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Posted by: Jk | Feb 25 2026 17:45 utc | 3

B, feel free to delete if you don’t agree with reposting from end of last thread
 
Good morning barflies, a sub 1.100 AFU casualties day that would (with some other clues) mean the counter attacks lost their steam. Another clue would be the first map in fresh Marat showing that current LOC is at, or beyond, the february 3rd line (i.e. any losses recouped, advances made) https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-february-24th And after a week long pause (iran etc) simplicius goes back to ukraine (but missed yesterday’s anniversary) https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/as-russias-smo-heads-into-its-fifth  So my view is that confirmation of AFU failure was whitheld until yesterday… Might be  a coincidence, but the fr/uk nukes might also be another confirmation that the current operation is over… Thoughts?

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 25 2026 18:02 utc | 5

Hungary to Deploy Troops Against Potential ‘Ukrainian Attacks’
 
https://www.rt.com/news/633029-hungary-ukrainian-attacks-threat/
 
“Budapest has ordered units to guard critical infrastructure sites in areas bordering Ukraine amid the Druzhba oil pipeline standoff. Orban’s political director claimed that information available to the country’s authorities indicated that Kiev has been ‘preparing further actions aimed at disrupting the operations of Hungary’s energy system…”
 
 
Washington Warned Kiev After Strikes Hit US Oil Infrastructure – Envoy
 
https://www.rt.com/russia/633011-stefanishina-us-protest-kazakhstan/
 
“A Ukrainian drone attack which disrupted supplies of crude from Kazakhstan in November prompted censure, according to Ambassador Stefanishina. The US filed a formal protest with the Ukrainian government in response to its attack on a Russian port terminal which delivers oil from Kazakhstan, Kiev’s ambassador in Washington revealed…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 25 2026 18:29 utc | 7

UK Z Parliament today had a debate on Ukraine, well  one person said bojo was wrong there are no peaceful military persons, they are all armed, if they would be sent to Zukraine as “peacekeepers”. All I could bear to watch. Might be available on bbc iplayer if anyone interested.

Posted by: Jo | Feb 25 2026 18:48 utc | 9

Must watch.
 
Stanislav Krapivnik

Mark Sloboda: Is the nuclear football in play? The Anglo-Frank hail Mary suicide plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqbo8i5UeAU

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 25 2026 19:11 utc | 11

@Newbie 12
 
Is there a distinction between “soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces”  (a phrase quoted from post 12), and “Ukrainian soldiers”?  The first phrase could include soldiers from multiple nationalities that are part of the “Ukrainian armed forces”, while the second phrase could only include soldiers that are from Ukraine.

Posted by: Woke American | Feb 25 2026 19:32 utc | 13

Shootout @ O.K. Corral
The Bad vs the Evil Alliance
Israel has thrown its hat in the Kyiv corner of the ring. White House statement attack on Iran will be (partly) based on advice from Witkoff and Kushner Jr. … Russia 🇷🇺 is giving support to Cuba 🇨🇺 , Venezuela 🇻🇪 and the Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷.
Indeed the risk is spreading to a global confrontation US of A vs the Russian Federation. Will Xi Jinping just sit back and eat popcorn 🍿… all Arab States are wholly unreliable and may make a backdoor deal with the Zionists … Erdogan and Türkiye 🇹🇷 may be the overal winners as the plumes of war are lifted.

