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Just now, Party_Taco said:


I just don’t know how this still happens… many, many fuckups for something like this to occur

No kidding.  Save all your group celebrating for when the war is over.  Awards should be given one on one, then quietly whispered up and down the line.  

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i’m not sure how many storm shadow and flamingo missiles they have, but now would be a good time to fire 75% of them at every energy producing facility Russia has.  Russians don’t care how many troops die. They only care about their own needs. Let’s fuck with their needs.

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Russians still haven't figured out that really slow river crossings are ripe for drones

 

 

Right out of a movie.  Or the Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series.

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Angelina Jolie reportedly visits front-line regions in southern Ukraine

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American actress Angelina Jolie has reportedly visited southern Ukraine, with several local media outlets on Nov. 5 sharing piecemeal details about her visit.

Jolie reportedly visited children in war-torn Kherson, a regional capital that faces daily attacks from Russian drones and artillery fired from across the Dnipro River.

Photos circulating online show Jolie wearing a bulletproof vest with a patch from the Legacy of War Foundation, a UK-registered non-profit tasked with aiding civilians during war.

The photos show Jolie playing with children in what appears to be an underground shelter. The photos match a shelter in Kherson that local media reported on in the beginning of 2025.

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An associate of Strelkov, the Russian fascist Maxim Kalashnikov, appears to have regained his senses, admitting that the Russians have failed in the “cause of their forefathers” and that a generation of young Ukrainians driven by revenge and a desire to reclaim what was lost will soon emerge. In essence, he laments that “We couldn’t kill them all, and now they’ll come for payback".

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15 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

And then... Yeah, no reason to have award ceremonies that are announced. 

 

 

Elite Ukrainian soldiers killed during award ceremony — The Telegraph

A Russian missile struck an award ceremony in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on November 1, killing members of elite Ukrainian military units.

According to The Telegraph, the strike hit a site where Ukrainian troops had gathered for the event. Among the dead were drone operators and infantrymen from the 35th Separate Marine Brigade.

Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Svyatnenko said that his brother, a 43-year-old “elite drone operator” who had fought in Krynky, Kurakhove, Maryinka, and Krasnohorivka, was among those killed.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed the attack and said an investigation is underway. Preliminary reports suggest negligence in organizing the event may have contributed to the tragedy.

While the official death toll remains undisclosed, Suspilne cited witnesses saying at least eight soldiers were killed and 40 wounded, with six still missing.

“Most likely, we were betrayed. The missile hit about 15 minutes after the ceremony was supposed to start. We were standing about 100 meters away from the torches. Suddenly, an Iskander hit the spot where the ceremony was to be held. We heard nothing — just a massive explosion. One guy’s leg was shredded, another’s shoulders. We were lucky to be waiting off to the side. Everyone near the torches — gone,” a Ukrainian soldier told reporters anonymously

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Commander of unmanned systems Robert 'Magyar' Brovdi reports a Shahed storage, assembly, and launch base was destroyed in occupied Donetsk. The strike followed months of intelligence work by SSO, artillery, and recon units of the 414th Brigade, culminating in a precision operation overnight.

Well-informed channel Dosye Shpiona confirms: On the evening of Nov 5, Ukraine struck a major Geran-2 (Shahed) drone base at Donetsk airport with cruise missiles and drones. An ammo depot, fuel storage, and pre-launch prep site were destroyed. Power and comms nodes damaged. Up to 1,000 drones and 1,500 warheads were reportedly on site.

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Lot of activity last night. Drone bases mentioned above, ammo depot, fuel depot, thermal power plant, refinery. Even if they are hitting less-defended targets, these all add up to a lot of pressure across a lot of systems - civilian heating/power/fuel, military supplies, attack capability (the drone base), economic pressure.

 

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1 minute ago, Parliament said:

Still not enough.  Need more.

According to TG channel Dosye Shpiona and supported by maps from TG channel Cyber Boroshno the yesterday's strike resulting in the huge explosion was caused by hitting the Donetsk airport, which has been turned into a drone base.

The statement: In the evening of 05.11.2025, a strike was carried out on launch positions and storage facilities of Geran-2 UAVs at the Donetsk airport base.

During the attack, both cruise missiles and strike drones were used.

