It would be a shame if the Novorossiysk, a 242-foot-long diesel-electric sub with a crew of 52, was FUBAR.
The Novorossiysk is attached to the Black Sea Fleet but was part of the Russian naval contingent at the port of Tartus in Syria. Russia had withdrawn its subs from the Mediterranean Sea after the Assad regime fell in Syria and Russia lost its base.
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🚨 BREAKING: Russian Kilo-class submarine Novorossiysk suffered an “accident” in the Mediterranean Sea.
Fuel is now leaking directly into the hold due to a damaged fuel system. Other problems arising.
This may be why it was spotted surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar yesterday.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
According to leaked information, there are no repair parts nor qualified specialists on board the submarine to address the problems. Fuel continues to accumulate in the hold and is considered at risk of explosion. Crew is likely to attempt to pump the fuel out into the sea.
Russia is also reported to have suffered damage to the missile corvette Vishnu Volochyok in the Sea of Azov.
VChK-OGPU also reported that the Project 21631 Buyan-M missile corvette Vyshny Volochyok was severely damaged in August 2025 after colliding with a civilian tanker in the Temryuk Bay of the Azov Sea.
The accident occurred on August 7 during what was described in official documents as “combat tasks.” Photographs published by the outlet show visible structural damage to the vessel’s hull.
Despite this, a subsequent service report recorded the event as taking place during a “drone attack” and claimed the ship’s combat readiness remained unaffected. VChK-OGPU stated that the wording was introduced following the involvement of brigade commander Oleg Sardin.
Ukraine struck another oil pumping station in the Chuvash Republic, which is east of Moscow.
Good shootin’
Bridge bavovna
Russian says it captured this Ukrainian naval drone during the attack on the port at Tuapse.
Russia kept up its assault on the city of Zaporizhzhia and hit this hospital in Dobropillia.
Russian war crimes against the residents of Kherson are compounded daily.
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The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The power outage at the ZNPP continues.
▪️Cooling & safety systems are running on diesel generators due to the power line being cut off
▪️There’s a risk of the cooling systems failing, which could lead to the uncontrolled heating of nuclear fuel Russia has plans to connect the plant to power lines through occupied Ukrainian territories
The desertion rate for Russian soldiers this year is estimated to be 10%
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Our research, based on tens of thousands of personal records, shows that desertion rates in the Russian army have doubled in 2025 compared with 2024. If the trend continues, we estimate at least 70,000 deserters this year – roughly 10% of the entire force deployed in Ukraine:
— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A Russian soldier speaks glowingly about the fabulous conditions at the front — like staying at a spa.
Well, except for the rotting bodies.
Instead of fragging the shitty commanders who steal soldiers’ pay and send them to their doom, this guy decided to report them and testify against them. Guess how that turned out.
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1/ A Russian soldier has spoken of hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine, with no evacuations of the wounded, rotting bodies lying around, no food or water for anybody, no pay, constant Ukrainian drone and mortar attacks, and suicidal orders from corrupt commanders. ⬇️
— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
2/ Vladimir Anatolyevich Oskolkov from the 36th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 06705) has recorded four videos from the front line, somewhere around Oleksandrohrad in the Donetsk region. The videos were recorded around 7 August after a failed attack.
3/ He says that his entire platoon was killed, but nobody was evacuating the frontline injured. “They are simply being sent to their deaths. If you get sick or something, they just send you to hell. Our prosecutor’s office is completely inactive [regarding appeals for help].”
4/ “The 300 [injured] guys are dying right before my eyes. No one is evacuating them, they are just dying.” There is no medical treatment for them either, as they are simply bleeding out slowly: “And the guys, fucking hell, the 300s are lying there, bleeding.”
5/ He condemns his commanders, who are at a safe distance away issuing orders: “It’s such a fucking nightmare here, the attitude towards everything is fucking insane, they just don’t give a shit, they command from their bunkers, they send their guys to be cannon fodder, just so…
6/ …they can put stars in their faces and become some kind of heroes. Not only are you fucking betting on these guys, fucking lining your pockets with money, you’re also fucking sending them to their deaths, so they definitely won’t get out and take what’s theirs,…
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9/ “I personally heard how injured guys are prostrating themselves on the radio, asking for water… No drone flies in, nothing, only the orders are heard: come on, get out faster, faster, run to the next plantation, the next dugout. They can barely walk. What is this?
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11/ “I’ve been without water and food for four days now. No provisions, nothing, no food, no water. They don’t give you anything. I don’t know. I have nothing at all. My mouth is completely dry. I can’t do anything. I can’t even drool, I have nothing. I’m shaking with weakness.”
Another 970 Russians.
They might need to add a few more slabs of marble before this war is over.
These bloggers say that Russia is running short of self-propelled artillery systems at the front and is transferring the crews to infantry duty.
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1/ Russian self-propelled artillery has become increasingly rare on the front lines, due to its vulnerability to longer-ranged Western artillery systems and Ukrainian drone strikes. Their crews have reportedly been transferred to the infantry. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
2/ Russian war correspondent Maxim Kalashnikov reports: “I met some guys from a neighboring company. Mobilised, they’d been at the front for over three years. They were in self-propelled artillery. They’d studied the vehicles thoroughly.”
3/ “They started firing their obsolete and outdated guns more or less reliably. After all, each of these “pieces of iron” has its own peculiarities that must be taken into account for accurate shooting. So what? Now they’re all in the infantry.
