#  @ChrisO_wiki ChrisO_wiki ChrisO_wiki posts on X about in the, russia, telegram, ukraine the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] -43% - [--] Month [----------] +36% - [--] Months [----------] -32% - [--] Year [-----------] +10% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts_active)  - [--] Month [---] -42% - [--] Months [-----] +86% - [--] Year [-----] +81% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.05% - [--] Month [-------] +0.59% - [--] Months [-------] +3.80% - [--] Year [-------] +14% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 15.05% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 5.69% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 3.34% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 3.01% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 2.01% [finance](/list/finance) 1.67% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) 0.67% [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.33% [stocks](/list/stocks) 0.33% **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the) 8.7%, [russia](/topic/russia) #735, [telegram](/topic/telegram) #55, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #496, [$fro](/topic/$fro) #28, [moscow](/topic/moscow) #194, [gru](/topic/gru) #127, [more than](/topic/more-than) #2595, [shutdown](/topic/shutdown) 1.34%, [money](/topic/money) 1% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@citizenbyx](/creator/undefined) [@heywoodfloyd10](/creator/undefined) [@dustysmocky1973](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@xaviernathalie](/creator/undefined) [@munchensenton](/creator/undefined) [@garyhaubold](/creator/undefined) [@nagingsensation](/creator/undefined) [@danishdebater](/creator/undefined) [@my2cents0101](/creator/undefined) [@chrisowiki](/creator/undefined) [@jayinkyiv](/creator/undefined) [@michaeldweiss](/creator/undefined) [@gbslavaukraina](/creator/undefined) [@manglerofprose](/creator/undefined) [@8394ab](/creator/undefined) [@mindaug12583010](/creator/undefined) [@ursus_maior](/creator/undefined) [@danielr33187703](/creator/undefined) [@horrocksivan1](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Frontline Ltd. (FRO)](/topic/$fro) [PlatON (LAT)](/topic/platon) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Note also that Republicans are increasingly seeing Canada and the EU as outright enemies. Incessant propaganda will have that effect" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019912591535948010) 2026-02-06T23:14Z 239.2K followers, 92.8K engagements "@atanaspekanov To put it in context this is about 1.6% of Bulgaria's total exports. It's a very small percentage" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020580125830701242) 2026-02-08T19:26Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ As many as 4% of the able-bodied men in one village in the Russian Far East may have died in Ukraine. The figure illustrates how the human cost of the war is being borne disproportionately by impoverished communities deep in the Russian interior" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020916628221739518) 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, 16.1K engagements "9/ "5. Kennel for a front-line cat If your unit has a cat it deserves the best housing. Two plates connected at an angle form a hut. The cat will sleep in warmth and comfort knowing that its home is worth more than everything else in the dugout" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020983845429051698) 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "18/ "Training will also suffer since our entire front depends on it: training for the Mavics which brings victory on the battlefield will go to zero" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614266403467563) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is honestly insane like something out of China and Russia. MAGA-aligned US military officers have reportedly been pressuring their troops to go and watch the 'Melania' movie:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020093581206384755) 2026-02-07T11:13Z 239.2K followers, 94.9K engagements "7/ "The identity of the perpetrator who left Russia for the United Arab Emirates a few hours after the crime was committed has also been established. He is Lyubomir Korba a native of the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR and now a Russian citizen born in 1960" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451259426230431) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "Italian organised crime is on another level altogether" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020855422505169005) 2026-02-09T13:40Z 239.2K followers, 39.9K engagements "14/ "The intelligence will be irrelevant within 10-15 minutes and fire engagement will be inadvisable affecting the effectiveness of the troops" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614253682171958) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "23/ 'DSHRG Rusych' agrees and adds: "Everything relies on Telegram chats: information exchange coordinates broadcasts (often conducted on the now-blocked Discord) and so on. Peskov's degree of detachment from reality is simply astounding." /end" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614282383716791) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Russian political officers are reportedly using the Epstein files to justify the 'Special Military Operation' (SVO) as a "war against global evil". However as a frontline Russian warblogger points out Russia and its soldiers are hardly innocent of crimes against children" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020921173421478121) 2026-02-09T18:02Z 239.2K followers, 21.8K engagements "6/ "There was a decent VK there was a kick-ass ICQ there was (to this day) a kick-ass Telegram. And all this is thanks to a Russian i.e. @durov domestic developer and his team. And you're like King Midas but in reverse - everything you touch turns to shit" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021638431265149372) 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "1/ Russian soldiers overwhelmingly prefer to use Telegram for tactical communications despite the Russian army having its own dedicated military messengers. The reason isn't complex the military's own alternatives are unreliable and difficult to use" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021642277685535126) 2026-02-11T17:47Z 239.2K followers, 17.5K engagements "9/ These efforts have not yet been successful. The Alaska summit fell apart after Putin angered Trump by lecturing him on Russia's historic "right" to control Ukraine and ended without agreement" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1994784894946611529) 2025-11-29T15:05Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements ""'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2010220982682955847) 2026-01-11T05:23Z 239.3K followers, 424.3K engagements "1/ Trump Administration officials have reportedly held several secret meetings with Canadian separatists who are seeking US$500 billion to bankroll their efforts. It suggests that the Administration is interested in breaking up Canada and absorbing the remnants" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2016815209751466305) 2026-01-29T10:06Z 239.2K followers, 293.1K engagements "@Number10cat They should try this" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017332071027392896) 2026-01-30T20:20Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "2/ The specific item seen in recent videos appears to be a poncho being sold for "tactical thermal imaging protection anti-drone protection". It is just one of many similar garments being sold on Russia's equivalents of Amazon and eBay" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017561486193774626) 2026-01-31T11:31Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "3/ Wildberries and Avito Russia's Amazon and eBay equivalents have dozens of listings for such garments. They are typically claimed to be produced in Russia (though more likely imported from China). Some are suspiciously cheap less than [---] rubles ($8) each" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017561489708634295) 2026-01-31T11:31Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "6/ And third some marketers are clearly making a lot of money selling ineffective equipment to soldiers and their families which is almost certainly getting men killed. As one buyer complains: "We tested it with a thermal imager and it is visible." /end" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017561498143334534) 2026-01-31T11:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Measures to prevent Russia using the Starlink system for drone navigation have prompted alarm among Russian warbloggers. They fear losing Starlink altogether at the front line and warn that Russia's Starlink alternative is years away from implementation" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017969844658815276) 2026-02-01T14:34Z 239.2K followers, 12.8K engagements "1/ An authoritarian government begins rounding up people it sees as targets using a rapidly expanded paramilitary force known for brutal tactics. Because of a lack of detention spaces it warehouses people in requisitioned facilities. The year is [----] the place is Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018242245086875754) 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.3K followers, 57.1K engagements "6/ The very first at Nohra in Thuringia was established in an old school in March [----] only a few days after the Reichstag fire. It was used to hold Communist prisoners and held up to about [---] people" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018242258693173583) 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "7/ Colditz Castle later a legendary prisoner of war camp was initially used as a concentration camp for up to about [----] inmates before being repurposed during the war as a POW camp" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018242263227224269) 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "A mounted unit of Russian special forces somewhere in Ukraine. (Yes this is in [----] not 1916.)" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018964888371286024) 2026-02-04T08:28Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "This is quite a result from the speech that Carney gave a few weeks ago at Davos: a predicted electoral supermajority and the effective collapse of the Canadian right" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018983915793584173) 2026-02-04T09:44Z 239.2K followers, 65.3K engagements "11/ Roman Alekhin sees little room for optimism: "This is all very bad especially considering the huge need for communications at the front. And now it's crucial to at least equip the front with radios so that command and control of the frontline doesn't collapse completely."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019381333706043498) 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.3K followers, 14.6K engagements "12/ 'Private Gubarev' comments: "While the internet on Gazprom's satellite dishes at key communications hubs and command posts is more or less working UAV crews SIGINT/EW crews firepower and infantry positions are now without internet."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019381336130150783) 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.2K followers, 13.9K engagements "Belarus unveils Potatolink" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019501673597587662) 2026-02-05T20:01Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "A snapshot of US diplomacy in the Trump era: how @USAmbPoland (aka @TomRoseIndy) wins friends and influences people" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019523839290753390) 2026-02-05T21:29Z 239.2K followers, 42.5K engagements "1/ Russia's battlefield communications are reportedly "in chaos" following the Starlink shutdown. Communications specialists are said to be scrambling to find alternative solutions while warbloggers advocate torturing Ukrainian PoWs to get their Starlink passwords" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019696728962892036) 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.2K followers, 48K engagements "7/ "However this is precisely what caused the Ukrainians to become so hysterical about this topic and the corresponding appeal to Musk. [--]. No it does not affect aerial reconnaissance or further intelligence" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019696748302876692) 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "8/ "3. Yes it will have a certain impact on internet availability in the field. [--]. Yes there are no alternatives at all right now. [--]. There is a Gazprom dish; it works but to put it mildly it is inferior in connection speed and needs to be developed or improved" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019696751285031121) 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "9/ "6. Of course high-speed internet can be brought to the field using other methods; it is technically possible and many are currently working on it. [--]. Yes there are ways to verify Starlink that will allow you to bypass the blocking but this will take some time" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019696754724347928) 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "10/ "8. Yes there are Chinese equivalents that we're currently considering importing and launching privately. [--]. Yes they're promising us a Russian equivalent next year but promises are a far cry from promises" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019696758792782001) 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "Does this mean that Bastrop Texas needs to be on the lookout for Russians" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019748591523233952) 2026-02-06T12:22Z 239.3K followers, 16.7K engagements "@michaeldweiss He will never ever get over Barack Obama roasting him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019824213071393250) 2026-02-06T17:23Z 239.2K followers, 10.2K engagements "New England's answer to Crimea. Does New Hampshire have little green men" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019869539354251444) 2026-02-06T20:23Z 239.3K followers, 13K engagements "I read earlier that male Winter Olympics athletes were injecting acid into their penises and wondered what on earth that was about but it turns out that the answer is even dumber than I'd imagined" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019874132826206602) 2026-02-06T20:41Z 239.2K followers, 26.8K engagements "It's very clear that there was a collapse in positive views towards the US after the threats to invade Greenland with unfavourable views increasing by about 20-30% in every country" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019912118313640088) 2026-02-06T23:12Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "8/ and regularly travel the world." As this would seem to be far more lavish than a typical Russian general's salary of $3200-$4000 a month would cover it seems likely that he enjoys an 'extracurricular' source of income like many other senior Russian officers. /end" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020117646528692486) 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "@battlefieldexpl Why didn't they rebuild it Using it as a memorial" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020214586591302116) 2026-02-07T19:14Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "The big story here is that the moderate conservative right everywhere is being supplanted and consumed by the hard right exactly as MAGA did to the Reagan and Bush Republicans" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020449646061998528) 2026-02-08T10:48Z 239.3K followers, 22.7K engagements "2/ The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (roughly Russia's equivalent of the FBI) has issued a statement which includes the following:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451243907272992) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "3/ "Investigators conducted a thorough inspection at the scene during which they discovered the murder weapon a Makarov pistol with an attached silencer and three rounds of ammunition" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451246772035854) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "4/ "More than [--] forensic examinations have been ordered including genetic fingerprinting trace evidence molecular genetic physical and chemical and other tests" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451249359909328) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "5/ "Viktor Vasin an accomplice to the crime was promptly detained in the Moscow region in cooperation with the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Investigative actions are underway with him" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451251855540336) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "6/ "He has been charged with crimes under Articles [---] and [---] of the Russian Criminal Code. Furthermore the involvement of Zinaida Serebritskaya who left for Ukraine has been established" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451255445766554) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "8/ "Following measures taken by FSB and Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs operatives investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee and competent authorities in the United Arab Emirates the suspect was detained and returned to the Russian Federation" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451262148337736) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "9/ "It has been established that Korba arrived in Moscow in late December of last year on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence services to commit a terrorist attack."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451264136380899) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "12/ "Back in [----] he registered temporarily in the city of Nyagan (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). However he only recently received a Russian passport."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451270679539828) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "13/ "As for the identity of the female accomplice Zinaida Serebritskaya lived in the same building where the assassination attempt on Alekseyev took place on Volokolamskaya Street in Moscow" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451272558616941) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "14/ "She posted messages in a residential chat room presumably for inhabitants of the apartment block. Serebritskaya had lived in Moscow since at least [----]. According to the FSB she has now fled to Ukraine."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451274462757328) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [---] engagements "15/ The third alleged attacker Viktor Vasin is a Russian citizen who is said to have "long known Lyubomir Korba the perpetrator of the assassination attempt; their connection is confirmed by past contacts and money transfers."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451276291539200) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "16/ "Vasin reportedly worked in occupational health and safety and had financial problems including microloans and conflicts with debt collectors; he had posted critical comments about the government on social media."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451278581600704) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "20/ "The Federal Bailiff Service currently has two enforcement proceedings against him each for [------] rubles $10771" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451287997853932) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "21/ "Vasin is reported to have been a fan of the extremist FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation established by Alexei Navalny (which is listed as an extremist and terrorist organisation by Rosfinmonitoring)." /end" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451289755267188) 2026-02-08T10:55Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "Sources: 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451291755868438) 2026-02-08T10:55Z 239.3K followers, 16K engagements "@XavierNathalie True - in the 1930s there was no danger that Oswald Mosley would become Prime Minister. The same sadly can't be said for his modern-day equivalent" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020454497970008507) 2026-02-08T11:07Z 239.3K followers, [---] engagements "@JohnRentoul What even is this architectural style" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020478151088800048) 2026-02-08T12:41Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "Spot the odd man out" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020490689922883912) 2026-02-08T13:31Z 239.2K followers, 33.3K engagements "That Fifa Peace Prize is looking better and better every day" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020576763349475719) 2026-02-08T19:13Z 239.2K followers, 20.8K engagements "@Maks_NAFO_FELLA You can clearly hear the brrrt just after the explosion" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020595527671529709) 2026-02-08T20:28Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements "@SimonCarGuy It's dreadful. I've literally driven on roads in rural Bulgaria that were better than this. There's one road near me that has disintegrated so badly that it's virtually just a gravel surface in places" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020771465977844044) 2026-02-09T08:07Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Munchensenton It's been objectively verified through polling so it's not propaganda" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020960196265415108) 2026-02-09T20:37Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "12/ "8. Improvised Paddle: If you need to cross a small puddle or river the Starlink is the perfect paddle. Its hydrodynamics are incredible; Elon clearly had something in mind when he designed the shape" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020983856984441312) 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "@ManglerOfProse @tlindblad @SpencerSays Some of the archival surveys of Victorian London that I've seen have been extraordinarily detailed at least as good as anything produced today. They knew what they were doing even [---] years ago" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021252366507348108) 2026-02-10T15:58Z 239.2K followers, [--] engagements "@Staub_T Elon plant einen Brsengang von SpaceX in naher Zukunft. Das ist die gross nderung. Bitte keine negative Publicity mehr fr Starlink" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021314830267826354) 2026-02-10T20:06Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Russian