Day 1297 War in Ukraine

Uuh...whut?!?!?! “Russian drone which was flying in Romanian airspace was not intercepted. The drone was escorted till it left Romanian airspace and went to Ukraine.” Romania didn’t shoot the drone down, even though they knew it was on a mission to kill Ukrainians? As the blogger says: “Well that was right neighborly of Romania.”

Former Georgia Dream Defense Minister arrested by State Security Service on charges of abuse of office.

Commenter Marika Makiashvilli says that Georgians have lost patience with the Georgian government and are now calling for revolution. Marika: “I think this period is a structural crisis when the old is delegitimized but the new isn’t here yet.”

Russia’s deploying missiles right next to Poland.

Interesting statement: “Kellogg also said the war could end “tomorrow” if China halted support to Russia.” This sorta, kinda suggests that Russia could end the war at any time.

Defense Secretary Hegseth makes comment that suggests the US would stand aside if Russia attacked Poland.

Huh1 Very interesting. Russia wants to buy back anti-aircraft systems from Turkey.

Drone takes down drone.

Europe wants to purchase Ukrainian drone interceptors.

Prince Harry in Kyiv.

Explosion at air base near Kyiv. No air alerts.

Three years after Kupiansk was liberated, Russian forces take outer edge.

Russia anti-aircraft systems being hit hard!

Ukrainians use old Soviet S-60 anti-aircraft guns against Shahed drones.

Russian oil refineries hit. One from 1350km from front lines.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/13/war-for-ukraine-day-1297-theres-a-club-ukraine-is-unfortunately-not-in-it/

 

Day 1295 War in Ukraine

View of Russian recon ship as Ukrainian kamikaze drone closes in. Drone is 500km from Ukrainian operator. Ship is worth $60 million.

Still more cooperation between Trump and his good buddy Putin. Belarus is now benefiting from their friendship. Note: some of the drones that entered Polish airspace did so via Belarus.

Trump says that drones entering Poland could have been accidental. He clearly was not briefed or is ignoring important facts.

Zelenskyy’s theory is that Russia is trying to demoralize Europeans.

Russian propaganda doesn’t seek to persuade in this instance but to confuse, to prevent meaningful discussion.

March in Georgia dedicated to Meggie Diasamidze, the student who defaced a Georgia Dream banner.

Police are all of the sudden concerned about protesters being masked.

More wild charges against protesters.

Opposition figure Levan Khabeishvili offers a $200k reward to policemen to refuse to act against the people of Georgia. Authorities arrest him, but there’s no law against him offering such a reward.

France sends Poland aircraft to guard against further incursions.

Poland agrees with Ukraine they will cooperate on anti-drone systems.

Polish Foreign minister feels Trump is being mocked by Putin.

Poland takes measures to restrict airspace.

Sweden give Ukraine weapons package worth nearly $1 billion.

Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Russia in three large groups.

“Russia's oil export revenues remain near five-year lows, reducing tax revenues and exacerbating Russia's economic slowdown”

Russian oil depots and air defense plants hit.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/11/war-for-ukraine-day-1295-you-probe-with-bayonets-if-you-find-mush-you-push/

 

Day 1294 War in Ukraine

“A 23-year-old Georgian student has been arrested on criminal charges for writing ‘Russian Dream’ on a GD election banner” She was threatened with an inappropriately heavy punishment.

Our blogger has a number of contacts among the Nepalese and he presents their views on the recent rebellion there. Trouble has been building up there for a while.

Blogger figures the drones that flew into Poland were a test to see how prepared Poland was.

Another massive aerial attack on Ukraine.

Russia expects to produce 2,500 missiles in 2025.

Zelenskyy has zero doubt the Russian drones into Poland were deliberate.

Georgia: “Just in the last hour, two girls were detained for wearing masks”

Police try to hurry a march along. The march stops.

Up to 20 drones entered Poland’s airspace.

Putin probably found the Polish air defense to be quite encouraging. Only four of the 19 were shot down.

Article 4 of NATO is just to ask for consultations. Poland invoked that today. Article 5 is to go to war. No one wants to test Articl5 right now as the US might refuse to go to war.

Ukraine offers to advise Poland in air defense. No one really wants to take the plunge into war with Russia.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister warns that Putin feels invulnerable because he wasn’t properly punished earlier.

