"Prepare for ashes" – Kremlin Z-Channels predict Crimea's fate for Russia

[00:00:04]The Z channel Rybar, which is close to the Russian Ministry of Defense, is preparing Russians for more powerful attacks from Ukraine. Rybar drew attention to the situation in occupied Crimea, noting that a similar situation would soon be observed in Russia. He also made it clear that the government and the army would do nothing about it.

[00:00:25]Z channel suggested that businesses take charge of their own defense. A forecast of how the situation will develop across the country in the coming months can be made using the current state of Crimea as an example. The enemy, having demonstrated to the west the effectiveness of Ukraine's unmanned systems forces, will acquire even more drones and will increasingly intensify attacks on the Moscow region, including, not to mention, the M4 highway. Every businessman who understands that his business brings in taxes and is at least somewhat socially significant must take measures [music] to protect his assets.

[00:01:01]Even a gas station or a grocery warehouse and begin sponsoring nearby mobile task forces, military forces.

[00:01:08]Unless, of course, he wants to walk through ashes, wrote Rybar. Recall, Russian propaganda had footage from the Russian public of smoke-shrouded Moscow and Tambov regions following a Ukrainian drone attack on Wildberries marketplace warehouses, which were used to supply Russia's military-industrial complex.

[00:01:28]Federal television news broadcasts showed no photos or videos of the massive fires in Elektrostal and Kotovsk. Instead, propagandists showed screenshots of Russian official statements on social media regarding the attacks and reiterated familiar Kremlin narratives. Footage of the fires was not shown on the state-run Rossiya 1 television channel or on other pro-Kremlin channels, such as Channel 1 and NTV. Meanwhile, social media continues to fill with new photos and videos demonstrating the extent of the fire at the aforementioned marketplace's facilities. Meanwhile, Z-blogger Yuri Podolyaka, generally considered the Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes on Wildberries warehouses a positive moment for Russia, declaring on social media that it would draw Russians into the war. From the standpoint of involving the Russian population in the war, and specifically in a war in the direction we need, this is even a plus, the propaganda said. Employees of the Wildberries logistics center in Elektrostal, Moscow region, report that warehouse management did not allow them to leave the premises during the drone attack and subsequent fire. This was reported by Vazhnye Istorii, citing messages in the chat room of the marketplace's unofficial workers' union.

[00:02:45]According to one employee, [music] instead of immediately evacuating, workers from unit 10 were gathered to hand in their barcode readers.

[00:02:52]>> [music] >> Shift management changed their actions only after the adjacent unit 9 complex began to collapse. "They decided to act according to protocol, or whatever it was they had in mind," she wrote. The employee added that after this, the managers themselves headed for the exit, and the employees followed them through a narrow passage with a turnstile. The chat also reported that some workers did not wait for instructions and opened the cargo gates themselves to leave the warehouse. A similar version of events was told to Post by an employee of the logistics center, who is also the sister of one of the night shift workers.

[00:03:29]According to her, during the incident, [music] the management called for calm and did not allow people to leave, >> [music] >> despite the ongoing attack. Another community member suggested that workers may have been detained inside the warehouse to prevent possible theft of goods.

[00:03:56]>> Mhm.