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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Views of my own. RT = interesting. Read the whole threads before replying. Email krotovm@rferl.org for inquiries.
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Apr 11 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Remember this guy? Artem Uss, son of a high-ranked Russian official, accused of smuggling military technology used in the invasion of Ukraine was facing extradition to the US – until he was sprung from house arrest and spirited back to Moscow in a successful escape plot. Image Using materials provided by the Italian police and evidence filed by US prosecutors, my colleagues @mike_eckel and @maja_zivanovic reconstructed how Uss fled a gated community in suburban Milan, crossed three borders, and ended up flying home to Russia from Belgrade. Image
Apr 5 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵'Go and have a blast. Tear out the gold teeth from corpses, loot and bring home whatever you want'. Together with @pustota, we found out that Dmitry Karavaichik, the 'Russian Walter White,' recently visited a prison to agitate convicts to sign contracts with the Russian MoD.
Image In 2017, Karavaichik and his wife were sentenced to 17 and 16 years in prison, respectively, for producing and selling methamphetamine. Image
Mar 23 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1/2 Together with @Maja_Zivanovic we found and old VK account of Muhammad Faizov, one of the alleged perpetrators of Moscow attack. Nothing points to any Ukraine connections, while lots of photos hint that he took part in the assault for a reason. archive.is/ufCd8

Image 2/2 This photo was taken in Moscow near yet another large concert hall, Moscow House of Music (), and posted by Faizov back in 2016. For more details read here: maps.app.goo.gl/JrTKuacQ2sPo4p…
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Mar 6 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵The head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine, Natalia Humenyuk, tells @rferl’s @donbassrealii that the Russian strike at the Odesa port is 'not connected' to the visit of the Greek PM Mitsotakis @kmitsotakis youtube.com/live/KB7zxpYM6…
Image I won't post details here, but contrary to what @protothema reported about the Russian strike occurring '150m' from Zelensky and Mitsotakis, the only available photo of the strike can be geolocated as far as 3 km from the place Zelensky and Mitsotakis visited at the port.
Feb 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/4 The initial sources reporting Kuzminov's death—primarily pro-Russian murky channels and websites—were unreliable. In Spain there were only reports of the murder of a 'Ukrainian nstional' of the different age (33, Kuzminov was 28), 5 days ago. However... 2/4 ...my colleagues from Systema, @RFERL's investigative unit, have just received an official response from the Spanish police ⬇️
Feb 12 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
🧵/ link in the last post. We decided to take a close look at the alleged Putin's yacht, Scheherazade, in the port of Carrara. Literally close. We hired a boat from the same marina. What happened next included drone wars, fire drills, and dealing with the police (successfully). The Scheherazade was impounded by Italy shortly after the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine broke out, and it has been sitting in Carrara since then. Image
Nov 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🧵/ link in the last post. Have you ever wondered why Russian artillery systems are named after flowers? Here’s the 2S3 'Akatsiya' ('Akacia') self-propelled gun after what is claimed to be a Chinese-made munition explosion inside the barrel. Image Important notice: the claim concerning a Chinese shell remains unconfirmed and originates from a sole source – Rafkat Abdullin, a Russian soldier from the 136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. He was the driver of this 'Akatsiya' and lost his leg after the explosion. Image
Nov 7, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
🧵First, he built a bridge to Crimea. The war broke out and it turned out to be quite vulnerable. Now, one of his companies is constructing a railway line from Crimea to Russia, as an alternative route. You know the guy: Arkady Rotenberg, one of Putin's closest friends. ⬇️ Image A month ago, it was revealed that Russia is building the new railway line from Donetsk to Mariupol. It was thought that the goal is just to secure the supply line of the southern front.
Oct 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Quick 🧵I was looking for evidence of the first claimed ATACMS strike in occupied Crimea but couldn't find any. However, what I did find were three recently constructed positions for Russian air defense systems near Chernomorske, seen on @planet satellite images. The first one, 'northern' (45.468380, 32.726560), was constructed between September 1 and 3. Image
Oct 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵The full version of the Berdyansk airbase explosions video after the Ukrainian ATACMS attack is not only interesting for what is seen in it, but for what is heard as well. Here's nearly the whole script ⬇️ ‘B**ch, these was zero alert.’
‘Today the FSB guys (‘фЭбэры’) told something happened at night.’ - ‘To ‘tell’ is one thing… They want me to be wounded by a shrapnel instantly...’
‘Asoshky (ASO flare dispensers) are joining’ – ‘Fuel tanks as well.’
Oct 4, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
🧵/ link in the last post. Together with @pustota we found out that the company which is building the new railway line between Donetsk and Mariupol participated in the project of using the convicts to build BAM-2, the expansion project of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Image A glamorous, recently renovated railway station in the posh Moscow suburb. Mariupol railway station, destroyed during the Russian siege of the city. What’s in common? The first one was built by the same company which constructs a new railway line between Donetsk and Mariupol. Image
Oct 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Выступление Симоньян по поводу термоядерного взрыва над Сибирью всколыхнуло воспоминания об одном интервью, которое мы с @pustota брали в июне этого года у бывшего депутата Госдумы Максима Шингаркина. Небольшой тред⬇️ Image Нам передали, что Шингаркин, служивший 12-м Главном управлении Министерства обороны (отвечает за тактическое ядерное оружие), готов что-то рассказать о том, как его и других оставных офицеров тягали в Кремль, где якобы требовали неформальной поддержки использования ТЯО в Украине. Image
Sep 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Reportedly, Russian 'Ural Airlines' is preparing the RA-73805 Airbus A320, which landed in a field near Novosibirsk on Sep. 12, for takeoff once the soil has frozen sufficiently. Here is what the landing site looks like in a satellite image captured by @planet on September 15th
Image For those interested, here are the coordinates: 55.236500, 79.758280. Reports about the planned flyback originate from a local planespotter who visited the site and witnessed some conservation works being done around the aircraft (source: ) vn.ru/news-sevshiy-v…

