[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, moscow, money 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 +5.60% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +16% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +85% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +30% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +90% - X Months XXXXX +73% - X Year XXXXX +65% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.20% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.98% - X Months XXXXXXX +9.80% - X Year XXXXXXX +15% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #6934 [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) #4945 [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #85, [russia](/topic/russia) #195, [moscow](/topic/moscow) #137, [money](/topic/money) 2.44%, [drone](/topic/drone) 2.44%, [putin](/topic/putin) 2.44%, [drones](/topic/drones) 1.95%, [vladimir putin](/topic/vladimir-putin) 1.95%, [defence](/topic/defence) 1.46%, [poland](/topic/poland) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@r9_fury](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@strobenlights](/creator/undefined) [@mknightraytheon](/creator/undefined) [@adrewzz](/creator/undefined) [@1778barrett](/creator/undefined) [@am773286](/creator/undefined) [@triibustek](/creator/undefined) [@rianauthor](/creator/undefined) [@bmitori](/creator/undefined) [@shawjpa](/creator/undefined) [@fasc1nate](/creator/undefined) [@janmodaal420](/creator/undefined) [@ntarnopolsky](/creator/undefined) [@atisartmanis](/creator/undefined) [@karinavinnikova](/creator/undefined) [@barcann](/creator/undefined) [@volodyatretyak](/creator/undefined) [@cor_scipio](/creator/undefined) [@karstenstrauss](/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 229.1K followers, 94.3K engagements "9/ "The main condition for preventing emergencies is that soldiers must sit in the barracks. X. And the incompetence of the commander. It is immediately revealed during training. Hence the result." Source:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946476398815703441) 2025-07-19 07:45:11 UTC 229.1K followers, 74.9K engagements "1/ 'Anti-woke' American Derek Huffman is the third Texan to move to Russian-held territory to fight against Ukraine. As his predecessors were kidnapped tortured to death blown to pieces and killed by Ukrainian forces it seems unlikely that his fate will be any better"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359187958133177) 2025-07-21 18:13:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 653.3K engagements "2/ Aleksandr Vladimirovich Efreemov of the 9th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 71443) told his wife that "If you don't find the money soon they'll kill me". After arriving at a location in Ukraine he was thrown into an open-air pit along with many other men"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946307456256053261) 2025-07-18 20:33:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 77.3K engagements "1/ A Russian warblogger fighting in eastern Ukraine says that an unprecedented number of Ukrainian FPV drones is causing huge casualties. He claims that both sides are using chemical weapons and complains about the quality of reinforcements"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946862446066417904) 2025-07-20 09:19:12 UTC 229.2K followers, 83.4K 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 229.1K followers, 9795 engagements "4/ Russell Bentley dubbed the 'Donbass Cowboy' travelled to Donetsk in April 2024 to join a local militia battalion fighting Ukrainian forces in the first stage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He married a local woman and settled in Donetsk"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359195688255847) 2025-07-21 18:13:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 38.9K 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 229.2K 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 229.2K followers, 373.6K engagements "5/ "Following a successful visit to Moscow we sold our land in Texas and began the immigration process which included obtaining visas and preparing for life in Russia.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935353421070839) 2025-07-23 08:22:33 UTC 229.2K followers, 67.9K 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 229.2K followers, 545.7K 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 229.1K followers, 234.5K engagements "1/ The occupied regions of Ukraine are facing a deepening ecological and economic crisis with critical shortages of water rapid desertification and the collapse of agriculture and industries across the occupied territories. Russia is doing little to resolve it"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945754167999414686) 2025-07-17 07:55:18 UTC 229.2K followers, 111K engagements "9/ "He demonstratively gives his subordinates the order to undress him put him on a stretcher and drag him into the swamp. At that moment we continue to stand in formation.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946112132312916037) 2025-07-18 07:37:44 UTC 229.2K followers, 11.3K engagements "6/ Michael Gloss also died in April 2024. The son of a senior CIA official he dropped out of university went backpacking and ended up in Russia intending to "defeat the military-industrial complex". He identified variously with communist Islamic and environmental causes"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359200570470644) 2025-07-21 18:13:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 35.7K engagements "22/ "* Obligate responsible persons to review the tariff policy and standards - towards adequacy transparency and fairness;"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726894742303002) 2025-07-22 18:34:13 UTC 229.2K followers, 1294 engagements "1/ Residents of the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine have issued a desperate appeal to Vladimir Putin to resolve a disastrous shortage of water. A Russian warblogger admits that the region was better off before the Russian takeover"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726847950647369) 2025-07-22 18:34:02 UTC 229.2K followers, 45.5K 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 229.2K followers, 6869 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 229.1K followers, 16.3K engagements "1/ More than three years into the war in Ukraine Russian army training is still often reported to be only cursory. Soldiers are usually given only a few days of training and a single outing to the shooting range. A Russian warblogger discusses why this is"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946476383657423280) 2025-07-19 07:45:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 371.3K engagements "5/ In April 2024 Bentley was abducted by Russian soldiers who believed he was a spy. He died under torture in an abandoned mine. To conceal their crime the soldiers blew up his body with a block of plastic explosive. No remains have been recovered"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359197672153193) 2025-07-21 18:13:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 57.1K engagements "2/ At least 50000 Russian convicts were voluntarily recruited by the Wagner Group and subsequently the Russian Ministry of Defence with promises of pardons and lucrative payouts. However many remained behind particularly after reports of huge numbers of casualties emerged"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947637467680526777) 2025-07-22 12:38:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 3759 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 229.1K followers, 5883 engagements "@fasc1nate Also the same as this scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948140024500756733) 2025-07-23 21:55:51 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX 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 229.2K followers, 6945 engagements "8/ "Specifically the organisers are named as unidentified persons using the pseudonyms "Sayfullo" "Akhi" "Talha" "Abumeskin" as well as citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan Bekov (pseudonym "Abu Munzir") and Hikmatov (pseudonyms "Shchikorchi" "Sherinar" "Forukh" and"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658176532664589) 2025-07-19 19:47:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 3105 engagements "20/ "Alchevsk. No water for XX days. Perevalsk. No water for XX days. And no one cares about us. All appeals are returned to the local authorities who in turn do nothing at all We are on the verge of extinction.