Ukraine stopped 413 out of 458 targets last night.

Lots of stuff being blown up.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/10/war-for-ukraine-day-1294-provocations-abound/

Day 1291 War in Ukraine

Very sensible policy. Ukrainian government personnel try to visit the sites that are hit

 by missiles or drones. This is Yulia Svyrydenko, the Prime Minister. Solidarity with

 the people.

During yesterday’s bombardment of Kyiv, a woman and her baby were thrown out 

of a of a six-story window by the explosion of the Russian drone. 823 drones and 

missiles were used in the attack. 751 were dispatched before they hit a target, but 72 

got through.

Horrid rain in Georgia. Rustaveli Avenue is blocked anyway.

Russia’s GPS jamming has disrupted 123k flights in Norther n Europe.

Trump is increasingly seen as either weak and ineffective or as colluding with Russia.

Russia has ambitious production plans, reflecting that they’re now fully mobilized.

Russia attacks a Ukrainian government building, demonstrating they don’t honor any

 “red lines.”

12-year-old, blind since birth, volunteers and raises money for troops.

Ukraine destroys a Russian “heavy flamethrower system.”

A pumping station that moves oil from Belarus is struck.

Heh! Russian gas station is “temporarily under repair.”

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/07/war-for-ukraine-day-1291-the-toll-from-this-mornings-deadly-hours/

Day 1288 War in Ukraine

Russia presented their airstrike as a “strike on a drone crew.” Sure looks to me like a civilian de-mining crew that was engaged in a humanitarian mission.

Zelenskyy conducts a press conference with President of France.

First Lady Zelenska participated in a conference. She also visited a clinic.

Editor-in-Chief of Publika harassed and spay upon by ruling party’s people.

Journalist Mzia Amaglobeli’s lawyers have been appealing her sentence of two years.

Georgia’s ruling party has been working very hard to make membership in Europe appear to be unappealing. Popularity of Europe is 78%. They also want schools to teach a Russian version of the last few decades.

Special Envoy Witkoff leaves meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing.”

Europeans have given up on Trump ever imposing sanctions on Russia. Trump was upset at that.

US to cut funding for training troops bordering Russia. Is that purely because Putin is Trump's good buddy? Partially. It's also that General Milley was the one who set up the training.

Civilians describe a drone strike.

Russian S-300 anti-aircraft system done blowed up real good!

Russian refineries and radar stations being blown up or burning after being struck.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/04/war-for-ukraine-day-1288-a-brief-thursday-night-update/

Day 1287 War in Ukraine

Two former regime prisoners out ad enjoying the protest.

Blogger discusses the US strike on boat off the coast of Venezuela in international waters. “The strike is definitely a war crime. It can’t be justified under Article 51 of the UN Charter, the Law of Armed Conflict, the US prohibition against assassinations, though I’m not sure this would even count as that, or any other rules of engagement I know of.“

Russia’s been attacking European sites since 2022. As I’ve stated, the Domino Effect wasn’t true for Southeast Asia during the 60s, but it’s very much in effect here.

Absolutely huge numbers of drones and missiles launched, many intercepted, but many landed. Railways and energy infrastructure were targets.

Zelenskyy conducts a joint press conferences with Prime Minister of Denmark and Prime Minister of France.

Day 280 of nation-wide protests in Georgia as “enough people see Georgian Dream as an existential threat.” 12 political prisoners were sentenced to two years each.

Xi and Putin talk about living to 150.

China claims to be neutral, but is “supplying Russia with drone parts worth at least £47 million, including engines, microchips, and carbon fiber.”

In August, “17 attacks disabled 24.2% of Russia’s refining capacity.”

Russian strikes take out a hospital, “damaged two apartment buildings, a private house, a store, a shopping center, and five commercial pavilions.”

In Kherson, an FPV drone killed a man who was riding a bicycle.

Strike on Russian base in Crimea. Photo of crater is consistent with Flamingo’s one-ton warhead.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/03/war-for-ukraine-day-1287-the-day-after-the-onslaught/

 

Day 1285 War in Ukraine

In Kharkiv, children attend underground schools.

