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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Aug 8

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Disrupting russia’s War Machine: Railway Logistics

(August 8, 2025Tochnyi Info Tochnyi InfoMilitary, Tochnyi)

There are only two conventional military means russia possesses in which its capabilities and competence are at a level typically considered as that held by a ‘superpower’ – disinformation and railway logistics.
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Both facets have been developed over more than a century and stem from its objective needs.

russia lacks major navigable rivers running in an east-west direction.
A rare exception is the Volga.

Combined with its two main tributaries – the #Kama and the #Oka, and a canal that connects it to the #Don, it is by far the most important waterway in present-day russia.

- However, the Volga River system serves only a portion of the part of the country west of the Ural Mountains. The vast regions to the east of the Urals are punctuated by large rivers that largely flow from south to north, into the Arctic Ocean.

The harsh climate and varying terrain further exacerbate the logistical problems posed by this type of geography.

To overcome this challenge, over time and through its various permutations, the country has developed a robust railway network.

This network runs in an east-west direction, connecting the most populated parts of the country and the places of the greatest military strategic importance.

All major storage facilities have a direct railway connection to the main network, and most military production facilities are located within a short distance from that railway network.

The railways are serviced both by branches of the civilian public system on a day-to-day basis, and by specialised railway troops.

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"Railway Troops"

The Railway Troops are a designated branch of the Russian armed forces, subordinated to the Logistical Support of the Armed Forces (previously the “Army Rear”). A more thorough discussion of these forces is beyond the scope of this article, but the main units, as can be discerned from open sources, are presented in Table 1. (You can read more about the units under this branch of the army, their general structure and unit numbering system here
tochnyi.info/2024/11/the-lo…
and here.
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)

(Table 1: Unit structure of the Russian Railway Troops)

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Aug 8

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Ukrainian Drone Battalion Forms Fire Wall Against Russian Advance
As Russian forces attempt to press deeper, Ukrainians have learned to defend with a wall of UAVs. Kyiv Post spends time with a drone unit from the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade on the front line.

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(Bohdan, a drone pilot from the Unmanned Systems Battalion of Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, pilots an FPV drone in Donetsk Oblast during active battle operations. Photo: David @DVKirichenko)

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The early morning begins with the crashing of artillery and the whistle of russian glide bombs raining down on #Ukrainian positions in #Donetsk Oblast, near the border with #Dnipropetrovsk.

In recent months, russian forces have intensified efforts
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to expand westward, launching waves of infantry assaults and drone strikes as they attempt to breach the administrative boundary and establish a foothold inside Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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Moscow recently claimed

control of villages like Maliivka, just inside the regionreuters.com/world/russia-s…

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Aug 4

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"Gazprom" hits a historic low: gas exports to Europe fall to the lowest level in half a century

From January to July 2025, "Gazprom" exported only 9.93 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe, the lowest figure since the early 1970s.

After losing transit through Ukraine, supply volumes fell by almost half and may not exceed 17 billion cubic meters by the end of the year

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The figures were calculated by Reuters
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based on statistics from the Turkish Stream, the last pipeline available to send gas to the EU.

- Experts say this is a sharp drop compared to even the previous year, when exports amounted to 18.3 billion cubic meters.

If the current trend continues, Gazprom will send no more than 17 billion cubic meters of gas to the EU by 2025. For comparison, back in 1975, the Soviet Union exported 19.3 billion cubic meters to Europe, and in the record years of 2018–2019, up to 170-180 billion cubic meters annually.

The key factor was the cessation of transit through Ukraine in early 2025. It was the Ukrainian route that provided the opportunity to pump up to 140 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The only supply channel remained the Turkish Stream, but even its growth of 7% did not compensate for the losses.

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The pressure of sanctions, the termination of contracts with European companies, and the loss of trust in russia as a reliable gas supplier - all this together is transforming Gazprom from a global energy player into a company struggling to survive in new geopolitical conditions .

Despite having the world's largest proven natural gas reserves, Gazprom is losing the ability to sell them .

In the first half of 2025, gas production in russia fell by 3.2% compared to the same period last year. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) production fell even more, by 5.2

In 2024, the company produced 416.19 billion cubic meters of gas, but was only able to sell 355.23 billion, which means about 60 billion cubic meters of residues - this is approximately the annual production of the UAE or three times the annual gas consumption of Poland.

Attempts to find new markets have failed . Negotiations with China on a new gas contract have stalled, and a project to create a gas hub in Turkey has effectively been shelved. Russian officials are looking for ways to use the surplus gas, from powering data centers and artificial intelligence systems to supporting the coal industry through gas-fired generation .

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Aug 3

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"HOW DO YOU SEE THAT THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE? JUST GIVE IT A LITTLE TIME."

The Ukrainian security service stole massive amounts of data from, among other things, the Russian Central Bank recently.
- Then they deleted the whole thing and nothing, really nothing works anymore.

The head of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiulina, it turned out, in the stolen data sets, had given orders to print more banknotes. Lots of new rubles.

To be precise, about $207,176,382.72 in U.S dollar

That corresponds to about 37% of the Russian economy!

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The conclusion is that the money in that belligerent, Slavic terrorist state is running out.
If you print new money, you get inflation like a letter in the mail. Inevitably.

How come MFR, Mother Fucking Russia, is on its way down to the basement?

First of all, they thought the offensive war would last a week at most.

- The Putin bastard thought that Western Europe would collapse before the war.

The Putin bastard also assumed that NATO would collapse. It turned out the other way around.
And so on, and so on.

The sanctions have collapsed Gazprom, which was Putin bastard's biggest cash cow. Now Gazprom is making stinging losses. A toy manufacturer is showing better figures to give an example. Gazprom's data network is in shambles. Total chaos is just the first name.

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Russia is far too big a country. 11 time zones. This means that you have to be able to fly to do business or conduct military maneuvers, etc.

That's why the Ukrainian security service carried out a cyberattack on Aeroflot, the largest Russian airline that is state-owned.
- They stole at least 100 TB of data! Then they erased the mess for the imperialist slaves!

That's why domestic flights no longer work. It's total chaos! It will take years to get back on track! In the meantime, not much will work.

- It turned out that the computer programs were from the mid-1980s!

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Jul 29

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Putin's goddaughter Sobchak became a laughingstock after meeting Will Smith: what the actor did

Russian TV host Ksenia Sobchak, known for her closeness to the Kremlin political elite – dictator Vladimir Putin, found herself in an awkward situation during a family vacation at the Italian resort Forte dei Marmi. Vacationing with her husband Konstantin Bogomolov and son Platon, the journalist tried to attract the attention of Hollywood star Will Smith – but her attempt turned into a public embarrassment.
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Russian TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak,
obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/sob…
known for her closeness to the Kremlin's political elite - dictator Vladimir Putin - found herself in a curious situation during a family vacation in the Italian resort of Forte dei Marmi. While vacationing with her husband Konstantin Bogomolov
obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/kon…
and son Platon, the journalist tried to attract the attention of Hollywood star Will Smith - but her attempt turned into a public embarrassment.

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Without wasting time, she took out her phone and started filming the actor, simultaneously shouting something like a declaration of love to him and hoping for at least a brief contact.

- However, the star of "Men in Black" did not react the way Sobchak had hoped.

Will Smith completely ignored the Russian woman: he did not look back, did not smile, did not say a single word.

In the video that Sobchak posted on Instagram, you can see how the actor simply walks past, not paying her any attention.

This moment immediately sparked a wave of comments - both from her followers and in Russian Telegram channels and publics.

Many openly mocked the unsuccessful "meeting", turning it into a meme and joking about "the shortest interview in Sobchak's career."😀😀🤡🤡

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Jul 28

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Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe
Germany’s quiet diplomacy helped secure U.S. support for Ukraine. But its long-term security ties to Washington are entering uncertain territory.

BERLIN — Germany knows the Americans won’t stay forever. Now it’s trying to make sure they don’t leave too soon.
politico.eu/article/german…
(At the heart of these discussions is the Global Force Posture Review, a broad Pentagon-led reassessment of U.S. military deployments around the world. | Hannibal Hanschke via EPA)

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For decades, the U.S. military presence on German soil has been the backbone of America’s global operations — and a pillar of Europe’s defense.

But as Washington prepares to reassess where its troops are based, officials in Berlin are increasingly unsure what that will mean for them.

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius traveled to Washington on Monday to make sure Germany stays in the loop. After meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he made it clear that Berlin expects a shift in American posture.

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“I began pointing out two years ago that it would become clear at some point that the Americans would eventually do less,” Pistorius told reporters after their meeting. “For now, we in Europe have been able to count on them doing more. But we have to recognize that they have their own interests — in the Indo-Pacific, in the security of maritime trade routes.”

What’s missing is clarity on what “less” actually means. German officials say they aim to be part of coordination efforts.

But they have not been given any firm commitments about what the U.S. plans to do — or when.

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