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207478673899728) 2025-07-21 08:10:14 UTC 229.2K followers, 4378 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 229.2K followers, 1.1M engagements "3/ As the mother of one man who resisted recruitment says of her son "He said that he was not a fool to go to his death. Even after the Wagnerites returned six months later (not all of them of course) with medals and millions.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947637469895397486) 2025-07-22 12:38:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 3565 engagements "21/ "Russia is doing the right thing the Nazi regime in Ukraine must be stopped.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935386035945888) 2025-07-23 08:22:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 56.9K 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 229.2K followers, 17.5K 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 229.2K followers, 700.9K engagements "8/ After his channel was publicised in the Polish media TikTok shut it down for violating its terms and conditions. The man is also likely to face punishment if he returns home as Poland criminalises mercenarism with a term of imprisonment from X months to X years"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829464480759953) 2025-07-14 18:40:52 UTC 229.1K followers, 5283 engagements "9/ Vladimir Putin has indirectly lent his support by allowing foreigners "who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values" to move to Russia without taking a test in the Russian language and Russian history"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935363055362540) 2025-07-23 08:22:36 UTC 229.2K followers, 61.3K engagements "23/ "Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich people live here citizens of the Russian Federation. We are not just asking we are shouting. We have been deprived of the most basic need the right to access to water and we hope that you will hear us"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726896805929137) 2025-07-22 18:34:13 UTC 229.2K followers, 2012 engagements "7/ "In conditions of sweltering heat and the lack of alternatives this is critical and unacceptable. The quality of the supplied water is disgusting: cloudy with dirty sediment it spoils plumbing and pipes it is impossible to use it for cooking or personal hygiene"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726862031192472) 2025-07-22 18:34:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 2200 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 229.1K followers, 9597 engagements "1/ A leaked list of casualties from a Russian battalion taking part in an offensive suggests a killed/wounded ratio of 1:36 to X. According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio losses stand at over 100000 dead this year alone"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945429382840881504) 2025-07-16 10:24:43 UTC 229.2K followers, 102.5K engagements "14/ "And I hear a conversation that 'Lezgin' and 'Patron' stole X million on their card. Where they stole it from I don't know. None of them go to depots or anywhere. They just sit on this shed ride around there walk go on vacation as they please drink something.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946307479010189349) 2025-07-18 20:33:58 UTC 229.2K followers, 40.5K engagements "8/ "If there is an elevator in the building you can carry water from the basement but without one this is an impossible task for the elderly"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207456515318259) 2025-07-21 08:10:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 7288 engagements "29/ "At the beginning of this year it was reported that the Ministry of Defense demanded that X billion rubles be collected from the Military Construction Company that built the water pipeline.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207950969221263) 2025-07-21 08:12:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 3947 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 229.2K followers, 34.8K engagements "@janmodaal420 Crimea is one thing. This is about a different area in eastern Ukraine"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948752418092573151) 2025-07-25 14:29:17 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX engagements "7/ Video posted by 'Polak na Donbasie' have attracted millions of views and hundreds of comments in Polish. While it seems that some of the commentators are likely inauthentic many do seem to be genuine Polish-speakers promoting pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian views"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944829461540593815) 2025-07-14 18:40:51 UTC 229.1K followers, 4857 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 229.2K followers, 5039 engagements "10/ "According to the investigation on X November 2023 terrorists organised at least three cells of "Vilayat Khorasan" in the territory of the Russian Federation involving among other things people from Central Asia the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658180408213995) 2025-07-19 19:47:32 UTC 229.2K followers, 2882 engagements "26/ On June XX DeAnna posted a video in which she said that three years ago she was able to overcome a severe alcohol addiction but after her husband went to the front she started drinking again"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935607814078514) 2025-07-23 08:23:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 92.9K 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 229.2K followers, 94.8K engagements "7/ which is a wing of the banned terrorist organisation 'Islamic State'.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658175052124625) 2025-07-19 19:47:30 UTC 229.2K followers, 3076 engagements "1/ Organised crime is now thriving in the Russian army as a result of its recruitment of tens of thousands of convicts. Former inmates extort rob and torture soldiers with impunity to extract millions of rubles in pay and bonuses from them as two recent accounts highlight"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946307452825219380) 2025-07-18 20:33:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 994.7K engagements "7/ Another resident writes: "Since X July even in the city centre water has stopped being supplied to floors above 3-4. There was no clear information from the authorities. How to take care of the elderly children and just yourself is not very clear.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207454502117731) 2025-07-21 08:10:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 7975 engagements "1/ Russian convicts are being violently press-ganged into the Russian army according to relatives. They say that hundreds of prisoners have been beaten en masse until they have agreed to sign a military contract. The army "really needs meat" says one relative"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947637465579163795) 2025-07-22 12:38:51 UTC 229.2K followers, 56.9K engagements "22/ DeAnna Huffman posted a new video on June X talking about her hopes of becoming an English teacher at a local school or kindergarten. She describes how her husband is getting on at a military training camp:"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935387805999352) 2025-07-23 08:22:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 102.1K engagements "8/ He wants to "build an American village in an open field for my compatriots who do not want to live and raise their children in a society with LGBT propaganda." The 'village' is a small and still ongoing development at Bolshaya Voda in the Istra district near Moscow"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935360488460521) 2025-07-23 08:22:35 UTC 229.2K followers, 65.1K 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 229.2K followers, 71.8K engagements "14/ "Also according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation residents of the North Caucasus who shared the views of the banned militant wing of the Batalhajin religious community followers of Batal Hajji Belkhoroev"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658187236475001) 2025-07-19 19:47:33 UTC 229.2K followers, 2126 engagements "6/ The project in question is the so-called 'American Village' a project initiated by right-wing American broadcaster and pro-Russian propagandist Tim Kirby who moved to Russia in 2006. He converted to Russian Orthodoxy in what has become something of a fashion on the US right"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935355904184350) 2025-07-23 08:22:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 68.7K 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 229.2K followers, 90K engagements "1/ At least XXX million rubles ($2.88 million) is reported to have been stolen during the construction of border fortifications in Russia's Bryansk region. The deputy governor Nikolai Simonenko has been been raided by investigators pursuing a criminal case"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783103650664697) 2025-07-22 22:17:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 41.8K engagements "6/ "The prosecutor's office filed claims for this amount against the capital construction department and contractors. In total more than XX claims have been filed demanding that the transactions be declared null and void and penalties be collected"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783116774384123) 2025-07-22 22:17:37 UTC 229.2K followers, 1795 engagements "1/ A Russian soldier at the front line writes of the harsh conditions at the front line under continuous fire from "German artillery" sic and FPV drones in such a high density that soldiers often cannot move from their dugouts without getting hit"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948308074034266154) 2025-07-24 09:03:37 UTC 229.2K followers, 473.5K 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 229.1K followers, 6345 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 229.2K followers, 725.8K engagements "1/ The Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine face a deepening humanitarian catastrophe with some towns not having received any water for four months. Endemic corruption and systemic mismanagement by the Russian-installed authorities is being blamed for the situation"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207437238288673) 2025-07-21 08:10:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 173.2K engagements "6/ Zhuravlev says that his officers told him directly to pay 300000 rubles ($3800) to get out of the assault. Other soldiers are also being extorted similarly"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947571137220661428) 2025-07-22 08:15:17 UTC 229.2K followers, 21K engagements "3/ "The Ukrainian analogue of the Lancet the Bulava kamikaze drone: 🔺 Warhead: XXX kg 🔺 Range: up to XX km 🔺 Flight time: about X hour 🔺 Maximum altitude: about X km 🔺 Speed: up to XXX km/h"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947377405506797848) 2025-07-21 19:25:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 3421 engagements "8/ The official oversees among other things the work of the regional capital construction department." It's likely that a similar scenario will unfold as in Kursk or Belgorod where a substantial portion of a XXXX billion ruble ($248 million) budget was stolen"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783120964469234) 2025-07-22 22:17:38 UTC 229.2K followers, 1682 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 229.2K followers, 3840 engagements "During WW2 Radio Berlin would frequently announce the destruction of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy but that didn't happen either"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1841183645521834304) 2024-10-01 18:29:23 UTC 229.1K followers, 39.5K engagements "@NTarnopolsky @BarakRavid Why would any third country willingly participate in something that would attract the condemnation and likely sanctions of almost the entire world"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946269674464813268) 2025-07-18 18:03:44 UTC 229.1K followers, 2347 engagements "2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel says that it has "reviewed the materials of the criminal case" and is publishing a summary of what the prosecution will say in the preliminary hearing before the 2nd Western District Military Court on XX July"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658165824672099) 2025-07-19 19:47:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 4695 engagements "20/ Some places have it even worse. In the riverside village of Lyubymivka there has been no water for two years. The Russian authorities have promised bottled water for the residents but it has not been delivered. They queue instead at water towers that are barely functioning"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945754208558309726) 2025-07-17 07:55:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 4005 engagements "@NickCohen4 "Just genuinely concerned families""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947265820112924771) 2025-07-21 12:02:04 UTC 229.2K followers, 3514 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 229.2K followers, 16.9K engagements "The tanks sent by Australia needed some adjustments to make it them suitable for Ukrainian conditions"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946904097422266834) 2025-07-20 12:04:43 UTC 229.2K followers, 62.1K engagements "3/ Huffman is the third person from Texas to have joined Russian forces. His two predecessors both self-declared communists were killed one by his own side the other by Ukrainian attacks during an assault"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359193029136441) 2025-07-21 18:13:06 UTC 229.2K followers, 39K 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 229.2K followers, 30.5K 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 229.1K followers, 18.7K engagements "Still flying a MiG-31 in 2025 is like still flying a Sopwith Camel in the mid-1970s"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948050762329739311) 2025-07-23 16:01:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 17.6K engagements "3/ The 'Blue Z Beard' Telegram channel has published the text of an "appeal to the Tsar" which residents of Donetsk have made to Vladimir Putin. It's unlikely to have much effect as similar appeals have simply been referred to the local authorities"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726852577230873) 2025-07-22 18:34:03 UTC 229.2K followers, 2779 engagements "9/ "Biyo Rafig"). All of them are outside the Russian Federation"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658178298499560) 2025-07-19 19:47:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 2898 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 229.1K followers, 191.8K engagements "13/ It's been reported that the federal Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the Belgorod fortification contractors repay around X billion rubles ($12.73 million). Gladov is said to have met with Putin likely to plead against the possibility of his dismissal. /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783131760664863) 2025-07-22 22:17:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 8171 engagements "15/ "Against this background the city continues to build residential complexes lay roads fountains water shows all this looks like a mockery of people who live without water and fight for survival every day"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726881291431999) 2025-07-22 18:34:10 UTC 229.2K followers, 1620 engagements "The real Jeffrey Epstein scandal is how much influence the super-rich wield even if they're objectively loathsome individuals"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948642593123770486) 2025-07-25 07:12:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 13K 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 229.2K followers, 53.7K engagements "19/ The situation is equally bad in the Luhansk region where a resident says: "They write a lot about Donetsk and the DPR and the water situation. There is silence about the LPR. Local channels are trying to give out something but it doesnt go beyond the LPR.