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the jackets that we are fundraising for. 550 so far
of that 190 are paid for, the link for donations is below paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu…
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Built in Ukraine. Tested in combat. Approved for service.
Since the start of 2026, the Ministry of Defence has approved 1,678 new weapons and military equipment models for Ukraine's Defence Forces. 1,530 of them are Ukrainian-made.
In 2022, that number was 60.
The domestic share has grown from 54.5% to 91.2% over the same period. Nine out of ten new models entering service now come from Ukrainian manufacturers.
Read more:
mod.gov.ua/en/news/ministry-…
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Holy shit, MAGA is so fucking stupid it makes my brain hurt.
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👀🇺🇦❗️ 97% of jet Shaheds launched by Russia were destroyed today, - monitoring channels
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JUST IN: Sen. Ted Cruz fired back at JD Vance for suggesting he’s already focused on a 2028 presidential bid, calling the vice president “insecure” and saying he’s focused on the 2026 midterms.
Vance made the comments Thursday in an NBC News interview: “It is really obvious to me that, at this very moment, Ted Cruz is running for president.”
—Politico
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"I’ve already counted five. It’s a damn swarm."
position of 🇷🇺1199th Motorized Rifle Regiment
(probably occupied south 🇺🇦)
🍂 is coming
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Let's leave it at that...
"They continue to eliminate the 30th [unit] near Alekseevka. Voronkov is the specific target, but the reason is unclear. Why does he hate the 30th MSP? They've almost wiped them out, only the 3rd battalion and a small group of military engineers remain.
For some reason, no matter how hard you fight in the 30th, there are no awards. Nikiforov also seems to have a dislike for the military engineers.
Right now, they're in the 44th Combined Arms Army and they're wondering: why are people willing to sit in prison, get sentences, because they understand that there's no point in returning to that meat grinder?
The command is lying about taking Malaya Kurchakovka, Ivolzhanskoye, etc. The guys are reaching Alekseevka, but after a day or two, they stop communicating. And it's all because of the lies that our troops are there. The Ukrainian side knows this and approaches our soldiers up close, disguised in our uniforms.
The conclusion is: in Alekseevka, they are finding the bodies of soldiers without uniforms. The Ukrainian side easily uses drones to locate and extract our soldiers from their positions.
The command is leading the soldiers into areas of deception. It feels like these commanders are very, very interested in the constant destruction of personnel. Because if there's no war, those who were always poor will lose their source of income, not having had time to fill their pockets.
They don't want the war to end. Our president, judging by his reports, is kept in an information vacuum, not receiving objective information about the situation.
The commanders are also trying to confiscate phones, but only for their own benefit – to prevent information about what's happening in the units, the atrocities happening beyond the front lines, from getting out.
Guys, I'm telling you that this channel is being closely monitored by security services, who are trying to restore order within the Ministry of Defense. Many of the questions raised here have been addressed by the security services, and those involved have been punished.
Don't be afraid. Write honestly."
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ooook then!!!!
In the area of Novodmitrovka, an assault group from the 34th motorized rifle brigade refused to continue carrying out its tasks. The reason is quite understandable: intense activity by Ukrainian drones and the inability to properly rotate personnel.
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🇺🇦 22:38 | 03/10
Approximate flight routes of our UAVs:
🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement;
According to Russian sources, around 400 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.
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🇺🇦 23:07 — 10/03 | Thermal Activity Map
The map shows the intensity of mentions regarding the work of our Defense Forces of Ukraine (SOU).
— Hotspot as of right now:
• Volgograd Oblast: new sector. A series of explosions was heard in Volgograd (Tsentralny, Dzerzhinsky districts, and VRSh). Enemy monitoring channels report a UAV threat to a local oil refinery and transit further into the rear.
• Donetsk Oblast: sharp escalation. Reports indicate a swarm of UAVs moving toward Donetsk, a series of explosions (particularly in the Kyivskyi district), and continuous small-arms fire in the Kalininskyi district. The alarm in Mariupol has been cleared.
• Belgorod Oblast: aftermath of evening strikes (detonations and fires in residential areas and parking lots), plus a new group of UAVs heading toward Stary Oskol via the Korochansky district.
• Rostov Oblast: the raid isn't easing up. Sounds of explosions southwest of Rostov, UAV sightings over Kamensk, Millerovo, Belaya Kalitva, Tatsinsky, and neighboring districts.
• Luhansk Oblast: drone transit over Luhansk and Rovenky, mobile fire groups heard working again.
• Republic of Crimea: drone movement by sea south of Sevastopol bypassing air defense to the east, as well as a threat of a UAV group entering from the Sea of Azov toward Chauda, Feodosia, and Kerch.
• Krasnodar Krai: high alert active, high-speed flybys being discussed ("sounds like missiles"), but the main UAV movement is currently tracked over the sea toward the coast.
