Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

wrapter said:

Ukraine started bombing Wildeberry warehouses, it's like Wal-Mart. Ukraine reasoning was that that hitting military sites and factories and even Oil infrastructure isn't mounting pressure on Putin popularity. But hitting these warehouses will directly effect average joe day to day quality of life. It was reported that 3% of Russian warehouses were destroyed by Ukraine.

Russia responded by taking out 35% or more of Ukraine equivalent warehouses the very next days and has continued to attack since Ukraine is still continuing to attack oil and gas infrastructure that China and Russia are building with mass launched drone. Grok says 90% of the Ukraine warehouses have been destroyed, many famously had ammo/missile in them.

Ukraine continues to attack Russian oil tankers to which Russia has now effectively done a naval blockade of Ukraine ports. In fact at the SCO summit last week and current BRICS summit, Putin said that the India which is this years host for BrIcs summit had asked Russia to open up the blockade to allow Ukraine grain ships, which Putin said Russia will only negotiate in their terms as Ukraine has 10x increased it's attack on Russian oil ships.

So i think with Ukraine out of missiles and people in Ukraine fed up off this war and forcefull conscription that only occurs by kidnapping males. Russia is stepping on the gas.

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Russia has been hitting Ukrainian warehouses and markets since the start .. do you expect Russia to get a pass??


Wildbeeries .. basically Amazon for all sorts of goods, including for the SMO .. ( this helps family buy goods for their "volunteer" on the front )

Wildberries, Russia’s largest e-commerce marketplace, has been identified as a significant supplier of military and dual-use goods to Russian forces, leading to its targeting in Ukrainian drone strikes starting in July 2026. The platform openly sells items such as body armor, tactical helmets, drone components (including FPV drone parts and fiber-optic spools), night vision devices, and battlefield medical supplies, often under dedicated categories like “Everything for the SVO.”

While Wildberries denies direct systematic embedding in the Russian Defense Ministry’s infrastructure, investigations reveal that volunteer organizations and pro-war Telegram channels frequently use the site to crowdfund and purchase equipment for frontline units. Key items bought for the military include first-aid kits, tourniquets, camouflage clothing, satellite communications (such as Starlink), and weapon accessories, with sales of these categories dropping only slightly after warehouse strikes began.



BTW Russia not doing great .. they also need to draft men soon as they've run out of volunteers, perhaps N Korea will send a few more until after the Russian election

This was actually worth my time to watch.

Expectations is that Putin is unwilling to stop, regardless of how many Russia lives he sends to the meat grinder.



Putin can't stop, he'd be history's greatest fool | General Chip Chapman
The Sun
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Sep 25, 2026 #putin #ukraine #russia
Major-General Chip Chapman, former Senior British Military Advisor to US Central Command, breaks down why Russia's military has reached its operational limits, why mass mobilisation will fail to turn the tide, and why the tempo of this war will not slow down through 2026.

In this interview:
• Putin's legacy trap: why an imperial mindset and fear of personal failure prevent Putin from accepting a winter energy ceasefire or negotiated peace.
• The limits of mass mobilisation: why adding numbers alone cannot fix Russia's severe logistical, training, and equipment bottlenecks.
• The evolution of counter-innovation: how Ukraine is using AI, supercomputing, and rapid drone tech to counter Russia's jet-powered Shahed drones and glide bombs.
• Frontline tactics & Ukrainian generalship: why superior Ukrainian leadership and decentralised command continue to outmanoeuvre Russia's top-down command structure.






This interview features Major-General Chip Chapman, a former senior British military advisor to US Central Command, discussing the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine through 2026. The discussion focuses on why Putin is unlikely to agree to a ceasefire and the limitations of Russia's military strategy.

