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NEW: Ukrainian forces reportedly destroyed or damaged over 3,000 Russian tanks and almost 9,000 armored vehicles in 2024 as Russia continues to accrue vehicle losses that are likely unsustainable in the medium-term. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar010425

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Sharing this video for no particular reason—much like the New Jersey drone hysteria. youtu.be/YXy3emGbxHg?...

Update for our #NAFO DACH 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 Battalion 2 campaign: € 29,521.91 / € 38,000 which is 77% completion! We want to provide the defenders: ✅ 2 x NAFO truck 2.0s You can support this campaign here: 🔗 www.help99.co/patches/nafo... Thank you for sharing!

Update. A larger number of Russian transport aircraft can now be seen at Khmeimim. The S-400 battery is packing up for transport. The tactical aviation is still there, but there is a withdrawal under way.

Military analysts in the German Defense Ministry assess that Russian forces in the bases in Tartus and Latakia (Khmeimim) are preparing their complete withdrawal. Security guarantees are only limited to their peaceful withdrawal. They also asses that the port of Tartus has already been abandoned.

Western media and politicians continue to misunderstand Putin’s war in Ukraine. It’s not about territory—it’s about political control. Putin’s primary goal is to install a puppet regime, keeping Ukraine formally independent but firmly under Moscow’s influence. @anderspuck.bsky.social 👇

Today the Ukrainian HUR stated that the Russian military was leaving Syria and would use the A. Shabalin and Sparta II in their evac plans. A few hours ago the A. Shabalin left the Baltic . Two and a half hours ago the Sparta II left port in St. Petersburg. gur.gov.ua/en/content/m...

Annual 🇸🇪 Christmas Tree over Stockholm 🎄

Putin's self-made disasters keep growing. Russian long-range strike drones routinely veer off course & crash - after replacing their Western motor with Chinese one. Ukrainian military daily report large numbers of Russia's Geran-2 attack drones are lost on radar www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/12/06/r...

On Xhitter rn there’s a flooding of tears. And Rubbin’ Benji is leading the crying choir. It’s delicious 🤣🤣🤣 #NAFO #NAFOfellas #RussiaIsCollapsing #SyriaHasCollapsed

Me, on Twitter swimming in vatnik and tankie tears:

Latakia – the people are celebrating their liberation from the regime. Just yesterday, Russian propagandists were advocating for the creation of the Latakia People’s Republic. Such is the turn of fate.

Reuters reports that Assad has abandoned Damascus.

Did Assad just pull a Prigozhin? :-/

Never forget. Never forgive. In the town of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, the owners small dog refuses to leave her rotting corpse. When Russian forces left the town in April 2022, Ukrainian officials report they found the bodies of 458 civilians, including children - all murdered.

Great watch to cheer you up... youtu.be/xFPLmn_S4fk

An update on our #NAFO DACH 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 Battalion 2 Campaign We’re currently at € 25,588.03 / € 38,000 which is 67% completion! We are raising an initial €38,000 for 2x #NAFO Truck 2.0s You can support this campaign here: 🔗 www.help99.co/patches/nafo...

🇬🇪Tbilisi. Tenth day of the battle for the European future.

How it started: How it’s going:

#Fellas this is about us 😎 youtu.be/Cm57Kyxf7L0?...

Ukrainian drone with an installed net launcher intercepts a Russian Mavic loaded with bombs.

OTD in 2021 leading military analyst & Trump's future children's rights commissioner Scott Ritter informed us that Russian plans to invade Ukraine exist only in US & NATO imagination.

I get that Russia allegedly providing the bare minimum—uniforms and basic amenities—is considered a big deal. But poor Douglas is about three years late to the revelation that Russia was gearing up for open war.

Financial Times: A UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency on.ft.com/4f1pp5R

By Supporting the D🇩🇪A🇦🇹CH🇨🇭Battalion and @69thsb.bsky.social not only get you great patches, you get to provide the Ukrainian defenders with much-needed trucks and life-saving drone jammers. We reached 48% of the fundraising goal. Can we reach 50% today? Let's do it.💪🏼 www.help99.co/patches/nafo...

More reports on the GD's OMON brutality and torture. According to a lawyer, after heavily beating a detained man, they forced him to open his mouth and they spit into his mouth one by one. #GeorgiaProtests

1/3 Most of the Korean SOF operators I saw at the National Assembly building had no magazines in their pistols, were carrying blue training magazines and had simunition bolt carriers in their rifles. First here is an empty pistol with no magazine