Germany cancels its F126 frigate after first spending  redeemable EUR1.5 billion, opting for 8 Meko A-2o0 warships instead.
 
https://x.com/DeItaone/status/2069806162317353418

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 24 2026 18:46 utc | 4

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 24 2026 18:44 utc | 4
 
Thanks a lot karlof for the links. I’ve come to the point in life when I no longer enjoy lengthy videos but prefer to read articles so I appreciate this very much.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jun 24 2026 18:49 utc | 6

According to: https://www.euractiv.com/news/first-eu-ukraine-loan-payment-drops-drone-financing-focuses-on-e3-2bn-budget-aid/ the first disbursement from the €90 billion loan scheme for Ukraine has been reduced from €5.9 billion to €3.2 billion; it has also been repurposed away from financing drone production to general budget support.
 
The reason for the reduction is very diplomatically given as:

a technical issue involving the need for the EU to ensure it can properly monitor how the money is spent

 
I’ve been thinking for months that there was no way the EU was just going to hand over the two tranches of €45 billion without having a say in how it is spent with tighter scrutiny measures. Now I’m not even sure Ukraine will receive the full amount anyway. I can easily see payment in dribs and drabs, for specific purposes only, until the EU financial officials get a clearer picture on the survival timeline for the Zelensky junta and the general stability of the internal socio-political situation.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 24 2026 18:52 utc | 8

“This is the most corrupt government in the history of Canada. ‘Why does Mark Carney love this Ukraine war so much?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 24 2026 17:54 utc | 2
 So many of the boomers here in Canada remain enamoured with Carney.  It’s bizarre  
 
Posted by: Chris N | Jun 24 2026 18:38 utc | 3

 
Not male boomers.  Liberals barely won because of women and recent immigrants as well as the defection of voters from the New Democrats.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Jun 24 2026 19:10 utc | 10

Chris N@3, HCNorth@8:
 
“They are also the generation that eschewed socialism/working class solidarity so that their portfolios can continue to grow…”
 
Yes, across the West generally an affluent generation of virtue-signalling cowards and sellouts who choose to be led by the same. Wasichu (those who take all the fat).

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 24 2026 19:23 utc | 12

‘Why does Mark Carney love this Ukraine war so much?”
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 24 2026 17:54 utc | 2

 
Mark Carney… ex Goldman Sachs, ex Bank of Canada, ex Bank of England, ex Brookfield is a died in the wool champion of neo-Liberal capitalism. Privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
 
Russia is a successful enemy of that model. The state is a significant shareholder in all nationally significant industries. That allows for a 13% flat income tax rate and low government deficits. The opposite of every western country.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Jun 24 2026 19:25 utc | 14

Zelenskyy is waiting for some kind of decision from the G7 countries that would help the Ukrainian Armed Forces conduct operations in Crimea, after which Russia “will be forced to choose peace.”
Zelenskyy in his evening address.
 
“Our operation, particularly regarding Crimea, is meticulously calculated, and the way it is proceeding demonstrates that if Ukraine achieves exactly what we discussed with our partners at the G7—and this depends on our partners’ decisions—we will quickly ensure the conditions under which Russia will be forced to choose peace. We very much count on a positive response from our partners: they clearly understand what we are talking about,” the president stated.
 

Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Jun 24 2026 19:51 utc | 16

Claims of a hack into Ukrainian government databases revealed 2.4 million casualties: https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2026/06/24/2398022.html

Ukraine lost 2.4 million soldiers in 4 years of its military operation, more than 400,000 of them in 2026. The data is from the databases of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Shopping Center, Ukrainian medical organizations and morgues hacked by our hackers.

Some images of what looks like reporting documentation at the above link.
 
If true, that is a shocking number, but who really knows in the thick fog of claims and counter-claims.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 24 2026 20:06 utc | 18

“This is the most corrupt government in the history of Canada. ‘Why does Mark Carney love this Ukraine war so much?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jun 24 2026 17:54 utc | 2
 
So many of the boomers here in Canada remain enamoured with Carney. It’s bizarre  
Posted by: Chris N | Jun 24 2026 18:38 utc | 3
It isn’t just boomers, there are still too many slaves of all ages and backgrounds throughout the West that think they live in a democracy and that the bourgeois parties can be pressured to stop aiding the billionaires, ruining the working class, stop committing genocide and give up on Imperialism. 
False class consciousness is a very sad thing to behold, especially when the entire illusion of democracy has been so thoroughly and publicly exploded.  
The good news: millions now understand that they are the slaves, that Israel and billionaires are the real constituency of all official parties and that the ruling class insanely seeks endless world war in a desperate effort to maintain hegemony over China.  
What is to be done?  That’s the only question today.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jun 24 2026 20:27 utc | 20

Lot’s of talk on MoA about bridges, this sounds reasonable:
 

About bridges.
 
