TIA!

Right now it is, but we are open to good info from the China-Taiwan (and Philippines, etc) and some of the stupidity lighting off in the Western Hemisphere and the middle east as well.  We're not picky!

During the demob after the Cold War, a LOT of stuff went missing.  It was chaotic, as we were demobing headquarters units in Europe at the same time we were standing down some combat units while sending others to the Balkans and the middle east.  We also were shipping stuff from prepo stocks with little oversight, as we sent equipment from storage sites that were closing through installations that were closing and arsenals that were closing were signing stuff to other commands that were also downsizing and/or closing.  I was in Germany 5-10 years after the initial drawdown and we were still seeing the impacts of this, as one of my first duties when I was a Battalion S4 was to clear the backlog of Reports of Survey for missing/lost equipment in my unit.  At a couple of points, I sat down with various investigators who were still looking for stuff that had gone missing years before.  I would like to say things were settling down at the turn of the century; however, I would be lying!  We continued to close down installations and turn in equipment to places like Pimasens that looked like they were 3/4 abandoned, and no one was tracking the piles of turned-in equipment that was more-or-less stacked in warehouses upon turn in until the local-national workforce (which had been seriously downsized) "got around to it" or the yards full of tanks, howitzers, APCs, etc that looked like they had been sitting around unattended for a long time. Once 9/11 happened, the tracking of turned-in equipment fell to the bottom of the "give a shit" list, as there were mountains of M923-series trucks, older HMMWVs, HF/AM radios, furniture, tentage, and you name it as heavy units were sent to the GWOT and redeployed to CONUS at the end of their tours. Any equipment they left in Europe was turned in.  In the early 2000's, the Russians were the "good guys" in the GWOT.  Fast Forward to 2012 when ISIS was running amok in Al Anbar and Iraqi Army units were walking away (or running away) from Motor Pools full of M1A1 (IQ) tanks.  I'm sure the Russians had at leas one example of an M1 or M1A1 before Ukraine.

it looks like the Russians took the treeline they were attacking. Is that right?

The Russians prepare to destroy a lot of artillery shells using DKRP-4 line charge, and many blocks of TNT.
I wonder what is wrong with them. pic.twitter.com/SakO1KrrXP

— Roy\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GrandpaRoy2) May 5, 2024

Here is a Russian FPV drone with a birch plywood and hardboard fuselage.
The operator says he is testing it using different frequencies, in response to new Ukrainian EW jammers. pic.twitter.com/JaaymgOzm0

— Roy\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GrandpaRoy2) May 6, 2024

The Russians claim their engineers blew up a downed Storm Shadow in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Whatever it was, the explosion was remarkable. pic.twitter.com/7AngreiOKF

— Roy\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GrandpaRoy2) May 6, 2024

What was that medieval movie? King says to his commander "Tell the archers to fire." Commander says "But sire, we will also hit our own men.?" King says "But we have reserves and they don't. Tell the archers to fire."
Freaking Russians. "Tell the tank to keep firing."

There are still Western military officers -- including most flag ranks -- watching videos like the one below and denying FPV and other cheap DJI drones have fundamentally changed the way wars on the ground are fought.

Drone War\uD83E\uDDF5
1/7 https://t.co/0I9QTYxIds

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

A year ago Ukraine had 10,000 drone operators, one per 100 troops

It has trained far more since then.  

In fact, the AFU has created a military drone branch co-equal to infantry and artillery branches.

2/7https://t.co/tjmH68LQVW

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

In some forward areas there are now as many Ukrainian drone operators as infantry because FPV drones have all but replaced crew served infantry weapons.https://t.co/tCxzc88klV
3/7

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

Ukrainian mortar teams, ATGM teams, recoilless rifle teams, and artillery forward observer teams have all been so heavily "supplemented" by drones it amounts to replacement.

4/7 pic.twitter.com/Ldpt9GJ4SD

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

Ukrainian infantry patrols have been all but replaced by quadcopter drone surveillance.

And since AFU drone operators have a much lower casualty rate than AFU infantry doing the same work.  

They are gaining more combat experience over time for less blood spent.

5/7 pic.twitter.com/COh487F5RR

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

If I were a small drone aware senior Western ground forces officer.

(Yes, I know few/none exist)

I'd be telling junior grade combat arms officers and senior NCO's to learn how to operate DJI  drones out of their own pocket.

