(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Dam collapse floods Russian city of Orsk [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-04-06 This dam was built in 2014. Naturally a scapegoat must be found. x ◾️ The dam in Orsk has completely collapsed. Just an hour before, Orsk Mayor Vasily Kozupitsa had reported that one of the two breaches had been reinforced. ◾️ Authorities are urging the population to evacuate. A significant part of the houses are flooded. Three victims have… https://t.co/NcnxqVRo1Q pic.twitter.com/ClC9YScH6Z — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 6, 2024 I don’t think I’d be standing it that spot to take video. x Residents of #Krutoyarka, #Kurgan region, #ruZZia film interesting content for subscribers about the dam break in their village 🫠😆😆😆 pic.twitter.com/K7pvdLA14W — Aurora Borealis 🤫 (@aborealis940) April 6, 2024 Naturally, Putin isn’t to blame. x TASS on #Orsk dike failures - "Putin isn't to blame." Note: Someone at Rostekhnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision) has already prepared the falsified inspection documents to blame local administrators. «- In the Orenburg… pic.twitter.com/wudRFCsDLH — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) April 6, 2024 Orsk is a city of about 230,000 residents that sits just north of the border with Kazakhstan. x ‼️ Dam breach in Russian Orsk The volume of water discharge from the Aktobe reservoir is growing. At the moment it is known about three deaths (according to official data). More than 2.5 thousand houses and 6.8 thousand household plots were flooded. More than 4 thousand people… pic.twitter.com/3QyQmZaSEO — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 6, 2024 HIMARS o’clock on the left bank of the Dnipro River. x Left bank of the Kherson region near Nova Zbur'ivka, Ukraine reportedly attacked a Russian military base, used to repair military equipment, with HIMARS. pic.twitter.com/zEZL63Fiwn — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) April 6, 2024 A pile of Russian anti-tank mines makes for a nice bavovna. x A stockpile of TM-62 anti tank mines was destroyed by the 72nd mechanized brigade. pic.twitter.com/PfrNrDBGZw — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) April 5, 2024 Ukrainian drones vs. Russian infantry. WARNING: Videos show soldiers getting hit by drones. x Ukrainian SSO units, targetting Russian infantry. Since the emergence of FPV drones, the chance of survival at the front, especially for Russian troops on the offensive, is very low. In this clip it is almost as if a game is being played with Russian soldiers just before they… pic.twitter.com/BvS21mxVVd — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) April 5, 2024 A Russian soldier tries dodging a drone, throws a stick at it, but it eventually gets him. x Go home you f.....g orc pic.twitter.com/x1R8UG5TSe — 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 (@TheDeadDistrict) April 6, 2024 Russia continues to shell Kharkiv with impunity. x Russians are trying to do to Kharkiv what they did to Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol https://t.co/7JdT8u2Wdq — Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) April 6, 2024 Despite the shelling, life goes on. x Kharkiv today felt surreal: Work amidst air raid sirens, coffee breaks interrupted by explosions, a gym session during a brief lull in shelling, grocery shopping with bomb blasts in the background. We persevere. Kharkiv is Ukraine and will always be 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/I2m7PWIewy — Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) April 5, 2024 This video shows some of the damage around the city. x SaveKharkiv ❤️‍🩹 SaveUkraine 💔 Please spread the word, don't be silent about our heroic city of Kharkiv. A hero city that has not known peace since the beginning of the full-scale invasion! Kharkiv has turned into a city of generators, the sound of generators can be heard… pic.twitter.com/kIL82YuK5i — Katerina Horbunova (@blue_eyedKeti) April 6, 2024 Meanwhile, in Belgorod … x Belgorod right now.🔥 pic.twitter.com/BF2nVe7Thj — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) April 6, 2024 Three charts that demonstrate how Russian losses keep adding up. x Russian losses per 06/04/24 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff. +790 men +24 tanks +38 APVs +41 artillery pieces +3 MLRS +2 AD systems +1 cruise missile pic.twitter.com/2ZqksNgbxi — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) April 6, 2024 x Russian losses of equipment over the last 5 months. showing the overall increase in losses is almost all down to rises in IFV losses, while really all the other types of losses have been, pretty stable. I think this is a combination of Ukrainian drones becoming more numerous… pic.twitter.com/Uve7NyDvra — Richard Vereker (@verekerrichard1) April 6, 2024 x These are the losses I could identify yesterday. The nightvision bmp-3 might all be the same vehicle. It is hard to tell. That video is one of the coolest videos in a long time. Extraordinarily bad news for the Russians who planned on surviving the war.https://t.co/6ZeZYh00Ln pic.twitter.com/TBRaw1Iab0 — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) April 6, 2024 Russia continues to advance towards Chasiv Yar, which is west of Bakhmut. This demonstrates that Ukraine’s greatest needs aren’t F-16s and Taurus missiles but artillery shells. x