April 1: Florida holds two special elections for U.S. House seats.
June 17: Virginia has primaries in races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and House of Delegates.
November 4: General elections are held in the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia contests that had primaries earlier in the year.
@steel_porcupine – so far you’re right, but 194 / 5.000
But Trump has put himself under pressure by naming Easter, because a lack of results damages his (self-perceived) reputation, and Trump’s ego doesn’t like that at all.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 28 2025 23:28 utc | 103

The French and the British want Ukraine to throw everything they can muster against the borders w/ Russia, and this sounds like an epic flail.
Posted by: smartfox | Mar 28 2025 23:28 utc | 104
Yesterday or the day before yesterday I read a report about a Russian “spring offensive” that has just begun, but nothing more about it today.

Posted by: smartfox | Mar 28 2025 23:35 utc | 105

The day my neighbor hammered the nails which clamp the Ukrainian flag into the wood siding of his house, he climbed down from the ladder, surveyed his work, and then snapped a selfie before the flag.
I’m sure it was w/ extraordinary eye-moistening satisfaction that he posted his selfie to social media. Think of the affirmations & emojis which came his way.
The day my neighbor hammered the blue & yellow propaganda flag to the side of his house, the fabric of the flag was starkly bright, and it had deep creases from being folded up and shipped to him from Amazon Prime.
That was before Bakhmut. Before the summer counteroffensive of 2023. Before Avdeevka.
Blizzards have assailed that blue & yellow piece of fabric, also torrential spring rains. Torch-like days of glaring sun have bleached the colors of that blue & yellow fabric.
It’s interesting to wonder what room is on the *other* side of the wall on my neighbor’s house. A dining room, maybe-? Perhaps an awkward pass-through parlor, which no one knows exactly how to furnish except to set up a wifi router and maybe a side chair-?
If it’s a dining room, does the family–which may be no more than him & his wife–recite a passionate prayer in support of Ukraine before breaking bread-?
My neighbor will never remove the propaganda colors from his house, because to do so would be to…
Which my neighbor can never do.
Ukraine is the hill, and my neighbor wants to die on a hill. Ukraine may as well be the hill he dies on.
Because for him Ukraine is eternal.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 28 2025 23:40 utc | 107

Angelo | Mar 28 2025 16:47 utc | 36
Angelo is correct ^ The “lost” M88 VRT “sank” right near the Belarus > Kaliningrad pipeline.
Bringing in more equipment to retrieve the M88 is a cover to do all sorts of shady shit. The vehicle is said to have sunk 5metres. That’s more like swimming in a lake than driving through a swamp.
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Gerhardt G. | Mar 28 2025 22:50 utc | 97
Kursk NPP was a “card” to trade for the Zaporizhia NPP.
ZapNPP was exporting electricity to EU and subsiding energy prices there. Loss of ZapNPP was not on the EU bingo card pre 2022.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 28 2025 23:56 utc | 109

The M88 didn’t sink in the mud. They drove it off into a big ass hole of deep water. The driver was probably 19 and the chief no more than 22 or 23. The mechanic 91 MOS guys are always a bunch of redneck “hold my beer” type guys. Plus it was probably night and they couldn’t see very well. I remember something like 7 guys drowning on Ft. Sill back in the 90s when some guys drove off into a creek after a big rain.

Posted by: CullenBaker | Mar 29 2025 0:15 utc | 111

These are not neighbors who would ever hoist the Star-Spangled Banner on a flag pole on their front porches…
Perhaps they will never pry the nails from the flag of blue & yellow propaganda from their houses because they.just.can’t
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 28 2025 23:23 utc | 101
USA is not as easy as you think. I know plenty of people with CNN on all day, and a giant American Flag too, often, yes, with “stand with ukraine” signs in their windows.
Same with vets,I know a lot of “leftist” vets. So e regretting their service, and some full of justification.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 0:45 utc | 113

