If we summarize the situation – Russian losses are decreasing, they are gaining ground every day, the number of battles remains high, and the amount of artillery and UAVs that RU is deploying is high.
This is compiled daily by 205 in the comments section at https://johanno1.se/sv/ukraina-daglig-uppdatering-29-maj-2025/#comment-27442
If we look at the losses, it signals a decrease in intensity.
And if we look at the movements on the battlefield – high intensity in the battles.
So what’s happening?
We have described this before in some world-leading posts, RU has simply taken a page from Ukraine’s playbook.
Instead of mechanized breakdowns and major offensives, they have made changes – they send forward a group or troop to try to advance as far as possible.
They have done this before, but now they have made improvements to the overall concept.
Observation drones log UA positions when they reveal themselves – they have also done this before.
But RU’s kill-chain has improved, we saw that already in 2024 during Kursk, and now they have probably shortened it even more so RU puts UAVs in the identified firing positions promptly.
And on top of that, a drone cover that prevents UA movements.
UAVs have an absolutely devastating effect – ask Hamas and Hezbollah how they rate them on a scale from 1-10, they just start crying. Our hope that new UA fighter jets would completely eliminate UAVs has been in vain 😐
At times, UA has had effective EW, but clearly, UAVs are now being shot down accurately again – all such advantages always have lead times.
The page they took from the UA playbook is when they attack with a group and engage a platoon in defense with a 1:5 ratio in their own losses.
The Russians do it a little differently – they sacrifice the group, place a UAV on the two defenders, and then advance over the bodies.
But it works…
Everything is always relative, and all advantages are always worked away over time if possible – if you remember that whack-a-mole game I usually describe.
I thought it looked very good during the autumn, a period when UAVs no longer hit, so RU had to deploy 6 per target, RU drones were difficult to jam with EW, and Ukraine’s own drones did well. Then Ukraine received a lot of equipment, and according to their own information, they have solved the issue of personnel supply.
This predicament was solved by Putin with the help of Trump – Ukraine was forced to remain passive during that period until RU caught up.
In total numbers, UA often reports that they are at a disadvantage of 3:1.
When they are in defense, they usually lose at a ratio of 1:5 – 1:10, and when they conduct offensive operations, it’s at a ratio of 1:3 – 1:5
So the question is, are UA losses increasing or not?
Are they abandoning terrain to keep losses down?
RU handles this exceptionally well – planning and executing offensive operations that involve advancing with a lot of indirect fire – it’s hard to fail at that as long as they keep losses below the number of new recruits.
They are simply in their comfort zone now.
I make the following guesses –
-overall, RU has more aircraft, units, artillery, and drones so they can create more focal points where they can gather an advantage.
-China provides drone support.
-North Korea provides units to man defensive positions and free up RU units.
According to all sources, Ukraine should at least have received or will receive equipment, but it is still only what we can produce.
Throughout 2024, they managed to gather an advantage at focal points by significantly deprioritizing other areas.
The area east of Kupiansk is probably in a bit of trouble – RU should have 24-hour drone coverage on all roads to and from there.
There is a low probability that they will survive the summer if RU intends to launch an offensive in the area.
The area south of there doesn’t look good either, and the two attack vectors towards the remaining crossings have 20km left and are slowly moving forward.
This area is also not a priority for UA now that RU is advancing in other places – it’s not ideal if the foothold east of Oskil is lost.
Then the only way to regain the area is to defeat Russia, there is no other option.
The access roads to Pokrovsk are probably also at risk, there is a road northward that should still be open.
Presumably, UA has both set up depots on site and has alternative routes like in Bakhmut?
The only way to break this slow retreat is for UA to regain the initiative.
If the opportunity to defeat Belarus has passed, or if the West intervenes, we don’t know, but otherwise, that would be a suitable new attack vector to surprise with.
The northern front is becoming increasingly well-manned, so it is also becoming more difficult to come up with something there.
If RU takes the area east of Oskil, it will also be closed off to UA.
It doesn’t get easier the shorter the front Ukraine can attack on, it becomes more predictable.
The strategic bombing war would be interesting if it resumes after a unilateral pause, and if UA can deploy real long-range missiles in large numbers, it will make a difference, but the question is whether it’s too late to stop Putin with asymmetric warfare if they have flown to the war bunkers in Samara?
