A 25-part thread from a pro-Ukraine account argued Russia’s wartime economy is failing on several fronts at once. We checked every claim against Bloomberg, Reuters, Meduza, Vyorstka, Anadolu and Sberbank’s own macroeconomic research. Most of it holds — several figures to the exact digit, and on one point the thread is more conservative than the reporting. Four claims diverge from the record. One is simply wrong, and the thread’s banking-contagion argument rests on it.
