osted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 12:34 utc | 1
Thank you JRL.
With the crescendo of noise, general tub-thumping and blatant genocide emanating from West Asia I had almost forgotten that there is still an ongoing (very) important bout of seriouus war in Europe.
I am awaiting for the next appearance of Orishnick, but the RF is unlikely to give us another demo. unless it is deemed necessary to make some very important (for the RF) point.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jun 19 2025 13:16 utc | 4

@ Barrel Brown | Jun 19 2025 13:16 utc | 4
Yes, one unfortunate side-effect of the Zionist aggression towards Iran is the coverage has swamped all media, both MSM and alt-media outlets, even the Russian and Ukrainian ones.
Found this brief summary of overnight “arrivals”:

Mirgorod and other localities in the Poltava region;
Samara, Sinelnikovo, Kamenskoye and other localities in the Dnipropetrovsk region;
Bashtanka, Koblevo and other localities of the Mykolaiv region;
Vyshgorod, Kiev region;
Berestina, Novaya Vodolaga and other localities in the Kharkiv region;
Chernihiv and Nizhyn Chernihiv region;
Trostyanets and other localities in the Sumy region;
Southern Odessa region;
Kupyansky district of Kharkiv region;
Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions;
Lozove Kharkiv region;
Brovary and Boryspil, Kiev region.
In addition, military facilities were attacked in Kramatorsk, Krasnoarmeysky (Pokrovsky) districts and in the following areas: Konstantinovka in the occupied territory of the DPR by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2025/06/19/minuvshaya-noch-na-ukraine-vydalas-gromkoy-vzryvy-gremeli-vo-mnogih-oblastyah (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 13:41 utc | 6

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang@5…..grubby? No. Just the truth. The System Pigs.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jun 19 2025 14:09 utc | 8

“…Instead of taking time to learn the lessons from Ukraine and improve its combat capability, NATO appears to assume that Russians don’t know how to fight. In the meantime both European training and equipment readiness rates are abysmal…”
[excerpt from ‘Coalition of the Willing’ article, ALEX VERSHININ, at Responsible Statescraft]
Thank you, b | Jun 19 2025 14:19 utc | 9!
Point being: adaptation, as enshrined in Patriots vs Redcoats, US’s own military history. Even I, not an historian or military buff, shuddered at the antiquated claim ‘Coalition of the Willing’. Who wants to repeat that history?

Posted by: juliania | Jun 19 2025 14:59 utc | 10

Instead of taking time to learn the lessons from Ukraine and improve its combat capability, NATO appears to assume that Russians don’t know how to fight. In the meantime both European training and equipment readiness rates are abysmal.
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Posted by: b | Jun 19 2025 14:19 utc | 9
Maybe they’re stupid enough to try to continue beyond EOY (with other european troops), would delay capitulation by a couple of years but would be a much wider capitulation.
That’s why putin is sparing missiles and bayonets (2 million by EOY)
Meanwhile things are going steadily, short-changed DS gives 15km2, AFU casualties near 1.350, Lugansk only 20 km2 to go but no need to hurry https://tass.com/politics/1976511

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 19 2025 15:13 utc | 12

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 13:25 utc | 5
They are much worst than sex prostitutes.

Posted by: Naive | Jun 19 2025 15:47 utc | 14

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 15:27 utc | 13
Unfathomable for any human being with a sound mind and a morality. The problem is that they are totally deprived of both. They think that they are geniuses. If you read Nietzsche, you understand where this hubris comes from: inversion of all values, war as a necessity, Uebermenschen versus cattle. Megalomania is spreading like a transmitted disease. In a sound society they would be all locked in psychiatric hospitals.

Posted by: Naive | Jun 19 2025 16:04 utc | 16

A yet to be observed loss of satellite intel and comms sent to help the genocide will impact.
Ptolemy no fewer CIA/MI6 ops inside Russia. As well as in Donbas.

Posted by: paddy | Jun 19 2025 16:21 utc | 18

@ juliania, §10:
It´s the “Coalition of the Sniffing”: ´Kneeler´ Starmer, Macroléon, Merz von BlackRock and The Spiv of Kiev.

Posted by: John Marks | Jun 19 2025 20:44 utc | 20

ok. It’s been a couple months, so I feel safe to tell this story now.
I was on one of my walks, they are quite long, and I walked down a street. A house had a flagpole with a Canadian Flag on top and an upside down ukrainian flag below it.
As I got closer, there was a younger couple also on a walk across the street from the flags.
I am a strange person, especially when it comes to shit I hate. Anyways, I walk up to them and just start saying, loudly, “Look at these idiots, they care so much about Ukraine they got the flag upside down”
The dude replied, “I know, and the other flag is Canadian, pisses me off every time I walk by it… …is it really upside down?”
I say “Yup, blue sky above yellow field is what it represents ”
“makes sense” he says, and I continue on, only to see the dude with the flags’ door is open (one of the first sunny days of Spring) and he is sitting in a chair where he could see me and I could see him.
I just yelled, “Your FLAG’S UPSIDE DOWN!” I am sure he was confused, so as I continued to walk by his house I looked at him and yelled even louder, as if I was really pissed, “YOUR FLAG’S UPSIDE DOWN!!!” then walked by…
…about 10 seconds later, I was now about 20m down the street, I hear this “excuse me….. excuse me”
I turned around and to see him and to let him see murder on my face.
“Did you say my flag is upside down, if so l apologize and will correct it.”
Then I yelled back in a Ukrainian accent XD “YOU DARE TO DISRESPECT UKRRAINE!”
“is it upside down?” he yelled back in a weak shaky high voice
“BLUE GOES ON TOP”
“it is?”
“BLUE GOES ON TOP!”
true story. afterward, I got really paranoid, its a small town, and I am “seen a lot”, shall we say. But its just one of those things I do sometimes.
XD

Posted by: UWDude | Jun 19 2025 22:26 utc | 22

Posted by: jpc | Jun 19 2025 12:58 utc | 2
Posted by: John Marks | Jun 19 2025 20:44 utc | 20
Yup. Cocaine. That’s how you explain it.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Jun 19 2025 23:28 utc | 24

UAVs hit Kharkiv and Odessa (DD geopolitics)
and
Special Military Operation Sitrep – June 19, 2025
By: @Rybar
➡️Russian forces struck targets in the Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, and Kharkov regions. Ukrainian units launched over 100 drones at Russian rear and border areas.
➡️On the Sumy front, Russian troops broke through enemy defenses in Yunakovka and engaged in fighting on the town’s northern outskirts.
Ukrainian attempts to counterattack along the Andreevka–Alekseevka line failed.
➡️On the Kramatorsk front, Russian forces are engaged in combat on the southern flank of Chasov Yar, specifically in Stupochki, aiming to clear the southern part of the village. Inside Chasov Yar, fighting continues in the high-rise area south of the refractory plant and in the Shevchenko district.
➡️On the Konstantinovka front, Russian troops landed in the central part of Aleksandro-Kalinovo and widened the breach in Ukrainian defenses near Yablonovka.

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 20 2025 0:59 utc | 26

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 13:41 utc | 6
Thank you for the summary.
The only stuff I can access -and am inclined to believe- is that from Marat K, so your information is very welcome.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jun 20 2025 1:35 utc | 28

@ George | Jun 20 2025 1:31 utc | 27
Or maybe it’s a step toward Europe’s embrace of its Nazi past.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 20 2025 1:40 utc | 30

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 19 2025 12:34 utc | 1
Thanks for calling attention to the linked article by Lucas on the Strategic Culture site.
From the article:

The militarization of Europe, sold as a solution, is in fact a symptom of collapse. Lacking an industrial base, political capital, or social support, any attempt to rebuild a significant military force will result either in prolonged recession or the dismantling of the welfare state—two paths that will lead the so-called “European garden” to ruin.

Immediately after our mediocre elites started to speak about re-armament I commented here that was to the detriment of the European welfare state and also to the power of euro liberal elites.
The euro populace, mostly leftists but also a large part of the right, vote for mediocre degenerates like Macron, Rutte, that guy in the UK, because they fear losing their little privileges afforded to them by the welfare state. So if our elites dismantle the welfare state to re-arm (mostly Germany transfering wealth to America) to any significant degree, within two or three ellectionering cycles these elites will be kicked out.
And it is not the euro-left the side that will benefit, no, it will be the ‘far right’.
Europe is stuck in a rotting middle but deterioration of the welfare state due to re-armament will be the way out of it.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 20 2025 6:36 utc | 32

Posted by: George | Jun 20 2025 1:31 utc | 27
The “media pundits” no one read anymore are just backing the let down of 404 by “the west” hoping to shape a public opinion they already long lost on the matter… while selling the “new war” (with 20% more missiles) like there was no yesterday.
It’s pathetic and comical at the same time : the essence of a clown show, or the perfect smoke screen for the eternal war they won’t speak about : the class war.

Posted by: Savonarole | Jun 20 2025 8:30 utc | 34

Simple @Slavyangrad explanation.
“A quick observation on these talks about killing the Ayatollah Khameini: it would be peak lunacy on so many levels, it boggles the mind.
First, Khameini is already quite old and there surely is a hierarchy of candidates ready to take his place even if he died of natural causes. His death won’t impact the functioning of the Iranian state in any way.
Second, as both the supreme spiritual leader of Iran and a sayyid (patrilineally descended from the Prophet of Islam), he’s the defacto holy leader of Shia Islam, or at least the twelver branch.
Killing him would turn him into a revered martyr, creating a standard behind which the majority of the Shia world will rally, and elevate the conflict to a Jihad.
And anyone who knows about Hasan-i Sabah and the order he founded also knows the lengths that Iranians (or Shia Muslims in general) are capable of going to in a holy war.
Then again, sanity has vacated the heads of American policymakers a long time ago.”

Posted by: Tichy | Jun 20 2025 9:36 utc | 36

Posted by: rk | Jun 20 2025 9:25 utc | 35
That won’t be enough.

I agree with that. Like I said, Germany going into debt to re-arm will help America achieve its soft landing, just help, it’s part of the package.
But then you go crazy or propagandist by claiming America will attack Russia under my premises. Why would America risk nuclear war or simpy face a reclacitrantly independent Great Power when it still has rather large vassal nations like Germany, Canada, and Australia, that will pitch in with no friction to help their America-daddy Great Power when in trouble?
You have an obsessive Russophobia, I guess ’cause you’re one of those poor loser ukrops, so you masturbate-fantasize about many Russian civilians dying in nuclear terrorist attacks and other quite stupid things.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 20 2025 10:21 utc | 38

Ukrainian drone crashes in Kazakhstan steppes – likely British
A drone was found shot down in the Karakyan district of the Mangystau region in Kazakhstan. According to media reports, it is preliminary that it is a Banshee Jet 80, a British drone in service with the Ukrainian army.
The device fell far from populated areas, there are no damage or casualties. The place is fenced off, special services are working.
The Banshee can travel up to 700 km at a speed of 720 km/h. It is used as a reconnaissance aircraft, decoy or kamikaze drone.
According to one version, the drone was supposed to attack the Orenburg region, but “overflew” and fell on the territory of Kazakhstan.
The Orenburg region declared a threat of drone attacks yesterday. Military channels wrote that the Ukrainian armed forces could have targeted the Russian cosmodrome and missile base in the city of Yasny.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 20 2025 12:00 utc | 40

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 20 2025 7:15 utc | 33
Very good observation. Indeed, the Federal Gov. was created with the intention of surpassing those annoying States (former colonies) that claimed sovereignty, and with it, prevented big business from NY from expanding without limitation. The Federal Gov. and the Constitution were the tools created to put States under control. The Supreme Court was to exert vigilance over States legislation, the Congress was to approve federal legislation directly applicable in the States and was open for business for big capital, which introduced corruption and bribery as a standard currency for influence. And the President was created to have total liberty on policies, independent from the Congress.
American oligarchs want to implement this model in the EU since many years ago given the existing strong public sector here, while destroying Russia and China to have total control over trade, resources, and any type of assets (including people) all across the northern hemisphere.
Europeans still think the left is progressive and democratic but, indeed, the left and the far-left have turned into neo-liberals, managers of the State for the benefit of the oligarchical status quo, vigilant of their privately-led, monopolistic, and censorship-style regimes.
It’s very scary.

