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Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.
This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”
“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”
“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”
They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)
Dan retweeted
I compared the leaked Russian death register with UALosses, battle by battle. The Russian register records where each soldier died, so both sides can be placed on the same map.
Russia lost more soldiers than Ukraine in every battle but one.*
Pokrovsk: 4.7 Russian dead for every Ukrainian loss. Siversk 3.9, Avdiivka 3.4, Kostiantynivka 3.0, Toretsk 2.6.
The closest ratios came from offensives Ukraine launched: Robotyne 0.9, Velyka Novosilka 1.2, Kursk and Sumy 1.3. Robotyne, the 2023 counteroffensive, is the only battle where the Ukrainian count exceeds the Russian one.
And these aren't even equal measures. The Russian register counts confirmed deaths only. UALosses includes killed, missing and captured. The actual gap may be wider.
Both datasets are cut off at December 2025, because Russian deaths can take months to appear in the register. That's why Pokrovsk shows 15.8k here, rather than the 21.5k in my earlier post. Kursk includes the fighting in Sumy oblast.
*Most Russian deaths recorded in 2023 have no location of death, making the Robotyne comparison particularly incomplete.
Major battles, counted over the whole battle zone (every settlement within the radius, during the battle), KIA / MIA / POW:
Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad: 21.5k (KIA 4.1k, MIA 16.9k, POW 0.5k)
Bakhmut: 11.4k (KIA 6.3k, MIA 4.7k, POW 0.5k)
Kursk operation: 9.9k (KIA 3.7k, MIA 5.8k, POW 0.5k)
Kostiantynivka: 6.3k (KIA 1.4k, MIA 4.8k, POW 0.1k)
Toretsk: 5.2k (KIA 1.9k, MIA 3.1k, POW 0.1k)
Vovchansk: 3.4k (KIA 1.0k, MIA 2.3k, POW 0.1k)
Robotyne: 3.1k (KIA 2.2k, MIA 0.7k, POW 0.1k)
Krynky bridgehead: 1.2k (KIA 0.4k, MIA 0.7k, POW 0.1k)
Together 62.0k records, 29% of all records with a place of loss.
Dan retweeted
Підтримувати своїх — відповідальність кожного: Штабний фонд Трійки запускає збір «Смуга відповідальності»!
Бо Третій армійський корпус утримує найдовшу смугу відповідальності — понад 150 км фронту. Щоб проривати оборону противника і повертати своє, потрібен ресурс і технології.
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Dan retweeted
"The database is reliable in all respects. The data itself, and its distribution by region or age, corresponds to what we know from other sources and methods of calculating losses."
-Russian milblogger Swodki on the ROSSTAT hack showing 450,000 Russians killed in the war so far
Dan retweeted
Moving toward 1,000 carcasses per day by the USF Birds: 801 worms☠️🩸 over the course of November 8. For the third time between November 1–8, USF pilots set a new peak mark for the disposal of enemy manpower in 24 hours – 1 worm every 1.8 minutes of the day (the previous peak was 751 carcasses on November 5 and 708 worms on November 1).
The daily average for the beginning of November stands at 687 enemy personnel and 2,238 enemy targets per day (a target was successfully struck every 38.6 seconds of November).
As of 08:07, the USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUYKA” already shows 5,630‼️ enemy personnel in irreversible and sanitary losses (the full assault strength of 12 enemy battalions over 8 days of November) and more than 18,350 enemy targets.
A thousand worms per day by the USF Birds will happen before November is over. This is already obvious.
69.15% of enemy losses (3,893 out of 5,630) – in the Dobropillia and Huliaipole directions.
We will stand. Moscow will fall.
USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUYKA” sbs-group.army/
MAGYAR🇺🇦 09.11.26
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What really happened during the clash at a National Guard facility near Kyiv, and how did it become a major disinformation story?
The Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell and Kateryna Hodunova examine what happened that night, the provocation at the center of the incident, and the role of online misinformation in escalating the situation.
youtube.com/watch?v=gi223_6H…
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⚡️ Moldova 'buys zero Russian gas,' launches new power line to EU.
"For decades, Moscow used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova buys zero Russian gas," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said.
kyivindependent.com/moldova-…
Dan retweeted
Multiple Russian regions have started rationing fuel after a series of successful Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries.
Rosneft has reportedly capped sales to passenger vehicles at 30 liters (8 gal) per purchase, with trucks limited to only 200 liters (50 gallons) of diesel.
Dan retweeted
At least 12 Russian regions have cut, postponed or canceled one-time payments to families of soldiers killed in Ukraine, as regional budgets struggle to cover the costs. Saratov Region will reduce the payment from 1 million to 100,000 rubles starting November 1. The government also wants to extend the deadline for paying death benefits from 30 days to as long as seven months.
Dan retweeted
Four Russian soldiers killed. Nine wounded. An ammunition vehicle destroyed. And several supply routes shut down.
All during Ukrainian Special Operations Forces raids inside Russia.
Ukraine's 73rd Naval Special Operations Center has released footage filmed on Russian territory.
Its operators conduct reconnaissance, disrupt military logistics, set ambushes and identify targets for drone strikes.
But the impact goes beyond casualties.
