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October 1, 2025
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No time to waste—Tomahawks and SM-6s plus UAVs: what the Russian Aerospace Forces might encounter (EADaily, Evgeniy Damantsev, October 1, 2025 — in Russian)
Although officials in Moscow continue to unanimously assert that the likely acquisition of BGM-109E TacTom Tomahawk Block IV/V strategic cruise missiles and ERAM missiles by the enemy will not impact the operational-strategic situation in the region, the reality is far more complex.
On the one hand, it is well known that BGM-109E strategic cruise missiles, as well as the latest Ukrainian R-360M Neptun-MD (Long Neptune) long-range tactical missiles, are far from the most sophisticated air attack weapons for most domestic air defense systems, not to mention transitional-generation fighter aircraft.
For example, Tomahawks and Neptune-MDs flying at 780–850 km/h at flight levels of 35–70 meters at ranges of up to 35–45 km can easily be locked onto by the 9S36M and 92N6 illumination radars of the Buk-M3 and S-400 systems for precise autotracking, after which they can provide illumination to the semi-active homing heads of 9M317MA and 48N6DM anti-aircraft missiles.
If these systems are equipped with even more modern 9M317MA and 9M96DM anti-aircraft missiles with active homing heads, interception can be accomplished not only within the radio horizon (the aforementioned 35–45 km), but also well beyond it (50–100 km). For the 40N6 or 9M82MD anti-aircraft missiles of the S-400 and S-300V4 systems, this range can be as high as 250–300 km.
However, there is a caveat: for such over-the-horizon interceptions, at the time of enemy strikes in missile-prone areas, at least two or three A-50U AWACS aircraft must be on duty. Their operators, using the Shmel-M radar system, can detect BGM-109E missiles at a range of approximately 120 km. Su-35S fighters can also perform the role of “mini” AWACS. Their pilots will be able to not only detect Tomahawks at a similar range and provide target designation to the four aforementioned anti-aircraft missiles using their Irbis-E onboard radars, but also shoot them down with their own R-77-1 and R-37M missiles.
In theory, this is feasible, but in practice, unfortunately, negative “aspects” in the Anti-Aircraft Missile Forces constantly take their toll. AWACS aircraft remain on duty sporadically. Su-35S patrols are not always present in missile-prone areas (or they are untimely). This means that enemy units still find opportune “windows” for strikes.
One consequence of the presence of such “windows” can be seen in the recent strike with just four tactical missiles. Neptune-MD missiles were fired at the Karachayevo Elektrodetal plant in the Bryansk oblast. Add to this the endless attacks on refineries not only in the border region, but also in Bashkiriya, the Volgograd oblast, and several other regions. All of this is a consequence of those same temporary “windows” of absence of fighter aircraft and AWACS aircraft patrols.
An equally negative impact could arise from the absence of 24-meter 9S838 telescopic lift-and-turn devices and 40V6MD universal turrets from Buk-M3 and S-400 Triumph air defense missile batteries at the time of a Tomahawk strike. These devices increase the radar horizon for stealth aerodynamic targets at altitudes of 30 meters from 25 to 37 and 43 km, respectively. In this situation, a huge gap forms between the air defense missile batteries, dispersed over 100 km. The number of “blind spots” through which both Tomahawk cruise missiles and the stealthier ERAM cruise missiles, a batch of 800 of which could be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as early as spring-summer 2026, could easily penetrate.
As for identifying “blind spots,” as we have repeatedly noted, these tasks are easily handled by ICEYE radar reconnaissance satellites and a number of NATO and even Japan Self-Defense Forces radar reconnaissance satellites, including IGS-Radar, whose data is also provided to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In border regions, at operational depths of approximately 380–450 km, these tasks are handled by RC-135V/W Rivet Joint strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
Even more importantly, if large quantities of Tomahawk Block V cruise missiles are delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a batch of 533-mm vertical launchers will also be provided. It’s likely that initially, improvised launchers are even being considered: 40-foot containers, as full-fledged Typhon medium-range launchers are not yet being produced at such a high rate.
However, this does not change the fact that these launchers can also fire the SM-6 Block IB and SM-6 Dual II ultra-long-range surface-to-air missiles. Consequently, with a range of 240–320 km, these anti-aircraft missiles, when deployed 150 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border, can cover 90–170 km of our airspace, extending the range of the UFAB-500M-62/T gliding missiles used by Su-34NVO crews.
More importantly, these launchers (land-based equivalents of the Mk 41 naval VLS) can use the SM-6 strike/anti-radar modification, with a range of 450–600 km and an average trajectory speed of approximately Mach 3.3–3.7. These missiles will be able to reach a number of our military-industrial facilities in the Moscow region, which is a very serious problem. However, unlike the Tomahawks, intercepting SM-6 Dual II missiles flying on a ballistic trajectory at 1,100 m/s will be much easier.
But we mustn’t forget that the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is not preparing to use the BGM-109E and SM-6 missiles individually, but is developing tactics for combining strikes with heavy Flamingo-5 and Neptune-MD cruise missiles, as well as hundreds of gasoline-powered and jet-powered Morok and Peklo UAVs to oversaturate the target channels of our air defense assets. Therefore, without a complete reconfiguration of the air defense system from the border to the rear and the regular deployment of A-50U AWACS aircraft, it is impossible to talk about intercepting all Tomahawks and other missiles.
Delay is simply unacceptable now, as the Pentagon and the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have set their sights on the most critical assets—Russia’s military-industrial complex and energy infrastructure.
Posted by: S | Oct 1 2025 14:17 utc | 1
#1 Mange tusen takk — many thousand thank yous for such an illuminating and factually buttressed post.
Posted by: paxmark1 | Oct 1 2025 14:39 utc | 2
Don’t worry too much about the tomahawks : it’s Natostan latest Wunderwaffe (the 8th ? Ninth ?… it’s like EU sanctions package , I lost the count).
Well , the usual scheme : 6 month from announcement to field deployment, models nearing or well passed it’s “best before” date and in a limited quantity.
Will it hurt ? Yes. Will it matters ? No.
On the other hand, that experience defending against it might prove useful … maybe even for someone else.
PS: I’m surprised nobody developed a long endurance “AWAKS” drone will all the bells and whistles.
Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 1 2025 14:58 utc | 3
Doctorow on Judging Freedom discussion he no longer believes a RF palace coup impossible. Elements of elites more openly discussing go slow approach should be replaced with go Oreshniks.
Posted by: frithguild | Oct 1 2025 15:10 utc | 4
Interesting: Tyler Durden had a post up about this topic – including discussion of Volyn, which now seems to be scrubbed:
Polish President Karol Navrotsky has submitted to the Sejm a draft bill introducing criminal liability for the “propaganda of Bandera ideology” and Volyn tragedy denial, Poland’s government site wrote on Sept. 29.
Posted by: frithguild | Oct 1 2025 15:16 utc | 5
The US is repeating its madman strategy again.
“President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger believed they could compel “the other side” to back down during crises in the Middle East and Vietnam by “push[ing] so many chips into the pot” that Nixon would seem ‘crazy’ enough to “go much further,” according to newly declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive.”
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb517-Nixon-Kissinger-and-the-Madman-Strategy-during-Vietnam-War/
Posted by: p3t3r | Oct 1 2025 15:19 utc | 6
https://korybko.substack.com/p/svr-revealed-that-british-and-french
SVR Revealed That British & French Troops Are Already In Odessa
Andrew Korybko Sep 25, 2025
Direct Western intervention in the conflict is now arguably turning into a fait accompli, it’s just a question of how Russia will respond and whether the US will then be pulled into mission creep.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published a report warning about the EU’s plans to occupy Moldova, which holds its next parliamentary elections on Sunday. According to their sources, large-scale protests are expected after the ruling liberal-globalists falsify the vote, following which President Maia Sandu will request help to put down what she’ll frame as a Russian-backed revolt. SVR also repeated last winter’s warning about threats to Russian troops in Transnistria independent of the aforesaid scenario….
….All of this is relevant with respect to the Romanian-Moldovan flank of this conflict, which as this analysis here from over the summer explains, can be used as NATO’s launchpad for the aforesaid scenarios. Given what SVR just revealed, and there’s no reason to doubt their sources nor SVR’s sincerity in publicly reporting what they just discovered, some uniformed Western troops (French and UK) are already in Ukraine. To make matters even more sensitive, they’re in Odessa, which Russians consider their own.
Even though it’s not in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, Russians still hold it close to their hearts for historical reasons after their ancestors built that city from the ground up, thus making it all the more provocative that the French finally began acting on their speculative plans from early 2024. Putin must now decide whether to treat them and the Brits there as legitimate targets exactly as Lavrov said Russia might do or hold back for now to avoid the escalation that those two want for pulling Trump into mission creep.
The dilemma is that striking Western troops in Odessa could spark a crisis for manipulating Trump into escalating the US’ involvement in the conflict, while holding back for now could create facts on the ground that become even more difficult (and possibly more dangerous) for Russia to reverse later on. It was warned in late August that “Direct NATO Intervention In Ukraine Might Soon Dangerously Turn Into A Fait Accompli”, which is now arguably unfolding, it’s just a question of how Russia will respond to this.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 1 2025 15:41 utc | 7
Tomahawks have potential to cause a lot of damage. I suspect they would be used on fixed or strategic or civilian (terror purpose) targets in Russia.
Another question is who will launch them and with WHAT. Tomahawk missiles are typically launched from submarines, ships, bomber aircraft (I don’t think they fight fighter aircraft, Ukraine has no big bombers). They can also be launched from modified THAAD batteries.
If Ukraine is given THAAD batteries, that is the most likely explanation of how and by whom they are launched (THAAD batteries operated by Nato specialists).
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 15:44 utc | 8
“Savonarole” ( Oct 1 2025 14:58 utc | 3 ):
Aiming for a very short answer.
Can smaller less capable drones replace some functionality? Maybe but at what cost and with what limitations? It would not be the same.
Imagine having a flying and completely independent (including all the energy used) air traffic control tower (usually a team of people) and air traffic control region main radar (they are usually quite large and often located far away from any airport). Then add specialized electronic warfare equipment on top of the normal computers and electronics. Maybe also add at least some flares and chaff. On top of that comes loiter time, as much as possible as one can get.
That is what the largest airborne over-the-horizon radar planes are (the smaller ones are similar but more limited). Turning it into a drone without losing the capabilities is currently impossible, mostly because of the highly trained human operators; to put them on the ground introduces latency, potential errors, and faults, and would require a lot of additional infrastructure, much more than building more non-drone planes of the same kind.
If you want the people to be on the ground it is much easier to simply build a long range ground-based radar (and many exist) but then the utility of having a plane is gone…
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 1 2025 15:44 utc | 9
The Neo-Nazi dictator Zelensky whose running Ukraine unelected, asked the Poles to close the Baltic sea to Russian ships – the Polish President Nawrocki said no – he wouldn’t do it.
“Polish President Karol Nawrocki has dismissed a call by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky for Western countries to try to close the Baltic Sea to Russian vessels over concerns that they could be used for launching drones.
Officials in several EU countries in recent weeks have spoken of drones violating their countries’ airspace. Though there have been speculations in the media that Russia could have been behind the incidents, Western governments, in most cases, have refrained from leveling accusations, citing a lack of evidence.
Poland has been a notable exception, alleging last month that Russian drones crossed its airspace during strikes on Ukraine. Moscow has rejected the claim and noted that Warsaw had failed to produce proof.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 1 2025 15:57 utc | 10
I don’t follow the maps that much. People here do that far better and it’s quicker just to note their reports. But when I do I keep noticing this sort of thing – set to 7.45.
https://youtu.be/FFFml1l7Bho?t=465
Just another twist and turn in the hurly-burly of war? Maybe, but it does seem to happen quite a lot. The Russians let the Kiev forces in as the Kiev forces try to pinch off a salient. Then it ends with the Kiev forces getting pinched themselves, or having to get out any old how taking heavy casualties in the process. Reminiscent of the stratagems a Malinovsky or a Tolbukhin used to employ. They fought over just this terrain in the Donbass, often difficult terrain and with loads of fortifications or, more often, fortified buildings or fortified industrial sites in the way.
Same problems. same solutions, including immense barrages to soften up the defences before moving in to take ground. Both of those Generals were also famous for their ability in combined arms warfare and for their meticulous preparation beforehand. Also for the trick of attacking in several places at once so the enemy got stretched all over the place.
Malinovsky wrote the book on all that in his Manchurian campaign. Enveloping strong points rather then attacking them head on. Attacking where not expected – going over the desert and a mountain range to pop us where he wasn’t expected reminds one of the unexpected attacks via pipelines the Russians today have units for. Getting the boring stuff right – all the intensive staff work on logistics and pre-positioning. And above all control of pace.
Am I imagining the parallels? Have today’s Russian General Staff been reading up on those old campaigns? Or am I dreaming all that. I wish the people here would give us a bit more on the subject from a more expert perspective. We can all spin theories about what the Russians are up to, or what the Staffs in the Pentagon and Wiesbaden are up to, but the mechanics of the daily grind on the ground still remain largely unexamined. And it’s that daily grind that’s going to win this war the way the Russians intend to win it, and that daily grind we fail to focus on as we’re distracted by the asinine ramblings of a Trump or a UvdL.
Those two Generals were into more than the art of moving troops and equipment around. Both often had to work with disparate sets of partisans and allies, just as today’s Russians had a least three sets of forces to employ at the start of the SMO, all with different skills, level of training and motivation. That brief opening campaign in the SMO, the initial Blitzkrieg, showed the various sets coordinated. And Tolbukhin in particular needed diplomatic skills as well as military when it came to dealing with the affairs of the liberated territories. The Russians will need those skills today when it comes to dealing with remnant Ukraine.
So many parallels. Recently I got hold of Dominic Lieven’s fabulous study of a yet earlier conflict. Napoleonic times. Or should one call that the time of Alexander I? More parallels there. Loads of them. Except … I’d be very surprised indeed if the Russians ended up in Paris this time round. Or even Berlin. Why would they bother?
Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 1 2025 16:17 utc | 11
Swedish king is visiting Poland. Of cource they eventually will close the Baltic Sea. That has been done all the time the last thousand years. In the 1600th two thirds of the Danish GDP was from taxes from passing ships. The Hanseatic League was about free passage in and out of the Baltics. Karl Marx wrote a geopolitic analysis about British Russia politics based on Peter the Great who not only buildt St. Petersburg but at the same time buildt a Baltic Navy. Since then the British Overlords (and their Danish Norwegian vassals) has tried everything to keep the Russians from challenge their Thallassocracy after they opened harbours in the Baltic, BlackSea and Persian Gulf.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 1 2025 16:18 utc | 12
The ongoing GPS and drone propaganda is interesting due to its failure —yet again— to work. It never seems to catch on and it’s always the same little bunch of politicians crying wolf. They have tried the same ploy with minor modifications for years now (the US/EU/NATO nazis should try crashing some drones into Brussels and killing VDL, that might get a response lol, maybe, and it might be street parties).
As far as I can discern the vast majority of the general public (across the entire continent!) could not care less …and the propagandists themselves don’t care about that either since it is only a threadbare excuse for more graft/corruption.
A social dynamic noticeable for its lack of social dynamics! XD
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 1 2025 16:22 utc | 13
A common feature of both GLCM and ERAM for Zelenskyy…
Neither can be delivered quickly, or in GLCM case numbers.
GLCM has a pittance of TELs from Typhon, even if there are tomahawks to modify. ERAM is available in the form of spec sheets, there are none that have been fully designed.
Yes, engaging cruise missiles requires AEWC sensing and shoot down capacity, but point defenses are available,
The fact that all targeting and ISR are U.S. is not a new feature.
Neither GLCM nor ERAM will be effective. Nor delivered in time.
Posted by: paddy | Oct 1 2025 16:23 utc | 14
The Neo-Nazi dictator Zelensky – shows off his new state of the art fighter jets – Russia had better watch out.
Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “‘Guys, it’s not me, it’s a different Volodymyr Z! You have to trust me!'” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 1 2025 16:25 utc | 15
Much of what ails the world today is down to belligerent US foreign policies.
Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton): “US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law: “We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy”, he boasted. “You kill people and break things for a living”.” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 1 2025 16:29 utc | 16
– There is a website called “Peacemaker” (“Myrotvorets” in ukrainian) subsidized by the ukrainian government and on a list with (some of) the enemies of the Ukraine are listed. This website is meant to be a list for people to be killed. Even Scott Ritter (the former UN weapons inspector) is on that “kill list”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets
Posted by: WMG | Oct 1 2025 16:29 utc | 17
Paul from Norway // 12
If Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Denmark, or Norway move to “close the Baltic” or attempt any such tricks in an attempt to restrict Russian access to the internationally agreed right of ways, the Russians could counter by declaring the entire Baltic to be Russian national water. Then it would be a matter of determining the price each country wanted to pay militarily to enforce their decree.
Remember, the Russian government has repeatedly stated NATO is at war with Russia. That means Norway is currently at war with Russia. It might be a cold war, but if necessary, I suspect Russia will happily oblige their adversaries by making it hot.
Hopefully cooler and more rational minds will prevail in those NATO countries bordering the Baltic Sea and the war remains more of words and less of missiles.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Oct 1 2025 16:30 utc | 18
Why the Kremlin is likely to laugh at the threat to supply Tomahawk missiles to KyivA few days ago, it was reported that the US was considering supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which sparked euphoria among Ukraine supporters about a possible change of course by the Trump administration. However, it was clear to all experts that this was a clumsy bluff by Trump..by Anti-SpiegelOctober 1, 2025, 3:02 p.m.The fact that US Vice President Vance brought up the possibility of supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv sparked euphoria among Ukraine supporters because it was seen as a signal that the Trump administration might have changed its course regarding Russia and Ukraine.Excerpt:Russia is likely laughing at Trump’s “open door” for Tomahawk missilesThe idea that the US would supply this advanced weapons system to Ukraine is frivolous. So why are we talking about it?
When Vice President J.D. Vance was asked on Sunday whether reports that President Donald Trump was considering supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles were true, he left the door open.
The president is selling weapons to Ukraine, not gifting them, Vance clarified, and he makes the final decision on what capabilities Ukraine might receive.
If the Trump administration hopes that toying with the proposal to supply Ukraine with more modern, longer-range missiles will give it an edge over Russian President Vladimir Putin, it is mistaken. Ukraine lacks the capabilities to fire Tomahawk missiles, and US stockpiles of these weapons and their delivery systems are far too small and far too valuable for the Pentagon to agree to give them up.
Such rhetorical and unrealistic military threats are counterproductive, signal desperation, and pose unnecessary risks of escalation.
This is not the first time that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has requested Tomahawk missiles. At the beginning of the war, he made a similar request to the Biden administration, but it was rebuffed. The reasons for his continued interest are clear: With a range of 2,500 kilometers, nearly ten times that of the US ATACMS, Tomahawk missiles could threaten strategic military targets and critical infrastructure throughout Russia, far from Ukraine’s borders, including in Moscow and beyond.
That President Trump is now seriously considering this request is surprising. After all, his administration months ago restricted the use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine to targets within Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. Providing Ukraine with new cruise missiles capable of penetrating even further into Russian territory would contradict this position and Trump’s dwindling interest in offering Ukraine any additional military support.
Of course, President Trump often changes his mind. But even if Russia’s ongoing escalation in Ukraine and its incursions into NATO airspace in recent weeks have changed Trump’s stance, it is unlikely that the US can or will supply Kyiv with Tomahawk missiles. Indeed, talk of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is not a means of exerting pressure on the Russian president, but purely imaginative and detached from military reality, and Putin clearly knows this.
Tomahawk missiles can be launched in three ways: from a guided-missile destroyer, from Ohio-, Virginia-, and Los Angeles-class submarines, and from the new ground-launched Typhon system developed by the US Army. Ukraine possesses none of these capabilities and has virtually no chance of acquiring them in the short or medium term.
The Ukrainian Navy is too small for the launch systems and lacks surface combat ships or attack submarines and the personnel to operate both. Given the strained US ship and submarine construction, it is unlikely that Washington would consider selling these platforms to Ukraine.
Ukraine may have the personnel to operate the new ground-based Typhon system, but it is equally unlikely that the Pentagon would approve the sale of this new hardware to Ukraine. The US has only two operational Typhon batteries, with a third in the planning stages. Two of these systems are intended for use in Asia, and one for possible deployment in Germany. The US has not yet agreed to sell the advanced system to an ally or partner, partly due to scarcity and partly due to the sensitivity of the technology..https://anti-spiegel.ru/2025/warum-man-im-kreml-ueber-die-drohung-kiew-tomahawk-raketen-zu-liefern-lachen-duerfte/
Posted by: Genesis | Oct 1 2025 16:31 utc | 19
paddy@14…….time? Only 98 years to go……
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 1 2025 16:33 utc | 20
SorryThe formatting of the text didn’t work for some reason. #19
Posted by: Genesis | Oct 1 2025 16:33 utc | 21
Tomahawks
The Russian leadership is at a crossroads.If even one Tomahawk strikes deep inside Russia, Putin, the hesitant one, will be out of the picture.And then the unscrupulous military will take over.Anyone in the West who doesn’t have this on their radar today will be dead tomorrow.
Nur so meine Meinung…
Posted by: Oberbayer | Oct 1 2025 16:38 utc | 22
– For a long long time I considered the Baltic states to be safe from “russian aggression” but with the recent events unfolding in the Baltic Sea (german: “Ostsee”) and Finland & Sweden having joined NATO I am not convinced anymore that the Baltic and the Baltic Sea will remain peaceful. There are too many “conflicting interests” which make sure that there will be A LOT OF “unrest” in that region.
I have gradually come to realize that John Mearsheimer was right when he thinks that there will be no definitive end to this war in the Ukraine and that the war will turn into a “Frozen conflict” that can / will “Unfreeze” at any time in the (near) future.
Posted by: WMG | Oct 1 2025 16:41 utc | 23
Kallas is preparing Europeans for the fact that they will have to pay for the war in Ukraine out of their own pockets. ‘If we do not use the Russian frozen assets, then everything will fall on the shoulders of our taxpayers — that is a fact.’ – SK
The bimbo forgot to mention that EU taxpayers are on the hook even for the Russian euroclear assets. Also there’s speculation Russia has already sued Euroclear in Hong Kong, could sue it in Singapore too and has a pretty strong case against it.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 16:41 utc | 24
“Elements of elites more openly discussing go slow approach should be replaced with go Oreshniks” – Frithguild 4
While I’ve been out in the “wilderness” on this subject here & at Andrei’s comment section for quite some, I think the reality is finally beginning to sink in. Soon all will claim to have been saying it all a long. Fine. Everybody disses Cassandra;
“It’s just a wooden horse, a really nice parting gift from our “western-partners”…I mean what’s with that bitch anyway…let’s party like it’s 1999…somebody get the pom-poms and shake ’em“?
Yes, the “go-slow” approach spares soldiers in the short term but, like all “feet of clay” strategies in the history of warfare, it ensures a far greater calamity in the not too distant future. As for a “palace-coup” I don’t think it will be handled that way. Putin has been a very, very good leader in many, many ways but, he needs to have a “come to Jesus” moment in matters of war and “western-intransigence”. Putin needs to set aside his jujitsu training, forget finesse and elan, find your inner Zhukov.
Please see my #7 posting as to where this all is leading. The longer the Russians wait to take back Odessa the higher the cost will be. The USA’s 3LAs, in combination with England/France’s 3LAs and Mossad are pouring resources into Moldova as we speak. Russia need to get to the banks of the Dniester and secure them with all deliberate speed or, the ethno/cultural Russ of Transnistria will be slaughtered as provacation…in the same manner that those poor souls of the Donbass were.
Can the Russ overcome how their delays have given time for the machinations of the “west” to be brought to fruition? Yes but, it would be better for all concerned, except for those demonic souls, the English-uppermost-class, if Russia did not wait until it’s inaction[s] made WWIII a necessity.
And WWIII is something the English are keen to eventuate as it will not be fought on their soil, nor will they pay for any of it. See Crimean War 1.0 for details on the matter, same players, same strategy, slightly different mistakes that make for a similar situation, history may not repeat itself but, franchise sequels are a “thing”.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 1 2025 16:42 utc | 25
– There is a website called “Peacemaker” (“Myrotvorets” in ukrainian) subsidized by the ukrainian government and on a list with (some of) the enemies of the Ukraine are listed. This website is meant to be a list for people to be killed. Even Scott Ritter (the former UN weapons inspector) is on that “kill list”. The folks on that list are meant to be killed or “doxxed” (is this the right spelling ???). The website contains an adress in Langley Virginia (think: CIA) and is hosted by a belgian webhost (think: NATO ???).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets
Posted by: WMG | Oct 1 2025 16:29 utc | 17
– The website above was brought to my attention by the “Grayzone” (think: Max Blumenthal). In the following video Blumenthal interviewed a young girl which lives in the Donbass / Luhanks and was that on that hitlist. It turns out that the Ukraine is still shelling the Donbass region & Luhansk on a regurlarly basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7eEgb8WHLY (length: 17 minutes).
