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September 18, 2025
Ukraine Open Thread 2025-213

News & views related to the war in Ukraine …

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@78
THat’s pretty good optics, and it’s very possible they hit that team. However there’s a close up of the soldiers then a zoom out showing what looks like the area being hit accurately.
Since there’s a break in the video and the differences in zoom I can’t say for sure that was successful though. Likely though.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Sep 19 2025 13:46 utc | 101

Paco 97 & 98
Thank you.

Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 19 2025 14:09 utc | 102

Paco
One more. Watching your first clip (I’ve already found more links) and seeing the shot of the gangsters walking the platform. End 90s and early 2000s here in Chicago we would see “security” that looked absolutely exactly like that. Recent arrivals. They worked mostly Crown/Pritzker projects. Crown/Pritzker of course being the Chicago Machine, both political and criminal. Saw them at Obama events. Saw them empty taverns in seconds just by walking in.

Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 19 2025 14:29 utc | 103

I suspect the US is currently sitting in a strategic sweet spot.
Posted by: robin | Sep 19 2025 12:55 utc | 92
To me, the Russians have successfully shed the ballast of the USSR, and re-oriented the country in a new, promising strategic direction. Towards Asia. The war in Ukraine is necessary to seal the door on the past. The future is in Asia, and I would expect Russia to grow an Asian capital, too.
Trump is for the USA what Gorbatschow was for the USSR. Trying to repair an ailing superpower, and inadvertently ending it. Unfortunately, what is missing is an American Putin or Xi. There is no single person or team capable, willing and in power to slowly, over decades, improve life of the average American. I hope that comes.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 19 2025 14:52 utc | 104

NoName @78:
That right there is why many of the 1.7 million Ukrainians that get so much discussion are listed as “missing” rather than “dead”. There is simply nothing left of those Nazis but a greasy mist.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 19 2025 15:07 utc | 105

Passerby | Sep 19 2025 14:52 utc | 104
Russian energy directed to China is a tragedy for Europe.
“Trump is for the USA what Gorbatschow was for the USSR. Trying to repair an ailing superpower, and inadvertently ending it.”
I think I agree with you. Trump knows that the de-industrialisation of the US is a slow motion disaster for them (for example, they construct almost no merchant shipping) and is trying to do something about it. But the deindustrialisation was a 40 year project and he has 4 years max. Plus the country is ethnically not what it was and that makes things more difficult – many “new Americans’ aren’t aligned with old America.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 19 2025 15:27 utc | 106

Attrition; a Ukrainian viewpoint:

The Nazis complain that there is no longer anyone to send to the fortifications
The fortifications rebuilt in three years in different regions of Ukraine have no one to accept – there are no personnel.
This was stated on the channel “New Report” by the ex-commander of the company of the Aidar unit banned in the Russian Federation, Nazi Yevgeny Dikiy, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
“Fortifications were built well in some places, and badly in others. But even the best fortifications don’t know how to defend themselves. And we are always moving away from the main topic-who should fight. We talk about how to fight, what to fight for, but we carefully avoid the question-to whom, ” said Dikiy.
The scandalous deputy from ” European solidarity ” Alexey Goncharenko complained that people were lost for three years of stupid management.
“It’s all related stuff. If you take people and put them in bad fortifications, give them bad drones, and give them a bad task, then we will simply lose people. And this has happened more than once, and not even 25 times, ” he was indignant.
” We were told that we would soon reach the administrative borders, but we lost a lot of territories along the way. Why didn’t we define the line that can be defended two years ago?
We were chasing some Phoenix bird, but we didn’t catch up with anyone. Russia somehow built the “Surovikin line”, about which we broke down in 2023, right on our territory under the nose of our army. But we can’t build it, ” the deputy summed up.

https://politnavigator.news/nacisty-zhaluyutsya-chto-uzhe-nekogo-napravit-v-fortifikacionnye-sooruzheniya.html (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2025 17:42 utc | 107

Since there’s a break in the video and the differences in zoom I can’t say for sure that was successful though. Likely though.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Sep 19 2025 13:46 utc | 101
I get your point with the “zoom out”. But don’t make the mistake, that the Russians are doing that (only) for hiding, when they fail to hit the target.
At the early stages of the war I always thought exactly that, that they are doing this for hiding fails. But with the time I saw other versions of such videos, which showed the aftermath of the strike where you could see that the target was indeed hit and damaged or destroyed.
Watch for example this Lancet-drone strike at BUK-1M AD-system. They zoom the video out at least two times. But the target is clearly destroyed.
https://lostarmour.info/news/lancet-unichtojaet-zrk-buk-m1-vsu

