4/4
This is the key shift:
Russian soldiers themselves now describe these issues as systemic.
Not temporary.
Not local.
A slow degradation of combat effectiveness across the front.....
War reached turning point...
Ruzzia, GO HOME
/Lewi
3/
Communications are failing under Ukrainian EW pressure.
Signals disrupted.
Coordination breaks.
Command chains fracture.
When units can’t talk, they can’t fight effectively.
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/pid-udar...
2/
“Atesh” reports frontline complaints:
• Ammunition shortages for key artillery
• Reduced fire capacity
• Units struggling to hold positions
Less shells = less pressure = weaker offensive tempo.
www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/r...
1/4
Russian units are now openly talking about a growing logistics failure.
“Shell shortage.”
Broken communications.
Declining coordination.
This is no longer isolated friction.
- It’s systemic.
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/v-armii-...
3/3
The decisive variable is not manpower.
It is systems.
If Ukraine achieves sustained drone dominance, Russia’s numerical advantage becomes irrelevant.
This is no longer a static war.
....It is an accelerating one.
Slava Ukraiini 🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦
2/3
Russia’s theory relied on attrition.
Mass over precision.
Time over technology.
That model is eroding.
Losses rise. Breakthroughs stall.
Meanwhile Ukraine compresses kill chains with drones, targeting logistics, armor, and command nodes at scale.
1/3
Ukraine is no longer fighting for survival alone.
It is shaping a path to win.
Drone scaling, adaptive tactics, and industrial output are shifting the balance faster than most Western analysis admits.
Source:
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
ANDRIY TRESCHAK……forever 30….🙏💔
04/30/1995 – 03/01/2026
On April 20, 2026, Uzhgorod will bow😰 its head in deep sorrow, saying goodbye to one of its best sons - ANDRIY TRESCHAK.
Come to honor the memory of our defender, our Andriy...
Forever in the ranks!🇺🇦❤️
Eternal memory 🇺🇦❤️🙏
Ukraine struck two Russian large landing ships — Yamal and Nikolay Filchenkov — plus a Podlet-K1 radar in occupied Sevastopol overnight on 19 April. Combined value: over $155 mn
Meanwhile, drones hit Tuapse: 1 killed at the seaport, fire at the oil refinery.
euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/20/t...
Ukrainian forces of the „Prymary” unit released a video showing strikes against the Russian Ropucha-class landing ship „Yamal“ and Tapir-class „Nikolai Filchenkov“.
The video concludes with a successful strike against a „Podlyot-K1“ radar unit.
1/3
Claim: Russian troops surrendered to Ukrainian ground robots.
Framed as “historic moment” where machines displaced humans on the battlefield.
We’ve seen drones dominate.
Ground robotics is a different escalation.
💥 In the South Slobozhansky direction, border guards-drone pilots of the RUBpAK "STRIKS" unit destroyed nine enemy "Molniya" drones.
🔥 The system of broken trenches against FPV. Work of pilots of 225 OSHP.
1/ Ukraine's success this year in stalling Russia's offensive, and driving Russian forces back in some places, has prompted increasingly bleak assessments from Russian warbloggers. In a lengthy series of posts, Yuri Kotenok warns that Russia's war effort is faltering badly. ⬇️
/2. Atlant Aero plant was also targeted by Neptune missiles in mid January 2026. (Satellite comparison of before and after January strike)
Since then, the affected building and the lower left corner have been completely dismantled.
Rating of 2451 and a tournament performance rating of 2781 over 11 rounds, qualification for the FIDE World Cup, giving him a path to the Candidates, and an instant GM title! Not too bad! Huge congrats to Roman and Ukraine! www.chess.com/news/view/uk...
17-yr-old Ukrainian chess player Roman Dehtiariov has won the 2026 European Individual Chess Championship.Congratulations!
Roman from Kharkiv was ranked 126th on the starting list of players.But he scored 9 points out of 11,becoming the first European champion in history who is not a grandmaster.
The course includes weapons, engineering, and tactical training, tactical medicine, and drone training (FPV drones and AI-powered simulators).
Russia forcibly militarizes Ukrainian kids on occupied territories.
Over the past two years, 3,000 Ukrainian children in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, starting from age 14, have undergone military training as part of the teenager program by the Warrior (Voin) center.
• Large landing ship "Yamal" (Project 775);
• Large landing ship "Azov" (Project 775M);
• Large reconnaissance ship "Slavutych" (Project 1288.4) - listed in the publication as a "ship of an unidentified type."
OSINT analysis of Ukrainian operations in Sevastopol Bay, Russian-occupied Crimea - by CyberBoroshno
After analyzing the available data,we can confirm that five ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet have been struck
▪️By Special Operations Center "A"of the Security Service of Ukraine (April 17-18):
Five (FIVE) ships of Russia's Black Sea Fleet were under strikes by Ukrainian Defenders in recent days.
Wow.
All Russian Project 775 large landing ships that were in the bay at the time of the operations were struck by Ukraine.
(Ukrainian housewives do have some cards, I might add)⤵️
Teachers in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region were instructed to read out an edited version of a speech by Adolf Hitler. Eight out of 12 schools agreed.
The stunt was organized by Belarusian activist Vladislav Bokhan.
He took Hitler’s speech from September 1, 1939,
These are the stories of animals harmed by Russia’s war in #Ukraine - ones I have written about over the years. Sadly, there are many more.
Do you remember them? Which story stayed with you the most?
Elon Musks's father says 'Ukraine should be part of Russia' in shock intervention
www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
An evening in Russian Tuapse, with help from Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Emirati officials told that if the UAE runs short of dollars, it may be forced to use the Chinese yuan or other countries’ currencies for oil sales and transactions.
Source: WSJ
Officials say the UAE fears the conflict could deter investors and undermine its status as a global financial hub, adding that President Trump’s decision to attack Iran has drawn the country into a destructive conflict whose effects may not yet be over.
The UAE is negotiating with the U.S. about obtaining financial support in case the Iran war pushes the state into a deeper crisis.
Central Bank Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama discussed the possibility of a currency-swap line with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve officials
