Ukraine: Russian troops bug out when they realise that their Drone has been hijacked by Ukrainian troops

(Ukraine) Interesting little video which reveals how the Ukraine has the ability to hack and hijack mini drones used by the Russians during their invasion of the country.  In this case, the Russian troops (well actually one of them) realises now would be a good time to move location after their Mavic Air UAV

is taken over by the people defending the country that Russia has invaded and who have shown time and time again that they have become experts on taking out Russians from the air.

Ukrainians hijacked a Russian drone to the surprise of its operators, live on camera 😂 Slight panic at the end as Russians realise their location is not safe anymore pic.twitter.com/eusMAXLYSv

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) August 27, 2022

Syria: Area struck by the IDF on the 25th still on fire

(Masyaf) On Thursday (25/08/22) morning the IDF struck a warehouse under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said to have contained over 1000 medium range surface to surface missiles in the Syrian city of Masyaf. 

Initial analysis of sat imagery shows the buildings and areas marked in red that sustained heavy damaged due to the reported airstrikes last night at the SSRC near Masyaf, #Syria. Large areas around the SSRC sustained heavy fire damage due to the secondary explosions. pic.twitter.com/oodscPd9CJ

— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) August 26, 2022

Apparently Israel made the decision to strike the area after the Russian S300 Anti-aircraft missile system they had based there, was packed up, sent to the Port of Tartus (28 miles away) 

Private Israeli intelligence firm @ImageSatIntl publishes satellite images showing that Russia has apparently moved its S-300 system out of Syria back to Russia. pic.twitter.com/pYDbtT1gaz

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 26, 2022

Placed on the Russian cargo ship Sparta II and sent to support the Russian war effort inside the Ukraine (passing through the Bosporus on Wed (24/08/22) and is currently docked at the Russian black sea port of Novorossiysk (about 92 miles from the Crimean city of kerch)

 Anyway as mentioned, not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Israel decided to hit an area which had been under the protection of Moscow and it is quite telling that 2 days after the air strike fires are stilling burning across the targeted area. Naturally the Syrians have claimed they shot down all the incoming missiles bar one. 

Img. Courtesy of @planet shows the damaged caused, some buildings appear to be completely destroyed, suspected to be the main targets and others potential from the secondary explosion(s)/fire(s), one also appeared to be under construction https://t.co/GJeY1NfJH8 pic.twitter.com/h5psOwbHOg

— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) August 26, 2022

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (Miltiary Aid to the Ukraine)

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (The Cost to Russia)

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (Russian Missiles)

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (Multiple Launch Rocket System)

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (Artillery)

Ukraine: The state of affairs. (Armoured Vehicles)

(Volodymyr Dacenko)  a columist for Forbes Ukraine has knocked out a number of infographics regards the current situation regards the Russian invasion of his home country. Most informative and well worth a butchers.

Wales: Police remove lesbian group from Cardiff pride for offending Biological males who Identify as women

(Cardiff) Well Today (Sat 27/08/22) The latest in a long line of Pride events hit Cardiff and one bunch of lesbian revellers were removed from the parade after Tranwomen (Biological men who identify as women) took umbrage at the banner they had:

The police removing lesbians from a pride parade.

The pride movement no longer supports gay people. pic.twitter.com/GklUgAp6xg

— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) August 27, 2022

and here is the offending banner in question:

How come as a straight bloke I can understand that banner, but the wonk Welsh police can't.

Interlude: Superman (Music scene) - The helicopter sequence

The 1978 Superman film had its music score written by John Williams and his ability to convey raw emotion musically into the film helped make it into the success it was, unfortunately an artform which is somewhat lacking today: (The clip in all its glory)

Interlude: Billy Joel - My Life

Interlude: Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up

Interlude: The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown