🇷🇺💥The Art of Drone Warfare – Lessons From Russia’s Most Feared UAV Operator

Sputnik spoke to "Moisey" – a legendary drone commander and two-time 'Order of Courage' recepient - about his battle-tested tactics, close calls, and the future of drone warfare.🧵👇 Why Drones?

Moisey explains why he chose UAV warfare—where precision meets lethality.

2/15

🔥 Lindsey Graham wants WAR WITH RUSSIA over Ukraine, can MAGA stop him? ​

Less than 24 hours after Graham’s surprise Kiev trip, Ukraine launched a massive strike on Russia’s strategic aviation.

🧵Trump’s anti-war allies are furious👇🏻 ⚖️JAIL HIM

One of two things should happen to Graham, says ex-WH chief strategist Steve Bannon:

“Either cancel his passport and don’t let him back in the country or put him in jail if he comes back…People better wake up to the fact that we’re getting sucked into this war.”

2/6

🚨BITCOIN'S DAYS NUMBERED? BLACKROCK MUST KNOW SOMETHING

After months of nonstop buying, BlackRock's IBIT has seen a shocking $430M bitcoin outflow.

🧵Coincidence? Maybe not. Maybe quantum computing just crashed BTC’s party👇🏻 😱WALL STREET IN PANIC MODE?

Bitcoin ETFs hit largest outflows since February on May 30.

Funds posted $616.22M outflows led by BlackRock and Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), per CNBC.

BTC price slid to $105K after hitting $112K just a week earlier.

2/7

🚨RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS, ROUND 2: KIEV’S MEMORANDUM IS ULTIMATUM DRESSED AS DIPLOMACY

Round two in Istanbul ended with no big breakthroughs.

Let’s unpack what just happened. 🧵👇🏻 🇷🇺RUSSIA DOESN’T RESPOND WELL TO ULTIMATUMS

Ukraine’s memorandum of demands was really an “unacceptable ultimatum to Russia,” effectively demanding capitulation, SVR Lt. Gen. (ret) Leonid Reshetnikov says.

Translation? Resolving the crisis anytime soon seems “illusory.”

2/9

🚨SECOND ROUND OF RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS IN ISTANBUL

Russia and Ukraine will hold a second round of direct talks in Istanbul today. The talks are expected to begin at 10:00 GMT at Ciragan Palace.

Here's what you need to know: 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1923373562934534337

🇷🇺Russia’s delegation remains unchanged from the first round:

👤Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky

👤Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin

👤Chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Intelligence Directorate Igor Kostyukov

👤Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin

2/5

🚨EXPOSED: CANADIAN NGOS PUSHED UKRAINE TO SEIZE RUSSIAN TERRITORY

For decades, Canadian organizations have been whispering in Ukraine’s ear, pushing dangerous ideas about seizing Russian land.

Here’s how they did it:

🧵 🔎SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE?

The Canadian-Ukrainian Center in Donetsk (1994) housed 10,000 books with alternate accounts of history.

The center was backed by the Toronto-based Canadian Friends of Ukraine NGO.

2/7

🚨🇷🇺😱 ZELENSKY'S ARMY CRIES FOR HELP AS RUSSIA ADVANCES IN SUMY REGION

On President's orders, the Russian army push through with a buffer zone.

And Zelensky's thugs are complaining about their fate online:

🧵 🔥 'THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL'

"The front is rapidly moving towards the city [of Sumy]. At this rate, on June 1, or in two days, the enemy will reach the city with artillery fire."

Here's how Ukrainians are describing Russia's advance

2/5

🚨🇷🇺👊 RUSSIA'S SUMY OPERATION

Russia's army is pushing through Ukraine’s Sumy region, seeking to:

▪️Create a long-anticipated buffer zone

▪️Axe Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian civilians

🧵

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1927728490381549890

🪖FULL-THROTTLE OFFENSIVE

On May 28, Russian forces took Konstantinovka in the Sumy region after seizing Belovody and Vladimirovka.

Surrendered Ukrainian troops in Belovody handed over unloaded CZ Bren 2 rifles to Russia’s 83rd Air Assault Brigade.

2/10

🚨🇷🇺🪖WHY IS KALASHNIKOV’S RPL-20 A GAME-CHANGER FOR RUSSIAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE?

This first-ever belt-fed machine gun flips the script on Western-supplied arms in the Ukraine conflict zone – here’s how:

🧵 🔥LIGHT AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL

It weighs just 5.5 kg — perfect for assault ops, especially in urban combat

Designed to take on enemy personnel, firepower, and light vehicles

2/7

🚨 Trump’s recent aggressive pivot on Russia-Ukraine didn’t happen overnight.

Neocons such as Lindsey Graham and Keith Kellog have spent months trying to push Trump to sacrifice his presidency for Ukraine.

Here’s what you need to know 🧵

1/10 📢NEOCON NONSENSE

Graham, who previously threatened “bone-crushing” sanctions against Moscow, has now dubbed Russia a “pariah state” and hinted the need for regime change in the wake of this week’s escalation in Ukraine.

2/10

🚨🇨🇳FOR 500 YEARS, THE WEST WROTE THE RULES OF GLOBAL TRADE. NOW, ASIA IS REWRITING THEM.

A powerful new alliance is forming - connecting China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East through historic trade routes that predate colonialism.

