Ukraine hit another Russian naval vessel, just a day after striking a missile corvette at St. Petersburg. This one is in Crimea near the Kerch bridge. This class ship has a normal crew of 28 and is armed with naval guns and anti-aircraft missiles. The anti-aircraft crew must have been on a smoke break.
A gunpowder factory in Ryazan was also struck.
The Saratov refinery is FUBAR.
The terminal at St. Petersburg hit yesterday isn’t in such great shape either.
Remember that post yesterday about trucks that were all parked together and how a parking lot like that would be a tempting target?
Did someone bring marshmallows?
2/ ‘Alex Parker Returns’, one of several Russian warbloggers who predicted this exact scenario, is sardonic: “In the morning in the papers, in the evening in the news bulletins. It wasn’t long before strikes were launched against the densely packed truck parks.”
3/ “Due to the logistical collapse, lorries are piling up in crowded parking areas, which are now being targeted. Video from Yenakiieve. [Putin], here’s the latest updates.”
4/ ‘Military Informant’ comments: “As we expected, parking lots for vehicles have become a convenient and tempting target for the enemy.”
5/ “One truck was hit – several others burned down. And with the use of more powerful drones, it will be possible to destroy the entire unprotected parking lot entirely.”
There is no fuel at all in parts of Crimea. Coincidentally the government has declared today is Walk to Work For Your Health Day.
How bad is it along Russia’s southern logistical route through occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia?
How about 10 years to life in prison just for taking video of trucks?
The fuel situation in Crimea is bad enough that even mobile air defense fire teams don’t have enough.
Russia hit a building in Kherson with 60 drones. Sixty.
Sweden seizes a ship suspected of carrying stolen Ukrainian grain.
Who would use this tunnel?
Nuclear weapons? Sure. Not a problem.
Kostyantynivka continues to be the site of some of the most intense fighting along the long Ukrainian front.
Russians have been bombarding Kostyantynivka with phosphorus munitions.
Ukraine says it could crank out millions of drones a year with enough funding.
Firefighters work to contain a blaze aboard the Russian missile corvette Boykiy, which was struck in drydock near St. Petersburg yesterday by Ukrainian drones.
Zelenskyy has been quite vociferous lately about the need for more Patriot missiles to combat Russian ballistic missiles.
Another 1,300 lucky winners of the Meat Grinder Sweepstakes, plus 2,111 drones.
Trump has nominated a new ambassador to Moldova. It is the first time that a political appointee has been named to Moldova instead of a career foreign service officer. And this appointee is a loser.
According to the Moldova Matters substack, it is a former Georgia state legislator who has no foreign service experience and a disqualifying past.
In 2020 President Trump nominated Mark Burkhalter to be the US Ambassador to Norway. His nomination was later withdrawn over a resurfaced 1994 scandal in which Burkhalter authorized and distributed a racist campaign flyer² that lawsuits from the time alleged was designed to emphasize a democratic incumbent’s race. Incumbent Gordon Joyner’s face was blackened, one eye distorted, lips thickened and he was given an afro. Burkhalter later admitted to authorizing and later covering up the payment for the flyer in violation of Georgia House ethics laws. He paid a civil penalty and apologized to Joyner.
Looks like no on ever cuts the grass either.
Russia is busy fanning anti-immigrant fires in Ukraine.
Posts about a sudden “influx of labor migrants” from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and elsewhere began flooding Ukrainian online space in early spring.
The claims largely shared a common thread: that Ukraine’s workforce — depleted by war and emigration — was being intentionally replaced by migrants.
Actively pushed by pro-Russian Telegram channels, Russian-friendly Ukrainian figures — like fugitive lawmaker Artem Dmytruk — and the Pravda disinformation network, the narrative quickly gained traction in public discourse.
A video, widely shared in May, showed a supposedly Indian man speaking in English, inviting his compatriots to Ukraine, promising work and good pay as “all men went to war,” adding, “there are many beautiful boys and girls here.”
A Russian soldier says there are bodies everywhere.
2/ Russian warbloggers are becoming increasingly outspoken in describing how the war is going badly for their side. ‘When the cannons start singing’ publishes an account from a reader who is with the Russian Army in Ukraine:
3/ “It’s absolute chaos over here with all the bodies right now, and even without the bodies, I could sneakily film the road we’re bringing people in on, it’s a complete mess.
4/ “Recently, a political officer’s clerk was taken to a combat position [as a punishment] for a misstep; he sat down and started crying because of the number of bodies. The action is getting heavier and heavier every day.
5/ “God knows how the evacuation teams are managing to get the bodies and the wounded out anymore… But I’m completely freaking out at the latest developments. Like, our top guy says: we’re going to smash the faggots so hard they’ll be blown away.
6/ “The result: vehicles are burning near Selydove, they simply can’t get into Selydove, Ural trucks are burning on the road, drones are flying over Donetsk looking for soldiers.
And we’re just a bunch of fucking losers.
While Russia struggles to scrape together two rubles to pay for the war, the Defense Ministry is renovating a rather lavish officers club in the Kola Peninsula. Wouldn’t this make a lovely target?
According to the company, the renovated Officers’ Club will feature a modern stage, a library and a museum. The renowned Northern Fleet Song and Dance Ensemble is also expected to return to the venue after a lengthy absence.
The reconstruction of the sports centre and stadium is being implemented in two parallel phases. The first includes the construction of a football stand with 2,644 seats. The second involves the creation of an ice hockey arena with a 500-seat stand and facilities for ice-making equipment.
This Irish official has a problem with sending aluminum products produced at a Russian-owned plant in Ireland to Israel, but it’s OK to send them to Russia.
What drug is this guy taking that he thinks Russia can pursue this war for another 10 or 20 years?
This didn’t get done while Orban was PM because Orban needed it as an issue to whip up anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Hungary.
May was a good month.
How do you say “shit-faced” in Russian?
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