(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Reports say Ukraine hit Russia's S-500 air defense system [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-28 There are reports (but no video yet) that Ukraine took out Russia’s shiny new S-500 air defense system that it only recently moved to Crimea. It is not confirmed yet, but the reports say it was an ATACMS cluster warhead that did the deed on this $600 million system x The Armed Forces destroyed the new S-500 air defense system of the russian Armed Forces, — mass media The approximate price is $600 million. We are waiting for official confirmation. pic.twitter.com/2cVJSLrqpd — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) June 28, 2024 Ukraine brought down another Su-25. x Russia has lost more than 30 military aircraft since the beginning of the year. Specifically, the aircraft struck include: 🛩 nine Su-25s; 🛩 one Su-57; 🛩 two MiG-31s; 🛩 about 13 Su-34s; 🛩 one Su-35; 🛩 one Su-35S; 🛩 two A-50 aircraft; 🛩 one Il-22M11; 🛩 one Tu-22M3.… https://t.co/Emo4dkpOjN pic.twitter.com/3D3Kg3UIwM — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 28, 2024 The risks of using flammable camo. x One grenade is enough to destroy the Russian position Work from the 30th brigade pic.twitter.com/TS3wJIUmGl — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) June 27, 2024 I’ve seen this movie before. Russia will now want to remove the flag and will blow up their own tower to do so. x 🇺🇦Ukrainian paratroopers installed the flag of Ukraine in one of the settlements of the Russian Federation "Soldiers of the 71st separate hunting brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of a drone installed the State Flag of Ukraine in one of the populated areas of… pic.twitter.com/ngf4vrfmOT — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) June 28, 2024 Summer is here. Time for those F-16s. x Denmark has successfully completed training 50 Ukrainian Air Force ground crew on the F-16, and will begin training the next batch of 50 after the summer break. The first batch of Ukrainian pilots will be ready for combat this summer as well, per head of the RDAF, Gen. Jan Dam pic.twitter.com/XZUD5TATWB — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 27, 2024 Russia killed at least one person in its attack on Dnipro today. Ukraine pounds the plant in Vovchansk where Russian soldiers are supposed to be cut off. The music BTW is not Wagner. x This is revenge for Azovstal plant. Grinding the remains of the elite 83rd orc Airborne Brigade at the Vovchansk factory with beautiful Wagner music in the background. Це вам за Азовсталь. Перемелювання під чудову музику Вагнера залишків елітної 83-ї повітряно-десантної бригади… pic.twitter.com/bMuLZBiFLP — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) June 28, 2024 Cholera and typhoid have become a problem for Russian soldiers who have been drinking river water near Kherson. x ‼️Russian soldiers reporting that cholera has begun to spread in the combat zone in the Kherson region because there's not enough bottled water for them to drink. 😁 TG channel “Two Majors” published the following letter from one of their subscribers: “I wish you good health,… pic.twitter.com/ZZMcuOGOrO — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) June 28, 2024 We were told that typhoid and cholera were already causing [a number of] deaths, and the number of diseases was growing. To understand the situation with water: for one soldier there are 12 1.5 litter bottles for a maximum of two weeks, due to which those who carry out assigned tasks along the banks of the Dnieper or go to the islands as part of the RG, do not have enough water at all, and have to drink from the river and filter the water through fabric, to take water from abandoned wells, which is why this situation arose. On the islands in the summer, if you work deep in the floodplains, you drink two or three times more water than usual: it’s like in the jungle, and there’s no way to get clean water there to boil, because it’s far from the river bed. Russia can’t sustain the war it is already in, but now a chief propagandist thinks they should send troops to Bolivia. No problem. If Russia sends troops, we’ll send Butch and Sundance. x 🇧🇴 Margarita Simonyan wants to send Russian troops to Bolivia: “This time the lithium revolution in Bolivia was stopped. But there will be more attempts. In this regard, why don’t we send polite people* to protect Bolivian democracy and at the same time the world’s reserves of… pic.twitter.com/3UN1LT0uwQ — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) June 28, 2024 Well, it’s cheaper than air defense. x 🤪😂🤣 All is going according to plan! News from Mordor: “Residents of the border areas of the Belgorod region will be given almost 5,000 fire extinguishers to extinguish fires after attacks by Ukrainian drones, Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said in his telegram… pic.twitter.com/jZBQ6MpyIQ — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) June 28, 2024 Good luck getting them back. x Sri Lanka demands compensation from Russia for citizens killed in the war in Ukraine Sri Lanka is seeking compensation for the deaths of 17 citizens in the conflict. Additionally, Sri Lanka is calling for the early termination of contracts and the resolution of financial… pic.twitter.com/kzV6Y5URaq — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 28, 2024 He seems nice. x In the Russian city of Volgograd, Alexei Zharikov, a "hero of the military operation" who returned from the war, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for beating his grandmother to death with a wooden chair. Earlier, the pensioner had complained that her grandson abused her and… pic.twitter.com/kYwbowSjgd — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 28, 2024 I don’t know why you would advertise something like this unless you are trying to goad Russia into moving it. x ⚡️Ukrainian partisans claim they located air defense system protecting Putin's dacha in Sochi. Ukrainian partisans claimed that they had located an air defense system covering the skies above Russian President Vladimir Putin's luxury dacha in Sochi.https://t.co/RFSKazbSyT — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 28, 2024 Russia deploys its HIADG — Holy Icon Anti-Drone Gadget x Due to the high cost of real stuff, the Russian command is encouraging ChMobiks to construct their own HIADG's to protect themselves from AFU FPV drones. They include instructions which read in part, "You can utilize whatever materials are available to you to build your HIADG.… pic.twitter.com/fEUoclpFSW — OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) June 28, 2024 They’re back in the USSR You don’t know how lucky you are boy The removals impacted the band Lyube and singers Grigory Leps, Oleg Gazmanov, and Shaman, who sang at a concert in Moscow in September 2022 in support of the illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory. The aforementioned artists have been sanctioned for their support of Russia's full-scale invasion. At the same time, Shaman and other artists are still available on other Western music platforms such as YouTube and Apple Music. In the immediate aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion, Spotify closed its office in Russia and ended the availability of its streaming services in the country. x ⚡Spotify removes music by pro-war Russian singers. Spotify has removed the music and profiles of several well-known pro-war Russian singers. https://t.co/uBMf3CGgkf — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 28, 2024 Respect. x In Latvia, instructors and military paid tribute to Ukrainian defenders from training, Video: _zapad_/tiktok pic.twitter.com/wSgnrkxy0K — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) June 26, 2024 Kitty needed a rescue. x Residents of Tbilisi rescued a kitten from a drainpipe It is unknown how exactly the pet ended up in the pipe. After the rescue, the kitten was fed, washed and, of course, petted. pic.twitter.com/4WSlGVMkmc — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 28, 2024 Ukraine unveils its new unmanned squirrel. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/28/2249326/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Reports-say-Ukraine-hit-Russia-s-S-500-air-defense-system?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/