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Silicon Bites Ep348 | 2026-06-08 | The man who initiated the war, says that Crimea can fall. Igor Girkin's June 2nd doom-post from prison, and the Z-patriot chorus that cannot stop telling the grim truth to power. Breaking: 2–4 June 2026 — Strelkov lists Ukrainian strikes on Crimea from his Kirov cell, the word "defeat" returns to his Telegram, and the Russian Z-patriot ecosystem crosses the final rhetorical threshold of despair. On Monday 2 June 2026, a Telegram post appeared on the channel of Igor Girkin — known by his nom de guerre Strelkov — the former colonel of Russia's Federal Security Service who personally led the Russian armed seizure of Sloviansk in April 2014, who admitted in his own words to "pulling the trigger" of the war in eastern Ukraine, and who is currently serving a four-year sentence in a prison colony in Russia's Kirov region. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain https://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation ---------- SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtain https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras Our events of the first half of the year in Lviv, Kyiv and Odesa were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. Any support you can provide for the fundraising campaign would be gratefully appreciated. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SOURCES: ----------

On the night of May 23 to 24, Russia destroyed the apartment of our author Artem Zakharchenko. Fortunately, Artem and his wife were not injured. But they were left without a home. Could you please share this information with the activist communities in your countries? This family now needs support to rebuild their home and their life from scratch. PayPal of the oldest son, Marco: limark.2mark@gmail.com name: Marko Zakharchenko For Ukrainian banking: Посилання на банку https://send.monobank.ua/jar/7sFs5B5MAi Номер картки банки - 4874 1000 3826 9596 ---------- Artem Zakharchenko is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, editor, media analyst and scholar from Kyiv, originally from Chernihiv. He holds a doctorate in social communications and is associated with the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is head of CAT-UA. His work spans two connected fields: Ukrainian literature and information warfare / strategic narratives. As a novelist, he is the author of Помру за Україну, але це не точно — roughly, I’ll Die for Ukraine, But Not for Sure — a 2021 contemporary Ukrainian novel about imprisonment, patriotism, betrayal and the moral costs of war. As a communications researcher, he writes on Russian propaganda, social media, Ukrainian wartime narratives and the struggle for attention in the information space. His 2025 Frontiers article develops the idea of a “connective strategic narrative” in the Russian-Ukrainian war: a narrative formed not only by state elites, but by emotionally engaged social media public. ---------- BOOKS: Narratives of Mass Destruction: Tactics and Strategies of Information Warfare (2026) Наративи масового ураження. Тактики і стратегії інформаційної війни Помру за Україну, але це не точно I’ll Die for Ukraine, But Not for Sure (2021) ---------- LINKS: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/04/18/ukrainian-authorities-are-worried-about-online-disinformation_6668838_4.html https://internews.ua/en/opportunity/social-cleavages-in-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain https://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Car4Ukraine https://car4ukraine.com/en-US/campaigns Dzyga's Paw https://dzygaspaw.com/projects Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Substack: https://substack.com/@siliconcurtain Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm ----------

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: @INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain https://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Car4Ukraine https://car4ukraine.com/en-US/campaigns Dzyga's Paw https://dzygaspaw.com/projects Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Substack: https://substack.com/@siliconcurtain Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm ---------- DESCRIPTION: Kyiv Update w/ Konstantin Samoilov: Russia’s Economic Collapse, SPIEF Humiliation & Escalation Risks In Kyiv for his final recording of the trip, Jonathan speaks with Konstantin Samoilov about intensifying strikes on Ukraine and Ukraine’s growing ability to strike deep into Russia, fueling tension and political uncertainty. Samoilov says Russian agencies are trying to silence him, reducing his output, and argues Moscow is now targeting English-language critics to protect RT’s outward propaganda. They discuss the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as humiliating theater amid visible refinery fires, claims of a rapidly accelerating Russian economic collapse, and the notable absence of central bank head Elvira Nabiullina as a sign of elite infighting. Samoilov cites fuel rationing, falling tax receipts, deficits, and shrinking options, concluding Putin cannot end the war without risking his own downfall and may escalate beyond Ukraine, while Ukraine’s victory is likely to be driven by internal Russian clan conflict. Jonathan closes by promoting his edited book, The Dark Heart of Russia. ---------- CHAPTERS: 01:12 Why Konstantin Went Quiet 03:46 Russia Targets English Voices 06:55 Potemkin Forum Optics 10:07 Economy Enters Acute Phase 14:42 Putin Speech Empty Theater 19:47 Nabiullina Vanishes 22:36 Robots and Fake Volga 26:02 Can Propaganda Survive Defeat 28:03 Visa Narrative Whiplash 31:04 Kursk Under Occupation 32:30 Nabiullina And Collapse 36:21 Why Putin Cannot Stop 41:44 Fuel Crisis Hits Home 44:54 Escalation Scenarios 48:09 Desperation Over Strategy ----------