Posted by: Oui | Feb 25 2026 20:18 utc | 15

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 25 2026 19:26 utc | 12
 
Concerning the 1.100 vs 1.350 was a missing /late update day

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 25 2026 20:32 utc | 17

‼️🇷🇺👉🇺🇳🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🇫🇷🇪🇺 A draft appeal to the UN, the parliaments of France, England, and the European Parliament regarding the possibility of transferring nuclear weapons to Ukraine has been submitted to the State Duma, – Slutsky reported.
Viktor Orban stated that Hungary will strengthen the protection of energy facilities by sending armed forces to them:
🇭🇺🇷🇺👉🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 The “Friendship” oil pipeline is being blocked in Ukraine by the same people who blew up the “Nord Stream” pipeline, said Szijjártó.He considers it a disgrace that the investigation into the sabotage of the “Nord Stream” pipelines, which constituted an act of state terrorism, has still not been completed in EU countries. Moreover, some European leaders “celebrate criminals as heroes”.
🇩🇰🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 Denmark may open another production facility for Ukraine.The Danish Minister of Defense reports that they are considering the possibility of establishing production capacities on their territory for another Ukrainian company – Skyfall.
“We are now starting negotiations with the Ukrainian company Skyfall to create production in Denmark. Attracting strong Ukrainian defense companies to Denmark in cooperation with Danish industry will strengthen the security of both Denmark and Ukraine”
, he said.This company produces heavy drones Vampire, FPV drones Shrike, and interceptors P1-SUN.
 
Z and V
 
 

Posted by: Jo | Feb 25 2026 20:37 utc | 19

Zelensky confirmed London and Paris’s readiness to send a brigade of up to 5,000 troops to Ukraine.Moreover, he let slip (probably on purpose) that Kyiv had proposed to deploy a foreign contingent on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border – which in itself takes the discussion beyond the framework of “peacekeeping” rhetoric.
Z and V
 
🇱🇹🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 Lithuania will transfer 30 missiles for the RBS-70 MANPADS to Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of the Baltic republic reported.Also, Lithuanian leader Nausėda and Zelensky signed an agreement on the production of weapons for Ukraine in Lithuania.
 
Ukraine, 46,000 TCK employees are involved in rounding up people for the war against Russia – MP Razumkov.
Slavyangrad
‼️🇪🇺🇷🇺Russia is placing “Trojan horses” at military bases throughout Europe, – The Telegraph▪️European intelligence agencies see a security threat in Russian property abroad and are even afraid of Russian Orthodox Church temples, – writes the British Telegraph, citing officials from European intelligence agencies.▪️In Europe, there is concern that Russian representatives own real estate located near military and civilian facilities in the EU.▪️European special services fear that these facilities could be used as “Trojan horses”.It’s English media so odds of it being true are 1/100@Slavyangrad
Probably be internment soon for any peoples originally from Russia.
 
 

Posted by: Jo | Feb 25 2026 21:17 utc | 21

‼️🇷🇺👉🇺🇳🇬🇧🏴‍☠️🇫🇷🇪🇺 A draft appeal to the UN, the parliaments of France, England, and the European Parliament regarding the possibility of transferring nuclear weapons to Ukraine has been submitted to the State Duma, – Slutsky reported.
Posted by: Jo | Feb 25 2026 20:37 utc | 19

 
Pathetically weak once again.
 
You don’t issue appeals on such matters, you issue ultimatums and the strike.

Posted by: GM | Feb 25 2026 21:28 utc | 23

Has there ever been such gross mismanagement of an existential war?
 
https://t.me/yurasumy/26907
 

Energy War – Kyiv Has Passed Its Most Difficult Phase: Thoughts on…Judging by the statistics published daily by the LOSTARMOUR channel, the conditional supply of electricity to the regions of Ukraine under the Zelenskyy regime has not only stabilized but also increased significantly. While in January and early February it hovered around 35-45% (with a low of 23.8% on February 9), it has now risen significantly above 50% and, as of February 24, 2026, stands at over 73%.This means there’s more and more light on the other side of the front, and with spring approaching, we can say that Kyiv’s energy sector has passed its most difficult period this winter. Yes, we can still deal them painful blows, but we either haven’t succeeded in breaking their back, or… certain agreements were reached that led to this outcome. And these agreements haven’t been publicly announced.Let me remind you that it was on February 17-18 in Geneva that we and the enemy, brokered by the Americans, discussed, among other things, an energy ceasefire. And there were no comments on this matter following the meeting. Which, given the graphs provided, isalready thought-provoking. It will be interesting to look at the statistics of the enemy’s retaliatory strikes against our oil refineries by the end of the month (especially comparing the first and last parts). If such strikes ceased after, say, February 18, then… you can draw your own conclusions.

