これまで少額とはいえウクライナ支援をしてきた身からすれば、この官僚には「あんたの個人的な財布に支援した覚えはない」と言いたい。インフラ復旧とか、公共の生活環境の維持・復旧とか、戦災被害者の生活補助とか、死傷者の治療や補償とか、兵器調達とかに使ってくれる分には歓迎だし、使途に細かく注文をつける気も確認する気もないが、政府高官の個人的な生活を豊かにするために使われるのは甚だ不満だ。
Hirano Takashi 🦩 平野高志@hiranotakashi.bsky.social · 2d ago高いランクの犯罪が摘発されたなと思っていたら、裁判所で検察が信じがたい情報を報告。日本の人々の善意を最大限裏切る行為。万死に値する。
🔴 BREAKING: A Russian soldier opened fire on fellow servicemen before launching a deadly shooting spree in the village of Khmelnytske near the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, killing four people and wounding four others.
4/ Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces made confirmed advances on August 2. Russia launched 133 drones against Ukraine overnight.
3/ Ukrainian forces recently struck multiple oil refineries, a strategic bomber base, and a Wildberries warehouse in Russia.
2/ Russian forces are leveraging new jet-powered Banderol loitering munitions and Geran-4 Seeker drones in their strike campaigns against Ukraine’s Black Sea port infrastructure and railway infrastructure.
NEW: An IED detonated in central Moscow City on August 1, potentially targeting Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) Commander Colonel General Alexander Chayko. It is unclear as of this writing if the explosion killed or injured Chayko. (1/5) Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar080226
7/ Russia launched 255 drones against Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Borova direction.
6/ Ukrainian defense company F-Drones delivered the first 2,000 first-person view (FPV) drones to the US military as part of the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Drone Dominance Program.
5/ Prominent Kremlin co-opted milbloggers are notably refuting the official Russian military narrative about the situation in northern Ukraine.
4/ Ukrainian forces are counterattacking in some areas of northern Ukraine, contradicting the Russian narrative of theater-wide and unchallenged advances.
3/ Available battlefield evidence does not corroborate Russian claims of advances in northern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.
2/ The Kremlin is using these exaggerated claims of advance as part of its ongoing cognitive warfare effort to falsely portray Russian forces as advancing across the battlefield in order to convince Ukraine’s partners to abandon their support.
NEW: The Russian Northern Grouping of Forces and high military command are likely lying to the Kremlin about the extent of Russian gains in northern Ukraine to further the narrative that Russian forces are actively advancing across the entire theater. 🧵(1/8) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar073126
8/ Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces made confirmed advances on August 1. Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar080126
7/ Russian forces are reportedly increasing the intensity of drone and glide bomb strikes on Ukrainian fuel and energy infrastructure, including gas stations. Russian forces are increasingly targeting Ukrainian civilian logistical centers and warehouses.
6/ Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil and gasoline infrastructure in Russia on July 31 and August 1.
5/ Russian forces launched a record number of missiles against Ukraine in July 2026 — notably firing more missiles than it is producing per month and increasingly leveraging its S-400 and Zirkon missiles to compensate for shortfalls in ballistic missile stockpiles.
4/ Russian forces continued to exploit Ukraine’s shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles by launching another large ballistic missile and drone strike series against Ukraine overnight on July 31 to August 1, primarily targeting Kyiv Oblast.
3/ The Kremlin is desperately attempting to disguise its slow rate of advance in Ukraine through exaggerated claims of advance, but even Moscow’s claimed rate of advance is only about footpace.
2/ Russian forces reportedly suffered the highest casualty rate of 2026 thus far in July, paying an increasingly high price for no significant increase in the rate of advance — despite the Kremlin’s cognitive warfare effort to deny this fact.
NEW: The Russian rate of advance in Ukraine remains low two and a half months into the Russian Spring-Summer 2026 offensive, which has failed to make any operationally significant gains. (1/8)
5/ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 27, 2026:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 27, 2026
Putin is trying to militarize Russian society and shift the responsibility for the war onto the Russian State Duma deputies.
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4/ Russia launched 147 drones against Ukraine overnight on July 26 to 27. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces made confirmed advances on July 27.
3/ Putin continues to marginally increase the authorized end strength of the Russian Armed Forces as part of ongoing Russian military reforms. Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian export and oil infrastructure from July 26 to 27.
2/ Putin continues efforts to persuade personnel mobilized in 2022 to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and continue fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to militarize Russian society and to shift the responsibility for the war in Ukraine onto the Russian State Duma deputies and the Russian population. (1/5) Read the full report: isw.pub/UkrWar072726