retailers are cashing in on Elon Musk's mass disabling of the Russian army's Starlink terminals by massively increasing the price of Russian alternatives. One such system has quadrupled in price overnight to over $2600 but is said to be far inferior to Starlink" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019421581848838261) 2026-02-05T14:43Z 239.2K followers, 80.2K engagements "1/ What if Billie Eilish was a tracksuit-clad gopnitsa singing a translated Russian pop song while mooching around a run-down town in Russia Wonder no more because an enterprising Russian has used AI to answer the question. The results actually aren't bad" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020261899602952352) 2026-02-07T22:22Z 239.2K followers, 29.9K engagements "This story should absolutely be read. When you see polls of how the reputation of the US has plummeted abroad stories like this of how other countries nationals are being treated - even when they've done everything right - are absolutely central to that" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020957405761372514) 2026-02-09T20:26Z 239.2K followers, 78.9K engagements "Russian warbloggers have pointed out in the past that the army is heavily dependent on Telegram for battlefield communications including things such as calling in artillery strikes on particular coordinates. They have been strongly opposed to curbing Telegram. This could have a significant operational impact depending on how it's done" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021178765766762702) 2026-02-10T11:05Z 239.2K followers, 36.7K engagements "3/ "Elon is certainly a real jerk. But we have some real assholes in the rear who decided to ride the wave and make money off their own soldiers. Wi-Fi bridges instantly doubled in price. It's maddening some are spilling blood and others are making a living off of it."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280164919832991) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers are outraged at the Russian government's view that blocking Telegram is no big deal for frontline troops. They say it's a catastrophe heaped on the disaster of losing Starlink and that anyone who says Telegram isn't needed is talking "complete bullshit"" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614210359161205) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, 29.5K engagements "19/ "Information warfare will also suffer greatly because it was built up over a long period and now everything will simply be abandoned and everything will fall to the enemy." Platon Mamatov explains that "frontline communications are provided via Telegram."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614271323345015) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ The Russian government's throttling of Telegram has deprived the Russian army of a huge repository of information for its soldiers' professional development and a key source of essential technical advice and instruction as Russian warbloggers explain" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021638413313810717) 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, 10K engagements "7/ "I'm so fucking sick of it honestly." The Russian government is overtly trying to push users off Telegram WhatsApp and other services and drive them onto its sole authorised platform MAX. It's required to be preinstalled on all smartphones and tablets sold in Russia" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021638452316697061) 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "8/ However it lacks essential functionality that has made Telegram such a useful resource for disseminating professional knowledge. 'Tactical Medicine Courses' a Russian Telegram channel that teaches soldiers key first-aid skills explains:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021638454711361957) 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "Boy or girl" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021665058414272918) 2026-02-11T19:18Z 239.2K followers, 12.1K engagements "2/ Platon Mamadov provides two detailed examples: "Example number one: Aerial reconnaissance of Unit N spotted a Ukrainian self-propelled gun in a shelter in the middle of town N."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021709184836772129) 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "1/ A town in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan unveiled a war memorial last year for local men who died in the war in Ukraine. Only six months later it has already nearly doubled in size with nearly [--] times more war dead than in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018607386701807841) 2026-02-03T08:47Z 239.2K followers, 107.6K engagements "1/ A Russian warblogger explains what the Russian army in Ukraine saw when they were disconnected en masse from Starlink yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019442867865788854) 2026-02-05T16:07Z 239.2K followers, 99.4K engagements "1/ The attempted assassination of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow this morning has outraged Russian warbloggers who regard him as a hero of Russia. They have highlighted his key role and contributions to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766577646735419) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, 33.2K engagements "13/ "9. Rain Shield: Cover your gasoline generator with it when it rains. Now you have a "hybrid power system": Chinese hardware rattles underneath and a satellite dome covers it from above. Looks incredibly reliable" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020983860398641230) 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "4/ Scammers are targeting soldiers with false promises that for a modest fee they can get Starlink working again. 'Callsign OSETIN' warns: "I'll write this again comrades. Remember this. Don't trust anyone who offers to restore your Starlinks by any means necessary."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280167461593395) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "11/ "Even greater geniuses than those who failed to take advantage of the time we had while we were relying on that American network to develop our own working equivalent."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280184817643676) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "18/ "The 24/7 fucking is about to begin the accelerated process of restoring something that never existed.😁 May Vaseline help them." 'Veterans' Notes' anticipates problems on the front line due to the shutdown:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280202442047551) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "Note the figures for Denmark in particular. Until only a few years ago the most pro-American country in Western Europe; now the most hostile by some distance" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019911333844505050) 2026-02-06T23:09Z 239.2K followers, 53.4K engagements "1/ General Vladimir Alexseyev who was shot yesterday in a Moscow apartment building may have been secretly visiting his mistress before the attack. Despite a reputation as an uncorrupt officer he is said to have enjoyed the same luxurious lifestyle as many of his peers" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020117631785656345) 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, 30.4K engagements "@Felix_Nuno I mean the Russians or Chinese could probably drop it from one of their bombers but not in contested airspace Which is the point of the B-2" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020879791180681414) 2026-02-09T15:17Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "3/ The village museum has installed a display with photographs of local residents who died in the war. It currently shows [--] portraits of confirmed victims though there may well be more unlisted given the very large numbers of soldiers declared to be missing in action" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020916633384972583) 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ What can Russian soldiers do with thousands of useless Starlink terminals One Russian warblogger has some humorous suggestions" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020983823736197416) 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Russian special forces veterans say that the US operation in Venezuela was no big deal and they could easily have done the same with their own superior capabilities. However they haven't attempted to kidnap Zelenskyy because of their respect for international law" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2008090692996706745) 2026-01-05T08:18Z 239.2K followers, 1.4M engagements "A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018782253745307785) 2026-02-03T20:22Z 239.2K followers, 434.9K engagements "New concept design for the remodelled Kennedy Center (IYKYK)" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018822709527154892) 2026-02-03T23:03Z 239.2K followers, 263.6K engagements "How the Russians are using their defunct Starlink terminals after Elon Musk turned them all off:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019414837659615721) 2026-02-05T14:16Z 239.2K followers, 34.2K engagements "2/ 'Combat Reserve' complains that there has been a huge overnight increase in the price being asked for the Yamal [---] system which uses Gazprom's Yamal satellite constellation. Units are now selling for [------] rubles ($2612) apiece" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019421585325847035) 2026-02-05T14:43Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "3/ "An unknown assailant fired several shots into his back in the elevator lobby of a building on Volokolamsk Highway at 7:00 a.m. The assassin fled the scene. Alekseyev was hospitalised" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766582054994338) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "4/ "Meanwhile Kostyukov Chief of the GRU of the Russian Ministry of Defence is leading our negotiating team in Abu Dhabi. This is a "greeting" from our "negotiating partners" which by the way includes Kyrylo Budanov who (until recently head of the" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766585771040979) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "13/ Sasha Kots highlights Alekseyev's status as a recipient of the Hero of Russia medal and notes that he was "at the forefront of the creation of the Ministry of Defence's Volunteer Corps" which absorbed the remnants of the Wagner Group" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766634387255609) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "14/ The Wagner-linked channel 'Alex Parker Returns' provides further detail on Alekseyev's involvement with Wagner: "Alekseyev was the curator of all volunteer formations. The Wagner PMC also originated from the GRU."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766638543839346) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "15/ "Weapons and equipment were supplied under Alekseyev's direct supervision and the musicians themselves were officially registered as one of the GRU brigades."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019766641505026497) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "2/ Tsarev relates the dismal history of Russia's military communications programmes: "I remember how at the beginning of the Special Military Operation all units were buying Motorola radios. There was no other communications."