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AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
It’s incredibly frustrating to talk with people who have mistaken political posturing for strategic analysis.
Not a single war has been won over the course of human history by shaking your fist at the sky.
What’s more…each side has their own moral narrative. And you’re not going to convince them just as they are not going to convince you.
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I am grateful to Estonian award-winning filmmaker Kadri Kõusaar for giving me the opportunity to tell my side of the story.
From the heart of Africa to the turmoil of the Middle East, and into the fucking mess in Ukraine, life has taken me into worlds far removed from my own - across cultures, borders, conflicts, and realities that most people will never experience firsthand.
I have witnessed the beauty of humanity and its darkest sides. I have encountered cultures rich in history, dignity, and resilience, but also people (struggling to survive circumstances no human being should have to face.
War is not just something you read about in the news. It becomes brutally real when you see dead bodies lying on tables, when rockets strike and drones fill the sky, and when survival becomes more than a word. Those experiences change you. They challenge your beliefs, your values, and your understanding of the world. Some realities cannot be explained - you have to live through them.
I have done good things and bad things. I have made mistakes, faced difficult realities, and walked paths that have shaped the person I am today. I do not claim to have all the answers, nor do I pretend that my perspective is the only truth.
But I have a story to tell.
A story about Africa, the Middle East, Ukraine, cultural differences, human struggle, war, survival, and the contradictions of a world that can be both beautiful and brutally unforgiving.
I am thankful to Kadri Kõusaar for creating the space for this conversation - for going beyond the headlines and allowing a personal perspective to be heard.
Because behind every conflict, every border, every ideology, and every headline, there are human beings. People with families, dreams, fears, and stories that deserve to be told.
This is my journey. My experiences. My perspective on a complicated world. No filters. No pretending. Just my side of the story.
Enjoy.
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The fact that the body exchange ratio is still largely the same as it was earlier this year (around 10:1 Ukraine:Russia) indicates that Russia did not take heavy casualties during Ukraine's counteroffensives near Komar, Dnipropetrovsk, and Lyman.
I still do not think that Ukraine is suffering anywhere near 10 times the losses Russia is, as Ukraine was advancing in areas with a lighter Russian presence with less soldiers' bodies to capture, and with much weaker air and fire support to help with this. I still hold that the true ratio is probably much closer to 1:1 than either side wants to admit.
The continuation of this 10:1 trend suggests that, apart from the 90+ PoWs captured by Ukraine in the Lyman direction, Russia was likely able to avoid suffering large-scale casualties from the counteroffensives. And this 10:1 ratio remains, despite Russia carrying out very heavy and costly assault operations on other parts of the frontline, especially in the Dobropillya and Orikhiv directions.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
I've compiled a comprehensive map of Saudi Arabia's air defence and radar infrastructure.
All entries are based on imagery and publicly available information as of October 18, 2026.
For instructions on how to access the file, see the post in the replies.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
I've compiled a comprehensive map of Israel's air defence, radar, and military intelligence infrastructure.
All entries are based on imagery and publicly available information as of October 19, 2026.
For instructions on how to access the file, see the post in the replies.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
🚨🚨NEW @RadioWarNerd up - we talk to the most reliable accurate Ukraine war OSINT mapper @AMK_Mapping_ about his craft & navigating the OSINT minefields, changes in the battlefield/weaponry since he started covering the war, nightmarish drone swarms & more.
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AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
Regarding air defence activity so far.
4/6 of the Iskander-M ballistic missiles were shot down over Kyiv by Patriot systems.
At least 2 Oniks-M supersonic cruise missiles targeting Trypillya Thermal Power Plant were also intercepted.
There were only 2 impacts in Kyiv city itself, and 2 at Trypillya.
All visually confirmed by me.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
The missile launches have begun.
The following was launched:
~6 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
~6 Kn-23 ballistic missiles
~4 Oniks-M supersonic cruise missiles
~4 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles
~20 missiles in total.
Dnipro was targeted by 6 Kn-23s, Kremenchuk was targeted by 2 Zircons, Trypillya Thermal Power Plant was targeted by 2 Zircons and 4 Oniks-Ms, and Kyiv (northern and eastern suburbs) was targeted by 6 Iskander-Ms. These numbers are approximate.
The missile flight routes are shown on the map.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
Vehicle losses have been released for the month of September.