On May 9, he was the king of kings, unlike previous years when only those who would be arrested if they didn’t show up did.
Trump and the troika seem to believe that the way forward is peace – what they do is take the truth that “every war ends at the negotiating table” and then say that it is inevitable and might as well happen now.
Three years of doing nothing and then letting Putin run circles around us during peace talks that we forced Ukraine into, so they lost their advantage, was not fun to watch.
We have learned a thing or two over three years, and one truth is that if it doesn’t work, Russia will increase the level of violence until it either works or they crash. The entire peace negotiation track is an attempt by the West to bypass that, but good luck changing a Russian’s DNA.
Merz is doing good things now, but Taurus is no longer needed – if Germany sends them, it might be around 150 or so.
Manufacturing is in the future, and volumes are even further away.
And it IS historically charged with German missiles hitting the Kremlin whether you want it or not.
Today, Ukraine will be able to produce the volumes of their own missiles needed if the resources are allocated – which Merz understood, smart.
Trump is playing a delaying game (again…) –
Now there should be peace agreements and a meeting on June 2, a Russian initiative.
There is probably a risk that Trump will succeed here – our strategy in Europe is based on the assumption that Ukraine can hold out, but if they collapse, I’m pretty sure there is no sensible contingency plan.
In addition to Ukraine being the big loser thanks to us constantly torpedoing them when things were going well, Europe will have to bear the brunt.
The USA has never wanted what’s best for Europe – they are running their own race.
One million unemployed soldiers will seek their fortune in the EU underworld. Refugee flows and Russian influence on a scale far beyond what we see today.
For me, throughout an entire war, it has been incredibly simple – help Ukraine help themselves to a win, and a bonus if Russia and Belarus collapse.
The USA probably pushed hardest against letting Ukraine win, and Trump is running the same race, but there one might suspect that there is also a hidden agenda for Russia to win.
We in Europe were supposed to take over when Trump showed his true colors, but we haven’t done so.
It was quite generous of Ukraine to be able to fight any targets they wanted today – very nice.
They are damn tired of the war in Ukraine and they feel betrayed by us, a perfect breeding ground for Russian subversive activities.
RU has thus been conducting a continuous offensive since the fall of 2023, and the only thing UA has done is their course offensive, which went so well that Putin was forced to ask Trump to negotiate it away, but nothing more has happened. RU keeps pushing forward, and towns like Vuhledar are more than 40km behind the front lines.
Furthermore, the EU continues to buy Russian crude oil and LNG, bringing in hard currency, and India and China are also buying.
China has significantly increased its support to Russia in 2025, and I bet five hundred that they provide LV against drones to important installations in Russia.
We probably all know Putin by now – while he’s spinning us around with peace negotiations, he’s preparing a blow. Why do we know this? Because that’s how Russia has always operated.
So there will be more of everything, and it is my clear opinion that it is in the year 2025, and perhaps well into 2026, that Russia has a window to achieve something.
After that, it’s closed.
The worst thing that could happen is if Europe is left standing there with a blank face and no plan if Ukraine starts to falter.
Ukraine actually has the cash now to start buying from the open market in the West, but some countries still have bans on that, and now all of Europe has started to strengthen their own national defense, so Ukraine simply cannot quickly buy €50 billion worth of offensive material.
If you work in the private sector, you have learned that the goal is what’s important. When I guest-starred in the public sector, the goal was barely discernible, but how one worked and what one did took up an enormous amount of time without leading to anything, it was the meetings themselves that were important.
We were absolutely drowning in meetings, while the maintenance of the critical infrastructure you commute to work on every day is in such poor condition that it’s almost condemned, if only you knew. In fact, Sergels Torg is like ten floors standing on concrete pillars, and at the bottom, they are so porous that you can almost poke through them with a finger. When they built the tramway, they reinforced the pillars, but to not spend too much money, they only reinforced the top floors – they didn’t care about the ones at the bottom. You can ponder the logic in that, and there were also some major consulting firms involved in this.
School, military service, and university are not like that – the goals are very clear there, so everyone has grown up with a clear target.
