(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Russian blogger fumes about sending soldiers to the front on crutches [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-02 That strike yesterday in Crimea netted big gains — a warehouse full of drones. x On the evening of July 1, 2024, a missile strike targeted a Russian Black Sea Fleet facility near Cape Fiolent, occupied Sevastopol. The strike, using unspecified cruise missiles, destroyed a warehouse containing 90 Shahed-136/Geran-2 UAVs. There is no information on casualties… pic.twitter.com/wxafNB5ZF6 — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 2, 2024 Bavovna x ⚡️Epic detonation of 🇷🇺Russian MT-LB. Crispy invader is seen🔥 pic.twitter.com/T747CjHpEG — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) July 2, 2024 The second house had the ammunition. x FPV drone strikes on houses with Russian ammunition and drone operators. By the 38th Brigade of Ukraine. https://t.co/w2LkM3pksU pic.twitter.com/ndNC2DzfKn — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 2, 2024 Ammo Dump Jesus approves of this message. x Destruction of the Russian 2S19 Msta-S is a 152mm self-propelled howitzer full of ammunition. https://t.co/DsBApOXi5z pic.twitter.com/KPM3fQKo2S — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 2, 2024 Russia continues to relentlessly shell Kherson. x For the entire night and morning, russia shelled Kherson with Grads, killing a 54yo woman and injuring eight others. The attack caused a fire in the Maritime College, completely burning its rooms. Also, private homes, a school, and energy facilities were targeted. 📷 @IvAnt_21 pic.twitter.com/4QQzYMB1dn — Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) July 2, 2024 This is a long thread that talks about the rampant Russian practice of sending wounded soldiers back to the front. This one is different because it is told by a Russian blogger who is outraged at the waste of human life. x 2/ The Russian blogger Anatasia Kashevarova (a former adviser to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and then to the LDPR party) has posted an angry denunciation of the army's treatment of the men of the 26th Tank Regiment, based in Mulino in the Nizhny Novgorod region. — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) July 2, 2024 3/ A recent video shows visibly injured men on crutches pleading to be taken out of the battlefield. According to Kashevarova, they are from the 26th Tank Regiment of the 47th Guards Tank Division. They address their appeal to Putin and the military prosecutor's office. 4/ The men, who number about 50, say that they are wounded, still using crutches and plaster casts, have not been fully treated and have not undergone the required rehabilitation or 45-day medical leave. Nonetheless they are still being sent on combat missions. 5/ They say that field doctors are "shrugging their shoulders" at the situation, which they blame on their commanders. They are currently in the second line but say that they will be sent to the front line in a few days' time. …. 8/ "…they load guys into cars by deceit (assuring them that they are taking them to the command for some documents and leave) and send them to the front. Why? What will they do there? What is this image of turbulent activity? 9/ "What incredible value does a fighter on crutches have on the front line? I understand, maybe not feeling sorry for specific people, but turn on logic, turn on practical considerations: these people on the front line are simply useless! Way down in the thread, there is this assessment: 32/ She suggests that the new leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defence has found itself in a "soap bubble" and does not know what to do about the situation. The underlying cause, she says, is a chronic shortage of manpower, which she blames on the following: 33/ "1. Because at the beginning of the Special Military Operation and for a long time after, the generals and leadership of the Ministry of Defence believed that drones were not serious. And we suffered losses in personnel and equipment. 34/ "2. Because they sent untrained people to the front who could not shoot. Normal commanders tried to save them and they themselves died.3. Because many assaults take place without artillery support. 35/ "And somewhere the artillery strikes at its own people, and the tankers do not take into account the terrain and also hit their own side from the hilltops. Meanwhile, at the front, Russian soldiers are sent across open fields in broad daylight. WARNING: Video shows the results of the stupidity of sending soldiers across an open field. x The 🇺🇦Ukrainian 65th Mechanised Brigade destroys 🇷🇺Russian assault group near Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region. They just send their soldiers to storm the open field...😐👍 pic.twitter.com/c7PGhmttqz — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) July 1, 2024 You invade somebody else’s home, blow up their homes, rape their women, steal their children and you wonder why they slit your throats in the night? You should be afraid the walk the streets, very afraid. “Our soldier was walking alone, then in the morning he was found dead behind the bridge... We had cases when we were forbidden to move alone, even with weapons, because two of our soldiers were killed, their legs were shot and their throats were cut. There was another incident when an unknown person drove up on an ATV and opened fire on us. And there are many such cases...” The invader said that the partisan underground in the occupied territories is working in full swing, because of this, the commanders forbid them to communicate with people, and the occupiers themselves are afraid to walk at night. x Orc tells how Ukrainian partisans are killing his comrades in the occupied territories: “Our soldier was walking alone, then in the morning he was found dead behind the bridge... We had cases when we were forbidden to move alone, even with weapons, because two of our soldiers… pic.twitter.com/mqiiW5sk6J — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) July 2, 2024 What amazes me about videos like this is not the fact that a motor pool is burning, but that everybody just goes about their business. I suppose it becomes the new normal after a while. x Early this morning, Ukrainian forces successfully struck a Russian facility in Kursk housing the 16th Separate Electronic Warfare Brigade and the 