Illarion Pryanishnikov, "French retreat from Russia", 1874

>go to foreign country to participate in a war on the side of a criminal regime
>be warned a hundred times that foreign mercenaries should expect no mercy and russia will not consider them lawful combatants
>die
>post impotent threats to soldiers' families on twitter

Elections are off to an interesting start. There's actually a record attendance and physical lines to the polling stations in some places. Ukrainian cyber-terrorists are enticing retarded Darya Trepova types to commit vandalism that mostly involves pouring ink inside the ballot boxes. It doesn't actually change anything, other than the lives of the perpetrators. The elections site was down a couple of times already. It's certainly not boring as I thought it would be.

I'm gonna go vote in a few hours and report back to you. Tomorrow we will release a podcast on what's going on in uhh the new Davankov's Russia😂

In Moscow one dumb bitch poured zelenka inside the ballot box, shouted "Slava Ukraine" all the while talking to her Ukrainian handler on the phone. You can't make this shit up. Who's gonna tell them that 5k hryvnas is not that much money. Chances are, she's literally retarded and has no idea what she's doing.

Another woman with zelenka stopped at polling station, this time in Novosibirsk. Definitely, it's not their initiative, but an idiotic Ukrainian op.

Putin: "Friends *cough*, we will complete the denazification of the fraternal Ukrainian people!"

Kharitonov: "We will genocide Banderist scum like grandpa Stalin"

Slutsky: "As Zhirinovsky said, we will drown the Ukrainians in the Dnieper!"

Davankov: "Well, I'm a liberal, so let's destroy only half of the Ukraine, and the other half, well, lets fuck them. And here's a picture with a cat for you! "

One thing the Ukrainians are doing really, really well — much better than Russia — is the “hybrid warfare” thing. As we've mentioned before, there is a giant Ukrainian phone scam industry, mostly based in Dnepropetrovsk (although they might be operating from Poland by now, I'm not sure about that); whole call centers full of scammers who ring the elderly in Russia all day — you're aware of how it works, it's a problem everywhere. But the Ukrainians have achieved perfect integration of these call centers with their intelligence services, and use them to extort/blackmail people in Russia into committing various stupid and dangerous acts. Several of the instances of people sabotaging ballot boxes during the current election in Russia have been confirmed to be old people who fell victim to Ukrainian phone scams and were then told to do these things (pouring ink into ballot boxes, etc) to “get their money back”. I haven't heard about such things in a while, but they also used darknet drug forums to hire drug couriers for acts of sabotage (setting recruitment centers on fire, etc). This perfect vertical integration of criminal structures into the intelligence apparatus is, and I'm saying this without any sarcasm or irony, a very progressive approach to 5th generation warfare that, while limited in its effects, is extremely hard to protect against and ties up a lot of FSB/police resources.

Blue-Yellow hawk down.

Russian air defence took down a Ukrainian MI-24 helicopter trying to transport special forces unit onto the Russian territory.

A military base near Tiraspol in Transnistria was attacked with a suicide drone; the attack destroyed a helicopter. Initial reports state that the drone came from Odessa oblast.

Wagner personnel voting from the Central African Republic https://news.1rj.ru/str/VAGNER_svodki/299

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Meanwhile, the exit polls after 30% of ballots counted:

Putin - 87,68%
Slutsky - 3,01%
Davankov - 3,81%
Kharitonov - 3,95%

During the ongoing post-election conference president Putin for the first time mentioned Navalny's name and talks about his possible exchange days before his death.

Full quote:

“As for Mr. Navalny. Yes, he passed away, this is always a tragic event. We have had other cases where people died in prison, but hasn't this happened in the United States? It happened, and more than once,” the president said.

“A few days before Mr. Navalny left, some colleagues told me - not administration employees, some people - they said that there was an idea to exchange Mr. Navalny for some people who are in prison in Western countries. You may believe me, you may not. The person who spoke to me had not yet finished his sentence, and I said: “I agree.” But, unfortunately, what happened happened. Only on one condition, he said: “We will exchange him, so that he will not return, let him stay there. But this happens, nothing can be done about it,” said Vladimir Putin.

"Everything is possible in the modern world" - Putin on the possible sending of NATO troops to Ukraine

"There are military personnel from NATO countries in Ukraine and there is nothing good for them, they die there in large numbers"

”The conflict between the Russian Federation and NATO will lead to the fact that World War III is one step away" Putin said.

If the enemy likes the “meat grinder”, it’s even beneficial for us - Putin

German government does not recognize the results of Russian elections

A man was poked with a sabre in Moscow. He claims, they had a drunk duel with his friend *just for fun*. The doctors say that he will be alright.

Retvrn

During his visit to Ukraine, known lover of endless wars and young boys, homo hawk Lindsey Graham called for Ukrainians younger than 25 to be connoscripted.

“I hope that those who have the right to serve in the Ukrainian army will join. I can't believe it is now from 27 years old. You (Ukrainians - ed.) are fighting for your life, so you should serve. And not from 25 or 27 years old. We need more people in the ranks,” Graham said.

He also called for a destruction of a Crimean bridge.

While afraid of coming out of closet as a gay man, Graham is as usual ready to come out as a bloodthirsty maniac. So stunning and brave!

Since 1. French troops are already deployed to Ukraine (and have been killed in noticeable numbers, particularly with that one missile strike in Kharkov), 2. French special forces have been in Ukraine even before the beginning of the SMO, 3. a French presence on the ground would not have a game-changing military impact (they'd have to deploy their entire combat-ready Armed Forces to actually change the situation, and even then it's doubtful how much they could actually achieve), it has to be assumed that the only actual purpose of openly announcing and sending French troops in an official capacity is that the French government believes they can render certain areas or targets off limits for Russian advances and strikes because they assume the Russian government would be afraid to attack French troops. That is an interesting gamble. If they go for it, we'll see how it plays out...

Putin winning 87% of the vote triggers a few funny but incorrect conclusions. "The numbers are made up" - there was no significant voter fraud detected neither by liberal opposition nor by international observers. None of the people he was "competing" against were even known to a wider public. Yes, it was done on purpose and that would be a legitimate argument.

"The numbers are real and it proves that Russians are Z-ombified Putlerists". This is also wrong. The general attitude to Putin is not one of worship of the glorious leader. Far from it.

Most politically-involved people who vote Putin criticize him on daily basis. So much so that i expected them not to vote for him at all. Yet they still do. Why? As Putin put it himself, "i'm working like a slave on a galley". Presidential post is considered to be a horrible job that only a uniquely capable individual can handle

Ultimately, it's not about the political program or any major achievements, but "stability". Russians want politics to not interfere in their day to day life. They want all the news about the Ukrainian war and the Western economic/military onslaught to remain just that - news that you can easily turn off.

This is exactly the strategy that Putin and co are pursuing. They don't want Russians to care about poltics too much or at all and they do everything in their power to stop harsh reality from penetrating this protective shell. Personally, i don't like it and regard it as a kind of an unhealthy hibernation but it's clearly working in their favor so far.

TL;DR I believe that numbers are more or less real but it's not because people are praying to Putin

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