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October 26, 2025
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🇷🇺 Gerasimov reported that Russian forces have encircled Ukrainian troops in the Krasnoarmeysk(Pokrovsk)–Dimitrov area, trapping 31 Ukrainian battalions inside the pocket.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/164144
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 12:51 utc | 1
🙂 Sometimes impossible dreams are still worth dreaming. I dream that NATO powers come to their senses and choose peace. I also dream NATO dissolves, too.
But the world needs more than dreams. What can we do in our own lands? If politics is out, how to personally prepare to survive for further elite evil? Share a survival tip for the common people. 😀
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 26 2025 12:53 utc | 2
14 mins – few hours ago – further on #1 above
“Burevestnik” Tests Successful⚡️Pokrovsk & Kupyansk Fully Encircled🎯Military Summary For 2025.10.26📊 – YouTube
Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 26 2025 12:55 utc | 3
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 12:51 utc | 1
On military summary Dima estimated 5,000 troops in the Pokrovsk cauldron -31 battalions which works out to about 160 men per battalion which is paltry.
We , IMO, are witnessing the last of real resistance in the Uke army.
Posted by: canuk | Oct 26 2025 13:09 utc | 4
The Russians have informed the US about the Burevestnik test and the encirclements
🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇺🇦 We clearly convey President Putin’s position that only constructive and respectful dialogue with Russia will bring results — Kirill Dmitriev
“Any attempts to pressure Russia are simply pointless”
We have conveyed to our American colleagues information about the successful tests of the “Burevestnik” missile and the encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers near Kupyansk — Kirill Dmitriev
“It is extremely important that this information is conveyed directly to the leadership and key people in the US president’s administration,” said the special representative of the Russian president
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/164153
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 13:26 utc | 5
“encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian”
Isn’t that against Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out so that the enemy does not fight to the death?
Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 26 2025 13:38 utc | 6
“Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZoUfClkGWc
Else where info about a RU ultimatum was posted:
Leave by Monday.
Posted by: MAKK | Oct 26 2025 13:48 utc | 7
Re: Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 26 2025 13:38 utc | 6
“encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian”Isn’t that against Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out so that the enemy does not fight to the death?
Correct. The Russians ALWAYS leave a way out for a defending army to leave the battlefield.
It prevents the defending army from fighting to the death like cornered rats.
It’s a key part of Russian strategy.
Posted by: Julian | Oct 26 2025 13:49 utc | 8
Re: Posted by: MAKK | Oct 26 2025 13:48 utc | 7
“Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZoUfClkGWc Else where info about a RU ultimatum was posted:Leave by Monday.
Irrelevant. The Russians WILL NOT CLOSE this cauldron – they ALWAYS leave a way out for the defenders.
It saves fighting to the death against cornered rats.
It is the Russian way.
Posted by: Julian | Oct 26 2025 13:50 utc | 9
“encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian”Isn’t that against Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out so that the enemy does not fight to the death?
Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 26 2025 13:38 utc | 6
usually RF then leaves a way out, but not without cost.
things have been going steady with near 1.500 daily AFU casualties.
AFU cannot replace what it loses .
Things are advancing, where exactly may not always be what one expects but it’s the MoD that knows the ground and how they choose to play it.
For those who missed it, Marat’s latest
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/not-so-brief-frontline-report-october
Posted by: Newbie | Oct 26 2025 13:52 utc | 10
Putin offers MERCY to surrendering Ukrainian troops
As Russian forces have always done, will treat them according to intl. law
Despite Zelensky trying EVERYTHING to stop his soldiers from making the right choice
‘They are shot in the back, attacked by drones from above’
https://t.me/rtnews/117943
Note that in the video in the above link, Putin appears in military uniform. This is unusual, although not unprecedented. It is a signal.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 14:00 utc | 11
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 26 2025 12:53 utc | 2
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At home, public, non-violent assembly is the best and simplest course. The Blob will attempt to infect your assemblages, and the bolshies will take payments to provide the violence the Blob wants (They both seek power and wealth as we know, so they’re natural allies.).
Even squalidly corrupt governments will respond to peaceful mass assembly. We saw bits of this during the Plandemic. The Blob controls media, and elections are a purchased joke, so assembly is the only way to break through.
Posted by: seer | Oct 26 2025 14:01 utc | 12
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 26 2025 12:53 utc | 2
Start or join a mutual aid network. Join together with the regular people in your community and be each other’s support. We are all we have, when it really comes down to it.
Posted by: Caveman | Oct 26 2025 14:07 utc | 13
“encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian”Isn’t that against Sun Zu’s advice to always leave a way out so that the enemy does not fight to the death?
@ Norwegian #5 from RThttps://swentr.site//russia/626970-putin-visited-command-post-of-russian-forces/
The president also urged the commanders to “do everything” in their power to ensure the safety of the civilian population in the encircled areas, who he said Ukrainian forces are using as human shields.Putin also urged the army to continue the military operation “in accordance with the plan developed by the General Staff,” stressing that the safety of Russian service members must remain the top priority.
I think the way out is to hand themselves over to Russia troops. I doubt Russia is just dropping glide bombs on them.
Posted by: Michael Droy | Oct 26 2025 14:12 utc | 14
Posted by: MAKK | Oct 26 2025 13:48 utc | 7
Else where info about a RU ultimatum was posted:Leave by Monday.
https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/26_10_2025_pokrovsk_vsu_dano_dva_dnja_chtoby_ubezhat_ili_sdatsja_v_plen_karta_boev_na_ukraine_vazhnyj_proryv_v_kurilovku_16_video/60-1-0-16928
(1) Leave/surrender Pokrovsk and Mirnograd by Monday 27th Oct. or (2) face complete destruction of the encirclement. It’s because ukrops lost Rodinsky, north of Mirnograd, and from there the Russians took control of an intersection so there are no more supply roads to both Pokrovsk and Mirnograd.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 26 2025 14:19 utc | 15
@Michael Droy | Oct 26 2025 14:12 utc | 14
I think the way out is to hand themselves over to Russia troops. I doubt Russia is just dropping glide bombs on them.
