Estonia DM Pevkur: Russia wants to see what is our reaction. Are we overreacting or not? It's so easy to say let's shoot them down or strike back. We need to keep our heads calm. Russia wants to get more freedom to operate in Ukraine. No mistakes when we talk about Russia. 1/
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Dron’s faith in small gestures; widow recognizes love line
Faith, for Dron, lives in those small gestures. “Love is wrapped in sleeping bags and carried out,” he writes about retrieving the bodies of comrades. After publishing that line, he got a message from the widow of one of the men — she said it was written about her husband. 7/
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Discharged for disability before mobilization age, now a veteran
He was discharged “for disability” before even reaching mobilization age. His arm no longer feels 3 fingers. “Ahead is civilian life, more rehab, and maybe one more surgery. I’ll reach conscription age already a veteran.” 4/
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Unit hit in 2022: 4 alive, 2 dead, shrapnel wounds
On October 20, 2022, his unit was hit. “There were 4 alive and 2 dead. A cheerful song played in my head,” he later wrote. He suffered a concussion, shrapnel wounds to both arms and legs, and a fractured radius. Months of surgeries followed. 3/
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Drone fought 3 years 4 months in Luhansk
Dron fought for three years and four months in eastern Ukraine — specifically in the Seredbriansky forest on the Luhansk front. He volunteered on March 2, 2022, joined the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade, and carried a rifle he named ‘Ernest’. His callsign was ‘Davyd.’
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Ukrainian soldier: Hemingway and Remarque didn’t know my war
“I had read Hemingway and Remarque for years. I thought they knew everything about war. But they didn’t know mine.” “When I came back from the front and saw my bookshelf, I felt like a fool,” wrote 25y old Ukrainian soldier and author Artur Dron in UP. 1/
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Soldiers threatened to silence abuses
The two soldiers also say that Karnaev is threatening other soldiers with being sent on assault missions – essentially to their deaths – to intimidate them into not reporting the mistreatment of the sick and wounded.
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Paramedics denounce Russian officer’s abuses
2/ Ahmed Gadzhi and Georg Vladislavovich Kurbanov, two military paramedics with the 135th Motorized Rifle (Assault) Regiment of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division, have recorded a video message describing abuses carried out by their deputy political officer, Major Karnaev. pic.twitter.com/yEq9axEkr7
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 11 octobre 2025Ahmed Gadzhi and Georg Vladislavovich Kurbanov, two military paramedics serving with the 135th Motorized Rifle (Assault) Regiment of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division, have released a video statement accusing their deputy political officer, Major Karnaev, of committing abuses.
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Sick and wounded soldiers held in an open pit to be remotivated
Sick and wounded Russian soldiers have been held for months in an open-air pit in the ground to 'remotivate' them, according to two military paramedics. They say that their regiment's deputy political officer is removing soldiers from hospital and imprisoning them.
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M777 in Action – 148th Artillery Brigade
M777 in action🔥
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) 11 octobre 2025
📹: 148th Artillery Brigade pic.twitter.com/KvbRymgVchM777 in action : 148th Artillery Brigade