Categories Blogs RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Pics from yesterday’s Putin propaganda show in Irkutsk show a thoroughly beaten man. This little bastard is about to pay. Post author By Mike Nova Post date July 25, 2026 Pics from yesterday’s Putin propaganda show in Irkutsk show a thoroughly beaten man. This little bastard is about to pay. ← RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: ⚡️Fire reported overnight at Engels air base, home of Russia’s heavy bombers. The cause of the fire remains unclear. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry announced a drone threat over the region earlier in the night. https://kyivindependenm/fire-reported-overnight-at-engels-air-base-home-of-russias-heavy-bombers/ → RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Putin is trapped in his own war – textbook trap. Call up another 500,000? That publicly admits the whole thing is a disaster. Don’t call them up? The front collapses this winter, the military says. 30,000 losses a month and rising. But mass mobilisation scares the Kremlin more than the body bags. It drains an already exhausted workforce, wakes the soldiers’ mothers (the only group that has ever made the Russian state actually sweat), and makes the war personal for every Russian family – exactly what four years of state TV carefully hid behind “special military operation”. No version where he doesn’t have to admit what he’s refused to admit for four years. A wi