Not if they surrender, no. But if they attempt to surrender, the bullets and bombs will arrive from behind their backs.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 14:25 utc | 16
Western media in the guise of a U.S. economics correspondent reporting for the Brit rag The Telegraph outlines how close the Kremlin is to a coup which will soon, very soon, unseat VVP and create a crisis in power transition, since “no known successors exist.”
Obviously the economics correspondent, Melissa Lawford, who spends quite a bit of time w/ the Atlantic Council, has never heard of Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, long thought to be a hand-picked VVP successor. And she has never heard of Andrey Belousov, the current Minister of Defense, who has also served as First Deputy Prime Minister; an economist by training, Belousov gets mentioned when the topic of succession arises.
Instead, Lawford insists that VVP feels anxiety about the new state of vulnerability within his government. Early in October, the FSB accused the exiled former Yukos oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky of attempting to mount a coup w/ 22 members of his Anti-War Committee, which Khodorkovsky established to protest the SMO.
Interviewed by Lawford in London, Khodorkovsky says he is innocent of any charges but that the charges exist at all “tells us that the Kremlin is being paranoid. Putin is looking for enemies to bolster his regime.”
Khodorkovsky claims Western sanctions are biting hard. “The growing technological backwardness is undeniable,” says Khodorkovsky. “Russia is becoming increasingly archaic, unable not only to produce innovations but even to adopt those of others. This is not very visible in the short term, but in 10 to 20 years it will lead to major problems.” This statement coming on the heels of the Russian military’s having unveiled the Burevestnik, an unlimited-range cruise missile able to evade air defense interceptors through elaborate flight patterns, distinct from typical ballistic missiles, is sheer absurdity.
Intense pressure will be essential if DJT truly wants to stop the war, Khodorkovsky further claims. “All the concessions that could have been offered to Putin have already been offered. It’s time for Trump to play the ‘bad cop’.”
Russia’s economic weakness may in fact encourage DJT to go further than these most recent sanctions on the oil industry, Khodorkovsky says: “Trump likes winners Now, it may be Putin who has no cards.”
Lawford’s article concludes by rehearsing all the usual fodder we’ve been fed lately about the state of affairs in Russia: long queues at the petrol stations; banking crises; a collapsing economy dependent on weapons production alone, looming deficit disasters, etc.
It’s Gen Kellogg-caliber reportage, uninsightful and reflective of so-called experts in the West who have no incentive to perform even the most basic of research into the very subject matter, Russia, over which they perseverate and to which they return again & again, as if unable to fend off a Repetition Compulsion.
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 26 2025 14:31 utc | 17
It is time for capitulation by the Ukraine regime.
The “coalition of the sane” starting with Hungary, Slovakia and Poland could close their borders and impose an arms embargo on Ukraine. Rather than prolonging the slaughter, they could demand a surrender.
The Budapest conference could focus on preserving Ukrainian statehood.
Elections are needed throughout Ukraine.
Posted by: Ricardo Herrera | Oct 26 2025 14:32 utc | 18
Shit head shapeshifters only have PR narratives left now. The absurdity that RF s one man! In his seventies and just that, stops Russia being balkanised, butchered, into so many juicy cuts, for their insane, unattainable hunger as their soon to be staked through the heart 1000 year Vampyre Ball is ended.
‘ — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 —
“A new military group will soon appear, and the task of this group will be to bring back home a very well-known city to everyone. As I have already said – very interesting days await us.” bez_retyshi 🇷🇺 TG What are your guesses? Sumy Kharkov Kherson? Or even Odessa?
Oct 26, 2025 · 6:11 AM UTC ‘
Place your bets!
I am saying Dnipro.
I’d like it be the Snotty Green Goblins Home Town by that can come last.
Ultimately the correct border should be what it was before the traitor Lenin handed over the vast little Russia regions in 1922 to his paymaster shapeshifter Banker Owners.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 14:55 utc | 19
“The “coalition of the sane” starting with Hungary, Slovakia and Poland could close their borders and impose an arms embargo on Ukraine. Rather than prolonging the slaughter, they could demand a surrender.”
Posted by: Ricardo Herrera | Oct 26 2025 14:32 utc | 18
I think it is more likely that if I wait patiently with Linus on Halloween I will be rewarded by the Coming of the Great Pumpkin.
However, I agree with your sentiment.
Posted by: canuk | Oct 26 2025 14:56 utc | 20
The encirclement of 10,000 Ukrainian troops (5k in the Pokrovsk pocket and another 5k further North) combined with now accumulated destruction of Ukraine’s energy grid and the failure of the EU to grab more cash to fund its war effort, leaves Ukraine at the point of complete collapse. Putin’s new weapon announcement maybe timed to keep the West out of it, even when collapse comes. All of this suggests that Russia wants to have Ukraine carved up into blocks in the coming months.
Let’s see what Poland decides to do. If Belarus enters, Poland will move in and then it’s game on.
Posted by: VtObserver | Oct 26 2025 14:58 utc | 21
What are your guesses? Sumy Kharkov Kherson? Or even Odessa?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 14:55 utc | 19—
First things first. Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, liberate Donetzk oblast. My guess is, the SMO will repeat the Russian advance of WW2. So: Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov – establish the security zone. After that, cross the Dnjepr, at multiple points.
Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Oct 26 2025 15:13 utc | 22
@ steel_porcupine | Oct 26 2025 14:31 utc | 17
So is this Melissa Lawford critter John Helmer in drag, or Gilbert Doctorow in drag?
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 26 2025 15:13 utc | 23
When I read about the encirclement of 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers, I almost wish that the user “Anonymous” would come back.
But only almost. 😁
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 26 2025 15:17 utc | 24
The rich like war, as they earn money and slaves (through more debts), while the poor die. One way to prevent that, and convince the Anglo superclass to back off from Russia : (1) an Hazelnut down Zuckerberg’s bunker in Hawaii (2) a message transmitted that Russia may consider offering a 1 million dollarbucks bounty (and a Russian passport) to anyone taking out from the gene pool (with proof) a US billionaire. Old wild wild west method, but Russia might get Nato to back off 5000 km (about 3000 miles in retarded units).
