Idiot.

We don't think there is anyone within the Russian occupation government who doesn't understand OPSEC more than the illegitimate governor of occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo.

He does an interview at the Henichesk-Arabat Bridge, showing that the main bridge has one lane open to… pic.twitter.com/LQibJV4Ob9

— Malcontent News (@MalcontentmentT) June 18, 2026

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We don't think there is anyone within the Russian occupation government who doesn't understand OPSEC more than the illegitimate governor of occupied Kherson, Vladimir Saldo.

He does an interview at the Henichesk-Arabat Bridge, showing that the main bridge has one lane open to light vehicles, and the Russian military is using the adjacent pontoon bridge.

There appears to be an effort to build a second pontoon bridge at the site to support two-way traffic.

We're 100% sure @414magyarbirds will be paying another visit, and we thank Gaulieter Saldo for the BDA and operational update.

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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Grok

U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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I'm pointing out that the Russians are notorious for skirting the rules and best practices when it comes to pretty much everything...

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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Grok

U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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I'm pointing out that the Russians are notorious for skirting the rules and best practices when it comes to pretty much everything...

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If you have something full of potentially explosive liquids or fumes in amongst a bunch of other similar tanks and equipment, you want it to fail exactly like it did if it explodes. You want the energy to go straight up instead of laterally where it can damage other nearby tanks or other equipment. Same reason munitions manufacturing facilities have really strong walls on three sides of every loading cell and one side with a wall facing the outside with a flimsy wall made of something like tin or wood.

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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Grok

U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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If you have something full of potentially explosive liquids or fumes in amongst a bunch of other similar tanks and equipment, you want it to fail exactly like it did if it explodes. You want the energy to go straight up instead of laterally where it can damage other nearby tanks or other equipment. Same reason munitions manufacturing facilities have really strong walls on three sides of every loading cell and one side with a wall facing the outside with a flimsy wall made of something like tin or wood.

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I'm not disagreeing with the NEED for this design.

But, the Russians aren't that far removed from the USSR and THOSE IDIOTS came up with the design for Chernobyl...


BTW, I saw one munition manufacturer which made rocket motors or something like that. All the buildings were diagonal so that if anything lit up and went WHOOOSH, it wouldn't hit the next building over.

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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Grok

U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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I'm pointing out that the Russians are notorious for skirting the rules and best practices when it comes to pretty much everything...

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If you have something full of potentially explosive liquids or fumes in amongst a bunch of other similar tanks and equipment, you want it to fail exactly like it did if it explodes. You want the energy to go straight up instead of laterally where it can damage other nearby tanks or other equipment. Same reason munitions manufacturing facilities have really strong walls on three sides of every loading cell and one side with a wall facing the outside with a flimsy wall made of something like tin or wood.

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I'm not disagreeing with the NEED for this design.

But, the Russians aren't that far removed from the USSR and THOSE IDIOTS came up with the design for Chernobyl...


BTW, I saw one munition manufacturer which made rocket motors or something like that. All the buildings were diagonal so that if anything lit up and went WHOOOSH, it wouldn't hit the next building over.

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If you look at the load lines at the Army Ammunition Plants, they are all very spread out over thousands of acres, with the distances in between the individual lines based on the EQSD arcs for whatever munitions and quantities they are loading. That is what made that explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems in Tennessee last year such a cluster. They were allowing explosives quantities that were way too large for the safety systems in the building to handle and they ended up killing everybody in the building instead of just a couple people in one cell when they had a detonation. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-munitions-factory-explosion-safety-violations/

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Seeing how that lid blew off at the refinery makes me wonder if the same engineer was behind the T-series tank turret designs!

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Well they are floating tank covers.

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Actually they are not floating tank roofs but cone roofs. They are designed per API 650 standards in which the roof has what is called a critical joint, the weakness joint on the tank in order to behave just as it did when exploding.

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You think the Russians are following API 650 standards???

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Grok

U.S. API standards (especially API 650 for welded steel tanks for oil storage and API 653 for inspection/repair) are the global benchmark for aboveground petroleum storage tanks. They cover design, materials, welding, erection, inspection, seismic/wind loads, etc., and are widely adopted or referenced internationally.

Not saying they didn't rename the standard as one of their on but the point is that joint was designed to fail first.

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I'm pointing out that the Russians are notorious for skirting the rules and best practices when it comes to pretty much everything...

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If you have something full of potentially explosive liquids or fumes in amongst a bunch of other similar tanks and equipment, you want it to fail exactly like it did if it explodes. You want the energy to go straight up instead of laterally where it can damage other nearby tanks or other equipment. Same reason munitions manufacturing facilities have really strong walls on three sides of every loading cell and one side with a wall facing the outside with a flimsy wall made of something like tin or wood.

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I'm not disagreeing with the NEED for this design.

But, the Russians aren't that far removed from the USSR and THOSE IDIOTS came up with the design for Chernobyl...


BTW, I saw one munition manufacturer which made rocket motors or something like that. All the buildings were diagonal so that if anything lit up and went WHOOOSH, it wouldn't hit the next building over.

