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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:21 am to StormyMcMan
Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:21 am to StormyMcMan
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I wonder how much the Pakistan India conflict will come into play regarding Ukraine and Russia
The US will pay much more attention to Pakistan India since it is way more important than Ukraine/Russia
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Posted on 5/7/25 at 7:58 am to cypher
Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 2, injures 8
by Dmytro Basmat May 7, 2025 5:07 AM (Updated: May 7, 2025 7:49 AM)
Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on May 7, killing two people and injuring eight others, including four children, officials reported.
Russian drone debris struck several residential buildings in the Dnipro, Shevchenkivskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi neighborhoods of the capital.
In the Shevchenkivskyi district, the bodies of two people were discovered after a drone struck a five-story residential building, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported. While in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the city, one adult and four children sustained injuries as a result of the attack.
A drone also struck a multi-story residential building in the Dnipro district destroying the 29th and 30th floor
A total of three children have been hospitalized due to burns stemming the attack. One other adult was also hospitalized.
The Kyiv Independent
Consequences of the Russian night attack on Kyiv, May 7, 2025. State Emergency Service of Ukraine
by Dmytro Basmat May 7, 2025 5:07 AM (Updated: May 7, 2025 7:49 AM)
Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on May 7, killing two people and injuring eight others, including four children, officials reported.
Russian drone debris struck several residential buildings in the Dnipro, Shevchenkivskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi neighborhoods of the capital.
In the Shevchenkivskyi district, the bodies of two people were discovered after a drone struck a five-story residential building, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported. While in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the city, one adult and four children sustained injuries as a result of the attack.
A drone also struck a multi-story residential building in the Dnipro district destroying the 29th and 30th floor
A total of three children have been hospitalized due to burns stemming the attack. One other adult was also hospitalized.
The Kyiv Independent
Consequences of the Russian night attack on Kyiv, May 7, 2025. State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Posted on 5/7/25 at 8:04 am to cypher
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1/ ?? The latest edition of RedHorizon is out! Spanning over 70 pages, this week's update includes Ukraine’s corps-level reforms, escalating drone warfare, Russia’s intensified ground attacks, and NATO’s enhanced deterrence on the eastern flank.
2/ ???? Ukraine is shifting to corps-level command structures, but faces manpower and training shortages. Drone strike coordination expands, targeting Russian assets in Crimea.
3/ ?? Ukrainian drone operations continue to grow in both scale and sophistication. Drone swarms and naval UAV strikes have disrupted Russian air defences and airbases in Crimea and southern Russia, showcasing enhanced multi-domain capabilities.
4/ ???? Russia intensifies its offensive operations in Lyman, Pokrovsk, Toretsk, and Sumy regions. The formation of Operational Group Kursk suggests further escalation in the north. Over 1,000 Shahed-type drones were launched last week, marking nearly a 100% increase from 16–22APR.
5/ ?? Ukraine’s air defences are facing shortages, particularly as Patriot missile stocks are nearly depleted. Germany, Israel, and Greece emerge as key suppliers of urgently needed air defence systems, while domestic artillery production is ramping up.
6/ ???? Belarus begins its annual reserve officer conscription, but military activities are subdued ahead of Victory Day celebrations. Reports suggest the withdrawal of Russian S-300/S-400 systems to prepare for the 9MAY parade in Moscow.
7/ ?? NATO’s eastern flank strengthens deterrence strategies: Estonia launches Siil 2025 exercises, committing 5.4% of GDP to defence; Latvia and Estonia exit the Ottawa Convention to operationalise minefields.
8/ ???? Poland advances the “East Shield” defence project, enhancing cooperation with France. Strategic defence investments continue despite growing fiscal pressures.
9/ ???? Romania faces potential shifts under President-elect George Simion. While military posture remains aligned with NATO, political uncertainty could affect future support for Ukraine and regional stability.