Posted by: Asian Frog | Oct 26 2025 15:17 utc | 25
Westliche Medien, getarnt als US-Wirtschaftskorrespondentin für die britische Zeitung The Telegraph, beschreiben, wie nahe der Kreml ein Putsch steht, der WVP schon sehr bald stürzen und eine Machtwechselkrise auslösen könnte, da „keine bekannten Nachfolger“ existieren.Geschrieben von: Ricardo Herrera | 26. Oktober 2025 14:32 UTC | 18…Ja da ist etwas dran.Aber anders als es dargestellt wird.Die Hartliner im Kreml gewinnen immer mehr Kraft und setzen einen Putin unter Druck, wenn man das so nennen darf.Die Bevölkerung Russlands bzw. in der Bevölkerung werden mehr Rufe laut „Egal Brudervolk“ gebogen und zeigt der NATO, wo die Grenze unserer Geduld liegt.
Posted by: Genesis | Oct 26 2025 15:20 utc | 26
Question about the new MOON
What kind of crappy editor is this?Is there anything better…
Posted by: Genesis | Oct 26 2025 15:22 utc | 27
Western media, disguised as a US economics correspondent for the British newspaper The Telegraph, describe how close the Kremlin is to a coup that could very soon overthrow the WVP and trigger a power transition crisis, since “no known successors exist.” Written by: Ricardo Herrera | October 26, 2025 14:32 UTC | 18…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Yes, there is some truth to this. But it’s not how it’s portrayed. The hardliners in the Kremlin are gaining more and more power and are putting Putin under pressure, if you can call it that. The people of Russia, or rather among the people, are increasingly being bent on shouting “Whatever, brother nation,” and are showing NATO where the limits of our patience lie.
Posted by: Genesis | Oct 26 2025 15:23 utc | 28
In Odesa, a family was unable to bury a relative: the funeral car heading to the morgue was stopped by the TCC staff.
The four men who were going to carry the coffin were mobilized directly from the hearse.
https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/25481
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 15:33 utc | 29
@Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 14:00 utc | 11
https://t.me/rtnews/117943 Note that in the video in the above link, Putin appears in military uniform. This is unusual, although not unprecedented. It is a signal.
And here is the confirmation
🇷🇺 🇷🇺 The hearing of Gerasimov’s report by the president in military uniform is not just a working meeting, but a demonstration of the cohesion of the command vertical.
It is a clear signal to external observers that Moscow is in a state of full combat readiness and makes decisions in real time. The visual emphasis on the uniform highlights the military nature and serves as a response to Western summits held in an atmosphere of political declarations without operational content.
Russia shows that troop management is conducted centrally, in combat mode, and without imitation of political control.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/167991
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 26 2025 15:38 utc | 30
seer@12……let’s see, if I were I charge and you ever so peacefully assembled, and I told you not to and you very peacefully refused……I’d not hose you down with cold water, nor would I fire rubber bullets at you, I wouldn’t even employ the riot police, I’d just freeze you bank account and those of your fellow assemblers…….rest assured though, I’d never bulldoze yer granny or your mommy’s house….
Cheers M
……still worth the individual effort though, and completely anonymous, safety first, guillotines are scary, each person can protest with the money the government issues for society to function……..it’s an effortless thing to just boycott……
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 26 2025 15:54 utc | 31
Cheap ukrop fascist gets hit by two drones, one that blinds him and the other blow his leg: “torniquette, torniquette”, “teeha teeha” (silence, silence). He yells feeling a lot of ‘bolna’. All for Western currency and values and shit.
https://ok.ru/video/9783861643904
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 26 2025 16:04 utc | 32
R2R: John Helmer: ‘The Budapest Debacle’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPicYSvWEpY
“The ‘4th Reich’ has lost, but it can’t afford to…”
Recommended.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 26 2025 16:22 utc | 33
Vladimir Lytkin, at Top War – RU, states what is perfectly obvious, this whole war [Crimean-War-2.0] is an English operation that uses the US like toilet paper. Please read the emphasis-mine point, the war can not conclude until England/ex-ukarainia is forcefully removed from the entirelty of the Black Sea Coast to the Dniester River:
Ukraine is governed by Britain
Military Review News – Vladimir Lytkin
Zelenskyy has placed his bets on Britain and continues to cling to London. The leader of the Kyiv junta no longer trusts any other European country, including France and Macron. This was stated by Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik. Zelenskyy chose the British as his master, flying to London for consultations and coordinating his decisions with British political and military elites. Many European politicians…have taken note of this.
Ukraine’s policy is determined by Britain, and as long as Zelenskyy is in power, the British will feel like masters of Ukraine. They [the British] have already staked out the Black Sea coast and are planning to build military bases there, intending to dominate the Black Sea . The British will defend Zelenskyy to the last and oppose his removal although, if necessary, the British themselves will remove Zelenskyy and install Zaluzhnyy
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 16:25 utc | 34
A shrine to Columbian mercenaries that are not sending more remittances by Western Union to their dirty poor families in Columbia: apt for viewers of all ages.
https://ok.ru/video/9712026192512
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Oct 26 2025 16:28 utc | 35
But the world needs more than dreams. What can we do in our own lands? If politics is out, how to personally prepare to survive for further elite evil? Share a survival tip for the common people. 😀
Posted by: titmouse | Oct 26 2025 12:53 utc | 2
I’ve got one: stick tight to groups of other like minded reliable workers. Don’t stray from your brothers into some forest where you’re just another sitting duck. Build an alternative power in your neighborhood that can seize control when needed. The collective strategy always beats anarchic individualism.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 16:33 utc | 36
Norwegian 29,
And those four men, out of deference to legalities, will be forced to don ex-ukrainian uniforms then, in a few weeks hence, they will be killed on the front lines by Russians or, shot for desertion by today’s Galicia’s Waffen SS should they attempt retreat or surrender.
All of this to the enthusiastic applause of those here who support the big Go-Slo/Attrition “strategy”. The only question is will the Waffen SS mockingly say to the four men; “those who are about to die salute you“.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 16:39 utc | 37
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 16:25 utc | 34
Excellent post, thanks.
