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February 25, 2026
Ukraine Open Thread 2026-047
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Is the UK and France and the IDF capable of smuggling a tactical nuclear device into the Ukraine for use by the Ukronazi regime?
Absolutely…….the IDF has over 245 nuclear tactical devices all outside any oversight. Would Bibi use one or more of these devices to save the Zionist neo nazi regime in Kieve? Yes…………..
Since the UAF lines are collapsing all over the front…….this irresponsible action could come at any time. Is RF prepared for this?
The time for a Big Arrow has arrived, destroy the neo nazi government now, before its too late.
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 27 2026 3:44 utc | 201
Belgorod after the strike: 60,000 residents without power.
The city experienced another powerful missile attack overnight, again hitting its energy infrastructure.
As of this morning, nearly 60,000 people are without power. However, as Governor Gladkov reported, kindergartens and schools will remain open. All have been switched to backup power.
“We have made and continue to make every effort to restore electricity, heat, and water to our homes,” the regional governor emphasized.
Read about the heroic efforts of Belgorod power workers, literally working under fire, on my channel on MAX. And subscribe!
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 6:23 utc | 202
Do any of you have a clear idea of how Russia will reply if Ukraine is allowed by the west to attack Russia with a nuke. Will they attack the western culprits or only Ukraine?
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 27 2026 7:35 utc | 203
The AFU held salient south of Konstantinovka completely collapsed, tightening RUAF encirclement and penetration of the city. No doubt destroying the dam north of the city had some influence in it.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 7:52 utc | 204
Tweet from Dominic Cummings – now estranged former advisor to BOJO on the Ukraine situation
“Reminder 4 years in.
I said at the start yookay/NATO/EU UKR ‘policy’ wd be a disaster & China wd be the big winner. 99.9% of the SW1 ecosystem swallowed & generated bullshit propaganda.
Every big aspect of official claims has been bullshit. The old media has churned out millions of words that, if you look back at them, show a totally delusional picture of the war.
The ‘expert’ analytical community has been at least as embarrassing as the public health ‘experts’ in covid who were much worse than supermodel Caprice.
‘Russia’s about to run out of everything’. NATO ran out. ‘Russia’s about to collapse’. Russia advances. ‘The UKR counteroffensive is a genius success.’ Every UKR counteroffensive has failed (except as Twitter campaign case studies: ‘strategic eyewash for fools’). ‘More sanctions will collapse the Russian economy.’ More sanctions & energy policy have collapsed EUROPE’S industrial production, pushed econ abroad, and – tragi-comedy – empowered the precise fringe parties the old regime is most frightened of.
The farce of our sanctions means we buy Russian stuff at inflated prices via third party countries while claiming ‘whatever it takes’. Outside NATO they laugh at us and take our money. ‘Putin blew up the pipeline.’ Me at the time: this makes no sense. ‘Putin stooge!’ Now? The CIA has briefed the NYT and Der Spiegel it was UKR which blew up the pipeline. Poland says ‘good!’ SW1 NPCs do narrative whiplash and switch instantly to the new line.
‘NATO is strengthening!’ NATO credibility is shattered, they’re reduced to farcical scenes of sending a handful of troops as tripwires to *Greenland* then bringing them home in panic. ‘We will reform procurement!’ Procurement and MoD are an even bigger and more corrupt shitshow than before 2022. ‘
The world will support democracy.’ The world outside the NATO media zone think we are dangerous morons who’ve shot ourselves in both feet. We’ve totally lost the argument on UKR outside regime media. ‘China will support us!’ Remember this from the charlatans like Phillips Obrien?! It did not need Sun Tzu to figure out China could get paid inflated prices by Russia to blow our stuff up for free while sending special forces embeds to watch all our systems and take the lessons home.
Meanwhile UK SF who have observed the UKR battle explain in Whitehall what’s happening with drones and if the British Army shows up as they are now and as they train now they will be vapourised, and are told by bosses – shut up, don’t talk about the drones, we can’t disrupt the budgets and procurement, MORE BIGGER TANKS, MORE TO BaE! (where they’ll be going for their next job having negotiated duff contracts). ‘As long as it takes, whatever it takes, we’re serious!’. Reality: parts of the MoD and Cabinet Office are waging lawfare against British Special Forces, sending cops to arrest SAS as they get off choppers post-mission in Syria etc, opening up inquests to keep J Powell’s friends in the IRA happy, demonstrating to the entire world the profound lack of seriousness and moral rot of our old regime.
Yookay has become a global meme. Our regime has made us a global laughing stock. Our friends pity us. They watch Tories and Labour cover up the grooming gangs and Starmer claim it’s a ‘far right conspiracy theory’ and ‘the real story is Elon’s tweets’. Then run to Kiev and shove billions more at Zelensky’s mafia. On and on and on. Total and utter failure from the entire SW1 ecosystem.
Not ONE official figure has been able to set out an ends-ways-means document which makes sense. NATO has no strategy. The war has failed like most disastrous wars because the politicians could not define *political ends* that make sense. Even more retarded, demonstrating again our slide to uselessness, our regime repeatedly said it’s ‘up to Ukraine to define the ends’ — one of the most corrupt countries on earth run by a Twitter-savvy TV star — to define the political ends of the war! So the mafia-KGB regime in Kiev has been given the role of defining the political goals of the war we are paying for!! Then our MPs are ‘shocked’ our cash turns up in gold toilets and Bugattis in the south of France.
The MoD ‘strategy’ is another farce which has already imploded in fraudulent budgets and HMT/MoD infighting. They can’t publish an equipment plan without exposing more lies and failure and dodgy accounting. MoD can’t even keep the vast nuclear shitshow secret any more, their best ally here is our MPs have no interest in defence and won’t insist on the truth from the MoD — and the TENS of billions in hidden costs on yellow paper which is cannibalising the conventional budgets. SW1 memed themselves into a war with Twitter hysterics then expected Russia to collapse out of shame because the talented TV guy was way better on Twitter than the boomers running Russian social media.
West politicians trained themselves to think social media bullshit was reality because of the farce OUR politics has become. They’re learning the hard way – the rest of the world hasn’t followed our cultural trajectory. They’ve wrecked another country, we’ll be paying for decades in 100 ways, and they can’t face their abject failure so now Europe just sabotages peace discussions and encourages the TV guy to keep playing at Churchill while the senior people wait to leave their jobs then blame successors for not trying hard enough, ‘we could have won if only we’d been prepared to pretend nuclear war is impossible!’ – after which they’ll scam millions in ‘reconstruction’ funds from Europe’s taxpayers who will get screwed again. Monumental folly, monumental failure – reflecting a rotten poisonous political class sitting in pathological institutions across the west which has tried to pretend a political culture which has deliberately broken their own borders can and should fix the borders of one of the most corrupt places on earth
https://x.com/Dominic2306/status/2026936366961996245
Posted by: aslangeo | Feb 27 2026 8:02 utc | 205
Regarding Aslangeo in comment 209.
Pity Dominic Cummings ruined his post by idiotically referring to Zelensky as the “talented guy on twitter.”
He has no talent. He’s just an idiotic shyster. Russians who have watched him for decades find his videos utterly unconvincing and make funny him as a narcoman. It’d inconceivable that anybody could be motivated to “defend ” for him.
NATO psyop operations deserve plenty credit
Posted by: Winston | Feb 27 2026 8:16 utc | 206
Konstantinovka The SLAUGHTER continues Infantry defeat OF 15 men and 4 APCs Scouts of 6th division exposed the enemy infantry & AIR CAVALRY came, the “birds”, They hid in holes but they found 4 shelters at once. The result of the work of the UAVs: Total destruction!
https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/2027180524192538724
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 8:22 utc | 207
Posted by: Eighthman | Feb 26 2026 23:19 utc | 193
“I have to limit my viewing of You Tube. […] a tsunami of utterly false videos that directly contradict whatever aspect of reality about Ukraine is current. […]”
My current favourite is a kill ratio of 25:1 in favour of the Ukraine, reported on yesterday’s “Ukraine the Latest” podcast. The claim comes from an article in the Telegraph, a main stream publication. Propaganda is in overdrive, and not only on YouTube.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Feb 27 2026 8:42 utc | 208
RE Winston’s comment 210
I agree about the Russian view of Z, but Z is not trying to appeal to the Russians or even the more sensible portion of his own country
He is appealing to the leaders and opinion formers in the west , and lets be fair he has been bloody good at it , sowing in fertile ground by focussing on established prejudices and amplified by the Mighty Wurlitzer . Although his recent behaviour is grating with some
Most people don’t think critically , at least initially and swallow whatever tastes good for them, however eventually facts will out and when the narrative is no longer supported by actuality people do start asking questions . I feel that this is just starting to happen which is why the establishment are doubling down on shutting down any alternative information.
