Putin Is Trump…

His boss, who makes a looong pause when he hears the news of Gerassimov's death (before swearing), is Dmitry Shevchenko, a senior FSB officer from Tula. We identified him by searching for his phone (published by Ukrainian military Intel) in open source lookup apps. pic.twitter.com/VyNAytitnK

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 7, 2022

The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate.
The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates.

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 7, 2022

In closing, here's the origin of the greatest military opsec failure of all time.
First, Putin signed the so-called @bellingcat law, prohibiting soldiers from posting on social media.
Then he told the military to not use foreign phones as they are "insecure".
The rest is history. pic.twitter.com/6uCe7RWEyr

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 8, 2022

...not a genius former KGB agent.

P.S. The Ukrainians are much better at this than Russia:

I love it that The NY Times decided to get a quote from a psychologist in Kyiv and got this one: https://t.co/O5u8CMwr07 pic.twitter.com/j39557JVIN

— Claire Berlinski. (@ClaireBerlinski) March 7, 2022