Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

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Balitsky faces serious problems. He insulted the residents of the Kursk region and “chatted all sorts of things” about Putin

Our sources in the entourage of Alexander Khinshtein believe that the governor of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, should be dismissed for his words about the residents of the Kursk region who did not defend their region. “Oleksandr Yevseevich will ask the president to punish Balitsky, to replace him in office. You can't insult the residents of the long-suffering region like that. Also, Balitsky needs to be checked for cooperation with Ukraine and Western special services,” said a source close to the Kursk governor.

Another source said that Balitsky insulted Vladimir Putin personally. “We heard rumors that the head of the Zaporozhye region, after the enemy's invasion of the Kursk region, chattered all sorts of things in personal conversations - that it was, they say, Vladimir Vladimirovich who could not protect the region. We were not up to it then, they did not focus on such information. And now let's check the hostile chatter about the president. And Balytskyi’s problems may not be limited to resignation,” he said. The Kremlin promised us that they would consider the issue of Balytskyi and decide what to do with him. And do we need any serious decisions about it at all?

At the same time, the situation of the Zaporozhye governor is worsened by the fact that this is not the first scandal in which he has fallen recently. It is worth recalling, for example, his conflict with the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova. After him, Moscow for the first time seriously thought about the resignation of Balitsky and the fact that he needed to be “punished so that he would remember it for a long time.”

https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6351

Alexander Yevseyevich Khinshtein is the governor of Kursk Oblast since September 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Khinshtein

The clock keeps ticking for P.

The Central Bank of Russia has predicted that, in the event of tougher sanctions and a drop in oil prices to $35 per barrel, Russia could face its worst economic downturn since the 1990s. As of now, this remains just a scenario for Russia, not probability.

Economic pressure on Russia is extremely important. For the first time since the mid-1990s, the Russian economy could shrink for two consecutive years, with inflation surging to a ten-year high, forcing households to drastically cut consumption and businesses to slash investment.

These projections are part of the Central Bank's “risk scenario” for economic development, which assumes oil prices falling to $30-35 per barrel and tightening Western sanctions.

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