Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:40 AM

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Traitors labeled as victims - Kremlin claims 500 'repressed political prisoners' in Ukraine

Author: Oleh Velhan | Sun, December 14, 2025 - 06:46

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/--1765687571.html

Russia has claimed that there are allegedly "nearly 500 political prisoners" in Ukraine, attempting to justify pro-Russian collaborators under the guise of human rights protection, according to an interview by Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova with the state news agency TASS. . . .

Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly stressed that all such cases are handled strictly within the legal framework. These are not prosecutions for political views, but criminal cases related to collaboration, cooperation with occupying forces, assistance to the aggressor, or other crimes against national security during Russia’s full-scale war. Moscow consistently substitutes these concepts, portraying those convicted of collaboration as "victims of repression".

Such statements by Moskalkova are part of a Kremlin information campaign aimed at discrediting Ukraine’s law enforcement and judicial system internationally. Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing aggression, these narratives are used to justify Russia’s own crimes and to promote a distorted version of events.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:35 PM

THG

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by second:

Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk

The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe

Phillips P. OBrien

Dec 14, 2025

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-163-ukraine-goes
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It has been a week of some awakenings on the European continent. The impact of the US National Security has been real, at least emotionally. Some Europeans, even previously staunch Atlanticists, are openly acknowledging that the USA is now not even to be seen as neutral but instead to be understood as an enemy of liberal democracy in Europe. Not everyone has changed and we do not know how this will be translated into policy, but the discussion is shifting and this shift is a vital prerequisite to shifting policy.

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

Which is why comrade signym is gone.

T

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:43 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk

The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe

Phillips P. OBrien

Dec 14, 2025

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-163-ukraine-goes
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It has been a week of some awakenings on the European continent. The impact of the US National Security has been real, at least emotionally. Some Europeans, even previously staunch Atlanticists, are openly acknowledging that the USA is now not even to be seen as neutral but instead to be understood as an enemy of liberal democracy in Europe. Not everyone has changed and we do not know how this will be translated into policy, but the discussion is shifting and this shift is a vital prerequisite to shifting policy.

THGR:
Which is why comrade signym is gone.

HUH?
No, I'm not "gone“, you moron. I just posted in this thread yesterday. To you, even.

South to north this past week:

The fortified town to the south, Huliaipola is in the process of being stormed. Russian soldiers are on the Ukrainian side of the river, and there is fighting in the center of the town.

Pokrovsk is fully under Russian control.

Its twin city just to the east, in the same pocket, Myrnograd, has been fully surrounded and the last areas of Ukrainian resistance are disappearing as soldiers either surrender or are killed.

A pocket around Konstantinovka is being formed as Russian soldiers broke thru to the north of the city and are approaching physical control of the one remaining major roadway into the city.

The forified town, Sieversk has been liberated. Bc it's on high ground it will serve as a jumping off point for the major city of Slaviansk to the west.

Russians are taking more territory to the Oskol river

In Kupiansk, while Ukrainians are attacking Russians on the western side of the Oskol river, Russians are taking control over the Ukrainian soldiers that they surrounded on the eastern side, and advancing westward both north and south of the attacking Ukrainian contingent. It looks like another pocket is being formed around the Ukrainians.

And since Zelensky pulled soldiers from the Sumy region to attack Kupiansk, Russians are advancing in Sumy.

Altogether, a bad week for Ukraine. Of course, you won't hear about it bc it's not in western media.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 3:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

#Rootin4Putin

#Fuck Ukraine

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:27 PM

THG

Keep it real please

Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy.

T

Ukraine’s Counterattack Just Changed the Situation on the Front

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:36 PM

SIGNYM

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Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
*gasp!*
Hahahahaha!

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:58 PM

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Ukrainians Are Secretly Taking Control Of Russia's Shahed Drones
Electronic warfare spoofing is tricking some Shaheds into landing

Dec 14, 2025

https://www.trenchart.us/p/ukrainians-are-secretly-taking-control

On Friday night and Saturday morning, Russian forces launched a massive attack on Ukraine involving 270 explosive Shahed drones, 196 decoy Shaheds, 16 cruise missiles and 14 ballistic missiles.

