‘They were mowing people down, as if … they were … cutting the grass’

Russia sending out death notices even before the soldiers are dead. That’s some stone cold shit.

This saga starts out the usual way — a soldier makes a video about how he and others were tricked into signing up to be logistics drivers and ended up being assigned to supply fresh meat for the grinder.

NOTE: I put the quote below in bold type.

7/ A few days later he was sent into the battle of Krasnohorivka, in which he was one of the few survivors of a failed assault involving 46 Russian vehicles that were mostly disabled or destroyed by the Ukrainians.

8/ “[O]n 12 September 2024, they took us out, put us in an infantry fighting vehicle, woke us up at one in the morning, put us in bulletproof vests, took our documents, took our phones, put us in the IFV, and sent us off.

9/ “We were driving toward Krasnohorivka, past Krasnohorivka about a kilometer [further]. Between the 10 vehicles, two got away. The rest of us, 120 people, they killed us all. [Our two vehicles] returned.”

10/ “The four of us got out. We walked for six days through minefields. Behind Ukrainian lines, they hit us with cluster munitions, they shot at us from dugouts, from every crevice they could. But we got away. Before reaching Krasnohorivka, we ran into our own outpost…

11/ “We gave them our call signs and told them everything that had happened. To which they replied, “We’re bringing you ammunition, you understand, extra ammo, grenades, we’re sending you four cans of stew, a loaf of bread.”

12/ “And they send us back. They say we’re sending you back because you didn’t complete the task, since we never got there, we were destroyed by drones. It was pure hell there. They mowed us down, I don’t know, they didn’t even let us raise our heads.”

13/ Two of the survivors had crippling injuries and had to be left behind by the two remaining able-bodied survivors, one of whom was the soldier in the video.The man was subsequently sent to fight in the Pokrovsk area, which he says is even worse.

14/ “People shouldn’t see this, shouldn’t hear this. It was just brutal. They were mowing people down, as if, I don’t know, they were walking across a field and just cutting the grass. There are still corpses lying on the roads there, with tanks running over them.

15/ “There are torn bodies, charred bodies. No one is taking them away. Don’t believe those who say they are missing in action. That’s not true, that’s all. They are lying there in the fields because no one is bothering to remove them.

Russia concentrated attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, including the substations that supply two nuclear power plants.

This is a horrific view from a Russian drone of FAB-500 bombs striking an apartment building.

Ukraine delivered strikes on the Voronezh and Taganrog power plants in Russia.

The shutdown has halted weapons sales intended for Ukraine.

Update from Pokrovsk:

If this was basketball, this would be called an air ball.

An owl takes out a Russian Mavic drone.

Another 979 Russian who chose poorly, plus five tanks.

A pair of lieutenant colonels who won’t be missed by humanity.

Russian Roulette — updated for 2025.

“A resident of Turinskaya Sloboda came to visit friends. During a drinking party, the idea of ​​playing “Rock, Paper, Scissors” arose. The rules stipulated that the winner had the right to decide the fate of the losers, including pledging to kill another person.”

Loser got stabbed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Let’s check in on the Russian economy.

Delayed wages are often the first symptom of a liquidity crisis and one that no amount of propaganda about “record output” can disguise for long. Even plants that produce components for missile systems, armor, and reactor infrastructure are delaying payments or planning layoffs.2/3

Russia does colonialism like it’s still the 19th century.

Why would these women in Malawi sign up? Malawi faces a huge hunger crisis in a country where 75% live below the World Bank poverty line. Malawi also has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates.

Lockheed Martin could double production again and still sell them all.

Russia seems to think it will get more TOS bang for the buck by using the warheads in drones.

The attached article doesn’t explain the technical problems with the tanks.

Flamingos fly farther and have bigger warheads, but Tomahawks elude air defense better.

Norway steps up.

The water shortage in Donetsk hasn’t gotten any better.

Kharkiv residents are also having to find water after recent Russian assaults on infrastructure.

There has been a Sergey Spotting. He has emerged from whatever hole he had crawled into to say that Russia will continue to commit war crimes in Ukraine.

He didn’t use those words, but when you plug his statements into a translation device that filters out bullshit, that’s what you get.

He’s only 2, but he already knows the drill.

The Kramatorsk railroad station has been the site of many farewells and reunions.