Status-6 (Twitter)

Russian servicemen conduct surveillance of the Ukrainian Zmiinyi Island located in the northwestern corner of the Black Sea through a UAV. Footage allegedly from June 2025.

At one moment, the Russian points to something that he describes as Starlink terminals situated on the island.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Hegseth was specifically asked about the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which has been funded to the tune of $300 million through the base Department of Defense budget annually.

USAI was not included in the FY2026 PBR or HAC-D's draft appropriations bill. It remains to be seen what SAC-D Chairman McConnell does with that line item.

At some point the Trump Admin is going to have to request additional supplemental funding to, if nothing else, fill the gaping hole of unfunded drawdown replacement requirements left by the Biden Admin. https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1932477285497487615#m

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@deaidua @Drecas_2000: Last sentence: "The expectation is that a decision can be made later this year on which systems to be included in the permanent solution."

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@deaidua @Drecas_2000: Getting one next year probably means that the Bundeswehr will give up one of their own build slots in the production queue.

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

@ttbozu8: “Do you have a question?” 🤡

He was saying something a million times more important than any question asked that day.

Status-6 (Twitter)

Russian strikes with Shahed/Geran-type long-range OWA-UAVs hit the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv tonight.

A multi-storey building caught fire as a result of the attack.

Def Mon (Twitter)

RT @Tatarigami_UA: When I talk about the war and write “both sides in a war can lose,” it often generates confusion. Many assume that war is a zero-sum game - that one side’s loss is inherently the other’s gain. But this isn’t always the case. War is not an end in itself, it is a tool of statecraft, intended to achieve political objectives. When neither party accomplishes its strategic aims, both effectively lose - having expended immense resources and, more critically, human capital, without achieving their desired outcomes. In such cases, both sides may find themselves in a worse position than they were before the war began.

The Iran-Iraq War is a decent and recent historical example. After nearly a decade of fighting, both countries suffered serious human and economic losses, only to return to roughly the same territorial status quo - diminished and destabilized.

In the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s fundamental objective is to preserve its independence and maintain control over most of its territory. This, in effect, means denying Russia its core strategic aim.

Russia’s realistic goal, by contrast, may no longer be outright occupation, but rather rendering Ukraine unviable as a functioning state -undermining its economy, depopulating its cities, and precipitating long-term sociopolitical collapse. But achieving this comes at an extraordinary cost for Russia as well. The Russian state itself suffers economic and demographic decline. Even a "successful" outcome in Ukraine could leave Russia so depleted that it enters its own period of internal instability and geopolitical marginalization.

If Ukraine manages to repel Russian advances, why wouldn’t that constitute a victory? Because, as noted, winning a war is not only about holding ground - it’s about what remains afterward. A country left with ruined infrastructure, lost territories, millions of its citizens displaced, and a dramatically aged population with a GDP per capita over twice smaller than Mexico cannot claim a strategic win.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention

Def Mon (Twitter)

@keithchandler44: Almost 50k are killed by guns each year in the US. Im not even sure there are any registered deaths by drones. And you choose to be concerned about terrorists with drones?

Dan (Twitter)

@Praesidium_ukr @WillKnowler @front_ukrainian: It started by the host unit releasing film on their TG account today without explaining it was old. To be fare it likely wasn't released b4 in this quality.
Many X accounts then naturally auto-repost it assuming it is current. It looks good and checking its date takes time.

Def Mon (Twitter)

@johnwdorris @TheWarMonitor: This is twitter you donkey.

Def Mon (Twitter)

@johnwdorris @TheWarMonitor: You just told someone to mind their own business on twitter, then complain about someone telling you what to do?

Dan (Twitter)

@banderafella: For info this is not Sumy but Kalinina, north east of Chasiv Yar in June 2024. Location at 48.609553, 37.864178.
The 225th, then an assault battalion, were serving in that area then. t.me/OBiloshytskiy/592

Dan (Twitter)

@Danspiun @Praesidium_ukr @WillKnowler @front_ukrainianReplying to @banderafella: Another example from the day before when Balu Hub put this film out without explaining it was a year old and lots of accounts assumed it was from Sumy. https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1932571961562956211#m