Posted by: canuk | Oct 26 2025 16:41 utc | 38
Titmouse @ 2
Migrate from the city, they are un,-narural, and dying, they lead to a dependecy on our oppressors, buying food is an exploative con trick, food grows free and tbat is our birth right and wealtb.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 16:49 utc | 39
The Duran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBTch40AQk
“Battle for Pokrovsk nears its end…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 26 2025 16:57 utc | 40
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 16:39 utc | 37
WOW, concern , lol
Posted by: arby | Oct 26 2025 17:38 utc | 41
I disbelieve that there is a homegrown Russian coup to take down VVP and mere wetdream of gobalists hoping to carve up Russia which when ya think abt is the true ‘root cause’ and overarching issue
Posted by: star_dust | Oct 26 2025 17:43 utc | 42
@ titmouse, §2:
I´d recommend Neil Oliver interviewing Alex Krainer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xHwX1OXw
Posted by: John Marks | Oct 26 2025 17:44 utc | 43
So Starmer the English PM – hugged the Neo-Nazi Ukrainian dictator Zelensky, the other day – as they met outside 10 Downing street – not long ago, three Ukrainian rent boys burnt down property and cars belonging to him – the story was all but shutdown by the MSM.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 26 2025 17:56 utc | 45
titmouse @ 2
It’s not all doom and gloom, the 4th Reich was snuck on everyone over the last 30ys (arguably 80ys) they’ve purged all the sober academic, political, media voices of the Cold War era, through gerrymandering, restructuring, governing by decree, and outright fraud they have the put western electorates into a chock hold, but they haven’t knocked common sense out of people, looks like the Irish just broke free. Granted the Irish as a colonized people have a keener sense for bullshit but hopefully this will the little crack in the damn that grows and brings it all down.
I feel bad for this poor Connolly woman when she has to meet the likes of Kallas, Von der Leyen, Mette Frederiksen and the other EU airheads, maybe she will appoint Clare Daly in some function to the EU, to start bashing heads again, or if only to irk Frau Genocide:
Catherine Connolly, who condemns NATO’s policy toward Russia and opposes the militarization of Europe, has become President of Ireland.
Independent candidate Catherine Connolly won the Irish presidential election, receiving 63.4% of the vote against Heather Humphreys’s 29.5%.
She is pushing for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine.
Connolly condemned NATO’s “disgusting role” in advancing toward Russia’s borders.
She also opposes the militarization of Europe and the growing influence of the military-industrial complex.
“The military-industrial complex brings no peace. The billions earmarked to support it come at the expense of fighting poverty. This is madness, and we must call this madness out and find a different way,” she said.
“We are increasing military spending across Europe… Germany is rebuilding its economy through the military-industrial complex. But war is not the solution.”
This continues the trend of “non-systemic” candidates winning elections in Europe. The only way to stop them is through “administrative measures” or blatant fraud, as in the recent cases in Romania and Moldova.
While I share mrs. Connolly’s sentiment, saying that weapons and tanks “rebuild economies” is like saying that a stockpile of beer increases sobriety. Oh wait, if that beer is American, it may actually be a bad comparison.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/145935
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 26 2025 18:07 utc | 46
Looks like the US is carrying on with the sharing thing. The Euro “leaders” are getting ready to step in and replace Ukraine as the sacrificial proxy to continue to bleed Russia.
Posted by: arby | Oct 26 2025 18:13 utc | 48
Russia is going to have to take all of Ukraine and destroy Poland, Germany and England and partner with China to save Maduro’s Venezuela it expects to achieve its long term demand for guaranteed physical and financial security.
The USA and Israel will not allow Europe to surrender.. until there is no more Europe, no more UK, no more Venezuela.
Posted by: snake | Oct 26 2025 18:39 utc | 50
DunGroanin @ 19
“A new military group will soon appear, and the task of this group will be to bring back home a very well-known city to everyone. As I have already said – very interesting days await us.” bez_retyshi TG What are your guesses? Sumy Kharkov Kherson? Or even Odessa?
I’m not sure any of those cities expect Odessa would require a new military group. The British have again set their eyes on Odessa, more than eyes they are well in place, and Nikolaev. Odessa has become an existential threat to the RF, Russia will have to settle this crap with an iron fist, at whatever cost, Odessa will be garrisoned from attack from Romania/Moldovia, Hungary, Balkans and a rump Ukraine for the next century, Russia will control traffic from the Danube, that’s why there will be no cease fire, no stopping after the Donbas, no Korea style DMZ.
Unless Dnipro is a way to get that new military group in place to move south without rattling the sabers in DJT’s mug too rudely.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 26 2025 18:41 utc | 51
The Russians ALWAYS leave a way out for a defending army to leave the battlefield.Posted by: Julian | Oct 26 2025 13:49 utc | 8
How about Stalingrad during WW2?
Posted by: grunzt | Oct 26 2025 18:42 utc | 52
trapping 31 Ukrainian battalions inside the pocket
This is unlikely 31 Battalions, at start of the SMO Kiev’s military had around 72 battalions of first line ground forces. Maybe a typo.
Posted by: exile | Oct 26 2025 18:56 utc | 53
@ exile | Oct 26 2025 18:56 utc | 53
AFU has been forming new “battalions” like pancakes for years. Most of them are badly undermanned. Makes AFU hide their true loses better, I speculate.
Posted by: boneless | Oct 26 2025 19:03 utc | 54
will be to bring back home a very well-known city to everyone.
DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 14:55 utc | 19
If true is Kherson or Zap. Putin won’t move outside his borders again (because he previously ran faster than ‘muricans from Afgh, which is on a different continent than US), did not buffer anything yet and he only promised to respond to strikes deep in Russia. That’s all, no changes in the public speech, just tg rumors. To go in a different place than the occupied new regions (some day) just doesn’t seem probable.
