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Jan 9 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1/ Russian firefighters have failed to extinguish an out-of-control fire at an oil depot in Saratov, caused by a Ukrainian drone strike, despite repeated attempts. The attack is said to have caused fuel shortages for the nearby military airfield. ⬇️
2/ The Engels oil depot was targeted on the night of January 7-8 and has been burning out of control ever since. Attempts by firefighters to use a foam generator to extinguish the blaze have been unsuccessful. They are now reportedly waiting for new equipment and foam.
3/ Engels-2 air base is home to the 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Tu-160M and 184th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic nuclear-capable bombers. Both bomber types have repeatedly carried out long-range attacks against Ukraine. Image
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4/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, the firefighters intend to carry out another attempt to extinguish the flames, but will be forced to leave the fire to burn out if they are unsuccessful. There have already been a series of explosions as the fire has spread.
5/ Ukraine has carried out numerous drone strikes against Russian fuel depots, including at Proletarsk in August 2024 where an attempt to extinguish the flames with prayers failed.
6/ The attack on the Proletarsk depot alone reportedly caused the destruction of over 100,000 tons of Russian fuel, worth over 7 billion rubles. It almost certainly caused significant fuel shortages for the Russian military. /end
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1/ A top-level scam at the Russian Ministry of Defence, in which decrepit old ships were used for one-way trips to transport weapons and equipment to Syria as part of the 'Syria Express', may have reduced Russia's ability to evacuate its equipment following Assad's fall. ⬇️ Kyzyl-60
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3/ The scam was reportedly the work of former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (l) and his deputies Timur Ivanov (c) and Dmitry Bulgakov (r). All three have since been sacked, and Ivanov and Bulgakov have been charged with large-scale corruption. Image
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Jan 6
1/ The military commander of the Wagner Group, Anton "Lotus" Elizarov, is reported to have been fired. The move is said to be the result of interpersonal conflicts and Wagner's disastrous defeats in Africa in 2024. A former GRU major is slated to replace him. ⬇️ Image
2/ The Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova writes that Elizarov left the Wagner Group before the New Year at the instigation of Yevgeny Prigozhin's son and heir Pavel, who took over Wagner following his father's death in August 2023.
3/ Kashevarova presents a number of reasons for Elizarov's dismissal:

"1. When the brigade commander was chosen, not all commanders were present at the Council.
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Jan 3
1/ Russian air defence crews reportedly shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 with two missiles fired from a Pantsir launcher near Grozny, after being 'blinded' by a Russian electronic warfare system, according to a detailed account of the incident on 25 December 2024. ⬇️ Image
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Dec 17, 2024
1/ Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov recently boasted that 96% of injured Russian soldiers treated in hospitals were able to return to duty. However, Russian milbloggers point out that that is only because badly wounded men are usually left to die on the battlefield. ⬇️ Image
2/ The '5 mg KGV' Telegram channel highlights Belousov's fallacy in claiming a mere 0.5% mortality rate with the (very graphic) illustration of the case of a soldier who went 32 days without evacuation after having his leg blown off by a drone-dropped munition.
3/ "Due to the impossibility of timely evacuation, the soldier ended up on the operating table 32 days later (!). Active growth of granulation and protruding bone fragments in the area of ​​traumatic amputation are visible.
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Dec 17, 2024
1/ Russian soldiers are having to sue military hospitals to prove that they were injured in combat, so that they can receive the compensation payments they were promised. It highlights how the Russian state's bureaucracy is continuing to harm its own soldiers. ⬇️ Image
2/ Radio Free Europe covers the stories of several Russian soldiers who went to war and were injured, but were refused the certificates they needed to claim compensation.

One of them, Igor, was among the first to be mobilised in late 2022.
3/ He was soon disillusioned by the state of the Russian army:

"The mobilised soldiers had no idea what was going on. There was total lying in the ranks of the armed forces. Humanitarian aid was plundered, stored in warehouses, and nothing was given to the mobilised soldiers."
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Dec 17, 2024
1/ The two Russian tankers that broke apart yesterday in the Kerch Strait reportedly split along welds created when the ships were modified in a botched attempt to meet safety regulations. Numerous safety rules were being violated when the ships sank. ⬇️
2/ More details have emerged of the specific design flaws that caused the tankers Volgoneft-219 and Volgoneft-239 to disintegrate in a severe storm east of Crimea. As previously reported, both ships were old (55 and 51 years respectively) and didn't meet maritime safety rules.
3/ According to the publication 'Podyom', both ships were shortened by cutting out their central section and welding the stern and bow together in what seems to have been a botched attempt to meet International Maritime Organisation standards. Both vessels split along the weld.
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