ZH has a posting up that I haven’t seen much coverage of the idea because Putin suggested it.
Putin Floats Plan For UN To Govern Ukraine Until Elections Held
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The Russian leader on Friday proposed a “transitional administration” for Ukraine under the auspices of the UN. The immediate aim would be ceasefire leading toward “democratic” election, followed by the negotiation of a peace agreement with the new authorities.
“We could, of course, discuss with the United States, even with European countries, and of course with our partners and friends, under the auspices of the UN, the possibility of establishing a transitional administration in Ukraine,” Putin said while visiting the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk.
He laid out that “we could discuss the possibility of introduction of temporary governance in Ukraine,” while Ukraine holds “democratic elections, to bring to power a capable government that enjoys the trust of the people.”
After this, he explained, the two warring sides would “start talks with them about a peace treaty.” Putin has in the recent past complained that Zelensky is ‘illegitimate’ and thus can’t legally be negotiated with, since he has canceled democratic elections on an indefinite basis.
As examples of where a temporary UN governance scheme has been implemented before, Putin held out “several cases of what is called external government,” in East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and parts of the former Yugoslavia.
…
Putin in the fresh remarks where he floated the UN-administration plan had some other interesting comments, directed specifically at his US counterpart Donald Trump:

Putin also praised US President Donald Trump, saying, “In my opinion, the newly elected president of the United States sincerely wants an end to the conflict for a number of reasons.”
He stressed that Moscow favored “peaceful solutions to any conflict, including this one, through peaceful means, but not at our expense.”
Putin also praised Russian troops for “holding the strategic initiative” throughout the war. “There are reasons to believe that we will finish them off,” he said, adding that “the Ukrainian people themselves should understand what is happening.”

As for the war, drones have continued to fly across the border in both directions on a nightly basis. Even though a ‘partial ceasefire’ is supposed to be on – protecting both countries’ energy infrastructure – it doesn’t look as if this is actually sticking.
Moscow has on repeat occasions this week accused Kiev of attack its energy sites. Simultaneously, Russian missiles have rained down on Ukrainian cities.[note: not energy sites]

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 29 2025 0:48 utc | 115

(…) the emerging clarity regarding the Ukrainian government’s illegitimacy, particularly Zelensky’s, makes anything signed by him or made into law by the Rada null and void dating back to when elections should have been held.
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 28 2025 16:20 utc | 26

The Rada (parliament) derives its legitimacy from the constitution. Article 83 of the Ukrainian constitution provides for the extension of parliamentary functions while martial law or a state of emergency is in force. The Rada can therefore ratify a peace treaty.
As for Zelensky’s possible illegitimacy to preside over Ukraine, this is a matter of domestic law which has no bearing on international law. If Zelensky is not the de jure authority (which is debatable), he is the de facto authority, since the administration and the army obey him. He can therefore negotiate and sign international agreements. Karl Dönitz, President of the Third Reich, was perfectly entitled to decide on the surrender of the Reich, and more generally, any lack of democratic legitimacy does not render international agreements null and void. If it were otherwise, many of today’s conflicts would still be legally ongoing.
Besides, Putin is not worried about the nullity of a treaty concluded with Ukraine, he’s only worried that a so-called nullity might later be invoked as an argument likely to seduce the fellow citizens of future Ukrainian war-mongers like Arestovich, who predicted that Ukraine would lose the first of the wars against Russia he was calling for, but pointed out that thank God there would be others afterwards.
See what Putin concludes on this point in the answers to the submariners that you relayed on your blog:
(…) If [Zelensky] is illegitimate, then so is everyone else.
So, in the conditions of this de facto illegitimacy, neo-Nazi formations receive additional weapons and recruit new people to their ranks. What does this lead to, or can it lead to? That the actual power is in their hands. And this means, in turn, that it is not clear with whom to sign what documents, and it is not clear what power they have, because tomorrow other leaders will come, who will go through the elections and say: “Who signed there – we don’t know, goodbye.”
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putin-the-submariner-in-murmansk

