Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

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Multiple mysterious fires in Russia at military-industrial buildings.  Interesting...

Russian radio station hacked, plays the Ukrainian national anthem

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Seeds are blooming in Ukraine:

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Resistance blows up cafe in Kherson frequented by invaders

The attack comes as the nascent resistance movement has been putting up "wanted" posters threatening local leaders of the Russian puppet regime. The posters are part of a wider counter-propaganda push, painting Russian occupiers as murderers.

The movement represents a major headache for stretched Russian resources attempting to implement permanent control over new territory, and could spell the beginning of a long underground campaign against occupiers.

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There's an article that indicates that Ukraine may be slowly winning the artillery duel in Severodonetsk.

But it talks a little too in-detail about Ukrainian positions/composition, so I will not be linking it.  Knowledge is power, guard it well.

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Russians store their dead at a meatpacking plant, run out of space

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Russians blow themselves up trying to plant antique mines

However, the russian military responsible for this misappropriated the allocated funds, and instead of recycling sent a dangerous ammo to the front.

Misappropriated funds, aka corruption.

I suppose now is as good time as any for today's feature film:

Russia's military is estimated to have around 20% corruption (i.e. funds diverted from its stated purpose to other areas, usually bribes or personal enrichment).

Big deal, right? An 80% effective army is still pretty powerful.  But because the  higher ups don't know what they don't have and because selling off $50,000 worth of parts effectively renders a multi-million dollar tank worthless, corruption does disproportionate damage to a military.  For example, selling fuel just prior to the war and then running out of fuel and then losing the battle for Kyiv.

If Russia wasn't quite so corrupt, Kyiv would be speaking Russian right now.

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Kherson partisans blow up Russian colonel with 3 other invaders

They also apparently blew up an installation that was going to be used to shell a town.

Also, two more generals KIA.  Big news, probably should have led with that.

That's 15 so far.  Russia started the invasion with around 20.  Five more and Zelensky gets to face off against Dr Wiley.

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More about the newly dead generals:  Scouts behind enemy lines paint Russian bases for devastating artillery barrages

This week, partisan scouts working for Ukraine's military behind enemy lines directed artillery attacks on two Russian bases in the occupied Kherson region that killed scores of enemy soldiers, according to a senior Ukrainian military official with knowledge of the attacks.

The scouts are local partisans who aid the Ukrainian military on Russian-occupied territory. They might be former soldiers or simply civilians gathering information like the location of enemy units. They can be men pushing potato carts, or farmers, or a grandmother with a cellphone.

I love how they phrase it. Pure paranoia fuel. You are not safe.  Be afraid of everyone and everything.  Lose the will to fight.  Run for your life back to Russia.

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Ukrainians at battle of Severodonetsk don't seek to control the city, but to inflict maximimum casualties

The city is strategically worthless, but apparently half (!) of all Russians in Ukraine are there.  So it's worthwhile to be there just to bombard as many as possible while they're exposed and bunched up.

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Dear Dictactor: Russia prepares to go full North Korea

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^ Well, now. That's depressing. Maybe China can step on Putin's dick?

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Ukrainian forces continue to advance in the Kherson region. If the latest round of counterattacks is successful, they'll be right on the doorstep of Kherson, the first major city taken by the Russians.

Meanwhile, the invaders have started to distribute russian passports in Kherson and Melitopol. 

Partisans in both cities have initiated attacks on occupiers.  And the russian general who planned to hold a fake referendum in Kherson by autimn died instead. 🌻  Both cities are taken but not defeated, so to speak.

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So here's the dog guy.  Or perhaps it was a different guy.  It mutt-ers not.

He seems strangely enthusiastic about sharing.  Usually I save the guessing game stuff for neat rocks or exotic wildlife, not his...*ahem* hungryman dinner.

Also, literally starving and throwing away "food" - no matter how low-quality - seems kinda irrational.  But fighting fellow slavs for Putin and bankrupting the Motherland in the process seems kinda irrational, too.

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Ukraine blows up Chechen invader command post

As for our special forces and gunners, we have three such examples of their coordinated work. They engaged a Wagner PMC base in Stakhaniv. Only one survivor there. A Chechen command post was destroyed in Rubizhne where the enemy death toll is yet to be clarified. Also, a group of Russian soldiers, holding a meeting at the House of Chemists, was eliminated," said the head of Luhansk region.

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Another mysterious fire broke out in Russia - this one in the Bryansk region just north of Ukraine.

Coincidentally, it  happened at a repair field where Russian military equipment was being repaired following damage in Ukraine.

Fire destroyed at least 8 vehicles, including armored vehicles and logistics vehicles.