(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Life and death in Vovchansk [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-21 Itโ€™s worth the wait. Nice cookoff. x As said, destruction of the Russian Zemledeliye remote minelaying system. By the 47th Brigade of Ukraine. https://t.co/GlLNxJmTIr pic.twitter.com/0TJKZ9lPFZ โ€” Special Kherson Cat ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@bayraktar_1love) July 21, 2024 Better with the sound on. x On the left bank of the Kherson region, a Russian ammunition storage site was discovered and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/RzFBPl4Dba โ€” NOELREPORTS ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@NOELreports) July 21, 2024 Street-to-street fighting in Chasiv Yar. x Fragments of street fighting in Chasiv Yar from the first-person perspective of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces fighters. The battles, as you can see, are very intense. pic.twitter.com/QFXEa0ua2r โ€” NOELREPORTS ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@NOELreports) July 21, 2024 A Russian soldier in Vovchansk explains why he wears a balaclava: because of the rotting corpses and the flies. x Orc shares his impressions of the โ€œadventuresโ€ in Vovchansk: โ€œThere are a lot of corpse flies here that get into your face. I'm tired of the cadaverous smell. There are corpses everywhere here. Out of 300 people, only two of us survived. But my friend also died. Out of 300โ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/YDqRrIlII0 โ€” โœ™ Albina Fella โœ™ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ (@albafella1) July 21, 2024 Orc shares his impressions of the โ€œadventuresโ€ in Vovchansk: โ€œThere are a lot of corpse flies here that get into your face. I'm tired of the cadaverous smell. There are corpses everywhere here. Out of 300 people, only two of us survived. But my friend also died. Out of 300 people, Iโ€™m the only one alive. We received a new addition of thirty people. But now there are 10 of us left alive. [20 more orcs were eliminated]. I'm still alive. Here's my helmet. It says "We don't need to be told twice. We don't give a fuck right awayโ€. They're shooting at us again. Everywhere,โ€ โ€” he says Forty-six APVs is a lot. This might reflect reports from the field from several days. But Russia continues to average more than 1,000 soldiers killed/wounded per day. x Russian losses per 21/07/24 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff. +1100 men +9 tanks +46 (!) APVs +44 artillery pieces +1 AD system +52 UAVs pic.twitter.com/23vfUB2XcY โ€” NOELREPORTS ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@NOELreports) July 21, 2024 Thank you for your service. You are under arrest. x 1/ Thousands of Russian volunteers who joined the forces of the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics' thave found themselves on the wanted list for desertion, due to bureaucratic errors by the Russian Ministry of Defence after Russia annexed the DPR and LPR in 2022. โฌ‡๏ธ pic.twitter.com/9NtU81cVpR โ€” ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) July 20, 2024 2/ The "Direct action Z" Telegram channel reports on the plight now facing many ex-DPR/LPR volunteers, including some entire units still fighting on the front, following the decision of the Russian MOD to incorporate the DPR/LPR People's Militias into the Russian Armed Forces. 3/ "Thousands of Russian volunteers who left for the Donbass in 2022 were denounced in the People's Republics as having left their units without permission. Criminal cases are opened against them, they are put on the wanted list. This is just one of the problems of crowdsourcing a war. x Yesterday, I wrote a post about the dangers of the AFU's reliance on consumer grade drones. The majority of readers understood the gist of the piece but some downplayed it. Link: https://t.co/CoM7iRSMJa Today, Serhii Flash provided audio of a Russian reporting by radio to hisโ€ฆ โ€” OSINT (Uri Kikaski) ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (@UKikaski) July 21, 2024 The Bradley has proven its worth in this war. x Ukrainian soldier says Bradley saved his life, 3 times. pic.twitter.com/RhCTyPAMl3 โ€” UNITED24 Media (@United24media) July 20, 2024 The Georgian government continues on its pro-Russia path. x Georgian volunteers who fought for Ukraine now face coup and terrorism charges at home This occurs as Georgia's ruling party moves closer to Russia, despite most citizens viewing Russia as their main enemy & adoption of Russian-style "foreign agent" lawhttps://t.co/LSZpSyHoht โ€” Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) July 21, 2024 Trump fan boy Boris Johnson needs to sit down and shut up. He wrote the linked article and itโ€™s just dripping with nauseating obsequiousness. x "Boris Johnson released Trump's peace plan for Ukraine โ€” Daily Mail Offered: โ€” Return of Ukraine to its borders by February 24, 2022, leaving Crimea under the control of the Russian Federation. โ€” Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO is guaranteed. โ€” The Ukrainian army willโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/joe9MFJjoJ โ€” Kvist.P ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@kvistp) July 20, 2024 Early warning ducks? x ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€ Is this the new air raid alert for the Russian troops on the frontlines ??? pic.twitter.com/vTOBK3fPqW โ€” PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) July 21, 2024 Boiled nettles. Yum. x ๐Ÿคฃ STARVING ORCS. โ€œThis is what we will eat today: we have nettles and two spoons of stew. If it werenโ€™t for the nettles, we would have died [of hunger] long ago. They gave us 1 can of bad stew for our entire group. We are hungry. We have no bread. They [the orcs-commanders] areโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/Bdzr6fmkq3 โ€” โœ™ Albina Fella โœ™ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ (@albafella1) July 21, 2024 These guys must be high on boiled nettles. Or maybe they have consumed mass quantities of vodka. x "La la la la la la la la la la..." Fun times in the Russian trenches... If the song gets stuck in your head, just hum, "It's a world of laughter, a world of tears, it's a world of hopes and a world of fears, there's so much that we share that it's time we're aware, it's a smallโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/CIOGogpht0 โ€” OSINT (Uri Kikaski) ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ (@UKikaski) July 20, 2024 Stalin gets no respect, doesnโ€™t deserve any. x In Zvenigorod, near Moscow, an unknown person used a sledgehammer to decapitate a bust of Stalin. pic.twitter.com/a8aTK2zV18 โ€” NOELREPORTS ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@NOELreports) July 21, 2024 When you are photobombed by a drone. x His last photo lol pic.twitter.com/hxlfsZPcAU โ€” Fella From The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare (@mouw5284) July 21, 2024 Funeral march in Lviv for the former Ukrainian MP who was murdered a few days ago. x In Lviv, thousands of people gathered to say goodbye to Iryna Farion.๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ https://t.co/0JyCUfmjvU pic.twitter.com/ywS2tKkmm5 โ€” Oriannalyla ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@Lyla_lilas) July 21, 2024 Itโ€™s a good time to be in the florist business. x The Russian Federation has tripled state spending on the expansion of cemeteries In 2023, Russian regions spent over 225 million rubles on the expansion of cemeteries. This is twice as much as in 2022 and six times as much as in 2020, reports "The Moscow Times". Deaths haveโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/LYLoSb2UDj โ€” TOGA (@TOGAjano21) July 21, 2024 Sound on for both tweets. x Beautiful. Valeria Vovk and Sofia Leshyshak. pic.twitter.com/wDKltwuL9R โ€” In Ukraine (@InUKRofficial) July 21, 2024 x ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ’” Don't cry for me if I die in the field, I would give everything for our dear Ukraine. An unconquered song in the trenches from Ukrainian defender.๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Channel 24 pic.twitter.com/iRn6FqAD03 โ€” Malinda ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช (@TreasChest) July 20, 2024 Sunflowers forever. 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