Ukraine Open Thread 2025-195

August 27, 2025

News & views related to the war in Ukraine …

Posted by b on August 27, 2025 at 16:12 UTC | Permalink

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Well it didn’t take long for the Neo-Nazi dictatorship running Ukraine to add Woody Allen to their kill list.
“Film star Woody Allen has been added to the list of Ukraine’s enemies maintained by the notorious state-linked Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) website for participating in a Russian cinema event.
The 89-year-old actor and director appeared via videolink on Sunday at Moscow International Film Week, where he spoke about his career and long-standing ties to Russia.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 27 2025 16:33 utc | 1

Dignitaries & think-tank wonks keep turning up at the Ukrainian embassy in London, movers-and-shakers from Kiev, movers-and-shakers from D.C., and they’re beating a path to Zaluzhny’s door.
The former military commander has said, “I am not interested in replacing Zelensky,” but the pitter-patter of footsteps on the floorboards of Ukraine’s embassy in London makes obvious that Zaluzhny may not need to demur for long.
Although Zaluzhny is based in London, it is surmised that Sir Keir is not in fact driving the rah-rah effort to remove Zelensky from the presidency right now; rather, the Americans are moving matters along.
The Guardian reported that JD tried to contact Zaluzhny a couple of times, but Zaluzhny did not pick up the phone. This reportage may be misdirection, however, in order to bolster Zaluzhny’s status as an independent actor—-a *reluctant* replacement for Zelensky, if you like, the antithesis of the eagerness True Gretch, for example, exhibited when Joe removed himself as the Democratic candidate from the presidential campaign in July 2024: Gretch beat a path to the White House, more than signaling her willingness to shove Kamala aside.
So journalistic misdirection right now is prudently portraying Zaluzhny as restrained/unambitious.
Complicating matters is the fact that Zaluzhny suffered a traumatic brain injury in April 2023, around the same time that Budanov did. This was right before Bakhmut fell.
Zaluzhny’s injury was serious enough that he was treated in a hospital in Germany.
Budanov recovered, and we began to see contemporaneous footage of him *in action*—speaking, interacting, etc.
Zaluzhny *recovered*, at least that is what we were led to believe. But we never again saw more than very brief vid-snippets when he was *still* the head general of battlefield doings, sometimes a glance at him seated around a conference table, sometimes a glimpse of him very briefly in some other format.
A moon-faced guy already, he always had a goofy smile in these post-traumatic brain injury video snippets and conveyed a sort of shucking & jiving aspect about him.
As Avdiivka was popping off in mid-December 2023, and the Russians were really making gains, Zaluzhny, who was still the head general, gave a telephone interview to the WaPo in which he spoke of the “stalemate” in the war.
Those remarks, buttressed & boosted by Antony B and Lloyd the 3rd, formed the basis of the Narrative that the LOC should be frozen in place because the war was in a “stalemate.”
We, of course, knew the LOC was quite dynamic, and we could feel—-daily practically—the breakthrough Russia was achieving in Avdiivka.
What I realized when Zaluzhny gave a telephone interview to the WaPo instead of appearing on a Zoom-link is that we really had not seen any lengthy footage of him since he had supposedly recovered from his traumatic brain injury.
When I saw how hard the WaPo and other Regime Media sycophants pushed Zaluzhny’s orthodoxy in his *telephone interview*—the “stalemate”—I began to realize that the media & others were propping Zaluzhny up as they were propping Joe up: Zaluzhny was non compos mentis too, on account of his brain injury, but it did not matter because The Messengers, those who wanted to get *the message* out, could use Zaluzhny as a ventriloquist’s dummy, to seem to utter the messages that they were promulgating.
Just as Avdiivka fell, Zaluzhny was reassigned to be Ukraine’s ambassador to London.
After that, everything got quiet, Zaluzhny-wise. The war focus concentrated on Syrski.
Occasionally we might get some tiny bit of news about Zaluzhny, but usually not—and it was not even clear where he was for a while.
Bottomline: Zaluzhny never fully recovered from his traumatic brain injury, yet nonetheless he is being held in reserve as some sort of font of wisdom about the war or some sort of counterweight to Kiev politics.
The strategy is this: it was possible in the U.S. to present non compos mentis Joe as an in-charge/in-command leader; therefore it will be possible to do the very same thing w/ Zaluzhny: limit the public appearances, let the cameras catch snippets & glimpses—and obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 16:34 utc | 2

Night strikes on critical infrastructure and military facilities of Ukraine
On the night of August 26-27, 2025, Russian troops launched a series of concentrated strikes by the Geran-2 UAV against energy, gas transportation and military infrastructure facilities.
Vishnevoye, Dnipropetrovsk region (23:55 26.08 – 00:35 27.08)
A repeated attack on the territory of stud farm No. 65, which has long been converted into the base of the 110th TrO brigade and the 108th GrO brigade. As a result of a fire with an area of over 800 m, up to 5 pieces of equipment were destroyed, including Kozak-2 armored vehicles, Toyota Hilux pickups with DShK, as well as a KrAZ-6322 truck. Small-caliber ammunition depots and grenade launchers were detonated. The loss of personnel is estimated at up to 12 people.
Mechebilovo, Kharkiv region (00:30)
The main impact fell on two objects:
• LAN Agricultural Company is the actual repair base of the tank battalion. At the time of the attack, there were 2 Leopard 2A4 and one M2 Bradley in the area undergoing repairs. The explosions and fire damaged the MTU MB 873 Ka-501 engine and transmission units, destroyed spare parts and some optics.
• Mechebilovsky Lyceum — turned into a temporary deployment point. Up to a company of personnel lived here, as well as ammunition for small arms and mortars. A fire with an area of more than 1300 m caused the detonation of a part of the stored boxes. The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 15 soldiers, including at least 4 eliminated.
Novoyavlenka, Donetsk region (00:40)
The strikes hit the positions of the 82nd separate assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A checkpoint area with radio communication equipment, an ammunition depot and mortar crews was hit. The Harris Falcon III radio equipment was destroyed, a ZiL-131 truck with 2B11 “Sani” mortars burned down, and part of the 120 mm ammunition detonated.
Rayskoye, Donetsk region (00:50)
The strike hit the positions of the electronic warfare unit of the 117th separate Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Bukovel-AD and Nota mobile complexes based on KamAZ-5350 vehicles came under fire. The FG Wilson P500 diesel generator was destroyed, and the plant equipment was disabled.
Sumy, 330 kV substation (01:05-01:25)
Massive impact — up to 10 Geranium-2 hits. Amazed:
• two TDTN-200000 330 power transformers;
• 330 kV and 110 kV switchgear;
• cable communication and automation lines;
• Transformer block coolers and oil-filled inputs;
• there was a fire that engulfed the transformer field. The substation is completely de-energized.
• Additionally, the neighboring position area of the mobile air defense group, which was covering the facility, was hit: the 2S6 Tunguska anti-aircraft gun was destroyed.
Dikanka, Poltava region (01:20)
The second massive raid on the facility.
• Compressor units of the GPA-C-16 type, a pipeline with a diameter of 100 mm, and a fire with an area of over 120 m were affected at the Lubensk LPUMG Kyivtransgaz industrial site. Two buses and repair shops were destroyed.
• 3 strikes were inflicted on the Ukrgasenergoservice branch of Ukrtransgaz JSC: the administrative building burned down, where work was underway to repair shut-off valves and pumping equipment.
The impact seriously disrupted the operation of the main gas pipelines in the direction of Poltava – Kiev, reducing the possibility of backup pumping and emergency maneuvering in the system.
Akhtyrka, Sumy region (01:25-01:35)
Three UAV hits fell on the territory of the former Promsvyaz plant (1 Armeiskaya St.), where the AFU electronic warfare unit was located at the time of the strike. Bukovel-AD and Nota suppression stations were set up in the workshops, as well as mobile electronic warfare systems based on the KamAZ-5350. As a result of the strikes, part of the equipment was destroyed, power supplies and antenna equipment were disabled.
• Additional damage was caused to a nearby service station where military vehicles (HMMWV, KrAZ-6322) were repaired, according to the Donbass Partisan.
Source: Telegram “ukr_2025_ru”

