Notices by kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)

Dear #Russia troll spamming from various accounts under any thread on #Ukraine - you’d better not started this. Your linked a copy-paste article that mentions Ukrainian “war crimes”, for example:

The shooting of Mariupol by Ukrainian missiles: On January 24, 2015, a civilian housing estate of the city was shot from the AFU positions in the north and west of Mariupol from the MLRS.

The problem here is that 24 January 2015 Russian “Grad” shelling of #Mariupol was very well documented - many people took videos:

https://video.echelon.pl/w/qxnQZajn2GXJxaQbLxR3A7

Thanks to them it was possible to establish beyond any doubt who was firing and from where:

According to the impact analysis, the Grad rockets originated from a north-easterly direction, in the area of Oktyabr (19 km north-east of Olimpiiska Street), and the Uragan rockets from an easterly direction, in the area of Zaichenko (15 km east of Olimpiiska Street), both controlled by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”).

https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136061

As usual, Russians are giving out their own war crimes and blaming Ukraine for them, against all available evidence.

There’s a new incarnation of a fanatic Russian troll now using account @iseut@pol.social notoriously spamming discussions related to Ukraine with Russian propaganda. Please report all posts with report to pol.social so that they have a chance to block it.

#Russia territorial gains versus accumulated casualties. The territorial gains largely flattened after end of 2022 and were minimal since, while losses continue to increase.

#Russia railways loading has been dropping since 2022 but this years - the black line at the bottom - has been the worst for years. Railway loading is one of the proxies for general state of economy, especially in Russia whose industry heavily depends on railways. This chart comes from a video[^1] by a Polish railways expert Ryszard Piech.

But then pretty much the same thing is reported by a Russian VChK-OGPU channel which reports 8.6% cargo volumes in April against the last year. The channel report that RZhD (Russian Railways) are going through severe financial problems due to dropping cargo traffic and the short-term perspective is grim, as the company faces massive layoffs.

#Ukraine SBU uncovered and detained a network of #Hungary agents operating in Zakarpatia, region of Ukraine bordering Hungary. The agents documented local defense facilities and gathered opinions of local residents in a hypothetical case of presence of Hungarian troops in the region.

This happened a day after Hungarian media published a leaked 2023 Hungarian minister of defense speech where he suggested a process of “removing NATO” from Hungarian army and ending the “policy of peace”.

Details: https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukrainian-intelligence-uncovers-hungarian-spy-network-in-zakarpattia-for-the-first-time-8240

#Russia will today spin the topic of 2 May 2014 #Odessa tragedy, when 46 members of pro-Russian militia died in a fire. What they will not be spinning are these facts:

• the first people killed on that day were pro-Ukrainian protesters, hours before the fire
• the pro-Russian militia barricaded themselves in Unions House with dozens of Molotov cocktails stored on the stairway
• both sides were throwing things at each other, including the petrol bombs
• the fire started on the stairway inside the building and due to the presence of the Russians’ own petrol bombs it immediately went out of control

Pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian journalists in Odessa jointly conducted an investigation, in addition to the official investigation. All evidence and conclusions can be found here:

https://2mayodessa.org

What Russia will never tell you is however what happened before and after the fire:

• the violent clashes started when pro-Russian activist Vitaly Budko (“Botsman”) started firing live rounds at Ukrainian protesters, two people died from gunshots
• Budko was firing from behind police cordon led by Odessa police commander Dmitry Fuchedzhy, literally from behind his back
• immediately after 48 people died on that day Budko and Fuchedzhy escaped… to Russia
• one reason why so many people died in the unions house fire was that the decision to send fire brigade was arbitrarily blocked by head of emergency services, Vladimir Bodelan
• guess what Bodelan did after the fire? yes, he also escaped to Russia

Russia for the last 10 years has been blaming #Ukraine for “killing 46 pro-Russian protesters”, but at the same time it has also offered shelter for the people most involved in the killing and refused their extradition, prosecution or even interviewing. As a matter of fact, Russia has granted Bodelan a well-paid job in the occupied Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes

There’s one more important historic context: similar events unrolled in all Ukraine, including Kharkiv and other towns. Thanks to intercepts of calls between Sergey Glazyev, Russian president’s administration coordinator, and pro-Russian activists in Ukraine (so called “Glazyev tapes”) we now know that escalation of the protests and violence was actually their goal.

https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_glazyev_tapes_getting_to_the_root_of_the_conflict_in_7165/

For the last two days, there’s ongoing #Ukraine combined marine and air operation against #Russia targets in #Crimea.

From the fragments of information posted on Russian channel (Ukraine largely keeps OPSEC silence) you can see an incredibly complex and professionally executed operation in which several groups of long-range naval drones carrying short-range assault drones (!) and anti-air systems (!) approached Crimea and Russian coast of Black Sea and were hitting targets there.

All these vehicles are remotely (!) operated at hundreds of kilometers.

Russian military changes describe all that with poorly disguised envy and respect, having so far lost one helicopter and one Su-30 aircraft (in addition to a dozen of land targets).

A good example of how fucked up #Russia military channel admins are can be, as found today on the “From Mariupol to Carpathia” channel run by Aleksandr Sheptura (205. Brigade). Sheptura is now kind of public figure as one of the distinguished operators of the Russian “human safari” in Kherson.

Approximate timeline of Sheptura’s posts documenting their hits on #Kherson for the last couple for days:

• “We will hit targets [in residential area] regardless of presence of civilians! Collateral damage is unavoidable!” (self-declared war crime)
• “All vehicle movement we consider a lawful target! All objects of critical infrastructure we consider lawful target!” (they are not “lawful” in any known law system)
• “We warned! All rescue services rushing to help the victims are guaranteed to be targeted by us!” (self-declared war crime)
• “Kherson is noisy, our artillery works over the planned targets”
• “Oleshky, horrors! Enemy hit our market!” (we were hit, bad)
• “Kherson, aerial hits on planned targets! We watch huge explosions!” (we hit them, good)
• “We like mushrooms [explosions] :))) especially in Kherson :))”
• “Eternal memory to our men who today gave life in Oleshky!”
• “Good morning Khokhols, we can see you, hairy faggots! :)))” accompanied by a video of FPV hitting a civilian car in Kherson
• “Enemy posted a video of FPV hit on Oleshky, but it’s fake! It was not our soldiers, our soldiers actually died there but while evacuating others!”

Then, at the end he forwards an emotional post which speaks of “those terrorists who cynically kill civilians in Kherson oblast” but when this idiot talks of the whole oblast (region), occupied by Russia, he is completely unable to refer his own words to the Kherson town, which they are bombing themselves on daily basis. Then he accuses the enemy of “ignoring all human norms and rules, ignoring all laws and agreements and absent of any compassion”, still entirely unable to refer these accusations to his own actions, which he himself is documenting on daily basis.

@shuro

The practical benefit from amplifying such statements would be that our local idiots who claim “Russia would never attack Poland” (or EU) would be given a chance to see what the Russian side is thinking about it at any given moment.

@shuro

It worked rather well for them for quite some time.

Are you aware of the “theory of opers and operators”? It’s a pretty good explanation on why things in Russia were developing in the direction that was apparently irrational from economic point of view, but made sense from the point of view of the largest professional group in the country 😉

https://write.as/arcadian/theory-of-opers-and-operators-andmdash-in-search-for-rational-explanations-of

@notsoloud @bretdevereaux

@shuro

As the source link is blocked in Russia

Oh, I’m honoured! 😄 Can you check if it’s the whole write.as domain or just my article? Also, write.as is federated on ActivityPub so you can just paste the URL into your Friendica instance search box and it should pop up as a native article in the time line.

@notsoloud @bretdevereaux

#Russia propagandist Anastasiya Kashevarova complains that Russian law enforcement prepares for mass returns of war veterans primarily with the assumption that they will behave like savages. One police officer she talked to in Barnaul literally said that they consider the “SMO [special military operation[ veterans to be imbeciles, killers and criminals” and “when they return, we will promptly imprison them”.

To be honest, this perception is largely justified by the cult of extreme violence and lawlessness cultivated in Russian army. Local Russian media frequently report violent crime by veterans returning home or rotation, and law enforcement reaction is usually lenient by orders from above. These are of course rarely reported by the state-wide media.

If you encourage men on the front line to behead prisoners of war, rape, loot and execute “retaliatory” bombings of civilian houses why would you expect they will become model law abiding citizens after returning home? Especially if they were sent to fight in an offensive war abroad, which was unrolled for no obvious reason?

There’s an interesting phenomenon in the Western perception of #Russia I’ve noticed a while ago and can’t really explain in rational terms.

Russian officials can make the most violent, or openly genocidal statements but as long as they make them in Russian and directed to internal audience, they don’t exist. Of course, they do exist and they play their intended role - that is inciting and justifying violence against the targeted groups among Russians. But they go completely unnoticed in the West, as if they were never made.

Of course, there is a number of experts who closely follow Russian narratives in Russian like Julia Davis or yours truly, but their findings very rarely find their way to the mainstream media.

I don’t quite understand this. Before 2014 I do get it - Russian media were running in violent overdrive mode all the time but nothing came out of this talking. Today, Russians say it’s necessary to “eradicate Ukrainian identity”, “bomb civilians” and “blow up Western factories” and they simply do it. They kill hundreds civilians at a time and blow up things in EU.

Yet, we still live in 2014 mode - “they’re just talking”… That’s the part I don’t get.

Selling a brand new #HackRF One r10 (the latest revision), because I’ve accidentally ordered two. Can send to UK or EU, full VAT invoice provided. Price €230 or £200, postage in EU/GB included.

Today is 39th anniversary of the #Chernobyl disaster, which happened on 26 April 1986 and which was all one huge testimony to the absolute stupidity of the Soviet system.

• The disaster had no random component (like Banqiao or Fukushima), it was 100% man-made.
• The test that led to the disaster was scheduled by the Communist Party approved Plan.
• In general, the Party-approved Plans were sacred, directors who did not deliver Plans were degraded and imprisoned for “sabotage” under Soviet penal code.
• Chernobyl directors knew about the technical faults of the reactor’s moderation equipment and they knew they increased chances of an accident Yet, the continued with the test because it was in the Plan.
• Plant management and local Party notables reaction to the explosion - denial and downplaying its impact - was also absolutely typical for the Soviet system.
• Local Party authorities initially refused population evacuation “not to sow panic” while waiting “what Moscow says”. But since they initially blocked information to Moscow “not to make Moscow angry” and “maybe the problem resolves itself”, Moscow’s analysis was thus decisive, but severely delayed.
• Ultimately all this endless and entirely preventable stupidity had to be mitigated by incredible sacrifice by thousands of people who have given their lives to put out the fire and secure the reactor, and did all that in the atmosphere of paranoia and secrecy.

We often complain about modern corporate incentives and greed leading to socially pathological outcomes. What Soviets did in Chernobyl was 100x worse, because in a modern corporation you may get less bonus or be fired, but not fulfilling corporate goals won’t get you jailed. #USSR at the same time create a merciless system of corporate terror, where your whole life - from your accommodation to your kid’s school - depended on your compliance with Party directives, regardless of how stupid they were.

One thing I forgot to add, #USSR spent massive resources on the immediate liquidation of the effects of the disaster it caused, but it was only for 5 years - in 1991 it collapsed and dissolved. Since then the country that formally inherited majority of the USSR resources - that is #Russia - did not spend any resources on long-term mitigation of the effects, mostly suffered by #Ukraine and #Belarus.

These costs were taken mostly by the international community, including funding of the new massive #Chernobyl Containment which, in 2025 was damaged by a drone sent by the Russian motherfuckers 🤷

Anonymous France leaked 18 GB with the following statement:

In defense of Ukraine Anonymous has released 10TB of leaked data on all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, Donald Trump, and more.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/9prdor8m7a1z9f6/Leaked+Data+of+corrupt+officials.rar/file

P.S. this leaks marks a significant qualitative difference to #Wikileaks which has over the last decade not only not leaked anything harming #Russia but actually amplified Russian fakes, such as the MH17 conspiracies

Russian military experts conducted tests of the ‘trophy’ Bradley M2A2 ODS SA vehicle, concluding that it is superior in every respect to the BMP-3, which are #Russia vehicles of similar purpose.

This analysis was published by a number of Russian military channels, the most dramatic of which was probably a post by the popular ‘Rybar’. He blamed the backwardness of Russian weaponry on a faction of believers in the superiority of the Soviet arms industry. ‘Rybar’ wrote that “the price of such a swap of concepts is thousands of lives of our infantry”, having in mind here the almost religious dogma that everything Soviet and Russian is more perfect than the West, and that the more clumsy the better.

‘Rybar’ is right. He only forgot to add that this ‘swapping of concepts’ can be found in virtually every sphere of life in Russia and, all in all, all of Russia is one big ‘swapping of concepts’, where slavery is called ‘freedom’, degeneration ‘conservatism’ and serfdom ‘democracy’.

‘Rybar’, as many others like him, blame random generals and specialists who present absolutely bizarre practices as ‘the new normal’ but he, just like everyone, ignores #Putin who introduced this ‘swap of concepts’ from the highest level of authority already in 2000’s and codified them in writings by Dugin, Surkov, Karaganov etc.

Full technical analysis of “Bradley” by Russian military experts: https://t.me/bmpd_cast/22627 (in Russian)

“Rybar” post where he blames Russian military experts for “swap of concepts”: https://t.me/rybar/69535 (in Russian)

A very useful catalogue of #Russia politicians, journalists and activists with various genocidal threats against other countries

https://rus-fa.com/ru/tags/type/threats-countries

I tried to use archive.is to save this page https://telegra.ph/Rusich–neonacistskaya-gruppirovka-v-sostave-rossijskoj-armii-10-26 which documents Nazi publications of Alexey Milchakov, an active soldier of #Russia army - note the text at the bottom:

In response to a request we received from ‘Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR)’ the page is not currently available.

As it comes out, archive.is complies with Russian censorship agency Roskomnadzor requests (worrying) while the agency itself is banning pages that demonstrate an active Russian soldier is a self-declared Nazi 🤷