There’s an extremely stubborn group of people who are convinced that Russia deliberately doesn’t hit bridges and does it, presumably, because of a “secret deal”. I am a sapper by profession and have studied and participated in exercises on reconnaissance of objects in the event of a possible retreat during training in mine clearance and bridge demolition. Most of the objects that had to be blown up after a possible retreat of our troops were bridges.
 
All the bridges evaluated were built in the post-war period, that is, during the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, so all these bridges (including those in our territory and in the territory of the former Ukraine) were built according to GOST standards, which took into account the possibility of a missile-bomb strike on the bridge. Therefore, some bridge structures provide for excessive strength (usually these are bulls, that is, various types of supporting structures), while others prioritize quick repair to maintain the movement of cargo.
 
Thus, all spans are easily and, most importantly, quickly repaired, and the supports are designed for a close explosion, which does not cause sufficient damage to disable the bridge.
 
To blow up a two-three-span medium-sized car bridge (railway bridges are even stronger), you need:
 
1. a lot of explosives – not 20-100 kg, as in a drone or a regular missile, a ton, or even more, it needs to be calculated separately for each target.
 
 
2. the explosives must be placed in advance in a special way, taking into account the joints, the geometric shape of the support, etc. If you just put three tons next to the support and detonate them, it’s not certain that the necessary damage will be done – the explosion will go in all directions, and the support will not get enough damage.
 
3. the detonation must be carried out sequentially, achieving the necessary impulses, not only to destroy the area of the support, but also to push it in the desired direction, and not just to make a cavity in solid reinforced concrete, which, by the way, is of the highest strength grade.
 
4. there’s something else I won’t write about
 
So, an Iskander missile carries 700 kg of explosives and a direct hit on the support can occur in a very unlikely case, because either it has to hit from above, which with 700kg of explosives will only collapse a part of the spans and not all of them, and the support itself will be just fine, or the missile will hit next to the support, which will cause the explosion to envelop the support, where all living things, of course, will be killed by the shock wave, and the spans below and to the side will also be damaged, but they can be repaired, and the support will only get minor damage.
 
A drone can only slightly damage the span of a bridge, which is simply covered with a few centimeters thick metal plate at the place of the hole. In total, a bridge can be repaired from several hours to two days. Thus, you can spend 20 Iskanders and all the drones available in Russia on a bridge and it will be temporarily damaged, but not destroyed.
 
Why does the layman think that bridges are easy to destroy? Because they’ve seen it in movies. I remind you that movies are not quite life, they film special spectacular explosions for the cinema. Secondly, during the Great Patriotic War, the vast majority of bridges were wooden, except for bridges over major rivers, and even then, they were made of stone – reinforced concrete for the supports and spans was still a rare material, and the technology was just developing.  In addition, bridges were destroyed by enemy bombers with targeted mass bombing, when not one fool with explosives hit the bridge or nearby, but dozens and hundreds of them did it almost simultaneously with the shortest pauses. For this, there was a complete lack of air defense and the ability of dozens of aircraft to reach the bridge and accurately pass over it. That’s why so many bridges were easily destroyed. But not as beautifully as in the movies.
 
https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/53883

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 24 2026 20:30 utc | 22

John Gilberts @ 20
 

denazification, Helmer argues, is now a Europe-wide condition, because Europe is rearming and hardening on its own. Russia faces permanent war. 
 

Anti-NATO poster from Czechoslovakia, 1978.
 
The Soviets knew the score, the modern Russians should never have betrayed the sacrifices of their parents, grand parents, and great grand parents. Like the Manhattan Indians, all for some trinkets and jewelry – McDonalds, Volkswagen, Ikea, and iPhones.
 
 

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 24 2026 20:55 utc | 24

With recent news about Kostyantynivka and drone strikes, I thought it would be interesting to review the year 2026 (so far) for Russia’s performance in the war. And why 2026 may be their worst year since the beginning of the war.
 
Firstly, it’s fair to say that Russia has achieved some success this year. Though it began in December of the previous year, last winter was brutal for Ukraine. Due to Russian drones and missiles striking heating infrastructure, citizens of Kyiv were literally left out in the cold. Pipes burst and froze, heating equipment was borrowed from foreign supporters, it was disastrous for Ukraine. And if it could happen once, it could happen again next winter.
 