Operating drones is the way modern wars are

6/7

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

... fought. Learning that skill is a survival issue for junior officers and enlisted ranks in Western armies with intellectually backward leadership.

And the lack of DJI drones on all US Army forward observer teams is exhibit A of that backwardness.

7/7 End pic.twitter.com/flsT81bJIj

Trent Telenko  (@TrentTelenko) May 6, 2024

Braveheart.
“Beg pardon Sire, won’t we hit our own troops?”
“Yes, but we’ll hit theirs as well.  We have reserves.  Attack!”

More Georgia background - what exactly is being proposed and protested?

From Human Rights Watch:
From Radio Free Europe
Russia does indeed abuse "foreign agent" designations, applying it to people who merely speak out against the government. But clearly labeling organizations that receive foreign funds is a valid requirement IMO. If a media outlet receives large amounts of funding from foreign sources, should you know about it? For instance, the Washington Times that we frequently cite for non-MSM stories is owned  under "a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity." Does that make it invalid? No. Is it good to know? Yes. Should non-profit organizations operating for social purposes be known and understood for who they are? Yes. For instance, don't you think it's worth knowing what the Open Society Foundations do with their $21B in annual spending? Heck yeah!

So while it's easy to look at what's going on in Tbilisi and support the people, the truth is more nuanced than the headlines would have you believe. IMO, the bill serves a legitimate public purpose, but is too broad and too vague. As such, it should be withdrawn and rewritten.

BTW, domestic politics in Georgia are... challenging. Post-Soviet states are a mixed bag, with some becoming very successful democracies (see Estonia) and some being repressive dictatorships (like Kazahkstan). An active electorate that takes to the street regularly is probably the best thing Georgia can have, even if instability serves Russian regional interests.

BTW, if anybody here has been in Georgia or has contacts in Georgia that can add context to my background please add it!

We have such an investment in the idea of a gold-plated solution to everything, I think we probably aren’t learning as much as we could.
I also suspect that the solutions we think we have in hand aren’t going to be as effective as assumed, and contrary to both the Russians and Ukrainians, most Americans no longer have the technical savvy to find solutions themselves.

Africa always wins and after a bunch of this from the Chinese when they do get around to winning its going to be gruesome.

Agree but we need to help speed up the process.

Part of the issue is that higher ranking officers can't make the claim they're "managing" a multi-billion dollar program if they're managing the acquisition of 3,000 DJI Mavic type quadcopters. There's also still this mindset that these small UAS are "toys". Now they're finding out these "toys" can wreak havoc even on a "modern" battlefield. I gave up talking with senior DoD folks years ago trying to get them to understand the potential of the technology. Most of the working level folks "got it" pretty quickly. Management, not so much.

Today is Infantry Day. Congratulations Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!

Video:
47 separate mechanized brigade
3 separate assault brigade
93rd OMBr Kholodny Yar
28 OMBr named after Knights of the Winter Campaign
and the Department of Public Relations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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— ??????????? ???? ??? (@GeneralStaffUA) May 6, 2024

I have feared OTS commercial drones and FPV drones since about 2017 when I realized a spec ops squad camped out a a major airbase could take out parked jets and shutdown runway ops.. and that's before weapons were put on them. I have tried my best within the DoD to get senior leaders and even "Weapons School" patches to acknowledge that this is a serious threat and continue to get scoffed at so I've almost given up. The problem is a cultural one. Many senior GO/FO leaders grew up on "sexy" multi-million dollar weapon systems like fighter jets so drones are beneath them despite how low or high tech they might be.

AI-driven, networked weaponized drone swarms that can complete the ISR and Targeting process on their own are the future. I can envision them small enough to the point they can be delivered behind enemy lines onboard stealth cruise missiles and wreck havoc on fixed bases. Does that mean 5th and 6th gen jets are going away? Absolutely not but these swarms will complement traditional programs.

And therein lies the problem of why Western senior leaders avoid the drone discussion.. they see it as one or the other as opposed to one with the other.

Couldn't agree more with both of you. The sad part is we realize it's the young troop that is going to suffer by our senior leaders lack of forethought and vision. And we'll be once again racing (if not already) to find an adhoc solution. But I guess that's become something of the American way.. figure out as we go and hope it's faster than the bad guy can figure it out.

#Summary for the morning of May 6, 2024

▪️For the first time in a long time, there are reports of the enemy using MBEC near Crimea. Off the western coast of the peninsula, up to 5 unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed, the target of which was military boats in one of the bays in the area of ​​the settlement. Black Sea. There were no losses or casualties on our part.