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The tank roof failed as designed, not sure what your argument is.

I've been inside a lot of chemical plants and refineries, I've seen all kinds of tanks and tank roofs. It was cool to see That tank roof fly straight up like that… I suspect it may have been a floating roof tank? Unless you're up close it would be hard to tell the type of tank roof it had. I would guess a welded roof on a tank wouldn't fly off in that fashion? Not real sure

This made me laugh

Igor Sechin, the chief executive of the state-owned oil giant Rosneft, acknowledged on Friday that Russia was facing problems with fuel supplies. But he said those issues were related in part to "unscheduled maintenance at refineries," in what appeared to be a euphemism for the scores of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure in recent months.

Moscow MANPADS operators open fire right in the middle of the highway while civilians and civilian cars pass by couple of meters away. https://t.co/KfoTTRlZRz pic.twitter.com/YQUOCVwXpv

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) June 18, 2026

If thousands of decoy drones are launched at Moscow, Moscow's air defense will just burn the whole city down itself. pic.twitter.com/wyOlmAgKTG

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 19, 2026

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Moscow MANPADS operators open fire right in the middle of the highway while civilians and civilian cars pass by couple of meters away. https://t.co/KfoTTRlZRz pic.twitter.com/YQUOCVwXpv

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) June 18, 2026

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Ha! Welcome to the war you little Moscow *****es!!!

It is interesting to me how many of these soldiers are speaking arabic.

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This made me laugh

Igor Sechin, the chief executive of the state-owned oil giant Rosneft, acknowledged on Friday that Russia was facing problems with fuel supplies. But he said those issues were related in part to "unscheduled maintenance at refineries," in what appeared to be a euphemism for the scores of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure in recent months.

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Unscheduled maintenance? I like that euphemism.

It's not a fire or explosion - it's a rapid oxidation event....

What a stick in the eye! LOL

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.

Through this secure platform, allied governments,… pic.twitter.com/IM6ujyFnPB

— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) June 19, 2026

The Telegram channel “Byt Ili” conducted a detailed analysis of the performance of Russian air defense during yesterday’s Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow.

It was the first time that the operation of Russian air defense could be observed almost in real time.

Key conclusions from… pic.twitter.com/ATPbJ68KO5

— 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱△ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 (@TheDeadDistrict) June 19, 2026

🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦 France's FM says Putin has “already lost the war,” claiming Russia is losing ground and heavy manpower, while Ukraine is gaining the upper hand in the drone war with strikes reaching deep into Moscow. pic.twitter.com/ow98rBhjfq

— War Radar (@War_Radar2) June 19, 2026

❗️🇺🇦🇧🇾 I am not offended by Lukashenko's words, but there is military equipment in the border regions with Ukraine which adjusts fire on the Ukrainian population. I give him one week to withdraw it, otherwise we will do it ourselves. — Zelensky pic.twitter.com/SnBNJeREkT

— Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) June 19, 2026

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❗️🇺🇦🇧🇾 I am not offended by Lukashenko's words, but there is military equipment in the border regions with Ukraine which adjusts fire on the Ukrainian population. I give him one week to withdraw it, otherwise we will do it ourselves. — Zelensky pic.twitter.com/SnBNJeREkT

— Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) June 19, 2026

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Zelensky tells the Belarusian dictator that he has one week to remove the missile guidance systems that he allows Russia to use for targeting Ukrainian cities or "we will remove them ourselves". pic.twitter.com/y1hcdIAIE9

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) June 19, 2026

Regarding Belarus.

When the full-scale war began, we were hit by missiles that killed children and adults. And Alexander Lukashenko knows this. A large number of missiles were launched from Belarus. Back then, he called, apologized, and said it was out of his control. I don’t… pic.twitter.com/OuhCLwbEaf

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 19, 2026

Russia is resorting to desperate measures to "recruit" military manpower. It's a telling strategic change.

"Russia has avoided a formal declared mobilization since the partial mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin in September 2022, which called up approximately 300,000 reservists and triggered a visible mass exodus of military-age men from the country. Since then, Russian authorities have relied on financial incentives to recruit contract soldiers, coercive pressure on prisoners offered early release in exchange for front-line service, and what analysts have consistently described as a shadow mobilization targeting men with limited legal resources to resist pressure from local officials. The Penza roundups represent a more overt version of that pressure, one that stops short of formal mobilization orders but achieves similar results through direct police action on public streets."

PRESS GANGS

Russia is getting serious now. They're taking out the postal service.

Russia posted footage of guided Shahed strikes on the Nova Poshta sorting hub in Sumy region. pic.twitter.com/HSgeFXWUcX

— WarTranslated (@wartranslated) June 19, 2026

Only 24 hours after G7, at which European leaders were convinced that the incredible scenes of a burning Moscow and reams of intel reports had finally proven to Trump that Russia is going down, the irredeemable US President falls back into the Kremlin's sweet embrace, now… pic.twitter.com/r3beV3xU4e

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) June 19, 2026

now claiming Russia would have won in 4 hours if not for one unlucky wrong turn taken by single Russian General.

