Further Withdrawals and Russian Corruption, and the Coming War
The first thing that caught my attention recently is this. The Russian Navy is trying to save some assets still caught in the Black Sea. This signals fighter weakness on the part of an increasingly irrelevant navy. I will remind you that control of the Black Sea has been a Russian objective since Katherine the Great. So this is a blow to Russian pride in more ways than one:
OSINT researcher MT Anderson has discovered from satellite imagery that the Russians have moved their newest Karakurt-class small missile ship “Tucha” from Novorossiysk to the Caspian Sea. The ships of this project are so small that they can be moved along the waterway through the Don, Volga and Volgodonsk Canal. Previously, it was assumed that the Russians would replenish their Black Sea Fleet this way, but the reality turned out to be the opposite — they are trying to save them from Ukrainian attacks by withdrawing them to the Caspian Sea. Previously, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had already struck one of the ships of this type, the Askold, which was being completed at a dock in occupied Kerch. Despite their small size, Karakurt-class ships are dangerous, as they could potentially carry Kalibr cruise missiles on board.
So, how many more of the Black Sea fleet will be pulled to the Caspian? I have attached a map; the lake north of Iran is what we are talking about. It is enormous, which is why it’s called a sea. But this is quite the withdrawal.
Now, let’s look at corruption. Do you have a few hundred thousand extra dollars? Well, you could buy the classified movement of equipment toward the front lines:
Let’s talk more about the officer corps of Putin’s army — since the case of corrupt general Timur Ivanov has excited everyone so much.
Of course, Timur Ivanov is far from the worst representative of the Russian army. He is a thief, a corrupt official, but at least he is not a total idiot. And there are also idiots, and also in serious positions.
Meet Alexey Vorobyov — colonel, deputy commander of the 22nd Army Corps. A video about him was discovered on the Internet quite recently (look at it, it’s crazy in places). We believe that this video was made by the hardware enemies of Sergei Shoigu as part of a large-scale attack on the Ministry of Defense. You can, of course, consider this a section of the “life of insects,” but you need to know the enemy. Our enemy is an insect, but a dangerous one.
So. Alexey Vorobyov is responsible for weapons and equipment in the 22nd Corps, stationed in Crimea. At the beginning of the war, the 22nd Corps took part in the capture of the Kherson region and the subsequent attack on Nikolaev and Odessa. The offensive ended in failure, and six months later the 22nd Corps, along with other Putin units, shamefully fled from Kherson.
Throughout this hot time (spring-summer-autumn 2022), Colonel Vorobiev sent documents in a telegram to his mistress Elena Evglevskaya regarding the supply of the corps and the transfer of military equipment. There are details in the video: tables with T-72 and T-62 tanks mixed with jokes and everyday squabbles. We already disdained to post the homemade porn of Mr. Colonel and his Valkyrie, sorry, but we will still present secret documents to your attention in the next post, enjoy.
Why did Colonel Vorobyov send secret documents to his lady? We believe they were thinking about who to sell this information to. While ordinary mobilized men wrap their guts around their fists during meat assaults, the colonels dream of approaching the standard of living of General Timur Ivanov and also traveling with their women to the Maldives.
No, we are not against corruption in Putin’s army. And I don’t mind the idiocy in it either. These factors make it much easier for us to fight the Kremlin. But we want the Russian soldier to know for whom, for what kind of scum he is fighting.
When at the end of 2022 Vorobyov’s corps retreated from Kherson, the colonel was awarded the Order of Courage and the Order of Zhukov.
If anything, Colonel Vorobiev has now entered the General Staff Academy to study. To then get the general’s stripes on his pants.
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