Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

Yeah. We know dude. You get hard when Russians die.

This is porn to you.

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Monday, August 3, 2026 5:54 PM

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According to Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Ukraine lost roughly 500,000 servicemen throughout 2025 and upwards of 1.5 million total killed and wounded since the war's full-scale escalation.

I trust Russia's figures more than Zelensky's bc Zelensky is a big fat liar, like Trump.

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But you trust me, right comrade?

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PHASE 3 UNLEASHED: Ukraine's Endgame to Retake Crimea Just Began

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Monday, August 3, 2026 5:59 PM

Why would anybody trust you?

Not only are you an evil little chronically virtue signalling snake without any family or friends, but you couldn't even be a con-man and get somebody to trust you because you're way too fucking stupid to ever do that.

No. Whoever you are asking that question to. They don't trust you.

Congratulations.

You did that.

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Monday, August 3, 2026 8:33 PM

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Yeah. We know dude. You get hard when Russians die.

This is porn to you.

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The idea that vengeance against evil makes you just as bad as the evil you're taking up arms against feels very much like something the bad guys would make up and spread across popular culture to make sure we don't shove their head in a guillotine, just saying. https://imgur.com/gallery/bootlicker-approved-NcvbTDq

In my personal opinion, it was absolutely good to kill millions and millions and millions of Nazis, Confederates, and Japanese Imperialists. Killing millions of Trumptards would also be a very positive thing. But silly Libtards believe that words can change evil people into slightly less evil. I have never seen a Trumptard or a Putin-approving Russian get anything other than worse as they get older until they die. Maybe somewhere that has happened, but there is no proof.

6ix, take note that in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, to Revelation, the last book, evil people get slaughtered by God, who never wastes even one word on persuading evil people to change into better people. If God with infinite time and power has no patience with evil, why should ordinary people?

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Monday, August 3, 2026 9:31 PM

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Yeah. We know dude. You get hard when Russians die.

This is porn to you.

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The idea that vengeance against evil makes you just as bad as the evil you're taking up arms against feels very much like something the bad guys would make up and spread across popular culture to make sure we don't shove their head in a guillotine, just saying. https://imgur.com/gallery/bootlicker-approved-NcvbTDq

In my personal opinion, it was absolutely good to kill millions and millions and millions of Nazis, Confederates, and Japanese Imperialists. Killing millions of Trumptards would also be a very positive thing. But silly Libtards believe that words can change evil people into slightly less evil. I have never seen a Trumptard or a Putin-approving Russian get anything other than worse as they get older until they die. Maybe somewhere that has happened, but there is no proof.

6ix, take note that in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, to Revelation, the last book, evil people get slaughtered by God, who never wastes even one word on persuading evil people to change into better people. If God with infinite time and power has no patience with evil, why should ordinary people?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

I don't believe most of the people you think are evil are evil. You have proven yourself over the years to be a terrible judge of character, especially that of your own.

I don't want to see you dead.

I just don't want to hear anything from you ever again.

You have nothing to bring to any table.

Your mere existence is a blight onto anyone you come into contact with, be it in real life or online.

You don't need to be that way. You choose to be that way.

You've allowed them to turn you into Shit Golem.

I hope you get the help you need, but I also do not abide your bullshit.

You are the evil.

Whether witting or not, makes no matter. You are not welcome in this house.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 6:20 AM

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I don't believe most of the people you think are evil are evil. You have proven yourself over the years to be a terrible judge of character, especially that of your own.

Nobody in the Confederacy was thinking before or after the Civil War that slavery was evil, except for the slaves. In the aftermath of the War, the former slaveowners, convinced of their absolute righteousness, set up a labor system that was even cheaper to operate and more profitable than slavery. Evil people NEVER, I mean NEVER, see themselves as evil.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 10:06 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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The idea that vengeance against evil makes you just as bad as the evil you're taking up arms against feels very much like something the bad guys would make up and spread across popular culture to make sure we don't shove their head in a guillotine, just saying.

In my personal opinion, it was absolutely good to kill millions and millions and millions of Nazis, Confederates, Japanese Imperialists.... blacks, illegals, Muslims, whites ....

Who made YOU God, SECOND, to judge and condemn "millions and millions" of people?

And SIX, when you post about killing all Muslims, doesn't that put you in the same league as SECOND and WISHY?

IMHO there's only one reason to kill: immediate self defense or defense of others. Defining whole groups of people as "evil" is evil. And stupid. And the only thing worse than a stupid evil person is a stupid evil person with power.

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Nobody in the Confederacy was thinking before or after the Civil War that slavery was evil,

Which demonstrates, SECOND, that you could be making the same mistake. And by posting this as if you're free of this error, it also shows that you're utterly incapable of self reflection.

