You saw what Israel did to Iran with an air strike force. All over in one night.
Thats what happens if America steps into Ukraine, Russia folds in one night like Iran did. And then, shortly after, Russia publically says it won’t retaliate to the US like Iran did with Israel.
Posted by: Banishedandbackagain | Feb 4 2025 21:38 utc | 287

Please, tell us what did Israel do with ‘it’s’ air force? Destroyed 30 S-300 equivalent launchers as reported by the western media? Flew jets above Tehran dropping bombs? One must be seriously retarded to believe that.
Realistically they hit one radar and damaged another in western Iran, using Iraqi air space, launched well beyond their range. Even this required massive logistical support of Nato and continuous radar surveillance. And btw, there was no Israeli jet above Tehran nor did they drop any bombs. These strikes are very negligible in terms of damage. In contrast to the Israeli performance of Patriot PAC or David’s Sling AD systems, which actually were hit with pinpoint ballistic strikes from Iran. They shot down a lot of those slow moving rockets but there are videos showing entire BM salvos hitting the ground intact.

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 5 2025 11:57 utc | 304

Putin knows his economy is souring and he is eager for the war to end. The fact he is willing to negotiate before he could even reclaim Kursk shows he is desperate.

Posted by: ferus gyps | Feb 5 2025 14:57 utc | 306

Explosion reported at the draft office in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast of Ukraine.
This is the 3rd explosion linked to army recruiting offices in Ukraine within the past 5 days.
Army draft officer was also shot dead last week in Poltava region.

https://x.com/talkrealopinion/status/1887114142558941361

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 5 2025 16:06 utc | 308

In ressponse to
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I believe we might have to start another un/rhetorical question going. Where are the negotiations?
Posted by: boneless | Feb 5 2025 16:54 utc | 310
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The negotiations are taking place on the battlefield at this time.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 5 2025 17:12 utc | 310

In Kharkiv, a man who committed arson on the railway will be tried
A 40-year-old man on the Internet found a part-time job with Russians. He carried out arsons as tasks, and for each time received 9 thousand hryvnias
This is reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, reports RegioNews .
According to law enforcement officers, a 40-year-old man in Kharkiv damaged relay cabinets of alarm systems, centralization and blocking, which ensure the operation of automation and serve for the safety of railway traffic. To do this, he used a solution to light a fire.
The man broke open the metal doors of relay cabinets with a crowbar, doused the electrical equipment of the railway with the specified liquid and set it on fire. After that, he took photos and videos of the consequences, and sent a “report” to his Russian curator. The invaders need these diversions to stop the supply of equipment and ammunition for the Defense Forces in the Kharkiv direction.
“It is established that the defendant recently arrived in Kharkiv and lived with his fiancee. Before that, he lived in Odessa, and even earlier in Lviv. In addition, now the man is brought to criminal responsibility in Odessa for the sale of narcotic drugs and has already served a sentence for attempted premeditated murder and robbery, ” the prosecutor’s office said.
The Russian special service found a resident of Kharkiv region through ads on a job search site. For one arson, he received about 9 thousand hryvnias.
“The accused will be tried in Ordzhonikidze District Court of Kharkiv. He faces imprisonment for a term of fifteen years or life imprisonment, with confiscation of property, ” the law enforcement officers noted.
We will remind, earlier in Kiev , the SBU detained two groups of arsonists . It is known that they set fire to a service pickup truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Five SUVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine, as well as a relay cabinet belonging to Ukrzaliznytsia, were also burned.
It was also reported that a resident of the Uman region will be tried for sabotage on the railway and energy facilities. The man performed the tasks of the invaders: he set fire to transformer substations, which are important, in particular, for defense purposes.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/harkovshchina/1738768021-u-harkovi-suditimut-cholovika-yakiy-robiv-pidpali-na-zaliznitsi (via translation add-on.)
Photo here: https://postimg.cc/67qzVbjj

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 5 2025 18:17 utc | 312

Times Radio is still being used as a propaganda tool for the UK / US / NATO against Russia.
Use this URL in your browser:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=times+radio

Posted by: WMG | Feb 5 2025 18:24 utc | 314

Lengthy article here: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/02/05/usaid-everything-panic-began-in-kiev-at-the-grantoed-media-exchange delving into the impact of USAID funding on Ukrainian media.
A snip:

And now we will give the floor to Andrey (name changed), a long-term employee of Gosteleradio of Ukraine. He says that there has never been such confusion in the ranks of journalists and editors.
— Employees of various channels and publications are constantly calling us, panicking, demanding that we write an official letter to Trump demanding that the funding of their organizations be restored. They send us autobiographies in batches describing their “achievements for America” so that we can also attach them to the letter. This is just crazy! I had no idea that such a huge number of media people were associated with USAID! Gosteleradio is also connected, here all the projects are Nazi for USAID money. True, we receive funding from the state budget, but recently I was told that this article is funded by USAID. But these are multimillion-dollar projects about the “Russian threat”, “father Bandera”, “beautiful America and Europe”, etc. In general, almost all propaganda of Ukrainians and “amerodemocracy” is based on USAID money — both in state media and in private! Without them, it can just burst like a soap bubble!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 5 2025 18:37 utc | 316

Missile strikes on AFU reinforcements in Sumy, probably intended to be inserted to Kursk cauldron.
Attack on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Sumy: powerful explosions and fire recorded, reports @don_partizan
Less than half an hour ago, a powerful explosion was recorded in Sumy, after which an intense fire was observed at the site of the impact. Emergency services arrived in the area of ​​the impact and increased activity of rescue units is noted. Ukrainian sources also report the possibility of repeated launches.
According to preliminary data, the attack could have been directed at the concentration sites of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade, which are stationed in the villages of Stetskovka and Verkhneye Peschanoye. This unit is actively involved in combat operations in the Kursk direction.
Area coordinates: 50.9828184, 34.7739244
Currently, the details of the strike are being clarified.
https://t.me/Zornkrieger/72365
…
Iskander-M OTRK
❗️Yesterday at 22:54 monitoring resources reported the sounds of explosions in the Sumy region after the previously announced ballistic threat 🚀.
📹Later, a nondescript photo of a distant glow without any details appeared online.
Here’s what actually happened:
➡️ Russian aerial reconnaissance aircraft have discovered a large concentration of equipment and manpower from the 516th battalion of the 1st separate special forces brigade of the Territorial Army of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​the settlement of Stetskovka in the Sumy region.
➡️ An Iskander was immediately sent to the identified coordinates, and it hit the target exactly.
According to information from a 🥷 source, the strike destroyed:
🟠 ammunition depot (burning heavily);
🟠 Armoured vehicle- 23 units;
🟠 All-terrain vehicles – 15 units;
🟠 cargo vehicles – 10 units;
🟠 up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen.
Asbery’s Opinion: Again these are the numbers being reported not our numbers. I tend to be more conservative.
@Slavyangrad (http://t.me/Slavangrad)
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/118808
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 5 2025 11:46 utc | 304
Marty/smoothie has a video, apparently.

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 5 2025 19:45 utc | 318

Why haven’t they captured Kiev?
Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Feb 5 2025 20:42 utc | 320
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When did the Russians ever say that they wanted to capture Kiev?
They have captured the mineral resources of Ukraine and secured Crimea.
They have killed many thousands of Nazi troops and annihilated NATO equipment while building the most impressive military-industrial base in the world, and managing to decouple from the dangerous and queer globohomo financial system.
Stop pursuing strawman arguments and stick to the record.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 5 2025 20:51 utc | 320

Addendum:

In a few weeks, it will be the three-year anniversary of this war…I’m sorry, “special military operation”. That Moscow hasn’t crushed a smaller, weaker state right on its doorstep is utterly pathetic.

Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Feb 5 2025 20:42 utc | 320
As for this nonsense, again you fall into the same trap as the likes of @Anonymous; you set your own arbitrary timetable for what Russia “should have” achieved by your own uninformed yardstick, then complain vociferously when Russia hasn’t achieved what you decided it should achieve.
It’s your timetable, you broke it, you own it…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 5 2025 22:08 utc | 322

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 5 2025 20:51 utc | 321
Yeah, good question on why Russia would need (or even want) Kiev. The next capital of Ukraine could be Zaporozhye or Dnepropetrovsk. Kiev could become a remote small town.
They have demolished not only Ukrainian armed forces, but Ukraine itself economically, and suckered the EU into a spiral of death having to support an endless black hole. Ultimately, any way you slice it, it leads to the end of the EU itself, whose task to survive is not support a military Junta outside the union, but whose function was to transfer wealth from one part of EU to another part of EU. Now, with all the wealth going into a bottomless pit, there’s no more wealth for the transfer areas and no more economic motive for the deficit areas.

