Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Spitfire9]

santa clause delivering presents seems more likely than what news sources you follow
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-Russia has shown to have spare manpower with 100k troops training exercise in Belarus where they even invited the U.S. army as observers.
-Left Azerbaijan's oil facilities running for 3 in a half years and only bombed them because of some corridor deal with the US.
-Budanov and Zelensky state there is no more of Ukraine ever regaining any territory as in lack of manpower for another major offensive meaning it will just be Russia slowly eating away their territory.
-Ukraine's 18-year-olds have mandatory basic training requirements which looks like a set date for November to introduce a final mobilization law.

It doesn't really look like they are at the end of the rope to me.

Me neither but nothing I see suggests that Russia is not heading closer and closer to the end of the rope.

PS I agree with JP Morgan's view in 2022 that Russia was heading for economic collapse. I think it still is.

 

[Iskander]

Bober Kurwa your country can't shoot down a 10k dollar drone in which they can produce 500 a day according to Ukraine with a million-dollar missile.

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[Spitfire9]

I have no idea if this is true or if it is false but it is plausible, given Ukraine's strikes on Russia's oil industry...

LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft (TRNF_p.MM) has warned producers they may have to cut output following Ukraine's drone attacks on critical export ports and refineries, three industry sources said on Tuesday.
In a statement on its website, Transneft described the news as "fake" and part of the West's "information war" against Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-close-cutting-oil-output-due-drone-attacks-sources-say-2025-09-16/

Who is lying? Who is not? Somebody is.

 

[Relic]

The first 2 PURL packages, valued at $1 Billion usd have officially began to ship from the United States to Ukraine. 2 additional packages, also valued at $1 Billion usd are being prepared and will start to ship in early October. President Zelensky did not list the full contents of the first PURL packages today, however, he did specifically indicate that they will include Patriot Air Defense Missiles and HIMARS MLRS systems.

Ukraine war briefing: Europe-funded weapons shipments begin under ‘Purl’ scheme

Zelenskyy says Patriot and Himars included in Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List; drones threaten Volgograd oil refineries. What we know on day 1,303

www.theguardian.com

 

[Soldier30]

Russian special forces storm two Ukrainian army strongholds. High-quality footage of Russian special forces storming two rear strongholds of the Ukrainian army. The location of the filming is not disclosed. During the assault, the soldiers actively use the LPO-97 light infantry flamethrower and the RPG-26 grenade launcher; their specifications are shown on the screen. The assault is partially shown, but return fire from one of the Ukrainian strongholds is clearly visible. Four Ukrainian soldiers were captured at the second stronghold, as shown at the end of the video.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of Russian FPV interceptor drones in action in Ukraine and Donbas. The video shows all types of Ukrainian reconnaissance and conventional drones intercepted by Russian drones before September 2025. Russian FPV drones VT-40, Prince Vandal Novgorodsky, and other models are used for ground and air combat; technical information about them is available on the channel. The exact location of the filming is not disclosed. The video features drones manufactured in Ukraine and other countries.

 

[blackjack]

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got no warning because there is no violation, bober kurwa is meme, and it addresses Poland's air to air missile capabilities.

 

[blackjack]

https://ria.ru/20250917/bakanov-2042394878.html

MOSCOW, Sep 17 — RIA Novosti. An analogue of the American Starlink system will appear in Russia, said Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov."Soon we will give our terminal," he said on the airSolovyov Russian troops regularly identify and strike at Starlink stations in the NVO zone. According to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use more than 50 thousand satellite communication terminals.

https://topwar.ru/271189-partija-kompleksov-pvo-buk-m3-dosrochno-postavlena-v-vojska.html

A batch of Buk-M3 air defense systems was delivered to the troops, the equipment was shipped by the Almaz-Antey concern as part of the state defense order. This was reported by the press service of the concern.