▪️ In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces are increasingly using FABs with UMPC along the enemy shore, destroying concentrations of enemy forces. The enemy responds with artillery and many drones. There have been reports of two cases of the use of ammunition by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which cause severe burns in victims, after which the upper layers of the soft tissues of the victims are covered with a “wooden crust”. Military doctors argue about the nature of the burns; local fighters call the ammunition “napalm.” The enemy maintains the presence of small groups of infantry in Krynki.

▪️On the Zaporozhye front in Rabotino, assault operations by the Russian Armed Forces continue, reports of the dense work of enemy artillery. North-west of Verbovoy, the enemy tried to deliver an assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in an infantry fighting vehicle, but was covered by our fire. Several enemy attacks were repelled.

▪️On the Vremevsky ledge, battles in Urozhainy and near Staromayorsky report the advance of our troops east of Urozhainy 1 km to the north.

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Krasnogorovka near the industrial zone after installing a flag at a fireproof plant. Clashes in Georgievka and near the eastern outskirts of Paraskovievka.

▪️In the Pokrovsky direction (west of Avdeevka) there are battles in Netailovo. To the west of Berdychi, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive in the Novoprovsky area. After the success in Arkhangelskoye, the offensive of our troops towards Kalinovo develops.

▪️In the direction to Chasov Yar there are heavy battles on the eastern outskirts of the city. The battle continues for the flanks of the front sector: in the north - at Bogdanovka, in the south - at Ivanovsky (Red).

▪️In the Kharkov and Sumy directions, strikes are constantly being carried out on enemy positions; the X-51 Lancet UAV is increasingly being used to destroy armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the rear areas of these areas, enemy targets are also under constant attack.

▪️In the Belgorod region, Stary Khutor of the Valuysky urban district was shelled, Shebekino was hit by a UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From the Bryansk region they reported shelling in the area in the village of Lomakovka, Starodub district.

▪️The enemy used 75 different ammunition to attack the civilian population of the DPR, two civilians were wounded in the village. Nikolaevka as a result of bombs being dropped from an enemy drone.

▪️Summary compiled by: Two majors

https://t.me/dva_majors/41690

Interesting \uD83D\uDC40\uD83D\uDEA4\uD83D\uDCA5 pic.twitter.com/5IvxbV6o8B

— MAKS 23 \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDC40 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) May 6, 2024

Ukrainian New Weapons: Drones, Robots, Radios, Mines Detection, AI. Brave1 Cluster - United24

Drones of various modifications attacking on land, in the sky, and in the water. Radios that cannot be jammed by electronic warfare means. A system that detects mines using artificial… pic.twitter.com/CjFEZq7G1t

TOGA  (@TOGAjano21) May 5, 2024

Ten years of Azov with Redis.

Ukraine War: 'If we go home, a lot of inexperienced soldiers will die'

1 hour ago

By James Waterhouse, BBC Ukraine correspondent, Donetsk region



Under the rich, leafy cover of the Ukrainian spring, an artillery unit awaits.

Only a fraction of their job is firing rockets from their 50-year-old launcher. Most of their time is spent digging a new bunker into the hillside.

They're outgunned and outmanned by the Russian invaders, 5km (3 miles) away in the eastern Donetsk region, who are inching closer.

Incoming American ammunition is expected to help, but how the Ukrainian government is addressing its need to recruit is controversial.

A new mobilisation bill passed earlier in April was criticised for not including a limit on time served. A clause aimed at demobilising soldiers after three years was dropped at the army's request.

Now, war-weary troops have told the BBC the military needs to "rethink" how it recruits.

Despite Kyiv lowering the conscription age to find replacements, it's not just a numbers game.

Thousands of trained troops like Oleksandr, a radio operator in the 21st separate Mechanised Brigade, have been fighting for the best part of two years without a proper rest.

"If we go home," he says, "inexperienced soldiers might be able to hold the line against the Russians, but a lot of them will die."

He taps his handset in a bunker where he also sleeps with four other soldiers. The thickness of the air tells you it's well lived in.

Outside, the woodland provides an illusion of calm, periodically jarred by a whistling artillery shell overhead.

This time last year, the arrival of spring's hard soil brought a sense of optimism with an anticipated counter-offensive. The conditions make it easier to move men and machinery.