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019852800495354357) 2026-02-06T19:16Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "5/ Neighbours complain that homeless people sleep in the foyer mice infest the building the security cameras don't work the elevators and fire alarms are faulty and there was recently a flood due to a faulty fire extinguisher system" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020117640891548136) 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "6/ Many residents of the building say in online chat forums that they are struck by the discrepancy between his status as the "second man in the GRU" and the building's downmarket aspect. One security officer is said to have described it as a "homeless shelter."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020117642929922054) 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "I'm sceptical of the idea that Russia would have ever returned Kaliningrad to Germany. Quite apart from its strategic importance what would have been done with the million Russians living there It's more Russian now than many regions of Russia proper" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020900996294041993) 2026-02-09T16:41Z 239.2K followers, 31.4K engagements "2/ The village of Tigil is the principal settlement of a lightly populated region the size of West Virginia or Latvia. About [----] people live in the village. Ethnic Russians only make up about 36% of the population with various indigenous groups making up the rest" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020916631216562510) 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "5/ "Two of the three girls are very beautiful (the third is just beautiful) kind and smart despite their backgrounds but they have mental health issues of varying severity" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020921184196735182) 2026-02-09T18:02Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "6/ "I spoke with a philanthropist who briefly participated with the woman he loved in sending toys and clothes to an orphanage. There were semi-criminal orphans there one of the minors was a ready-made prostitute with the corresponding habits" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020928907818811744) 2026-02-09T18:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "@8394_ab He's not on a tourist visa" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020963863752237144) 2026-02-09T20:51Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "9/ 'TopaZ Speaking' anticipates Ukraine exploiting the shutdown: "Now of course the enemy will at great expense attempt to attack the stations and equipment connected to the backup communications systems that replace the vanished American satellite internet."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280180052930901) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "14/ 'NGP raZVedka' confirms this: "There are technical reasons to believe that Starlink has begun collecting information on the locations of inactive stations and systematizing this data. To avoid this we recommend disabling this useless piece of furniture."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280193235534226) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin Hungary under Orban Venezuela under Chavez and Turkey under Erdogan according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2017652697302757556) 2026-01-31T17:34Z 239.2K followers, 562.7K engagements "I hadn't realised there was a design for the gargantuan planned 'Arc de Trump' in Washington DC. It's so gaudy And much bigger than any other triumphal arch in the world (in fact second only to Hitler's planned Berlin arch) so it will certainly stick out like a sore thumb" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018683617916973278) 2026-02-03T13:50Z 239.2K followers, 108.2K engagements "This must be the German edition of Windows" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018756985827537342) 2026-02-03T18:42Z 239.2K followers, 213.1K engagements "1/ Russian forces in Ukraine are experiencing a devastating loss of connectivity as the Starlink terminals they rely upon are systematically shut off. With Russia's own Starlink alternative years away from implementation Russian warbloggers say the army is in crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019381312348647740) 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.2K followers, 207.3K engagements "1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine The answer concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2019852790483603878) 2026-02-06T19:16Z 239.2K followers, 60.5K engagements "Orbn's zebras are probably cat food now" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020191383680610457) 2026-02-07T17:42Z 239.2K followers, 14K engagements "Timeline cleanser for bedtime" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020317004104888611) 2026-02-08T02:01Z 239.2K followers, 16K engagements "1/ The Russian authorities have published details of three people accused of Friday's shooting of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev. Two men have been arrested one in the UAE while a woman is said to have escaped to Ukraine which is blamed for the attack" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020451241604649449) 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, 24.2K engagements "@OzKaterji Russia has the largest airborne forces in the world and they haven't done a single airdrop in the Ukraine war" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020856063575146525) 2026-02-09T13:43Z 239.2K followers, 19.4K engagements "I would say "monitor and verify" rather than condemning it from the outset" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020920016015937643) 2026-02-09T17:57Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "7/ "The narrator didn't like this so he set the police on the orphanage and they uncovered the orphanage's management running a brothel for pedophiles of varying levels of wealth" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020928959299330458) 2026-02-09T18:33Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "Mogged by reality after excessive jestergooning then cortisol levels spiked" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020968116029882783) 2026-02-09T21:08Z 239.2K followers, 13.4K engagements "8/ "This will be the heaviest most inconvenient but also the most pompous souvenir which you can bring home and hang on the wall in your garage as a monument to the era of "wars and high technology."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2020983842841165893) 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements "For the avoidance of doubt:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021146389342744824) 2026-02-10T08:57Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "And right on time:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021224361336693200) 2026-02-10T14:06Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Life after Starlink is proving to be difficult and frustrating for the Russian army. Russian warbloggers appear to be going through the stages of grief expressing anger and alarm at the crisis and concern that Ukraine will exploit it. One anticipates "24/7 fucking"" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280155713294590) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, 58K engagements "2/ Further instances of price-gouging are being reported with the cost of US-made Ubiquiti WiFi bridges illegally imported into Russia doubling overnight. 'Strong Word' complains:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280162256392465) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "5/ "Starlinks are definitely out of stock for us now; it's impossible to reactivate them." 'Two Majors' extols the Russian army's signallers who are working overtime trying to plug the gap left by Starlink:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280169646858655) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "8/ "Unit command and combat command signals depend on you. We bow deeply to you my dears. Everyone is counting on you even if they curse you constantly."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280177968365977) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "12/ 'Kiba's Signalman's Diary' warns Russian Starlink users that the Ukrainians are obtaining locational data from the shut-down systems which could in principle assist with artillery targeting:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280187384467478) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "13/ "Attention EVERYONE urgently Immediately disconnect all Starlink satellite stations from power and remove them from open skies. Positioning data from inactive devices is being collected."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280189951410583) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "16/ "According to unconfirmed reports all data from the dishes is now integrated with Ukrainian data systems Delta and Nettle. In other words the enemy is verifying data by position."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280197694087204) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "17/ The blogger doesn't rate highly the Russian MOD's chances of closing the gap now that it is being forced to resurrect previously deprecated communications solutions:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280200277803304) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "19/ "Information is coming in from various sources that the enemy could take advantage of the shutdown of unregistered Starlink terminals to launch counterattacks on several front lines. We must be as prepared as possible for such a scenario."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280206896673017) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "23/ "Were facing another spectacular failure. Do we have a State Defence Committee that concentrates all power in the country during a war And one headed by the president not just another bad boyar No" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280217424113988) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "24/ "There is no interdepartmental coordination rapid feedback or flexible response to the situation. And it turns out that in the Russian Federation they were developing TWO alternatives to Musk's Starlink Both Sphere and Rassvet" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280220901171283) 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "25/ "Ultimately neither was built during the war. A spectacular management failure. One of many during that ill-fated war. So what happened" Rybar and others report that overnight Ukrainian advances in the Zaporizhzhia region are directly linked to the Starlink shutdown:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280272621129834) 2026-02-10T17:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "26/ "Although the enemy has managed to penetrate relatively deep into the Russian Armed Forces' control zone in some areas there are no critical issues yet. The difficulties are primarily related to problems with the Starlink terminals and adverse weather conditions."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021280327130329483) 2026-02-10T17:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "The "Epstein was not a pedophile" boat sailed a very long time ago" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021319279048557003) 2026-02-10T20:24Z 239.2K followers, 17.1K engagements "2/ Dmitri Peskov Vladimir Putin's spokesman says: "I don't think it's possible to imagine frontline communications being provided via Telegram or some other messenger. It's difficult and impossible to imagine such a thing."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614214142402677) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "15/ "With Telegram interaction between operational officers is direct and a response to a target occurs within seconds. A drone appears in the air a minute after detecting a target allowing us to "catch" the enemy in motion" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614256085504349) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "22/ "Radio communications are built primarily on mass-market Chinese radios and serve an auxiliary function of exchanging non-classified information over a distance of no more than ten kilometers."" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021614279330320472) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "9/ "The process of restricting Telegram has had very negative consequences: there is no viable alternative. The promoted Max messenger still doesn't support comments in channels which is crucial for feedback and discussions" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021638461082808812) 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ The Russian army faces a crisis with obtaining aid for its soldiers who are dependent on volunteers to provide them with everything from socks to Starlink terminals. Russian warbloggers say that the blocking of Telegram will wreck voluntary assistance efforts" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021704925940445245) 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "14/ "The goal is to eliminate and silence Russian civil society within Russia itself. Everything else including communication problems at the front is considered collateral damage and insignificant compared to achieving the main goal: silencing Russians in Russia." /end" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021704949160140804) 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "Sources: 🔹 🔹 🔹" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021704951328616539) 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers are continuing to provide examples of how Telegram is used for frontline battlefield communications to refute the claim of presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov that such a thing is "not possible to imagine"" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021709181330362828) 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "11/ "Not a single unit participating in the disco was identified or hit by the enemy. Just as they had not been identified in the previous two years of the war" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021709206492238244) 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "12/ "Despite the active use of Telegram whose creator is something in Paris blah-blah-blah NATO. Now tell me please how we can achieve such results without using the Internet and instant messaging." /end Source:" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021709208371020114) 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "Highly recommended viewing from the great @BBCSteveR. 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021713081424843066) 2026-02-11T22:28Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements "A perfect demonstration of the principle of Trump's Razor: if all else is equal the stupidest possible explanation is the most likely" [X Link](https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2021720202094788800) 2026-02-11T22:57Z 239.2K followers, 21.7K engagements Limited data mode. 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Social category influence countries 15.05% social networks 5.69% celebrities 3.34% travel destinations 3.01% technology brands 2.01% finance 1.67% cryptocurrencies 0.67% musicians 0.33% stocks 0.33%
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"Note also that Republicans are increasingly seeing Canada and the EU as outright enemies. Incessant propaganda will have that effect"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:14Z 239.2K followers, 92.8K engagements
"@atanaspekanov To put it in context this is about 1.6% of Bulgaria's total exports. It's a very small percentage"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:26Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ As many as 4% of the able-bodied men in one village in the Russian Far East may have died in Ukraine. The figure illustrates how the human cost of the war is being borne disproportionately by impoverished communities deep in the Russian interior"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, 16.1K engagements
"9/ "5. Kennel for a front-line cat If your unit has a cat it deserves the best housing. Two plates connected at an angle form a hut. The cat will sleep in warmth and comfort knowing that its home is worth more than everything else in the dugout"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"18/ "Training will also suffer since our entire front depends on it: training for the Mavics which brings victory on the battlefield will go to zero"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is honestly insane like something out of China and Russia. MAGA-aligned US military officers have reportedly been pressuring their troops to go and watch the 'Melania' movie:"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:13Z 239.2K followers, 94.9K engagements
"7/ "The identity of the perpetrator who left Russia for the United Arab Emirates a few hours after the crime was committed has also been established. He is Lyubomir Korba a native of the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR and now a Russian citizen born in 1960"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Italian organised crime is on another level altogether"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:40Z 239.2K followers, 39.9K engagements
"14/ "The intelligence will be irrelevant within 10-15 minutes and fire engagement will be inadvisable affecting the effectiveness of the troops"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"23/ 'DSHRG Rusych' agrees and adds: "Everything relies on Telegram chats: information exchange coordinates broadcasts (often conducted on the now-blocked Discord) and so on. Peskov's degree of detachment from reality is simply astounding." /end"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Russian political officers are reportedly using the Epstein files to justify the 'Special Military Operation' (SVO) as a "war against global evil". However as a frontline Russian warblogger points out Russia and its soldiers are hardly innocent of crimes against children"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:02Z 239.2K followers, 21.8K engagements
"6/ "There was a decent VK there was a kick-ass ICQ there was (to this day) a kick-ass Telegram. And all this is thanks to a Russian i.e. @durov domestic developer and his team. And you're like King Midas but in reverse - everything you touch turns to shit"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"1/ Russian soldiers overwhelmingly prefer to use Telegram for tactical communications despite the Russian army having its own dedicated military messengers. The reason isn't complex the military's own alternatives are unreliable and difficult to use"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:47Z 239.2K followers, 17.5K engagements
"9/ These efforts have not yet been successful. The Alaska summit fell apart after Putin angered Trump by lecturing him on Russia's historic "right" to control Ukraine and ended without agreement"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:05Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
""'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.""
X Link 2026-01-11T05:23Z 239.3K followers, 424.3K engagements
"1/ Trump Administration officials have reportedly held several secret meetings with Canadian separatists who are seeking US$500 billion to bankroll their efforts. It suggests that the Administration is interested in breaking up Canada and absorbing the remnants"
X Link 2026-01-29T10:06Z 239.2K followers, 293.1K engagements
"@Number10cat They should try this"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:20Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"2/ The specific item seen in recent videos appears to be a poncho being sold for "tactical thermal imaging protection anti-drone protection". It is just one of many similar garments being sold on Russia's equivalents of Amazon and eBay"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:31Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"3/ Wildberries and Avito Russia's Amazon and eBay equivalents have dozens of listings for such garments. They are typically claimed to be produced in Russia (though more likely imported from China). Some are suspiciously cheap less than [---] rubles ($8) each"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:31Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"6/ And third some marketers are clearly making a lot of money selling ineffective equipment to soldiers and their families which is almost certainly getting men killed. As one buyer complains: "We tested it with a thermal imager and it is visible." /end"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Measures to prevent Russia using the Starlink system for drone navigation have prompted alarm among Russian warbloggers. They fear losing Starlink altogether at the front line and warn that Russia's Starlink alternative is years away from implementation"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:34Z 239.2K followers, 12.8K engagements
"1/ An authoritarian government begins rounding up people it sees as targets using a rapidly expanded paramilitary force known for brutal tactics. Because of a lack of detention spaces it warehouses people in requisitioned facilities. The year is [----] the place is Germany"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.3K followers, 57.1K engagements
"6/ The very first at Nohra in Thuringia was established in an old school in March [----] only a few days after the Reichstag fire. It was used to hold Communist prisoners and held up to about [---] people"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"7/ Colditz Castle later a legendary prisoner of war camp was initially used as a concentration camp for up to about [----] inmates before being repurposed during the war as a POW camp"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:37Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A mounted unit of Russian special forces somewhere in Ukraine. (Yes this is in [----] not 1916.)"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:28Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This is quite a result from the speech that Carney gave a few weeks ago at Davos: a predicted electoral supermajority and the effective collapse of the Canadian right"
X Link 2026-02-04T09:44Z 239.2K followers, 65.3K engagements
"11/ Roman Alekhin sees little room for optimism: "This is all very bad especially considering the huge need for communications at the front. And now it's crucial to at least equip the front with radios so that command and control of the frontline doesn't collapse completely.""
