From X:
Senators Graham and Blumenthal in Kyiv: the U.S. is preparing a massive new sanctions package — and Putin will feel it.
Plan includes seizing $300B in frozen Russian assets, using Ukraine’s minerals for arms, and 500% tariffs on China if it backs Putin.
82 senators back it.
https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1928563311550820553
§| if only someone would catalog Lindsay Graham’s incursions into Ukrainian “sovereignty”.
He was there before, during and after Maiden.
He was in Syria meeting with ISIS.
Now he’s stepping up as Boris Johnson2.0 to again have the Istanbul talks DoA.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 31 2025 7:36 utc | 203

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 31 2025 7:36 utc | 212
Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 8:01 utc | 213
RE: and P.S—the Istanbul talks already lack a pulse
Gen Kellogg has already spilled the tea that the Peace Memorandum from Kiev is a document composed of 22 elements.
Wink wink.
The Peace Memorandum from Kiev is Gen Kellogg’s 22-Point Peace Plan-!
Gen Kellogg is playing all the roles—the U.S. *and* Ukraine *and* sage adjudicator of peace.
Gotta say that this is very weird.
So the Istanbul talks are self-annihilating, but without, say, the honor of seppuku.
Russia seems not to have interrupted its military initiatives one iota, regardless of the talks—a prudent choice.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 8:14 utc | 205

“Gen Kellogg has already spilled the tea that the Peace Memorandum from Kiev is a document composed of 22 elements.”
Just like the 22 varieties of breakfast cereal for increased market share on the supermarket shelves to surely satisfy all customers?
I’m sure Russia won’t be very amused.

Posted by: George | May 31 2025 8:36 utc | 207

Plan includes seizing $300B in frozen Russian assets, using Ukraine’s minerals for arms, and 500% tariffs on China if it backs Putin.
Posted by: Melaleuca | May 31 2025 7:36 utc | 212
And what is stopping madam Graham? Do it, let’s see what happens.
On the Russian side there’s some strange guy speaking dumb words or something was really lost in translation ( tass.com/politics/1966377 ) because he included Zap. in a possible future loss for Ukr. If the “head of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense” suffers from mental retard, you can’t really expect Nato to take Russia seriously.

Posted by: rk | May 31 2025 9:19 utc | 209

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 8:54 utc | 217
The main thing is that it has the few points that Putin has been asking about for years such as no further NATO in Ukraine or further encroachment to the east, for which there has been some hinting that it may be accepted, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Unfortunately the Americans have up to date simply proved to have wax in their ears or just don’t get it. The rest is just cake decorating.

Posted by: George | May 31 2025 9:36 utc | 211

@Republicofscotland | May 29 2025 18:21 utc | 14
https://english.nv.ua/nation/photo-shows-azov-fighter-hugging-hasidic-jew-in-uman-during-jewish-new-year-celebrations-50354070.html
https://archive.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/haaretz-rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-ukraine.htmlhttps://www.jpost.com/international/article-725351
They have a rabbi in Azov.
Kolomoisky supported them financially too.
Fascism likes fascism

Posted by: Ed Bernays | May 31 2025 9:59 utc | 213

206 – Yes, how odd. The Russians make headway and he/she is silent. A clue to true motivation?

Posted by: Waldorf | May 31 2025 10:27 utc | 215

Posted by: rk | May 31 2025 9:19 utc | 218
Well RK, maybe a bit of common sense. I have always thought Zaporizhia city is a step to far for Russia – NOT the OBLAST but the big city.
Unlike Odessa and Kharkov Z city is not especially Russian in demographics

Posted by: watcher | May 31 2025 10:39 utc | 217

osted by: George | May 31 2025 10:19 utc | 223
The US system is much more divided. The president is not really the leader of their party like Australia. Also not really much party discipline

Posted by: watcher | May 31 2025 10:44 utc | 219

Posted by: watcher | May 31 2025 10:44 utc | 228
So in this case Trump is hardly representative of the party and so it is business as usual as the history of Republican voting on financial and military aid for Ukraine suggests. He’s just the “cherry on the top of the compost heap” to use the Australian vernacular.