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Sep 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵/ link in the last tweet. It looks like Ukraine has finally hit the S-400 positions, which were revealed earlier last year by tourists taking photos near the beach close to the city of Yevpatoria. Images by @planet, taken today VS Aug. 28.
Despite being revealed by that lazy tourist, this AD base was kept near the village of Molochne and even enhanced. Now they have two locations: the main one on the left and, allegedly, a spare one on the right. Image
Sep 11, 2023 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
🧵/ link in the last tweet. During the two raids on the gas rig(s) in the Black Sea, Ukrainian SOF may have captured one of the components of the Russian R-330M1P 'Diabazol' automated jamming complex. Image This is the screengrab from the @DI_Ukraine video of the raid, which was made public today. The consignee of the box is Unit 60135, which is the 475th Separate Electronic Warfare Center in Sevastopol. Image
Aug 25, 2023 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
🧵This is an excellent example of a fake news (no personal offence to @ChrisO_wiki, just an example!). I'll explain why ⬇️ The source article is a pure clickbait, typical for Russian regional media, always lacking funds. It literally says 'wanna know what will happen to this cemetery? Click here!' 63.ru/text/gorod/202…
Aug 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
A few notes: 1) Second Prigozhin's plane (RA-02748) was bound from St. Pete to Moscow (not vice versa like RA-02795, which crashed). 2) This second plane strangely stopped transmitting any open data almost an hour ago after flying a weird path near Moscow.
Image So, the second plane (RA-02748) reportedly landed safely in Ostafyevo airport near Moscow. What's interesting is that earlier today it flew from Moscow to St. Petersburg. If Prigozhin was back from Africa today, the real question is whether he arrived to St. Pete or to Moscow. Image
Aug 9, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
'Piro-Ross' company, the owner of the warehouse that exploded near Moscow, produces professional fireworks and launchers for 105mm, 125mm, 195mm, & 310mm shells (). The shells found at the explosion site don't necessarily have to be related to the military. https://t.co/2FzdTPGx6G https://t.co/hhSOwnshPbpiro.piro-ross.ru/catalog/startd…

Image Head of the 'Piro-Ross' detained for interrogation (). His company has dozens of large scale fireworks shows in its profile, including those attended personally by Vladimir Putin and some for Russian navy too. https://t.co/eHwGVpvMz9t.me/breakingmash/4…

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Jul 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Russian Telegram channels spread what they say is German AfD party 'social advertising', mocking the govt support for Ukraine. The problem is that Russian professional film actors are filmed in it, like this guy, Igor Alexeev () https://t.co/MInrzlhvPH https://t.co/DMYiIlszoLarchive.is/4Qpfu

Image The main role of the woman who confiscates all the property from the ordinary German family in favor of Vladimir Zelensky is plaid by Russian actress Julia Mandriko () https://t.co/5xHOQXP5Dupcnika.ru/actor/3017
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Jul 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Aftermath of the alleged Ukrainian Storm Shadow strike on July 24th at the Vesele airbase of Russian forces in Crimea, as seen on the @planet LR satellite image taken on July 25th, with the reference image captured on July 23rd. https://t.co/omvAIS5dDO
The impact site is exactly the one that was going through the phase of recommissioning back in November 2022.
Jul 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Quick🧵There's actually a change on the ZNPP satellite imagery taken on July 5th and published by @planet: new objects appeared on the 4th power unit's roof since July 3rd. https://t.co/qCH0WlSsAh
No such objects can be spotted on any imagery since the start of the war and even earlier. Roof of the power units III and IV are exactly the ones allegedly mined by Russians, according to UA General Stuff. t.me/GeneralStaffZS…