#Ukraine #RuSelfDestructing

"Russia is getting consumed by soldiers’ mass shootings, self-killings, and mental breakdowns” [ ± 1-3 min]
by RFU News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfs-EgpGIvI

Quote by RFUN:

“Oct 22, 2025
Today, there are important updates from the Russian Federation.
Here, for many Russian conscripts, the illusion of patriotic duty has collapsed, resulting in the latest mass shootings, as it was replaced by fear, despair, and an overwhelming urge to escape at any cost, any possibility of being involved in the war. Its grim reality is hardly confined to the frontlines, as it is tearing through Russian society, the army barracks and the minds of the soldiers that can be sent to fight it.
In the latest incident symbolizing this internal breakdown, a Russian conscript opened fire on his fellow soldiers at a military unit in Moscow region, killing two and wounding another before turning the gun on himself. The shooting occurred in the training center of an anti-aircraft brigade for newly drafted soldiers. While the Russian army claims motive remains unclear, such cases are no longer rare. Shootings, self-killings, and mental breakdowns among newly drafted troops are increasingly common, reflecting a force that is psychologically cracking under the weight of the war. Russian authorities blame isolated stress incidents yet reports from soldiers and relatives tell a different story of bullying, deprivation, and hopelessness. Despite symbolic claims and censorship, the young conscripts are not blind. They see footage from the front, learn from returning soldiers, and know what awaits them in Ukraine. Many try to flee, but harsh new laws criminalize even online searches for information deemed extremist, a label that conveniently includes criticism of the war.
Those who do end up deployed often face harsh conditions with equipment shortages that have reached absurd levels. Soldiers are sent to the front without or with cheap, barely protective vests and plastic helmets, while boots, gloves, and basic gear are often missing. A shocking video shows a Russian soldier gleefully looting gear from his fallen comrades, filming himself as he pulls a helmet and vest off a corpse and sarcastically thanks the dead for their contribution. His cynicism hides desperation, he had been sent into battle without protection and was grateful to find it on the dead. This scene illustrates how corruption and neglect in the Russian military have turned even scavenging into survival.
The shortages go far beyond personal gear, as a video released by Ukraine’s 225th Assault Regiment show German detonators from the World War Two-era found in a captured Russian ammunition depot. These relics of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, marked with typical German insignia of that time, are a bitter irony for a regime that claims to be fighting fascism in Ukraine. They also expose the staggering depletion of Russian munitions reserves, as Russia is scraping century old stockpiles to keep the war machine running.
Even those conscripts who have not yet been sent to Ukraine are already feeling the danger. Officially, Russian conscripts cannot be deployed to active combat, but that rule has been quietly bent and broken. Thousands are stationed along the border regions, Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk, where they come under drone and artillery fire from Ukrainian forces almost daily. The fear of another Ukrainian incursion, like the one in Kursk last summer that led to hundreds of captured and missing Russian conscripts, haunts many. Lastly, large numbers are coerced into signing so called volunteer contracts, often under threat of punishment and bullying for the remainder of their conscription tour, with this single signature allowing the Russian military to send them straight to the front instead.
Overall, despite the Russian government’s efforts to hide the scale of the disaster, the truth is seeping through. Millions of Russians now know someone directly affected, a dead friend, a missing son, or a wounded brother. And with that knowledge comes fear and quiet rage, as the Russian state’s myth of the time of heroes is unraveling, replaced by a grim awareness that soldiers are being thrown into a meat grinder. With no prospects of escaping the war, for many conscripts this means either a desperate attempt to hurt themselves or go to prison at home, or become a nameless victim in the meaningless territorial gains statistic of their commanders."

