Offshoot

An interesting and in-depth interview with a Ukrainian sniper on the equipment, roles and tactics of snipers in the war - https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/25/stopping-the-modern-hitler-snipers-hold-the-line-in-ukraines-battle-for-survival/

Everyone Wants Ukraine’s Battlefield Data - https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-government-battlefield-data/

A cinematic portrait of some of the members of the 11th Special Brigade of the Army Aviation "Kherson" (they flew to Azovstal and Snake Island). It's light on military info but if nothing else is another demonstration of Ukraine's mastery of the info-space.

UK to send Malloy drones to Ukraine, capable of carrying equipment and even casualties

First recorded use of cluster munitions by Ukraine? Don't know if it's the same place or if the writer has Tiger tank syndrome, but:

Reporting from Ukraine covered this fight around a coal mine in a recent video

A video that goes into a little detail on the tactics used for an assault on a Russian trench system. In this case, rather than riding in on armoured vehicles, the Ukrainians dug a purpose-built and concealed position to attack from, surprising the Russians, who were reportedly well equipped. It also seems like the assaulting troops are receiving orders/directions based on what the drone can see.

A long video on the battles around Vuhledar (closed captions are tolerable). "Vuhledar Fortress: How the Black Zaporozhians [named for the coalmine] held the city for a year and destroyed the enemy"

Oryx website will continue but Twitter account will not

Reports that train services on the Kerch Bridge have been stopped as well as ferry services. It could just be temporary while they check for damage or assess further risk of course - https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3736626-train-services-stopped-on-kerch-bridge.html If naval drones were the cause, Russia are going to have to figure out how they got through.

A picture on Reddit is apparently showing a gap in the lights of the Kerch bridge around the "145th pillar". https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/151o61g/part_of_the_kerch_bridge_has_collapsed_near_the/ And traffic apparently backed up:

The topic of online frauds in the context of the war in Ukraine has been discussed here before, so I'll drop this link as a summary of a well-known case if anyone is interested. The making of a fake war hero: An American who reinvented himself as a social-media soldier in Ukraine is accused of 'stolen valor' - https://www.businessinsider.com/american-social-media-war-hero-accused-stolen-valor-in-ukraine-2023-7

The The Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are claiming it was a rocket storage point - https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/16/7411576/ Will it put a dent in Russia's ambitions given the reported accumulation of forces in Luhansk?

It wasn't a coup at all but merely a failed hostile corporate takeover followed by another failed hostile corporate takeover. Putin says he tried but failed to oust Prigozhin after Wagner mutiny - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/14/putin-says-he-tried-but-failed-to-oust-prigozhin-after-wagner-mutiny-figters-ukarine-war But in the fall out, let off little people start to spill the beans: Victims of “Donbas genocide” were paid actors, Prigozhin’s fired trolls reveal - https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/07/14/victims-of-donbas-genocide-were-paid-actors-prigozhins-fired-trolls-reveal/

Summary/extra info on the Bakhmut and Berkhivka situation for English speakers - https://mil.in.ua/en/news/paratroopers-of-the-russian-federation-were-captured-in-the-bakhmut-direction/ In the second video they show, I don't think I have ever seen so many troops together at one time out in the open (at the 33 second mark)

A short vid on the Deep State maps, the team behind them, and their use

Bloomberg did an article on arms balance in Ukraine and based it on data from the Kiel Institute, IISS and Oryx - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/shift-in-balance-of-arms-in-ukraine-underscored-by-fresh-data?leadSource=reddit_wall

So Prigozhin's run on Moscow was just a larp about.

Did someone say discarded tank crew coveralls? https://t.me/supernova_plus/21752 Naked Russian soldier filmed escaping from damaged tank - https://english.nv.ua/life/naked-russian-soldier-filmed-escaping-from-damaged-tank-ukraine-war-news-50336249.html

The Ukrainian Air Force releases their own compilation video of sorts Forbes have used the dated kill boards to piece together some info on the episode where the Ukrainians took out multiple Russian aircraft in short order over Bryansk oblast - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/03/a-ukrainian-patriot-missile-crew-shot-down-five-russian-aircraft-in-two-minutes-and-possibly-forced-the-kremlin-to-rethink-its-tactics/?sh=75c2b4a41a5b

CIA says wartime Russia is a rare spy-recruiting opportunity - https://www.reuters.com/world/cia-says-russia-is-recruiting-opportunity-disaffection-with-war-rises-2023-07-01/ "U.S. CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that disaffection in Russia with the war in Ukraine was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to recruit spies - and that his agency was not letting it go to waste."

Low res but submitted for inclusion in the fireworks category. Destruction of a Russian Buk SAM using a precision round, reportedly in the Velikonovosilkivsky district - https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-high-precision-projectile-hit-russian-buk-sam/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/jun/27/steve-bell-on-prigozhins-armed-mutiny-against-vladimir-putin-cartoon

Another take on why Prigozhin stopped, by Vlad Vexler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5680U8ZQVMk He says that Prigozhin stopped because he didn't get enough buy-in from the regular army and the elites and then, because of that, bottled it because going further might result in his eventual obliteration. Prigozhin may well have been able to take Moscow but without the buy-in needed to establish a (temporary) replacement administration it wasn't necessarily going to last and could have become very bloody.