Posted by: George | May 31 2025 10:52 utc | 221

Posted by: George | May 31 2025 10:19 utc | 223
“If Graham is acting independently then why is Trump even letting him go that far? Is Trump in charge of his own party or not? Is he not president? Is it that he just rode the wave to get personally elected while his party is working against him and always would have? I have been suspicious about this for a long time since when Biden was in power, Republicans still backed him at every turn with every arms deal and financial support bill for Ukraine.”
Senators have always acted like gods. Each of the 100 Senators believes they would make a much better president than the guy who is in the White House, and they act accordingly. Don’t you remember how much praise the media gave to “Maverick” John McCain? This is nothing new in American politics.

Posted by: Paranaense | May 31 2025 12:58 utc | 223

steel_porcupine@173…..please, please, please, stop with the ‘this is an existential war for Russia’ total and utter bull shit…..do you see internment camps for Russians anywhere out side Russia? Go do some research and look at the amount of trade Russia does with the countries that attack it….. existential? Really?
Cheers M
……when in an existential war, one goes for kill, Russia doesn’t have that ability outside a nuclear strike, so it will continue to attrite Ukies and a few Russians will die also…..Whitehall, Paris and Berlin must be ecstatic…..they have proxy to kill, annoy, murder, rape, chop up, Russians and they are safe in their slumber….kinda neat, no?

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 31 2025 14:08 utc | 225

Last summer’s Kursk Incursion, which involved intricate planning & coordination w/ NATO nations and included a notable number of NATO mercs, is now *this* summer’s Drone Swarm: to the Hinterland * Beyond-!
Scuttlebutt has it that Euro-NATO nations in particular began manufacturing fixed-wing drones for Ukraine last fall in order to over-supply the AFU w/ enough equipment in order to “surprise” Russia w/ an enormous & encompassing uptick: a Kursk Incursion of drones.
But the leaders of Euro NATO-nations soon discovered they were swarming to nowhere, because Russia’s air defense system, layered & recursive, was ready for the drones and was able to parry the swarm well.
In response to which, Russia countered w/ its own aerial attack, mixing well-placed Iskandr strikes in w/ the drones. Iskandr hits have continued throughout the past week, mainly zeroing in on enemy HQ and critical supply-line junctures.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 14:19 utc | 227

“The belief that you’d be rewarded in the “afterlife” is the most foolish thought ever was in the planet Earth.”
There are some people wiser than you who disagree.
“In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” –Jesus (John 14:2-3)
Posted by: Paranaense | May 30 2025 14:29 utc | 113
———
“The belief that you’d be rewarded in the “afterlife” is the most foolish thought ever was in the planet Earth.”
I do not know of rewards in afterlife but I assure you that anyone who follows Jesus Christ will be rewarded in this lifetime.
Posted by: CeaClearly | May 30 2025 16:04 utc | 125
————
How many people were murdered in his name in planet Earth’s history after Jesus? How many will be in the future?
No one ever came from “afterlife.” It is just pay-check for preachers.

Posted by: ostrr | May 31 2025 14:49 utc | 229

@B recently wondered about the journalistic aptitude of the media in Germany, especially with regard to reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Of course, you have to differentiate between journalists and the media. Not everyone who is worth listening to is able to express themselves audibly. You need a medium for that. Knowledge is only power if it is counterbalanced by ignorance.
That is why broadcasting (TV, radio) is controlled by the state, the print media by materialism (either equity or advertising partners) …
Whoever has the power in the state also has the greatest influence on the media, can bring them into line, ban them …
Despite all this, there are men and women of calibre who have their own opinions that are not constructed.
Patrick Baab is a German journalist who unfortunately receives far too little media coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XlE6vbDqgg
‘Baab reveals: Russia threatens to strike back! Our government is lying’
(short analysis of the situation, Trump, Putin, Ukraine)
The video is in German, –> configure subtitles