Awaiting footage of burning bogs and analyzing the cope and seethe of the enemy. We see everything 👀
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40 JACKETS DONATED, RUSSIA IS BURNING. QUALITY TIME WITH THE SQRL x.lingyaoai.com/i/spaces/1MJgNbwaoXOGL
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In an AFU interview on current air defence which has been published yesterday, a Ukrainian soldier from the 1027th Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Regiment stated that the German/US-delivered Gepard/Cheetah SPAAGs have not lost effectiveness against jet-powered Shahed UAVs.
Furthermore, in the past, they have repeatedly intercepted Russian Kh-59, Kh-69, Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles which partly fly at similar or even greater speeds and have proven to be effective against jet-powered Shaheds.
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A Second Marine Corps? The Transformation of Ukraine's Marines
October 3, 2026
The Short Version
Ukraine's Marines have grown from a handful of brigades into the largest single corps in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, Kyiv is standardizing its ground forces around corps of roughly five brigades each. Those two trends are on a collision course. Add a recent command shake-up that separated the Marine branch commander from the 30th Marine Corps, and the signs point in one direction: Ukraine is likely preparing to stand up a second Marine corps.
The Corps Reform
Over the past year and a half, Ukraine has rebuilt its army around the corps. Instead of brigades operating loosely under regional commands, brigades are being grouped under standing corps headquarters that function much like a U.S. Army division. As of early 2026, 18 corps had been established. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has described a second stage of the reform in which each corps commands about five brigades, gains its own artillery brigade, and expands its unmanned systems battalion to a full regiment.
The structure is converging on a standard model. Brigades are increasingly being organized around four maneuver battalions, and most corps now carry five or six brigades. The 7th Air Assault Corps and the 20th Corps, for example, each field about five known brigades. Some oversized corps are being trimmed, and brigades are being shifted between corps to match their sectors. The goal is a predictable, interchangeable building block: a corps that a commander can plan around, supply, and rotate as a unit.
The Outlier: 30th Marine Corps
The 30th Marine Corps does not fit that model. Its order of battle now includes the 32nd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th and 42nd Marine Brigades. That is nine brigades, close to twice the size of a standard corps. Several of them, including the 34th, 39th and 40th, began as coastal defense brigades and have been converted to Marine brigades, showing that the Marine force is still growing.
The picture gets bigger when you look at the Kherson sector, the corps' main area of operations. Fighting alongside the Marine brigades are attached units including the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade, the 34th National Guard Regiment, the 21st Public Order Protection Brigade, and likely one or two more territorial defense units. If those units are formally folded into the corps, as the reform intends for brigades fighting in a corps sector, the 30th would command well over a dozen brigade-sized formations across a long river front.
No corps headquarters can manage that span of control efficiently. By the army's own standard, the 30th is carrying the load of two corps.
The Command Change That Gives It Away
On September 22, 2026, Ukraine's Defense Minister appointed Colonel Serhii Shatalov to command the 30th Marine Corps. Shatalov previously led the 37th Marine Brigade, which liberated several villages under his command. His predecessor, Major General Dmytro Deliatytskyi, did not leave. He moved up to command the Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Navy, the branch as a whole.
On its face, that looks redundant. If there is only one Marine corps, then the commander of the Marines and the commander of the 30th Corps are effectively the same job. Splitting them into two posts only makes sense if the Marine branch is about to oversee more than one corps. A branch commander sitting above a corps commander creates exactly the headquarters structure needed to add a second corps beneath him.
What a Second Corps Would Look Like
The most logical split would divide the existing nine Marine brigades roughly in half, giving each corps four or five Marine brigades, in line with the rest of the army. Each new corps would then absorb the territorial defense, National Guard and other units fighting in its sector, along with its own artillery brigade and unmanned systems regiment. One corps could focus on the Kherson and Dnipro river front, and the other on the coastal and southern sectors where Marine brigades have been operating.
This would also fit the Marines' history. Ukraine's Marine force grew from a few battalions in 2014 to a brigade, then to a full corps. A second corps is the next step in that growth, not a break from it.
Why It Matters
A split would give Ukraine's Marines two manageable headquarters instead of one overstretched one, improve control over a long and active front, and bring the Marines in line with the corps standard the rest of the army is adopting. It would also mark the Marines' arrival as a true service branch, with a branch commander overseeing multiple corps, much as the U.S. Marine Corps oversees multiple Marine divisions.
Nothing has been announced yet. But the numbers, the reform's own standard, and the command change all point the same way. Watch for a new corps number and a redistribution of Marine brigades in the coming months.
Sources
•Kyiv Independent: "Second stage" of Ukrainian military's corps reform underway, Syrskyi says
•Militaryland: New commander appointed to 30th Marine Corps
•MOST: Former 30th Marine Corps commander Dmytro Deliatytskyi appointed head of Ukrainian Naval Infantry
•Interfax-Ukraine: Commander of 30th Marine Corps Deliatytsky to become commander of Ukrainian Navy's Marine Corps
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