Posted by: aslangeo | Feb 27 2026 8:44 utc | 209
Posted by: tobias cole | Feb 27 2026 3:44 utc | 205
Is the UK and France and the IDF capable of smuggling a tactical nuclear device into the Ukraine for use by the Ukronazi regime? Absolutely…….the IDF has over 245 nuclear tactical devices all outside any oversight. Would Bibi use one or more of these devices to save the Zionist neo nazi regime in Kieve? Yes………….. Since the UAF lines are collapsing all over the front…….this irresponsible action could come at any time. Is RF prepared for this?
I think you are pretty well correct here Mr. C0le.
Actually I think this scenario has been planned for by certain Western lunatics over some time. I will also go out on a limb and suggest that thee obliteration (to use a Trumpism) of the Yuresmeh facility in Nov. 2024 was a per-emptive strike by the RF to remove one important part of this overall plan.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Feb 27 2026 9:02 utc | 210
Barrel Brown | Feb 27 2026 9:02 utc | 214
I can’t find anything relating to the Yuresmeh facility. Is there a typo?
Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 27 2026 9:29 utc | 211
ATTENTION:
Chuvashia, Samara Oblast – missile threat for Flamingo, monitors report.
SECURITY MEASURES
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 9:48 utc | 212
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027318474461384971
minimum of 4 Flamingo missiles were launched (the true number is probably higher) from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. They are all flying on the indicated course. Russian air defence is working north of Taganrog, Rostov Oblast. Their target may be the Kazan Aviation Plant.
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027319533820895528
The Flamingo cruise missiles have changed course to the eastern part of the Republic of Tatarstan, flying towards the Geran-2 drone factory in Yelabuga.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 9:51 utc | 213
@ petergrfstrm | Feb 27 2026 7:35 utc | 207
>> Do any of you have a clear idea of how Russia will
>> reply if Ukraine is allowed by the west to attack
>> Russia with a nuke. Will they attack the western
>> culprits or only Ukraine?
Def no “clear idea” but I rely on two Putin quotes as clues.
First: “What use does Russia have for a world in which there is no Russia?”
Second: “Growing up in the streets of St Petersburg taught me: If a fight cannot be avoided, you must strike first.”. (Tangentially, this is why in mid January 2022, despite denials from the normally forthright Maria Z, I indeed expected Russia to intervene — “strike first” before NATO wiped out Donbass resistance.)
Given those quotes, my reasoning goes like this…
If GM has been reasoning correctly, then Russia will likely retaliate against Ukraine only. Further, depending on the size and damage done by Ukraine’s nuke, Russia might respond only conventionally as “an act of mercy towards brothers”. (*If* the West is confident in this outcome, then they will absolutely make it happen. Corollary: If it happens, then GM has likely been correct all along and we’ve been naive.) In this scenario, the first Putin quote was misleading and we need not consider his second quote.
If instead Putin is the man the rest of us here presumed all along, then: Per the first quote, Russia “should” retaliate with a nuke against a NATO principal. Further, per the second quote, if Russia gets wind of a plan being executed, then Russia “should” strike first.
But … Really?? How?? Seeing what a gentleman Putin has been, I doubt he attempts a decapitation first strike against the empire — even though I interpret his second quote as requiring just that. But, I suspect instead Putin will give an ultimatum of direct nuclear consequences against NATO principals if Ukraine uses a nuke.
Unfortunately, as GM would quickly point out, this relatively compassionate behaviour just emboldens the west to give/use the nuke and hope Putin backs down again. Besides, even if Zelly uses it and Russia retaliates with a nuke against a NATO target, who says the NATO decision makers don’t know to vacation in New Zealand that weekend? (If these decision makers plan and control their proxy’s actions, they can plan their personal schedules too.) Does Putin retaliate with a nuke knowing it avoids the decision makers? Possibly, since he’s avoided targeting Zelly and his team.
Sigh… that’s my good faith attempt to answer your “valid and growing more pertinent” question. IOW, no clear idea.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 9:51 utc | 214
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 9:51 utc | 219
The conventional-wisdom threshold for using nukes was passed in mid-2023. That’s two and a half years.
The official doctrine has been violated every day since it was reformulated in November 2024. That’s 15 months.
Meanwhile given the public statements by Russia about what the West plans, right now nukes should be flying pre-emptively to a lot of places. But they are not.
So yeah, it does not look good.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 9:54 utc | 215
It’s possible Moscow will issue a nuclear ultimatum soon, to any non-NPT EU nation even attempting to acquire. Otherwise, those proxies will likely fire those weapons in a first strike, consequences (to their own populations) be damned.
But who knows?
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 9:57 utc | 216
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027322205542264864
The missiles have still not been shot down. They flew past the Geran-2 factory (lol) and are now inbound for the Votkinsk machine and ballistic missile Plant in the Republic of Udmurtia, which was attacked earlier this week.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 9:58 utc | 217
Perm Krai missile attack:
https://t.me/kupolrussia/49778
Perm…
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 10:05 utc | 218
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027332756221632686
One of the Flamingo cruise missiles has changed course to the east, flying in the direction of Perm Krai. This is the only one detected right now, but there may be others in the air as they are flying very low.
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027333799739335160
Two more missiles has been detected. One of these is a new one. It is flying northeast from Volgograd Oblast towards Saratov Oblast, approximately on the same course as the ones from earlier. The other is flying behind the first towards Perm Krai. The two flying towards Perm Krai are the same ones which flew over Cheboksary, and were apparently not shot down. Missiles have now been in Russian airspace for over two hours straight.
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027334314472657132
Mass evacuations of employees from a number of enterprises that could be potential targets in the Republic of Bashkortostan is taking place due to the missile danger.
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027334755042414673
A fourth missile has been detected again, this time in Orenburg Oblast. It has changed course to the northeast, flying in the direction of the city of Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 10:50 utc | 219
Kramatorsk has become under artillery range. For the first time, a 152mm howitzer lobbed shells into AFU positions in the city. This is possible due to significant RUAF advances W/NW of Chasov Yar and Bakhmut. Additionally Kramatorsk is also attacked by MLRS and FPV drones.
https://t.me/Anlystintel/29453
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 10:51 utc | 220
https://t.me/lpr1_treugolnik/184010
MISSILE DANGER in Belgorod, Belgorodsky District, and Shebekinsky District, 1:55 PM. Go to a basement or underground space.
https://t.me/lpr1_treugolnik/184013
Belgorod RegionMissile threatRepeatedly
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 11:01 utc | 221
> to any non-[NPT] EU nation even attempting to acquire.
[NPT -> nuke]
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 11:05 utc | 222
https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/69457
The aftermath of a Ukrainian drone attack in Kursk.One young civilian was killed. An auto repair shop was hit.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 11:24 utc | 223
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2027345119368896764
The missiles flying to Perm Krai were both shot down.
2 missiles remain, flying over the Ural Mountains and approaching Yekaterinburg.
These missiles have now flown for more than 2,000 km.
Where is Russian aviation???
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 11:51 utc | 224
Meanwhile:
https://t.me/rezervsvo/154627
❗Vladimir Putin held a briefing meeting of the Security Council.The topic was strengthening the foundations of the constitutional order.
Can it be more of a clown show than this?
Official doctrine mandates immediate nuclear response to what is happening now. And there would have been an immediate nuclear response the moment the missiles flew past Taganrog hours ago at any time in Russian history prior to Putin’s reign.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 11:53 utc | 225
GM @140: “Empirically disproven. We have them on video firing every other night.”
Links or it didn’t happen.
Anyway, the claim is nonsense on its face. Patriot missile production cannot support two per week, much less multiples every other day. The US stockpiles of interceptors for the Patriot systems are badly depleted, so it isn’t as if hundreds of them from vast Pentagon warehouse are being shipped over. There simply has not been enough Patriot interceptors manufactured in the system’s entire existence for the Ukraine to be launching even one of them every other day at this point. In fact, the Germans are making a big deal of it when they can scrape together a half dozen of them to gift to the Nazis. That’s less than two weeks supply even if the ukes are only using three interceptors per week. And three interceptors might be enough to down a single Russian cruise missile, or perhaps three older Geranium 1 style drones.