10/ ?? Ukraine’s economic situation remains precarious. Energy security concerns continue amid significant infrastructure damage and declining international aid.
11/ ?? Strategic Forecast: Expect continued attritional warfare with a heightened risk of tactical breakthroughs near critical locations such as Lyman, Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka, and Sumy. NATO states are rapidly adapting lessons learned from Ukraine.
12/ ?? Key trends:
- Ukraine’s corps reform is hindered by operational and manpower constraints;
- Intensifying drone warfare is reshaping battlefield dynamics;
- NATO eastern states are fortifying their defences;
- Russia’s economic resilience continues to weaken amid ongoing war efforts.
As part of this update, we also covered Russian responses to Estonian Siil 2025 exercises and interviews with:
- Brig. Gen. Christoph Huberis, 45th German Armoured Brigade Commander; and
- Gen. Raimundas Vaikšnoras, Lithuanian Chief of Defence.
Additionally, Latvia's Military Intelligence and Security Service released its annual threat assessment and activity report, which we also covered in detail.
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Posted on 5/7/25 at 8:47 am to StormyMcMan
Posted on 5/7/25 at 9:00 am to John Barron
Posted on 5/7/25 at 9:31 am to cypher
They only need to strike Russian missile targets in the name of war crimes. Drones are not being used against civilian targets, so I heard.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 9:37 am to StormyMcMan
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:12 am to John Barron
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:31 am to StormyMcMan
Right Stormy. Vance is coming around, but it took him weeks to understand what the Ukraine cucks here understood in an hour.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 10:33 am to StormyMcMan
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I wonder how much the Pakistan India conflict will come into play regarding Ukraine and Russia
Maybe we can start a thread for that one, and all the RISK players here can move to that one and let this one die
Posted on 5/7/25 at 11:28 am to cypher
14 killed, 54 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day
by Tim Zadorozhnyy May 7, 2025 7:13 PM
At least 14 people were killed and 54 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day, regional officials reported on May 7.
Russia launched 187 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones and five Iskander-M ballistic missiles, according to Ukraine's Air Force.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 81 drones and two ballistic missiles. Another 70 drones vanished from radars, likely used as decoys to overwhelm defenses.
The assault was reportedly countered with electronic warfare units, aviation, anti-aircraft missile systems, and mobile fire groups.
In the city of Kyiv, a woman and her son were killed, and eight people were wounded, including four children, the State Emergency Service said.
Russian strikes in Sumy Oblast killed four people, including one child, and wounded 14 civilians, five of them children, the local military administration reported.
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Donetsk Oblast over the past day, Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
Russian attacks in Kherson Oblast killed two people and wounded six, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Strikes hit residential areas, damaging a high-rise building and nine houses.
Two people were killed and at least four injured, including a 16-year-old child, in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian forces targeted civilian and social infrastructure in the region.
Eight people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, two of whom are in serious condition, Governor Serhii Lysak said.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, four people were injured during at least 13 attacks, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.
The escalation comes as Moscow continues to reject a complete ceasefire and intensifies strikes on civilian areas.
The Kyiv Independent
by Tim Zadorozhnyy May 7, 2025 7:13 PM
At least 14 people were killed and 54 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day, regional officials reported on May 7.
Russia launched 187 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones and five Iskander-M ballistic missiles, according to Ukraine's Air Force.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 81 drones and two ballistic missiles. Another 70 drones vanished from radars, likely used as decoys to overwhelm defenses.
The assault was reportedly countered with electronic warfare units, aviation, anti-aircraft missile systems, and mobile fire groups.
In the city of Kyiv, a woman and her son were killed, and eight people were wounded, including four children, the State Emergency Service said.
Russian strikes in Sumy Oblast killed four people, including one child, and wounded 14 civilians, five of them children, the local military administration reported.
Four people were killed and 10 injured in Donetsk Oblast over the past day, Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
Russian attacks in Kherson Oblast killed two people and wounded six, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Strikes hit residential areas, damaging a high-rise building and nine houses.