“Suspected Russian GPS interference forced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane to land in Bulgaria using paper maps…” Europeans are beginning to understand that the war in Ukraine won’t end in Ukraine, but will be expanded to Europe.

Russia also hacked into Norway’s dam controls.

Court in Georgia has frozen the bank accounts of NGOs, allegedly because of suspicion of sabotage. The government considers purchasing gas masks to be a hostile act.

Government claims Trump “pays too little attention to Georgia.”

A look at Georgia’s strategy.

Story about a Ukrainian couple in Colorado.

According to a map behind “Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the russian army” Odesa and Mykolaiv are Russian territorial possessions.

After two weeks of intense combat, village of Novoekonomichne.

A look at the works of a Ukrainian painter.

Russian drone operators base blown up.

Russian airbase hit, two helicopters destroyed.

HIMARS and FPVs attack a Russian brigade. Brigade suffers heavy losses.

Eight Russian officers killed in missile strike.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/09/01/war-for-ukraine-day-1285-you-may-not-be-interested-in-world-war-iii-but-world-war-iii-may-be-interested-in-eu/

 

Day 1282 War in Ukraine

“Among the people killed in the russian attack on Kyiv on August 28th”

A 2-year-old, her mom and 23 other innocents. May they rest in peace.

A dog waits by the ruined building that his owner lived in.

Ukrainians know how to occupy Metro stations, to leave passages, what to bring, etc.

Pokrovsk is the most critical front, but many other cities are under siege as well.

Zelenskyy honors the fallen at a ceremony for unknown soldiers.

Georgian regime cuts off funds for seven NGOs, then claims they were eup to no good.

The regime is very unpopular, but remains in power. They are arranged as a neo-feudal pyramid. Deep dive into how it all works. Sanctions are the most effective weapon, but they must be used strategically.

Another deadline set for Putin is about to expire.

Portugal sees Trump as a Russian asset.

Europe is, slowly, waking up to the Russian threat.

On this date in 2014, Russia proved that its word of honor is worthless.

A Ukrainian small reconnaissance boat is sunk. It was taken out by a Russian sea drone.

Ukrainians hit “a valuable Russian radar complex 91N6E, part of the S-400 air defense system, in Crimea.”

Russian stuff blowing up, including more refineries. 

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/29/war-for-ukraine-day-1282-another-brutal-early-morning-for-ukraine/ 

Day 1281 War in Ukraine

“A permanent UN Security Council member bombed sleeping families in their homes in a major European capital this morning.”

“At night, the Russians carried out a combined strike on Kyiv’s residential areas, using Shaheds, Gerans, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and Kinzhals.”

Ukrainian Air Force dealt with 589 out of 629 targets.

First Lady Zelenska visits three schools.

Each day, Georgian protesters feature a different country’s flag. Today, they honor Italy.

Georgian regime uses medical supplies to represent opposition to the government.

Punishment for “purchasing water goggles” is enormously disproportionate as they can be used to protect from tear gas.

Ursula von der Leyen doesn’t understand how to talk to dictator.

Sounds like the US Press Secretary is drawing an equivalence between attacks on Russian oil refineries and attacks on Ukrainian civilians.

Hungary is so very upset at Ukraine constantly cutting off Russian oil supplies that they ban an individual, an ethnic Hungarian, from ever visiting there. Poland offers him a vacation spot in compensation.

Russia strikes trains and railways.

Films of missiles striking civilian housing.

Another Russian oil refinery transformed into an inferno.

Ukraine hits a refinery with 17 drones.

At the Tver railway junction in occupied Ukraine, explosives placed under oil railway cars and exploded.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/28/war-for-ukraine-day-1281-the-cost/

 

Day 1273 War in Ukraine

Yep, Russia the peace-loving nation! Each yellow triangle represents a Shahed kamikaze drone, headed for a target in Ukraine. The timestamp is almost 11:00pm.

The new Ukrainian “Flamingo” missile can travel 3k km (beyond the Ural mountain range) with a ton of payload! It is produced by Ukraine, so no one can place restrictions on its use.

“President Zelenskyy presented the annual National Legend of Ukraine awards today. “

Georgia may lose its spot in the Council of Europe if it doesn’t stop being undemocratic.

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is upset at this and blames European bureaucracy.

75-year-old man put through such stress that a doctor has to be called in.

In case of conflict, Europe is ready to defend the Baltic Sea from anything Russia might try.

Russian drone crashes and explode in Poland.

Britain is ready to be a peacekeeper in Ukraine. Around 10 countries have made similar pledges.

Putin doesn’t wish to meet with Zelenskyy.

“Sergei Lavrov made it clear that Russia expects to have a veto over any security arrangement Europe and the U.S. come up with to defend Ukraine”

Trump thinks that Crimea is about the same size as Texas. It’s actually about 1/25th the size.

Looks like a Russian S-300V air defense system blew up with all of its missiles on board!

Russia testing new drone. Half of its parts are made in China.

Russia strikes gas storage facility and creates huge fire.

Russian FPV drone strikes a car and kills an elderly couple.

“Russia left Donetsk without water, turning it into a city facing a humanitarian disaster”

Ukrainian attacks on Russian fuel refining stations led to long lines at gas stations.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/20/war-for-ukraine-day-1273-russian-tu-95s-are-up-air-raid-alerts-are-spreading-across-ukraine/

 

Day 1271 War in Ukraine

All the provinces in red are under threat of air raid. Trump to Zelenskyy: "I think you'll see that President Putin really would like to do something also."

President Trump did not realize that the President of Finland was sitting right across from him. I don’t blame the guy for not knowing everyone, but better staff work could have prevented him from looking foolish.

Russia preparing massive bombing raid tonight.

Confused old man babbles about mail-in ballots while everyone else focuses on Ukraine and Russia.

Trump scrambled to brief Putin without waiting for the conversation with NATO allies to end.

Georgian protesters stand firmly with Ukraine.

A 70+ year old man and a disabled person arrested near end of night’s protest.

Europe will spend $100 billion and then transfer the weapons to Ukraine. In return, US will guarantee support for Ukraine.

There are limits on what Zelenskyy can say at this point, but he seems pretty satisfied.

Russians show film clip of captured M113 Armored Personnel Carrier with both Russian and American flags.

Russian intelligence tries for a two-fer accusation, Ukraine tried to bomb the Crimean bridge again AND they transported it through Georgia!

Apartment building in Kharkiv hit by drones from multiple sides. “Trump rolled out the red carpet, applauded, and shook hands with the man responsible for this horror.”

Russians hit building at Sumy State University.

Russians hit oil depot.

Hungarian Foreign Minister is upset that Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil pipeline means that the Hungarian oil supply is affected.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/18/war-for-ukraine-day-1271-uh/

 

Day 1269 War in Ukraine

Russian missile penetrates ceiling of Ukrainian apartment. Fortunately didn’t explode.

Zelenskyy had a phone call with Trump and will travel to the US tomorrow.

Ukraine being asked by US to cede entire Donbas region, even those areas not currently occupied by Russia.

As the cease-fires have all failed due to Putin’s resistance, Trump now wants to skip the cease-fires and go directly to negotiations.

Putin insists on addressing “root cause” of war. What is the root cause? Ukraine exists as a separate and independent country.

In Georgia, a provocateur had a knife, protesters took the knife from him and turned it over to the police. Protesters were arrested, provocateur went free.

Georgia regime offers membership in EU at the expense of the LGBT.

US cites the US response to the occupation of Crimea and interference in the Donbas as an example of good statecraft. But it wasn’t. Obama’s NatSec team recommended the course that Obama took, but in hindsight, it was wrong.

Putin says he’ll settle for just the rest of the Donbas. This is territory that contains lots of Ukrainian fortifications.

The extent of US security guarantees will be discussed on Monday.

Europe and Ukraine are urged to reject the Trump-Putin “deal.”

In return for Ukraine cooperating in handing over territory, etc., Putin promises to not attack. As the actions of 2014 required the breaking the Budapest Memorandum, anything Putin “guarantees” is worthless.

“2. Trump recognized Russia as the superpower it no longer is.”

Apparently lousy OPSEC. Papers allegedly found in hotel room giving details about Trump-Putin meeting.

Ukraine struck with missiles and 86 drones.

Ukrainian Army pushes back om Russian advance.

Russian oil pumping station hit.

