「ロシア兵の故郷：傍受記録から見える風景」

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

In many tapped phone calls between Russian soldiers and their relatives (Russians steal UKR mobile phones, use them, SBU taps) they tell same story: how rich Ukraine is, how much they have looted, and how cool ppl lived here. Some saw asphalt and street lights for the fist time.

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Many Western experts and politicians loved to repeat the story of "rich Russia and poor Ukraine". The fact is, that except of extra rich Moscow and Petersburg, Russia is an underdeveloped country, and average Ukrainian province lives much better than average Russian province.

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

I don't even talk about political freedoms in Ukraine like election of mayors, free press, local self-governance etc. - soldiers do not see this. Ukrainians have better roads, better lights, more money, better food, better connection with neighbour countries. This shocks Russians

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

They were told all the times that Ukraine is a failed state with people who work like slaves in Europe and have nothing. Now they see the reality where every gasoline station has a computer-operated coffee machine with 30 types of teas, coffee and hot chocolate, and a whisky bar.

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Of course they loot the whisky bar. /END

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Minimum wage in Russia was $190 in 2021, while minimum wage in Ukraine was $245. An average wage in Russia was $688, while $640 in Ukraine. The latter needs to be contextualised: very high Moscow, Petersburg and oil regions salaries distorted the stats. visasam.ru/emigration/vyb…

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

So even pure wages stats shows, that Ukrainians had more money. Add to this lower prices in Ukraine, as well as a number of Ukrainians who worked abroad and sent money home. Effectively, an average Ukrainian family in province had easily twice as higher income (PPP) as Russians.

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

A 🇺🇦 economy education project "The Last Capitalist" compared salaries for the same jobs advertised in Kyiv and in Moscow in Oct 2021. Electrician: $875 in Kyiv, $640 in Moscow Plasterboard construction worker: $2200 in 🇺🇦, $1300 in 🇷🇺 Supermarket cashier: $760 in 🇺🇦, $600 in 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/W6V1dKNgya

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

For those who continue to ask me about asphalt. Guys, this is the main road in diamant- and gas-rich Yakutsk region. Photos of cars stuck there after rains appear regularly. I understand that Moscow can be chic and cool, and you havn't seen anything else, but Russia is not Moscow pic.twitter.com/z2qmJbXm52

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

And if you say "oh, it is far in Siberia, but this is not what happens around the capitals": this is a photo from a "Federal Highway" in Petersburg region. Please note the perfect "asphalt". pic.twitter.com/RvO7kgHwBh

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Here are photos from Russian hospitals. Note that three are from: St.Petersburg, Elektrostal (Moscow suburbia) and Kislovodsk (a regional center and a resort in rich Russian south). Source (a RUSSIAN web page): kaifolog.ru/russia/7724-no… pic.twitter.com/w5LJtC7vLE

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

As a former Russian, and a son of a medic, I can smell these pictures, so much they are authentic. It is a mixture of urine, chlorine, cold air, and cheap drugs. A terrible smell I need to say. A one cannot be erased from memory.

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

For those who say "but Russian GDP is so high!" or "but average wealth is bigger than in Ukraine!" Guys, this is Norilsk, the home of world biggest nickel producer. 177,000 ppl live in Norilsk. The owner of NorNickel Prokhorov has $11bn wealth. This makes $62,000 per person, aha. pic.twitter.com/CvQ1NgoSKS

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Sorry to remind my own old joke, but literally, some Russian cities look like if Russia had "liberated" them: twitter.com/sumlenny/statu…

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

A recent photo: Russian army in Ukraine has looted some potato (the IFV has tactical marks of Russian army). Thank you for this photo @visegrad24 pic.twitter.com/FGRN7txMoc

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Once again. You are an 18 y.o. from the most poor villages in poor regions. You had no chance to see anything but THIS poverty (and Putin on TV). You have never traveled. Than the army takes you and sends to Ukraine. And you see those rich Ukrainians with asphalt - and hate them. pic.twitter.com/0NUwxigfoM

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

According to official data of Russian State Statistics Service "Rosstat", 22,6% of Russians lived in 2019 in houses without running water. In rural areas, it were 66,5%. Think about it: 2/3 of rural conscripts had to shit into holes all their life long: novayagazeta.ru/news/2019/04/0…

Sergej Sumlenny @sumlenny

Out of all Russians - living in both rural AND urban areas, including chic Moscow, St. Petersburg etc., 40,9% of families who have 3 or more kids, had no running water in their house in Russia in 2019. This is the official statistics of Russian government. novayagazeta.ru/news/2019/04/0…

仮蔵 @karizo2022

「メリトポルで強制的なロシア語教育はじまる」に関連して、過去300年の歴史をふまえた解説スレッド：以下要約 ・300年前からロシアはウクライナにロシア語を押しつけようとしていた ・ソ連時代もウクライナ語の弾圧は続いた ・歴代の抵抗者たちはシベリア送りで殺された twitter.com/sumlenny/statu…

Wall Street Petting Zoo @WSPZoo

@sumlenny Ukraine is poorer than Russia by both median income and PPP per capita, but Ukrainian income is more evenly distributed by quintile. Ukraine's bottom quintile has 10% of the income and its top quintile 25%. In Russia, the top quintile takes 46% and the bottom quintile just 5%.

Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko

Wow, Russian volunteers on the Ukrainian side, reportedly former Russian military service members. “Russia’s Freedom” legion getting instructed on how to use NLAWs pic.twitter.com/6rLkePZXrb