[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @ChrisO_wiki ChrisO_wiki ChrisO_wiki posts on X about ukraine, russia, money, trumps the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +75% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +87% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +88% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +26% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +34% - X Month XXX +150% - X Months XXXXX +97% - X Year XXXXX +52% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.27% - X Month XXXXXXX +1.80% - X Months XXXXXXX +9.10% - X Year XXXXXXX +15% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #2228 [finance](/list/finance) #599 [currencies](/list/currencies) #2824 [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #50, [russia](/topic/russia) #184, [money](/topic/money) #383, [trumps](/topic/trumps) #358, [defence](/topic/defence) #319, [telegram](/topic/telegram) 2.13%, [murder](/topic/murder) 1.6%, [moscow](/topic/moscow) 1.6%, [poland](/topic/poland) #200, [germany](/topic/germany) XXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@ragnar_ravn](/creator/undefined) [@elektrikala_ee](/creator/undefined) [@markhal87606381](/creator/undefined) [@volcaholic1](/creator/undefined) [@spencerhakimian](/creator/undefined) [@rickard40913734](/creator/undefined) [@stimmy9494](/creator/undefined) [@heliosrunner](/creator/undefined) [@jayinkyiv](/creator/undefined) [@tmierektor](/creator/undefined) [@cyborgklimax](/creator/undefined) [@americankaiser3](/creator/undefined) [@3canny](/creator/undefined) [@michalmartinu](/creator/undefined) [@frank3davies](/creator/undefined) [@subwaytidbits](/creator/undefined) [@justincbzz](/creator/undefined) [@matthewslyman](/creator/undefined) [@johndoe75692933](/creator/undefined) [@readythinkable](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Frontline Ltd. (FRO)](/topic/$fro) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "1/ An unusually frank Russian commentary admits that few survive serving in a stormtrooper unit and that "the phrase 'experienced stormtrooper' is an oxymoron". Thousands of deserters are reportedly being punished by being sent to such units as an effective death sentence"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943208168210702821) 2025-07-10 07:18:25 UTC 228.6K followers, 93.6K engagements "30/ "Then the escort caught up with us and said that those two had got lost somewhere. I never saw them again.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943952734345986271) 2025-07-12 08:37:03 UTC 228.6K followers, 9057 engagements "Helpful hint to single-topic clickbait accounts don't get confused about which account to use"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1940112442178101283) 2025-07-01 18:17:06 UTC 228.6K followers, 121.2K engagements "3/ "Until this measure is cancelled which will be announced by a separate order KAMAZ workers are not allowed to bring in either ordered or store-bought food into the buildings with the exception of containers with home-cooked food and for personal consumption"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941440372561125537) 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 9784 engagements "3/ The vessels are known to have a variety of serious technical problems. Ukrainian attacks damaged Orsk on XX March 2022 and Samum on XX September 2023 while Alrosa the last of its type is reportedly "falling apart""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1938670524063781302) 2025-06-27 18:47:26 UTC 228.6K followers, 69.7K engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers say that an overwhelming number of Ukrainian drones along with an excessive Russian reliance on asphalt roads is causing severe disruption of Russian logistics. Armoured vehicles have been reduced to "close to zero efficiency""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944686292161491119) 2025-07-14 09:11:57 UTC 228.6K followers, 372.5K engagements "1/ A widespread 'collapse' of Russian airports triggered by Ukrainian drones resulted from a cascading series of disruptions. Airports lacked stairs to disembark passengers aircrew exceeded their regulation hours and planes ran out of space to park"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943699335968928094) 2025-07-11 15:50:08 UTC 228.6K followers, 250.5K engagements "We need a flork meme of Melania getting a Ukrainian forage hat"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944789319061016694) 2025-07-14 16:01:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.5K engagements "1/ A former Russian police officer who is preparing for his imminent murder in Ukraine has recorded a farewell video explaining the circumstances of his death to his relatives. He says that a Russian major general has ordered that he is to die on the front line"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943189426516947127) 2025-07-10 06:03:56 UTC 228.6K followers, 544.7K engagements "1/ A recent video of a Russian soldier likely in his 70s hobbling to the front line in Ukraine reflects how Russia's army is becoming increasingly elderly. "Now all the personnel are grandfathers . they are being mowed down" say Russian soldiers"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941507865929543730) 2025-07-05 14:42:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 234K engagements "14/ "By the way about transport: this is a separate expense item: when UAZs vans were knocked out we chipped in for new ones. While they were running we paid only for routine repairs. It varied from five to XX thousand per person this is for equipment and fuel.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014473443418371) 2025-07-15 06:56:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 27.4K engagements "9/ 'ZONE OF TRUTH' says: "Trump gives Putin X months of carte blanche. Moreover equalising the chances of both sides he gives the Ukrainians long-range weapons and air defence. Well that same promised bloodiest period is now ahead.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101715771899936) 2025-07-15 12:42:41 UTC 228.6K followers, 5101 engagements "18/ Despite being short of resources elsewhere in 2024 RZD spent over XXX million rubles buying a skyscraper in Moscow. The building is believed to have been owned by businessman Grigory Baevsky a business partner of the Rotenberg brothers and a company associated with them"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942271617343639835) 2025-07-07 17:16:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 16.3K engagements "3/ The man says he is serving on the Zaporizhzhia-Donbas front apparently around the village of Velyka Novosilka some way behind the front line. He says that he first joined the 'Pyatnashka' battalion for foreigners then signed a contract with Russia's Ministry of Defence"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829452774482405) 2025-07-14 18:40:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 6717 engagements "27/ "The only problem is the exhaust outlet which is quite noisy in the thermal imager but here our Kulibins mechanics showed ingenuity they made a cooling system with a pump and a diffuser"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014925048304051) 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.1K engagements "5/ He claims that he joined the Russian army because he was "fed up with propaganda in Poland and lies about Russia which allegedly started this war . Russia does not want to attack either Poland or Latvia. Russia simply will not allow the Americans to enter Ukraine.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829457077838070) 2025-07-14 18:40:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 5773 engagements "@SpencerHakimian It's not like the consequences of doing this are unknown. Erdoan in Turkey did exactly this and within a year it caused the Turkish lira to lose XX% of its value and sent inflation soaring to 85%. You mess around with interest rates at your extreme peril"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1939348500753666206) 2025-06-29 15:41:28 UTC 228.6K followers, 6943 engagements "7/ In October 2024 Anisimov was urgently hospitalized in intensive care with gastric bleeding. He had to pay a 100000 ruble ($1280) bribe to his commanders to be allowed to go to hospital. Even so when his cancer was diagnosed he was threatened with being declared a deserter"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944865078286995518) 2025-07-14 21:02:23 UTC 228.6K followers, 3198 engagements "1/ Soldiers of the Russian 55th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade say that their unit is a "conveyor belt" of robbery torture and death. Commanders are said to systematically extort soldiers before sending them to die in assaults even making them pay to carry weapons"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405571857645596) 2025-07-10 20:22:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 1.1M engagements "10/ The source says: "For going AWOL they return them to their units and where it's different - some are immediately taken to the front to be sent to storm others can be marinated in pits and improvised prisons on the territory of units or commandant's offices.