Ukrainian F-16 takes down russian shahed drone.
Respect is due to the pilot for taking on targets at such close range is a mortal gamble!
08.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 320 🔁 58 💬 13 📌 4
Reports are surfacing from US military bases around the world that soldiers are being pressured by their superior officers to go see the Melania movie.
If you had hoped that our professional military would refuse to violate the law and their oath to back Trump, it might be time to rethink that.
08.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 219 🔁 63 💬 17 📌 6
Was mogelijk gericht op een militair vliegveld daar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasylki...
08.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
En rond 21.00 opnieuw, 3 of 4 ballistische raketten ineens.
Ik heb overigens niet de indruk dat Oekraïne nog veel Patriot-luchtafweerraketten op voorraad heeft.
08.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dit gebeurt niet vaak midden overdag. Telegram-kanalen schrijven dat het mogelijk ging om zes ballistische raketten (dat is veel), gericht op plaatsje Vasylkiv ten zuiden van Kyiv.
08.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Image: Frontline Robotics
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the first German-made Ukrainian LINZA UAVs from the newly opened Quantum Systems x Frontline Robotics joint venture will already be delivered to the AFU in a few days. The deliveries are financed by the German government.
08.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 102 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
08.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
As I understand it so far, higher hopes were placed on the Flamingo cruise missile over the Long Neptune cruise missile.
With its 3,000 km range and 1 ton warhead.
Greater range and more lethality than Long Neptune.
But there are signs that the Flamingo has run into mass production problems.
08.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Long Neptune (upgraded anti-ship R-360 Neptune) was unveiled AUG 2025.
Range increased from 280 km to 1,000+ km.
Warhead increased to 260 kg (573 lbs).
GPS and terrain mapping navigation, with IR seeker.
Successfully striking targets deep in Russia in late 2025 and early 2026.
08.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ukraine says FP-5 Flamingo strikes damaged missile facilities at Russia’s Kapustin Yar range
Ukraine’s General Staff says its forces successfully struck Russia’s Kapustin Yar military test range, a site from which Moscow has launched Oreshnik medium-range missiles at Ukraine.
In January 2026, Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out a series of strikes on the Russian Ministry of Defense’s strategic Kapustin Yar range, causing significant damage, according to the General Staff . Details were published the morning of January 8:
Updated information says the attacks damaged a technical facility that services medium-range ballistic missiles, an assembly building, and a logistics warehouse at the Kapustin Yar range.
The General Staff noted that Russia has twice used this range during the war to launch its Oreshnik medium-range missiles at Ukraine, making it a high-priority target for Kyiv.
Ukraine’s military also reported several overnight strikes on January 8. Near occupied Rozovka in the Zaporizhzhia region, a supply warehouse of Russia’s armed forces was hit. Near Krasnogorsk, also in Zaporizhzhia, the target was a concentration of Russian personnel.
In addition, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian UAV command post near Novoekonomichne in Donbas.
Russian losses from these attacks are being assessed, the General Staff said, adding that Ukraine intends to continue systematic strikes to degrade Russia’s combat potential.
In January 2026, Ukraine’s Defense Forces conducted a series of successful strikes on the Kapustin Yar range in Russia’s Astrakhan region, saying they used long-range weapons, including FP-5 Flamingo missiles.
OSINT analysts, using satellite imagery, identified damage to two facilities at pre-launch preparation site No. 105.
Ukraine says FP-5 Flamingo strikes damaged missile facilities at Russia’s Kapustin Yar range #Ukraine
08.02.2026 15:37 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Explosions reported at the port of Novorossiysk.
08.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 244 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
Het juiste antwoord was: Uruzgan. Een stuk ten oosten van Tarin Kowt en ten noorden van de Mirabad-vallei. Nam de foto in 2009 tijdens een Australisch-Nederlands konvooi dat de eerste patrouillebasis in de Mirabad-vallei ging bouwen. Men reed grotendeels stapvoets wegens het gevaar van IEDs/mijnen.
08.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ter aanvulling:
08.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Russia's FSB claims the suspect in the attack on GRU General Alekseyev was extradited from the UAE – 66-year-old Lyubomir Korba. Two accomplices were named. No footage of the attack or wounded general has surfaced.
08.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 118 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 5
Russian occupiers fear that inactive Starlink terminals could give away their positions urging comrades to ditch the devices immediately.
08.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 244 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 2
Man suspected of shooting top Russian general detained in Dubai
The FSB said a Russian citizen named Lyubomir Korba was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting.
A man suspected of shooting senior Russian military intelligence officer General Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service, which said the suspect had been in Dubai and was handed over to Russian authorities.
08.02.2026 08:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🔴 Russia struck a residential block in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, at dawn.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine says one person was killed, two injured, as apartments and cars burned in the courtyard.
08.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 79 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 3
Several southern Russian regions were hit by a massive missile and drone attack overnight with power outages reported across the area.
08.02.2026 08:28 — 👍 240 🔁 27 💬 7 📌 3
GRU General Alekseyev survives assassination attempt, suspects detained in Dubai – media.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, who was the ...
GRU General Alekseyev survives assassination attempt, suspects detained in Dubai – media.
#news #uazmi #war #russia #world
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, who was the ...
07.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond horror. What other 🇷🇺 #warcrimes will we learn about ?
#SpecialTribunal
#StopRussiaArmUkraine 🇺🇦
08.02.2026 05:43 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
The most likely reason Elon Musk finally disabled Starlink for Russian soldiers is because he wants to take SpaceX public and get a trillion dollar valuation for this IPO.
If the Russians were using Starlink to commit war crimes, then investors might have boycotted his IPO.
06.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 397 🔁 125 💬 24 📌 13
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