Yet Another Attack on Ukraine
Yet Another Attack on Ukraine
👀 Photo of the day: In Sevastopol, a long-awaited fuel tanker passes a mobile gas turbine power plant covered with anti-drone nets.
“SVO”… Results 😅
Russia is attacking Ukraine, not strategic targets, not military targets, but civilians. This is betraying Russia's weakness in ways that are increasingly obvious. And overnight, before we cover some of these targets, I want to share a curious post from Maks with you. And will share how OSINT is done, because a lot of people will miss this:
There is a new mini-record for queues at local gas stations in Crimea, they are now counted not by the number of cars, but by kilometers, in the video the queue reaches 3 km.
👀 Fuel tankers queue for a ferry to deliver fuel to Crimea.
Crimea is under a siege that is getting deeper. It is not just the M-24 highway from Donetsk all the way to the supply route from Kuban. But what got my attention is the feel of tankers and ferries. There are two conclusions that can be drawn from this post, and neither is good for Russia. The first is that Russia has reestablished Ferry service from the Kuban to Crimea. The second is that the Kerch bridge has suffered substantial damage to the point that these fuel trucks may cause further damage. So now they are doing the only thing they can: risking more ferries and using them to fuel up the peninsula.
Shortages are very serious, to the point that only emergency vehicles will get fuel, or it is being tightly rationed. If you are Russia, this is not good, and Crimea is losing its utility for Russia. The cost of keeping her is getting far larger than letting her go.
This brings me to this noise in the Z-Blogosphere:
Soon, it will not be Ukraine, but Putin, who will be dreaming of peace along the 1991 borders – because things could get worse, Daniil Tulenkov, who fought in Ukraine as part of the “Storm Z” formation, delights Russian turbopatriots with an optimistic forecast.
And this is what we are starting to see more and more, though a mobilization may be coming because Putin is desperate for a victory here. And at this point, Ukrainian leaders are also ready for this:
A forceful return to the 1991 borders is possible, — Chmut
The head of “Come Back Alive” foundation said that the outcome of the war depends on several key factors: the effectiveness of the Russian army, the level of international support for Ukraine, and the global security situation.
💬At the level of agreements — no. At the level of a forceful resolution of the conflict — yes, because even now it looks possible.💬
He emphasized that maintaining the support of European partners and partly the United States is critical for Ukraine, while global crises can significantly affect the course of the war.
Separately, Chmut mentioned the factor of the nuclear threat, which, according to him, remains one of the key risks, but has not yet been used by Russia.
So this is the stuff that is starting to circulate. And this points to more ice breaking in this ice flow. Yes, there is a chance that Russia may completely lose its mind and use a nuke or two. In their doctrine, it is something to be done if the country is threatened. And you could make that argument at this point, because their oil infrastructure is pretty much under deep pressure. And this is part of that desperation to take that land:
Russian generals launched a record number of “meat storms” against the army after promising Putin to capture Donbass by the fall
Russian General Staff generals sharply increased assault attacks on Ukrainian positions to fulfill President Vladimir Putin’s demand that the military fully capture Donbass.
In May, Russian troops carried out about 7 thousand assaults - 37.5% more than a month earlier, calculated the Ukrainian OSINT project Deep State. Compared to the end of 2025, the number of assault actions increased by a quarter and set a record for all time statistics.
On average, generals sent the army to assault Ukrainian positions 225 times a day, compared to 180-190 times at the end of last year, according to DeepState’s calculations.
The Russian military leadership is in a hurry: according to sources of the Financial Times, the General Staff convinced Putin that Donbass would be fully captured by the fall. “They tell him that the Ukrainians are running out of steam, the front is collapsing, and they are running out of people,” said one of the sources of the publication, close to the Kremlin.
Despite the “meat storms”, May became the worst month for the Russian army since 2023, writes DeepState and confirms experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). According to their calculations, the Russian army has been losing territory for the second month in a row, rather than capturing it, and has lost 281.1 square kilometers. In April, territorial losses amounted to 116 square kilometers, and since then their pace has increased by 2.4 times.
So now that you see some of what is happening, let me show you what happened overnight, and start with the photos of the military targets Russia hit, which we otherwise call civilian housing:
Zelensky: The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were again damaged. Unfortunately, four people are known to have died. 38 people are in hospitals.
A search and rescue operation is underway in Dnipro at the site of a four-story apartment building. Part of the building was actually simply demolished. Nine people were killed in this attack, including a child. Thirty-five people were injured in the city. The fate of six more people is unknown.
The Russians also struck at the energy sector in the Kharkiv region and critical infrastructure in Kharkiv. Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions were also hit.