Silicon Bites Ep347 | 2026-06-06 | On the night of 27 June 2023, a Russian Iskander missile hit the Ria Pizza restaurant in the centre of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. Thirteen people were killed. More than sixty were wounded. Among the wounded was the 37-year-old Ukrainian novelist Viktoria Amelina, then one of the most important young literary voices in the country. Amelina, who had spent the previous year documenting Russian war crimes against Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories, suffered catastrophic head injuries. She died in Dnipro on 1 July 2023. She was, at the time of her death, a writer documenting the war crimes of another country's writers' country. The poet of one literature being killed by the missile from a culture that produced Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Chekhov and Akhmatova. The country that has spent two centuries demanding that Western intellectuals revere its Great Russian Culture killed Viktoria Amelina, deliberately, on a Tuesday evening in late June. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain https://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation ---------- SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtain https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras Our events of the first half of the year in Lviv, Kyiv and Odesa were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. Any support you can provide for the fundraising campaign would be gratefully appreciated. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SOURCES: EFDavies / EUobserver-syndicated essay — "Why Russian literature must lose its innocence" (2024) Wikipedia Maksym Eristavi (Substack via Ukrainska Pravda Volya Hub) — "Matryoshka of Lies: The Supremacy" (audio show, 2024-2026) Ewa M. Thompson — Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (Greenwood Press, 2000; ongoing 2022-2026 reissue and citation) Oksana Zabuzhko — Public lectures and essays 2022-2026 — Most internationally recognised Ukrainian writer; argument that Russian literature was not a humanist counterweight to the Russian state but a structural component of it; intelligentsia and secret police as complementary functions of the same imperial body; Dostoyevsky's A Writer's Diary imperial nationalism documented Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) — "Great Russian Culture: Cancelling, Boycotting, Quarantine" — Ukrainian decolonisation framework as model for other colonised peoples; Steve Biko on "complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused"; Terrell Starr on Putin's view of Ukrainians as "white trash" and African-American scholarship on Russian colonialism; Marcelo Dascal on the "colonised mind"; bell hooks on the difficulty of articulating decolonisation experience Harvard Gazette — "Upending Putin's Russia-Ukraine myth" (February 2022) — Snyder Petryshyn Lecture at Harvard; Snyder verbatim on Russian-imperial use of memory: "memory or myth or memorialization or the selective ways that governments and leaders choose to talk about the past and choose to instruct their people to think about the past"; centuries of Ukrainian history beyond Russian framing; Plokhy moderation; Channell-Justice context Timothy Snyder — The Road to Unfreedom (2018) and On Tyranny (2017) Serhii Plokhii — The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015; revised editions) BBC News — The Zero Line: Inside Russia's War (May 2026 documentary) — Four Russian soldiers on the run; Dima (34, Moscow dishwasher repairman): "I see it – just two metres, three metres. Just murders, just click, clack, bang. It's not a drama, it's not a movie, it's real life"; Denis on meat storms: "I saw them send wave after wave, throwing men like meat at the Ukrainians, so they run out of ammo and drones and another wave can reach their objective"; Ilya the sole survivor of his 79-man mobilisation cohort tortured and urinated on; "I remember one of them screaming 'Don't shoot, I'll do anything!' but he zeroed them anyway"; zeroing as institutional practice; UK MoD estimate of 1.2 million Russian troops killed or injured ----------