Posted by: WMG | Oct 1 2025 16:51 utc | 26
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 1 2025 15:44 utc | 9
I was just thinking about slapping a “Zoopark” on a scaled up “Geran” to get the “over the horizon” early warning capability against targets flying on TFR. It don’t have to be able to do the full thing. Is latency such a no-no with subsonic threats ?
Thanks for all the precision tho :).
Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 1 2025 16:58 utc | 27
French special forces boarded and seized a Russian oil tanker sailing off France’s western coast moments ago, stating that the vessel is part of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
The Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces has issued a statement announcing that France’s combat readiness has been raised to the ‘highest level’, stating that the French military must be ready for high-intensity warfare ‘as early as tonight’
Middle East Spectator
Posted by: Apollyon | Oct 1 2025 17:03 utc | 28
The Neo-Nazi dictator Zelensky – shows off his new state of the art fighter jets – Russia had better watch out. Monitor𝕏 (@MonitorX99800): “‘Guys, it’s not me, it’s a different Volodymyr Z! You have to trust me!’” | nitter.poast.org
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 1 2025 16:25 utc | 15
He appears to both hands on his joystick – keeping it warm for his piano recital later in the day.
Posted by: tucenz | Oct 1 2025 17:18 utc | 29
*** Yes, the “go-slow” approach spares soldiers in the short term but, like all “feet of clay” strategies in the history of warfare, it ensures a far greater calamity in the not too distant future. ***
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 1 2025 15:41 utc | 7
It just seems more and more that this war is about a trans steppe trade corridor across the Carpathians to the Balkins, where Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia will be happy to trade in Russian and Eastern goods. This was the basic set up for the Crimean War – without the far east connection component, in that Donbas coal was coming online while the UK was making a fortune financing coal deliveries to St. Petersburg. This trans steppe corridor absolutely needs Odessa, which is the logical crossroads to the Carpathian path and an outlet to the Black Sea (Turkye Greece). This is also why so much effort has been spent to make Romania a western Zombie. Odessa, Bukovina (Chernivisti Oblast) and Rusyn lands (Transcarpathia Oblast) are the areas to watch. That the Danes and their cousins in the British Isles and the Nordics are seeking to preserve their Balkin back garden is no surprise.
All this being said, and I believe a trans steppe corridor has the weight of BRICS behind it, it is not surprising pawns have been placed in Odessa and in Moldova. If the go Oreshnik crowd prevails, the question is whether the RF has lost escalatory dominance and the diplomatic high ground, triggering an official NATO response.
Posted by: frithguild | Oct 1 2025 17:22 utc | 30
Footage of French special forces landing on an oil tanker allegedly linked to the so-called Russian shadow fleet
The once proud French now reduced to imitating Somali pirates.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 17:24 utc | 31
He appears to both hands on his joystick – keeping it warm for his piano recital later in the day.
Posted by: tucenz | Oct 1 2025 17:18 utc | 29
should be –
He appears to have both hands on his joystick – keeping it warm for his piano recital later in the day.
Posted by: tucenz | Oct 1 2025 17:26 utc | 32
Apollyon | Oct 1 2025 17:03 utc | 28
They can prepare but no one will care about that ship. In addition France is buying a lot of stuff from Russia now, the love is strong
Posted by: rk | Oct 1 2025 17:31 utc | 33
breaking news, France had their soldiers board a Russian “Shadow fleet” tanker, the Borocay off the coast of France. I wouldn’t want to be a French mercenary in Ukraine tonight, I have a feeling that the Russians will make some french fries for dinner
Posted by: Kadath | Oct 1 2025 17:43 utc | 34
French special forces committed an act of piracy, seizing a tanker allegedly belonging to a Russian shadow fleet. It is said that it was from this tanker that the drones flying over Denmark were launched
This might explain the Drones Over Denmark fabrication, a way for the EU to not look 100% like pirates – just 90%. Pathetic, if you are going to go pirate, stick a knife between your teeth, grab the rigging like you’re Tarzan and go full pirate, the French can’t even get that right, Jean Lafitte is rolling over in his grave.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 17:50 utc | 35
🇫🇷 The Chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces made a statement saying that France’s combat readiness has been raised to “the highest level,” and French troops must be prepared for high-intensity combat operations “as early as this evening.”
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/48620
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2025 17:58 utc | 36
US Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg tells his audience that the Russian Armed Forces are practically depleted of weapons.
According to him, “Putin is taking tanks from museums to deliver them to the front lines.”
https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/24889
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2025 18:14 utc | 37
“The Chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces made a statement saying that France’s combat readiness has been raised to “the highest level,” and French troops must be prepared for high-intensity combat operations “as early as this evening.” – Norwegian 36
If were not for the false-flag-potential, ie the French/English attacking French/British citizens and claiming “it was the Ruskies who done it” this, would have an element of Monty Python to it. Is the french army even French? Aren’t most of their soldiers from North Africa? Do North African troops really want to be disposable pawns in the service of Glalicia’s Waffen SS? Sad how propaganda makes fools of us all. Look for a false-flag attack on French civilians by forces aligned with France.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 1 2025 18:36 utc | 38
Posted by: Nobody Special | Oct 1 2025 16:30 utc | 18
Hopefully cooler and more rational minds will prevail in those NATO countries bordering the Baltic Sea and the war remains more of words and less of missiles.
Well my friend, the zionist governments of the countries surronding the Baltic Sea will not act cooler, the Baltic Sea will be closed, one way or the other. Norway has recently given USA an older airbase close to the Danish Strait that will be finished in a year or two. Then the Strait will be covered by Norway in North, Denmark in south and Sweden in east. This will escalate, as the French pirates today are a example of.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 1 2025 18:42 utc | 39
Right enough of this 1% nonsense folks.
1. Ukraine covers an area of 233,000 square miles
2. Before the SMO the area controlled by the pro russian rebels (parts of donetsk and Luhansk) was 10,935 square mles
3. The area covered today by Russian forces is 32,085 square miles
4. That means, since the start of the SMO russia has taken amount to 21,150 square miles.
5. This means Russia has taken about 9% of Ukraine (not including the already pro russian areas in Donetsk and Luhansk).
ALL MEASUREMENTS ARE APPROXIMATES DUE TO THE MAP CALULATOR BEING STRAIGHT LINED.
The 1% is a LIE. It is 9%
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 1 2025 19:00 utc | 40
the go Oreshnik crowd prevails, the question is whether the RF has lost escalatory dominance and the diplomatic high ground, triggering an official NATO response.
Posted by: frithguild | Oct 1 2025 17:22 utc | 30
As if the neonazi West starving several million to death in the middle east cares about the ‘diplomatic high ground’ which they have effectively ceded to Russia and China. They care only about convincing their restive populations to go to war against a peer adversary while at the same time somehow making them believe that its not their own domestic corrupted elite responsible for their impoverished state but ‘Ruskies and Chinamen’.
Striking NATO territory directly would have the desired effect, which is why so many submarine Western spooks advocate for ‘Russia Stronk’ intervention, to provide the needed justification they are having such difficulty manufacturing.
The fun part of the whole thing is even if the Western dipshits get their wish, which is likely, for full scale war with Russia, they still lose, harder, faster and stronger than their opponents. The Western oligarchy has already lost, theyre just too stupid to see it yet.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 1 2025 19:04 utc | 41
Seems like France is on a piracy spree.
https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics/161819
French Navy pirates have pirated the Russian-linked tanker PUSHPA near the offshore wind farm off Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique. The tanker sails under the flag of Benin but is targeted by the EU thieves for transporting Russian oil.
https://safety4sea.com/sanctioned-tanker-suffers-explosion-after-russian-port-call/July 24, 2025The crude oil tanker PUSHPA, formerly Djibouti-flagged and now operating without a flag, suffered an explosion likely in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Malta, around 16 July.