Today, it just makes these troops' job of digging new defences more difficult.

"My men have become professionals after fighting for so long," says their commander with the call sign "Chyzh", proudly.

He points to their mobile rocket launcher under camouflage netting.

"They know each vehicle is like a woman," he claims. "Each one is individual, with her own whims and characteristics."

Tucked away, their 1970s truck symbolises the current state of Ukraine's military. Old-fashioned in many ways yet modern in others - with a GPS guiding system - it lacks one key resource: rockets.

While Russia's army isn't a model of modern warfare, it is advancing on multiple parts of the eastern front line. It's why we're seeing new Ukrainian trenches being dug 30km (19 miles) back.

The invading forces have learnt tactical lessons and enjoy air superiority. Moscow has also drastically increased weapons production and is mobilising men at a faster rate than Ukraine can.

The sentiment in our wooded trench mirrors the Ukrainian government's mantra of "fighting for as long as it takes".

While the soldiers we meet might not have felt they could speak entirely freely, it's not an issue for Illia, whom I meet in the relative privacy of the main square of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine.

Illia, a combat medic, thinks the military has been dishonest about what signing up means.

He argues that it would be more effective if recruiters told new soldiers that the first six months are "super hard" - but that they would then be trained for more specific roles.

"The infantry is the hardest job in the military," he says.

Tired as Illia is, the idea of fighting alongside a petrified conscript in a trench is not an appealing one. He also thinks a lack of transparency about the realities of the battlefield is further putting men off from registering to fight.

"What if this war lasts 10 years?"

Back in Kyiv, as we stroll down her normal jogging route, local MP Inna Sovsun explains to me why she abstained on the mobilisation bill vote. Her partner serves as a frontline medic.

"I spend countless nights worrying where he is," she explains. "It's the experience of millions of Ukrainians."

Ms Sovsun thinks there should be more of a focus on rotation, arguing Ukraine has enough men of a fighting age to swap with the 500,000 or so who are currently fighting.

"There are highly trained soldiers who can't be swapped, but what about the people in trenches?" she asks. "It takes time to train them, but what if this war lasts for 10 years?"

"We can't pretend to rely on the same people who started serving on day one."

Until now, Ukraine's army recruitment has been hampered by historical corruption claims and diminishing volunteers.

Now ministers are pursuing two key objectives: restoring trust in the system whilst increasing the pressure on men to fight.

Both made more difficult by the battlefield not going Ukraine's way.

Additional reporting by Hanna Chornous, Thanyarat Doksone, Anastasiia Levchenko and Hanna Tsyba.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68932127

The Cheka-OGPU learned that a monitoring and defibrillation system was purchased for the personal resuscitation of Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya; ventilator; device for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a number of other equipment. We showed the list of equipment to the resuscitation doctor and this is how he commented:  “A set for one patient suffering from a serious illness, to provide him with urgent care on site, monitor vital functions, and also for the possibility of transporting him by plane or incubated car.”

As the Cheka-OGPU previously reported, after the “noise” with Ramzan Kadyrov’s hospitalization at the Central Clinical Hospital, all the equipment necessary to create a world-class intensive care unit in Chechnya was purchased. Now, if there is a sharp and urgent exacerbation of the disease in the head of Chechnya, it does not need to be urgently managed by the Central Clinical Hospital, but, on the contrary, specialists from the Central Clinical Hospital can urgently arrive in Chechnya.

https://t.me/vchkogpu/46315



The Cheka-OGPU became aware of official damage data after an allegedly reflected missile attack on Crimea. In total, according to the Russian Armed Forces, on the night of April 30, 12 MGM-140B ATACMS ballistic missiles were fired at two targets on the peninsula.

The first target was the military unit 61261 Air Defense of the Southern Military District of the Russian Defense Ministry. There was a large fire at the facility, which was extinguished only in the morning. 6 servicemen were hospitalized with varying degrees of injuries.

