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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ Russia is reported to have offered lucrative oil and gas concessions as a sweetener to get the Trump negotiating team to agree a favourable deal over Ukraine in Riyadh. ⬇️ Image
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports a source's comments on the negotiations:

"Kirill Dmitriev (Russian Direct Investment Fund) was clearly appointed to the negotiating delegation from Russia as a person who at least knows a little about business."
3/ "That is exactly what the Russian leadership decided, that it was just necessary to bargain well with the Trump team and everything would be fine.
4/ "Dmitriev immediately played his trump card and stated that American companies could return to oil and gas production projects. For Russia, this could mean more agreements like Sakhalin 1 or Sakhalin 2, where the project participant takes the product right away.
5/ "The country's budget will receive deductions only from that part of the oil that is due to Russian companies. The only question is how Russia's new big brother, China, will react."

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Feb 20
1/ There's no need to resort to conspiracy theories about Trump being "compromised" to explain his support for Vladimir Putin. Nobody claims JD Vance supports Trump because he is "compromised". The truth is likely much simpler: Trump shares Putin's ideology. Image
2/ As the Washington Post article linked below points out, Putin promoted many aspects of MAGA ideology (anti-LGBT, anti-woke, anti-migrant, anti-abortion, anti-feminism, Christian nationalism) before they became mainstream in the Republican Party. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/…
3/ There's a degree of political calculation here in that Putin did a lot to convince the Euro-American far right that he was one of them, but it seems to have worked very well for him.
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Feb 18
1/ Donald Trump's friendliness to Russia has earned praise from Russian propagandists and a wave of Trumpmania from online sellers, including MAGA hats and Trump toilet brushes. One commentator suggests he'll be declared the Messiah and will build the Third Temple in space. ⬇️ Image
2/ The notorious propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has broadcast a video of J.D. Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference and has spoken approvingly of Vance's statement that negotiations between America and Russia are needed.
3/ "What did Vance say that Russian representatives haven’t said for a long time, and that doesn’t resound in our studio every time?," Solovyov asked on his show.

Other state-controlled TV channels have taken to describing Trump and Putin as "well-mannered and polite people".
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Feb 17
1/ The Russian army is using wounded soldiers as human bullet sponges, sending them out to identify Ukrainian positions by getting themselves shot. An appeal to Vladimir Putin by one man's wife illustrates how soldiers find themselves in this position. ⬇️
2/ The Russian 'Soldier's Truth' Telegram channel has published an 'appeal to the Tsar' from Sofia Sergeevna Merzlyak, the wife of 33-year-old soldier Alexander Alexandrovich Merzlyak, who is serving with the 1st Rifle Company of the 5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.
3/ This was formerly a unit under the 'Donetsk People's Republic' before its merger with the Russian Army in January 2023. Alexander Merzlyak is likely to be an inhabitant of the occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine. His wife describes him as a contract soldier, i.e. a volunteer.
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Feb 17
1/ Russian warbloggers are furious about the catastrophic defeat of a Russian armoured column in the Kursk region, reportedly causing hundreds of casualties. They are bitterly critical of the commanders responsible. ⬇️
2/ The failed assault happened near the hamlet of Nikolskiy, near Malaya Loknya in Russia's Kursk region. According to the Russian 'North Channel' Telegram channel, Nikolskiy was mostly recaptured by North Korean forces, who then lost it in what may have been a failed rotation. Image
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3/ North Channel wrote on 15 February: "Our allies were one step away from liberating the Nikolskiy farmstead in the Malaya Loknya area. As of yesterday evening, they controlled 80% of the settlement under intense fire pressure."
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Feb 16
1/ Russian kindergarteners are being taught to throw grenades, navigate trenches, weave camouflage nets, and go through obstacle courses, as part of an increasingly intensive programme to train the next generation of Russians for war. ⬇️ Image
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2/ 2025 has been declared the "year of the defender of the Fatherland" by Vladimir Putin. Schools and local authorities have been using social media to publicise what they have been doing to commemorate it and promote nationalist-militarist values. Image
3/ The Russian independent news outlet Agency News has been reviewing social media activity for references to 'Zarnitsa' (literally "summer lightning"), originally a Soviet-era military sports game for schoolchildren that has been revived and expanded under Putin. Image
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Feb 15
1/ The owners of the Russian oil tankers which sunk in the Kerch Strait in December 2024, causing damage estimated at $335 million, have been fined 600,000 rubles ($6,588). It's also emerged that they bought some of their tankers for under $13,000 each, likely from scrapyards. ⬇️
2/ The Arbitration Court of Krasnodar Krai has fined Volgatransneft, the company which owned the ill-fated Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 tankers, 300,000 rubles for violating rules banning its tankers from operating at sea after the permitted sailing season.
3/ As mentioned in the thread below, the tankers should not have been operating on the day of the sinking, as the stormy weather caused wind and wave conditions that the ships were not designed to endure.
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