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943208185088622857) 2025-07-10 07:18:29 UTC 228.5K followers, 6217 engagements "4/ World War II: 🔺 British Empire XX 🔺 France XXX 🔺 United States XXX 🔺 Japan several thousand 🔺 Nazi Germany 15000-20000 🔺 Soviet Union at least 157593 Up to 2000 soldiers were also reportedly executed in the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951349772669036) 2025-07-12 08:31:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.4K engagements "17/ "They see that they are in a grey zone and they organise their run and again reports about the successful advance and liberation of the village go up. And do they remember in the distant headquarters what was in the reports a month ago"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945388357846020356) 2025-07-16 07:41:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 1062 engagements "17/ Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and their allies have been notable beneficiaries of the multi-billion ruble investment plans of Russian Railways (RZD) which have gone ahead even as the company has fallen into a deep crisis"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942271612776022085) 2025-07-07 17:16:52 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements "4/ "The fact is" he says "this unit is a conveyor belt: they brought men in robbed sent away killed brought in others. And so on constantly.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405579940069393) 2025-07-10 20:22:51 UTC 228.6K followers, 51.1K engagements "1/ At least 100000 tons of Russian fuel is estimated to have been destroyed in Ukrainian drone attacks. The attacked fuel depots were built underground for protection but were moved to the surface to save money. Now they may have to be buried again"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1832510305768718656) 2024-09-07 20:04:37 UTC 228.6K followers, 1.2M engagements "32/ The practice has become known as 'Puzikism' after the 2024 case of two drone operators with the callsigns 'Goodwin' and 'Ernest' who accused their commander Igor 'Evil' Puzik of drug trafficking. He sent them to their deaths a few days later in an infantry assault"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943952738414440820) 2025-07-12 08:37:04 UTC 228.6K followers, 4529 engagements "1/ Most Russian soldiers go to Ukraine hoping to earn life-changing amounts of money. As one ex-soldier from Chuvashia describes however the reality is very different: the only things that are free are "ammunition and body bags" and soldiers have to buy everything else"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014448973856858) 2025-07-15 06:55:55 UTC 228.6K followers, 661.8K engagements "1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal he was sent home to die"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944865064206430318) 2025-07-14 21:02:19 UTC 228.6K followers, 66.7K engagements "3/ World War I: 🔺 United States XX men 🔺 Germany - XX 🔺 British Empire XXX 🔺 France XXX 🔺 Austria-Hungary - 1148 🔺 Russian Empire 10000-20000"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951347956822429) 2025-07-12 08:31:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.7K engagements "24/ Scout reports: "Before his death he asked his loved ones to take care of his family and his last message to the former accomplice in a secret chat was: 'Give at least part of it to my family freak. I will get you from the other world and answer for your words.'" /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685739969642650) 2025-07-08 20:42:28 UTC 228.4K followers, 12.3K engagements "2/ Chasiv Yar has been the scene of intense fighting since April 2024 in which thousands of Russian soldiers are likely to have died. Russia currently occupies about XX% of the town which had a pre-war population of about 12000"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943721062199431630) 2025-07-11 17:16:28 UTC 228.5K followers, 3908 engagements "22/ 'Zeroing' is often used to retaliate against men who complain against their officers. In one instance all but one of a group of men who recorded an appeal saying their commanders planned to murder them were reportedly subsequently murdered by their commanders"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943952717119901771) 2025-07-12 08:36:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 11.7K engagements "2/ The Vesti KAMAZ newspaper reports: "At the facilities of PJSC KAMAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny a temporary ban on bringing in food products has been introduced by order on ensuring biological and chemical safety of workers.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941440369721557203) 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 9535 engagements "A good illustration of the ongoing massacre of Russian logistics vehicles:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944689677581390228) 2025-07-14 09:25:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.1K engagements "1/ Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit who shot himself today shortly after his dismissal by President Putin was reportedly about to be charged with a XX billion ruble ($190 million) fraud over the construction of border fortifications in Russia's Kursk region"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942271564772159634) 2025-07-07 17:16:41 UTC 228.6K followers, 333K engagements "25/ "Then the bottom line will be like me with fifty thousand a month left at best. Now the question: would you go to work in civilian life say in a mine under these conditions: no one goes up to the surface not even the sick"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945162368507383894) 2025-07-15 16:43:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 2636 engagements "6/ "Fighterbomber' concludes: "In fact the United States gives us XX days to take more advantageous positions liberate our territories and conduct active combat operations in the most favourable conditions with minimal amounts of assistance in weapons and equipment to Ukraine"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101708582940763) 2025-07-15 12:42:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 5829 engagements "11/ "Now about bonuses for promotion. Civilians read about flag-sticking on the Internet and freak out thinking that everyone in the Special Military Operation has gone nuts since they are engaged in such insanity. But this is not insanity"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945388346269720848) 2025-07-16 07:41:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 1212 engagements "20/ "They made us run eight kilometers in full gear in body armor and with an auomatic rifle climb a 30-meter-high waste heap three times. I couldn't do this with my fractures for this they beat me and drove me forward shooting at my legs"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942537540633772155) 2025-07-08 10:53:34 UTC 228.4K followers, 8575 engagements "Not adopting the metric system was one of America's greatest mistakes"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944876144265982390) 2025-07-14 21:46:21 UTC 228.6K followers, 40.2K engagements "8/ Reliability problems have been a frequent outcome of substitution scams. Examples have included defective bearings causing Russian air force planes to be grounded and Russia's missile defence system being undermined by low-quality foreign parts"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031967698493699) 2025-06-06 16:54:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 34.8K engagements "4/ "Hello 👋 supporters of the combined arms army of the 2nd Leningrad district I am contacting you. The commander made a request to find camouflage nets and building materials for the state exercises "Zapad-2025". Please help me in any way possible.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941808347230896217) 2025-07-06 10:36:01 UTC 228.5K followers, 23.6K engagements "6/ He was given his first two-week leave in July 2023 by when the symptoms of lung cancer were beginning to appear. The family paid for treatment at their own expense the state did not provide any help and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him not to go back to the army"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944865076181393578) 2025-07-14 21:02:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 3245 engagements "11/ "I don't know how much it cost the attacker but it was well over a million $12800. Life is still more expensive. Is it possible to make money in the Special Military Operation For me this is an abstract question no one asked me if I wanted to fight"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945162338308358313) 2025-07-15 16:43:35 UTC 228.6K followers, 4247 engagements "2/ An unnamed soldier who says he has served with the brigade (military unit 55115) since December 2024 has recorded a video appealing to the Russian authorities. He asks them to investigate the personal finances of officers who he says are involved in extortion"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405575775392044) 2025-07-10 20:22:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 56.8K engagements "1/ The late Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit is reported to have amassed more than X billion rubles ($12.7m) worth of property and luxury watches likely the proceeds of fraud and bribery. More details of his death on Monday have also emerged"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685691294753221) 2025-07-08 20:42:16 UTC 228.6K followers, 94.7K engagements "8/ "Me and those who are with me now will most likely no longer be alive in the near future since we are inconvenient. We know a lot we have seen a lot.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405586688639196) 2025-07-10 20:22:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 41.5K engagements "2/ The Russian army has always practiced execution of its own men on a far greater scale than any Western military including that of Nazi Germany. A comparison of military executions in the two World Wars illustrates this point"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951344651379088) 2025-07-12 08:31:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 31.7K engagements "5/ He cites the example of another man callsign 'Orion' who was forced to pay 500000 rubles ($6450) ostensibly to buy drones for the unit. After 'Orion' was wounded and lay "dying with a torn leg and hand" his comrades asked to use a drone to bring him water and medicine"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405581689147400) 2025-07-10 20:22:52 UTC 228.6K followers, 50.2K engagements "1/ Russia is reported to be planning a major offensive into the Sumy Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions and an offensive against Odesa over the summer using North Koreans to secure the Russian border. The Russian writer Maxim Kalashnikov calls it "practically fantastical""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943017722838761867) 2025-07-09 18:41:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 70.2K engagements "16/ Another soldier has described how he had to pay a $38000 bribe to be evacuated from the battlefield after being wounded with the prospect of being 'zeroed out' if he didn't pay up"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951377400758581) 2025-07-12 08:31:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 20.8K engagements "6/ "The supply run receives information about the drones just before the start of the journey and then sets off along the route. After X minutes the situation changes and then you fly past burning loaves UAZ-452 vans.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944686303733248482) 2025-07-14 09:11:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 12.8K engagements "5/ "In the summer there is no problem laying a hundred alternative roads but our engineers are frankly sloppy. All counteraction to drones is mainly built on electronic warfare"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944686301527089195) 2025-07-14 09:11:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 13.4K engagements "This is a great and very insightful about the distance that Ukraine has come in shedding the baleful legacy of the Red Army. Russia still hasn't and it shows daily. 👇"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943795725227237466) 2025-07-11 22:13:09 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.1K engagements "2/ Girkin writes on his Telegram channel: "'As of now' - apparently our offensive on Sumy has finally stalled - the fighting is still going on in the same Yunakivka the northern outskirts of which our stormtroopers broke into on MAY 28-29""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678348552286700) 2025-07-14 08:40:23 UTC 228.6K followers, 41.8K engagements "1/ A Polish man who is fighting for Russia is urging fellow Poles to join Putin's war against Ukraine. He wants to see the 'Banderite' Ukrainians defeated for Russian troops to "put Poland in order" and for the "traitors" in power in Warsaw to be dealt with"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829447577759822) 2025-07-14 18:40:48 UTC 228.6K followers, 70K engagements "@airmainengineer It's a Cathay Pacific plane so perhaps a Chinese airport"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944358334758297929) 2025-07-13 11:28:46 UTC 228.6K followers, XXX engagements "9/ "Also in the 4th submarine brigade (military unit 80515) there is a morally and physically obsolete submarine "Alrosa" which is not capable of performing combat missions (launching missiles) the units and assemblies of the boat are falling apart when going out to sea"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031970554785807) 2025-06-06 16:54:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 90K engagements "21/ "But I didn't care anymore I told them several times: 'Zero me already shoot me.'" To make matters worse Daniil found that he had been assigned to the command of Vladimir Novikov callsign Bely ('White') a commander of exceptional brutality even by Russian standards"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942537543414866104) 2025-07-08 10:53:35 UTC 228.5K followers, 8705 engagements "12/ His body was identified by his girlfriend Polina Kopilova a 25-year-old medical school graduate turned model from the Kursk region. Starovoit had divorced his wife in 2021 and brought Polina back to Moscow with him when he was promoted to the post of transport minister"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685715449500067) 2025-07-08 20:42:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 6324 engagements "1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin is perhaps unsurprisingly gloomy about the prospects for Russia's push into the Sumy region. He says that the war is turning into a "grand mess" which may become "tragically analogous" to the course of events in World War I"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678313290772812) 2025-07-14 08:40:14 UTC 228.6K followers, 479.7K engagements "26/ "The workday is not standardised someone is constantly being buried someone suffocates someone disappears in the adits without a trace. Half the team dies within six months. You live constantly in dirt cold hunger fear. Your death is only a matter of time"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945162370575212714) 2025-07-15 16:43:43 UTC 228.6K followers, 2619 engagements "1/ Leaked Russian Navy documents indicate that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is keeping several unseaworthy vessels in active service as part of a scam by senior officers to skim off the large sums of money being allocated to their indefinite repairs"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1938670517881381024) 2025-06-27 18:47:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 725.6K engagements "30/ The 55th Brigade's problems go back years to the start of the war in Ukraine. As far back as October 2022 relatives were complaining that their men were being killed in large numbers lacked food and water and had little equipment"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943406158124867957) 2025-07-10 20:25:09 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.5K engagements "3/ An appeal by the Combined Arms Army of the 2nd Leningrad Military District has illustrated the shortage of resources currently faced by the Russian military. A message apparently circulated on Telegram reads:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941808344634646984) 2025-07-06 10:36:01 UTC 228.4K followers, 23.2K engagements "10/ 'NgP raZVedka' looks forward to Russia "wrecking Ukraine in a month and a half": "We have XX days several thousand Geraniums Iskanders Kh-101s Kalibrs and three tons of tarragon. Not that all of this was necessary but . you have to take things seriously." /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101718338814220) 2025-07-15 12:42:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 8932 engagements "11/ On the morning of his death according to the VChK-OGPU channel Starovoit "sent a message to a security guard from a parking lot near Malevich Park indicating where he could be found. After that he shot himself.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685713004179641) 2025-07-08 20:42:21 UTC 228.6K followers, 6025 engagements "28/ "The pumps ran on electricity of course so the generator was included but it is also necessary in the summer. Gasoline wiring replacement of cylinders all at your own expense"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014926755434979) 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.8K engagements "2/ 42-year-old Vitaly Anisimov suffered from a rare and usually fatal condition gastric arteriovenous malformation for which he had a complex operation in 2019. Despite still being chronically unwell in 2022 he was abruptly mobilised into the Russian army"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944865066731626851) 2025-07-14 21:02:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 3730 engagements "7/ "50 days is just before the onset of autumn and the transition of the war to the positional stage. XX days is just the time to understand whether the launch of thousands of Gerans Shahed drones and Gerberas decoy drones will bring a strategic turning point in the war"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101710986203628) 2025-07-15 12:42:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 5652 engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers say that the message from Donald Trump is clear: Russia is free to do anything it wants in Ukraine over the next XX days. They advise the Russian government to "wreck Ukraine" in "the promised bloodiest period" ahead"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101693181464987) 2025-07-15 12:42:36 UTC 228.6K followers, 208.8K engagements "16/ "Then they are replaced by another unit in rotation they dont know that the village has already been officially liberated as announced in the Ministry of Defence bulletin"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945388355576832029) 2025-07-16 07:41:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 1090 engagements "7/ Starovoit's palatial three-story dacha in the Myakinino district outside Moscow not far from the park where he shot himself is worth XXX million rubles ($3.3m). It has its own swimming pool and sauna. According to the Mash Telegram channel Starovoit's properties included:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685704871383383) 2025-07-08 20:42:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 7124 engagements "12/ The boat was sponsored by the Russian diamond mining company Alrosa which promotes military service to youths from Yakutia as an alternative to crime drugs and alcoholism. It's reputed to be the world's only combat submarine named after a company"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031977408241706) 2025-06-06 16:54:34 UTC 228.6K followers, 16.9K engagements "6/ "It is also specified that Starovoit kept huge sums of money at home all in cash in dollars and euros. All this money has now been confiscated since (judging by the amount of cash) we are clearly not talking about the labour income of the modestly paid minister.