Like I said: stupid.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 10:20 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

THGR, did it ever occur to you to look for actual FACTS on the ground to either validate or refute the blah blah blah that that you fill your head with?

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 2:58 PM

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THGR, did it ever occur to you to look for actual FACTS on the ground to either validate or refute the blah blah blah that that you fill your head with?

I live in reality comrade. No sure you do.

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Ukrainian FURTHEST drone strikes swarm and obliterate Moscow supply hubs | Battle Plans Exposed

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:29 PM

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Who made YOU God, SECOND, to judge and condemn "millions and millions" of people?

IMHO there's only one reason to kill: immediate self defense or defense of others. Defining whole groups of people as "evil" is evil. And stupid. And the only thing worse than a stupid evil person is a stupid evil person with power.

Which demonstrates, SECOND, that you could be making the same mistake. And by posting this as if you're free of this error, it also shows that you're utterly incapable of self reflection.

Does a Ukrainian drone operator ask permission before killing a Russian? Never, and that is NOT PLAYING GOD. Does the Ukrainian ask the Russian for permission before killing the Russian? No, and that is also NOT PLAYING GOD. The Ukrainian war is NOT a TV police procedural nor a Marvel comic book movie where killing is justified for "only one reason: immediate self defense or defense of others."

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:31 PM

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By Peeter Helme | August 04, 2026

For most of the war, a circle of generals decided which companies got paid to arm Ukraine. They named the suppliers, they named the models, and the money followed the list.

Then the defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov took that power away and made the companies compete on price and on how their weapons performed at the front. Three weeks ago, the minister was fired. Now, the people who did well under the old list are pushing to get it back.

What makes this more than a lobbying fight is that its two loudest voices agree on almost nothing else: Fedorov, who says he believes the overhaul cost him his job, and an anti-corruption watchdog who owes him no favors. Both say the reform may not outlast him.

What rides on it is real money, and Ukraine has little to spare. It now pours almost all its own revenue into defense, while the West covers nearly the entire civilian budget, roughly $50 billion in 2026. Every dollar lost to a rigged contract is one that never reaches a front already too short of soldiers to absorb the waste.

Much more at https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/04/ukraine-weapons-reform-fedorov/

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:36 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

OMG, you STILL don't get it!

Do you still believe that someone spouting into a camera is providing FACTS?

Dood, I could get in front of a camera and spin a convincing yarn about ... a killer outbreak, a swarm of invading bugs, whatever.... and show flashes of irrelevant pictures and you'd never know that it was completely fabricated.

YOUR filter for whether something is true or not is whether it aligns with what you want. That's a piss poor way of learning the truth.

FACTS, dood.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:42 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Who made YOU God, SECOND, to judge and condemn "millions and millions" of people?

IMHO there's only one reason to kill: immediate self defense or defense of others. Defining whole groups of people as "evil" is evil. And stupid. And the only thing worse than a stupid evil person is a stupid evil person with power.

Which demonstrates, SECOND, that you could be making the same mistake. And by posting this as if you're free of this error, it also shows that you're utterly incapable of self reflection.
Does a Ukrainian drone operator ask permission before killing a Russian? Never, and that is NOT PLAYING GOD. Does the Ukrainian ask the Russian for permission before killing the Russian? No, and that is also NOT PLAYING GOD. The Ukrainian war is NOT a TV police procedural nor a Marvel comic book movie where killing is justified for "only one reason: immediate self defense or defense of others."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Are you at war with "Trumptards"? More importantly, are "Trumptards" at war with YOU?

No.

Face it, dood. You just like the idea of killing people.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:53 PM

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THGR, did it ever occur to you to look for actual FACTS on the ground to either validate or refute the blah blah blah that that you fill your head with?

There is more reality on Russia included in the video comrade.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 3:57 PM

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OMG, you STILL don't get it!

Do you still believe that someone spouting into a camera is providing FACTS?

Dood, I could get in front of a camera and spin a convincing yarn about ... a killer outbreak, a swarm of invading bugs, whatever.... and show flashes of irrelevant pictures and you'd never know that it was completely fabricated.

YOUR filter for whether something is true or not is whether it aligns with what you want. That's a piss poor way of learning the truth.

FACTS, dood.

You can't admit to facts. I get that. Nonetheless, I'm going to post them, and time will show all you've done by defending all things Russia is bury you head in the sand. And the people speaking into microphones that I listen to are honestly trying to report accurately. Not so much with you aye comrade?

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 4:03 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

THGR, you're posting NARRATIVE.