A new batch of counter-battery weapons and Buk-M3 air defense systems has been handed over to the military. The delivery parameters were not disclosed, the concern stressed that the equipment was transferred as part of the state order for 2025 well ahead of the delivery schedule. Anti-aircraft systems and counter-battery warfare equipment have already been handed over to the customer. There is no information on counter-battery warfare.

https://tass.com/defense/2018691

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. The Murmansk Arctic University has patented a ship tower that places and launches multicopters on a fiber-optic cable to protect the ship from attacks by unmanned boats, said a document TASS has at its disposal.

It says that one of the main problems for a ship in combat operations and on duty is to ensure its survivability in the absence of protection from unmanned boats.

The university has created a special tower installed on the deck of the ship. In its frontal part, there are rows of openings equipped with airtight covers that open from top to bottom. Inside the tower, on the floors corresponding to the rows of openings, belt conveyors oriented into these openings are placed. The conveyors have pins for attaching fiber-optic drones, which continue to operate in electronic warfare conditions.

"A promising area is the use of attack drones, whose stability in electronic warfare is ensured by cable control. In turn, it is the ship that has the maximum concentration of electronic warfare assets and, using them on unmanned boats, and a simultaneous use of its electronic assets, will negate the control of attack UAVs. This determines the prospect of using combat multicopters with remote control systems via fiber-optic cable on ships. The increased quality of information transmitted over fiber-optic cables, when used in marine environments, provides improved control accuracy for combat multicopters," the developers said.


According to the patent, when approaching unmanned boats are detected, the necessary number of openings lift their covers. Next, fiber-optic drones are pushed out of the tower onto the covers with the help of belt conveyors, after which they are launched. It says that, if necessary, new multicopters are put forward to replace the launched ones, until the charged reserve of belt conveyors or clips is exhausted.

https://topwar.ru/270989-bpla-kamikadze-geran-ih-sila-v-roe.html

It would seem that this is the solution, because due to the high flight speed, such Geran-3 kamikaze UAVs are almost as difficult to shoot down as cruise missiles?

However, everything is not so simple, the problem is that a turbojet engine is a very expensive product, the difference in the cost of a turbojet engine and a piston engine can be several orders of magnitude.

In addition, the increase in speed and high temperature of the turbojet engine increase the visibility of the UAV for radar and infrared detection means, and therefore the vulnerability to enemy anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM). And the increased cost of the kamikaze UAV due to the use of turbojet engines makes it quite an attractive target even for destruction with the help of missiles and air-to-air missiles.

However, there is an opportunity to increase the speed of kamikaze UAVs "inexpensively" - to use a pulsed air-breathing engine (PuVRD), which was used on German V-1 cruise missiles during World War II.

Compared to the turbojet engine, the PuVRD consists of almost only disadvantages - it is a noisy, hot, fuel-consuming jet engine, but it has one critical advantage - if its design and production processes are optimized, the PuVRD will be much cheaper than the turbojet engine, its cost may well be comparable to the cost of a piston engine from a "moped".

In fact, the PuVRD is a curved tube with a fuel injection device, in which there are no rotating parts, heat-resistant turbine blades and other complex and expensive parts - earlier we talked about the potential of the PuVRD for use on kamikaze UAVs in the material The V-1 was reinvented in the United States: this can be a new milestone in the creation of kamikaze UAVs.

How much will the flight range of the Geranium kamikaze UAV equipped with a ramjet decrease compared to a UAV equipped with a turbojet engine or a piston engine?

It is difficult to say, especially given that we do not know for sure the range of the basic model with a piston engine. It can be assumed that if the range of the Geran-2 kamikaze UAV with a piston engine is about 1000-1500 kilometers, then for the Geranium with a piston engine it will be about 200-500 kilometers.

Well, a significant number of enemy objects will still be in the zone of destruction of the Geran-2 kamikaze UAV, even if they are launched from transport aircraft outside the range of the enemy's air defense systems or from inconspicuous Gazelles cruising several tens of kilometers from the line of contact.

In any case, the Geran-2 kamikaze UAVs will not replace, but will complement existing modifications, significantly expanding their "habitat" - the scope of application.

