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neonpurplestar 🇺🇦 @neonpurplestar.bsky.social · 1h

u r the best beefy!

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 1h

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster · 1h

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster · 20h

101st brigade needs drones and OMG😱

Our amazing Norwegian friends decided to help us with the matching up to €1000🥹 Let’s go fellas👉👈

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neonpurplestar 🇺🇦 @neonpurplestar.bsky.social · 1h

seriously, he is really fucking good at countering all populist talking points

the rest of the world should learn from this

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Ames Wick Kitty Sniper @ameswick.bsky.social · 2h

We got no donations yesterday

Ames Wick Kitty Sniper @ameswick.bsky.social · 2h

The Siberian Battalion needs your help

Their vehicles—vital for transport, medevac & supplies—were badly damaged. Without repairs, their safety is at risk.

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£760 TO GO!
🅿️🅿️ [email protected]
Every pound gets them closer to the goal 💙💛#fiverfriday #NAFO

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D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @dradka.bsky.social · 2h

Fire at the Lukoil oil refinery in Kstovo - Russia.

Oh, smokers🧐🚬

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 2h

Russian regions have begun raising the transport tax

Governors of the Orenburg and Novosibirsk regions, as well as the Krasnoyarsk Territory, have submitted bills to regional parliaments to increase the transport tax.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 3h

Ukrainian sanctions are working.
The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Kstovo, 800 km from the Ukrainian border, was hit on October 16, 2025.

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neonpurplestar 🇺🇦 @neonpurplestar.bsky.social · 3h

we've reached a new stage in this war

> In Yakutia, due to a budget shortage, buses have been cancelled and food shortages have arisen.

archive.is/geuj0

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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 3h

🔥 Nizhny Novgorod is burning. A factory gone up in flames.

russia says “safe”
Ukraine says “watch closely”

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 3h

The Kremlin run authorities of St. Petersburg retroactively canceled the payment of 1.6 million rubles for participation in the special military operation for volunteers, writes Fontanka.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h

The number of Russian coal companies in the red zone of risk has increased to 53 from 30 in April, said deputy energy minister Islamov

The industry's consolidated losses for the first seven months of 2025 were twice as high as for the whole of last yr,amounting to 225 billion rubles(≈ $2.8 billion)

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 4h

Russian logistics companies and municipal public transport companies are incurring serious losses due to diesel price hikes and shortages in Russia. A must read on the worsening Russian fuel crisis.

logirus.ru/news/transpo...

Шоковая заправка: отмена скидок на топливо обернулась для перевозчиков миллионными убытками

Наиболее остро нехватка дизеля ощущается в Сибири, где с 21 сентября 2025 года у ряда АЗС горючего нет, а там, где есть, образовываются очереди

logirus.ru

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Inside Russia @milonews.bsky.social · 4h

Corruption concerns rise in St. Petersburg media following detentions of officials. Source: VChK-OGPU.

Valery Sosiev, facing legal troubles, has connections among the powerful in St. Petersburg, hinting at a tangled web of corruption that runs deep.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 5h

russian budget 2026

41 kopecks to cover defense
16 kopecks to cover debt service
11 kopecks to cover internal security

32 kopecks for everything else from schools to pensions

Btw this budget claims 4,5% inflation and 72USD oil barrel, so colored unicorn territory. #russiacollapsing

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neonpurplestar 🇺🇦 @neonpurplestar.bsky.social · 4h

it's not entirely meaningless

russians were jubilant about trump's stance, this could demoralise them

hard to say if this matters at all, but it's not zero

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 4h

In Bashkortostan's district of Baltachevsky there's already videos of long queues for gasoline as the new fuel arrived:

ufa1.ru/text/inciden...

t.me/bdtprb/83003

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 5h

In Ulyanovsk 60% of the gas stations are owned by the major chain and 40% by independent ones. The 40% and Lukoil are struggling with Lukoil often not having gasoline at its gas stations. Some independent ones have not had gasoline for weeks.

73online.ru/r/melkie_set...

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 6h

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 7h

🔴 Mayor of temporarily occupied Dniprorudne in Zaporizhzhia region Yevhen Matviyev has died from torture in Russian captivity, Ukrainian officials confirmed.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

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Kostiantyn Hoholenko @hoholenko.bsky.social · 5h

update 16.10.2025

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 6h

Hello on Thursday morning, 16 October 2025.

Russia is now going all out to make life unliveable for Ukraine's citizens, destroying all energy and heat infrastructure it can.

While Ukraine hits energy targets too, it's almost all to hit Russia's exports/finances.

Here's the🧵

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Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 9h

Change in fuel prices in Russian regions over the past 3 months, per Rosstat (data from @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social)

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 9h

ANOTHER DISASTER AT DOBROPYLIA: RUSSIA NEVER LEARNS

The battle began with another, this time quite large effort by the Russians, to breakthrough to their surrounded troops. I’m a little surprised they’re even bothered but they made an effort. At this stage in the war a force of 25 fast bikes, 6

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Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 WOW!!!! Fuel shortages and price hikes hit Russia’s premier producing oil region, Khanty-Mantsy Autonomous Okrug (XMAO).

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Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 9h

BRUTAL Rosstat data (which is always an underestimate) showing very high fuel price growth in Russia. Calc by evginy.

🔸 Ai-92
Week +0.9%
3 months +7.4%
Year +15.1%

🔹 Ai-95
Week +0.7%
3 months +6.7%
Year +13.6%

🔺 Diesel
Week +0.4%
3 months +2.5%
Year +9.2%

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