As a result of the strike:

  • - the ammunition warehouse was completely destroyed
  • - the fuel depot was destroyed
  • - the UAV pre-launch preparation point was destroyed
  • - power supply and communication units were damaged

At the time of the strike, there were up to 1000 Geran-2 UAVs and more than 1500 warheads on the airfield territory.

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Maybe not much more, but more details at least.

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@Parliament Some of the stuff above and below is just expanding on what already happened.  I think the Kostroma power plant and the drone stuff in Donetsk are the biggies.  They hit the drone area with a lot of drones/missiles. That has the potential to buy them a small amount of breathing room, and it'll force Russia to move drone operations back, which gives the Ukrainians more time to detect them.

 

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I should rephrase: "Lots more drone/missile strikes are hitting home, and Ukraine is REAL close to tipping the war.  But Russia's size and willingness to destroy themselves still gives them the advantage."

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22 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

The latest reports from Pokrovsk are that the Ukrainian units aren't encircled, but the situation isn't great. The decision has apparently been made to hold out as long as possible to inflict maximum damage, and because Pokrovsk holds a lot of strategic value.

 

22 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It's crazy that they've spent over 100,000 dead and wounded trying to get Pokrovsk, a city of 50-60,000, but as Schulz mentioned, it holds some strategic value, and Putin needs a psychological win. I'm wondering if Ukraine is looking at the impact of their eroding the transportation infrastructure and think if they hold out a little longer, it'll pay off.

I updated my map of the Pokrovsk area. It is in a flat open area, with no significant geographical features (Rivers and hill tops.) Bakhmut had a number of river valleys and well defined "higher ground" areas, which allowed both sides to look down into the city, and inflict damage on the other.

While Russia has made significant gains in the general area in 2025, they have only gained ~ 2 miles in the area immediately west of Pokovsk.

In Povrovsk, there is still ~ 5 mile gap between the Russian forces, which is basically a bunch of open fields.  Not the best area to do sneak and peek, or move quantities of troops and equipment, but Russia's gonna Russia, meat assaults across open grounds hoping Ukraine runs out of bullets.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

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Maybe not much more, but more details at least.

This is kind of a big deal. 

With the new information posted, I was finally able to find the Vladimirskaya Substation on a map.  (The connecting lines shown are representations only.)

"Strike drones targeted an energy infrastructure facility near the Russian city of Vladimir overnight between November 4 and 5. The strike hit the Vladimirskaya high-voltage substation (750 kV) in the settlement of Energetik, near Vladimir."

The statement above in incorrect.

"The Vladimirskaya substation is one of the region’s major energy facilities. Its installed capacity is about 4,010 MVA. The substation is a key hub, with numerous 110–750 kV power transmission lines branching out from it, serving the regional power grid. Its stable operation is critical to the reliability and balance of Russia’s power system.

It was the second time in a week that Ukrainian drones had hit the facility and set it on fire. Aside from scattered light anti-aircraft fire at the target, the Ukrainian drones seemed to have made their way to the target unimpeded.

The Vladimirskaya substation is a key energy facility transferring electricity from the Volga Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Kostroma Power Plant (natural gas-fired), and the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant to the cities of Vladimir and Ivanovo and their collective regional populations of at least 750,000 residents, as well as serving as a major electricity source for the greater Moscow power grid."

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I think it is fair to say this is probably the most important electrical substation in Russia, with the main service area being Moscow.

This is the second attack in the last month on this Vladimirskaya substation, located ~ 100 miles from Moscow, with the 3 main plants feeding the substation totaling over 10,000 MW of capacity, diversified between Nuclear, Hydroelectric and Natural Gas:

  • Volga Hydroelectric Power Plant 2,735 MW 
  • Kostroma (Natural Gas) Power Plant 3,720 MW , targeted this week
  • Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant 4,000 MW

For reference the 2 Texas Nukes total 5,000 MW (The South Texas Plant capacity is 2,700 MW, and the Comanche Peak Plant has a capacity of 2,300 MW). Texas just approved the first 765 kV power lines in Texas in April 2025.  

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Anybody surprised that the ERCOT managed power grid in Texas is inferior to Russia's?

Sorry, Cheap shot. Everything in Russia is a life support system for Moscow.

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