Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 14:19 utc | 2
“The Great Performative War must go on, in lieu of real action.”
 
So are you suggesting that there is such a thing as a “just war” or a beneficial war? Or are all wars a “my team/your team” deal? My team is great, your team are the devil incarnate!
 

Posted by: Paranaense | Mar 12 2026 14:25 utc | 3

Posted by: Paranaense | Mar 12 2026 14:25 utc | 3
 
I suggest nothing, I state it. For four years Putin has allowed his soldiers to die at the front while Russia gets bombed on the regular and he does nothing. Have you noticed there isn’t any talk about Ukrainian energy destruction lately? That’s because he stopped and allowed Ukraine off the mat by allowing them to get the lights back on…again. Why are the bridges over the Dnieper still standing when those bridges allow the majority of NATO arms to get to the front. I could go on….this war could have been won years ago but instead of waging war, Putin tries endlessly to reestablish a long dead status quo with people who’s greatest desire is to kill him. The man is a fool. 

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 14:34 utc | 5

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 14:34 utc | 5
 
Attrition is their strategy

Posted by: Chris N | Mar 12 2026 14:40 utc | 7

Like UAE economic collapse collapsed the RSF in Sudan, EU economic collapse can collapse Ukraine.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 14:41 utc | 8

Hopefully as this war is a tragedy between Slavs. May it end soon.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 12 2026 14:43 utc | 9

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 12 2026 15:13 utc | 10
 
Well, that’s the problem.
 
There are really no more ‘big strategic’ targets in Ukraine which is a dead country when it comes to infrastructure (unless you count the nuclear power plants), while Ukraine’s arm production is outsourced to countries like Poland, Czech, Denmark, UK, Germany etc.
When one side has an economy and the other side doesn’t, it’s obvious only the latter can hurt the former, but former can’t hurt the latter economically.
 
What to do? They can seemingly launch opportunistic attacks for no cost whatsoever.
 
The real war should be on EU and UK economy. Find ways to deteriorate the EU and UK more. Right now the situation with Iran plays heavily into this. Russia should seek to impose costs on Britain in the Middle East. I hope *cough*Iran*cough* could hit the Cyprus base hard. Iran could launch a missile on top of the Storm shadow production line, too.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 15:19 utc | 11

Russia has blamed Britain for a deadly missile strike launched by Ukraine on a vital munitions factory, which reportedly killed seven people.
Kyiv claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on one of Russia’s “most important military factories”, the Kremniy El plant in the border city of Bryansk. It said that British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles had been used in the assault.
Asked whether there would be a military response to the use of British missiles against sovereign Russian territory, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia would take any British involvement into consideration, without going into specifics.
“It is obvious that the launch of these missiles was impossible without British specialists,” he told reporters. “We are aware of this, we know it well, and we naturally take it into account.
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/russia-blames-uk-deadly-storm-114932143.html
UK still bombing Russia with impunity…

Posted by: elonmuskiscool | Mar 12 2026 15:33 utc | 13

The EU seems to be on its knees, considering the politicians are already PLEADING citizens to stop driving their cars.
 
The economy is really just standing on clay foots at this points, they can’t even sustain their own economy or societal functions. They will scrape everything they can together to ‘send Ukraine’, but it’s looking really weak.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 15:43 utc | 15

Posted by: Kumashiro | Mar 12 2026 15:52 utc | 21

Russia has it’s hands full with the Ukraine for almost 5 years.  Iran pushing back against the combined might of the US and Israeli military!  Embarrassing. 

Posted by: bored | Mar 12 2026 15:56 utc | 17

Russia has it’s hands full with the Ukraine for almost 5 years.  Iran pushing back against the combined might of the US and Israeli military!  Embarrassing. 
Posted by: bored | Mar 12 2026 15:56 utc | 22
What do you mean by “all hands”? Russia hasn’t even deployed 15% of its currently active troops in Ukraine.
 
Are you confusing that with the USA?
 