 
https://t.me/yurasumy/26909
 

Energy War – Kyiv Has Passed Its Most Difficult Phase: Thoughts on (2)…Well, continuing from the previous section and to understand what might happen next in this matter, just for information.The enemy isn’t waiting for our goodwill and is intensively preparing for the next energy battle. The speed with which it is building (thanks to European assistance, which is donating dozens of sets of equipment) small thermal power plants (including combined heat and power plants, to transfer the heat supply of large cities to them, thereby completely decentralizing both electricity and heat supply) is astounding.I believe that by the start of the new heating season, this work will be largely completed, and Kyiv will have at its disposal not only 5-6 GW of “decentralized installed capacity” (meaning the effectiveness of attacks on key substations will be significantly reduced), but will also become largely independent of attacks on its thermal power industry.And once he achieves this, if my assumptions are correct and some energy agreements were signed in Geneva, he’ll immediately withdraw from them and continue to hammer our oil refining and pumping stations for oil and gas exports.His only energy vulnerability could be natural gas supply, since all these new small plants are being converted to use it. This means we need to think right now about how we can respond to these challenges as soon as possible.

Posted by: GM | Feb 25 2026 21:31 utc | 25

I’m curious about something moral, ethical.
In the Panama papers, I understand that Putin is missing – although National Public Radio obsessively mentioned him over and over.
In the current Epstein horror, it seems he kept trying to meet or influence Putin – and failed completely. I also don’t notice figures in the government of China therein.  OTOH, there are plenty of references to Trump or Clinton and countless other prominent figures.  Isn’t that an interesting contrast?
Morality is a thin veneer, a coat of paint, a usual deception that is trotted out to justify whatever horror the elite wish to pursue.  They ruined the lives of Libyans because of a “duty to care” (Hillary). The new Axis starts to look superior.  I wish Russia well, but I think they might just be another example of Lee Kuan Yew or Paul Kagame.  A competent nationalist rather than a whole system
I am forced to wonder if China has developed “technology moral focus”.  Social compliance scores, security cameras everywhere, databases – that might gain them a huge advantage over the West.  A society run by engineers will be very different from a culture run by lawyers.. More than that, it might become frighteningly efficient. A nation can spend vast amounts, trying to keep people in line – without  trying not to wreck their initiative or freedom.  Maybe……China has figured this out. They are a kind of hybrid of governance.
 
 
 

Posted by: Eighthman | Feb 25 2026 21:45 utc | 27

And this Carlos Martel? If we repeat the same bad things over the citizens of the United States, what we gonna obtain doing the same bad behavior? 
 
Thanks God that Putin and his Generals are adults. If were for you, the emotional regret would be the destruction of the humanity. 
 
Thanks the inherent music that exist in our hearts that VVP is rational and able to think  in perspective, and with the clear thoughts of systematic humanity. And thanks God that exist those Individuals who has temper and empathy as the criteria of our existence.
 
 

Posted by: Yes | Feb 25 2026 21:55 utc | 29

In order to understand VVP you must understand that VVP not only is concerned with the existence of the Russian Federation. Those who think that VVP is a simple Jew who try to make the oligarchy earn money  are not viewing the general approach.
 
In the moment where 2022, February the RForces went to fight in Ucraniee, there was a total change in the Russian society. The Russian Federation was able, at the end of years of dominion, to be able to claim a Russian Society. Now, we gonna grow and let behind all the corrupt pseudo elites who were impending our development. 
 
This SVO has a purpose: make a modern Russia where this false elites gonna be out, meanwhile the people who has struggle make their path to learn how to be the real elites in the next years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Yes | Feb 25 2026 22:21 utc | 31

Destroy the United States or Israel, gonna make us better?
 
If you have clear that they are doing bad, why you would use the same instruments to make they apart? Would not be better figure out a form to get you, bully, a respect one? 
Those who thing that the only protocol to make a bully a person who is able to talk to you, is destroy his face, are the same. The bully, collective agent, must understand that is wrong to be a bully. And, then understand that to be a bully is be a child who fears the music.

Posted by: Yes | Feb 25 2026 22:55 utc | 33

What do we want?
 
Reproduction?
 