Ralph Goff is a retired senior CIA officer and former intelligence executive, best known as a six-time CIA Chief of Station with a 35-year career in U.S. intelligence. His overseas service included postings and operational work across Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and several war zones. He later served as Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia and as head of the CIA’s National Resources Division, where he worked with senior U.S. private-sector figures in finance, banking, and security. Before joining the CIA, Goff served in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist and signals intelligence officer on the East German border during the late Cold War, monitoring Soviet forces. After retiring from the CIA in October 2023, he became a public commentator on intelligence, Russia, Ukraine, and great-power competition. He has traveled regularly to Ukraine, met with Ukrainian officials, and argued that Western support for Kyiv has often been too cautious. In a 2025 interview, he said the West had given Ukraine “enough weapons to bleed, not to win,” criticising fear of escalation as a strategic constraint. In 2025, Goff was reportedly selected by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to become Deputy Director for Operations, the post overseeing human intelligence and covert action, but the appointment was later withdrawn. Reporting by Politico and The Washington Post said the reversal surprised many intelligence professionals and was linked by sources to political concerns, including Goff’s public support for Ukraine. Today, Goff is known as a forthright advocate for rebuilding U.S. clandestine capabilities, strengthening Western intelligence posture, and supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression. His public persona combines old-school operations experience, Atlanticist conviction, and a blunt critique of risk-aversion in Western policy. ---------- LINKS: https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/ralph-goff https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-cia-chief-we-gave-ukraine-enough-weapons-to-bleed-not-to-win-r3q0r2fcg https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/cia-drops-agency-veteran-clandestine-operations-00267346 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain https://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Car4Ukraine https://car4ukraine.com/en-US/campaigns Dzyga's Paw https://dzygaspaw.com/projects Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Substack: https://substack.com/@siliconcurtain Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm ----------

Today’s guest is tattooed from head to toe. He says he's a “apolitical” soldier and just signed the contract trusting the investigator's word for it. We tried to reach his grandmother by phone, but that is not the first time she gave up on her grandson, he has been in prison before and will be a prisoner again. Become a channel sponsor and get unique content https://cutt.ly/mLXTACA Conversation with a prisoner of war and a call to relatives Russian army in Ukraine. Captured, wounded soldiers and officers of the RF Armed Forces. _____________________________________________ 0:00 Introduction 0:19 Many stints in prison 4:11 Did they offer you to sign? 6:35 The first combat mission 8:33 They backed out 10:35 How were you captured? 16:30 Do you understand who attacked whom? 22:09 Is this normal treatment? 24:38 Are you dodging the question? 29:07 Hello, grandma 31:29 I thought she came to visit you 32:28 Didn't think about that 38:34 Didn't talk among yourselves? All participants in the video gave their voluntary consent to filming and publishing materials with them on the Internet, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 152.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, and also, in accordance with Article 307 of the Civil Code of Ukraine. This video is for informational purposes only, and in no way calls for any actions or conclusions. #Lookforyour #VolodymyrZolkin #VladimirZolkin #interviewswithprisoners ___________________________________________________ Contact us: - https://t.me/volodymyrzolkin - https://www.facebook.com/ZolkinVolodymyr Channel support: 4441 1144 2866 9202 monobank https://www.patreon.com/zolkin USDT(trc20) TZA1DjD93ivybrmnosXRFVPhrBU2WYuaXa BTC bc1qfz6ezvejapmlh0x63kp9pckfq2xtfcq6334fw0 ETH 0x2db5e5a09697E61E1777426DA568E488D8bB5883 BNB bnb1nmc2r0myv282y4rdarqyv8e0ad50dhsvhksfw7 Translate by https://translate.air.io/en?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=refferal&utm_campaign=channel_revshare&utm_content=Zolkin

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