ВКС России получили четвёртую в 2025 году партию фронтовых бомбардировщиков Су-34

ПАО Объединенная авиастроительная корпорация (ОАК, входит в Госкорпорацию Ростех) 15 сентября 2025 года сообщило, что в рамках исполнения Гособоронзаказа передало Министерству обороны России партию новых фронтовых бомбардировщиков Су-34. Самолеты прошли комплекс необходимых наземных и…

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On September 15, 2025, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of the Rostec State Corporation) announced that as part of the execution of the State Defense Order, it had transferred a batch of new Su-34 front-line bombers to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The aircraft passed a set of necessary ground and flight factory tests and were handed over to the customer.

 

[Soldier30]

On September 20, the Russian army launched a series of strikes against targets in Dnipropetrovsk, as video footage was released by city residents. Ukrainian industrial and military facilities were targeted, including the Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, the Polimermash plant, a warehouse area behind the Karavan shopping center, and other city facilities. Geranium drones and Kh-101 cruise missiles were used in the strikes.

 

[blackjack]

Video with 10 million views of an S-400 taking out a missile salvo

Its an air defense news week, I guess.

Almaz-Antey doubles production of S-350 Vityaz, S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems

A serial production of new types of missile weapons has been mastered

tass.com

Almaz-Antey doubles production of S-350 Vityaz, S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems​

A serial production of new types of missile weapons has been mastered

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. The Almaz-Antey air defense concern has more than doubled its production of the S-350 Vityaz and S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems in 2025.

"The commissioning of new production facilities allowed the concern not only to deliver some equipment to the troops ahead of schedule, but also to quadruple the production of a number of products and increase the output of other missile systems. Over the past year alone, the production of technical equipment for the S-350 Vityaz and S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems has more than doubled, and serial production of new types of missile weapons has been mastered," the company said in a news release.

Российские «Герани» получили новую боевую часть, став эффективнее

Российские дроны-камикадзе «Герань-2» стали еще эффективнее, разработчики увеличили боевую часть беспилотника, правда, немного уменьшив дальность применения дронов. Теперь новые «Герани» несут двойную боеголовку....

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Russia's Geran-2 kamikaze drones have become even more effective; their developers have increased the drone's warhead, albeit slightly reducing its range. The new Geran drones now carry a dual warhead.

According to the SHOT channel, the new Geran-2 has received an additional 40-kilogram high-explosive fragmentation warhead, while the "old" 50-kilogram warhead remains in place. This brings the total warhead weight to 90 kg. With the new warhead, the Geran is expected to be more effective in striking military and critical targets in Ukraine.

As noted, for greater effectiveness, a belt of pre-formed fragments was added to the warhead, which should increase the damage per hit. However, as the developers admit, the Geranium's range with the new warhead has been reduced from 1,800 km to 1,200. However, as experience with kamikaze drones shows, this is quite sufficient for delivering strikes.

Previously, Ukrainian military personnel complained that Russian developers increased the altitude of kamikaze drones, immediately "disabling" one of the most important elements of Ukraine's air defense—mobile installations with heavy machine guns. As one Ukrainian military officer stated, "We see and hear the drones, but we can't hit them."

Recently, jet-powered Geran missiles, which fly much faster than the basic version, have begun appearing more frequently in Ukrainian skies. This also poses problems for Ukrainian air defense systems.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of a Russian Orion drone attacking a temporary deployment site and ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army. The video was filmed in the border village of Yastrebyne in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast. The Orion drone uses X-UAV missiles, also known as TKB-1030.

Technical information about the Orion drone

 

[blackjack]

News in the frontline keeps getting worse.

stealing your next video update Soldier30

Russia is testing the first compact anti-drone MANPADS, the VEKTOP, designed to counter UAVs and FPV drones. The MANPADS uses a missile with a flight speed of up to 450 km/h. It can intercept targets at altitudes of up to 2,000 meters, and targets flying at altitudes of up to 700 meters. The warhead can use compact fragmentation charges, including the VOG-17 and VOG-25. The fragmentation radius of an aerial target is expected to reach up to 10 meters. It's worth noting that the MANPADS is relatively inexpensive; the tube for the MANPADS is 3D-printed. The MANPADS's specifications are still preliminary

200km MLRS

VK.com | VK

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UAV update from Ukraine's side of the story.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of a Russian FAB-3000 bomb striking a Ukrainian bridge over the Solenaya River. The video was filmed near the village of Novopavlivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. It's worth noting that the bridge is quite small, and a FAB-1500 bomb could have been used as well. The FAB-3000 bomb with the UMPK module was dropped by a Su-34 aircraft.

