Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

POSTED BY: CAPTAINCRUNCH
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:36
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Monday, November 24, 2025 3:47 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Yanno, I hate to have to track down and debunk all of the bullshit being posted. If it's in the western press, just assume it's

THGR:
Like I've said many times now. The Russian's always try and pin their sins onto others. Everyone knows it.

www. youtube. com/watch?v=wHAD09-OvfY

Russia bans "Twitter"?
How far back did you have to go for that little gem??

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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:

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Originally posted by THG:
Get ready, Signym will post she has a friend in Ukraine who signym will claim has seen what she is posting firsthand.

PROGRAM THGR4
WHEN X,Y = BACKED INTO A CORNER
RUN SUBROUTINE STRAWMAN

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T:

I get my frontline videos here:

Don't pay any attention to his political analyses and his predictions where Russian forces will go next .... he's almost always wrong. But frontline videos don't lie.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 6:08 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Why In The Hell Are Ukrainian Assault Troops Counterattacking In Pokrovsk?

There aren't enough Ukrainian reserves for a major counteroffensive.

Nov 24, 2025

https://www.trenchart.us/p/why-in-the-hell-are-ukrainian-assault

The ruins of Pokrovsk, a mining town with a pre-war population of 60,000 that has been the locus of the bloodiest fighting in eastern Ukraine for nearly a year, are now almost totally under Russian control.

Emphasis on almost. Against the odds, Ukrainian forces are still active in Pokrovsk. Especially one unit: the 425th Assault Regiment, which took up positions along the town’s northern outskirts in late October in order to cover the retreat of the last few survivors of the main Ukrainian garrison from the 68th Jaeger Brigade and the 155th Mechanized Brigade.

On at least half a dozen confirmed occasions since then, the elite assault regiment has counterattacked near or past the east-west railway that cuts through the center of Pokrovsk. The question is—why?

The Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv along with the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps, which oversees operations in and around Pokrovsk and adjacent Myrnohrad, have released nearly identical statements characterizing the battle for Pokrovsk as unsettled.

“The defense forces maintain defined borders in the northern part of Pokrovsk,” the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps stated Friday. “We also control positions south of the railway, which are important for further de-occupation. The enemy is trying to cross the railway to increase the occupation zone of the city, but these attempts are blocked by our military.”

That’s an incredible claim—and one that contradicts the consensus among independent observers and mappers. On Nov. 18, observer Thorkill concluded the Russian Center Group of Forces controlled “about 95% to 97%” of Pokrovsk.

The sliver of the town the Russians clearly don’t control is the one that observers and official sources agree on: the narrow strip along the northern outskirts where the 425th Assault Regiment and other elite units dug in starting in late October.

Those northern fighting positions serve an obvious purpose. They’re the left side of a half-mile-wide corridor through which the Ukrainian garrison in Myrnohrad, pre-war population 46,000, began what appears to be an orderly partial withdrawal from that town in recent weeks.

Most of Myrnohrad is still nominally under the control of Ukrainian troops, but probably not for long. The town is surrounded on three sides by a Russian force that outnumbers the local Ukrainian force at least five to one. All the supply lines into the town are under constant surveillance and attack by Russian drones.

Despite the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps’ disadvantageous position, “the Ukrainian side continues to present narratives in the media that the battle for Pokrovsk is still ongoing,” Thorkill wrote.

Note the phrasing of the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps’ recent official statement. The verbiage “further de-occupation” implies a Ukrainian counteroffensive is in the offing—one that could restore Ukrainian control in Pokrovsk.

Don’t believe it. Ukraine committed its last significant reserve force, the 1st Azov Corps, to contain and eliminate a Russian incursion north of Pokrovsk starting in August. If there were other significant reserves on the Ukrainian side, they’d be helping to stabilize the collapsing front line around Hulyaipole, an important logistics hub in Zaporizhzhia Oblast 60 miles southwest of Pokrovsk.

But Hulyaipole is teetering. A small number of fresh Ukrainian troops from the 225th Assault Regiment rushed the area two weeks ago—but not to fight. Instead, they reportedly took up positions behind the 102nd Territorial Brigade, the core of the local Ukrainian garrison, and opened fire on the territorials to prevent them from retreating without orders.

The odds of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Pokrovsk are slim. And they’ll get a lot slimmer if, as reported, the Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division is redeploying to the area to make good heavy Russian losses during the yearlong siege.