Besides, the plan to praise Trump to his downfall is working very well right now…

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 12 2026 16:03 utc | 19

Regarding the Landstuhl medical facility and blood requests, CBS reported that the Iranian drone attack on Kuwaiti hotel housing US troops was more severe than reported.
https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2031957582735175867

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 16:06 utc | 21

Ukrainian front reminds of Vietnam.
 
The majority of logistical supports coming from Soviet and China.
 
The majority of logistical supports coming from EU and USA.
 
I haven’t seen any real depletion of US/NATO material supports yet but it may soon as the CENTCOM AOR is the current US priority. 
 
NATO can continue to absord the WIA from Ukraine and providing Ukraine with their dismissing stocks but until the Gas Price increased so much that the EU MIC will have to re negotiate the price with their governments and searching for new raw resources suppliers to their arms factories as the disruption is world wide and businesses currently awaiting for some stability before making any decisions.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 12 2026 16:12 utc | 23

Attack on Dniester HPP caused pollution of river in Moldova – Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy

Russian shelling of infrastructure facilities near the Dniester hydroelectric power plant has led to a large-scale leakage of technical oils into the Dniester River, which poses a direct threat to the ecosystems of the two countries. It was reported by the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine.
The pollution caused by the attack on March 7 has already spread downstream and reached the territory of the Republic of Moldova, in particular the area of Naslavcea village. Stains of transformer oil were also recorded in the Vinnytsia Region near the village of Liadova, which confirms the transboundary scale of russia’s environmental crime.
 
The situation is critical, as the Dniester is a key source of drinking water for major cities such as Ukrainian Odesa and Moldovan Chisinau. The ministry emphasized that russia continues to use war as a tool to destroy ecosystems and create international environmental threats. Currently, Ukraine is acting as the central coordinator of the response, working in close cooperation with the Moldovan side to minimize the consequences of the leak.
 
SESU units are involved in oil spill response, installing barrier boom lines and using special sorbents to collect pollutants. Despite the prompt localization measures, the Ukrainian side insists on the need for a proper international legal assessment of the actions of the aggressor country. Experts warn that such pollution poses a serious danger not only to the water supply of the population, but also to the biodiversity of the entire river area.
 
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, as a result of russian massive attacks on the port of Pivdennyi (Odesa Region) there was a leak of vegetable oil into the water area. The port water area was closed until the consequences of the leakage were completely eliminated

https://ukranews.com/en/news/1139632-attack-on-dniester-hpp-caused-pollution-of-the-river-in-moldova-ukraine-s-president

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 12 2026 16:21 utc | 25

Rheinmetall warehouses full of weapons for Ukraine, but orders blocked due to lack of funds

The head of the German defense concern Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, has announced a critical delay in the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Despite the availability of finished products in the company’s warehouses, Kyiv cannot buy them due to the lack of access to financial assistance from the European Union. Papperger said this in a commentary for DW.
 
According to the head of the concern, the main problem is bureaucratic and political obstacles within the EU. We are talking about a loan package of EUR 90 billion, of which about EUR 60 billion is earmarked for ammunition and military equipment. This resource is currently unavailable.
 
“Now I have artillery ammunition in my warehouses that I cannot sell to Ukraine because there are no orders placed due to lack of access to money,” Papperger emphasized.
 
The situation is complicated by the position of Hungary, which is blocking the allocation of funds amid disputes over the transit of russian oil.
 
In particular, the delay affected the latest FV-014 Raider barrage munitions, which have a range of up to 100 km and a five-kilogram warhead. Rheinmetall is ready to supply Ukraine with the first batch of 200 such drones, but the problem of financing is again standing in the way.
 
At the same time, Germany is looking for alternative ways to support Ukraine. Recently, during a visit to Kyiv, the President of the Bundestag announced the allocation of an additional EUR 200 million specifically for the purchase of reconnaissance drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

https://ukranews.com/en/news/1139569-rheinmetall-warehouses-full-of-weapons-for-ukraine-but-orders-blocked-due-to-lack-of-funds

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 12 2026 16:25 utc | 27

Hungary will not approve the allocation of a loan to Ukraine.

https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/03/12/2150252.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 12 2026 16:28 utc | 29

Gehlenskyi is engaging in “aggressive mendacity” now ? His legendary “thank you” seems long gone … what’s wrong ? Can’t flee to “the promise land” anymore ? Awww… too bad ;(.
I will send .. a prayer ^^.

