Parts of this are according to Dima and his Military Channel, this is over the past week or so.
 
Russia has finally started its Shock and Awe attack on Ukraine. Every night (ok let’s call it 5 nights out of every 7), Russia sends hundreds of drones and some missiles to focus on Ukraine energy systems, ammo dumps, and factories that create military products.
 
Obviously, according to Ukrainian sources, Ukrainian anti-air defenses shoot down all but 2 of the drones in every target city. Those 2 drones cause fires all over the city, and heavily damage Ukrainian energy facilities.
 
Pro-Russian civilians in each city seem to be providing vital information about the locations and details of Ukrainian military industries, meetings of NATO Officials, Ukrainian troop concentrations, etc. Russia puts this information to good use.
 
The “SMO” is increasing in intensity. It is not quite an All Out War. But it is close. My preference is that the current intensity will not be increased. Making Russia Great Again requires Russia improving its economy, increasing its domestic production, and improving the lives of its citizens. Hopefully for Russia, the SMO will be mostly an annoyance for Russia as it continues its move toward Greatness.
 
For what it’s worth? My desired end is for Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Romania to split up Ukraine. That way the Belt and Row Initiative can allow for supplies and aid and eventually trade to rebuild what is now called Ukraine.

Posted by: Woke American | Oct 7 2025 15:11 utc | 203

Lengthy piece discussing Ukrainian troop numbers, mobilisations and losses since 2014 here: https://www.ir-press.ru/2025/10/02/ukraine-2014-2025-mobilizations-and-losses/
 
A snip:

Three partial mobilizations were declared in 2014, followed by three more in 2015. Ukraine called up a total of 210,000 men, a number almost equal to that of its regular army. While about 70,000 volunteers, including many Banderites, came forward, the others were conscripts and reservists. The mobilization was immediately plagued by population resistance. Depending on the region, up to 60% of those called up were draft dodgers. Men fled abroad, notably to Poland, Belarus, or Russia, others to Western Europe. Recruitment difficulties forced Ukraine to legislate severe prison sentences (2-5 years in prison). In the National Guard, volunteers not being numerous enough, conscripts also came to fill its ranks. The initial enthusiasm for enlistment at the start of the war soon began to erode. The series of military defeats (2014-2015), notably in the Battle of the Borders, Ilovaïsk, or Debaltseve, the losses, an unprepared army ravaged by corruption, war crimes, and indiscipline, did not encourage men from the rear to come and get bogged down in such a quagmire. On July 24, 2014, in the context of the Battle of the Borders about to be lost (July-September), a new wave of mobilization was decreed. It provoked the anger of the populations, political resistances quickly suppressed, but the war machine was in motion. In total, in 2014, 105,000 men were mobilized. In early 2015, 40,000 men replaced the volunteers from the previous year, who had signed up for one year. The most fanatical or the “pot-scrapers” agreed to sign up again. Ukraine then proceeded with amalgamation, namely the integration of irregular units into the army (with a few exceptions). Attractive contracts were offered to the men; those who refused could return home, though sometimes not without being subjected to harassment. To defend themselves, soldiers soon obtained a ministry for veterans, a status, and social benefits.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 7 2025 17:19 utc | 205

More than likely that Netanyahu has asked Putin – not to get involved when Israel and the US attack Iran, – and  to turn a blind eye to the US invasion of Venezuela, and in return Putin can continue to crush the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine without much Israel/US interference, and Netanyahu/Trump will reel his EU puppets on supplying the Ukrainian regime.
 
With regards to the likes of Putin, Trump, Netanyahu etc – a Groucho Marx quote springs to mind.
“Here are my principles, and if you don’t like them – well I have others.”
 
“Russian President Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu had a phone call during which they discussed ‘the situation in the Middle East’ This marks the third phone call between the two since late July”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 7 2025 18:32 utc | 207

In a fictionalised account set a little over two years from now, the city of Narva in Estonia wakes to explosions.
It’s being attacked by Russia – and is conquered in a matter of hours.
The same night, another city on the island of Hiiumaa is also taken – giving Russia the ability to impose a naval blockade of the Baltic states.
This is the basis of a future imagined by political scientist Dr Carlo Masala in his book ‘If Russia Wins: A scenario‘.
It’s predicated on what could happen, if the conflict in Ukraine is settled on terms advantageous to Russia. How far is NATO really prepared to go to defend one of its member states?
How sound is the commitment of the US, in particular? 
Carlo Masala is Professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich.
He joins Kathryn to talk about his scenario and its relation to recent developments in the Ukraine conflict and within Europe.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019007362/carlo-masala-what-happens-if-russia-succeeds-in-ukraine
It would seem the main fall back position is to get the Western MIC really cranking and profit from what will ensue.
I the interview the German author uses the phrase “a certain procedure”.  Thanks to MOA I know that “procedure”  has a special resonance for Germans  as in “Same procedure as every year” ..

Posted by: tucenz | Oct 7 2025 20:17 utc | 209

There are times when I have respect for some of the Ukrainian parliamentarians who bravely call things out:

“Where are the billions spent on shelters, we are sitting without electricity!” – hysteria in the Parliament due to constant raids
 
Ukrainian corrupt officials spent billions building shelters that didn’t protect the infrastructure from Russian attacks.
 
This was stated at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada by a former accomplice of the dictator Dmitry Razumkov, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
 

“Every day the enemy destroys our critical infrastructure. And everyone was well aware that a terrorist state would carry out terrorist acts, destroying our energy sector.
 
But I have a question for the same ignoramuses and accomplices of terrorists who spent billions of hryvnias on shelters of critical infrastructure: gas, electric substations.
 
I remember these statements of Nayyem and Kubrakov when they wrote that the Tripoli thermal power plant is one hundred percent protected. Less than a month passes – and the same mouths are telling that the Trypillya TPP has been destroyed by one hundred percent, ” Razumkov was angry.
 

“Please tell me, who will be responsible for this? Who will be responsible for Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Poltava, which are being carried by Russian missiles and drones today?
 
Where are the shelters? Where are the billions of hryvnias that were spent on this? Where is the responsibility of people who, most likely, just stole it and put it in their pockets, and then quietly went into the woods?
 
Will they bear personal responsibility for the fact that there is no electricity in parts of Ukraine , that there may be large interruptions in gas supply? ” -the ukro-MP retorted.

https://politnavigator.news/gde-potrachennye-na-ukrytiya-milliardy-sidim-bez-sveta-v-rade-isterika-iz-za-postoyannykh-naljotov.html (via translation add-on.)
 
With the West relying on smoke and mirrors for its Ukraine policy it probably helps to have plenty of smoke from sub-station fires…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 7 2025 20:32 utc | 211

An Ukro-Nazi’s Grand-daughter: Carney’s Special Envoy For Ukraine Hard at Work
 
https://x.com/cafreeland/status/1974186158134616537
 
“Great to meet with Yannis Stournoras, Governor of the Bank of Greece. We talked about the importance of supporting Ukraine, global trade and Canada’s special partnership with Europe.”
 
One of Freeland’s tasks is working on securing/leveraging ‘frozen’ Russian assets, an idea she developed while Canadian foreign minister, for her pals in the kleptocracy of NATO-Nazi Ukraine.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 7 2025 22:29 utc | 213

Trying shorter, just the army size variation through 2025
AFU 2025
 

 
total

Full LOSS
-338 008

 
P.S. B if there are a lot in your moderation, sorry, but tables are often critical for what I want to show

Posted by: Newbie | Oct 8 2025 0:03 utc | 215

Did Mark Carney and Donald Trump’s Oval Office discussion today include Canada arming Ukraine with Tomahawk Missiles?
 
Ukraine, Tariffs to Dominate White House Meeting with Canadian PM Today
 
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/61557
 
“Mark Carney arrives in Washington under dual pressure to resolve steel and aluminum tariffs while Ottawa weighs crucial Tomahawk missile commitment to Kyiv…By leveraging the economic crisis to compel a major Canadian arms commitment – specifically to high-end long-range naval strike missiles – the US is effectively ensuring that its northern ally contribute the exact strategic capability most needed by Ukraine…The cost of trade peace may be measured in the price of advanced missiles…”
 
Fortunately, by all accounts production and delivery of  any Tomahawk missiles for this purpose is unlikely before 2028, hopefully too late for Ukraine,  the RCN and Carney’s  pro-Banderite warparty, to so recklessly and dangerously put clueless Canadians even more surely into the cross-hairs of a Russian retaliatory attack should they  foolishly decide to proceed with such a scheme.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 8 2025 5:44 utc | 217

That massive listing of numbers isn’t really very effective, Newbie.  
Posted by: ThouShalt | Oct 8 2025 4:05 utc | 216
copy paste to notepad, save as .csv and open in excel
if you use comma for decimal , replace comma with ;
tables are not posting well (no column creation)
 
 

Posted by: Newbie | Oct 8 2025 11:52 utc | 219

Putin missed an opportunity. They were handed an olive branch and tried to take the whole tree. Now we are back to square one. In the meantime refineries will keep burning and young men will keep being killed and maimed in the name of Russia’s “interests”.

Posted by: Effektiewe Effie | Oct 8 2025 18:08 utc | 221

Concentrating on the new posting format, so overlooked the link: https://ukranews.com/en/news/1109931-finance-ministry-places-government-bonds-for-uah-14-9-billion-and-usd-203-million

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 8 2025 18:32 utc | 223

Republicofscotland | Oct 7 2025 18:32 utc | 207
 
Putin talks to everybody. The CIA proxies in Chechnya. There were a number of bad killings. The perpetrators were hunted down and killed. There was one in Turkey and one in Germany. There will be many more we don’t know about. They also will have been killed. A russian agent was jailed in Turkey and another in Germany – that is why we know about those two. When he got them released, Putin was personally there to greet them when they stepped off the plane. Best not to fuck with Putin.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 8 2025 18:36 utc | 225

Why is Putin asking for negotiations with the USA for  the second time?

Posted by: Ezop | Oct 16 2025 19:06 utc | 227