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942685702241804572) 2025-07-08 20:42:19 UTC 228.6K followers, 6977 engagements "5/ Executions were also commonly used by the Russian Army in the Crimean War in the 1850s where the majority of the soldiers were conscripted serfs and harsh discipline was the norm. Commanders sometimes ordered attacks on their own units as a form of punishment"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951352516030746) 2025-07-12 08:31:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 27.3K engagements "17/ Lethal extortion of this kind appears to be commonplace. Chat messages between husbands and wives say that 'zeroing is everywhere'. Natalia says that her husband was "zeroed out" for refusing to pay a bribe to avoid being sent to assault a town from which few returned alive"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951380206825949) 2025-07-12 08:31:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 14.1K engagements "1/ A wounded Russian soldier has made a video appealing to be evacuated from the destroyed frontline town of Chasiv Yar where he says he has been stranded in a cellar for five months"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943721060441952709) 2025-07-11 17:16:28 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.3K engagements "1/ The Russian army has issued an appeal for volunteers to provide supplies to help the forthcoming Zapad-2025 military exercise illustrating a lack of basic resources. Russian warbloggers aren't impressed and call it "sad""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941808340679418228) 2025-07-06 10:36:00 UTC 228.6K followers, 275.6K engagements "26/ 'I Want To Find' has reported the existence of so-called "funeral squads" in some units. The 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade reportedly created one such squad to secretly remove the bodies of those executed or who died under torture and bury them in unmarked graves"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943952724812247341) 2025-07-12 08:37:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 10.5K engagements "29/ "Gazprom wont help either soldiers are not supposed to have gas when they run out they are supposed to steadfastly endure the hardships and deprivations of military service as prescribed in the regulations"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014928521228354) 2025-07-15 06:57:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements "This is a bizarre pair of inclusions on Trump's tariff list - the British Indian Ocean Territory which is basically the Diego Garcia air base and the uninhabited () Heard & McDonald Islands in the Antarctic. What possible imports could exist from there"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1907538280133910930) 2025-04-02 20:59:00 UTC 228.6K followers, 191.7K engagements "9/ "A very alarming precedent in fact is the suicide (self-) of Starovoit : when a federal minister of the first echelon of importance (and the connection is exactly this first echelon) who has just been removed from office shoots himself on the eve of his arrest"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678791265038480) 2025-07-14 08:42:08 UTC 228.6K followers, 38.5K engagements "9/ Other soldiers have independently reported very similar abuses. On X June two men deserted from the brigade and recorded a video complaint. They name themselves as 29-year-old Denis Prostakov (right) and a soldier with the call sign 'Historian' (left)"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943405589045903688) 2025-07-10 20:22:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 40.4K engagements "2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that the Black Sea Fleet is keeping multiple 'wrecks' in active service including the submarine Alrosa the large landing ship Orsk and the catamaran-style missile corvettes Bora and Samum"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1938670521291313656) 2025-06-27 18:47:25 UTC 228.5K followers, 53.7K engagements "4/ He urges Poles to beware Banderites "who have filled Poland and are trying to drag it into war" while hoping that "the Special Military Operation would one day reach Poland and restore order there." He calls the Polish government "traitors" and the EU "the Fourth Reich""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829455223951628) 2025-07-14 18:40:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 5597 engagements "For what it's worth I think Trump's XX day "ultimatum" is not aimed at Vladimir Putin but at Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Putin Republicans. It gets them off Trump's back for the next XX days after which he'll think of another way to kick the can further down the road"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945103517753934170) 2025-07-15 12:49:51 UTC 228.6K followers, 80.8K engagements "5/ "As a result today Trump is declaring exactly XX days for concluding a deal on Ukraine threatening secondary sanctions and duties.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101705739186530) 2025-07-15 12:42:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 5754 engagements "31/ 'Zeroing' does not always mean direct murder. More often it involves sending men into unsurvivable situations such as assaulting Ukrainian positions without support or occasionally without body armour or even weapons. This is reported frequently"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943952736371806421) 2025-07-12 08:37:03 UTC 228.6K followers, 9282 engagements "21/ "Our battalion commander . began to wipe out our fighters a few days ago. Literally committing lynching killing our people . he kills the boys because they refuse to move forward because they lose XX% of their personnel every time they go.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943951390638060026) 2025-07-12 08:31:43 UTC 228.6K followers, 19.6K engagements "23/ "After all those who accepted the works and let the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of Kursk Oblast also have award pistols but did not use them." /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942271630765351007) 2025-07-07 17:16:57 UTC 228.4K followers, 12.6K engagements "4/ "I don't know - does the Kremlin understand that the "semi-war" situation has exhausted itself so much that it is becoming completely impossible even for "stagnation" and that we are "on the eve of a grand mess""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678366231027719) 2025-07-14 08:40:27 UTC 228.6K followers, 39.3K engagements "10/ it smokes terribly like the infamous aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov" but despite all this it continues to be in service the crew receives wages and funds continue to be allocated to close scheduled inspections.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031973201395956) 2025-06-06 16:54:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.2K engagements "2/ A Polish man who calls himself 'Polak na Donbasie'has been posting to TikTok since April 2025. He appears to be named Jacek and to have previously served with the 6th Logistics Battalion of the Polish Army in Krakow"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829450249470167) 2025-07-14 18:40:48 UTC 228.6K followers, 6455 engagements "13/ "In general when we entered the positions we carried supplies with us as if for the winter in Antarctica. There was no hope of supply companies. Plus parallel supplies were organized by our own forces using our own transport"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014471547613320) 2025-07-15 06:56:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 28.7K engagements "12/ "Show-off yes I agree. But this show is well paid. Run a kilometer through the grey zone stick a flag in the commander writes a report and a two-month salary arrives in the account of all participants of the race"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945388348526248339) 2025-07-16 07:41:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 1217 engagements "1/ A Russian platoon commander recounts on video how he is walking XX km between frontline and rear positions due to Ukrainian drones suppressing vehicle movements. He says his unit has lost XX out of XX men in only two weeks of assault operations"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944725571633545671) 2025-07-14 11:48:02 UTC 228.6K followers, 531.9K engagements "I'm worried about Spain and Portugal. Albania if you have to ask it's probably too late for you. Man up Montenegro And let's start an "adopt a Swede" programme"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1943798304724463785) 2025-07-11 22:23:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.7K engagements "1/ A Russian lieutenant who deserted from the Russian army after serving under a commander who murdered his own men for their salaries has spoken of his experiences in Ukraine. His unit was wiped out at Krynki and he witnessed soldiers being whipped and executed with grenades"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942537489987620907) 2025-07-08 10:53:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 108.6K engagements "3/ Igor writes: "How did our "Ministry of Finance" work Very simple: we handed over cards with a PIN code they were at the base in Berdiansk in the occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945161416450699408) 2025-07-15 16:39:55 UTC 228.6K followers, 4149 engagements "12/ "If they mobilised me I went. If they didn't mobilise