Posted by: rk | Oct 26 2025 19:12 utc | 55
“A new military group will soon appear…”
Oh, and if you recall the very start of the SMO the groups were O – V – Z which is weird, because it was supposed to be groups A-Z-O-V, which isn’t weird, and likely planned well before the appropriation of name Azov by AFU Nazis. So, what happened to group A? My guess is it was supposed to be a marine landing on Odessa which was quickly cancelled. So, maybe they are reforming Group A? Doubt they will call it that, seeing how loaded the name Azov is now, I’m sure the best minds in the MoD are working through Scrabble words with o, v, and z in them.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 26 2025 19:18 utc | 56
rk @ 55
because he previously ran faster than ‘muricans from Afgh, which is on a different continent than US
Calling out your bullshit – the Russian had a bitch of a time in Afghanistan, like the Americans, but the Russians withdrew systematically, with military discipline and under total control throughout all of it.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 26 2025 19:24 utc | 57
Posted by: exile | Oct 26 2025 18:56 utc | 53
A battalion historically is regarded as anywhere between 100 – 400 people. As such, 31 battalions is 3100 to 12400 people. If you go with 30-40% TOE strength (most battalions are severely depleted) that would lead you somewhere in the middle. I guess it could be 6000-7000 people in the 31 battalions.
Either way it’s a catastrophe for Natostan. Let’s hope they can make as many as possible surrender.
Pokrovsk collapse and losing a good chunk of Ukraine’s Dnipro grouping slams the door WIDE OPEN to Pavlograd. Obviously it won’t happen in a week or even two months but the going should be easier compared to now with the Donbass fortresses left behind, and fortresses rare and whatever are there can be bypassed left and right.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 26 2025 19:46 utc | 58
Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 24th October 2025: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update
Posted by: The Busker | Oct 26 2025 19:58 utc | 59
A battalion can be anywhere between 300 – 1000
In text book terms
Posted by: Orson Cart | Oct 26 2025 20:51 utc | 60
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 26 2025 16:22 utc | 33
A very useful link. At the end Helmer nails his colours firmly to the mast. Set to last few seconds:-
https://youtu.be/bPicYSvWEpY?t=3601
Lascaris – “How do you think Russia will respond …”
Helmer – “Well, we’re at war. And we don’t give aid and comfort to the enemy.”
Helmer’s always been very much his own man. And he’s not Russian. Nevertheless, it’s now “We”. From other indications also, one gets the sense that in Moscow they’re closing ranks.
Posted by: English Outsider | Oct 26 2025 20:54 utc | 61
* I wasn’t being argumentative or trying to be snide btw
Peace
Posted by: Orson Cart | Oct 26 2025 20:58 utc | 62
“A battalion historically is regarded as anywhere between 100 – 400 people” – Unimperator 58
I’m guessing this is a typo, a platoon is four squads at~12 men, a company is four platoons so, ~ 120-180 men, a battalion is 4-6 companies….so, that’s ~480-1000 men
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 21:03 utc | 63
It’s Odessa and a land bridge or this SMO is a strategic failure.
Posted by: 5jumpchump | Oct 26 2025 21:07 utc | 64
Ok so i jus switched on bbc radeo news purly to moiter the enemy as i do.
I just cought the tail end of a 20 secound news item, re-Russia….
The Russians have just tested a new missile !
The west has monitered it.
The Russian’s claim it flew 8,000 miles.
I may of miss hered the distance. Make of it what you will.
Anyone wanna follow up ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 21:10 utc | 65
S. Brennan // 37
“And those four men, out of deference to legalities, will be forced to don ex-ukrainian uniforms then, in a few weeks hence, they will be killed on the front lines by Russians or, shot for desertion by today’s Galicia’s Waffen SS should they attempt retreat or surrender. All of this to the enthusiastic applause of those here who support the big Go-Slo/Attrition “strategy”.”
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Part of an attrition strategy is to force the local population to face the reality of their situation. It is, as Shakespeare wrote, “To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune [the abusive national Ukrainian government], or to take arms against a sea of troubles [getting snatched off the street by that abusive Ukrainian government to die at the front], and by opposing end them.”
Hamlet asked the question, “If you will end up dying on the front line, why not put up a fight to the death against the men who are trying to force you to the front line?” If you do not take responsibility for your own life and your own decisions, you will join Solzhenitsyn: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
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S. Brennan, you seem to think I should feel guilty that four men too pathetic to fight for their freedom ended up dead on the front line fighting for a corrupt government. I am unmoved. As John Stuart Mill wrote: “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
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Those four men had the responsibility to fight for themselves. They chose not to. Therefore, I feel no emotions regarding their choice. This is a war and all men in Ukraine face the decision – fight for their freedom or go to the front as a slave. Nobody, not me, not you, can make that decision for them. Regardless of whether they choose to be free or to be a slave, I will honor their decision and wish them good fortune as they die on the front.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Oct 26 2025 21:11 utc | 66
5chumpjump @ 64
Maybe….
But for which side is it a failure ? ha ha ha you negleted to say, ionstien. You may need to take time to think about it. Mr new name.
Hint… see my @ 65.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 21:21 utc | 67
Posted by: 5jumpchump | Oct 26 2025 21:07 utc | 64
Who are you to determine a failure or success?
SMO was purely a necessity with unlimited Nato expansion and attempt to murder Donbass population. The initial goals where to disrupt AFU ground attack on Donbass. This succeeded partially, but didn’t prevent AFU from using artillery and MLRS and missile fire on civilians in Donbass.
The expanded objective – Mariupol-Crimea land bridge. Removing AFU from entire Donbass.
Since then the objective expanded amid increasing capabilities. I don’t know whether ‘neutral’ Ukraine will be there, but if Ukraine can’t be neutral, then it makes sense to simply destroy all infrastructure in Ukraine so Nato can’t use it as an attack launchpad. Heck, even EU can’t keep its own infrastructure intact, so how can they help Ukraine?
In the wider pictures EU states demolished themselves to invest everything in Ukraine, and Russia for its part is demolishing everything EU physically invests in Ukraine. In my books that is a major win for Russia in causing mortal damage to EU and considering wider de-industrialization of EU states, a major loss for EU.
Ukraine is done and EU with it. Yes, they may be able to force mobilize and throw people into trenches which can be kept for a week here and a week there but other than that the country is a basket case.
