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Greek Catholic church in donetsk vandalized probably for refusing to be a Kremlin mouthpiece like the Russian orthodox church

Police have so little credibility in east that when they go out to make arrests volunteer battalion members are asked to come along to help

Siberia prepping for federalization rally tomorrow. Putin starts arresting activists. Why isn't what's good for Ukraine good for Siberia 2?

Undeclared Russian humanitarian aid. Thanks but no thanks

We know as little as anyone of ATO events. Social media however largely over exaggerates events and numbers

Our unit reinforced a blockpost last night outside donetsk as terrorists try to cause trouble using tanks and grad systems. Mostly quiet

Everywhere I have been in ATO the food has been terrible and often simply not provided. Soldiers/volunteers spend much time scrounging

Seems terrorists being more aggressive overnight trying to reclaim key territory and especially key roads leading to Russia. Minimal success

Same commander with his gun last night

Artillery gun commander last night. It's summer and guy is wearing winter communication helmet

We have guys who who came to ATO without weapons and are still searching Something wrong when country sends guys to fight without weapons

Lots of info/disinfo on social media about Russia invasion today. Certain to see it 1st hand this weekend Wonder if it includes air strikes

often travel 100+ kilometers to get to point 20 km away in ATO All about controlling roads. Getting lost part of the process unfortunately

Terrifying to travel in convoys at night. Mostly in buses. Right sector guys got lost couple of days ago and ran into DNR roadblock. Bad end

Off to some operation tonight. Wonder if it's against terrorists or Russians or is that one and the same ?

Reports that most Russian aid trucks are empty. Maybe that's to take all their fighters and FSB/GRU types back home

One thing I meet everyday and try not to accept is the pervasive style of soviet thinking and leadership. Little has changed in 20 years

Ukraine says it doesn't have right paperwork to inspect Russian convoy. That's a joke I hope. Insanity rules while troops get killed

Leadership in ATO at every level is incompetent way of of date and extremely Soviet. Every soldier will confirm this. No respect 4 soldiers

Had to leave a extremely well fortified terrorist post yesterday due to amount of fire from post and Russian side of border