moscow

Here’s what we’re reading today:

#Putin demanded #Ukraine leave swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which #Russia never fully seized, in exchange for pockets of Sumy and Kharkiv.

#Moscow wants sanctions eased, recognition of Crimea as Russian, Ukraine’s #NATO bid dropped.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/outline-emerges-putins-offer-end-his-war-ukraine-2025-08-17/

🗓 On September 24, 1896, the #French writer Elsa Triolet was born in #Moscow. Elsa Triolet was a French writer, the wife of the poet Louis Aragon and the younger sister of Vladimir Mayakovsky's muse Lily Brik. Her real name was Ella Yuryevna Kagan, and she...

https://t.me/fr0m_Russia_with_L0ve/62995

Every sixth oil tanker in the world is part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” according to the New York Times, citing S&P Global. To bypass #sanctions, #Moscow has assembled a “shadow fleet” that now accounts for 17% of all tankers worldwide — nearly 1,000 vesse...

https://t.me/translatedrussiannews/37554

Big boom

"State of Emergency Declared as Huge #Explosion Rocks #Russia’s Vladimir Region"

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/22/state-of-emergency-declared-as-huge-explosion-rocks-russias-vladimir-region-a88833

Vladimir Oblast is directly east of #Moscow

Lots of chatter as to cause (you can discard anything the #Russian govt says about it, or anything else really)

It was a very large explosion, probably larger than the 2020 Beirut Explosion

The depot was one of the largest warehouses in the Russian Federation: guided bombs, artillery shells, missiles, etc

All go boom

🥳

#UkraineWar

Here’s what we’re reading today:

After Russia’s 2022 invasion of #Ukraine, satellite images revealed unusual activity at a former Cold #War #bioweapons site near #Moscow.

Satellite images showed renovations and new buildings, possibly high-containment bio-labs.

#Russia denies this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2024/russia-biological-chemical-weapons-laboratory-expansion/

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

#Zelenskyy said a deal with #Russia is pointless w/o #security #guarantees.

Here’s why: #Kyiv made this mistake before.

#Moscow broke ceasefire after #Minsk agreements. International lawyer Oleksandr watched it all unfold.

"#Russia's 'anti-#woke #visa' woos #Western #expatriates

#Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes #conservative migrants who are against #LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for #propaganda"

We can have a lot of different reactions to this

Mine is very simple:

Go

Bon voyage

Have a nice trip assholes. Enjoy the sinking ship under #Putin's #ethnofascist #imperialist government

Bye, Felicia

https://www.dw.com/en/russias-anti-woke-visa-woos-western-expatriates/a-73214511