Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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'They’re always moving forward' — Russian troops overrun Kupiansk

By Francis Farrell | October 28, 2025 6:08 PM

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-troops-back-in-central-kupiansk-kh
arkiv-oblasts-once-liberated-city/

"Artillery ammunition is not cheap, and it can be a waste on two or three people," he said, "so we decided not to spend money on ammunition as much, so that we would have more of it and could use it more effectively."

"In cases like this, the reconnaissance group detects the enemy's movements, and the bombers destroy the enemy for pennies."

The decision has paid off: since forming, the group has killed over 530 Russian soldiers, with more wounded, according to the commander.

Hearing the propellers of his hunter above, the soldier runs for the bushes, where the falling autumn leaves are providing less cover with every passing week.

The Russian infantryman continues scrambling through the bushes: a fatal mistake when the pilot is scanning for any sign of movement in the scratchy camera feed.

After a patient pursuit of a few minutes, the pilot locks onto his target, the payload is dropped, and the Russian soldier's journey to Kupiansk is cut short for good.

"He had his fill of apples," Mazhor said laconically as the camera zooms out and the drone returns for a battery change. One more is added to the tally that day.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 9:10 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:

Agreed SECOND, agreed.

I wonder if Second is aware that you insulted him and called me "as bad as Second" when trying to manipulate Sigs in the other thread tonight?

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62424&mid=1
232486#1232486

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It's Jack, being Jack, as Jack has made himself: a second SECOND. A self-justified pumped-up hater, laser focused on attacking people who merely disagree.

That's both sad and funny. All SECOND has to do is go to the garden thread and he'll see what you claim is a lie. You are quoting kiki talking about you and comparing you to SECOND. And your link brings him right to that exact post.

Jack, you are a pussy and liar. Point to the guy who has a boyfriend and takes it up the ass Gilligan. Yup, we all know that.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:51 PM

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Originally posted by THG:

Jack, you are a pussy and liar. Point to the guy who has a boyfriend and takes it up the ass Gilligan. Yup, we all know that.

T

6ixStringJack isn't exceptional for a semi-human. All the Trumptards I know, thousands of them, have similarly flawed minds. You can tell they are not human, but neither are Trump nor Putin.

Did you know that Putin is, once again, threatening to nuke the West because it is preventing him from raping the Ukrainians to death? Here is today's story showing how absolutely evil Putin is:

Russia Claims Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo ‘Can Disable Entire States’

By Amanda Castro | Oct 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-tests-poseidon-nuclear-torpedo-putin-1
0957717

6ix is #RootinForPutin, letting everyone know he is evil.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:29 PM

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Putin's "invincible weapon" threats are an attempt at psychological pressure on the West

By Kateryna Tyshchenko | 29 October, 17:40

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/10/29/8004988/

The Centre for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) has assessed statements by Russian leader Vladimir Putin about testing the nuclear-powered submarine complex Poseidon and the Burevestnik missile as an attempt to exert psychological pressure on the West.

Source: Centre for Countering Disinformation
https://cpd.gov.ua/international-direction/yevropa/putin-vkotre-namaga
yetsya-zalyakaty-svit-analogovnyetnoyu-zbroyeyu/

Details: The CCD drew attention to the fact that Putin's claims about new "state-of-the-art" weapons emerged immediately after the United States introduced new sanctions against Russia's Rosneft and Lukoil companies.

Quote: "Putin's scare stories about his 'invincible' weapons are an attempt to put psychological pressure on the West. Moscow is trying to intimidate Ukraine's allies, particularly the US, to slow down military assistance and force the world to accept conditions for ending the war that favour Russia.

The sanctions have cornered Putin to such an extent that he's now recalling every Soviet and Russian missile, trying to frighten the world with nuclear weapons that Russia still wouldn't be able to use."

Details: The CCD emphasised that the Kremlin's threats are a reaction to growing isolation, economic pressure, and fear of the inevitable consequences of its own aggression.

Previously: On 29 October, Putin boasted to Russian forces that Russia had conducted tests of the Poseidon underwater complex, allegedly equipped with a nuclear power unit and supposedly impossible to intercept, claiming it has "no analogues in the world".

