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07-21-2026, 04:48 AM
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Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
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07-21-2026, 04:57 AM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
1. Yesterday, elite operators from the Alpha Special Operations Center of the Security Service of Ukraine executed a highly coordinated drone strike targeting a russian Federal Security Service coordination center in the occupied territory of Kherson Oblast. The precision operation targeted a seaside holiday resort deep within occupied southern Ukraine, which russian forces had converted into a heavily fortified administrative hub and deployment base for FSB personnel. To penetrate the heavily guarded airspace, the SBU deployed a squadron of exactly 13 precision-strike drones, all of which successfully hit their targets and triggered an uncontained, large-scale facility fire. SBU reconnaissance confirmed the compound was protected by operational security checkpoints, armed guards, engineering barriers and custom underground shelters to safeguard the occupants. According to preliminary intelligence reports released by the SBU, approximately 100 russian military and security service personnel were inside the center at the exact time of the drone impacts. While official exact casualty numbers have not been formally finalized by the agency, intelligence estimates suggest that a significant number of occupiers may have been struck or neutralized in the blast. In addition to human casualties, aerial reconnaissance verified that more than 70 russian military vehicles parked on the resort grounds were entirely destroyed or severely damaged. This specialized operation forms part of a wider, 40-day intensive pressure campaign approved by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to weaken russia's administrative infrastructure, disrupt enemy command and coordination systems and severely complicate rear-guard logistics for FSB units operating near the Dnipro River and vital routes leading toward Crimea. 2. Drones surprising enemy fighters travelling on quads. 3. On the morning of July 17, 2026, another attempt by the enemy to break through on quad bikes into the area of responsibility of the 65th Brigade from the direction of Nesteryanka ended in complete failure. Units of the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade under the command of the 17th Army Corps, promptly detected the assault group of 8 invaders on 4 quad bikes and systematically destroyed them with concentrated fire, along with their equipment. The only invader who managed to survive the attack chose to take his own life. 4/5. The Ronin Unmanned Systems Battalion is an elite drone unit belonging to Ukraine’s 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade and are actively hunting for invaders. 6. Ukraine's 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade spotted a BM-21 Grad Multiple Launch Rocket System attempting to deploy or flee in the Sudzha sector yesterday. An FPV kamikaze drone chased down the moving rocket launcher and scored a direct hit. Following the initial impact, the remaining rockets loaded on the back of the truck began cooking off and exploding sequentially while the driver desperately tried to keep moving. After at least four internal secondary detonations, the driver lost control, crashed into the side of the road, and the entire vehicle blew up into a massive fireball, completely destroying the system and its crew. 7. The russian Molniya is a family of cheap, mass-produced fixed-wing loitering munitions built from plywood, foam, and plastic. They cost around $1,600 each and are used to strike Ukrainian trenches, tree lines, and logistics. Recent intelligence confirms russia has upgraded these drones with artificial intelligence elements and machine vision for autonomous targeting, as well as fiber-optic and Starlink-enabled guidance networks to bypass Ukrainian electronic warfare. Ukrainian forces like the 68th Jaeger Brigade and specialized interceptor units focus heavily on eliminating the Molniya operators and launch sites. They track the radio signal back to the crew and eliminate them using FPV strike drones however some slip through and have to be destroyed in the air as shown. 8. Ukrainian intelligence officers are eliminating a sleeping russian soldier in a forest area in the Zaporizhzhia direction using small arms fire. Afterwards, they are collecting trophies from russian soldiers who were previously neutralized by FPV drones. 9. Combat operations captured by GoPro cameras used by Ukrainian intelligence operatives from the Opord Group unit, in the Kharkiv direction. 10. Ukrainian Special Operations Forces operatives, posing as their own troops, captured 6 russian soldiers, incl. a mercenary from Colombia, during a clearing operation in one of the areas in the Sumy region during the winter in 2026. 