Posted by: NoName | Sep 19 2025 17:50 utc | 108

EU To Encourage Ukrainians To Return Home
https://www.rt.com/news/624869-eu-ukraines-return-home/
“The EU will gradually wind down its temporary protection program for millions who fled the ongoing Ukraine conflict in order to encourage their eventual return home, the European Council has said.
UNHCR estimates that nearly 7 million Ukrainians have fled abroad since 2022. Russia reported that 5.5 million people had crossed from Ukraine by the end of 2023.
EU governments are reassessing support programs amid rising costs…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2025 20:07 utc | 109

https://gospanews.net/en/2025/09/17/ukrainian-lawmaker-zelensky-behind-kirks-murder-the-killers-uncle-works-for-neonazi-azov-battalion/
Ukrainian lawmaker says Zelensky has a hand in attempt on Trump’s life, Kirk’s killing
By Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Vladimir Zelensky’s regime has a hand both in the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump during his election campaign and in the recent killing of US political activist Charlie Kirk, Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Artem Dmitruk said in his opinion piece for TASS (link below in the sources).
Kirk has repeatedly opposed American military aid to Ukraine.
️Tyler Robinson, the alleged Kirk killer Uncle works directly with Azov Battlion.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Sep 19 2025 20:36 utc | 110

Earlier today I tried to post an extract from Peter Myers
That comment didnt get through.
Therefore in this trial I dont include the link
It was based partly on info from rense.com
The shooter was suggested to have been an infiltrator in the security team shooting from a close range
Myers believes it was the Mossad who organised it
and that the suspicious behaviour of the security is interpreted as a sign of them helping the professional assassin to synchronise his shot with the patsy’s shot.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Sep 19 2025 20:41 utc | 111

More than 700,000 Russian military personnel are currently on the line of contact
– Putin

Posted by: Jo | Sep 19 2025 21:05 utc | 112

More than 700,000 Russian military personnel are currently on the line of contact
– Putin
Re Planes Estonia….were they really in Estonia airspace….note historically it is close to UK Intel departments, work together(Skripal), so maybe indirect message to UK….or in what Estonia claims it’s it’s economic zone of interest…planes seem to be flying down the middle of the Baltic emphasizing we protect our Russian tablets, our access to the north sea, we divide Sweden Finland Norway from the Baltic and Poland, do not even dare to think about Kalingarad we are there in minutes??..Where are Ukraine F-16, we are minutes away from Denmark joint factory with Ukraine, maybe not too far from Polish sea ports where USA lands it supplies and bought armaments.,??.
Any accurate surmise of the planes route as transponders were off?

Posted by: Jo | Sep 19 2025 21:15 utc | 113

110 – yea I want to know how many cells phones Mr Tyler was using before the Kirk assassination……recall that DJT assassin in Butler had multiple encrypted cell phones and made frequent visits to his intell handlers in DC….
More than likely Tyler was a recruited and willing asset……….only problem is he lived to be interrogated…….

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 19 2025 21:17 utc | 114

Besides : who cares about Zelensky anyway, if he’s just a Western puppet ? Yet something else Z-idiots fail to explain…
Posted by: Micron | Sep 18 2025 20:34 utc | 23
your comcern trolls claim z being alive is because putin is a traitor.
I say its bevause Russia likes him alive. Better him than a competent leader.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2025 22:48 utc | 115

@ Jo | Sep 19 2025 21:05 utc | 112

More than 700,000 Russian military personnel are currently on the line of contact.

The fun part is that this exactly correlated with the commander-of-all-armed-banderites Sirskiy’s statements. A little exceeds his, actually. He claimed ~690 RFAF troopls by the end of 2025, if I remember correctly.
Doesn’t stop moronic NAFO claims though.

Posted by: boneless | Sep 19 2025 22:59 utc | 116

i cant believe Russia has a chance with all those massive gains the Ukrainians have made the past three years. magnitude. think magnitude, not nagatively, and it is quite impressive.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2025 23:01 utc | 117

Oh joy for joy. Laughing my head off.
Trump is now coming around to openly admitting he is powerless to do anything to stop the war. And the Kremlin is beautifully trolling him, flattering him with pseudo condolences. It’s exquisite to watch unfold.
Trump has gradually withdrawn each action of aggro against Russia, even criticism. Instead of more involvement in so-called peace talks, he’s now saying “it’s their business”, and quite rightly … only it’s 1 year late.

