Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

Russian war correspondent Andrey Filatov published footage of an attempted attack by a Ukrainian FPV drone. The video was filmed near Krasnoarmeysk. The war correspondent was riding an ATV behind a UAZ vehicle equipped with electronic warfare systems. After a while, the distance from the vehicle increased, after which a Ukrainian drone appeared. Thanks to luck and a soldier's tip, he managed to avoid being hit by the drone.

An episode of the use of the Russian BMD-4 armored vehicle during the assault on a stronghold of the Ukrainian army. The location of the shooting is not reported, and which units participated in the battle are also unknown. The BMD-4 fires from a 30-mm automatic gun 2A72, covering the landing of the troops. The video is shortened, showing active moments of the battle.

An episode of a firefight between Russian servicemen of the 39th brigade and a Ukrainian FPV drone. The location of the shooting is not reported. The Ukrainian FPV drone tried to attack one of the Russian group's ATVs

Ukrainian media published an episode of a tank battle near the city of Seversk in Donbas. The video shows a battle between a Ukrainian tank of the 54th separate mechanized brigade and a Russian tank equipped with Tsar-Mangal protection. The outcome of the battle is unknown, as the video was cut by the authors. From the video, it can be seen that the Ukrainian tank fires a shot and hits the upper part of the Tsar-Mangal protection of the Russian tank. After that, the Russian tank moves back a little.

Footage of strikes by Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drones on the drone control center of the 82nd separate airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian army. The control center and temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian army were located in the buildings of the settlement of Raiske in Donbas. The attack used Geran-2 kamikaze drones with direct control by operators

Flights canceled across Russia as Aeroflot got hacked and its servers erased by Ukrainian and Bielorussian hackers. A top floor window may open soon for Aeroflot’s CEO, who apparently didn’t change his password for three years and still used Windows XP servers at the company.

Footage of strikes by Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles on the 169th training center of the ground forces, the strategic reserve of the Ukrainian army. The video was filmed near the village of Goncharovskoye in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. There were two missile strikes in total. First, a missile with a cluster warhead was used, then with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead. As a result of the missile strike, about 200 soldiers were injured, according to Russian media. Ukrainian media reported three killed and 18 wounded.

Footage of the use of the highly toxic Russian Krasnopol-M projectile in combat in Ukraine. The projectile was used in a 152-mm Msta-B howitzer by servicemen of the 2nd Guards Artillery Brigade of the Southern Group of Russian Forces. Krasnopol-M projectiles were used to destroy two Ukrainian UAV control posts located in abandoned houses near the village of Seversk.

Per the Wall Street Journal, The United States Senate is set to unveiled a bill that would create an annual $8 Billion usd pool of U.S made weapons that could be purchased by Ukraine's allies, for further shipment to Ukraine. Essentially, orders would be placed and the funds would come either from Ukraine or Ukrainian Allies and a consistent, unimpeded flow of U.S. military weapons would flow into the country. That's approximately $666 million worth of weapons and munitions each month.

Countries that I would expect to contribute to the fund include Germany , Britain , Canada , The Netherlands , Denmark , Norway , Australia , etc.

Footage of the use of the X-39 LMUR guided missile in combat in Ukraine by the Russian M-28NM helicopter. The video was filmed in the settlements of Antonovka in the Kherson region and Chervone in the Zaporizhia region. The Mi-28 attacks the temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian army located in abandoned houses with the X-39 missile.

There's been a flurry of bipartisan legislative activity surrounding Ukraine ever since Trump softened his rhetoric towards Ukraine. This is going to be a long politics post.

There's the legislation @Relic mentioned, introduced by Sen Wicker, who chairs of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen Risch, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They're both staunchly pro-Ukrainian, influential, and experienced. Having Committee Chairs support legislation practically guarantees it will pass through committee. It doesn't necessarily have to go to a floor vote from there, but can instead be attached to must-pass legislation, such as the annual defense budget. Having Committee chairs support the legislation makes all of this easier.

The other thing worth noting is that the bill appears to enable the US to send weaponry from existing US stocks. In other words, we're not talking about waiting until weaponry is manufactured by defense companies, but instead providing weaponry that the US military already has, while the money paid into the fund is used to place orders for replacing the weaponry sent to Ukraine. This is basically the equivalent of Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), and is the most useful kind of aid the US has provided.

Today Senators Shaheen and Murkowski introduced the Supporting Ukraine Act of 2025, which is essentially a Supplemental. It appropriates about $40 billion in various forms of Ukraine aid, while allowing assistance to count as contributions to the Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (which Trump's "mineral deal" created) and requires the President to take steps to seize frozen Russian assets in the US. This has a very low probability of passing, however if it gets a lot of support it would move the negotiating position of the pro-Ukraine side of Congress, acting as a messaging bill.

Finally there is Nunn's PEACE act, which has the highest likelihood of passing of the three new bills. The bill sanctions foreign financial institutions that do business with sanctioned Russian entities (including potentially Gazprom, Rosneft, and Lukoil) but also use the US financial system. The strategy of this legislation is to be maximally focused, targeted and realistic to pass. For this it was written in a way that it would only have to pass a single committee and with clauses that satisfy Republicans.

(legislation is introduced > gets cosponsors to indicate level of support > passes through all relevant committees > floor vote > signed by president)

Despite the bill being introduced at the beginning of this month, it's now the first Ukraine/Russia legislation of the current Congress to pass the Committee stage, and it did so by 53-1 in the Financial Services Committee. What's also interesting is that in the committee stage it had a part added to it that 90 days after passage of the bill, the Treasury Secretary shall execute the REPO Act (confiscation of frozen Russian assets in the US). It shifts this responsibility from the President to the Treasury Secretary.