Ukraine went after bases in Chechnya belonging to the Akhmat unit that has been fighting alongside the Russians.
A Russian soldier shows why this area of Novotoretsk is called the Valley of Death. He videos a meat assault past the bodies of numerous Russians who went before him and didn’t make it.
WARNING: Video shows bodies
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Novotoretsk "Valley of Death."
Footage from the perspective of a Russian soldier from the 336th Marine Brigade of the Russian AF. In just two minutes, over a short distance, the Russian soldier’s camera captures dozens of the bodies of his comrades, who were sent into the attack ahead of him.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
A Russian rocket launcher is destroyed and the explosion is large enough to also take out the drone that bombed it.
“Everything’s burned to shit.”
Too bad. So sad.
Ukraine takes down a Lancet.
Russians murdered five more Ukrainian POWs.
The ethnic minorities do the fighting and the oligarchs do the profiteering.
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"Half of the regiment is gone. We’ve got four companies, and two of them are already gone." - A T-72B tank driver-mechanic named Salbon, serving in the 5th Tank Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, is now at home undergoing rehabilitation after being wounded.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Then, according to him, Putin’s relatives wiped out this source of income by cutting off access to the Tugnuysky coal mine.
He claims that the mine is now controlled by "the president’s son-in-law", the coal is being shipped to China - Russia’s new masters - and Buryatia remains one of the poorest regions in the country.
Putin: I’ll put it in writing. Trust me.
Putin tries to make a joke about Witkoff but channels Trump and forgets.
You knew they were going to blame Ukraine and/or the Europeans.
I guess you can say that Putin crossed the Rubiocon.
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The so-called peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will fail. It is inevitable. Putin‘s objective - the destruction of Ukraine (and the USA) - will never stop for as long he draws breath. He crossed the point of no return a long time ago.
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— (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who is Vance’s old friend, is trying to scare Europeans into agreeing to a peace plan by telling them the Russians are preparing for a big attack. This tactic isn’t new, but it often works. Anyone remember the WMDs in Iraq?
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#Driscoll tried to scare Europeans with Russian missiles while pushing his #Ukraine “peace plan” - NYT
Driscoll was actively frightening EU diplomats with warnings about RUS missiles and devastating strike while promoting his “peace plan” for Ukraine...
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— julibluesky (@julibluesky.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“It’s pure carnage.”
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1/ While Russia is making incremental advances in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian soldiers say that it's resulting in carnage among their units. Conditions at Stepnohirsk are said to be dire, with entire battalions virtually wiped out. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
2/ Russian soldiers fighting at Stepnohirsk on the road to Zaporizhzhia city have told the 'Brothers in Arms' Telegram channel that "the situation there is, to put it mildly, dire."
3/ "The battalion has been practically wiped out. Only company and platoon commanders, sergeants majors, and clerks remain. The rest are reinforcements who arrive, complete the training ground, and immediately go on to storm Stepnohirsk."
4/ "10-12 men arrive, 3-5 survive" – that's the arithmetic. It's pure carnage.
It's reached the point where gunners are being transferred from combat vehicles to the infantry. When vehicles are left without crews, it speaks volumes about how bad things are for the people.
5/ "Even a sergeant major went to evacuate the 200 [dead] troops from Kamianske. Do you understand the scale of it? The mud is knee-deep, you just get stuck, it's faster to walk.
6/ "The trees are bare, there's nowhere to hide, and the drones see everything in plain sight. Moving forward is becoming a lottery: either the birds spot you, or you get stuck in the mud so bad they can't evacuate you.
7/ "But the guys say, "We're working. We're holding on. What can we do?" This is our reality. We're just holding on. The question is, for how long..." /end
He isn’t wrong.
Sounds like a good idea.
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LSM reports that Latvia plans to dismantle the railway tracks leading to Russia. This measure is being considered as one of the options for strengthening national defense and security amid the tense situation on the eastern border.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Russia continues to expand its influence in West Africa.
Togo is a thin strip of a country sandwiched between Ghana and Benin. The former French colony is only about 115 km (71 miles) wide.
Bosnia, which isn’t even a NATO member, isn’t taking any crap from Hungary.
Defence Minister Zukan Helez announced the decision himself in a post on Facebook.
The politician explained his decision by saying that Hungary had not provided an adequate justification for the head of its foreign ministry’s arrival on a military aircraft.
“I refused to grant permission for the Hungarian military plane to land at Banja Luka Airport, on which Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was supposed to arrive,” Helez stated.
He also emphasized that for many years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Minister Szijjártó have openly supported the former president of the administrative entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Republika Srpska), Milorad Dodik, in actions that undermine the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and unity.
According to media reports, Szijjártó, who was in Belgrade on Wednesday for talks, was scheduled to arrive in Banja Luka on Thursday to receive an honorary doctorate from the local university.
Russia put eight people on trial for the truck bombing that heavily damaged the Kerch Bridge and has given all of them life in prison.
The accused - a mix of farmers, small business owners, a truck driver, a logistics worker and a man renting out SIM cards - were charged with terrorism and illegal handling of explosives, with two also accused of smuggling.
According to 'investigators', they were part of a group allegedly organised by Ukraine’s SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk, though the defence argued they were simply random people caught up in the case with no evidence they knew the truck contained explosives.
The SBU itself has previously said the men were used “in the dark” during the Ukrainian operation. Several key figures behind the shipment were never identified or detained.
Is there anything that you can’t do with duct tape?
Update from Ternopil.
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This is Adriana, she was only 12-year-old. She died in hospital today. The girl was wounded on November 19, when Russia struck residential buildings in Ternopil with missiles. That same attack killed her mother🕯
This brings death tall in russian attack on Ternopil to 35.
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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Update from Pokrovsk.
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💔 All that remains of the Pokrovsk mine administration.
Before Russia's arrival, thousands of people worked here.
Considering that Russia has no need for the mines, its own industry is in crisis, and there's nowhere to put the coal, it's clear no one will restore it. They'll flood it and abandon.
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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
May they rest in peace.
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"Volunteer service informed me that my house had been destroyed. And everyone who was in it had died."
The family of Ukrainian Defender of the 25th Assault Battalion, callsign "Batareika," who lived in Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region, was killed by a Russian missile strike on their house.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The hounds — and kitty — of war.
Dad’s home.