11. The 422nd Unmanned Systems Regiment striking russian personnel and logistics in occupied territory. 12. Intense defensive operations are underway in the Zaporizhzhia direction in June in Stepnogorsk. The enemy continues to attempt infiltration into the populated area, aiming to establish a foothold, accumulate personnel and make further attempts to advance towards the city of Zaporizhzhia. The Revanche tactical group of the International Legion of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's Intelligence Directorate is carrying out a combat mission to eliminate the enemy group that has managed to establish itself in the area of warehouse buildings. They mainly conduct reconnaissance operations, identify the enemy, deliver fire strikes and completely clear the sector where the occupying forces are entrenched. 13. A Ukrainian Hornet drone precisely targets a russian transport vehicle carrying a mobile air defense unit in the Donetsk region. 14. Ukraine's 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade's Aerobomber unit attacking enemy logistics. 15. On the night of July 20, 2026, Ukrainian long-range strike drones hit the massive Wildberries logistics center in Koledino, located near Podolsk in the Moscow Oblast. This targeted attack was part of a record-breaking Ukrainian wave involving over 400 drones aimed at industrial and supply networks throughout the Moscow region. The strike directly hit the main distribution hub of Wildberries, russia's largest e-commerce and retail platform, located inside the Koledino industrial zone. Ukraine targets these logistics nodes because the platform actively lists and distributes military hardware, body armor, and drone components labeled for russian forces. The strike on Koledino occurred simultaneously with hits on other vital russian economic facilities nearby. A major fuel distribution network in the Lvovsky district caught fire after a drone tore through the storage tanks and a massive 650,000-square-meter logistics hub in Domodedovo was set ablaze. Local Moscow officials reported that at least 10 people were injured across the region. |
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07-23-2026, 06:14 PM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
Setting Russians and Russian things on fire. ▩ "NSFW, graphic content: Ukrainian Apachi Strike Group took out Russian soldiers in the Slovyansk direction. 81st Airmobile Brigade. Published 23.07.2026" ▩ "Ukraine's 414th USF Brigade "Magyar's Birds" FPV drone pilot skillfully hunted through brush and trees, finding and destroying a pair of Russian infantrymen to bring the unit's July tally to 8,009. [TG robert_magyar] July 23, 2026" ▩ "(NSFW) Ukraine's 414th USF Brigade "Magyar's Birds" detected and destroyed a Russian infantryman using an FPV ambush drone, raising the unit's July tally to 7,589. [TG robert_magyar] July 22, 2026" ▩ "Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck logistics hubs of the "Wildberries" corporation, Russia's largest e-commerce retailer (analogous to Amazon). This follows strikes on "Wildberries" warehouses said to have been storing shipments of lithium ion batteries and fiber optic cable. July 22, 2026" |
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07-24-2026, 02:56 PM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
⚕ Rusnya KIA by drone + aftermath "Ukraine's 414th USF Brigade "Magyar's Birds" stopped a Russian infantryman from reaching a tree line, landing a lethal strike that brings the unit's July tally to 8,383. [TG robert_magyar] July 24, 2026" ⚕ "St. Petersburg: Russian civilian bystanders recorded several strikes on a major "Wildberries" distribution center, from only a short distance away. July 24, 2026" ⚕ "Ukrainian drones striking the Wildberries facility in St. Petersburg. Shows clearly the lack of penetrating power of these long range drones, but they get the job done." ⚕ "Russian soldier taken out by Ukrainian drones. Huliapole directon 110th Mechanized Brigade. 24.07.2026" |
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07-26-2026, 10:33 AM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
For "2. Drones surprising enemy fighters travelling on quads," way above. Interesting how the last frame is super-clear on some sequences in this vid. Not sure I've seen that, before? Makes me wonder, have ALL or at least many of (at least) the Ukraine vids we've been seeing all this time actually been purposefully 'fuzzed' 5 to 10% or so for release, for security or other reasons (so there's a 'clear' version somewhere, too)? If you think about it, a lot of footage has been fairly fuzzy for otherwise modern equipment, even in pretty decent/outdoor lighting. Even GoPros are usually sharper... Or maybe these single frames are just singly AI-scrubbed or something, somehow?
