White azalea blooming!

For the first time ever my dwarf white azalea is blooming!

I thought it was going to die and I began fertilizing it a month ago to try to save it. 

Ukrainian special forces destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft missile system. This creates a gap in Russian air defenses that allowed Ukraine to fire at a rare artillery system. Troops from the “Ballista” unit used drones to destroy a Buk-M3 air defense system. This is Russia’s most advanced medium-range surface-to-air missile mobile air defense system. (That seems like a lot of qualifiers.) Apparently it was quite impressive, it could target up to 36 threats at one time. Ukraine found it while flying recon and saw it was protecting the Uragan-1 Multiple Rocket Launch System. It is able to shoot warheads 21 miles. The Buk-M3 cost $45 million alone. They hit the Uragan with some drones but eventually destroyed it with a missile, probably a HIMARS. 

Big booms in several districts of occupied Crimea this morning according to social media. Atesa, the partisan group, also reported these explosions. 

The UK is continuing to help Ukraine fool Russia with fakes. The Taskforce Kindred team makes digital scans of equipment and produces replicas with 3D printing. They are assembled on-site in Ukraine in a few hours and are nearly indistinguishable even from only 82 feet away. For every five real tanks, there might be as many as 30 decoys.