According to Martin Kelly, Head of Advisory at EOS Risk Group, this marks the eighth known incident of its kind in recent months. As stated, PUSHPA previously called at St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier in July.
While the incident follows a familiar pattern seen in other recent attacks, the key difference is PUSHPA’s Russian status, which most previous targets did not share.
The cause is yet to be determined and will probably be withheld owing to its Russian Fleet nature. However, limpet mines or seaborne vessels could be the cause. …said Martin Kelly in a social media post.
To remind, on 27 June the oil tanker Vilamoura suffered an explosion onboard off the coast of Libya. According to Dryad Global, the explosion aboard the Vilamoura was not an isolated case as a pattern of attacks has emerged the last few months.
Dryad Global has highlighted that crucially, three vessels that have suffered the same fate since January, had recently visited Russian ports such as Ust-Luga or Novorossiysk, suggesting a focused campaign against vessels involved in Russian energy trade.
(*Removed some/modified nonsense*)
Things are heating up again fast… .
Posted by: xor | Oct 1 2025 19:10 utc | 42
@Brennen 7
British and french troops are in Russian dominated Odessa.
Putin is expert in turning almost won war into a quagmire in the last minute.He is prone to fall to flattery.See his declaring “mission accomplished ” in Feb 2016 at the point Assad army had almost won .See his backing off in Feb 2015 when pro russian fighters had surrounded the British mercenaries in yauansk.Putin will betray Russia again especially his traitor FM lavrov and his spokesman B.Pesko.
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 19:13 utc | 43
As long as Putin will act cowardly and never attack English inside or outside England as a main priority, the Russians will be killed and never will get rest from British plots .
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 19:14 utc | 44
Evidence that Putin has been a disaster for Russia being too much loving of pirate Anglo parasites.
V”Putin says the conflict in Ukraine is not WWIII and makes a curious comparison with the Crimean war. He says most of Europe was against Russia then, but Britain and France became Russian allies in the WWI.
He also recalls Russia’s isolation after Crimean war, which Russian Empire lost but recovered all the damage 20 years later, also liberating Bulgaria in the process.
These historical analogies underscore Kremlin’s desire to return to friendly relations with the West after Ukraine war, rather than attacking NATO countries as supporters of increased military spending insinuate.”
What is Putin playing at here? On one hand, he highlights the extreme and escalating threats against Russia from the USA, yet in the next breath, he talks about dreaming of partnership and harmony with an ‘Agreement-Incapable’ America—a nation that has been seeking Russia’s total strategic defeat for decades, along with Putin’s forced removal as president.
Has Putin lost the plot? This sounds both illogical and foolish. Is he showing signs of delusion or even dementia? Or has Putin simply gone mad?
From RT extracts
“Putin seeks close ties as Partners with the US and it’s Allies everywhere.
And when our current opponents – and maybe potential partners – will finally hear, understand and realize this, it seems to me that at that point the realization will come that what is needed is to seek compromises,” he said.
Moscow is ready to try to rebuild ties with the US and its allies, but it should only happen “without harming our interests,” Putin pointed out.
Cringe! What could be more terrifying than the President of Russia, in the midst of a war in Ukraine against the US, NATO, and the entire Western sphere, acting sweet and nice, talking about wanting to be friends and partners again, and suggesting cooperation and compromises?
This feels like truly unhinged, crazy rhetoric. Surely this is schizoid behavior because it is far from realistic under the circumstances now and the foreseeable future out to 2030.
To me this is very dangerous rhetoric for Russia to playing with, bordering on foolhardy and incompetent.
Russia will never win if this is their thinking of their leadership already. Nor will BRICS, China and the global south with ‘two faced inconsistent’ friends like this.
Quote “Putin and Russians seem to not care about the terror and murder of Russian civilians in their own homes.”
Not only that.once England has shown by its actions that it plotted Syrian and Ukraine war because it could get free hand from Russian stupidity since 2014, it was imperative for Russia to annihilate that persistent enemy of England which is a common factor in all wars.
Russia, having realised that England is it’s existential enemy, Russia must plot downfall of that evil satanic 3rd rate country of English pirates.
In other words Russia must make effort to tear apart England into 5 parts just as England intended to for Iraq, Syria, and even Russia . Remember England stole one thousand billion dollar worth of wealth from Russia in 1990s only .
Russia never had brain to stop gas and oil supply to England which has plotted and run this Ukraine war from behind. Easy target is Austria which is not even anti russian state.
Stu-id Putin as always .
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 19:14 utc | 45
Putin has stupidly wasted 3 years with never a decisive move and allowed war plotter england and its vassals(west is another name for england only) to arm itself and prepare for war so much so that a 3rd rate country like england-a known pirate island, dare say that it will directly attack or help others attack moscow.
It is putin’s delaying tactics in war that has put russia in situation that is miserable and insulting for Russia. Putin lavrov and pesko must be removed.
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 19:16 utc | 46
It seems that we’re now in a “bear baiting” phase, as evidenced by prima facie absurd statements by the idiot Kellogg, hysteria over drones in Brussels, and French provocations.
The goal seems to be to get Russia to “react.” I can’t find the video link, but Judge Napolitano had Gilbert Doctorow on today, and Doctorow seems to think that there is some pressure on Putin from the political sphere to get more aggressive with the SMO and stop the dilly-dallying.
Be careful what you wish for, NATO. Replacing Putin with a hardliner who will unleash the Oreshnik on Europe is a distinct possibility.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 1 2025 19:32 utc | 47
Geschrieben von: sam | 1. Oktober 2025 19:16 UTC | 46
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Why dont you change your Name from sam to spam?
Posted by: BlindSpot | Oct 1 2025 19:37 utc | 48
RUAF is hitting the Kiev-Kharkov rail line with night-vision equipped Geran drones. Locomotives, fuel depots hit all along the line.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 19:48 utc | 49
Link to Napolitano/Doctorow video:
Prof. Gilbert Doctorow : Are Russians Losing Patience? – YouTube
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Oct 1 2025 19:49 utc | 50
Anyone else in the States getting a ‘Server cannot be found’ message when trying to access RT?
Posted by: Caveman | Oct 1 2025 19:52 utc | 51
@Caveman | Oct 1 2025 19:52 utc | 51
Here in France, no way to access swentr.site since a few hours (rt mirror site).
Posted by: fabrice | Oct 1 2025 19:54 utc | 52
🇭🇺👉🇪🇺🏴☠️🇺🇦 Brussels is preparing for war and wants Europeans to pay for it, – Szijjártó
Brussels has prepared a seven-year budget plan that serves the military interests of Ukraine, Hungary does not want to finance Kyiv’s army,
– noted the Hungarian Foreign Minister.
🇬🇧🏴☠️🇺🇦👉🇷🇺 Former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace called at the Warsaw Security Forum to make Crimea “uninhabitable,” writes The Guardian.
“We must help Ukraine acquire long-range capabilities <…>. We need to strangle Crimea”, Wallace said.
He also stated the need to attack the Crimean Bridge with missiles.🇷🇺👉🇬🇧🏴☠️ Pathetic Briton, your Great Britain has become uninhabitable, where immigrants now live instead of the British.But if bastards like you get Russia out of patience, then your little island will be destroyed, drowned in the ocean and disappear from the world map.
🇮🇱🏴☠️🇺🇦 Indirect confirmation of Israel’s supply of the Patriot system to Ukraine.The Ukrainian An-124 received some cargo at Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport. And even if these are not surface-to-air missiles, the very fact that a Ukrainian plane is here indicates that it came for weapons.And let’s remind that weapons from Israel have long been in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are quite actively used.
🇺🇸🏴☠️🇺🇦👉🇷🇺 A resolution has been introduced in the US Senate calling for the confiscation of stolen Russian assets frozen in G7 countries in favor of Ukraine.The G7 and EU authorities, according to the document, will have to transfer tranches of $10 billion per month to Kyiv until these funds are fully spent.Republican Lindsey Graham is among the co-authors of the initiative.
🇷🇺👉🇺🇦🏴☠️🏁 Kiev will use false flag operations and involve “defectors” ready to confess to “crimes of the Russian Federation” to intimidate Europe with Russia. This was stated by Miroshnik.Ukraine’s goal is to create conditions for additional funding.
