Ukraine keeps changing defense ministers. Is that hurting the war effort?

Mykhailo Fedorov is the fourth person to leave the defense minister's post since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, an extraordinary turnover at one of the country's most critical ministries. His removal comes at an especially precarious moment, as Ukraine races to secure additional Patriot interceptors and launches multi-billion-dollar defense partnerships with allies.

The turmoil is also being felt inside the ministry. A Defense Ministry employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the repeated leadership shakeups have sparked a wave of resignations among staff, driven by uncertainty over the ministry's future.

Photo: Genya Savilov / AFP via Getty Images

How Russian drones are making routine stops for gas on Ukraine’s roads deadly

The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a nonprofit that investigates human rights abuses and war crimes, recorded 66 Russian attacks on gas stations across Ukraine in June, up 340% from 15 in May.

Photo: Serhii Masin / Anadolu / Getty Images.

‼️UKRAINIAN POST‼️

Monuments throughout Kyiv have been enclosed in sandbags, wooden frames, and other temporary barriers since the start of the full-scale war to shield them from blast waves and shrapnel.

The decision to begin removing the protective structures, according to officials, followed a marked escalation in Russia’s deployment of ballistic missiles and other high-powered weaponry — threats that the protective structures are not designed to withstand.

"At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, protecting monuments with modular structures and sandbags was a necessary measure. It helped minimize the risk of damage from shrapnel and the blast waves of attacks at that time," Serhii Anzhyiak, director of the city's Department of Culture, said.

"However, after more than four years of war, the nature of the threats has changed, and so have our approaches to preserving monuments."

https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-to-remove-protective-coverings-over-monuments/

‼️UKRAINIAN POST‼️

Gas stations in Ukraine are beginning to introduce limits on the supply of diesel fuel to one customer.
 
Restrictions are being introduced, first of all, in order to prevent the rapid exhaustion of fuel stocks at filling stations, because logistics chains do not always have time to replenish them promptly. In addition, there is still a shortage of fuel in Ukraine, and wholesale prices for oil depots remain high.

Among the main reasons for the shortage are a sharp reduction in the supply of fuel to Ukraine. Supply constraints on the European market, as well as the shrinking of the Danube, have played a role, which has complicated the full supply of fuel by river.

An additional factor is that Russia is actively purchasing fuel on the European market, which leaves virtually no free volumes. It is also difficult to compensate for the shortfall in supplies in other areas: India is limited to supplies through Belarus, Kazakhstan has no free volumes, and the capacity of Saudi Arabia, Oman and other Gulf countries has actually become unavailable due to global crises in the market.

https://delo.ua/ru/news/v-ukraine-azs-ogranicivayut-prodazu-dizelya-pocemu-voditelyam-prodayut-ne-bolse-100-litrov-470059/

‼️UKRAINIAN POST‼️

What began as strikes concentrated in the east and south has expanded into central Ukraine, leaving more towns and stretches of highway without a functioning gas station.

The widening campaign has raised concerns that sustained attacks on fuel infrastructure could eventually disrupt supplies across the country. Yet for officials and fuel retailers, the more pressing challenge is how to defend thousands of gas stations spread across Ukraine — a network too vast to shield in its entirety.

"Of course we're worried (about these strikes)," Valerii, an employee at a gas station belonging to one of Ukraine's largest fuel chains in Kharkiv, told the Kyiv Independent. "We're worried about everything."

https://kyivindependent.com/how-russian-drones-are-making-routine-stops-for-gas-on-ukraines-roads-deadly/

‼️UKRAINIAN POST‼️

Yesterday's ballistic missile strike on Kyiv was broadcast live on CNN, - KYIV24

During the conversation, explosions were heard. The CNN host immediately asked the People's Deputy, Halyna Yanchenko, if she was safe.
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https://t.me/kiev_levyy_bereg/74685

‼️UKRAINIAN POST‼️

"There is no protection against ballistic missiles, and there certainly won't be any in the near future," said Dmytro Kuleba, former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

https://t.me/times_ukraina/70803

Daily dose of UKRO-COPE #112 😂😂😂

Over the past week, Russia has attacked Ukraine with nearly 1900 drones, approximately 1600 air bombs, and 144 missiles of various types, - Zelenskyy.
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https://t.me/kiev_levyy_bereg/74680

Why you should never trust AI about the Ukraine war.

LMAOOOO

Meanwhile ChatGPT somehow manages to come to the conclusion of Russia winning, despite using ISW and Deepstate as sources lmao

Pavel Durov donkey fix your shit!!!! Telegram translation is unusable I’ve to use ChatGPT everytime. This is terror.

Vodyanskoye in the Dobropolye direction is in good Russian hands...

Following the capture of Svetloye, Vodyanskoye, and Chernigovka, Russian forces continue to advance toward the city limits of Dobropolye from the south and the southeast from Novy Donbass. While Ukrainian forces have retreated to the inner defense area, a shortage of infantry may force them to disperse their units along the entire perimeter in an effort to slow down the Russian advances.

(454 settlements in the last 487 days)

https://t.me/the_military_analytics/28741
https://t.me/divgen/82727?single
https://t.me/lost_armour/10572?single

Another gas station down the Ukraine drain, this time in Kramatorsk.

(Over 400 gas stations so far)

https://t.me/mod_russia/66224

⚡️'We have not agreed to that' — Trump walks back promise of Patriot licenses for Ukraine.

Speaking to members of his Cabinet and the press on July 31, Trump was hesitant about the license, calling it a "big step" and emphasizing the need to be careful about divulging the secrets of American defense tech.

Daily dose of UKRO-COPE #113 😂😂😂

To protect ourselves against ballistic missiles, we need our own ballistic capabilities and the destruction of russian ballistic missile production, launch systems, and the entire related infrastructure. This is how it works everywhere, because anti-ballistic systems in the world are always fewer than the number of ballistic missiles.

As soon as we start neutralizing these threats with our own ballistic capabilities, things will become easier. And this will definitely happen. We have already managed to reduce the number of Iskander missiles produced in Russia each month through our strikes, and that's even without using our own ballistic capabilities.

https://t.me/bahshiddemon/3608