First off, the rumor mill says that Russian Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina has been placed under house arrest. She hasn’t appeared in public for a while now and she has been something of a maverick on economic issues.
This is, of course, unconfirmed. She might actually be sick. Or maybe she’ll fall out of a window accidentally. We’ll see.
Rumor mill in overdrive over MIA Elvira #Nabiullina: an exiled former state TV editor claims Russia’s central bank chief is under de facto house arrest after a row with Putin● Kremlin insist Nabiullina, who previously tried to resign, is simply on sick leave until early July.
— Jason Corcoran (@jasoncorcoran.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T15:52:34.732Z
🚨 Governor of the Russian Central Bank Nabiullina is under de-facto house arrest.— former All-Russia State Television Editor-in-chief Dmitry Skorobutov, exiled in Switzerland.In a heated exchange she had issued an ultimatum: She will quit and leave the country if Putin starts total mobilization.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T23:34:37.553Z
Let’s see if she shows up for this meeting.
FYI: The next scheduled Russian Central Bank Meeting is👉 19 June 2026So at the very least, this very public moment that Elvira Nabiullina is expected to turn up on camera.Note: This also means that the Central Bank has entered its week of silence.
— Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T19:21:25.524Z
Ukraine is continuing its assault on the bridges that connect Crimea to the Ukrainian mainland. Trucks lined up to cross on pontoons have become easy targets.
Russian troops are using pontoon bridges but their capacity is low, so trucks have to accumulate in lines. This makes them great targets for Ukrainian Defenders!
It was only yesterday when I mentioned that it is only a question of time until Ukrainian forces will strike the pontoon bridge next to the Chonhar bridge, and it was already last night that it happened. At least two FP-1/2 drones struck the bridge.
— (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T10:58:51.501Z
❗️Significant fires in the Krasnoperekopsk area — the key land corridor to occupied Crimea. Not all hotspots are visible to satellites, so there was likely a total rout/destruction there overnight. Waiting for drone footage.
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T06:49:52.725Z
A chemical plant Armiansk in northern Crimea was visited by Ukrainian drones.
A TOS thermobaric launcher gets a close-up view of a Ukrainian drone.
Ukraine is gaining ground north of Lyman.
A facility near Volgograd that processes crude oil before it reaches refineries has been targeted.
A quisling escapes an assassination attempt.
Andrey Pinchuk, former security chief of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reportedly survived an assassination attempt outside Moscow. The weapon of choice was apparently a mail bomb. He suffered only a minor concussion. t.me/readovkanews…
— Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) 2026-06-12T19:21:33.969Z
Russia dropped a dozen KAB glide bombs on a market in Vasylkivka. These bombs carry warheads anywhere from 250 to 1,500 kilograms.
Russia also launched a massive assault on Kherson.
No gas today.
⛽️‼️ Massive restrictions at gas stations throughout the geography of Russia.They only give 20 liters of gasoline per car, or 40 liters of diesel.Ulyanovsk, Arkhangelsk, Khabarovsk, Rostov, Kazan, Vologda, Voronezh, Kursk, Volgograd, St. Petersburg and even Moscow.
— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T12:50:15.300Z
The black market for gasoline is thriving.
😂 Dealers from Crimea and Donbas have flocked to Rostov, sweeping up gasoline to resell at half the price in Donetsk and Simferopol.Pouring gasoline into canisters has been banned, but corruption is a key Russian morale-building factor. As a result, there’s no gasoline in Rostov either.
— MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T14:51:35.947Z
Russian war blogger Thirteenth has been arrested.
In the last two days there have been a lot of warnings that Russia was preparing to launch another Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile at Ukraine. So far, it hasn’t happened. Oreshnik is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads as well as cluster munitions. Previous Oreshnik strikes have deployed inert warheads.
Historian & sociologist Nikolay Mitrokhin speculates Russia may be weighing Oreshnik strikes on Ukrainian bridges & dams, but the military is dragging its feet out of fears about the weapon’s accuracy. Putin’s recent “testing grounds” rhetoric is perhaps telling, Mitrokhin says. t.me/NMitrokhinPu…
— Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) 2026-06-13T12:55:49.372Z
On her way out the door Tulsi Gabbard decided to promote the conspiracy that the U.S. funded biolabs in Ukraine using dangerous pathogens.
Poland’s right-wing president has taken a sharp anti-Ukrainian turn lately, threatening to strip Zelenskyy of an honor that was bestowed upon him over the naming of a Ukrainian military unit. Now this:
This analysis says the attacks yesterday in Tatarstan and Samara were connected.
Russia’s war economy with fuel, petrochemicals, and components for the defense industry. The TANECO and TAIF-NK oil refining complexes in Nizhnekamsk, as well as the Tolyattikauchuk chemical plant in the Samara region form an interconnected technological chain together.
The refineries process tens of millions of tons of oil per year, producing fuel and petrochemical feedstock, while “Tolyattikauchuk” produces important chemical components required both for the fuel industry and for specialized manufacturing.
Another 1,310 Russians assigned to cannon fodder duty. Plus 88 artillery systems and four rocket launchers.
He should have stayed home, attended his prom, graduated.
The idea that China was being even-handed in this war was exposed as BS long ago. This just reinforces it.
Russia is paying close attention to Trump’s TACO behavior in Iran and how Russia might benefit.
1/ Donald Trump’s weak and vacillating approach towards Iran is being watched with keen interest in Russia as a lesson in how to bend America to its will. Russian political scientist Yuri Baranchik recommends that Russia should step up hostile activity against the EU and US. ⬇️
— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) 2026-06-12T18:40:05.125Z
7/ “What does the Iranian experience teach Russia? A very simple lesson: raising the stakes works. As long as we play by the rules imposed on us, we’ll be beaten. As soon as we start dictating our own, they’ll start negotiating with us.
8/ “Iran has shown that US weakness is not a myth, but a reality. We must take advantage of this. And Moscow’s first step down this path could be to declare the Anchorage agreements no longer valid. That format is already dead.
9/ “The rationale is very simple: you (Trump) and I reached an agreement, but you (Trump) couldn’t exert the necessary pressure on Zelenskyy to get him to sign the agreements we reached. Your mistake. This means we’re free of obligations and no longer obligated to honour them.
10/ “Denounce the agreement with NATO on transit to Afghanistan (formally no longer relevant, but as a political gesture) and announce an indefinite withdrawal from all Russia-NATO consultative formats. Negotiations will only be held on our terms.
11/ “Announce a unilateral end to the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in the European part of Russia. Don’t hide, but rather demonstrate new systems in the Kaliningrad region and near the border with Finland.
12/ “Launch systemic cyberattacks on the EU’s energy and financial infrastructure, making them regular and unpredictable. Iran has demonstrated that hybrid strikes work – they are feared more than open war.
13/ “Propose to China, Iran, and the DPRK that they create a “Resistance Bloc” – an informal military-political alliance with coordinated actions across the globe: from Ukraine to Taiwan, from the Persian Gulf to the Arctic. Let them think we’re not bluffing.
Russia blows up a goat. Sick bastards.
It is amazing how people are able to hold on and keep functioning day after day.
Ukrainian Defender “Kit” (“Cat”) from the Magura Brigade joined the military at the age of 24. Over four years of service, she has fought in some of the war’s hottest sectors, including the defense of Donetsk region, the counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia region, and the Kursk operation.
Kit’s boyfriend died defending Ukraine in Donetsk region while carrying out a combat mission. “One evening, he brought me the wounded and the fallen from the positions, and the very next evening, he was the one being recovered…” Today, Kit is defending the Sumy region.
And finally, something a bit uplifting.
This is just beautiful ✨ sharing some healing violin from the very heart of Kyiv with you , remembering to breathe in between air raid siren alerts and drone and missile threats pic.twitter.com/Cs0pabWMGh
— Margo Gontar 🔱 (@MargoGontar) June 13, 2026
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