🇷🇺👉🇺🇸🏴☠️🇺🇦 Lavrov said he would be surprised if the United States considered Ukraine such a responsible power that it would entrust them with the use of Tomahawk missiles.
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine has no money for mass production of its own missiles, including “Flamingo” — Wall Street Journal➖”The problem for Kiev for some time now has been that they have no money for production. For example, they have talked a lot about their ability to produce ballistic missiles… And they say they simply don’t have the funds to produce them” — writes the publication’s journalist.▪️He also believes that “Flamingo” will not radically change the course of the war.@Slavyangrad
Posted by: Jo | Oct 1 2025 19:59 utc | 53
Posted by: fabrice | Oct 1 2025 19:54 utc | 52
Very worrisome stuff. Thanks for the info, friend!
Posted by: Caveman | Oct 1 2025 20:02 utc | 54
Peace negotiations should happen after the war is won.
The Russians should forget about Minsk 3.0 / Istanbul 2.0++ – did they take forget the problems with signing an agreement with an agreement incapable foe?
If they have forgotten that it proves they’ve learnt nothing unfortunately.
The solution to end this war is for Russia to WIN THE WAR and then DICTATE TERMS to the defeated foe.
If the Russians aren’t DICTATING TERMS then it just means they haven’t really won the war.Because people with a certain IQ realize that peace isn’t possible as long as the West exists or the Nazis are in charge in Kyiv. The latter would be controllable, but unfortunately not in conjunction with a hate-filled war in Europe.Only if NATO begins where Ukraine ends will there be a chance for Russia to survive.Because the West’s goal will be to fuel unrest in the country with even more terror and even more blockades of the supply chain, and that’s exactly what will happen.There are two possibilities… the Russians oust Putin or his successor from office, and Russia will be divided.Or people demand a final solution, which sooner or later at least creates the illusion that anything is BETTER than fear of constant terror… China won’t endure the economic disadvantages due to Russia’s support forever, they’re also MONEY-hungry, and at some point their greed will make them forget that THEY’RE next.
I’m guessing the solution is what Russia will now seek…or rather, it will have to find, or its END is in the calendar.
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 20:10 utc | 56
Thanks S @ 1.
Escalation is the game the Empire is playing. EU/NATO is taking over the Russia project so US can implement the Monroe Doctrine, destroy Iran and go after China.
The recent commitment to Qatar is because all support and attack aircrafts are based in Qatar for the final all out attack against Iran. I expect Venezuela might be hit simultaneously.
That top brass meeting was just cover for the respective groupings. The frantic workload at Pentagon indicated by the Pizzameter betrays the camouflage.
Hegseth’s “no rules, win at all cost” is very telling.
I sincerely hope Iran fully commits and goes all out or it will not survive.
Posted by: Suresh | Oct 1 2025 20:10 utc | 57
Wrote way back in 2007!
4th June, 2007.
President putin is wrong when he says that russia should or will target the missile on europe if america goes with anti missile defence plan in Europe.
Russia must target (rather than should) the nuclear missiles with multiple war heads against all the cities, towns and big villages( including military instalations) of england because this cold war -like the one before- is being started by england for the benefit of english race only-.it is race war between the english parasite race versus the rest of the world-the sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it is for the world.
look how germany was vilified soon after fall of soviet union-look how russia is being vilified immediately after Putin made russia strong.
look how american has been instigated ted for perpetual war by the british bastards. British spy naill faergussan and huntingtosn go to usa and preach hatred and racial inflammatory speech telling americans that the time for religious and civilizational war has come-why do these english bastards not fight their war by thier own means rather than on shoulders of american arms?
these same biriths bastrds talking of religious(Christian and muslim ) war propagandised hispanics, Irish , Germans , french as not in american Christian groups. they also do not think those white europeans to be their kind wich deserves to be in america-such is the evil propaganda of British spies inside america. .
poland is nothing but a proxy for the british bastards.
It is no use targeting poland -target the main villain which is england and the english race which must be annihilated from the face of the world.
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 20:11 utc | 58
Russia is not taken seriously because Putin and Lavrov have not pursued war seriously and have always looked at Anglo controlled west for crumbs at the table even when Russian army was winning. Putin has disgraced Russia with his slavish mentality before Anglos .
In the west such leader would have been taken out long time ago -big mouth and no action-only pathetic reactions
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 20:12 utc | 59
@fabrice | Oct 1 2025 19:54 utc | 52
Hmmm… I have been able to access rt.com the last 5 years, even today. Now it is
- rt.com : This site can’t be reached (DNS address could not be found)
- swentr.site : This site can’t be reached (DNS address could not be found)
Using brave private window with Tor: rt.com works for now (if slowly)
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2025 20:12 utc | 60
It is ex English pm who should be persecuted for plotting Ukraine war .
Unless trump or putin or the world together combine to kill English war plotters directly, there will be no stopping wars in all the regions of the world that bas,_rd satanic English race has put fire to.
Russia must annihilate england if she wants to be left alone in peace and prosperity .
English are in forefront of measures to continue war against Russia
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 20:13 utc | 61
Sergie Lavrov is the problem and not a solution. He single handedly resurrected when he induced the then president madvedev to go against Gaddafi in Libya and gave new lease of life to NATO.He talks sot of no substance.
Foreign ministry is to promote nations interest -in his long useless unelected poison. He has been utter failure in getting any resolution passed in Russia’s favour.
Lavrov and pesko are British agents inside Kremlin and Putin is too lazy to change such people in 15 years!!
Russia should fire the entire Foreign Ministry. And this is a HISTORICAL MEME by now, Russian diplomats ALWAYS give away shit that the military wins.
Lavrov made some ridiculous statement re: Syria about following some worthless U.N. resolution, totally clueless. This is a huge defeat for Russia on the international stage, BRICS and any claimed multi-polarity have correspondingly just lost a shit-ton of momentum. I have lost faith in Putin and Russia to make any difference in our chaotic world, Mordor is wi
nning.
Posted by: sam | Oct 1 2025 20:15 utc | 62
Just got RT to open on my browser. I was worried it was shut down and I’d be stuck reading American news again for headlines and for just a brief second, I thought about suicide 😂
Posted by: Caveman | Oct 1 2025 20:16 utc | 63
AFU is being defeated all across the front.
Now the question re. Nato escalation is will they go to Ukraine to fight or attempt to expand war in Baltics/Poland etc.
Because I think RUAF will be in a very strong position in Ukraine even if Nato sends something to the front in Ukraine. Ukrainian logistics are crap, RUAF has all the home field advantages on the left side of Dniepr.
France calling for high alert? How/where are they gonna fight and with what forces?
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 20:17 utc | 64
rt.com is back without using Tor. Just a technical glitch then.swentr.site also working normally.
phew.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2025 20:18 utc | 65
Well. The new blog has provided all of us, lurkers or posters, with a new everyday lack of the 24/7 heatred posts of the LD bot.
Why this LD bot was able to post 24/7,from 14:00 utc to 05:00 utc, and, now is unable to bypass, is a mystery.
The same for all the posters who think that this your playground.
Bernard decides, little by little.
But, except for 2 or 3 long term guys/gals, the rest of them is an addictive set of humans in their last chances.
If this blog/forum wants to make some real effect, it will attract the new generation by argument an not by believing. This is not Reddit.
Bye. Good live for all of you.
Posted by: Esophagus | Oct 1 2025 20:25 utc | 66
Footage from objective control 🕵️♀️ of the evening strike on energy facilities in Slavutych city, Kiev region.
The video records at least 8 Geran UAVs ✈️ hitting the territory of the 330 kV substation “Slavutych”, as well as one UAV hitting the 110 kV substation “Slavutych”, resulting in the destruction of:➡️the machine hall;➡️two power transformers;➡️the oil storage;➡️the switchgear field.
Another (https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/25931) quality footage of strikes on critical infrastructure objects 🐱
By the way, local authorities reported damage to only one substation 🙈
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/143162
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 1 2025 20:29 utc | 67
- The G7 is close to an agreement to tighten sanctions against Russian oil revenues, Bloomberg reports.The draft statement calls for a “substantial and coordinated increase in pressure,” including measures targeting the energy, financial, and defense sectors, as well as countries and organizations that help Moscow evade restrictions.Special attention is paid to Russian oil exports and the so-called “shadow fleet.” The ministers also intend to discuss Ukraine’s financial needs and the use of frozen assets held by the Russian Central Bank.They mean “theft”, do they?@Slavyangrad
Ukraine now receives funds subject to full reporting: the US Congress no longer deems it appropriate to finance pension payments to Ukrainian retirees. Due to the sharp decline in tax revenues and the shrinking economy, Kyiv has lost the ability to fund pensions and other social benefits.