Posted by: Indulis Kradzins | Sep 20 2025 0:41 utc | 118

@108 Noname
Yes that video is clearly a continuous recording so it’s valid. That doesn’t make the first one more compelling though? Just because they tell the truth sometimes doesn’t mean they always tell the truth.
Militaires the world over are such crazy liars,you can’t take them seriously most times.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Sep 20 2025 1:16 utc | 119

Re: Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 18 2025 16:32 utc | 3

Russia will attain & obtain 100% of its SMO goals, but it’s not as if media in the West have to write about that.
The media can ignore it for a generation, while continuing to crow about Ukraine’s win.
Zelensky can announce Ukraine’s victory to great fanfare & adulation and then to much heraldry resign as the country’s *wartime president* in order to allow a peaceful Ukraine a new start.

Russia is nowhere near accomplishing its key objectives in this conflict – stop smoking the hopium and copium!!!
The two most important objectives being “DeNazifying” and “Demilitarizing” Ukraine – neither has been accomplished and neither is close to being accomplished.
Enjoy living in the fantasy land you currently do.

Posted by: Julian | Sep 20 2025 4:57 utc | 120

Military summary:
-reliable sources say RUAF has taken over the citadel area in SW Kupyansk
-AFU must attack and recapture it or it’s better to withdraw to the south from Kupyansk
-RUAF made significant progress in western Pokrovsk, and the western road/rail line should be all but cut off
-the central part, eastern part of Pokrovsk and Myrnograd (E of Pokrovsk) is cut off
-AFU paying heavy price for any attempt to keep control of cut off part
-clashes for Ivanivka and Novopavlovka ongoing, which are key villages for AFU defense of Dnipro region in depth
-losing them enables RUAF to move deep into Dnepro region, while potentially collapsing most of Zaporozhye flank, including Zaporozhye itself and Gulyapole

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 4:58 utc | 121

Re: Posted by: Áobh Ó’Sheachnasaigh | Sep 18 2025 17:40 utc | 6

Russia vs NATO
The current iteration of the ‘Ukrainian’ army is the sixth, with the previous five destroyed. Over 1.7 mil Ukrainians have been killed or are listed as missing in action (most likely dead). More than 3mil have been injured.
This current iteration of the ‘Ukrainian’ army is heavily fortified with NATO troops, many of whom are out of their uniform and wearing Ukrainian uniform. They are officially designated as mercenaries.
The current situation is that Russia ‘Check’d’ NATO. Once Pokrovsk falls and the Russian forces move to the Dniepr, while Russian forces complete the operation to take Odessa, then Russia will ‘Checkmate’ NATO.
Russia has this war well won.

Ukraine has / had 6 armies!! Bull dust.
Such a statement is completely ridiculous, but I guess it offers a good excuse for why Russia has failed to capture Donetsk in 3.5 years of fighting!!
Hey genius, Russia is already on the Dnieper – and has been for over 3.5 years – there is no chance Russia captured the entire East bank of the Dnieper anytime soon – certainly not this year, and certainly not next year either.

Posted by: Julian | Sep 20 2025 5:01 utc | 122

Posted by: Julian | Sep 20 2025 4:57 utc | 120
There will always be nazis, as EU will keep nurturing them. For the question of denazification, the relevancy is where they are based out of. They might be based out of Lwow or Brussels.
What is meant by denazification is there are no nazis in Russian areas. The nazis will always be in western/Nato jurisdiction, and any attacks coming from their territories in west Ukraine will be pinned on Nato after any potential ‘peace deal’.
Practically, once RUAF took over western bank of Dnieper, they are at that point in a very strong military position to keep nazis out of their territory, which constitutes denazification. We will see what happens to Kiev city itself. Even if RUAF doesn’t take it, Kiev will suddenly become a decrepit town which no longer has any liveliness. It could also become a neutral city state controlled by a non-Nato controlled government and aligned to BRICS.
The Kiev regime is controlled by the British puppet masters, who have no interest in making any sort of deal. In fact, recent false flags in Poland and Estonia and whining article 5 are a strong sign of collapsing Kiev regime.
RUAF is making progress to take control of entire western part of Dniepr, even above Zaporozhye. Ukraine’s ability to defend isn’t going down in a linear fashion. War’s don’t progress in linear fashion, they proceed slow, and then quickly. Later their ability to defend Kherson and Nikolaev will be inhibited. Kherson and Nikolaev might be followed by crossing from Zaporozhye toward Krivoy Rog.
If a peace deal is not made at that point including denazification, crossing from Zaporozhye could easily take Krivoy Rog. At that point steamrolling the central plain in Ukraine continues and Odessa becomes closer and closer. Nato might deploy ‘peacekeepers’ in Odessa but RUAF will be able to concentrate much more firepower in the direction of Odessa.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 5:31 utc | 123

Genesis@74
A drone with a 1kg warhead hitting a barrel is strictly speaking damage, but it is not significant.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Sep 20 2025 6:43 utc | 124

PLEASE B AND/OR MODERATORS TAKE NOTE:
I feel this board has been hijacked by deplorables that it would be much better off without. Abuse, foul languarge, non sequiturs, irrelevances, ad hominems are their characteristics and they make a trash can of this board.
I submit the following as evidence.
At the top the post I made in an effort to get some information on the long list of ‘facts’ the author of this ‘roguesystemsrecon’ substack made.
I got nothing of any worth back at all. Nothing. Which is fair enough. If you know nothing, say nothing. But the know nothings didn’t say nothing. They resorted to their garbage bag of tricks.
Okay, here it is:
(1) my simple post
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this guy maintains that russia cannot last another year, is steadily losing ground economically and even militarily:
https://open.substack.com/pub/roguesystemsrecon/p/staggering-to-defeat-endgame-for?r=b7hw3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Posted by: pastor | Sep 18 2025 20:19 utc | 19
(2) ad hominem discursive and offensive and self centred response from a prime offender
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anyone got any serious analysis of that author’s work?
Posted by: pastor | Sep 18 2025 20:55 utc | 28
Well, no, because you have previously posted a link to that Substack account, which I looked at out of genuine curiosity, to see if a new perspective was being delivered, but instead I found a rehash of Western MSM talking points, with no links whatsoever to the authors claims about degradation and defeats of Russian forces. If the author cannot be bothered to provide such links, then I cannot be bothered to spend too much time reading the authors works.
In case you missed my previous response, it included a comment stating those who are paying subscribers for that Substack account are being ripped off.
If you are a paying subscriber, well, that’s your fault so don’t expect much sympathy…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 18 2025 21:15 utc | 31
(3) I point out I’m not further forward and would like sensible responses.
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Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 18 2025 21:15 utc | 31
that long winded reply actually said ‘no’.
I am interested in serious responses. Please, if your response is ‘not’, don’t bother cluttering the thread with it. An absence of a post can be taken as a negative.
Posted by: pastor | Sep 18 2025 21:55 utc | 34
(4) Another self centred ad hominem and insult
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I sincerely believe that “this guy” that pastor referred to with the substrack account is no other than pastor himself. It’s a sales trick.
Posted by: Avtonom | Sep 19 2025 9:55 utc | 76
(5) Yet another ad hominem this time larded with abuse and bad language.
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Posted by: pastor | Sep 18 2025 20:55 utc | 28
anyone got any serious analysis of that author’s work?
That “author” is you and this is shameless advertising for run-of-the-mill shit we don’t want. Go ask reddit to comment on your chatGPT “essay”, you won’t get clicks here.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Sep 19 2025 7:20 utc | 69
(6) And yet another one.
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pastor | Sep 18 2025 21:55 utc | 34
Fuck. Off. Troll.
Posted by: Not PeterAu | Sep 19 2025 1:46 utc | 53
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I could do more of course but that’s enough. The board will be as the owners want it to be. If they want it to be the pits that’s okay.. I am merely trying to get it nailed down once and for all: what’s the point of coming here with serious sensible questions?

Posted by: pastor | Sep 20 2025 9:17 utc | 125

Re: Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 5:31 utc | 123

RUAF is making progress to take control of entire western part of Dniepr, even above Zaporozhye. Ukraine’s ability to defend isn’t going down in a linear fashion. War’s don’t progress in linear fashion, they proceed slow, and then quickly. Later their ability to defend Kherson and Nikolaev will be inhibited. Kherson and Nikolaev might be followed by crossing from Zaporozhye toward Krivoy Rog.
If a peace deal is not made at that point including denazification, crossing from Zaporozhye could easily take Krivoy Rog. At that point steamrolling the central plain in Ukraine continues and Odessa becomes closer and closer. Nato might deploy ‘peacekeepers’ in Odessa but RUAF will be able to concentrate much more firepower in the direction of Odessa.