Background:

On 26 October, Putin held a meeting with Chief of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov on tests of the Burevestnik cruise missile with a nuclear power unit. He claimed the tests "once again confirmed the reliability of Russia's nuclear shield" and said that the Burevestnik is a "unique weapon that no one else in the world has".

Putin's statement on missile testing came as US President Donald Trump announced sanctions against Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil. The US president also cancelled a planned meeting with Putin in Budapest.

On 23 October, the European Union approved its 19th package of sanctions against Russia.

Back in 2022, Putin had ordered that Sarmat intercontinental missiles be put on combat duty, though media outlets reported five failed launches.

Just weeks before the US presidential election, Putin amended Russia's nuclear doctrine in an attempt to intimidate the West amid discussions of authorising long-range strikes on Russian territory.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:32 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Just a reminder that THGR hasn't even watched my video, much less respond to it.

THGR, here's your chance to redeem yourself: Further update on what's really happening on the front line:

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Originally posted by THG:
They've gone nowhere. They were supposed to win the war within a week.

SIGNY:
Says who?
Not the Russians.

Do you know what the Russians want?
No, of course not, so here goes...

THGR:
Let me repeat my irrelevant points that you already responded to, SIGNY. Follow the link I provided that shows all Russia's progress since 2014. It's a video that shows the front lines shifting around. After 2022 you'll see very little advancement by the Russians. They've even lost some territory as they go back and forth with the Ukrainians.

Now, I deleted the rest of your post because the agreement was, I would respond to your video. I did that.

SIGNY:
No, you did not. You haven't even watched it.
If you had, you would have addressed and tried to refute its specific points, instead of posting a garbage piece that's wrong from start to finish.

Your word is shit, just like your formatting.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 4:42 PM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Just a reminder that THGR hasn't even watched my video, much less respond to it.

I watched it. Lying is what you do. Now, one of my sources in Russia is talking not just about blackouts, but the Russian population asking for packages of bread with only two to four slices. What are your sources saying? too funny...

tick tock comrade

T

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 8:13 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just a reminder that THGR hasn't even watched my video, much less respond to it.

THGR:
I watched it. Lying is what you do.

Yeah.
Drone videos from both sides lie.

You're an idiot.

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Now, one of my sources in Russia

He's not in Russia, you doofus.
I even linked his goodbye meal at a Russian McDonald's from three years ago.

When you get me actual evidence ... not just some jowly guy with a thick Russian accent blabbing about secondhand stuff, I'll watch. Videos from Russia would be nice.

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T: STOP USING MY GIF!
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 8:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

You two fags still fighting the good fight?

You're the only two people in the whole fucking world who care about Ukraine.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:08 AM

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Short Of Infantry But With Plenty Of Drones, Ukraine Now Fights Better On Open Ground

By David Axe | Oct 29, 2025

https://www.trenchart.us/p/short-of-infantry-but-with-plenty

Drones make cities harder to defend. Drones make open terrain easier to defend.

This new tactical truism is reshaping the battlefield as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds through its 45th month.

“Cities were once the main point of Ukrainian defensive strategy,” French analyst Clément Molin explained. Think Kyiv. Bakhmut. Avdiivka. One of which held. Two of which ultimately fell after long, bloody sieges.

For nearly four years of wider war, the Ukrainians’ impulse has been to fortify the big cities—and hold them for as long as possible. That impulse may no longer be the right one.

Why? Because Russia makes up for certain technological shortfalls by deploying a lot of infantry. Ukraine makes up for a lack of manpower by deploying a lot of drones.

“The overwhelming number of Russian soldiers and the possibility to hide easily from drones inside cities” make a drone-based urban defense “more difficult,” Molin wrote.

Put simply: the Ukrainians’ main assets now work best on open terrain; the Russians’ main assets now work best in built-up areas.

“Paradoxically,” Molin wrote, “it has become easier to defend fields or villages than large cities: fewer soldiers are needed, the Russian infantry is quickly spotted and the increasingly numerous obstacles (ditches, barbed wire) sometimes prevent progress.”

