[What's going on in Russia III]

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 4:07pm |

Prior piece ending 29 Sept - http://dagblog.com/comment/320771#comment-320771

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Putin the good tsar has a go at the bad boyars for mobilizing the wrong people into the army.

“We must correct mistakes and not allow them going forward,” he says, and everyone who doesn’t meet the criteria “must be sent home.”

Shows the Kremlin is anxious about the backlash pic.twitter.com/nyVWHgqLsF
— max seddon (@maxseddon) September 29, 2022

To give you an idea of why Putin's doing this: a Levada Center poll out today shows 56% of Russians are "worried" about the war in Ukraine – as opposed to 37% last month – and nearly as many said they wanted to end the war as continue fightinghttps://t.co/4nkhzdYLoW
— max seddon (@maxseddon) September 29, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 6:03pm

“People are ready to lead their children, husbands and sons to the slaughter. It’s downright evil… People don’t need therapists anymore; they need psychiatrists.” https://t.co/p6Ku5dA9D8
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) September 29, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 7:29pm

Dispatch from the Kazakh border as 100k Russians stream in fleeing last week’s conscription order.

Some sleep rough for days, waiting to cross — the lengths they’re willing to go says a lot about mood in Russia right now as Moscow escalates the warhttps://t.co/mOtu4Rnt3Q
— Polina Ivanova (@polinaivanovva) October 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/01/2022 - 2:50pm

speaking of bread and circuses and false sturm and drang on another thread, here's a pro effort:

The Red Square was really crowded during the Putin's speech. Here is the context. All these buses had been bringing here бюджетники (government employees) to serve as the Putin's audience. pic.twitter.com/hkjrZuaqFO
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) October 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/01/2022 - 2:53pm

For the first time in known history, hackers from within Russia have begun a systemized effort to hack Russian government affiliated websites. A very important piece by ⁦@officejjsmart⁩ https://t.co/eoY8fXIYu0
— Ivana Stradner (@ivanastradner) October 2, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/02/2022 - 1:19pm

Truly a degenerate political culture. Perhaps I have ancestral bias. But no less true. https://t.co/FIhiRHZ8P8
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 3:45am

Three weeks ago, I was walking in an area mostly populated by students when a Russian flag hanging down from the window of a student flat on one of Edinburgh's busiest streets stopped me dead in my tracks. (2/)
— Kvitka Perehinet (@kvitkanadiia) October 2, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 3:52am

from some of those fleeing conscription:

“My wife is Ukrainian. I can’t look my own mother-in-law in the eye,” said one man fleeing Russia.

“I served. I don’t understand why we’d go and capture a foreign land,” said another.

“My wife insisted on leaving to save me,” said a third.https://t.co/4PMJvWcC4a
— emily l (@laskin) October 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 4:19pm

Breaking News: The U.S. believes parts of the Ukrainian government were behind the car bombing that killed a prominent Russian nationalist’s daughter near Moscow in August. https://t.co/G6wzvqFjDX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 4:21pm

Something is brewing in Dagestan, Russia.

: Mikhail Khodorkovskiy @mich261213 pic.twitter.com/rq76maiZOY
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 5, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 1:33am

some people are starting to say the emporer has no clothes!

“a Russian-installed official in an occupied region of Ukraine belittled the Kremlin’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu The official, Kirill Stremousov, saidShoigu should consider killing himself because of his army’s failures in Ukraine” https://t.co/o6Ci26N0aF
— Rooter of this nations history (@realworldrj) October 7, 2022

Russia Lashes Out in Ukraine, Raising Question of What’s Next https://t.co/dd4lBTa32V
— Brian Bonner (@BSBonner) October 7, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 11:24pm

WATCH: The Crimean Bridge, which connects Russia and Crimea, is on fire and has partially collapsed pic.twitter.com/EGaGF0Eb25
— BNO News (@BNONews) October 8, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 1:24am

very interesting two-word tweet in English; related?

sick burn
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) October 8, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 3:04am

The Guardian's Moscow correspondent

There is now security footage that purports to show a truck exploding on the Crimean Bridge. If this is all true, it means this was a suicide attack. pic.twitter.com/GrjmzVnZFJ
— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) October 8, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 3:08am

Whether it was an ATACMS strike, or explosive sabotage to the train, the destruction of the #Kerch Bridge is going to have massive implications for Russian logistics. There is now only one railway supplying Russian forces in the west, and its just 34km from Ukrainian lines. pic.twitter.com/SAKnFiuPKd
— Colby Badhwar (@ColbyBadhwar) October 8, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 3:10am

so many tweets on it now, Twitter has made a Live Events page: Key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia partially collapses

by artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 3:16am

Ricks' comment here translates as "shit just got real" -

"дерьмо только что стало реальным" https://t.co/sfZF0xpZSd
— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) October 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 7:19pm

“There was something in the truck that exploded,” said a structural engineer, now in a specialised branch of the Ukrainian military. “Something special.”

.@MehulAtLarge and Roman Olearchyk break down all the evidence around the Crimean bridge explosionhttps://t.co/u5IrTpdoAU
— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 7:24pm

Chinese whispers & Putin's 70th

Sorry, looks like a blowjob...
— Detlev Nitsche (@detlevnitsche) October 8, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/08/2022 - 8:14pm

Russians in Chornobyl: they entered it the very first day of war.

In a story by @Hromadske locals amd employees of the nuclear power plant tell about their maraudership and what Russians left after them pic.twitter.com/Ysr8TveBTI
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 6:57pm

Why Russia’s military is flailing? Mark Kelton, former Dep Dir for CIA counterintelligence: “The system is based on lies.” Rob Dannenberg, CIA station chief in Moscow on 9/11 when FSB tried to help US: “Russians didn’t know anything. Their files were bankrupt.” #threatcon22
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 9, 2022

Mark Kelton, former CIA National Clandestine Service, tells @gregmyre1 @thecipherbrief #threatcon22 “Russia has already been defeated (in Ukraine.) We are on an escalatory cycle and it is getting worse. Putin cannot negotiate about Russian territory and survive.”
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 9, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 6:59pm

“All of Putin’s actions today are aimed at getting out of this corner from which the only way out is the nuclear button,” Vladimir Pastukhov, a Russian analyst said in a phone interview. “In a sense, what has just happened really increases risks for him.”https://t.co/TWW584vMWz
— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

Hard-liners in Russia have been pushing this strategy for a very long time, said @YudinGreg “Like, we have to scare them into submission,’’ he said of the hard-right viewpoint. “So, in order to do that, we have to be really, really violent.”https://t.co/TWW584vMWz
— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

In his speech, Putin made one notable omission: He did not mention the West as the ultimate culprit behind Crimean bridge explosion or other suspected Ukr attacks. That's a departure from typical Kremlin rhetoric that portrays DC/London as puppeteers behind Ukraine’s resistance.
— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

The shift was a possible signal that the Russian leader was interested in controlling the escalation of the war, and that he was not on the verge of provoking a direct conflict with NATO.
Today's story, with @antontroian https://t.co/TWW584vMWz
— Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) October 10, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 5:20pm

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