There is certainly a lot of projection here that I don’t see ever happening.
I would remind you – just over 3 years ago – Kherson was a Russian controlled city!!
*The West Bank of the Dnieper stretches towards Poland & Romania – The War is being fought entirely on the Eastern Bank is the Dnieper.

Posted by: Julian | Sep 20 2025 9:23 utc | 126

New sitrep: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-91925-russian-incursion-scare

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 20 2025 9:34 utc | 127

Posted by: Julian | Sep 20 2025 9:23 utc | 126
I also see a lot of projection in many people saying ‘Ukraine is giving space for time’. In fact, it was Russia giving space for time, they gave Kherson because the Russian army at the start wasn’t sufficient to cover all the fronts. They also had to give up a lot of areas in Kharkov, starting from Balakleya and Izyum. Because in all honesty Russian force wasn’t big enough for a full war.
Russia, even amid their advances still make tactical withdrawals allowing Ukrainian forces into fire bags.
I see no reason why RUAF won’t be able to take the entire shore of Dniepr past Zaporozhye. Talking about ‘in the beginning it was this and that’ is like trying to drive using a rear-view mirror.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 9:54 utc | 128

Reports are trickling in about another big overnight attack on Ukrainian rear positions and infrastructure facilities:

Dnepropetrovsk does not sleep
a new massive strike on targets on the so-called Ukraine
Last night, Russian troops launched a series of combined strikes against industrial facilities in several regions of the so-called Ukraine. In total, several dozen missiles and more than a hundred drones were fired during the attack.
Most of the arrivals occurred in the Dnipropetrovsk region — this raid was the largest for the region in its entire history. As a result of a series of arrivals, large fires started at several enterprises of the administrative center of the region.
Which objects were hit?
In Dnepropetrovsk, the Russian Armed Forces struck the warehouses of the Agrosoyuz-Kiev company and the territory of the Dnepropress NGO, large-scale fires were recorded at both facilities.
It is also known about at least several hits on the old rocket shop of the Yuzhmash plant. Previously, due to its strategic importance for the industry, the so-called Ukraine has been repeatedly attacked by the Russian Armed Forces, including the first combat use of the Oreshnik.
In addition, Russian troops hit the workshops of the Pavlograd Mechanical Plant.
In the Kiev region, UAVs hit the territory of Boryspil airfield, causing a large-scale fire, recorded later by satellites. Previously, the target of the attack was the fuel depots in the eastern part of the facility.
In the Odessa region, the Russian Armed Forces struck hangar facilities in the Estuary area. Previously, they were used by the enemy to store ammunition and components for drones, which were supposed to be used to attack the infrastructure of Crimea.
Disruptions in railway traffic were recorded in the Poltava region after the raid of the Russian Armed Forces. This indirectly confirms reports of the arrival of drones at Romodan station.
In the Mykolaiv region, according to some reports, the company “Zorya-Mashproekt”, engaged in the assembly of gas turbine engines, came under attack.
This attack has become one of the largest in recent times. Earlier, for several weeks, Russian troops limited themselves to hitting targets in frontline areas and a few pinpoint strikes on individual enterprises.
This time, the strikes hit important industries and transport and railway infrastructure in the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which indicates the resumption of the Russian Armed Forces’ campaign to reduce the enemy’s military potential.
Source: Telegram “rybar”

https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2025/09/20/1702097.html
Several video clips at the link.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 20 2025 9:54 utc | 129

Ukrainian losses for the week September 13th to September 19th, as reported by the Russian defence ministry:
– Kursk & Kharkov fronts: 1,250 troops, 4 tanks, 9 LAV/HMV, 50 motor vehicles, 16 artillery pieces, 9 EW and CB systems.
– Zapad Group (Luhansk area): 1,660 troops, 2 tanks, 14 LAV/HMV, 165 motor vehicles, 10 artillery pieces, 60 EW and CB systems.
– Yug Group (Donetsk north): 1,540 troops, 2 tanks, 25 LAV/HMV, 89 motor vehicles, 24 artillery pieces, 15 EW & CB systems.
– Tsetr Group (Donetsk south): 3,330 troops, 2 tanks, 29 LAV/ HMV, 49 motor vehicles, 13 artillery pieces.
– Vostok Group (southern front): 1,860 troops, 3 tanks, 11 LAV/HMV, 84 motor vehicles, 5 artillery pieces, 5 EW & CB systems.
– Dnepr Group: 380 troops, 1 tank, 2 LAV/HMV, 48 motor vehicles, 5 artillery pieces, 34 EW and CB systems.
In total: 10,020 troops – up a few hundred from the previous week (43,420 per month, with undercounting probably above 45,000).
14 tanks (4 in Kursk/Kharkov), 0 IFV, 0 APC, 90 HMV/Light Armoured Vehicle (9 in Kursk/Khakrov) eight less than the previous week’s low, 485 motor vehicles which is an uptick from the previous week.
73 artillery pieces (16 in Kursk/Kharkov), a new low level that is 6 less than the previous week; 316/mth, about 30% of the peak loss rate.
Plus 123 EW and Counter Battery systems, a jump from the previous week.
Ukraine seems to be feeding in whatever it has left of a tank reserve to support their counter-attacks that are attempting to hold back the Russians. More evidence of LAV/HMV depletion as losses keep falling. The continued fall in artillery losses also points toward depletion. The casualty rate did pick up but still only about half the peak level of late last year, while the Russians are making many breakthroughs, and Ukraine is counter-attacking, seeming to confirm the reports of a lack of Ukrainian troops.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Sep 20 2025 14:51 utc | 130

