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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Sep 15, 2026
🇷🇺 KHODORKOVSKY: PUTIN MAY SEE DEFEAT IN UKRAINE AS A THREAT TO HIS OWN LIFE
Mikhail Khodorkovsky argues that Vladimir Putin has locked himself into a war he believes he cannot afford to lose.
In Khodorkovsky’s assessment, military defeat would not simply threaten Putin’s political survival. Putin may believe it would cost him power and, very likely, his life.
That makes the danger around the Kremlin much larger than one man.
Khodorkovsky says Putin is not primarily afraid of Russia’s liberal opposition. He believes the more immediate threat comes from the political and social forces Putin himself helped create during nearly five years of war: people brutalized by violence, combined with the old St. Petersburg circle around the president that Khodorkovsky describes as gangster-like.
He also points to Muammar Gaddafi’s death, arguing that the episode had a profound psychological effect on Putin and remains an image the Russian leader repeatedly returns to.
Then comes the nuclear problem.
“The ‘red button’ is under Putin’s hand,” Khodorkovsky warns, adding that nobody truly knows what would happen if he tried to use it. The chain could lead to nuclear launch, or someone around him could refuse at the decisive moment.
For Khodorkovsky, Russia’s present predicament began long before Ukraine. The country failed to solve the problem of leaders who make themselves irremovable and rewrite constitutional rules to remain in power.
His argument is that the cost of confronting that system earlier would still have been painful, but nowhere near the danger Russia faces now.
Putin built a system in which losing a war, losing power and personal survival may all have become the same question.
— @WW3finalboss Sep 15, 2026
Сикорский, заявляя о военном превосходстве Польши над Россией, не осознает, что в случае военных действий против Москвы Варшава исчезнет за два-три дня, заявил в интервью aif. ru помощник президента РФ Николай Патрушев:
vk.cc/d1LAJe— @tass_agency Sep 15, 2026
🤡 Warsaw will disappear in 2–3 days in the event of military action against Moscow, — Putin’s aide Patrushev.
Patrushev said that Sikorski supposedly “does not realize” the consequences of his statements, and claims that the Russian Federation will use “the entire arsenal of forces and means,” as a result of which Polish statehood will cease to exist in 2–3 days.
— @front_ukrainian Sep 15, 2026
🇩🇪🇺🇦 The engine behind Germany’s €11.5 billion a year in weapons for Ukraine is a secretive unit of fewer than 20 people that some call a guerrilla team.
It’s called the Sonderstab Ukraine, tucked inside a high-security wing of the defense ministry.
One collaborator calls it “incredibly un-German,” and for good reason: while the Bundeswehr’s own procurement runs through a 13,000-strong agency and layers of red tape, this unit can strike a weapons deal in as little as 2 weeks.
The trick is that contracts are signed by Ukraine’s government, not Germany’s, letting the team bypass the usual procurement labyrinth. Kyiv hands over a shopping list, Berlin pays the bill.
Even the Germans understand that the only way to make their bureaucracy move fast is to go around it.
Source: FT / Writer: Julie
— @MarioNawfal Sep 15, 2026
Russian drone almost hit former CIA director, may have targeted Boris Johnson thehill.com/policy/internati…
— @thehill Sep 15, 2026
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Poland scrambles jets as Putin attacks Kyiv with jet-powered drones
Major Russian attack comes as Nato fighter jet shot down a drone in Lithuania shortly after midnight
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— @Rawfeednews Sep 15, 2026
PUTIN WIN🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸: Zelenskyy says, he will not authorise the further strikes on Russia’s oil or energy sites after the Trump’s demands.
-Russia Is winning in the global Energy and oil prices volatility.
— @rkmtimes Sep 15, 2026
Breaking:
Russia says Mecca defense pact is another NATO. It is against Israel.
— @_MegaPolitics Sep 15, 2026