[SpeedyInTexas]

“Half of Rostov 🇷🇺, the 11th largest city in the country, has been without electricity, heating, or water for hours.

The speaker says “it’s a flash mob - everyone is using flashlights.””

[FtrPilot]

"No panic!" Peskov and Putin report.

Russian Rostov reports a massive blackout.

According to the local media, dozens of buildings are without electricity, water and heating.

Bataysk in Rostov region has no electricity, as well.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1746259370847998192

Putin's press secretary Peskov explained the mass accidents on heating grids across the country by "abnormal frosts" and the obsolescence of the housing and utilities systems. " Titanic efforts are being made to upgrade the housing and utilities systems, but it is impossible to upgrade all pipes in 10-15 years," Peskov said.

Titanic efforts

We all know what happened to the Titanic.

[FtrPilot]

Update on the Wildberries fire in St. Petersburg, Russia.

-- Cameras and fire alarms were turned off: The fire alarm was turned off. The cameras in the warehouses in Shushary were turned off 30 minutes before the fire. The Investigative Committee has already opened three criminal cases. The instigators of the fight and the looters are identified.

-- Presumptive caused is ethnic rivalries between Caucasians and Central Asians: People from two post-Soviet republics are suspected of being involved in a fire at a warehouse in Shushary (St. Petersburg). The Caucasian diaspora, feeling at home in St. Petersburg, provoked the Central Asian diaspora into conflict with stabbings and shootings.

By the time the police intervened, the warehouse was already on fire and the massacre continued. The cameras recorded huge thefts during the evacuation, for the sake of which it is possible that the whole process was started in order to organize looting.

A significant part of expensive goods was stolen. The rest burned down. The “elders” who arrived from both diasporas did not allow the firefighters, who were already quite late, to enter for a long time. Then everything was caught on video and spread across the Internet.

Smolny is urgently deciding which of the two parties is to blame.

https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1746150807802704324

The Investigative Committee has already opened three criminal cases.

The instigators of the fight and the looters are identified.

[FtrPilot]

Near the Kremlin, a representatives of the movement of wives and mothers of mobilized soldiers, “The Way Home,” was arrested for protesting.

https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1746135655359369311

I am confident that the same thing is happening somewhere in Alabama.

[SpeedyInTexas]

If the Lankford immigration bill details turn out to be as leaked, I’m shocked at how bad it is.

I expected something decent, but short of House goals.

Lankford won’t be helping Ukraine with that ‘deal’.