Here's another narrative.

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Disastrous End to Zelensky's 40-Day Operation Exposes a Dwindling Ukraine
Simplicius
Aug 03, 2026

Today is the final day of Zelensky’s 40-day Special Military Operation, and it has come with ominous undertones. The carefully-constructed facade of success that was meant to drive the orchestrated PR campaign has been violently torn away to reveal a frail Ukraine trembling on its last hind legs.

Russia’s recent attack on Kiev revealed a catastrophic situation as Ukraine no longer has any Patriots to stop Russian ballistic missile attacks. The interception rate admitted-to by Kiev was as follows:

1/27 ballistic missiles of the 9M723 OTRK “Iskander-M” / KN-23;

0/2 anti-radar missiles Kh-31P;

0/4 anti-ship cruise and hypersonic cruise missiles 3M55 “Onyx” / 3M22 “Zircon”;

In total, 83.2% of UAVs have been neutralized.

Top Ukrainian analyst channels now predict that Russia will soon go up from producing 70 ballistic missiles per month to over 150. This will leave Ukrainian infrastructure devastated as no current hope even exists for solving the Patriot problem, and no other available system besides the Patriot can engage Russian Iskanders.

Zelensky and his people know this, which is why now at the tail end of his failed 40-day operation he has begun begging Russia for a new ceasefire:

MORE AT https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/disastrous-end-to-zelenskys-40-day

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 4:06 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Here's another

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 4:08 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Here's another, usually with the most info:

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 4:28 PM

Ted Bundy Clone is the most useful of useful idiots.

The dumber they are, the more useful they become.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026 11:17 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Maybe read the thoughts of an American visiting Russia?

https://open.substack.com/pub/gordonhahn/p/thoughts-on-russia-through-
the-prism

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 2:49 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

From a former CIA analyst

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The West is Winning the Information War While Russia Prevails on the Battlefield

https://sonar21.com/the-west-is-winning-the-information-war-while-russ
ia-prevails-on-the-battlefield/

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 6:24 AM

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From a former CIA analyst

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The West is Winning the Information War While Russia Prevails on the Battlefield

https://sonar21.com/the-west-is-winning-the-information-war-while-russ
ia-prevails-on-the-battlefield/

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Also, Russia is winning with God, who divinely intervened to give Russia all the Atom Bombs it needs to ensure that God's Will Be Done On Earth As It Is In Heaven:

Physicists and Clergy: Why the World Must Hold the Russian Orthodox Church Accountable

How Moscow's "Religion" Sacralizes "Nuclear Orthodoxy"

By Max Meltzer | Aug 5, 2026 09:10

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factcheck/4151114-physicists-and-cler
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The European Union's latest sanctions package against Russia was the first to be adopted since Hungary's elections. Although Viktor Orbán is no longer in office, the package proved considerably less stringent than originally planned. Among its most notable omissions was Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Gundyayev), who once again escaped sanctions.

The EU first attempted to sanction Kirill in 2022, but the effort was blocked by Orbán. This time, however, the role once played by the former Hungarian prime minister was assumed by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who threatened to veto the entire package if sanctions against Kirill were included. His argument was that politics should not interfere with religion.

The Russian Orthodox Church's August Nuclear Chronicle

Yet on the very first day of August, Kirill enthusiastically described the creation of the Soviet atomic bomb as "an act of God's grace." Once again, he stressed that the bomb had been developed in Sarov—formerly Arzamas-16, one of the principal centers of the Soviet nuclear project—on the very site where Saint Seraphim of Sarov had once prayed.

According to Gundyayev, the atomic bomb saved the Soviet Union "from catastrophic destruction that could have left neither the country nor its people." He claimed this had happened, in part, "through the prayers of our venerable and God-bearing Father Seraphim of Sarov, whose holiness helped ensure that our people and our nation continue to exist."

This was hardly the first time Kirill had advanced such claims. In 2023, he likewise argued that Soviet scientists had developed the atomic bomb "according to God's providence." A year later, he urged Russians not to fear either nuclear weapons or even the prospect of the end of the world.

Also on August 1, pro-Kremlin "Orthodox oligarch" Konstantin Malofeyev published an image depicting a bearded man—presumably Seraphim of Sarov—engulfed in flames.

"God's providence for Russia, the Third Rome, is truly wondrous. It is no coincidence that Seraphim of Sarov, whose name in Hebrew means 'fiery' or 'burning,' became the Heavenly Patron of Russia's nuclear shield, together with the Great Martyr Barbara, the patron saint of our Strategic Missile Forces—forces so vital to securing Russia's victory as quickly as possible."