 
Nah. We want to be free of those people. The misery is that the human being hate the human being. BUT, we are not better than the same  humans who try to destroy this race. 
 
You must understand that the moment that you want to finish a human being, you are not different of those who try to be better than a child in Palestine. All our emotions must be to feel that: how is possible that we permit this genocide?
 
But, you do not want a similar genocide. You want life for all the consciousnesses humans. So, please, stop fomenting  the dead of our brothers. Considere their aggression like some thing that we must treat for the ours and not like a specific thing: we are bad because we are ignorant, not because we are whatever. The people is aggressive for multiple reasons.
 
Stop making constant judgments of value. For your all liv.
 
 
 
 
 
 
ours 

Posted by: Yes | Feb 25 2026 23:22 utc | 35

Posted by: Eighthman | Feb 25 2026 21:45 utc | 27
they take so long to release stuff so they can edit Russian names into the docs. but no one knows any Russian…
 
And there is no reason whatsoever why the West’s Epstein elite would even mention regularly one of the 2 or 3 most important world leaders? who’s at the center of…WW3? they must be up to something! it’s not like Putin’s in the news or anything, is it? 
 
Claims that people around Epstein were seeking contact with another public figure are, for starters, not per se true, they are just claims, and even if they are true, so what? “Epstein tried to email Putin.” ok?
 
beside, like Qaddafi, Saddam, Assad, etc., Putin has his own private porno dungeons. just like a good member of the ruling class should. complete with its own massage parlor.
 
I couldn’t even stomach reading the SOTU. how many times did ICE go to that poor Ukrainian woman’s house to threaten her to get her to raise the bloody corpse of her own kid in support of the genocidal crimes of a pederast elite? God what a sick country.
 
and donkeycrats, if we all sit down, and stay sit down like really stubborn jackasses, the whole shit show will collapse toute suite. thank you for showing us the way.

Posted by: duck n cover | Feb 25 2026 23:39 utc | 37

And Yes–
 I was also pleased to see the Cubans blast and kill the people in the American speed boat in Cuba’s territorial waters. 

Posted by: arby | Feb 25 2026 23:47 utc | 39

You don’t issue appeals on such matters, you issue ultimatums and the strike.
 
Posted by: GM | Feb 25 2026 21:28 utc | 23
 
######
 
The responsible way is to approach things calmly and coldly.
 
Freaking out as you claim they should scream of insecurity and immaturity.
 
The Global South, Africa in particular, is watching how Russia moves, very closely.
 
Russia will be fine.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 25 2026 23:50 utc | 41

Destroy the United States or Israel, gonna make us better?
Posted by: Yes | Feb 25 2026 22:55 utc | 33

People try to get their kids into the right schools so they can get into the right college to join the right fraternity to rub shoulders with the right alumni who can get them an advantage in the business world, right?
And fraternities like Skull & Bones have numerous high ranking people as alumni, Presidents and such, am I right? Certain schools and university clubs in the UK have similar connections, like Eton and the Royal family right? Thats all common knowledge, yes? And its correct to assume that other countries have the same thing, yes?
So its quite reasonable to believe that there are groups of people that through connections made in these sort of environments might use those connections to influence people and events to their own advantage, right? I mean a group of the richest people in the world meet together in Davos every year protected by the Swiss military and away from prying eyes and the media to discuss all sorts of things including what should happen in the world in the next 12 months, correct?
So, there couldnt possibly be someone even just one step above Presidents, Royalty and Captains of Industry doing the same thing, I mean thats just ridiculous, you know?
And to suggest that there might be GROUPS above the nation state level that so many think is the top rung of the ladder is downright crazy. Conspiracy theory nutjob territory. 

Posted by: eps | Feb 25 2026 23:52 utc | 43

Ukraine is very effective regarding damages per missile recently. Russia starts feeling the real pain. I wonder if flamingo strikes will soon escalate. If Ukraine is stockpiling them for sudden attack with large numbers. Russia is susceptible to wake up with pants down.

