Russia escalating with weaponising of civilian ships in the Baltic Sea:
Machine guns spotted on Gazprom tanker in the Baltic Sea — the first time Russia has armed a civilian vessel with heavy weapons https://t.co/xSOy4TrThf via @meduza_en
Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond. @OCCRP@DelfiEE@VSquare_Project https://t.co/pQXhFSUWZ9
🇲🇱 #Mali - 🇷🇺 #Russia: Russia's Africa Corps, alongside the Malian Army, executed two Tuareg civilians from the Imghad Kel Ouli community in Zarho, east of Timbuktu, on June 23rd.
The two men were killed and their bodies mutilated, with images circulating online showing their remains arranged in the shape of a swastika.
(via @SahelAlerte & @ayoubaaayoubaa2)
Бородай: «Все эти руны и свастики на наших бойцах ничего с точки зрения идеологии не обозначают»
Российские бойцы-добровольцы любят делать неонацистские татуировки с рунами, крестами и свастиками, но это ничего не значит, заявил депутат Госдумы, один из идеологов «ДНР» Александр Бородай. «Неонацистская символика — это всего лишь только символика», — сказал Бородай в эфире канала Metametrica от 4 февраля 2026 года, фрагмент эфира сейчас распространяется в соцсетях. По словам Бородая, на одном из его бойцов был также «обнаружен» портрет Гитлера.
Видео: Metametrica / Rutube
History’s Zero: Putin Rewrites the Past. Again
The dictator has distorted the history of World War II, conveniently forgetting that in 1939 the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland, annexed the Baltic states, attacked Finland, and helped pave the way for the deadliest conflict in human history through its secret deal with Hitler.
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe between two totalitarian powers eliminated Poland as a buffer state and removed Hitler’s fear of a two-front war. Just one week later, on September 1, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II.
Moscow’s attempt to appease an aggressor while expanding its own empire ended in disaster. In 1941, Hitler turned on his Soviet partner, and the war Stalin believed he had postponed arrived at the gates of the USSR itself.
In 2014, the Ukrainian army went into Russia to shell its own positions. That’s a copium overdose which would be absolutely fatal for a normal person, but not for a Vatnik.
💥Three years ago, Prigozhin’s Wagner Group rose up against Moscow. Hungary’s Péter Szijjártó quickly called Sergey Lavrov in concern. Here is a previously unpublished Szijjártó-Lavrov call from @VSquare_Project and partners' Kremlin Hotline investigation. https://t.co/mkM9Ge0PGf
@HImpega@edouardhusson Le pire c'est qu'il défend la Palestine face au sionisme et à l'annexion illégale des territoires palestiniens par Israël, il est complètement incohérent
@Mehdi28_@FrancisPalace@LaurentOzon And, undoubtedly, we always take this into account in Russia’s contemporary history," the Russian president said, commenting on the current situation in the Middle East.
@Mehdi28_@FrancisPalace@LaurentOzon "I would like to draw your attention to the fact that almost two million people from the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation reside in Israel. It is almost a Russian-speaking country today.
On the attack on the dormitory in Starobilsk: Ukraine says it was one of the headquarters of Russia’s Rubikon drone unit. Russia says it was an attack on civilians.
In this specific case, it is hard to say for sure what happened because of the fog of war and constant Russian lies.
But we do know that Russia uses teenagers to help build drones at the Alabuga factory in Tatarstan. We know it because they advertised this in several marketing videos like the one below.
A drone factory is a legitimate military target, but when Russia hires 15-year-olds to build drones, it also creates a hybrid strategy: if the factory is attacked, Russia can claim that Ukraine is killing Russian children.
The real crime is putting minors to work on drones in a place Russia knows is a military target.
It is likely that one of the buildings destroyed in Starobilsk housed the drone school of the local branch of the "Warrior" center (military training organization) in 🇷🇺-occupied Luhansk region. The building was "blessed" by russian orthodox priests a few months ago (left video).
It is likely that one of the buildings destroyed in Starobilsk housed the drone school of the local branch of the "Warrior" center (military training organization) in 🇷🇺-occupied Luhansk region. The building was "blessed" by russian orthodox priests a few months ago (left video).
It is likely that one of the buildings destroyed in Starobilsk housed the drone school of the local branch of the "Warrior" center (military training organization) in 🇷🇺-occupied Luhansk region. The building was "blessed" by russian orthodox priests a few months ago (left video).
A video advertisement complete with college logo has surfaced
Included text “Starobelsk Professional College” next to the school logo
They were training military drone pilots at the site. Russians boasted of how great a military program it was. Of course Ukraine would target it
I question the first photo. It maybe a Google Translate camera translation from Ukrainian into English, because of the Ukranian Latinization "Starobielsk", "Starobilsk" and "Luhansk".
In the Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika Russian is the only official language.
What is the original letter, whose translation has been taken photo of? I want to see the original letter in Ukranian or Russian.
@grok, can you make a translation transcript of the second video, from Rossiya 1?