Posted by: Savonarole | Mar 12 2026 16:37 utc | 31

However, the US Army is stretching too thin on EUCOM and potential deployment in CENTCOM.  T2 2026 16:43 utc | 34
 
I have to say that it is pretty amazing the size and scope of the US tools to  dominate the world.
  
 Many wars going on plus I read that there are a couple of war games going on.  Plus all of the other things like running protests and uprisings all at the same time.

Posted by: arby | Mar 12 2026 16:56 utc | 33

The rerouting of supply lines to Iranian front will be interesting as this is the first set up for the US military. 
 
Whether the Ukranian front will collapse if the USA decide to abandon it in the future or if the USA has enough logistics to support both AOR at the same time
 
The Ukrainians are facing war fatigue as the electrical black outs hit them psychologically as they can’t escape the reality of war. 
 
The stalemate will continue until someone making a blunder.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 12 2026 17:00 utc | 35

Posted by: Fredrick | Mar 12 2026 17:07 utc | 38
 
Welcome to reality. History Legends on YT just did a video on Ukrainian war casualties. He put a lot of effort into it….and the numbers he came up with will surprise you and not in a good way. 
 
It is one of many reason’s I call it The Great Performative War. 

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 17:16 utc | 37

History Legends 
Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 17:16 utc | 39
 
lol  Shock face cards with “Putins Navy Destroyed” every other week on their cards… sounds legit.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 12 2026 17:23 utc | 39

Posted by: Fredrick | Mar 12 2026 17:07 utc | 38
 
I don’t see how Ukraine can sustain a counterattack like the recent one, if Ukraine are extremely short of troops.
 
The counter offensives could very well be US provided mercenaries.  Cannon fodder from the Philippines and other nations for the flanks, drones and artillery shells for existing Ukrainian units, and a few elite fighting forces for the main assault.
 
Evidence for this idea would come in 2 ways:  In the Pokrovsk region there were some NATO helicopters that landed near Pokrsovsk, and the people dropped off went off in seemingly random directions looking for … something.  The theory provided was that they were trying to rescue previously deployed important NATO troops or officers.
 
Second of all, these counteroffensives only have a “first advance”.  Never a second follow up.  So in Toretsk, 2 separate counter offensives were conducted.  2 long not very thick pencil shaped regions were captured.  Another wave of counter offensives, and these forces could have met up and surrounded the Russian forces in a sizeable chunk of Toretsk.  No second advances happened.
 
If Ukraine had a functioning army, it would have sent in its first wave to accomplish the 2 pencil attacks, saving up a reserve to exploit whatever gains the first assaults made.  Both Manstein of Germany and Zukhov of the Soviet Union talked INCESSANTLY about reserve management in their discussions of WW2 battle tactics on the German-Russian war in WW2.
 
This pattern has repeated itself over and over again in the Ukrainian conflict.  This is more consistent with the US philosophy of “we attack with the army we have”, rather than “we make sure we have enough forces for an initial attack, a follow up after that, and even a third wave is necessary”. 

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 12 2026 17:34 utc | 41

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 17:32 utc | 42
 
Not you, since you watch such trash in the first place. 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 12 2026 17:45 utc | 43

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 12 2026 17:45 utc | 45
 
Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning. 

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 18:07 utc | 45

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 12 2026 18:17 utc | 48
 
NATO bylaws exclude membership to any state currently involved in a conflict. It would also force Russia into actually taking action. Something they don’t want. 

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 18:24 utc | 47

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 12 2026 17:16 utc | 39
Welcome to reality. History Legends on YT just did a video on Ukrainian war casualties. He put a lot of effort into it….and the numbers he came up with will surprise you and not in a good way. 
 
 
I dig it.  However, how come Russia always give 1,000 dead Ukraine bodies to Ukraine?  And Ukraine gives around 40 Russian dead bodies?  
 

Posted by: Fredrick | Mar 12 2026 19:03 utc | 49

Maverick // 49
 
Sounds like NATO is a Putin agent.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 12 2026 19:09 utc | 51

Well, I watched the history legends report of casualties.
 
