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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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Jul 15 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
🧵1/7 New Pantsir-S1 on a tower has been recently installed just 3.7 kilometers from Vladimir Putin's residence on Valdai Lake, according to updated Google Earth imagery dated May 6th, 2024. 57.979219, 33.302010 Image 2/7 A bigger picture: Image
Jun 18 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Together with @Mike_Eckel and @pustota, we took a deep dive into the deep blue: the history of the Barneo polar camp, which dates back to 1993 and reflects many events that have shaped Russia since then, from becoming a hybrid FSB-mafia state to starting a war in Ukraine. 🔽 Image This is a long read, so I’ll provide descriptions of its chapters in this thread, each accompanied by anchor links to the relevant parts of the text.
Jun 3 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
1/9 Quick🧵about the possible Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with Western rocket systems after the U.S. authorized Kyiv on May 31st to do so in order to prevent Russian strikes and assaults on Kharkiv Oblast 🔽. 2/9 Monday, June 3. Photos of the aftermath of the alleged HIMARS strike on a Russian S-300/400. They can be geolocated () 18 km north of Belgorod, more than 50 km from the border. No GMLRS rocket debris is shown, though. Date taken is unknown. t.me/DniproOfficial…
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May 27 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
1/3 Looking for the previously unknown Russian air defense positions in the Moscow plains when hearing the news about the yet another Ukrainian drone being shot down? Take your chances with the nearest garbage pile, and you won’t miss 😊
Image 2/3 This is not the first air defense position constructed above a pile of trash since the start of Russia's full-scale war with Ukraine.
May 24 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
1/5 Finally, the aftermath of the Ukrainian UAV strike on the Kushchyovskaya air base in Krasnodar Oblast, as seen in a HR @planet image from May 23rd. 1 Su-27 is destroyed. 1 Su-34 is also heavily damaged. The Su-30 near the destroyed Su-27 might be damaged as well. 2/5 Destroyed Su-27: @planet stills (May 5th/May23).


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May 22 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/2 Meanwhile, the draft of the law proposing to unilaterally change Russia's maritime borders in the Baltic Sea disappeared from the Russian government website.
Image 2/2 There's still an archived copy of the draft description under the same URL. archive.is/c8MKH
May 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Aftermath of the 2 Ukrainian strikes on Belbek airfield over 2 consecutive nights, as seen in a HR satellite image by @planet from May 16. At least several MiG-31s appear to be destroyed + a fuel depot (according to Wikimapia). Another scorch mark is visible at 44.6857, 33.5590. Reference image in the video above is taken on May 1st, several planes changed their position since then, several are not seen on May 16 image. Still @planet May 16 HR image: Image
May 7 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
🧵/ link in the last post. We found a TikTok videos posted by a Russian woman who identified the American serviceman Gordon Black as her “husband.” He adored Trump, called NATO 'aggressive', finally lost his love and went to Russia to get her back. What could have gone wrong?
We watched dozens of videos posted by Vladivostok native Aleksandra Vashchuk, including at least one showing Black in his U.S. Army fatigues. She refers to Black as “my pindos,” a Russian slur word for Americans.
Apr 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/4 Aftermath of the Ukrainian drone strike on the Rosneft oil depot in Razdorovo, Smolensk Oblast, on Apr. 24th, as seen in a @planet satellite image captured this morning, on April 27th.
2/4 Still @planet image: Image
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