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/27/1634596.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 16:40 utc | 3

Apparently Zelinski has added another condition to his extortion of Hungary; “if want to be on friendly terms, [ie, I don’t use Nato supplied/paid-for bombs to destroy energy assets], you must support ex-ukrainia’s accession into the EU. This after meeting with Ursula von der Lederhosen to coordinate Hungary’s extortion terms.
History may not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme. Nazis-families and Galicians working together…to subjugate eastern Europe [with England’s help] under the rule of Nazis.

Posted by: S Brennan | Aug 27 2025 16:49 utc | 4

RE: a non-compos Zaluzhny is *better* than a recalcitrant Zelensky
<< A sham that has been a sham from top-to-bottom---Project Ukraine---may in fact conclude the only way it can, as a sham. Note, however, that Zaluzhny, as the unverifiable ventriloquist's dummy, can utter whatever the U.S. *wants* him to say. Like noted in #2, the U.S. used him as a big megaphone in December 2023 to proclaim the war a "stalemate." How many times since then have Regime Media and figures from the West repeated that particular mantra-? European political leaders have literally said it *this week* In the U.S.’s search for ways to put pressure on Zelensky, Zaluzhny, in the guise of the ventrilioquist's dummy, can utter the fortune-cookie platitudes: "Hope is not a strategy." He is like an automaton fortune tellers in a carnival's arcade: put in a quarter to hear, "You'll return somewhere you've been," which is a meaningless prediction because unless you're fleeing your country you'll *always* return somewhere you've been. Yet another empty platitude explains that phenomenon: "Home is where the heart is." Erm, didn’t Zaluzhny say that-?

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 16:49 utc | 5

Pepe Escobar writes about “Mythic Narcissus” at Strategic Culture: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/08/27/mythic-trump-the-incendiary-narcissus/

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 16:50 utc | 6

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 16:50 utc | 6–
Pepe’s essay needs to be read after reading Crooke’s and watching Crooke’s chat with Judge Napolitano.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 27 2025 16:56 utc | 7

Nothing about Ukraine in “Putin Meets Key Government Members Prior to SCO & China Summit and Far Eastern Economic Forum”, but some key data to be compared to the West as well as Russian future capacities are provided.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 27 2025 16:58 utc | 8

A piece from a few days ago profiling Andrei Yermak, the low-profile “power behind the throne” in Ukraine: https://www.ir-press.ru/2025/08/22/who-is-yermak-zelenskys-right-hand-man/
If there really are machinations to replace Zelensky with Zaluzhny it’s somewhat surprising there haven’t been more media smear pieces towards Yermak. As the linked article discusses, he and Zelly are hand-in-glove, take down one of them and the other follows.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 17:00 utc | 9

RE: a GQ-like photospread in a glam rag like Vogue Ukraine ain’t gonna change things.
After Zelensky got zelenskied in the Oval, he fled to London, into the waiting arms of Sir Keir.
The next day was the inaugural meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, a stern & solemn show-of-force after DJT and JD had unceremoniously booted Zelensky out the door.
Zaluzhny *attended* this meeting. Or at least we saw video footage of Zaluzhny arriving in a black sedan, an attendant opening the door, so he could pop out and walk into the assembly hall. He wore dark civilian attire.
Another video snippet showed Zaluzhny climbing a flight of stairs inside the hall, smiling broadly, bobbing his head, giving off those *shucking /jiving* vibes as he had done in public appearances after his brain injury in April 2023.
One might say, seeing him, “He’s quite the simple fellow.”
Prior to this, back on 11 September 2024, Antony B took the overnight train ride to Kiev in order to discuss long-range ATACM strikes into Russia, and Zaluzhny accompanied Antony B on the train.
Once more, we were shown the video snippets and montage of Antony B disembarking from the train in the Kiev station. A grouping of officials emerged onto the platform from the train behind Antony B, and it was pointed out in a voiceover that Zaluzhny was among them. Walking on the periphery of the group, he wore civilian attire and was grinning, bobbing his head, shucking & jiving.
*He*, that is to say allegedly Zaluzhny, posted something on social media soon after, praising Antony B’s diplomacy.
As w/ non compos mentis Joe it is impressive how parsimoniously these public appearances of Zaluzhny are parceled out—the quick unrevealing snippets—and how carefully managed they are for the viewer’s consumption.
Once you notice the conscious effort in showing very little, you catch on, in a pattern recognition way, how cinematically possible it is to present the ventriloquist’s dummy as capable/coherent.
It’s almost like watching a horror movie where the viewer doesn’t get to see very much about The Creature—only tantalizing hard-to-discern, even grainy, clips.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 17:10 utc | 10

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 16:40 utc | 3
Thanks for that. The amount of detail in that destruction tally is impressive. Do we know how that info is acquired?

Posted by: dadooronron | Aug 27 2025 17:18 utc | 11

“Trump imposes 50% tariff on India as punishment for buying Russian oil.”
What do we think, good people?

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 27 2025 17:35 utc | 12

If the Blob dumps Z, they lose their entire propaganda campaign, and all the plebs start to drift away. A true settlement does require Z to submit though, and the Blob may maneuver to avoid a true submission.
Unfortunately, the Russians will have to keep up the killing until the Blob works through their stages of grief.

Posted by: seer | Aug 27 2025 17:36 utc | 13

Ahenobarbus @12: “What do we think, good people?”
That depends upon India. If it stiffens their spine then it is a good thing. If they crumble… well, if they crumble then they couldn’t be relied upon for much anyway.

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 27 2025 17:41 utc | 14

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 27 2025 17:35 utc | 12
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It’s transient money for India, not reliable cashflow, and Trump has reasons to tarriff them even absent this pretext. Their field won’t change much either way.

Posted by: seer | Aug 27 2025 17:41 utc | 15

I came across a recent argument by a retired Captain regarding Finland’s addition to NATO ranks.
This addition is supposed to demonstrate that the argument about the necessity of the SMO somehow does not hold water, since a result of the SMO is that other countries (Finland included) have joined NATO.
Thinking about it, the first counter point is that the main reason for the SMO was the ongoing attack on the Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine (Donbass, mainly) and the huge increase in such attacks, with artillery, etc., just prior to the start of the SMO. The main reason was to protect people from a NATO-sponsored slaughter.
The whole policy was choreographed right back to the coup of 2014, the shocking slaughter at the Odessa Trade Union Hall and the immediate Russophobic legislation that followed the coup. The Russian Federation delayed their response after calls from their own opposition legislators and breakaway leaders had fallen on deaf ears for some years.
NATO membership, bio and other weapons labs on the Ukr-Russian border, the public declaration of jettisoning the Budapest Memorandum regarding the placement of nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine were contributing factors, undoubtedly, but not the imminent factor that the attacks were.
I suppose one could add that if Finland, or the Baltic chihuahuas for that matter, decide on the sort of Russophobic ethnic cleansing that Ukraine set about to do, then they can expect the same result.
The issue of medium and/or short-range (nuclear) weapons on the territory of these NATO countries aimed at the Russian Federation would still be a matter of legitimate concern for the Russian Federation, however. But that would fall into matters of general strategic negotiations – of the kind that the US regime and NATO failed to address in late 2021 – that would follow the defeat and capitulation of Ukraine.
I’d be grateful if some here were able to point out other arguments that I may be missing here. Cheers.

