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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 18

Russian economy is slowly and quietly collapsing.

Russian stores cut product assortment by 2.3% for food, 5.1% for children's goods, 5.6% for alcohol, 7.3% for face care.

Russian companies slashed 2025 investments by 733B rbls compared to 2024, Moscow Times reports. 1/

Russian stores cut product assortment by 2.3% for food and 1.8% for non-food items in July compared to last year.

Alcohol, children's goods, and face care products dropped 5.6%, 5.1%, and 7.3%, respectively. 2/

X5 Group reduced assortment by 15-20% since the war started.

They launched smaller "Perekrestok Select" stores (400 m²), while "Magnit" opened 100 m² “Zaryad” ultra-convenience format stores. 3/

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 18

FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by Global Tree Pictures, owned by Russian Igor Lopatonok.

The company produced anti-Western “deep state” content. Lopatonok’s projects were funded in part by a Putin-created fund for pro-Russian influence campaigns — WP. 1/

Kash Patel was paid $25,000 for the series All the President's Men on Tucker Carlson’s network, where he vowed to “shut down” FBI HQ.

Critics warn he took Kremlin-linked money while poised to lead counterespionage. 2/

Patel’s spokesperson said he disclosed all income, with OGE and DOJ approving filings. Sen. Grassley called criticism a “smear campaign.”

Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a vote on Patel’s FBI Director nomination after Democrats raised objections. 3/

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 17

For the first time ever, Trump administration approved Ukraine arms packages under the new PURL program, Reuters.

Undersec. Elbridge Colby cleared up to two $500M shipments from U.S. stocks. Ukrainian allies pay, Ukraine gets kit. Target: up to $10B in allied-funded weapons. 1/

What’s in it: air-defense systems and other gear Ukraine asked for, as Russia ramps drone and missile strikes.

Trump frustrated by Moscow’s attacks despite talks, greenlit the PURL push. 2/

This is the 1st new weapons flow beyond Biden-era donations or direct sales.

Under PURL, NATO countries buy from U.S. stocks, Washington ships fast. 3X

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 17

Putin spent 250,000 soldiers’ lives, his best brigades and hundreds of billions to seize a few towns in Donbas - The Atlantic.

Now he faces a hostile Ukraine armed by the West, a wrecked economy and reliance on China. His war to restore power turned Russia into a graveyard. 1/

Whatever happens on the front, Ukraine remains an armed enemy on Russia’s border. Europe cut Gazprom, embargoed trade, and rearmed.

NATO grew to include Finland and Sweden. Putin sacrificed his soldiers so Europe could build air defenses. 2/

Russia’s army burned through its best cadres and equipment. Rebuilding will take years and billions.

By then, today’s drones and tactics will be outdated, leaving Moscow with fewer men, fewer machines, and nothing new to offer. 3/

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 17

That’s horrible to death. Two 13-year-old brothers weighing only 8.5 kg each were found bedridden in frontline Pokrovsk.

They survived over a year under the care of their 10-year-old brother, Platón, after their grandmother's death, Ukrainska Pravda reports. 1/

The boys have severe genetic condition lissencephaly type 1, causing neurological disorders, epilepsy, and protein-energy deficiency - they cannot move and need constant care. 2/

10-year-old Platón fed, watered, lifted his brothers, cleaned around them, and carried them to basement during shelling for over a year without adult supervision. 3/

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Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

Sep 17

Lavrov: The Americans came to understand that the people who, in protest against the oppressive Nazi regime, voted in referendums to join — to return to — the Russian Federation will never again live under the yoke of the current Kyiv authorities.

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Lavrov: The Russian army never targets civilian infrastructure or the population. For every accusation, we ask: where is the proof, where are the facts? As for fakes accusing our army of crimes, they later turned out to be committed by the Ukrainian regime. 2/

Lavrov: When blatant violations of international humanitarian law can’t be denied, the UN Secretariat timidly issues impersonal calls for restraint — to both sides. We saw the same reaction when it was clear how inhumanly the “Nazi formations” of Kyiv acted.

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