They made the casualty comparison by two websites, maybe they’re some of the more ‘reliable’ sites that have the least amount of duplicate or fake data in them, one of them had just 1% of duplicates.
 
They say casualty rates are 1:1. At any expectation I don’t expect the casualty rate to exceed more than 3:1 on any one side on average over the long term.
 
Most likely both RUAF and AFU reported casualty figures are way wrong.
 
The thing I wonder the most how every day RUAF reports 1200 – 1300 AFU casualties while AFU reports always 1200 RUAF casualties.
 
They must both be way off the mark and way too high. Although it’s interesting that they are in the same range, a data point confirming roughly 1:1.
 
So we really won’t know and will never find out.
 
NAFO will say ‘RUAF is always attacking so they must have higher casualties’ which is also not true. On operational level RUAF is taking ground, but AFU also makes a lot of attacks on tactical level where they take losses.
 
What could explain 1:1 is the same equipment and same tactics. Movement on the battle line has become very slow per day for both sides. In that environment drones become primary weapon, while rifle-to-rifle battle is a rare occurrence. 
 
For movement warfare, drones are deadly resulting in much higher exposure.
 
Despite RUAF advancing they manage to still hit more Ukrainians, probably due to better available fire-recon complex.
 
How long range strikes with missiles and bombs and vaporized bodies are reported is unknown. But I bet there are much more unreported deaths or MIA on AFU side vs. RUAF side, since there is more motivation by AFU to un-report or hide due to the way commanders can steal salaries.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 19:34 utc | 53

In light of USA’s aggression against Iran, this would be the perfect time for Putin to finally end this war by overwhelming force. He would have complete political cover. And yet he doesn’t.
The reason Iran is succeeding to a much greater extent than Russia in their respective wars, is that Zionists play no role in their decision making.
THE ENTIRE UKRAINE WAR IS A ZIONIST PSYOP. IT IS MERE THEATRE .
Maybe after the 2 latest atrocities by Ukraine against Russian civilians, Russia should write a strongly worded letter of condemnation.
By the way, Russia refused to veto the UN security council resolution condemning Iran. SHAMEFUL.
 

Posted by: Anton Gorbatow | Mar 12 2026 19:51 utc | 55

Posted by: catdog | Mar 12 2026 19:51 utc | 58
 
Well, that’s a good point. If it really is 1:1 then the demilitarization has failed.
 
But all this data is just relying on two websites. We’ll never know for real.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 19:57 utc | 57

And I somehow agree with the notion that Iran doing to Nato bases in the gulf and beyond somehow should be what Russia is doing to Ukraine. Although, of course Iran is not really facing a conventional ground force per se, it’s mostly a missile war so far, with Iran’s air defenses in ambush mode within valleys and mountains waiting to hit any intruding Nato airplane or drone.
 
Iran fortified missile and production facilities inside mountains which US may not be even able to hit without nuclear weapons at this point (I don’t believe the notion that US bombers would be dropping bombs deep into Iran, they are long range stand-off cruise missiles mostly which don’t do a lot of vertical impact).
 
It is very possible there are a lot of ‘this or that’ restrictions at play preventing RUAF from doing things efficiently. Why would there be restrictions?
 
Iran geographically is VERY tough to take on for any invading force. Logistically Iran is tougher for US than Russia for Ukraine, which exist on same geography and flatland.
 
Russia is taking on the entire nato with its multi-trillion dollar arms budgets, all going for Ukraine.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 20:03 utc | 59

(A) Ukraine is de facto in NATO: Ukrainians are NATO pawns Posted by: Valerio del Bierzo | Mar 12 2026 19:29 utc | 54

 
It is much worse than that. It is NATO-occupied territory that is not officially NATO and used as a launch platform for strikes on Russia.
 
If it was in NATO and it the territory was used that way, then Putin wipes out all Europe and the problem is solved. He would have no other choice presumably (well, it’s not quite certain now, after the last four years, but had it directly started that way, he would have indeed had no choice — the frog would still be very cold and alert). 
 