So perhaps Nazistan has a couple Patriot launchers and a radar still that has not been destroyed, but if they have no interceptors, or only a couple left (a near certainty) then why would they even turn on their radar and make themselves a target? Sure, they might want to have the early warning radar warmed up to get a rough idea where the incoming drones are so they can send some terbots out into the fields with M16s to make a show of shooting at them, but that would be a silly risk of a scarce resource for little potential gain. Then again, the ukes have not shown any tendency to try and avoid wasting the big budget gifts from NATO (a Patriot battery with missiles is more than half the cost of an American Aegis destroyer).
No, your claim that the Nazis (NATO actually) are firing multiple Patriot interceptors every other day is ridiculously laughable nonsense. At least try to make your claims ones that fit within current economic reality. Hint: you can print dollars but you cannot print missiles. That said, if the US government starts opening lots of big munitions factories across the country, and you get one in your town, then let us know as that would be a huge deal that could change the calculus of economic reality. That hasn’t happened, though, so restrain your flights of fantasy.
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 11:57 utc | 226
https://t.me/exilenova_plus/16809
Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk region.1,800 km as the crow flies (!) from the State Cordon of Ukraine.Missile alert signal.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:00 utc | 227
If one looks at the map, one can assume the Russian air defense and radar coverage is more front-loaded around close to the borders of Ukraine. After a certain distance, the coverage significantly disperses and things rely on point-defenses for strategic sites. I guess only the most important strategic sites are covered + major cities like Moscow, Voronezh, Saratov, Kazan, Volgograd etc. The best defense where everything is concentrated is in the more narrow buffer zone where everything has to pass through before they disperse.
So far we have only evidence of a strike succeeding on a private car service business in Kursk.
It’s most likely these Flamingos are loaded in Polish air bases and planes may or may not be refueled somewhere in Ukraine during sortie.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:05 utc | 228
It’s most likely these Flamingos are loaded in Polish air bases and planes may or may not be refueled somewhere in Ukraine during sortie.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:05 utc | 234
It’s a GLCM, FFS. Many videos have been released of the launches.
What sort of ignoramuses inhabit this forum? And then call me troll when I tell them what is actually happening. From a position of total lack of knowledge…
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:07 utc | 229
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 11:57 utc | 230
Maybe a year ago, there were serious issues reported in Patriot PAC missile production. The people who actually know how to make them are already retired, the new generation doesn’t know how to build them. There was a long gap they weren’t produced at all and knowledge is gone.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:08 utc | 230
But this:
If one looks at the map, one can assume the Russian air defense and radar coverage is more front-loaded around close to the borders of Ukraine. After a certain distance, the coverage significantly disperses and things rely on point-defenses for strategic sites. I guess only the most important strategic sites are covered + major cities like Moscow, Voronezh, Saratov, Kazan, Volgograd etc. The best defense where everything is concentrated is in the more narrow buffer zone where everything has to pass through before they disperse.
Is correct. Once the missiles get past the first line of defense, after that they have largely free reign.
Fixed-wing drones fly slow and are hunted by mobile fire teams. So they do get shot down all throughout.
But these things fly fast.
The question is where is Russian aviation. They had plenty of time to get up in the air and shoot these down. They are not difficult targets, and right now there aren’t yet that many of them.
And then there is the even bigger question — where is the immediate nuclear response that everyone for decades knew was going to come when such a violation is committed???
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:09 utc | 231
Woke American @132: “What is clear is that the US is generating record amounts of disinformation.”
I wouldn’t say record amounts. They always accompany every operation with a media blitz, both social and mass. This current propaganda surge seems about par for the course. We always got a bunch of NAFOtards showing up to make outlandish claims when the Nazis made a big NATO-backed move. The 2023 offensive and the Kursk incursion, for example. The only problem I see is that there doesn’t seem to be anything comparable taking place right now to justify the scale of the NAFO infestation. Was this supposedly intended as marketing for the recent AFU offensive, and that offensive has just been unexpectedly underwhelming? A marketing misfire, as it were?
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 12:09 utc | 232
We lived to see the day this happened:
https://t.me/lpr1_treugolnik/184036
Sverdlovsk Oblast (red alert, missile attack)
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:14 utc | 233
https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/69464
For the first time since the war, a missile alert was issued in the Sverdlovsk and Perm regions.Again, we’re specifically talking about a missile alert.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:15 utc | 234
RUMOD report over the past week (22 – 27th February). They are shooting down Flamingos and Neptunes in droves.
In the current attack, all the missiles got lost. Either they crashed, were shot down or were outside any radar coverage. So far one hit is reported in a private Kursk automotive service shop.
Air defence systems shot down 22 guided aerial bombs, 50 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, four Neptune long-range cruise missiles, and five Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, as well as 2041 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:17 utc | 235
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:17 utc | 241
Sigh…
The Kursk hit was a drone.
The five Flamingos were part of the Votkinsk attack.
And 2041 fixed-wing drones means nearly 300 a day…
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:18 utc | 236
“It’s a GLCM, FFS. Many videos have been released of the launches.”
Painted as a giant pink dildo (very ukrainian, that!). The Flamer-go?
Anyway, you keep talking about videos, but you post no links. Stop being such a loser and post links to the videos rather than just asserting they exist.
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 12:19 utc | 237
My bet is these strikes in the backcountry are launched from Kazakhstan. The ones up north are coming from Estonia. The Russians are trying to be patient with them to avoid expanding the war, though honestly I can’t see them stomping Estonia as being all that escalatory.
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 12:24 utc | 238
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 12:24 utc | 242
The likelihood of attacks occurring from Estonia or Finland is around 90%. I have read reports of RUAF personnel (in the Leningrad district) talking about this, but the official line is this never happened. I don’t think these attacks are frequent, though they occur ‘sometimes’.
The attacks on the airbase in Murmansk is definitely from Finland, with the light Cessna type remote controlled plane packed with explosives was launched from Lapland. Similar type planes were seen on Flightradar flying around in N Finland at the same time.
As for Estonia, it’s rumored Kaja Kallas got the job as EU foreign head for allowing AFU (or British organized) drone strikes originating from Estonian territory. These could have potentially targeted Primorsk harbor, Kronstadt island or Sosnovyi Bor.
There are a few options here. Either they allowed British special services or remote controlled AC from their territory, or they allowed AFU to launch them, but with a high likelihood they came from these areas.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 12:33 utc | 239
My bet is these strikes in the backcountry are launched from Kazakhstan. The ones up north are coming from Estonia. The Russians are trying to be patient with them to avoid expanding the war, though honestly I can’t see them stomping Estonia as being all that escalatory.
Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 27 2026 12:24 utc | 244
Drones were launched from Kazakhstan many times.
But these missiles flew from Ukraine.
Did you not see the real-time tracking I this time decided to post in the thread right as it was happening, so that there is no “links please”?
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:39 utc | 240
Kursk Region. Governor:The enemy attacked an energy facility in the Belovsky District.A BARS-Kursk volunteer was killed in the attack while on duty. I offer my condolences to his family, friends, and fellow soldiers. This is a great tragedy for us: BARS volunteers are our defenders. Unfortunately, there are losses.Two people were also injured in the attack—they are power workers, who heroically work in the border area alongside our defenders. We are updating our information on their condition. We will provide all necessary assistance.Regarding power outages, 34 settlements in the district are currently without power. Power workers will begin cleanup operations soon.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 12:41 utc | 241
(Sigh) I counted. 4 hours, 18 posts from GM.
Please, friends, don’t feed it.
Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 27 2026 12:48 utc | 242
Please, friends, don’t feed it.
Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 27 2026 12:48 utc | 246
Yes, feeding Baldricks is bad, they reply and reply and the void gets bigger
For some hard stuff, 1.270 AFU casualties yesterday, and for a weekly sum up
https://tass.com/politics/2092853
Posted by: Newbie | Feb 27 2026 13:07 utc | 243
Posted by: Newbie | Feb 27 2026 13:07 utc | 247
referencing a biased news agency is pretty dumb, no ? u use your brain before commenting ? or is your raison d`etre being a
propaganda troll ? so tell me what’s the story after 4 years SMO ? progress of the RF you can measure meanwhile in inches
because there is almost none, ahaha
Posted by: newbietoo | Feb 27 2026 13:16 utc | 244
THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS FACING A PERSONNEL SHORTAGE, WHICH IS HINDERING THE MISSION OF NEARLY ALL EUROPEAN NATO MEMBERS TO PROLONG THE WAR. Simply put: Zelensky’s corrupt regime and its euro manipulators & accomplices are demanding more cannon fodder!