The second target was the military airfield in Dzhankoy, which was attacked twice over the past month. On the territory of military unit 46453, where the 39th Guards Helicopter Regiment of the 27th Mixed Aviation Division, 4 Aerospace Forces and Air Defense Commands of the Southern Military District of the Russian Defense Ministry are stationed, 5 servicemen were injured. Emergency services and police were not allowed into the facility: the fire was localized on their own.

https://t.me/vchkogpu/47927



Sources from the Cheka-OGPU report serious problems with intermediaries involved in processing migrants in Russia. Currently, all the main structures that were associated with the GUVM (Department for Migration Affairs) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation have frozen their activities. In Moscow, almost all intermediary structures that collected packages of documents for obtaining patents, invitations, visas, etc. were associated with the Agalarov clan. At one time, after fellow countryman Telman Ismailov fled from Russia, back in 2011, the Agalarovs took over the network of intermediary offices of the then FMS. Personal friendship with the director of the Federal Migration Service Romodanovsky allowed the Agalarov clan to do business with work permits and visas. From the FMS, the issue of interaction was personally supervised by the head of the internal security of the Russian Migration Service, Anatoly Faleev.

The workhorse who directly led the production process was Yuri Sudalin, the former head of the department for issuing work permits in Moscow. At one time, he was fired from the Federal Migration Service due to abuses related to the issuance of work permits. After Romodanovsky’s resignation, the network of offices, together with the work team, smoothly passed under the roof of the new boss, Valentina Kazanova, who, as the Cheka-OGPU wrote last year, celebrated her daughter’s wedding in Crocus on a grand scale. After the terrorist attack in Crocus, the Agalarovs were forced to go into the shadows and their mediation business will apparently be completely squeezed out. According to a source from the Cheka-OGPU, the likelihood that Kazakova’s resignation will take place after May 8 is extremely high. Therefore, the main shadow designer Yuri Sudalin on May 6 irrevocably moves with his entire family for permanent residence in Germany.

https://t.me/vchkogpu/47954

Statement issued by the Islamic Resistance:



In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
“Permission is given to those who fight because they have been wronged, and indeed, God is Able to grant them victory.”
Believe God Almighty

In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in response to the enemy attack that targeted the Bekaa region, the bombing of the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance at 09:00 on Monday 05/06/2024, the headquarters of the Golan Division (210) At Nafah base with dozens of Katyusha rockets

“And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.”
Monday 05-06-2024 AD
27 Shawwal 1445 AH

https://t.me/C_Military1/49822

\uD83D\uDCA5  A few days ago, we reported massive fires in occupied Crimea, suspecting munition stockpiles. Now we know: The Ukrainian ATACMS strikes destroyed multiple Russian Iskander ballistic missile systems along with their missile stockpiles. https://t.co/mDX4jMjReH pic.twitter.com/nb63qBzhw2

Igor Sushko  (@igorsushko) May 6, 2024

\uD83D\uDD25 Massive fires in occupied Crimea. Might be Russian munitions stockpiles given the scale. Fires began 6 hours ago.
Russian MoD claims to have shot down 4 ATACMS missiles this night. Recently the US government stated that not a single ATACMS missile has been shot down by Russia. pic.twitter.com/Lg6esvqe2g

Igor Sushko  (@igorsushko) May 4, 2024

I might've missed this in Capta's Reddit Roundup^TM yesterday, but this is a dude being blown into tiny pieces.

Is it just me or are these drones on Steroids now? Holy cow it not only blew him apart,t it sent him up through a tree , It's a bird, It's a Plane, No it's just Ivan learning to fly pic.twitter.com/ZFNTnOZ4bA

— \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDFF4???Sgt. HIMARS\uD83C\uDFF4???\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6(Fella) (@SgtHIMARS2) May 5, 2024

Putin instructed the Ministry of Defense to conduct exercises to test the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.

The exercises are aimed, among other things, at unconditionally ensuring the sovereignty of the Russian Federation in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against Russia.

https://t.me/RIAKremlinpool/12930

Truly brutal.

I think it was originally posted a few days ago.

Cope cages on submarines...

SSBN K-114 Tula project 667BDRM - DELTA-IV
SSN K-157 Vepr Project 971 Akula II
\uD83D\uDDFA?Gadzhievo (Murmansk region)
\uD83D\uDCF9"Vesti" (March  2024) pic.twitter.com/u8HGOXvd6H

Massimo Frantarelli  (@MrFrantarelli) March 19, 2024

Here are losses I could identify for yesterday. https://t.co/6ZeZYh0yAV pic.twitter.com/JZGD2RKQH8

Andrew Perpetua  (@AndrewPerpetua) May 6, 2024

I can't wait until they try this shit in Afghanistan.   I hope their is video of the results.