Russian troops have closely approached Chasiv Yar on the Bakhmut direction, according to the Deep State. Chasiv Yar remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, - Syrsky. "The fiercest battles today are taking place in the areas of Pervomaisky and Vodyane, as well… pic.twitter.com/bE2tvijKvN — Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 (@maria_drutska) April 6, 2024 This is not a good development. This area is where Ukraine was going to set up a new defensive line after retreating from Avdiivka. x 🗺️ Russian forces entered Semenivka from the south-eastern direction. The settlement is now contested. #RussiaUkraineWar #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/tw8wpMXXH1 — Spatial Grounds (@spatialgrounds) April 6, 2024 Ukraine retook about a square kilometer on the southern front. x 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Armed Forces regained their lost positions east of Staromayorsky. Taken 1 km2. Via КАРТОГРАФ ЗСУ pic.twitter.com/aclCnRV0xS — 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 (@TheDeadDistrict) April 6, 2024 Another careless smoker. x There is a large fire at the Azot mineral fertilizer and organic chemicals plant in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russia.#OSINT #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #UkraineKrieg #Ukraine RT Appreciated pic.twitter.com/TDbdWNyLIO — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) April 5, 2024 Let them rot in prison. x Two foreigners were exposed who passed data on the location of Ukrainian defenders and anti-aircraft defense in Odesa to the enemy The perpetrators were brothers, citizens of one of the countries of the South Caucasus, who lived in Odessa. As a reward for their "services", both… pic.twitter.com/WiPKJdTiVK — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) April 6, 2024 Anti-drone drone. Russia tries to combat Ukrainian sea drones with FPV kamikazes. x ‼️ Russia wants to use FPV drones to repell the Ukrainian sea drones attacks Exercises of the Black Sea Fleet to repel the Magura-family sea drones using FPV. pic.twitter.com/J3pBwaKpjV — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) April 5, 2024 A ton of explosives is quite a wallop. x The SBU presented a new modified version of an unmanned maritime drone. According to SBU Brigadier General "Hunter", the updated drone will cover more than 1,100 km on water, and will be able to carry more than a ton of explosives for destroying ships, conducting reconnaissance,… pic.twitter.com/6YnQK61Knb — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) April 5, 2024 Belarus is buying Russian-made Supercam drones at a cost of about $400k each. x The Ministry of Defense of Belarus is purchasing 13 Supercam S350 UAVs. On March 22, we wrote that the Belarusian MoD included the purchase of 13 “Supercam S350 short range tactical unmanned aerial systems” or their analogues in the plan of state procurement for 2024. This… pic.twitter.com/h7brxDAhcd — Belarusian Hajun project (@Hajun_BY) April 5, 2024 No more yogurt for Belarus. x Danone leaves Belarus. The last subsidiary of @Danone in Belarus, DanoneBel, has filed for liquidation. This became known from the magazine “Justice of Belarus”, @Planbmediaio noted. Earlier, the famous French manufacturer of yogurts Danone, Activia, Danissimo, etc. had 3 legal… pic.twitter.com/waUs1UheM6 — Belarusian Hajun project (@Hajun_BY) April 4, 2024 Even funerals/wakes have been disrupted by Russia’s constant shelling. x Hulyaipole, Zaporizhzhia region. A front-line city whose residents are forced to dig graves in advance so that a person who died on arrival can be buried quickly. There is simply no time and opportunity to organize a normal wake. Grntmedia correspondent Victoria Kravchuk is… pic.twitter.com/TjHedqN1sv — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) April 5, 2024 The reality of life in Kherson. x #Kherson 19.52 Horrifying noise again. Locals call it “Vietnam.” It sounds as if you are in a stomach of a giant monster and it has a bad case of indigestion… pic.twitter.com/UW2K7e2jgI — Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) April 2, 2024 Kalmykia is in the North Caucasus east of the Ukrainian border and north of Dagestan. Kalmyks are mostly Tibetan Buddhists. There is no road and water in the village for several years. People are literally surviving. To leave the settlement, one has to wait for good weather. There are no groceries in the stores because there is no way to bring them in. If something bad happens, an ambulance or any personal vehicle simply won't get through. They make no connection between their tsar spending all money on war and their living conditions. x The video shows an appeal from the residents of the settlement of Altsynkhuta in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. There is no road and water in the village for several years. People are literally surviving. To leave the settlement, one has to wait for good weather. There are no… pic.twitter.com/3Mx7Ht7kvu — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 5, 2024 He’s frightened but safe in the subway system. x Night in the metro. This dog understands what it mean. SRC: animalsinukraine pic.twitter.com/SQAedSsK48 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) April 6, 2024 Good luck Yana. The Boston Marathon is Monday April 15. 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