That was the caption accompanying Malofeyev's post.

Meanwhile, Russia's nuclear rhetoric has steadily escalated. What began as threats to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, the United States, and Europe has evolved into proposals to deploy them not only in Russia's so-called "new regions"—such as Robotyne in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region—but even within Russia's internationally recognized territory, including Siberia.

All of this has unfolded with the tacit blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has long participated in ceremonies consecrating Russia's nuclear missiles. And that is precisely the problem.

How Seraphim of Sarov Became Responsible for Radioactive Ashes

The fact that the creation of the world and the invention of the atomic bomb capable of destroying it are fundamentally opposite acts is of little concern to today's Russia. In the service of Putin's ideology, not only the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," but virtually any biblical truth can be rewritten.

Commenting on Malofeyev's post, Ksenia Luchenko, one of the leading scholars of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, recalled that the term "nuclear Orthodoxy" (atomnoye pravoslaviye) was coined by nationalist publicist Yegor Kholmogorov. He first introduced the concept at the 2005 International Theological Conference The Church's Eschatological Teaching.

Kholmogorov's argument can be summarized as follows:

"We have the right to defend our country, precisely as the center of Orthodoxy, with the ultimate weapon capable of destroying the rest of the world, because what we are preserving is more valuable than anything else in existence."

It was not until 2018 that Putin declared, "Why would we need a world without Russia?" Yet thirteen years earlier, Kholmogorov had been dismissed as a fringe ideologue. Over time, however, his pseudo-theological justification of Russia's "chosen" status—embodied in nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantor of its sovereignty—gradually evolved from a series of conference papers, where physicists and clergy sought to capture the state's attention, into official state doctrine.

This is how Seraphim of Sarov came to be cast as the "venerable patron of radioactive ashes." Since the 1990s, the Russian Orthodox Church has increasingly referred to him as the patron saint of Russia's nuclear scientists. The rationale rests on an akathist composed in the early twentieth century containing the line:

"Rejoice, shield and protector of our Fatherland..."

In the brochure On the Wings of Seraphim, published during the Putin era for celebrations in Sarov, those words are reinterpreted to suggest that "Father Seraphim gave his blessing for the atomic bomb to be created here."

In 2007, Putin himself embraced the same narrative:

"Russia's traditional faith and its nuclear shield are the two pillars that strengthen our statehood and create the necessary conditions for guaranteeing our country's security."

As Luchenko explains:

"Nuclear Orthodoxy also conveniently serves to justify the idea of continuity between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The historical mission of the USSR thus becomes providing Russian civilization with the atomic bomb through the efforts of the 'ascetics of the twentieth century'—its physicists. In this way, the Soviet Union itself was 'consecrated' and incorporated into the divine plan of Russian history. From Yulii Khariton's purely pragmatic decision"—the chief designer of the Soviet atomic project, who most likely knew nothing about Seraphim of Sarov—"there emerged this vast political mythology."

In Putin's Russia, the apparent contradiction between the country's Orthodox and atheistic past has therefore been resolved with remarkable simplicity: both are presented as successive stages of a single, grand historical mission.

"God's Providence" and a Global Apocalypse

There is another, more personalized dimension to this narrative of divine chosenness. Patriarch Kirill has repeatedly asserted that "Putin's authority is given from above." More recently, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov echoed the same idea. In an interview with TASS, he described the transfer of power from Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin as "a historic turning point," signifying that Russia had been "marked by God."

"Whenever things become especially difficult, help comes to us from above."

Over the past three years, Putin himself has increasingly portrayed Russia as a nation enjoying "special divine protection."

Patriarch Kirill has also recently published a book entitled War: Beyond the Limits of Visible Causes and Consequences. In it, he argues that "war is beneficial," that "its outcome is determined by God," and that it "touches upon Russia's metaphysical frontiers and strategic purpose."

This is a profoundly dangerous inversion of religious teaching. When the state wages war and the Russian Orthodox Church presents it as "part of a higher plan," the Church ceases to be merely a spiritual institution. It becomes part of the infrastructure of war.

The issue, therefore, is not merely whether Patriarch Kirill should be placed under sanctions. More fundamentally, it is about the basic human response to the actions of a specific individual and a specific institution that has systematically moved beyond endorsing aggression to sacralizing violence—including the potential use of nuclear weapons—as part of an alleged "divine mission."

