When Russia launches a spring offensive, and a few weeks later articles are using words like 'grind to a halt', you know that Russia has lost the momentum in the war. "Moscow’s battlefield gains grind to a halt with forces making ‘worst progress in two years’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

For as long as Russia remains in Ukraine, Russia's economy will continue to deteriorate. With continuous Ukrainian long range strikes on Russia's oil and energy infrastructure, Russia will continue to weaken. Russia cannot defend its oil infrastructure, simply impossible.

"Some evacuations of the city have begun."

Satellite image showing that smoke from Tuapse oil fires has spread over 300 km.

Good recent video from more of a distance showing the Tuapse oil fires still burning. www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWar...

I do not post NSFW stuff, but I looked through the video and I didn't see anything disturbing. It's just cars in Tuapse driving on the road under hellish dark billowing clouds from an oil refinery that's on fire. If there are cars in Hell, maybe it's like this. www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWar...

When living in an authoritarian government, all numbers are suspect. Nothing can be trusted.

So we're as stupid now as we were in the 90's? I guess in the 90's we were all Neanderthals. Neanderthals who didn't know how good we had it. Cheeseburgers the size of plates. Footlongs that were... a foot long.

Tuapse residents are not happy. 'Do not leave your homes.' 'Do not open your windows.'

Still burning today. The legends say that not even the Rain Gods can put these fires out. www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWar...

This is so surreal. Nobody could possibly be this unaware of the irony. You think they did this on purpose?

Remind me again. What happened in 1917? Oh... right. Massive uprisings. Big, huge, massive uprisings.

Tuapse residents supported the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Consequences and karma.

"Danish company GomSpace and Ukrainian company STETMAN announced the launch of a joint venture in Ukraine to develop sovereign satellite communication capabilities." www.ukrinform.net/rubric-econo...

Trump is going to be so mad. He's going to go ballistic.

They have plans. They're going places. 'Get in, loser.' 'Where are we going?' 'To the future.' www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

"EU Moves to Ban Russian War Veterans From Entry" Good idea. www.kyivpost.com/post/74463

Large Iraqi militias inside of Iraq are responsible for drone attacks on U.S. military bases in and around Iraq. FPV drone attacks. The longer Trump continues his war on Iran, the more complicated, confusing, and expanded the war becomes. We are unable to protect our bases from FPV drones.

Trump is stuck and stumped. He doesn't know what to do. Bombs and missiles didn't work. Threats didn't work. More of the same just isn't working. He's going to start thinking more and more each day about nukes. It's the only thing he's never used before. And he really, really wants to use one.

That's the thing about Ukraine. New developments never stop. Improvements to old developments never stops. Ukraine is constantly growing and improving. euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/22/u...

"But holding the line against Russia has also earned the outnumbered and underfunded Ukrainians a reputation for creative, cost-effective and surprisingly successful new battlefield strategies — a war-tested expertise that is suddenly in huge demand." www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ap...

"The launched interceptor can then autonomously home in on a drone up to 1.6 kilometers away. The "fire and forget" system removes the need for communication with the user, meaning it cannot be jammed electronically while in flight." www.rferl.org/a/anti-drone...

"Russian Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov continues to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances amidst Russian forces’ poor performance in their ongoing Spring-Summer 2026 offensive." Putin lives in a bubble. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

"Ukrainian STING Interceptor Downs Shahed Carrying an R-60 Air-to-Air Missile" thechronicles.online/en/videos/uk...

Ukraine will have extreme difficulty getting any Patriots. As will the rest of Europe. Zelensky's initiative and push to develop a ballistic missile interceptor by next year is critical. It's the last piece of the puzzle for Ukrainian air defense.

See? The Russians in Crimea, they know what is coming. They can FEEL it. They know that Ukraine is coming to take Crimea back. The Siege of Crimea. We don't know when. We just know it's going to happen. www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

Some of the Russian targets all of those Ukrainian drones and missiles flew off towards last night. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Tuapse oil fires continue to burn and spread. www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWar...

Russian influencers are becoming very, very unhappy with life in Russia. If only there was something that Putin could do to improve their lives. Gosh, I wonder what that could be? What could Putin do to improve the lives of his people? It's a mystery.

Russian artillery shell expenditure dropping below baseline of 3,292, with 2,810 fired. Below average, but not by a lot. But it is interesting that Russian assaults increased while artillery shells decreased. Could be nothing. Or something. www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...