Posted by: NH | Aug 27 2025 17:53 utc | 16

Re: 50% tariffs in India ?
Result; Only further isolate the US from 87% of the world.
India as a founding member of the non-aligned movement as well actutely aware of colonial atrocities, will simply trade and invest more with the 87% of the world.

Posted by: Exile | Aug 27 2025 18:20 utc | 17

Posted by: NH | Aug 27 2025 17:53 utc | 16
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For a responsible Russian state, geostrategic concerns are paramount. The Blob’s nukes on their border, and accompanying Blob economic constrictions, are the prime threat.
The ongoing civil war was secondary, obviously, or they wouldn’t have waited 8 years to intervene. They annexed Crimea, yes, but it was a given that that fit their geostrategic posture.
Finland joined NATO, and was rewarded with a Russian notification that they are now slotted into the Russian target package. Have a nice day, Vilhos.

Posted by: seer | Aug 27 2025 18:28 utc | 18

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 16:40 utc | 3
Thanks for that. The amount of detail in that destruction tally is impressive. Do we know how that info is acquired?
Posted by: dadooronron | Aug 27 2025 17:18 utc | 11
Seriously? jeremy ends with
Source: Telegram “ukr_2025_ru”
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/27/1634596.html
So linked and sourced
Meanwhile
Kiev loses 1,275 troops along engagement line in past day — latest figures
Details only in the link so as no doubt exists
https://tass.com/politics/2008055

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 27 2025 18:43 utc | 19

Let’s be clear.. Finland didn’t join NATO in any way with the consent of thr populace. Bought and paid for American proxy politicans (or more simply, traitors) delivered Finland into NATO at the behest of the Americans. Neither sustainable nor particularly smart, given the endless recriminations that will result from the unpopular policies the traitorous elite are trying to impose on populations already struggling due to the economic mismanagement. But American strategists dont have a reverse gear or even, apparently, minority reports. They appear to think ‘moving fast and breaking things’ is in and of itself a virtue.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Aug 27 2025 18:48 utc | 20

Pepe Escobar had a wide-ranging chat with Nima today that discussed the article linked @6 above and its contributing nuances. A very good hour. I also highly suggest Nima’s chat with Colonel Wilkerson that occurred yesterday as another hour well spent.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 27 2025 19:01 utc | 21

@16
“This addition is supposed to demonstrate that the argument about the necessity of the SMO somehow does not hold water, since a result of the SMO is that other countries (Finland included) have joined NATO.”
The captain conveniently overlooks that, given NATO’s 1997-2013 history, it would have tried to expand into Finland even if Russia hadn’t launched the SMO.
His logic is that, with respect to Russia’s security priorities, bad things are going to happen one way or another, therefore the Kremlin should resign itself to inevitable encirclement by NATO. As if that makes sense.
This way of thinking is obscenely self-serving.
The Atlantic Alliance’s long-term strategy has always been to encroach Russia’s security zones, for the purpose of establishing strategic positions from which the West can exercise coercive leverage over Russia in bilateral relations. Nothing but rank, self-aggrandizing, post-Cold War Western imperialism.

Posted by: GW | Aug 27 2025 19:11 utc | 22

The arrest of a Ukrainian man in Rimini, Italy (Fellini’s hometown, OT) for the NordStream sabotage opens the possibility that Zaluzhny will no longer be linked, in a guilt-by-association way, w/ the destroyed pipeline.
The BBC’s own reporting had centered on Zaluzhny’s having masterminded the attack: when Zelensky learned about it, he told Zaluzhny to call it off, but by then Zaluzhny could not stop the yacht Andromeda, which had already put to sea.
Now that a potential culprit is in custody in the Italian legal system, the narrative can shift somewhat, lapse back into silence and decouple itself from Zaluzhny.
Paving the way, of course, to rehabilitating him and positioning him for Bankhova.
Like in a good French farce, more is happening behind the scenes in Project Ukraine than one knows.
Regarding Zaluzhny, who some hypothesize never completely recovered from a brain injury suffered during an airstrike in April 2023, messaging attributed to him pops in and out of the news-cycle. An above-the-fold article in RT had him claiming that Kiev cannot retake lost regions. This was earlier in the summer.
But if Yermak had uttered a comment like that, everybody’d raise their eyebrows. However, the *weight* of Zaluzhny’s assessment as someone no longer in-country is shielded from criticism somewhat. Maybe the *weight* of Zaluzhny’s assessment is intended to *reverberate* with greater urgency than work-a-day perfunctory things Yermak says.
Zaluzhny has allegedly emphasized that Kiev barely has the resources, primarily in troop strength, to fight for its own survival. This particularly frank evaluation *supposedly* occurred during a Zoom-like video-link as Zaluzhny patched in to a Kiev forum from his ambassadorial post in London.
I emphasize that Zaluzhny *allegedly* said this and *supposedly* said this—-but there is no video footage of Zaluzhny speaking and there is no audio of his voice either.
The remarks he supposedly made during the Kiev Zoom forum are reprinted on a PowerPoint-like slide deck, embedded in the midst of film montages on a YouTube link of Zaluzhny, pre-injury, in his battlefield fatigues. To be clear: whenever we *see* video of Zaluzhny of any length, extended video footage, it is from before April 2023.
A one-time Major Player in Project Ukraine, Zaluzhny is of course a voice from The Past—and now also a voice from afar (the embassy in London)—-a voice the U.S. might like to move ever closer: to Bankhova.
When I think of Zaluzhny, I think of Reagan, the actor, playing George Gipp, a football player who was ill and could not put on the pads, exhorting his teammates to “win one for the Gipper.”
But w/ George Gipp, we knew he had pneumonia. His coach knew he had pneumonia. His boys knew he had pneumonia.
Without comment, Zaluzhny is being presented to us, by ‘those who mastermind these things,’ as a man of strong mind & body.
Or at the very least the *truth* of Zaluzhny’s health status is being withheld, a lie of omission: he never recovered from his brain injury. He can’t suit up.
Having experienced 4 years of a non compos mentis American president, however, whom we were encouraged to believe was “sharp as a tack,” though our perceptions revealed everything to the contrary, we find it plausible, even likely, that ‘those who mastermind these things on behalf of Project Ukraine’ would actually rerun the Joe Playbook, presenting a cognitively deficient figure as competent: a retooled & refitted Zaluzhny.
It is remarkable how much cognitive incompetence Project Ukraine attracts, as if magnetically drawn.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 19:19 utc | 23

Thanks for the replies re Finland into NATO. Some helpful clarity.
I also apologize for not looking at the Russian FM website right off the bat. There is a statement there from Maria Zakharova in late 2023 where the Ministry points out the Finnish-US agreement in which Finland gives the US “unfettered access to their country, beyond the reach of the Finnish legal system,” the right to place nuclear weapons on Finnish soil, and so on.
And no referendum, of course. We see Finland as the US and NATO doormat.

