(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: It’s Hammer Time [1] ['View Profile', 'Greg Dworkin', 'Belinda Ridgewood'] Date: 2026-04-27 Attribution: “Destructions in Odesa after Russian attack, 2026-04-06 (21)” by State Emergency Service of Ukraine is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Yes, indeed. It’s Hammer time. ✈️🇺🇦 MiG-29 struck Russian UAV operator positions with AASM Hammer bombs, – Soniashnyk — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T19:44:40.990Z A drone worth maybe a few thousand dollars takes out a pricey Russian radar. 💥 Russia: Ukrainian housewife kitchen drone destroyed a $60 million Russian Kasta-2E radar in Belgorod region.The small quadcopter FPV drone was able to fly 80km into enemy territory. — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T13:38:22.152Z If you’re going to attack a train, go for the locomotive. 🚂 Russian diesel locomotive set on fire in Togliatti area, – Freedom of Russia — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T13:17:37.065Z You’d think the Russians would have stopped trying to do this. 😡 The Russians are again trying to break through to Kupyansk through gas pipes, – Trehubov"I hoped that they would stop doing this near Kupyansk, because the pipes are simply smashed to pieces. They are climbing through the same Golubivka, where one of the pipes passes." — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T12:54:28.220Z OTOH ‼️Claimed as the process of manually digging a tunnel by a group of Russians somewhere on the front. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T12:58:15.487Z Ammo Dump Jesus approves. A Ukrainain drone struck a Russian truck carrying ammo for frontline units. #Ukraine — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 2026-04-27T12:39:32.450Z A Russian strike created a sunflower oil spill near Odesa. A Russian strike damaged infrastructure at Chornomorsk port, destroying a 6,000 ton sunflower oil tank. A spill was recorded in the port’s waters following the fire. #Ukraine — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 2026-04-27T12:31:40.481Z A humiliating retreat for Russians from their base in Kidal in eastern Mali under escort from Tuareg rebels. #Mali départ de tous les éléments de l’Africa Corps rassemblés à l’entrée de l’ancien camp sous escorte du FLA. Avec ce convoi les mercenaires russes quittent la ville et le camp. https://t.co/fGS1yA4E24 pic.twitter.com/ovNPLWYINw — Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) April 26, 2026 👀🔥 Tuareg rebels (FLA), allied with JNIM, used FPV drones against Malian Army & Russian African Corps positions in Kidal. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T16:16:26.256Z The Komi Republic is a sparsely populated region of northern Russia on the west side of the Urals. ❗ In Russia’s Komi Republic, security forces killed two residents of Ukhta accused of planning a drone attack on an oil refinery.militarnyi.com/en/news/russ… — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) 2026-04-27T11:03:18.568Z How would Merz react if it was suggested that Germany give up some of its territory? ⚡️Ukraine may have to accept territorial losses, Germany's Merz saysThe chancellor said Zelensky would need a referendum majority for such a step. To secure that majority, Merz added, Zelensky would have to tell the Ukrainian people: "But I have opened the way to Europe for you." — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) 2026-04-27T15:51:27.244Z Let him join the TikTok Brigade back home. 🇫🇷 18-year-old Chechen immigrant, Mansur, was detained in France after regularly painting graffiti reading “nokhcho” and “Chechnya” on the wall of the Palace of Versailles.He now faces deportation and a €2,000 fine, despite being granted asylum in Paris five years ago. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T14:22:50.498Z Russians scattered mines in Kherson, so naturally they did so near a school. Russia keeps remotely scattering antipersonnel mines across Kherson. The latest batch of Pryanik mines was found by a school on Shenheliia Street, the head of Kherson City Military Administration, Yaroslav Shanko, said.Residents are warned to stay out of the area. 📷 Telegram/yaroslavshanko — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T05:38:01.141Z Russians complain that Russian anti-drone guns aren’t worth shit. So they decide to do the only logical thing — sell it. A quick look at the Russian military-industrial complex and why their troops are burning in their dugouts. They have anti-drone guns, but they don't work. — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T12:26:42.746Z And it should spark a crisis. Israel has no business abetting a theft. 