Posted by: Leuk | Mar 29 2025 1:01 utc | 117

The Lithuanian mysterious missing mission
https://www.eucom.mil/image/43158/recovery-efforts-continue-at-site-of-submerged-vehicle-in-search-for-missing-soldiers
> “Additional assets arrive in support of recovery efforts in Lithuania
In the last 24 hours, U.S. Army and Lithuanian authorities brought in additional assets to assist with the ongoing recovery efforts of four missing U.S. Army Soldiers and a M88 Hercules from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqga-e7AiCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL2gYvuHz0

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 29 2025 1:15 utc | 119

..any lack of democratic legitimacy does not render international agreements null and void. If it were otherwise, many of … conflicts would still be legally ongoing…
Posted by: Leuk | Mar 29 2025 1:01 utc | 119

This. It is supposed to be an agreement, so it is up to both sides to deside whether any signator would be valid. If Russia sticks to her position that Z is illegitimate, she is in her right not to sign any treaty with him. So the SMO would go on untill Russia is satisfied and be able to press Ukies into bending to her will.

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 1:33 utc | 121

@dooknakin dooknakin
Cool story, bro. Remind me if you would, what is your owns shit hole country’s projected growth for 2025-2026? I’ll wait here, shall I? Please, only reply if it tops that of the Russian Federation.

Posted by: nwwoods | Mar 29 2025 2:47 utc | 123

Looks like another Nato hotel/theme park/holiday destination was hit in Dnipro.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 28 2025 21:03 utc | 79
Nice, any more details or links to that.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 29 2025 3:37 utc | 125

Posted by: Gerhardt G. | Mar 29 2025 3:31 utc | 128
Much as I find myself strange to agree with you, but there is some obvious truth in your statement and I do not need any one else’s comment information, just my own common sense.
It seems to me that Ukraine/UK had seven objectives with the Kursk adventure:
First: Try to grab the NPP to exchange for the Zaporizhia NPP (Big Failure)
Second: Grab land to exchange with Russia (slow in coming but also big failure)
Third: Take the pressure of the Donbass fight by forcing Russi to relocate troops. (Russia did not take the bait and kept going in the Donbass big failure)
Four: Take pressure off the Kharkov front which was emerging (I think that was successful for at least a short time)
Five: Embarrass Russia (probably successful)
Six: Boost the morale of their own side (worked for a brief time) and
Seven: Use the attack to cadge more weapons from NATO (maybe)

Posted by: watcher | Mar 29 2025 3:56 utc | 127

…You don’t send tens of thousands onto foreign soil just to hold one powerplant in blackmail…
Posted by: Gerhardt G. | Mar 29 2025 3:57 utc | 132

And you call someone a newcomer here.
AFU would send thousands to die for one cover story in the WaPo.

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 4:55 utc | 129

Where’s that Anonymous guy? I want to tell him the past days battle report. Russia today, again, bombed the crap out of UKrain.
Tragic.
Posted by: jopalolive | Mar 29 2025 4:24 utc | 134
Country or agency behind anonymous handle very cool,professional,no reaction to even insults. Only mention of taking Odessa seems to rattle them or break off the cool facade. Wonder who has such concern for Odessa. British/French?

Posted by: Michael J | Mar 29 2025 5:01 utc | 131

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 28 2025 23:29 utc | 105

Well said. Don’t expect the dipshits who planned the Kursk invasion to admit it was an utter disaster. Some in these very forums pointed out many months ago after the push failed to capture the NPP, that the men sent there would do naught but die. Take a bow, NATO peacocks.
For those who gape in disbelief I can only assume you haven’t been paying much attention or have been mesmerized by the utter bullshit coming out of the ‘respectable ‘ Western media. Kursk was a cosmic level disaster for the AFU but it wasn’t Zs coke habit that caused it, it was the hubris of a bunch of self assured children play-acting as generals in places like Whitehall, Brussels and Rammstein.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 29 2025 5:03 utc | 133

