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June 15, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-132
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You beat me to it 😀
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 18 2025 13:55 utc | 94
And just like waiting for a bus, there’s a gap and then two come along one after the other…: https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-report-from-the-front-june-dfd
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 18 2025 22:12 utc | 101
You beat me to it 😀
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 18 2025 13:55 utc | 94
And just like waiting for a bus, there’s a gap and then two come along one after the other…: https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-report-from-the-front-june-dfd
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 18 2025 22:12 utc | 102
not fair! (kidding)
Let’s see what i can give back, putin already gave the 6.000 corpses https://tass.com/defense/1975833
The Russian side has handed over more than 6,000 bodies of deceased Ukrainian servicemen to the Kiev government
Also gave kiev a chance https://tass.com/politics/1975819
Russia asked Kiev government to implement Minsk Accords, they refused — Putin
AFU can’t give much https://tass.com/politics/1975411
Kiev stops large-scale counterattacks amid Russian advance — expert
Sorry, neither can I, no km2 or casualties update, seems like marat is starting to see the strightening of lines in sumy and 37E (but up north)
But I do! S has a new post, bit like this tread “Slowly Abandoned, Ukraine Gets Squeezed by Russian Pressure”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-61625-slowly-abandoned-ukraine
Tough I have a different opinion on why RF needs a million free bayonets
MI-6 passed on new intelligence to the Presidential Office that Russia is preparing a million-strong army for a new campaign in Ukraine, which could begin in the fall.
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 19 2025 0:44 utc | 102
nahhhh, S’s was 2 days ago
was starting to browse and felt a deja vu…
not normal so long pauses by s
Is ukraine finished ad it’s just weekend with bernie?
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 19 2025 0:52 utc | 103
Regular Serge but maybe not his best.
Posted by: Newbie | Jun 18 2025 2:39 utc | 90
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My response on his Substack:
I have incredible respect for your writing and analysis. I was born during WW II in occupied territory (the Netherlands) and have not read any as good as you.
The analogy is tempting, but it misses the mark, widely.
Jacques Baud might of interest to you with your scholarly bent. So are Putin’s statement of objectives at the beginning of the SMO, not called a war for a reason. If it was a war, there might be no Kiev left.
The US has no role in peace negotiations other than as instigator of this proxy war against, with NATO in tow. The Russians want demilitarization, denazification and no terrorism after all is done. They also want a security structure that will stay around, NATO not being it. There is plenty for you to read, no point in me rehashing it here.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jun 19 2025 3:49 utc | 104
“Deputies are proposing to help parents under 26 years of age whose second child was born between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2030. Deputies stated that young Russians refuse to have children due to housing problems.”
Just beware of bad actors scamming the system, Russia.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jun 19 2025 9:45 utc | 105
An interesting article here outlining the eventual consequences of losing the war, for the EU, UK, NATO et al.
“The war in Ukraine is entering a critical stage—not only for Kiev, but also for a Europe that, deluded by meaningless slogans and unrealistic promises, finds itself standing at a geopolitical precipice. Ignoring the clear signs of Ukraine’s military and societal exhaustion, European leaders persist in a suicidal escalation of militarization that, far from preventing Ukraine’s collapse, is dragging the continent into an economic, political, and strategic spiral of decline.”
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/06/18/the-european-garden-on-the-brink-of-ruin/
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jun 19 2025 11:59 utc | 106