Those in Europe—and indeed those in Ukraine who still insist that "politics should not interfere with religion"—should consider where Russia's doctrine of "nuclear Orthodoxy" and its proclaimed "metaphysical mission" may ultimately lead not only Russia, but the world.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 6:37 AM

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Russia Labels Dead Troops "Missing" to Conceal Battlefield Losses

By Roman Kohanets | Aug 04, 2026 23:31

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russia-labels-dead-troops-mis
sing-to-conceal-battlefield-losses-21359

Russia's 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, known for its participation in the Butcha massacre, now deployed near Huliaipole in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, is systematically recording its killed soldiers as missing in action while intimidating their families into silence, according to the partisan movement ATESH

The claims were published on the movement's Telegram channel on August 4. https://t.me/atesh_ua/10952

ATESH stated that thousands of servicemen in the brigade, a formation designated military unit 51460, have been logged as missing. The movement alleged that its commander, Dmitry Shabaev, routinely ignores the appeals, inquiries, and protests of wives and mothers trying to learn the fate of their relatives.

Reclassifying the dead as missing is used to distort the true scale of the unit's losses, the group claimed.

Families who press for answers are threatened directly, ATESH added, with security and counterintelligence officers warning them of criminal cases for "discrediting" the army and the loss of all payments should they keep searching.

The movement summarized the message conveyed to relatives as a blunt threat: "If you keep searching, we will imprison you."

As a recent example, ATESH pointed to a Ukrainian strike on May 30, 2026, against the Primorskyi Posad training ground in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, a site used by the brigade.

The movement claimed the strike killed at least 31 of the unit's personnel, 13 of whom the headquarters promptly logged as missing rather than dead.

According to ATESH, Shabaev took command in 2025 and has already burned through the full complements of several of his combat battalions. The Kremlin, it alleged, deliberately relies on hardline commanders of his kind.

The brigade also carries a documented past: early in the full-scale war, it operated in the Bucha district of Kyiv region, where it became one of the main formations named in war crimes investigations.

The movement noted that it continues to compile data on commanders it holds responsible for hiding losses and pressuring servicemen's relatives.

The concealment of Russian military losses has become a recurring pattern across the war. In one recent case, Ukraine recovered the remains of 501 people that Moscow claimed were Ukrainian soldiers, part of a practice widely seen as a way for Russia to obscure its own dead and avoid paying compensation to their families.

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The Kremlin Is Bullying More Russians Into Fighting in Ukraine

Measures increasingly include beatings and manipulation, fueling expectations of a second forced mobilization

By Thomas Grove and Daria Matviichuk | Aug. 2, 2026 10:00 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/the-kremlin-is-bullying-more-russians
-into-fighting-in-ukraine-3d1af6d7

Russia is strong-arming more fighting-age men into military service to boost the flagging ranks of its army as voluntary recruitment stalls and Moscow’s initiative on the front line in Ukraine falters.
In Russia’s smaller towns and cities, some military recruiters have resorted to detaining men on the street, outside their places of work or under the pretext of routine document checks, say lawyers, rights activists and eyewitnesses. Once in a military recruitment office, men might be threatened or beaten until they sign up, they say.

The pressure campaign carries echoes of the partial mobilization that President Vladimir Putin instituted in fall 2022 when Russia’s front-line positions were buckling amid a lack of manpower. It also has caused speculation among Russian analysts and the political class about whether it preludes another draft.

Russian authorities have offered life-changing sums of money—often more than an entire year’s salary—to those ready to fight. Recruitment, however, has become more difficult after tales of abuse inside the Russian military and Ukraine’s lethal capabilities, which have shortened the average soldier’s lifespan on the front to minutes, days or weeks.

“Authorities have switched to a method of violence, when they catch men and send them off,” said Artyom Klyga, a lawyer who tries to help those forced into service.

The tactics are a counterpoint to the forced enlistment Kyiv has carried out because of its own manpower shortage.

While Russia’s recruitment is still officially voluntary, law-enforcement officials are at times working with military recruiters to set a trap for the men and use violence or threats of arrest if they don’t yield to the pressure, the people say.

In the southwestern region of Penza, resident Vladislav Leonidov said he found an acquaintance at a military recruitment office after the man went missing for several hours in May. The man was called into the police station on the pretext of checking his personal data. When he arrived, two military recruiters carried him off to the recruitment office where he was beaten, Leonidov said. He intervened and forced the man’s release.

“If we had come two hours later, he would have already been taken away,” he said.
Raids in Penza by law-enforcement officials or recruiters have caught the attention of locals who have posted videos protesting the practice. One video outside a recruitment office shows men in civilian clothes sitting inside a military van barricaded by crying women.

“They beat you, they forced you!” one of the women says between tears.

Authorities have played down the incidents and threatened a crackdown on those circulating videos of them.

