Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos is in deep doo doo.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t call it a collapse because some sort of bailout might happen, but at some point the Russian government won\u2019t be able to keep bailing out all the industries in need of bailouts.<\/p>\n
What this means for the future of the International Space Station is unknown \u2014 but it can\u2019t be good.<\/p>\n
Maybe this has something to do with it.<\/p>\n
x<\/p>\n
1\/ Employees of Russia’s space agency are reported to have gone without pay for over three months, causing severe hardship to many. It likely reflects the increasing financial difficulties of the Russian government, exacerbated by the demands of the war in Ukraine. \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n
[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM<\/a><\/p>\n 2\/ JSC Sibpromproekt, formally the Siberian Institute for Design of Mechanical Engineering Enterprises, is a design institute of Roscosmos, the Russian State Corporation for Space Activities. The Zheleznogorsk-based company provides engineering and technical design services.<\/p>\n 3\/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, Sibpromproekt employees have not been paid since 15 May. This includes vacation and severance pay as well as regular wages. The lack of pay has caused hardship to its employees who need money for mortgages, loan and subsistence.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n Short thread quoting the head of Roscosmos.<\/p>\n “The situation is critical: multimillion-dollar debts, interest on loans are eating up the budget. RSC Energia, the manufacturer of the Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, is in deep crisis”<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nick Stevens (@nick-stevens.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM<\/a><\/p>\n In his address, Maltsev noted the “multimillion-dollar debts ” and that “the foundation created by Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and developed by our general designers… has been squandered.” He emphasized that ” promises for all major projects have proven unfulfilled, all deadlines have been missed.”<\/p>\n It took several drone bombs but this Russian mine-laying vehicle produced quite a nice fire.<\/p>\n The village of Kulbaki is just across the border in Russia\u2019s Kursk region and west of Sudzha.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n Ukrainian aviation carried out a series of strikes that wiped out an entire unit of Russian occupiers in Kulbaky, Kursk region.<\/p>\n The air bombs hit:<\/p>\n – the unit\u2019s command post\/headquarters; [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Locomotives make excellent targets.<\/p>\n Komi is a sparsely populated region well northeast of Moscow. Much of the growth in the Komi republic during the 20th century came from prisoners sent to gulag camps there.<\/p>\n Here is some damage assessment from a Ukrainian attack on a Russian airfield 10 days ago.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n The Aug 16\u201317 strike on the 108th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment and \u201cBaltimore\u201d airbase in Voronezh hit radar systems: a 76N6 and a 30N6, both part of the S-300PM2 system. Burn marks and the absence of equipment at known positions suggest successful destruction\u2014possibly including two Su-24 aircraft<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM<\/a><\/p>\n A Russian truck hauling rockets cooks off in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n Falling debris? Careless smoker?<\/p>\n Something in Rostov is on fire.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \u26a1 On the evening of August 26, drones targeted the Russian Granit defense enterprise in Rostov-on-Don, according to a report by Astra. <\/p>\n The facility is known for producing components used in aviation and air defense systems.<\/p>\n militarnyi.com\/en\/news\/dron…<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Russian drone attacks have cut electricity in Sumy.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n Russian drones knocked out power in Ukrainian city of Sumy, located near the border with Russia.<\/p>\n The attacks hit energy and gas facilities in six oblasts overnight. Ukrainian officials described the strikes as “terrorism aimed at the civilian population.\u201d [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM<\/a><\/p>\n More war crimes committed by Russia.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \u26a1\ufe0fRussia convicts more than 300 Ukrainian soldiers of terrorism following Kursk Oblast Incursion.<\/p>\n Over 300 Ukrainian soldiers who took part in the Kursk incursion have been convicted on terrorist charges by Russia this year, the Kirill Parubets Analytical Center and the Insider reported on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Russia legalizes criminal attacks on foreign websites.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n Draft amendments to Russian criminal law will exempt hackers who DDoS-attack blocked websites, ie, impunity against independent media, NGOs, & foreign platforms. This will shred basic legal principles, violating Russia\u2019s own constitutional equality before the law, & breaches int’l treaties.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me<\/a>) August 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM<\/a><\/p>\n How drunk do you have to be to fire a grenade launcher like this?<\/p>\n He might have survived.