According to Ukraine's SOF, Russian forces were compelled to divert additional troops and reserves, close several routes and slow down logistics.
A small team operating behind enemy lines can force a much larger force to change how it moves.
Watch the footage released by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces @SOF_UKR .
Dan retweeted
Thanks to the new dataleak at rosstat-leaks.com, we can establish locations of multiple failed SSO raids near the Russo-Ukrainian border over the past years. In the thread I will make a chronological summary.
@RALee85 @KilledInUkraine
Dan retweeted
Вісім з половиною місяців на позиціях — приклад мужності та стійкості.
Фото бійців нашого мотопіхотного батальйону в перші хвилини після виходу, який тривав кілька днів.
А далі був дзвінок додому.
Dan retweeted
ça y est, on les a !
(les fameuses datas du hack de Rosstat)
attention les amis, infos spéciales concernant les pertes Russe !
Accrochez vous, petit fil à suivre...
Dan retweeted
A rare occurrence in modern warfare — the Third Assault Brigade captured a Russian mortar crew behind enemy lines!
During Operation Vivaldi, fighters Tank and Gul from the 2nd Assault Battalion of the Third Assault Brigade seized the enemy mortar crew’s position and started fucking up the occupiers with their own weapon.
Video transcribe:
"— My callsign is Tank. I’m an assault trooper with the 3rd Assault Brigade, 2nd Assault Battalion.
— Greetings. Callsign Gul. 2nd Assault Battalion, 3rd Company, assault trooper.
— We were tasked with getting behind enemy lines and taking the forest. There had been reconnaissance beforehand. We had a rough idea of how many orcs were there and approximately where their dugouts were located.
— We got in without them even realizing it. Nobody knew we were there. We stopped and saw some water, and I noticed the green bags. We didn’t even think there would be a shelter there — not just one, but two.
Basically, the guys took one dugout, while Gul and I took the commander. We captured the mortar crew commander. There was also another guy there, a signalman.
— The command post didn’t expect us to find a mortar in the middle of the forest, let alone so many orcs. A 120 mm mortar means this was deep in the rear. Deep in the orcs’ rear.
— We took this forest position with the mortar very quickly. They were in shock. They thought their own guys had arrived.
Most of them were simply glad to surrender because they had had enough. They had had enough of the way their command treated them. Their command calls them orcs, and we call them orcs. And one of them said they didn’t even understand who was who.
The most interesting thing is that the orcs we captured had been fighting for a very long time. Each of them had been fighting for four years.
— They’re heroes of the so-called “SMO.”
— Heroes of the “SMO.”
— And they ended up in captivity over a Snickers bar.
— They have cases where groups simply get together, desert, catch supply personnel, kill them, and take their food. Sometimes it even gets to cannibalism. That’s how bad things are.
— We interrogated the orcs because we needed information about the forest further ahead. I understood that we had captured a 120 mm mortar. We were ordered to turn the mortar around and use it.
The first round was for adjustment, and then the command post told us to fire for effect. They explained everything so quickly and so well that it turned out firing this mortar wasn’t that difficult. And we weren’t afraid of anything because we had support from the sky, both from FPV drones and Mavics.
— I was really impressed. This means it had been planned for a long time and planned very professionally. Supplies, ammunition, UGVs, aerial support — everything.
And everything happened so quickly. A very important thing is trust in your commanders, trust in the command post.
— Every commander we have has served in the infantry. Every commander understands the value of preserving the life of an infantryman.
— Everyone thinks not about themselves, but about their comrade. That’s our strength."
Dan retweeted
“The bodies of 42 Ukrainians have been recovered from the rubble in the village of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, with 33 more people still missing as of Nov. 5, three days after Russian forces attacked the settlement with heavy aerial bombs, the National Police said.
With the final death toll yet to be officially established, the strike on the front-line village is already one of the deadliest single Russian attacks since the start of the full-scale invasion four and a half years ago.
Russian forces struck Komyshuvakha several times with aerial bombs on the morning of Nov. 2, initially hitting a school building where local residents had gathered to receive humanitarian aid. One of the bombs was a 3-ton FAB-3000, which contains more than 1,000 kilograms of explosives and has a blast radius of up to 250 meters.”
kyivindependent.com/42-bodie…
Dan retweeted
The events outside Kyiv coincided almost to the hour with the second strikes on Komyshuvakha, completely burying the story from public view.
Let me remind you once again:
more than 100 people could have been killed by Russian bombs inside a school building while that painted-up bitch was putting on her show.
Dan retweeted
1/ Russian commanders desperate to fulfil a likely order from Putin to take the Ukrainian town of Dobropillia before Christmas have released a video of Russian soldiers walking in the streets as 'proof' of its capture. It turns out to have been filmed 20 km away. ⬇️
Ukraine Evidence Hub (ukraine-evidence.org) is now rebuilt as a working tool rather than a collection of pages: a place to check a fact, build a sourced brief, and to freely use the data in your own work. Each entry carries a date, source and a reliability tier, in 6 languages
Dan retweeted
33 people have now been confirmed killed in the Russian massacre at the humanitarian aid distribution centre in Komyshuvakha. 50 are still missing.