Two people were killed and at least four injured, including a 16-year-old child, in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian forces targeted civilian and social infrastructure in the region.
Eight people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, two of whom are in serious condition, Governor Serhii Lysak said.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, four people were injured during at least 13 attacks, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.
The escalation comes as Moscow continues to reject a complete ceasefire and intensifies strikes on civilian areas.
The Kyiv Independent
Posted on 5/7/25 at 12:40 pm to John Barron
Posted on 5/7/25 at 12:48 pm to John Barron
Ukraine’s propaganda having an effect on Russia? Say it isn’t so Vlad!
Posted on 5/7/25 at 1:11 pm to John Barron
Posted on 5/7/25 at 1:17 pm to John Barron
JB be nice to the guy, he could be your next ruler.
Posted on 5/7/25 at 1:39 pm to doubleb
New Lines Mag: Russia’s New Weapon: Child ‘Suicide Bombers’
Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, to carry remotely detonated explosives
Just after 2 p.m. on Valentine’s Day this year, a middle-aged woman in a bright red coat walked over to a group of Ukrainian soldiers standing outside a cafe in the city of Mykolaiv. The soldiers, who were just finishing their lunch break, stood in a group, chatting, and clearly didn’t think much of the woman as she placed the bag she was carrying on the ground. Within seconds, the bomb hidden inside the bag was remotely detonated, killing her and three of the Ukrainian soldiers instantly.
As first responders rushed to the scene, a coordinated messaging campaign got underway across Russian media, including the state-controlled Izvestia newspaper. The blast, it was suggested, was the revenge of a distraught mother, driven to murderous insanity by the grief of losing her only son to the war after he was forcibly mobilized by the Ukrainian authorities. The soldiers who were killed, the messaging campaign added, were military recruiters.*
As is the case with most Russian influence operations, nothing stated was true. The killed soldiers didn’t work for any recruitment office; they were all members of Ukraine’s demining corps. The bomber, a 42-year-old mother from the city of Horishni Plavni in Poltava oblast, had left her very-much-alive infant child in a nearby hostel when she left on what became a “suicide bombing” mission. Recruited on the social media platform Telegram, which, despite its Russian ownership, is still ubiquitous in Ukraine, she was not aware of her lethal cargo. Her Russian intelligence contact told her merely that she was to deliver a large amount of money to a certain location. The bomb had been prepared by a group of teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, also from Poltava oblast. They’d built the device under instruction from their Russian handlers and handed it off to its unwitting transporter. Russian intelligence tracked the woman’s arrival at the target site and detonated the package remotely. (The Ukrainian government has not released the names of any of the bombers or victims mentioned in this article.)
Nearly a month later, one early evening in March, two teenagers, one 15 and the other 17, were walking near the railway station in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in a part of western Ukraine largely spared from the daily carnage of war, when the improvised explosives they were carrying detonated. The older of the two was killed instantly; his younger friend was hospitalized with severe injuries. The device they had been carrying, which they’d assembled under the supervision of their Russian handlers, had been constructed with GPS tracking and remote detonation, as was the case with the bomb in Mykolaiv. As the two teenagers walked close to their target, their Russian handlers, who had initially recruited the pair with the prospect of earning “easy money” for simply making and planting the bomb, according to the Ukrainian security services, called in the detonation. The teenagers hadn’t realized they were going to be part of the butcher’s bill.
These attacks were just the latest examples of a tactic increasingly used by Russian intelligence in Ukraine, which is reminiscent of the more grisly actions of militant groups: turning gullible or desperate civilians into human weapons. “It’s al Qaeda and ISIS-level tactics,” said Ed Bogan, a former CIA officer with extensive experience dealing with both Russia and international Islamist groups. “There are no limits to what the Russians will do now.”