In the case of the Ukraine war, Europe is still operating a bit like a municipal company and does not have a clear goal to work towards, but it seems that the wording and the meetings themselves are what’s important – to make it look like something is being done.
Putin has a goal, even though this will probably go down in history as one of their poorly managed wars, but after endless new chances and restarts, they are starting to get organized.
I’m not looking forward to this summer at all because there probably won’t be any UA offensive during June, as that prisoner exchange is dragging on, and they are still holding back, and then Trump will have another round of negotiations, and Ukraine won’t be able to lift a finger😐
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The Russian losses in Ukraine on 2025-05-30:
1140 KIA
1 Tanks
2 IFVs
35 Artillery systems
1 MLRS
1 Anti-Aircraft system
71 UAVs
74 Vehicles & Fuel tanks
https://bsky.app/profile/matsextrude.bsky.social/post/3lqeg6llavc2b
Glory to Ukraine
1 tank, then they were not over yet. 😢
No, unfortunately. 😔
They have a handful of T14 Armata but it’s a bit ridiculous when they have to be towed to the front,
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32628236
For every T14 produced, “a traaktoor” is also produced.
Last tank ✊
1 tank, they were not finished yet. 😢
119 battles at 10 pm yesterday evening, 173 at 8 am this morning. The number of battles during the night was 54. The corresponding number from yesterday was 8 battles during the night (197 at 10 pm, 205 at 8 am).
Decreasing across the entire front except for Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, Kharkiv, and Siverskyi.
The number of KWIA per attack increased. Notably, Pokrovsk accounted for 341 KWIA at 10 pm yesterday evening (out of 52/119 battles in the sector).
⏱️ Historical figures with today’s furthest to the left and oldest (April 18, 2025 furthest to the right). The same with the curve in any diagrams.
Update as of 08.00 30.05.2025 on the Russian invasion
In total, 173↘️ combat engagements were recorded over the past day. ⏱️205, 216, 170, 180, 204, 202, 141, 144, 164, 177, 167, 145, 165, 168, 163, 166, 155, 161, 196, 193, 196, 171, 200, 269, 253, 216, 199, 199, 177, 178, 168, 174, 156, 175, 168, 144, 165, 96, 127, 162, 143, 125, 111, 99
#Kharkiv 9↗️⏱️4, 9, 5, 6, 5, 5, 8, 6, 3, 3, 6, 3, 5, 6, 3, 4, 7, 3, 3, 6, 4, 11, 18, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 2, 2, 9, 6, 0, 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 1, 2, 7, 1
#Kupyansk 4↘️⏱️8, 2, 5, 2, 5, 5, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 6, 6, 5, 6, 9, 7, 3, 4, 5, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 11, 4
#Lyman 13💥↘️⏱️24, 32, 16, 21, 23, 16, 12, 17, 30, 23, 22, 24, 17, 16, 24, 29, 20, 25, 8, 17, 27, 24, 21, 31, 22, 16, 27, 27, 36, 21, 18, 20, 22, 19, 15, 20, 14, 25, 12, 14, 17, 20
#Siverskyi 7↗️⏱️3, 0, 3, 6, 3, 0, 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 10, 4, 3, 5, 3, 6, 8, 4, 8, 5, 6, -, 0, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2
#Kramatorsk 7↘️⏱️15, 11, 5, 10, 4, 4, 4, 3, 6, 6, 9, 8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 9, 10, 6, 10, 5, 4, 10, 6, 8, 6, 6, 13, 10, 16, 13, 8, 13, 1, 6, 4, 5, 7, 6, 8
#Toretsk 6↘️⏱️21, 19, 12, 10, 16, 21, 9, 16, 14, 13, 11, 14, 19, 8, 18, 6, 9, 6, 12, 15, 9, 13, 8, 6, 16, 7, 8, 4, 10, 6, 14, 9, 29, 16, 17, 13, 23, 10, 18, 26, 11
#Pokrovsk 66💥💥💥↗️⏱️54, 65, 65, 63, 65, 61, 44, 54, 44, 72, 65, 54, 52, 75, 74, 54, 60, 70, 60, 65, 71, 61, 77, 78, 115, 78, 113, 83, 64, 85, 75, 59, 64, 68, 44, 65, 56, 53, 61, 39, 54, 64 According to preliminary data in the 22-report at 52 of 119↘️ combats, AFU🇺🇦 killed 182↗️ occupants and wounded another 58↗️, for a total of 341↗️ KWIA in this sector. Ukrainian troops also destroyed 14 vehicles, 11 motorcycles, two mortars, three Shahed UAVs and two personnel shelters. In addition, a tank, two vehicles and an enemy BM-21 multiple rocket launcher system were damaged.