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207476660588966) 2025-07-21 08:10:14 UTC 229.1K followers, 4412 engagements "16/ "Moreover the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant has officially announced plans to increase steel production to 50000 tons per month this year"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726884067787262) 2025-07-22 18:34:10 UTC 229.2K followers, 1445 engagements "7/ "This morning employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB came to search the deputy governor of the Bryansk region Nikolai Simonenko in a criminal case on fortifications"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947783118775095549) 2025-07-22 22:17:38 UTC 229.2K followers, 1726 engagements "3/ "We were motivated by our concerns over LGBT indoctrination in the American schools unhealthy food and a desire for a safer environment that is aligned with our Christian values"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935349767860641) 2025-07-23 08:22:32 UTC 229.2K followers, 129.6K engagements "@fasc1nate Same trick as the hotel corridor fight in Inception - the set is built in a rotating spindle with a fixed camera at one end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948138196249751595) 2025-07-23 21:48:35 UTC 229.2K followers, 1269 engagements "🔺 Targets: Buk-M3 air defense Tor SAM Pole-21 electronic warfare heavy equipment 🔺 Resistance to electronic warfare and communications: higher than that of the Lancet 🔺 Works in conjunction with the Aist XXX M2 reconnaissance drone for precise target search""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947377408363139186) 2025-07-21 19:25:29 UTC 229.1K followers, 3379 engagements "1/ Russia is preparing for the trial next week of XX suspects in the XX March 2024 attack on Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk Moscow region which killed XXX people and injured another XXX. Early claims of Ukrainian involvement are not reflected in the prosecution case"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658163786183051) 2025-07-19 19:47:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 71.9K engagements "5/ Despite far-fetched Russian claims of Ukrainian involvement it was clear from the start that the attack was linked to Islamic State. The IS propaganda outlet Amaq News published photos of the Crocus City attackers and the video they made of the attack"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658171197526345) 2025-07-19 19:47:29 UTC 229.1K followers, 6125 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 229.1K followers, 12.7K 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 229.1K followers, 39.5K 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 229.2K followers, 18.2K engagements "The vibe is Trouble as Whispers circulate at the Speed of Sound that they'll have to Let Somebody Go. Employees are telling each other Don't Panic and appealing to a Higher Power while The Hardest Part is ahead as they hope to Fix You"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946285536517247058) 2025-07-18 19:06:46 UTC 229.2K followers, 18.2K engagements "13/ Rudnev says that the medical battalion was controlled by former convicts who took bribes to allow soldiers to have various privileges denied to others such as using their mobile phones in the facility. They spent the money on cars alcohol and drugs"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946307477399539937) 2025-07-18 20:33:57 UTC 229.2K followers, 43K 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 229.2K followers, 6590 engagements "@barcann @MojackMarine No this was during the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2022. The report says that Musk nearly crippled Ukraine's effort to drive back the Russians"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948752192569024582) 2025-07-25 14:28:23 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX engagements "7/ "The situation is this: you explain to the officer that what are you doing Im not combat-ready to go on a combat mission. If you dont want to go on a combat mission pay up.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947571139095548207) 2025-07-22 08:15:18 UTC 229.2K followers, 20.2K engagements "4/ "To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726855039291579) 2025-07-22 18:34:03 UTC 229.2K followers, 2495 engagements "6/ "Since 2022 Donetsk has not had a stable water supply. Water is supplied on schedule: over the past year it was supplied once every two days but from the end of July 2025 the authorities intend to transfer us to an even stricter regime water supply once every three days"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726860030185976) 2025-07-22 18:34:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 2358 engagements "5/ "The 200s and 300s dead and wounded were still on the move. There were XX people at the positions I can't say exactly how many. We left after three weeks with XX men. The rest were cancelled some because of injuries and some for good"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014456846565667) 2025-07-15 06:55:57 UTC 229.1K followers, 62.9K 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 229.1K followers, 1649 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 229.2K followers, 535.4K engagements "@VolodyaTretyak This station was literally the first time I'd ever had vertigo on an escalator. A five-minute ride from top to bottom"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947348123967492427) 2025-07-21 17:29:07 UTC 229.1K followers, 5436 engagements "@cossackgundi Right because in some cases they will face criminal charges for engaging in mercenarism. But that's on them"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1938877621195911566) 2025-06-28 08:30:22 UTC 229.2K followers, 2868 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 229K followers, 16.7K engagements "The punishment for Russian soldiers doing drugs is getting sent to an assault squad. So what do you do if you're already in an assault squad. that's right do drugs"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948251790358507810) 2025-07-24 05:19:58 UTC 229.2K followers, 18.8K engagements "1/ At least XXX Russians POWs freed from Ukrainian captivity are reported to have have died or gone missing in action after being sent back to the front lines in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Some are said to have been executed"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946112113526628860) 2025-07-18 07:37:39 UTC 229.2K followers, 333K engagements "Pretty clear she'll get a pardon in exchange for exonerating Trump and incriminating one or more of his political enemies. As scar Benavides said: "For my friends everything; for my enemies the law""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948753466110754932) 2025-07-25 14:33:27 UTC 229.2K followers, 10.5K engagements "7/ He joined the Russian army in September 2023. On X April 2024 he was sent into an assault with the 137th Airborne Regiment near Soledar. He died the same day in unclear circumstances but it's likely he was killed by artillery or a drone strike"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359203573588231) 2025-07-21 18:13:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 33.5K 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 229.2K followers, 7354 engagements "8/ Huffman has clearly not been granted any special favours despite reports that he was promised a role in a rear area. It's likely that he too will be expended in a 'meat assault'; the life expectancy of Russian troops on the front line is often not long. /end"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947359206299845091) 2025-07-21 18:13:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 39.5K engagements "2/ The entirety of Russian-occupied Ukraine is experiencing a severe and worsening lack of water for domestic agricultural and industrial use. War neglect faulty infrastructure and corruption are widely blamed for the problems"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947726850182021369) 2025-07-22 18:34:02 UTC 229.2K followers, 4472 engagements "Unimaginably evil. This will indisputably kill millions of people"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1948349009237582247) 2025-07-24 11:46:17 UTC 229.2K followers, 19.6K engagements "Not coincidentally one of the things that Putin did soon after taking power was force comedy shows off the air. The popular NTV show Puppets was shut down in 2002 and its writer Viktor Shenderovich - who had often satirised Putin - had to flee into exile"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946261775042695540) 2025-07-18 17:32:21 UTC 229.2K followers, 45.8K 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 229.1K followers, 7092 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 229.2K 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 229.2K followers, 17.5K engagements "19/ Towns and villages in the occupied part of the Kherson region which relied on the Kakhovka Reservoir are also becoming increasingly uninhabitable. There is too little water to meet demand and water pressure is too low to reach the upper floors of multi-storey buildings"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945754205743993324) 2025-07-17 07:55:27 UTC 229.1K followers, 3894 engagements "1/ The short and potentially tragic journey of American migr Derek Huffman who moved with his family from Texas to Russia to escape gays and pornography joined the Russian army and was sent to the front in Ukraine is documented by his YouTube channel"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935345338691679) 2025-07-23 08:22:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 957.9K engagements "27/ Another video on June XX now deleted from YouTube but still viewable on Reddit shows DeAnna in an even more depressed mood. She says that her husband was deceived about his service and was sent to the front line. They had expected that he would be employed as a welder"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947935662969159696) 2025-07-23 08:23:47 UTC 229.2K followers, 50.7K engagements "28/ "Even after Ivanov's dismissal and arrest his name repeatedly surfaced in investigations into embezzlement and corruption in the implementation of "Big Water.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947207882241393033) 2025-07-21 08:11:51 UTC 229.1K followers, 3887 engagements "Keep an eye on the comedians. They're a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the growth of authoritarian governance. Deplatforming them is a bad sign all round"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946262275737731472) 2025-07-18 17:34:20 UTC 229.2K followers, 11.4K 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 229.1K followers, 94.3K engagements
"9/ "The main condition for preventing emergencies is that soldiers must sit in the barracks. X. And the incompetence of the commander. It is immediately revealed during training. Hence the result." Source:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 07:45:11 UTC 229.1K followers, 74.9K engagements
"1/ 'Anti-woke' American Derek Huffman is the third Texan to move to Russian-held territory to fight against Ukraine. As his predecessors were kidnapped tortured to death blown to pieces and killed by Ukrainian forces it seems unlikely that his fate will be any better" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 653.3K engagements
"2/ Aleksandr Vladimirovich Efreemov of the 9th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 71443) told his wife that "If you don't find the money soon they'll kill me". After arriving at a location in Ukraine he was thrown into an open-air pit along with many other men" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 20:33:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 77.3K engagements
"1/ A Russian warblogger fighting in eastern Ukraine says that an unprecedented number of Ukrainian FPV drones is causing huge casualties. He claims that both sides are using chemical weapons and complains about the quality of reinforcements" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-20 09:19:12 UTC 229.2K followers, 83.4K 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 229.1K followers, 9795 engagements
"4/ Russell Bentley dubbed the 'Donbass Cowboy' travelled to Donetsk in April 2024 to join a local militia battalion fighting Ukrainian forces in the first stage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He married a local woman and settled in Donetsk" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 38.9K 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 229.2K 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 229.2K followers, 373.6K engagements
"5/ "Following a successful visit to Moscow we sold our land in Texas and began the immigration process which included obtaining visas and preparing for life in Russia."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:33 UTC 229.2K followers, 67.9K 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 229.2K followers, 545.7K 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 229.1K followers, 234.5K engagements
"1/ The occupied regions of Ukraine are facing a deepening ecological and economic crisis with critical shortages of water rapid desertification and the collapse of agriculture and industries across the occupied territories. Russia is doing little to resolve it" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-17 07:55:18 UTC 229.2K followers, 111K engagements
"9/ "He demonstratively gives his subordinates the order to undress him put him on a stretcher and drag him into the swamp. At that moment we continue to stand in formation."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 07:37:44 UTC 229.2K followers, 11.3K engagements
"6/ Michael Gloss also died in April 2024. The son of a senior CIA official he dropped out of university went backpacking and ended up in Russia intending to "defeat the military-industrial complex". He identified variously with communist Islamic and environmental causes" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 35.7K engagements
"22/ "* Obligate responsible persons to review the tariff policy and standards - towards adequacy transparency and fairness;" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:13 UTC 229.2K followers, 1294 engagements
"1/ Residents of the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine have issued a desperate appeal to Vladimir Putin to resolve a disastrous shortage of water. A Russian warblogger admits that the region was better off before the Russian takeover" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:02 UTC 229.2K followers, 45.5K 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 229.2K followers, 6869 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 229.1K followers, 16.3K engagements
"1/ More than three years into the war in Ukraine Russian army training is still often reported to be only cursory. Soldiers are usually given only a few days of training and a single outing to the shooting range. A Russian warblogger discusses why this is" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 07:45:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 371.3K engagements
"5/ In April 2024 Bentley was abducted by Russian soldiers who believed he was a spy. He died under torture in an abandoned mine. To conceal their crime the soldiers blew up his body with a block of plastic explosive. No remains have been recovered" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 57.1K engagements
"2/ At least 50000 Russian convicts were voluntarily recruited by the Wagner Group and subsequently the Russian Ministry of Defence with promises of pardons and lucrative payouts. However many remained behind particularly after reports of huge numbers of casualties emerged" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 12:38:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 3759 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 229.1K followers, 5883 engagements
"@fasc1nate Also the same as this scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 21:55:51 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX 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 229.2K followers, 6945 engagements
"8/ "Specifically the organisers are named as unidentified persons using the pseudonyms "Sayfullo" "Akhi" "Talha" "Abumeskin" as well as citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan Bekov (pseudonym "Abu Munzir") and Hikmatov (pseudonyms "Shchikorchi" "Sherinar" "Forukh" and" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 3105 engagements
"20/ "Alchevsk. No water for XX days. Perevalsk. No water for XX days. And no one cares about us. All appeals are returned to the local authorities who in turn do nothing at all We are on the verge of extinction."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:10:14 UTC 229.2K followers, 4378 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 229.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"3/ As the mother of one man who resisted recruitment says of her son "He said that he was not a fool to go to his death. Even after the Wagnerites returned six months later (not all of them of course) with medals and millions."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 12:38:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 3565 engagements
"21/ "Russia is doing the right thing the Nazi regime in Ukraine must be stopped."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 56.9K 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 229.2K followers, 17.5K 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 229.2K followers, 700.9K engagements
"8/ After his channel was publicised in the Polish media TikTok shut it down for violating its terms and conditions. The man is also likely to face punishment if he returns home as Poland criminalises mercenarism with a term of imprisonment from X months to X years" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:52 UTC 229.1K followers, 5283 engagements
"9/ Vladimir Putin has indirectly lent his support by allowing foreigners "who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values" to move to Russia without taking a test in the Russian language and Russian history" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:36 UTC 229.2K followers, 61.3K engagements
"23/ "Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich people live here citizens of the Russian Federation. We are not just asking we are shouting. We have been deprived of the most basic need the right to access to water and we hope that you will hear us" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:13 UTC 229.2K followers, 2012 engagements
"7/ "In conditions of sweltering heat and the lack of alternatives this is critical and unacceptable. The quality of the supplied water is disgusting: cloudy with dirty sediment it spoils plumbing and pipes it is impossible to use it for cooking or personal hygiene" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 2200 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 229.1K followers, 9597 engagements
"1/ A leaked list of casualties from a Russian battalion taking part in an offensive suggests a killed/wounded ratio of 1:36 to X. According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio losses stand at over 100000 dead this year alone" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 10:24:43 UTC 229.2K followers, 102.5K engagements
"14/ "And I hear a conversation that 'Lezgin' and 'Patron' stole X million on their card. Where they stole it from I don't know. None of them go to depots or anywhere. They just sit on this shed ride around there walk go on vacation as they please drink something."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 20:33:58 UTC 229.2K followers, 40.5K engagements
"8/ "If there is an elevator in the building you can carry water from the basement but without one this is an impossible task for the elderly" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:10:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 7288 engagements
"29/ "At the beginning of this year it was reported that the Ministry of Defense demanded that X billion rubles be collected from the Military Construction Company that built the water pipeline."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:12:07 UTC 229.2K followers, 3947 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 229.2K followers, 34.8K engagements
"@janmodaal420 Crimea is one thing. This is about a different area in eastern Ukraine" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-25 14:29:17 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX engagements
"7/ Video posted by 'Polak na Donbasie' have attracted millions of views and hundreds of comments in Polish. While it seems that some of the commentators are likely inauthentic many do seem to be genuine Polish-speakers promoting pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian views" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 18:40:51 UTC 229.1K followers, 4857 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 229.2K followers, 5039 engagements
"10/ "According to the investigation on X November 2023 terrorists organised at least three cells of "Vilayat Khorasan" in the territory of the Russian Federation involving among other things people from Central Asia the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:32 UTC 229.2K followers, 2882 engagements
"26/ On June XX DeAnna posted a video in which she said that three years ago she was able to overcome a severe alcohol addiction but after her husband went to the front she started drinking again" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:23:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 92.9K 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 229.2K followers, 94.8K engagements
"7/ which is a wing of the banned terrorist organisation 'Islamic State'."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:30 UTC 229.2K followers, 3076 engagements
"1/ Organised crime is now thriving in the Russian army as a result of its recruitment of tens of thousands of convicts. Former inmates extort rob and torture soldiers with impunity to extract millions of rubles in pay and bonuses from them as two recent accounts highlight" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 20:33:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 994.7K engagements
"7/ Another resident writes: "Since X July even in the city centre water has stopped being supplied to floors above 3-4. There was no clear information from the authorities. How to take care of the elderly children and just yourself is not very clear."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:10:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 7975 engagements
"1/ Russian convicts are being violently press-ganged into the Russian army according to relatives. They say that hundreds of prisoners have been beaten en masse until they have agreed to sign a military contract. The army "really needs meat" says one relative" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 12:38:51 UTC 229.2K followers, 56.9K engagements
"22/ DeAnna Huffman posted a new video on June X talking about her hopes of becoming an English teacher at a local school or kindergarten. She describes how her husband is getting on at a military training camp:" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 102.1K engagements
"8/ He wants to "build an American village in an open field for my compatriots who do not want to live and raise their children in a society with LGBT propaganda." The 'village' is a small and still ongoing development at Bolshaya Voda in the Istra district near Moscow" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:35 UTC 229.2K followers, 65.1K 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 229.2K followers, 71.8K engagements
"14/ "Also according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation residents of the North Caucasus who shared the views of the banned militant wing of the Batalhajin religious community followers of Batal Hajji Belkhoroev" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:33 UTC 229.2K followers, 2126 engagements
"6/ The project in question is the so-called 'American Village' a project initiated by right-wing American broadcaster and pro-Russian propagandist Tim Kirby who moved to Russia in 2006. He converted to Russian Orthodoxy in what has become something of a fashion on the US right" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 68.7K 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 229.2K followers, 90K engagements