 

[Soldier30]

A Ukrainian firefighter witnessed a Russian Geran-3 kamikaze drone strike an oil depot in Ukraine's Chernihiv region. The video was presumably filmed near the town of Bakhmach.

 

[Spitfire9]

Russia has forcefully rejected claims that its military jets violated Estonia’s airspace last week, accusing Tallinn of having no evidence to support its assertion, as deep-seated concerns rise about whether Moscow’s war in Ukraine will spill over into neighbouring European countries.

When asked about Estonia’s allegation on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused the Baltic nation of making up false claims.

Russia accuses Estonia of airspace incursion falsity to stoke tensions

On Friday, Estonia reported that three Russian MiG-31 fighters had entered its airspace for 12 minutes.

www.aljazeera.com

Always good for a laugh is Russia.

PS When I think of it, there would be no problem in NATO fighters based in Estonia shooting down Russian military aircraft violating Estonian airspace since Russian military aircraft do not violate Estonian airspace. If one does get shot down not violating Estonian airspace but happens to hit the ground in Estonia, that won't be because it was flying over Estonia, will it?

 

[Soldier30]

A combat episode of the Russian 220mm Uragan MLRS in the Donbas, in the Krasnoarmeysk sector. In the video, the Uragan MLRS fires 9M27F unguided rockets with 9N128F high-explosive warheads at a Ukrainian army position. The 9M27F projectile weighs 280 kg, the warhead weighs 100 kg, and the explosive mass is 51 kg. The exact location of the shooting is not disclosed.

 

[Spitfire9]

Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have disrupted domestic supplies and pushed Russia’s diesel exports towards their lowest levels since 2020. Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow. The strikes have disrupted more than 1mn barrels a day of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Energy Aspects, a research group. Diesel exports, if they maintain the current rate, will fall to the lowest monthly total in September since 2020, according to both OilX and Vortexa, which track cargoes. “It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far,” said Benedict George, head of European petroleum products pricing at Argus, which reports commodity prices.

Russian fuel exports drop as Ukraine intensifies its strikes on oil refineries

Kyiv accelerates drone campaign aimed at reducing Moscow’s ability to fund its war

www.ft.com

With the way things are going Russia may soon have to start choosing which customers will be supplied with refined products - military, domestic civil market or export market.

 

[Spitfire9]

RUSSIA'S ASTRAKHAN GAS PROCESSING PLANT HALTS OPERATIONS​

Perhaps just another bit of western propaganda like the report of Estonian airspace being violated by Russian fighters.

 

[Spitfire9]

The Kremlin has announced it has “no alternative” but to continue waging war, as it pushed back on United States President Donald Trump’s sudden sea change towards Ukraine that saw him brand Russia a “paper tiger”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov hit back at Trump’s claim that Ukraine could in effect win the war, declaring on Wednesday that Russia would be continuing its offensive on Ukraine “to ensure our interests and achieve the goals”.

Russia says no choice but war after Trump U-turn on Ukraine

Kremlin also says US-Russia rapprochement yields 'close to zero' results, as fears grow in Europe of Ukraine spillover.

www.aljazeera.com

It is not true that Russia has “no alternative” but to continue waging war. Putin may have no alternative but to continue waging war to ensure his own interests (his survival as president).

I welcome Putin continuing to sacrifice his country's finances and economy to his own personal well being.

 

[Soldier30]

On the night of September 24, Russian forces launched a massive strike using Geranium drones on Kharkiv. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that more than 15 explosions rocked the city in 30 minutes. The strikes targeted Ukrainian military and critical infrastructure in Kharkiv.