Interesting take: "The #Luna25 effort does not presage the coming of a golden era of exploration for #Russia. Rather, it is more properly seen as the last gasp of a dying #empire."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/putin-wanted-to-make-russia-great-again-in-space-heres-why-he-failed/

Elsewhere today I read a similar comment to the effect that the loss of Luna 25 is in a sense the final act of the #Soviet #space program.

“What Orbán does . . . only makes sense as someone else’s agenda,” he said, referring to #PutinWarCriminal. “The war has changed everything. The Hungarians in #Zakarpattia don’t support Orbán"
Hundreds of ethnic Hungarians joined the war effort and helped liberate the village of Ambarne in the #Kharkhiv region on October 23, coinciding with #Hungary’s national holiday commemorating the1956 anti-#Soviet #revolution.

Below is the evidence. First, the #IFAK from 1956 which was given to all soldiers in one battalion.
Second, a pouch with #Soviet #medical instruments given to a battle medic @asarnatska

#RussianUkrainianWar

Many #AFU soldiers recently reported receiving #Soviet-made first aid kits dated 1956. 🤬#Ukrainian MoD under #Reznikov fails to procure even basic needs for its military 😨
#ArmUkraineNow #IFAK
https://youtu.be/In08IiDP7tw

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#lithuanianmastodon #litmastodon #poezija #lithuania #soviet #meat

RT @nexta_tv: On this day 79 years ago, the #Soviet authorities began the deportation of the #CrimeanTatars, which was recognized as genocide in independent #Ukraine. https://t.co/M6bJMOLrU8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MichalBoni/status/1659119886612811776

#Chernobyl nuclear disaster tragic anniversary 26/4-1986 reminds the #Soviet regime crimes against its own people and foreign countries. #Putin’s war of aggression of #Ukraine is a grim reminder of Soviet like crimes.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/petras_petras/status/1651238240098086921

Rereading Filtzer, #Soviet workers. The amount of paperwork for paying one worker 1389 rubles for the 1424 jobs he did within a month is just ... wow. 2885 documents were processed with 8500 signatures given, using 8kg of paper and costing the factory 309 rubles.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/AlexOberlaender/status/1640674897855692800

A #Soviet monument was dismantled in the village of Synkiv, #Lviv region.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1640568145231466496

... to create the false impression that further #Ukrainian resistance & Western support to 🇺🇦is futile.

#Putin’s comments are an information operation designed to revive the aura of #Soviet-era military industry and massed forces. 2/3

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1639846208251260929

The last commander-in-chief of the #Soviet Navy has died. Admiral Vladimir Chernavin died in #Moscow at the age of 95.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1637002525864763394

New: The #Russian Federal State Security Service (FSB) appears to be trying to penetrate the Russian Defense Industrial Base (DIB) in a way that is reminiscent of the KGB’s involvement with the #Soviet military establishment.

Our latest: https://isw.pub/UkrWar031623

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1636522411028893697

New: The #Russian Federal State Security Service (FSB) appears to be trying to penetrate the Russian Defense Industrial Base (DIB) in a way that is reminiscent of the KGB’s involvement with the #Soviet military establishment.

Our latest: https://isw.pub/UkrWar031623

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1636522411028893697

The akim of the #Kazakh region of Ulytau, Berik Abdygaliuly, proposed changing the #Soviet names of some regions to historical ones.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1630892349290172417

If #NATO decides to provide #Ukraine with fighter jets, #Poland will primarily provide #Soviet MIG-29 aircraft. This was stated by #Polish president Andrzej #Duda.

📰 5 Kanal

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1628713816837029889

More than 300 monuments, busts and memorial plaques related to the #Soviet period will be demolished in #Kyiv, said the director of the Department of Cultural Heritage Protection of the Kyiv State Administration Oleksandr Neboryak.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1623609311862685696

The dismantling of the monument to the #Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov started in #Kyiv.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1623267968183312385

President #Zelenskyy honoured the heroes of the Battle of #Kruty of 1918 when the #Ukrainian People's Republic fought against the #Soviet occupation forces.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1619665849635475456

Ukraine terminated the agreement with Russia on the operation of the missile system "Satan"

R-36M ("Satan") - #Soviet strategic missile system of the third generation with a heavy two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile. Previously, it was repaired and serviced by #Ukraine.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1611397022808158209

The #Estonian government has allocated more than €900 thousand for the dismantling and relocation of military monuments from the #Soviet era.

📰ERR

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1611359053178863618