Petri Mäkelä
@pmakela.bsky.social
Mlitary analysts, expert of all sorts, writer, reservist, shooter and engineer.
B-list talking head.
From Finland.
B-list talking head.
From Finland.
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Petri Mäkelä
@pmakela.bsky.social
· Dec 14
Quick guide into North Korean tanks
Vantage Point North: News and analysis from security and warfare related topics with the focus mostly on Russia and Scandinavia. Tanks etc
blog.vantagepointnorth.net
My latest article: DPRK tanks
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2024/12/quic...
blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2024/12/quic...
Interesting 🤔
September 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interesting 🤔
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💔 The Russians killed 23 people during a missile strike on Kyiv on August 28, including two-year-old Angelina.
❗️The first names of Ukrainians whose lives were cut short:
▪️2-year-old Angelina and her 24-year-old mother Nadiya.
▪️17-year-old Maryna – a student at the Kyiv Energy Vocational College.
❗️The first names of Ukrainians whose lives were cut short:
▪️2-year-old Angelina and her 24-year-old mother Nadiya.
▪️17-year-old Maryna – a student at the Kyiv Energy Vocational College.
August 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
💔 The Russians killed 23 people during a missile strike on Kyiv on August 28, including two-year-old Angelina.
❗️The first names of Ukrainians whose lives were cut short:
▪️2-year-old Angelina and her 24-year-old mother Nadiya.
▪️17-year-old Maryna – a student at the Kyiv Energy Vocational College.
❗️The first names of Ukrainians whose lives were cut short:
▪️2-year-old Angelina and her 24-year-old mother Nadiya.
▪️17-year-old Maryna – a student at the Kyiv Energy Vocational College.
That's a hellofalot of bang for your €
❗️🇺🇦Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile costs less than a million euros — The Economist
August 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
That's a hellofalot of bang for your €
That's probably not a good idea for anyone
'Belarus wants to equip its Polonez multiple-launch rocket systems with nuclear warheads' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
August 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
That's probably not a good idea for anyone
V1 at home is going to cause some issues to the Kremlin. Especially if they hit it directly 😁😈
It will take time for production to reach decent levels, but this is not good for russia
August 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
V1 at home is going to cause some issues to the Kremlin. Especially if they hit it directly 😁😈
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Spectacular detonation of the Russian S-300V
August 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Spectacular detonation of the Russian S-300V
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@pmakela.bsky.social @stratmil.bsky.social
A good start...but lets see if we can improve on this during the rest of the week...
A good start...but lets see if we can improve on this during the rest of the week...
💀 Russia loses 1,010 soldiers and one aircraft over past day
Russia loses 1,010 soldiers and one aircraft over past day
Russia has lost 1,010 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.
www.pravda.com.ua
August 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@pmakela.bsky.social @stratmil.bsky.social
A good start...but lets see if we can improve on this during the rest of the week...
A good start...but lets see if we can improve on this during the rest of the week...
Thoughts of the day by the Dreadnaughts
August 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thoughts of the day by the Dreadnaughts
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🇺🇦🧑🧑🧒🧒⚠️ The mandatory evacuation of families with children from Druzhkivka and four villages of the Andriyivska community in the Donetsk region has begun, — OVA.
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🇺🇦🧑🧑🧒🧒⚠️ The mandatory evacuation of families with children from Druzhkivka and four villages of the Andriyivska community in the Donetsk region has begun, — OVA.
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Meidän piti päästä EU:n päättäviin pöytiin – mutta nyt koko EU ei pääse päättäviin pöytiin. Turun Sanomat, 13.8.2025. #pilakuva #pilapiirros
August 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Meidän piti päästä EU:n päättäviin pöytiin – mutta nyt koko EU ei pääse päättäviin pöytiin. Turun Sanomat, 13.8.2025. #pilakuva #pilapiirros
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Unconfirmed reports that, in addition to soldiers, missiles and howitzers, Russia is now importing ship launching expertise from North Korea.
New Russian navy ship Captain Ushakov capsized
New Russian navy ship Captain Ushakov capsized
August 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Putin doesn't have "no matter how long it takes" time. And nor do the Russians if they are paying the slightest attention to the economic condition of enterprise and infrastructure.
MORE: The Kremlin is engaged in a delicate balancing act between feigning interest in negotiations to Trump and conditioning Russian society to accept nothing short of Putin's desired full victory in Ukraine, no matter how long it takes. isw.pub/UkrWar08072025
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August 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Putin doesn't have "no matter how long it takes" time. And nor do the Russians if they are paying the slightest attention to the economic condition of enterprise and infrastructure.
Ban UEFA.
⚡️ UEFA pays $13 million in 'solidarity' money to Russian football clubs while Ukrainian teams fail to receive funds, Guardian reports.
