Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Monday, February 2, 2026 10:12 AM

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During a recent attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down nine Russian Kh-22 missiles. Prior to this, throughout the entire period of the full-scale war, air defense had managed to intercept only three such missiles out of more than 400 launched, according to an interview with Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department of the Ukrainian Air Force Command.

According to him, during the attack on the capital, Russian forces used as many as 12 Kh-22 missiles. Each carries a warhead weighing about 1 ton, making such strikes particularly dangerous.

Ihnat emphasized that nine of these missiles were shot down.

"This is an unprecedented case that truly deserves attention and gratitude to our warriors who intercepted these missiles. Incidentally, before this case, out of more than 400 such missiles launched over the entire period, only three had been intercepted," he said.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/kyiv-attack-air-force-shoots-down-9-kh
-22-1770042905.html

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Monday, February 2, 2026 3:06 PM

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“I don’t understand why, for example, Elon Musk’s satellites are not a legitimate target for us,” Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known state television presenter closely linked to the Kremlin, said in a clip circulating online on Monday, dated Sunday. “One nuclear weapon detonation in space, as I understand it, solves this problem.”

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries believe Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink, The Associated Press reported in December. The weapon would litter Starlink orbits with shrapnel, but would also indiscriminately damage others nearby.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-strike-threat-elon-m
usk-11451107

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Monday, February 2, 2026 3:53 PM

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“I don’t understand why, for example, Elon Musk’s satellites are not a legitimate target for us,” Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known state television presenter closely linked to the Kremlin, said in a clip circulating online on Monday, dated Sunday. “One nuclear weapon detonation in space, as I understand it, solves this problem.”

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries believe Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink, The Associated Press reported in December. The weapon would litter Starlink orbits with shrapnel, but would also indiscriminately damage others nearby.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-strike-threat-elon-m
usk-11451107

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OH NOEZ!!!! THE SKY IS LITERALLY FALLING NOW... LITERALLY!!!!!

Shut up, retard.

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Monday, February 2, 2026 4:56 PM

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OH NOEZ!!!! THE SKY IS LITERALLY FALLING NOW... LITERALLY!!!!!

Shut up, retard.

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6ixStringJoker, the Russians are threatening to destroy Starlink satellites because Starlink is attempting to stop Russia from using Starlink terminals to destroy Ukraine. Here is the story:

Ukraine to Allow Only Registered Starlink Terminals Under New ‘White List’ Rule

Only verified and registered Starlink terminals will be allowed to operate in Ukraine under new rules aimed at countering Russian drone use, according to the defense minister.

By Yuliia Zavadska | Feb. 2, 2026, 1:50 pm

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/69255

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Monday, February 2, 2026 9:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Where would I be without my dose of SECOND- rate propaganda?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 7:55 AM

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Good news: Starlink’s drone block is legit. Bad news: Russia has a plan B.

Defense Minister moves to block all illegitimate Starlink users inside Ukraine — Russians, in other words

By Igor Kossov

02/02/2026

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/02/can-starlink-block-russian-dron
es-yes-but-devils-in-the-details/

Starlink is not the only system the Russians are using to control some of their drones. They are also hijacking local mobile networks by using Ukrainian SIM cards in their drones.

Adding functional SIM cards allows Russian drones to connect to Ukrainian (and other countries') data networks.

These trackers are able to send information back to Russia through these networks, possibly employing Telegram bots for this purpose, according to Ukrainian engineers.

James said that these systems are even more useful than Starlink, once a Russian drone is close enough to its target to initiate its terminal guidance phase. And it is why phone companies must also crack down on data accounts that are being used in this way.

“Vodafone, Kyivstar, Lifecell, they need to get their shit in a bag and start with these mobile accounts’ IMEI numbers,” he said. “They should be able to track these SIMs as they move across the country.”

“It’s not that hard. You could code up an automated system that allows you to track that stuff quickly,” and integrate it with Delta. “I totally blame the cell companies for allowing this to happen.”

Starlink doesn’t work on the territory of Russia but does work in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s military insiders believe that Russia is getting the terminals and other hardware through its many shell companies registered in other countries, such as the United Arab Emirates. Russia uses this method to get many of the components that go into its weapons.

Asked if there was a practical upper limit on these acquisitions, James, an American engineer and head of the Azov International Battalion’s fiber-optics laboratory, said it’s hard to tell: “I know that Starlink is chunking out terminals as fast as they can… so I don’t see a limit. These devices are incredibly easy to produce.”

But the hardware is only one part of the equation. Starlink users also need to have accounts. For Russia, these are also likely to be registered in other countries. These accounts are all in a database. This informs Fedorov’s solution of blocking all unregistered accounts.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 1:53 PM

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Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-helps-putin-kill-ukrainia
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What happened last night in Ukraine was so egregious and terrible that I thought it deserved a special note. The Russians launched what was arguably their largest missile/drone attack of the war, aiming to destroy as much of the Ukrainian heating and power generation system as possible.

