Ukraine reports that its forces eliminated an elite Russian special forces unit and killed its commander.
Ukraine’s 105th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade has reported that its soldiers have destroyed an elite Russian special forces group from the “Senezh” Center, which had been conducting raids in the Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts. The battle resulted in the elimination of the group’s commander and at least six Russian operatives.
The Senezh unit is one of Russia’s most secretive and dangerous special operations formations. Its operatives were involved in operations in Syria — directing airstrikes, training Assad’s troops, and conducting sabotage missions behind enemy lines.
According to a Ukrainian intelligence source, Senezh follows a brutal “blood ritual” — each graduate must “bring back a kill” from a raid in Ukraine, as per Suspilne. If they failto kill a soldier, they murder a civilian instead.
According to Ukrainian troops, a unit of the 3rd Directorate of the Senezh Special Purpose Center (military unit 92154), which trains operatives for Russia’s special operations forces, crossed from Belgorod Oblast into Ukraine to carry out “criminal raids against civilians and military personnel.”
Russia is reported to have shot down its own Su-30 fighter, although the Russians don’t admit to that.
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Russian sources confirm the loss of a Su-30SM. They say that the jet crashed while hunting drones.
After firing a missile, a fire broke out onboard; the crew ejected safely. A state commission is “investigating.”
Possible causes: malfunction, missile explosion, debris hit, collision, friendly fire.
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Zelenskyy and a Ukrainian delegation are in Washington today to meet with Trump. They also had a meeting with execs from Raytheon, which make the Patriot system. Missiles for the Patriot system are made by Lockheed Martin.
The meeting today comes before an expected Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest in about …. wait for it …. two weeks.
Trump is sending his A team — A as in ass kissers — to prep for the meeting with Putin.
Trump talked to Putin on the phone yesterday and suddenly the issue of Tomahawks for Ukraine was shelved. Surprise, surprise.
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Trump has paused the decision on supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to MP Yehor Cherniev. Putin called Trump yesterday, right before Trump meets Zelensky.
Other defense support continues, including more air defense systems and joint production initiatives via European financing.
— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) October 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The point for Putin is to keep bullshitting Trump and drag out everything with endless negotiations that go nowhere.
Prediction: Hungary will ignore the warrant and no one will do anything about it.
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Germany says Hungary must still honor the ICC arrest warrant for Putin because the twelve-month withdrawal period from the Rome Statute has not expired since Budapest announced it in April 2025.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Ukraine struck again at Russia’s energy infrastructure.
The Russian oil depot at Hvardiis’ke in Crimea was also hit. The town is in central Crimea north of Simferopol.
This munitions plant is in Bashkortostan between Ufa and Orenburg.
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Russian Tg channels report a powerful explosion at Avangard chemical plant in Russian Sterlitamak
Reportedly,one of the workshops was blown out.Causes are unclear at the moment
Avangard produces weapons& ammunition for the Russian army.The plant also utilizes explosions. It is on EU sanctions list
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The explosion sent shockwaves through the city, with residents reporting a strong smell of gunpowder in the air.The facility plays a key role in Russia’s military-industrial operations. Reports indicate there are injuries, though details remain limited.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Russia continues its relentless assault on Kherson.
This Ukrainian woman tells a group of Russians to go fuck themselves and that Putin is a dickhead.
Russian airports across the country were under drone alerts yesterday.
This arrangement not only helps Ukraine, but gives the U.S. military valuable insight into how to attack Russia should a conflict with NATO break out.
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💥 Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure enabled by US intelligence are devastating Russia.
Trump ordered the US intelligence community to help Ukraine plan and target these strikes after a July phone call with Zelensky.
Oil refineries, terminals and pipelines.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A Russian “journalist” was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Oct 16 (Reuters) – Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on Thursday while on assignment on the front line of the war in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, his publication, state news agency RIA said.
Zuyev’s colleague at the same agency, Yuri Voitkevich, was seriously wounded in the attack, RIA said.
A Russian teenager who murdered his mother met his own end in Ukraine.
Only 730 Russians today, but 5 tanks.
He might as well have sent an engraved invitation.
War criminal Girkin has a lengthy (42 posts) diatribe against Russia’s leadership and its colossal waste of its soldiers in senseless meat assaults.
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1/ Igor ‘Strelkov’ Girkin isn’t impressed with Russia’s meatgrinder tactics and warns that the Ukrainians are becoming relatively stronger despite Russia’s ongoing attacks. He warns that a full mobilisation is becoming inevitable, and wants to see change in the high command. ⬇️
— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
21/ “In the end, over the past two years, we’ve stormed hundreds of “forester’s huts” (to use a well-known meme from the First World War), fought dozens of “battles on the Isonzo River” (from there), destroyed the remnants of the regular [Russian] army and most of those…
22/ …mobilised in 2022, as well as volunteers—and… are much further from victory over the enemy than we were. Simply because over the past two years, the ENEMY HAS BECOME STRONGER.
23/ “Not numerically, perhaps (the Ukrainian Armed Forces are also suffering heavy losses). But technically and organizationally—absolutely.
4/ “Two years ago, the Ukrainians were physically incapable of attacking our economy and resources outside the frontline regions. Now it’s commonplace—everyday commonplace! All the way to the Urals!
25/ “The enemy has become extremely hardened and feels the powerful military-technical and economic (and social, too!) support of all of NATO.
26/ “Breaking it by taking a few hundred more worthless (after total destruction) “butcher’s huts” (even if they were the size of Chasiv Yar) is impossible.
I don’t know if this is a serious proposal or just some bullshit to keep Trump in line.
I don’t even know if this is technologically feasible. But it is interesting.
Of course, we could just wait till the next Ice Age brings back the land bridge.
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Putin’s Trump whisperer, Kirill Dmitriev, has proposed hiring Elon Musk to build a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait to connect Russia and the USA. He says we could get it for a steal — just $8 billion. He’s also calling it the Putin-Trump Tunnel. Not sure that name order will fly, bud.
— Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise were around today, they’d likely tell Putin to quit fucking around.
Food and transportation are such luxuries anyway.
He should definitely tour the oil depot at Feodosia.
Has Farage had a Road to Damascus style of conversion?
I doubt it. If he ever won, he’d do a Merz, who promised to deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine during his campaign and then reneged after taking office.
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Asked what he would do if Russian jets crossed into allied airspace, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage replied: “Gotta shoot them down. Clearly, Putin is not a rational man.” He also endorsed spending frozen Russian assets and maybe even deploy British troops as part of a UN peacekeeping force.
— Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) October 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The money Russia wastes on the war and corruption could fix a lot of places like this.
Of course, you could say the same thing about the U.S.