Ukraine sent drones to Dagestan to bomb the Dagdiesel torpedo factory on the Caspian Sea.
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On 1 December, drones flew over 600 km into south of Russia, striking the Dagdiesel shipbuilding plant in Kaspiysk, Dagestan
Dagdiesel produces torpedoes, diesel engines, and other naval equipment, playing a key role in Russia’s naval capabilities
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A plethora of drones hitting Russian soldiers.
Ukraine strikes a Russian bridge-laying vehicle.
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2. Novotoretske-Boikivka route, 28th Nov.
Earlier a🇷🇺MTU-20 bridgelayer tried to lay a bridge across the blown bridge in skeet 1.
It was hit by🇺🇦4th Bde Rubizh.
Something went wrong, as we see the bridge askew under the slipped off MT-LB in skeet 1 at 0:40.
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— danspiun.bsky.social (@danspiun.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
There is video of the evacuation of the shadow fleet tanker Kairos after it was struck by a Ukrainian Sea baby drone.
Russians in Vovchansk moan that their car was blasted. One of them points out that at the rate they are going it will take them 10 years to take the pile of rubble that used to be the city.
If Ukraine can successfully neutralize Russia’s guided KAB bombs, that would be a huge advance.
Shaheds now come with air-to-air missiles.
Russia murdered four people in Dnipro.
Two Russians drive through a hellscape of burned vehicles and dead bodies.
Belgium holds most of the frozen Russian funds and has been reluctant to go along with a transfer to Ukraine for fear no one will want to deposit their money in Belgium any more.
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🇧🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 Belgium is ready to approve the transfer of Russian assets to Ukraine if three conditions are met, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, citing a letter from PM to the European Commission.
Brussels demands that the EU:
• provide legally binding and unconditional guarantees for the “reparations” loan,
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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
• share all potential legal risks among all EU member states,
• ensure the participation of every country where Russian assets are frozen.
Ursula von der Leyen is prepared to meet these conditions. However, Belgium is awaiting official confirmation and support from the rest of the European Union.
Another 1,060 Russians who struck out.
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
Almost 9% of the budget will go to servicing the national debt. At the same time, social spending will be the lowest in 20 years of available statistics.
Russia has been screwing with Western elections and hacking since way before the invasion. It’s long past time to do something about it.
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The Financial Times writes that NATO is considering a “more aggressive” approach and even a “pre-emptive strike” as a defense against Russia’s hybrid attacks.
Wow. And this comes after nearly four years of full-scale war in Ukraine.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
And lately the hybrid warfare has included sending balloons across the border from Belarus to disrupt operations in the Baltics.
A delicate operation to remove a downed Russian drone from a rooftop.
Here’s an update on the situation in Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia.
He should have hired someone to start his car in the morning.
New Moscow refers to a large area southwest of the city of Moscow that was made part of the city in 2012.
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🔥 In New Moscow, a car of a Russian missile technology developer was blown up – it belonged to a developer of guidance systems and exploded in a courtyard among high-rise buildings on the morning of December 1.
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— Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This analyst says the Flamingo cruise missile is going to be a nightmare for Russia.
The assembly process is typically Ukrainian – they quickly appreciated that underground and reinforced was essential, and that it’s also distributed and key parts duplicated, so that Russia can’t cripple production in a single strike.
The missile is very large and you could argue vulnerable. The jet engine is said to be noisy but at low levels by the time you hear it it’s already passing and gone out of sight.
The plan is to have it ride no more than 30-40m above the ground and it’s capable of doing so, using a mix of unjammable and unspoofable GPS, inertial navigation and TERCOM – terrain contour matching.
It’s the later that has been problematic because it requires a complex database that has to work seamlessly with everything else. There are now commercial providers of such information, and it’s not US dependent. Airbus offers a package of such data derived from its many satellites and others do to. It’s this that’s currently one of the many processes that require ironing out before full utilization and production begin in January.
At the moment the missile is publicly admitted to be flying at around 114m, but that remains too high. At around $500,000-750,000 per unit you cannot afford to take unnecessary risks. Russia has virtually zero AWACS capability these days, and only the most sophisticated AESA look-down capable radars – of which Russia has almost none on its fighters, have even a chance of seeing the missile at 30m. Given that its below the radar coverage of the anti-air systems Russia does possess, other than a last minute point defence system and some luck, given its speed, there’s little likely to be able to stop it.
The original warhead size was said to be up to 1,500kg but now seems to be 1,150kg, – still 11 times more than the FP-2 drone. Add to that given its likely employment of blast fragmentation or cluster warheads, it’s going to be devastating.
Is this supposed to improve morale?
They fucked around. They found out.
The couple’s bodies were intact, placed in polyethylene bags, and covered with chemical solvents. The discovery has prompted the initiation of the formal process to repatriate the bodies to Russia for burial.
Roman Novak, originally from Saint Petersburg, was the founder of Fintopio, a platform for rapid cryptocurrency transfers.
He reportedly raised up to $500 million in investments before disappearing, according to 47news. In 2020, Novak had been sentenced in Russia to six years in prison for fraud, and multiple enforcement proceedings were pending against him at the time of his death.
According to 47news, the Novaks were lured to a rented villa in the Emirati city of Hatta under the pretense of meeting potential investors. There, they were tortured for access to their crypto wallets and subsequently killed. The UAE police reportedly discovered their remains in November, though confirmation was issued only recently.
The rest of us are not shocked. It’s all about the Benjamins.
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A Russian stooge in Africa gets the heave ho.
Guinea Bissau is on the west coast of Africa between Guinea and Senegal. It’s a small former Portuguese colony.
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Guinea Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló may not be widely known, but he has been one of Russia's best friends in Africa.
In May 2024, he visited Putin in Moscow, telling him that "Russia can count on Guinea-Bissau as a permanent ally. That will never change".
Hopefully it will change now.
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— Pax Lusitanica (@paxlusitanica.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Solovyov clearly does not appreciate quality trolling.
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Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov complained that everyone sent him pizzas after it was revealed that his alleged would-be assassins planned to intercept his delivery and slip him a poisoned pizza. He argued they should have been shot without a trial.
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— Julia Davis (@juliadavisnews.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
He’s only 2 years old but he knows the routine.
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This has become a daily routine for even the youngest Ukrainians: setting up shelters between walls, as soon as an air alert sounds.
No child should have to know this💔
Let’s help protect their sleep:
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— UNITED24 (@u24.gov.ua) December 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The FSB later arrested the dog and charged him with discrediting the special military operation.
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🧵The Unsustainable Cost of Russia’s Regional Recruitment Model - a new article from Tochnyi’s @Judas-Everett.bsky.social As regional budgets feel the strain, with many having posted significant deficits, the very system the Russian war machine runs on appears to be under threat. 1/11
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— Tochnyi (@tochnyi.info) November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s Christmastime in Kyiv.
