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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 12h

1/ Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres have started a "data centre war" for which Russia is ill-prepared, argues a Russian warblogger. He forecasts a disastrous collapse of Russia's digital economy if Ukraine's retaliatory attacks on Russian data centres continue. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1/ Russia has experienced a huge increase in corruption cases over the last five years, with over 50,000 cases being heard in that time, 3 trillion rubles ($35 billion) in stolen assets being recovered, and a 500% increase in the number of top officials being arrested. ⬇️

Former Kursk Region Governor Alexei Smirnov on trial, 2 April 2026

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/ While attention has been focused on the elimination of the Russian salient north of Liman, Russian warbloggers are reporting an increasing number of setbacks for their forces elsewhere in Ukraine. "Autumn will bring many unpleasant surprises," one predicts gloomily. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1/ How easy is it to destroy a major bridge solely with aerial bombardment? Both Russia and Ukraine have attempted it, but the example of the Zatoka Bridge shows that it is very difficult to do. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/ Moscow has reportedly been put on plague alert as part of a 'special sanitary operation', while hospitals in Irkutsk have been closed and medical staff put under lockdown. Indiscriminate Russian government censorship is leading to a wave of panicked rumours and criticism. ⬇️

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‼️ Russia: “The FSB has proposed reducing the issuance of uniforms to military personnel due to budget shortages.” 🍿 ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/04/f...

The FSB has proposed reducing the issuance of uniforms to military personnel due to budget shortages.

The FSB has proposed changing the standards for providing military personnel with uniforms, citing the need to "optimize budget expenditures," according to Parlamentskaya Gazeta. The agency has prepared two drafts that would reduce the number of certain items of clothing issued.

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mike1880 @mike1880.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"According to Verstka's calculations, since the start of the war against Ukraine, Kadyrov and members of his family have received approximately 150 different awards."

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‼️Russia: “Nearly 200 people have been hospitalized in the Irkutsk region with suspected plague infection.” ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/p...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1/ Humiliating scenes of Russian surrendering en masse to Ukrainian forces in the Lyman salient are continuing to produce recriminations among Russian warbloggers. One lays the blame on a "rigged" military hierarchy dominated by incompetent "sycophants and lackeys". ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/ What does it take to become 'meat' in the Russian army? The bottom line, observes one Russian warblogger, is that anyone can become a disposable assault trooper for use in a suicidal attack – it just depends on your commander's attitude and who you might have annoyed. ⬇️

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 01/10/2026

Russian sources report renewed Ukrainian activity on the left bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region. They claim Ukrainian assault groups are operating near the Antonivskyi Bridge and Dachi, attempting to establish conditions for a foothold while FPV drones isolate the area. #Ukraine

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 01/10/2026

Ukraine declined an offer of retired Australian Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopters, Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko said. Although Australia was prepared to provide them free of charge, Ukraine determined that maintenance, combat readiness and pilot training would be too costly. #Ukraine

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HC Strien @hcstrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RU Verluste im September 46T Mann - dritthöchster Monatsverlust, nur Dez 24/Jan 25 lagen höher; Tendenz weiter steigend Kpz: 68, nur Mai 26 noch weniger Spz: 207, im seit Jul 25 übliche Bereich Artillerie: 1696, niedrigste Zahl seit März, aber immer noch höher als davor 1/3

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m still laughing about their plans to drag grain from Stavropol to Murmansk in order to find a port they ship out of without getting blocked by Ukraine.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‼️ Russian Railways September 2026 Loading Update Thread Things have gotten worse, and Russian Railways is back on track to have worse loading than in 2009 if they don’t speed up. Also check out data on 👉 Oil & Oil Products Note: Full data tables are provided in the thread.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/ Ukraine's drone strike campaign has been partly responsible for cutting Russia's oil and gas revenues by 18%, leading to a shortfall of 1.6 trillion rubles ($19 billion) in the Russian treasury. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/ A few weeks after sacred relics of St. Dmitry Donskoy were 'rediscovered' and paraded in occupied regions of Ukraine to boost Russian troops' morale, the Russian Army has reportedly lost them. This comes just over 4 years after the Russian Navy lost the True Cross of Jesus. ⬇️

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile in Russia… “The governor of the Sverdlovsk region promised Russians flying cars.” ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/30/g...

