The war in Ukraine 2028-08-30

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Russian losses in Ukraine:

  • 850 KIA
  • 6 Tanks
  • 19 AFVs
  • 47 Artillery systems
  • 319 UAVs
  • 106 Vehicles & Fuel tanks
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  2. 205
    • N Slobozhansky-Kursk 3↘️
    • S Slobozhansky 8↗️
    • Kupyansk 5

    • Lyman 29💥💥

    • Siverskyi 4↘️
    • Kramatorsk 2

    • Toretsk 13💥↗️

    • Pokrovsk 50💥💥💥↗️

    • Novopavlivka 31💥💥↗️

    • Huliaypillia 0
    • Orikhivsk 1
    • Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 3

  3. 205

    ⚡️Important targets of the Russian aggressor have been hit

    ⚡️As part of efforts to reduce the enemy’s offensive capabilities and complicate fuel supplies to the occupiers’ military units, on the night of August 30, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces and Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, struck the Krasnodar Oil Refinery (Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation). This oil refinery produces 3 million tons of light petroleum products per year, including gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel. It participates in supplying the Russian Armed Forces.

    Numerous explosions and a fire were recorded at the facility.

    ⚡️In addition, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repeatedly struck the Sizransky oil refinery in the Samara region of the Russian Federation. The enterprise produces gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, fuel oil, and bitumen. By August 2025, its processing capacity was 8.5 million tons per year. A fire has been reported in the area of the facility.

    The results of the fire damage are being clarified.

    The defense forces are taking measures to undermine the offensive potential of the Russian invaders and force the Russian Federation to stop its armed aggression against Ukraine.

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1b9f754wZQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

  4. MXT

    💥🔥👍

    “💥🛢️/1. Two Russian oil refineries were targeted today Krasnodar oil refinery as well as Syzran oil refinery. Krasnodar has a capacity of 3.1mln tons per year. Syzran, with a capacity of 7mln tons, is targeted for the third time in August — it was targeted on 15th and 24th.

    /2. 🎥Fire on the territory of the Syzran oil refinery as a result of an attack

    /3. 🎥Moment of the drone strike on Krasnodar oil refinery”

    /4. 🎥Krasnodar oil refinery burns the morning after the strikes.

    /5. 🎥Additional footage of fire on the territory of Syzran oil refinery

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    1. 205

      Looks extensive, almost like the other day. Does Putin want to tip over Trump on the Ukrainian side in Russia’s invasion war against Ukraine? Or does Putin rely on Taco being a real rubber Tarzan?

      1. Umlaut

        It assumes that 🍊 would react rationally from a European perspective, something we can probably forget. He is probably impressed by projected strength, the only way Russian terror would push 🌮 over to Ukraine’s side is if public opinion in the US would demand it for real. Considering that several opinion polls show that the average American stands on Ukraine’s side, one can only conclude that the Ukraine issue is so insignificant overall for most Americans that it doesn’t matter so much that their president is pursuing a different agenda.

        1. 205

          I can imagine that the war in Ukraine is perceived as a skirmish that is not essential to the American. Already Europe is an abstract concept in the American worldview. Certainly a continent but not a power sphere. There, Europe is still the individual nations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and polar bears in Switzerland/Sweden that are often confused.

           

          What Europe needs is an even stronger integration (including Great Britain) and to appoint a president who has a mandate (based on a greater degree of supranationality) to point with the whole hand and set a clear direction for Europe. Not least in terms of security policy, which seems to be the area where the EU is worst at.

    2. 205

      ⚡️ 548 ENEMY TARGETS DESTROYED/DOWNED

      During the night to August 30 (from 7:00 pm on August 29), the enemy carried out a massive attack on Ukrainian territory using attack UAVs, air-, land-, and sea-based missiles. In total, the radio-technical troops of the Air Force detected and tracked 582 air strikes during the attack:

      – 537 Shahed type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators from Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – Russia;
      – 8 ballistic missiles of Iskander-M/KN-23 type from Rostov region and Krasnodar region – Russia;
      – 37 air-launched/airborne missiles of air-, land-, and sea-based types: X-101, Kalibr, Iskander-K, X-59 (launch areas from Saratov region – Russia, Black Sea waters and TOT Zaporizhia region).

