(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Alleged UFO allegedly spotted over Ukraine [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-28 A Ukrainian drone encounters a UFO over Ukraine. Allegedly, of course. It doesn’t appear to be a Klingon battle cruiser, but it might be a jem’hadar ship. Shields up! x Ukrainian military spotted a UFO over the war zone - Daily Mail A spokesman for DJI, which manufactures the Mavic drones, said he could not explain what exactly the AFU fighters had captured. He admitted that there was a technical glitch during the recording as an error message… pic.twitter.com/hJNbN6WwVR — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 28, 2024 Take me to your leader. 🛸 x There are memes about UFOs. That representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations are tired of waiting for the US Congress to unblock military aid to Ukraine and have come to discuss the transfer of weapons 😃. You always want to believe in miracles, but the biggest miracle… pic.twitter.com/aYIWn4Dley — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) February 28, 2024 A well-deserved break. x 🪖 The brigade that defended Avdiivka has completed its first rotation in two years. The 110th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that its soldiers have departed from the Avdiivka area for recuperation. "We are going on leave. We depart with our heads held high.… — Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 (@maria_drutska) February 28, 2024 Dramatic footage of a Ukrainian gunner with an M2 Browning shooting down an Iranian Shaheed drone. x Close one. Ukrainian mobile air defense units in Kharkiv oblast trying to repel a Shahed drone attack. The drone hits the ground just tens of meters away. pic.twitter.com/8xuHNPwO7t — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 27, 2024 Big Bavovna. x Kharkiv/Luhansk Oblast, a Ukrainian FPV munition from the 120th TDF brigade flies into a Russian T-80BVM, causing a catastrophic cookoff. pic.twitter.com/fE2w6tf5kG — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 27, 2024 This bavovna is near Bilohorivka. x https://t.co/R31JL8JWmn 81st brigade burned some russian armor T-80BV and BMP pic.twitter.com/g6N7GMjPd0 — GWAR69 🇩🇰🇺🇦 (@GwarWorin) February 28, 2024 Synchronized bavovna. x Stepove, a pair of advancing Russian BTR-80s simultaneously run into a pair of Ukrainian mines. pic.twitter.com/XIEo4R3GQK — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 28, 2024 A plethora of bavovna. x SBU unit Alpha with another compilation from recent work. Among Russian losses are 20 tanks, 46 armored vehicles, 2 surveillance systems, 47 artillery pieces, 3 MLRS systems, 3 air defense systems and 16 EW/jamming complexes. pic.twitter.com/HqtjC1hqvF — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 28, 2024 Everything Russia touches dies. x Ukrainian cities before and after “liberation” pic.twitter.com/APUDQBzSrC — Volodymyr Demchenko (@brokenpixelua) February 19, 2024 Russia has been pushing hard to try to retake Robotyne, but has so far been unsuccessful. x A column of broken Russian heavy equipment in the Robotyne direction. pic.twitter.com/2D8aT7Mh7D — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) February 26, 2024 This is in Robotyne recently. Two Russian armored vehicles drive in, infantry is unloaded and takes cover in a house. The house is later blown up. One of the vehicles hits a mine and the other is taken out by a drone. This was a fiasco, but that doesn’t stop Russia from trying it again and again. x Ukrainians repel a Russian attack near Robotyne (Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southeastern Ukraine) Two Russian infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed (one exploded on a mine, and the other one was hit by an FPV kamikaze drone). 📹The National Guard of the 3rd Brigade pic.twitter.com/qCEUryZAMk — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) February 28, 2024 Very close combat in a trench. WARNING: Video shows Russian soldiers being shot. x 🔥 A Ukrainian soldier kills two Russians during a trench battle, reportedly in Zaporizhzhia, at close range Graphic 🔞: they should have stayed home pic.twitter.com/mirRr9xrzX — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) February 27, 2024 This should be named Bavovna Boulevard. x Ruzsia's Road of Death near Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region 25 armored vehicles were destroyed on a 300m long stretch of road pic.twitter.com/pyocEzALGn — Getty (@Getty776) February 27, 2024 Ukraine continues to fall back at Avdiivka to better defensive terrain. x 🇺🇦🛡️ AFU will conduct a defensive operation in the area of ​​​​the villages of Tonenke, Orlivka and Berdychi in the Avdiivka direction, - speaker of the Tavria group, Likhovy 💪 The Ukrainian military is counting on terrain suitable for defense - in particular, a cascade of… pic.twitter.com/pFb0of8vh3 — The Ukrainian Review (@UkrReview) February 28, 2024 x 2/ Russian forces may be able to seize settlements immediately west and northwest of Avdiivka in the coming weeks, but terrain and water features further west of Avdiivka, particularly the body of water that runs between Berdychi-Semenivka-Orlivka, will likely slow the already… pic.twitter.com/5XTZ9KRICH — Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) February 28, 2024 This is great, but can they also supply enough ammunition? x Netherlands recently ordered 9 Czech DITA self propelled howitzers for Ukraine. There is no information about when those will be ready for shipment to Ukraine.https://t.co/HXo2lRZBoc pic.twitter.com/papHFqcgOk — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) February 28, 2024 This would be a fine trophy for a Patriot missile battery. x The Russian Air Force reportedly used their latest Su-57 fighter jets in recent combat operations, targeting Ukrainian military positions in the East of Ukraine. On February 18, escorted by two Su-35 jets, the Su-57 