Oil refinery in Volgograd (Stalingrad) hit.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/16/war-for-ukraine-day-1269-the-aftermath/

 

Day 1268 War in Ukraine

Citizens of Alaska stand with Ukraine!

Trump acts like a teenage girl meeting a singing star when greeting Putin.

Putin is asked about his killing of civilians. He pretends he didn’t understand the question. He and his aides speak fluent English. Neither Special Envoy Witkoff nor SecState Rubio speaks Russian.

Putin confirms that had Trump been president in 2022, there would have been no war. Trump blames the “Russia hoax.”

All of Ukraine was under Russian missile and drone attack while Putin and Trump spoke in Alaska.

Putin suggests the two men meet in Moscow next time. Trump doesn’t refuse.

Putin is presented as an equal to Trump.

Georgians support Ukraine today.

A 26-year-old man is sentenced to 4.5 years. He is expected to request a pardon, but as that would make him complicit with the regime, he refuses.

Georgian NGOs told to register as foreign agents. They are not foreign agents, so they have refused.

Trump says he had a “wonderful talk” with the “highly respected President of Belarus” Not sure that’s a widely-held opinion about Lukashenko.

More strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Russian aerial assault hits the central market of Sumy.

Ukrainian sniper hits target at 4k meters!

Ukraine pushes back against Russian advance.

Russian plant that produces gunpowder goes “Boom!”

Russian freighter on Caspian Sea sunk. It was carrying components for Shahed drones. “The port lies roughly 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the front line in Ukraine.”

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/15/war-for-ukraine-day-1268-submission/

 

Day 1264 War in Ukraine

A Ukrainian soldier dismantling an unexploded bomb in a field

After having spent a half-year trying to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, Trump returns to talking about how easy it will be.

Very interesting. Trump considers Viktor Orbán of Hungary to be a useful source of information on the Ukraine-Russian war.

Trump makes a number of statements indicating that he really doesn’t know much about Ukraine. He even repeats the BS story that what stopped the Russians in the early days of the full-scale invasion was mud

Russia’s economy is doing very poorly. Putin really needs Trump’s assistance.

Blogger explains that Trump is completely taken by Russian propaganda concerning Ukraine. Russia very much needs the US. Europe has some decisions to make.

Georgian accounts have been silent the last few days. “Which could be nothing or it could be everything.”

GEN (ret) Keane is pro-Trump, but actually has a clear-eyed view of Ukraine-Russia.

Russia’s willing to declare the war over, as long as none of its troops are withdrawn. Ukraine would then be the recalcitrant one.

Russians hint they’d like Alaska back.

Zelenskyy speaks to the Canadian Prime Minister.

Germany planning industrial expansion in Ukraine.

Azerbaijan allocates $2 million for humanitarian aid.

Europeans with clear-eyed views.

Lots of Russian stuff blowing up.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/11/war-for-ukraine-day-1264-strategically-incoherent-delusion/

 

Day 1263 War in Ukraine

Singing kum-ba-yah is NOT what NATO and the Warsaw Pact did after World War II. Senator Graham suggests the current situation in Ukraine is like that of the Cold War, where the Soviet Union was not going to advance. There was a REASON the Soviets weren’t going to advance! Fear of nuclear war! But there’s no such fear this time as Ukraine is not under a “nuclear umbrella.” Russia has not taken Kyiv because Ukrainian conventional forces have held them back.

VP Vance wants Europe to take over the funding of the war to defend Ukraine against Russia.

Putin wants the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (provinces), Zelenskyy rules out any surrendering of land.

“Ukraine and its European allies are instead pushing for a ceasefire based on the current front line as a first step toward a broader settlement …”

Sounds better than giving up territory, but it’s an open question whether Russia will ever withdraw from its current battle lines.

Russians suggest they wish to re-occupy Alaska.

Hmm, NATO reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea in July.

Putin wants to keep communications open with Trump as he tries to conquer Ukraine.

Ukraine and Azerbaijan have linked energy facilities. If Russia keeps bombing them, Azerbaijan may have to take aggressive action.

Ukraine successfully disrupting Russian rail traffic.

Russia strikes bus station.

Film clip of fiber-optic cables stretched across fields. These are to guide drones.

Underground Russian command post eliminated.