Posted by: Emi | Jun 20 2025 12:07 utc | 42

Posted by: alexwdomu | Jun 20 2025 13:12 utc | 43

i hate to break it to you, but poland is a prime transit nation for weapon deliveries to the ukraine. if something big is about to happen with nukes involved, dont think that the russians will only involve us stupid germans and the vile brits. your territory is a staging ground and thus a valid target. rzeszow get daily flights in and out, ask your gov why they allow something like this to happen. why they let your country paint a big target on its back.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 20 2025 14:01 utc | 44

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jun 20 2025 14:01 utc | 44
rzeszow get daily flights in and out, ask your gov why they allow something like this to happen. why they let your country paint a big target on its back.

For a neighbor nation with a large and active fascist part more than willing to genocide a few Poles to make some Lebensraum for Banderistan, as they have done in the past. I mean, Poland as a political entity, though not yet as a nation, is now a more abject vassal of liberal Western elites than when they were vassals of the Soviet Union.
How about some independence? Why the girlish urge to join others and be their bitches?

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jun 20 2025 16:01 utc | 46

@ Justpassinby | Jun 20 2025 16:36 utc | 47
Interesting info, thanks for finding that and sharing it, another pebble building towards a landslide of popular discontent with the Kiev junta. It’s building slowly, and there’s no predicting the tipping point, but sooner or later the remaining population will have their say, regardless of MI6/CIA/EU machinations.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 20 2025 18:55 utc | 48

@ Roger Boyd | Jun 20 2025 19:01 utc | 49
Thanks for this, and I agree with your observations about the declining numbers, these being a big indicator of the attritional approach adopted by Russian forces.
Don’t know if you saw a translation from a Ukrainian outlet that I posted in an earlier thread; not only are the press-gangs running at some 50% of the targets set by the Kiev junta but those they do grab are rejected by the army training centres for various health issues, at a rejection rate of up to 97% in one quoted example. There was a description attributed to one of the press-gang commanders of how he had several hundred addicts and alcoholics turning up once a month, to be touted round the training centres, knowing full well they would all fail the medical exam.
They are running out of fit bodies, and those that do remain seem to be becoming more militant in their objection to being “the last Ukrainian”.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 20 2025 19:21 utc | 50

Moskovka, just 2 km north west of the main road intersection in Kupyansk taken. If the Russians continue south by 2km, they will cross the P07 main supply highway into Kupyansk. The north-south P79 is cut to the south at Kruhlyakivka and to the north at Rad’kivka so it cannot be used as a supply route. So the Russians are only 2km from an operational encirclement of Kupyansk.
At the same time the Russians have downed every bridge over the Oskol between Kupyansk and Kruhlyakivka, cutting off all of the Ukrainian troops on the east side of the river between those two towns. This could produce a hastened retreat by the Ukrainian forces and the taking of Kupyansk, a major victory for the Russians. The Russian troops on the eastern bank could then be focused on driving southwards toward Borova and then Lozove and Oskil (10km east of the Izyum area and the remaining main supply line to Slovyansk/Kramatorsk). Driving southwards in parallel to the Russian troops coming down from Kupyansk. Recreating the position of the Russian forces in 2022, but this time with the southern supply routes cut.
The same dynamic is playing out south of Kostyantynivka as the Ukrainian troops west of Toretsk and east of Novoolenivka are threatened with complete encirclement south of the Kleban-Bykske reservoir and Yablunivka. This would open the way for direct assaults upon Kostyantynivka, and also a flanking move to the west of that town toward Druzhkivka to the north and even Kramatorsk.
The front may become quite a bit more fluid within the next few weeks.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jun 20 2025 19:26 utc | 52

