Explosions and power outages in Rostov – Russian losses and activities

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According to Kyiv Independent and social media posts, Ukraine has attacked the Rostov region and explosions and power outages have been reported. The drones are said to have targeted railway infrastructure and the explosions also triggered a fire in the city, and the power outage also caused disruptions in train traffic. Read more here, posts with images showing smoke columns can be found here.

Russian losses in Ukraine

The latest report from the Ukrainian General Staff does not contain many entries but KWIA still over 1000, some armor and still a high number of artillery and soft vehicles shows that the Russians continue to take heavy losses.

  • 1040 KWIA
  • 7 AFVs
  • 82 Artillery systems
  • 1 MLRS
  • 1905 UAVs
  • 192 Vehicles and Fuel tanks

Russian activities

  • 174 combat clashes
  • 78 airstrikes
  • 239 KAB/CAB
  • 8 953 kamikaze drones
  • 3 232 shells (101 from MLRS)

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104 thoughts on “Explosions and power outages in Rostov – Russian losses and activities”

  1. johan No.1

    I don’t know exactly what is misinformation or correct, but it is clear that raffineries, oil depots, and infrastructure are under attack in a third country now.

    Certainly up to 10-15 as has been written about.

    https://x.com/az_intel_/status/2046450980321976756?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w

    This is outside the MENA and RU conflict zones.

    Who isn’t it?

    Not Europe at least, I also thought not China but maybe they will strike back against the USA?

    RU and Iran – absolutely.

    We will have a very severe fuel crisis from this…

    Just in time for the financial crisis to roll in.

    All created by war or sabotage.

    1. johan No.1

      I thought this would come in the winter of 2026 but it came now – the attack on our energy systems.

      It will hit us hard this winter if it continues…

    2. johan No.1

      Also unrest in Europe, many demonstrations from all kinds of people.

      Now it has started 

      A way forward, support Ukraine.

      Anything else is a bad alternative.

       
    3. 205

      A comment was made by grok (x ai), who says:

       

      “Etoile (Nacogdoches County, East Texas) isn’t part of any major active oil field. The historic East Texas Oil Field peaked in the 1930s-40s and is now mostly depleted. Current output there is tiny vs. the Permian Basin, which drives nearly all of Texas’s ~5M+ bpd production.

      Even if this single-well fire is confirmed, zero impact on crude prices, refining, or fuel supply.”

    6. N Eklund

      In Australia, it was said that it was an old refinery running overtime that they pushed to the max and apparently eventually crossed the line.

      Such things should be taken into account; high prices can push a refinery to operate on the edge. If a refinery does not receive oil, perhaps an insurance fraud fits well (not saying that this is the case, but all angles should be considered).

  3. johan No.1

    There were some people in there commenting, so don’t miss that discussion.

    Dengamle hasn’t realized that a new post has been made 👍

      1. johan No.1

        Good morning my good friend, hope your morning is as sunny as mine.

        (have a raging sore throat combined with chills, but it is sunny).

        1. Jan W

          Tonsillitis is something different from a common (or uncommon) cold. If it really is tonsillitis, you should consult a doctor. On the other hand, it probably takes a doctor to make the diagnosis.

    2. N Eklund

      Went from computer to mobile and was tricked into thinking I was in today’s thread on the mobile when I was just checking the date on the bottom post…..

      1. 205

        Can increase the inflow of foreign capital which Trump may need in the war. Strengthens purchasing power and can boost the American economy as well as make imported consumer goods cheaper despite tariffs. Worsens exports but the world has reduced purchases of American war materiel, the available ones.

    2. johan No.1

      The USA needs everyone to buy their national debt – if the dollar is stable, they probably do?

      US exports increase because they have BOMBED TO PIECES everyone else’s exports.

      A stronger dollar is probably good anyway, everyone has to buy from them, right?

      1. fedtmule

        Yes, the USA is increasing its raw material exports somewhat in the short term, and the dollar strengthens as long as the acute phase of the conflict continues.
        In the medium term, more redundancy is being built into the global energy infrastructure, for example by transporting even more oil via pipeline to become less dependent on transport through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as other oil producers such as those in Africa, South America, and Canada expanding and increasing their production. This is combined with the acceleration of the transition away from fossil energy sources, and the process toward increased and deeper European integration. The USA’s current allies have already begun to strengthen their ties among themselves to reduce their dependence on an increasingly unpredictable and chauvinistic USA. This will lead to less and less leverage for the current and future American administrations, which will still have to struggle with an unmanageable budget deficit and a soaring national debt.