Rather overoptimistic…but if so, what will the response be?
Alexander Stubb claims that the US is increasing support for Ukraine.”Experience has shown that persuasion and ‘carrots’ rarely work on Russia. Now comes the stage of the stick,” Stubb said in a conversation with Politico and other media in Helsinki. — “The only question is how big that stick will be.”
Decisive elections: will the Czech Republic become a new adversary of the EU?”: The Czech Republic risks becoming a new “headache” for the EU following Hungary and Slovakia.“The ANO party, led by former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, is leading in the polls and may form a Eurosceptic and pro-Russian coalition.On October 3–4, parliamentary elections will be held in the Czech Republic, which analysts call pivotal. Slavyangrad.
Winter in Ukraine will be “fun,” with a 90% chance of a blackout in some regions, said MP Dmitry Razumkov.
Kuleba still wittering on re “”the end” of the conflict
Then, according to him, two possible paths of development are launched:▪️The first – conditionally Finnish or Danish: when Ukraine loses part of its territories, says “okay, we build on what we have”, and develops the country within the existing borders;▪️The second – a conditional Azerbaijani-Armenian algorithm: preparation for the recapture or diplomatic return of its territories. “We will spend decades on this and wait for the moment when we can return these territories”, – dreams the former Foreign Minister.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 After October 10, Russia will more frequently strike the energy sector — the Gauleiter of Ivano-Frankovsk– He urges to be prepared for power outages.@Slavyangrad
Leader of AGD warns re Merz 2026 budget
Politics of extremes” is nearly one trillion euros in new debt in just four years. That’s an additional 50% on top of the debt accumulated over the past 75 years — and we managed to do it in only four years. This is not just a betrayal of the citizens, who were promised something entirely different. This is a direct path to state bankruptcy.
🇷🇺🥊🇪🇺 Moscow is preparing a retaliatory strike in case of confiscation of frozen Russian assets — Bloomberg📌 Russia may nationalize and quickly sell off foreign assets under a new privatization mechanism in response to any European steps to seize Russian assets abroad, Bloomberg writes, citing a source close to the government.✍️ On Tuesday, Putin signed a decree allowing accelerated sales of state assets under a special procedure.⚡️ If the European Union begins seizing Russian assets, Moscow may respond with symmetrical measures.🖇 Hundreds of Western companies operating in various sectors — from banking to consumer goods production — continue to work in Russia, including UniCredit SpA, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, PepsiCo Inc., and Mondelez International Inc., the agency notes.@ukraine_watch
Posted by: Jo | Oct 1 2025 20:32 utc | 68
BTW.
The posting mechanism of this site is running for me, in a mobile phone, whitout any problem.
It has been an improvement.
Bye.
And, remember. Take the proper meds.
Posted by: Esophagus | Oct 1 2025 20:33 utc | 69
“English Outsider” ( Oct 1 2025 16:17 utc | 11 ):
I agree but detailed analysis is too difficult when the fog is so thick people don’t really agree on where the front is or was yesterday and what happened.
“Savonarole” ( Oct 1 2025 16:58 utc | 27 ):
It certainly could work and in specific cases it could be exactly what you would want to have. On the other hand it would in general be very limited unless one made a lot of such drones and networked them all.
There is something vaguely similar in the west when it comes to some of their oceanic drones sailing or diving (the one that goes diving up and down in a pattern). They go around on their own while collecting information. Also from the opposite point of view of defeating or avoiding AA defenses there is the “wingman” drone concepts (and similar in China and Russia too I believe).
Turning that last thing on its head (again) one could have drones that increase the detection range and response times for point defenses (as is being contemplated for tanks with them each having their own drone). Again it might be better (simpler, cheaper, more effective —or not) to make more of what you already have and expand the cover that way, but it’s a big design/engineering space. Which resources are available or plentiful also matters.
Otherwise continuous tracking might be a challenge, and tying the information into the overall detection network. Latency sort of always is an issue no matter what (including in humans) so one tries to remove as much of it as one can to increase any usefulness.
Anyway it’s too wishy-washy as an answer but “it depends” and often one has to try it before one can really find out.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 1 2025 20:39 utc | 70
Ukrainians in Poland have been deprived of many free medical services and reimbursement for medicines, according to Polish media. The changes came into effect on September 30 and apply to refugees in the country without insurance. Earlier, the Polish Sejm passed a law depriving unemployed foreigners, including Ukrainians, of social benefits;ukrainewatch
🔘USAID admitted that it was giving Kiev $1.5 billion in cash per month, former head of the U.S. Agency revealed in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.Samantha Powers.ukraine_watch
Posted by: Jo | Oct 1 2025 20:41 utc | 71
Posted by: Apollyon | Oct 1 2025 20:03 utc | 55
Really?!
Russland kesselt letzten ukrainischen Stützpunkt vor Slawjansk ein
1 Okt. 2025 17:33 Uhr
In der Donezker Volksrepublik wurde Kirowsk befreit – und das ist mehr als eine Episode unter vielen. Dieser Ort eröffnet den russischen Streitkräften den Weg nach Krasny Liman. Wie gelang die Befreiung von Kirowsk und was bedeutet sie für die Befreiung des nördlichen Donbass?
Posted by: Naive | Oct 1 2025 21:02 utc | 72
Hola from Mexico. I am a long time lurker. If I learn of any useful resources I will pass them on
Does anyone have info about the French piracy of the Russian tanker today?
Gracias
Posted by: Ricardo de Banderas | Oct 1 2025 21:03 utc | 73
Source:
https://rtnewsde.online/international/257653-russland-kesselt-letzten-ukrainischen-stuetzpunkt/
Posted by: Naive | Oct 1 2025 21:03 utc | 74
Speaking of Oreshniks, anyone see the vids of the bright night sky over Dnipro? Probably it was the flash from the substations blowing up, electric fires can be like arch lights, but in the videos it really lights up the sky. Maybe substation flash together with a cloudy sky? I assume the Russians would/will announce an Oreshnik or Yars strike. I’m not sure there’s much need for expensive and limited Oreshniks in Ukraine, my guess is the next people to film an Oreshnik light up the sky will be Poles living next to Rzeszow:
Russian military pages write that the blackout in the Dnipro area was caused by a strike from the intercontinental ballistic missile “Yars”. This is indicated by the bluish glow that was visible in the circulated videos. After this strike, the city began to experience power issues. According to another version, it was the “Oreshnik”. Ukraine and Russia have not yet commented on this strike. So what was it?
https://t.me/myLordBebo/82550
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The whole city is illuminated for a second. What is it?
https://t.me/myLordBebo/82552
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 21:03 utc | 75
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 1 2025 19:00 utc | 40
Agree. Pretty much bang on… and if you wanted you could also add Crimea?? and the small pockets in Sumy Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovski.
Approx 32,000 sq miles. Be like the United States losing the state of South Carolina.
Posted by: heavymetal101 | Oct 1 2025 21:14 utc | 76
https://thedeepdive.ca/french-authorities-investigate-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker/
Posted by: Ricardo de Banderas | Oct 1 2025 21:16 utc | 77
Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 1 2025 19:00 utc | 40
“1. Ukraine covers an area of 233,000 square miles”** that area also includes Crimea’s 10,100 sq miles
Posted by: heavymetal101 | Oct 1 2025 21:21 utc | 78
Is the consensus here still that there hasn’t been any appreciable damage to the Russian refineries?
Posted by: ed4 | Oct 1 2025 21:24 utc | 79
Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris/videos
“US nears Tomahawk supply decision as Zelensky panics after Russian breakthroughs in Pokrovsk, Zaporozhye.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 1 2025 21:26 utc | 80
Posted by: Apollyon | Oct 1 2025 17:03 utc | 28
Was the tanker sailing under a Russian flag? One article says that it was claiming to be flying the flag of Benin, but Benin doesn’t have it registered?
Posted by: ed4 | Oct 1 2025 21:29 utc | 81
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 21:03 utc | 75
The blue flash looked like a transformer/electrical fire. It could have also been a drone strike. The city went dark.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 21:30 utc | 82
Until we are we, humans, the problem can’t be posed.
