Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

Z-blogger Ivan Otrakovsky: "Drones now cause 70% of enemy wounds, per Russian medics. Without air support and effective EW, our guys die. The Kremlin claims all’s fine, but the front says otherwise."

How Putin’s trolls farms breed army behind 161,000 war crimes in Ukraine

For the price of a monthly gas bill, Russia runs a reality-warping machine that breeds killers at home before topping Billboard charts and Musk’s Twitter feed.

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Russia pours $1.4 billion into reality distortion

“We will kill as many of you as we have to. We will kill 1 million or 5 million. We can exterminate all of you until you understand that you’re possessed and you have to be cured,” declared Pavel Gubarev, a former head of the puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic,” in 2023.

This psychological transformation — from ordinary citizen to war crime apologist — stems from a savvy propaganda ecosystem the Kremlin’s 2025 draft budget poured $1.4 billion into— a 13% increase from last year. In comparison, in January 2025, Moscow harvested the same profit from its gas exports in just a month.

Moscow also allocated 7 billion rubles ($72 million) for propaganda in Ukraine’s occupied territories, home to nearly 5 million people