But because Ukraine is not in NATO, it is the disposable proxy, with its officially NATO rear somehow untouchable, and Putin refuses to strike that sacred untouchable rear.
 
Even after the Iranians showed how you do it, from a much weaker position.
 
If I am the US, I don’t want Ukraine in NATO, it would ruin the whole scheme, as then the Russian frog would jump out of the slowly boiling pot. 
 
P.S. It has been explained many times — Putin can nuke to zero everything in Europe except for the UK and France (and if they can find and sink the SSBNs on patrol, those two too), and there will be no response from the US. In fact, doing that ensures there will be not a single strike on Russia, not even a drone, for many decades to come. And it will also greatly help Russia’s internal development, because the delusion of maintaining ties with the West will have been finally ended for good, and Russia would have to develop independently on its own, freed from its mental prison.
 
The only people who will suffer are the Russian oligarchs, whose internal position is rooted in the defeat in the Cold War and based on them being the middle men between Russia’s raw materials and the West. And the threat to those very special people’s current position is the reason Putin is allowing NATO to bomb Russia 24/7. Any amount of death and destruction inside Russia is less important to him than the wealth of the Russian oligarchs. 
 
But if Putin was to defend the country and physically eliminate the threat from the western direction, guess what would happen? The internal position of the oligarchs would collapse, and then they would not be powerful enough to dictate policy on Putin. That’s how perverse and fucked up the situation is — Putin refuses to defend the country because he is defending the interests of people who object to him defending the country, but whose influence over him would evaporate if he was to defend it. So Putin has all the power here, supposedly. And he certainly has the duty. But he refuses to exercise that power.
 
This is called grand treason in more straightforward terms, and deserves public execution. With some elaborate torture thrown in for good measure too. I am sure there are some guys in Rubicon who would be happy to arrange it for him given how pissed the military is at this point. Imagine having Putin run the gauntlet in some muddy field trying to dodge FPVs, then after his pants are full of shit and soaked in piss and he has resigned to his fate, drones with charges too small to kill him outright start hitting him, body part by body part, so that he bleeds slowly and in the greatest amount of pain possible. He deserves nothing less for having sentenced countless patriotic young men to analogous executions in the hands of the Ukronazis while refusing to lay a finger on the key Ukronazis or deprive the Ukronazis of the means to kill Russians, even though he can do that within hours of finding the integrity to order it done.

Posted by: GM | Mar 12 2026 20:28 utc | 61

GM/Shadowbanned – go and boil your head.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 12 2026 20:29 utc | 63

Great job by Putin once again — the dear partners are sending much love:
 
https://t.me/mod_russia/61896
 

On March 10, at approximately 3:40 a.m. Moscow time, the Kyiv regime intentionally struck a hospital medical facility in the Donetsk People’s Republic using four fixed-wing UAVs.At the time of the strike, the facility housed over 130 patients and approximately 50 medical personnel. This facility had never been used for military purposes, and its deliberate destruction by the Kyiv regime constituted a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human morality.Eight medical personnel were killed in the Kyiv regime’s terrorist strike. Another ten people, including nine medical personnel, were injured to varying degrees.

Posted by: GM | Mar 12 2026 20:41 utc | 65

re: GM | Mar 12 2026 20:41 utc | 67
 
Pokokohua!

GM/Shadowbanned – go and boil your head.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 12 2026 20:29 utc | 65

Posted by: tucenz | Mar 12 2026 21:06 utc | 67

Always appreciate Dr. Brovkin’s views.
 
Putin’s ULTIMATUM: The Globalist Agenda in Ukraine DESTROYED (Shlanger & Brovkin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUj2Z8IJQqI

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 21:12 utc | 69

PODS alert.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 12 2026 22:14 utc | 71

Salaam- KillDoll@34,thanks same to you and your family, Ramadan Mubarak.Seems the Americans keeps ignorance uppermost in their planning -open another front- Cuba really! Claus stated -‘ never fight a two front war’.Ah well those who forget history,,.”!