To address this troop shortage, the Norwegian Authorities are considering limiting residence permits in Norway for Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60. And other European NATO countries appear to be planning the same thing. If you really care about the Ukrainians, STOP this bloodshed that only serves to line the pockets of corrupt elites! BE HONEST
https://x.com/IvoTONIUT/status/2027340958174453965
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 13:26 utc | 245
@ GM
LD recently mentioned he posts here to make people think.
After the initial couple of years of me learning from people well respected on this board, the only one who seriously “challenged” my thinking with a *plausible* theory was you.
Doesn’t help Russia or the cause of peace. But in the face of people repeatedly insulting you (who should know better because some of them were wrongly called trolls on other websites before coming here), I figure I’d mention.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 13:29 utc | 246
To address this troop shortage, the Norwegian Authorities are considering limiting residence permits in Norway for Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60. And other European NATO countries appear to be planning the same thing.
https://x.com/IvoTONIUT/status/2027340958174453965
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 13:26 utc | 249
If Norway does such a thing I think they must have been directed from NATO headquarters. These small countries rarely take such measures alone.
In that case, it’s already official (though perhaps still “secret”) NATO policy.
Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 27 2026 13:35 utc | 247
Brian Berletic: US Proxy War on Russia: What Comes Next?
https://journal-neo.su/2026/02/25/us-proxy-war-on-russia-what-comes-next/
‘US goals in Ukraine remain unchanged’
“Despite claims by the incoming Trump administration in late 2024 and early 2025 that it sought to quickly end the ongoing war in Ukraine, the US has instead steadily escalated it.
Today, the Western media openly admits that ongoing long-range drone strikes deep inside Russian territory and maritime drone strikes on Russian energy exports are being carried out by the US CIA – all the while the US continues to posture as some sort of impartial ‘mediator’ of the conflict.
In addition to this, the US is now preparing its European proxies for a more direct and dangerous role in the fighting inside Ukraine, shifting state funding away from serving the European public and toward military spending specifically aimed at Russia.
In essence, regardless of the rhetoric, the US is still fully committed to its proxy war on Russia as just one part of a much larger war it is waging on emerging multipolarism itself – all part of maintaining US primacy worldwide…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 27 2026 14:24 utc | 248
a CT for this Friday of doom.
This seems to be a suicide mission.
🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷 British & French Armed Forces finalized their preparations for a potential mission in Ukraine — The Telegraph Over 600 soldiers from the UK’s 16th Airborne Brigade and units from France’s 11th Brigade conducted exercises simulating a landing on Ukrainian soil. These maneuvers represent the last phase of training for NATO deployment *UK & France officially send their soldiers to the conflict?
Feb 27, 2026 · 12:11 PM UTC
in fact I’d say that most of these who are apparently ‘officially’ going to their deaths, have already been destroyed or maimed as mercenaries – I mean contractors, on sabbatical.
This therefore seems like the way to say they went in and were then attacked by some false flag explosions and battles that never occur.
That will be the end of this proxy Nazi Grande Armee attempt at taking down the RF for this part of the century.
The dead and mutilated Brit and French will get their official burials and pensions and benefits and MEDALS; for having gone to end the war against the russkies.
This explains, why Bozo and his Bullingdon bum chums like the dumbest pollack ever – Sikorsky with his plum public school English accent are touting the pantomime. And the whole media and Establishment is raraing the ‘deployment’ – call them the Ghosts of Kiev.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 27 2026 14:38 utc | 249
Looking at some posters here , I get why the RU authority are not fond of Telegram anymore …
Shit , the usual suspect are bot-invading all the, so called, social networks : it’s like a “drag-queen story time for kids” all over again but in camo fatigue with a wolfsangel patch …
Posted by: Savonarole | Feb 27 2026 14:59 utc | 250
Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 27 2026 14:38 utc | 253
There’s a higher-than-decent chance the announcements of Nato troop deployments to Ukraine are setting up a narrative for their death, which may even already have occurred. Explaining all those high-ranking and troop deaths with Alpine skiing accidents or drowning in swimming pool won’t work when you start getting into the hundreds.
Also, it serves as the next pretext for escalation, if they decide to announce the ‘now under flag deployment’ deaths as Russian strike deaths. Whatever reason that might serve.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 15:03 utc | 251
DunGroanin | Feb 27 2026 14:38 utc | 253 / unimperator
The Brit and French Terra force. The Brits and French intention to supply Bandera Ukraine with small nukes.
The main target for the Europeans now appears to be the pipelines running to Turkey.
The British and European Epstein class – “Whom God wishes to destroy, …..”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 27 2026 15:23 utc | 252
GM/SB needs to read Foreign Affairs:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraine-losing-war
“Ukraine Is Losing the War. With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Feb 27 2026 15:36 utc | 253
Empirically disproven. We have them on video firing every other night.
Posted by: GM | Feb 26 2026 18:21 utc | 140
I’m sure Ukrainian Defence Minister Fedorov would be as interested in seeing those videos as I am:
Ukraine critically lacks air defense missiles to shoot down Russian missiles
Defense Forces critically lack PAC-3 air defense missiles to defend against Russian ballistics
According to RegioNews , this was stated by Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov at a meeting with journalists dedicated to the first month of work of the updated team of the Ministry of Defense.
According to Fedorov, Ukraine has a great potential to independently produce anti-ballistic complexes and missiles.
“We need a separate project for this-the math is complicated there, it requires more time. But Ukraine must develop its own projects, ” the minister added.
Earlier, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will introduce a vertical of digital officers who will be agents of innovation and change.
https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1772199421-ukrayini-kritichno-ne-vistachae-raket-dlya-ppo-shchob-zbivati-rosiyski-raketi (via translation ad-on.)
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 16:46 utc | 254
Ukraine lacks Patriot missiles for protection againt ballistic – Fedorov
Ukraine is facing an acute shortage of PAK-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) missiles, which are the only reliable means of intercepting russian ballistic missiles. This was stated by Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov during a meeting with journalists dedicated to the results of the work of the updated team of the department.
According to the government official, the issue of strengthening air defense is being discussed at the highest state level. The main priority is to involve Western partners in the joint production of scarce ammunition, which will shorten logistics chains and accelerate the replenishment of the arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We also talked with the President about creating joint consortia with partners to produce anti-ballistic missiles faster,” Mykhailo Fedorov reported.
Despite the complexity of the technologies, Ukraine is considering the possibility of developing its own anti-ballistic systems. Fedorov noted that the country has the necessary scientific base, but the creation of such missiles requires a fundamentally different approach and long-term training.
“We need a separate project for this – the mathematics there is complicated, it takes more time. But Ukraine must definitely develop its own projects,” he stressed.
The minister explained that the independent production of anti-ballistic complexes is a long-term goal that requires precise calculations and significant investments, but it is critically important for the country’s energy and national security in the future.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the aggressor country of russia is attacking Ukraine with ballistic missiles practically from the factory, that is, produced in late 2025-early 2026.
On February 24, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 80% of Ukraine’s territory remains unprotected from strikes by ballistic missiles from the aggressor country of russia due to an acute shortage of appropriate air defense systems.
https://ukranews.com/en/news/1137076-ukraine-lacks-patriot-missiles-for-protection-againt-ballistic-fedorov
“The main priority is to involve Western partners in the joint production of scarce ammunition” except when Western “partners” have an even bigger, more thirsty, parasite entity to support than Ukraine.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 17:05 utc | 255
“Ukraine Is Losing the War. With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Feb 27 2026 15:36 utc | 257
Surprising they would publish that article. I don’t think the New York Times or Washington Post would have been able to do so.
Posted by: Cheney | Feb 27 2026 17:17 utc | 256
“Ukraine Is Losing the War. With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Feb 27 2026 15:36 utc | 257
Ukraine is losing the war.
So is Russia. Catastrophically and strategically.
The US is winning massively.
Did anyone four years ago seriously imagine that in 2026 Russia will still be stuck in the Donbass, NATO will be bombing Yekateringburg, and the Kremlin will not only not repsond, but will be suppressing dissent internally by those who dare point out this isn’t quite in the “spirit of Anchorage”?
