Overview

• Ukraine’s Tur reconnaissance unit posted photos of cone-shaped detonators bearing a swastika and Reichsadler, stamped 1934, which it says were recovered from a Russian depot.
• The unit called the discovery proof that “Nazi weapons are still being used to kill people,” using it to challenge Moscow’s anti-Nazi narrative.
• Ukrainian commander Maj. Oleh Shyriaiev described a wider pattern of obsolete gear on the battlefield, citing Mosin–Nagant rifles taken from museums, WWII naval guns mounted on trailers, and refurbished early infantry fighting vehicles.
• U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg said Russia is “pulling tanks out of mothballs, out of museums,” characterizing the practice as a sign of strain in Moscow’s war effort.
• Ukrainian sources linked the detonators to 1939–40 Soviet–German agreements and asserted that North Korea has supplied shells to Russia, though these claims have not been independently verified.