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"Storm Shadows Hit Russia: Chemical Plant in Bryansk! Also, Drones Hit Dagestan Oil Refinery” [4:47 min]
by Suchomimus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfXEKs9Sobk

Quote by S:
“Oct 22, 2025
Storm Shadows hit the Bryansk chemical plant and Ukrainian drones hit the Saransk Mechanical Plant. Two big strikes. Drones also hit the Dagneftegaz refinery in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Dmitro: erokhin12345d@icloud.com"

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#Ukraine #KyivOblast and #EnergyInfra

"6 killed, 21 injured in Kyiv Oblast during mass Russian attack” [ ± 1-3 min]
by kyivindependent

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v7_qGS5F--o

Quote by ki:
A large-scale missile and drone attack on energy infrastructure across Ukraine killed six people and injured at least 40 overnight on Oct. 22, according to authorities.
In Kyiv, two people were killed and 25 injured, while four were killed in the Brovarsky district of Kyiv Oblast, regional authorities said. In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, at least 15 civilians were injured, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
The strikes were widespread — President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 22 that Russia had also struck sites in Odesa, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Sumy oblasts.
Ukraine's biggest private energy firm, DTEK, said emergency power outages were in place in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and reported "significant damage" to energy infrastructure in Odesa Oblast."

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#Ukraine #Kharkiv #RussianCivilianAttacks

Luckily the kids were hiding in shelters at the time, but when they came above ground…. their ‘school’ had a bit.
All be it, one person was killed and six were wounded.

"Russia Attacked a Kindergarten in Ukrainian City Kharkiv With Drones #warinukraine” [ ± 1-3 min]
by UNITED24media [Oct 22, 2025]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/To1yf7vt86M

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"Back with the severely injured 13-year-old boy” [ ± 1-3 min]
by Franky And Coen into the breach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1mjPBVRQA

Quote by FACitb:
“Oct 22, 2025
We visited David again, the thirteen-year-old boy from Kramatorsk whom we met months ago, severely injured, in a hospital in Ukraine.
David was badly wounded when a grenade exploded in the home of a friend. His brother Maksym, only fifteen years old, did not survive the attack.
David lost one leg, and his other leg was injured—part of his foot had to be amputated.
We still remember how he lay in the children’s hospital, motionless, his body covered in burns, his leg amputated. Doctors in Ukraine gave him virtually no chance of survival. That thought and image never left us. Fortunately, there was a possibility to help him in Germany, and we were able to contribute a small part to that.
Now, only about five months later, everything looks much better. David is in a wheelchair in a hospital in Germany. He’s alive. He smiles. He even plays a little again. We brought him a game console. Although he first looked worried and doubtful—since one of his arms is paralyzed—it later turned out to be the perfect gift.
When we asked what we could bring him next time, he replied without hesitation: a dark blue remote-controlled car. And yes, of course, we’ll bring that for him next time."
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"Yakutia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia WANT TO LEAVE RUSSIA! | RFU News” [5:44 min]
by RFU News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whCHnPeLHPM

Quote:
“Oct 18, 2025
Here, separatism, once whispered in exile or suppressed by force, is now turning into open resistance and a threat to the stability of the state. With the effect of the war increasingly reaching Russians at home, these sentiments start to grow, as the Ukrainian intelligence directorate seeks to stoke the fires even further.
In Yakutia, Russia’s largest republic spanning over three million square kilometers, separatist sentiment has evolved into a movement of identity, survival, and now defiance. Long treated as Moscow’s colony, Yakutia generates billions in diamonds, gold, and gas, yet its people remain among Russia’s poorest, living amid environmental devastation and neglect. Anger has been brewing for years, but the war in Ukraine has lit the fuse. Thousands of young Yakuts have died fighting for Russia’s ambitions, suffering 40 times more casualties than soldiers from the Moscow district, all while their homeland continues to be plundered. In September 2025, local deputy Alexander Ivanov crossed the final line by openly discussing Yakutia’s need to separate from Russia during an interview in Turkey. He called on Yakuts not to fear those who have occupied their land, directly challenging Moscow’s authority. His ties with pan-Turkic circles in Istanbul and support for protests in the Altai Republic have made him a symbol of the awakening. Meanwhile, fighters from Yakutia are already taking up arms in Ukraine’s Siberian Battalion, envisioning a free Yakutia, fighting Russian forces, and inspiring those back home.
But while Yakutia’s resistance is still mostly political, Ingushetia’s has entered a far more dangerous phase of insurgency. Nestled in the volatile North Caucasus, the tiny Muslim republic has become the epicenter of a new wave of guerrilla warfare. The Ingush Liberation Army, founded in 2023, now conducts attacks every month. In June 2025, its militants struck a Russian border post in North Ossetia with drones, killing two FSB officers. In August, coordinated arson attacks targeted military depots in Dagestan, and recently, the group released a video showing fighters on patrol, armed, organized, and defiant. Another separatist formation, the Caucasus Liberation Movement, unites Chechens, Dagestanis, and Ingush under one banner, waging what they call a war of anti-colonial resistance. Supported by Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, they recently eliminated a Lieutenant Colonel from a local counter sabotage unit in a precision explosion together with his driver and aide. Their message Moscow’s grip on the Caucasus is loosening, and the Kremlin’s agents are no longer untouchable.
Behind much of this growing chaos lies what many analysts now refer to as Budanov’s blueprint. General Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, is methodically cultivating resistance within Russia’s ethnic regions. His operatives are spreading the truth about Russia’s war, about how ethnic minorities, Yakuts, Buryats, Ingush, Dagestanis, are being used as cannon fodder and dying by the thousands, while despite compromising less than 10 percent of the total population, they supply around 40 percent of contract soldiers. Ukrainian intelligence has made direct contact with exiled activists and underground networks, providing them with intelligence, logistics, and training. The goal is strategic, as every region in turmoil means fewer Russian resources on the front, as many small fires can burn an empire from within.
And Russia is already feeling the heat, as the Kremlin’s unwritten social contract, to do whatever they want internationally as long as the internal population remains unbothered, is unraveling. When mobilization began during Ukraine’s Kharkiv counteroffensive in 2022, people protested because the war reached into their homes, and many were drafted by force. Now, as Ukrainian drone strikes cripple oil refineries, gas stations across Russia are running dry. Protests over fuel shortages have erupted in several regions, and ordinary Russians, once detached from the war, are suddenly living its consequences. Simultaneously, many are seeing that the state can no longer shield them from its failures.
Overall, what began as cultural revival movements is mutating into revolutionary networks challenging Moscow’s rule from within. The Kremlin’s policy of exploitation, draining regions of resources, and sending their sons to die has sown the seeds of revolt. What Russian officials dismiss as isolated extremism is, in truth, the early stage of fragmentation. Supported by Ukrainian intelligence, these movements are gaining confidence, structure, and purpose. They have waited generations for a spark, and now, as Russia bleeds on multiple fronts, it has arrived."

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"Russian forces are killing civilians in Pokrovsk” [ ± 1-3 min]
by kyivindependent

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rCTKoVPnyE

Quote by ki:
“Oct 20, 2025
A Russian assault group shot dead several unarmed civilians inside the embattled city of Pokrovsk after infiltrating behind Ukrainian lines, the 7th Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces reported on Oct. 20.
The alleged war crime in the front-line hotspot in Donetsk Oblast was initially reported on Oct. 19 by Ukrainian volunteer Denys Khrystov, who evacuates civilians from front-line settlements and documents his work on social media.
In a Telegram post, Khrystov shared a video given to him by soldiers fighting in Pokrovsk showing the casualties of the Russian attack.
The attack was reportedly carried out on Mostovyi Lane, next to the railway line running through central Pokrovsk, which is clearly identifiable in the video.
Two civilians are seen on the video in a prostrate position, seemingly lifeless. On the side of the street, a third resident appears to be injured, before later being carried off by an unidentified male civilian.
Footage of the shooting itself was not included in Khrystov's post, and the event cannot be independently verified by the Kyiv Independent."

