During the night, the infrastructure in Krementjuk was hit by extensive attacks from the Russians. According to the mayor, power outages, water cuts, and heating failures have been reported in parts of the city.
Ukrainian drones targeted Engels, Saratov, and the Russian Rostov region. Reports from residents in the areas mention explosions near the airbase in Engels (where, among other things, the strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95MS are located) but also at a depot.
In Rostov, the electrical infrastructure is said to have been hit, resulting in hundreds of power outages.
Russian losses
- 1080 KWIA
- 3 Tanks
- 33 Artillery systems
- 2 MLRS
- 540 UAVs
- 20 Cruise missiles
- 98 Vehicles & fuel tanks
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161 combat clashes
143 KAB
“❗️During the night, the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military shot down 179 of 246 🇷🇺Russian air targets Shot down/launched ▪️175/241 attack UAVs ▪️2/3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles ▪️2/2 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3m7ey6v4d4s24
No power outages in Europe – I’m never wrong so why not?
It is indeed the absolute cheapest of all + it disrupts industry and creates public unwillingness.
Xi met Macron – what does that tell us?
When Leyen was there, she was met by an intern.
Have you not previously been on the “Sino-European line”?
One way for Macron/Merz/EU to respond to the Russo-American line?
Mariska den Elden:
“the future is Sino-European.
Russia as an entity is finished. America slowly disintegrates and will get worse before it gets better“
Mariska den Elden:
“🇨🇳🇪🇺 China pushes from the east while an ever-closer federal Europe presses from the west.
Russia as an entity is done”
Ukraine daily update April 12, 2025
As someone wrote on johanno1.se yesterday, if Europe now negotiates a nice trade agreement with China, it becomes unsustainable for the USA, which will stand there without imports and exports.
The idea, as I guessed, was that step two from the USA would be to demand a trade embargo with China or at least X% tariff on China to continue trading with the USA – with the assurance that everyone would choose the USA.
But if the world’s two largest players now completely bypass the USA and can start agreeing on difficult issues, has the USA only shot a torpedo at its own ship, right?
a brilliant comment 👍👍
I’m trying to follow Europe – China and so far China has been condescending towards us.
Macron was a change.
But… we don’t want to become consumers of Chinese products, right? We want equality, don’t we?
I suspect that China does not want a EU without many small countries so if any country is rebellious, they can be suppressed without the others doing anything. Think for example how Norway was treated when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the wrong person from the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party.
Or how Lithuania was treated after Taiwan opened a representative office in Vilnius a few years ago.
Agree. One who would be well suited to handle the contacts with the European countries would be the former Swedish ambassador Gui Congyou. 😡
Japan places robots on an island near Taiwan
Sum sectors 146↘️
Total 161↘️
Unlocalized 15↘️
Oops, has northern Luhansk gone down tremendously well?
Yes, Lyman and Kupyansk had a peak at some point last week after a strong offensive for about a week or so, and that offensive seems to have lost momentum. Probably the clearance operations that seem deterrent?
(shots from the hips, need to check)
Update:
Here it is: russia’s primary weapon. Life has no value, there’s no understanding of purpose, and the reserve is limitless. Some laugh at their clumsiness, but it’s their readiness to die endlessly that unsettles civilized countries.
Do they have anything to counter this, besides the Ukrainian army?
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17iqh9akJ9/?mibextid=wwXIfr
😳
The most tragic thing is that Russian society may benefit from avoiding the “mountain of meat”? Just imagine having only 20-60 year olds in society, no schools and no pensions, and limited healthcare. In the short term, it should be a utopia!
Then reality kicks in and bites us in the butt, with no <20 year olds.
Ignoring the humane aspect, the absence of 60+ individuals is not a loss for society, right? I assume here that no (few) Russians work after 60, as they seem to have a shorter lifespan than us.
A bonus here is that Putin is 60+...
China probably does not like what Japan is doing now – good
“Alex’s unit is, as mentioned, an elite unit operating in Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, and Konstantynivka. They move in and out between these cities, eliminating the Russians who have infiltrated. An interesting detail is his information that 10% of the kills (200 in one month) were man-to-man combat, meaning shot. 90% were eliminated with drones or robots.”
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D1oL5NrGy/?mibextid=wwXIfr
🇨🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺&🇳🇴🇬🇧
“USA CANNOT HANDLE CHINA ALONE
I understand the European leaders’ concern about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
They are worried that the USA will leave them to deal with Russia on their own.
However, I can assure you that this will not happen.
Over the next 6-12 months, the roles will shift.
The USA will have an urgent need for military support from its allies in Europe.
If Europe does not provide its support, I believe that the USA will encounter difficulties that it cannot handle.“
https://x.com/world_at_war_6/status/1997384295665828341?s=46
Regarding global security, China, etc., Japan and Australia continue to court each other, which I see as a necessity in today’s situation: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/japan/japan-australia-defense-ministers/
Marles, who was on a two-day visit to Japan, said the new framework is about building on the countries’ growing strategic alignment.
“This is about deepening the defense relationship, which is already very significant, and bringing that maximum ambition to each of these areas to ensure that we are working as closely together as we possibly can in the future … to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific,” he said.
It was previously clear that Australia is buying its new frigates from Japan. The first examples are delivered from Japan, but then the plan is for the rest to be assembled by Austal in Perth.
Good choice of Australia. Sweden would have done the same. These are more handy size than the English ones that Sweden is looking at. Additionally, the Japanese ones will work, which I am worried the English ones won’t.
“If you haven’t seen this, I’m sure you will find it interesting. Sky News gave a look inside the ‘secret HQ’ of an Azov battalion. I’ve had to trim the last 30 seconds to fit into the 3 minute limit here.”
https://bsky.app/profile/twmcltd.bsky.social/post/3m7g3xu3joc2z
“🇺🇦Vovchansky direction: In this area, the enemy has switched to a new pace and has started actively using aviation! The main attacks occurred to the west of the village of Karaychne and on the southern outskirts of the village of Vilcha. These are not random sorties, it all seems to be part of the preparation for an offensive.
The enemy is trying to knock out our positions on the edges to prevent us from accumulating reserves that could slow down their pace during an attempt to advance. 🇺🇦In parallel, today everyone could notice their intensified work on bridges and crossings.
This is a classic scheme of isolating our right-bank grouping, the enemy is trying to cut off the routes for transferring manpower and equipment across the river so that our reserves won’t be able to arrive in time. Everything points to the fact that he wants to leave units on the right bank without 🇺🇦Circumventing these attacks is long and difficult. The enemy is trying to create a corridor for himself, squeeze the area and seize the initiative. The situation is tense, we are keeping up the pace and monitoring every move they make! 🇺🇦Muchnoy Jugend “
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3m7g2zb6hdc2d
“In Kostiantynivka, a man leaving his brother’s funeral, killed by a Russian drone, was himself struck by an FPV. He suffered a broken leg and shrapnel wounds. Fighters from the “Predator” brigade heard the blast and his cries, rushed in, gave first aid and evacuated him. Russia’s war on civilians.”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3m7g2ywkblk2n
“Russia figured out how to protect tanks from drones with heavy “hedgehog” armor. Problem: lighter vehicles like BTRs can’t carry enough. Near Lyman, three tried — Ukrainian drones found every gap and destroyed them all.”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/heavy-hedgehog/
The main function of a female child is to give birth, it was stated in the State Duma. The list of “unfeminine” professions protects women, rather than infringing their rights.
“This is not a discriminatory list, it’s a list of industries and professions that, by causing harm, do not allow a woman to fulfill her most fundamental, most important function, namely childbirth,” said a member of the State Duma’s Labor Committee. The Kremlin rewards teenage pregnancies too.
https://bsky.app/profile/beefeaterfella.bsky.social/post/3m7g2k6f7e22r
“💥💥 Förstörelse av rysk utrustning, ammunitionslager och positioner i riktning mot Kursk, – Steel Border”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3m7g2gtlqxc23
“Kupyansk direction: Pilots of the 14th Mechanized Brigade released new footage, showing hits on Russian infantry, motorcycles, vehicles, and drones.”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3m7g2ecter22n
“☠️💀 Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Soldiers of the 425th separate assault regiment “Skelya” are fiercely destroying Russian occupiers who are trying to infiltrate the city individually and in small groups.”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3m7g2abv5p223
“Ryskt angrepp mot Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia-regionen idag. Ett hus förstördes i attacken. Dess ägare fastnade under rasmassorna – en 71-årig dam. Ukrainska räddningsarbetare fick ut henne, tack Gud. Det här är vem Ryssland attackerar.”
https://www.dn.se/direkt/2025-12-07/trumps-opinionsstod-battre-an-bushs-och-obamas/
Currently, 42.4 percent of Americans think Trump is doing a good job, according to the compilation of current polls made by Real Clear Politics. This can be compared to 40.1 percent for the Democrats’ Obama and 41.5 percent for the Republicans’ Bush at the same time in their second terms (2013 and 2005).
Is it true that he is more popular than these two? Because it is often emphasized that he has record low approval ratings, but is it just an expression of opinions within an echo chamber?
It is probably true that he is currently more popular than the other two.
Unfortunately, many stopped comparing him to other presidents after the election was over.
Obama lost significantly during his first year due to NSA scandals, the Healthcare.gov crash, and Congress’s budget crisis.
Bush lost even more mainly because of the Iraq war and was down to only 25% in the end.
It is unlikely that Trump will fare that badly.
Trump “leading” by a few percentage points over the other two during their most disastrous periods may not be seen as a significant advantage for Trump but rather as an indication of how bad it is.
The other two (or rather their parties) lost subsequent elections after their terms.
What is just an echo chamber or not is impossible to know for everyone belongs more or less to an echo chamber.
RCP has been criticized for leaning far to the right.
https://adfontesmedia.com/realclear-politics-bias-and-reliability/
https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/real-clear-politics-was-a-trusted-go-to-source-for-unbiased-polling-the-trump-era-changed-its-tone-and-funding-sources
One might wonder why they choose to compare specifically with Obama and Bush. Biden had pretty bad numbers, they should have included him at least as well..
With statistics, one must be careful about the exact question one is actually getting an answer to. Real Clear Politics compiles various opinion polls, and I have no insight into how they weigh the results. Perhaps it is described somewhere.
Comparisons with other presidents are a minefield because I do not know if RCP’s methods have changed over time. This can be said even about individual institutes’ methods. Roughly speaking, there is still value in being able to compare.
In individual measurements, there are examples where Trump has lower numbers than Biden for the same period, but it is not only about institutes seen as “liberal.” See, for example, this survey from Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy
Obama and Bush are too much digging for me now.
One thing I see as completely established: Trump has become less popular overall since he was sworn in. It may vary from day to day, but the trend is clear. This is evident both in RCP’s homemade value and in individual measurements. However, it has affected several presidents.
Off-Topic, Thailand/Cambodia
“Fighting Restarts Between Thailand and Cambodia After Trump-led Peace Accord Crumbles The Royal Thai Armed Forces confirmed that F-16s conducted airstrikes in the disputed border region with Cambodia after Thai soldiers were killed and wounded.”
https://bsky.app/profile/malcontentnews.bsky.social/post/3m7h4aqok4k2p