Sergey Prokhorov

@shustry I studied chemisrry of explosives at my Moscow university and we had an industrial practice work at explosives and ammo factory in Nizhny Novgorod. At least back in ~2008 it worked more or less the same there: lots of manual labour, explosives in a paper sacks and manual scales..

The most ironic thing about this whole Rheinmetall story is that, when the CEO invited me to see some *real* innovation at his newest weapons factory, this is what they showed me:

Troyan horse of EU

@durov The ONLY country tjat persecutes social networks? 🤣🤣🤣 Just tell me how did you end up selling your share in VK to russian kremlin oligarch and ran away from russia couple days after? Also, which country tried to block Telegram in 2018 (besides Iran)?

French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

Discussed further defense cooperation with Sweden’s Minister of Defence @PlJonson. Sweden is preparing one of its largest security assistance packages for Ukraine — including air defense and Saab radars. Discussing Brave–Sweden to advance joint defense innovation and production. Grateful for Sweden’s support.

The 1941-1945 Nazi-Soviet war on the Eastern Front of WWII lasted 1,418 days. Today is day 1,419 of Russia’s full-scale war. 1,2 million soldiers lost. Zero strategic goals achieved. This war is neither great nor patriotic — it is an embarrassment and a failure for Moscow.

Imagine, US performs a real "special military operation", hijacking your long-term ally Venezuela and then seizing 2 of your shadow fleet oil tankers. And as a "response" to this global humiliation you... launch a intercontinental missile at Ukraine's Lviv. Retard level 146%.

Desperate by no success on the battlefield, russia continues to terrorize Ukraine's civilians by just randomly bombing cities with drones and missiles right now. EU should: 1. Finance ukrainian army 2. More air-defence 3. Sancrion russian oil and gas (Hungary, shadow fleet)

@petrkuzmin У меня похожая ситуация была в 2018м кажется, когда в РФ блокировали Телеграм, я поднимал прокси, а в итоге туда набежали Иранцы. Какое-то время их поддерживал, но это дорого и там их регулярно блокировал DPI, так что пришлось свернуть

О VPN и Иране. Один из парней, выходящий с антивоенным протестом каждую неделю в центр Мельбурна, сам написал ВПН клиент и вот уже больше года развивает: fptn.org (расшифровывается как Fuck Putin). ВПН полностью бесплатный. Он сам арендует сервера по миру, придумывает более надёжные способы обхода блокировок, мониторит канал поддержки в телеграме. И регулярно рассказывает о новостях проекта. Примерно полгода назад случился большой скачок в пользователях. Каким-то образом его ВПН попался на радары в Иране и они начали подключаться и рекламировать. А в конце октября один из главных телекомов таргетированно заблокировал доступ к его ВПН. А вот сейчас, когда в Иране идут протесты, у него появилась возможность узнавать новости прямо с мест через свой канал поддержки в телеграме. Горжусь за него и радуюсь успехам его проекта. P.S. Советую попробовать бесплатный ВПН fptn.org. Я сам пользуюсь.

No-one will take seriously a weak and divided Europe: neither enemy nor ally. It is already clear now. We must finally believe in our own strength, we must continue to arm ourselves, we must stay united like never before. One for all, and all for one. Otherwise, we are finished.

Another russian terror attack. Russia must be stopped. It won't stop unless we stop it.

@kmmbvnr Донецк скорее всего

On “negotiations.” It is important to finally call things by their proper names. What russia calls a “peace process” is in fact a separate special operation against the West. Its goal is not to end the war, but to force the United States and Europe to pressure Ukraine, while russia continues fighting and preparing for a new phase. russia has never conducted negotiations as a means of achieving peace. Not in 2014, not in Minsk, not in Istanbul. In every case, “negotiations” were either a way to buy time, a way to legalize what had been seized, or a way to shift responsibility away from itself. For the kremlin, negotiations are not an alternative to war, but another tool of it. And this is not a “putin invention.” russia’s imperial logic has been documented since the 18th century. The so-called “Testament of Peter I” — a programmatic text of russian expansion — explicitly defined war as the only normal state of the empire. It clearly states: keep the population in a state of continuous war, allow rest only to rebuild the army and finances, use peace to prepare for war, and war to impose peace on one’s own terms. Poland is addressed as a separate point in this “testament.” Not as a neighbor or partner, but as a state that must be systematically undermined from within. To support constant unrest, bribe elites, influence elections, introduce troops “temporarily,” and, when conditions allow, leave them there permanently. If other European states interfere, they are to be appeased by partially dismembering Poland — only to reclaim those concessions later. This is not metaphor or interpretation; it is a direct imperial instruction. Thus, from the standpoint of russian imperial doctrine, Poland was never regarded as a sovereign state. It was seen as a space for manipulation, division, and control. That is why today’s kremlin hostility toward Poland — threats, information attacks, and talk of a “Polish threat” — is not emotional or reactive to modern Polish policy. It is a continuation of the same logic. It is also telling that specific points of this “testament” directly concern Northern Europe and the Baltic region. russia was instructed to systematically provoke Sweden, push it toward war in order to obtain a formal pretext for territorial seizures. The Baltic direction was defined as strategic: access to the Baltic Sea not as defense, but as a mandatory condition for imperial growth. Peace in this region was viewed exclusively as a pause between wars. The Baltic states and Sweden were never neutral in russian imperial thinking. They were always spaces of future pressure or war. That is why today’s russian military activity in the Baltic Sea, threats toward the Baltic states, and demonstrative actions near Sweden and Finland are not a “reaction to NATO,” but the continuation of a centuries-old behavioral model. Germany was also explicitly named in the “testament” as a key object of constant interference — as the closest and most important state in Europe. The logic was simple: prevent Germany from becoming an independent center of power, constantly draw it into Europe’s internal conflicts, manipulate elites, and use economic and political ties for control. Today this logic remains unchanged: reliance on dependency, fear of escalation, “special relationships,” and the desire to preserve comfort at any cost. For the kremlin, a weak, hesitant Germany is strategically more valuable than any tank. The only thing putin has effectively changed in this old “testament” is that he has clearly designated the United Kingdom as his strategic enemy. Where continental Europe was once the main object of imperial maneuvering, today London has become, in russian rhetoric and actions, the symbol of a force the kremlin considers fundamentally hostile — because of its support for Ukraine, its role in European security, and its refusal to trade peace for other people’s territories. That is why russia is waging a separate hybrid war against Britain — informational, subversive, and diplomatic. Ukraine, in this scheme, is not even the primary addressee. All signals of “readiness for peace” are aimed at the West. The logic is simple: to show that russia is supposedly constructive, and that the war continues only because of Kyiv’s “unconstructive position.” This is a classic information operation shifting blame from the aggressor to the victim. The key goal of this campaign is to force the West itself to pressure Ukraine — not to negotiate with russia, but to break Kyiv through “realism,” “fatigue,” and fear of escalation. All of this is happening in parallel with the buildup of military potential, including in the northwestern direction. While the West talks about negotiations, russia is preparing not for peace, but for a prolonged war and the possible expansion of the conflict. This is how a state behaves when it dreams not of compromise, but of restoring an empire — with war as the norm and peace as a pause. Ukraine is only one stage. If aggression is rewarded here, the war will move on — to where russian imperial doctrine has been looking for centuries. Ukraine’s capitulation under the guise of peace will not bring security to Europe. It will only bring the war closer to the Baltic Sea and make it inevitable. Any pressure on Ukraine and its leadership from the West means only one thing: russia is successfully continuing its special operation — political and informational. Any Western country or politician who speaks of a “faster peace” at the cost of territorial losses, limitations on sovereignty, or imposed conditions on Ukraine is not acting as a mediator, but as an instrument of this operation. Such a “peace” does not stop the war — it only legalizes aggression and prepares the next one.

@CMShehbaz Why repeat russian propaganda lies? There exists 0 evidence such attack ever happened.

Pakistan condemns the reported targeting of the residence of His Excellency Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation. Such a heinous act constitutes a grave threat to peace, security, and stability, particularly at a time when efforts aimed at peace are underway. Pakistan expresses its solidarity with the President of the Russian Federation, and with the government and people of Russia. We reiterate our firm rejection of all forms of violence and acts intended to undermine security and threaten peace.

Europe must: - Finance Ukraine's defence industry (drones, missiles) - Provide european weapons (air defence, fighter jets, missiles - Taurus, StormShadow) - Help Ukraine to strike russian territory back - to destroy russian military factories - Sanction russian oil and gas

We should make russia loose this war as soon as possible. Otherwise we will soon see the same, but larger, attacks on our own cities. No other country in EU is currently able to sustain such a large-scale attacks of 600+ drones and missiles.

Russia, while not being able to succeed on the battlefield, is not even trying to hide its terror methods of war against ukrainian civilians. Why so? It's because they think they will stay unpunished - true gopnik style. We in Europe must prove that they are wrong.

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@michaeldweiss Oh men, it's not anything like "secret KGB" stuff... It's based on a 2000 year old Greek theory ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0… In russia we even tought that at school.

New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all curated and analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist. For paid subscribers:

Epic! Putin claimed that russia fully occupied Kupiansk about a month ago. And now Zelensky recording tik-toks from the city. I guess one of the major shame moments for RU since Kursk operation and "Spiderweb" operation

Giving Ukraine the resources it needs to defend itself doesn’t prolong the war, it can help end it. Thank you @radeksikorski for convening a call of foreign ministers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, where we were clear: Securing multi-year funding for Ukraine in December is absolutely essential.