Because that is precisely what is happening right as we speak.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 17:20 utc | 257
“Ukrainian” ballistics coming soon
https://t.me/rezervsvo/154654
Ukrainian propaganda proudly displays footage of tests of the “newest” FP-7 ballistic missile from Fire Point. However, the situation is comical to anyone with even a passing understanding of Western weaponry nomenclature. Previously, they tried to disguise their borrowings by proudly calling their copy of the British FP-5 the “Flamingo.” Now, however, their creative crisis has apparently reached such a point that the FP-7 name has simply been adopted directly from its British predecessors, without even changing the markings.
🗣Claims of “in-house development” are shattered by dry facts
• Origin of the drawings — The missile architecture, guidance systems, and aerodynamic design are virtually identical to those developed by British engineers. It’s clear that Kiev is receiving ready-made documentation packages that are simply being passed off as “folk art.”
• Characteristics — The stated speed of 1,500 m/s and a 150 kg warhead actually describe the parameters of Western medium-range prototypes adapted for local assembly from imported components.
• Production facilities — Without Western machine tools, electronics, and specific fuel components, it is impossible to create such a product from scratch under current conditions.
🗣Bottom line :
Ukraine is once again demonstrating not the triumph of its military-industrial complex, but rather its success in copying and pasting Western technologies. Calling the FP-7 a Ukrainian missile is like assembling an American Stinger from a supplied kit of ready-made components and slapping the Ukrainian coat of arms on it, claiming it’s a unique invention by local craftsmen. British designs, a British name, but Ukrainian flags in the background—these are the standard formula for “victory” for domestic consumers.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 17:37 utc | 258
https://x.com/vick55top/status/2027426137522270483
Flamingo strike on Russia.
Enormous cruise missiles with a 6-meter wingspan, a warhead weighing nearly a ton, and a range of 3,000 km attacked regions of Russia, and for the first time since the start of the SMO, they reached the Sverdlovsk region, flying across the entire European part of the Russian Federation.
One cruise missile was destroyed over the Chuvash Republic, the second diverted to the Republic of Tatarstan and was destroyed. Two missiles headed for Yekaterinburg via Bashkortostan. The one heading for Cheboksary diverted to the Mari El Republic and then on to Perm Krai. Two Flamingo cruise missiles were detected over the Udmurt Republic. Another cruise missile was flying from the Volgograd Region toward the Ulyanovsk Region.
Airports in the overflight regions suspended operations. By three o’clock, Flamingo monitoring channels across all regions had gone silent. Apparently, none of the missiles reached their targets. No one was injured. The debris fell in a forest far from populated areas. However, the very fact that such a massive attack occurred less than a week after the previous one (in Vokninsk) suggests that their production line hadn’t been destroyed. “vizioner_rf”
I don’t think these missiles were manufactured in Ukraine, but that’s not the point. The point is that Russia waited for Ukraine to launch these strikes with heavy, long-range missiles against Russian territory. No damage, you say? Well, there will be damage; we’ll have to wait a little longer.
https://x.com/RussCan91/status/2027436561030316440
‼️‼️🇷🇺—-Long Range Missile Strike Deep into Russia, Missiles Appear to Have Followed Tomahawk-Like Trajectories—-
While still waiting on confirmation that any strikes succeeded, it is reported (depending on the source) that 7-10 “Flamingo” missiles were launched deep into Russia this morning. 2 of which are reported to have got close to the area of Yekaterinburg, a total reported distance of over 2,000 km from launch point.
The interesting thing is that according to a separate monitoring channel, some of the missiles are said to have travelled at extremely low heights possible using waterways as travel routes allowing the evasion of missile defense.
This seems similar to the Tomahawk missile, which uses TERCOM ( terrain contour matching ), allowing for it to travel as low as 30-50 feet matching the contour of the land.
We do all recall the talk of the US giving Ukraine Tomahawks and then the same talk abruptly stopped.
So did they give them Tomahawks or was the same technology put indie of a missile with a Ukrainian flag on it?🤔
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 17:54 utc | 259
The IMF approved a new loan to Ukraine, conditioned on a tightening of tax policy.
The IMF Board of Directors approved a new $8,1 billion loan program for Ukraine. The first tranche of $1,5 billion will be disbursed shortly.
For Kyiv, it seems like news It’s positive, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The loan will be disbursed in tranches over four years. This is a pittance for the Ukrainian budget, which has a deficit of $52 billion this year. It can only be covered through external financing, which is rapidly shrinking. According to the IMF, Ukraine’s total external financing needs over four years are $136,5 billion.
Although the IMF Board of Directors took the unprecedented step of approving a loan to Kyiv without first fulfilling the conditions for tax reform, tax policy will have to be tightened. Each subsequent tranche will be approved only if the Fund’s requirements are met.
These developments are far from pleasant for the Ukrainian government, the Verkhovna Rada, and, most importantly, businesses and residents of Ukraine. Parliament is expected to soon pass laws introducing a VAT for sole proprietors (similar to individual entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals in Russia); such a tax has not previously existed. This will immediately impact entrepreneurs’ profitability and, of course, the prices of their goods and services for the public.
In addition, mandatory fees will be imposed on recipients of parcels from abroad. This includes all shipments from marketplaces and purchases of foreign goods by individuals. This measure will also affect purchases of foreign goods. drones and other dual-use products that are purchased by volunteer organizations, citizens, and various commercial funds for delivery to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The IMF requires taxation of income received through online platforms (the “OLX tax”). In the case of regular sales of goods or provision of services, income may be recognized as entrepreneurial activity.
Energy sector reform envisions establishing market-based tariffs and reducing hidden subsidies for both businesses and private consumers. Electricity prices in Ukraine have already almost reached European levels, but household incomes have not, and are now likely to rise further.
Furthermore, the IMF demands a complete elimination of unjustified benefits and exemptions for taxpayers. The National Bank of Ukraine must flexibly regulate the hryvnia exchange rate.
The Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a major tax bill for March. The IMF has so far allowed the postponement of unpopular measures such as VAT for sole proprietors, a tax on digital platforms, and parcel shipments.
Another “bonus” from the IMF, in addition to deferring some tax tightening measures, concerns assistance in restructuring existing loans and obtaining new credit. Without these, Ukraine, like a drug addict, simply cannot exist, only constantly increasing its “dose.”
https://en.topwar.ru/278581-mvf-utverdil-novyj-kredit-ukraine-s-usloviem-uzhestochenija-nalogovoj-politiki.html
That should be fun, trying to raise taxes on an already discontented population.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 17:55 utc | 260
Zelensky’s Desperation and Putin’s Wrath
In this edition of Issues of Contemporary Politics with Dr. Brovkin, I focus of the latest developments in the Ukraine war: Zelensky desperation in view of the crushing Russian advance on the one hand and the internal challenge from general Zaluzhny on the other. EU/UK efforts to arm Ukraine brought about a scandal about alleged nuclear components transfer to Ukraine generated threats to use nukes against those countries who dare to do so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMv_wTX8xg
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 18:03 utc | 261
https://x.com/vick55top/status/2027435028234334368
The British Foreign Office isn’t even denying plans to help Kiev acquire nuclear weapons. They’re seriously claiming that Ukraine has its own potential to create an atomic bomb, Russian Ambassador to London Andrei Kelin said in an interview with the program “60 Minutes.”
“I was at the Foreign Office and had a rather serious conversation about this. They’re not denying it here <…>. We discussed quite seriously that Ukraine has a certain amount of expertise and the ability to create this kind of weapon.” Vesti
So what difference does it make whether Ukraine builds the bomb itself or the West hands it over? Russia just needs to wait a little longer, and Ukraine will have the bomb. And it will use it exactly 30 seconds after it receives it.
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 18:04 utc | 262
Dr. Brovkin says Zelensky is desperate, constantly begging for security guarantees from Trump. There’s many reasons to be desperate, the front is truly crumbling in many directions and more unit markers on the map are becoming unresponsive and immobile.
Meanwhile Britain is planning to transfer nukes to Ukraine, the attitude is Russia is Britain and maybe France will be hit in return. Even the potential attack on Votkinsk plant would justify it.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 18:13 utc | 263
Syrsky’s meat regiment kills conscripted soldiers in its training camps
A new scandal is breaking out in the infamous” meat assaults “of the 425th regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Skala”.
