Russia
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1/ In a somewhat macabre ritual, the Russian army has brought in a priest to baptise (living) soldiers using body bags as baptismal fonts, according to Russian local TV channel Tel...
1/ Untrained mobilised Russian soldiers are being held prisoner in a basement in Luhansk oblast after refusing to go back to the front line. Following a bloody defeat near Lyman, t...
1/ What is the price of defeat? Few episodes in the Ukraine war illustrate this more vividly than the five-month battle for the village of Dovhenke, an episode which likely cost hu...
Wow. In light of Lyman defeat, Russian z-journalist and blogger Anastasiya Kashevarova goes to telegram to post a long rant asking the right questions because all the other militar...
People think the energy crisis is just a blip in the transition to renewables, but it's not. Europe faces rapid de-industrialization & stagflation. Governments are taking over ener...
Let me get this straight: 1. Russia thought their "special operation" would last 3 days. 2. After 2 months of fighting with Spetsnaz, Airborne & 190+ BTGs, they achieved NONE of th...
1/ @ian_matveev, who's one of the smartest Russian-language commentators on the Ukraine war, has posted a very interesting and detailed thread discussing the reasons for Russia's d...
🧵 on alternate realities in Russia You may have heard that yesterday Putin opened a ferris-wheel in Moscow, which broke down almost immediately and had to be shut down. You may ha...
I see a fallacy here. Russian soldiers KIA =/= total Russian casualties. Ministry of defence estimates do not count: 1) Private military companies (Wagner, etc.) 2) Donetsk and Lu...
1/ Is Russia now so short of manpower that it simply can't defend strategically vital areas near Kharkiv? A fascinating spot by @ItsArtoir (go follow him!) suggests this might be t...
I'm going to give you a brief review of some pro Russia (and "pro Russia") sites. Please remember that these are my personal impressions. Ratings: 0 to 5 stars 1. SouthFront: 3🌟...
Yesterday Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in jail. Russian liberal media describe him as a "journalist" picturing it as Kremlin's crackdown on political opposition. That's...
1/ Quick & dirty thread about reported (alleged) Russian losses - for People with no mil background - you might not have noticed it, but this is really heavy right now! they are fu...
1 088 killed Russian officers as of 4 September. Minimum confirmed losses. Confirmations are made via publicly available data, such as funeral notices, obituaries or Russian news s...
🧵Thread 🧵 How to end the war in Ukraine. Germany can end the war in Ukraine single-handedly. The US cannot afford a proxy war with Russia if Germany backs out of sanctions agains...
Yes, of course. Actually this year fates of Russian material producers diverged. Titanium producers are doing fine, as they're irreplaceable and thus pulled out of sanctions lists....
Losses of Russia in the war: 1/25 Now there is a lot of controversy about how many soldiers Russia has lost. But in reality, there is no magic number after which war must stop @S...
1/ Another account of a Russian soldier's involvement in the war in Ukraine has emerged via the independent Russian media outlet Important Stories. Daniil Frolkin, a 21-year-old co...
It's time for a thread on the European natural gas freakout. No doubt, Europe should be concerned given that the TTF contract is up over 200% YTD. But with the EURUSD at parity (a...
1/ A 34-year-old former Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published a remarkable in-depth account of his experiences of the Ukraine war. He served with the Feodosia-based 56...
1/ How has the Russian army responded to the huge casualties it's suffered in Ukraine? For a bonus 🧵, I'll draw once more on @wartranslated's archive of translated phone calls by R...
A short answer to the question of why Tsarist Russia never tried to take part in the scramble for Africa is: it did. A follow-up 🧵 on Russia's uncomfortable colonial past. 1/ https...
News that Russia is firing S-300 surface-to-air missiles (Ukrainian example shown below) at ground targets is producing quite a lot of comments along the lines of 'OMG Russia is de...
1/ Being a Russian soldier in Ukraine isn't fun. The food is lousy, you're living in squalid conditions, you're constantly being shot at and most of your unit is already dead or wo...