        Europe is beginning, albeit somewhat groggily, to realize its own strength and enormous potential, and slowly gaining more stability in its military backbone. This is happening at the same time as Ukraine appears to have seriously gripped the Russian pack and begun to strangle the increasingly toothless, flea-ridden, and shabby bear.
        Trump is also slowly losing the right-wing populist weapon from his own hands, both in the USA but increasingly in Europe, as receiving support from him and his administration is more and more seen as a kiss of death that does not resonate with voters.
        If only Europe holds on and endures, we will come out of the sewer clean and reborn
        (think of the analogy from the film The Shawshank Redemption with Tim Robbins).

  7. 205

    Record-breaking (last 12 months) ratio Ukrainian vs Russian attacks: 2 Ukrainian attacks per three Russian. The Russian local peak yesterday was not matched but did not fall back as much as the last peak, could be about an escalating every-other-day pattern. ⚠️ 

    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 0
    S Slobozhansky 5↘️
    Kupyansk 17💥↗️
    Lyman 4
    Slovyansk 2
    Kramatorsk 1
    Kostjantynivka 19💥
    Pokrovsk 30💥💥↘️
    Oleksandrivskij 5
    Huliaipole 22💥↘️
    Orikhivsk 0
    Prydniprovskij/Dnipro 3

    Sum sectors 108↘️
    Unlocalized 66
    Total 174↘️
    Ratio unloc🇺🇦/loc🇷🇺: 0.6↗️

    https://x.com/coxoxoffoxoffic/status/2046464881700769930?s=46

     

  8. johan No.1

    I really have to say unfortunately here, but it seems like the Trump gang is making billions from insider trading, which we have discussed for a long time, but now it is epidemic.

    If it crashes but you got two billion, you will probably manage the bills for a few years during the crisis THEY CREATED.

    Then US exports increase and they have had to take the bill for the war.

    The dollar seems to remain somewhat strong?

    Europe will be forced to buy everything from the US at five times the price in the coming years.

    Everyone else loses on this except RU, which gets a free pass on everything from the US – and which will increase the threat against us…

    RU has nothing to lose and even MXT will be forced to twist it to say he always thought so soon.

    We will have a wave of layoffs, frozen banks, and a housing price crisis in about half a year of course, all bad things at once – that’s always how it goes.

    Now shipping is starting to shake too, I saw, and then of course inflation again.

    Endlessly slow this is, and as Dengamle, the living legend, said – support Ukraine now.

    Australia is in a bad position.

    This has only just begun unfortunately.

     

      1. johan No.1

        They have done like Europe by shutting down everything with the difference that they do not get from Norway, Canada, or the USA.

        They have most of their oil, LNG, and fuel imports from areas that have gone down to zero.

        then fertilizer…

        and their export is to Asia – haven’t heard anything yet but in China, if they do, they will probably do it.

        Somewhat the same as in Europe – angry citizens who will demonstrate and Islamists, gangs, and criminal clans.

        Only that they are more sensitive than us, a small lonely country over in Asia where the conflict will probably make import-export more difficult when the war gets underway

        2. N Eklund

          They also have their net-zero plan. I listened to John Andesson’s podcast. There I thought he said that 1MWh cost 20,000 AUD for a while, approximately 131,000 SEK. Or 131 SEK/kWh if I get the powers of ten right.

          But that state had large wind turbines and it was windy, the only problem was that the power lines went to the neighboring state which at the same time had negative prices on electricity. 

  9. johan No.1

    The USA will try to export the fallout of the upcoming crisis to someone other than themselves, and I think it looks like they are succeeding so far…

     

  10. johan No.1

    Since you are reading the thread, you know that all the bad things that come and the media try to find explanatory models for were entirely created from 2025 until it broke.

  11. DenGamle

    Must comment on Amnesty’s report, unfortunately no link, heard it on TV4.
    It rightly addressed the madness in the world with all the major insane wars, but they found two bright spots that gave hope. They were:
    1. Neighbors defended people that ICE was going to imprison.
    2. There was a large Pride parade in Budapest.

    Don’t know if I feel more hopeful. 😳

  12. N Eklund

    OT gangs

    On X, they refer to an article in Aftonbladet stating that the police have found a drone prepared to release hand grenades.

    Soon they will probably be chasing each other (and the rest of us?) with FPV drones?

  14. Lasse W

    Regarding burning raff and running out of gasoline and aviation fuel, it is largely about a media follow-the-leader effect. To get clicks, they latch onto all the misery. Do not trust the media.

    1. 205

      I believe it is far too early for the media to sense the pattern that Johan sees. Johan is usually at least half a year ahead of the public in his observations and analyses. So it might actually be about observations. Then hate the coincidence. On the other hand, it would be interesting to see statistics on similar events from previous years to compare with. Maybe insurance companies have that information.

    1. CB500four

      Hm, but China buys almost all of Iran’s oil, that doesn’t mean that China stands or falls with Iran, Iran’s oil is a fairly small part of China’s total imports.

  21. MXT

    Ukrainian officials are considering renaming a heavily war-torn area in Donbas to “Donnyland,” sources told the New York Times.

    The hope is to flatter Donald Trump and persuade him to contribute to the defense of the area, which borders Donetsk and is controlled by Ukraine. The name alludes to both “Donbas” and “Donald,” according to the sources.

    The area in question is eighty kilometers long, about 65 kilometers wide, and full of bombed-out industries. The largest city there is Izium. According to statistics, 190,000 people live in the area, but some estimates suggest the population has halved during the war.

    This is not the first time other countries have tried to flatter Trump by naming things after him. When Poland wanted a U.S. military base, they proposed “Fort Trump,” and when Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement last year, they named the new road link between the countries after Trump.

  22. MXT

    Already tomorrow, Russian oil is expected to begin flowing through Ukraine in the Druzjba oil pipeline, sources with insight told Bloomberg.

    “The pipeline, which supplies oil to Hungary and Slovakia, was damaged in a Russian attack in January. Ukraine has now repaired it, and tomorrow it will be tested.

    Once the oil flows, Ukraine can receive the EU loan of 90 billion euros that Hungary has long blocked with its veto. Both the outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his successor Péter Magyar have made it clear that the veto will be lifted when the oil tap is turned on.

    On Wednesday, the EU ambassadors will vote on the loan. Ukraine is in desperate need of the money to finance its defense – currently, they only have enough to manage until June, Bloomberg writes.”
    https://omni.se/kallor-ukraina-redo-att-vrida-pa-oljekranen-baddar-for-eu-miljarder/a/k0v7yX

  23. MXT

    In the wake of the Iran war and rising fuel prices, many of the USA’s traditional allies are seeking an escape route from fossil fuel dependence. They are then forced to face an uncomfortable truth: that route leads straight into China’s arms, writes Politico.

    “In the EU, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and the Philippines, demands for electrification and green transition are growing, but domestic development of renewable energy and new nuclear power takes time. If it is to happen quickly, the countries are forced to turn to China, which holds a majority of the green technology and critical rare earth metals.

    This presents an uncomfortable dilemma for European governments, who do not want to exchange dependence on one superpower for another.

    – How are we supposed to explain to citizens the opportunities the green transition entails if our batteries are made in China? says the EU’s industry chief Stéphane Séjourné.”
    https://omni.se/irankriget-baddar-for-kinas-grona-energidominans/a/L438rq

  24. MXT

    “Donald Trump may have complicated the peace talks with Iran through his public statements over the weekend, CNN reports, citing sources within the president’s team.

    – The Iranians did not appreciate that the US president negotiated via social media and made it appear as if they had approved issues that they had not yet agreed upon, says one source.

    The informants believe that the negotiations were close to a breakthrough before the weekend. Then Trump did what his staff repeatedly told him not to do: posted about ongoing talks and spoke with several reporters on the phone.

    Trump claimed that the war was soon over and that Iran had agreed to a number of provisions that sources say had not yet been finalized.”
    https://omni.se/kallor-losningen-var-nara-innan-trumps-utspel-borjade/a/Pdg7AR

    “Donald Trump has no intention of extending the ceasefire with Iran, which expires tomorrow, he tells CNBC.

    – We are ready militarily, he adds.

    No new peace talks have been confirmed. According to sources to Axios and AP, US Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s Speaker Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf are expected to travel to Pakistan today, but neither side has given any official statement.

    Both countries express caution at the same time. Qalibaf says that Iran does not negotiate under threat, while Donald Trump says he feels no time pressure but is also convinced that the US will get a ‘fantastic deal’ because their negotiating position is ‘very, very strong.'”
    https://omni.se/trump-ingen-mer-vapenvila/a/wr373P

    1. MXT

      “Donald Trump’s statements about the war in Iran are becoming increasingly erratic and contradictory, and White House staff are struggling to keep track of them and clean up the mess. This is reported by the Washington Post.

      This was evident, among other things, on Monday, when Energy Secretary Chris Wright and UN Ambassador Mike Waltz confirmed that Vice President JD Vance is to travel to Pakistan for new peace talks – while Trump was on the phone with several media outlets saying that Vance is staying home for unclear ‘security reasons.’

