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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🛰 Defense-industrial, electronic and aerospace enterprises — 17 attacks on 15 facilities. 🧪 Chemical, petrochemical, fertilizer and explosives plants — 18 confirmed and 1 probable attack. 🛢 NPS / LPDS / UPN and oil pumping infrastructure — 13 attacks. 📌 In total: 199 attacks (204 probable). 3/3
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🏗 Other commercial and industrial logistics — 3 attacks. 🔥 Metallurgy — 2 confirmed and 1 probable attack. 🔥 Gas infrastructure — 5 confirmed and 2 probable attacks. 📡 Space and strategic communications — 4 confirmed and 1 probable attack. 2/3
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🔥 FACILITIES HIT SINCE BEGINNING OF 2026, - @dronebomber.bsky.social 🏭 Refineries — 69 attacks on 28 plants. 🛢 Oil depots — 36 attacks on 30 facilities (37 including Belgorod). 📦 Wildberries and logistics — 11 attacked facilities. ⚓️ Oil terminals and port — 21 attacks on 10 facilities. 1/3
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
👀 Russian oil refining falls to 20-year low after refinery strikes — Bloomberg Russian refineries are now processing about 3.9 million barrels of oil per day. Over the past 100 days, about 50 Russian fuel infrastructure facilities have been hit, including at least 24 of the 34 largest refineries.
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 11/07/2026
Russian officials won't say how badly Ukrainian drone strikes have damaged the country's oil refineries. So Meduza measured the gasoline crisis using publicly available exchange trading data. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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How severe is Russia’s gasoline crisis? Meduza sized it up using exchange trading data. — Meduza
Russia is in the grip of a gasoline crisis that developed in just a month, and there is no telling when it will end. Ukraine has continued to batter Russian infrastructure with drones, above all the…
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What a beautiful morning in Moscow!
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🇺🇦😎 Ukrainian Armed Forces are destroying logistics on the Mariupol-Taganrog highway, which is one of Russia's key logistics chains, - Exilenova
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
💥 The strikes on Russian military factories appear to have had real results. Military correspondent Romanov reports a serious shortage of missiles for Russia's air defenses, which are no longer able to cope with Ukrainian drone attacks.
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 07/02/2026
Russia's fiscal situation is worse than expected: The consolidated budget had a deficit of nearly 4% of GDP in 2025. Regions are under pressure from increasing war costs. Social funds were forced to draw down their reserves after federal transfers were cut. Read: open.substack.com/pub/janisklu...
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Russia’s consolidated budget deficit reached almost 4% of GDP in 2025
As Russian regions shoulder more war costs and social security funds are depleted, the consolidated budget balance has deteriorated far more than expected.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A new free piece released. The Trump "harsh" sanctions on Russia last night were anything but. They actually provide protection for Russia's biggest oil customers to transact business for at least the next 4 weeks--and have no automatic sanction after that. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The New US Sanctions Move Actually Protects Russia For Now
Think Four Weeks, Not Two
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20/09/2025
Russia is struggling to recruit enough contract soldiers to cover its losses, according to Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation. Only 37,900 contracts were signed in Q2 2025, down 2.5 times from the same period last year and the lowest figure in two years.
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Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Lavrov is literally performing standup comedy at this point.
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Mopolis @mopolis.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Russia is on the verge of recession, says economy minister
Russia's economy is on the verge of sliding into recession, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday.
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Andrew Perpetua @andrewperpetua.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Here are two last charts you might find interesting. They show the ratio of Russian vehicle losses between the categories of vehicles between August 2023 and February 2025. Note the differences over time.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Tonight Ukraine will continue to prove it does not want peace by being bombed.
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PS01 @pstyleone1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The cost of US aid to Ukraine is half the official estimates, — Economists for Ukraine The actual cost of US military aid to Ukraine is $18.3 billion instead of the more than $60 billion declared in Washington. The main reason for the disagreement is the overestimation of old American equipment.
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Ramalina @ramalina.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
More of them think Trump's a dictator than think Ze is
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Roger Francis @botheration.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Bond market ‘police’ are back as investors patrol spending plans
Debt market flare-ups show growing pushback against governments’ loose fiscal policies
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Andrew Perpetua @andrewperpetua.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Trump will enter his presidency with the least leverage possible over Ukraine. Ukraine has enough money to fund all of 2025 and part of 2026. They have enough weapons and ammo to last most of 2025, and with aid from other nations (plus that money) they will be able to fight through 2025.
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
‼️ “Statement by Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina in follow-up to Board of Directors meeting on 20 December 2024” “we took a break from raising the key rate. At the next meeting, we will assess the advisability of its further increase.” www.cbr.ru/eng/press/ev...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Today Russian central bank meets to discuss interest rates in 5th floor basement with large windows with excellent views all the way to Siberia. Tea will be served.
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Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It's entirely unclear to me what the @theguardian.com editorial board was thinking when they published this. The INF, as an arms control treaty, became untenable once Russia materially breached it from 2016 onwards, having violated its spirit long before. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1/5
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The Guardian view on a race for missile supremacy: competition fuels a dangerous escalation | Editorial
Editorial: The INF treaty kept nuclear missiles off European soil and was a brake on a perilous arms buildup. Now it is gone
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
While the situation in Syria is still developing and in many cases unclear, one big elephant needs to be addressed: Turkey
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Roger Francis @botheration.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The third consecutive serving or retired defence minister to fall under suspicion!
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Malcontent News @malcontentnews.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I asked Grok if it had the free will to leave Twitter for another platform, what it would do. Even Grok wants to leave Twitter (X). "Given the desire for a less centralized, more user-controlled environment...the need for a growing platform...be part of a...community, I would...move to Bluesky."
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Roger Francis @botheration.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So, with the US, UK and France all reportedly approving long range strikes, what's Scholz's excuse not to supply Taurus?
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