Kollen Post
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Defense Reporter @kyivindependent.com
Michigander, language nerd, closet luddite
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Michigander, language nerd, closet luddite
kollen.post@protonmail.com
Sobering figures on ramped-up Russian missile building here:
June 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sobering figures on ramped-up Russian missile building here:
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⚡️ 'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft.
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.
'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.
kyivindependent.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Reposted by Kollen Post
The Iranian-designed Shaheds that Russia now manufactures itself have been an ever-present force in Russian air assaults on Ukraine since the fall of 2022. Long-range, high-flying, and cheap — flocks of Shaheds have become a default deep-strike weapon for Moscow.
How Russia's Shahed drones are getting more dangerous — and what Ukraine is doing about it
Editor’s note: Due to the security protocols of the unit featured in this story, the Ukrainian soldiers are identified by first name only.
Russia’s air strikes on Ukraine have become far more deadly ...
kyivindependent.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Iranian-designed Shaheds that Russia now manufactures itself have been an ever-present force in Russian air assaults on Ukraine since the fall of 2022. Long-range, high-flying, and cheap — flocks of Shaheds have become a default deep-strike weapon for Moscow.
Inside recent upgrades to Russia Shahed UAVs, with one of the air defense groups protecting Kyiv from them: kyivindependent.com/how-russias-...
How Russia's Shaheds are getting more dangerous — and what Ukraine is doing about it
Ukraine’s air defenders say Shaheds are flying faster and higher — and may be getting guidance from on-board Starlink terminals.
kyivindependent.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Inside recent upgrades to Russia Shahed UAVs, with one of the air defense groups protecting Kyiv from them: kyivindependent.com/how-russias-...
New European rush for rocketry may revive Ukraine's post-Soviet rust belt, in my latest from Dnipro:
Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and metal reserves to smelt, weld, and cast the heaviest of machinery — and weaponry — for the whole of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine’s long-suffering aerospace giants look to Europe to break free from Russian orbit
Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and metal reserves to smelt, weld, and cast the heaviest of machinery — and weaponr...
kyivindependent.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
New European rush for rocketry may revive Ukraine's post-Soviet rust belt, in my latest from Dnipro:
American shelf in the international aisle of a Kyiv grocery store is all peanut butter, bbq rubs, hot sauces, and Reese’s
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October 31, 2023 at 3:08 PM
American shelf in the international aisle of a Kyiv grocery store is all peanut butter, bbq rubs, hot sauces, and Reese’s
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