[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, drone, 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 -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +4.90% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +81% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +30% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +99% - X Months XXXXX +76% - X Year XXXXX +57% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.21% - X Month XXXXXXX +1% - X Months XXXXXXX +9.50% - X Year XXXXXXX +15% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #1167 [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) #621 [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) #1266 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #5, [russia](/topic/russia) #473, [drone](/topic/drone) #199, [money](/topic/money) 2.02%, [telegram](/topic/telegram) 1.52%, [told](/topic/told) #855, [bentley](/topic/bentley) #9, [defence](/topic/defence) 1.01%, [tajikistan](/topic/tajikistan) 1.01%, [poland](/topic/poland) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@r9_fury](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@am773286](/creator/undefined) [@triibustek](/creator/undefined) [@rianauthor](/creator/undefined) [@bmitori](/creator/undefined) [@shawjpa](/creator/undefined) [@wartranslated](/creator/undefined) [@ntarnopolsky](/creator/undefined) [@atisartmanis](/creator/undefined) [@karinavinnikova](/creator/undefined) [@volodyatretyak](/creator/undefined) [@jayinkyiv](/creator/undefined) [@threadreaderapp](/creator/undefined) [@wa94776345](/creator/undefined) [@stylishskunk](/creator/undefined) [@kolyaurtz](/creator/undefined) [@havoc_six](/creator/undefined) [@lala98808012](/creator/undefined) [@5q4pqvc92z](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Frontline Ltd. (FRO)](/topic/$fro) [PlatON (LAT)](/topic/platon) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::109604455/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 229K followers, 74.7K 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 229K followers, 582.2K 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 229K followers, 76.9K 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 229K followers, 83K engagements "3/ "Until this measure is cancelled which will be announced by a separate order KAMAZ workers are not allowed to bring in either ordered or store-bought food into the buildings with the exception of containers with home-cooked food and for personal consumption"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941440372561125537) 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.9K followers, 9793 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 229K followers, 34.9K 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 229K followers, 69.7K engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers say that an overwhelming number of Ukrainian drones along with an excessive Russian reliance on asphalt roads is causing severe disruption of Russian logistics. Armoured vehicles have been reduced to "close to zero efficiency""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944686292161491119) 2025-07-14 09:11:57 UTC 228.9K followers, 373.5K engagements "2/ The 'How I went to war. Platon Mamatov' Telegram channel highlights recent aspects of the war: "1. Walking through the forest belts to the Dnepropetrovsk region there are many corpses I have never seen so many during the entire war. There are really a lot of them.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946862447924486398) 2025-07-20 09:19:13 UTC 229K followers, 5625 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 229K followers, 545.6K 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 229K followers, 109.9K 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 228.9K 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 229K followers, 32.1K 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 229K followers, 370.4K 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 229K followers, 51.5K 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 229K followers, 2957 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 229K followers, 1.1M 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 229K followers, 3091 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 229K followers, 4255 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 229K followers, 2758 engagements "1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal he was sent home to die"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944865064206430318) 2025-07-14 21:02:19 UTC 228.9K followers, 68.3K 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 229K followers, 700.6K 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 228.9K followers, 5257 engagements "2/ The Vesti KAMAZ newspaper reports: "At the facilities of PJSC KAMAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny a temporary ban on bringing in food products has been introduced by order on ensuring biological and chemical safety of workers.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1941440369721557203) 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.9K followers, 9584 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 229K followers, 102.4K 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 229K followers, 40.3K 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 229K followers, 7067 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 229K followers, 3709 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 228.9K followers, 4849 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 228.9K followers, 2860 engagements "6/ VChK-OGPU reports: "Most of the materials indicate (without mentioning the Ukrainian special services) that the organizers behind the terrorist attack are members of the transnational jihadist group 'Vilayat Khorasan' otherwise known as ISKP"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658173470830846) 2025-07-19 19:47:30 UTC 229K followers, 3241 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 229K followers, 991.4K 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 229K followers, 7734 engagements "2/ As previously reported returning POWs are being treated harshly by the Russian authorities and are often sent straight back into combat without even a family reunion. New research by Verstka illustrates their fate"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946112115657376226) 2025-07-18 07:37:40 UTC 228.9K followers, 29.4K 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 229K followers, 44.4K 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 229K followers, 71.7K 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 229K followers, 2114 engagements "10/ An army source says that the Russian Ministry of Defence sends POWs back to their positions almost immediately after their release regardless of position rank and length of service. They are "monitored so that they do not get captured again or leak any information.""