#Novopavlivka 24💥↗️⏱️21, 25, 24, 24, 14, 30, 14, 19, 33, 22, 24, 23, 18, 23, 26, 30, 24, 13, 19, 31 , 28, 32, 23, 24, 52, 66, 23, 15, 16, 13, 23, 13, 13, 19, 10, 15, 17, 19, 5, 12, 9, 9
#Huliaipil 0⏱️0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1. 3, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 13, 0 , 0, 1, 1, 2, 7, 5, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
#Orikhivsk 3⏱️6, 11, 4, 5, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 7, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 14, 3, 3, 5, 4, 5, 0, 5, 1, 4, 4, 9, 3, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1
#Prydniprovsky 1⏱️2, 0, 1, 3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 3, 6, 5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1 , 1, 3, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0
#Kursk 26💥↘️⏱️33, 32, 23, 26, 39, 43, 21, 5, 13, 10, 18, 14, 13, 14, 9, 12, 9, 8, 25, 19, 19, 19, 11, 18 23, 23, 20, 33, 21, 25, 15, 23, 15, 30, 27, 26, 22, 21, 16, 20, 23, 21
Thank you!👍
Thank you 205 👍👍
I will be busy today so unfortunately there won’t be many comments from me.
Oh my God, how is this going to work 😳
Ukraine’s AI-powered ‘mother drone’ sees first combat use, minister says. The drone system, developed by Ukraine’s defense tech cluster Brave1, can deliver two AI-guided FPV (first-person view) strike drones up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) behind enemy lines, according to Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ai-powered-mother-drone-sees-first-combat-use-minister-says
Russia reports 2nd straight day of Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow, building damaged in outskirts of capital. A building was reportedly damaged on the outskirts of Moscow following a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian capital overnight on May 29, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported.
Videos and photos posted on social media by residents purportedly show damage sustained by a residential building on Vernadsky Avenue in Southwest Moscow. Explosions were heard in the area around 1:40 a.m. local time.
Ukraine’s recent drone strategy has been aimed at disrupting airport operations, overwhelming air defenses, and making the war more visible to ordinary Russians.
https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-building-damaged-in-reported-drone-attack
Very good 👍
Stavropol explosion kills Russian official who led attacks on Ukraine’s Mariupol. Stavropol Krai Governor Vladimir Vladimirov confirmed Zaur Gurtsyev’s death, describing it as a “nighttime incident on Chekhov Street” without providing further details.
Zaur Gurtsyev, the deputy mayor of Stavropol and a former participant in Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. (Vladimir Vladimirov/Telegram)
Gurtsyev took part in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Time of Heroes” (“Vremya Geroev”) program. According to the program’s website, he led Russia’s aerial operation to capture the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-official-involved-in-war-against-ukraine-killed-in-stavropol-explosion
Rysslands budgetunderskott tredubblas medan sanktioner och låga oljepriser råder, säger ukrainsk tjänsteman. Ukrainska kommissionären för sanktionspolitik, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, sa att internationella sanktioner fortfarande är en nyckelfaktor bakom nedgången i Rysslands energiintäkter.
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-budget-deficit-triples-amid-sanctions-and-low-oil-prices-ukrainian-official-says/
Still better 😀✊
Ryssland mottog minst 100 ballistiska missiler från Nordkorea förra året, enligt övervakare. Olagliga vapenöverföringar “bidrog till Moskvas förmåga att öka sina missilattacker mot ukrainska städer, inklusive riktade attacker mot kritisk civil infrastruktur,” enligt en rapport från Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team.
Nordkorea och Ryssland bröt mot resolutioner från FN:s säkerhetsråd och ägnade sig åt olagliga aktiviteter under hela 2024.
