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Each of the videos had their own subtitle style, so my guess it that the person that compiled the videos wanted consistency.
If there’s a translation mistake, feel free to correct me.
His bodyguard was killed and he’s in the ICU.
I would really appreciate an answer to this as well.
Here’s the last frame. It appears that at least one fridge is still working. I don’t imagine they can run more than one off of a generator.
Please accept WBingo as an alternative.
Local source:
Air strike by the AFU on the dam of the Belgorod Reservoir.
The video was published today by the Ukrainian Telegram channel “Sunflowers” (Soniyashnyk). It shows a fighter jet dropping an American GBU-39 guided bomb onto the bridge that runs across the discharge sluices.
The strike location is confirmed by the geolocation of objects on satellite imagery. Why was the Belgorod Reservoir dam breached, and what is happening upstream and downstream of the breach?
➜ Earlier, “Pepel” reported that as a result of strikes on the Belgorod Reservoir dam, the hydraulic structure was breached.
➜ According to satellite imagery, an uncontrolled discharge of water is taking place there. The reservoir is rapidly losing water — this is visible in photos from the Berega beach and from the village of Pulyaevka, located near the dam.
➜ The dam breach occurred along the entire length of the spillway — uncontrolled water discharge is flowing through a 35-meter-long breach. The authorities confirmed the breach only on the third day.
➜ Due to the Belgorod Reservoir dam breach, the Nezhegol River, located downstream and passing through Shebekino, began to fill up rapidly.
➜ Following the dam breach, water began flooding villages downstream — in the village of Arkhangelskoye in the Shebekinsky District, located 7 kilometers from the breach site, water started flooding vegetable gardens.
➜ Subsequently, the AFU launched a missile strike on the bridge over the Seversky Donets River between the villages of Grafovka and Bezlyudovka below the Belgorod Reservoir dam.
➜ Satellite images show that shoals up to 500 meters long have formed on the Belgorod Reservoir near the dam, while on the dam itself, the intensity of the water discharge has decreased.
➜ The satellite spectral index of the reservoir’s surface indicates that the Belgorod Reservoir has lost most of its water, and in some areas has dried up almost completely. Ground photos show that in certain sections, water remains only in the historical bed of the Seversky Donets.
➜ Due to the shallowing of the reservoir, fish, crustaceans, and other fauna and flora are dying en masse inside it.
I’m assuming the list was expanded but the label wasn’t updated.
In Kryvyi Rih, the father of a 5-year-old girl who had been mobilized was temporarily allowed to return home following widespread public outcry. The man must resolve issues related to his child and complete the necessary paperwork.
It was a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as Minister of Defense.
Our team managed to:- Disable Starlink for the Russians, which drastically reduced their ability to conduct an effective drone war.
- Having taken over the Ministry of Defense with no budget, take a risk, draw funds from the end-of-year payroll allocation, and effectively invest them in mid-strike, fiber-optic FPVs, cheap reconnaissance, land-based robotic systems (Natsionalni Robotyzovani Kompleksy / NRK), interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones. Procure more drones in four months than during the entire last year.
- Launch “Logistics Lockdown” as a separate program with dedicated funding, which, combined with the right procurement and support for top units, made it possible to cut off enemy logistics and begin the isolation of Crimea.
- Continue the funding program for the Drone Line, which is the foundation for purchasing drones for the Unmanned Systems Forces.
- Launch a program to support modern drone-assault units that primarily fight with technology.
- Introduce a 70% prepayment for purchases via “ePoints” (yeBaly) on the Brave1 Market portal.
- Fundamentally change the procurement system. Launch the first tenders for long-range artillery and hundreds of thousands of drones, saving the state budget billions of dollars.
- For the first time, procure thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military. And through tenders, at that.
- Integrate Pavlo Lazar into the Air Force, implementing an After Action Review procedure for every mass attack. During this time, the drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and cruise missiles from 47% to 87%.
- Contract Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, as well as apply through a European loan for the purchase of PAC-3 missiles.
- Launch a baseline drone supply level for brigades and corps. Starting in July, all combat brigades and corps will begin receiving predictable drone deliveries without manual intervention. This allows them to project their future actions.
- Launch a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.
- Initiate an unpopular but extremely crucial transformation of the military: contracts for all with defined service terms and deferments, introducing some of the world’s highest salaries for infantry and assault troops, opening up the foreign recruitment market with transparent and attractive market terms, and new tools to incentivize the return of servicemen who went AWOL (samovilne zalyshennya chastyny / SZCh).
- Host three Ramstein meetings, where we managed to break out of the Russian information trap about our alleged defeat and restore our partners’ faith in Ukraine. An announcement was made for $40 billion in support for this year (and that is not counting the European loan).
- Launch the mechanism for utilizing the European loan for our military priorities. This was a separate, complex bureaucratic task that we successfully implemented.
- Find a way to scale up cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds. Sign a record contract.
- Our ballistics. Symbolically, on the day of the government’s dismissal, we conducted a successful test of ballistics developed under the responsibility of the MoD. We fundamentally changed the technical specifications and achieved maximum precision. Reduced the price by 30%. Ukraine will enter a new league.
- Sign a contract for the purchase of Gripen jets, which will make it possible to shoot down Russian SU aircraft, the carriers of KABs (guided aerial bombs).
- Together with the military, plan and execute Operation “Auchan,” which halted the enemy’s mechanized offensive for six months.
- Open up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up production in the defense-industrial complex (OPK).
- Launch the Trophy Lab—providing an opportunity for partners to study Russian military technology.
- Launch Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into the war.
Mykhailo Fedorov accused commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi of refusing to discuss problems directly and instead “weaving intrigues behind the scenes.” Fedorov said he accepted President Zelensky’s decision not to dismiss Syrskyi and was prepared to work with him. He credited Syrskyi with helping Ukraine hold in 2022, but argued the war has changed and the military cannot move forward on old methods while drone technology changes several times within a single cycle.
https://t.me/noel_reports/49428
Zelensky said Mykhailo Fedorov will remain on his team, with his future role to be announced later. Responding to protests, the president said people were right to demonstrate and added that the government has no secrets from society, only from Russia.
Zelensky also said Ihor Klymenko is being considered for defense minister, though no nomination has yet been submitted to parliament. He said the next minister must address mobilization and the work of recruitment centers, including finding a more respectful approach. Zelensky added that abusive forced-mobilization practices must be eliminated and said this could be one of Klymenko’s strengths.
This article goes into more detail about Boryslav Bereza.
Also in the video.
I’ve cut you some footage from the production of Fire Point, including the FP-5 “Flamingo” and the drones of the FP line.
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A special thanks to the subscriber Shredder, who noticed one of the key moments of the plot - the change in the shape of the engine’s connection to the fuselage of the “Flamingo” rocket (it became more streamlined). In addition, the engine gondola itself visually became smaller, and the nozzle also changed, which may indicate that they started using a different engine [previously, they used Soviet/Ukrainian AI-25 or AI-25TL engines].
☝️ Back in March of this year, Stillerman said that Fire Point had developed its own two-stage turbojet engine with a low bypass ratio for the FP-5. Its main feature is that it is optimized specifically for low-altitude flights
As we can see, the latest flights of the “Flamingo” are indeed taking place at very low altitudes.
Mi-17-V5 (Mi-8MTV-5)
Consequences.