Between 2023 and 2024, sabotage attacks across Europe nearly tripled. The year before, they quadrupled.
Russia runs these attacks through ordinary people who never learn they serve Moscow — a Telegram admin, an attractive stranger, a fellow conspiracy theorist, United24. 1/
After the 2018 Skripal poisoning and the 2022 expulsions, Moscow lost most of its career agent networks in the West.
Russian intelligence adapted instead of shrinking. It now hires disposable operatives to cut costs, dodge blame, and scale sabotage almost without limit. 2/
The GRU runs the operation through fake accounts, criminal fronts, cut-outs, and recruiters. The FSB uses diaspora and family ties in Russian-speaking areas.
After 2023, Wagner networks repurposed wartime infrastructure for recruitment over Telegram, Discord, and forums. 3/
Ex-Ukrainian FM, Kuleba on why Putin won't go nuclear: No guarantee Ukraine surrenders. If Ukraine doesn't break after a nuclear strike, it backfires catastrophically.
The rocket falls on Ukraine but the effect hits Russia. They used everything and Ukraine still didn't break. 1/
Kuleba: China will stop him. The first wartime nuclear use since 1945 lifts the taboo for everyone. Israel can nuke Iran. Pakistan can nuke India.
China needs a controlled world, not nuclear chaos. China has leverage over Russia — despite always saying it doesn't. 2/
Kuleba: Trump, despite not being Ukraine's biggest friend, cannot leave nuclear weapons use without a response.
If he does nothing, Putin positions himself stronger against both Europe and America. The Americans will categorically work to prevent this scenario. 3/
A surrounded Ukrainian infantryman amputated his comrade's gangrenous arm with a knife and survived for months on raw pheasants cooked over trench candles.
“Boomer” marked enemy kills with notches on his rifle and stopped counting once he passed a hundred, Ukrainska Pravda.
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Russians dropped FPV drones with water bottles wrapped in green tape and notes: "Surrender! You're surrounded. Lay down your weapons, walk out with a white flag." Nobody took the offer.
Boomer: "Captivity is simply not an option for me."
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Boomer amputated his comrade's gangrenous arm with a knife on the spot.
Boomer: "He couldn't release the tourniquet. The arm was already in such a state we had to cut it off at the elbow joint.”
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Kasparov on Putin's biggest miscalculation: He was certain that linguistic commonality would outweigh everything and all his advisors believed Russian-speaking Ukrainians would side with Russia
Linguistic commonality proved far less important than people's sense of freedom 1/
Kasparov: Ukraine and Russia diverged in 1994. Russia chose the Chechen war to prolong power. Ukraine had a peaceful transfer, Kravchuk lost the election and left
That moment was critical. People voted and the president left. Ukrainians understood, power comes from the people 2/
Kasparov: A person born in Kharkiv, what made them different from someone born in Belgorod, 200 km away? Same Soviet Union, same language, same newspapers.
But Ukrainians became free people. Russia went the opposite direction. And that is why Putin could not take Novorossiya. 3X
Kasparov: My triad since day one of the full-scale war — Ukraine's victory, Russia's defeat, collapse of the empire. That is the only outcome this war can have.
Only the liquidation of Putin. No other options exist. While Putin is there, it is war. Only his liquidation. 1/
Kasparov: An empire cannot retreat. The moment an empire begins retreating — that is its end. This was true for Rome. It was true for every empire. Nothing new here.
It started with Crimea in 2014. It will end with Crimea. Putin and the Russian Empire have merged into one. 2/
Kasparov: Every lost war in Russia led to change. This war is lost — and worse than others because it's visible. The Crimean War was far away. Russo-Japanese was 8,000 km away.
In 1917, they hadn't even lost yet. A stalemate came and everything shattered into pieces. 3X