For those wanting some information on hypersonic missiles and who has them and who is already using them this article explains it pretty well. Looks like the US may be behind on these type weapons, but that tells me we probably have other options on the table

https://militarymachine.com/hypersonic-weapons-explained

Russia continues to pound Kyiv. At least 15 people killed. Every winter has been tough on ordinary Ukrainians, but with almost no Patriot missiles remaining to defend against ballistic missiles, I wonder if their morale might finally crack this time.

"The attack was massive. The Russians prepared for a long time and combined different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones to inflict as much damage as possible on civilian infrastructure."

"The main direction of the attack was the Kyiv region," the air force wrote in a post to Telegram. It added that 41 cruise missiles of various types and 145 drones were shot down or otherwise suppressed, with munitions reported impacting across 28 locations."

ATTACK

Ukraine is now anticipating massive ballistic missile attacks numbering in the hundreds.

"Russia is racing to nearly triple its biggest missile barrage, from 77 missiles fired at once to as many as 200, a salvo built to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses in one shot rather than over days, the commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said last week."

This leaves Patriot missiles in allied nations' stocks as the only potential resource Ukraine has to defend its cities.

"If [the United States] can sell us 5% (of its missiles), we will go through the winter and save people's lives," Zelenskyy said last week. "If they can sell us 10%, we will destroy all the Russians' ballistic missiles. I have 1%."

DESPERATION

Clearly a military asset. You'll have to go to X to view.

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Ukraine is now anticipating massive ballistic missile attacks numbering in the hundreds.

"Russia is racing to nearly triple its biggest missile barrage, from 77 missiles fired at once to as many as 200, a salvo built to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses in one shot rather than over days, the commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said last week."

This leaves Patriot missiles in allied nations' stocks as the only potential resource Ukraine has to defend its cities.

"If [the United States] can sell us 5% (of its missiles), we will go through the winter and save people's lives," Zelenskyy said last week. "If they can sell us 10%, we will destroy all the Russians' ballistic missiles. I have 1%."

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10%, dude is delusional.

Zelenskyy is freaking out at this point because he knows the US and NATO have Patriot missiles that could help Ukraine, what he doesn't understand is that their is limited supply of these missiles (because of how many the US/NATO gave them already) and the remaining Patriots are their to protect our own counties. Unless we can quickly produce more of them then they may not get as many as they need for a while.

I wish we could help Ukraine more but we need to protect ourselves first.

This needless war and all the killings needs to end

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Zelenskyy is freaking out at this point because he knows the US and NATO have Patriot missiles that could help Ukraine, what he doesn't understand is that their is limited supply of these missiles (because of how many the US/NATO gave them already) and the remaining Patriots are their to protect our own counties. Unless we can quickly produce more of them then they may not get as many as they need for a while.

I wish we could help Ukraine more but we need to protect ourselves first.

This needless war and all the killings needs to end

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It's also in Zelenskyy's best interests to frame things in as dire a light to Ukraine as he can in order to pressure the US and Europe for maximum support.

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fullback44 said:

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Zelenskyy is freaking out at this point because he knows the US and NATO have Patriot missiles that could help Ukraine, what he doesn't understand is that their is limited supply of these missiles (because of how many the US/NATO gave them already) and the remaining Patriots are their to protect our own counties. Unless we can quickly produce more of them then they may not get as many as they need for a while.

I wish we could help Ukraine more but we need to protect ourselves first.

This needless war and all the killings needs to end

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It's also in Zelenskyy's best interests to frame things in as dire a light to Ukraine as he can in order to pressure the US and Europe for maximum support.

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When you have dozens of ballistic missiles a week dropping on civilian buildings in your capital city, I don't think "framing things in a dire light" is really too far off from reality.

Suck it orcs should have gotten a tesla.

🇺🇦🤜🇷🇺Deep Strike: Lukoil Refinery in Perm Ignites After Drone Attack, 1,500km from Ukraine.🚀💥🔥

A massive fire has erupted at the 'Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez' refinery in Perm following a daring drone strike more than 1,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Plumes of thick… pic.twitter.com/jYVolP7H0x

— Ukraine News 🇺🇦 (@Ukrainene) August 21, 2026

So much for that.

Trump has rejected Ukraine’s push to get Musk to enable Starlink for long-range drone strikes inside Russia.

Kyiv says access could help Ukrainian forces hunt Russian missile launchers more precisely.https://t.co/Kz6WmSXewe

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) August 21, 2026

There's only one reason Russia would attack a shopping centre in the middle of the day; to kill and wound as many civilians as possible. https://t.co/rpIK5ibO4u

— Jimmy Rushton (@JimmySecUK) August 21, 2026

Germany is seeking to extradite a suspect from Romania over the discovery of an underground stash of weapons in a forest near Berlin that German media reports have linked to Russian intelligence.

Two weeks after German authorities found a drone carrying explosives at Leipzig airport, the interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, confirmed federal prosecutors had opened an investigation related to the secret cache of guns "on suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence that threatens national security"

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So much for that.

Trump has rejected Ukraine’s push to get Musk to enable Starlink for long-range drone strikes inside Russia.

Kyiv says access could help Ukrainian forces hunt Russian missile launchers more precisely.https://t.co/Kz6WmSXewe

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) August 21, 2026

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Are we trying to avoid giving them a reason to destroy Elon's satellites? Plus, introducing debris into that lower orbit would be a disaster.

