Russia sending out death notices even before the soldiers are dead. That’s some stone cold shit.
This saga starts out the usual way — a soldier makes a video about how he and others were tricked into signing up to be logistics drivers and ended up being assigned to supply fresh meat for the grinder.
NOTE: I put the quote below in bold type.
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1/ A Russian soldier fighting near Pokrovsk says that the area is a scene of carnage, with dead Russians lying everywhere. Soldiers’ families are being sent death notices even before the men go into assaults. Only four out of his group of 120 men survived one assault. ⬇️
— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
7/ A few days later he was sent into the battle of Krasnohorivka, in which he was one of the few survivors of a failed assault involving 46 Russian vehicles that were mostly disabled or destroyed by the Ukrainians.
8/ “[O]n 12 September 2024, they took us out, put us in an infantry fighting vehicle, woke us up at one in the morning, put us in bulletproof vests, took our documents, took our phones, put us in the IFV, and sent us off.
9/ “We were driving toward Krasnohorivka, past Krasnohorivka about a kilometer [further]. Between the 10 vehicles, two got away. The rest of us, 120 people, they killed us all. [Our two vehicles] returned.”
10/ “The four of us got out. We walked for six days through minefields. Behind Ukrainian lines, they hit us with cluster munitions, they shot at us from dugouts, from every crevice they could. But we got away. Before reaching Krasnohorivka, we ran into our own outpost…
11/ “We gave them our call signs and told them everything that had happened. To which they replied, “We’re bringing you ammunition, you understand, extra ammo, grenades, we’re sending you four cans of stew, a loaf of bread.”
12/ “And they send us back. They say we’re sending you back because you didn’t complete the task, since we never got there, we were destroyed by drones. It was pure hell there. They mowed us down, I don’t know, they didn’t even let us raise our heads.”
13/ Two of the survivors had crippling injuries and had to be left behind by the two remaining able-bodied survivors, one of whom was the soldier in the video.The man was subsequently sent to fight in the Pokrovsk area, which he says is even worse.
14/ “People shouldn’t see this, shouldn’t hear this. It was just brutal. They were mowing people down, as if, I don’t know, they were walking across a field and just cutting the grass. There are still corpses lying on the roads there, with tanks running over them.
15/ “There are torn bodies, charred bodies. No one is taking them away. Don’t believe those who say they are missing in action. That’s not true, that’s all. They are lying there in the fields because no one is bothering to remove them.
Russia concentrated attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, including the substations that supply two nuclear power plants.
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‼️ During last night’s massive attack on Ukraine,Russia launched strikes on substations of Khmelnytsky&Rivne nuclear power plants -Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry
Ukraine demands an emergency meeting of the IAEA.This is a deliberate attack.Russia is a threat to nuclear safety in Europe& the world
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Russia’s energy attacks evolved: instead of hitting generation OR transmission, they now strike both simultaneously
The 8 November assault used 450+ drones to knock out all three Centrenergo plants, slowing restoration across Ukraine
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/n…
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This is a horrific view from a Russian drone of FAB-500 bombs striking an apartment building.
Ukraine delivered strikes on the Voronezh and Taganrog power plants in Russia.
The shutdown has halted weapons sales intended for Ukraine.
Update from Pokrovsk:
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NEW: The rate of RU advances in the Pokrovsk direction has temporarily slowed but will likely increase again in the coming days as RU forces extend logistics and bring reinforcements in the area. (1/3)
Read the Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 8, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110825
— Institute for the Study of War (@thestudyofwar.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If this was basketball, this would be called an air ball.
An owl takes out a Russian Mavic drone.
Another 979 Russian who chose poorly, plus five tanks.
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Lower Russian losses reported in the last 24 hours.
It’s possible there’s a reporting “lag” because the number of attacks in Pokrovsk remains very high.
Yesterday we passed 1.15m Russian lives ruined, while Tuesday is likely to see the 80,000th UAV destroyed.
#RussiansGOHOME
— Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A pair of lieutenant colonels who won’t be missed by humanity.
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Mobilized Lieutenant Colonel Гатауллин Фарит Азатович (Gataullin Farit Azatovich) from Tatarstan, call sign “Stalker”, chief of staff, deputy dommander of the 139th Separate Motor Rifle Assault Battalion, was eliminated in Ukraine on 28 October 2025.
— KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Russian Roulette — updated for 2025.
“A resident of Turinskaya Sloboda came to visit friends. During a drinking party, the idea of playing “Rock, Paper, Scissors” arose. The rules stipulated that the winner had the right to decide the fate of the losers, including pledging to kill another person.”
Loser got stabbed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
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No Pay and Layoffs in the World’s “Second” Arsenal of Autocracy
Reports from inside Russia indicate that salary arrears are mounting across key defense and nuclear enterprises, including facilities tied directly to the Ministry of Defense and Rosatom.
#OSINT
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— OSINT Intuit™ (@urikikaski.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Delayed wages are often the first symptom of a liquidity crisis and one that no amount of propaganda about “record output” can disguise for long. Even plants that produce components for missile systems, armor, and reactor infrastructure are delaying payments or planning layoffs.2/3
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About 300 employees of a nuclear facility in Russian Ulyanovsk region have gone on a massive strike because they are not paid any salary.
“At the moment, the salary delay has reached two months. Lunches have been canceled, there has been no food provided for a long time.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Russia does colonialism like it’s still the 19th century.
Why would these women in Malawi sign up? Malawi faces a huge hunger crisis in a country where 75% live below the World Bank poverty line. Malawi also has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates.
Lockheed Martin could double production again and still sell them all.
Russia seems to think it will get more TOS bang for the buck by using the warheads in drones.
The attached article doesn’t explain the technical problems with the tanks.
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Germany has offered to ship Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks and Marder 1A5 infantry fighting vehicles to Brazil, after Ukraine reportedly declined to accept the equipment due to its technical condition
militarnyi.com/en/news/braz…
— Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Flamingos fly farther and have bigger warheads, but Tomahawks elude air defense better.
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❗️🇺🇦Ukraine has created a 3,000 km range “Flamingo” cruise missile — twice as powerful as the 🇺🇸American Tomahawk
The British publication The Independent writes that Ukrainian engineers are creating a new generation of weapons, combining old technologies with IT solutions.
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Norway steps up.
The water shortage in Donetsk hasn’t gotten any better.
Kharkiv residents are also having to find water after recent Russian assaults on infrastructure.
There has been a Sergey Spotting. He has emerged from whatever hole he had crawled into to say that Russia will continue to commit war crimes in Ukraine.
He didn’t use those words, but when you plug his statements into a translation device that filters out bullshit, that’s what you get.
He’s only 2, but he already knows the drill.
The Kramatorsk railroad station has been the site of many farewells and reunions.