Another prominent Russian official has died from a 17-story plunge out of a window.
Reports say he lived on the 10th floor but went out a 17th-floor window and left a note.
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This morning, Andrey Badalov, Vice President of the Russian state-owned company Transneft, fell from the window of his apartment on Rublyovskoye Highway in Moscow and died. Transneft is the country’s largest operator of oil transportation infrastructure.
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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
And in Anapa, a Russian city referred to as notorious for having people fall out of windows, a 23-year-old plunged to his death onto the top of a police car.
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“A tragic incident occurred in the residential complex (RC) "Raz. Dva. Tri" in the city of Anapa (Krasnodar Krai), which is notorious for people falling from heights. The RC is located on the Anapa highway.”
How bad must it be for a place IN RUSSIA to be declared “notorious” for death by gravity?
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— Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There was another prisoner exchange today.
Russia unleashed a terrible assault on Kyiv, right after Putin’s call with Trump. The attack included more than 500 drones and missiles and lasted nine hours.
Ukraine struck a facility near Moscow that is involved in the production of thermobaric warheads for Shahed drones. A power substation in the same area was also struck.
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⚡️UPDATE: Ukraine's General Staff confirms attack on military plant in Russia.
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed that its drone units struck the Scientific Research Institute of Applied Chemistry (FNTs NIIPKh) in Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Ukrainian drones also hit targets in Rostov.
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Azov in Russia's Rostov region was hit by multiple drones, including FP-1s and what appears to be a new strike UAV similar to Russia's Shahed.
One of the targets was the Azov Optical-Mechanical Plant, which produces high-precision optics, thermal imaging equipment, radar seeker heads for missiles.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And this bavovna is near Belgorod.
This story is getting a lot of attention. China worries that if Russia loses, the U.S. will then pivot to confronting China.
Another 1,120 Russians.
Crappy equipment? In Russia? Perish the thought!
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1/ Poor-quality and 'fake' electronic warfare equipment is costing the lives of Russian soldiers, say angry Russian warbloggers. A gory video shows a Russian soldier on an ATV being eviscerated by a Ukrainian drone despite the presence of what is said to be a fake EW system. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
2/ The extremely graphic video shows two soldiers on an all-terrain vehicle which has a frontally mounted EW system with four prominent antennas. It is of no benefit to them, as a drone hits the driver in the chest, decapitating and eviscerating him.
3/ The provision of EW systems is often organised by soldiers themselves from their own salaries, or by volunteers, as the Russian MOD fails to provide men with essential equipment. However, warbloggers say that EW manufacturers rip off soldiers with poor-quality systems.
4/ 'Reporter Filatov' comments: "What is on the video is not EW, but a piece of shit... any specialist will tell you by the antennas. Specifically a specialist, and not a middleman who does not even understand how it works, they need to be shown this... And then punished."
Trump talked to Putin yesterday and came away with nothing, zip, zero, zilch, nada.
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Putin and Trump had a call, again. Per Russian readout, Trump called for a ceasefire, Putin said Russia first needs to achieve the goals of the “special military operation,” Trump didn’t object and then they talked about cooperation in promoting “traditional values” in movies.
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) July 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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⚡️'I'm very disappointed' — Trump says after phone call with Putin.
"I'm speaking to President Zelensky tomorrow in the morning, and I'm very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin," U.S. President Donald Trump told journalists.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Pot calls kettle black.
If Trump thinks somebody else is disengaged and “not there,” he must be in Lala land.
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“I’ll be talking to Zelensky on Friday. But honestly, I was very disappointed with my call with Putin. Frankly, it feels like Putin is just… not there anymore. I don’t see any willingness to stop. And that’s very bad. He doesn’t seem like someone who wants to end this war,” Trump said.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Of course he does.
Witkoff is completely useless.