Posted by: 4q8 | Mar 12 2026 23:34 utc | 73

left’s hero loving Israel
https://t.me/BellumActaNews/168279 Ukrainian President Zelensky speaking about the Iranian participation on the Russian-Ukrainian War:

It was the Iranians who launched the first Shahed drones at Ukraine.Russian operators did not exist; they were trained to do this.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 12 2026 23:54 utc | 75

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said energy markets were moving towards “a new pricing reality” and floated the idea of resuming energy exports to Europe.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 12 2026 23:58 utc | 78
 
Didn’t he just talk about  cutting the EU off entirely?

Posted by: arby | Mar 13 2026 0:03 utc | 77

https://t-me.translate.goog/dva_majors/89524?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
 
Romania agreed to produce drones and supply electricity to Ukraine.
 
On March 12, 2026, Zelenskyy met with Romanian (Usurper) President Nicusor Dan in Bucharest, where three key documents were signed:
 

1. A Declaration of Strategic Partnership;
2.  An Agreement on Joint Production of Defense Products
3.  A Framework Agreement on Energy Cooperation

While the language on strategic partnership doesn’t demonstrate anything particularly new, the impact of the other two agreements is strategically significant.Romania has confirmed its readiness to host drone production facilities on its territory :

“One of the signed documents concerns the joint production of drones on our territory. We discussed military cooperation, and it’s now on paper,” Nikushor Dan said.

Negotiations on this topic have been ongoing since last year; Romania even budgeted around €200 million for the creation of a UAV production plant in partnership with Ukrainian companies. Brașov , a major industrial center in Transylvania, was mentioned as a possible location.

“It’s not just a question of having interceptor drones, but of integrating them into the air defense system . Any country in Europe could be under threat, so our experience will be useful to everyone,” Zelenskyy said.

It’s ironic to hear about a threat to Europe allegedly coming from Russia, against the backdrop of direct threats from the Ukrainian authorities.
 
 
 
During his visit, Zelenskyy also visited the European F-16 training center at the Romanian 86th Air Base in Fetești, where Ukrainian pilots are training.
 
 
Ukraine and Romania are starting to build two new power transmission lines:
 

• A small interconnector between Chernivtsi (Ukraine) and Suceava (Romania). Scheduled launch by the end of 2026.
• A large interconnector (Porubne – Siret section), which requires additional funding and approvals fromthe American side. This is what independence is.

An interconnector is a structure that allows for the exchange of electricity between electrical networks.
Problems with grid stability in Ukraine’s border regions, amid the destruction of infrastructure, are forcing the search for new ways to synchronize with the Romanian grid.
 
 
Winter campaign.
 
The Russian army’s massive and systematic destruction of key elements of Ukraine’s energy grid has broken all previous records, but appears to have been nearly completed this year.
 
Furthermore, Romania is exploring the use of Ukrainian gas storage facilities and the development of the Vertical Gas Corridor ( Greece-Bulgaria-Romania-Ukraine-Moldova ). in the interests of the United States.
 
The Romanian president, in turn, pressured the Ukrainian authorities to offer educational benefits:

“I received guarantees that schools with Romanian language instruction will continue to operate and that all minority rights will be respected in accordance with international standards.”

 
 
Romania is trying to gain something that can’t be easily produced even in the most modern plant— combat experience . It needs it to implement its plans to seize Transnistria, which potentially poses an obstacle to US plans to supply LNG to Europe.
 
On the other hand, Ukraine continues to implement its strategy of moving military production offshore so that it can continue producing military equipment without Kalibrs over the plants.
 
Apparently, Kyiv is confident that military-industrial complexes in other countries won’t be targeted at Ukrainian facilities.
 
 
Iran is demonstrating to the entire world that it can fly to any country if there are enemy military facilities on its territory.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 13 2026 2:15 utc | 79

An interconnector is a structure that allows for the exchange of electricity between electrical networks.

 
Temporary structure at best.

Posted by: Tel | Mar 13 2026 7:18 utc | 81

unimperator | Mar 12 2026 20:03 utc | 61
USA are dropping heavy buker busters on high value targets as evicenced by images of Fordow and Isfahan. Thosre are rare strikes from B-2 and B-1 stealth bombers though.
 