The head of Penza’s recruitment office, Andrey Surkov, told a government briefing that raids were targeting those avoiding service. The Penza branch of the Interior Ministry has denied that raids are sending men to the front, and has threatened legal consequences for those who post or publicize them.

“These video publications have no relation to sending people to the zone of the Special Military Operation,” a ministry statement said, using the official euphemism for the war in Ukraine.

Blogger Stanislav Morozov, who has worked to bring attention to the issue in a documentary, said he is the subject of an investigation by Russia’s feared Federal Security Service. “They haven’t forbidden me from continuing, but they’ve made it clear it’s in my best interests not to.”

Of the dozens of relatives he has spoken to, he said, most agreed to sign a contract when law-enforcement officials threatened to plant drugs on them and arrest them on the spot.

Part of the pressure stems from regional programs in different parts of Russia that offer third parties cash, in most cases 100,000 rubles, about $1,300, to bring someone to the recruitment office.

Similar campaigns exist elsewhere, such as Tatarstan, where Russia produces the bulk of its drones, as well as in the Amur and Yaroslavl regions, and in cities such as Kaluga, Voronezh and Arkhangelsk.

The tactics largely are tied to accelerating Russian losses on the front, which are about 30,000 to 40,000 killed and wounded each month, military analysts say.

“Just as many people have to somehow be brought into service, and the fewer there are who are ready to sign a contract the more pressure they have to use,” said Grigory Sverdlin, founder of Get Lost, an antiwar nongovernmental organization that helps Russians avoid service.

While the first round of mobilization was meant to round up reservists and men with military experience, another round likely would bring men with little experience or will to fight to the front.
Some Russians say they would resist such a move.

“As soon as I’m given a weapon, I will shoot those who mobilized me,” said Dmitry Rogin, a 53-year-old reserve officer who could be called up.

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The West is Winning the Information War While Russia Prevails on the Battlefield

https://sonar21.com/the-west-is-winning-the-information-war-while-russ
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Also, Russia is winning

You got the important part right, SECOND.

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Ukraine Shot Down Zero Missiles In Huge Russian Overnight Salvo That Killed At Least 21

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That's what Kiev gets for attacking Russian beach goers.

FAFO.

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Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War

A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.

By Anne Applebaum | August 5, 2026, 10:45 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ukraine-russia-war-drones/68
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Yuri is a 52-year-old Ukrainian who runs a market stall in Kherson, not far from the front line. Yesterday, he was sorting through vegetables when he heard the loud, distinctive buzz of a Russian drone. As he later told the journalist Zarina Zabrisky, he had nothing more than a couple of garlic bulbs in his hands, and no weapons. “Not even a phone.” He gestured at his tomatoes and peppers, so that the drone operator, whoever and wherever he might be, could see that he wasn’t a soldier.

The drone kept following him. Police footage shows it chasing Yuri around his truck. He hides under the umbrella that covers the stand, runs from one side to the other, gestures at the vegetables. Then the drone dives beside him and explodes. Miraculously, Yuri survived, with just cuts and a concussion. Zabrisky interviewed him in the hospital, where he was lucid, and surprisingly sane.

Sane might be the key word here, because the experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand. Premodern fanatics used to hallucinate flying devils. But few modern civilians have been chased by mechanized flying objects. Unless they live in or around Kherson.

Today, many were shocked by yet another video of the drone “safari” Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson. A Russian drone deliberately hunted down a man selling vegetables and detonated right next to him. The Russians even admitted to the crime, showing zero… https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2084608193645146204
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) August 4, 2026

Since 2024, Russian drones have been conducting human safaris in Kherson and other parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, tracking Ukrainian civilians with the aim of killing them. When I reported in the city in 2023, no one went near the Dnipro River, because the Russians were on the other side. Rapidly changing technology has now put the whole city and surrounding countryside within range of Vladimir Putin’s forces.

A United Nations inquiry last year documented hundreds of drone attacks on individuals across eastern Ukraine that targeted people walking on sidewalks, working in gardens, driving ambulances, commuting to work. Sometimes drones hang over burning buildings, waiting for fire brigades to appear so that firemen can be murdered too. The motive can only be terror, and perhaps revenge. Russian troops occupied Kherson at the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022; Ukrainian forces took the city back seven months later following what remains the most significant counter-offensive of the war.

Many people, myself included, have written about the incredible achievements of the Ukrainian drone industry. In Kyiv, I’ve visited warehouses where hundreds of different drones and robots, each with specialized properties, are on display. They can defend Ukrainians and surveil and attack enemies. They can deliver food and weapons. They can crawl along the ground and rescue people stranded in no-man’s-land. They can make intelligent decisions autonomously.

