(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Senate set to approve Ukraine aid [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-04-23 The Senate voted down a Republican filibuster attempt on the Ukraine aid package today. A final vote is expected later tonight. x 80-19: The U.S. Senate has voted to advance a $95 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. A final vote is likely later Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/ybrQr2Juq7 — The Recount (@therecount) April 23, 2024 x Mitch McConnell, a staunch backer of Ukraine aid, says the anti-Ukraine movement began with Tucker Carlson, “who, in my opinion, ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin.” The Senate just voted 80-19 to break a filibuster on $95B aid… pic.twitter.com/Gz4aKSxG6L — Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 23, 2024 Bavovna x Good morning Russophobes ‼️ 💥 A powerful and beautiful detonation of the Russian 152-mm self-propelled gun 2S5 "Hyacinth-S". pic.twitter.com/T7tLQJgjrN — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) April 23, 2024 Russian is served with an eviction notice. And their Chinese golf cart didn’t fare too well either. WARNING: Video shows Russian soldier getting blown up. x Drone scouts from the AFU 47th Mechanized Brigade located, tracked down and coordinated and FPV strike on a Russian officer with the call sign "Dachnyk" (seasonal resident of a dacha). He (the one with no helmet) and one subordinate were wounded while the other was terminated.… pic.twitter.com/HQJtulHgco — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) April 23, 2024 Russia has captured the village of Ocheretyne, which is northwest of Avdiivka. x Unfortunately, the village Ocheretyne, Donetsk region (Avdiivka axis) was totally captured by Russians. Now the infernal battles continue outside the village. There were attempts to counterattack, but they were unsuccessful… Fucking 115th Mech. Brigade🤬 pic.twitter.com/J93M5mvpMB — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) April 23, 2024 Ukraine raises the flag over Kozachi Laheri, which is on the left bank of the Dnipro near Kherson and down the road from Krynky. x ❗️Officially from the 35th Marine Brigade 🇺🇦| This morning, in the north-western part of the village Kozachi Laheri, near Krynky, left bank of Kherson region, a flag of Ukraine was installed! Glory to Ukrainian soldiers, who even in the most difficult conditions continues to… pic.twitter.com/rpSsIVnVVy — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) April 23, 2024 The terror campaign against Kherson continues. x #Kherson On April 22, Russia 🔴 shelled 17 villages and the city of Kherson 🔴 8 high-rise buildings, 26 private houses damaged 🔴 an educational institution, a kindergarten, a cultural institution, a critical infrastructure facility, a gas pipeline hit 💔2 killed, 6 injured pic.twitter.com/mKGj7aynfH — Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) April 23, 2024 The UK steps up again. x #BREAKING@RishiSunak TO ANNOUNCE LARGEST-EVER MILITARY AID PACKAGE TO #UKRAINE ON VISIT TO POLAND 💷£500m boost for Ukraine 💷400 vehicles 💷1,600 munitions 💷4 million rounds of ammunition pic.twitter.com/NyKLBTfNKr — Paul McNamara (@PGMcNamara) April 22, 2024 The US is all set to step up. x Most of the weapons from the new US aid package have been deployed in Germany and Poland, which will significantly speed up the delivery of military aid to Ukraine, CNN has reported The TV channel's source said that artillery shells would be sent first. pic.twitter.com/Buw6RIp3gF — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 23, 2024 Greece might step up. x Greece 🇬🇷 may send Ukraine 🇺🇦 a Patriot PAC-3 Air Defense System with the conditional that US gives Greece Financial Aid and guarantees that Turkey 🇹🇷 will not attack Greece, reports Greek Pronews pic.twitter.com/LVKRJ3MpEb — Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) April 22, 2024 Canadian company offers to step up. x #BREAKING @RoshelDefence CEO @RomanShimon contacted @BILD and offered “a much better alternative” than the “FFG MRAP” / up-armored “BATT UMG”, namely the Roshel “#Senator MRAP”, to be delivered by @BMVg_Bundeswehr to Ukraine. ➡️ According to Shimon, Roshel could deliver 100… pic.twitter.com/Yg8gSfRauk — Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) April 23, 2024 Russia hangs on to its hostage. x Evan's appeal has been rejected again. He will remain in the high-security Lefortovo prison till at least June 30. Evan has now spent almost 400 days in a tiny cell. insufferable https://t.co/sXox0ilN5z — Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) April 23, 2024 Russia looks for new ways to kill civilians with maximum efficiency. x These are Russian Su-34 crews. They are dropping high-explosive aviation bombs with a universal planning and correction module on Ukraine's territory. Mass production of three-ton FAB-3000 aerial bombs has begun in Russia, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense following… https://t.co/zYz1UZobBs pic.twitter.com/huED8Ty6gc — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 23, 2024 A Russian perspective on Ukraine’s drones. This is the opinion of an officer who is now fighting in the southern direction, and every day he is faced with the results of the activities of enemy developers. "So. What do we have. The enemy has