I don't think there's anything Russia can do about 11,000 starlink satellites in orbit

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I don't think there's anything Russia can do about 11,000 starlink satellites in orbit

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Even if the could do something… it would be matched by the US, eye for eye . Shoot US satellites, we shoot yours

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I don't think there's anything Russia can do about 11,000 starlink satellites in orbit

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The problem is that they don't have to hit 11000. They have to hit a dozen or so and the debris generated will wipe out a bunch more. They do have killersats that can hit them. How many, who knows.

The biggest problem I continue to see is that we're far more worried about what they may do than they are of what we may do in response. That tells you a lot.

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The biggest problem I continue to see is that we're far more worried about what they may do than they are of what we may do in response. That tells you a lot.

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Yeah. It feels like there should have been a much stronger response to their various war crimes, even early in the war. But with half of Europe dependent on Russia for the energy, they were always going to have to mute their responses.

Necessity is the mother of invention. So is desperation.

"In another effort to advance robotic warfare, Ukraine is working to turn Soviet-era BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicles into remotely controlled systems. The move comes as uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) are playing an increasing role on both sides of the conflict as movement along the front lines has been highly contested by the ubiquity of aerial drones."

Also updates on the general situation: SITREP

❗️For 11 hours now, Russia has been attacking the Odesa region, launching almost everything it can: 17 Banderol missiles, 4 Kh-59 and Kh-31, about 10 aerial bombs and ~ 70 drones

— MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 22, 2026

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❗️For 11 hours now, Russia has been attacking the Odesa region, launching almost everything it can: 17 Banderol missiles, 4 Kh-59 and Kh-31, about 10 aerial bombs and ~ 70 drones

— MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 22, 2026

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Response to this is truth.

pic.twitter.com/J5TySqtiUo

— Roo (@Roo675957616730) August 22, 2026

"Anyone siding with Russia is complicity in terrorism"

[Do not spam this thread with a half-page post -- Staff]

Here is my map without any layer or city name in order to correctly see the situation.

What Russia took in 2026 is in orange. There is an online battle for numbers and control map so here is my interpretation :

🔹A single video (most often flag video) is not enough of a proof… pic.twitter.com/fNKgcRQbDD

— Clément Molin (@clement_molin) August 21, 2026

FPV DRONES USAGE :

There is an increased number of FPV drone strikes on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, as well as in and around both Drujkivka and Dobropilla.@kriegsforscherD reports 1500 to 2000 FPV drones on Drujkivka and 1 200 in Dobropilla every day.https://t.co/2vZ9qSVMi0… pic.twitter.com/h3J3k1S2YN

— Clément Molin (@clement_molin) August 21, 2026

It's going to be an especially tough winter for Ukraine with no means now to defend its cities against BM attacks.

ISW says Russia deployed six KN-30 heavy North Korean missile launchers near Ukraine's border, enough for up to 120 launches. From Voronezh region, they could potentially reach Kyiv and the Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.… pic.twitter.com/im4b3bRWPn

— WarTranslated (@wartranslated) August 21, 2026

Maybe we could have the decency to give them the means or at least the locations to destroy the launchers.

End of Putin scenario

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ERbBhAcKN/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Maybe we could have the decency to give them the means or at least the locations to destroy the launchers.

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We would if we thought that it was to our own advantage. We clearly don't for whatever reason.

The Russian army boasted about attacking a child—a civilian cyclist—in the Donbas.

A post recently appeared on the official channel of the Russian Armed Forces' 3rd Army announcing the "elimination of enemy manpower" via an FPV drone, accompanied by the caption: "Once again, the… pic.twitter.com/xxfWcKSFjE

— Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) August 23, 2026

A Russian farmer - citing the ongoing collapse in agriculture - says Russia faces famine, as it's unclear if there will be any harvest this year at all.

Given no ability to export grains and no fuel to run equipment, he paints a dark picture of whats coming. pic.twitter.com/y0ksoGgXZv

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) August 23, 2026

War often equals famine. Maybe that will be what it takes to oust Putin.

With Ukraine and Russia being significant agricultural exporters, the global downstream effect of the disintegration of those sources could be ugly.

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Russia and Ukraine together produce roughly one-quarter (about 25%) of the world's total grain exports, including around 27% of global wheat, 19% of corn, and over 50% of sunflower oil.

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Per Gemini. That's a lot of food supply to go missing. Famine looks like a very real outcome.

🔥🇺🇦 Nikolaevsky Vanek:

In the coming days (I would say week), many events are planned at the front and behind enemy lines. We've been preparing for a long time, so there should be more good news.

Our partners will also share some good news today, for which we are especially…

— MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 24, 2026

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Our partners will also share some good news today, for which we are especially grateful.

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The Behemoth is a good example of Ukraine's mass production of combat drones. That's a nasty combo warhead, btw.

"The drone has a wingspan of 2.28 meters (7.5 feet), a length of 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) and a height of 0.5 meters (1.6 feet). Its stated range is up to 300 km (186 miles). The airframe carries two warheads in sequence: a 40 kg (88-pound) high-explosive fragmentation charge in the nose, followed by a 35 kg (77-pound) thermobaric charge, for a combined payload of roughly 75 kg (165 pounds)."

SCALE

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🔥🇺🇦 Nikolaevsky Vanek:

In the coming days (I would say week), many events are planned at the front and behind enemy lines. We've been preparing for a long time, so there should be more good news.

Our partners will also share some good news today, for which we are especially…

— MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 24, 2026

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Our partners will also share some good news today, for which we are especially grateful.

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Might be this: STORM SHADOW