A minor curiosity, the much-discussed DeepState mapping site hasn’t updated for nearly 24 hours, the last entry being timed at 21:17 yesterday.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 20 2025 18:15 utc | 131

PM Mark Goldman-Sachs’s Carney’s ‘Special Envoy To Ukraine’…
Chrystia & George (& vid)
https://x.com/NinaByzantina/status/1968746793770041781
“Quite a remarkable conversation between George Soros and Canada’s Chrystia Freeland from a while back. Sometimes they can’t help themselves and brag about their deeds.
Soros: ‘Ukraine’s civil society is largely the result of Open Society Foundation’s activities launched in Ukraine in 1990.’
Chrystia Freeland: ‘Everyone I know in the new Ukrainian government has been literally touched by Open Society and by George…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2025 18:56 utc | 132

More from Carney’s Special Envoy To Ukraine…
‘My Friend Viktor…& What Canada Can Do To Help’
https://x.com/cafreeland/status/1969069322174693515
“It was good to meet with my friend, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko while in Kyiv for the Yalta European Strategy Conference. Together we discussed Ukraine’s fight for freedom and democracy and what Canada can do to help.”
Ex-Ukrainian President Calls For The Seizure of Moscow
https://www.rt.com/russia/624958-moscow-putin-ukraine-yushchenko/
“Ukraine should keep fighting until it takes Moscow, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushcheko has declared…”
Both spinney as shit-house rats.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2025 20:47 utc | 133

Very interesting MS today. AFU defense both around and north of Gulyapole is collapsing. RUAF is going to go behind Gulyapole, but also attacking the villages west and east of Gulyapole, even with support of TOS systems.
AFU can only try to ‘stabilize’ one area at a time, RUAF hits them where they ain’t. They can shift the axis of advance as needed and keep AFU struggling and off-balance.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 20:58 utc | 134

AFU attack north of Pokrovsk has obviously stalled and RUAF is holding steady. RUAF has brought reinforcements and artillery systems to the area and is bombing potential AFU accumulations of attack with TOS systems while holding it.
It’s doubtful AFU has many chances to stabilize anything in this or other directions soon as their best attack force becomes toast.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 21:03 utc | 135

RUAF also expanded the area they control in eastern part of Myrnograd, which also widens the base support for their spearhead.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 21:06 utc | 136

The Ukraine tg channel Resident used to quite often have something on MI6 telling Zelensky Moscow’s secrets. They were generally quite accurate. There was a number of high profile arrests for corruption, one the commander of I think the forces on the southern front in Ukraine. The sort of person that would have access to the sort of information MI6 was giving Ukraine. It went quiet for a while then started again. Whether MI6 found another asset or the original one just went quiet for a bit I don’t know. But then it started again and around that time, Putin restarted SMERSH from WWII. Their job was just to track down spies and traitors. MI6 has gone quiet for a long time now so I guess SMERSH got him.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 20 2025 21:19 utc | 137

@ unimperator | Sep 20 2025 20:58 utc | 134, 135 & 136
All that might explain why DeepState hasn’t updated, too much bad news for them to digest all at once.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 20 2025 21:21 utc | 138

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2025 20:58 utc | 134
In Huliaipole the cherries blossom.
Чому не вийшло? – Why Didn’t it Work?

Posted by: lex talionis | Sep 20 2025 21:24 utc | 139

Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/video
“Russian MiGs scare NATO; US again halts Patriots; Syrsky told Pokrovsk to fall; Iran crisis UN vote.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2025 22:24 utc | 140