      So as not to openly contradict the president, anonymous sources in the administration then went out to the media and explained that Vance would indeed participate.

      The president and his closest aides have also repeatedly contradicted each other about how the peace talks are progressing.

      White House spokesperson Anna Kelly dismisses the criticism and blames ‘bloodthirsty media’ who call and talk to Trump ‘and then complain about the answers they get.'”
      https://omni.se/trumps-uttalanden-om-iran-allt-mer-motsagelsefulla/a/lnKp2M

  25. MXT

    Have they been inspired by Russia?

    “Israeli soldiers and settlers use sexual and gender-based violence to drive Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank. This is reported by The Guardian.

    Men, women, and children are said to have been forced to undress, undergo painful body searches, and watch as Israeli soldiers expose their genitals.

    ‘Sexualized violence is used to put pressure on communities, influence decisions about whether to stay or leave their homes and land, and change patterns in daily life,’ states a report from the West Bank Protection Consortium.

    The consequences for those who choose to stay can be severe. Many girls are forced to stop attending school and are instead married off, while women stop working to avoid the assaults.”
    https://omni.se/israeliska-soldater-brukar-sexuellt-vald-pa-vastbanken/a/JOrkdm

    2. CB500four

      It’s really terrible if it’s true. 

      After the overwhelming violence in Gaza and partly in Lebanon, Israel should probably be careful not to be left alone.

  26. MXT

    Johan, make sure to return the corset now!

    “Superstar Madonna’s outfit from the Coachella festival is missing – now she is asking the public for help to get her belongings back.

    ‘These are not just clothes, but a part of my history. Other items from the same era have also disappeared. I hope and pray that some kind soul will find these items and contact my team,’ she writes, offering a reward for the trouble.

    Madonna attended Sabrina Carpenter’s performance at Coachella over the weekend and wore, among other things, a lilac corset and a purple Gucci jacket. It is said to have been the same clothes she wore at her first Coachella performance 20 years ago.”
    https://omni.se/madonna-erbjuder-hittelon-for-forsvunnen-korsett/a/wr3wX5

    1. MXT

      By the way, I saw that they are now going to start paying back some of the tariffs. 

      “The Trump administration will begin on Monday to refund more than 166 billion dollars, just over 1,500 billion kronor, in tariff fees, writes the New York Times. This follows the US Supreme Court ruling parts of Trump’s tariffs illegal.

      Only companies directly affected by the tariffs can claim refunds, according to the newspaper. Private individuals who, for example, have had to pay higher costs for products are not included.

      According to the administration’s own calculation, there were over 330,000 importers in March who had paid tariffs on more than 53 million goods, writes NYT.”
      https://omni.se/usa-borjar-betala-tillbaka-tullavgifter/a/j0v4b0

    1. MXT

      They think they will start with a thorough preemptive strike, but if they don’t get Iran to give in (hard to know how fanatical they are), it will probably be like that.

    3. 205

      “What do you think about the USA securing Crimea?

      Hear me out.

      At a time when Ukraine is about to retake Crimea, the USA flies in a battalion from the 82nd Airborne and then some ships and declares that to guarantee future peace and stability in the Black Sea, the USA will take care of security on the peninsula and bring peace to the world. Since neither Ukraine nor Russia can manage the area, they do what is best.

      I don’t find it unlikely at all.”

      — Ukraine daily update March 31 2026, johan No.1 

      I hear you, Johan, this is when it happens! 

       

  34. MXT

    Vance and his trip to Pakistan are on par with Schrödinger’s cat. Go, don’t go, go, don’t go.

    “U.S. Vice President JD Vance has not taken off for Pakistan, but is participating in meetings in Washington, White House sources tell several media outlets.

    This is the latest in a long series of conflicting messages about whether an American delegation will travel to Islamabad for new peace talks or not, and whether Vance will be part of it or not.

    According to a White House source cited by The Washington Post, Vance and the delegation are supposed to leave today, but the departure has been delayed.

    With only a few hours left of the ceasefire, neither the U.S. nor Iran has issued any official statement about new talks.”
    https://omni.se/senaste-budet-vance-ar-inte-pa-vag-till-pakistan/a/0pBM2J

    1. 205

      So you are an SD supporter because you think LW is filtering out the gnats and swallowing the camels when he claims that a vote for the Moderates, Christian Democrats, or Liberals is a vote for the Kremlin due to a failure to exclude an SD member, and blocks those who contradict him in the comment section, while LW lets through comments that cheer for Iran in the war against the USA? And equates the USA with Russia and Iran.

      1. MXT

        Sorry! I should maybe have added that that was written with some irony to tease.

