Duke BG
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Duke BG
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Kyyiv, Ukraine
there's now detailed information on ru loss of Ka-52M on 27 Oct 2025

It happened 2km from village Durnevo, Kaluga oblast (the one near 54.656, 35.655)
Two helicopters were chasing UAVs, one fired a missile, but it hit the other helicopter instead.

So, friendly fire. Good riddance.
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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So russia has just murdered 7 people and injured 15 more in a missile strike on port infrastructure in the Odesa region. They’ve also been repeatedly targeting a key bridge, attempting to cut the region in half. War crimes every single day - nobody gives a shit.
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not 100% sure, but I've deduced that the submarine that was hit recently in Novorossyisk by SubSeaBaby was B-271 Kolpino.
(based on a splotch of paint)
Unless my info on the two outside Black sea is wrong, because they almost fit too.
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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First Combat Use of Underwater Kamikaze Drones: Russian Kilo class Submarine Disabled in Novorossiysk

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has carried out a special operation in the port of Novorossiysk, marking the first-ever combat use of underwater kamikaze drones.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I got back to ID-ing Tu-95's destroyed in Spiderweb (01 Jun).
I'm finally very confident in the identification of the 4 on Olenya airbase. Some of these were previously identified incorrectly.

RF-94128, 10rd Саратов
RF-94117, 27rd Изборск
RF-94132, 14rd Воронеж
RF-94259, 17rd
November 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I needed to look into tu-95's, so I had a closer look to ID the two that flew close to Japan a week ago. Turns out, Japan's JSO press release PDF had better images than their twitter.
b/n 41, RF-94186 and b/n 60, RF-94202

Note an extra b/n in a blue circle on the tail. That wasn't there before.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One of the ru propagandist channel has posted a video, allegedly from this dead crew from summer 2024.
Even though numbers were blurred, i could ID it as Ka-52M, b/n 44 Yellow, r/n RF-77634, c/n 35385001007

There's no guarantee it was the one destroyed in Oct 2025, though.
October 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
On 04 Sep 2024, while burning trash on an airfield near Novocherkassk, Rostov obl, rosguard (685th mixed aviation regiment, в/ч 3686) accidentally also burned down a fueled Mi-8 (w/ equipment on board) – fire spreaded by the wind to dry grass. Damages est. 574.23M rubles (~ $7M).
October 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@covertshores.bsky.social
FYI, this article about Toloka was translated into English, so I'm pinging you just in case, you might find the new information curious.

militarnyi.com/en/news/tolo...
Toloka Preparing for Serial Production of TOLOKA-400 and TOLOKA-200 Underwater Drones - Militarnyi
At Defense Tech Valley 2025, Militarnyi spoke with a representative of Toloka, a company that develops underwater drones.
militarnyi.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Russians are using North Korean cluster munitions to shell Kherson. t.me/kherson_non_...
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In a memorial video for the drowned crew of russian Mi-24VP "39 red" RF-34200 (that "disappeared from radars" while confronting Ukrainian USV's on 10 Apr 2024) russians made some wreck photos public, confirming the ID of the airframe.
September 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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⚠️ 3х БпЛА додатково залишили територію України у напрямку Польщі. Курс Західний.
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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01:18 Загальна ситуація.
September 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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⚠️ 3х БпЛА залишають Волинь у напрямку Польщі.
September 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Apparently russians lost a Mi-8MTV-5M (the latest modification) due to an unknown failure in Voronezh obl. on 21 Jan 2025.
September 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
russian aviation propagandist zemtsov has posted an image of a destroyed Ka-52 from 17 Oct 2023, either Berdyansk or Luhansk airfield.

I've identified it with strong confidence as 85rd, RF-13437 from 440 ovp (s/n 35382616010). Example image attached, but based on more than just it.
September 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
first one, I think, Mi-8AMTSh
second one some older variation of Mi-8MT, I'm less familiar with them.
September 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I cannot find if i posted my spreadsheet on bsky before, so here it is anew.

This is a spreadsheet of ru aviation losses - crew and airframes. I've now added a new sheet in the end "Ka-52" that lists all of them sorted +/- by serial number and marks which are gone.
Downed russian aviation 2022+
docs.google.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Сухогруз "Порт Оля-4" до и после
t.me/russicaRU/64... #онаутонула
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Rest in peace, Kasya.
27.06.2009 - 02.08.2025
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The promise of every '90s cyberpunk B-movie has been fulfilled.
White collar French dorks could never replicate the aura of Ukrainian drone warfare
July 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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There’s a staggering cruelty in how easy it is for people online to intellectualize genocide, while sitting in a safe room somewhere, far away from missile sirens and mass graves.
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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/7. Footage from the crash site of the Russian Altius drone
July 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM