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Aug 25, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read Read on X
🧵This is an excellent example of a fake news (no personal offence to @ChrisO_wiki, just an example!). I'll explain why ⬇️
The source article is a pure clickbait, typical for Russian regional media, always lacking funds. It literally says 'wanna know what will happen to this cemetery? Click here!' 63.ru/text/gorod/202…
But what will happen? The cemetery will be transformed into the ordinary military cemetery, like hundreds all over the world. Image
We can argue about the 'pyramids' design, but it's not something unusual. Image
Wagnerites relatives are mocking the blogger who filmed the source video (he has nothing to do with Wagner, just a fanboy), saying that they're absolutely happy with this transformation happening. Image
Please, every time one hypes on things like this a cat or a puppy dog dies somewhere. You don't want them to, do you?
P.S. Similar works had already begun on a famous Wagner cemetery in Bakinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, before Prisgozhin was presumed dead in a plane crash. vot-tak.tv/novosti/11-07-…
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Maybe this will change, but now it's about Prigo and Putin dealing with things in Russian criminal '90's style', where they both belong too, not ordinary mercenaries [yet]. And yes, photos of stacked crosses are a clickbait cliche.
Similar works and similar cemetery 'modernization' project is underway in Berezovsky (near Yekaterinburg). . Announced long before the Prigozhin's death (). e1.ru/text/politics/…
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I'll explain why this idea is quite popular among the Wagnerites' relatives (according to themselves): when it's the war memorial, you're safe that the tomb will be there for years w/o having to care/pay for it (at least that's what they're promised).
There's some criticism too: some relatives find that their loved ones are buried here or there only months after their death. When the cemetery is transformed into the war memorial, it's not possible anymore to exhume a body and bury it somewhere else if one wishes to do so.
Yet another pathetic fake. These fires are being set up to warm the frosted land. The footage was filmed in April when there were first reports about this cemetery. See the next tweet for explanation ⬇️
More photos and an explanation ircity.ru/text/society/2…
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Just signed up for @CommunityNotes, but until I'm approved I'll tag them here: these context boxes is definitely the best thing which happened to this website in a long time.

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Jun 6
🧵Recently, Yandex blurred some additional military-related facilities on its satellite maps. It hasn't revealed any major surprises (yet), but it did lead me to yet another 'Pantsir' system installed in Moscow Oblast after Ukrainian drone attacks.
Some examples of the newly blurred objects (mostly military complex plants): x.com/wartranslated/… (source t.me/sotaproject/98…). I already found many more, but they're mostly well-known sites.
One well-known site that is now blurred is the missile storage facility for the A-135 (ABM-4 Gorgon), a Russian anti-ballistic missile system deployed around Moscow to intercept incoming warheads targeting the city and its surrounding areas. 55.625, 37.387 wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=5…Image
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🧵1/6 As after every Ukrainian drone attack, my dynamic map of air defense systems installed in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast gains a few new entries, thanks to multiple enthusiasts like @jembobineuse and @Dmojavensis. The most recent addition is particularly interesting. 🔽 Image
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Apr 25
1/3 Russian Maj. Gen. Jaroslav Moskalik, allegedly killed today near Moscow, took part in at least two Normandy Four format meetings: in 2015, when the infamous 'Steinmeier formula' was adopted, and on Dec. 9, 2019, when Volodymyr Zelensky met Putin in person for the first time. Image
2/3 Moskalik also took part in a visit by a Russian delegation to Damascus, where Putin’s special envoy Alexander Lavrentyev held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2018. Image
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Mar 11
🧵A Russian diplomat, pressured to leave Brussels amid espionage allegations, has been nominated for a key role in the OSCE. Another 19 diplomats were expelled too, with open sources clearly showing their ties to Russian intelligence (and yes, they liked posting on Strava). Image
But first things first: meet Dmitry Iordanidi, a former deputy head of the @OSCE mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina with deep experience in the Balkans, who was nominated by Moscow to lead the organization’s mission to Serbia. Image
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Russia also nominated Iordanidi to head an OSCE program office in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, and for the same position in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. I think that falls under the ‘flood the field’ tactic.
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Feb 27
🧵/ link in the last post. Remember Bosnian Serb Davor Savičić, who recruited Serbs to fight in Ukraine? Using a leaked database of Russian WIAs, we found he’s a GRU colonel with personal tag V-0001 ('V' for 'Волки' – 'Wolves' – as his battalion was named after his callsign). Image
It's well known that both 'private' military companies where Savičić fought, 'Wagner' & ‘Redut,’ were overseen by GRU (GU GSH). Previous investigations found several GRU staffers there, but it was never revealed that Savičić is a GRU colonel himself
Savičić got a shrapnel wound to his right shoulder on June 17, 2022. At that time, Russian forces were attempting to attack Severodonetsk, while the UAF were counterattacking near Izyum. The exact location where Savičić was wounded remains unknown. Image
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Feb 21
🧵With my colleagues, we analyzed the Russian Main Military Medical Directorate's database on 166,000 hospitalizations in Russian MoD facilities (Jan 2022–June 2024). It's incomplete but offers insights into the Russian army's dynamics. svoboda.org/a/tysyach-rane…
First things first: THIS DATABASE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO ESTIMATE TOTALS. It doesn't have those hospitalized to civilian hospitals, very limited number of wounded in 'DNR' and 'LNR' hospitals, etc. Thanks to @MassDara and @Mortis_Banned for their comments on the data we studied.
Also, A LOT of soldiers stay for a day or 2 in a field hospital before being sent back to front. They DO NOT MAKE IT TO THIS DATABASE.
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