SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre

n the past week, Russia has blocked..

- FaceTime
- Whatsapp
- Snapchat
- Roblox (#1 gaming platform)

Already blocked are..

- X
- Instagram
- Discord
- Facebook
- Signal
- LinkedIn
- Youtube (selectively blocked)

What is the Russian dictator afraid of?

On this day 31 years ago, the Budapest Memorandum was signed.

Although it may be convenient and even profitable for some if Ukraine were to fall for this trick again, but history shall not repeat.

Prague tonight.

Even until the final moments, Russians doing what they do best.

Overnight, Russia's Syzran Oil Refinery burned into the morning - one of the largest refineries in the Samara region with a capacity of about 8.5 million tons of oil per year.

Aimed at stoking division between Muslims and Jewish communities, this is only a recent installment of a decades old Russian government project.

More evidence emerges that the recent programs of painting swastikas around French cities as well as placement of pig heads at French mosques is the work of Russian intelligence.

Among the highlights on today's General Staff report, Russian aviation continues the path to oblivion.

Now down -45% from 2022, Russia's oil and gas income is now falling at an annualized rate of 14% per year, already on par with Iraq. But if trend continues, by 2027, the former super power will be at the level of Angola, Azerbaijan or Columbia, no longer even in the top 10 global producers.

If you want to know why Russia's oil and gas revenues are now down -35% year-over-year, look no further.

Ukraine hit over 50 facilities in just the 60 days from September - November.

And it continues..

After last week's humiliation of a Russian caught trying to steal SpaceX rocket technology, another hit to the dictator's claims of missile prowess as popular Russian blogger Officer Maxim Klymov says that "Burevestnik" and "Posiedan" are all a fraud.

Representative of the Human Rights Center, Kateryna Rashevska, yesterday provided evidence in the US Senate.

Russia is now taking kidnapped Ukrainian children to North Korea for training in military camps. There are at least 165 facilities in Russia in which Ukrainian children have their identities erased and then militarized.

Opinion - Russia’s propaganda from the 1939 Winter War is now strangely familiar Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern Europ...

The propaganda packages Russia used during its invasion and current occupation of 11% of Finland in 1939 seem very familiar.

Russia doesnt change.

On February 22, everyone started saying that the war would be over in three days. The ‘Tbilisi syndrome’ and the memory of the five-day war with Georgia were clearly at play — but unfortunately, that did not happen.

I would give an unsatisfactory grade to the entire Russian intelligence community"

I am not going to criticize anyone, but in my view Russia once again turned out to be unprepared for war, just as in previous years.

Moreover, there was the usual underestimation of the enemy and an overestimation of our own forces.

"We received a serious and brutal lesson. Our country’s leadership was given false information that 70% of [Ukraine's] population supported us and only 30% were against us. It turned out to be exactly the opposite: 30% for us, 70% against us.

Retired Russian General Vladimir Chirkin leaves interviewer stunned, after a series of admissions, blaming Russia's intelligence community and admitting that his country was grossly unprepared for this war.

Murdered in her own home by Russians last night, Tetiana Asaulyuk, 37-year-old researcher from Kherson University,

Given the long track record of European nations that've found huge growth and prosperity once Russians are removed from the equation, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Ukraine's GDP can be larger than Russia's in 10 years.

Exclusive: Leaked documents expose global Russian soft-power influence network NV English has obtained documents revealing a sprawling Russian global espionage and influence network — evidence of the Kremlin’s effort to build a civilian ecosystem for shaping international narrat...

Russian influence operations continue to infest western nations.

There are no artificial caps on procurement volumes: every increase in partner contributions directly expands the amount of military equipment and munitions Ukraine can receive.

Norway has announced an additional $500 million contribution to the PURL program to finance the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine’s defense.

NATO reiterates that the target level for the initiative is $1 billion in monthly funding.

In addition, the route from Russia to Georgia through the exclusive economic zone of Turkey makes no sense and hints that Russia may have staged all this, he wrote on the social network X.

✅ Reality: Ukraine has nothing to do with this incident, stressed the spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Georgy Tykhyi.

We officially refute any such accusations made by Russian propaganda.

🚫 Russian Lie: “Ukraine hit the Russian tanker Midvolga 2, which was heading from Russia to Georgia with a cargo of sunflower oil.” This is what Russian media write about.

Russian propaganda enters a blitz of inventing battlefield wins that don't exist.

Fake it till you make it.

While the Kremlin pours all efforts into inventing battlefield gains that don't exist, oil infrastructure deep in Russia continues to explode.

Overnight, an oil depot in Livny in Oryol region, as a local complains.

President Zelensky and the First Lady arrive in Ireland.

We are very grateful to our partners for standing with us in this fight for freedom.