I can be found and quoted in these forums, on the very first day of the Kursk incursion that it was a trap. Putin couldn’t ever politically admit – for what I hope are obvious reasons – that he left a door slightly open, deliberately, to bait the absolutely rabid and dipshit AFU and their retarded NATO handlers into a diasterous misadventure where they would lose any advantages and where the attacks would play into Russian patriotic sentiment to help drive national unity.
You must be right, it was completely unforeseeable, the annihilation of the forces assigned to the Kursk gambit. You are super duper smart. Did you help plan this suicide mission?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 29 2025 5:15 utc | 135

The biggest problem with NATO planners, generals, etc, is they are so used to having the superior forces, that theor entire officer corps has developed a tradition of winning. All they know os winning. Their history for the past 34 years is stories if close calls, only to be saved at the last moment. Vietnam was full of this, close calls, saved by airstrikes.
So their planning is ALWAYS over optimistic. They also do not allowuch crkiticism, because it is demoralizing. It takes a wise leader to balance thse two forces.
They literally thought tjey had a good chamce they would pound all the way to Crimea. They literally thought they were going to take a huge Chunk of Russia, and then bombard deeper into Russia from there.
So much effort is put into the fist, on the assu.ption the fist is so powerful, it cant he stopped.
As much as I laud Putin’s political judo, Rusdia is the baddest street fighter on the planet, fluffiest cauliflower ears, flat nose from being broken so many times, (Moscow razed 3 times), backed up by the biggest nuclear biceps in the world. Russia is not just judo.
Russia knows what it means to lose. NATO don’t.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 5:23 utc | 137

Well said. Don’t expect the dipshits who planned the Kursk invasion to admit it was an utter disaster.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 29 2025 5:03 utc | 139
Of course it was. Ukraine is fighting a losing war. Everything will end in disaster for them.
There is no good strategy to beat Russia. It is impossible. Trying to find ways to do it is the ultimate in idiocy. But NATO tries.
As for your last two paragraphs, I wrote the same in my own way, before I noticed this. Kizmet.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 5:30 utc | 139

My point is that from my point of view Kursm was obviously a trap. It should have been obvious to NATO as well, in hindsight, no? Or maybe I’m just psychic and NATO types couldn’t have possibly guessed or assigned a probability liklihood to the outcome we now see.
There seems to be some argument that in any world Kursk was advisable except as a hail mary gambit by children thousands of kilometers away with no real stake in its outcome. I’m saying these planners are complete fucking idiots, while you seem to think you can spin NATOs strategic planning performance as anything but abysmal. If it makes you feel better, pretend that Russia got caught with her pants down. Putin will happily agree with a wink.
OK, goodnight.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 29 2025 5:40 utc | 141

Col Tim Collins, a retired British army officer writing for the Daily Telegraph, sees VVP sacrificing the *useless eaters*—-his walking wounded—-on the battlefield “in a last push ahead of some tough negotiations in the Stalinist style.”
What’s obvious to Col Collins is that if “negotiations” happen, they will be “tough” and they will happen “in the Stalinist style,” because although VVP is the president of the Russian Federation overseeing an ultra-21st Century war more than 72 years after Stalin died, everything about a war involving VVP or Russia must needs hearken back to Stalinism, especially if it is “tough.”
For Col Collins, nothing about Russia’s SMO in Ukraine has anything to do w/ the 21st Century: for Col Collins, it’s “Stalinism” or nothing—-especially with meat-waves!—when Russia engages in conflict: “for Putin, ammunition costs money, and the dead cost nothing.”
Not only does Col Collins promulgate skeevy tropes relative to Russia—-“the dead cost nothing”—meaning Russians don’t care about losses, but he can’t see anything in the skirmishes occurring, for instance, in the Belgorod region but warfare “in the old Soviet doctrine” which Col Collins insists is “in vogue,” meaning *all the rage* for post-Soviet militaries.
The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, but any military hailing from a former Soviet state of course *never* escapes its Sovietism, even if it’s 34 years later. The rationale is this: once Soviet, always Soviet. For op-edders like Col Collins, the Soviet Union nefariously never actually ended, atomized into independent states which we recognize today—-Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Ukraine. For Col Collins, they are so hindered by a past they can never escape, so tinged w/ what-is-Soviet, that when the pedal hits the metal during high-stress warfare a former Soviet state will revert to its Sovietness, hell-for-leather. For a military man of the West, a former British army officer, seeing the knee-jerk Soviet quality of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine emerge is “frustrating.” Col Collins commiserates, paternalistically, w/ “the Western military trainers and advisors in Ukraine.”
Listen, no one was hallucinating Stalin or seeing “Soviet doctrine” in the Belgorod skirmishes in March 2025 until Col Collins shared his historical, if not hysterical, fantasies. The only way we can really comprehend these events is to dust off the ol’ “Stalinism,” detect the nodes of “Soviet doctrine” and take it from there. To quote Abba: the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 29 2025 5:42 utc | 143