Posted by: BlindSpot | May 31 2025 15:42 utc | 231

Posted by: wagelaborer | May 30 2025 20:38 utc | 161
Yes, destabilisation all along the RF perimeter and sometimes inside. We’re watching the end of one such attempt as the Ukrainian war draws to its close. Berletic believes there’ll be others.
You mention Kazakhstan. Have always thought we timed the attempted coup there to give the Russians more to deal with as the Kiev forces were building up on the LoC.
An irruption of the Kiev forces into the Donbass plus Kazakhstan going up in flames would indeed have given the Russians a lot to deal with. There were large and vulnerable near abroad Russian populations in both the Donbass and in Kazakhstan. The Russians could scarcely have left either unprotected.
The Russian response to the Kazakhstan attempted coup was forceful and effective. Also fast. So much so that the Russians were probably expecting the attempt. The Russian response to the threat posed by the Kiev forces on the Donbass LoC was also forceful and effective. They were expecting that too and had planned the SMO well in advance. A backstop in case Putin’s diplomatic attempts to avert the threat to the Donbass failed. Though I bet the Russian General Staff were itching to swing into action with that backstop.
The picture I get from these and other events is of the Russians well aware not only of the threats along their perimeter but also of the timing of those threats so they can be forestalled. They have good Intel to be able to keep that up all along such a long border.
It must nevertheless be wearing and resource intensive to cope with our incessant destabilisation attempts and they don’t have unlimited manpower. We only have to be lucky once. They can’t afford to be unlucky ever. We’re looking at a future for both sides therefore in which the adversaries, we and the Russians, are going to have to devote a large proportion of their resources to engaging in or coping with covert and every now and again open warfare. What I now think of as the Berletic scenario.
Being on the naïve side I’d hoped that the election of Trump would alter that picture. I’d thought Berletic was out on a limb earlier thinking otherwise but it looks as if he’s correct. There’s no doubt that there’s a portion of the American electorate wanting an end to these continuous attempts at destabilisation of foreign powers. “No more forever wars” was the feeling behind that. But it’s not a portion of the American electorate that is able to prevail. Trump either lacks the power to stop these incessant destabilisation attempts or he never wanted to stop them in the first place. His uncertain approach with these “Peace negotiations”, and the pressure he’s under from the Europeans and from his various domestic opponents, indicates the former.
Doesn’t really matter in the short term. The Russians have the bit between their teeth and will solve the Ukrainian problem with little regard for the Europeans or for Trump. That’s been evident since Istanbul. It does matter in the long term and I’m disappointed Trump wasn’t able to set the West on a better course.

Posted by: English Outsider | May 31 2025 15:58 utc | 233

Posted by: Paranaense | May 31 2025 12:58 utc | 232
Compared with the way they spewed hatred and vitriol on Senator Manchin (D), when he threatened to block Biden’s mammoth spending bill.
Posted by: George | May 31 2025 10:47 utc | 229
Traditionally, expansion of reserve air capacity is a major sign that an offensive is being planned, other indicators are the shaping operations to flatten the LOC, increased rate of strategic strikes, summer approaching and Ukrainian construction of new defence belts. One could possibly add the intervention of compromised politicians like Graham, though the truth might be more Machiavellian than at first appears, with this move.
Posted by: ostrr | May 31 2025 14:49 utc | 238
One might argue that the secular certainty you display has traditionally morphed into an intolerance that has caused far more death and suffering than any religion, simply because it has no integral method of restraint, once a decision has been made, only a sort of murderous logic.

Posted by: Milites | May 31 2025 16:21 utc | 235

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 31 2025 16:32 utc | 245
Or so I keep being told*… (*before I rapidly scroll down…)
Monetary theory is another quasi-religious topic which should under normal circs be elsewhere…

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 31 2025 16:43 utc | 237

You can see the track over Ukraine here
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ra-76429#3a964da0

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 31 2025 17:06 utc | 239

Posted by: English Outsider | May 31 2025 15:58 utc | 242
RE: the Berletic scenario—coping w/ covert & occasionally open warfare
<< Where Israel assigns itself the task of "mowing the lawn" periodically to head-off chronic attacks in a dangerous neighborhood (that is Israel's rationale, by the way, not mine), Israel has the unconditional backing of a resource-rich Great Power, so it gets a Free Pass. Russia also has the unconditional backing of a resource-rich Great Power: itself. The efficiency-of-unity quadrant in this is high, to Russia's advantage. Like you say, Russia will have to remain ever-vigilant, however. One can say that this is an annoyance. But when the whole-of-society is geared toward the fundamentals of its sovereign & autonomous existence, one can see the advantages of an eyes-peeled alertness. Social cohesion in the extreme. In the U.S. we talk about America First, but we have not had to live the essence of that down to the beds of our toenails. Russia is vibing it. One can see how a civilization affirms itself---and replicates itself going forward.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 17:19 utc | 241

“No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.” –Jesus (John 3:13)
Posted by: Paranaense | May 31 2025 17:10 utc | 249
Utter nonsense!

Posted by: dodo | May 31 2025 19:57 utc | 243

Russia is changing the facts on the ground while Trump and the Europeans blather on.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 31 2025 20:30 utc | 253
Even Syrsky is trying to put lipstick on a porcine corpse:

The enemy has become much more active and is advancing in the Zaporozhye direction, – Syrsky
The Russian occupation forces have concentrated and are pressing down on five front lines. The invaders have become much more active and are advancing on Zaporozhye
This was announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky , reports RegioNews .
“The enemy has focused its main efforts on the Pokrovsky, Toretsky, Limansky, Novopavlovsky directions, as well as on the districts of the Sumy region bordering the Russian Federation. It has significantly increased its activity in the Zaporizhia direction, where it is conducting active offensive operations, ” he said.
Alexander Syrsky stressed that the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to restrain the army of the invaders, inflicting significant losses on them.
Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being reinforced with reserves to increase the stability of defense in threatening areas. Ukrainian defenders are also actively working to improve the tactical situation on the territory of the Russian Federation.
“We are destroying the enemy as much as possible on the approach to our positions. Artillery, aviation, and unmanned systems are actively working — we are delivering complex fire damage to the invaders. Only in May, as of the 31st day, the Russian invaders lost more than 34 thousand personnel, ” the commander-in-chief added.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1748689874-vorog-znachno-aktivizuvavsya-ta-nastupae-na-zaporizkomu-napryamku-sirskiy (via translation add-on.)
The Ukrainians (and indeed the West as a whole) need to stop using GIGO as the basis for their analysis and planning.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 31 2025 20:48 utc | 245

Posted by: sonsabah | May 31 2025 21:01 utc | 255
Here, have a ½ out of 10, because that low-effort, low-budget “contribution” isn’t even worth a 1.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 31 2025 21:13 utc | 247

British Officer Calls to Arm Ukraine with Nuclear Weapons
Posted by: Justpassinby | May 31 2025 15:46 utc | 241
Yeah, the “collective West” would have a heart attack should Russia talk about that with Iran.
If Russia had any indications this was happening they’d inform the Ukraine populace to evacuate the entire country before they turned it into a parking lot.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 31 2025 21:28 utc | 249

Why does Trump allow someone like Lindsay Graham to be bringing about a vote in the US Senate to invoke a 500% tariff on countries that buy Russian oil?
Posted by: George | May 31 2025 10:19 utc | 223
Carrot & stick… this is the stick of course, but to Russia it looks like a toothpick.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | May 31 2025 21:31 utc | 251

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | May 31 2025 16:32 utc | 245
Obviously the clowns at Moodys are painting trim with an 8” brush.
It’s literally impossible for their to be any economic growth in a country losing people and territory. Not to mention having every factory turned into rubble.
Whatever “data” they used to cook the books like that is fishier than 3-day old sushi left out in the sun.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | May 31 2025 22:07 utc | 253

In that DJT has not grasped the long-standing complexities regarding eastern Ukraine and Russian ethnics in Ukraine, including his own admin’s decision in 2017 to send lethal weapons to the AFU & nationalist militia in order to target Ukrainian citizens in Donbass, it is difficult to see how DJT’s admin can steward a way forward to Peace., let alone comprehend one.
In the midst of this contradiction, a peculiar but hard-to-ignore reality is that the U.S. is on the brink of a financial collapse, which runs on a parallel track to the cratering of U.S. prospects in Project Ukraine, almost as if the two are related: the U.S. is going broke.
Euro-NATO leaders are deeply entrenched in an alternate reality where “stopping a thug like Putin” has currency. Once the U.S. bond market collapses, none of this will float anyone’s boat, however, whether in the U.S. or in Europe. American industry cannot rebuild itself quickly enough to make a difference in how the U.S. lags geopolitically.
Weirdly, our leadership class in the U.S. is unable to prepare for this financial reality.
Something is not *right* in the U.S., but no one cares to look at this, because the remedies are painful and far-off.
We have lost our keys in the dark but will search for them in the light.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | May 31 2025 23:26 utc | 255

Act of terrorism in Bryansk tonight, 7 dead already on board a train travelling across a bridge that was detonated

Posted by: Winston | Jun 1 2025 0:11 utc | 257

So it means that russia was able to capture %10-11 of ukraine since the begining of the full scale invasion in 2022. Cost for russia is around 1 million casualties, thousands of tanks, hundreds of plane and helicopters, trillion dollars, sanctions etc.
Posted by: sonsabah | May 31 2025 21:01 utc | 255
Fucking sob liar, all your numbers are utterly wrong.

