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SBU destroys Russian platforms in Black Sea
❗️The Security Service of 🇺🇦Ukraine, using sea and air drones, destroyed 🇷🇺Russian radar equipment and warehouses on gas production platforms in the Black Sea pic.twitter.com/bo05fBXQNt
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 19 mai 2025The Security Service of Ukraine used sea and air drones to destroy Russian radar equipment and warehouses on gas production platforms in the Black Sea.
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Survivor recounts bomb explosion, aftermath of loss and survival
31/ "It was carrying some kind of bomb or explosives. I lose consciousness, and some time passes, and I come to my senses and look at what's going on around me. There are no more of us alive. I suppose there were three of us left alive. I was a whole person.
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Meeting a drone named Baba Yaga
"We just approached the field, and I, well, like a massive buzzing of bees over our heads. And the last thing I remember is this wild, wild buzzing sound, like there were chainsaws. That's how I found out later, it was a big drone. It was called Baba Yaga."
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Prisoners decimated by Ukrainian tank, artillery, and drone fire.
29/ The prisoners were divided into two groups of ten men each. The first group was wiped out within little more than a hundred metres of their starting point. "[The Ukrainians] were shooting from tanks, and from artillery, and drones were diving."
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Ukrainian forces attack route, soldier faces impossible choice
22/ "And we all headed off. And as a result, while we were walking, [the Ukrainians] started pounding the entire route right away, almost instantly. I didn’t know what to do. So I can’t go back, because I understand that my own people will kill me.
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Aller tout droit sans savoir où aller
23/ "I can’t go left, because I don’t know where to go. The only thing left to do is just go straight ahead. And I immediately read out the next task. One of the commanders, he says, 'See, there’s a field behind you.'
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Wounded soldiers lying in bushes, a harrowing scene
20/ "While we were walking, that was the second line, there on the left and right side, where the corpses were lying, where the wounded guys were. And so we met the 300s – guys who were wounded – and they were lying there in the bushes.
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Stealth mission: 50 started, only 20 reached the final point
19/ "Another guide met us and said that there was another point here, we had to move very quickly and stealthily. We would get there soon, there was a distance of about three kilometers. And so 50 of us set out, and 20 reached the final point.
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Dreaming of a swift end to suffering and pain
18/ "We set off, and I was going with that understanding, I can say, I even dreamed that something would fly in right now, so that I wouldn’t suffer, so that I wouldn’t go anywhere further, so that it would kill me here.