CullenBaker | Mar 29 2025 1:48 utc | 124–
Being a redneck has everything to do with economic status. You clearly don’t know where or why the term came into being. I suggest you find out.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 29 2025 5:47 utc | 145

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/27/who-will-be-the-next-president-of-ukraine/

Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 29 2025 5:53 utc | 147

Putin will happily agree with a wink.
OK, goodnight.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 29 2025 5:40 utc | 147
🙂
You are actually one of my favorites.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 6:05 utc | 149

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 29 2025 5:42 utc | 149
The name Stalin is the epitome of evil in USA, because anti-communist semtiment is so high, especially in the shangri-la of capitalism. A midwit will be proud to display his “acaaaachtual” intelligence by shocking a friend with the “facts” about communism compared to hitler.
I remember when I was young how Stalin was worse than hitler because he killed 20 million, and Mao killed 15 million, but Hitler only killed 6 million.
Now, I hear Stalin killed 100 million, Mao 90 million, and the holodomor was just as evil as the holocaust because it killed 2 million christians by the evil Russia.
The evil inflation is high here, and in post soviet states there is still a troublesome anti Russiam sentiment lingering

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 6:24 utc | 151

Posted by: Michael J | Mar 29 2025 5:01 utc | 132
like others pro-Ukros here, uses a sock for the less “cool” posts, Julian.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 6:36 utc | 153

Was Lee an idiot? Nope. He got quite far North…
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 5:57 utc | 149

That’s the difference.
Ukies persist in failures.
Instead of looking for someting new, that might work, they turned predictable in repeating their previous mistakes.
Was Lee like that?

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 6:50 utc | 155

Ukies persist in failures.
Instead of looking for someting new, that might work, they turned predictable in repeating their previous mistakes.
Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 6:50 utc | 156
Certainly nobody here was predicting an offensive in Kursk before it happened. shadowbanned once talked of an offensive through bologorod, but he was always hyperventilatimg and producing worst case scenarios in his head to crucify Putin with.
If you thiink it was a trap set by Putin, you can also claim Ukraine is predictable, ok. There is no proof it was intentionally set as a trap.
Otherwise, I dont think it is fair to call it “predictable”. Maybe theor persistsnce in staying, but then I ask, who would yake Kursk, see it was a trap, and call a retreat.
Generally, in ambush, the ambushed cant just run away. Once they attack, they are invested.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 7:03 utc | 157

🚨🇷🇺🪖 EXCLUSIVE: Russian soldier gives UNFILTERED INTERVIEW about the current state of the Russian military, drone warfare, and Ukraine’s recent battlefield failures.
You won’t see this kind of NO-HOLDS BARRED conversation anywhere else.
(1:25) How NATO prepared Ukraine for war
(8:35) Battle for Donbass in 2022
(11:36) Lessons from drone warfare
(16:51) Have drones overtaken artillery and fighter jets?
(20:41) Why 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive failed
(24:43) Russian military is becoming more ‘democratic’
(31:42) How NATO weapons perform on the battlefield
(34:16) Colombian mercenaries used as human shields
(37:30) Why Ukrainians failed in Kursk
(40:18) How Russian soldiers treat Ukrainian POWs
(42:13) Russian military is stronger now than in 2022
https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/1904156244224753812

