Anton Gerashchenko on Bluesky story about a strike at a nuclear plant with documentation:
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3m56ndvbujs2i
The post contains video from the situation.
As I’ve been posting many times before, many workers in Russia are behind on payments. People working in factories being 3 months behind is not uncommon.
Anna from Ukraine explains the situation here. She is a good source IMO, because her English is excellent, and being Ukrainian she understands Russian, and makes frequent news updates about the Ukrainian war from various perspectives.
Anna Danylchuk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EQ0ubmsIk
Inside Russia on youtube was first to report on the Russian population beginning to have had enough to a degree they are actually beginning to complain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoR5_bJywWQ
I’ve claimed before I don’t think Putin will last through the winter, and I see this as the first signs that the Russian people is about to have had enough.
The story reported by Anna and Gerashchenko tells that the workers are at least 2 months behind on wages, they were promised transportation to work, something that is important because of the lack of fuel, and public transport becoming unreliable. But they do not get the promised transportation. They were also promised 1 hot meal per day, but do not receive that either.
Finally in their homes, they are out of water and heat.
This is the economic and infrastructure collapse many have predicted was inevitable, that is now beginning to really show. And it isn’t even really winter yet!
PS: The moderators removed my previous post with false accusations, so here it is posted again according to their demands.
The Russian economy was already strained by the war and sanctions. But now the Russian economy is outright collapsing. Ukraine’s attacks and sanctions have cut Russian oil exports in half compared to the beginning of the war, and in the same time the price has dropped to half.
That means that oil exports are only worth a fourth now compared to the beginning of the war!
But it is not only oil, it is EVERYTHING!
Russian oligarchs overall are estimated to have lost about half their net worth!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_billionaires
As shown in my original post, Russian companies are now at a point where they can’t pay workers, transportation is failing, and some people can’t even get food reliably.
There were recent stories about how Russians in certain regions wouldn’t have power or water or heat due to “planned” maintenance. Except this is not possibly planned maintenance, because that is ALWAYS done in the summertime!
Russia is out of options to cover the deficits in creative ways. From now on they will have almost immediate effect, and old deficits will catch up too, and the whole thing will probably collapse over the next 3-6 months, or earlier if the Russian people decide they’ve had enough.