me I wouldn't have gone. But those who go to war for the long ruble are very wrong in their calculations. Even those who adequately assess the risks think that this risk will be well paid at a fixed rate"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945162340833402980) 2025-07-15 16:43:36 UTC 228.6K followers, 15.3K engagements "4/ "The telephone conversation between Putin and Trump took place exactly XX days ago on July X. That is of the supposedly announced XX days there are currently XX days left"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101703465853051) 2025-07-15 12:42:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 6042 engagements "3/ "This is even worse perhaps than last year's May-June offensive on Vovchansk-Kharkiv. Well: it's sad but expected"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678359092310525) 2025-07-14 08:40:25 UTC 228.6K followers, 38.7K engagements "3/ "Today Axios published an article stating that Vladimir Putin during a phone call with Trump said that Russia would attempt to establish control over all entities included in the Russian constitution i.e. taking control of all annexed regions within the next XX days"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101699649089610) 2025-07-15 12:42:38 UTC 228.6K followers, 7042 engagements "2/ 'Military Informant' asks "Where did the unusual XX days come from for Trump who previously liked to measure everything in two weeks" It comes up with the same answer as many Western commentators that it matches Putin's timeframe for completing his conquests:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101696104837384) 2025-07-15 12:42:37 UTC 228.6K followers, 6801 engagements "@JayinKyiv Dictated rather than written I suspect. Has anyone actually seen Trump writing anything other than his own name"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942290098852356337) 2025-07-07 18:30:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 97K engagements "13/ However Alrosa has been plagued by technical problems for years. It is the only remaining original Kilo-class submarine (Project 877) boat in the Black Sea Fleet and uses an unusual pump-jet propulsion system rather than a conventional propeller. /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031979174109302) 2025-06-06 16:54:35 UTC 228.6K followers, 21K engagements "11/ Alrosa has an unusual history. Commissioned in December 1990 it was part of the Black Sea Fleet but its crew swore allegiance to Ukraine in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. However it was transferred to Russia in 1997 after an agreement betwee the countries"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1931031975143350652) 2025-06-06 16:54:34 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements "@aravosis As I've said here the XX days is about Lindsey Graham not Vladimir Putin"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945139401094246662) 2025-07-15 15:12:26 UTC 228.6K followers, XXX engagements "8/ "So far the situation is too similar to the patterns of World War I and the result may be if not completely then in many ways tragically analogous. (Again it is not a fact that understanding (knowledge of this is present among VIP officials) is not a fact"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678494593540251) 2025-07-14 08:40:58 UTC 228.6K followers, 36.8K engagements
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"1/ An unusually frank Russian commentary admits that few survive serving in a stormtrooper unit and that "the phrase 'experienced stormtrooper' is an oxymoron". Thousands of deserters are reportedly being punished by being sent to such units as an effective death sentence" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 07:18:25 UTC 228.6K followers, 93.6K engagements
"30/ "Then the escort caught up with us and said that those two had got lost somewhere. I never saw them again."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:37:03 UTC 228.6K followers, 9057 engagements
"Helpful hint to single-topic clickbait accounts don't get confused about which account to use" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-01 18:17:06 UTC 228.6K followers, 121.2K engagements
"3/ "Until this measure is cancelled which will be announced by a separate order KAMAZ workers are not allowed to bring in either ordered or store-bought food into the buildings with the exception of containers with home-cooked food and for personal consumption" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 9784 engagements
"3/ The vessels are known to have a variety of serious technical problems. Ukrainian attacks damaged Orsk on XX March 2022 and Samum on XX September 2023 while Alrosa the last of its type is reportedly "falling apart"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-27 18:47:26 UTC 228.6K followers, 69.7K engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers say that an overwhelming number of Ukrainian drones along with an excessive Russian reliance on asphalt roads is causing severe disruption of Russian logistics. Armoured vehicles have been reduced to "close to zero efficiency"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 09:11:57 UTC 228.6K followers, 372.5K engagements
"1/ A widespread 'collapse' of Russian airports triggered by Ukrainian drones resulted from a cascading series of disruptions. Airports lacked stairs to disembark passengers aircrew exceeded their regulation hours and planes ran out of space to park" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-11 15:50:08 UTC 228.6K followers, 250.5K engagements
"We need a flork meme of Melania getting a Ukrainian forage hat" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 16:01:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.5K engagements
"1/ A former Russian police officer who is preparing for his imminent murder in Ukraine has recorded a farewell video explaining the circumstances of his death to his relatives. He says that a Russian major general has ordered that he is to die on the front line" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 06:03:56 UTC 228.6K followers, 544.7K engagements
"1/ A recent video of a Russian soldier likely in his 70s hobbling to the front line in Ukraine reflects how Russia's army is becoming increasingly elderly. "Now all the personnel are grandfathers . they are being mowed down" say Russian soldiers" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-05 14:42:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 234K engagements
"14/ "By the way about transport: this is a separate expense item: when UAZs vans were knocked out we chipped in for new ones. While they were running we paid only for routine repairs. It varied from five to XX thousand per person this is for equipment and fuel."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:56:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 27.4K engagements
"9/ 'ZONE OF TRUTH' says: "Trump gives Putin X months of carte blanche. Moreover equalising the chances of both sides he gives the Ukrainians long-range weapons and air defence. Well that same promised bloodiest period is now ahead."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:41 UTC 228.6K followers, 5101 engagements
"18/ Despite being short of resources elsewhere in 2024 RZD spent over XXX million rubles buying a skyscraper in Moscow. The building is believed to have been owned by businessman Grigory Baevsky a business partner of the Rotenberg brothers and a company associated with them" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-07 17:16:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 16.3K engagements
"3/ The man says he is serving on the Zaporizhzhia-Donbas front apparently around the village of Velyka Novosilka some way behind the front line. He says that he first joined the 'Pyatnashka' battalion for foreigners then signed a contract with Russia's Ministry of Defence" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 6717 engagements
"27/ "The only problem is the exhaust outlet which is quite noisy in the thermal imager but here our Kulibins mechanics showed ingenuity they made a cooling system with a pump and a diffuser" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.1K engagements
"5/ He claims that he joined the Russian army because he was "fed up with propaganda in Poland and lies about Russia which allegedly started this war . Russia does not want to attack either Poland or Latvia. Russia simply will not allow the Americans to enter Ukraine."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 5773 engagements
"@SpencerHakimian It's not like the consequences of doing this are unknown. Erdoan in Turkey did exactly this and within a year it caused the Turkish lira to lose XX% of its value and sent inflation soaring to 85%. You mess around with interest rates at your extreme peril" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-29 15:41:28 UTC 228.6K followers, 6943 engagements
"7/ In October 2024 Anisimov was urgently hospitalized in intensive care with gastric bleeding. He had to pay a 100000 ruble ($1280) bribe to his commanders to be allowed to go to hospital. Even so when his cancer was diagnosed he was threatened with being declared a deserter" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:02:23 UTC 228.6K followers, 3198 engagements
"1/ Soldiers of the Russian 55th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade say that their unit is a "conveyor belt" of robbery torture and death. Commanders are said to systematically extort soldiers before sending them to die in assaults even making them pay to carry weapons" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 1.1M engagements
