#OTD Aug 29,1949 Soviets test 1st nuclear device #RDS_1 or #First_Lightning Semipalatinsk, Kazakh site Polygon pic.twitter.com/iwkFgkOUSB
— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) August 29, 2024
Day: August 29, 2024
#OTD Aug 29, 1969 #Avril_Haines born. Currently DNI. And first woman to hold position of CIA’s Duty Director. pic.twitter.com/HvimJGxohD
— SPIES&VESPERS (@SpiesVespers) August 29, 2024
Night of August 28/29, 2024: Video from the door gunner on a Russian helicopter (possibly Mi-8) reportedly firing at and destroying an AFU GUR marine drone off the coast of #Crimea. pic.twitter.com/JUJlUr7ktu
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 29, 2024
If the new Starmer 🇬🇧 government is really serious about re-engaging with 🇪🇺 going back in the highly popular and successful #Erasmus student exchange scheme should be at the top of the list. https://t.co/w3GErbNStO
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) August 29, 2024
HIMARS GMLRS strike on a Russian “Zoopark” couterbattery radar complex. pic.twitter.com/PyUlMIdbt1
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 29, 2024
Russian widow collects money to purchase body bags for “200’s”
Russian source: A collection for body bags was announced by a Chelyabinsk volunteer and widow of a deceased soldier, Axxx Dxxxxxxx.
“As scary as it is to write about this, we need bags for the 200s. To transport the… pic.twitter.com/LbwaRFsQyF
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 29, 2024
Peek projection https://t.co/nrA7S0vs4N
— KT “Special CIA Operation” (@KremlinTrolls) August 29, 2024
Long range precision strike is how Ukraine defeats Russia’s mass advantage. Take out hq’s, logistics and artillery/airfields and masses of poorly trained Russian infantry are rendered ineffective. https://t.co/zRGuN4SJ7I
— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) August 29, 2024
Long range precision strike is how Ukraine defeats Russia’s mass advantage. Take out hq’s, logistics and artillery/airfields and masses of poorly trained Russian infantry are rendered ineffective. https://t.co/zRGuN4SJ7I
— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) August 29, 2024
Ukraine’s recently tested ballistic missile, most likely the Hrim-2 (Grom) or derivative thereof, has a range of 600 to 700-km. — Mykhailo Podolyak, Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/J7WdPICiDJ
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 29, 2024