhausted soldiers on crutches, and donkeys. A Russian warblogger imagines how it could have been. ⬇️

Argentina has detained 26-year-old Russian citizen Dmitry Novikov, one of the leaders of the extensive Russian influence network La Compañía, which operated against state institutions and the government of President Javier Milei⤵️

In Russia’s Engels, about 200,000 people are without water for over a week because of a failure on the main sewer. Courtyards and even the first floors of residential buildings are filled with sewage waste, and because of this an emergency regime has been introduced in the city.

NEW: Russia and China both provided Iran with satellite imagery during the war, which helped facilitate Iranian attacks against US forces and regional countries. There is evidence that at least Russia is helping Iran reconstitute some of its military capabilities during the ceasefire period. (1/6)

The Motherland Monument in Kyiv was illuminated with the colors of the EU flag in an event attended by foreign diplomats, EU representatives, and Ukrainian authorities. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated the action symbolizes European support for Ukraine's fight for freedom and European values.

In today’s May 9th Vatnik Soup, we discuss the ambiguous relationship of the Kremlin with Nazism and explain why so many vatniks can be outright Nazis, or even promote or excuse them while at the same time being so hysterical about alleged “Nazis in Ukraine”. 1/23

Members of the Russian government - deputy prime ministers and ministers - will not be allowed onto the stands during today’s Victory Day parade on Red Square. Putin is afraid of everything and everyone - even his own ministers.

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1/ One indication of the increasing sense of a fin de régime in Russia is that Russian warbloggers are becoming steadily bolder in being critical of, or even abusive towards, Putin himself – previously a bright red line. One commentator lambasts him as a "bunker granny". ⬇️

/2. A soldier of the 540th Lviv Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade also shared combat experience from one of Russia’s massive missile attacks. “It performed flawlessly”. That morning, the system fired four missiles and destroyed all four targets, three Kh-101 cruise missiles and one Kalibr missile.

Over the past 14 days, 238 events were recorded in the airspace of the Moscow region: 🟢131 UAV flights. 🔴107 air defense activations. Despite reinforced defenses ahead of the parade, a significant number of our drones continue to penetrate the first and second defensive lines.

General Staff confirms: Ukraine struck the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery in Russia’s Perm region, with explosions and fire recorded at the site. Fires broke out at the isomerization unit, used to raise octane in light gasoline fractions, and the AVT-2 primary oil processing unit. #Russia

16:40 | 07/05 Approximate flight routes of our UAVs: 🔴 Red arrow – directions of movement of strike UAVs; According to Russian sources, around 260 drones were reportedly launched; however, these figures and the indicated routes are highly approximate.

1/ Independent drone development in Russia is being crushed by the heavy hand of the state, according to Russian warbloggers. They say that large corporations have captured the military procurement system, effectively locking out independent developers. ⬇️

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"This is a complete disaster; we are being killed every day." - A Russian blogger lashes out at his own authorities and spends almost a full minute spitting at the camera in rage.

Russia is currently starving and killing off the entire civilian population of the occupied parts of Kherson Oblast. Russia is not supplying the occupied people with food and medicine and the Russian military is preventing them from leaving. www.kyivpost.com/post/75575

Russian historian Yuri Pivovarov, April 2026: "I know nothing in Russia’s military history more disgraceful or more shameful than the current war. This is a Great Patriotic War of the Ukrainian people against an invader. Unfortunately, the invaders are our [Russian] people."

Another attack has been reported on an oil pumping station in Russia’s Perm - a strategic hub of the country’s trunk oil pipeline system.

Journalist Caolan Robertson confronted the Russian ambassador at the Venice Biennale: "Your country killed 30 civilians in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Why are you using art to whitewash your crimes?" @caolanrob.bsky.social,2 thank you for supporting the Ukrainian people!