3754th Central Aviation Technical Base. A motor pool at the base could be seen heavily burning. pic.twitter.com/5G47Obkczf — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) July 2, 2024 This guy obviously has no more fucks to give. x The man with a tattoo saying “russian warship, go fuck yourself” was arrested in Moscow. Before that, he had already served 3.5 years for throwing a piece of asphalt at a riot policeman. pic.twitter.com/xSwWzv9cEi — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) July 2, 2024 It’s getting so Belgorod isn’t safe for invaders and occupiers. x A Ukrainian FPV struck a Russian Z-car in Bilhorod region. pic.twitter.com/t4NnLd7Bwp — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 2, 2024 x Russians from Belgorod region are crying that they and their children can’t live normally because of the constant shelling. That’s why they ask their Czar to destroy Sumy and Kharkiv regions so the front line will be further from THEIR district. They still support the war. pic.twitter.com/jyK5mGBx4x — Victoria (@victoriaslog) July 1, 2024 x Drone attack has caused blackout in Belgorod, with Voronezh and Kursk facing power outages as well. Looks like this game has two players now. pic.twitter.com/tADitmdez2 — Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) July 1, 2024 The Ukrainian air base at Myrhorod was hit by Russia with Iskander-M missiles using cluster munitions. Seven planes were reported either destroyed or damaged. Ukraine doesn’t have enough planes that it can afford to lose many. This is the kind of incompetence you normally see at a Russian base. Someone needs to be dismissed over this. The air base, which is northwest of Poltava in east central Ukraine, has an interesting history. It was used by the American Army Air Forces in 1944 as a bomber base. x This is just stupid 🇷🇺Russian Forces, using a Cluster Missile and a Iskander-M SRBM, managed to destroyed 2x UkrAF SU-27/(UB?), and damage 4 other SU-27s, which were all parked in the open at Mirgorod Airbase I have no words, whoever is in charge of the base, needs to get fired pic.twitter.com/pvZRRqdbyV — 🇵🇱WarVehicleTracker🇵🇱 (@WarVehicle) July 1, 2024 x There must be responsibility for chronically allowing such things to happen to Ukraine's air force. Systemic negligence may get us all six feet under in this war. pic.twitter.com/MBp1kIzKQQ — Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) July 1, 2024 x buy some fucking circus tents, I don't care. put the planes under something. At what point will basic logic take over from the soviet brain rot. — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) July 2, 2024 Hopefully better care will be taken to protect the F-16s. x 🇳🇱🫂🇺🇦 Export documents signed! Two dozen F-16s will be underway to Ukraine, says Dutch Minister of Defense Ollongren. They can be used everywhere, including Russian territory 🫡 pic.twitter.com/AQPxd8Omyu — Intermarium 24 (@intermarium24) July 2, 2024 Vilnius in Lithuania is such a beautiful old city, but Russia wouldn’t hesitate to turn it into Bakhmut. x The mayor of Vilnius presented a plan for the capital's defense in case of an attack Among the measures: equipping the city with the necessary number of bomb shelters, installing additional air raid sirens, purchasing anti-tank hedgehogs and concrete "dragon's teeth". Special… pic.twitter.com/cUZDcgoje4 — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 2, 2024 So what shall we call this Frankengun? x Before you is the resource base of a “great superpower” and competent planning of a short-term “military operation”. The Russian occupiers, in the absence of alternatives, have an urgent need for various kinds of improvisations in order to continue their suicidal, senseless… pic.twitter.com/We0CJVaNew — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) July 2, 2024 You’d almost get the idea that some deity has it in for Russia. x Karma in action. ⚡There is a mini-apocalypse in St. Petersburg. A powerful storm destroys everything in its path A construction crane fell epically. Strong winds tore off roofs, kicked up clouds of dust and uprooted trees. St. Peter is the “sister city” of occupied Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/Da7H8Iz8yL — 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐎𝐌𝐒𝐀 | 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇵🇱🇺🇦 (@tweet4Anna_NAFO) July 1, 2024 Viktor Orban visited Kyiv for the first time since 2012. Hungary has the presidency of the EU at the moment so this was a necessary trip for Orban. x Orban arrived to Kyiv to tell Zelenskyy that Ukraine's ceasefire is a necessary step for faster negotiations. Instead of, you know, calling russia to get the hell out of our country and stop killing us. This world is twisted, I can't anymore. pic.twitter.com/yjS2hvrwgf — Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) July 2, 2024 The BTR-70 was first produced in the 60s and production was halted in 1984. Compared to the earlier BTR-60PB, relatively small numbers of BTR-70s were produced. The design was still regarded as suffering from some of the same disadvantages, such as the two flammable petrol engines and the poor means of entry and exit. These flaws became especially evident when the vehicle was tested in combat during the Soviet-Afghan War. x from reports the BTR 70 APC (death trap) is being pulled from storage and getting ready to be used in combat on the russian side to replace BMPs. pic.twitter.com/miwC6QNkbO — david D. (@secretsqrl123) July 1, 2024 The scars of war take a long time to heal. x Bastogne today. The foxholes are still there. pic.twitter.com/rSypt6jqbj — Voices of WW2 (@VoicesofWW2) July 1, 2024 Rest in peace. x 2/ "On June 14, he went to storm the company stronghold, which, unfortunately, failed. On the 15th, he and his comrades were sent to storm this ROP again. He promised to write back the next day, but on June 16 he was gone," says Mykhailo. Rest in peace, hero 🇺🇦🕯️ Photos:… pic.twitter.com/I0A467dRcc — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) July 2, 2024 This is the congresswoman who is a native of Ukraine but voted against military aid to Ukraine. x U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R) has been charged with a weapons violation at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/dkPNoET6P9 — Molly Ploofkins™ (@Mollyploofkins) July 1, 2024 Life goes on. 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