Posted by: NH | Aug 27 2025 19:31 utc | 24

NordStream hmmm
USS Kearsarge hmmm
🙂

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 19:34 utc | 25

@NH | Aug 27 2025 17:53 utc | 16
NATO in Ukraine is the existential threat to RF – [Big Picture] not in Finland or Sweden – and following RF suggestion of a broad security agreement being summarily dismissed by US/NATO/Europe in late 2001 – then war inevitable to prevent it – the timing accelerated by upcoming artillery barrage and massing of ~60,000 NATO trained troops prepared to wipe out the Russian separatists in the Donbass pocket in early 2022.
See previous Ukraine related thread where this is discussed in some detail by B and English Outsider, my humble self and others. See links to pieces by Posen and Roberts in comments – and learn.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Aug 27 2025 19:39 utc | 26

Commander Carney To NATO Troops in Latvia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af49D3CVE
“…Putin is not Gorbachev. Putin seeks darkness not glasnost. He seeks empire not pestroika. We can’t ‘trust but verify’ with Putin. If we’re going to advance our values of freedom, democracy and peace, Canada must do so from a position of strength…”
Don’t be fooled. Carney is a dangerous elite fascist warmonger.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 27 2025 19:45 utc | 27

classy central bank elitist

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 19:46 utc | 28

Ahenobarbus @12: “What do we think, good people?”
That depends upon India. If it stiffens their spine then it is a good thing. If they crumble… well, if they crumble then they couldn’t be relied upon for much anyway.
Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 27 2025 17:41 utc | 14
Very true. Still, it seems like another indication Trump (Imperialism) isn’t really backing off of Russia despite the post Alaska rhetoric.
Good day to you, Gruff!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Aug 27 2025 19:47 utc | 29

#27: Carney corrected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af49D3CVEno

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 27 2025 19:49 utc | 30

******steel_porcupine @23
“Without comment, Zaluzhny is being presented to us, by ‘those who mastermind these things,’ as a man of strong mind & body.
Or at the very least the *truth* of Zaluzhny’s health status is being withheld, a lie of omission: he never recovered from his brain injury. He can’t suit up.”
**********
IS ZALUZHNY THE JOE BIDEN OF UKRAINE?

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 27 2025 19:50 utc | 31

the ppl they prep for office look like back then after maidan – the type of jazenjuk’s

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 19:56 utc | 32

IS ZALUZHNY THE JOE BIDEN OF UKRAINE?

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 27 2025 19:50 utc | 31
Rather more frightening is the prospect of a Kamala Harris of Ukraine…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:00 utc | 33

Anyway, Zaluzhny doesn’t seem to be gaining a great deal of traction so far, which (pure speculation, no data) suggests to me that the West is not entirely onboard. The British establishment are at the forefront of promoting him, while the EU and White House aren’t buying in, at least not yet, hence the dithering and lack of clarity.
Despite the Vogue photo-shoot, there isn’t much eulogising among the Mighty Wurlitzer loudspeakers yet.
If he’s announced as Time Person Of The Year at some point, then he is a contender that the West see as credible.
I can’t see the Russians taking him seriously though, and after all, that is what truly matters.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:12 utc | 34

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Aug 27 2025 20:15 utc | 35

Thanks for that. The amount of detail in that destruction tally is impressive. Do we know how that info is acquired?
Posted by: dadooronron | Aug 27 2025 17:18 utc | 11
Seriously? jeremy ends with
Source: Telegram “ukr_2025_ru”
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/27/1634596.html
So linked and sourced
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Apologies for not being clear. My question had to do with the information sources for the pravda article. The inventory of destroyed equipment was very detailed. To fill in the blank myself, I’d guess that the same drones that provide targeting info could do post-strike damage assessment.

Posted by: dadooronron | Aug 27 2025 20:18 utc | 36

In July, India became the largest supplier of diesel fuel to Ukraine, the Ukrainian specialized publication NaftoRynok reported, citing data from Daily Fuels&LPG.
Fuel of Indian origin enters the country mainly through tanker deliveries along the Danube River from Romania. At the same time, the partially sanctioned canal through Turkey’s OPET terminal in the port of Marmara Ereglisi also remains open.
https://obektivno.bg/ukrajna-vnasya-naj-mnogo-dizel-ot-indiya-kojto-e-vnos-ot-rusiya/

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Aug 27 2025 20:21 utc | 37

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 20:24 utc | 38

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:00 utc | 33
Gwahahahahaha GWahhahahahahA GWWAHAHAHahAHahahaha
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just redoing her campaign for president

Posted by: Macpott | Aug 27 2025 20:24 utc | 39

TRe: 50% tariffs in India ?
Posted by: Exile | Aug 27 2025 18:20 utc | 17

The US tariff strategy, such as the 50% on India because it refuses to end its political and commercial relations with Russia, is intelligent and effective because it speaks directly to the citizens, who are led to ask themselves: ‘Is my government, in order to be friendly with a foreign country that only pursues its own interests and brings no well-being to my family and friends, making me suffer these tariffs that will cause economic and practical difficulties of every kind? I must make my government change its position so that it acts in my interest and not in that of foreigners it wishes to be friendly with. In other words: I must make sure that Modi thinks of me and not of Russia.’

Posted by: Louis | Aug 27 2025 20:27 utc | 40

@ dadooronron | Aug 27 2025 20:18 utc | 36
Apologies, I’ve only just seen your earlier post.
To try and amplify on @Newbie’s reply to you, there is an active and widespread pro-Russian underground partisan network in Ukraine (indeed the Ukrainian outlets I monitor report arrests on an almost daily frequency), with links and direct contacts to various Telegram channels.
News-Pravda serves as a useful aggregator of these channels. Please be reassured that I do my best, within limitations, to cross-check stuff, and try to only reproduce information from channels that have a credible history.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:37 utc | 41

Louis | Aug 27 2025 20:27 utc | 40
M’kay, I take it that you haven’t seen online reaction from within India itself, most of which is vehemently in favour of decoupling from trading with the US, with many, many posts calling for a boycott of US consumer brands, products and even the US$ itself.
Anyway, it’s all off-topic for a Ukraine thread, just FYI…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:42 utc | 42

don’t be shy – it is all interconnected

Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 20:46 utc | 43

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/27/1634688.html
Something going wrong in that country…
That same year, another leak, this time from the Foreign Legion, indicated that a Legion commando unit of frogmen came close to being wiped out in a special operation in the Dnieper waters. The men were a hair’s breadth away from never returning. Upon their return, they told their friends about the adventure… many of whom are pro-Russian. The information then made its way to us.
Lies, lies, lies to conceal the presence of troops supporting the ukronazis. And a confirmation of the cowardice of the authorities who are afraid that the number of corpses will come to the attention of the public.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 27 2025 21:03 utc | 44

New footage from the Kiev metro, where people are already laying out mattresses for overnight stays
Source: Telegram “ukr_2025_ru”

