๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
๐ฅ Just look at what's happening around the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery!
And now it's hard to know what to make of the WSJ report.
Just yesterday, the newspaper reported that, under pressure from the US, Ukraine had suspended its strikes on Russian oil refineries at least until the US elections.
And this photo is already a strong contender for Photo of the Day.
โก๏ธ Has Ukraine resumed its strikes on Russian oil refineries?
A major oil refinery owned by Rosneft is on fire in Novokuybyshevsk, in Russia's Samara region.
The facility produces jet fuel for the Russian Armed Forces.
The area is engulfed in smoke, with three spectacular plumes rising into the sky.
Isn't it a beautiful sight, folks?
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
๐ท๐บ RUSSIAN GENERAL WHO WARNED AGAINST INVADING UKRAINE NOW SAYS PUTIN IS DESTROYING RUSSIA ๐บ๐ฆ
Retired Russian General Leonid Ivashov warned against invading Ukraine before the war began. Nearly four years later, his assessment of Vladimir Putin and the state of Russia is devastating.
Ivashov, a former senior military officer and longtime geopolitical analyst, has accused Putin of living in a fantasy while ordinary Russians struggle with poverty, rising prices and deteriorating public services.
โI saw neither a leader, nor a commander, nor a defender of the people. I saw only a man living in a fairy tale, while the rest of the country is trying to survive on 16,000 rubles a month.โ
His criticism extends far beyond Russiaโs military performance in Ukraine.
Ivashov argues that the war has exposed serious weaknesses across the Russian state. He points to declining industrial capacity, underfunded healthcare, problems in education and scientific research, and an economy increasingly unable to deliver improvements in ordinary peopleโs lives.
He is particularly concerned about Russiaโs demographic decline. The loss of working-age men, combined with an ageing population and longstanding demographic pressures, could leave consequences that persist long after the fighting ends.
Nor does he share the Kremlinโs confidence in its international partnerships.
Ivashov questions how much Belarus and North Korea can realistically contribute to Russiaโs long-term stability. He also rejects the idea that Chinaโs economic relationship with Moscow makes Beijing a dependable military ally.
His most serious warning concerns Russiaโs future as a state. Ivashov believes a strategic defeat in Ukraine could eventually threaten the Russian Federationโs political and territorial integrity.
What makes his criticism significant is his background.
Ivashov spent decades within Russiaโs military establishment. In February 2022, before the full-scale invasion, he publicly warned that war with Ukraine would damage Russiaโs security, international standing and future.
He was not predicting a quick Russian victory. He was warning Putin against starting the war at all.
Now, almost four years later, he sees a country paying an enormous price for the decision he opposed from the beginning.
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โ๏ธ The situation at Moscow's airports last night โ once again, not a damn thing was flying
Moscow Mayor Sobyanin counted more than 800 (!) drones supposedly "successfully shot down" on their approach to the capital.
Restrictions were imposed at all Moscow airports.
This is far from the first night that Ukrainian forces have shut down the skies and effectively paralyzed air travel in major Russian cities. Airlines are suffering massive losses, while passengers are forced to wait for hours โ or even days โ for their flights.
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โก๏ธโ๏ธBREAKING: As if Russia hadnโt lost enough Sukhoi jets this October, another Su-57 has been completely destroyed, this time without any Ukrainian involvement.
On October 29, a Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter reportedly caught fire during engine startup at Akhtubinsk airfield in Astrakhan Oblast and burned out completely.
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๐ฅ๐๏ธ Our special correspondents โ the mayors of Moscow and St. Petersburg โ are reporting another round of major attacks on their cities: airports closed, flights cancelled, and, most importantly, military and strategic targets demilitarized.
Apparently, they do not enjoy the โspecial military operationโ quite as much when it reaches their own cities.
๐ธ And the criticism from inside Russia is growing. Moscowโs mayor has questioned Putinโs war economy, and now even the head of the Russian Communists is attacking the enormous military spending. Every second ruble is being burned on a war that is increasingly destroying Russia itself.
Putin wanted to be remembered as the โgatherer of Russian lands.โ He may instead be remembered as the man who triggered their dissolution.