The governor of the Sverdlovsk region promised Russians flying cars.

Flying cars will appear in Russia in the near future, Sverdlovsk Region Governor Denis Pasler announced at the 100+ TechnoBuild forum in Yekaterinburg. "I think we won't have to wait that long—10-20 years at most—for the option of traveling by air," he said ( as quoted by Interfax). Pasler believes the proliferation of such transportation will allow people to live significantly further from large cities and completely change their perception of distance. At air travel speeds of 200-300 km/h, a 50-150 km trip could take 10-30 minutes, the governor noted.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 30/09/2026

Ukraine has reversed part of Russia’s summer advance east of Sloviansk. By late September, Ukrainian forces had regained most of Rai-Oleksandrivka and improved the situation around Mykolaivka and Starodubivka. Russia still retains roughly 99 km² of net summer gains in the sector. #Ukraine

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 30/09/2026

Ukrainian tanks are again moving to frontline firing positions and engaging Russian positions with direct fire. The 475th Code 9.2 Regiment says reconnaissance and aerial cover coordinated with UAV operators allow the armored vehicles to operate despite the drone threat. #Ukraine

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I say that other indicators suggest that “official inflation” are wrong, and you ask “which ones?”… Be aware that I’m showing them to you all the time. Here is one👇 It is also something that would support a key rate hike, THIS is something the Central Bank says it considers in decisions.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‼️ Russia: “In the Arkhangelsk region, following the example of Tula, subsidies for orphans will be redirected to payments to war veterans.” ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/29/v...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/ Russian commanders have been sending their superiors fake AI-generated video reports of successes in the Lyman area, Russian warbloggers complain. This reportedly made the Russian high command oblivious to Ukrainian activity until it was too late. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/ China is displacing Russia as a supplier of military equipment to Central Asia. With Russia's own military-industrial complex under sanctions and with heavy domestic demand due to the Ukraine war, China is now ideally situated to replace Russian defence exports. ⬇️

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ Russia: “Russia's big businesses are afraid of investment because their assets will be "taken away anyway," says VTB CEO.” 😂 We know. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/24/k...

Russia's big businesses are afraid of investment
because their assets will be "taken away anyway," says VTB CEO.

PETERSBURG, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The head of state-owned VTB Bank, Andrei Kostin, said private property issues, which have once again come to the forefront, are the main problems facing the country's investment climate.

Businessmen fear the introduction of "external management" and the seizure of property under various pretexts.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ Russian courts currently acquit 0.24% of defendants. The Russian government evidently believes this is too high, and is planning to effectively eliminate jury trials, which provide most of the acquittals. Lawyers are calling it "the death of the jury system." ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ The Russian government's efforts to strangle social media are having a significant financial effect on Russian warbloggers. As well as crushing fundraisers to support soldiers in the field, it's also threatening the financial survival of some Telegram channels. ⬇️

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Karsten Schneider @karsten-schneider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will be like everything not fitting into the AfD narrative, it will be ignored🤷‍♂️

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ Russia: “The foundation for supporting ethnic Germans has been added to the list of undesirable organizations.” www.kommersant.ru/doc/8973684

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September 24, 2026, 4:29 AM

The foundation for supporting ethnic Germans has been added to the list of undesirable organizations.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added three foreign NGOs from Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Germany to its list of undesirable organizations. The information was published on the ministry's website.