The number of missiles and drones that the Russians used is still being counted, but it was massive, particularly in terms of the very difficult to intercept ballistic and cruise missiles. Here is how President Zelensky described the system.

"Today, Russia carried out a record strike in terms of the use of ballistic missiles. There were 28 cruise missiles, as well as 43 missiles of various types that approach their targets along a ballistic trajectory and can be intercepted only by Patriot systems."

Here is a map that the Ukrainians released of the attack, showing that the major cities in the east of the country were basically blanketed in missiles and drones.

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, the attack hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and at least three other cities.

The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones.

Primary targets: energy and residential houses in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa, and other regions.

Putin waited for the temperatures to drop and stockpiled drones and missiles to continue his genocidal attacks against the Ukrainian people.

Neither anticipated diplomatic efforts in Abu Dhabi this week nor his promises to the United States kept him from continuing terror against ordinary people in the harshest winter.

We are dealing with terrorists who must be forced to stop violence.

Sybiha’s reference to the temperature was no accident. This attack was carefully planned to happen during the coldest stretch of the winter — indeed the coldest stretch of the last few years. Ukraine is freezing now, far worse than it was when I was there in early January. According to the BBC Weather forecast, Kyiv will not be above freezing at any time in the coming weeks. They have a forecast up for the next 14 days, and it's all below freezing — often in the teens.

So this attack was a cruel and calculated war crime, designed to freeze and kill Ukrainians with maximum effectiveness.

It was also an attack that was aided by the President of the USA. How you say? Well, a few hours before the attack, Trump engaged in a deliberate act of disinformation, designed to fool people. In an afternoon press conference from the Oval Office, Trump said that Putin not only would not attack Ukrainian energy/heating that night, but had promised not to do so for the next week. Here is the exact quote.

"I did call up President Putin and he's agreed -- they have the same cold wave that we do, maybe different because it's pretty far away, but it's the equivalent. And Ukraine is a very cold country, it's much colder than us. It's colder than, on average, Canada or colder. I asked him if he wouldn't shoot for a period of one week and he's agreed to do it."

I’m sure the better natured of you will say that Trump was misled by crafty Vlad. If that makes you feel better, so be it. I do not buy it. If Trump had been deliberately misled and made a fool of, then we should have an immediate response by the US government. The President of the US was turned into a tool of Russian disinformation.

Get those sanctions on Russia going, restart military aid to Ukraine, something.

Yet so far we have silence.

Unless Trump does something dramatic soon, even the most hopeful will have to admit that he is not a fool, but is happy to spread Russian disinformation in a way that helps Putin the most and harms Ukraine. Indeed, it is just the latest example of how Trump is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

It will almost certainly not be the last.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026 7:20 AM

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Chart of the week: Ukraine's electricity imports hit record high as Russian attacks devastate energy system

By Luca Léry Moffat | February 4, 2026 9:38 AM

https://kyivindependent.com/chart-of-the-week-ukraines-electricity-imp
orts-hit-record-high/

The country imported 900 gigawatt hours of electricity last month, a 40% increase compared to December 2025, ExPro said.

Historically, Ukraine has been a net exporter of electricity. According to ExPro, the country has not exported electricity since mid-November 2025.

Russia has launched thousands of drones and hundreds of missiles at Ukraine's power infrastructure since October last year and into the beginning of 2026.

In January 2026, Ukraine imported record volumes of electricity: https://expro.com.ua/en/tidings/in-january-2026-ukraine-imported-recor
d-volumes-of-electricity

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026 11:08 AM

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Behind Russia’s numbers
Analysts say the true scale of military spending tells a different story

By Kathrine Frich | Feb 4, 2026

https://www.dagens.com/war/is-russia-lying-intelligence-contradicts-pu
tin-on-ukraine-war-costs

Russia’s military expenditure in recent years has been far higher than the figures listed in its official defense budget, according to an analysis by Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

The agency estimates that real spending has exceeded declared levels by as much as 66%.

The intelligence service estimates that Russia spent around $296 billion on its military in 2025. That figure would represent roughly half of total state spending and about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. Military spending accounted for about 6% of GDP in 2022, rising to 6.7% in 2023 and 8.5% in 2024.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026 1:18 PM

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Where would I be without my dose of SECOND- rate propaganda?

Xi betrays Putin by using his weapons to create a ‘far superior’ arms industry

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026 1:31 PM

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Russia spent $324.8 million on weapons used in a single mass combined strike on the night of Feb. 3, Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) wrote on Feb. 4.

February 4, 2026, 05:09 AM

https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/russia-traded-regional-budgets-for-m
issiles-over-ukraine-50580977.html

Based on HUR calculations, the total cost of the weapons used amounted to $324.8 million, which is more than $190 million higher than the cost of Russia’s previous mass strike on Jan. 20.

HUR stressed that 79.2% of the resources Russia used were effectively wasted, as Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 450 aerial targets.

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