<\/p>\n Or maybe not.<\/p>\n WARNING: Video shows Russian soldier taking it in the face.<\/p>\n Russian: The drone can\u2019t see me. I\u2019m safe.<\/p>\n Narrator: No, he isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n The problem with Russian thermal insulating ponchos is that they trap the heat, but still appear much colder than surrounding environment. <\/p>\n So instead of showing up as white (warm) spot that\u2019s easy to detect with a thermal camera, they show up as black (cold) spot\u2014still just as easy to detect.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \ud83e\udd8bSpecial Kherson Cat\ud83d\udc08\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social<\/a>) August 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Russian priest blames thievery for Russia\u2019s lack of victory.<\/p>\n He also admonishes soldiers not to rape civilians or torture prisoners.<\/p>\n Basically it\u2019s like digging a big moat.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc40\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa Europe is restoring bogs on its eastern borders to stop Russian tanks, \u2013 Politico <\/p>\n \u25aa\ufe0fBogs are natural obstacle that gets stuck in tanks and heavy equipment. \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1Poland, \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddeeFinland, \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9Lithuania are already developing such a plan.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM<\/a><\/p>\n It would seem ridiculous for a country experiencing gasoline shortages to increase oil exports, but if that oil can\u2019t be refined because of Ukrainian attacks then it might as well be exported.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \ud83d\udee2\ufe0f\ud83d\udc40 Russia to increase crude oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day in August due to Ukrainian strikes on refineries \u2014 Reuters.<\/p>\n Such a decision will affect the western Russian ports of Primorsk, Novorossiysk and Ust-Luga. Instead of the planned 1.8 million barrels per day, it will reach 2 million.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Another 920 Russians who chose poorly.<\/p>\n Private volunteers shouldn\u2019t have to finance helicopter purchases for Ukraine. The Pentagon should be supplying these.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf0 Czech volunteers, with support from citizens of Czechia, Slovakia, and other countries, have delivered a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to Ukraine\u2019s Defense Intelligence (DIU).<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb Read more: militarnyi.com\/en\/news\/defe…<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM<\/a><\/p>\n I wonder if the water used in the ice rink smells is as brown as the water from the tap.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n August 24, 2025. In occupied Donetsk, locals in the Kyivskyi district are asking Pushilin why there\u2019s still no emergency declared\u2014especially with heating season ahead. They\u2019ve been without water for a month, while an ice rink is about to open at the Donetsk City mall.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude43<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Trump can\u2019t comprehend an attitude like Putin\u2019s. Trump thinks everything\u2019s about money.\u00a0<\/p>\n There\u2019s no telling what Trump might have offered Orban.<\/p>\n Fly the friendly skies.<\/p>\n Russia combats farm bankruptcies by banning them.<\/p>\n How long before ICE decides to use this here?<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \u203c\ufe0f Russia: \u201cCameras that can recognize the ethnicity of passersby have been put into operation in St. Petersburg, said Igor Nikonov, deputy chairman of the Committee for Information Technology and Communications.\u201d<\/p>\n This won\u2019t end well<\/p>\n www.moscowtimes.ru\/2025\/08\/26\/v…<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social<\/a>) August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM<\/a><\/p>\n Maybe instead of trying to push\u00a0all those Middle Eastern refugees over the border with Poland, Belarus should have kept them and put them to work in the potato fields.<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd54 In Belarus, potatoes disappeared for the first time in history, \u2014 EP<\/p>\n Due to price regulation, the 2024 harvest became the smallest in a decade: part was exported to Russia, 40% spoiled. In the spring of 2025, the shelves were empty \u2014 only small or rotten potatoes remained.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM<\/a><\/p>\n Get a room guys. \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n Dad\u2019s home.<\/p>\n And finally \u2026<\/p>\n x<\/p>\n Listen to a Ukrainian rendition of Believer by Imagine Dragons, from the Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir\ud83c\udfb5<\/p>\n Our ambassadors always have Ukraine in their hearts, performing with the Ukrainian flag. The feeling is mutual: Ukrainian ensembles love performing Imagine Dragons songs\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 UNITED24 (@u24.gov.ua<\/a>) August 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos is in deep doo doo. 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– personnel deployment points;
– communications\/EW team;
– MANPADS crew.<\/p>\n
euromaidanpress.com\/2025\/08\/27\/r…<\/p>\n
\u25aa\ufe0fBogs, by absorbing carbon dioxide, help fight global warming.<\/p>\n