      The air strike was repelled by the Air Force, air defense forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile artillery units from the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

      💥 According to preliminary information, the air defense had shot down/destroyed 548 air targets by 09:00:

      – 510 enemy UAVs of Shahed type and various types of imitation drones;
      – 6 ballistic missiles of Iskander-M/KN-23 type;
      – 32 cruise/air-to-surface missiles of X-101, Kalibr, Iskander-K, X-59 types.

      5 missiles and 24 attack UAVs have hit 7 locations, and downed (wreckage) have fallen on 21 locations.

      ❗️The attack continues, there are still several hostile UAVs in the airspace. Follow the safety rules, stay in shelters!

    1. DJ

      It’s absolutely wonderful to wake up to new riff news every day now. If oil and trains are affected, everything will come to a halt, and what can even China do then?

      1. MXT

        Yes, it may eventually reach the point where China does not think it’s worth holding the Russians under their arms. If Ukraine can continue at the same pace as they have done now during August, it probably won’t be too long before we get there.

  7. MXT

    Off-Topic

    So the women (the feminists) have themselves come to the conclusion that they prefer to decide for themselves how to act and that they gladly avoid having a lot of children and standing at home by the stove.

    Another woman thinks this is completely wrong.
    A woman who has chosen to become the chairperson of a youth association?

    “SD’s youth association: Too shameful with housewives”

    Feminism bears a great responsibility for the low birth rate in Sweden, according to Denice Westerberg, chairperson of SD’s youth association Ungsvenskarna. In an interview with SvD, Westerberg says that the housewife should be appreciated and that many would benefit from “more traditional gender roles.”

    Westerberg criticizes the fact that many women are constantly told to educate themselves and work.

    – Suddenly, yes, then you’re 30, and then you don’t have time to have so many children. I think that’s a big part of the problem.”

    https://omni.se/sd-s-ungdomsforbund-for-skambelagt-med-hemmafruar/a/PpMBre

    2. DJ

      It’s reasonable that something like 3% or so of women want to be housewives, right? So then it’s silly that it’s stigmatized. You can also become a daycare mom, that was probably more common before. I think it’s good for diversity with a few more housewives, but maybe more than a few percent isn’t great for modern society.

      1. MXT

        I question whether it would really be shameful.

        Regardless, I think the most important thing is that women (together with their partners) decide for themselves how they want to do things, and I believe that the majority of women do just that.

        Denice is now trying to make it seem like if you don’t choose to be a housewife, it’s because you have “succumbed to peer pressure,” and in doing so, she is doing exactly what she accuses feminism of doing, namely influencing, but in the opposite direction.

        What is a feminist, well those who believe that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men and that they should be able to decide on their own lives.

        Of course, there are those who are against it and try to belittle and discredit feminists by portraying them as rabid man-haters.

        Unfortunately, there are of course women who hate men, just as there are men who hate women.

        1. DJ

          You are probably right that it is not particularly shameful. Perhaps on par with FIRE or those who choose to live the van life? Regarding the definition of feminism, your definition is good but hardly the only one. Major feminist icons, such as Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler, argued that womanhood and the feminine were purely social constructs and 0% innate. This mindset has consequences in areas like sports but also in society at large. 

          1. MacMelmac

            Social construction? Aha! But then one can choose not to be homosexual if one wants to, right? I mean, it’s just all in the head and in society.

            These make-believe experts do more harm than good to the group they are trying to benefit!

      2. DJ

        They will surely mimic Orcban’s various proposals in Hungary. But if they really want to have many children, should they promote African culture?

  8. MXT

    USA

    The USA has become so corrupt that it’s just for him to take it to the Supreme Court and then he gets what he wants.
    The three branches that are supposed to ensure balance so that none of them gets too much power no longer work.
    Republicans who know that they will ruin their political careers if they dare to go against Trump make Congress not stop him and judges in the Supreme Court who are appointed based on their political loyalty have now led to the president essentially gaining unlimited power, and with Trump as president, he will exploit it to the fullest.