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/ukraine-has-a-problem-no-one-is-talking-about-young-women/
And now the future mothers of Ukraine are leaving. Wreck the nation badly enough and it will fade into history.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jun 20 2025 19:37 utc | 54

Moskovka, just 2 km north west of the main road intersection in Kupyansk taken. If the Russians continue south by 2km, they will cross the P07 main supply highway into Kupyansk. The north-south P79 is cut to the south at Kruhlyakivka and to the north at Rad’kivka so it cannot be used as a supply route. So the Russians are only 2km from an operational encirclement of Kupyansk.
At the same time the Russians have downed every bridge over the Oskol between Kupyansk and Kruhlyakivka, cutting off all of the Ukrainian troops on the east side of the river between those two towns. This could produce a hastened retreat by the Ukrainian forces and the taking of Kupyansk, a major victory for the Russians. The Russian troops on the eastern bank could then be focused on driving southwards toward Borova and then Lozove and Oskil (10km east of the Izyum area and the remaining main supply line to Slovyansk/Kramatorsk). Driving southwards in parallel to the Russian troops coming down from Kupyansk. Recreating the position of the Russian forces in 2022, but this time with the southern supply routes cut.
The same dynamic is playing out south of Kostyantynivka as the Ukrainian troops west of Toretsk and east of Novoolenivka are threatened with complete encirclement south of the Kleban-Bykske reservoir and Yablunivka. This would open the way for direct assaults upon Kostyantynivka, and also a flanking move to the west of that town toward Druzhkivka to the north and even Kramatorsk.
The front may become quite a bit more fluid within the next few weeks.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jun 20 2025 19:26 utc | 52
Agreed, the drive to 37E up north starts by 37.4E oskil river+-

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 20 2025 19:58 utc | 56

Posted by: Emi | Jun 20 2025 12:07 utc | 42
“Indeed, the Federal Gov. was created with the intention of surpassing those annoying States (former colonies) that claimed sovereignty, and with it, prevented big business from NY from expanding without limitation. The Federal Gov. and the Constitution were the tools created to put States under control.”
Not true. The federal government was created to pay off the war debt, standardize the currency, keep the postal service running and make treaties both economic and defensive with other nations. That’s why the Tenth Amendment (which is now totally ignored) limits the federal government and reserves broad powers for the state governments. The federal government only broke the shackles of the Tenth Amendment after the Civil War. It was a Faustian bargain in which the northern states gave up their sovereignty to defeat the southern states and once the war was over they didn’t know how to reclaim their sovereignty. You might have missed a bit when you were studying history.

Posted by: Paranaense | Jun 21 2025 3:21 utc | 58

Who thinks that under any prez US would go to full nuclear war with Rus if places in EU nuked? I think any future EU-Rus war would finish after 2-3 big cities in the West becomes nuked.
Posted by: alexwdomu | Jun 20 2025 13:12 utc | 43
US is very interested in localized war, more exactly European but not fully, there are no plans to involve UK or FR. Which will greatly be helped by normalizing nuclear use if Trump nukes Iran. Unfortunately, if you read Putin or any other RF official statements, they also always talk about a danger of an European war.
I find this repeated phrasing very interesting because US was and is the main driver in Ukr war and they are also in control of EU, so much that basically no army there is locally controlled anymore.
So you in Poland are most likely to be screwed in all ways possible. Nato might send you to attack Belarus or do terrorist acts there or something, and because Russia never dares to respond to US (they’re afraid to even shoot their drones right at the border while they guide atacms or himars into the heads of their population) they’ll punish you while they invite American investors to Russia.

Posted by: rk | Jun 21 2025 6:52 utc | 60

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 20 2025 19:58 utc | 56
It’s a shame that web translators use the transcript of Ukrainian names instead of Russian, when most of those Donbass places always had Russian names. Reads kind of phoney, otherwise good info.

Posted by: Paco | Jun 21 2025 10:20 utc | 62

Posted by: Paco | Jun 21 2025 10:20 utc | 62
Supported!!!

Posted by: Naive | Jun 21 2025 20:32 utc | 64