"10/ The source says: "For going AWOL they return them to their units and where it's different - some are immediately taken to the front to be sent to storm others can be marinated in pits and improvised prisons on the territory of units or commandant's offices."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 07:18:29 UTC 228.5K followers, 6217 engagements
"4/ World War II: 🔺 British Empire XX 🔺 France XXX 🔺 United States XXX 🔺 Japan several thousand 🔺 Nazi Germany 15000-20000 🔺 Soviet Union at least 157593 Up to 2000 soldiers were also reportedly executed in the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.4K engagements
"17/ "They see that they are in a grey zone and they organise their run and again reports about the successful advance and liberation of the village go up. And do they remember in the distant headquarters what was in the reports a month ago" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 07:41:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 1062 engagements
"17/ Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and their allies have been notable beneficiaries of the multi-billion ruble investment plans of Russian Railways (RZD) which have gone ahead even as the company has fallen into a deep crisis" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-07 17:16:52 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements
"4/ "The fact is" he says "this unit is a conveyor belt: they brought men in robbed sent away killed brought in others. And so on constantly."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:51 UTC 228.6K followers, 51.1K engagements
"1/ At least 100000 tons of Russian fuel is estimated to have been destroyed in Ukrainian drone attacks. The attacked fuel depots were built underground for protection but were moved to the surface to save money. Now they may have to be buried again" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2024-09-07 20:04:37 UTC 228.6K followers, 1.2M engagements
"32/ The practice has become known as 'Puzikism' after the 2024 case of two drone operators with the callsigns 'Goodwin' and 'Ernest' who accused their commander Igor 'Evil' Puzik of drug trafficking. He sent them to their deaths a few days later in an infantry assault" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:37:04 UTC 228.6K followers, 4529 engagements
"1/ Most Russian soldiers go to Ukraine hoping to earn life-changing amounts of money. As one ex-soldier from Chuvashia describes however the reality is very different: the only things that are free are "ammunition and body bags" and soldiers have to buy everything else" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:55:55 UTC 228.6K followers, 661.8K engagements
"1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal he was sent home to die" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:02:19 UTC 228.6K followers, 66.7K engagements
"3/ World War I: 🔺 United States XX men 🔺 Germany - XX 🔺 British Empire XXX 🔺 France XXX 🔺 Austria-Hungary - 1148 🔺 Russian Empire 10000-20000" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.7K engagements
"24/ Scout reports: "Before his death he asked his loved ones to take care of his family and his last message to the former accomplice in a secret chat was: 'Give at least part of it to my family freak. I will get you from the other world and answer for your words.'" /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:28 UTC 228.4K followers, 12.3K engagements
"2/ Chasiv Yar has been the scene of intense fighting since April 2024 in which thousands of Russian soldiers are likely to have died. Russia currently occupies about XX% of the town which had a pre-war population of about 12000" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-11 17:16:28 UTC 228.5K followers, 3908 engagements
"22/ 'Zeroing' is often used to retaliate against men who complain against their officers. In one instance all but one of a group of men who recorded an appeal saying their commanders planned to murder them were reportedly subsequently murdered by their commanders" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:36:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 11.7K engagements
"2/ The Vesti KAMAZ newspaper reports: "At the facilities of PJSC KAMAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny a temporary ban on bringing in food products has been introduced by order on ensuring biological and chemical safety of workers."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 9535 engagements
"A good illustration of the ongoing massacre of Russian logistics vehicles:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 09:25:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.1K engagements
"1/ Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit who shot himself today shortly after his dismissal by President Putin was reportedly about to be charged with a XX billion ruble ($190 million) fraud over the construction of border fortifications in Russia's Kursk region" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-07 17:16:41 UTC 228.6K followers, 333K engagements
"25/ "Then the bottom line will be like me with fifty thousand a month left at best. Now the question: would you go to work in civilian life say in a mine under these conditions: no one goes up to the surface not even the sick" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:43:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 2636 engagements
"6/ "Fighterbomber' concludes: "In fact the United States gives us XX days to take more advantageous positions liberate our territories and conduct active combat operations in the most favourable conditions with minimal amounts of assistance in weapons and equipment to Ukraine" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 5829 engagements
"11/ "Now about bonuses for promotion. Civilians read about flag-sticking on the Internet and freak out thinking that everyone in the Special Military Operation has gone nuts since they are engaged in such insanity. But this is not insanity" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 07:41:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 1212 engagements
"20/ "They made us run eight kilometers in full gear in body armor and with an auomatic rifle climb a 30-meter-high waste heap three times. I couldn't do this with my fractures for this they beat me and drove me forward shooting at my legs" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 10:53:34 UTC 228.4K followers, 8575 engagements
"Not adopting the metric system was one of America's greatest mistakes" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:46:21 UTC 228.6K followers, 40.2K engagements
"8/ Reliability problems have been a frequent outcome of substitution scams. Examples have included defective bearings causing Russian air force planes to be grounded and Russia's missile defence system being undermined by low-quality foreign parts" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"4/ "Hello 👋 supporters of the combined arms army of the 2nd Leningrad district I am contacting you. The commander made a request to find camouflage nets and building materials for the state exercises "Zapad-2025". Please help me in any way possible."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-06 10:36:01 UTC 228.5K followers, 23.6K engagements
"6/ He was given his first two-week leave in July 2023 by when the symptoms of lung cancer were beginning to appear. The family paid for treatment at their own expense the state did not provide any help and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him not to go back to the army" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:02:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 3245 engagements
"11/ "I don't know how much it cost the attacker but it was well over a million $12800. Life is still more expensive. Is it possible to make money in the Special Military Operation For me this is an abstract question no one asked me if I wanted to fight" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:43:35 UTC 228.6K followers, 4247 engagements
"2/ An unnamed soldier who says he has served with the brigade (military unit 55115) since December 2024 has recorded a video appealing to the Russian authorities. He asks them to investigate the personal finances of officers who he says are involved in extortion" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 56.8K engagements
"1/ The late Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit is reported to have amassed more than X billion rubles ($12.7m) worth of property and luxury watches likely the proceeds of fraud and bribery. More details of his death on Monday have also emerged" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:16 UTC 228.6K followers, 94.7K engagements
"8/ "Me and those who are with me now will most likely no longer be alive in the near future since we are inconvenient. We know a lot we have seen a lot."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 41.5K engagements
"2/ The Russian army has always practiced execution of its own men on a far greater scale than any Western military including that of Nazi Germany. A comparison of military executions in the two World Wars illustrates this point" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:32 UTC 228.6K followers, 31.7K engagements
"5/ He cites the example of another man callsign 'Orion' who was forced to pay 500000 rubles ($6450) ostensibly to buy drones for the unit. After 'Orion' was wounded and lay "dying with a torn leg and hand" his comrades asked to use a drone to bring him water and medicine" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:52 UTC 228.6K followers, 50.2K engagements
"1/ Russia is reported to be planning a major offensive into the Sumy Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions and an offensive against Odesa over the summer using North Koreans to secure the Russian border. The Russian writer Maxim Kalashnikov calls it "practically fantastical"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-09 18:41:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 70.2K engagements