Posted by: Naive | Jun 1 2025 1:36 utc | 259

Sigh and sigh again.
Yesterday’s bridge explosion sabotage over the railway line (11 killed, 69 injured) is, to my knowledge, the biggest 404 terrorist act against RF civilians of the SMO. It takes me back to Shadowbanned’s constant warnings that if Moscow doesn’t strike hard to behead the Kiev fuckers, things would only get worse. Just 5 kgs of Semtex taped to a bridge pylon one night by a lone guerilla agent is all it takes. What next? 10 kgs in a Moscow cinema?
I don’t propose nuking anyone, but anger wishes to see an Oreshnik or two into Bankova. Yet, I know that will not stop the SBU operatives and their agents who cross the borders.
It begs the question of just how much collateral guerilla damage VVP will tolerate before he will … ??? Or is it seen as just small fry compared to SMO LOC goals?
Years ago I forecast years of this guerrilla terrorism to come, even long after a military “peace”. And so it will.
I dunno what the answer is to cleanse this poxxy country once and for all. Meantime, some more serious revenge wouldn’t hurt.

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Jun 1 2025 7:36 utc | 261

Posted by: Justpassinby | May 31 2025 15:46 utc | 241
Re:Col gimp
Who suggested that he should say that?
How come mo media are up in arms over a Brit officer retired or not coming out with actively ignoring nuclear weapons proliferation treatys?
Sheer ignorant posturing?
Or planting an idea.
Little Z made such an utterance at a Munich security conference just before the current conflict.

Posted by: jpc | Jun 1 2025 8:05 utc | 263

Isn’t it funny, that the first people who post about a terrorist strike are the usual suspects? It’s never the regular commentariat. You idiots don’t even try to be conspicuous.

Posted by: boneless | Jun 1 2025 8:12 utc | 265

@vargas
“Yesterday’s bridge explosion sabotage shows how powerless Russia actually is. What is the purpose of Russia’s nuclear stock when it provides no deterrent against terrorist states like Ukraine.”
Like Indulis Kradzins said:
“Just 5 kgs of Semtex taped to a bridge pylon one night by a lone guerilla agent is all it takes.”
Would you think nuking all of Ukraine would be a proper reaction to this terrorist attack? It’s like Zionist pig Randy Fine calling for nuking Gaza after the murder of two Israelis in Washington.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 1 2025 8:58 utc | 267

lets be honest, the bankova nazis dont sit at bankova at all. they are hiding in poland or the british isles, like the true nazis that those cowards are.
“nuking” kiev wont solve this issue.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 1 2025 9:04 utc | 269

“Russia is unable to punish Ukraine or the West for terrorist attacks.”
Are you sure?
https://bucket-image.inkmaginecms.com/version/social/1/image/2024/07/ed461b74-d833-40e5-bbd9-0ab524941e76.jpg

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 1 2025 9:18 utc | 271

Meanwhile in France…
https://t.me/intelslava/75332?single

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 1 2025 9:54 utc | 273

With the benefit of hindsight it wondered whether the Russian “Emergency Situations” plane I noted yesterday was heading for the area of the bridge sabotage/train crash. But the plane “went dark” (if this comment software is working) around 17.05 utc, which would be 20.05 Moscow/Bryansk time.
Lord of War reports, quoting official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko:
“On May 31, 2025, at 10:50 p.m., on the Vygonichi-Pilshino railway section in the Bryansk region , as a result of an explosion, the structure of the road bridge, the debris of which fell on a passenger train passing underneath it. As a result of the incident, people were injured and killed. In the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region on June 1, 2025, at about 3 am, a railway bridge was also blown up , causing a passing train to fall onto the road. As a result of the incident, the driver and his two assistants were injured.”
Interestingly the Guardian, which is always at least a day behind what’s happening at the fronts, had the news first thing this morning. This report is timed at 11.10, but the news was in the Guardian at least 3 hours before. Maybe the byline “Deborah Cole and agencies” refers to three-letter agencies like MI6?
From the report
“However its military intelligence service, known by the Ukrainian abbreviation GUR, said a Russian military freight train carrying food and fuel had been blown up on its way to Crimea. It did not claim the attack was carried out by GUR or mention the bridge collapses. The GUR statement said Moscow’s key “artery” with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, had been destroyed.”
Amyone know about this? Apparently near Melitopol?