UEFA pays $13 million in 'solidarity' money to Russian football clubs while Ukrainian teams fail to receive funds, Guardian reports
At the same time, five Ukrainian clubs have not received similar payments due to restrictions by a Swiss bank, allegedly because they are located in a "zone of military operations," the Guardian repor...
kyivindependent.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Ban UEFA.
“… “killing” implies murder, which would be wrong, says Titan; she prefers to call her job “liquidating Russians”. The unit is one of a small but growing number of all-female drone crews. Genitals are irrelevant to flying drones, notes Maria Berlinska” www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Ever more Ukrainian women are joining the army
A growing group that is changing society
www.economist.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Do I have friends here?
Mind giving this a boost and follow?
🚑💙💛
Let’s help get ambulances and medical suplies to 🇺🇦
👇👇👇
Mind giving this a boost and follow?
🚑💙💛
Let’s help get ambulances and medical suplies to 🇺🇦
👇👇👇
August 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Do I have friends here?
Mind giving this a boost and follow?
🚑💙💛
Let’s help get ambulances and medical suplies to 🇺🇦
👇👇👇
Mind giving this a boost and follow?
🚑💙💛
Let’s help get ambulances and medical suplies to 🇺🇦
👇👇👇
Russians continue to destroy the Finnish gravesites and war memorials in the temporarily occupied Karelia.
Putinin sotatunnus ilmestyi suomalaisvainajien muistomerkkiin Venäjän Karjalassa www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...
Putinin sotatunnus ilmestyi suomalaisvainajien muistomerkkiin Venäjän Karjalassa www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...
Putinin sotatunnus ilmestyi suomalaisvainajien muistomerkkiin Venäjän Karjalassa
Muistokiveen oli maalattu Venäjän ”sotilaallisen erikoisoperaation” eli Vladimir Putinin hyökkäyssodan tunnukseksi lanseerattu Z-kirjain.
www.is.fi
August 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Russians continue to destroy the Finnish gravesites and war memorials in the temporarily occupied Karelia.
Putinin sotatunnus ilmestyi suomalaisvainajien muistomerkkiin Venäjän Karjalassa www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...
Putinin sotatunnus ilmestyi suomalaisvainajien muistomerkkiin Venäjän Karjalassa www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...
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Incredible drone flying and thinking
❗️Full video of the destruction of the Russian bridge in the 🇷🇺Bryansk region. The bridge was mined with TM-62 mines and then blown up by a fiber optics FPV drone
August 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Incredible drone flying and thinking
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The aftermath of a drone attack on a Russian oil depot in Adler overnight. The fuel tanks can be seen covered with anti-drone nets
August 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The aftermath of a drone attack on a Russian oil depot in Adler overnight. The fuel tanks can be seen covered with anti-drone nets
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‼️ Russia has destroyed bridge in Kherson that connected an entire Korabelny district: now the territory is completely isolated from the city.
August 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
‼️ Russia has destroyed bridge in Kherson that connected an entire Korabelny district: now the territory is completely isolated from the city.
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Are you ready, fellas?🚨
GUR needs 🛻 very urgently (~€6100). We have found the needed pickup, left to reserve it ASAP.
send.monobank.ua/jar/2EzCErxKUK
PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu
Let’s do it🙂
GUR needs 🛻 very urgently (~€6100). We have found the needed pickup, left to reserve it ASAP.
send.monobank.ua/jar/2EzCErxKUK
PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu
Let’s do it🙂
July 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Are you ready, fellas?🚨
GUR needs 🛻 very urgently (~€6100). We have found the needed pickup, left to reserve it ASAP.
send.monobank.ua/jar/2EzCErxKUK
PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu
Let’s do it🙂
GUR needs 🛻 very urgently (~€6100). We have found the needed pickup, left to reserve it ASAP.
send.monobank.ua/jar/2EzCErxKUK
PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu
Let’s do it🙂
EDC with a DIY knife and a custom Seiko
August 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
EDC with a DIY knife and a custom Seiko
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Ainoa pätevä selitys keksimäni on ajanosto.
Päivän sulateltuani EU:n tullidiili Trumpin kanssa tuntuu vain koko ajan huonommalta. 15% tullit EU-tuotteille ja jopa 50% tullit teräkselle Yhdysvaltain markkinoille. Ei mitään toiseen suuntaan.
Lisäksi epämääräisiä lupauksia ostaa (fossiili)energiaa ja aseita USAsta. Miksi?
EU tässä häviää.
Lisäksi epämääräisiä lupauksia ostaa (fossiili)energiaa ja aseita USAsta. Miksi?
EU tässä häviää.
July 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ainoa pätevä selitys keksimäni on ajanosto.