Primary credit: @HeyHey_Hayden TG
In total, Russia lost 32 vehicles whilst Ukraine lost 175. A ratio of 1:5.5
Excluding Armoured cars/MRAPs, which skew the ratio as Russia hardly utilises them at all whilst Ukraine does so in huge number for transport purposes, Russia lost 32 vehicles whilst Ukraine lost 69. A ratio of 1:2.2
Regarding self-propelled artillery, which is a great indicator of capacity to inflict attrition, Russia lost 7 vehicles whilst Ukraine lost 37. A ratio of 1:5.3
Russian losses are counted by UkraineWarSpotting. Ukrainian losses are counted by LostArmour. Credit to HeyHeyHayden for compiling numbers.
Of course, these vehicle losses are all geolocated and only completely destroyed vehicles are counted. There could of course be some mistakes.
The common cope that i hear: “But Russia uses only civilian vehicles! Ukraine actually cares about the lives of their soldiers! Civilian vehicles are not counted in this!”
Are we still seriously falling for “meatwave assaults” in 2026?
A) I have spoken to Ukrainian soldiers that confirm the AFU also uses civilian vehicles in non-combat roles, for transport purposes. Russia does the same. In a war of attrition, cheap but good enough equipment is better than extremely expensive perfect equipment.
B) Adding onto that, Russia has a huge domestic war economy which can churn out so many civilian vehicles that it wouldn’t matter how many were destroyed. If Ukraine’s military vehicles such as SPGs, IFVs etc are destroyed, it needs to wait on deliveries from the west.
C) If AFU command cared about the lives of their soldiers, the Robotyne and Kursk mass suicides would never have happened. Ukraine quite literally burned through tens of billions of dollars worth of Western vehicles in Kursk oblast alone.
D) Even if vehicle losses favoured Ukraine by 2x, this would be nowhere close to the relative attrition needed to be inflicted upon Russia, because of Russia’s industrial capacity.
E) Keep in mind that armies collapse long before they are physically out of manpower or vehicles, as per historical examples such as the Germans in WW1 Collapse is induced when overall attrition inflicted reaches a critical point. Drones only mask this attrition and delay the final outcome. Ukraine is obviously far far closer to this critical point than Russia.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
The war in Ukraine will end when the West starts loving Ukraine more than it hates Russia.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
I believe the chance of Ukraine's energy system collapsing, although still low, is higher than ever. This winter, even according to Donald Tusk, could be catastrophic.
Of course, a collapse of the energy system would cause huge, huge issues at the front.
Russia's strike campaign against Ukrainian energy infrastructure has begun.
Overnight, Russia launched at least 18 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles and Oniks supersonic cruise missiles at Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, striking the CHP-5, CHP-6, and Trypillya Thermal Power Plants. Large fires broke out following the strikes.
Additionally, numerous Geran-4 and Geran-5 jet-drones were used to attack energy infrastructure, including the aforementioned power plants, as well as other targets across Kyiv.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
Counting down the top 10 clips of the Ukraine war:
Day 2, number 9:
Russian Kh-101 cruise missile deploys countermeasures before striking a Hyrdoelectric power station.
22 March 2024
This clip shows a Russian Kh-101 subsonic cruise missile shooting out flares as countermeasures to Anti-Air fire or interceptors as it enters final approach to the Dnipro hydroelectric powerplant, Zaporizhzhya city.
The up-close view of the ENORMOUS explosion is what makes this clip worthy of the #9 spot. The missile clearly hits the turbine generator core of the plant itself with pinpoint accuracy, causing an immediate fireball and the flaring of debris to a substantial distance, as the cameraman is forced to take shelter despite being at least several hundreds of metres away.
I remember distinctly when this video initially was released, as it was the first time people within the wider information space began to acknowledge the technological capabilities of Russian missiles without dismissing them as “backward” or “worthless”.
The visible shooting of flare countermeasures from the Kh-101 cruise missile made people, at least from my perspective, begin to realise that the brave Ukrainian resistance was not dealing with a backward, feudalistic Russia that was operating on sheer willpower, but rather a modern Russia that had adapted to postcontemporary attritional warfare in an undeniable manner regarding its technological capabilities.
As such, especially considering the time period coinciding with a rapidly and uncontrollably deteriorating situation on the front at Ocheretyne, the wider public began to acknowledge that Ukraine needed far greater assistance to survive than what had been provided thus far.