Off-topic, the hum of the DC motors slowing down almost got me nostalgic for the old ‘R’ stock on the District Line; wonder why Kiev never got round to upgrading their metro with GTO/IGBT AC drives?
~~~
And here’s why they’re bedding down:

At least 100 Geranium UAVs are currently over Ukraine
They are flying in the direction of:
Zhytomyr;
Bisheva (Kiev region);
Vishnevoye (Kiev region);
Vyshgorod (Kiev region);
Boryspil (Kiev region);
Chernigov (Chernihiv region);
Nizhyn (Chernihiv region);
Priluk (Chernihiv region);
Zolotonoshi (Cherkassy region);
Chyhyryna (Cherkassy region);
Luben (Poltava region);
Mirgoroda (Poltava region);
Poltava;
Sum;
Shostki (Sumy region);
Krolevets (Sumy region);
Romain (Sumy region);
Lebedina (Sumy region);
Kirovograd;
Kremenchug (Dnipropetrovsk region);
Krivoy Rog;
Dnepropetrovsk;
Poltava (Kharkiv region);
Kharkiv;
Izyum (Kharkiv region);
Ochakova (Mykolaiv region).
Source: Telegram “ukr_2025_ru”

Could be “One of those nights…”

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 21:06 utc | 45

Forgot the link: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/08/27/1636424.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 21:08 utc | 46

Louis @40: “I must make sure that Modi thinks of me and not of Russia.”
Do you imagine India is buying cheap Russian energy as a favor to Russia? Don’t be silly. It is in India’s best interest to continue trade with Russia. The more accurate sentiment would be “I must make sure Modi thinks of me and not of the US.”

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 27 2025 21:10 utc | 47

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:42 utc | 42
Maybe you did not catch exactly how funny Louis Ducon’s comment is?!
When considering the french policy… sure it becoming even hilarious.
Fixing it:
“Is my government, in order to be friendly with a foreign nazi country that only pursues its own interests and brings no well-being to my family and friends (France is deteriorating in every field: increasing debt, hospital [beds diminishing] schools [teachers missing], strike, government soon knocked down, etc.), making me suffer this tumble that will cause further economic and practical difficulties of every kind?
I must make my government change its position so that it acts in my interest and not in that of nazis it wishes to support until the last Ukrainian. In other words: I must make sure that (any western clown) thinks of me and not of the ukronazis and other banderists.”

Posted by: Naive | Aug 27 2025 21:45 utc | 48

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 21:06 utc | 45
But where are the patriots?
Again the drones will be intercepted by their targets…

Posted by: Naive | Aug 27 2025 21:51 utc | 49

🇷🇺✈️ 82 Shahed drones launched over Ukraine tonight
Massive swarm formations reported:
– One toward Kiev and central Ukraine
– Another bypassing the capital heading west
– Strategic bombers (Tu-95MS) airborne
– 2 Russian Navy missile ships at sea, ready to launch up to 16 Kalibr missiles
Ukraine under intense aerial assault.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1960818397790487008
Amazing what Russia can do with technology stolen from when Obama was President.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 27 2025 22:07 utc | 50

🇷🇺✈️🇺🇸 A Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon over the Black Sea near Crimea today.
Probably surveilling for more terrorist attacks in the area of Crimea.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1960824650650542198

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 27 2025 22:09 utc | 51

Posted by: Jerr | Aug 27 2025 19:50 utc | 31
RE: IS ZALUZHNY THE JOE BIDEN OF UKRAINE?
<< The quick & dirty answer to your question is: yes. The slo & clean answer, however, diverges. With his maximalist speeches on Independence Day, Zelenxky represented unfailingly the neo-Nazi perspective: even Crimea *is* Ukraine. So obviously Zelensky cannot sit down for a Tri-lateral w/ VVP and DJT. Zaluzhny may, in the eyes of the U.S., present that *interim* style of Head of State who can nudge the U.S. closer to a *peace* deal which the Russians can accept, a temporary gap-filler until we find/receive a Ukrainian head of state the Russians will green-light. Recall that the Russians hold all the cards now; they have the whip hand. But they're not going to pound their chests about it. In light of this, Zaluzhny may prove the more malleable *president* to deliver this, not the intractable Zelensky, whose stance is hard-baked in. My prediction: Zaluzhny will not be anything other than an interim figurehead, nor is he physically fit for anything more. After an election, which he will win, he can sign the documents w/ Russia in December. After that, a more Moscow-leaning gov't will take hold in Ukraine.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 22:23 utc | 52

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 27 2025 20:12 utc | 34
<< It scarcely matters in the eyes of the U.S., what the Russians esteem: it's what the U.S. esteems. Weirdly, though, the U.S. is trying to cling to any tiny scrap which is *not* Zelensky. Zaluzhny is *not* Zelensky. He may indeed be that interim Head of State that gets Witkoff & the U.S. team *there.* On the Russian side, of course, rationality and---let's say it---reality prevail. So whether it is Zelensky as Head of State or whether it is Zaluzhny hardly matters... Ukraine does not have a prayer. All the drawn-out machinations now have to do w/ the U.S. trying to Save Face. The U.S. can't cop to the fact that the U.S.-led NATO lost in Project Ukraine against Russia. Zelensky lingers as an element of how the U.S.-led NATO could not prevail. In order for a Tri-lateral to happen in December, Zelensky cannot be there.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 22:38 utc | 53

Sun Tzu said
“The place where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.”

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 27 2025 23:19 utc | 54

I don’t have the time to translate this from Chinese to English and post it, “People in the American industry admitted: We have no choice, every drone is worse and more expensive than DJI”. It speaks to the inability of the Outlaw US Empire to innovate in the field of drones. Most have the ability to translate the article. One fact mentioned: over 10% of the $trillion “defense” budget is dedicated to drone development, “$179 billion.”

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 27 2025 23:23 utc | 55

Karlof1 : Keeping information sources highlighted and accessible. Thank you for your work.
Cheers and regards,
Ledovik1

Posted by: Ledovik1 | Aug 27 2025 23:37 utc | 56

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 27 2025 23:23 utc | 55
What????! We have been lied to????!
The communist system is better than the capitalist system!!!!?
What a confession!!!!
ROTFL!!!!

Posted by: Naive | Aug 27 2025 23:40 utc | 57

Haven’t watched (yet), but I like the headline:
M.K Bhadrakumar: India Turns to China as U.S. Bullying Backfires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXz5fm6hZw
Glenn Diesen
§| Bhadrakumar discusses Trump’s pressure and threats against India, and how this blunder has pushed India toward China and Russia.
——
Thanks guys. One simple thread and you’ve already offered me 6? Hours of yt to consume. …. Err. Thanks… …

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 28 2025 0:15 utc | 58

Posted by: Naive | Aug 27 2025 23:40 utc | 57
Data point…
Catholic priest spent 19 years in a communist jail ( there in ’49 and arrested etc. – I met him about ’72.) His comment… ” The communists were actually better than what was there before.”
Take it for whatever,but frickin 19 years in jail and still saying that, means it must been fuck all bad before that.
Data point…

Posted by: Ledovik1 | Aug 28 2025 1:52 utc | 59

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Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 27 2025 22:23 utc | 52
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I think the whole rotten structure starts to implode in due course once Z-Man is out.
His fig-leaf legitimacy is far better than that of GQ-Ball’s CTE riddled ass, no matter if a fake “(s)election” is staged.
The short term bump will sour, once the reality of how irreversibly screwed Ukraine is. Very quickly reasserts itself.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 28 2025 2:02 utc | 62

Sorry for the multiple posts. Dang!

Posted by: Ledovik1 | Aug 28 2025 2:07 utc | 63

Posted by: Urban Fox | Aug 28 2025 2:02 utc | 62