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#Ukraine #Anna #RuElectricity

"MOSCOW IN THE DARK: UKRAINE STRIKES CRITICAL ENERGY CORRIDORS Vlog 1201: War in Ukraine” [ ± 1-3 min]
by Anna from Ukraine [Oct 18, 2025]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqnLS5dhU4

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#Ukraine #Dnipropetrovsk #RuRetreat

"Regrouping FINISHED! Ukrainians RETAKE THE INITIATIVE in Dnipropetrovsk! | RFU News” [ ± 1-3 min]
by RFU News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohaHEMK6vfI

Quote by RFUN:
“Oct 13, 2025
Here, with the Ukrainian brigades reorganized, they're immediately turning the tide and defeating the Russians in the field, showing the difference one good commander can make. In turn, Russians have abandoned all hope of a successful attack and are forced to move around, but the Ukrainian soldiers had one last trick up their sleeve.
The turning point came with the reform in Ukrainian 141st brigade, as after a period of poor performance and degraded command practices, the brigade was reshaped under Shevchuk, who removed Soviet-style military thinking and rebuilt unit culture around modern combined-arms practices. The change is evident in tighter small-unit coordination, clearer fire-control procedures, and a restored emphasis on discipline and logistics. That cultural shift has directly translated into faster decision cycles on all levels by giving non-commissioned officers increased agency, more reliable liaison with artillery and drones, and an ability to conduct sustained clearing operations rather than a failing defense.
As a result, the 141st has expanded its counteroffensive effort northward, mounting systematic clearing and interdiction missions that extend into Novoselivka and surrounding gray zones. First, reconnaissance drones swept the target area and picket out a small Russian patrol moving along the tree line, their positions and routes immediately passed to forward observers. Using those coordinates, Bohdana self-propelled guns targeted these locations and fired precise tube-artillery rounds that bracketed and suppressed the enemy positions. As the gunners finished, Ukrainian infantry moved in to clear all the Russian soldiers that remained, with calm, purpose, and high levels of aggression. They moved through the houses, cleared rooms and streets, and secured prisoners, turning the sequence from detection to destruction to clearance in a single, well-timed operation.
Due to the sudden intensity and effectiveness of the Ukrainian counterattacks, Russians commanders decided to shift their offensive focus away from the 141st. To maintain momentum, small recon groups were sent to probe Ukrainian defenses, of which only the group moving to Oleksiivka survived long enough to make contact. However, as the recon group was small and without staying power, they were quickly killed by Ukrainians who had holed up inside the settlement. Nonetheless, Russian commanders decided that shifting their focus to Oleksiivka would still be better than engaging the 141st directly, as it would completely stall their advance. Moving multiple launch rocket systems into position, they started hammering Oleksiivka in preparation for further assaults.
However, the goal of the Ukrainian counterattacks had succeeded, as breaking the Russian momentum toward Velykomykhailivka had bought time for Ukrainian drone units to establish persistent overwatch and deeper interdiction coverage. Footage from Novoselivka shows FPV teams providing direct fire support for advancing Ukrainian squads, marking moving targets, and striking short-range infantry groups as they try to push in. Later clips show the same FPV crews intercepting and striking Russian attempts to bypass the brigade, including strikes on small groups that tried to use Oleksiivka and adjacent tracks, repeatedly stopping Russian bypass attempts before Ukrainian artillery or infantry even had to intervene.
Going around the 141st lengthens Russian supply routes and forces convoys onto main roads, and with the mud season beginning, those longer, exposed roads will be the only practical routes they can take. These open and exposed roads will be prime targets for the now set in Ukrainian drone operators to target, turning them into roads of death. Even as Russian infantry attempts to move through tree lines, which traditionally have less mud due to the roots holding the ground together better, these will be the only paths forward, and in turn will be heavily shelled and targeted by Ukrainian drone and artillery units as well.
Overall, the 141st’s reorganization under Shevchuk has produced a tactical shock that already shows operational consequences as Russian units are avoiding direct engagement them. While going around might spare Russian forces fighting the 141st, they will also have longer, and fewer safe routes to take, and moving troops or supplies will be even more exposed to drones. At last, the Ukrainian counterattacks came right in the nick of time, as with the weather already turning, and the mud fields starting to form, ensuring that their drones can maintain continuous operations will be crucial in maximally exploiting the seasonal terrain."

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