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 7:19 utc | 159

If you thiink it was a trap set by Putin, you can also claim Ukraine is predictable, ok. There is no proof it was intentionally set as a trap.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 7:03 utc | 158

I am sure that was not Putin. He would have stopped anything that might result in civilian deaths.
But General Officers, they are unlike normal people. Military Staff Officers just think in different categories of good and evil.
I am sure thst Russian military counter-intel intercepted some attempts to bribe some minor border functioner, like previously there were attempts to bribe Russian pilots (one of them was even successfull). Or may be Ukie got some dirt on abusinessman who was contracted to build the border fortifications and cheated so they started blackmailing him. Russian Counter-Intel knowing that Ukies were predictable decided to play them, but underestimated the size of the incursion, and so their game just got out of hands.
Wad it a trap? Yeah, but for a much smaller vermin.

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 7:35 utc | 161

Yeah, but for a much smaller vermin.
Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 7:35 utc | 162
It’s a valid theory, but it will be a long time before anyone in the public knows for sure.
I can offer some more counter-rhetoric. If it was a big Putin planned Ambush, (DoctorEleven’s also valid theory), I would think Putin would have wanted it staged on already destroyed battlefields, and certainly not on unscathed Russian territory, which, if all went poorly planed, could risk the loss of a NPP, temporary or otherwise.
As to your theory, how could they set an ambush for a small force, but be surprised by a larger force, with all eyes and energy on that area, with the ambush set in motion?

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 7:54 utc | 163

how could they set an ambush for a small force, but be surprised by a larger force, with all eyes and energy on that area, with the ambush set in motion?
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 7:54 utc | 164

You should understand that August is usually a bad month fo Russia. Traditionally, Big Brass takes vakations in August and lots of shit usually happens when their deputies or assistants substitute them and try to prove to their Bosses and Bosses of their Bosses tat they are leaders’ material.
So I figure that some eager substitutes instead of reporting suspicious moves up the chain od command wanted to prove themselves and turn out heroes and decided to settle the matter on their own.
I figure they were expecting another photo-shoot and were preparing to cut off the intruders on their way back so Russian minor tripwire forces were hidden by the long strip of the border and the normal border quards were moved away to the flanks of the possible incursion route.
When the incursion force came in much stronger than expected, it also had some signal suppression equipment, so the tripwire forces could not report the unforseen development at once and so some of the initial precious time was lost.
And the main forces which were supposed to be alerted long ago were called to help only when the eager substitutes understood that things got seriously out of hands.
That is how I figure it.

Posted by: Rutte | Mar 29 2025 8:27 utc | 165

Apparently Starmer/MI6 have ordered Zelensky to take as many areas on RU side of border as possible. The British still think they can use the territory held by AFU within Russia to exchange them for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
I think this isn’t the case at all, but whatever…

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 8:39 utc | 167

Boris Rohzin reports that Ukrainian “volunteers” consent to the donation of their organs by a Canadian clinic.

At the captured Ukrainian soldier found the questionnaire of the Canadian clinic: the serviceman gave “voluntary consent” to organ transplantation
The fate of the prisoner of war Chemer A.V. (born in 1984) from the 41st mechanized brigade was no different from hundreds of thousands of other forcibly mobilized people.
Caught a shopping center, first lucky-sent to serve the electronic warfare stations located on cell towers in the Sumy region, then transferred to the infantry and sent to die in the Sudzhansky border area.
3: 33 This is where the fun begins. Before being sent to the positions, the commander of Chemer handed out the questionnaires of the “French medical clinic” to the servicemen, saying that this was a health insurance policy that would allow them to receive treatment in the best health care facilities.
No one was confused by the fact that at the bottom it was written in black and white that the clinic is located in Canada, no one even read it, everyone filled out dictation and put their signatures.
The commander took the questionnaires of all Chemer’s colleagues, but the prisoner of war himself did not have time to fill it out because of the shelling that began. Counting on qualified medical care, the Ukrainian soldier carried this “medical policy” everywhere with him. After his surrender, our servicemen had already discovered him…
What was the surprise of the Ukrainian soldier when it turned out that this was a voluntary consent to the transplantation of his organs in a medical clinic in Ontario (Canada)!
At the moment, it suggests that in Canada, under the guise of providing medical care to injured airmen, they are used as donors for numerous wealthy clients of this clinic.
machine translated, with images
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/159579

Oh! Canada?