a variety of FPV drones, the entire territory is divided into sections and reach zones for different types of FPV. There are FPV-charges that carry a huge volume of explosives, specifically for destroying houses, basements, and dugouts. They work in the near zone. There are fpv vehicle hunters that work at 15-20 km, there are fpv repeaters that fly up to 25-30 km with them. Drones like Baba Yaga work a lot, but they work according to coordinates, that is, an M3T flies with her (Mavik 3T) and films her work, the route is set automatically, it mainly mines or finishes off exposed targets. Ammunition is used infrequently, but a lot. They don't spare long-range ones against the exposed target; 38 long-range, 2 tank and 3 fpv were fired at the exposed mortar." The officer also assessed the standard electronic warfare equipment, including those arriving recently. I won't bring it here. In short: I would like more effective methods. Therefore, everyone who now doubts that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are capable of fighting without artillery and striking at our rear without aviation doubts in vain. What Rybar writes about - the many volunteer groups in Ukraine that make drones and do not experience administrative pressure - is indeed a very serious threat. Which cannot be ignored. x Russian "blogger" describes the use of drones by Ukrainians from the words of a russian officer he knows. An interesting perspective. pic.twitter.com/QVQePTQWC0 — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) April 23, 2024 Don’t you hate when that happens. x Russian serviceman was going to record a video thanking everyone who helped him put together a vehicle with "humanitarian aid". But when he came back he found the car destroyed by an FPV-drone.https://t.co/tBszmqemkU pic.twitter.com/XwJaZW7XLr — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) April 22, 2024 It done got blowed up real good. x Is this the convertible model? 🇷🇺Russian BMP-3 somewhere on the front! 🔥🍞 pic.twitter.com/3ctOz4ZIvp — Challenger Tank In Ukraine🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@ChallengerInUA) April 23, 2024 Looks like a batting cage to me. The latest in Russian anti-drone technology. x /3. Russian motorcycle with anti drone mesh, prepared to be used for assault missions on the front line. https://t.co/fVvrX2Nl4t pic.twitter.com/osot2aUDyF — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 23, 2024 Oops. x 🤣 🇷🇺 the Russian special forces destroyed their own tank and MT-LB near the village of Harvest, Donetsk region. 🔥 The "V" mark is clearly visible on the tank, and the "mangal" and the "O" mark are characteristic of the Russian MT-LB. pic.twitter.com/CwLaRK3Nj3 — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) April 22, 2024 Oops, Part 2 x I am not really a gun guy but I don't think you are supposed to muzzle load an AK. pic.twitter.com/BcQbKJ2mnX — BroSINT 69™ (@osint_69) April 23, 2024 Oops, Part 3. x A concrete wall collapsed on a car in Russian Yekaterinburg, Russian media report. Local media report that residents demanded restoration of the wall for several years. And yet, Russia spends its money on attacking Ukrainian cities. pic.twitter.com/pnlqD40nkm — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 23, 2024 Mommy Dearest If she has a third son maybe she can get a car too. Zhanna Polupanova is the mother of the terminated occupier. She has already received all the payments for her dead son: she bought herself a brand new apartment for the bereavement payments. Now, she also wants her country house repaired. So the mother is soon sending her youngest son to war, too. x Startup in Russian: the mother of a Russian soldier killed in the war in Ukraine spent the bereavement payments on the purchase of an apartment, but there was not enough to repair the old house in the village, so she sent her second son to the war, too. Zhanna Polupanova is the… pic.twitter.com/TP9PF9Ygsa — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 23, 2024 Good. x The U.S. is preparing sanctions against Chinese banks for supporting Russia The restrictive measures will be designed to cut off some Chinese banks from the global financial system in order to limit Beijing's support of the Russian military industry, The Wall Street Journal… pic.twitter.com/9sY2XkDUld — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 23, 2024 Why am I not surprised? x “A DOD program launched in 2020 to help startup company drones sell to the U.S. military doesn’t allow drone makers to update their software without government approval.” If you are wondering why American drones are useless in the Ukrainian battlefield. https://t.co/imeJSFOWqH — Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) April 22, 2024 😢 x He was supposed to bring back this puppy to home. It's someone else who did. 💔 pic.twitter.com/hTKWEtccMI — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) April 23, 2024 Today’s offering of combat cats. x To home pic.twitter.com/wai9QCdLqs — UkrARMY cats & dogs (@UAarmy_animals) April 22, 2024 x Little pic.twitter.com/oibiH1LygI — UkrARMY cats & dogs (@UAarmy_animals) April 22, 2024 The doctor is in. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/23/2236734/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Senate-set-to-approve-Ukraine-aid?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/