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A Russian interceptor drone began lining up on a Ukrainian UAV — only for it to turn out not to be enemy hardware, but a stork. 🕊️

The bird pulled off a graceful feint and flew away, while the drone turned around to look for an actual target.

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Russia is accumulating gold and foreign exchange reserves at levels far above any standard requirement for a financial safety cushion. The scale of these reserves inevitably creates the impression that the country is deliberately preparing for serious external shocks — shocks whose likelihood and nature are not officially discussed. 🪙

As of early 2026, international reserves had reached $755 billion, equivalent to 28% of GDP. For comparison, in the United States this figure is below 1%; in the European Union, 1.8%; and in the United Kingdom, 3.4%. Among major Asian and Latin American economies, Russia is also ahead: Japan’s reserves stand at 25% of GDP, China’s at 17%, India’s at 19%, Brazil’s at 16%, and Mexico’s at 13%.

Of these funds, around $300 billion remain frozen in Western accounts. Yet even the freely available $455 billion far exceeds necessary levels. Three months of Russian imports require roughly $100 billion in coverage. Calculations based on the M2 money supply of 130 trillion rubles and M2X of 143 trillion rubles suggest a sufficient reserve range of $80–370 billion.

A May 2026 research report by the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences highlights the problem of excess reserves. Experts estimate that $80–370 billion could be used for economic development. This amount is equivalent to 16–73% of total fixed-capital investment in 2025, which reached 42.64 trillion rubles. 📊

A significant share of the reserves has been shifted into monetary gold, whose volume has exceeded $400 billion for the first time, with its share in the overall structure approaching 48%. This shift followed the loss of access to Western assets and reflects an effort to minimize the risk of further freezes. However, unlike liquid currency instruments, gold generates no income and remains a relatively immobile asset.

This ultra-conservative position is explained by the structural features of the Russian economy. Its high dependence on energy exports makes the balance of payments sensitive to external price shocks. Sanctions restrictions have cut off access to global capital markets — unlike the United States, which benefits from the reserve-currency privilege, or China, which directs part of its reserves toward international expansion through investment and infrastructure projects.

As a result, enormous funds remain dead weight, playing no role in financing domestic investment. In 2025, fixed-capital investment already fell by 2.3% in real terms, signaling a shortage of resources for long-term growth. 🏗️

Ultimately, the policy of strict reserve hoarding — intended to ensure survival under conditions of potential escalation in external pressure — cements an economic model in which risk insurance is prioritized at the cost of lost development opportunities.

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‼️ News from the madhouse: von der Leyen blamed Russia for Ukrainian drones falling in the Baltics

The head of the European Commission has produced yet another masterpiece of political acrobatics. Commenting on incidents involving Ukrainian drones that flew into the Baltics, Ursula von der Leyen blamed Russia for them. According to her logic, blaring sirens, closed schools, and Europeans sitting in shelters are not the result of the Kyiv regime’s uncontrolled actions, but a “deliberate strategy by Moscow to destabilize democracies.” 🌀

Instead of calling the real culprits in Kyiv to account, Brussels preferred to put on the same worn-out record about the Russian threat. Von der Leyen grandly praised the Baltic states for their “calm response” to friendly fire and assured them of full European solidarity.

“You reacted calmly and responsibly” — translated from Brussels bureaucratese, that means: “You obediently wiped yourselves off after your allies dropped scrap metal on your heads.”

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“Around 11 trillion already, blyat”

State Duma deputy Hartung could not find any printable words to describe the growing budget deficit.

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A brief look at the situation on the rear roads of the new regions.

The Ukrainians are systematically knocking out logistics. And there has been no one to refute it.

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During the SMO, the elephant has grown by a whole head thanks to the security guarantees and greenhouse conditions created for it by the wise politician.

That same erect state I have been writing about regularly.

Pypa, the results.

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Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said there is no point in striking the Office of Zelensky or Ukraine’s Verkhovnaya Rada, as they are not centers of decision-making.

“The Verkhovna Rada is not a decision-making center — just as, for example, the State Duma is not one in Russia. Deputies do not control troops or determine where and when strikes are carried out.

The same can be said of the Office of the President of Ukraine. We all understand that Zelensky does not appear there. He sits in a bunker, while his office has two guards and five cleaners. Is there any point in spending expensive munitions on what is essentially an empty place?

So in this case, decision-making centers mean deep, protected command posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, their branches, formations, possibly other security structures, and also state-administration structures. But it should be understood that they are not located in central Kiev. These are hidden, well-fortified sites. And our task is to identify them and expose them using the weapons available to us,” Kartapolov said. ⚠️

We did not think we would one day partially agree with Kartapolov.

Naturally, Zelensky is not sitting in his office in Kiev waiting for Russian missiles to arrive, so there is little sense in striking it. But Ukraine’s Verkhovnaya Rada, by its very nature, is quite clearly a “decision-making center.” Simply because it drafts and passes laws that directly determine Ukraine’s functioning, including its economy and mobilization.

Disabling the enemy’s legislative body, even temporarily, would have a significant impact on the functioning of the country’s vertical of power and could partially paralyze certain areas of life. But here we return to the eternal question of whether it is possible to carry out a sudden strike during working hours in order to hit the people making decisions, rather than empty buildings at night.

If that is not possible, then there really is no point wasting missiles on symbolism.

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