More #Russia whining that ‘not only did they shut down #Starlink, but also #Telegram.’ In addition to the traditional complaints about ‘communication paralysis’ and ‘sabotaging the front’ on military channels, we also have a bonus - even Yelena Mizulina, the chief censor of the Russian Internet, has spoken out. But instead of praising the Telegram blockade, she was surrealistically outraged that ‘it is symbolic that today is World Safer Internet Day. You could say it’s a holiday. It’s like a gift, right?’

Writer Yegor Kholmogorov, on the other hand, was extremely sceptical about the idea of moving to the government’s ‘Max’ messenger, grumbling that the only consequence of blocking Telegram would be ‘the collapse of a society incapable of any solidarity and filled with growing hatred’.

Reading such words, it is really difficult not to ask yourself the question: are they really that stupid? After all, everything they describe as ‘the collapse of society’ is 100% Putin’s internal policy since 2011, which they not only enthusiastically supported in relation to Russians, but even more so supported its export to Ukraine.

#Russia media, of course, pounced on Epstein’s archive to prove that ‘the West is morally rotten,’ as Putin has been claiming for years. Of course, they skip all the threads where Epstein’s underage victims are sent by Russian modelling agencies, his visa is arranged by FSB officer Bieliakow, and all the Russian threads, because they don’t fit.

And here, several popular Russian channels, including ‘Vault 8. Убежище №8.’ couldn’t resist and wrote that in Russia, this whole ominous ‘Epstein island’ is actually the whole country…

During dinner, we were shown a report on the Epstein files: Satanism, cannibalism, paedophilia, child trafficking from Ukraine to EU countries, etc. Conclusion: ‘SVO [special military operation] is a fight against global evil.’

At the same time, during the SVO:

— I listened to the stories of several female specialists in men’s health. One was raped by her grandfather, then later by her first husband. The second had a stepfather who was violent and raped her mother. The third had a father who, if he didn’t like something, would grab her by the back of her head and throw her face down on the floor.

Two of the three girls are very beautiful (the third is just beautiful), friendly, and intelligent, despite their backgrounds, but they have mental health issues of varying severity.

— I spoke with a philanthropist who, for a short time, participated with his beloved woman in sending toys and clothes to an orphanage. There were semi-criminal orphans there, one of the minors was a ready-made prostitute with the corresponding habits. The narrator did not like this, he set the police on the orphanage — they uncovered an organisation run by the orphanage management as a den for paedophiles of varying degrees of wealth. Unfortunately, the children had already been taught bad things. This is a story from one of Russia’s rural areas.

— I heard stories about all kinds of similar cases in the valiant Saratov and Samara regions. I heard local stories about parish schools in the countryside.

I won’t mention the fact that when male and female volunteers were recruited into the army, they were flooded with fraudsters, swindlers, corrupt officials, murderers, rapists, drug dealers, etc., including several well-known cases of cannibals, because this is simply a given. There are so many former convicts in some units that it is sometimes difficult to find someone without a criminal record.

It’s just that none of the participants in such stories are dollar billionaires, own islands, or are citizens of the Russian Federation.

Original: t.me/vault8pro/53759 (in Russian)

#Russia Lavrov once again mentioned the “referendums” on the occupied territories of #Ukraine as a legal pretext for their annexation by Russia.

There’s one detail that is so obviously absurd here that… most media stopped talking about it: the Russians conducted ‘referendums’ that supposedly decided the fate of entire regions without even having full control over them.

This applies to both the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but above all to the Zaporizhzhia region, where they did not and do not control, and have never controlled, even its capital, the city of #Zaporizhzhia, with a population of 700,000.

Kremlin doesn’t care because the whole point of the Russian narrative is to divert the international community’s attention away from the legal aspect (these ‘referendums’ were 100% illegal) and create the impression that ‘maybe they were illegal, but they were held, and the residents had their say’.

So let’s repeat it again clearly: the Russians are trying to convince us that they have the right to annex a city of 700,000 inhabitants, where their army has never even set foot, on the basis of a ‘referendum’ staged in some villages by the sea that they happened to control at the time 🤷

#Ukraine Defence Intelligence has pre-emptively exposed a large-scale Russian hybrid information operation planned before and during the Munich Security Conference (13–15 February 2026).

Russia is attempting to weaponise so-called “pacifist” movements in Europe to launder its war crimes, weaken democratic resolve, and pressure governments into cutting support for Ukraine.

Key individuals involved have been identified by Ukrainian intelligence:

• Elena Kolbasnikova — organiser of anti-Ukraine protests in Cologne and Düsseldorf, openly supports the Kremlin; received Russian citizenship in 2023.
• Max Schlund — her partner and coordinator of pro-Kremlin rallies in Germany, linked to Russian proxy networks and so-called “Cossack” structures.
• Vyacheslav Seeswald — a central distributor of Kremlin narratives within the Friedensbewegung network, operating via Telegram; maintains contacts with Russian intelligence and European far-right groups.

After searches by German prosecutors in 2024 over suspected illegal weapons possession, Kolbasnikova and Schlund fled to #Russia, further confirming their operational role.

Narratives Moscow is pushing:

– “Supporting Ukraine will trigger World War III” – “NATO and the EU are the real aggressors” – “Russia poses no threat to Europe”

Of course, these are not “peace” initiatives - by thwarting Europe’s defense they are enabling Russia’s aggression just like in the good old times, when Soviet rockets installed in Eastern Europe were presented as “peaceful” while Western rockets were “imperialist” 😄