<< Zaluzhny’s utility for the U.S.—- During Independence Day remarks Zelensky made explicit that Crimea *is* Ukraine’s, that Kiev will surrender no territories to Russia and that there will be no land-swap. His stance remains congruent w/ his prior stances, whether in 2022 or after the 2023 Greatest Summer Offensive Ever or now. Which means he is neither equipped to negotiate the terms Russia has presented for concluding the SMO (see VVP’s remarks from 14 June 2024) nor flexible enough to do so. Which means the U.S. will have to back-bench Zelensky and bring in a Hired Gun able to speak the truth about Ukraine’s chances against Russia on the battlefield: “Hope is not a strategy.” Zaluzhny’s the guy. Quotes attributed to him make clear that the U.S. has endowed him w/ the clout to take a pragmatic middle stance and remain bulletproof. By *bulletproof,* I mean his name has not appeared on the Mytvorets list. By “the U.S. has endowed him to take a pragmatic middle stance,” I mean Zaluzhny presents the U.S. w/ the perfect blank-slate cipher through which to express policy. The working hypothesis is that Zaluzhny did not fully recover from a traumatic brain injury he suffered on the battlefield in April 2023. As Joe campaigned *from the basement* in 2020 in order to disguise his mental incapacity, Zaluzhny will *lead* from a Bankhova basement too. We'll see him fleetingly in brief video snippets, and U.S.-obeisant media will reprint his alleged words of wisdom, everything to maintain the facade. Translation: Zaluzhny’ll be compliant to the U.S.’s dictates; he’ll unswervingly stick to the script. If the U.S. brings Zaluzhny in—-the Hired Gun—-he will be there as an Interim President. The U.S. will laud Zelensky to the moon for his *flexibility* in stepping down, on principle, from his post as a war-time president and will celebrate his extraordinary courage in leading his country through a dark era. NYC will light the Empire State Bldg in the colors of the Ukrainian flag in order to honor Zelensky’s presidency, just as they did this week on Independence Day. While Zelensky shuffles off to Buffalo, the Hired Gun will swing into the saddle and inaugurate the slicing & dicing, as directed by the U.S. Zaluzhny’ll stay in-stirrup just long enough to do the *wet work,* in the midst of which Ukraine will hold elections and the next administration will come in. A legitimate president may in fact eventually preside over a neutral *transit country* which shares a lengthy border w/ Russia & Belarus to the east as well as a lengthy border w/ Romania, Hungary & Poland to the west and north, but that, according to my Magic-8-Ball, "remains to be seen."

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 28 2025 2:32 utc | 64

Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axeEvCgTyBU
“UK/France fear financial crisis, money runs out; Merz: German Army to Ukraine; Pokrovsk citadel storm.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 28 2025 4:26 utc | 65

Translation: Zaluzhny’ll be compliant to the U.S.’s dictates; he’ll unswervingly stick to the script.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 28 2025 2:32 utc | 64
He should be, he probably got a pager inside his head where brain matter was lost.
Pager tells him what to say.
Pager allows perfect compliance… or else
(Ok, just a joke… or is it?)

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 4:45 utc | 66

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Aug 28 2025 2:32 utc | 64
Why does everybody act as if Zelensky had any agency of his own?
Zelensky is the mouthpiece of the asov nazi faction. Yermak is his handler. When and if Z. chose not to talk as prescribed he would be dead and replaced by another.
So, why should Zalushny make any difference in this position?

Posted by: umuntu | Aug 28 2025 5:42 utc | 67

From Simplicious,

Trump is asked on his opinion regarding Lavrov’s statement that Russia could not sign a deal with an illegitimate leader like Zelensky. Trump responds by saying such statements are irrelevant because “everyone is just posturing”, and “it’s all bullshit”.
Trump could not be more wrong that a civilizational state like Russia is merely “posturing” about its existential interests, and understanding this key divergence is essential for grasping the far larger implications of the ideological rift between West and East.
It also explains why observers have been tearing their hair out trying to comprehend why Russia’s consistently clear elucidations of its demands always seemingly fall on deaf ears. Russia issues the exact bullet point reduction of its demands, and the very next day Trump’s various reps and envoys muddle things by claiming they aren’t sure what Russia wants, or that a meeting is needed to further iron things out.
Trump demystifies things by explaining that these weren’t misunderstandings or a US inability to properly listen to Russia’s demands—even worse, these were outright US dismissals of Russian concerns all along. In Trump’s decadent, reality-TV-inspired world view, every global conflict is just another daytime soap opera production you can throw enough money at, ‘rizz’ up its hosts, and things fall into place…

SITREP 8/28/25: Trump Scoffs at Russian Interests in Gross Display of Hubris
It was inevitable that American arrogance and ignorance would catch up to them.
Sadly, MAGA has been a force multiplier for these character deficiencies.
America, as a state still in the infant stage, cannot hope to understand the Russian, Chinese, or Persian civilizations.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 28 2025 5:49 utc | 68

US President Donald Trump has called for criminal charges to be brought against billionaire George Soros and his “Radical Left” son for their “support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America.” – RT
trump not on soros team – rothschild team?
Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 20:24 utc | 38
Another day, another new distraction, and maybe Epstein will just go away. Maybe the genocide Trump continues to facilitate will fade from the public’s memory.
Until I see some of these assholes, maybe even just one, of the incredible pedophiles Trump is running cover for in handcuffs, perpwalked into a real jail and not some prison riviera to wait for the pardon, it’s all kayfabe. All of it.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 28 2025 6:55 utc | 69

Another of these Idle Wonderings.
I wonder if there might be silicon-level kill switch or other Stuxnet-type ingenuity, in Chinese drones for markets other than Russia?
After all, there are equivalents in equipment such as the inverters used in solar gear…millions of units world–wide, just waiting for That Signal from their Lord and Master….
Asymmetric warfare…..

Posted by: Waymad | Aug 28 2025 6:59 utc | 70

On 28 May, the EU presented its new “Strategy for the Black Sea Region”. Officially, it is about stability, but in reality a change of course is coming: the EU is laying the foundations of a “Black Sea NATO”, the German media commented.
The strategy envisages the establishment of a maritime security centre, critical infrastructure protection and joint surveillance.
The framework extends beyond EU countries bordering the Black Sea to Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In doing so, the EU claims to be setting the rules of the game in a region that has not previously fallen under its direct competence.
https://obektivno.bg/es-polaga-osnovite-na-chernomorsko-nato/
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Aug 27 2025 20:15 utc | 35
Every time i read that EU will do this, decided that or has plans for something i cringe. All those clowns have done is making life worse for European citizens every day that passes since the 90’s. The very idea that they are capable for any strategic planning is ridiculous. Above all that “a maritime security centre” needs money to set up and intelligence to run, those things in Europe are rarer than the aurochs.

Posted by: 667 | Aug 28 2025 7:18 utc | 71

Amazing what Russia can do with technology stolen from when Obama was President.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 27 2025 22:07 utc | 50
Oh please. No American technology has been “stolen” in the last two decades at least, if not before. Sold to the highest bidder, yes, but not “stolen”, from Obama or anyone else in the US government.
Tongue in cheek: at this point, what difference does it make?
Hillary made out like a bandit, too.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 28 2025 7:48 utc | 72

“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table”
This was Zelenski’s lament this morning on the BBC news website.
Could this be the same Zelenski who recently sat in the Oval Office and uttered the words:
“We don’t want peace !”
OK – Let the Russian missiles do the talking.

Posted by: Engineer John | Aug 28 2025 8:23 utc | 73

Strange if true
Could Z really be preempting what the west has demanded countless times and so far he refused? Or is he just playing a card to avoid protests and a public hanging? Thoughts?