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2025 9:42 utc | 324

According to Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels, Ukraine launched another offensive into the Kursk region. Battles ongoing and the Ukrainians seem to have retaken some lost ground. Yet we keep hearing how they are running out of men and equipment.
Posted by: bored | Feb 6 2025 11:59 utc | 326

Given the firm refusal by the Kremlin to deprive of them of those things, you will be still hearing about how they are out of men and equipment even when they are storming Belgorod city some time in the next few months…

Posted by: ANON2022 | Feb 6 2025 12:35 utc | 326

Yeah, good question on why Russia would need (or even want) Kiev.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2025 9:42 utc | 325

Perhaps because:
1) It is a Russian city, one of the most important Russian cities in fact.
2) Geostrategically the border has to run well to the west of it anyway

Posted by: ANON2022 | Feb 6 2025 12:38 utc | 328

And just like that, Elensky appears as a madman who wants a nuclear exchange
Posted by: frithguild | Feb 5 2025 18:28 utc | 316

Not a madman at all.
The Western strategy has worked very well so far.
Did you imagine back in 2022 that three years into this Russian cities more than a thousands kilometers into the rear will be bombed daily, pre-war Russia proper will have been invaded and will not have cleared the invaders six months (today is exactly six months since it started) later, and the Kremlin will be on its knees begging for a deal that will finalize its strategic defeat, instead of unshackling the Russian the army to do what has to be done?
The frog was slowly, skillfully and very successfully boiled, taking advantage of the internal dysfunction of Russian society and the comprador nature of Russian elites. The analysts in Langley are very good at what they do, and they did a proper job here too.
The final dagger will be giving nukes to Zelensky.
Which, if the well-established pattern is followed, will soon happen, and might in fact already have happened.
What is it that “Zelensky has asked” and has not received so far? In quotation marks because in reality Zelensky does not ask for anything himself, he says what he is told to say, and the US is just giving itself permission to escalate, safe in their knowledge there will be no meaningful response.
The obvious next step is nukes on Tomahawks and JASSMs.

Posted by: ANON2022 | Feb 6 2025 12:47 utc | 330

Military recruitment office in Rivne blown up by a 21 year old man who was attempted to be mobilized. 8 military officers injured. Things are seriously deteriorating beneath the surface.

🇺🇦 The Military Recruitment Center in Rivne was blown up by a 21-year-old guy from the Zhytomyr region.
He entered the military registration and enlistment office building with explosives in his backpack, after which an explosion occurred.
He himself died, eight military commissars were injured, the SBU reported.
-> Another explosion occurred at the Kamyanets-Podilsky military registration and enlistment office.
Military recruitment is the enemy of the people.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1887120855496310879

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2025 12:54 utc | 332

Don’t you think, hypothetically, threatening to give Kiev nukes is the final admission of defeat? If they were winning and having planned beach parties in Crimea, they wouldn’t be talking about nukes.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 6 2025 13:05 utc | 334

The sole reason the war was started was to prevent US nukes being placed in Ukraine.
The Kremlin never gave a single f**k about Russians in Ukraine (or anywhere else, including in Russia itself) as long as the oligarchs were making their billions off selling Russian raw resources to the West, but that prospect forced their hands.
How would that happening be a win for Russia?

Posted by: ANON2022 | Feb 6 2025 13:08 utc | 334

Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 6 2025 14:00 utc | 336
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There are a few lonely and obsessive posters who do this for free.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 6 2025 14:05 utc | 336

CEC opens access to election information and prepares to launch voter register — CHESNO
The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Ukraine has restored access to the section of its official website that contains information on parliamentary and local elections.
The CHECNO movement drew attention to this.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the aggressor country russia, these sections of the CEC website were inaccessible for security reasons.
It is noted that until recently, data on voting could only be viewed if they had been archived in advance.
Currently, the CEC website provides information on presidential and parliamentary elections for different years. Data on local elections is also displayed.
Deputy Chairman of the CEC Serhii Dubovyk confirmed in a comment to CHESNO that access to the official website of the election commission has been fully restored.
“The Central Election Commission is completing another stage of restoring the State Register of Voters – streamlining information about polling stations that operate on a permanent basis. When we receive permission from cyber specialists to open the third component of the register, voters will be able to check their electoral address,” said Dubovyk.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the day before, the U.S. President’s Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg said in an interview with Reuters that Washington wants Kyiv to hold elections immediately after the cessation of hostilities.