First, humans, then we will see.
How would you feel if there’s a real patron based in the human consciousness.
Hate
Love.
Consciousness.
Posted by: Esophagus | Oct 1 2025 21:43 utc | 83
First. Humans.
There are people who think is ok to make your brother bad
Take your guts and return to be a human, a real entity
Posted by: Esophagus | Oct 1 2025 21:48 utc | 84
Geschrieben von: sam | 1. Oktober 2025 19:16 UTC | 46…Why don’t you change your Name from sam to spam?
Posted by: BlindSpot | Oct 1 2025 19:37 utc | 48
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Idem, ditto! Bitte.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 1 2025 21:51 utc | 85
Geschrieben von: sam | 1. Oktober 2025 19:16 UTC | 46…Why don’t you change your Name from sam to spam?
Posted by: BlindSpot | Oct 1 2025 19:37 utc | 48
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Idem, ditto! Bitte.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 1 2025 21:53 utc | 86
Posted by: S | Oct 1 2025 14:17 utc | 1#1 Mange tusen takk — many thousand thank yous for such an illuminating and factually buttressed post. Posted by: paxmark1 | Oct 1 2025 14:39 utc | 2
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The Ukies do not have a delivery vehicle for the Tomahawks but some, maybe all NATO countries might. Great FF opportunity. Furthermore, it is nuke capable which might be perceived by the Russkies as a nuclear First Strike.
BTW, this window should clear out after completing a post, preventing unintended repeat posting. Learning the new MoA world as I limp along.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 1 2025 21:57 utc | 87
BlindSpot @ 48 / Acco Hengst @ 86
Why don’t you change your Name from sam to spam?
In honor of Dr. Seuss, “Sam I Spam”?
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 22:08 utc | 89
Sounds like VVP’s speech tomorrow @ Valdai will be fire
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 1 2025 22:18 utc | 90
During a period when Russia’s military-fist is achieving peak capacity, it is passingly strange to find Sec Hegseth so focused on fat troops & fat generals.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 1 2025 22:23 utc | 91
Borzzikman’s take on the French oil tanker piracy:
FRANCE Attacked and Captured a Russian Vessel! Russia’s Brutal Response SHOCKED the WORLD!
Probably stretching it for clicks, if true and if the RF had knowledge of it, they would have taken out the French engineers in Odessa regardless the oil tanker seizing, and obviously the planning for the strike must have been days ahead of the ship piracy.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 1 2025 22:27 utc | 92
#91 to be fit physically is likely to be fit mentally…no woke crap
Posted by: sejmon | Oct 1 2025 22:46 utc | 93
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 1 2025 15:44 utc | 8
As I recall the last time the Russians faced tomahawk missiles was in April 2018 in Syria where the US claimed to have hit theBarzah Research center in Damascus with 57 tomahawks and 19 JASSM’s while the Russians claimed to have downed most of them with Syrian air defences and EW. This wasn’t a hardened bunker but a 4 storey institutional building on a university campus and to be honest I could have done the same amount of damage in a week with a couple of excavators and left the site clean. I don’t think the Russians are trembling in their boots at the threat of a 1980’s vintage sub sonic cruise missile. Those British Scalp missiles are a much more formidible threat.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 1 2025 23:02 utc | 95
A giant hat tip to former UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, for reminding VVP, by threatening atrocities on civilian Crimea, who is target number one, when the Oreshnik moment is at hand.And for reminding the world of the disgusting wickedness of the vile AngloSaxon.
Posted by: necromancer | Oct 1 2025 23:37 utc | 96
Is the consensus here still that there hasn’t been any appreciable damage to the Russian refineries?
Posted by: ed4 | Oct 1 2025 21:24 utc | 79
If you believe the foreign agent doing business as “Moscow Times”, gasoline prices are going through the roof in one of the oil-richest countries on this planet. But can we be sure? Our more trusted news sources, including Slavyangrad and other Telegram resources, are too much focused on the “good news” — bad things just don’t happen, and if, it’s just a minor itch, nothing that will hurt for a few months or even decide the outcome of the SMO.
Then we get fed more fake news like Gen Kellogg fantasizing about Putin hauling “museum tanks” to the front in a last-ditch Hail Mary effort, because as you all know, the UkRaInE iS WiNnInG — or that Russia is on the brink of collapse because the Finance Ministry proposes raising VAT from 20% to 22% from January 1, 2026 instead of just printing money like Germany, France or the UK do. And Russia still won’t be the northern hemisphere’s VAT “champion”. (Nevermind VAT for basic goods (food, medicine) would remain at 10%.)
The EU is breaking at its seems in slow-motion, and no extra make-up layers on von der Leyen’s rotting face can cover it up. Tomorrow, Macron and Merz will fly to Saarbrücken to “celebrate” what happened on October 3rd, 1990, and what Germany and France and the EU have “accomplished” for all its citizens ever since.
- The elimination of east German competition in favor of west German conglomerates — to later on create the largest low-wage sector of Europe (Schröder’s “Agenda 2010”), to outcompete fellow EU member states, especially in the south and the east
- …reinforced by the Euro, which made French, Spanish and Italian exports relatively more expensive than German exports — another competitive win for Germany besides relying on cheap Russian energy
- The transformation of the EC from an economy-focused bloc to the hyperbureaucratic and power-hungry Orwellian monster known today as EU (“Maastricht”)
- …killing higher education in the process (“Bologna”)
- …sidelining national parliaments on important issues
- …and – as if it’s not enough – moving forward to transform itself into a yuge military paper tiger (with more grift opportunities for untouchable grifters like chief liar von der Leyen and her cronies)
NATO, for the better part of its lifetime since its inception in 1949, had three major functions: Keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down. The latter is often overlooked.
While Germany’s decade-long ersatz war against its neighbors by means of sheer economic prowess has ground to a halt (thanks to Scholz’ “Zeitenwende“, self-imposed green sh1t and self-harming sanctions — unemployment is at record high and rising), Germany finally is looking to become a military problem for the whole continent once again. Macron may put on a fake smile, shake hands with Merz and exchange warm words, but the French are not happy, and neither are the Poles. And to top it off, Merz’ new remilitarization is backed merely by debt, hot air and young and able men still to be found to join the Bundeswehr.
Did I mention Germany no longer is the cheap-food champion of Europe, with supermarket prices rising 37 % since 2020 (according to Holger Zschäpitz, senior economist at WELT, citing Eurostat)?
Before the recent concerted drone scare, a foul attempt to rally the sick-and-tired public around the cause and away from growing domestic troubles, a year-long mantra of EU-NATO was that “RUSSIA WILL ATTACK NATO BY 2029” (or 2030). Germany is begging for exactly that. And the only land power in Europe to stop it is Russia.
Posted by: Nervous German | Oct 1 2025 23:50 utc | 97
Sounds like VVP’s speech tomorrow @ Valdai will be fire
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 1 2025 22:18 utc | 90
We’ve heard enough of these speeches already. He’d better deliver. I think average Ivan wants the war over ASAP with a decisive victory—stop the tiring slomo tactics of ten-sqkm-a-day and start to carpet bomb whatever it takes, because nothing else will stop the hybrid attacks on Russia. Might makes right.
Posted by: Nervous German | Oct 1 2025 23:58 utc | 98
Posted by: HB_Norica | Oct 1 2025 23:02 utc | 95 “As I recall the last time the Russians faced tomahawk missiles was in April 2018 in Syria where the US claimed to have hit theBarzah Research center in Damascus with 57 tomahawks and 19 JASSM’s while the Russians claimed to have downed most of them with Syrian air defences and EW. ”
Given how well the Russian are not doing against Ukrainian drones these days I doubt the that story from 8 years ago is accurate.
Posted by: ed4 | Oct 2 2025 0:01 utc | 99
*** They care only about convincing their restive populations to go to war against a peer adversary while at the same time somehow making them believe that its not their own domestic corrupted elite responsible for their impoverished state but ‘Ruskies and Chinamen’. ***
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Oct 1 2025 19:04 utc | 41
Anywhere west and south of Poland has been on a steady diet of CNN type news for years. So their brains have sugar rot and are full of worms. Not the stuff of soldiers.
Posted by: frithguild | Oct 2 2025 0:03 utc | 100