Brotten inkluderar leveranser av vapen och militärutrustning, rysk träning av nordkoreanska trupper för insats i direkt strid mot ukrainska styrkor, leverans av raffinerade petroleumprodukter till Nordkorea över de av FN-mandaterade takten, samt korrespondensbankverksamhet mellan de två länderna.
Endast under 2024 skickade Nordkorea minst 100 ballistiska missiler till Ryssland, enligt en MSMT-deltagande stat. Dessa missiler “sköts därefter in i Ukraina för att förstöra civil infrastruktur och terrorisera befolkade områden som Kyiv och Zaporizhzhia,”
Ryska fartyg levererade “upp till 9 miljoner skott av blandad artilleri- och flerraketammunition” från Nordkorea till Ryssland i 49 sändningar från januari till december 2024, enligt en MSMT-deltagande stat. Lasten skickades från Rysslands fjärröstra hamnar till ammunitionsdepåer i sydvästra Ryssland för användning i den fullskaliga krigföringen mot Ukraina.
MSMT består av 11 medlemsstater i Förenta nationerna och bildades i oktober 2024 för att övervaka och rapportera om genomförandet av FN-sanktioner mot Nordkorea med tanke på de fördjupade militära banden mellan Moskva och Pyongyang.
https://kyivindependent.com/north-korea-sent-russia-at-least-100-ballistic-missiles-last-year-monitors-find/
Instead of striking Russia to the ground when we were attacked, we have by holding back Ukraine all the time acted as a sparring partner to them, so that the Russians have become better and stronger to the point that they are now better than the Western countries in modern warfare. Congratulations to us :/
The West cannot turn a blind eye to this and must engage to gain experience of the modern battlefield and develop its own warfare in it.
The entire Western military force needs to upgrade itself, and it is not enough to just sit on the sidelines and let Ukraine do the heavy lifting.
Outsourcing everything to Ukraine is flawed and has weaknesses that can resemble the weakening of a country’s competitiveness that outsourcing entails (why has innovation capability decreased with reduced domestic production? Because a lot of the product’s development potential lies in the production chain).
Everything from organization to equipment to tactics must be fine-tuned in relation to the modern battlefield. This cannot be done if one does not enter the battlefield themselves.
From the article on drone motherships above:
Ukraine has leaned heavily on technological innovation to offset its disadvantages in manpower and firepower since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. … Fedorov said Ukraine will continue investing in Ukrainian systems that “change the rules of the game in technological warfare.”
Ukraine knows what’s coming – will discuss it tomorrow
🇺🇸🗣️ The United States will walk away from peace talks if Russia continues the war, — Acting Deputy Representative to the UN John Kelley.
“In doing so, we are not abandoning our principles or our friends. Rather, we are recognizing Russia’s refusal to work with us to achieve the desired outcome.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lqepe2a2bs22
More talk then.
A few more weeks to go…
A new U.S. Air Force–commissioned RAND report says NATO and U.S. forces would have a clear edge over Russia in a conventional war, thanks to airpower.
The analysis finds that NATO would quickly gain air superiority, allowing it to strike Russian forces, disrupt logistics, and tilt the battlefield.
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lqeoanupz22x
Is it reasonable?
⚡️Officials from US, UK, France, Germany to attend Ukraine-Russia peace talks, Kellogg says.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com/post/3lqehd4swnk2q
Have the Russians agreed to this?
The grumpy one has agreed not to expand NATO eastward, so maybe they can promise that the EU can participate as extras.
Have they not just had a peace talk that Putin ignored?
The USA’s proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza does not meet Hamas’ demands, the terrorist group states according to AFP.
He adds that they will continue to study and discuss the proposal, which involves Hamas releasing ten live hostages and 18 bodies in two stages over a week in exchange for a ceasefire and the release of 1000 terrorists. Israel has accepted the proposal.
https://omni.se/a/yEwRLE
It is obvious that continuing the war is more important to Hamas than a ceasefire that could increase aid to the civilian population.
Clearly, the civilian population is just a commodity to be killed in order to turn world opinion against Israel.
This is a double-edged sword.
On one hand, it is completely right for Israel to eradicate Hamas and put an end to it once and for all.