This was stated on the air of his video blog by one of the main mouthpieces of Euromaidan, Kiev investigative TV presenter Dmitry Gnap, from 2022 to 2024 an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who has now become a fierce denouncer of the lawlessness of the TCC, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
The journalist read out a letter from the wife of Vitaliy Saltan, who was mobilized on January 26 and sent to the Skaly training center in the Dnipropetrovsk region. There he fell ill, the temperature rose to 40 degrees , Saltan began to have a “heavy barking cough”. His wife tried to give him medicine, but the command did not allow him to receive the package for a long time.
Vitaliy was kept in the medical unit until February 15, only after his condition became even worse, he was taken in handcuffs to a hospital in Kamenskoye (Dneprodzerzhinsk), where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and immediately put in intensive care, where his mother and wife later arrived.
“With tears in my eyes and in a state of shock, I saw him as he had never been before. Powerless and in extremely serious condition. I noticed yellow bruises under his knees and asked what they were. Vitaly replied: ” We did push-ups for more than two hours. I didn’t have the strength anymore, and I got down on my knees .” And this is despite the fact that he was already ill, ” says the wife.
Then her husband was transferred to a ventilator, but this did not help, and eventually he died.
“I ask you to provide a public legal assessment and publicity of the actions of officials of the military unit A4862 of the 425th Skala brigade and the command of the Skala brigade. You will be responsible for this and you will burn in hell , ” said the wife of the deceased.
Gnap calls the incident ” the murder of their own commanders “, noting that the regiment has long earned “the infamous glory of the meat regiment “, in which the commanders “do not take care of the fighters, mock them, humiliate them.”
He blames the commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky for this . According to Gnap, a number of Ukrainian commanders refused to comply with Syrsky’s order to invade the Kursk region , considering that this adventure was ultimately doomed to failure. As a result, Syrsky decided that he needed a separate and fully controlled branch of the armed forces with ruthless discipline.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to form an army in the army or assault troops, the basis of which was the 425th Skala assault regiment and the 225th separate assault regiment. They began to receive military equipment and replenishment of people as a priority. They quickly became famous throughout the armed forces for their cruel and inhumane treatment of soldiers .”
https://politnavigator.news/myasnojj-polk-syrskogo-ubivaet-v-svoikh-uchebkakh-mobilizovannykh.html (via translation add-on.)
Interesting that there were doubts even in the Ukrainian command about the wisdom of the Kursk fiasco. First time I’ve seen that mentioned out loud.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 18:17 utc | 264
Dr. Brovkin says (according to Putin’s aide Ushakov) Russia has delivered the evidence of UK and France delivering nukes to Ukraine to the US government. This seems that Nato has been put on official notice of potential consequences.
Other responses include speeding advance in Donbass, since the front is cracking more anyway.
The consensus plans is now including Novorrossiya in Russia (Odessa-Nikolaev-Zaporozhye-Dnepropetrovsk-Kharkov). Central Ukraine is to become an autonomous state or a client state. Western Ukraine no one wants in the RF, that being the birthplace of Banderism.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 18:25 utc | 265
On February 27, the Russian military’s Vostok [East] Group of Forces repelled five advance attempts close to the Haichur River line in Zaporizhzhia, inflicting some serious losses on Kiev forces.
The advance attempts began in the early morning, with the 225th Separate Assault Regiment and the 33rd Assault Regiment moving in the direction of Rizdvyank and Ternovatoe. Ukrainian troops were caught in minefields, and were then targeted by the drone units of the Vostok Group of Forces.
Later in the day, the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade and the 95th Rifle Division made separate attempts to advance towards Hai, from two different directions. The 225th Separate Assault Regiment also made another advance attempt, but this time towards Zalishchnoe.
It’s worth noting that just a day earlier, the Vostok Group of Forces expanded its control around Zalishchnoe, advancing south and west of the settlement.
These advance attempts also failed, as some armored vehicles used by the attackers faced technical issues, and others were struck by mines.
In addition to repelling these advance attempts, the Vostok Group of Forces struck gatherings of Kiev forces near Novoselovka, and Verkhnia Tersa.
The group reportedly neutralized two companies of Ukrainian troops, four armored vehicles, and up to ten motor vehicles in Zaporizhzhia over the past 24 hours.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 18:38 utc | 266
Interesting that there were doubts even in the Ukrainian command about the wisdom of the Kursk fiasco. First time I’ve seen that mentioned out loud.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 18:17 utc | 268
My recollection is that even some of the worst UA cheerleaders were calling Kursk a dead-end waste of resources right from the start.
Posted by: catdog | Feb 27 2026 18:44 utc | 267
The fact people are discussing rumors of the west handing over nukes to Ukraine vindicates SB/GM.
Slicing the salami until Armageddon.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 18:46 utc | 268
The fact people are discussing rumors of the west handing over nukes to Ukraine vindicates SB/GM.
Slicing the salami until Armageddon.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 18:46 utc | 272
Actually it doesn’t, but of course you’d think so.
Posted by: malenkov | Feb 27 2026 18:54 utc | 269
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 17:20 utc | 261
“Ukraine is losing the war. So is Russia. Catastrophically and strategically.”
To know who is winning and who is losing, it is enough to compare the composure of the leaders, Putin and Zelenski.
In addition, one may consider the behaviour of the Europoodles which reflects the sorry state their countries are in.
“Did anyone four years ago seriously imagine that in 2026 Russia will still be stuck in the Donbass,”
Russia is not “stuck in the Donbass”. Her army is advancing slowly and steadily, in the Donbass and not only there.
“NATO will be bombing Yekateringburg, and the Kremlin will not only not repsond,”
The Kremlin has been responding to various provocations in a measured and consistent way. That the Russians haven’t been big-arrowing to the Polish border while nuking London and Paris is not a sign or weakness.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Feb 27 2026 18:55 utc | 270
A hotel in Sumy was bombed. Doesn’t seem like tourist season right now IMO.
Maybe part of Starmer’s ‘peace guaranteeing’ force..?
https://x.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/2027354688803221859
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 19:17 utc | 271
Doesn’t seem like tourist season right now IMO.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 19:17 utc | 275
They were all there on skiing holidays…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 19:19 utc | 272
The Kremlin has been responding to various provocations in a measured and consistent way.
Correction — the Kremlin is not responding at all.
That the Russians haven’t been big-arrowing to the Polish border while nuking London and Paris is not a sign or weakness.Quite the opposite, actually.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Feb 27 2026 18:55 utc | 274
Yes, it is a weakness given the history of the GPW. This is Operation Barbarossa 2.0 in slow motion. It has to be dealt with accordingly
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 19:23 utc | 273
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 13:29 utc | 250
Thank you for the kind words 🙂
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 19:24 utc | 274
Slicing the salami until Armageddon.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 27 2026 18:46 utc | 272
The winning strategy of the frog against boiling-the-frog is to jump out of the pot.
It’s not that difficult a concept. At least it shouldn’t be…
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 19:26 utc | 275
Here we go again:
https://t.me/lpr1_treugolnik/184190
Rostov Oblast:Flamingo UAV Danger
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 19:29 utc | 276
I dunno, one the one hand we have claims of Patriots being launched every other night, on the other hand we have Defence Minister Fedorov complaining about an acute shortage.
Who is more likely to be right here? Can somebody help me out?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 19:30 utc | 277
unimperator | Feb 27 2026 13:26 utc | 249
*** To address this [Kiev Ukraine] troop shortage, the Norwegian Authorities are considering limiting residence permits in Norway for Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60. And other European NATO countries appear to be planning the same thing. ***
Makes sense, since — like with Gaza, West Bank and Syria — the Khazarians would prefer to eventually assume effectively vacant possession of former Ukraine with as few potentially troublesome (to them) escapees as possible alive elsewhere.
Thereafter, slave labour be imported from just about anywhere.
But of course the Khazars do want the rest of former Ukraine for themselves as well.
So after the war will that area of Russia be betrayed, perhaps along with Belarus?
GM: Nukes, nukes, I love nukes. Genocide, genocide, I love genocide.
GM: The devil’s own.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 27 2026 19:38 utc | 279
Russia’s business class wants a return to the 1990s. Nabiullina is standing in the way.
Posted by: aristophanes 🇰🇪 🍂 | Feb 27 2026 19:40 utc | 280
GM: Nukes, nukes, I love nukes. Genocide, genocide, I love genocide.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 27 2026 19:38 utc | 283
You’re making him sound like a Zionist.
Although, come to think of it, that could indeed explain a lot of his postings…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 19:45 utc | 281
Russia’s business class wants a return to the 1990s. Nabiullina is standing in the way.
Posted by: aristophanes 🇰🇪 🍂 | Feb 27 2026 19:40 utc | 284
Which part of Russia’s business class? The pro-Western exiles hiding overseas, or the domestic entrepreneurs investing in and developing the national economy?
I find this site a decent source of news about industrial advances: https://sdelanounas.ru/
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 19:52 utc | 282
Anyway enough of supposed goings-on in Russia, let’s have a look at Ukraine (which is the thread theme, after all) where, once again, electricity is available on a “catch me if you can” basis:
Due to Russian attacks on power facilities, there is a power outage in 6 regions – Ministry of Energy
Some communities in Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions are temporarily without electricity due to the fighting and shelling of the energy infrastructure
This is reported by the Ministry of Energy, reports RegioNews .
“Where the security situation allows, the teams are already working on recovery. Power engineers go to the facilities immediately after the end of alarms and do everything possible to heal homes, hospitals, schools and businesses as quickly as possible,” the report says.
It is noted that on February 27, most regions are forced to operate hourly blackouts, and for enterprises – power limitation schedules. Emergency shutdowns have been applied in some regions.
https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/ukraine/1772189186-cherez-obstrili-rf-po-energoob-ektah-e-znestrumlennya-u-6-oblastyah-minenergo (via translation add-on.)
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 20:09 utc | 283
The problem (well, its also a testament of RUAF achievement) is most if not all AFU weapon production has been moved to EU countries. Maybe they can build some small scale drones in Ukraine but any more complex weapon is built in dedicated production lines in EU states. Denmark, Germany, France and UK come most prominently to mind.
Not sure where Flamingos are made, but it could be Czech or Denmark by the so-called start up companies Ukraine set up with EU funds.
So yes, it’s true these plants are untouchable in the name of not expanding the war.
As long as this remains true, RUAF has to rely on defeating AFU manpower and equipment at the rate it appears on the front. I suspect the EU production lines won’t by far make up for AFU losses, which is crumbling regardless how many trillions of money EU ‘invests’.
Judging by what’s happening with the U.K. defense budget, or defense industrial act, UK military chiefs say they haven’t seen the money despite promises. I suspect the same is true in EU, EU politicians make a lot of unsecured promises regarding funding to Ukraine. They can’t really fulfill most of them.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 20:29 utc | 284
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 19:23 utc | 277
“Correction — the Kremlin is not responding at all.”
At this point, your argument is descending into farce.
“Yes, it is a weakness given the history of the GPW. This is Operation Barbarossa 2.0 in slow motion. It has to be dealt with accordingly”
The Russian decision makers know that they are facing an existential threat. Apart from that, your historical analogy is of limited value.
In this debate, your unique selling point seems to be an elevated blood pressure. That’s not enough for a meaningful discussion and may explain why your contributions are ultimately boring.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Feb 27 2026 20:35 utc | 285
In the latest video with the Judge and Glenn Diesen the judge reported that Kirill Dmitriev was not being allowed to leave Geneva and return to Russia.
I just asked the net about that and got crickets……any confirmation and what it might mean?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 27 2026 20:53 utc | 286
@ psychohistorian | Feb 27 2026 20:53 utc | 290
Not seeing anything at all about that. Wonder where the Judge got it from? It seems to me it would be big news if true, so I’m going to file under “remains to be proven”.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 21:03 utc | 287
Meanwhile:
The largest metallurgical plant is shutting down production in Ukraine
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/02/27/2103419.html
Since the beginning of the conflict, the cost of electricity for the Ukrainian industry has almost tripled.
The very same electricity that the IMF wants “market reforms” to be introduced. That should work out well…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 27 2026 21:07 utc | 288
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraine-losing-war “Ukraine Is Losing the War. With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Feb 27 2026 15:36 utc | 257
That’s a serious error from a publication that’s supposed to be realistic. Kiev should trade demilitarisation and denazification for peace. The sooner the better. As for “territory”, the decision on the amount of territory remnant Ukraine ends up with won’t be much to do with Kiev.
The pertinent question to be asked is not whether the Russians will get their demilitarisation and denazification or not. The interest will lie in precisely how they define it.
“Demilitarisation” is clear enough. No possibility of NATO using remnant Ukraine as an attack dog. No CIA established bases from which to run deniable missions into Russia. No bases from which to send deniable drones and missiles over into Russia guided by US ISR. No possibility of that ever happening again. The Russians don’t want the bother and they don’t want to have to be perpetually on their guard in case NATO comes back to use remnant Ukraine for the same purpose later.
It’ll be a lot more peaceful when that’s done. NATO would never dare send missiles etc. over from NATO territory so all that will stop. Foreign Affairs doesn’t understand that the Russians have more important things to get on with than fussing around fending off attacks out of Europe so they will make sure it stops.
“Denazification?” They’ll be lucky if they accomplish that. Bandera will always be a hero to most of the people in West Ukraine. The most to be expected there is an end to the “We built the Pyramids” indoctrination in the schools, minorities not persecuted, and no ultras anywhere near the administration or the police. The Russians won’t want to occupy in order to get that and will be hoping for a neutral government in remnant Ukraine to do it for them. Foreign Affairs doesn’t grasp any of that – they probably don’t know about the neo-Nazis or Banderites (“ultras” are the easiest portmanteau term) or believe they’re just invented or exaggerated by Russian propaganda.
As for the wider Russian objectives, doesn’t look hopeful, What stuck out a mile in the Address to the Foreign Office Officials was the removal of all sanctions. Try getting that past the Senate or the EP. The late’21 treaty proposals are similarly unlikely. There’ll be no New Security Architecture for Europe, let alone the New Eurasian Security Architecture we sometimes see mentioned. That’d need a Come to Jesus moment on the part of the European and American politicians that none could realistically expect.
But returning to the settlement of the narrower Ukraine problem, it’s not so much that the Western politicians won’t agree to demilitarisation and denazification. As that Foreign Affairs article demonstrates, they don’t even grasp it’s key. The gap between what the Russians require as their bare minimum to end this conflict and what the Americans think they require and are prepared to agree to is so great it will probably not be bridged.
Borrell’s prediction, “This conflict will be decided on the battlefield”, still holds. The so called negotiations we’ve been seeing are at best to be regarded as an attempt to give Trump a face saving exit. Because after the failure of the ’22 Istanbul talks ( my view, before) this war was only ever going to end with unconditional surrender. The Russians have too much invested in the struggle for it to be otherwise.
Posted by: English Outsider | Feb 27 2026 21:41 utc | 289
Posted by: GM | Feb 27 2026 17:54 utc | 263
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The Germans were still sending V2 missiles in march 1945.
https://liberation.buchenwald.de/en/otd1945/the-last-v2-rocket
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/timeline.html
Germany lost.
Posted by: scc | Feb 27 2026 21:43 utc | 290
Dr. Brovkin says (according to Putin’s aide Ushakov) Russia has delivered the evidence of UK and France delivering nukes to Ukraine to the US government. This seems that Nato has been put on official notice of potential consequences. Other responses include speeding advance in Donbass, since the front is cracking more anyway. The consensus plans is now including Novorrossiya in Russia (Odessa-Nikolaev-Zaporozhye-Dnepropetrovsk-Kharkov). Central Ukraine is to become an autonomous state or a client state. Western Ukraine no one wants in the RF, that being the birthplace of Banderism.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 18:25 utc | 269
If Russia has been negotiating for all of this, rather than just Donetsk, well that is an entirely different narrative and potential final outcome. Central Ukraine then becomes a buffer zone for Russia between West Ukraine and Russia. This actually kind of potentially might sound like good news.
Posted by: Woke American | Feb 27 2026 21:50 utc | 291
RUAF FPV drone save a Ukrainian man from being mobilized, hits one of the TCC guys instead and destroys their van.
https://x.com/Juanita0953/status/2027414376492237202
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 27 2026 22:01 utc | 292
If ukraine can hit targets at will, why are they not extortin russ at the same time… Leaving all those scarce bitcoins on the table!
Posted by: E | Feb 27 2026 22:53 utc | 293
Woke American | Feb 27 2026 21:50 utc | 295*** If Russia has been negotiating for all of this, rather than just Donetsk, well that is an entirely different narrative and potential final outcome. Central Ukraine then becomes a buffer zone for Russia between West Ukraine and Russia. This actually kind of potentially might sound like good news.***
It certainly would not be “good news”. Such a central zone — does it include the land illegally ‘bought’ by Blackrock and Soros? — would become new Khazaria.
The “Israel 2” ambition of Zelensky. A permanent threat to all around.
Just what the toxic bastards had always wanted …. and got a war to clear for them.
Guess what religion/cult the Ukraine Oligarchs — recruiters and sponsors of Azov, Aidar and other nazi groups in Ukraine pre and post 2014 — almost all belong to?
Guess which thoroughly megalomanic, closet satanist cult has as its core-land that area rather than Israel?
Guess what cult Putin constantly panders to, and Kushner is one of?
One answer fits all.
It certainly would not be “good news”. Such a central zone — does it include the land illegally ‘bought’ by Blackrock and Soros? — would become new Khazaria.The “Israel 2” ambition of Zelensky. A permanent threat to all around.Just what the toxic bastards had always wanted …. and got a war to clear for them.Guess what religion/cult the Ukraine Oligarchs — recruiters and sponsors of Azov, Aidar and other nazi groups in Ukraine pre and post 2014 — almost all belong to?Guess which thoroughly megalomanic, closet satanist cult has as its core-land that area rather than Israel?Guess what cult Putin constantly panders to, and Kushner is one of?One answer fits all.
Posted by: Cynic | Feb 27 2026 23:25 utc | 298
My current understanding is that a huge majority of the “good productive” Ukrainian lands are either already under Russian control, or are mostly included in the additional 5 regions. Blackrock is likely to get some of Ukraine pretty much regardless of what happens. I have no idea if the deal alluded to gives most of the “good productive” parts of Ukraine to Russia.
Military Channel inadvertently kind of supports your thesis. A couple days ago when Russian missiles and drones were launched into West Ukraine – UKRAINIAN AA DEFENSE WORKED FABULOUSLY. Today Russian missiles and drones launched into East Ukraine – LOOK AT ALL THE DAMAGE Protecting Blackrock investments in Western Ukraine would account for this narrative. But that is kind of a stretch.
I was thinking that Russia would have quite a bit of control over what happens in “Central Ukraine”. Your narrative implies that this would “allow Russia to monitor Blackrock as it profits handsomely from its resource extraction from Central Ukraine”. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for more information.
Posted by: Woke American | Feb 27 2026 23:52 utc | 295
@ scc | Feb 27 2026 21:43 utc | 294
> Germany lost.
Germany had to build it’s V2’s with its own dwindling supply chain and wasn’t backed by NATO and all its colonies.
Posted by: switched devices and cannot remember | Feb 28 2026 0:28 utc | 296
The Germans were still sending V2 missiles in march 1945. Germany lost.
Posted by: scc | Feb 27 2026 21:43 utc | 294
1) V2s were not PGMs, so their effectiveness was quite low
2) While the Germans were sending V2s, they also had the shit bombed out of them. Strategic bombing, constantly.
Meanwhile Russia has not sent a single bomb into Europe or North America.
So here we have Russia in the same position as Iraq and Serbia in the 1990s and Iraq/Lybia/Syria/Lebanon in the 21st century.
Even though unlike those countries it is capable of defending itself. But it is run by traitors who refuse to do so.
Posted by: GM | Feb 28 2026 1:39 utc | 297
I don’t take GM seriously because I think it’s an AI.
People who lost here come in a handful of different categories.
You have the secret kings. That’s a pop cultural phrase used to tag people, mostly males, who claim that if everyone would just do whatever they say, then the world, or the war in Ukraine, would be better. They aren’t bad guys. Their biggest problem is they have little to no real experience. That means they have no grasp of the real world problems and limitations facing national level civilian and military leadership. They are like first day hires lecturing twenty year employees on how to fix the company. Annoying, but not bad people.
You have the NATO trolls. They crawl out of whatever hole they live in to lost here whenever they feel Ukraine has won some minor victory. They contribute nothing but to badly performed verbal victory dance before slinking back into hiding as Ukraine’s temporary victory turns into another crushing defeat.
Then you have paid posters. These are the people who write five or six short posts over a day, or two, of three. Their post amount to little more than, “Ukraine is great. Go team!” When I’m feeling harsh, I imagine them getting a fifty dollars a post for their next fix. When I am feeling compassionate, I imagine a mother doing what she needs to do to put food on her table for her children.
Then we have the weirdest of them all. The prolific, apparently well informed idiots who create well written nonsense. It seems these posters, GM being the most prominent at the moment, have the time to comb through hundreds of thousands of news articles each day. Find little tidbits in a few of those articles, then craft grammatically correct nonsense with impeccable spelling. And they love nuclear weapons. All of this adds up to AI created posts. I ran a few tests. A few posters I thought were AI kept pushing a meme that Russia needs to widen the war. I asked two questions, did Japan’s attack on the U.S. help or hurt them and why did Bismark limit the Prussian army’s tactical options in the Second Schleswig War? Nobody responded. The answer to the first question is, if you have maxed out your military capacity in China, don’t begin fighting someone else. Big Serve has an excellent recent substack article about that. The answer to the second question is, if you are fighting for very specific goals such as the unification of Germany and the incorporation of a small group of ethnic Germans into this newly created Germany, then be very careful not to antagonize other powerful countries because if they enter the war openly it might lead to a failure to achieve you two goals. My next test was to ask GM about its assumptions regarding immigration into Russia (by ethnic Russians) as a threat to the collapse of Russia versus the immigration of tens of millions of Africans and Asians into Germany, France, the UK, and other European countries and the claim they lose no threat to the collapse those countries. I wondered if GM would defend its hypocrisy but GM failed to engage in the argument. Finally, I decided to mock GM by mimicking its style. Again, no response. From all that, good spelling, excellent grammer, awareness of news minutia, unvarying and illogical arguments (A dog barked in Leipzig . . . Putin will lose the war.), an obsession with nukes and widening the war, and a failure to engage with criticisms forces me to conclude GM is AI.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Feb 28 2026 3:40 utc | 298
A letter from the front: “We had a discussion in the unit today about Bandera’s V-1s on steroids already en route to Kazan. And we couldn’t find a single rational reason why the destruction of the Bandera leadership has been blocked.The funniest thing is that they also considered possible selfish motives of our leaders, beneficial if not to the country, then at least to them personally. And… they couldn’t find any either!..”Maxim Kalashnikov: There’s a term in psychiatry: abulia. A pathological lack of willpower. The patient understands that absolutely necessary decisions must be made and critical actions taken. But they can’t. Because they suffer from abulia. Incidentally, the beau monde (elite) of any country is a collective personality. And lack of willpower here is fraught with the whole world wiping its feet on the sufferer of abulia.
After the heavy blows to Belgorod. Shouldn’t we call on Lukashenko, the leader, for help?https://t.me/boevoe_sodrugestvo/11444Indeed: our government is fighting the Telegram channel more than the Banderites terrorizing Russian cities. Is this how we maintain the strategic initiative in the Central Military District?
Posted by: GM | Feb 28 2026 5:45 utc | 299
https://t.me/boevoe_sodrugestvo/11444
Sergiy Aliyev – “APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA:”A TERRIBLE END IS BETTER THAN ENDLESS FEAR!”
The commander of the Combat Brotherhood of the Russian world “IT’S A SHAME FOR THE STATE!” and the Special Forces unit “ARCHANGEL MICHAEL”, Sergiy Aliyev (RUS) recorded an open video address to the President of the Russian Federation – Vladimir Putin, after the attempted missile strikes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deep into Russia, on February 27, 2026, where he proposed to invite the President of the Union State, Belarus – Alexander Lukashenko to help and support the head of Russia – Vladimir Putin, because “two heads are better than one!”
WE EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THE APPEAL:
What is the commander talking about in this address!
He only says that if the people of Russia are satisfied with everything, then continue to remain silent…
If not, then, Calmly record a video message to the head of state, asking for the situation in the country to change…and for missiles to stop flying across the country.
P.S. Putin is only third in the message!This is the commander’s main message to the people!
If you support it, SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!This is the least we can do to strengthen the Fatherland!
Posted by: GM | Feb 28 2026 5:46 utc | 300