Consider Pokrovsk, the ruined mining city that, for a year, has a been the locus of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. Short thousands of troops, mostly owing to desertion, Ukrainian brigades in Pokrovsk have struggled to maintain a continuous defensive line around the city’s southern edge.

There are just too many approaches to the city along which, with luck and persistence, Russian infantry can slip past Ukrainian drones and widely scattered infantry fighting positions that themselves mostly function as forward observation posts for the drone teams in the rear.

Once the Russians are in the built-up areas, they’re much safer from overhead surveillance and attack. “Russian soldiers often hide for weeks in abandoned houses, basements or high-rise buildings, waiting to go out and engage in street fighting,” Molin noted.

At that point, the Ukrainians must deploy infantry to root out the infiltrators. But the Russians outnumber the Ukrainians four or five to one in and around Pokrovsk. There are too many Russians and too few Ukrainians to prevent every Russian infiltration from becoming a lodgement.

After months of close fighting in Pokrovsk, the situation “is getting catastrophic,” Molin stressed, “since there is a large lack of infantry to track those groups and destroy them.”

Pokrovsk isn’t really a fortress in the conventional sense. Rather, it’s a zone of contested control that, for most of this year, favored the Ukrainians. “New Russian tactics”—the aforementioned infiltration—“gives good coverage but little solid control,” analyst Vitaly explained.

But Russia’s relative abundance of manpower means Russian regiments can keep sending troops into the city. Many die on the way. Others die downtown. But a few survive … and more follow.

Worse for the Ukrainians, the Russians endeavor to surround and cut off the biggest cities at the same time they’re infiltrating them. Early in a campaign, “Russian forces do not attempt to capture urban positions of Ukrainian forces,” analyst Playfra wrote. “Rather, they bypass them and get into their rear, staying there as long as possible and cutting and sabotaging supplies.”

“This eventually makes a frontal assault”—again, “infiltration” is the more accurate term—“possible and much easier than movement around the city through the fields,” Playfra added.

Encirclement and infiltration work together to slowly increase the pressure on the Ukrainian defenders of Pokrovsk or some other city. Eventually, a city becomes indefensible as Russian infiltrators accumulate and resupply becomes harder for the outnumbered Ukrainians.

By contrast, Ukrainian brigades excel at defense on open terrain, where even greatly outnumbered Ukrainian troops can deploy mines, artillery and drones to defeat large forces of Russian infantry or vehicles moving across miles of open ground.

It’s telling that the Russians have succeeded in infiltrating Pokrovsk from the south, but they’ve largely failed to defeat Ukrainian forces holding key villages north of the city—despite the Russians dropping hundreds of glide-bombs and deploying hundreds of carefully stockpiled tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

“Fields … are easily controlled by Ukrainian drone operators, which can create kill zones where Russian advancement is virtually impossible and remains such for large amounts of time,” Playfra wrote.

As a Ukrainian retreat from Pokrovsk and other largely ruined front-line cities—Myrnohrod, Kostiantynivka and Kupiansk—becomes more likely, we may see a new defensive strategy. One where Ukrainian brigades look for wide open spaces Russian regiments must cross …

And transform those spaces into drone kill zones.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:11 AM

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Russia threatens to nuke the West

Russian State Duma Defense Committee Deputy Chairperson Alexei Zhuravlyov said on October 29 that Russia can deliver nuclear-capable missiles to “Venezuela or Cuba,” which Zhuravlyov noted are located near Russia’s “main geopolitical adversary” – the United States.[1] Zhuravlyov said that Russia has an “entire range” of missiles at its disposal and will use “what is needed.” Zhuravlyov said that the United States is “not a friend or partner” of Russia but is an “enemy.”[2] Zhuravlyov’s threats are meant to evoke memories of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis as Russian officials have done in the past.[3]

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to tout new Russian nuclear missiles to threaten the United States. Putin announced on October 29 that Russia tested the Poseidon nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle on October 28 and touted the vehicle’s alleged speed and power.[4] Putin also recalled Russia’s recent test of the Burevestnik missile, which is similarly nuclear-powered and has similar characteristics. Putin’s announcements of even more newly tested nuclear-powered weapons defy US President Donald Trump’s call on October 27 for Putin to focus on ending the war in Ukraine, not testing missiles.[5] Putin is detailing the alleged attributes of the weapons to add weight and urgency to his nuclear threats to enact concessions from the United States on Ukraine. Putin is raising the specter of nuclear war to get Trump and European officials to concede to Russian demands that Russian forces cannot secure on the battlefield.