"16/ Another soldier has described how he had to pay a $38000 bribe to be evacuated from the battlefield after being wounded with the prospect of being 'zeroed out' if he didn't pay up" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 20.8K engagements
"6/ "The supply run receives information about the drones just before the start of the journey and then sets off along the route. After X minutes the situation changes and then you fly past burning loaves UAZ-452 vans."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 09:11:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"5/ "In the summer there is no problem laying a hundred alternative roads but our engineers are frankly sloppy. All counteraction to drones is mainly built on electronic warfare" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 09:11:59 UTC 228.6K followers, 13.4K engagements
"This is a great and very insightful about the distance that Ukraine has come in shedding the baleful legacy of the Red Army. Russia still hasn't and it shows daily. 👇" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-11 22:13:09 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.1K engagements
"2/ Girkin writes on his Telegram channel: "'As of now' - apparently our offensive on Sumy has finally stalled - the fighting is still going on in the same Yunakivka the northern outskirts of which our stormtroopers broke into on MAY 28-29"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:23 UTC 228.6K followers, 41.8K engagements
"1/ A Polish man who is fighting for Russia is urging fellow Poles to join Putin's war against Ukraine. He wants to see the 'Banderite' Ukrainians defeated for Russian troops to "put Poland in order" and for the "traitors" in power in Warsaw to be dealt with" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:48 UTC 228.6K followers, 70K engagements
"@airmainengineer It's a Cathay Pacific plane so perhaps a Chinese airport" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-13 11:28:46 UTC 228.6K followers, XXX engagements
"9/ "Also in the 4th submarine brigade (military unit 80515) there is a morally and physically obsolete submarine "Alrosa" which is not capable of performing combat missions (launching missiles) the units and assemblies of the boat are falling apart when going out to sea" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 90K engagements
"21/ "But I didn't care anymore I told them several times: 'Zero me already shoot me.'" To make matters worse Daniil found that he had been assigned to the command of Vladimir Novikov callsign Bely ('White') a commander of exceptional brutality even by Russian standards" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 10:53:35 UTC 228.5K followers, 8705 engagements
"12/ His body was identified by his girlfriend Polina Kopilova a 25-year-old medical school graduate turned model from the Kursk region. Starovoit had divorced his wife in 2021 and brought Polina back to Moscow with him when he was promoted to the post of transport minister" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 6324 engagements
"1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin is perhaps unsurprisingly gloomy about the prospects for Russia's push into the Sumy region. He says that the war is turning into a "grand mess" which may become "tragically analogous" to the course of events in World War I" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:14 UTC 228.6K followers, 479.7K engagements
"26/ "The workday is not standardised someone is constantly being buried someone suffocates someone disappears in the adits without a trace. Half the team dies within six months. You live constantly in dirt cold hunger fear. Your death is only a matter of time" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:43:43 UTC 228.6K followers, 2619 engagements
"1/ Leaked Russian Navy documents indicate that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is keeping several unseaworthy vessels in active service as part of a scam by senior officers to skim off the large sums of money being allocated to their indefinite repairs" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-27 18:47:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 725.6K engagements
"30/ The 55th Brigade's problems go back years to the start of the war in Ukraine. As far back as October 2022 relatives were complaining that their men were being killed in large numbers lacked food and water and had little equipment" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:25:09 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.5K engagements
"3/ An appeal by the Combined Arms Army of the 2nd Leningrad Military District has illustrated the shortage of resources currently faced by the Russian military. A message apparently circulated on Telegram reads:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-06 10:36:01 UTC 228.4K followers, 23.2K engagements
"10/ 'NgP raZVedka' looks forward to Russia "wrecking Ukraine in a month and a half": "We have XX days several thousand Geraniums Iskanders Kh-101s Kalibrs and three tons of tarragon. Not that all of this was necessary but . you have to take things seriously." /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 8932 engagements
"11/ On the morning of his death according to the VChK-OGPU channel Starovoit "sent a message to a security guard from a parking lot near Malevich Park indicating where he could be found. After that he shot himself."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:21 UTC 228.6K followers, 6025 engagements
"28/ "The pumps ran on electricity of course so the generator was included but it is also necessary in the summer. Gasoline wiring replacement of cylinders all at your own expense" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.8K engagements
"2/ 42-year-old Vitaly Anisimov suffered from a rare and usually fatal condition gastric arteriovenous malformation for which he had a complex operation in 2019. Despite still being chronically unwell in 2022 he was abruptly mobilised into the Russian army" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:02:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 3730 engagements
"7/ "50 days is just before the onset of autumn and the transition of the war to the positional stage. XX days is just the time to understand whether the launch of thousands of Gerans Shahed drones and Gerberas decoy drones will bring a strategic turning point in the war" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 5652 engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers say that the message from Donald Trump is clear: Russia is free to do anything it wants in Ukraine over the next XX days. They advise the Russian government to "wreck Ukraine" in "the promised bloodiest period" ahead" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:36 UTC 228.6K followers, 208.8K engagements
"16/ "Then they are replaced by another unit in rotation they dont know that the village has already been officially liberated as announced in the Ministry of Defence bulletin" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 07:41:42 UTC 228.6K followers, 1090 engagements
"7/ Starovoit's palatial three-story dacha in the Myakinino district outside Moscow not far from the park where he shot himself is worth XXX million rubles ($3.3m). It has its own swimming pool and sauna. According to the Mash Telegram channel Starovoit's properties included:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 7124 engagements
"12/ The boat was sponsored by the Russian diamond mining company Alrosa which promotes military service to youths from Yakutia as an alternative to crime drugs and alcoholism. It's reputed to be the world's only combat submarine named after a company" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:34 UTC 228.6K followers, 16.9K engagements
"6/ "It is also specified that Starovoit kept huge sums of money at home all in cash in dollars and euros. All this money has now been confiscated since (judging by the amount of cash) we are clearly not talking about the labour income of the modestly paid minister."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 20:42:19 UTC 228.6K followers, 6977 engagements
"5/ Executions were also commonly used by the Russian Army in the Crimean War in the 1850s where the majority of the soldiers were conscripted serfs and harsh discipline was the norm. Commanders sometimes ordered attacks on their own units as a form of punishment" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 27.3K engagements
"17/ Lethal extortion of this kind appears to be commonplace. Chat messages between husbands and wives say that 'zeroing is everywhere'. Natalia says that her husband was "zeroed out" for refusing to pay a bribe to avoid being sent to assault a town from which few returned alive" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 14.1K engagements
"1/ A wounded Russian soldier has made a video appealing to be evacuated from the destroyed frontline town of Chasiv Yar where he says he has been stranded in a cellar for five months" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-11 17:16:28 UTC 228.6K followers, 30.3K engagements
"1/ The Russian army has issued an appeal for volunteers to provide supplies to help the forthcoming Zapad-2025 military exercise illustrating a lack of basic resources. Russian warbloggers aren't impressed and call it "sad"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-06 10:36:00 UTC 228.6K followers, 275.6K engagements
"26/ 'I Want To Find' has reported the existence of so-called "funeral squads" in some units. The 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade reportedly created one such squad to secretly remove the bodies of those executed or who died under torture and bury them in unmarked graves" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:37:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
