Local authorities in Shebekino (near the border with Ukraine) have started to erect signs warning motorists of attack drones
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A number of Russian Telegram channels and officials are claiming that the commander of the 20th Combined Arms Army Lieutenant General Sukhrab Akhmedov was dismissed. He was also blamed for the heavy losses sustained at Vuhledar in 2023.
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⚡️Another top Russian Defense Ministry arrested, per ⁦Коммерсантъ⁩: Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, who heads the military's communications directorate. More important: he's a top aide to the chief of the General Staff: General Valery Gerasimov. kommersant.ru/doc/6715029

Miserable footage of Vovchansk, a town which had 18,000 pre-war residents which the Russians have destroyed in a matter of a few days.

A Russian man has been fined around £500 for dying his hair blue and yellow, an act seen as 'discrediting the Russian armed forces' x.com/tvrain/status/…

We hear a lot about Russia and China’s ‘no limits partnership.’ But judging from today’s Russian papers, limits exist. Here’s what the Russian press is saying about Putin’s visit to China. #ReadingRussia

Russia is expelling the British defence attache from Moscow in response to the UK expelling Russia's own defence attache in London just over a week ago

Home Secretary James Cleverly said Col Maxim Yelovik was an 'undeclared military intelligence officer'

Putin has just spelled out clearly what many observers had already posited - Andrei Belousov’s appointment as defence minister is 'linked not least to the fact that spending on the military is growing'

The EU finally agrees a statement on Georgia 🇬🇪 it’s tough but pulls a few punches that some member states would have liked to see delivered

Russian cinemas have reportedly resumed pirate showings of Western films after a month of not showing them in order to 'support Russian films' saw box office takings fall
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Putin is heading to China for a state visit, to meet Xi, beginning May 16, per the Kremlin. It's his first foreign trip since his inauguration last week. t.me/RIAKremlinpool…

A cultural aside to the news of Andrei Belousov's coming appointment as Russian defence minister - his patronymic is 'Removich' - from the Soviet first name 'Rem' (Revolution, Engels, Marx)

Wikipedia has a list of these (often v amusing) names: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0…

Farage's criticism of Cameron's comments has predictably gone down well on Russian state TV

Sabotage has consequences. 'Britain is to expel the Russian defence attache following an increase in malign activity ... in the UK & Europe, the Home Secretary has announced...the attache was being expelled as an undeclared military intelligence officer' telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

BREAK: James Cleverly announces more sanctions on Russia. The Russian Defence Attache has been expelled & diplomatic protection status has been removed from Russian properties believed to have been used for intelligence purposes