X Link 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.3K followers, 14.6K engagements
"12/ 'Private Gubarev' comments: "While the internet on Gazprom's satellite dishes at key communications hubs and command posts is more or less working UAV crews SIGINT/EW crews firepower and infantry positions are now without internet.""
X Link 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.2K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Belarus unveils Potatolink"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:01Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A snapshot of US diplomacy in the Trump era: how @USAmbPoland (aka @TomRoseIndy) wins friends and influences people"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:29Z 239.2K followers, 42.5K engagements
"1/ Russia's battlefield communications are reportedly "in chaos" following the Starlink shutdown. Communications specialists are said to be scrambling to find alternative solutions while warbloggers advocate torturing Ukrainian PoWs to get their Starlink passwords"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.2K followers, 48K engagements
"7/ "However this is precisely what caused the Ukrainians to become so hysterical about this topic and the corresponding appeal to Musk. [--]. No it does not affect aerial reconnaissance or further intelligence"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"8/ "3. Yes it will have a certain impact on internet availability in the field. [--]. Yes there are no alternatives at all right now. [--]. There is a Gazprom dish; it works but to put it mildly it is inferior in connection speed and needs to be developed or improved"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"9/ "6. Of course high-speed internet can be brought to the field using other methods; it is technically possible and many are currently working on it. [--]. Yes there are ways to verify Starlink that will allow you to bypass the blocking but this will take some time"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"10/ "8. Yes there are Chinese equivalents that we're currently considering importing and launching privately. [--]. Yes they're promising us a Russian equivalent next year but promises are a far cry from promises"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:56Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Does this mean that Bastrop Texas needs to be on the lookout for Russians"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:22Z 239.3K followers, 16.7K engagements
"@michaeldweiss He will never ever get over Barack Obama roasting him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:23Z 239.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
"New England's answer to Crimea. Does New Hampshire have little green men"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:23Z 239.3K followers, 13K engagements
"I read earlier that male Winter Olympics athletes were injecting acid into their penises and wondered what on earth that was about but it turns out that the answer is even dumber than I'd imagined"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:41Z 239.2K followers, 26.8K engagements
"It's very clear that there was a collapse in positive views towards the US after the threats to invade Greenland with unfavourable views increasing by about 20-30% in every country"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:12Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"8/ and regularly travel the world." As this would seem to be far more lavish than a typical Russian general's salary of $3200-$4000 a month would cover it seems likely that he enjoys an 'extracurricular' source of income like many other senior Russian officers. /end"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@battlefieldexpl Why didn't they rebuild it Using it as a memorial"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:14Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The big story here is that the moderate conservative right everywhere is being supplanted and consumed by the hard right exactly as MAGA did to the Reagan and Bush Republicans"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:48Z 239.3K followers, 22.7K engagements
"2/ The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (roughly Russia's equivalent of the FBI) has issued a statement which includes the following:"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"3/ "Investigators conducted a thorough inspection at the scene during which they discovered the murder weapon a Makarov pistol with an attached silencer and three rounds of ammunition"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"4/ "More than [--] forensic examinations have been ordered including genetic fingerprinting trace evidence molecular genetic physical and chemical and other tests"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"5/ "Viktor Vasin an accomplice to the crime was promptly detained in the Moscow region in cooperation with the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Investigative actions are underway with him"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"6/ "He has been charged with crimes under Articles [---] and [---] of the Russian Criminal Code. Furthermore the involvement of Zinaida Serebritskaya who left for Ukraine has been established"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"8/ "Following measures taken by FSB and Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs operatives investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee and competent authorities in the United Arab Emirates the suspect was detained and returned to the Russian Federation"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"9/ "It has been established that Korba arrived in Moscow in late December of last year on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence services to commit a terrorist attack.""
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"12/ "Back in [----] he registered temporarily in the city of Nyagan (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). However he only recently received a Russian passport.""
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"13/ "As for the identity of the female accomplice Zinaida Serebritskaya lived in the same building where the assassination attempt on Alekseyev took place on Volokolamskaya Street in Moscow"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"14/ "She posted messages in a residential chat room presumably for inhabitants of the apartment block. Serebritskaya had lived in Moscow since at least [----]. According to the FSB she has now fled to Ukraine.""
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.3K followers, [---] engagements
"15/ The third alleged attacker Viktor Vasin is a Russian citizen who is said to have "long known Lyubomir Korba the perpetrator of the assassination attempt; their connection is confirmed by past contacts and money transfers.""
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"16/ "Vasin reportedly worked in occupational health and safety and had financial problems including microloans and conflicts with debt collectors; he had posted critical comments about the government on social media.""
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"20/ "The Federal Bailiff Service currently has two enforcement proceedings against him each for [------] rubles $10771"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"21/ "Vasin is reported to have been a fan of the extremist FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation established by Alexei Navalny (which is listed as an extremist and terrorist organisation by Rosfinmonitoring)." /end"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:55Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Sources: 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:55Z 239.3K followers, 16K engagements
"@XavierNathalie True - in the 1930s there was no danger that Oswald Mosley would become Prime Minister. The same sadly can't be said for his modern-day equivalent"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:07Z 239.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@JohnRentoul What even is this architectural style"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:41Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Spot the odd man out"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:31Z 239.2K followers, 33.3K engagements
"That Fifa Peace Prize is looking better and better every day"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:13Z 239.2K followers, 20.8K engagements
"@Maks_NAFO_FELLA You can clearly hear the brrrt just after the explosion"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:28Z 239.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@SimonCarGuy It's dreadful. I've literally driven on roads in rural Bulgaria that were better than this. There's one road near me that has disintegrated so badly that it's virtually just a gravel surface in places"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:07Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Munchensenton It's been objectively verified through polling so it's not propaganda"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:37Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"12/ "8. Improvised Paddle: If you need to cross a small puddle or river the Starlink is the perfect paddle. Its hydrodynamics are incredible; Elon clearly had something in mind when he designed the shape"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@ManglerOfProse @tlindblad @SpencerSays Some of the archival surveys of Victorian London that I've seen have been extraordinarily detailed at least as good as anything produced today. They knew what they were doing even [---] years ago"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:58Z 239.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Staub_T Elon plant einen Brsengang von SpaceX in naher Zukunft. Das ist die gross nderung. Bitte keine negative Publicity mehr fr Starlink"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:06Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Russian retailers are cashing in on Elon Musk's mass disabling of the Russian army's Starlink terminals by massively increasing the price of Russian alternatives. One such system has quadrupled in price overnight to over $2600 but is said to be far inferior to Starlink"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:43Z 239.2K followers, 80.2K engagements
"1/ What if Billie Eilish was a tracksuit-clad gopnitsa singing a translated Russian pop song while mooching around a run-down town in Russia Wonder no more because an enterprising Russian has used AI to answer the question. The results actually aren't bad"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:22Z 239.2K followers, 29.9K engagements
"This story should absolutely be read. When you see polls of how the reputation of the US has plummeted abroad stories like this of how other countries nationals are being treated - even when they've done everything right - are absolutely central to that"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:26Z 239.2K followers, 78.9K engagements
"Russian warbloggers have pointed out in the past that the army is heavily dependent on Telegram for battlefield communications including things such as calling in artillery strikes on particular coordinates. They have been strongly opposed to curbing Telegram. This could have a significant operational impact depending on how it's done"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:05Z 239.2K followers, 36.7K engagements
"3/ "Elon is certainly a real jerk. But we have some real assholes in the rear who decided to ride the wave and make money off their own soldiers. Wi-Fi bridges instantly doubled in price. It's maddening some are spilling blood and others are making a living off of it.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers are outraged at the Russian government's view that blocking Telegram is no big deal for frontline troops. They say it's a catastrophe heaped on the disaster of losing Starlink and that anyone who says Telegram isn't needed is talking "complete bullshit""
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, 29.5K engagements
"19/ "Information warfare will also suffer greatly because it was built up over a long period and now everything will simply be abandoned and everything will fall to the enemy." Platon Mamatov explains that "frontline communications are provided via Telegram.""