Key Takeaways:​

• Putin's Strategic Mindset: Chapman argues Putin will not accept a winter energy ceasefire because he remains committed to his original political objectives and is driven by the 'sunk cost fallacy' and an imperial mindset (0:49 - 2:09). He views the war as essential to securing his historical legacy.
• The Air War & Technology: The conflict is characterized by rapid technological cycles. While Russia escalates with jet-powered drones, Ukraine is countering with AI-enabled autonomous systems and supercomputing (10:32 - 11:30). Chapman emphasizes that while technology is an enabler, the morale and will of the population remain the decisive factors (10:00 - 10:32).
• Limits of Mass Mobilization: Although Putin may attempt further mobilization, Chapman notes that sheer numbers cannot overcome fundamental bottlenecks in logistics, training, and command structure (13:42 - 14:12). He contrasts this with superior Ukrainian generalship and decentralized command (21:18 - 22:01).
• The Path to 2026: Chapman does not foresee a conclusion to the war in 2026. He explains that Western intelligence must be wary of 'fundamental attribution error'—the tendency to assume Putin will act rationally by Western standards regarding losses or economic costs (18:52 - 19:52).
• Leadership and Corruption: A key factor in the conflict is the disparity in leadership quality. Chapman highlights that Ukrainian leadership, including Zelensky, has successfully rallied public support and is steadily improving on corruption metrics compared to the deeply kleptocratic structure in Russia (22:01 - 23:54).

You can be certain Russia is sending some upgrades back to Iran ..


From Shahed to Geran: How Russia Continues to Reinvent the One-Way Attack Drone
Center for Strategic & International Studies


Premiered 9 hours ago

Since acquiring the original Shahed design from Iran in 2022, Russia has treated its Geran drone as a continuously evolving platform, rapidly upgrading its navigation, communications, payload, propulsion, and tactics in response to changing Ukrainian defenses. The evolution of the Geran over four years of conflict reflects a broader shift in modern weapons development, where advantage increasingly depends not on building the most advanced system at the outset but on maintaining the organizational and industrial capacity to continuously iterate a system after it has entered combat. On September 29, CSIS's Wadhwani AI Center will host an event unpacking how Russia has modified the Geran and what U.S. policymakers can learn from its development model. Wadhwani AI Center senior fellow Kateryna Bondar and research assistant Nicole Errera will present the findings of their recent report "From Shahed to Geran: How Russia Continues to Reinvent the One-Way Attack Drone." Following the presentation, Kateryna will be joined by Samuel Bendett, advisor to CNA's Strategy, Policy, Plans and Programs Division and senior associate (non-resident) with CSIS's Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, for a broader conversation about Russia's defense ecosystem and the enabling role played by China, Iran, and North Korea. This event is made possible by general funding to CSIS and the CSIS Wadhwani AI Center.


This video from the CSIS Wadhwani AI Center analyzes the evolution of the Geran one-way attack drone, which Russia began producing after acquiring the Iranian Shahed-136 design in 2022 (0:01:03 - 0:02:00). The speakers, Kateryna Bondar and Nicole Errera, argue that the system's danger lies in Russia's rapid industrial and organizational capacity to continuously iterate and modify the platform in response to battlefield challenges (0:00:15 - 0:00:30).

Key developmental phases include:

• Electronic Warfare Resilience: Russia has repeatedly upgraded the Geran's satellite receivers, increasing the number of patch antennas to better counter Ukrainian jamming and spoofing (0:05:31 - 0:06:33).
• Onboard Communications: Moving away from "fire and forget" logic, Russia transitioned from experimental 4G modem trackers attached with duct tape to standardized Raspberry Pi setups, eventually deploying Chinese-made mesh radio modems that allow for real-time remote control of drone swarms (0:07:14 - 0:11:15).
• Lethality and Payloads: Engineers have localized production of warheads and experimented with diverse, heavier explosives. Additionally, the drones are being used as delivery systems for secondary payloads like anti-tank mines, air-to-air missiles for self-defense, and even FPV drones for mid-flight release (0:12:32 - 0:16:33).
• Shift to Speed: To counter high interception rates by Ukrainian air defenses, Russia transitioned from piston-engine models to jet-powered variants like the Geran-3 and Geran-4. The most recent iteration, the Geran-5, represents a major design break, resembling a cruise missile and significantly complicating interception efforts (0:17:25 - 0:22:23).

In the second half of the discussion, Samuel Bendett joins to contextualize these findings within Russia's broader defense ecosystem, noting the role of international partners like China, Iran, and North Korea in sharing knowledge and components (0:23:41 - 0:31:54). The participants emphasize that the Geran is not an anomaly but a representative case study of how modern warfare requires high-speed iteration cycles and a shift toward multi-domain, autonomous-capable weapon systems (0:24:04 - 0:35:15).