Jack Sweeney, the 19-year-old college freshman who made recent headlines for tweeting the real-time whereabouts of Elon Musk’s Gulfstream, has taken his pastime a big, perhaps more dangerous, step forward. With the ongoing economic and airspace sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, the University of Central Florida information technology major has now established a Twitter account tracking 39 private aircraft operated by Russia’s richest and most powerful oligarchs, including Vladimir Potanin, Roman Abranovich (owner of the elite U.K. Chelsea Football Club soccer team) and billionaire steel magnate Alexander Abramov. According to reports in the U.K. Daily Mail, the Twitter account now has better than 64,000 followers, all with access to regular reports of the movements of the aircraft.
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