Posted by: aricyter | Feb 26 2026 1:20 utc | 45

What is going to be the timing? Apparently Trump just said to the cocaine addict of Ukraine their military really should leave the Donbass in a month or less. I wonder why. First I bet the West falsely believe that with such a deal Russia would then allow Euroboots on the ground. But even that idea would just be part of the reason for the specific time frame named.
 
Was Trump was briefed that -even if very unlikely- theoretically a collapse of the Bandera  could be a quick as two months? Or is the US or Europe really close to being out of money? Or is there another plan to attack Iran? Or some kind of global naval blockade attempt?
 
I don’t know. But timing-wise I did notice the chatter is now Mexico might not be hosting FIFA this summer. If the USA gets out of it, too. that might in their minds clear the summer for something – I mean for something nasty.  

Posted by: JustSomeOldGuy | Feb 26 2026 1:56 utc | 47

eps | Feb 25 2026 23:52 utc | 43
*** So, there couldnt possibly be someone even just one step above Presidents, Royalty and Captains of Industry doing the same thing, I mean thats just ridiculous, you know?And to suggest that there might be GROUPS above the nation state level that so many think is the top rung of the ladder is downright crazy. Conspiracy theory nutjob territory. ***
 
Notice the Guardian* is now test-floating a line that the avaricious little dears at the psychopathic up-front top were the real exploited victims of a very naughty cunning man called Epstein (who is of course now safely retired, or “dead” as the Establishment prefers to claim).
 
If anyone is put on trial for serious Epstein related crines, will that be a line of ‘excuse’ their legals will take?
 
* Quite typical conduct for the CIA/MI5 /MI6 voyeuristic-vampire house journal of liberal hypocrisy, wealthy decadence and celeb pimping.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 26 2026 2:39 utc | 49

i can’t say i have missed shadowbanned.. at least they are consistent..

Posted by: james | Feb 26 2026 4:24 utc | 51

Thinking sugar and spice and everything nice thoughts for those who seek peace in this region. May the loving people throughout there finally have victory against the devilish private equity dynastic exploiters. 😀 No need to support, acquiesce, or tolerate evil — no need to be the tool of the mastermind — choose disengagement and self-defense.

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 26 2026 5:26 utc | 53

Yep, Shadowbanned is back among us

Posted by: Night Tripper | Feb 26 2026 5:49 utc | 55

looks to me like Russian reluctance is about to lose its war in Ukraine.  Russia has been deprived of exporting its oil and gas, its internal industries and its people’s infrastructure are being depleted one after the other..  
The rise of Putin after the 1991 collapse has many similar characteristics to  the rise of Napoleon after the French revolution.. Rothschild enabled Napoleon? 

Posted by: snake | Feb 26 2026 7:15 utc | 57

Posted by GM @ 25..  small thermal power plants (including combined heat and power plants, to transfer the heat supply of large cities to them, thereby completely decentralizing both electricity and heat supply) is astounding.
what do these small thermal power plants look like?  How much land space do they take up.. Do they need a source of water or other resource near by to their installations?   who makes these power plants ? what source creates the heat? 

Posted by: snake | Feb 26 2026 7:25 utc | 59

Re: small thermal power plants ?
 
Are usually 20-100 MW Natural Gas Power Plants.  There are about 10 global players. Been around for decades. Solar Turbines is a US company that is fairly typical of the OEMs. 

Posted by: exile | Feb 26 2026 7:50 utc | 61

The BRICS will remain, but not as economical block but as a parallel economy structure with its’ parallel payment methods and accounting, insurance and book keeping means. There is no way with some thoroughly shitted and fucked up African country with an IQ of 70 will have any meaningful contribution to anything. The same holds for India and Brasilia who always will remain at the rock bottom no matter what.

Posted by: Catilina | Feb 26 2026 8:41 utc | 63

If they would attack a NATO Country or sink the British Fleet as you suggested, we would be in World War 3  
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Feb 26 2026 7:31 utc | 61

 
So NATO can bomb Russia 24/7, but Russia cannot bomb NATO because then NATO would start bombing Russia? Brilliant logic…

Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 9:00 utc | 65

RUAF recon-strike complex seems to be very functional along Haichur and Vovcha rivers and costing AFU a lot of elite troops (usually nazi affiliated) in these attacks.
 