4/ “And where’s the equipment? Where are the self-propelled guns (SPGs) now? Equipment that can’t compete with the Western artillery in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in either range or accuracy is rusting somewhere in open storage areas.”
5/ “Oh well. Iron is iron. If it breaks, wears out—that’s what the defence industry is for, it’s supposed to produce new ones. And these new ones would be manned by knowledgeable people with extensive combat experience. You can’t just pick up specialists on the street.
6/ “But for some reason, commanders send professional artillerymen to the infantry. That’s how we fight.”Kalashnikov reports that gunners being transferred to the infantry is “a fairly widespread phenomenon”.
7/ He doesn’t say why it is happening, but it’s likely to be due to personnel shortages resulting from Russia’s huge daily losses on the front lines. He rightly points out the counterproductive nature of this:
8/ “It’s a criminal act, because this is how valuable specialists are lost. Considering that the war demonstrated how far we fell behind NATO in artillery (in the 1990s, it leaped ahead, surpassing the USSR’s guns in range by one and a half times and in accuracy by…
9/ …an order of magnitude), this practice is doubly criminal. The Ministry of Defence’s passivity in taking into account experienced personnel in artillery (as well as in drones) is triply criminal.”
The drone story involving Hungary has prompted a number of accusations that Hungary was doing recon of Ukrainian positions and passing the info on to Russia, which, if true, should have severe consequences for Hungary’s position in NATO.
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🇺🇦❗️🇭🇺 Hungarian drones were recorded flying twice at different altitudes over Zakarpattia region, — General Staff
In order to eliminate the potential threat, the Defense Forces of Ukraine conducted airspace patrols over the Uzhhorod district with Chaklun-KM UAVs of the Unmanned Systems Forces.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Moldova isn’t fucking around when it comes to Russian interference in tomorrow’s parliamentary elections.
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Moldova’s Central Electoral Commission has annulled the registration of the pro-Russian Moldova Mare party led by Victoria Furtună, citing illegal foreign funding and allegations of voter bribery. The decision comes before the Sept 28 parliamentary vote and follows a separate ban on Heart of Moldova
— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Three Patriot systems from Israel are being provided to Ukraine. One is already there.
Zelenskyy had a lot to say yesterday, including that he gave Trump a list of $90 billion worth of weapons he wants for Ukraine.
For some reason expressions of concern and outrage have not slowed the number of drones violating the airspace of NATO countries.
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⚡️Unidentified drones spotted in northern Germany near Danish border, NDR reports.
Authorities reported multiple drone sightings overnight on Sept. 26 in northern Germany, which they suspect may be linked to espionage, according to German broadcaster NDR.
— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) September 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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⚡️Unidentified drones reportedly spotted in Denmark, Lithuania, Finland.
The incidents come as Russian drones and military aircraft have increasingly entered NATO airspace, prompting heightened alert and readiness across the alliance.
— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed that unknown drones were spotted over several of its facilities last night.
It was reported that the drones were observed over Skrydstrup Air Base and the grounds of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment.
www.forsvaret.dk/en/news/2025…
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This doesn’t seem suspicious at all.
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❗ During the attacks of unknown drones in Denmark, a Russian landing ship with its identification system turned off was off the coast of the country.
It is a large Alexander Shabalin landing ship of the Russian Baltic Fleet based in Kaliningrad.
militarnyi.com/en/news/russ…
— Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) September 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This article explains that Russia recruits Westerners with cash to do the dirty work of operating drones over Western sites.
A key change in Russian intelligence services’ tactics occurred after 2022, when European countries expelled hundreds of Russian intelligence officers who had been working under diplomatic cover. This significantly weakened Russia’s agent networks.
In response, the Kremlin has adopted a new model that IISS researchers describe as a “giant sabotage economy.” Instead of relying on professional GRU or FSB operatives, Russia now actively recruits third-country nationals online, particularly through Telegram, including migrants, criminals, and people just looking for quick cash.
These recruiters are often poorly trained and equipped, making their activities relatively easy to detect. However, their “disposability” and lack of direct ties to Russia allow the Kremlin to avoid responsibility. Their tasks range from minor vandalism to serious sabotage, including arson and attacks on critical infrastructure.
Solovyov is still pissed that his Italian villa was seized.
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov, clearly unsettled by Ukraine’s successful strikes against Russia’s oil sector, blames General Ben Hodges and implies he should be poisoned like Sergei Skripal, invoking the names of “Petrov & Boshirov.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmYD…
— Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Anybody feel sorry for this guy?
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Russian lawyer Yegor Sorokin admits he signed the military contract because he wanted money.
He then deserted and fled to the US.
Immigration judge asked if he’d take up arms to defend the United States if required by law (standard question).
He answered No and was deported.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Little Yulia doesn’t miss a beat when the air raid siren goes off.
I have complained about this before but here is an explanation about Twitter vs. Bluesky.
A number of Ukrainian accounts no longer post on Bluesky because they get better exposure on Twitter.
Also, those who are not categorically against Twitter can join there. Even with my dislike for Twitter, I am forced to write there, because it is there, not here, that my publications will be seen by Western politicians, whose eyes I am trying to open
Fun with vegetables.
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Carrot greetings from Polonky, Chernihiv Oblast!
Across Ukraine, harvest continues despite air raid alerts. Families gather potatoes, carrots, beets, and zucchini, storing and preserving for winter.
Ukraine’s soil yields abundance, and Ukrainians ensure none of it is lost.
Photo: Lina Pavliuk
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) September 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM