Russian air-defense just can't get a break

No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

Extremely good videos of the Ukrainian FP-5 „Flamingo“. This heavy cruise missile struck the VNIIR Progress electronics plant in Cheboksary, Chuvashia, in Russia, over 1,000 km (630 miles) deep in Russian space this morning. The situation for Russia got worse.

❗️Temporarily occupied Yalta, Crimea. Huge queues of cars at the gas stations.

🤯 WOW: Unique footage shows Ukrainian drone use shotgun to down Russian UAV.

RT @rendeiro_silva: Os grupos de motociclistas russos carregados de explosivos detonam sempre que são atingidos .

“I think we know where the russians are...” Absolutely hilarious performance by a Romanian comedian.

He should have worn this suit.

The incredible gas lines of today's Russian occupied Crimea put the 1970's OPEC-American Oil Embargo to shame.

🔥⚓️🚢BREAKING: Operators of the 1st Separate Center of the USF struck and set ablaze the Russian Baltic Fleet corvette Project 20380 Steregushchiy-class corvette Boykiy while it was undergoing repairs in a dry dock at Kronstadt near St. Petersburg. Particularly notable is that the strike was carried out using guided strike drones controlled in real time 900 km from Ukraine.

Takie systemy antydrnowe powinny być jak najszybciej wdrażane w Polsce i dostarczane do jednostek. To najtańszy sposób neutralizowania zagrożeń powietrznych.. Na filmie ukraiński mały interceptor - dron Sting (Wild Hornet) czy P1-Sun raz nakierowany cel, sam dalej podąża za nim... ceny: od 1 do 2,5 tys USD.

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has joined the effort to disrupt Russian military logistics, using RAM-2X loitering munitions to strike targets along supply routes.

Footage of the FP-1/2 drone strike on frigate Admiral Essen, project 11356, at Novorossiysk naval base, May 23.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces used several drones to destroy Russia’s Project 21631 Buyan-M small missile ship Grad on Lake Onega. The Oct. 4, 2025 operation took place as the vessel moved by inland waterways from the Baltic Sea toward the Caspian, where it was likely intended to reinforce Russia’s southern fleet grouping. A video of the strike was released only now. #Ukraine

Putin hinted to Kazakhstan that they would be the next victims of Russia, because they communicate in Russian there. The President of Kazakhstan immediately switched to the Kazakh language and the Russian self-proclaimed government was forced to turn on the translator 😀

Ukrainian forces are methodically wiping out Russian logistics in Ukraine‘s occupied southeast. This video alone shows more than 30 confirmed hits.

This coffee shop in Kyiv opened yesterday, then got hit by a russian air strike just hours later. Today, they're still open and people in Kyiv are lining up to buy a coffee to support them, stepping over debris and broken glass on the way in. FYI, the coffee is excellent 🇺🇦

Throwback. Russian S-400 air defense battery is trying to interceptor Ukrainian Atacms, but failed miserably with explosive end (to it). Spectacular.

While the UN tries to avoid to point at the obvious culprit of the strike against their convoy in Kherson, Ukraine, Russians released FPV footage of that particular strike, making absolutely clear this wasn’t some kind of accident, but a deliberate terrorist strike, which civilians in Kherson have to endure on a daily base.

Russia: New building construction in Tyumen, occupied Siberia. Such issues are systemic and nationwide as Russian developers cut corners because of a sharp rise in cost of construction materials over the last few years.