Full Go Pro footage of 19 year old Australian Volunteer with the call sign “LUPO” fighting in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ct8gNyRCJT

— WarRoom Archives (@WarRoomArchives) March 28, 2026

“We have to count [the] number of drones we use, efficiency of each of them, cost to kill for every Russian,” says Oleksandr Kamyshin, the architect of Ukraine's drone program. “The cost of killing every Russian is less than $1000 now.” https://t.co/PQwtPfHWmH pic.twitter.com/ILJ0pQP0fC

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) March 30, 2026

Likely false

Ukraine sent 230 drone interceptor specials to the Gulf states last week. The Gulf states were so impressed with their technology and skills, they are now signing long term defense agreements.

This means $$$ for Ukraine's defense industry! pic.twitter.com/TFFh1dvi0j

— Jake Broe (@RealJakeBroe) March 30, 2026

Yep: Qatar, UAE, SA

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Russians in recent weeks have faced two disruptions at once. The authorities, armed with new technical capabilities and wartime pretexts, have been pulling the plug on the mobile internet in certain places. They have also been blocking ever more foreign apps used by millions of Russians.

The government has cited security reasons for the internet outages, calling them precautions against Ukrainian drone attacks that use Russian mobile networks for targeting. But experts say the government is also conducting the sort of targeted blackouts that it would impose in the event of unrest, like the mass demonstrations that swept Iran this year.

Even bolder, in the eyes of many Russians, is Mr. Putin's assault on Telegram. Having blocked Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube, the Russian leader is now moving to hobble an app that more than 100 million Russians use every month to communicate and read news, including from exiled outlets banned in Russia.

Moscow is pressuring Russians instead to use a new Kremlin-approved "super app" known as MAX. Russian media outlets have reported that Moscow plans to block Telegram fully starting on Wednesday, but signs have emerged that they could delay the move amid a public backlash.

Of all the examples of growing repression in Russia during four years of war in Ukraine, few have touched more people than the internet restrictions.

The on-again, off-again blackouts and blockages have caused havoc as the digital services that power everyday life have flickered in and out, forcing people into a frustrating hunt for workarounds.

When the mobile internet went out in parts of Moscow, people started paying in cash. With taxi apps rendered useless, some hitched rides in passing cars. Sales of walkie-talkies, analog telephone lines, paper maps and old-school MP3 players spiked online. Even in the halls of the Kremlin, officials returned to using landlines.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world/europe/russia-putin-telegram-internet.html

I said before, only half in jest, that there may well be folks in the Siber who don't even know there's a war going on…..

Would love to see it but if history repeats the russians lack the moral and physical courage to rebel against tyranny.

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Would love to see it but if history repeats the russians lack the moral and physical courage to rebel against tyranny.

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Free article

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/putin-telegram-internet-blackouts-russia-moscow-protests-rcna265067

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Russians might be getting fed up with the Kremlin making their lives harder and more isolated in the name of security.

A rare call for protests over the weekend followed mounting signs of anger and ridicule aimed at authorities, with pro-Kremlin influencers and newspapers joining a growing wave of public frustration at the government's approach.

A major mobile internet blackout in Moscow and the throttling of the popular messaging app Telegram, both justified by ambiguous security considerations, helped fuel the rare public criticism over this erosion of digital freedoms and connectivity. It comes against the backdrop of soaring prices and an ailing wartime economy, with little sign of major battlefield progress in Ukraine.

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Here's an interesting story about Ukraine's incredible success with drones as told by a US visitor. Includes a tour of a secret drone production facility and a trip to a frontline drone brigade.

"But Ukrainians have a not-so-secret weapon the Russians cannot match: the determination of a democratic nation to stay free. "After more than four years of war, most people are tired," Roman Andreyko, the T-shirt clad CEO of media company Lux Media, told us. "We want the war to stop. We want peace. But we are not ready to capitulate." Thanks to the rapid development of its drone industry, Ukraine is in no danger of needing to."

WAPO: DRONES

BREAKING 🔴

RUSSIA: Mass casualty event declared after a Ukrainian drone strike hit one of Russia’s largest petrochemical complexes, Nizhnekamskneftekhim. pic.twitter.com/I3tFhxZ0W4

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 31, 2026

At least six were killed and 72 wounded in a possible Ukrainian drone strike on Eastern Europe’s largest petrochemical facility. Damage was reported up to 8 km away. The factory produces ~35% of the world’s isoprene rubber and appears heavily damaged. pic.twitter.com/IYkcoQnfaK

— Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) March 31, 2026

💥 Russia: Major explosion at the petrochemical plant in Nizhnekamsk, occupied Tatarstan.
Country's largest producer of synthetic rubbers critical for the war on Ukraine.
Annual output: 3 million tons of commercial products like rubber for tires and polymers for manufacturing. pic.twitter.com/wcEWk36FbL

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) March 31, 2026

More on Ukraine's successful campaign against Russia's energy and petrochemical infrastructure.

DAMAGE

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Is there any confirmation we've been using patriots on shaheds?