Posted by: too scents | Mar 29 2025 8:45 utc | 169

Wrong. Ukraine will then be an agrarian state with some natural resources. Nothing that you give up. The black soil alone (which the Chinese tried to siphon off at the time) makes Ukraine one of the main producers of wheat. Ukraine will then be similar to Poland.
Posted by: smartfox | Mar 28 2025 22:26 utc | 90
Well, you’re wrong too./
Ukraine without Odessa, and you say it’s an agricultural state!
Yes, but surrounded by the EU on one side and Russia on the other…also clear.
How similarly did EU states behave when Ukrainian wheat (I call it animal feed) was transported by rail through their countries?
EU neighbors let their prices be ruined?
Almost 85% of the black soil there belongs to US corporations that don’t give a damn about toxins as prescribed in the EU….the last harvests were NEVER intended for the European market with its controls…in Africa and Arabia, nobody cares what’s in the wheat.
So how does the REST OF UKRAINE, without access to the sea, get its harvests to the customer (unless they get smart and say NO to poison)? There are enough criminals in the EU who would happily sell such “animal feed” in large bakeries or chicken farms…so the only option, as in the past, is a total import ban. And reaching other customers via Europe as a transit area negates the advantage of the low price.
And it is precisely these corporations that have Trump in their hands that are concerned about their lost trillions of investments, which would be 100% lost in two cases.
1) Odessa is lost for Ukraine.
2) Ukraine capitulates and Russia takes over ALL black soil.
What is left for THE WEST as a last resort…
That’s right: Freeze the war before Ukraine has to capitulate or the Ukrainians themselves chase their Nazis away.
And Trump is pursuing precisely these interests of his financiers, he just doesn’t know how to repay his debt to them…
That’s why he continues to supply weapons, shifting from being a “good” president to a threatening one, tricking and deceiving… sometimes the Russians, sometimes the elites, trying to wriggle out.
Addendum to Odessa
I’m waiting for Germany to lay claim to the city…because it was demonstrably a central settlement area for Germans; in its heyday, about 79% of the population was German. And that was less than 150 years ago.
DID YOU KNOW?

Posted by: berthold | Mar 29 2025 8:48 utc | 171

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 29 2025 8:47 utc | 171
Overall: Another bad day for the RFA in Ukraine. They took 0.4 kmsq.
What’s the point of “not a good day”?
But it reads completely differently, for example, in Simplicius’ analysis of yesterday and last week!
I recommend that you either learn that kilometers don’t equal successes, or study the background to your maps as much as you can.
You, on the other hand, spread slogans like the official media within the Western bubble…
By the way… in none of your comments did I even read “Not a good day for Ukraine” once.
P.S.
And again, you forgot that the Russians are now even advancing from the Kurk region into Ukrainian territory, thus keeping this front active and gaining Ukrainian territory…

Posted by: Beobachter | Mar 29 2025 9:03 utc | 173

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 29 2025 8:47 utc | 171
Watching MS from last night, RUAF is consolidating their hold of Oskol crossings north of Kupyansk, making a lot of progress NW of Terny in South Kupyansk direction, practically taken back Toretsk (excluding Zabalka microdistrict in southern part, but that is now cut off), took back Solove in western part of Kursk bulge (now improving areas to the south, making future AFU attacks less likely to succeed), Kotlyne is split along the rail line, which RUAF tries to hold as its the best position for defense, improving around Kamyanske opening more doors for attack north or east, improving north of Novosilka.
So seems things are more likely going RUAF way regardless of an illusionary numbers game.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 9:14 utc | 175

