A wave of coordinated attacks rocked Moscow and St Petersburg over the past 3 days, with pensioners and elderly being the primary perpetrators. A string of arson attacks and explosions swept across multiple Russian cities on Saturday, raising questions about the scale and coordination of these acts. The perpetrators, many of whom confessed to being manipulated by telephone scammers, targeted a variety of public institutions and infrastructure.

Mass layoffs have come to Russia’s Kuzbass region due to the closure of three mines. A little over three weeks ago, we flashed the warning light on the Russian coal industry, outlining that the drop in production combined with the inability to export and an increasingly catastrophic countrywide credit situation would lead to mass layoffs. And now it’s happening. The unraveling of Russia’s coal industry is accelerating, with three more major open-pit coal mines in the Kuzbass region —

 It seems even Moscow is no longer safe for Putin’s war criminals. Less than a week after one of Russia’s lead missile designers is killed in Moscow, Senior General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, has also been assassinated, the highest level Russian official to yet be killed since the beginning of the war.