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𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦@Tweet4AnnaNAFO · Sep 8, 2026

🔥 Ukraine’s Zelensky: “We’ll increase the range & frequency of sanctions.” 🧵 1/

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Summary

Russia's economy is experiencing severe collapse with tripled bankruptcies, record military spending consuming over half federal revenues, massive capital flight, and critical shortages across fuel, coal, and exports. The Economist warns Russia faces an economic crisis worse than 1998 if the war continues beyond 2026, while Ukrainian sanctions and strikes on infrastructure are accelerating the deterioration.

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  1. #1

    🔥 Ukraine’s Zelensky: “We’ll increase the range & frequency of sanctions.” 🧵 1/

  2. #2

    🔥 The Economist’s Warning: Six Months Left If the war doesn’t end by the close of 2026, russia faces an economic crisis worse than the 1998 default. Collapsing oil revenues, record military spending, capital flight and structural shortages are accelerating the crisis. 2/

  3. #3

    🔥 🇷🇺 Journalist Mikhail Fishman: “Putin’s regime has reached a dead end.” “This cannot go on forever. Putin is attempting yet another blitzkrieg — to starve Ukraine into submission this winter. But what if it fails again?” 3/

  4. #4

    🔥 Bankruptcies in russia have tripled in 2026 Monthly business closures have surged from 5,000–7,000 in 2024–25 to 15,000–18,000 in 2026. High borrowing costs, weak demand, sanctions & rising costs are crushing firms. Jobs disappear. Investment falls. The tax base shrinks 4/

  5. #5

    🔥⛽ TMT: russia’s second fuel crisis is here. Gasoline shortages are spreading again. “We’re basically back in the 1990s, when our parents stood in line with ration coupons. And now we’re standing in line for gasoline.” Ukraine’s refinery strikes are reaching the pump. 5/

  6. #6

    🔥 Record shadow capital outflow $12.2 BILLION vanished through “errors and omissions” in Q2 — nearly 9× the previous quarter and the highest since records began in 1994. One in every ten export dollars is disappearing from the official books. 6/

  7. #7

    🔥 russia’s coal industry is collapsing 80% of Kuzbass coal enterprises are operating at a loss. 18 have already closed. 1,700+ miners say they haven’t been paid since October. Wage arrears: ₽500M+. Now 1 in 5 companies in russia’s coal industry could close. 7/

  8. #8

    🔥 Russia is now the world’s No. 1 central-bank gold seller as its budget deficit surges Russia is selling 78% of the gold it produces. In August, another 10 tons were sold from the National Welfare Fund. Gold reserves are being poured into a growing fiscal hole. 8/

  9. #9

    🔥 First, Russians were tearing down United Russia & Putin election posters. Now, with Putin’s fake elections just 10 days away, Russians are filming public appeals: “We are fed up with this war. We want peace. United Russia is a party of war, hunger, death & murder.” 9/

  10. #10

    🔥 russia is now spending ₽2.5 billion ($30M) on war every single hour. Military spending hit ₽10.7 trillion ($129B) in H1 2026 — 30% higher than last year and consuming 43.8% of all federal spending. The war is swallowing 57% of federal revenues. 10/

  11. #11

    🔥 Major blow to russia’s exports: 🇱🇻 Latvia is preparing 300% tariffs on Russian & Belarusian grain transit. 🇱🇹 Lithuania is also moving to restrict it. russia rerouted exports north after 🇺🇦 strikes hammered its Black Sea & Azov terminals. Now that route is closing too. 11/

  12. #12

    🔥 🇷🇺 Russian blogger Gladkov: “We fucked Russia up completely.” “We have the shittiest currency. The economy is fucked. There are shortages of everything, everywhere. While the rest of the world is developing, we’re heading straight into the abyss.” 12/

  13. #13

    🔥 “Complete collapse of the system” The former 🇷🇺 finance minister who predicted the 1998 default now warns that a permanent war economy would trigger a “complete collapse of the system.” The man who saw russia’s last default coming is warning again. 13/

  14. #14

    🔥 The system is eating itself Capital is fleeing. Industrial giants are drowning in debt. Trade routes are closing. These are no longer separate problems. It’s the same crisis spreading across russia’s economy. Stand with Ukraine. Share. #NAFO #NAFOfellas 14/

  15. #15

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  16. #16

    🔥 🇷🇺 Sources powering this thread on russia's economic collapse: Kommersant, Gaseta ru,TMT, Verstka, Agentsvo, EMDPR, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, TVP world, Le Grand Continent, Euronews, Radio Svoboda, the Economist, SOTA, FNS, Fedresurs, World Bank, IMF, UN, OECD, IISS, CSIS

  17. #17

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