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Russian stuff blowing up: Reports claim Trump encouraged Zelenskyy to bomb Moscow [1]
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Date: 2025-07-15
So now Trump is urging Zelenskyy to bomb Moscow and St. Petersburg?
x 🇺🇦🇺🇸🚀 Trump urged Zelensky to intensify strikes deep into Russia, – FT. ❗️During a private conversation, Trump said that the Russians must feel pain to finally sit down at the negotiating table.
[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
x "We’ll strike if you give us weapons." — Zelenskyy responded to Trump’s question about why Ukraine hasn’t yet hit the Russian capital. In response, Trump said that Ukraine should increase pressure on Putin — not just on Moscow, but on St. Petersburg as well. — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If the White House is denying it, it must be true.
x ❗️The White House stated that Trump did not call for strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg in his conversation with Zelensky 🤷♂️
[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Russia doesn’t seem impressed with Trump’s 50-day reprieve.
x Russian Foreign Minister on Trump's new deadline: Fifty days. There used to be 24 hours, there used to be 100 days, we've been through all of this.
[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
In case you were wondering how Trump came up with the 50-day period.
x 3/ "▪️Today, Axios published an article stating that Vladimir Putin, during a phone call with Trump, said that Russia would attempt to establish control over all entities included in the Russian constitution [i.e. taking control of all annexed regions] within the next 60 days.
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
4/ "▪️The telephone conversation between Putin and Trump took place exactly 10 days ago – on July 3. That is, of the supposedly announced 60 days, there are currently 50 days left.
But was Zelenskyy wearing a tie that was way too long?
x 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky acted like a normal person, not some crazy person, and was dressed like someone who should be at a NATO summit. He had a team of people with him who also looked appropriate. So the conversation went well, — Axios, citing an anonymous US official.
[image or embed] — Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
NATO chief Mark Rutte continues sucking up to Trump. But it might actually be working.
Yesterday it was JASSM cruise missiles. Today it’s Tomahawks. This is your reminder that when it concerns Trump, it’s all BS until/unless it actually happens.
x US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering transferring Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. So what are Tomahawks and how can they help Ukraine? 👇
[image or embed] — UNITED24 Media (@united24media.com) July 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Have we found something that Melania actually cares about?
Remember how Lindsey Graham was crowing about how tough the Senate was going to be in cracking down on Russia and how he had a strong bipartisan coalition behind his sanctions bill?
The main problem with Trump’s secondary tariff threat to countries that buy from Russia is that it would create a confrontation with China. Trump has shown no stomach for a trade war with China, hence the TACO nickname.
Some of us are still playing by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
Shouldn’t have to wait until a lot of people die first.
x FINALLY: NATO warns Russia it will strike Kaliningrad if the GPS jamming radars there cause an aviation crash.
Russia has been jamming NATO airspace since 2022.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/14/f...
[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Slovakia continues to be a pain in the ass and block more sanctions and now it is being joined by Malta, whose economy depends heavily on shipping oil.
x 👀 Russian websites are reportedly using servers based in Slovakia to conduct a large-scale campaign against Ukrainian military personnel. This includes publishing personal data and inciting harassment. militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...
[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Ukraine hit a target in Mariupol.
They chose poorly.
x Clearing operation in Toretsk, straight from the front line. Infantry from the Special Forces Khyzhak Brigade moved in—Russians were dug in but refused to surrender. Grenades settled the issue.
[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just pathetic.
x 1/ A Russian soldier with cancer and two broken legs was sent to the front lines in Ukraine to fight in a wheelchair, even though his chronic condition meant that he was ineligible to serve. After his cancer was deemed terminal, he was sent home to die. ⬇️
[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
2/ 42-year-old Vitaly Anisimov suffered from a rare and usually fatal condition, gastric arteriovenous malformation, for which he had a complex operation in 2019. Despite still being chronically unwell, in 2022 he was abruptly mobilised into the Russian army. 3/ His daughter Anastasia said that despite the family's protests, the recruitment officers told him, "We don't care about your diagnoses - according to our papers, you are suitable." He fell a few days later and broke both his legs. Despite this he was declared fit. 4/ Anisimov was taken away in a wheelchair to serve on the front line in a 'fetching and serving' capacity. However, it soon turned out that the treatment he had been given for his broken legs had been botched, risking their amputation. He was hospitalised in January 2023. 5/ Despite an appeal from the family, the military prosecutor's office refused to intervene and said there had been no violations. Anisimov was again rated fit after treatment and was returned to the front line on crutches, where he was given the predictable call sign 'Crutch'. 6/ He was given his first two-week leave in July 2023, by when the symptoms of lung cancer were beginning to appear. The family paid for treatment at their own expense – the state did not provide any help – and tried unsuccessfully to persuade him not to go back to the army. 7/ In October 2024, Anisimov was urgently hospitalized in intensive care with gastric bleeding. He had to pay a 100,000 ruble ($1,280) bribe to his commanders to be allowed to go to hospital. Even so, when his cancer was diagnosed he was threatened with being declared a deserter. 8/ This time, however, a military-medical commission finally rated him unfit to fight and discharged him. With stage 4 lung cancer diagnosed, he died a few months later.
Another 1,230 Russians who chose poorly.
The Killed in Ukraine account that posts its updates toTwitter has a new update pout that lists 42 more officers confirmed dead in the last week.
You can view it here on Twitter. This account today resumed posting to its Bluesky account, but the officers killed update for today is from a week ago.
He seems nice.
x A Russian who killed his girlfriend for a mephedrone dose became a student at a Russian university with an award for participating in the war in Ukraine. In 2021, Fyodor Khizhin brutally murdered a 17-year-old girl, stabbing her more than 60 times because he needed 3,000 rubles ($38) for drugs.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
He was a bit slow with that scattergun.
Hell, it worked for David against Goliath.
These Russian try to shoot down a thermite-spewing drone.
Maybe women aren’t the problem.
If only Russia had some money for things like drainage improvements or bridge construction.
x ‼️ Russia: “Twelve people were injured when a bridge over the Yug River collapsed in the Vologda Region.” 25 people participating in a religious procession across a suspension bridge connecting the settlement of Dunilovsky & the village of Dunilovo at the time www.kommersant.ru/doc/7888289
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Drink up! Do you want to live forever?
x "This is the water we drink. It's murky and bitter, but thank God we at least have that." Russian soldier shows water from a pond they have to drink and recounts how, while attempting to roll back from their position, his comrade exploded in front of his eyes.
[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
x ‼️ Russia: “The number of victims after an outbreak of acute intestinal infection in five villages of the Magaramkent district of Dagestan has grown to 274 people, including 270 children” Including Dysentery! Source is believed to be contaminated water. www.interfax.ru/russia/1035413
[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Combat cat
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