The western MSM is making a lot of noise about this ‘advance’ but here is the reality – all these advance teams are eliminated and afterwards any territorial ‘loss’ (not strongpoints, but gaps in the fields and treelines) will be reversed, advance toward Orekhov and the axis north of Orekhov will continue.
https://southfront.press/ukraine-is-losing-elite-troops-mercenaries-in-zaporizhzhia-videos/

Posted by: unimperator | Feb 26 2026 9:13 utc | 67

Read one GM post, and you have read them all.

Posted by: Verdant | Feb 26 2026 9:26 utc | 69

Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 26 2026 9:48 utc | 71
 
I don’t think the Russians are that ambitious. I believe they’re taking a quantitative approach.
 
Reducing the size and appeal of Nazism in their neighborhood to ensure it has no chance of influencing the state for decades.
 
If there aren’t many people to feed on it, Nazism will disappear on its own over time.
 
The same goes, I think, for the threat posed by NATO: reducing their capabilities to the point where they can no longer be a threat for decades.
 
And IMHO they’re on the right track.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 26 2026 10:00 utc | 71

FOUR MORE YEARS and VICTORY will finally be OURS!!!

Posted by: Noam A Larkey | Feb 26 2026 11:11 utc | 73

Re: Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 26 2026 1:27 utc | 46

Borzzikman is reporting via Sergei Lebedev (coordinator of the Russian partisan underground in Ukraine) that there was a radiological event in Odessa. People are suspecting the construction of a dirty bomb by the Nazis. The West is getting brazen in Ukraine and in Iran. All talk of negotiations is just that. Talk.

 
 
 
Bonkersman just repeating sensationalist made up rubbish as per usual.
 
Where is the Russian report on this – especially after what they’ve just claimed?

Posted by: Julian | Feb 26 2026 11:23 utc | 75

Posted by: Julian | Feb 26 2026 11:31 utc | 77
 
Don’t want to interrupt your nafo circlejerk, but ukraine must be getting fucked quite hard, when Netflix slop level sarcasm is the only way you can cope. How boring and predictable, though not unexpected.
 
A list of all places that got hit last night, more for you to snivel about.

• 00:05 Mena, Chernigov Oblast – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 00:30-00:35 Poltava – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 01:40 Poltava – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 03:35 Nikolaev and Bakhmach, Chernigov Oblast – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 03:55-04:35 Zaporozhye – explosions. Geraniums/BM-35.• 04:40 Kharkov and Zaporozhye – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 04:55 Kiev, Kharkov, and the environs of Zaporozhye – explosions. Iskander-M.• 05:04 Kharkov – explosion. Iskander-M.• 05:05 Zaporozhye – explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.• 05:08 Kiev environs – explosions. Iskander-M.• 05:13 Kiev region – explosions. Zircons. PS-750.• 05:20 Kharkov and Zaporozhye – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 05:35-05:40 Kharkov – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 05:55 Cherkasy environs, Kiev, and Kharkov – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 06:04 Zaporozhye – explosions. OTRK.• 06:10 Brovary, Kiev region – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 06:25 Kiev – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 06:35 Brovary, Kiev Oblast – explosions. Geraniums/Gerberas.• 07:15 Kiev Oblast – explosions. X-101. Explosions occurred near the PS 750 “Kievska” substation.• 07:16 Kiev outskirts – explosions. Cruise missiles.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/199436

Posted by: pinche | Feb 26 2026 11:41 utc | 77

Russian attack on energy infrastructure are not precise or lack power. You can check that easily, just go to https://waqi.info/#/c/50.539/30.507/9.8z
and you can see that Ukro meteorological network still works, so all parts of Ukraine have power.
 