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ The Russian government's throttling of Telegram has deprived the Russian army of a huge repository of information for its soldiers' professional development and a key source of essential technical advice and instruction as Russian warbloggers explain"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, 10K engagements
"7/ "I'm so fucking sick of it honestly." The Russian government is overtly trying to push users off Telegram WhatsApp and other services and drive them onto its sole authorised platform MAX. It's required to be preinstalled on all smartphones and tablets sold in Russia"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"8/ However it lacks essential functionality that has made Telegram such a useful resource for disseminating professional knowledge. 'Tactical Medicine Courses' a Russian Telegram channel that teaches soldiers key first-aid skills explains:"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Boy or girl"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:18Z 239.2K followers, 12.1K engagements
"2/ Platon Mamadov provides two detailed examples: "Example number one: Aerial reconnaissance of Unit N spotted a Ukrainian self-propelled gun in a shelter in the middle of town N.""
X Link 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"1/ A town in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan unveiled a war memorial last year for local men who died in the war in Ukraine. Only six months later it has already nearly doubled in size with nearly [--] times more war dead than in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined"
X Link 2026-02-03T08:47Z 239.2K followers, 107.6K engagements
"1/ A Russian warblogger explains what the Russian army in Ukraine saw when they were disconnected en masse from Starlink yesterday"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:07Z 239.2K followers, 99.4K engagements
"1/ The attempted assassination of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow this morning has outraged Russian warbloggers who regard him as a hero of Russia. They have highlighted his key role and contributions to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, 33.2K engagements
"13/ "9. Rain Shield: Cover your gasoline generator with it when it rains. Now you have a "hybrid power system": Chinese hardware rattles underneath and a satellite dome covers it from above. Looks incredibly reliable"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"4/ Scammers are targeting soldiers with false promises that for a modest fee they can get Starlink working again. 'Callsign OSETIN' warns: "I'll write this again comrades. Remember this. Don't trust anyone who offers to restore your Starlinks by any means necessary.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"11/ "Even greater geniuses than those who failed to take advantage of the time we had while we were relying on that American network to develop our own working equivalent.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"18/ "The 24/7 fucking is about to begin the accelerated process of restoring something that never existed.😁 May Vaseline help them." 'Veterans' Notes' anticipates problems on the front line due to the shutdown:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Note the figures for Denmark in particular. Until only a few years ago the most pro-American country in Western Europe; now the most hostile by some distance"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:09Z 239.2K followers, 53.4K engagements
"1/ General Vladimir Alexseyev who was shot yesterday in a Moscow apartment building may have been secretly visiting his mistress before the attack. Despite a reputation as an uncorrupt officer he is said to have enjoyed the same luxurious lifestyle as many of his peers"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, 30.4K engagements
"@Felix_Nuno I mean the Russians or Chinese could probably drop it from one of their bombers but not in contested airspace Which is the point of the B-2"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:17Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"3/ The village museum has installed a display with photographs of local residents who died in the war. It currently shows [--] portraits of confirmed victims though there may well be more unlisted given the very large numbers of soldiers declared to be missing in action"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ What can Russian soldiers do with thousands of useless Starlink terminals One Russian warblogger has some humorous suggestions"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Russian special forces veterans say that the US operation in Venezuela was no big deal and they could easily have done the same with their own superior capabilities. However they haven't attempted to kidnap Zelenskyy because of their respect for international law"
X Link 2026-01-05T08:18Z 239.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:22Z 239.2K followers, 434.9K engagements
"New concept design for the remodelled Kennedy Center (IYKYK)"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:03Z 239.2K followers, 263.6K engagements
"How the Russians are using their defunct Starlink terminals after Elon Musk turned them all off:"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:16Z 239.2K followers, 34.2K engagements
"2/ 'Combat Reserve' complains that there has been a huge overnight increase in the price being asked for the Yamal [---] system which uses Gazprom's Yamal satellite constellation. Units are now selling for [------] rubles ($2612) apiece"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:43Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"3/ "An unknown assailant fired several shots into his back in the elevator lobby of a building on Volokolamsk Highway at 7:00 a.m. The assassin fled the scene. Alekseyev was hospitalised"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"4/ "Meanwhile Kostyukov Chief of the GRU of the Russian Ministry of Defence is leading our negotiating team in Abu Dhabi. This is a "greeting" from our "negotiating partners" which by the way includes Kyrylo Budanov who (until recently head of the"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"13/ Sasha Kots highlights Alekseyev's status as a recipient of the Hero of Russia medal and notes that he was "at the forefront of the creation of the Ministry of Defence's Volunteer Corps" which absorbed the remnants of the Wagner Group"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"14/ The Wagner-linked channel 'Alex Parker Returns' provides further detail on Alekseyev's involvement with Wagner: "Alekseyev was the curator of all volunteer formations. The Wagner PMC also originated from the GRU.""
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"15/ "Weapons and equipment were supplied under Alekseyev's direct supervision and the musicians themselves were officially registered as one of the GRU brigades.""
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"2/ Tsarev relates the dismal history of Russia's military communications programmes: "I remember how at the beginning of the Special Military Operation all units were buying Motorola radios. There was no other communications.""
X Link 2026-02-06T19:16Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"5/ Neighbours complain that homeless people sleep in the foyer mice infest the building the security cameras don't work the elevators and fire alarms are faulty and there was recently a flood due to a faulty fire extinguisher system"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"6/ Many residents of the building say in online chat forums that they are struck by the discrepancy between his status as the "second man in the GRU" and the building's downmarket aspect. One security officer is said to have described it as a "homeless shelter.""