All the other attacks are standoff cruise missiles from fighter-bombers, Tomahawks or the occasional Hellfire from drones.
Teheran got a few crazy Israelis with glide bombs too but this seems to have slowed somewhat in favor of bombing Lebanon. This switch reeks of tanker scarcity. Not getting better now.

Posted by: SOS | Mar 13 2026 8:54 utc | 83

https://t.me/dva_majors/89543
 

🇸🇪🏴‍☠️Sweden seized its second civilian vessel in the Baltic Sea this month,
the tanker Sea Owl I (flagged🇰🇲Comoros Islands) was detained (around 8:30 pm on March 12) in Swedish territorial waters near Trelleborg Island by Swedish police and coast guard officers.‼️The operation was pre-planned.
Once again, the formal basis was suspicion of violating maritime regulations (false flag, lack of registration, lack of insurance, etc.). The real reason was the vessel’s inclusion on the sanctions list.🇪🇺EU.
Earlier on March 6, Swedish security forces detained the bulk carrier Caffa (flagged🇬🇼Guinea), which is also included in the list of Russia’s “shadow fleet”.
✨We’re already being terrorized by all sorts of losers.

Posted by: GM | Mar 13 2026 9:48 utc | 85

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 12 2026 21:12 utc | 71
 
“Always appreciate Dr. Brovkin’s views.”
His intellectual vanity is hard to bear. It shouldn’t of course be held against him personally – it’s a Jewish thing (“Help! My son, the doctor, is drowning!”). 
 
What is a bit bizarre is that he keeps selling President Trump to his audience. I believe that he is close to the Atlanticists inside the Kremlin John Helmer is warning about.

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Mar 13 2026 10:07 utc | 87

Who would have guessed that after 4+ years of war, mobile internet in Moscow would be cut off for for “security” reasons while everything works perfectly in Kyiv…

Posted by: Grand Condor | Mar 13 2026 11:39 utc | 89

@GM | Mar 13 2026 11:21 utc | 92
China is helping Ukrainian teams with equipment to repair the electric system. There is no conflict with Russia about that as far as I know. It may seem paradoxical but it means BRICS moving closer

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 13 2026 12:13 utc | 91

Russia is such a big country with unlimited resources, extremely educated population, solid base in industry, and yet, she struggles so much against Ukraine. My mind almost can’t believe it. I unfortunately no longer see the war ending anytime soon, I really believed it would be over by mid 2027 since early 2024 but now I just can’t see it. Ukraine caught a second wind. Their grid is rebuilt, their military is blowing up Russia AD every day it seems like. Meanwhile the Russians have REDUCED attacks with missiles and drones for 3 months in a row. In early February everything was booming to Russia’s favor and now? Nothing.

Posted by: QTTRFN | Mar 13 2026 12:20 utc | 93

Well i don’t follow it closely at all but I doo see the body exchanges and the prisoner exchanges and the numbers are very lopsided in Russia’s favour.
Posted by: arby | Mar 12 2026 17:42 utc | 44

That fits in with the logic of the moving front.
 
The advancing army encounters the dead of the retreating army.
 
The retreating army will only retrieve its own dead, if it can, which it probably can’t – it has other priorities. The dead of the advancing army  will be left for the advancing army to cope with.
 
Similar logic for prisoners.

Posted by: hh | Mar 13 2026 13:19 utc | 95

Boo hoo hoo, Russia not killing enough children?
 
It seems that Russia can do what they want.
And they want to grind, slowly forward, keeping their soldiers safer, keeping their citizen’s lives normal, while confirming that they cannot be defeated.

Posted by: Polli | Mar 13 2026 13:47 utc | 97

❗️ Russia’s foreign ministry SUMMONS British and French envoys over Ukrainian strikes on Bryansk region
 
An ‘unequivocal condemnation’ of the strikes was demanded — the missiles were British and French made
 
‘Failure to do so will be considered solidarity with TERRORIST methods’

 
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2032454820846797002
 
More maneuvering the Imperial powers into removing them from the UNSC, IMO.
 
Either testify against your self, or demonstrate that you condone terrorism. A no-win situation for the Epstein class.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 13 2026 14:08 utc | 99