On the other hand, indiscriminate bombing cannot be justified even though Hamas uses the population as shields.
Just like a continued war is more important to Putin. Putin uses Russia for his purposes, just like Hamas uses Gaza for theirs.
Fantastic speech by MA from the Social Democrats. Now they have shown that Hamas is a horse to bet on to gain more votes and that they don’t care about the war in UA.
They want shorter working hours but are unwilling to lead by example and implement it themselves. We are the worst in the EU and have high unemployment according to S, our competitiveness we will disarm with shorter working hours.
Immigration and electricity production became diluted nonsense that will be torn up before you can say “power crisis”.
The Sweden Democrats laugh all the way to the election night party!
The Social Democrats, sometimes populists, sometimes conservatives. But always the Sweden Democrats’ best campaigners.
Agree with the above.
I am pondering why no party has understood that it is actually possible to position oneself on the issue of Ukraine ahead of the next election. It would put the left in a difficult position and at the same time generate a debate that probably increases our own efforts. No.1’s description of how Sweden would be inundated with unemployed, desensitized former military personnel in the event of a Russian victory gave me a hint of what is at stake.
I saw on SVT news that Morgan Johansson said that Israel has committed the worst war crimes since World War II. He is (was) quite high up in the Social Democrats so it must be seen as their stance. Good to know that the Social Democrats think Israel is worse than Russia (and apparently worse than the USA in, for example, Vietnam back then as well).
Moron Johansson. Damn. As you say, is that their party program?
😡
Spot on! (MacMelmac regarding SD.)
Russia seems to be taking its last breath soon, fumbling with peace agreements, digging deep for drones, and seeking to lift sanctions… looks like the fire is flaring up one last time before it dies out completely.
I agree with you, Wiiking.
You saw this from late yesterday (your late time) – Khotin
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3998572-active-combat-ongoing-near-khotin-yunakivka-in-sumy-region-rma.html
Welcome to Friday drinks in whatever language you prefer – Alexander Karelin was supposed to come for a friendly match live where I usually win, but he canceled, maybe he’s getting tired of losing 🧐
Last Friday drinks for me in the Caribbean then it’s vacation and a visit to Sweden – just checked the weather and starting to wonder if I’ve made one of the biggest mistakes of the year 😐
In times of global warming, I thought June would guarantee sun and heat, but had a minor heart attack checking the weather…
The Sicilian mafia I work for consists of two parts – a parent company in Italy that sent two guys here and then a local subsidiary with highly questionable work ethics.
The subsidiary is trying to hire a bunch of consultants to gain an advantage over the two engineers from Italy, and that’s how I got involved.
I usually manage to figure out how to work with people, I found a balance but it wasn’t the easiest here when everyone is fighting with everyone, and I was supposed to be ammunition but it worked.
And dealing with Italians – all your prejudices are true.
Now they’re trying to get rid of the consultant anyway, which means my relevance has exponentially increased as the Italian engineers can’t handle wet work at all (unlike the Sicilians, but then it’s a different kind of wet work) and are heavily relying on me.
The most important thing is probably that I don’t teach the two from Italy anything and keep my expertise to myself as long as possible – how long one stays here probably has a perfect correlation with how much those two manage to learn from me.
Now the site is also getting a bit big – there are about seven million people attending the Friday drinks according to IT, server space has been purchased, and then 130,000 who read the daily posts on substack, unless I’ve possibly missed two zeros but that would be a rounding error.
Being able to spread Friday drinks worldwide is an enormously important life mission, and now everyone who speaks English can also get tipsy early on Fridays – we’re simply spreading our mission 🙏
For some reason, I’m seeing fewer and fewer funny dog videos on Twitter, so there won’t be much contribution from my side, but all of you are undeniably funny after a long can, so I’m confident we’ll reach the goal.
I’m in urgent need of a few beers and a sip of rum myself – it’s been a hectic week.
Read yesterday that all imported honey (100% 😶) is a fake product, sugar and syrup type, and that China unsurprisingly ranks at the top.
You can rest assured that Friday drinks are 100% an original product without chemicals or illegal ingredients.
