Four-legged pyrotechnic Patron keeps on demining the territory around #Chernihiv. Yesterday, together with his colleagues he destroyed 262 explosive items.#StandWithUkraine #StopRussianAgression pic.twitter.com/WuFQu8QgcN

— Emine Dzheppar (@EmineDzheppar) May 1, 2022

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Western attention is focused on the millions of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian assault began on Feb. 24. But Russia is also in the midst of an emigration wave that is upending its spheres of arts and journalism, and especially the world of tech.
The Russian Association for Electronic Communications told the lower house of Russia's parliament last month that 50,000 to 70,000 tech workers have fled the country, with 100,000 more expected to leave over the next month for a total of about 10 percent of the sector's workforce. Ok Russians, a new nonprofit group helping emigres, used a sampling of data from neighboring nations and social media surveys to estimate that nearly 300,000 Russians overall had left since the war began.
Mitya Aleshkovskiy, co-founder of Ok Russians, said some of those leaving are opposition activists, artists and journalists people whom President Vladimir Putin is probably happy to see go, and whose departure could reduce active dissent within Russia. But nearly half of those leaving hail from tech a highly transient, globally in-demand workforce that includes many who fear Russia's global isolation, newly adverse business climate and near-total authoritarianism.
The Russian government is "really scared and shocked," Aleshkovskiy said. "The prime minister of Russia has been begging these guys to stay. He's telling them, 'Don't worry that Apple leaves, we will build our own Apple Store. Please don't go.' … But I would say that the best people are leaving right now. … The highly skilled, highly educated, highly paid specialists."
Thousands of Russians who left, initially fearing that Putin would seal Russia's borders, have gone back in recent weeks. But at least some are expected to leave again, as experts predict a fresh wave of departures in the coming weeks and months. Experts on global migration and Russian population are calling the current exodus Russia's single fastest since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when millions of intellectuals and economic elites fled the rise of the Soviet Union.
"In some ways, this is a first," said Jeanne Batalova, a global migration expert at the Migration Policy Institute. "We're talking about a lot of people in a very condensed period, a matter of weeks. In 1917, Russia was in the midst of a civil war. But this is happening at time when there is no war within Russia itself."
The departure of so much talent threatens to undermine a host of Russian sectors, from the state media to aerospace and aviation industries already reeling from Western sanctions. The tech and start-up ecosystem was already withering under escalating government interference and censorship.

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Previously, a Raptor was struck and damaged/destroyed by an ATGM off the coast of Mariupol. These new strikes are around Snake Island.

That's at least three Raptrol boats taken out of service, so far. I wonder how many the BSF still has operational. https://t.co/Wq4P7gAKO0

— Kemal (@kemal_115) May 2, 2022

Seems like Granger was absolutely right, the loss of Moskva can be felt around Snake Island already.@CovertShores has shown that Moskva sailed around Snake Island regularly. The loss of Moskva provided the opportunity for these strikes, I believe.https://t.co/EyticjdMxz

— Kemal (@kemal_115) May 2, 2022

More background on the targeted vessels. https://t.co/tZQdDRhoSJ

— Kemal (@kemal_115) May 2, 2022

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Yeah I think very few of the Russian fires are actual UKR hits. Could be Putin or it could be some other anti-Putin Russian group sabotage

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The Clash Report channel (likely linked to the Turkish government) posted a longer video of the TB2 strikes on the two Raptor fast-attack craft near Snake Island this morning. https://t.co/pJ8LhFAtE5 pic.twitter.com/moZgFIcW8i

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 2, 2022

The fire has been confirmed by Russian state media:

"In Perm, two people died in an emergency at a gunpowder factory, one victim is in the hospital. The enterprise manufactures charges for Grad and Smerch multiple launch rocket systems and air defense systems." pic.twitter.com/OuMcToK0aJ

— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) May 2, 2022

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Amazing how discriminated against Russians are. And how it always seems to manifest when Russia isn't getting what they want.

This article isn't a call for war but it reflects Russia's frustration with Kazakhstan's unwillingness to back its actions in Ukraine

The feeling that Tokayev betrayed Russia after the CSTO came to his aid in January is vocally expressed in the Russian media

— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 1, 2022

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The 30th Ombr military eliminated the ammunition depot of Russian soldiers. This is the skillful work of mortars, who, by the way, have only recently joined the ranks of the brigade. pic.twitter.com/sSWTUOE32I

— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) May 2, 2022

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The 30th Ombr military eliminated the ammunition depot of Russian soldiers. This is the skillful work of mortars, who, by the way, have only recently joined the ranks of the brigade. pic.twitter.com/sSWTUOE32I

— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) May 2, 2022

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You know it’s dangerous when you can choose not to do the mission!

— James Vasquez (@jmvasquez1974) May 2, 2022