"1/ At least XXX million rubles ($2.88 million) is reported to have been stolen during the construction of border fortifications in Russia's Bryansk region. The deputy governor Nikolai Simonenko has been been raided by investigators pursuing a criminal case" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 22:17:34 UTC 229.2K followers, 41.8K engagements
"6/ "The prosecutor's office filed claims for this amount against the capital construction department and contractors. In total more than XX claims have been filed demanding that the transactions be declared null and void and penalties be collected" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 22:17:37 UTC 229.2K followers, 1795 engagements
"1/ A Russian soldier at the front line writes of the harsh conditions at the front line under continuous fire from "German artillery" sic and FPV drones in such a high density that soldiers often cannot move from their dugouts without getting hit" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-24 09:03:37 UTC 229.2K followers, 473.5K 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 229.1K followers, 6345 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 229.2K followers, 725.8K engagements
"1/ The Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine face a deepening humanitarian catastrophe with some towns not having received any water for four months. Endemic corruption and systemic mismanagement by the Russian-installed authorities is being blamed for the situation" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:10:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 173.2K engagements
"6/ Zhuravlev says that his officers told him directly to pay 300000 rubles ($3800) to get out of the assault. Other soldiers are also being extorted similarly" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 08:15:17 UTC 229.2K followers, 21K engagements
"3/ "The Ukrainian analogue of the Lancet the Bulava kamikaze drone: 🔺 Warhead: XXX kg 🔺 Range: up to XX km 🔺 Flight time: about X hour 🔺 Maximum altitude: about X km 🔺 Speed: up to XXX km/h" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 19:25:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 3421 engagements
"8/ The official oversees among other things the work of the regional capital construction department." It's likely that a similar scenario will unfold as in Kursk or Belgorod where a substantial portion of a XXXX billion ruble ($248 million) budget was stolen" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 22:17:38 UTC 229.2K followers, 1682 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 229.2K followers, 3840 engagements
"During WW2 Radio Berlin would frequently announce the destruction of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy but that didn't happen either" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2024-10-01 18:29:23 UTC 229.1K followers, 39.5K engagements
"@NTarnopolsky @BarakRavid Why would any third country willingly participate in something that would attract the condemnation and likely sanctions of almost the entire world" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 18:03:44 UTC 229.1K followers, 2347 engagements
"2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel says that it has "reviewed the materials of the criminal case" and is publishing a summary of what the prosecution will say in the preliminary hearing before the 2nd Western District Military Court on XX July" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 4695 engagements
"20/ Some places have it even worse. In the riverside village of Lyubymivka there has been no water for two years. The Russian authorities have promised bottled water for the residents but it has not been delivered. They queue instead at water towers that are barely functioning" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-17 07:55:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 4005 engagements
"@NickCohen4 "Just genuinely concerned families"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 12:02:04 UTC 229.2K followers, 3514 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 229.2K followers, 16.9K engagements
"The tanks sent by Australia needed some adjustments to make it them suitable for Ukrainian conditions" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-20 12:04:43 UTC 229.2K followers, 62.1K engagements
"3/ Huffman is the third person from Texas to have joined Russian forces. His two predecessors both self-declared communists were killed one by his own side the other by Ukrainian attacks during an assault" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:06 UTC 229.2K followers, 39K 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 229.2K followers, 30.5K 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 229.1K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Still flying a MiG-31 in 2025 is like still flying a Sopwith Camel in the mid-1970s" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 16:01:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 17.6K engagements
"3/ The 'Blue Z Beard' Telegram channel has published the text of an "appeal to the Tsar" which residents of Donetsk have made to Vladimir Putin. It's unlikely to have much effect as similar appeals have simply been referred to the local authorities" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:03 UTC 229.2K followers, 2779 engagements
"9/ "Biyo Rafig"). All of them are outside the Russian Federation" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 2898 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 229.1K followers, 191.8K engagements
"13/ It's been reported that the federal Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that the Belgorod fortification contractors repay around X billion rubles ($12.73 million). Gladov is said to have met with Putin likely to plead against the possibility of his dismissal. /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 22:17:41 UTC 229.2K followers, 8171 engagements
"15/ "Against this background the city continues to build residential complexes lay roads fountains water shows all this looks like a mockery of people who live without water and fight for survival every day" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:10 UTC 229.2K followers, 1620 engagements
"The real Jeffrey Epstein scandal is how much influence the super-rich wield even if they're objectively loathsome individuals" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-25 07:12:52 UTC 229.2K followers, 13K 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 229.2K followers, 53.7K engagements
"19/ The situation is equally bad in the Luhansk region where a resident says: "They write a lot about Donetsk and the DPR and the water situation. There is silence about the LPR. Local channels are trying to give out something but it doesnt go beyond the LPR."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:10:14 UTC 229.1K followers, 4412 engagements
"16/ "Moreover the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant has officially announced plans to increase steel production to 50000 tons per month this year" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:10 UTC 229.2K followers, 1445 engagements
"7/ "This morning employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB came to search the deputy governor of the Bryansk region Nikolai Simonenko in a criminal case on fortifications" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 22:17:38 UTC 229.2K followers, 1726 engagements
"3/ "We were motivated by our concerns over LGBT indoctrination in the American schools unhealthy food and a desire for a safer environment that is aligned with our Christian values" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:32 UTC 229.2K followers, 129.6K engagements
"@fasc1nate Same trick as the hotel corridor fight in Inception - the set is built in a rotating spindle with a fixed camera at one end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 21:48:35 UTC 229.2K followers, 1269 engagements
"🔺 Targets: Buk-M3 air defense Tor SAM Pole-21 electronic warfare heavy equipment 🔺 Resistance to electronic warfare and communications: higher than that of the Lancet 🔺 Works in conjunction with the Aist XXX M2 reconnaissance drone for precise target search"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 19:25:29 UTC 229.1K followers, 3379 engagements
