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POV: You live in Eastern Europe, next door to Russia
Well, Dmitri "Wagner" Utkin, co-founder of the infamous Wagner group, did not owe his nickname to his passion for opera
Some people are still hoping the mythical moment when Putin "takes the gloves off" will come and change the course of war
Poor cannibal! Sure, what he did was wrong, but nobody deserves Andrew Tate as a neighbor.
Sorry, "Foreign Policy". Didn't pay for the paywall. Clueless Westerners who think they will just come to Russia with their money to enjoy the "shared values" of "anti-wokeness"... They are just, well, clueless Westerners. Don't need to read how it ends, I know it.
Many pro-Russian accounts present current missile attacks on Kyiv as "retaliation" for Ukrainian attacks. In reality, Russia is bombing Kyiv from day one. The only thing that changed is that Ukraine is now firing back.
A pro-Russian Western idiot on Twitter literally thought Wildberries warehouse is a warehouse storing berries (sometimes even a factory making them). In order to support Russia, you need to know nothing about Russia (and be stupid enough to think berries are made in factory).
The person who wrote the attached nonsense seems intellectually incapable of checking wikipedia entries on (a) Ukrainian language, (b) political composition of Ukrainian government, (c) Ukrainian history
Before Russian invasion of 2014, Donetsk was one of the richest cities in Ukraine. Now they have no water, because invasion destroyed the aqueduct. They started to build a new one, but for 12 yrs nothing happened until today: kleptocrats who stole the money were arrested. Pipes still dry, though.
It seems that Alex Jones still believes the moment when Putin takes the mythical "gloves off" is coming soon. But right after the Rapture, of course.
Russian milblogger Romanov with a brief statement: "Konstantinovka = Kupyansk". Kupyansk was reported as wholly captured to Putin more than once, but it was never true, Russia does not have it until this very day.
Twitter propagandist "Big Serge" turned out to be a state employee from Idaho, one Sam Wolkenhauer. Remember, social media accounts claiming to be "Russian" are usually American cosplayers who think it if they call themselves "Sergey" or "Natasha", they appear stronger or sexier.
Glenn Diesen draws arrows to prove Russian victory is near - when Konstantinivka and Lyman fall, it's easy. But arrow (1) goes through cities. When Russians capture Konstantinivka, they will crawl through Druzhkivka for another year. Arrow (2) goes through Holy Mountains. That's just impossible.
Pro-Russian propagandists on Xitter are beginning to get it. Yes my dude, there will be no "gloves off", no "flattening of Kyiv", no "destruction of bridges on Dnipro", none of your fantasies from last 4+ yrs. Russia is already trying as hard as they but they can't do much.
Glenn Greenwald jumped on the AI-generated slop report on "Ukrainian biolabs", and he's asking: if they were regular labs, why they contained dangerous stuff? Is he playing dumb or he really never saw a scientific laboratory? They always contain hazardous stuff, solvents and gases to begin with.
Recent Ukrainian successes can be attributed to one person, Robert "Magyaer" Brovdi. He was promoted chief of unmanned system barely over a year ago. At the time, Russian propaganda was portraying him as a fraudster. Russians who believed it are now dead or at best, stranded without fuel.
Bulgaria stops delivering weapons to Ukraine - does it matter? According to Russian blog "Two Majors", not much. They analyze Bulgarian help and conclude it was mostly obsolete Soviet stuff and ammunition to it (NATO-incompatible). Ukraine needed it in 2022, but no longer (and Bulgaria has no more).
Military blogger Saponkov is quoting someone from Crimea who says sales of bottled water are now limited to 3 l per customer. Quite painful, drinking tap water is not recommended. Sales of sugar and salt are technically limited, but neither is available. No fuel at all in Sevastopol.
The answer is: nyet. You don't have the cards. But here is a card "Drunken tweet of Medvedev", here "Strongly worded statement of Zakharova" and here is "Peskov saying everything according to plan".
As always, Russia "invited" paid liars and traitors to their forum in St Petersburg. They promote their pre-scripted "coverage", but never mention the smoke in the background, because they were not yet briefed on how to talk about it. Comments on Xitter compensate for this, though.
Something bad happened to air quality in St Petersburg. Participants of the international economy forum should avoid breathing outdoors.
In this dormitory, Russia was operating military training - and it was never a secret, they were openly advertising it on social media. Check this screenshot, for example.
BREAKING: Candace Owens, paid by Russia to say that Moscow is beautiful, says "Moscow is beautiful".
It was democratic because it led to free elections. The occupied part of territory was farily small, the seats assigned to these constituencies were just not voted - this is marked in grey on the map attached
Tankies just can't handle when the truth gets in a way of Russian propaganda
Have you missed all the images and videos of Russian oil industry burning? Here's one of the arrivals of today (from Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad), but the absolutely best ones are from Tuapse, it was a month ago. Do you know them?
Soloviev is upset we are laughing at his hypercomic missile and is assuring us that it destroyed something else than abandoned garages, but Russia choose not to show any evidence. Worst propaganda ever - "trust us bro, Oreshnik caused lots of damage, but you gotta take our word on that".
Meanwhile on Xitter, pro-Russian propagandist Vicktop56 still believes that his beloved Oreshnik managed to hit something else than abandoned garage 80 km from Kyiv... but he complains Russia is not releasing video evidence so he's the only believer. Some bitterness is there.