Not a great day for Spring here. It was cloudy all day and even rained a bit. At this rate, there will never be a Summer.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 9:18 utc | 177

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 29 2025 9:16 utc | 177
Do we know the ranks of these missing four? Were they special forces?
First details hid possibility of Kursk dead. I thought they had found the bodies in the vehicle..
…but now, no bodies? Just missing?
Now Kursk cover up seems more likely than before.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 9:23 utc | 179

Perhaps they will never pry the nails from the flag of blue & yellow propaganda from their houses because they.just.can’t
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 28 2025 23:23 utc | 100

I’m afraid you’re totally right. Europe is a moral quagmire and will only sink deeper. Central European neo-fascists will ravage through the continent with all their newly aquired weapons until there is nothing left.
Of course the day *may* come when Europeans look east but I doubt it.

Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 29 2025 9:47 utc | 181

Missile and drone strikes in Dnipro and Krivoy Rog this morning – recon drones were spotted flying above the towns before.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 9:59 utc | 183

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 9:59 utc | 184
This fits in with the following:
The Russian armed forces are attacking “shaheeds” with a new tactic.
Partly guided by scout drones, instead of approaching targets one after the other at intervals of several minutes, drones now gather several kilometers from the attack site at an altitude of 2-3 km and then dive together for the target.
This overwhelms any defense.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 29 2025 10:24 utc | 185

🔥As a result of a strike in the Dnepropetrovsk region, ten NATO officers were eliminated, reported Lebedev, the coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance.
The strike hit the Bartolomeo restaurant, where a celebration was held with NATO officers, as well as Ukrainian security service and military intelligence personnel.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/39054

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 29 2025 10:45 utc | 187

🇷🇺💥🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 A patch from the British naval school Gordonstoun sail training, where Prince Philip and the current King of Great Britain Charles III studied, was found on a militant eliminated in the village of Guevo in the Kursk region.
A video shot by fighters of the 22nd motorized rifle regiment of the Sever group at the site of the destruction of a unit of Ukrainian paratroopers was made available to RIA Novosti.

https://t.me/ZandVchannel/147918

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 29 2025 10:54 utc | 189

So the terrorism has started.
A ukrainian stabbed 5 people in Amsterdam.
The news on the radio, which is always short in time and limited to highlights now elaborately made it a point that he was from Donetsk, “the Russian speaking part”.
They really tried subtily to imply he was a Russia sympathiser.
As if they would run to the west and not Russia like 5 million others.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Mar 29 2025 11:34 utc | 191

Potentially up to 10 NATO officers, and SBU/GUR officers dead in Dnepropetrovsk strike in Bartolomeo restaurant.
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1905925339244617782

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 29 2025 13:02 utc | 193

Posted by: umuntu | Mar 29 2025 12:19 utc | 193
Exactly, unfortunately for them they had to acknowledge their existance to make their point.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Mar 29 2025 13:11 utc | 195

Russia let the pocket fester, and used it as bait…
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 29 2025 4:57 utc | 131
My theory is that it was bait before they attacked. The Russians may have had only had one defensive line through that large section. The terrain explains why that was enough to prevent a larger breakthrough. Other areas had 5-6 defensive lines. This was indicated on a map before the UKrain 23′ summer of suicide.
Perhaps they added more defense since that time, but I believe it was left seemingly open in order for an ‘invasion’ of Russia proper. This would incite patriotic russian morale. Somewhat risky as troops could not be easily deployed to make the trap enticing to enter. imo the Russians correctly judged the chutzpah reckless impulsivity of the UKrain girlie ‘man’, and waited. Cocaine whore relishes gambling other peoples money, and deaths.

Posted by: jopalolive | Mar 29 2025 13:31 utc | 197

too scents@170…..I wonder if the wealthy clients from Tel Aviv accompany their organ donors enroute to Canada……
Cheers M
….organ harvesting: Canada always does the clandestine work for the partners, right down to the fine print on the organ donation list…pricks.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 29 2025 13:38 utc | 199