X Link 2026-02-07T12:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm sceptical of the idea that Russia would have ever returned Kaliningrad to Germany. Quite apart from its strategic importance what would have been done with the million Russians living there It's more Russian now than many regions of Russia proper"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:41Z 239.2K followers, 31.4K engagements
"2/ The village of Tigil is the principal settlement of a lightly populated region the size of West Virginia or Latvia. About [----] people live in the village. Ethnic Russians only make up about 36% of the population with various indigenous groups making up the rest"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:44Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"5/ "Two of the three girls are very beautiful (the third is just beautiful) kind and smart despite their backgrounds but they have mental health issues of varying severity"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:02Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"6/ "I spoke with a philanthropist who briefly participated with the woman he loved in sending toys and clothes to an orphanage. There were semi-criminal orphans there one of the minors was a ready-made prostitute with the corresponding habits"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@8394_ab He's not on a tourist visa"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:51Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"9/ 'TopaZ Speaking' anticipates Ukraine exploiting the shutdown: "Now of course the enemy will at great expense attempt to attack the stations and equipment connected to the backup communications systems that replace the vanished American satellite internet.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"14/ 'NGP raZVedka' confirms this: "There are technical reasons to believe that Starlink has begun collecting information on the locations of inactive stations and systematizing this data. To avoid this we recommend disabling this useless piece of furniture.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin Hungary under Orban Venezuela under Chavez and Turkey under Erdogan according to this remarkable graph and report from @jburnmurdoch in the Financial Times today"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:34Z 239.2K followers, 562.7K engagements
"I hadn't realised there was a design for the gargantuan planned 'Arc de Trump' in Washington DC. It's so gaudy And much bigger than any other triumphal arch in the world (in fact second only to Hitler's planned Berlin arch) so it will certainly stick out like a sore thumb"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:50Z 239.2K followers, 108.2K engagements
"This must be the German edition of Windows"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:42Z 239.2K followers, 213.1K engagements
"1/ Russian forces in Ukraine are experiencing a devastating loss of connectivity as the Starlink terminals they rely upon are systematically shut off. With Russia's own Starlink alternative years away from implementation Russian warbloggers say the army is in crisis"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:03Z 239.2K followers, 207.3K engagements
"1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine The answer concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:16Z 239.2K followers, 60.5K engagements
"Orbn's zebras are probably cat food now"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:42Z 239.2K followers, 14K engagements
"Timeline cleanser for bedtime"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:01Z 239.2K followers, 16K engagements
"1/ The Russian authorities have published details of three people accused of Friday's shooting of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev. Two men have been arrested one in the UAE while a woman is said to have escaped to Ukraine which is blamed for the attack"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:54Z 239.2K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@OzKaterji Russia has the largest airborne forces in the world and they haven't done a single airdrop in the Ukraine war"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:43Z 239.2K followers, 19.4K engagements
"I would say "monitor and verify" rather than condemning it from the outset"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:57Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"7/ "The narrator didn't like this so he set the police on the orphanage and they uncovered the orphanage's management running a brothel for pedophiles of varying levels of wealth"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:33Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Mogged by reality after excessive jestergooning then cortisol levels spiked"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:08Z 239.2K followers, 13.4K engagements
"8/ "This will be the heaviest most inconvenient but also the most pompous souvenir which you can bring home and hang on the wall in your garage as a monument to the era of "wars and high technology.""
X Link 2026-02-09T22:11Z 239.2K followers, [---] engagements
"For the avoidance of doubt:"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:57Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"And right on time:"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:06Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Life after Starlink is proving to be difficult and frustrating for the Russian army. Russian warbloggers appear to be going through the stages of grief expressing anger and alarm at the crisis and concern that Ukraine will exploit it. One anticipates "24/7 fucking""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, 58K engagements
"2/ Further instances of price-gouging are being reported with the cost of US-made Ubiquiti WiFi bridges illegally imported into Russia doubling overnight. 'Strong Word' complains:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"5/ "Starlinks are definitely out of stock for us now; it's impossible to reactivate them." 'Two Majors' extols the Russian army's signallers who are working overtime trying to plug the gap left by Starlink:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"8/ "Unit command and combat command signals depend on you. We bow deeply to you my dears. Everyone is counting on you even if they curse you constantly.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"12/ 'Kiba's Signalman's Diary' warns Russian Starlink users that the Ukrainians are obtaining locational data from the shut-down systems which could in principle assist with artillery targeting:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"13/ "Attention EVERYONE urgently Immediately disconnect all Starlink satellite stations from power and remove them from open skies. Positioning data from inactive devices is being collected.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"16/ "According to unconfirmed reports all data from the dishes is now integrated with Ukrainian data systems Delta and Nettle. In other words the enemy is verifying data by position.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"17/ The blogger doesn't rate highly the Russian MOD's chances of closing the gap now that it is being forced to resurrect previously deprecated communications solutions:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"19/ "Information is coming in from various sources that the enemy could take advantage of the shutdown of unregistered Starlink terminals to launch counterattacks on several front lines. We must be as prepared as possible for such a scenario.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"23/ "Were facing another spectacular failure. Do we have a State Defence Committee that concentrates all power in the country during a war And one headed by the president not just another bad boyar No"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"24/ "There is no interdepartmental coordination rapid feedback or flexible response to the situation. And it turns out that in the Russian Federation they were developing TWO alternatives to Musk's Starlink Both Sphere and Rassvet"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:48Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"25/ "Ultimately neither was built during the war. A spectacular management failure. One of many during that ill-fated war. So what happened" Rybar and others report that overnight Ukrainian advances in the Zaporizhzhia region are directly linked to the Starlink shutdown:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"26/ "Although the enemy has managed to penetrate relatively deep into the Russian Armed Forces' control zone in some areas there are no critical issues yet. The difficulties are primarily related to problems with the Starlink terminals and adverse weather conditions.""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:49Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The "Epstein was not a pedophile" boat sailed a very long time ago"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:24Z 239.2K followers, 17.1K engagements
"2/ Dmitri Peskov Vladimir Putin's spokesman says: "I don't think it's possible to imagine frontline communications being provided via Telegram or some other messenger. It's difficult and impossible to imagine such a thing.""
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"15/ "With Telegram interaction between operational officers is direct and a response to a target occurs within seconds. A drone appears in the air a minute after detecting a target allowing us to "catch" the enemy in motion"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"22/ "Radio communications are built primarily on mass-market Chinese radios and serve an auxiliary function of exchanging non-classified information over a distance of no more than ten kilometers.""
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"9/ "The process of restricting Telegram has had very negative consequences: there is no viable alternative. The promoted Max messenger still doesn't support comments in channels which is crucial for feedback and discussions"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:32Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ The Russian army faces a crisis with obtaining aid for its soldiers who are dependent on volunteers to provide them with everything from socks to Starlink terminals. Russian warbloggers say that the blocking of Telegram will wreck voluntary assistance efforts"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"14/ "The goal is to eliminate and silence Russian civil society within Russia itself. Everything else including communication problems at the front is considered collateral damage and insignificant compared to achieving the main goal: silencing Russians in Russia." /end"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Sources: 🔹 🔹 🔹"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:56Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers are continuing to provide examples of how Telegram is used for frontline battlefield communications to refute the claim of presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov that such a thing is "not possible to imagine""
X Link 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"11/ "Not a single unit participating in the disco was identified or hit by the enemy. Just as they had not been identified in the previous two years of the war"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"12/ "Despite the active use of Telegram whose creator is something in Paris blah-blah-blah NATO. Now tell me please how we can achieve such results without using the Internet and instant messaging." /end Source:"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:13Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Highly recommended viewing from the great @BBCSteveR. 👇"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:28Z 239.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A perfect demonstration of the principle of Trump's Razor: if all else is equal the stupidest possible explanation is the most likely"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:57Z 239.2K followers, 21.7K engagements
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