“The Russian intelligence services consider such people ‘one-time’ assets and have never been worried about them,” one Ukrainian intelligence officer told New Lines. “Teenagers and young people are easier to recruit for such actions, when you characterize what they’re being asked to do as some sort of game.”
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* our own token Russian PR asset was out front with this, if you remember...
Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, to carry remotely detonated explosives
Just after 2 p.m. on Valentine’s Day this year, a middle-aged woman in a bright red coat walked over to a group of Ukrainian soldiers standing outside a cafe in the city of Mykolaiv. The soldiers, who were just finishing their lunch break, stood in a group, chatting, and clearly didn’t think much of the woman as she placed the bag she was carrying on the ground. Within seconds, the bomb hidden inside the bag was remotely detonated, killing her and three of the Ukrainian soldiers instantly.
As first responders rushed to the scene, a coordinated messaging campaign got underway across Russian media, including the state-controlled Izvestia newspaper. The blast, it was suggested, was the revenge of a distraught mother, driven to murderous insanity by the grief of losing her only son to the war after he was forcibly mobilized by the Ukrainian authorities. The soldiers who were killed, the messaging campaign added, were military recruiters.*
As is the case with most Russian influence operations, nothing stated was true. The killed soldiers didn’t work for any recruitment office; they were all members of Ukraine’s demining corps. The bomber, a 42-year-old mother from the city of Horishni Plavni in Poltava oblast, had left her very-much-alive infant child in a nearby hostel when she left on what became a “suicide bombing” mission. Recruited on the social media platform Telegram, which, despite its Russian ownership, is still ubiquitous in Ukraine, she was not aware of her lethal cargo. Her Russian intelligence contact told her merely that she was to deliver a large amount of money to a certain location. The bomb had been prepared by a group of teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, also from Poltava oblast. They’d built the device under instruction from their Russian handlers and handed it off to its unwitting transporter. Russian intelligence tracked the woman’s arrival at the target site and detonated the package remotely. (The Ukrainian government has not released the names of any of the bombers or victims mentioned in this article.)
Nearly a month later, one early evening in March, two teenagers, one 15 and the other 17, were walking near the railway station in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in a part of western Ukraine largely spared from the daily carnage of war, when the improvised explosives they were carrying detonated. The older of the two was killed instantly; his younger friend was hospitalized with severe injuries. The device they had been carrying, which they’d assembled under the supervision of their Russian handlers, had been constructed with GPS tracking and remote detonation, as was the case with the bomb in Mykolaiv. As the two teenagers walked close to their target, their Russian handlers, who had initially recruited the pair with the prospect of earning “easy money” for simply making and planting the bomb, according to the Ukrainian security services, called in the detonation. The teenagers hadn’t realized they were going to be part of the butcher’s bill.
These attacks were just the latest examples of a tactic increasingly used by Russian intelligence in Ukraine, which is reminiscent of the more grisly actions of militant groups: turning gullible or desperate civilians into human weapons. “It’s al Qaeda and ISIS-level tactics,” said Ed Bogan, a former CIA officer with extensive experience dealing with both Russia and international Islamist groups. “There are no limits to what the Russians will do now.”
“The Russian intelligence services consider such people ‘one-time’ assets and have never been worried about them,” one Ukrainian intelligence officer told New Lines. “Teenagers and young people are easier to recruit for such actions, when you characterize what they’re being asked to do as some sort of game.”
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* our own token Russian PR asset was out front with this, if you remember...
Posted on 5/7/25 at 1:39 pm to John Barron
YAY CHINA! YAY RUSSIA! HERE WE GO IRAN and NORTH KOREA! DOWN WITH AMERICA!
Posted on 5/7/25 at 1:47 pm to Lee B
Russia is wearing down Ukraine a hundred feet at a time. Why resort to these desperate tactics? Maybe because they are not winning fast enough?
Posted on 5/7/25 at 2:08 pm to John Barron
Posted on 5/7/25 at 2:12 pm to John Barron
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