Pepe Escobar break its down 🧵👇 🌏Asia's Forgotten Golden Age

Before Columbus, the world's richest trade network stretched from Arabia to Japan. Merchants paid fair taxes in thriving ports like Malacca - until Portugal invaded in 1511, beginning 500 years of Western exploitation.

2/9

🚨🇷🇺🔥Don't say Putin didn't warn you!

For two years, Putin said: if strikes against Russia won't stop, we will create a BUFFER ZONE in Ukraine.

Here's the full timeline — save it, share it, throw it in NATO’s face:🧵 1️⃣ June 13, 2023

First warning: If shelling continues, we’ll create a sanitary zone to keep Ukrainian rockets out of Russian cities.

📍Meeting with war correspondents

🚨🇷🇺💥IF THEY STRIKE WITH TAURUS — RUSSIA'S NEXT TARGET WILL BE 🇩🇪GERMAN MILITARY FACILITY: EXPERT

Russia’s task is to “retaliate with 2 Oreshnik complexes, says military analyst Igor Korotchenko.

Details in 🧵 GERMANY WANTS WAR WITH RUSSIA? 💥

Ukraine does NOT have the tech capabilities to operate Taurus missiles alone.

Without German specialists on the ground, these missiles are useless.

This means Bundeswehr soldiers would be DIRECTLY fighting against Russia.

2/6

🚨FRAUD, BRIBES AND NEPOTISM: EU LEADERSHIP RUNS WILD

Corruption has become the new normal in Brussels.

Eurocrats dodge accountability while the public shrugs — because everyone knows they almost always get away with it.

🧵1/7 PFIZERGATE: THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD

The EU General Court ruled the Commission was wrong to block access to von der Leyen’s secret texts on the shady $40B Pfizer deal.

Will the public ever see them? “Almost certainly not,” say journalists. No transparency at the top.

2/7

🚨TRUMP KEPT IN THE DARK ON UKRAINE’S ATTACK NEAR PUTIN’S HELICOPTER: LARRY JOHNSON

Russia’s military says its recent massive missile and drone barrage was a response to Ukrainian provocations.

Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson explains why Trump should listen.

🧵 🪖 CONTEXT ADDED BY RUSSIAN MOD

Trump, for example, wasn’t informed Putin’s helicopter was at the epicenter of a Ukrainian drone attack in Kursk region, or “the fact that there had been between 700 and 1,100 drone attacks since May 19 into Russia proper,” Johnson said.

2/5

🇨🇳🇺🇸 CHINA JUST CRACKED TRUMP’S GOLDEN DOME

Trump’s new missile defense shield could cost taxpayers up to $831B.

Too bad it won't work against China's new 'super-duper' stealth tech.

🧵 STEALTH WORKAROUND 💥

Scientists at China’s Zhejiang University have created a composite, multi-layered, heat-absorbing stealth material they say can evade detection by infrared and microwave systems at long ranges.

The best part? It operates at temperatures up to 700 °C.

2/8

🚨🇷🇺💥 Russia’s massive strikes in Ukraine: why now?

Ukraine chose air terrorism — so Russia chose PRECISION strikes against their military installations.

Here’s why Zelensky’s terrorist state earned EVERY hit it took:

🧵 2/9 TERROR & SABOTAGE 🔥

Ukraine is a TERRORIST state — because sabotage operations have always been a strong suit of Ukrainian nationalists, says military analyst Igor Korotchenko.

They're trying to intimidate the Russian population with recent aerial strikes. 👇

🚨🇷🇺💥RUSSIA UNLEASHES DEVASTATING RESPONSE TO UKRAINE'S DRONE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS

🪖Here’s what military targets Russia PUMMELED in its latest air strikes across Ukraine (based on MoD report):

🧵 🔹May 20

• Ozernoye airfield (Zhitomir) – infrastructure hit
• Ammo & fuel depots in Dnepropetrovsk region

Video source: social media

🚨🇷🇺💥 Russian missiles keep overwhelming NATO-sourced air defenses in Ukraine - and the latest strikes prove it.

The enemy can do nothing but watch Iskander missiles fly, fully aware that their targets are doomed, Rostec says.

Here's why:🧵 💥UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

Iskanders fly along unpredictable trajectories at tremendous speeds (up to Mach 7).

Their G-load during maneuver significantly exceeds what most NATO anti-aircraft missiles can withstand, Rostec says.

Translation = the missiles are nearly unstoppable.

2/10

🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA EXPOSED UKRAINE’S SECRET MERCENARY PIPELINE!

Ukraine’s embassies are actively recruiting hired guns —and Russia's got the receipts.

70+ countries. 3,300+ hired guns.

🧵This is how Ukraine’s “international legion” works: 👉RECRUITED BY DIPLOMATS

Through its embassies abroad, Ukraine recruits mercs, said the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

Here's a pic showing a recruitment announcement at the Ukrainian Embassy in Chile.

2/7

🧵THREAD: Western sanctions BACKFIRED & made Russia's IT sector stronger

They thought cutting off Russia’s tech would CRIPPLE innovation.

🇷🇺Pavel Velikhov, Engineering Manager at Yandex, lists 5 ways in which sanctions forced Russia’s IT boom.

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1925252545380823532

1️⃣ WESTERN EXODUS = RUSSIAN GOLD RUSH

"Sanctions freed up $74B in market share. Giants like Yandex, T-Bank & Wildberries took over overnight."

When US/EU firms abandoned clients—some even left systems unusable—Russian devs stepped in. Overnight demand.