'I thank all military personnel involved in the special military operation for the service, courage and heroism. Earlier we spoke about single feats, but today we have dozens and hundreds of worthy servicemen, soldiers, officers, sergeants, who not just honourably perform their duty, but do it in a highly professional manner. The servicemen show really the highest examples of courage, heroism and, once again, - professionalism.'

Russian Defence Minister Shoigu

New York Times

Interviews with Ukrainian soldiers and a review of military surveillance footage from a recent attack indicate that many Ukrainian units are sustaining heavy losses.

A group with special operations training, deployed last month to storm Russian positions in a village on the western part of the front, took such heavy casualties in four days of assaults that they had to pull out without success.

After their armored vehicles were largely destroyed by artillery strikes on the first day, they revised their plan to approach the village on foot through a tree line that had been mined. The Ukrainians cleared a narrow path with demining explosives and the first soldiers reached the Russian positions and dropped down into a trench.
Drone footage of the event showed what happened next.

Explosions suddenly detonated inside the trenches and other strikes hit soldiers on the edge of the tree line. The video footage has been verified by The New York Times.

"The trenches were mined," said the assault commander, who uses the call sign Voskres, short for Resurrection. "Our guys started jumping in the trenches and blowing up" he added. The Russian forces were watching, and they remotely detonated the mines, he said.

Those who managed to avoid the mines came under attack from multiple Russian kamikaze drones. "It seemed like they had a drone for each person," he said. "The amount of equipment the Russians have, had we known, it was like mission impossible."

This is a real tweet from the US state department made in the past 24h

NATO tech in action

What was the point of this?

Representatives of the new military leadership of Niger announced the cessation of the export of uranium and gold to France.

More than a third of the uranium used at nuclear power plants in France is imported from Niger.

The amount of times they have used "Ukraine‘s modest progress" and "Russia‘s morale is fatiguing" in this article is hilarious 🤣

and the best part

"F16s would neutralize Russia’s air superiority;"

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I‘m still waiting for the already delivered ones

Will Brady join the foreign legion tho?

"They rode into a kill zone. Many of us who went will never return home."

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Hahahaha Zelebobnik get ready your partners are plotting 😁😁

Wild pig is angry

- In Niger, protesters wave Russian flags, so Russia has organized this coup

- There were EU flags on the Maidan, so...

- No, this is different.

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The monsters have been found 😁

Turns out 2/3 were mobilized!

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Ukraine now has 150,000 troops committed to the operation across three axes of attack, including multiple Western-trained brigades, one DOD official told Politico

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