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07-26-2026, 04:17 PM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
Depends on what cam on what drone is used and when it goes fuzzy, esp. at the end it's probably enemy jamming disturbing the quality of the signal or blocked a bit by trees or building. Load of the vids are recorded exactly how the drone operator sees it on his monitor and uploaded. In these clear vids usally a second, larger so called mother drone aka repeater hovers entirely out of electronic jamming range, usually high in the sky a few km back. As the kamikaze drone dives toward the target, it records the hd video and immediately broadcasts that data via a high-bandwidth, short-range signal up to the hovering repeater reconnaissance drone which saves the footage to a sd card. Other clear vids are recorded by fiber optic drones as they can not be jammed to distort the view. Sometimes the vids get fuzzy as they are recorded at the frontlines and get uploaded via Starlink towards, mostly, TG or whatsapp etc. and these social media compress these large files heavily making them more fuzzy plus when we upload it to DR it also gets compressed and takes away another few pct of quality. ( Not always though ) P |
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07-28-2026, 05:25 AM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
You're describing three different things: AI enhancement on the last frame (done by one particular unit, can't remember which one) for dramatic effect, everything else before that is not enhanced. "Fuzziness": OPSEC redaction or blurring (modern day tech has allowed for AI recognition of surrounding landscape to ascertain the military unit's location, blurring it makes it unreadable by software). This can also be blurring or redacting the instrumentation FPV readout on drones and other equipment, such as the GPS location if it has that capability, speed, direction, unit ID etc). Some units will even blur any enemy unit ID so the friendly unit's location can't be determined. Also electronic interference. You may have heard of fiber optic drones - they are capable of shockingly clear footage because they are commanded by a physical glass fiber optic line that maintains constant communication rather than over the air with a traditional radio controlled drone. Radio controlled drones are extremely susceptible to electronic jammers - that's why you see some clips with heavy static, ghosting or stutters. This is why many units who can't get fiber optic drones have radio transceivers which constantly switch radio frequencies, they're much harder to jam. |
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07-29-2026, 05:24 AM
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Re: Russian Invasion Ukraine. Day: 1640-1650 (July 11 - July 31)
1. Border guards from the Phoenix unit maintain round-the-clock control over enemy logistics, no truck or motorcycle passes unnoticed. In here we see the destruction of self-propelled howitzers, several tanks and BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers. 2. Border guards from the Chimera unit of the 105th border detachment are destroying enemy transport and artillery in the Bryansk region. 3. Border guards from the Prime unit of the 5th detachment in the North-Sloboda direction destroyed an enemy D-30 howitzer, ammunition, enemy personel and fortifications. 4. Burnt-out artillery and a tank, disrupted logistics and a large-scale attack repelled. Over the past week, border guard pilots from the Phoenix unit have inflicted significant losses on the enemy across 4 different sectors. In the Gulyaipole area, artillery systems and motorcycles were hit. In the Lyman area, logistical routes and infantry groups were eliminated. In the Dobropillya area, a massive mechanized assault was repelled, along with other units. And in the Toretsk area, enemy shelters, a tank and several vehicles were destroyed. 5. In the Novopavlivka direction the Perun operators are eliminating russian equipment and soldiers, who will remain buried in the ground forever. 6. You'll never see me again. 7. Crew of a Yak-52 aircraft shot down drones over the Odesa region. 8. Repelling enemy assaults. 9. Drone hits wounded, crawling occupier in the bare ass. 10. Burning fuel tank on the move after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Zaporizhzhia region. 11. Five russian soldiers on the islands of the Dnipro River near Kherson captured. 12. Taking the enemy out one by one. 13. Can't escape from the apachi FPV strike group. 14. Can't outrun the drone. 15. Clearing of russian positions in the area of Stepnogorsk, Zaporizhzhia region, from the perspective of fighters in the International Legion of Ukraine. Around 4:14, one of the fighters survives after being struck by an FPV drone. |