The list of undesirable organizations includes the Ukrainian civic education center "Almenda," founded in Crimea and operating since 2011, and the German Foundation for the Support of Ethnic Germans Abroad (Stiftung Verbundenheit mit den Deutschen im Ausland). Also included on the register is the British association "Friends of Falun Gong Europe," founded to support followers of the Chinese Falun Gong movement (also known as "Falun Dafa"; recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia and banned). This movement's structures were banned in Russia in 2020.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ Russian military recruiters are using Facebook and Google adverts to recruit "African male actors" with a "strong screen presence" – who are then made to sign contracts to join the Russian army when they arrive in the country. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/ A deluge of new taxes and fees is being imposed on Russians following the State Duma elections. As the Russian government seeks to boost its war-depleted finances, ordinary Russians are about to feel the impact in their wallets. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ This Monday was the fourth anniversary of Russia's mobilisation of around 300,000 men. Russian warbloggers have been marking the event with gloomy retrospectives and complaints about the plight of the men still trapped in involuntary military service. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ Turkey is anticipating a major war with Russia, according to Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin. The jailed former FSB officer warns that Turkey is "preparing feverishly" to fight some time around 2027-29 to reclaim lost Ottoman territories from a disintegrating Russia. ⬇️

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‼️ Russia: “The Central Bank recorded the largest outflow of deposits from banks since the mobilization.” 🍿 ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/22/t...

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not sure exactly what the 5.1 trillion they’re talking about is from But it might be related to these electronic budget numbers

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“"There's no real alternative. Deposit yields are falling. What else is left? Funds are also at a low. Bonds? They're defaulting. Western markets are blocked for us. The only thing left is gold.””

Moreover, a new batch usually sells out within two to three days of release. The price of a bar is around 60,000 rubles. This affordability attracts investors, says Alexey Vyazovsky, Vice President of the Zolotaya Plata company:

"There's no real alternative. Deposit yields are falling. What else is left? Funds are also at a low. Bonds? They're defaulting. Western markets are blocked for us. The only thing left is gold. Students and pensioners are buying it. It's up 10% since the beginning of the year, even more than deposits. And gold has tripled in price in five years.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/09/2026

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has admitted his country doesn't have enough potash to satisfy Donald Trump's demands for the critical fertilizer.

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Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t have enough potash for Trump

“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ Now that the Russian elections are out of the way, the government and oligarchs don't have to pretend to need public favour any more. In the first of what's expected to be a deluge of bad news, food prices have gone up immediately. ⬇️

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 21/09/2026

❗️EU foreign ministers will discuss how to coordinate a response if Russian hybrid actions cause deaths among EU or NATO citizens. The talks are taking place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York amid concern over an increasing number of sabotage incidents attributed to Moscow. #EU

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20/09/2026

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Sybiha says foreign colleagues congratulated him on a “day of burning Moscow” after Ukrainian long-range strikes. He said the scenes were not what Putin expected when he started the war, adding: “Look out the Kremlin window, see the flames over Moscow, and end this war.”

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 13/09/2026

Trump says Zelensky should stop striking diesel fuel in Russia, arguing that Ukrainian attacks are causing a global diesel shortage rather than events in the Middle East. "There are plenty of other targets," Trump said, adding that the US has spoken to Zelensky about avoiding Russian diesel fuel.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1/ Ukrainian footage of the first-ever battle between two unmanned surface vessels (USVs), won by a Ukrainian USV armed with a machine gun, has prompted Russian warbloggers to predict a future of robotic naval battles. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/unit...

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 12/09/2026

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Europe and the US increasingly recognize that if China moves against Taiwan or the first island chain, Xi Jinping could first call Putin to keep the West occupied in Europe. Rutte says the Pacific and European theaters are becoming increasingly interconnected.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1/ While drones have become an iconic feature of the Ukraine war, Russian warbloggers argue that the more important story is the re-emergence of the stormtrooper: "Until an infantryman's balls are hanging over an area, its control cannot be considered complete." ⬇️

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 12/09/2026

Köln: Bauarbeiter finden Fliegerbombe aus dem Römischen Reich www.der-postillon.com/2025/09/blin...

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Köln: Bauarbeiter finden Fliegerbombe aus dem Römischen Reich

Deutschlands größte Tageszeitung der Welt

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

‼️Putin made a startling admission to BRICS leaders: he's either illiterate, delusional, or both. He declared that Russia had outpaced global economic growth in 2023-2025, but this is easily disproven by the numbers. Perhaps he meant it outpaced downwards economic growth? 📉

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