Russian oil refinery struck 1700km from the front. Another target more than 2k km from Ukraine also struck.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/10/war-for-ukraine-day-1263-ripple-effects/

 

Day 1261 War in Ukraine

Russian missile and drone launches are way up.

Trump announces that he and Putin will meet in Alaska. Trump suggests that Ukraine will have to make territorial concessions. There will be “swapping” of territories? But Ukraine doesn’t want any part of Russia. They want their 1991 borders back.

There’s absolutely no way that territorial concessions will fly with Ukrainian public. That idea is a complete non-starter.

SecStae Rubio feels that they’re now clear on what Putin wants. Um, what Russia wants has been quite clear since February 2022.

Lots of back-and-forth over whether Russia or Georgia started the war in 2008.

Two Georgians sentenced to over two years. Not clear what, if anything, they did. Blogger discusses organized crime in Georgia.

Siemens does not deliberately supply Russia with weapons-making machinery, but Russia gets it through smuggling anyway.

Lukashenko tells all sorts of weird stories, trying to make Russia’s invasion of 2022 seems not so bad.

Solution to Shahed drones is “a Z-137 Agro Turbo agricultural aircraft with R-73 air-to-air missiles.”

Remembering a combat medic.

Blowing up Russian oil depots.

Russian beach-goers are upset when a drone attack occurs nearby.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/08/war-for-ukraine-day-1261-not-actually-going-to-be-peace-in-our-time/

 

Day 1260 War in Ukraine

Kate from Kharkiv has NO idea what Trump means by “deadlines” as he gave Putin a deadline to start dealing with making peace, and then when the deadline came, is talking with Putin in Alaska! What does it mean for him to establish a deadline?

Trump wants to arrange a three-way meeting between himself, Putin and Zelenskyy. Not gonna happen. The best he can do is to meet one, then the other. Putin claims that both he and Trump thought meeting each other in person was a good idea.

Zelenskyy feels that Putin fears US sanctions.

Georgians commemorate the 17^th anniversary of Russia’s invasion. They draw big crowd. The war in 2008 lasted from August 7^th to August 12^th. “Russia continues its creeping occupation by erecting barbed wire, seizing land and property, and even abducting civilians.“

When Nino Datashvili was arrested, she wasn’t allowed to contact either her lawyer or her child. They arrested her at a bus stop. Her arrest was utterly barbaric.

Georgia’s eight-party coalition is gaining traction.

Success from Ukrainian long-range drones is improving.

Russian tank with anti-drone net gets hit. Goes up in flames.

Explosives planted under Russian bridge, then detonated via a drone.

Russian Pansir-S1 air defense system not very effective.

Ukrainians in occupied Donetsk turned on their tap water to get detergent!

With Russian drone improvements in range, Kherson may soon be uninhabitable due to a cut-off of supplies. Doubt Russians will occupy it any time soon, though.

Russian oil refineries hit.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/07/war-for-ukraine-day-1260-no-trilat-only-bilat/

 

Day 1254 War in Ukraine

Anti-drone cages around tanks don’t do a whole lot of good against First-Person-View (FPV) drones

A look at the people killed in the latest Russian missile strike on Kyiv.

Zelenskyy honored he 31 people, including 5 children, killed by the latest missile strike.

Zelenskyy cheers for the latest sanctions on Russia.

The trial of Mzia Amaglobeli was held today. The defense needed 8+ hours to present her defense. She’ll present her case on Monday and that will finish it. Signs are that the government will convict her.

Trump was so upset by the statements made by former Russian President Medvedev, He ordered two nuclear submarines to be deployed. Kate from Kharkiv claims Trump is being very naive. “Oh my sweet summer child. They make those threats twice before breakfast and have their people convinced they’re already at war with you.”

Trump announces casualty figures for Russia and Ukraine as though that’s all that matters.

Russian drone overflies Lithuania.

Deal worked out with Germany to get Patriot missile launchers to Ukraine.

Cart of drones and missiles during July. Over 6k drones an nearly 200 missiles. Ukraine air defense achieved an 87% interception rate.

Russia launched 70 combat clashes today.

Ukrainian anti-tank barriers work!

Film clip of Ukrainian FPV drones hitting targets.

https://balloon-juice.com/2025/08/01/war-for-ukraine-day-1254-the-cost/