"1/ Russia is preparing for the trial next week of XX suspects in the XX March 2024 attack on Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk Moscow region which killed XXX people and injured another XXX. Early claims of Ukrainian involvement are not reflected in the prosecution case" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:28 UTC 229.1K followers, 71.9K engagements
"5/ Despite far-fetched Russian claims of Ukrainian involvement it was clear from the start that the attack was linked to Islamic State. The IS propaganda outlet Amaq News published photos of the Crocus City attackers and the video they made of the attack" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:29 UTC 229.1K followers, 6125 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 229.1K followers, 12.7K 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 229.1K followers, 39.5K 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 229.2K followers, 18.2K engagements
"The vibe is Trouble as Whispers circulate at the Speed of Sound that they'll have to Let Somebody Go. Employees are telling each other Don't Panic and appealing to a Higher Power while The Hardest Part is ahead as they hope to Fix You" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 19:06:46 UTC 229.2K followers, 18.2K engagements
"13/ Rudnev says that the medical battalion was controlled by former convicts who took bribes to allow soldiers to have various privileges denied to others such as using their mobile phones in the facility. They spent the money on cars alcohol and drugs" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 20:33:57 UTC 229.2K followers, 43K 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 229.2K followers, 6590 engagements
"@barcann @MojackMarine No this was during the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2022. The report says that Musk nearly crippled Ukraine's effort to drive back the Russians" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-25 14:28:23 UTC 229.2K followers, XXX engagements
"7/ "The situation is this: you explain to the officer that what are you doing Im not combat-ready to go on a combat mission. If you dont want to go on a combat mission pay up."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 08:15:18 UTC 229.2K followers, 20.2K engagements
"4/ "To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:03 UTC 229.2K followers, 2495 engagements
"6/ "Since 2022 Donetsk has not had a stable water supply. Water is supplied on schedule: over the past year it was supplied once every two days but from the end of July 2025 the authorities intend to transfer us to an even stricter regime water supply once every three days" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:05 UTC 229.2K followers, 2358 engagements
"5/ "The 200s and 300s dead and wounded were still on the move. There were XX people at the positions I can't say exactly how many. We left after three weeks with XX men. The rest were cancelled some because of injuries and some for good" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:55:57 UTC 229.1K followers, 62.9K 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 229.1K followers, 1649 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 229.2K followers, 535.4K engagements
"@VolodyaTretyak This station was literally the first time I'd ever had vertigo on an escalator. A five-minute ride from top to bottom" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 17:29:07 UTC 229.1K followers, 5436 engagements
"@cossackgundi Right because in some cases they will face criminal charges for engaging in mercenarism. But that's on them" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-06-28 08:30:22 UTC 229.2K followers, 2868 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 229K followers, 16.7K engagements
"The punishment for Russian soldiers doing drugs is getting sent to an assault squad. So what do you do if you're already in an assault squad. that's right do drugs" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-24 05:19:58 UTC 229.2K followers, 18.8K engagements
"1/ At least XXX Russians POWs freed from Ukrainian captivity are reported to have have died or gone missing in action after being sent back to the front lines in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Some are said to have been executed" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 07:37:39 UTC 229.2K followers, 333K engagements
"Pretty clear she'll get a pardon in exchange for exonerating Trump and incriminating one or more of his political enemies. As scar Benavides said: "For my friends everything; for my enemies the law"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-25 14:33:27 UTC 229.2K followers, 10.5K engagements
"7/ He joined the Russian army in September 2023. On X April 2024 he was sent into an assault with the 137th Airborne Regiment near Soledar. He died the same day in unclear circumstances but it's likely he was killed by artillery or a drone strike" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:08 UTC 229.2K followers, 33.5K 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 229.2K followers, 7354 engagements
"8/ Huffman has clearly not been granted any special favours despite reports that he was promised a role in a rear area. It's likely that he too will be expended in a 'meat assault'; the life expectancy of Russian troops on the front line is often not long. /end" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 18:13:09 UTC 229.2K followers, 39.5K engagements
"2/ The entirety of Russian-occupied Ukraine is experiencing a severe and worsening lack of water for domestic agricultural and industrial use. War neglect faulty infrastructure and corruption are widely blamed for the problems" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-22 18:34:02 UTC 229.2K followers, 4472 engagements
"Unimaginably evil. This will indisputably kill millions of people" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-24 11:46:17 UTC 229.2K followers, 19.6K engagements
"Not coincidentally one of the things that Putin did soon after taking power was force comedy shows off the air. The popular NTV show Puppets was shut down in 2002 and its writer Viktor Shenderovich - who had often satirised Putin - had to flee into exile" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 17:32:21 UTC 229.2K followers, 45.8K 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 229.1K followers, 7092 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 229.2K 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 229.2K followers, 17.5K engagements
"19/ Towns and villages in the occupied part of the Kherson region which relied on the Kakhovka Reservoir are also becoming increasingly uninhabitable. There is too little water to meet demand and water pressure is too low to reach the upper floors of multi-storey buildings" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-17 07:55:27 UTC 229.1K followers, 3894 engagements
"1/ The short and potentially tragic journey of American migr Derek Huffman who moved with his family from Texas to Russia to escape gays and pornography joined the Russian army and was sent to the front in Ukraine is documented by his YouTube channel" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:22:31 UTC 229.2K followers, 957.9K engagements
"27/ Another video on June XX now deleted from YouTube but still viewable on Reddit shows DeAnna in an even more depressed mood. She says that her husband was deceived about his service and was sent to the front line. They had expected that he would be employed as a welder" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-23 08:23:47 UTC 229.2K followers, 50.7K engagements
"28/ "Even after Ivanov's dismissal and arrest his name repeatedly surfaced in investigations into embezzlement and corruption in the implementation of "Big Water."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 08:11:51 UTC 229.1K followers, 3887 engagements
"Keep an eye on the comedians. They're a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the growth of authoritarian governance. Deplatforming them is a bad sign all round" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 17:34:20 UTC 229.2K followers, 11.4K engagements