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-october-29-2025/

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:35 AM

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At Least 100 Russian Officers Have Executed Their Own Comrades in Ukraine

Oct 30, 2025

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/30/at-least-100-russian-officer
s-have-executed-their-own-comrades-in-ukraine-vyorstka-a90987

Russian commanders have been torturing and executing their own soldiers in Ukraine since the first year of the full-scale invasion, according to an investigation by the exiled news outlet Vyorstka.

What began as punishment for disobedience or drunkenness in the trenches has evolved by late 2025 into killings over extortion disputes or personal conflicts, the report said.

Vyorstka said it collected hundreds of accounts of such executions and identified 101 Russian servicemen accused of carrying them out.

Most of the alleged perpetrators are platoon or battalion commanders and in some cases divisional officers, with an average age just over 40.

Many hold state awards, including five who have received the title Hero of Russia .

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 10:13 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM

You're an idiot.

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Now, one of my sources in Russia

He's not in Russia, you doofus.
I even linked his goodbye meal at a Russian McDonald's from three years ago.

When you get me actual evidence ... not just some jowly guy with a thick Russian accent blabbing about secondhand stuff, I'll watch. Videos from Russia would be nice.

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T: STOP USING MY GIF!
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I always say signature not GIF. The way it is here is you created a quote to insert my signature. Leave it alone. Don't even mention it. Just leave it be. I'll be coming to your garden thread now to say hello.

T

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 10:26 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by second:
Short Of Infantry But With Plenty Of Drones, Ukraine Now Fights Better On Open Ground

By David Axe | Oct 29, 2025

https://www.trenchart.us/p/short-of-infantry-but-with-plenty

These analysts spent a lot of words trying to justify how open fields favor Ukraine because "drones".

I struggle to understand how that is supposed to work. Let's say you have two forces dispersed on an open battlefield. It seems to me that open fields favor whichever force has the most drones, and- generally speaking- whichever force has the most munitions. And that would be Russia.

As long as Ukrainians are fleeing, they can be scouted from above and destroyed with distance weapons.

The one thing cities are GOOD for, AFA Russians are concerned, is drawing and concentrating large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers, like ants to honey, for their destruction.

And, BTW, there are still two cities left for Ukraine to defend: Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

So after Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Russia will definitely have to change tactics. Taking fortified areas in pincers and cutting off supply lines, bleeding out the defenders along the remaining roadway won't work. I honestly don't know what tactic will work.

Once all of the major cities are taken ... or if Zelensky and Sirsky make the intelligent decision to withdraw troops back to their side of the Dneiper before then ... Russia will have a harder time accomplishing its goal of destroying the Ukrainian army. And if Ukrainians are smart, they'll seed the fields behind their retreat with mines.

But I'm pretty sure that we won't see a thundering charge of tanks and APCs across the plains bc they're too vulnerable to drone attack.

Drones, and constant surveillance, still favor dispersed troops.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 10:40 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNY:
You're an idiot.

THGR:
Now, one of my sources in Russia....

SIGNY:
He's not in Russia, you doofus.
I even linked his goodbye meal at a Russian McDonald's from three years ago.
When you get me actual evidence ... not just some jowly guy with a thick Russian accent blabbing about secondhand stuff, I'll watch. Videos from Russia would be nice.

T: STOP USING MY GIF!
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THGR:
I always say signature not GIF. I'll be going to your site now and saying hello. Then I'll get to the fact of your post.

T: STOP USING MY SIGNATURE!

First you complain bc I put your "signature" in "my section". Now you complain bc I clearly leave your signature in "your section", adding your widdle tantrum and saving you the bother, but I'm calling it a gif. Which it is, BTW.

So I'm calling it a signature, and leaving it in "your section".
Some people just can't be pleased.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025 11:10 AM