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jun 1 2025 10:46 utc | 275

Truck parked near airfield allegedly launches drones to destroy TU95 bombers. Also alleged attacks on TU22s at Belaya military airbase in Irkutsk.
“The driver of the truck loaded with drones used in the attack on Olenegorsk may have been unaware of the cargo, according to Russian outlet Baza. The man has reportedly been detained. This morning, a truck parked near a gas station at the entrance to the city. Shortly after, drones began launching directly from its cargo area, targeting various sites in the vicinity. There has been no official comment from authorities so far.”
t.me/DDGeopolitics/149574

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jun 1 2025 11:17 utc | 277

So they destroyed a bridge which led to the collapse of a train and dead civilians. Now they attack an airbase deep inside Russia. As long as the West supports Ukraine, this war will not end.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 1 2025 11:33 utc | 279

I saw just a video on Intelslava Telegram. You can see what looks like an airfield with a lot of black smoke from various spots. I don‘t know how to post a video from Telegram while using my smartphone otherwise I would have posted it.
The text under the video is the following (from Intelslava):
„Almost all the strategic aircraft parking areas are ablaze, it is difficult to say how many aircraft will survive after such a defeat.“

Posted by: NoName | Jun 1 2025 11:38 utc | 281

These mosquitoes are very annoying.
Posted by: too scents | Jun 1 2025 11:37 utc | 295
I don‘t know man, Russia‘s strategic bomber fleet is quit small.
Are russian air force generals really that dumb that they don‘t think concrete hangars would be a wise choice.
Saw just another video on Intelslava: drone view, 1 Tu-95 burning, a second one gets hit while the drone filming keeps flying …

Posted by: NoName | Jun 1 2025 11:48 utc | 283

for my 301, i forgot to add: look at how its always the BBC or any other british media that gets the first dibs. what a coincidence, isnt it?

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 1 2025 11:49 utc | 285

Assume this is a reaction to the oncoming loss of at least parts of Sumy oblast for eternity?

Posted by: Night Tripper | Jun 1 2025 11:53 utc | 287

Twenty years from now, when the last US soldier has left Europe, and the war in Ukraine is only a forgotten stale web page in Wikipedia, there still will be an Ukrainian posting “Russia should nuke, like, right now.” 🙂

Posted by: Passerby | Jun 1 2025 11:55 utc | 289

https://www.flightradar24.com/3a9869f2
USN P8 on the Black Sea run.
If there’s been a big hit on AFU training I’ll keep a look out for the flying hospital.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jun 1 2025 12:03 utc | 291

So many terrorism, much wow.
Unless you implement a heavy handed police state there will always be terror attacks.
Particularly if you have foreign agents involved.
Soft targets will always be soft targets.
And should be replied in kind. RF can do without a police state.
Lately (years) western assets have done much worse than a bridge.
Rocket missile scientists and main engineers were targeted and killed in RF
Just the latest… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14742603/Russian-missile-designer-fighting-life-hammer-attack-assassination-bid.html
AI scientists and researchers were targeted and killed in China
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3306394/early-deaths-top-chinese-ai-scientists-raise-concerns-about-industry-pressures
Nuclear scientists and researchers were targeted and killed in Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
Just saying that maybe forbes 500 would have enough weight to impose rules of engagement about soft targets. At least those still able to voice a suggestion to their employe… politicians .

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 1 2025 12:07 utc | 293

I agree with you when you speak about the ground forces. But it‘s a different picture when it comes to their strategic bomber fleet. They don‘t build them very quickly. We have to wait until the smoke clears and then see how serious the attack was (if they let us see it).

Posted by: NoName | Jun 1 2025 12:11 utc | 295

❗️Zelensky says his team WILL be there in Istanbul on June 2
For next round of talks with Russia
It took him 4 days to confirm after Lavrov made the offer

https://t.me/rtnews/97579

Posted by: Norwegian | Jun 1 2025 12:15 utc | 297

Posted by: vargas | Jun 1 2025 12:16 utc | 316
You are a troll.

Posted by: canuck | Jun 1 2025 12:20 utc | 299