    “Donald Trump is raging on social media after an appeals court ruled that most of the president’s tariffs are illegal. In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump writes, among other things, that it would be a ”total disaster for the country” if the tariffs were removed.

    ”If this decision stands, it would literally destroy the USA”, he writes.

    According to the court, the tariffs may remain in place until October 14 so that the case can be appealed to the Supreme Court. Trump suggests that an appeal is to be expected.

    ”With the help of the USA’s Supreme Court, we will use them to our country’s advantage and make the USA rich, strong, and powerful again”, he writes about the tariffs.”
    https://omni.se/trump-rasar-mot-domstolen-katastrof-for-landet/a/mPkndL

  12. MXT

    Not just positive news, Russia terror bombed Ukraine again. One dead and 22 injured in Zaporizhzhia.

    “Overnight Russian strikes hit Ukraine: in Zaporizhzhia 1 killed and 22 injured, including children, with 14 apartment blocks and 40+ houses damaged; in Dnipro and Pavlohrad infrastructure was hit; blasts also reported in Kyiv region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Volyn..”
    https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lxm2aojaec2r

  19. MXT

    3 + 8.5 = 11.5 MT/year and that corresponds to approximately 3-4% of the total capacity. In itself neglectable but together with all the other hits that have been striking, it is of course devastating. These two have probably met before, hoping that the repairs have just been completed..

    “Important facilities were hit, – General Staff
    Krasnodar refinery — 3 million tons of light oil products per year – gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel.
    Syzran refinery — gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, fuel oil, bitumen. Processing volumes were 8.5 million tons per year.”
    https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1961699287714136064

  20. MXT

    Now the USA is trying to make it sound like it’s their merit that Ukraine is taking out the riffraff! 😄
    The positive thing is that they don’t seem to be trying to stop Ukraine at least.

    “🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker: Trump is making sure that Ukraine can continue to defend itself. By giving them some deeper strike capabilities that could help them offensively. They have already taken out about 20% of Russia’s oil refining capacity in the last month.”
    https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lxm4cvwmk22o

  21. MXT

    Considering whether I should rip out one of the back doors of the car so I can install one of these, good to have if the Russians come! 

  22. DJ

    My ranking of security guarantees below. To qualify, it must be more than just a piece of paper, otherwise the Budapest memorandum already exists.

    1. Total decolonization of Russia. It reduces and divides the threat, especially if neighboring oblasts receive special status towards the EU so they have something to lose by turning against Moscow. Even a free Belarus is included here.
    2. Permanent demilitarization of Russia. Monthly bombing of anything military or dual use. It works, but expensive in the long run and risk of funding ceasing due to peace in our time. If they learn, and stop building military facilities, however, there will be no cost and perceived peace for all parties.
    3. NATO membership with troops and large bases in Ukraine. In third place because everything is so uncertain with Trump.

    For my part, we can hedge our bets and go with all three.

    1. Peter Den Större

      As the war in Ukraine has continued and we have seen lists of Russia’s various wars and conquests over the decades, it is obvious that a peace without a Russian collapse is not a peace but a temporary pause. Now the Western world is trying to negotiate. This is wrong.

  25. MXT

    The Ukrainian top politician Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in the city of Lviv, located in the western part of the country – far from the front lines of the war. This is reported by Kyiv Independent. President Volodymyr Zelensky writes on X that the incident is a “terrible murder”. …

  27. MXT

    “A derailing phone call between US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June is said to have played a crucial role in the deteriorating relationship between the leaders. This is reported by the New York Times in an article based on information from about ten sources in Washington and New Delhi. According to the information, Modi lost patience with Trump, who during the call insisted that he had “solved” the military conflict between India and Pakistan – something he had already claimed publicly several times. Trump mentioned that Pakistan would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize and the underlying message, according to the sources, was hard to miss: Modi should do the same. But he did not. Instead, he is said to have stated that Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire. …”

    https://omni.se/a/kw7GyQ

  29. MXT

    “Russia is preparing a major disinformation campaign starting 12 September to coincide with the “Zapad-2025” drills, said Ukraine’s intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov. He warned of a wave of false narratives, mostly Russian, aimed especially at the Baltic states.”

  30. MXT

    “❗️Trump is in talks to deploy US PMCs to Ukraine after peace is established — The Telegraph

    PMC fighters could be deployed to help rebuild frontline defenses, establish new bases and protect US businesses.”

  31. MXT

    “Donald Trump just appointed Heather Honey, an election denier who tried to overturn the 2020 election, in charge of overseeing U.S. elections.”

  32. MXT

    ‘Ukrainian artillerists say they aren’t using howitzers any less because of drones. They are telling the U.S. and other allies that big guns retain some key advantages, not least greater firepower.’

  33. MXT

    “Militant right-wing extremist groups in the USA are increasingly studying the possibility of carrying out domestic drone attacks, reports The Guardian. Several sources tell the newspaper that the FBI is concerned about the growing number of violent right-wing extremists inspired by the military, terrorist groups, and drug cartels’ use of cheap, homemade drones. A neo-Nazi writer on Substack and former member of the violent group Atomwaffen Division, who claims to be a trained drone operator, refers to drone warfare in Ukraine.”

  34. MXT

    “Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Trade, Benjamin Dousa (M), welcomes a U.S. court ruling that invalidates the majority of Donald Trump’s global tariffs. However, he emphasizes that the new tariff levels still apply and are likely to continue to do so.”

  36. MXT

    “🇪🇺 A group of a dozen EU countries has looked into unexplored legal possibilities to proceed by qualified majority instead of unanimity, – Bloomberg.

    ‼️ Making the change would allow faster and more decisive action in the context of increased geopolitical competition.”

      3. CB500four

        I don’t really understand the idea of 100%, it’s not really fair to the majority. Like now in the EU, if all other countries except those whose leaders receive bribes from Russia risk war because a decision doesn’t go through, is that fair…? No. The majority shouldn’t have to suffer because the minority has lost their minds. I don’t think 50% is okay, there must be a willingness to compromise, but at most 75%

      1. MXT

        Yes, at the same time it’s a bit sad when a country sabotages for the rest and in the case of Hungary, they are standing on the side of the enemy Russia and must be seen as a security threat to the EU.

        Don’t know how to best solve it, it’s the same problem as in the UN when countries veto.

  38. MXT

    “Many within Trump’s inner circle believe that European leaders outwardly support Trump’s efforts to achieve a peace agreement in Ukraine, while undermining them behind the scenes. Sources tell Axios. In the White House, there is talk of Europeans going behind Trump’s back and pressuring Zelensky to wait for a “better deal” with greater concessions from Russia. – The Europeans must not prolong the war and try to sneak in unrealistic expectations, while expecting the US to foot the bill, says a senior source in the White House, adding: – If the Europeans want to escalate the war, it’s up to them. …”

    2. CB500four

      Trump’s inner circle consists of people who, due to a complete lack of competence, are completely loyal to Trump, because despite their ignorance, they know they would never have received such a position without him.

      They are now spreading Russian narratives they have received from Trump.

       

  44. 205

    August 28 in the Pokrovsk district in Donetsk, AFRF🇷🇺 shot and killed a local resident.

    A direct violation of the Geneva Convention. Another proof that for AFRF🇷🇺, neither laws nor morals exist.

    The murderer will receive the deserved punishment.