Drones with capabilities like the ones that hit Yuri originally offered a humanitarian advantage, allowing their operators to avoid civilian casualties. Because they have cameras, the remote operator can see whether the target is really a soldier or military object, and call off the drone if it is not. But as with all technologies, the purpose can be radically altered by the users. Instead of avoiding civilians, Russian operators can now target them, as if playing a video game.

They will not be the last drone operators to do so. Although not all Pentagon procurement officers (or indeed Pentagon leaders) know it yet, nobody is prepared, technically or psychologically, for a new era of intelligent, deadly machines. Warfare is on its way to being transformed beyond recognition. Separate drone battalions are a thing of the past. Every aspect of fighting now requires drones, and drone interceptors.

How long until the rest of the world also experiences this change? Crime and terrorism will be transformed next, followed by the work of lawyers and police. Today’s bizarre dystopia, something we view in video clips coming from Ukraine, might be tomorrow’s new normal.

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Russians captured more territory in July than Ukraine's defence forces liberated

By Kateryna Tyshchenko — 2 August, 21:58

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/08/02/8046947/

Russian forces occupied more Ukrainian territory in July than Ukraine's defence forces managed to liberate, with the net increase in occupied territory amounting to 36 sq km.

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July 2026 Monthly Russian Casualty Overview

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-records-highest-monthly-losses-of-2
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• Total losses: 42,860 personnel (killed, wounded, captured, or missing).

• Trend: This is the highest monthly total recorded for 2026, crossing the 40,000 threshold for the first time in the year.

• Previous high: June 2026 saw approximately 39,290 personnel losses.

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Putin’s Neighbors Are Preparing for Total War: Europe Take Note

By Juliette Bretan | Aug 03, 2026 at 08:23 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-europe-nato-war-12276230

At the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, all members committed to a 5 percent defense spending target to protect against threats to the bloc, and to make sure the Allies were sharing the burden. Of the nations close to this target, it is those on or near the border with Russia—Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Latvia especially—who are leading the charge.

Spending, however, only tells part of the story. These nations' war-readiness is about budgets, but also whether the entire state is able to resist attack. States which offer NATO a new model of defense are not necessarily those spending the most, but those that have spent decades assuming they might be next.

Despite, or perhaps because of their size, and proximity to Vladimir Putin's Russia, this total war defense is what Eastern European countries have been building. These are the states ready for conflict.

Estimates from 2025 place Poland’s defense spending at 4.3 percent of its GDP, Lithuania at 4 percent, Latvia at 3.7 percent, Estonia at 3.4 percent, and then Denmark at 3.3 percent. Barring Poland, these are relatively small countries—Estonia on the Baltic has a population of only 1.34 million.

Their plans, as well as years of resistance to Russia, in contrast to Western apathy, offer a far broader understanding of defense, and are putting the rest of Europe to shame.

This is partly because the Baltics and Poland learned harsh lessons from history.

These states stand out in terms of defense because of their suffering under past Russian invasions. All three Baltic states and Poland were occupied by the Soviet Union; the Baltics in 1940, Poland in 1939.

The Baltic states endured Soviet occupation until 1991. This was brutal and repressive, with deportations, exile, and the Russification of society.

After 1945, Poland was coerced into the Soviet-led communist bloc until 1989.

Eastern Europe understands the costs of imperial Russian politics, and realized early that the threat from Russia had not disappeared.

They also realized it might have changed in form. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and national independence in 1991, these nations sensed their vulnerability to Russia.

In 2007, for example, Estonia was hit with a large-scale cyberattack at a time when the country disagreed with Russia over the controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn war memorial commemorating Soviet soldiers. After Estonia relocated the memorial, a series of cyberattacks—from Russian IP addresses—devastated Estonian governmental websites, media sites, and banking sites.

The Baltics and Poland also saw more militaristic Russian repression elsewhere, including in Georgia in 2008, and Crimea in 2014, as part of a pattern of historical Russian aggression.

For Western Europe, though, the Russian threat had been apparently eliminated. With the end of the Cold War, Russia was seen as a new trade partner and energy supplier: Germany received 52 percent of its gas from Russia in 2021, the year before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

There were also hopes in the West that the end of tensions would precipitate an optimism and peace in Europe—with the concomitant effect of military capabilities reducing, as the West played down any threat.

Germany’s troops fell from 585,000 in 1990 to 177,000 in 2016, while the UK’s army has fallen by 30 percent since 2000 to 2024. Many European states also ended conscription. Meanwhile, the focus of security turned to NATO and the U.S.