 
Posted by: simon | Feb 26 2026 11:01 utc | 73
 
 
You can see that average power in Ukraine is 70%  with 100% in most of the western regions. In Kiev city it is only 57% and in most of the key regions of conflict ( Sumy,Dnepropetrovsk Karkov etc) it is 50% and below. That shows that the strikes are very successful and will and are clearly harming the Ukrainian war effort ( the entire reason for the energy strikes) in the most important Oblast plus Kiev
 
The main reason for the increase anyway is reduced demand because the weather improving

Posted by: Winston | Feb 26 2026 11:52 utc | 79

https://johnhelmer.net/the-std-problem/#more-93503
Latest John Helmer, very grim situation 

Posted by: simon | Feb 26 2026 11:56 utc | 81

https://johnhelmer.net/the-std-problem/#more-93503Latest John Helmer, very grim situation 
Posted by: simon | Feb 26 2026 11:56 utc | 82

 
Grim indeed:
 

the Ukrainians will take a Trump guarantee of security and we are OK with it. 

 
This is total Russian capitulation.

Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 12:39 utc | 83

https://t.me/i_strelkov_2023/2540
 

Igor Strelkov on the results of four years of the Special Military Operation.Today officially marks the fourth anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (although according to some sources, it began two days earlier, but was announced to begin on February 24, 2022).We arrived at this significant date with extremely negative results . Just the day before, the enemy hit one of the workshops of the Votkinsk Mechanical Plant, which produces our missiles, with a Flamingo missile. The enemy launched a massive attack on the Krasnodar Territory. About five days ago, there was a massive attack on Crimea.In fact, the enemy is shelling our territory with British missiles under their own name, and we pretend that everything is as it should be.On the front, our “rapid advance” is, as I already mentioned, approximately 19.5 meters per day in the Zaporizhzhia direction. And in other directions, too, things can’t be said to be going well. Kupyansk has been taken and surrendered for the second time (or almost).In short, we’ve reached a situation that’s significantly worse than it was four years ago, in terms of our prospects for victory.Today, I happened to catch a glimpse of our leader’s speech on television at an FSB board meeting, and if you ignore the numerous “uh,” “mm,” and “uh”s that took up a significant portion of his speech, not from a written document, I remember hearing again, if I’m not mistaken, the phrase “slow down the peace process.” From this, I conclude that even four years after the start of the Second World War, after Istanbul-1, after Istanbul-2, after the “spirit of Anchorage,” there’s no understanding in Moscow that a war of annihilation is being waged against us. They refuse to accept it.This means the war will continue in the same format as it is now, with no prospect of victory and in the hope that sooner or later the enemy will wear itself out.In reality, Russia and Ukraine are being mutually exhausted at the expense of Russian lives on both sides, at the expense of the industries of both Ukraine and Russia. Meanwhile, the main warring parties on the other side have not yet entered the fray.At one time, the meme “Russia didn’t show up for the war” was popular; this applied to Crimea and Donbas. Now, the same can be said with much greater justification about the United States, Britain, France, and all NATO countries. They haven’t yet shown up for war, but they are actively preparing for it. Actively, but unhurriedly, because we are giving them time to calmly prepare for war, to build up their military industry, to stockpile weapons and ammunition, and to train their armies, which are in a very dire state. We are giving them all this time. It’s all very bad; that much is already clear.So, unfortunately, there’s nothing to congratulate. We can only congratulate our beloved leaders who brought the situation to this point: the leadership of the General Staff, the former leadership of the Ministry of Defense, the leadership of the Federal Security Service, and other agencies responsible for the preparation, including intelligence, of this so-called Special Military Operation.But the main thanks, of course, go to our Supreme Commander-in-Chief, who demonstrated an amazing leadership style of “one step forward, two steps back, a jump in place, and then one step forward, two steps back.” That’s not how you fight—that’s how you lose wars.Our prospects, unfortunately, are bleak.

Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 12:45 utc | 85

Slow day at 1.115 AFU casualties
 
https://tass.com/politics/2092201
 
Fresh marat (mainly kharkiv)
 
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-february-25th

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 26 2026 13:53 utc | 87

#rk
The US has approx. 500 Military bases around the world. China and Russia have  just a few. They cannot project Naval power across the globe as the US is able to. But that does not mean that the US is invincible -quite the opposite. Why is Trump so reluctant to start an Attack on Iran? Probably because the US fears another Middle Eastern War it cannot win. Unlike Iraq which was isolated and defenseless, Iran is armed to its teeth and China, Russia and North Korea are sitting on the sidelines to step in like they did in Vietnam. Is The US able to continue its Proxy war in Ukraine and fight an all-out war against Iran at the same time? I don‘t think so. 
By the way: I don‘t know what MAGA bullshit you‘re Talking about. I am not even an American. 

Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Feb 26 2026 14:10 utc | 89

Scott Ritter today spilling the beans on Putin’s grand treason:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp-IIzYlDA

Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 14:22 utc | 91

GM, I agree with you partly that:
– Russia’s slo-mo is winning the battle but risking losing the war.  Putin should take out the supply links and stop sending resources west.  (What you wanted immediately.)
– R and C have not stood by their allies.  “To be their friend” is starting to look unsustainable.
– BRICS might end up as “CS” or “C”.  Lula blocking VZ tells me Brazil is owned. EU trade deal with Mercosur is “Monroe by way of Brussels”.  India does not look reliable.  If R betrays C, then all those R “wins” in the Sahel flip over the to the West.
– C might regret not placing boots on the ground to defend its supply chain.  They better invent fusion power soon.
– C is an engineering and industrial powerhouse.  But the west fights primarily with corruption.  In China, I fear the rich might like to recreate society to suit them and might make two many foreign friends.
 
Will Putin surprise us?  In one comment ages ago on Simplicius, you admitted a miniscule possibility he was buying time to build a substation inventory of their various new nuclear weapon designs before seriously escalating.  I’m hoping for that inside inside inside straight.

Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 26 2026 14:29 utc | 93

Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 26 2026 14:29 utc | 95
 
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What if all or most of your conclusions are incorrect?
 
What if Russia and China are inseparable?
 
The idea that there is a wedge between them is IMO a Western cope. I have not seen evidence of that at all.
 
Russia is operating on many fronts besides Ukraine.
 
Very few know that Russia has created a new energy development legal regime with Venezuela before Maduro was kidnapped.
 
Very few know that Russia is assisting Yemen.
 
Just like very few know that China is the military patron of Egypt now.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 26 2026 14:44 utc | 95

The Duran: Willy OAM
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4WIE27qxjg
 
Alexander Mercouris, Alex Christoforou and Willy OAM, analyze and discuss.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 26 2026 15:39 utc | 97

I wish he wasn’t. Nobody on god’s green earth wants the demise of the Empire of Lies more than myself. But while everybody has proclaimed his genius, I have not seen it. Now, more people are being forced to notice. In the end, reality always asserts itself because actions speak louder than words. 
Posted by: Maverick | Feb 26 2026 15:39 utc | 98

 
September 2022. The Ukro-NATO-Nazi offensive begins. Thousands of ethnically Russian people who were promised Russia is there to stay are fleeing from eastern Kharkov towards Belgorod to save their lives. Lada 2107s packed with people’s belonings are crossing from Volchansk towards Shebekino under fire. Not everyone made it though — we got a lot of very gruesome videos of rapes and murders which the Banderites filmed and proudly posted on the internet themselves, and later on mass graves were discovered as some of the land was recovered.
 
What does Putin do?
 
First, he holds a large-scale military exercise in the Far East, with 50,000 men and all the gear. While the lines in Kharkov had barely anyone holding them and collapsed.
 
Then he went back to Moscow, and his top priority appeared to be the dedication of a massive new Ferris wheel. 
 
That was the breaking point for me. 
 
Already the events around April 1st 2022 — Istanbul, the goodwill gestures, etc. — were scandalous enough, but the Russian army was still advancing after that and there was serious mismatch in the power balance because the West had not gotten involved heavily into the war yet, so we knew during those months that any moment Russia could take care of this problem, as long as it decided to do so.
 
But the sight of Putin celebrating a fucking Ferris wheel while the Ukro-Nazi bashibozuk was raping and pillaging the people he was supposed to protect, and he clearly couldn’t be bothered by the whole thing made it clear that we have a huge problem here. 
 
Then we got another 3.5 years of more of the same.
 
And yet there are still true believers in the cult…

Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 15:49 utc | 99