    — 1st Corps of the NSU “Azov”

    ⚠️🎥https://x.com/ng_ukraine/status/1961746235208921094?s=46

  45. 205

    In the Dobropillya area, Ukrainian military surrounded Russian units and eliminating them

    ⚔️ Russians have had their “claws” cut off near Dobropillya, they are surrounded there, – OSUV “Dnipro”

    “Now the Russian units that went directly to Dobropillya, these “crab claws”, have been cut off and surrounded. Therefore, they will not be there for long,” – said the spokesman for OSUV “Dnipro” Viktor Tregubov

    https://x.com/heroiam_slava/status/1961771260368580743?s=46

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    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 14💥↗️
    S Slobozhansky 11💥↗️
    Kupyansk 9💥↗️
    Lyman 30💥💥
    Siverskyi 7
    Kramatorsk 7↗️
    Toretsk 20💥↗️
    Pokrovsk 50💥💥💥
    Novopavlivka 26💥💥↗️
    Huliaypillia 0
    Orikhivsk 5
    Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 0

    Operational information as of 08:00 on August 31, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion

    In total, 182 combat engagements were recorded over the past day.

    Yesterday, the enemy launched one massive missile and air strike with 48 missiles, two missile strikes, and 79 air strikes, using three missiles and dropping 161 guided bombs. In addition, it carried out 4,475 shellings, including 51 with multiple launch rocket systems, and used 5,563 kamikaze drones to strike targets.

    The aggressor carried out air strikes on populated areas, including: Velyka Berizka, Rivne, Sumy region; Bilohirya, Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region; Chornobaivka, Lviv, Kherson region; Ivanivka, Odesa region.

    Over the past day, the aviation, missile forces, and artillery of the Defense Forces struck two areas where personnel, weapons, and military equipment were concentrated, one command post, and two enemy ammunition depots.

    In the North Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, Ukrainian defenders repelled 14 Russian attacks. Over the past day, the enemy carried out 17 air strikes, dropped a total of 43 guided bombs, and carried out 194 artillery strikes, including two from multiple launch rocket systems.

    In the South Slobozhanskyi direction, our troops stopped eleven enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Hlybok, Kamianka, and in the direction of Novovasylivka.

    Yesterday, there were nine attacks by the invaders in the Kupiansk direction. Our defenders repelled enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlivka and Kupiansk.

    In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked thirty times, trying to break through our defenses near the settlements of Novyi Mir, Kolodyazi, Dibrova, Hrekivka, Karpivka, and in the direction of the settlements of Druzhlyubivka, Shandryholove, and Dronivka.

    In the Siverskyi direction, our soldiers successfully stopped seven enemy attacks near Serebryanka.

    In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers attacked seven times in the Stupochok area and towards Podilskyi.

    In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out ten attacks in the areas of the settlements of Pleshchiivka, Rusyn Yar, Katerynivka, and Poltavka.

    In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped fifty assaults by the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Shakhov, Sukhetske, Nikanorivka, Volodymyrivka, Novoekonomichne, Myrolyubivka, Chervonyi Lyman, Promin, Lysivka, Zvirove, Rodynske, Kotlyne, Udachne, and Novoukrainka, in the direction of the settlements of Pokrovsk and Zolotyi Kolodiaz.

    In the Novopavlivka direction, the enemy carried out 26 attacks yesterday in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandrograd, Maliivka, Shevchenko, Zelenе Pole, Filia, Yalta, towards the settlements of Novoselivka and Komyshuvakha.

    The aggressor attacked five times in the Orikhiv direction – the occupiers tried to advance in the area of the settlement of Kamyanske.

    The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Huliaipole and Dnipro directions.

    In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.

    The losses of the Russian invaders over the past day amounted to 810 people. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed two tanks, two armored combat vehicles, 27 artillery systems, 371 tactical-level unmanned aerial vehicles, 38 missiles, and 83 units of the occupiers’ automotive equipment.

     

  48. 205

    🇱🇹 Lithuania has installed “dragon teeth” on the border with the Russian Federation and Belarus.

    The border was strengthened at 4 non-working checkpoints with Belarus and one with the Russian Federation. Fortifications were also built in some other areas.

    ✍️This decision is part of a long-term plan of measures that will reduce the possibility of military equipment entering the territory of Lithuania from Belarus and Russia.

    https://x.com/heroiam_slava/status/1962020390294700202?s=46

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