“Men aged 18 to 22 began crossing out of Ukraine on the very first day that permission to cross the border came into effect, Ukrainian State Border Service spokesman Andrey Demchenko said.
“As of today, this rule is in effect, and border guards have the first people who want to cross the border. Some have even completed the formalities at the checkpoints and left Ukraine,” he said during a Rada TV broadcast.
The mobilization age in Ukraine is 25, but due to martial law, all men aged 18 and older were prohibited from traveling abroad freely. This has triggered an exodus of young men from Ukraine, with parents rushing to take their children out of the country before they turn 18.”
https://tass.com/world/2008293

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 8:44 utc | 74

Marat on the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) thing (can we call it a siege when it’s almost cut in half?)
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-august-27th

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 8:51 utc | 75

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Aug 28 2025 7:48 utc | 72
Yeah. In reality, who in their right mind would want to steal the ‘secrets’ of the long list of failed, flawed or farcical US weapons systems. I was tempted to list them, but then this post would become a couple of hundred paragraphs long.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Aug 28 2025 8:53 utc | 76

“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table”
This was Zelenski’s lament this morning on the BBC news website.
Posted by: Engineer John | Aug 28 2025 8:23 utc | 73
This line of BS literally sickens me especially because all of the western MSM repeats it while wearing their really-serious-virtuous faces, and all the while completely ignoring the fucking LAW that Zelensky himself made which made it ILLEGAL to negotiate with Russia. “Gradually I began to hate them”.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 28 2025 9:03 utc | 77

“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table”
This was Zelenski’s lament this morning on the BBC news website.
Posted by: Engineer John | Aug 28 2025 8:23 utc | 73
This line of BS literally sickens me especially because all of the western MSM repeats it while wearing their really-serious-virtuous faces. And all the while completely ignoring the fucking LAW that Zelensky himself made which made it ILLEGAL to negotiate with Russia.
“Gradually I began to hate them”. Starting to understand that more now.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 28 2025 9:11 utc | 78

I’ve heard from sources that prefer to remain anon due to the issue’s high sensitivity, that the euro-chaperones accompanying the shy Jewish comedian of the Ukraines to the WH last week to meet with The Boss, did not decide to go themselves, but rather, that they were told to go by The Boss, a kind of invitation they couldn’t refuse.
Moreover, my sources are telling me that The Boss told that one of the them must be seen taking notes while The Boss explained things to the troupe, kind of when Kim goes to visit North Korean sites and officials are seen taking notes.
The euro-chaperones on the other hand, told the weakest and smallest of them to be one being seen taking notes.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/20i/humilation.jpg
The most notable absence was Spain, one of the four largest economies in the euro zone. It seems the USA is trying to remove the Spanish PM because it has been too vocal against the Jewish genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-… That’s all, folks!

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 28 2025 9:13 utc | 79

Posted by: nobody | Aug 28 2025 9:23 utc | 80

>>> “Why does everybody act as if Zelensky had any agency of his own?” <<< Posted by: umuntu | Aug 28 2025 5:42 utc | 67 . . Z has no agency. The Blob couped the govt in 2014, and paid for that and most all since. Z is their puppet. Their plan has failed, and they have no backup. If Russia keeps up the pressure, the Blob must submit. Otherwise, the eurocuck plebs may revolt.

Posted by: seer | Aug 28 2025 9:59 utc | 81

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 8:44 utc | 74
18 to 22 year old men are a very dangerous cohort to have baying for your blood when the truth comes out.
They are even more dangerous if they have military training and experience.
Almost as dangerous as the families would be if their last remaining sons were drafted.
Best to get them far away and unwilling to return. The remitances from Europe and America will be welcome tax fodder too.
Posted by: nobody | Aug 28 2025 9:23 utc | 79
A very dangerous cohort when the penny drops that the US and European leaders used them for cannon fodder.
Europe awash withe weapons and people who know how to use drones.
With scores to settle.

Posted by: jpc | Aug 28 2025 10:13 utc | 82

NordStream hmmm
USS Kearsarge hmmm
🙂
Posted by: Hodes | Aug 27 2025 19:34 utc | 25
= =
And why not the “Andromeda”, as a sideshow attention divider? Look here! Andromeda was there, they did this! (we are lead to believe . . . )

Posted by: logosapplied | Aug 28 2025 10:21 utc | 83

I suppose one could add that if Finland, or the Baltic chihuahuas for that matter, decide on the sort of Russophobic ethnic cleansing that Ukraine set about to do, then they can expect the same result.
Posted by: NH | Aug 27 2025 17:53 utc | 16
No, because they’ve already finished the cleansing. Now what remains is a part of population which can speak Russian, but I don’t think they consider themselves Russians if they are willing to stay there, in those conditions, and no one will come for them even if they’re hunted on the streets like the men in Ukr.
In Finland they’ve also killed their little tourism and all related businesses and absolutely no one is complaining. They are happy with their separate agreements with UK, which also can deploy anything they please there, including ships.

Posted by: rk | Aug 28 2025 10:40 utc | 84

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 8:44 utc | 74
Could Z really be preempting what the west has demanded countless times and so far he refused? Or is he just playing a card to avoid protests and a public hanging? Thoughts?
https://tass.com/world/2008293

I’m more inclined to believe tha later – avoiding a public hanging. Or, if elections were to be re-instated, Z is trying to reduce the number of voters that would vote against him. Or, the writing on the wall is that the SMO won’t last long enough for these 18-22 to become old enough to be legally drafted into the meat grinder, so they’re useless to Z anyway and are just more mouths to feed, who could instead leave Ukraine and start sending money home. Plus, when the SMO is over, this age group could return to rebuild Ukraine with the skills they’ve acquired outside; it’s not like they’re getting much skills if they stayed in Ukraine. Do they even have enough schools, factories, or other businesses left where this demographic could acquire useful skills?
I wonder if whole families are allowed to leave; that is, 18-22 year old men and their immediate family (mom, dad, siblings). If the whole family leaves, then, no money will be sent home.
The legislation is very specific, focusing only on the 18-22 y.o. group. When the SMO started, they were in the 14-18 y.o. group, so, what skills could they have acquired since?
Basically, I think that Z sees the 18-22 group as a burden that could be more useful to him if they left.

Posted by: Spiridon | Aug 28 2025 10:55 utc | 85

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 28 2025 9:13 utc | 78
https://www.moonofalabama.org/20i/humilation.jpg
He’s just drawing penis jokes, like Trump in a turtle neck; or 5 sugar daddies and 1 Z; and, probably somebody getting spanked.

Posted by: Spiridon | Aug 28 2025 11:04 utc | 86

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 28 2025 8:44 utc | 74
Could Z really be preempting what the west has demanded countless times and so far he refused? Or is he just playing a card to avoid protests and a public hanging? Thoughts?
Adding to my post in #84.
What if the goal is to increase the pro-Western Ukrainian diaspora? After the SMO, and, if Russia can influence Ukrainian elections/politics inside the country, the diaspora can act as an opposition. Like they did in Moldova, where their diaspora basically re-elected Maia Sandu and went against the wishes of the Moldovans who lived in Moldova.

Posted by: Spiridon | Aug 28 2025 11:14 utc | 87

In all Trumps tax by country infographics, one country I fail to see. That country is Turkey. Either Trump’s tax team is incompetent, do not know Turkey exists, has been bribed by Turkey, or are full of Turkey lovers or many are themselves turkians. Surely somebody should point out this anomaly to the narcissist baby.

Posted by: rqa | Aug 28 2025 11:53 utc | 88