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 26 2025 21:31 utc | 68
“…one gets the sense that in Moscow they’re closing ranks” – English Outsider 61
Concur. The “Go-Slo-tactic” has always been due to political considerations, it made no sense in any other context. Why the Russians thought they could “negotiate” a settlement is beyond me. The west will only negotiate when “Mr Fait Accompli” is breaking down their door. Put another way, when Trump entered the Oval Office on 22 Jan 2025 he should have found Mr Fait Accompli comfortably seated in the executive chair, Fait’s feet firmly planted on the desk….smoking away on a Cuban cigar, patiently awaiting the CIC’s arrival for the formality of his signature. Alas, it was not to be, an opportunity squandered because at some level Russians refuse to understand who really holds power in DC.
That’s not to say that Russians, at another level, don’t understand, they’re taught much in their schools, the Crimean War, the infamous Treaty of Paris, how the Westernmost states of Europe mobbed-up with the Ottomans…an Asiatic steppe people only too happy to re-enslave eastern Europe at…England & France’s behest. Until the west, particularly England, and in particular MI-6, [run by a direct decedent of an unpunished Galician Waffen SS commander], feels the sting of it’s “proxy war of choice” their can be no peace worth having. England’s upper-most-class went out of their way to add insult to injury with the appointment of Ms Blaise M. I’d be shocked if there wasn’t some Colonel in the Russian command structure advocating for Mr Hazel Tree to call on Ms Blaise M preferably, while she busied herself at headquarters. Then England would have it’s long needed “come to Jesus moment“. Now at that moment, you got to ask yourself, who holds the cards? For all their bravado, it sure the hell isn’t England…
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 22:06 utc | 69
I can confirm this missile test took place today.
The distance it traveled is 8,700 miles. It is nucular capable.
And as a further point, i’ll just mention…
An hour after i hered this first report. I listend to a longer radeo bbc news programe same channel, and nothing was mentioned.
That is signifcant. Censorship in my view.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 22:21 utc | 70
Nobody Special 66, does great job of outlining the serial-rapist “blame the victim” defense very well. I suggest those, who don’t know it all too well, go read it, that is, if you have the stomach for such things. If it sounds familiar to Americans it’s that’s because the 1960’s draft-dodgers, [not you Oldhippie], used this rationalization for letting the working-class shoulder the entire burden of the war…all the while, they safely made out like bandits.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 22:22 utc | 71
To add to Mark2 70’s post, the missile is nuclear powered, I don’t know it’s current true range but, one would suspect that fully developed it’s capable of circling the globe meaning…it could attack Russia’s enemies from any direction! It also allows Russia, depending on it’s per unit cost, to project it’s power across the globe at a moment’s notice. However, it’s not a game-changer if Russia continues to absorb direct blows upon it’s territory by England, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey and US.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 22:33 utc | 72
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 26 2025 21:03 utc | 63
Most 12 man squads went away when their taxi-like APC’s, that used to carry them morphed into the IFV’s of today, and, given the level of infantry casualties, I doubt the official TO&E exists for many units anyway.
Posted by: Milites | Oct 26 2025 22:40 utc | 73
S Brennan @ 72
Thanks for that aditional information.
All sides are calling it a “test”
I would suggest that the term demonstation would be much much more apt, given the timeing with Veneuzala.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 22:44 utc | 74
I had friends on both sides of the battle of Stalingrad. Certainly, they would remind you that Russian tactics are different from Soviet tactics.
Posted by: Merkin Scot | Oct 26 2025 22:57 utc | 75
Ракета Фламінго – є проблеми із фінансуванням, які зараз вирішуються – ZN.ua
“Fire Point now produces two or three Flamingo cruise missiles per day. The company plans to implement the further process of missile production according to the schedule, said Fire Point Chief Designer Denis Shtilerman in an interview ZN.
In production Ukrainian rocket “Flamingo” there was a technological problem related to the delay in funding from Ukraine’s partners. Now this issue is being resolved and the state order for the number of missiles established in the contract will be fulfilled, Said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy”v
The problem was with funding: Denis Shtilerman
The Corleones would be impressed. They are probably of the same tribe- zel, shtilerman and the corleones. And i dont mean italian
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 26 2025 22:59 utc | 76
Posted by: arby | Oct 26 2025 18:13 utc | 48
What do you mean bleed Russia? How is Russia going to bleed more? When they are mullering the natzios qt such a massive proportion?
VVP in his statement a few days ago clearly stated without notes to journalists the reality was just who is bleeding and will bleed more economically and if they are dumb enough to use long range weapons to escalate.
If people haven’t seen that here is a link it’s short (for him) and sharp but considered and confident by VVP.
It is as clear a message as he can make to our idiot tyrants.
Just like the last warning before the SMO.
‘Try fucking about more and you will find out instantly. We are ready’ – that’s what I’m hearing from the great man . Make up your own minds.
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Oct 24
🇷🇺 Putin Responds to Cancelled U.S. Summit and New Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to the cancellation of the planned Russia–U.S. summit and the latest wave of American and European sanctions. In a detailed statement, he clarified that the summit initiative originally came from Washington but was later postponed. Putin reiterated that dialogue is always preferable to confrontation and condemned the use of sanctions as a tool of political coercion, asserting that “no self-respecting nation makes decisions under pressure.”
Addressing the broader consequences, Putin highlighted Russia’s essential role in stabilizing the global energy market, warning that attempts to disrupt this balance would drive oil prices higher worldwide — including in the United States. Concluding his remarks, he affirmed Russia’s confidence and resilience, cautioning that any strike on Russian territory with Western long-range weapons would trigger a “very serious, if not stunning” response.
Oct 24, 2025 · 6:09 AM UTC ‘
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 23:02 utc | 77
“A complete lie and not the first lie.” Zelensky denied Putin’s words about the encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk
TV presenter Alla Mazur, citing Zelensky, said that this information is designed to impress the United States and “create the impression that Russia is winning.”