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๐ฅBREAKING: massive fire has broken out at the Omsky Kauchuk petrochemical plant in Omsk, Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack, nearly 2,500 km from the front line.
The facility is one of Russiaโs leading producers of synthetic rubber and industrial chemicals, including phenol, acetone, and isopropyl alcohol. It also manufactures MTBE, a key component used in high-octane gasoline production.
The plant produces approximately 500,000 tonnes of petrochemical products annually.
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
HUGE STRIKES IN RUSSIA: ORYOL MOSCOW VORONEZH OMSK TOLYATTI ROSTOV Vlog 1572: War in Ukraine
youtu.be/d8yoo4Xn64c
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๐ฅ๐บ๐ฆ These have been very bad days for Russiaโs military industry โ which means weโre getting another extended Russian geography lesson.
Ukrainian drones and Ukrainian-made missiles hit chemical plants, an optoelectronics factory, logistics hubs and data centers, while flights were cancelled in Moscow and blackouts reached Russian regions.
And this is the important change: Ukraine can answer now.
From Omsk, deep in Siberia, to Orel, our strikes are reaching targets that Russia once believed were safely protected by distance. Russiaโs enormous size is turning from an asset into a vulnerability. ๐ฏ
The strike on the optoelectronics plant in Orel matters especially because facilities like this supply components needed for missile production elsewhere. Hit the critical links โ and you disrupt the entire chain.
๐ฅ The war is back on Russian territory. And this is not the moment to appease Putin. It is the moment to keep weakening the regime that started this war.
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๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraineโs energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times. Last night alone, there were strikes on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions. Tens of thousands of families remain without power. Energy workers and repair crews are working virtually around the clock to restore electricity supply. Overnight, the Russians also struck residential buildings in our regions. As of now, 12 people have been reported injured, including two children. Two people have been killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the site.
In total, over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic. The main targets of these strikes are energy facilities โ the Russians are trying to cause a blackout. And America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements. On the contrary, they take every signal of an opportunity to make money as proof that their bet on war is paying off and they can keep fighting. It is because of this position of Russiaโs that the war continues, not because Ukraine is rightfully defending itself. It is Russia that must face pressure for peace to have a chance. Thank you to everyone who understands this and helps.
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A brutal and desperate modern slave-trade operation has just been exposed inside Russiaโs second-largest city.
In St. Petersburg, state security forces are actively conducting aggressive, large-scale raids targeting migrant workers. However, this is not a legal crackdown - it is a forced mobilization trap. Russian law enforcement is intentionally targeting vulnerable workers with minor document issues, trapping them in detention, and systematically coercing them to sign military contracts for the war.
This cannibalistic tactic reveals that the Kremlin has drastically depleted its volunteer manpower and is now turning to state-sponsored extortion to fill its ranks. By abusing the defenseless legal status of foreign workers, the regime is actively harvesting cheap cannon fodder to be immediately thrown into suicidal "meat wave" assaults on the frontlines.
This horrific domestic reality shatters Moscow's hypocritical propaganda of global brotherhood, exposing modern Russia as nothing more than a desperate, totalitarian mafia state that hunts down human beings on its streets just to sustain its failing imperial slaughter
#InsideRussia #MigrantRaids #OSINT
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Ukraineโs 100th Mechanized Brigade shares footage of its UGVs equipped with net launchers in action, defending against incoming Russian FPV drones.
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
I've been reading comments from St. Petersburg residents after last night's Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks. So much outrage, fear, and astonishment. Yet nobody seems to be asking the question: "Why?"
I scrolled through several feeds, and I got the impression that these people have been living in a parallel reality all this time, believing that the war was happening somewhere far away and had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Until now, that is.
Well, you'd better get used to it. Because this is far from over. ๐
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Well done, Ukraine. The faster Russian oil facilities and data centers are reduced to rubble, the better.
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๐ฅ St. Petersburg hit by one of the largest drone attacks since the war began
Smoke hangs over Putinโs hometown as oil facilities, warehouses, and a data center come under attack. Governor Beglov reports one person killed, five injured, and 12 apartment buildings damaged.