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946112134368153613) 2025-07-18 07:37:44 UTC 228.9K followers, 10.9K 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 229K followers, 90K engagements "1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin is perhaps unsurprisingly gloomy about the prospects for Russia's push into the Sumy region. He says that the war is turning into a "grand mess" which may become "tragically analogous" to the course of events in World War I"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1944678313290772812) 2025-07-14 08:40:14 UTC 229K followers, 481.7K 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 229K followers, 725.8K engagements "13/ "For example the direct participants in the massacre in Crocus: Mirzoev was called "Sukhrob" Fariduni "Abdulloh" Rachabalizoda called himself "Ibrahim" Faizov had the secret name "Soleh""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946658185529511967) 2025-07-19 19:47:33 UTC 228.9K followers, 2289 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 229K followers, 161.7K 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 229K followers, 9161 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 229K followers, 3314 engagements "28/ "The pumps ran on electricity of course so the generator was included but it is also necessary in the summer. Gasoline wiring replacement of cylinders all at your own expense"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945014926755434979) 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 229K followers, 19K engagements "This would be $1000 for the average family of four. Who benefits from wrecking US tourism"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946583049140924851) 2025-07-19 14:48:59 UTC 229K followers, 37.3K engagements "1/ Russian warbloggers say that the message from Donald Trump is clear: Russia is free to do anything it wants in Ukraine over the next XX days. They advise the Russian government to "wreck Ukraine" in "the promised bloodiest period" ahead"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945101693181464987) 2025-07-15 12:42:36 UTC 229K followers, 217.4K 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 228.9K 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 228.9K followers, 2328 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 229K followers, 4676 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 229K followers, 3939 engagements "@NickCohen4 "Just genuinely concerned families""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1947265820112924771) 2025-07-21 12:02:04 UTC 229K followers, 3462 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 229K 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 229K followers, 61.6K 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 229K followers, 35.1K 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 229K followers, 18.7K 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 229K followers, 2886 engagements "1/ A wounded Russian soldier appeals for help saying that he is being marked for death after exposing other soldiers in his unit for carrying out murders and extortions. He says that if he is sent back to the front line he will be used as a sacrificial 'suicide bomber'"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946640862944829729) 2025-07-19 18:38:43 UTC 229K followers, 44.6K 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 229K 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 229K followers, 4298 engagements "For what it's worth I think Trump's XX day "ultimatum" is not aimed at Vladimir Putin but at Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Putin Republicans. It gets them off Trump's back for the next XX days after which he'll think of another way to kick the can further down the road"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945103517753934170) 2025-07-15 12:49:51 UTC 228.9K followers, 86.2K 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 229K followers, 3260 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 229K followers, 71.7K engagements "5/ He says that he has been threatened with being sent to his death for his actions: "I have been threatened with reprisals that I will go to be the 'opener' that I will identify firing positions""  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946640873799721253) 2025-07-19 18:38:45 UTC 228.9K followers, 2386 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 229K followers, 6113 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 229K followers, 18.2K engagements "A special "fuck you" tariff for Elon Musk"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945901541010915729) 2025-07-17 17:40:55 UTC 228.9K followers, 23.8K 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 229K followers, 18.1K 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 229K followers, 42.8K 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 229K followers, 8723 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 229K followers, 535.3K 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 229K followers, 5217 engagements "1/ A Russian lieutenant who deserted from the Russian army after serving under a commander who murdered his own men for their salaries has spoken of his experiences in Ukraine. His unit was wiped out at Krynki and he witnessed soldiers being whipped and executed with grenades"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1942537489987620907) 2025-07-08 10:53:22 UTC 228.9K followers, 109.3K 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 229K followers, 2754 engagements "12/ "If they mobilised me I went. If they didn't mobilise me I wouldn't have gone. But those who go to war for the long ruble are very wrong in their calculations. Even those who adequately assess the risks think that this risk will be well paid at a fixed rate"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945162340833402980) 2025-07-15 16:43:36 UTC 228.9K followers, 16.6K engagements "6/ Russian stormtroopers face poor odds of survival at the best of times but Russian commanders have found it useful to dispose of unwanted men by assigning them to literal suicide missions exposing Ukrainian firing positions by making them walk in front of them in the open"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1946640875204825179) 2025-07-19 18:38:46 UTC 228.9K followers, 2505 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 229K followers, 332.6K 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 229K followers, 30.1K 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 229K followers, 36K 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 229K followers, 45.7K 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 229K followers, 21K engagements "Literally stealing the medal he's meant to be presenting. The metaphors write themselves"  [@ChrisO_wiki](/creator/x/ChrisO_wiki) on [X](/post/tweet/1945474370459316494) 2025-07-16 13:23:29 UTC 228.9K followers, 41.4K 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 229K 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 229K followers, 3847 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 229K followers, 3801 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 229K followers, 11.4K engagements
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"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 229K followers, 74.7K 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 229K followers, 582.2K 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 229K followers, 76.9K 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 229K followers, 83K engagements
"3/ "Until this measure is cancelled which will be announced by a separate order KAMAZ workers are not allowed to bring in either ordered or store-bought food into the buildings with the exception of containers with home-cooked food and for personal consumption" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.9K followers, 9793 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 229K followers, 34.9K 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 229K followers, 69.7K engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers say that an overwhelming number of Ukrainian drones along with an excessive Russian reliance on asphalt roads is causing severe disruption of Russian logistics. Armoured vehicles have been reduced to "close to zero efficiency"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 09:11:57 UTC 228.9K followers, 373.5K engagements
"2/ The 'How I went to war. Platon Mamatov' Telegram channel highlights recent aspects of the war: "1. Walking through the forest belts to the Dnepropetrovsk region there are many corpses I have never seen so many during the entire war. There are really a lot of them."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-20 09:19:13 UTC 229K followers, 5625 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 229K followers, 545.6K 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 229K followers, 109.9K 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 228.9K 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 229K followers, 32.1K 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 229K followers, 370.4K 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 229K followers, 51.5K 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 229K followers, 2957 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 229K followers, 1.1M 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 229K followers, 3091 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 229K followers, 4255 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 229K followers, 2758 engagements
"1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal he was sent home to die" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 21:02:19 UTC 228.9K followers, 68.3K 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 229K followers, 700.6K 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 228.9K followers, 5257 engagements
"2/ The Vesti KAMAZ newspaper reports: "At the facilities of PJSC KAMAZ in Naberezhnye Chelny a temporary ban on bringing in food products has been introduced by order on ensuring biological and chemical safety of workers."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-05 10:13:49 UTC 228.9K followers, 9584 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 229K followers, 102.4K 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 229K followers, 40.3K 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 229K followers, 7067 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 229K followers, 3709 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 228.9K followers, 4849 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 228.9K followers, 2860 engagements
"6/ VChK-OGPU reports: "Most of the materials indicate (without mentioning the Ukrainian special services) that the organizers behind the terrorist attack are members of the transnational jihadist group 'Vilayat Khorasan' otherwise known as ISKP" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:30 UTC 229K followers, 3241 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 229K followers, 991.4K 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 229K followers, 7734 engagements
"2/ As previously reported returning POWs are being treated harshly by the Russian authorities and are often sent straight back into combat without even a family reunion. New research by Verstka illustrates their fate" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 07:37:40 UTC 228.9K followers, 29.4K 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 229K followers, 44.4K 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 229K followers, 71.7K 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 229K followers, 2114 engagements
"10/ An army source says that the Russian Ministry of Defence sends POWs back to their positions almost immediately after their release regardless of position rank and length of service. They are "monitored so that they do not get captured again or leak any information."" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-18 07:37:44 UTC 228.9K followers, 10.9K 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 229K followers, 90K engagements
