🧵Zelenskyy’s answer to Trump? 1,256 drones and 7 cruise missiles across Russia in a single day. When Washington…

🧵Zelenskyy’s answer to Trump? 1,256 drones and 7 cruise missiles across Russia in a single day. When Washington pushed Ukraine to stop hitting oil refineries, Kyiv launched the largest attack of the war. Top Z-blogger Yuri Podolyaka looked up: "Very many, as for me." 1/🧵

The blitz tore through the Rostov plant, building Klin drones, wiped out 6 bombers at Voronezh, and set Petersburg oil terminals ablaze. Moscow admitted the scale of the strike, while Russian military channels confirmed hits that its own ministry tried to hide. 2/

US officials had offered a trap: stop refinery strikes in exchange for buying 12 Patriot missiles a month. Zelenskyy rejected it on Bloomberg, warning that partners were pushing for capitulation: "Trump can't force Putin to end the war." 3/

While Ukrainian drones hammered Russian infrastructure, Moscow's internal response devolved into an Orwellian farce. On Monday, a court in occupied Donetsk jailed an RT star for 18 months over one sentence criticizing officers who hide bad news from the front. 4/

Tatiana Montyan was a hardcore pro-war columnist. Her crime? Calling for the elimination of bureaucrats who file fake reports. The court convicted her for attacking the "okhranota," officially ruling that hyper-loyal "yes-men" are a legally protected social group. 5/

The lies start at the top. Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin on camera that Russian troops were 5 km from Zaporizhzhia. Independent maps proved they were 24 km away. The country's top general fabricated a 19-kilometer advance on national TV. 6/

Russia's largest war channel, read by 170,000 people before breakfast, revolted against the chief of staff: If Gerasimov "gives beautiful reports instead of real results, it is time to send him to pass on his experience at a military school." Fire him. 7/

Z-blogger Alexei Zhivov exposed what Gerasimov calls "controlling a settlement": If two assault groups are holed up in a cellar and can only be fed water and chocolate bars dropped by drones, is that control? The general says yes. The men in the cellar want chocolate. 8/

While generals fake progress, air defense has become a farce. Russian interceptor drones carry no warheads, forcing pilots to ram 400lb cruise drones with toaster-sized quadcopters. Refinery guards were photographed defending strategic sites with 1946 machine guns. 9/

With state defense failing, Russian billionaires are panicking. Putin’s business-rights chief said oligarchs are passing the hat to buy private air defense for their own plants, then asking Moscow for a tax break to cover the bill. 10/

The humiliation spans the border. With Russian drones shot down across Eastern Europe, Zhivov wrote the line that captures Moscow's shock: "If someone had told me five years ago that Latvia and Estonia would terrorize us unanswered, I would have laughed." 11/

Facing industrial collapse and an unmanageable sky, Putin wants a backdoor exit. The Kremlin proposed a "second Yalta" with Trump and Xi in Shenzhen to divide the world into spheres of influence. Putin had one condition: Volodymyr Zelenskyy must not be in the room. 12/

Peskov called the drone swarms "the last manifestations of agony." Yet Putin is begging foreign leaders to draw lines his army cannot hold. A regime can jail citizens to protect its yes-men, but it cannot protect its skies from reality. Report: 13/🧵 professorbonk.substack.com/p/putin-asked-…