launched a missile strike on Ukrainian targets. Sources suggest… pic.twitter.com/OapiqGdqh6 — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) February 28, 2024 The Transnistria Congress of Deputies met today and asked Russia for “help” against Moldova. The congress, which had not met for 18 years, did not ask Russia to annex the separatist region sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine as was speculated earlier. It is likely that Transnistria fears the reaction if annexation is requested. x Transnistria's "Congress of deputies" has asked Russia for "protection" against "growing pressures" from Moldova. They complained of a supposed "humanitarian crisis" caused by Chisinau taxes on trade. Moldova govt dismissed the event as "propaganda" pic.twitter.com/Me9OGw5vNK — Paula Erizanu (@paulaerizanu) February 28, 2024 Sri Lanka orders 288k Russians and 20k Ukrainians to leave the country, but the government is already backtracking. x Sri Lanka has told hundreds of thousands of Russians staying in the country to leave in the next 2 weeks. Anti-Russia feeling is growing due to Russian tourists running unregistered & illegal businesses with a “whites only” policy that strictly bars locals https://t.co/hv5oSj11Gu — Glasnost Gone (@GlasnostGone) February 27, 2024 The immigration controller issued a notice to the tourism ministry asking Russian and Ukrainian people staying on extended tourist visas to leave Sri Lanka within two weeks from 23 February. Just over 288,000 Russians and nearly 20,000 Ukrainians have traveled to Sri Lanka in the last two years since the war began, according to official data. Commissioner-General of Immigration said the “government is not granting further visa extensions” as the “flight situation has now normalised”. However, the office of president Ranil Wickremesinghe ordered an investigation of the notice to the tourism ministry in an apparent bid to prevent diplomatic tensions. Navalny’s widow tells the European Parliament that they need to treat Putin like they would treat a Mafia don. x Yulia Navalnaya spoke in the European Parliament. "You are dealing not with a politician but with a bloody mafiosi. Putin is the head of an organized criminal group....The political innovation is that the methods that need to be used are ones used to fight organized crime, not… pic.twitter.com/XbJpyqFR0y — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 28, 2024 After Macron had mentioned the possibility of French troops going to Ukraine it was clarified that he meant trainers, not combat troops. x Breaking: Netherlands second country after France open to sending troops to Ukraine. “I think you should not write off any option to see how best to support Ukraine,” - Onno Eichelsheim He emphasized that sending troops to Ukraine is a “last option” pic.twitter.com/MWSenrzw2d — Matt Short 🇺🇦 (@motishort) February 27, 2024 The only thing you’ll hear from Elon Musk on this is crickets. x Russian "volunteers" talk about how, in addition to drones, they deliver @ElonMusk's #Starlink satellite terminals to help kill Ukrainian men, women & children. Any comment Musk? Or is it your usual pro-Russian silence is golden? https://t.co/NYe0e0bpLY — Glasnost Gone (@GlasnostGone) February 27, 2024 That’s a fucked-up way to improve the economy. x The poorest regions in Russia had the sharpest increases in bank balances last year. In 2023, Altai showed an increase of 18.95%, Buryatia by 33.26%, and Tyva by a record 57.57%. It should come as no surprise that these ethnic minority regions in Russian account for the largest… pic.twitter.com/SCochUvmFL — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) February 28, 2024 He seems nice. He says the only way to stop world wars is to burn everything up and beyond the English channel, and round up and hang everyone who spoke against Russia. x Pro-russian military medic, and blogger Yuriy Yevich states that since he is not a fascist, sadly, he cannot send millions of civilians into concentration camps. He says the only way to stop world wars is to burn everything up and beyond the English channel, and round up and… pic.twitter.com/WAxvIq2zwe — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) February 28, 2024 A Russian soldier shows off his anti-drone equipment, including a shotgun. Coming soon: Video of a kamikaze drone chasing him down a road. x A Russian soldier shows his anti FPV drone equipment He does not want to be hunted pic.twitter.com/eksa0ygh6D — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) February 28, 2024 This Russian makes the smart choice. x 🤯🤯🤯 🇺🇦Ukrainian drone helps to capture 🇷🇺Russian soldier. Aerial scouts of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade spotted a 🇷🇺Russian soldier signaling that he is ready to surrender. He was given instructions on what to do and taken to the positions of the Ukrainian soldiers. pic.twitter.com/Z51F1952BK — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) February 28, 2024 Is that how they do push-ups in the Russian army? x A Russian soldier involuntarily leaked information to Ukrainian partisans The soldier wanted to show that the neighboring russian unit had poor training. To make his point, he shared a lot of relevant content with a Ukrainian partisan unknown to him. Here is just an example.… pic.twitter.com/czcwyUtjnQ — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) February 27, 2024 Rest in peace. x Bastard medieval russia killed 2 senior police officers today, and injured 4 other investigators. In #Ukraine's Sumy region bordering Russia, they were hit by fire, while investigating recent Russian shelling. R.I.P. https://t.co/6wWxGzs18p pic.twitter.com/IDk9rYLMGb — Glasnost Gone (@GlasnostGone) February 27, 2024 Red Bull gives you wings. 😂 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/28/2226249/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Alleged-UFO-allegedly-spotted-over-Ukraine?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/