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
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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.