Fires broke out at the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, the Ruchyi oil depot, and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district. Ozon confirmed a strike on its warehouse.
A VKontakte data center was also reportedly targeted. Users are reporting outages, although the company insists its services remain unaffected.
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๐ฅFootage of todayโs mass Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg and its aftermath, including the burning Ozon warehouse, a drone strike on the Ship Fairway Bridge and a major fire at the cityโs oil terminal.
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
HUGE COLLAPSE IN RUSSIA: AIRPORTS CLOSED, DATA CENTERS ON FIRE
youtu.be/R503h_uHHs8
๐ทโPaul Blackburn 74%โ๐ท๐๐๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
โ๏ธ๐ฅ Three huge systemic failures are developing inside Russia at the same time โ aviation, internal connectivity, and digital infrastructure.
Russia is the largest country in the world, but also one of the most centralized. That makes transportation and communication absolutely critical. Yet drone threats have repeatedly shut airports across the country: in August alone, Russian airports imposed temporary restrictions 993 times, and flight cancellations and long delays have continued into October.
๐ซ Think about what this means beyond angry passengers. Regional businessmen, officials, and political elites depend heavily on Moscow. The harder and less predictable that connection becomes, the more distance โ literally and politically โ can appear between the Kremlin and the regions.
๐จ The same applies if serious unrest develops far from Moscow. The Kremlin has traditionally relied on centralized security structures to reinforce local authorities. If aviation and logistics are repeatedly disrupted, moving people and resources quickly becomes harder. Local police may even choose to side with their own communities โ while Moscowโs ability to respond becomes more complicated.
๐ป And then there is Yandex. Three major Yandex data centers were disrupted within days, including facilities in Kaluga, Sasovo, and Vladimir.
People across social media have claimed that Russian propaganda bots suddenly disappeared afterward. Whether that connection is direct or not, the broader pattern is impossible to ignore: Russia built an extremely centralized state, and now several of the systems connecting that state are under pressure simultaneously.
๐ฅ Aviation. Logistics. Digital infrastructure.
That is the story I think deserves much more attention.
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โ๏ธ๐ฅ 22 major Russian airports closed. Almost 1,000 flights cancelled and thousands more delayed โ in just one day.
And a lot of angry, frustrated Russians are now feeling this war much more directly on their own territory.
๐บ๐ฆ It is becoming harder and harder to ignore how much pressure Ukrainian drones can put on the skies above Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi and across the European part of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Russia continues attacking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, while the White House keeps increasing pressure on Ukraine in the so-called negotiations process. But Ukraine continues doing what has actually weakened Russiaโs war machine: defending itself and demilitarizing the aggressor.
๐ซ And the collapse of aviation creates a much bigger problem for Putin than cancelled holidays and angry passengers. Russia is the largest country in the world and an extremely centralized state. When unrest begins in a distant region, the Kremlin traditionally relies on Moscow โ including the rapid movement of security forces.
So here is the interesting question: what happens if aviation itself becomes unreliable exactly when the Kremlin needs it most?
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โ๏ธ๐ฅ Minus six Russian Su-34 bombers in one day. That means fewer aircraft available to drop guided bombs on Ukrainian cities โ and potentially many innocent lives saved.
๐บ๐ฆ And the best part? Ukraine did it with our own Neptune missiles.
President Zelensky says four Su-34s were destroyed and two more damaged at Russiaโs Borisoglebsk airfield. All six were reportedly prepared for new strikes and equipped with aerial bombs. (The Kyiv Independent)
๐ฅ So yes, Russian media may eventually talk about โdebris.โ
Absolutely. Debris of Russian bombers.
๐ฐ๏ธ Meanwhile, Ukraine has just faced sudden restrictions affecting Starlink-supported military operations. Questions also remain about the level of U.S. intelligence support, although reporting does not establish that intelligence sharing has been completely switched off. (Reuters)
And yet, the very next day: four Russian bombers destroyed, two damaged.
Putinโs war machine is getting weaker โ one aircraft at a time. ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ
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