This would be great news.
So is this:
And this:
When I first read this one I thought “vaporized” was just an exaggeration, but HOLY SHIT, there isn’t much left that resembles a truck.
This video shows the detonation of an FAB-3000 Russian glide bomb in Lyptsi near the Russian border.
The FAB-3000 is a testament to the engineering prowess of conventional munitions, weighing approximately 3,000 kg and carrying 1,400 kg of TNT. It features a maximum penetration capacity of 183 mm, an armor destruction radius of 42 m, and a fragment dispersion radius of 260 m. The "destruction radius" refers to the area within which the bomb can cause direct, significant damage to structures and personnel due to its blast and shockwave. The "fragment dispersion radius" denotes the wider area over which bomb fragments scatter, posing lethal risks to personnel and causing secondary damage.
New Russian worker incentive program — build it on time or go to the Gulag.
You learn something new every day.
I haven’t seen this video and I don’t want to.
Afipsky and Enem are outside the city of Krasnodar, which is about 250 km east of the Kerch bridge. Tambov is about 560 km northeast of Kharkiv.
Meanwhile, the depot in Azov continues to burn for the third day.
Knock, knock
Motorcycle vs. anti-tank mine.
Spoiler alert: Motorcycle loses.
Close combat.
Compare how Ukraine treats Russian prisoners of war to how Russia treats POWs.
If only there were more Russians like her.
I don’t think heaven is the direction they went.
WARNING: Briefly shows blurred dead Russians.
The wrath of God descends on Moscow.
Belarus being Belarus.
This is a compelling essay on the differences between Western colonialism and Russian/Soviet colonialism and how those differences make Russia’s message appealing in Africa.
In 2023, I found myself at a small conference in Nairobi that brought together a dozen or so senior editors and publishers from across the African continent, a Ukrainian journalist, an exiled Russian editor, and myself. The conference was hosted by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a German foundation affiliated with the country’s center-right Christian Democratic Union. The foundation, which despite its association is independent from the CDU, is a big player in media development in Africa. And it was concerned about the growing spread of Russian narratives across the continent, which prompted them to organize the conversation.
In the room in Nairobi, there was plenty of sympathy toward Ukraine and plenty of concern about clearly malicious disinformation campaigns undertaken by influencers across Africa. But there were also compelling explanations as to why Africa is currently finding Moscow’s messages more persuasive than those being pushed by the West.
Ukraine, my African colleagues explained, was perceived as a “Western project.” Delivered primarily through Western diplomatic and news channels, the Ukrainian message in Africa was met with resistance because of the West’s perceived refusal to account for the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. “You may call it whataboutism, but it is grounded in real questions that no one has answered,” one African editor said. Russia’s message, on the other hand, “lands well and softly,” Nwabisa Makunga, an editor of the Sowetan in Johannesburg, told me at the time. The challenge for her team, she explained, was to objectively navigate overwhelmingly pro-Russian public sentiment and a widespread belief that Ukraine caused the invasion.
During my trip to Nairobi, one of the editors shared an unpublished op-ed sent to him as an email from the Russian Ambassador to Kenya, Dmitry Maskimychev. It read: “If you look at the leaders of the Soviet Union, you will find two Russians (Lenin, Gorbachev), a Georgian (Stalin), and three Ukrainians (Brezhnev, Khruschev, Chernenko). Some colonialist empire! Can you imagine a Kenyan sitting on the British throne? Make no mistake, what is currently happening in Ukraine is not a manifestation of Russian ‘imperialism’ but a ‘hybrid’ clash with NATO.” It is an effective message that lands equally well with many Western intellectuals who continue to argue about the rights and wrongs of NATO enlargement and not the fact that a sovereign country has the right to break away from its colonial masters.
Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko is among the most prolific voices when it comes to comparing Russian and Western colonial styles. He is also the one who first introduced me to the idea of “sameness” as an instrument of domination. The message of Western colonialism was: “ ‘you are not able to be like us’, while the message of Russian colonialism was ‘you are not allowed to be different from us,’ ” he explained at the Zeg Storytelling Festival in Tbilisi in 2023. While there were differences in the way the Russians and the Europeans constructed their empires, the result was the same: violence, redrawn borders, repression of cultures and languages, and annihilation of entire communities.
Add returning stolen art to the list of things Russia must be required to do to end the war. The original Facebook post from the Kherson Art Museum is at this link.
Should have stayed home with your wife.
During times of great loss and grief, it can be comforting to take refuge in the familiar and “normal,” like hamburgers and a Coke.
when the world is going to shit, you know the golden arches will be there whilst you have a little cry and comfort eat, Tim doesn't want to leave the factory until we get revenge for our guys so it looks like I'll be bringing him all his food this week.
Dad’s home.
These dogs must be liberated.
Patron gets some help.