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1/ As Russia prepares to celebrate Victory Day, its death toll from the ongoing war in Ukraine is so enormous that in parts of the country it is approaching or exceeding the number of casualties sustained in World War II. Vast memorials are being installed across the country. ⬇️
2/ In Naberezhnye Chelny, a recently inaugurated memorial (video above) commemorates the dead of four wars. A single column contains 67 names of those who died in Afghanistan and Chechnya. 800 more names are listed for Ukraine, covering 16 columns.
3/ Another memorial in Kyzyl, the capital of the republic of Tuva, lists 1,332 of the 1,700 residents who are known to have died in the war. Tuva, like other Russian ethnic republics, has suffered a disproportionate number of casualties. Image
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4/ Orekhovo-Zuyevo in the Moscow region inaugurated a memorial in September 2025 listing 210 casualties. By comparison, 15 residents of the town died during the ten-year war in Afghanistan, and another 20 during the Chechen campaigns. Space is provided for a further 160 names. Image
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5/ No region of the country has sustained more casualties than Bashkortostan. A memorial inaugurated in Birsk in the summer of 2025 lists 188 fallen in Ukraine, against 3 for Afghanistan and 4 for Chechnya. Space for another 140 names is provided on additional steles. Image
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6/ In some places, casualties are approaching or have already exceeded those sustained in World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War), previously Russia's bloodiest conflict.
7/ A memorial in the village of Bredy in the Chelyabinsk region lists 15 graduates of the local school who died in the war in Ukraine, against 14 who were killed in World War II. Image
8/ Meanwhile, in the Chuna district of the Irkutsk region, casualties have already reached two-thirds of those who died in World War II. A war memorial in the village of Chuna lists 320 dead in World War II, and was recently updated to list 215 dead in Ukraine. Image
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9/ This amounts to 3.2% of all able-bodied men in the district aged between 18-65, or one in 31. The figure is much higher in some localities. In the Dzhidinsky district of Buryatia, 6% of all men aged 18 to 65 have died in the current war. /end
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1/ Ahead of Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, Russian nationalists are engaged in their traditional pastime of rewriting history to erase the Hitler-Stalin alliance. It was all the fault of the "main bastards", the perfidious British, according to one warblogger. ⬇️ Image
2/ 'Historian' Maxim Ravreba asks on his eponymous Telegram channel, "Who started World War II?", and turns to that well-known impartial source, Adolf Hitler, for the answer:
3/ "A few days before the German-Polish war, I proposed a solution to the British ambassador in Berlin—one under international control. It was rejected because influential British politicians wanted war."
– Adolf Hitler. Political Testament. 29 April 1945.
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1/ One indication of the increasing sense of a fin de régime in Russia is that Russian warbloggers are becoming steadily bolder in being critical of, or even abusive towards, Putin himself – previously a bright red line. One commentator lambasts him as a "bunker granny". ⬇️ AI-generated image of Vladimir Putin as a Russian babushka
2/ Comparing him to an old woman in a so-called frontline 'granny village', who shelters in her basement as the village is destroyed around her, 'Bomber Harris did nothing wrong' is brutally critical of Putin:
3/ "Regarding the threats to organize a Brown Line for encroaching on the parade from our talking heads and the bunker granny.
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1/ As Victory Day approaches in Russia, warbloggers are increasingly despondent and predict the fall of the regime in the face of drone attacks and social and economic problems. They perceive a rapid worsening of the situation and a sense that 'things can't go on like this.' ⬇️ Image
2/ Alex Kartavykh responds scornfully to a government statement, declaring:

"[The government is] noticing a noticeable shift in public sentiment here. And I'll also note for the record. My audience is slowly going nuts."
3/ "Everyone's going nuts and getting embittered, too; only a fool lacking empathy doesn't feel it. There's a fucking strong demand for radicalism. For someone to explain who the biggest asshole is and whose face needs to be punched.
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1/ The paranoia of the Russian authorities is killing vital hypersonic missile research, say Russian warbloggers following the conviction of two researchers for publishing a paper on air intake design. As a result, they say, practically nobody now wants to work on hypersonics. ⬇️ Image
2/ Two physicists have been convicted of treason and sentenced to 12½ years in a maximum-security penal colony. The two men – senior researcher Valery Zvegintsev and associate professor Vladislav Galkin – are the latest in a series of scientists to be jailed in the last 2 years. Image
3/ Given their ages and poor health – Zvegintsev is 82 and Galkin is 71 – supporters say that their prison terms are effectively death sentences.
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May 7
1/ Independent drone development in Russia is being crushed by the heavy hand of the state, according to Russian warbloggers. They say that large corporations have captured the military procurement system, effectively locking out independent developers. ⬇️ Image
2/ The 'Forge of Mordor' Telegram channel asks why Ukraine is innovating faster than Russia, and points to the problems being caused by the Russian state's military procurement system:
3/ "Let's talk about the technical side of the issue.

Several years ago, at the Crocus exhibition organized by Slutsky (from the Liberal Democratic Party), I asked electronic warfare manufacturers at the plenary session:
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1/ The appointment of Colonel General Alexander Chaiko as the new head of Russia's Aerospace Forces is being criticised by Russian warbloggers, who point to his failure to take Kyiv in February-March 2022. It's being called a reward for incompetence. ⬇️
2/ 'Imperium Z' is harshly critical of Chaiko's record, with an only slightly veiled criticism of Putin as well:

"As we've written repeatedly, personnel issues are the main problem facing the current government in general and the president in particular."
3/ "Every appointment represents another descent down the ladder of qualifications and competencies, into the basement of nepotism, loyalty, and the convenience of superiors.
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