Зеленский подтвердил продвижение армии РФ в Покровске, но опроверг окружение ВСУ
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 26 2025 23:09 utc | 78
It is true that SOME of us westerners support the slomotion SMO which minimises RF casualties and attrits at the rate of 36 natzios/mercs/banderists/volunteers/forced conscripts snatched of the streets to every one RF volunteer, for the daily fate of Ukrainians.
Theose few of us probably also don’t believe ‘curseyoupooootin’ runs the whole operation as a one man band .
The to the last Ukrainian is a US planned and funded operation under cookies nudelman and her hubby kagan and the Ziofascists who own all the collective waster establishment, politicians and media, in Europe as well.
Ordinary Ukrainians should have access to enough weapons around now, to effectively resist the thuggish recruiters – as has been happening in some area with mobs who do it with their fists and kicks.
They should get to the Bankova and make their feelings clear. It’s their country that is at fault. Their oligarchs. Their MPs,their media .
Yes it’s us that are driving them on by believing our daily propaganda- we have realised that about Palestine but not yet about Ukraine and the cocaine addict snorting green goblin in his ever rising platform shoes.
I don’t want to see big arrows into waiting traps for the RF.
They really don’t need any more land or resources.
They just want to keep theirs.
The multipolar meets in a few days and ASEAN too.
They have told our wasters to do one with our banking system and fear of being sanctioned by our rules based tyranny.
It’s down to us ‘plebs’ to resist and revolt.
As happened a hundred years ago with general strikes and long marches to the seats of power.
It is our turn to come together at grass roots again to punch UP, not at each other, like three stooges.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 23:16 utc | 79
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 23:02 utc
AFAIK, Russia does not want a war, any war. The west wants to weaken Russia like they did Syria. In other words bleed Russia.
I’m not saying it will work but that is the plan.
Posted by: arby | Oct 26 2025 23:38 utc | 80
Posted by: Merkin Scot | Oct 26 2025 22:57 utc | 75
Not really. Soviet Post-War tactics (the operational concepts largely continue today) considered the operational encirclement of forces a legitimate aim, but WW2 had taught them such operations were fraught with risk and should only be contemplated when a number of factors had been considered. The SMO has strengthened that belief, with devolved ISR and its concomitant strike capabilities, boasting faster kill chains, significantly impacting the likely chance of this operational tactic succeeding.
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Oct 26 2025 22:59 utc | 76
2-3 a day, so a low-tech weapon, given US production of the ACM in ‘93 was scaled at 200 yearly, or 16 pm, (6 times slower than Ukraine).
Posted by: Milites | Oct 26 2025 23:41 utc | 81
It’s down to us ‘plebs’ to resist and revolt.
As happened a hundred years ago with general strikes and long marches to the seats of power.
It is our turn to come together at grass roots again to punch UP, not at each other, like three stooges.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 26 2025 23:16 utc | 79
Impossible to disagree with this. On what basis, do we unite? Race, gender, sexuality are all extremely divisive and thus encouraged by the ruling class. What unites millions who suffer under the rule of the Imperialist genocidal Oligarchy is that we all must work for a small wage or die on the street. We are all wage slaves. Only on that basis, will the movement you speak of be reborn in the western world. We must reassimilate the lost history of our class struggle in the 20th century and teach it to our children.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 23:49 utc | 82
English Outsider@61…..closing ranks and closing airports too, all of Moscow tonight, put all the war birds in the air, apparently your Britkrainian cousins are attacking Moscow. Mass drone thing…….
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 26 2025 23:55 utc | 83
Titmouse @ 2
Migrate from the city, they are un,-narural, and dying, they lead to a dependecy on our oppressors, buying food is an exploative con trick, food grows free and tbat is our birth right and wealtb.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 26 2025 16:49 utc | 39
Oh, and be sure not to ally with egoist elitists like old Mark here. He’ll turn cannibal on your ass when you run out of roots and berries to eat.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 23:58 utc | 84
“Most 12 man squads went away” – Milites 73
You’re free to conjecture as you please but, Russian sources say it’s still 9-12 men to a squad. I mean, it really depends on whats needed to execute a given mission, a recon squad is going to be a lot “lighter” than an artillery squad.
Just out of curiosity, ever hear the phrase “look it up”? I ask because, long before the internet was even a gleam in Langley’s eyes, parents across the globe were telling their kids to do just that. Anyhow, in any given army, active combat troops are NOT in the majority of soldiers serving their country. Drones may have changed warfare temporarily, just like automatic fire, aircraft, jets et al did but, like all technologies of war, there will be a countermeasure, as a soldier, as an engineer, as a taxpayer, as somebody whose lived a few years I’ve learned not to confuse a single data point with an eternal outcome…with one exception, one that every living being must face.
Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 27 2025 0:01 utc | 85
On Oct 23, 11:09 PM PDT, galaxy watching on top a mountain, I saw a “shooting star” parallel and center to the Milky Way go from one end of the sky to the other, from west to east… but it seemed slower than a shooting star. It was red, (the sky was smoky from forest fire), and never died out, just faded into the smoke over the horizon. I honestly half expected a nuclear flash from everett or bremerton. It left a lingering smoke trail that took about 15 minutes to dissipate.
When I got back, I read Hegseth had called an emergency meeting of 800 generals.
Today Putin announced a successful test, July 21.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:08 utc | 86
“SB” continuously claims “only russians” are dying at the front, and its all “slo-mos fault”.
1. I dont care about the ethnicity of who dies for Ukraine.
2. 5 million “russians” fled to russia, and over 300,000 have “deserted”.
3. they dont even have to “fight back” they can just escape.
So, again, another argument “SB” thinks is clever, is just total shit. As always, comparing the current REALITY to some FANSTASY campaign in his head where a hard-core scorched earth war wins easily and save lives somehow, all while avoiding killing all the “Russians” who have been “pressed into service” and all the “Russian” civilians he is so CONCERNED about.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:13 utc | 87
P.S. I gave my email, and am not happy about it. This website is prime hack target for demon hackers and all sorts of groups. And I have been especially weary about talking about the “shooting star” I saw.
But I have been checking every now and then, and because “SB” has been getting weaksauce pushback on his B.S. he really thinks he is selling some great chocolate, for weeks now.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:15 utc | 88
I do enjoy the discussion of tactics and strategy by people whose countries have never won a war.