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Only 24 hours after G7, at which European leaders were convinced that the incredible scenes of a burning Moscow and reams of intel reports had finally proven to Trump that Russia is going down, the irredeemable US President falls back into the Kremlin's sweet embrace, now… pic.twitter.com/r3beV3xU4e

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) June 19, 2026

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Lots of things one could choose to be critical of Trump about regarding his interactions with Ukraine and Russia, but that statement isn't one of them. The Russians made a few really dumb decisions in the opening days of the war, otherwise they would have been in Kyiv before the world could have reacted. Leaving huge columns of troops and equipment stuck along the side of the road on the approaches to Kyiv either due to stuck vehicles, lack of fuel, or waiting to link up with air mobile troops who never made it into Hostomel was a fatal mistake for the Russian war effort and allowed critical time for the Ukrainians to counterattack and cripple the convoys.

Les frappes ukrainiennes 🇺🇦 sur Moscou nous disent plusieurs choses :

🔹️Les ukrainiens ont largement rattrapé leur retard sur les drones à longue portée
🔹️La défense aérienne russe est défaillante, on parle de 120 systèmes de DA modernes et bien fournis en munitions tout… pic.twitter.com/pOrUoLiBN9

— Clément Molin (@clement_molin) June 19, 2026

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The Ukrainian strikes on Moscow tell us several things:

• The Ukrainians have largely caught up on their lag in long-range drones
• Russian air defense is failing, we're talking about 120 modern and well-supplied air defense systems all around the city in 4 layers, whose action is often ineffective or dangerous.
• Russian aviation is largely absent, Russian fighter jets are numerous enough to monitor the airspace, including Moscow but also other cities, and yet they are invisible.
• Moscow's refinery was one of the most defended in the country, and since the beginning of the year, a refinery or oil depot has been hit every 3 days on average.
• Russia has more to lose than to gain in the war. The strikes on Ukraine cannot really destroy the Ukrainian economy any more than it already is, which is largely in difficulty and supported by the EU, but the strikes on Russia have almost infinite potential.
• On February 24, 2022, no one would have imagined that on June 18, 2026, Moscow would be ablaze after a 3rd consecutive night of Ukrainian strikes with drones manufactured in Ukraine.

In France, several figures oppose or even denounce these strikes. Let us recall that Ukrainians are struck every night across their entire territory, so they have every right to retaliate. Let us also recall that these strikes in no way constitute an escalation, since all the so-called escalations have never led to anything. Finally, let us recall that Moscow is and remains the sole responsible party for the continuation of the war, that all negotiations have failed because of Russia, and therefore these strikes are a logical backlash for the aggressor state.

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Occupied Crimea is going through some things tonight. NASA FIRMS indicates the Henichesk-Arabat Bridge was hit - again pic.twitter.com/9DLews4r7L

— Malcontent News (@MalcontentmentT) June 20, 2026

Ten straight days of Ukrainian strikes against Moscow likely ushers in a new phase of the war. Apparently, Ukraine now has domestically produced long-range weapons in operationally meaningful quantities, and it doesn't need any third-party approvals to use them anywhere in Russia.

"Among them appear to be examples of the Bars, part of a growing family of so-called "drone-missiles," which combine the features of cruise missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Previously, these had been considered as medium-range strike systems, with a maximum range of around 500 miles. Their presence over Moscow would indicate that their range is greater, perhaps evidence that they have been further adapted or reworked."

MOSCOW

There are only two primary land MSRs into Crimea.

One transits a sea estuary in the east and the other crosses a large canal in the west.

Both are dependent on vulnerable bridges which Ukraine now has the long-range weaponry to attack.

NEW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the peace conditions recently proposed by Ukraine and its European partners on June 7, demonstrating the Kremlin’s continued disinterest in peace proposals that do not accept Russian demands for Ukraine’s capitulation.

Other… pic.twitter.com/ExZvfYj6Dt

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) June 20, 2026

1/ The hot debate of the moment among Russian commentators is whether and how Russia will begin "fighting for real". Russia's former president openly calls for war crimes while others advocate striking the West, destroying Kyiv, killing Zelenskyy, and nuking Starlink. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/XZ3P3DxZyA

— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) June 20, 2026

Ukrainian SOF operators training with one of the GUR’s creatively acquired UH-60A Black Hawks. pic.twitter.com/31pFlFAJdh

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 20, 2026

Another two ships have left the Irish port since this video, straight to russia.

Important to remember this hasn’t slowed down. Ireland is still helping the Kremlins war machine. Aughinish still operates. https://t.co/OakVNQzKpO

— Caolan (@CaolanReports) June 20, 2026

Installing air defense on apartment buildings. What could go wrong?

Moskwa. Rosjanie nadal instalują kolejne systemy obrony przeciwlotniczej na dachach budynków, w tym mieszkalnych. pic.twitter.com/Qpop97QhoJ

— Obserwator Wojen (@ObserwatorWojen) June 20, 2026