        LW kicks everyone and it goes in waves on who he is kicking at the moment. It doesn’t matter what party affiliation someone has, if they are Putin’s useful idiots they will hear about it.

        Then maybe he (although he is not a politician, of course) and many others should take this to heart: 

        “Attacks and mudslinging make fewer people engage in politics

        Three out of four Swedes feel that the tone in politics is rude. This is shown by a survey by Novus commissioned by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO), reports TT.

        A quarter of those surveyed in the study say that the harsh tone of politicians affects their desire to vote.

        Many of them say that political debates are “at sandbox level” and full of mudslinging. Almost every other respondent chooses not to watch debates because they consider the tone too aggressive.

        According to Dan Hasson, one of the report’s authors, the rudeness risks spreading to other politicians as well as to voters.

        – In the end, the risk increases that undemocratic politicians who are much better at this game than the others will get in, he says.

        54 percent would engage more in politics if the tone improved.”

        https://omni.se/pahopp-och-pajkastning-far-farre-att-ta-del-av-politiken/a/BxMAge

         

        I myself don’t take it personally because I am only really rude to Trump, even though he is not here and cannot defend himself, but he is so much more unpleasant himself so he has to take that! 
        Although it has actually been a while since he belittled any reporter who dared to ask uncomfortable questions, but maybe that’s because they are banned..?

      2. MXT

        No, I should probably have started by answering. I haven’t written that either.

        It’s completely okay to be annoyed by LW regardless of party affiliation, and many people are. He probably doesn’t have many readers from the left or the Green Party on his site (unless they are very pro-Ukrainian and can overlook his sometimes biting posts). 

        Regarding the Green Party, he means that their politics aim for us to return to the old farming society.. 

        But for some reason, it seems to be SD supporters who get most annoyed by him. Although I don’t really have any proof of that, mostly just a feeling.

        Personally, I think he sometimes deliberately exaggerates just to tease and to push things to the extreme.
        Since I myself don’t support any party, I find it a bit entertaining.

        At the same time, it doesn’t exactly help to move forward and find solutions; just complaining about everyone is obviously not very constructive, even if it might occasionally make some people think.

        The times he points out Putin supporters, I have no objection, but as you say, to take it so far that a vote for the right means you are a Putin supporter is obviously a gross exaggeration, but I think he actually understands that himself, yet still does it precisely because it always annoys someone. 

         

      3. Bal

        I think he has crossed the line and now avoids going in there. Splitting people who stand up for Ukraine is counterproductive if he really wants to create support for their struggle.

        2. MXT

          Yes, you absolutely have a point there, at the same time I can’t get mad at him the times he calls out those who obviously are not on Ukraine’s side (but it’s unnecessary to take it to the extreme). 

        1. DenGamle

          It’s all good MTX, you are a rock here.
          But my advice to everyone here is to forget domestic politics and let us unite in the fight for Ukraine. We all agree on that.

      2. 205

        Analogously, LW adopts the Environmental Party’s exaggeration of Sweden’s impact on the climate, but instead exaggerates Sweden’s domestic political influence on the global security situation, as if Sweden held the chairmanship of the UN Security Council with an absolute mandate, where all decisions were made in the Swedish Parliament.

  38. Flurrevuppen

    Everyone thinks that Trump is fighting to avoid being exposed in the Epstein files…. but what if it’s the opposite…?

    What if the whole process of publishing the Epstein files is instead a way for Trump to direct veiled threats at people in positions of power around the world who have compromised themselves in Epstein’s network?

    Then it would be an advantage if it appears as if he was “forced” to release the files, I think.

    Your thoughts?

     

    1. Proxima

      I thought like you, Flurrevuppen. Trump, with your boastful and unpleasant manner, was probably an unwelcome guest at Epstein’s. He was probably rarely invited. His ego didn’t like that.
      But then Melania came with her, shall we call it a confession?, and then I thought that she probably belonged to Epstein’s girls. Maybe his earlier ones too. Ivana?

    2. MXT

      Interesting thought!

      At the same time, Trump is rarely sensitive, if that were the case I think he would have at least made quite clear threats.

      “We have censored much of the content, both to protect the victims but also so that innocent people mentioned are not wrongly accused, but we are having a discussion about possibly releasing more material”. 

      But of course he can deliver those threats directly to the people he wants to pressure without going through the official channels. At the same time, he can point to those whose names have actually been released “Look what happened to them”…

      The more I think about it, the more likely it sounds.. Somehow it feels typically Trump.😂

      Still, I am convinced that he himself is involved there of course, but those traces will probably soon be completely gone so it will never be possible to prove.

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