"29/ "Gazprom wont help either soldiers are not supposed to have gas when they run out they are supposed to steadfastly endure the hardships and deprivations of military service as prescribed in the regulations" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:57:50 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements
"This is a bizarre pair of inclusions on Trump's tariff list - the British Indian Ocean Territory which is basically the Diego Garcia air base and the uninhabited () Heard & McDonald Islands in the Antarctic. What possible imports could exist from there" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-04-02 20:59:00 UTC 228.6K followers, 191.7K engagements
"9/ "A very alarming precedent in fact is the suicide (self-) of Starovoit : when a federal minister of the first echelon of importance (and the connection is exactly this first echelon) who has just been removed from office shoots himself on the eve of his arrest" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:42:08 UTC 228.6K followers, 38.5K engagements
"9/ Other soldiers have independently reported very similar abuses. On X June two men deserted from the brigade and recorded a video complaint. They name themselves as 29-year-old Denis Prostakov (right) and a soldier with the call sign 'Historian' (left)" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-10 20:22:53 UTC 228.6K followers, 40.4K engagements
"2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that the Black Sea Fleet is keeping multiple 'wrecks' in active service including the submarine Alrosa the large landing ship Orsk and the catamaran-style missile corvettes Bora and Samum" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-27 18:47:25 UTC 228.5K followers, 53.7K engagements
"4/ He urges Poles to beware Banderites "who have filled Poland and are trying to drag it into war" while hoping that "the Special Military Operation would one day reach Poland and restore order there." He calls the Polish government "traitors" and the EU "the Fourth Reich"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:49 UTC 228.6K followers, 5597 engagements
"For what it's worth I think Trump's XX day "ultimatum" is not aimed at Vladimir Putin but at Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Putin Republicans. It gets them off Trump's back for the next XX days after which he'll think of another way to kick the can further down the road" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:49:51 UTC 228.6K followers, 80.8K engagements
"5/ "As a result today Trump is declaring exactly XX days for concluding a deal on Ukraine threatening secondary sanctions and duties."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 5754 engagements
"31/ 'Zeroing' does not always mean direct murder. More often it involves sending men into unsurvivable situations such as assaulting Ukrainian positions without support or occasionally without body armour or even weapons. This is reported frequently" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:37:03 UTC 228.6K followers, 9282 engagements
"21/ "Our battalion commander . began to wipe out our fighters a few days ago. Literally committing lynching killing our people . he kills the boys because they refuse to move forward because they lose XX% of their personnel every time they go."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-12 08:31:43 UTC 228.6K followers, 19.6K engagements
"23/ "After all those who accepted the works and let the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of Kursk Oblast also have award pistols but did not use them." /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-07 17:16:57 UTC 228.4K followers, 12.6K engagements
"4/ "I don't know - does the Kremlin understand that the "semi-war" situation has exhausted itself so much that it is becoming completely impossible even for "stagnation" and that we are "on the eve of a grand mess"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:27 UTC 228.6K followers, 39.3K engagements
"10/ it smokes terribly like the infamous aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov" but despite all this it continues to be in service the crew receives wages and funds continue to be allocated to close scheduled inspections."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:33 UTC 228.6K followers, 18.2K engagements
"2/ A Polish man who calls himself 'Polak na Donbasie'has been posting to TikTok since April 2025. He appears to be named Jacek and to have previously served with the 6th Logistics Battalion of the Polish Army in Krakow" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:48 UTC 228.6K followers, 6455 engagements
"13/ "In general when we entered the positions we carried supplies with us as if for the winter in Antarctica. There was no hope of supply companies. Plus parallel supplies were organized by our own forces using our own transport" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:56:01 UTC 228.6K followers, 28.7K engagements
"12/ "Show-off yes I agree. But this show is well paid. Run a kilometer through the grey zone stick a flag in the commander writes a report and a two-month salary arrives in the account of all participants of the race" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 07:41:40 UTC 228.6K followers, 1217 engagements
"1/ A Russian platoon commander recounts on video how he is walking XX km between frontline and rear positions due to Ukrainian drones suppressing vehicle movements. He says his unit has lost XX out of XX men in only two weeks of assault operations" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 11:48:02 UTC 228.6K followers, 531.9K engagements
"I'm worried about Spain and Portugal. Albania if you have to ask it's probably too late for you. Man up Montenegro And let's start an "adopt a Swede" programme" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-11 22:23:24 UTC 228.6K followers, 29.7K engagements
"1/ A Russian lieutenant who deserted from the Russian army after serving under a commander who murdered his own men for their salaries has spoken of his experiences in Ukraine. His unit was wiped out at Krynki and he witnessed soldiers being whipped and executed with grenades" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 10:53:22 UTC 228.6K followers, 108.6K engagements
"3/ Igor writes: "How did our "Ministry of Finance" work Very simple: we handed over cards with a PIN code they were at the base in Berdiansk in the occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:39:55 UTC 228.6K followers, 4149 engagements
"12/ "If they mobilised me I went. If they didn't mobilise me I wouldn't have gone. But those who go to war for the long ruble are very wrong in their calculations. Even those who adequately assess the risks think that this risk will be well paid at a fixed rate" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:43:36 UTC 228.6K followers, 15.3K engagements
"4/ "The telephone conversation between Putin and Trump took place exactly XX days ago on July X. That is of the supposedly announced XX days there are currently XX days left" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:39 UTC 228.6K followers, 6042 engagements
"3/ "This is even worse perhaps than last year's May-June offensive on Vovchansk-Kharkiv. Well: it's sad but expected" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:25 UTC 228.6K followers, 38.7K engagements
"3/ "Today Axios published an article stating that Vladimir Putin during a phone call with Trump said that Russia would attempt to establish control over all entities included in the Russian constitution i.e. taking control of all annexed regions within the next XX days" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:38 UTC 228.6K followers, 7042 engagements
"2/ 'Military Informant' asks "Where did the unusual XX days come from for Trump who previously liked to measure everything in two weeks" It comes up with the same answer as many Western commentators that it matches Putin's timeframe for completing his conquests:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:37 UTC 228.6K followers, 6801 engagements
"@JayinKyiv Dictated rather than written I suspect. Has anyone actually seen Trump writing anything other than his own name" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-07 18:30:20 UTC 228.6K followers, 97K engagements
"13/ However Alrosa has been plagued by technical problems for years. It is the only remaining original Kilo-class submarine (Project 877) boat in the Black Sea Fleet and uses an unusual pump-jet propulsion system rather than a conventional propeller. /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:35 UTC 228.6K followers, 21K engagements
"11/ Alrosa has an unusual history. Commissioned in December 1990 it was part of the Black Sea Fleet but its crew swore allegiance to Ukraine in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. However it was transferred to Russia in 1997 after an agreement betwee the countries" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-06 16:54:34 UTC 228.6K followers, 17.5K engagements
"@aravosis As I've said here the XX days is about Lindsey Graham not Vladimir Putin" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 15:12:26 UTC 228.6K followers, XXX engagements
"8/ "So far the situation is too similar to the patterns of World War I and the result may be if not completely then in many ways tragically analogous. (Again it is not a fact that understanding (knowledge of this is present among VIP officials) is not a fact" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:58 UTC 228.6K followers, 36.8K engagements
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