🇺🇦🇮🇱 A senior Ukrainian diplomatic source told Axios that if the vessel PANORAMITIS—allegedly carrying wheat taken from occupied Ukrainian territories—docks in Port of Haifa and unloads, it could trigger a serious crisis between Ukraine and Israel. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T12:38:00.651Z This is as despicable as anything else that Russia has done. 🇺🇦☢️ Zelensky: The Russians have also turned our Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant into a facility for their war, they are shelling our cities and villages from there, storing weapons, shells, and military equipment, they have mined the perimeter, and they are holding our city of Enerhodar hostage. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T20:32:13.948Z Nothing about this war surprises me any more. 1/ Starving Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been eating their comrades and Ukrainians, according to intercepted Russian communications. Audio and photographic evidence indicates that several incidents of cannibalism likely occured in 2025. ⬇️bsky.app/profile/wart… — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T13:35:28.185Z 11/ Fragments of other conversations also discuss incidents of cannibalism. A Muslim soldier from the 54th Motorised Rifle Regiment complained in a 3 April 2025 conversation that he was having to share a dugout near Bakhmut with a cannibal, which he considered to be haram: 12/ “If he were a human being, he could stay here as long as he liked, but he ate a corpse, human meat. I am a Muslim. I don’t want someone like that coming into my shelter.” 13/ A commander in the 1437th Motorised Rifle Regiment accused a subordinate of eating Ukrainians while stationed in Udachne, near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, in a message sent on 8 October 2025. 14/ “Why the fuck are you eating khokhols [Ukrainians]? … Stop fucking eating people!” the commander said. He complained: “If you had said something, I would have given you a direction on where to go, where to get meat.” 15/ The problem of cannibalism in the 55th Motorised Rifle Brigade seems to have been severe enough for its chief of staff to order a subordinate on 11 December 2025: “No alcohol! No drugs! No moving around without identity documents! No cannibalism!” 16/ The Ukrainian GUR (military intelligence service) also recorded a soldier relating in June 2025 how his comrade ‘Brelok’ (‘keychain’) killed and ate a soldier named ‘Foma’ (Thomas). “Brelok whacked him and then ate him for two fucking weeks,” the soldier claimed. ….. 21/ In December 2025, an apparently starving Russian soldier in the Zaporizhzhia region was recorded in a call talking about cutting up his comrades to eat: 22/ “We’ll eat each other, it’s all fucked up here. We’re already looking for someone younger. I’ve sharpened my knives. I have a lot of knives… I don’t give a fuck who I have to cut up.” There aren’t enough rolling eyes emojis in the world to post for this. 🙄🙄 Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service scored 94% in an evaluation of 62 ministries and agencies conducted by a government analytical body, Kommersant reported. — The Moscow Times (@themoscowtimes.com) 2026-04-27T14:17:21.539Z This is a chronic problem with Ukraine, which has long had to deal with manpower shortages. ⚡️ Soldiers 'stop caring whether they survive' after 40 days on front line, Ukrainian study finds.The findings come amid broader concerns over Ukraine's mobilization system, which has faced persistent challenges in recruitment and rotation during the full-scale war. — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) 2026-04-27T10:50:36.636Z It was an off day — only 810 Russians fed into the meat grinder. Good riddance. Rot in hell. ☠️ Another war criminal did not live to see the tribunal.In Yakutia, the "hero of Russia" Alexei Petrov, with the call sign "Medved", died. He served in the "Storm-2" unit of the 39th OMB, which is suspected of torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T11:55:17.680Z Now let’s see them enforce this. 1/ The Russian Ministry of Defence has announced that it will not allow drone operators to be sent to assault units without their consent, in a bid to prevent them being sent to their deaths as a punishment. However, a Russian warblogger warns this will be hard to enforce. ⬇️ — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T11:58:23.205Z 2/ ‘Rybar’ reports: “On the front lines, some commanders sometimes mismanaged the personnel entrusted to them, sending drone operators, engineers, and medics to assault units for the slightest infraction.” 