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Don't know but we've used a lot of them

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Payne Institute & CSIS reports confirm heavy early usage: ~943 Patriots in first 4 days of Operation Epic Fury (Iran strikes on Saudi/US bases with Fattah-2), scaling toward your 2,400 in 31 days. 2025 baseline production was 620 PAC-3 MSE/year (Lockheed); new Jan 2026 DoW deal triples capacity to 2,000/year. THAAD stockpile (~534 end-2025) saw ~30-40% depletion; production now quadrupling from ~96 to 400/year (Lockheed/BAE March 2026 surge).

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JUST IN: The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors… pic.twitter.com/jJnxqPoT4c

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) March 31, 2026

BREAKING:

Ukraine shoots down a Russian An-26 military transport plane over Crimea.

30 Russian soldiers killed. pic.twitter.com/ObC7WZf4gz

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 31, 2026

Reportedly, a russian Su-34 fighter jet was shot down by a Ukrainian interceptor drone today, in addition of a russian An-26 transport plane shot down over Crimea today as well. This Su-34 is the first jet intercepted by a drone, to my knowledge.

— Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M (@sumlenny) March 31, 2026

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Payne Institute & CSIS reports confirm heavy early usage: ~943 Patriots in first 4 days of Operation Epic Fury (Iran strikes on Saudi/US bases with Fattah-2), scaling toward your 2,400 in 31 days. 2025 baseline production was 620 PAC-3 MSE/year (Lockheed); new Jan 2026 DoW deal triples capacity to 2,000/year. THAAD stockpile (~534 end-2025) saw ~30-40% depletion; production now quadrupling from ~96 to 400/year (Lockheed/BAE March 2026 surge).

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JUST IN: The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors… pic.twitter.com/jJnxqPoT4c

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) March 31, 2026

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I get the current production number but how easily is that scaled? It seems if we were smart with our planning we'd have a built in mechanism to easily scale up in times of need and the current volume per year is just a minimum amount during peace time.

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I get the current production number but how easily is that scaled? It seems if we were smart with our planning we'd have a built in mechanism to easily scale up in times of need and the current volume per year is just a minimum amount during peace time.

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It's not like we have qualified and capable people just waiting in the wings to start operating idle equipment to create parts with stockpiled materials and assemble them. We have to find people, expand facilities and equipment, scale up procurement pipelines, etc. It'll probably take several months to over a year.

FPV drones destroy Russian logistics warehouse along with fuel trucks in Skadovsk, Kherson region. Staggering 60km from the frontline. Huge distance for FPV drone strikes. The FPV was almost certainly delivered by some drone carrier and did not fly the entire way on its own. https://t.co/HGoGgQ9KO2 pic.twitter.com/pEWQw8kuYU

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 31, 2026

Ukraine is fielding private air defense teams to help protect its industry.

"The goal of the program is to take advantage of Ukraine's large production of counter-Shahed interceptor drones as well as its indigenous automated anti-drone machine gun turrets. By having volunteers operate these systems, it reduces the need to pull troops from the frontlines, officials say.

Private air defense systems "are integrated into a single management system of the Armed Forces Air Force and are already operating within it, protecting objects and participating in the interception of Shaheds," Fedorov explained. "This is a systemic solution that allows for quickly scaling air defense capabilities without additional burden on frontline units."

ADA

Either Ukraine are burning some long gathered stockpiles or March become a tipping point in drone production https://t.co/AMncXI3a3A

— Tommy Lund (@TommyLundn) April 1, 2026

🇷🇺 🛢 The physical volume of Russian oil maritime exports has sharply decreased — from 4.1 million to 2.3 million barrels per day. This is, of course, the result of attacks carried out by Ukrainians on Baltic ports—-

▪️ Instead of 10 tankers, 4 were loaded in Primorsk, and in… pic.twitter.com/gOlAlzAHHI

— Visioner (@visionergeo) March 31, 2026

Evidently that landing ship strike was from 3 years ago.

Russia is ordering companies to nominate employees for military service, with 2 to 5 names per enterprise, depending on size

Russia's stated goal is to expand active troop numbers to 1.5 million and total forces to 2.38 million https://t.co/WVpoO3iTOR

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) April 1, 2026

Low performers…

I'm sure the annual employee performance reviews with HR are going well.

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Low performers…

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Somewhere Jack Welch is smiling.

Larry Ellison secretly wishing he still had offices in Russia.

Shotgun drone defense.

Orcs lose a maritime patrol jet.

Lt General + 6 other officers on the downed an26.

💥 INNOVATION: Ukrainian housewife kitchen drone equipped with a shotgun shoots down a Russian drone.
Cost of a shotgun shell: $0.30 pic.twitter.com/E6CfekrfGG

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) April 2, 2026

BREAKING:

Ukrainian suicide drones have struck and destroyed a Russian An-72P military transport aircraft in Crimea.

This is the 3rd plane the Russians have lost in 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/1BJuEgX1v1

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 2, 2026

Ого, какая прелесть!

Российские ресурсы сообщают о том, что на Ан-26, который 31 марта разбился во временно оккупированном Крыму находился, ни много ни мало, а генерал-лейтенант Отрощенко Александр Иванович.

С учётом того, что он был действующим командиром смешанного… pic.twitter.com/00X3gHb28p

— Alexander Kovalenko (@zloy_odessit) April 2, 2026

At the very least, that plane deserved it for being so butt ugly.