For the aforementioned reasons, this clip takes the #9 spot as we count down the top 10 most influential videos of the war in Ukraine.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
1) It's fake
2) Its a feint, Ukrainians are being lured into trap
3) FABs are coming
4) Russians retreat before starting grand offensive
5) PR attack by Ukrainians. Have you seen body exchange rate??? (it totally makes sense!)
6) Russians never controlled those areas, it was all gray zone. So no pullback. Russian mappers mapped them as Russian before? no, never.
7) ---- YOU ARE HERE -----
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Czy gen. Gierasimow namiętnie czyta pijackie posty Radowa? O rzekomym znaczeniu OPSEC-u przy ukraińskiej operacji zaczepnej III Korpusu na północ od Łymanu i infantylizacji tej wojny.
Wczoraj na ukraińskim portalu Texty ukazał się kuriozalny artykuł pt. "Jak przechytrzono Rosjan: Dlaczego rosyjski Sztab Generalny przez wiele miesięcy nie wiedział o ukraińskiej ofensywie w pobliżu Łymanu". Został on następnie powielony przez portal Hromadske.
Autor pierwotnego tekstu na portalu Texty twierdzi, że rosyjski Sztab Generalny, Ministerstwo Obrony i sam Putin miesiącami nie wiedzieli o ukraińskiej operacji zaczepnej w rejonie Łymanu, ponieważ... "nie przeczytali o niej u Rybara i Radowa". Powołuje się przy tym na informacje niejakiego Michaela Nacke’a – "rosyjskojęzycznego analityka wojskowego powiązanego z OSINT-em". Prowadzi on swój kanał na YouTube o nazwie Michael Nacke.
Oto co twierdzi Nacke:
"Według słów Nacke'ego, które potwierdza ta historia, rosyjskich osintowców - Radowa mniej, Rybara bardziej - czytają w tamtejszym Ministerstwie Obrony. Jeśli Rybar i S-ka zauważają postępy ukraińskich wojsk i zaczynają bić na alarm, w MO FR dowiadują się o tym. Już nie raz zdarzało się tak, że po publikacjach tych osintowców na gorące dla rosyjskiej armii kierunki napływały posiłki".
Wspomniany kanał tube Michaela Nacke’a to typowy ukraiński wojenny kanał propagandowy, tyle że adresowany do Rosjan oraz mieszkańców innych krajów dawnego ZSRR. Podobnych twórców jest obecnie na YouTube wielu, choć wcześniej było ich jeszcze więcej (mają też swoje odpowiedniki w innych krajach, skierowane do lokalnych odbiorców).
Schemat jest zawsze ten sam: autor lub autorzy w formie podcastu opowiadają, jak to Rosja upada gospodarczo i przegrywa wojnę, powołując się na postacie typu Striełkow czy Kałasznikow. Każdy sukces ukr jest wyolbrzymiany, każda porażka ukr przemilczana. W Polsce dokładnie ten sam pomysł i narrację powiela kanał Kremlinka.
Poniżej przykładowe tytuły ostatnich podcastów na kanale Nacke’a:
Spirala śmierci”. Brak benzyny, gnijące zboże, sparaliżowane Wildberries
Katastrofa paliwowa / Nadciągają sankcje / Ofensywa SZU trwa / Regionom brakuje pieniędzy
USA przyparły Putina do muru / Rekordowe ceny benzyny / Zniszczone 3 samoloty i śmigłowce / Pociski uderzają w Rosję
KATASTROFA PSZENICZNA / WYMARŁY KRYM / LUDZIE WYPŁACAJĄ PIENIĄDZE Z BANKÓW / FAŁSZYWE PKB
Tyle w kwestii wiarygodności i bezstronności Nacke’a. Przejdźmy teraz do tezy, jakoby gen. Gierasimow nie wiedział o ukraińskiej ofensywie w rejonie Łymanu.
Fakty:
1. Na odcinku frontu w rejonie wsi Nowe, znajdującym się w pasie odpowiedzialności 20 Armii, w okresie od czerwca do sierpnia 2026 r. , spadło mniej więcej 8 razy więcej FAB-ów niż na sąsiednim odcinku, znajdującym się w pasie odpowiedzialności rosyjskiej 25 Armii. Wsparcie lotnicze w wojskach rosyjskich jest podporządkowane dowództwu armii - to ono ustala, co i kiedy będzie bombardowane. Jasne jest więc, że dowództwo rosyjskiej 20 Armii doskonale wiedziało o ukraińskiej ofensywie w rejonie miejscowości Nowe.
2. Czy dowództwo 20 Armii mogło miesiącami nie informować o swoich stratach terenowych dowództwa Grupy Wojsk „Zachód”? Moim zdaniem jest to wykluczone. W końcu z jakichś względów 20 Armia otrzymywała 8 razy większe wsparcie lotnicze niż jej prawoskrzydłowa sąsiadka (25 Armia). Obie należą do GW „Zachód”. Teza, że sztab GW "Zachód" ani razu w okresie od czerwca do sierpnia 2026 r. nie zainteresował się, dlaczego dowództwo 20 Armii potrzebuje 8 razy większego wsparcia lotniczego niż sąsiednie związki taktyczne, jest absurdalna. Skoro sztab GW „Zachód” wiedział o natarciu Ukraińców koło wsi Nowe, należy przyjąć, że wiedział o nim także Gierasimow i Sztab Generalny.
3. Teza, że Gierasimow czyta Radowa i Rybara, po czym na tej podstawie podejmuje decyzje o znaczeniu operacyjnym czy strategicznym, jest tak bzdurna, że nie ma sensu się nad nią dalej rozwodzić. Tylko kompletny idiota lub opłacany, cyniczny propagandzista mógł sformułować coś podobnego.
O co więc właściwie chodzi w tym ukraińskim ględzeniu o OPSEC-u i robieniu z tego wielkiej sprawy?
1. Ukraińskie dowództwo III Korpusu chciało mieć po prostu spokój. Brak informacji o prowadzeniu działań zaczepnych powoduje, że w przypadku ewentualnego niepowodzenia nikt się o porażce nie dowie.
2. Nałożenie OPSEC-u na operację łymanską umożliwiło Ukraińcom całkowitą kontrolę nad narracją. Widzimy to obecnie: zamiast od razu poinformować o sukcesie, zrobiono z tego swoiste "show w odcinkach". Teraz przez cały wrzesień (i pewnie większość października) A. Biłecki będzie co tydzień nagrywał rolki i materiały na YouTube z wyzwalania każdej kolejnej wsi na zlikwidowanym przyczółku na zachodnim brzegu rzeki Żerebec, a DeepState będzie posłusznie zaznaczał to stopniowo na niebiesko na swojej mapie. Nie ma w tym żadnego celu wojskowego - ma to wyłącznie wymiar propagandowy.
3. Wszelkie tego typu dyskusje o procedurach OPSEC, prośby do zachodnich analityków OSINT o nieujawnianie informacji o ukraińskich operacjach itp. mają w rzeczywistości na celu zdławienie swobodnego obiegu niezależnych informacji o tej wojnie. Chodzi o wpięcie niezależnych analityków w system ukraińskiej propagandy, pozbawienie ich samodzielności i wolności przekazu - mówiąc Gombrowiczem: po prostu ich "upupienie". Oczywiście w moim przypadku to nie przejdzie.
Poniżej: Mack Nack - autor ukr kanału tube Майкл Наки, którego celem jest rozsiewanie ukr propagandy na terenie Rosji i byłych republikach ZSRR.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
This war has created an entire industry of grifters, and I am not only talking about Richard Woodruff.
One of the biggest sicknesses this war has produced is the army of so-called “disinformation experts” who have barely been to a war zone, barely spent any meaningful time in Ukraine, and yet somehow appointed themselves the people who decide what is true and what is false. The Finnish sex peddler and the Austrian guy immediately come to mind.
Then you have the Lviv and Kyiv war tourists who seem to think that spending a few days in a café in Lviv or Kyiv gives them an understanding of what life is like in the Donbas. A few visits later, they are writing books about Ukraine and presenting themselves as experts. It is fucking crazy. And you know how much disdain I have for propaganda journalists who turn war into a career.
You also make a very good point about the couch war generals who have no family members at the front. I honestly believe that 99% of them would look at this war very differently if their own sons or daughters were fighting in it.
But there is an even bigger problem: this war has created an entire ecosystem of people whose careers, income, status and relevance depend on the war. They have built their professional identities around it.
And that creates a very uncomfortable question: what happens when the war actually ends? For some of these people, peace does not just mean the end of the war. It also means the end of their business model.
Isn't it interesting how 99% of the people who advocate for the continuation of the war until Ukraine recaptures all of it's lost territory live in their comfy homes in safe, peaceful countries?
Isn't it curious how almost everyone who shouts "no negotiations with Russia!" don't have their sons or husbands being kidnapped off the streets, sent to the frontlines, and dying or being injured by the tens of thousands per month?
It sure is interesting how the vast majority of people advocate for fighting "until the last Ukrainian" don't have their country being destroyed every single day - both demographically and physically.
Ask yourself this: Do you support Ukraine and Ukrainians? Or do you just hate Russia and Russians.
Do you hate Russia more than you support Ukraine?
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
“Died a coward. Could have died a hero.”
That is how the @mobbs_mentality daughter of Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s former special envoy for Ukraine, comments under my post about the death of Volodymyr, 32, who drowned in a river while fleeing draft officers.
A representative of the American establishment — someone who sacrifices nothing in this war, whose family members are not being killed, maimed, disappeared, or tortured in captivity — feels entitled to lecture Ukrainian men on the proper way to die.
And yes, die is precisely the word.
Because apparently, living is no longer an acceptable option for them.
They must die.
Preferably heroically. Preferably on the battlefield.
Then the Epstein class can walk alongside Zelensky, lay flowers on their graves, and deliver stirring speeches about avenging them on Russia — while feeding still more Ukrainian men into the same machinery of death.
Volodymyr was a veteran. He had already seen the horrors of war.
This time, he did not want to be a hero.
He wanted to watch his son grow up.
He did not want to die.
But people like Meaghan left Ukrainian men like him no acceptable way out. And so he died anyway.
And now people like Meaghan sneer at his death because, apparently, the only Ukrainian man worthy of respect is a dead Ukrainian man-soldier — provided he dies the “right” way.
Heroically.
On the battlefield.
A Ukrainian man who simply wants to live, to raise his child, to come home alive?
Apparently, that is asking too much.
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According to numerous sources, due to a false AI chatbot-generated intelligence report, the US military in the past week almost conducted an operation against a Chinese ship they believed was carrying components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US Air Force and Navy had prepared to board the ship and only found out about the illegitimacy of the intel just as the operation was set to begin.
Allegedly, the intelligence report was "entirely false", and was the consequence of increasing integration of generative AI into the US military.
So, a potential broad conflict between the US and China was nearly triggered because someone in US command utilised generative AI for intelligence assistance...
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
I wanted to test something; all the accounts that love to post maps of Ukrainian advances but strangely forget to post Russian ones didn't mention Myrnohrad. Why wouldn't they? If they do, there aren't maps for some reason.
AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 retweeted
Lyman/Borova direction, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
Following the Russian withdrawal from Lyman salient, Ukrainian forces took advantage of the Russian consolidation of their new lines in order to clear the northern part of Lyman city of Russian infiltrators.
In Luhansk oblast, Ukrainian forces continue operations to push the Russians back to the Zherebets river. They successfully advanced into Luhansk oblast toward Balka Zhuravka and from Novomykhaylivka, and continue offensive operations SE and NE of Hrekivka. However, due to the volume of Russian glide bombs visible on sentinel satellite imagery, it is likely that Ukrainian offensive operations in the Luhansk oblast area are not without heavy casualties. Russian forces are seemingly methodically and elastically withdrawing to draw Ukrainian assault groups in and call in glide bomb strikes.
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These people do not care about Ukraine. They do not care about the people living here, the families being torn apart, or the cities being destroyed. Some of them probably could not even point to half the cities in the Donbas on a fucking map.
I have been here. I have seen these places. I have sat with people who have lost their homes, their families, and everything they had. And then I see people thousands of kilometres away turning this war into a career, a paycheck, and a fucking grift.
That is what makes me so angry. To them, this is an opportunity. To the people here, it is their lives. And that makes these people exactly what they are: filthy fucking grifters.
"Anyone I don't like is Pro-Russian" continues.
God I'm so fucking sick of being accused of working for each side by both sides. These fucking disgusting people who grift off posting successes for one side and then turn around and accuse neutral mappers of being propagandist are some of the worst people out there.