\uD83D\uDD25\uD83D\uDD25\uD83D\uDD25

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has released a video showing the destruction of a \uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFARussian high-speed boat by surface attack drones in the Vuzka Bay area, in the south of Crimea. pic.twitter.com/s0rsRihuFW

— Cloooud |\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GloOouD) May 6, 2024

https://twitter.com/DI_Ukraine/status/1787384782923469294

\uD83D\uDC40 A Russian Ka-29 destroys a kamikaze surface drone that took part in the morning attack on the Vuzka Bay, Crimea.

??The drone probably was equipped with R-60/R-73 air-to-air missiles and even managed to launch one at another Mi-8 helicopter, unfortunately unsuccessfully. pic.twitter.com/SG9p54kIO5

— MAKS 23 \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDC40 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) May 6, 2024

1/2 Guerre d'Ukraine | 05/05/24

Secteurs :
\uD83C\uDF10 Kupiansk-Kyslivka\uD83D\uDD39U240505-1013
\uD83C\uDF10 Avdiivka-Ocheretyne\uD83D\uDD39U240505-0958
\uD83C\uDF10 Pervomaiske-Krasnohorivka\uD83D\uDD39U240505-1000
\uD83C\uDF10 Velyka novosilka-Urozhaine\uD83D\uDD39U240505-1004#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine pic.twitter.com/NuwS2oUs3F

Poulet volant  (@Pouletvolant3) May 6, 2024

\uD83E\uDDF5 The tragic story of Yuriy Galushko who killed 6 Russian officers in his division in occupied Donetsk:
Born in Kharkiv (Ukraine) to a WW2 veteran who passed away in 2011, he moved to Belgorod (Russia) to marry Natalia in 2013 and became a Russian citizen. They divorced since. https://t.co/Cd1bBwYt4t

Igor Sushko  (@igorsushko) May 6, 2024

His ex-wife Natalia describes him as highly intellectual with a deep love for reading books. Galushko was going blind and to pay for the needed surgery he joined the Russian army. His mother remains in Kharkiv with whom Galushko has always been close.

Igor Sushko  (@igorsushko) May 6, 2024

Galushko killed 6  Russian commanders in his artillery division with a silenced AK-12 machine gun and successfully disappeared in the dead of night upon learning that his elderly mother suffered a broken arm and had a stroke as a result of Russia's daily shelling of Kharkiv.

Igor Sushko  (@igorsushko) May 6, 2024

A native of Ukraine recruited into the Russian army allegedly fatally destroyed six Russian servicemen and escaped. His motivation was the Russian strike on Kharkiv, which led to his elderly mother having a stroke.

Now they are trying to find him in the “DPR”, but apparently he fled to the territory of Ukraine.

According to sources in the Russian media, a certain Yuri Galushko, 60, destroyed six servicemen and finished them off with control shots, after which he managed to escape with a weapon. The "DPR" announced a hunt for him, but they were not able to catch him.

He was called up from the penal colony by occupational formations on February 28, 2024, and carried out this act on 4 May.

A native of Ukraine recruited into the Russian army allegedly fatally destroyed six Russian servicemen and escaped. His motivation was the Russian strike on Kharkiv, which led to his elderly mother having a stroke.

Now they are trying to find him in the “DPR”, but apparently he… pic.twitter.com/Fch9k42VYr

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) May 6, 2024

US shared intel with UK showing 'high likelihood' of COVID-19 lab leak: report

The Ghost of John Boyd

Well said, each has their place and both types of systems can be made to work together to compliment each other.

Same reason many Thud pilots reupped  knowing the Washington suits were feeding them into the maw.

US EW system.

"Pulsar is a family of software-defined Electromagnetic Warfare #EW systems that leverages AI at the edge to rapidly adapt to emerging threats. Pulsar’s modular form factor can be adapted & integrated onto vehicles or aircrafts to support multiple EW mission sets" ~ Anduril pic.twitter.com/vMZtymgszP

— AirPower 2.0 (MIL_STD) (@AirPowerNEW1) May 6, 2024

“At a high level, we’re in production of these systems, so we’re pumping them out and they are being used,” said Sam El-Akkad with Anduril Industries. https://t.co/ao93AhaT4F

— Defense News (@defense_news) May 6, 2024

GeoConfirmed UKR.

Did Ukraine target an Iskander site using ATACMS on May 4th as suggested?