Election momentum seems to be building up. Probably the quickest way to completely dissolve Ukraine as a nation-state entity.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 6 2025 14:21 utc | 338

328 (ANON)
If you click on the little “i” icon at the Deep State Map, it gives you total RFA territory taken (use the second row down) as well as daily changes. Just doing the math:
05FEB: 68,204 kmsq
31JAN: 68,185 kmsq
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delta: 19 kmsq
# days: 5
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kmsq/day: ~4
So, less than half of JAN. Or about a fourth of DEC. Or about a sixth of the (recent record) NOV pace.
It’s one thing to make copes about the weather (although that happens every year, and a factor favoring the defense is still a factor favoring the defense). But when I see clickbait YT and X channels still pushing the “RFA is accelerating” meme…and I see cheerleader types buying that and saying Donetsk is getting hoovered up…well that is lame!
Also, of course the recent UFA counterattacks at Pokrovsk and Kursk are interesting. Heck even if RFA repels them, it’s sure a different story to say “we repelled the UFA” versus “we moved forward”.
Note that I give the RFA credit when they earn it. Did it during the “acceleration” and will do it again. But doing the math shows you a very interesting story that cuts through the spin. Heck, even at the record month of NOV, the pace on an intrinsic scale was quite small. Still talking over a decade to get RFA claimed 4 oblasts.

Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 6 2025 15:15 utc | 340

I mean sounds obvious, but it’s definitely the way war planners on staffs think. They want to take “centers of gravity”, regardless of the post war borders. It just helps defeat the enemy.
Posted by: Anonymous | Feb 6 2025 15:18 utc | 342
Yes but consider that Napoleon took Moscow then lost the war and the Wehrmacht wasted 50-60% of their offensive power fighting to take Moscow then lost the war when they should have concentrated their efforts in 1941 taking the Donbas coal and Caucasian oil then take Moscow the next year when the Soviets were out of oil and the Volga blockaded from receiving lend lease aid.
Further more did the fighting stop when the Americans took Bagdad or did it ramp up? Destroy the civilian government and it becomes a case of “you broke it you bought it” Your army is no the countries police force, intelligence service and humanitarian service provider.
Your argument would make sense if the “government” of a country was a place and not a set of organizations and institutions that maintain order in a country … note the 8 years of civil war and chaos in Iraq. Buildings and cities can be siezed and destroyed but a government can meet anywhere to make decisions. Destroy Bankova Street and the government meets via Zoom from their dachas all over Ukraine … what did you actually destroy hitting Bankova Street let wasting time and money taking a city of 3 million.
If you can for example create a situation so bad that civilians turn on their government in a coup then the institutions stay intact and the new government is responsible for their own police and security.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Feb 6 2025 16:21 utc | 342

@Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:36:00 GMT | 344

This is something that the shallow and binary thinkers, who see Odessa (for example) becoming Russian only by military assault, do not factor in the prospect of the residents themselves deciding where their future lies.

Indeed, Crimea became Russian without a shot fired. Same can happen with Odessa. The point of the SMO now is to weaken the AFU to the point that they cannot put up any more resistance. “Centers of gravity” aside, although I doubt our map-dropping friend has read Clausewitz, there are many different ways to win a war.

Posted by: James M. | Feb 7 2025 3:25 utc | 344

@okoolo | Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:56:00 GMT | 345
Except they lost Ukraine and Belarus, Georgia and Armenia. Russia is more secure, Putin is definitely more secure. Europe is less secure, and in fact the US is on the verge of losing Europe. The US is blocked out of Eurasia (Central Asia) entirely, and has lost considerable influence in Africa and Southeast Asia. France has been kicked out of almost all of their former African colonies, but that’s just a side benefit.

Posted by: James M. | Feb 8 2025 1:04 utc | 346

@Polygon Man | Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:31:00 GMT | 347

Russia is on the precipice of economic collapse

We’ve heard that for the last three years. Any actual evidence to back that claim, or are you just another troll/sockpuppet account that need to be blocked?

Posted by: James M. | Feb 8 2025 4:18 utc | 348

illogical comedy act is not like it, lol..

Posted by: james | Feb 9 2025 3:54 utc | 350