3/ “The impact this has had on the recruitment of volunteers for the emerging unmanned systems forces is self-evident. Europe has slowly been coming to the reluctant realization that actual war can be waged against you without tanks crossing the border. 🇪🇺 A network preparing contract killings and sabotage in the EU in the interests of the Russian special services — UCP has been exposedStarting in August 2024, representatives of the Russian special services prepared a number of violent crimes in the EU countries. — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T13:39:41.847Z Amazing how things have turned around in four years. STUBB: Most credible security guarantee Ukraine has right now is 800,000-strong armed force and capacity to conduct modern warfare unlike any other NATO member state.Tide has actually turned. We Europeans have to understand we need Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us. They know how to do this thing — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T17:46:29.360Z I hope that before this war is over Ukraine manages to find a way to launch a drone strike on Pyongyang. 🇰🇵🤡 Destroyed Western military equipment is now being displayed in North Korea. — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T20:20:45.522Z Let’s check in on the Russian economy. 1/ Russia's attempts at import substitution have "completely failed" and the corrupt state procurement system is effectively killing off domestic factories, warns a Russian factory head. He says the system makes some rich, but will lead to a domestic economic collapse. ⬇️ — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T12:27:28.798Z 2/ Kubanzheldormash JSC is a large engineering company in Southern Russia. It is one of the few domestic manufacturers of mechanised track tools for railway construction and maintenance, as well as agricultural machinery and hydraulic equipment. 3/ The company marks its 93rd anniversary this August, but it may be its last, warns company head Vyacheslav Yakovlev in a YouTube video. 4/ He cites a tender for the supply of 561 impact wrenches for 256 million rubles as an example, where, according to him, the 93-year-old manufacturer is losing to a 14-person firm importing equipment from China and reselling it under Russian brand names. 5/ Yakovlev explains how the state procurement system is designed, in his words, to create “conditions where some will get rich, while at the same time the country’s economy will collapse”: “Tender No. 690/OKE-TsDZS 26 for 561 impact wrenches, manufactured by our company.” 6/ “Previously, they were produced by two factories: Kalugatransmash and Kubanzheldormash. Kalugatransmash has already closed, and a housing complex is being built in its place. Judging by everything, we’re next… 7/ “The 561 impact wrench is a very complex piece of equipment; according to the requirements, it must be manufactured by October. We are not participating because, as the only company in Russia capable of mass-producing such equipment, we consider these requirements impossible. В Москве вымирают рынки и торговые центры Продавцы съезжают из-за высоких цен на аренду, да и покупать их товары уже почти некому. В павильонах — ни души. И это ещё не конец "Всё идёт по плану" pic.twitter.com/shCNcmFtmV — SAW (@SA61W) April 27, 2026 Translation: In Moscow, markets and shopping centers are dying out. Sellers are leaving due to high rental prices, and besides, there’s almost no one left to buy their goods. The pavilions are deserted. And this is far from the end of “Everything is going according to plan” The wedding must go on. Ukrainians’ life milestones are marred by constant drone and missile attacks. Weddings, graduations, births of children…As the drone approached, the bride was gripped by a panic attack as the wedding party is originally from the Donetsk Region. Help protect Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?… — UNITED24 (@u24.gov.ua) 2026-04-26T18:15:10.480Z Poor thing. A firefighter in Odesa is holding a cat rescued from a fire after the russian shelling 💔📷 24.04.2026/State Emergency Service (SES) — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) 2026-04-26T19:49:24.527Z Cry cuteness and let slip the puppies of war. Sadness mixed with joy. „After the father was killed, the cat gave birth to a kitten the next day. His comrades named it after the father’s callsign and brought it from the front line to his son… How much the boy was waiting for that cat.“I am crying💔 — Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 (@oksii33.ukr.monster) 2026-04-26T16:34:44.326Z From the recent prisoner exchange. 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