This one is interesting about peer pressure and how it’s been proven with science – how can we best use peer pressure to get people to drink more cans?
https://x.com/taylinsimmonds/status/1928424916816482493?s=46&t=Vah3JXV31B9lXwZOK5gF7w
A little late start but better late than never 👍
You can’t escape the dog movies 🤣🤣🤣
Driving school
https://x.com/rainmaker1973/
Or a happy bird.
https://x.com/yoda4ever/
Here it was lively MXT, what could be the reason 🧐
That I am not here to liven up the mood?
Nice that you put on the captain’s jersey 205 👍👍
Or this one, hysterically funny 🤣🤣🤣
https://x.com/puppiesiover/
Have we already had the theme of apes?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6P8zz_MJ91c
Aptema is very good, a winner 👍👍🤣🤣
Jippi. Must check the fridge.
Red rose beer or sharp?
Maybe a fine rum?
Well, a couple of tall cans of Spendrups Premium is never wrong. Plus a splash of Absolut from yesterday. Fun to then check out reels on Instagram. There was a poor Englishman who had a whole gorilla family behind him. He sat still. I guarantee.
The warmth spreads
I’ll have a glass of white (again).
Every other white is the trick to feeling good that day! Works every time.
“Every other water” is the church’s way of doing things here. Tried it one Midsummer – everyone passed out around 8 o’clock in the evening – we will never do that again! 😛😂
hahaha, every other white 🙏
Next time MXT is thinking of taking a day off from the IT job, maybe he shouldn’t announce it in advance 😀
He went from IT to AW. 😁
Exactly – he had some Russian electricians on site yesterday apparently 🧐
It was unprofessional of me! 😂
This is promising. Saw another video about how worried the Kremlin is about how Europe is stepping up militarily (yes, we think it’s too slow, but it’s still a huge change.) https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3lqf4f4x6a22y
I’m trying a Mojito from a box, it feels a bit watery. Should I switch to Whisky? 🥃
As long as it’s not American – go!
Jack Daniel’s, Tennessee!
Shit happens! 😀
🤣🤣✊✊
Spice it up with Whisky? 😂
I was kicked out for a while, I think IT marked me for being too loud but damn, there was a real party going on here.
Almost as if you opened the door to the bar and the whole gang is lined up at the bar counter – very good
Approaching the sleep stage…
But first: pre-party stage!
#fridaydrinks! ✊🙈🍻
Ap stage ✊✊
🤡 Russia bans memes comparing Putin to Hitler
Kirovsky court in Omsk blocked 12 pages with such images.
The prosecutor’s office claims these memes “incite terrorism” and “harm state interests.”
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1928447713194205695?s=46
Great 205 🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
😂
This is signals on a high level. Merz must have had a lot of contacts with Ukraine even before he was elected. And now we have a Germany prepared to take on the leadership role – that’s when things happen! (I’ll go get a glass of wine!).
Fredagsfyllan’s theme?
https://www.redocean.co.uk/image/cache/products/30947/image01_2000-1500×1500.jpg
Sounds good, about the right level 😀👍
I have a diabolical plan here to sneak away from work an hour early and make a quick stop at Carrefour on the way home.
Apparently there is beer and wine, but wise from experience, there is always just not enough, so we will top up the supply.
It didn’t become legendary for me today, I’ve been locked out even after the page started “400 Bad” it said.
Now it will be a long can as a consolation prize
Hmm..
I wonder what you’ve been up to.
I have received warnings from Wordfence about your account. Have you been hacked by the Russians? 🤔
🧐
I apologize for the interruption today.
Power outages and a depleted UPS required manual intervention, and it took time to resolve as I was not nearby.
The electricity has been completely unreliable in the past year with several interruptions. Previously, it almost never happened, basically only during extreme thunderstorms.
Clearly need to secure it better.
You are forgiven and we are so grateful for all your work. Don’t think about it 🙂
Nah, everyone knows it wasn’t you, it was the Russians!
One has spent quite some time on Cornucopia today during Friday’s binge drinking, will have to take a long shower when I get home to try to wash away the shame 😐
Big problem here – the driver is stuck in traffic, getting WhatsApp pictures from him of the traffic.
Still at work, it’s 6 PM and I have a 1.5-hour journey home now that I didn’t manage to sneak out before the queues started 😭