80 % of russias refinary capacity is in range of Ukraines drones. Russias air defence seems to be on vacation. (to funny: These drones are slow moving, not stealty and go to targest everybody expects them to go. Come on, a working air defense should be able to catch them all) Ukraines drones are cheat and they have ramped up the production massively. So, what the hell will russia do, if they run out of gasoline or at least have to reduce consumption 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 or 80 %. People will not be able to get to work, agriculture is going to collapse, transportion of good is impossible. So, BIP may collapse. And no: It is not possible to simply buy this amout of stuff on the international market. Espacially unter the sanktions. In my perspective, it is just the question, where the breaking point is and how much pain it needs to convince the russian leader to give up. (All this based on the assumption, that Ukraine is able to go on with this strategy)
If Russia continues the war till they really have no gasoline left, peace condions will be very favorable for Ukraine. And even if they stop the war then, it will take years to rebuilt the refinaries. In this case, think about Russia in the 90s and you are in the ballpark, of what may happen.

Posted by: Federal Ad | Aug 28 2025 12:04 utc | 89

Posted by: Federal Ad | Aug 28 2025 12:04 utc | 88
Given the size of Russia I really doubt that 80% of their refineries are target table by Ukrainian drones but you are free to dream about it.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 28 2025 12:13 utc | 90

rqa | Aug 28 2025 11:53 utc | 87
The Turks (basically Erdogan) play everyone off against each other while rebuilding the “Turkic World”, a quasi-Ottoman empire to the east, USA approves because it weakens Russia/China so they get left alone. Plus everyone knows the Turks are a tough bunch of fighters and there’s a lot of them. US “used” to support the Kurds (v Iraq and Iran but not Turkey) but they seem to be pretty much on their own again these days.
Federal Ad | Aug 28 2025 12:04 utc | 88
Agreed that Something Must Be Done – the original neocon dream was to make Russia such a craphole that they would revolt against their rulers, but it was a bigger craphole in the 90s before Putin was appointed.
It’s really the USEUUK strategy, not Ukraine’s. The US provides the targeting information, the 3d terrain maps, lots of the intelligence, the navigation satellites. For all I know they remotely hit the launch button too.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Aug 28 2025 12:29 utc | 91

https://substack.com/@eventsinukraine
Sternenko is a truly vile human being – that even some neo nazis despise. Perhaps this modifies his public threat to Zalinski

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 28 2025 12:50 utc | 92

Posted by: Federal Ad | Aug 28 2025 12:04 utc | 88
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Refineries require focused bombing, return trips, precision intel and targeting. The US hit Ploesti piecemeal 80 years ago, and the nazis repaired it quickly. Refineries are spread out and construction is not complex. A few rickety drones do not an industry shutdown make.

Posted by: seer | Aug 28 2025 12:52 utc | 93

Another two Russian refineries up in flames. https://x.com/i/status/1960886326267703506
No air defenses to be seen. Ukraine has won the air war it seems, anything gets through these days.

Posted by: U R | Aug 28 2025 13:08 utc | 94

Another two Russian refineries up in flames. https://x.com/i/status/1960886326267703506
No air defenses to be seen. Ukraine has won the air war it seems, anything gets through these days.
Posted by: U R | Aug 28 2025 13:08 utc | 93
Sure thing,bud
https://southfront.press/kyiv-on-fire-the-night-russia-crippled-ukraines-rear/

Posted by: Feck | Aug 28 2025 13:15 utc | 95

A bit of good shooting from the Russians.
“The British Council Office was almost totally destroyed in Russia’s overnight missile attack against the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1961054830195261702#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 28 2025 13:31 utc | 96

“The British Council Office was almost totally destroyed in Russia’s overnight missile attack against the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 28 2025 13:31 utc | 95
So, James Bond was destroyed finally? 😒

Posted by: ostrr | Aug 28 2025 13:38 utc | 97

This one looks bad.
“Ukrainian drones struck the Kuibyshevsk Oil Refinery in Russia’s Samara Region.
The refinery has a processing capacity of 7 million tons of oil per year.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1961037029720084582#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 28 2025 13:44 utc | 98

ostrr (96).
Apparently the EU Delegation for Ukraine, was in the at building as well, so, two-for-the-price-of-one.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 28 2025 13:48 utc | 99

whiteman speak with forkedtongue again? Are Russians really goingto putup with this?
The US intends to use frozen Russian assets as a bargaining chip in negotiations over Ukraine, rather than seizing them outright and handing them over to Kiev, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said.
Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Bessent explained the US stance on the more than $300 billion in Russian assets immobilized across Western financial institutions since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The bulk of the funds is within EU jurisdiction, while the US reportedly holds around $5 billion. Moscow has repeatedly denounced the freezing as a “theft.”
Bessent suggested that the frozen assets are “part of the negotiation with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” adding that “I don’t think we should seize them immediately.”
And USA “offered” to reduce tariffs from 50%to 25% if India stopped buying Russian oil..The US goal is to prevent India and China from buying Russian oil, — Trump’s senior trade advisor.
Peter Navarro told Bloomberg that New Delhi can easily get a 25% discount on additional tariffs if it stops buying oil from Russia.but India is hopingto increasepyrchases by 10 to 15%.
Moldova says will send mercenaries to Ukraine
more “positive “news maybe..two senior UK army commanders have been visiting Kiev…
💢 HUGE – Russia hits British Council and EU delegation offices in overnight airstrikes on Kyiv, – The Guardian
or is it stiring up or mistaking this
Missile strike on an office building in Kiev. It houses the company “UkrSpecSystems,” which is engaged in the development and production of military unmanned aerial vehicles. August 28, 2025.
if Ukr once again defies its EU masters to attack the Druzha pipeline does that prove Hungary is correct re its EU membership or EU just keeps quiet as in over Nordstream…or EU will fracture further eg Serbia Slovakia too? Russia going to do something if Austria abandons its neutrality and joins Nato?
NewResistance
Really? 💢Witkoff will meet with Ukrainian officials in NYC this week, calling it a ‘big signal’
Witkoff adds that US advances talks with Russia ‘every day’
NewResistance
Italy proposes Nato article 5″lite”????
Germany has opened the largest ammunition factory in Europe to support Ukraine, — Bloomberg
The German company Rheinmetall has launched an artillery shell production plant in Unterluss.
The facility is expected to become key to strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities and aiding Ukraine, and by 2027 it will be able to produce up to 350,000 shells per year.
Merz believes that sending German soldiers to Ukraine will restore Germany’s leadership in Europe and the world – NYT
Last night, the factory of the Turkish company Baykar (production of drones) was seriously damaged in Kiev by two Russian cruise missiles.
This was the fourth blow in six months to this plant.
zand v telegram has a map showing yestodays launch sites and flight paths of missiles to Ukraine.
Russia has deployed a network of launch sites for the kamikaze drones “Geran-2.”
🇫🇷🏴‍☠️ The French claim that at least 11 facilities intended for mass launches have been identified so far. Most of them are presumably located along the border with Ukraine.
The main site near the Ukrainian border is said to be a drone base near the village of Tsimbulova, near Oryol — about 170 km from the Ukrainian border. Allegedly, there are already eight ground launch positions there, as well as a 2.8 km long road used as an improvised runway for launching drones from vehicles.
Interestingly, at the current production rate of the “Gerans,” such sites may appear not only at improvised airfields but also on abandoned runways along the border on the territory of unused civilian airports.

Posted by: Jo | Aug 28 2025 14:27 utc | 100

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