The main target was Odesa, Ukraine’s strategic port on the Black Sea—the destination for many of Ukraine’s imports and the departure point for many of its exports, including billions of dollars worth of grain every year.

No one died in the attacks, but a million people lost power. The Ukrainian air force reported shooting down or suppressing 417 Shaheds, nine cruise missiles and four ballistic missiles. It’s evident, from videos shot in around Odesa during the attack, that Ukrainian electronic warfare worked overtime to blunt the bombardment.

In particular, it’s evident that strategic E.W. systems (basically, powerful ground-mounted radio emitters) are spoofing some of the 440-pound Shaheds: convincing them they’re flying higher than they actually are—and tricking them into gently landing on the ground … or water.

Ukrainian E.W. operators recently proved they can spoof multi-million-dollar Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. It should be much easier to spoof a $50,000 Shahed that flies no faster than 220 miles per hour and no higher than 15,000 feet. One Ukrainian source who’s active in the E.W. field confirmed that his team recently updated the software on one of the strategic E.W. systems that protects Odessa.

Two recent videos, possibly from the Friday-Saturday barrage, depict what are clearly spoofed Shaheds. One descends to the Black Sea just off Odesa, skips like a stone and settles onto the water. Another skids to a rough landing on a road.

There are other ways to down a Shahed, of course. Jamming their navigation systems, rather than spoofing them, can cause them to fly wildly off course. Ukrainian forces also shoot down the drones from the air or ground. Increasingly, Ukrainian units intercept the Shaheds with tiny, speedy interceptor drones.

But spoofing is often better, as it can ground a Shahed fairly intact. Ukrainian intelligence pores over the drone’s wreckage, looking for new additions. Recent intel indicates the Russians are adding cameras and A.I.-assisted targeting software for terminal guidance—and also installing more controlled reception pattern antennas to make Shaheds more resistant to jamming.

Bare bones

The Shahed’s bare-bones design—the key to its lost cost—lends itself to spoofing. Shaheds do not have radar altimeters or other downward-pointing sensors (cameras or lasers) for measuring height above the ground. They almost certainly get their main altitude readings from the same navigation satellites that also feed them their position readings.

An internal barometer does back up the satellite data for altitude readings, but barometers are sensitive to changes in the weather and may work best measuring relative changes in a drone’s altitude. In other words, a barometer might tell a drone it climbed or dove 1,000 feet, but it might not tell the drone exactly how high above the ground it is.

All that is to say, an E.W. system that can match the signals from a navigation satellite constellation and slightly overpower those signals can trick a drone into taking location and altitude readings from the fake signals.

An E.W. system can, in that way, gently nudge a Shahed to a water or road landing. Just tell the drone it’s 500 feet in the air when it’s really 50 feet in the air … and then tell the drone to descend another 50 feet.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 9:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Ukrainians Are Secretly Taking Control Of Russia's Shahed Drones

I guess it's not much of a secret now, huh?

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 9:55 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Ukrainians Are Secretly Taking Control Of Russia's Shahed Drones

I guess it's not much of a secret now, huh?

Russians are in contact with drones, so the crash is NOT a "secret". And the cause of the crash is also NOT a "secret". When the Ukrainians trick the Russian drone satellite-based altimeter and cause the drone to crash, the Russians know it happened, but what can they do about it until they devise an unjammable altimeter?

A story about Russians remotely controlling their drones: Russia is adding cameras to its Shahed drones so it can catch Ukrainian interceptors approaching from behind

By Jake Epstein | Nov 26, 2025, 6:16 AM CT

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-added-cameras-to-shahed-drones-
to-see-ukrainian-interceptors-2025-11

"Technological warfare is a cat-and-mouse game," Myronenko shared of the situation in Ukraine today. "Each new technology grants one side an advantage for a certain period — typically three to four months — until the other side develops a countermeasure."

For instance, he said, the Shahed drones that Russia used earlier in the war were equipped with a four-channel antenna. Ukraine quickly learned to jam them with electronic warfare, so Moscow adapted. Now, Shaheds fly with a 16-channel antenna.

"This game continues nonstop," Myronenko said.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Ukrainians Are Secretly Taking Control Of Russia's Shahed Drones

I guess it's not much of a secret now, huh?

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