Despite their losses, the Russians still have reserves. The Ukrainians don’t. And that means whatever small actions the 425th Assault Regiment is taking in Pokrovsk are preludes to … nothing. The Ukrainian raiders may slow the full consolidation of Russian forces in Pokrovsk, but they almost certainly can’t prevent it.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 6:13 AM

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Russia’s secret laser weapon plane wiped out in Ukrainian drone assault on Taganrog airbase (VIDEO, MAP)

The A-60, housing a Soviet-era space laser system, long immobile and hidden from the public eye, was hit during a night raid.

By Yuri Zoria
25/11/2025

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/russias-secret-laser-weapon-pla
ne-wiped-out-in-ukrainian-drone-assault-on-taganrog-airbase-2/

The Beriev plant is a key element of Russia’s military aviation industry and part of the state-owned United Aircraft Corporation under Rostec. The facility designs, manufactures, upgrades, and repairs amphibious aircraft and special-purpose aviation systems. It also services aircraft used by Russia’s naval aviation and long-range bomber forces. Its main testing base is the Taganrog-Yuzhny military airfield, which was one of the focal points of the 25 November attack.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 8:44 AM

THG

Keep it real please

Military Summary
Russian
https://rumble.com/MilitarySummary

Funny how comrade signym claims she is not a Russian propagandist, yet she gets all her talking points from Russians.

T

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:11 PM

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November 25, 2025, 3:30 pm • by Luca Léry Moffat

According to a letter sent by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to member states on Nov. 17, Ukraine requires 83.4 billion euros in military support and 52.3 billion euros in macro-financial needs over 2026–2027 (24 months).
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/17/17.11.2025_Lette
r-from-President-von-der-Leyen-to-EU-leaders_letter_optionspaper.pdf

The letter outlined three options for supporting Ukraine. A reparations loan is likely the most palatable for European countries, some of which face pressure on their finances.

Mudra said that Europe "has to use (the reparations loan)," calling it a key card in ending this war.

"If the EU approves a Reparation Loan based on international law (...) then Ukraine will have predictable, long-term financial and military sustainability," she said.

Roughly $300 billion of foreign reserves held by Russia's central bank were frozen by sanctions in the days following the full-scale invasion. The majority — 185 billion euros — is held in Belgium.

An estimated $524 billion is needed for the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine, according to the World Bank.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-rejects-using-russian-assets-as-ba
rgaining-chip-in-peace-talks/

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 12:36 PM

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It is payback time.

Ukraine to turn tables in “first symmetric winter” as its drones overwhelm Russian air defenses

Ukraine turns Russia’s tactics against Moscow.

By Olena Mukhina | Nov 25, 2025

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/ukraine-to-turn-tables-in-first
-symmetric-winter-as-its-drones-overwhelm-russian-air-defenses/

Russia is experiencing an air defense shortage due to Ukrainian strikes. Ukraine has managed to exhaust Russian protection systems to the point that they can no longer physically cope, says Yevhen Dykyi, former commander of a company in the Aidar Battalion, as per Radio NV.

Ukraine has expanded long-range drone strikes throughout 2025 to pressure Russia’s war economy, disrupt military logistics, and stretch its air defenses. The pace has grown as Ukraine boosts domestic drone production and targets sites tied to Russia’s defense and export sector.

At the same time, Dykyi believes Ukraine is facing an extremely difficult winter.

Russia’s first “symmetric” winter: “But this will be the first symmetric winter. And here we will see how they handle it with the same unbreakable resolve that we have been facing for four years,” he says.

He notes that drones systematically operating in Moscow Oblast are no coincidence.

“This is exactly what they do to us. We have managed to exhaust their air defenses to the point that they physically cannot cope,” Dykyi adds.

Kremlin equipment shortage intensifies the problem

While artillery shells were long supplied to Russia by North Korea, covering their deficit, though stocks are now nearly exhausted, surface-to-air missile systems are far more sophisticated.

“North Korean SAMs are not something Russia can rely on, and fall hasn’t even ended yet,” he stresses.

On the night of 23 November, drones attacked a thermal power plant in Shatura, near Moscow. The site is one of Russia’s oldest energy facilities. Drone strikes spark fire at Moscow Oblast power plant, one of Russia’s oldest energy facilities (VIDEO, MAP)
Explosion from a drone strike on Shatura Power Station, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 23 November 2025. Screenshot from video: Exilenova+

Three transformers catch fire at major facility as Ukraine expands long-range strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/23/drone-strikes-spark-fire-at-mos
cow-oblast-power-plant/

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