We have confirmation through satellite imagery that at the selected site, -what seems to be- Iskander launchers and other vehicles were present in significant numbers (over 10) a few… https://t.co/XpreXkdwwo pic.twitter.com/BSIl6ZsZ1K

GeoConfirmed  (@GeoConfirmed) May 6, 2024

First image which supposedly shows a Ukrainian naval drone carrying a R-73 heat seeking air-to-air missile. The fact that it shows one empty slot, could mean it has fired one of the two. https://t.co/UDjHTL4tX8 pic.twitter.com/WW5THkRTWB

— NOELREPORTS \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@NOELreports) May 6, 2024

Russian channel Fighterbomber claims that Ukrainian naval drones are now equipped with R-60/73 air-to-air missiles.

"There were no launches yet, but Ukrainians were able to somehow connect the rocket with the USV telecontrol systems. So far to no avail," he adds. pic.twitter.com/5H6eUhWzw8

— NOELREPORTS \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@NOELreports) May 6, 2024

Next up, try putting some with anti aircraft missiles, and some with Harpoon anti ship missiles.

??Hit by a guided air bomb \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6AASM-250 "Hammer" on the place of deployment of \uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFARussian drone operators in the village of Novoprokopivka, Zaporizhzhia region pic.twitter.com/9C7Ut5q5jY

— \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6Ukrainian Front (@front_ukrainian) May 6, 2024

After the first hit, look toward the right hand side of the image as the tank continues to move forward, looks like two more Ukrainian drones setting up to strike it again in coordination.

A Russian T-90M "No Analogue" tank in the #Avdiivka area taken out by drones from the 47th Mechanized Brigade.#OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #UkraineKrieg #Ukraine #Russia

Re-Tweet Appreciated pic.twitter.com/O22WWsQq28

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Russian field camp for the production of decoys. https://t.co/MSNR3sIViO pic.twitter.com/Ol9rAS9e32

— Special Kherson Cat \uD83D\uDC08\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) May 6, 2024

Fewer and fewer IFVs in the Russian army

This is why the golf karts pic.twitter.com/jqoZ4Fj8nf

PS01  (@PStyle0ne1) May 6, 2024

Tick tock...

First relatively intact Kh-69? Unfortunately, without the seeker section... https://t.co/TU31ht9Uh7 pic.twitter.com/aePKPEAXHb

— LotA (@LotA_IL) May 6, 2024

Russian Navy May Be Driven Out Of Baltic Seahttps://t.co/3oqsZZyLFY

Estonia has proposed a plan.

Estonia, Poland, Finland and Sweden have possibilities to completely block the Baltic Sea for the Russian fleet.

This was stated by the commander of the Estonian Defence Forces,… pic.twitter.com/zSwDFrQkKQ

— Lew Anno Suport#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22 (@anno1540) May 6, 2024

The number of ships you have doesn't always matter if I can swarm them all with anti-ship cruise missiles and airpower.

lol, they had to get this close to destroy it in daylight.  Set up some cheaper Stinger missiles on a rotating remote control mount like they use for their camera system and fire away.

Footage from a Russian Ka-29 helicopter, firing at the Ukrainian naval drone carrying a R-73 air-to-air missile. Eventually it is destroyed. https://t.co/r1LwNiRLmN pic.twitter.com/6qBPHwrqTX

— NOELREPORTS \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@NOELreports) May 6, 2024

U.S. Missile defense.

Two videos showing separating RVs carried on top of the Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicles (ARAV) getting intercepted by SM-3's KKV. https://t.co/Ts2leM3aQb pic.twitter.com/yA416GW1Da

Zach  (@ThrustWR) May 6, 2024

Last one for today: a separating Re-enttry Vehicle (RV) for the Navy/MDA Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicles (ARAV). More specifically, ARAV-B and a few other variants. These are made up of Surface to Air Missile booster sections and emulate ballistic missiles for ships. pic.twitter.com/XzteyWB34V

Zach  (@ThrustWR) April 23, 2024

Kratos is the provider of these target systems. You can see here that there are about 3-4 distinct front-end RVs. pic.twitter.com/aJ3RsMaj0j

Zach  (@ThrustWR) April 23, 2024

Photo of leaflets being dropped on Rafah, Gaza, advising residents to relocate to the humanitarian zone in Mawashi.

Flyer 1:

Urgent warning!

To all the residents and displaced people in the Al-Shouka municipality area and in the neighborhoods of Al-Salam, Al-Geneina, Tabet… pic.twitter.com/SEYhTSJioC

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