The Baltic states and Poland never accepted those assumptions. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the Baltics in 2004, and started modernizing their armies and reinvesting in defense after Russian aggression elsewhere. Latvia and Lithuania reinstated conscription in the 2010s and 2020s; recently Lithuania reported a record number of volunteers for military service.

They also began to demand hard security guarantees from NATO, especially in relation to Article 5, which promises the alliance will defend any member state if under attack.

These defense plans have only escalated since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with the construction of a 950 km defense line against Russia, including bunkers, dragon’s teeth, and minefields. This is designed to complement the East Shield program in Poland, which aims to be implemented by 2028, to defend Poland against the borders of Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The latter is often seen as a potential flashpoint for tensions, especially the Suwalki Gap, on the border between Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Kaliningrad.

Poland is also set to have the largest army in the European Union, and second in NATO to the U.S.

But most notable is their investment in modern technology, and the need for defense against shadow warfare, or attacks against civilians. After the devastating cyberattacks, Estonia embraced a policy of "total defense," investing in cybersecurity and training to ensure the safety of the country’s digital resources—including practicing cyberattacks, and opening a data embassy in Luxembourg to store the nation-state’s largely-digital records.

The Baltic states have been investing in schooling to ensure civilians are ready for war, including training children in the use of drones, and preparing hospitals for conflict. This is also missing in Western Europe, where defense budgets are often focused on spending, rather than adapting contemporary warfare.

Eastern Europe has also understood energy dependency as a tool of war, and began to invest in green solutions to avoid dependency on Russia—including Lithuania, which set up a liquefied natural gas terminal in 2014 which enabled it to become the first nation in Europe to completely wean itself off Russian gas.

Amid President Donald Trump’s criticism of Western European defense spending, America’s and NATO's focus on countries which shoulder the most responsibility should also be on those which function under pressure.

For decades, the Baltic states and Poland were treated as NATO’s weakest members. Now, it is precisely this weakness which is allowing these states to innovate and transform defense in Europe.

The message for their partners to the West is clear.

Juliette Bretan teaches at the Faculty of English at Cambridge University and previously worked as a research assistant for the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge.

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By Juliette Bretan | Aug 03, 2026 at 08:23 AM EDT

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The Nuclear Stigma Has Held for Eighty Years: A Single Tactical Nuke in the Ukraine War Could End It

The case against tactical nuclear use is not only humanitarian. If such weapons are shown to accomplish what the largest conventional munitions cannot, every state facing a hardened or buried adversary inherits the same argument. The demonstration effect would be immediate and general, and no diplomatic instrument currently exists to contain it.

By Michael Rubin | Aug 5, 2026

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-nuclear-stigma-has-held-for-ei
ghty-years-a-single-tactical-nuke-in-the-ukraine-war-could-end-it/

From the very first minutes of his invasion, Putin sought to raise the specter of nuclear weapons in order to deter those who would oppose Russia.

“They must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history,” Putin declared in his television address announcing the Ukraine invasion. Three days later, Putin ordered a “special service regimen” for Russia’s nuclear forces.

As Ukraine pushed Russian forces back, Putin again threatened to use “all weapon systems available to us,” underlining his statement with the declaration, “This is not a bluff.”

As the war entered its third year, Putin warned that any NATO dispatch of troops to Ukraine would trigger a “destruction of civilization.” On November 19, 2024, Putin signed a new nuclear doctrine into law. Any conventional attack into Russian or Belarusian territory could trigger a nuclear response. In May 2026, as Ukraine struck deeper into Russian territory, reaching even Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia conducted nuclear readiness exercises. The danger now increases as Putin faces embarrassment at home.

He cannot deny the war or trap Russians in an information bubble when they see drone attacks striking at the heart of Russian cities. The war will end when Putin dies, as any successor can blame him for Russia’s loss and try to start anew, but so long as Putin remains alive, a tactical nuclear weapon in Kyiv or along the front is a real possibility.

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Thursday, August 6, 2026 5:33 AM

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Russia Is Losing the War. The Numbers Prove It

Pundits call it a “Russia’s advance.” The numbers call it systemic collapse: 39,500 casualties for 30 km² of rubble.

By Jason Jay Smart | August 6, 2026

https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/81788

Russia is gaining ground in Ukraine while losing the soldiers, money, industrial capacity, and political leverage needed to win. During June 2026, Moscow captured roughly 30 km² (12 mi²) at the cost of approximately 39,500 casualties and nearly $19 billion in war spending and strike-related losses. John Mearsheimer predicts an “ugly Russian victory,” but map movement cannot erase Putin’s failure to force Ukraine into submission. . . .

Russia is sacrificing the foundations of national power for territory that delivered none of Putin’s central objectives. . . .

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