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[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ The Ukrainian drone strike campaign against Russian oil refineries is impacting daily life in Russia to an unprecedented extent. Drivers are being forced into desperate measures, such as buying diesel siphoned off from locomotives and resold by corrupt railway employees. ⬇️

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia is running out of operational oil refineries, so attention has now shifted to the sea.

Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian vessels, Russia temporarily halted shipping through the Don-Azov Canal and the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea.

This marks another turning point in Russia's war against Ukraine.

Russia uses the Azov-Don Canal for military logistics, cargo transportation, port infrastructure maintenance, transporting oil and petroleum products in circumvention of sanctions, and financing its war machine. Ships used to transport goods, including those stolen by Russia, strengthen the aggressor state's economy. Taxes from these cargoes and the shipping services are paid into Russia's budget. These taxes fund Iskander missiles, KAB bombs, and other weapons that kill Ukrainians every day.

The Kerch Strait area is home to Russia's second-largest port in the Black Sea basin, making this route crucial for Moscow's foreign trade. It is through these logistics channels that Russia transports not only military cargo but also looted goods from the occupied territories of Ukraine.

OSINT analysts confirm: Russians are openly selling stolen grain, coal, and metal to Türkiye (and onward from there) and even to Israel. The countries purchasing these goods either do not ask about their origin or are satisfied with the Russians' explanations.

Because of this criminal traffic, a new phase of war at sea has begun, which has affected the shadow fleet's vessels and tankers involved in this traffic at the Russian ports of Taganrog and Azov.

A distinctive feature of both ports is that a large share of marine traffic consists of vessels flying the flags of African and Oceanian countries, bound for Türkiye and North African countries.

It is precisely the vessels of this fleet that, among other things, facilitate the plundering of Ukraine's occupied territories, starting with the Luhansk region.

Some of the cargo is then transshipped in the Black Sea onto larger ships, which further obscures the cargo's origin.

These vessels are also involved in supplying the Russian occupation grouping in Crimea and Pryazovia with various goods, including fuel.

📷: Where Russian crude oil in the Black Sea was transported from during the EU and G7 Embargo / 2024

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

The situation in Russia keeps getting more dangerous for Putin:

🔹Security forces are being deployed to more and more fuel stations due to public unrest
🔹Meat and vegetable prices are spiking due to the fuel crisis
🔹Some in Putin's inner circle want to end the war

Soon...🍿

[Lou Diamond Phillips @LouDPhillips]

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

The U.S. is a budding kleptocratic autocracy.

[Ab Gamble 🇨🇦, grateful Canadian.. @AbGamble1]

Canada's own Michael deAdder 🇨🇦 🍁

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

An oil depot is burning nicely in Azov, Rostov region, on the territory of the russian fascist invaders.

Protective netting and cages were no impediment to Ukrainian drones.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Another day of russia's human safari in Kherson.

A man was simply smoking in the yard of his own home.

A russian drone operator chose to kill him.

No battlefield. No military target. Just the systematic hunting of civilians.

This is everyday life in Kherson.

📽 andry_boxer

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 ZELENSKYY TELLS PUTIN UKRAINE WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR EXISTENCE

"If you personally do not come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us. But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own.

And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes. We can work toward that fatigue. You can stop your war." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 to Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺

This is the strategic message: Ukraine 🇺🇦 is not fighting for conquest. It is fighting because Russia 🇷🇺 brought war to its land and tried to destroy its independence.

Putin can stop the war he started. If he does not, Ukraine will keep building pressure until the cost of the invasion reaches the system that sustains him.

[TeinaPosts.🇪🇺 @RafaMorgan64]

Remember and don't forget: Russia attacks maternity hospitals.

[Вера Ларина @domalverotka]

Рос. Красный Крест везет "гумпомощь" в блокированный Крым.
Дежавю с августом 2014-го, когда под видом "гумпомощи" на Донбасс гнали оружие и боеприпасы в наскоро перекрашенных в белый цвет камазах.
Дела на полуострове совсем плохи, раз в ход пошли старые трюки.

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

After today’s russian attack on Sumy, I cannot stop thinking about the mother shielding her child with her own body.
This is what Ukrainians are forced to do to survive.

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

India, through diplomatic channels, has appealed to Ukraine with a request not to strike a tanker carrying 50,000 tons of gasoline for Russia, since this gasoline is humanitarian cargo related to an approaching famine in Russia.

Sure, send us the coordinates 🤙

[Nate Mook @natemook]

After the recent missile & drone attacks on apartment buildings in Kyiv, there are signs like this all over from people looking for their pets. Truly heartbreaking. 💔
(photos taken today by Hachiko co-founder @Y_Stefanyuk)

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

🤬 The ballistic missile that the Russians used to attack Kyiv at night was equipped with shrapnel, — head of RVA Kovtunov.

Shrapnel is metal balls or fragments that fly apart during an explosion to increase human casualties.

Russian Scum - and @iocmedia supports them too

#FuckOlympics

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: Putin started a war because he stole so much money that he became afraid of his own people.

The easiest way to stop people turning against you is to create a foreign enemy. That is Machiavelli 101. 1/

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

During the overnight attack on Kyiv, none of the six Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles fired by Russian troops from the Bryansk region were shot down.

The reason: Ukraine lacks sufficient interceptor missiles.

The real reason: Trump is a narcissist and a friend of Putin, and Europe has been asleep for four years.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

For the first time since 2022, Ukraine has a coherent theory of victory. Instead of grinding down the Russian army at huge cost, Kyiv now destroys Russia's capacity to wage war.

It targets the revenue, fuel, and the supply lines that feed the front — Christian Caryl, FP. 1/

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Yet another MAGA influencer is facing sexual allegations involving a minor.

Former actor James Woods allegedly invited a 16-year-old girl on a private trip to Las Vegas. After she told him she was 16, he allegedly replied: “Even better.”

His tweets are now protected.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

In this absurd discourse about apocalyptic consequences of a possible Russian defeat in Ukraine, it is somehow always taken for granted that defeat would inevitably mean "the collapse of Russia" and an all-out nuclear civil war across one-eighth of the Earth's landmass -- a mix of the biblical Great Tribulation and Mad Max -- something the civilized world must fear above all else and avoid at any cost for its own good.

Of course, I understand why the Kremlin and its useful idiots are so eager to push this narrative in the West: "Save us from the disastrous war that we ourselves started, or else!"

What they somehow never talk about, however, is what is actually far more likely to happen after a clear defeat in Ukraine -- something that has already happened to Russia more than once: in 1856, 1905, 1917, or 1991.

- Having once again become intoxicated with imperial arrogance and fantasies of great-power domination, imperial Russia would once again suffer a crushing defeat after yet another "short victorious war."
- It would finally lose any claim to being a regional power, let alone a global one, and would have to bury its imperial ambitions and dreams of restoring the Soviet Union once and for all.
- It would ultimately lose its privileged position in the global oil and gas market.
- It would ultimately become a fully dependent vassal of China.
- Crippled by the long-term economic and social consequences of the war, it would cease to pose a serious military threat to its neighbors for many years.

Most importantly, the shock of defeat in a criminal war would once again give the Russian people an opportunity to pull their heads out of the ass, reflect on their historical trajectory, and finally build themselves a normal, healthy democratic state -- one where they can live in peace and prosperity -- instead of, once again, elevating yet another deranged Tsar obsessed with imperial grandeur, who will inevitably send them into the meat grinder of yet another "short victorious war."

But who am I kidding?

Most likely, even this bloody lesson from history will teach them nothing and the cycle will simply repeat itself once more.