Online, everyone is an expert.
And the actions of every nation are interpreted through a Western lens.
Breaking News-the Russians, Iranians, and Chinese are not Americans.
They do things differently for different reasons because they are civilizations and America is very young colony.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 27 2025 0:16 utc | 89
53/60 etc.
Probably confusion between battalions and brigades.
Posted by: Mark O | Oct 27 2025 0:17 utc | 90
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:08 utc | 86
from east to west, not west to east.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:17 utc | 91
UWDude @ 86
Time to start takeing iodine tablets. Mine are made from seaweed.
Also, check your prepping is up to date.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 0:18 utc | 92
Today Putin announced a successful test, July 21.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:08 utc | 86
Jesus, oct 21.
And I saw the shooting star *September* 23rd, I think, I dont know, no access to my journal ATM.
I am not on my own PC, and its weird set up, so sorry about all the mistakes, etc. No, I am not Mark2. And now that we have to give emails, I think it should prove Im not gruff either.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:22 utc | 93
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 23:49 utc | 82
Bloodlust, looting and vengeance for the torture we are experiencing at the behest of these fiends.
Worry about the new society after the ashes are cold.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:31 utc | 94
@ Posted by: arby | Oct 26 2025 23:38 utc | 80
That plan like any bully’s plan failed with the first smack in the chops in the opening round.
That plan to ‘bleed’ has failed with every winderwaffen and every escalation of sanctions.
It failed again and again and again …
That’s NOT a plan – unless wishful thinking is a plan.
Go to that link and play the video of the press interview.
The grasp Putin has of the facts are authoritative.
Even in terms of knowing the balance of oil supply and consumption!
It is a certainty that Russia is not ‘bleeding’ economically or in miltary capability or in terms of the Global majorities goodwill.
Where does that leave the Waste with its ‘Plan’ – we are in the ‘is that all you got?’ Reality? What we gonna do blow up the whole fucking world? For whom? Why? Because some few arsehole dynasts can’t get their wishful thinking?
They can die first. I’ll happily see the oreshniks and the even newer death from the skies hit them and then die happy that they will never rise again because humanity will survive – but only if they are exterminated.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 0:33 utc | 95
If you are snatched off the streets by TCC and hate the coup government of Ukraine:
1. You should have left in 2022 when Russia was in the Kiev zoo
But that was then, this is now.
Go along, play along, get recruited, wait for the surrender instruction leaflets, and plan your escape, and shoot to miss. Fighting the TCC officers just outs you as a Russian sympathizer or traitor, and will make life worse for you.
300,000 Ukrainian soldiers escaped, you can too.
If you arent trying or thinking about it, then you arent paying attention enough to the world around you for me to care about your life, russian or not.
Posted by: UWDude | Oct 27 2025 0:35 utc | 96
I’v no time for idoits especialy now, so i’l say good night.
Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 27 2025 0:37 utc | 97
2-3 a day, so a low-tech weapon, given US production of the ACM in ‘93 was scaled at 200 yearly, or 16 pm, (6 times slower than Ukraine).
Posted by: Milites | Oct 26 2025 23:41 utc | 81
The “Flamingo” is a mirage to claim that Taurus, Shadow Storm, and yes, even Tomahawk, attacks are not what they are. Its a PR Propaganda exercise to dupe the western MSM believing masses into thinking, again, that plucky Ukraine alone is fighting the bully Russia.
The problem with plausible deniability is that is required to be plausible. Unfortunately, to the masses it will sound plausible. And thats the western wonderwaffe that Russia cannot destroy on the battlefield.
How can Ukraine make these missiles with impunity anywhere inside Ukraine? Russia can’t take out a weapon manufacturing site that only exists in 10 second news snippets.
No doubt Zelensky offered the “Flamingo” cover story to Trump while begging for Tomahawks.
Posted by: eps | Oct 27 2025 0:45 utc | 98
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 26 2025 23:49 utc | 82
It’s a good question and point.
You have the answer and it’s the same as it was a hundred years ago when the super rich were getting even more so and the poor were starving and dying.
Austerity has been a political choice and imposition with trillions in magic money gone to QE and asset inflation and making the few into multi multi billionaires.
We have been cowered into submissiveness with Fear.
Of everything from the weather to the air (Covid) forced into our own little caves, deprived of society and gatherings through inflation and austerity and caged with soma teevee… but ONLY in the Waste – the rest of humanity 85% are still wholly human regardless of their relative wealth. Because their lot is getting better while ours is getting worse.
So yes the relative poverty we have now is the collective point of revolt.
The loss of our public services and safety nets for the US Pharma, medical, privatised utilities is a shock for us Europeans raised for several generations post war with these services free at the point of need !
Kids of 21 walking out of ‘further education’ with £60k student loan debts with no guaranteed career!
But the worst is the rewriting of history and our compliance in the fascist military and now state terror machinery unleashed upon us by our fake leadeship which has turned us into wild beasts , ‘I’m alright Jack’ devil take the hindmost mentality.
The fake liberal woke smugness ! That is not getting any traction with the ‘simple folk’ the majority.
No we don’t want transhuman men/women messing around in our little sons and daughters toilets and sports facilities.
No we don’t want to remove cash from our daily economic life.
No we don’t want to be shackled with imaginary carbon credit bullshit from every activity and purchase we undertake.
Such WEF type nonsense is not cutting any ice at the ‘base’.
Neither is fake outrage at a few little boat migrants encouraged to arrive with balanced by publicity being housed in high profile city hotels! To deliberately stir up xenophobia.
The bovver boys from EDL , Tommy or stinky fartrage – to keep us pliable.
Ireland just showed what happens in a free election. When a good politician is able to bypass the media monstering.
Because at heart most people know we are the same as most others.
Most of us are not fascists and we are never going to sieg heil them into high office even as we humour them in their pantomime.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 27 2025 0:46 utc | 99
awful avalanche from today – Ukraine War Day #1341: Hold Pokrovsk To The Last Man!
Posted by: james | Oct 27 2025 1:02 utc | 100