"1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin is perhaps unsurprisingly gloomy about the prospects for Russia's push into the Sumy region. He says that the war is turning into a "grand mess" which may become "tragically analogous" to the course of events in World War I" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-14 08:40:14 UTC 229K followers, 481.7K 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 229K followers, 725.8K engagements
"13/ "For example the direct participants in the massacre in Crocus: Mirzoev was called "Sukhrob" Fariduni "Abdulloh" Rachabalizoda called himself "Ibrahim" Faizov had the secret name "Soleh"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:33 UTC 228.9K followers, 2289 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 229K followers, 161.7K 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 229K followers, 9161 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 229K followers, 3314 engagements
"28/ "The pumps ran on electricity of course so the generator was included but it is also necessary in the summer. Gasoline wiring replacement of cylinders all at your own expense" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 06:57:49 UTC 229K followers, 19K engagements
"This would be $1000 for the average family of four. Who benefits from wrecking US tourism" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 14:48:59 UTC 229K followers, 37.3K engagements
"1/ Russian warbloggers say that the message from Donald Trump is clear: Russia is free to do anything it wants in Ukraine over the next XX days. They advise the Russian government to "wreck Ukraine" in "the promised bloodiest period" ahead" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:42:36 UTC 229K followers, 217.4K 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 228.9K 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 228.9K followers, 2328 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 229K followers, 4676 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 229K followers, 3939 engagements
"@NickCohen4 "Just genuinely concerned families"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-21 12:02:04 UTC 229K followers, 3462 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 229K 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 229K followers, 61.6K 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 229K followers, 35.1K 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 229K followers, 18.7K engagements
"9/ "Biyo Rafig"). All of them are outside the Russian Federation" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 19:47:31 UTC 229K followers, 2886 engagements
"1/ A wounded Russian soldier appeals for help saying that he is being marked for death after exposing other soldiers in his unit for carrying out murders and extortions. He says that if he is sent back to the front line he will be used as a sacrificial 'suicide bomber'" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 18:38:43 UTC 229K followers, 44.6K 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 229K 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 229K followers, 4298 engagements
"For what it's worth I think Trump's XX day "ultimatum" is not aimed at Vladimir Putin but at Lindsey Graham and the other anti-Putin Republicans. It gets them off Trump's back for the next XX days after which he'll think of another way to kick the can further down the road" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 12:49:51 UTC 228.9K followers, 86.2K 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 229K followers, 3260 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 229K followers, 71.7K engagements
"5/ He says that he has been threatened with being sent to his death for his actions: "I have been threatened with reprisals that I will go to be the 'opener' that I will identify firing positions"" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 18:38:45 UTC 228.9K followers, 2386 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 229K followers, 6113 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 229K followers, 18.2K engagements
"A special "fuck you" tariff for Elon Musk" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-17 17:40:55 UTC 228.9K followers, 23.8K 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 229K followers, 18.1K 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 229K followers, 42.8K 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 229K followers, 8723 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 229K followers, 535.3K 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 229K followers, 5217 engagements
"1/ A Russian lieutenant who deserted from the Russian army after serving under a commander who murdered his own men for their salaries has spoken of his experiences in Ukraine. His unit was wiped out at Krynki and he witnessed soldiers being whipped and executed with grenades" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-08 10:53:22 UTC 228.9K followers, 109.3K 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 229K followers, 2754 engagements
"12/ "If they mobilised me I went. If they didn't mobilise me I wouldn't have gone. But those who go to war for the long ruble are very wrong in their calculations. Even those who adequately assess the risks think that this risk will be well paid at a fixed rate" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-15 16:43:36 UTC 228.9K followers, 16.6K engagements
"6/ Russian stormtroopers face poor odds of survival at the best of times but Russian commanders have found it useful to dispose of unwanted men by assigning them to literal suicide missions exposing Ukrainian firing positions by making them walk in front of them in the open" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-19 18:38:46 UTC 228.9K followers, 2505 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 229K followers, 332.6K 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 229K followers, 30.1K 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 229K followers, 36K 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 229K followers, 45.7K 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 229K followers, 21K engagements
"Literally stealing the medal he's meant to be presenting. The metaphors write themselves" @ChrisO_wiki on X 2025-07-16 13:23:29 UTC 228.9K followers, 41.4K 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 229K 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 229K followers, 3847 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 229K followers, 3801 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 229K followers, 11.4K engagements