A Few Stories on the Russian Economy

Let’s start the day with this. Ukraine hit this four days ago. The fire continues to spread. It’s the main storage facility in Feodosia, Crimea. It will make it harder for civilians and the Russian armed forces to get fuel. Given that the bridge has had issues let’s say this could be a problem:

The oil terminal in occupied Feodosia continues to burn for the fourth day. According to the OSINT community InformNapalm, this oil depot, due to its features, will burn until it burns out completely.

Let’s be brutally honest. The RUAF will get priority for any of this, assuming any remains. It will continue to complicate the army’s logistics, and that is a good thing.

Speaking of complications, this happened the other day. Does it seem that Russia is too dependent on things like Discord for command and control?

“Even the Ukrainians couldn’t do this.” Roskomnadzor banned a messenger that helped the Russian army control drones. War correspondents are in a panic, and soldiers are writing “For Discord” on missiles.

Roskomnadzor announced the blocking of the Discord platform in Russia “for violating legal requirements.” The decision caused a wave of indignation among Z-bloggers: Russian military personnel use Discord (right photo, circled in red). Someone even wrote “For discord” on a projectile (left photo).

This is the third episode since July that shows the high dependence of the Russian army on foreign devices and technologies: