Ukrainian 🇺🇦 forces continue to prepare important obstacle lines everywhere on the frontlines. In the Donbas, we now have multiple "New Donbas Lines", as well as tens barbed wire lines, In Zaporizhzhia, there is now more and more of those barbed wire. Every progress will be

Here those "kill rectangles", the new portion we've been waiting for to connect Veliky Burluk line with Karkhiv one, the multiple barbed wire in front of Prossiana and a map of all Ukraine.

Seeing a lot of discourse around the #SNL #StrangerThings skit, esp the joke about Max lying still during sex like she's back in a coma Whatever the intention, it landed poorly with a lot of us for good reason Reminded me of these quotes from men using legal German brothels 🧵

US lost patience with SDF because they wasted almost an entire year doing nothing. Sharaa, despite setbacks, kept making moves and showing he's willing to become a major player. One of the reasons the west rallied behind Ukraine was the initial week when they all expected the

Per my estimates, Ukraine should still have about 600 LR UAVs in reserve. In the past 7 days, russia has claimed the interception of, on average, 145 LR UAVs per day.

First the Russians "avoided" attacking civilians, which lead to one falling and potentially getting injured (you can suffer a nasty concussion this way), then they destroy a Police SUV that was evacuating civilians. The Russians, of course, brag about their terrorism.

Sometimes I forget what a banger this song is and how good the edit turned out, objective beauty achieved

According to Fedorov, in December alone Lasar's Group was responsible for the destruction/damage of 364 artillery systems and 12 MLRS. That is, Lasar was responsible for over 40% of all artillery and over 35% of all MLRS systems claimed by Ukraine in December

The disintegration of the SDF in this manner is unfortunate & unecessary; could have been avoided [to a huge degree] if certain cadres had been a little less inflexible. Self defeating in the end. Hope that IS can't take advantage.

This week on the blog: training hoplites! It strikes a lot of folks as unbelievable, but the evidence really does suggest that, apart from physical fitness (and even then) hoplites don't seem to have trained much at all! acoup.blog/2026/01/16/col…

An interesting and long thread. While I agree with some parts, I disagree with others (hunting infantry is IMO necessary due to the very sparse infantry coverage of the FLOT) So, here is my thread on this topic:

According to Zelenskyy, "the only effective means against ballistic missiles remains PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems." I wonder if SAMP/T was not mentioned due to low stocks of interceptors, or the system is simply far less capable at dealing with ballistics than publicized.

Are they saying they unilaterally withdrew from al-Hol????

There clearly has been a huge movement of stored towed artillery pieces since late summer/early autumn 2025, but unfortunately we lack footage.

Following a talk today between the Ukrainian Minister of Defence Fedorov & the German Minister of Defence Pistorius, the Ukrainian MoD announced that Germany's pledged military aid of €11.5 billion/€12 billion for 2026 accounts for more than 30% of all pledged contributions