Furthermore, it’s no secret that the front is going relatively well for Russia. In addition to pressure in Kupyansk, Russian forces have taken over 60% of the Ukrainian stronghold Kostyantynivka. While some posts from AMK Mapping and SuriyakMaps show that Ukraine has managed to take back open fields, Russia seems to be focused on taking cities. Which, according to the latest posts, have been successful.
 
However, this past month has shown Russia being dealt some rather severe setbacks. Ukraine managed to strike deep into Russia this year, with the infamous strike on oil refineries in Moscow. Many people say this attack was mostly PR for Ukraine, especially with the dark skies in Moscow at the time, but other targets have been hit within Russia. These include factories that are known to produce technology for the war effort, and civilians have unfortunately been killed as well.
 
The biggest impact of these strikes right now are the news about local governors putting restrictions on gasoline and fuel. It first started in Sevastopol, which was a response to several drone and missile strikes. The fuel limits, as well as a limit on driving at night, were put in place a day ago. In my opinion, the drone and missile strikes in Sevastopol are an attempt to isolate Crimea from Russia.
 
I didn’t think much of it, especially after the previous narrative of a Russian fuel crisis fell apart earlier in the spring, but then I heard about regions like Vladimir and Voronezh putting similar restrictions on fuel. These are in the mainland of Russia, which makes it clear that something is going on. I don’t want to call it a crisis just yet, but when an oil and gas power-giant like Russia has restrictions like this, there’s definitely some kind of trouble.
 
To me, this sounds like a bigger deal than the first sanctions that were placed on Russia in 2022. The country seems to have adapted to the sanctions since then, but adapting to fuel shortages sounds more challenging. And the Russian citizens have to deal with that on top of Internet restrictions as well.
 
So while Russia is seeing progress on the front, issues back home may be starting after years of fighting. I don’t think we’ll see much change until September, when Russia will be having its legislative election. I heard that elections such as these are more of a public opinion tool rather than a large political move; in essence, when the ruling party (United Russia) loses a certain number of seats, it’ll be a clear sign that the people of Russia want something to change. Whether that’ll be a lifting of Internet restrictions or an escalation of the war, it seems we won’t find out until then.
 
But for now, 2026 seems to have more setbacks than rewards for Russia.

Posted by: Court of Talons | Jun 24 2026 21:11 utc | 26

Does anyone remember Kellogg saying last winter “If Ukraine survives this winter – January, February – and reaches March, April, the advantage will be on the side of Ukraine.“?
 
Turned out he was right and accidentally (or not) ‘spilled the beans’ to the public. There has been a lot going on in the background, and it finally all came together this Spring. Likely the approval of sales/giveaways of American-made drones got through the DoD (or whoever approves such things)
 
and there were many who dismissed his words. And look at what’s happening right now ..

Posted by: Definitely Not Meee | Jun 24 2026 21:19 utc | 28

Useless fleas trying to bite never merit any direct response.
 
I will promote the chat Ritter had with Haiphong where he discusses his recent trip to Russia and the SMO zone. I’ll also pass on the info that Google is in the business of making combat drones for use by the Nazis in their terrorist attacks making Google a felon under US law. So, if you use Google like the fleas surely do, you’re supporting terrorism.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 24 2026 21:39 utc | 30

Prior to or after watching the Ritter chat, I suggest reading Putin’s meeting with military personnel participating in the special military operation. The link goes to the official English transcript. What you’ll read are conditions Ritter verifies, which IMO is significant. NATO propaganda echoed here tries to convince people the Nazis are winning. The reality is they aren’t, but the costs incurred by Russia have increased. IMO, a new term merits coining–Dronefare–for it’s completely changed the nature of warfare as Scott and the Russian soldiers report.  

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 24 2026 21:51 utc | 32

A Ukrainian website Babel reports:
 
“The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) Dmytro Lubinets is investigating possible torture of servicemen in the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelya”.
Lubinets announced this on social media. (…)  
The day before, on June 23, Babel published a major investigation  into the situation in the 425th Assault Regiment “Skelya”. We interviewed more than 30 witnesses, mostly relatives of those mobilized to “Skelya”, as well as a dozen soldiers from the regiment who escaped or are still serving there.
Babel counted 26 deaths in the regiment’s training centers over the past six months, and also described cases of torture and abuse of those undergoing training.”
 
https://babel.ua/en/news/128007-human-rights-commissioner-lubinets-is-investigating-possible-torture-in-the-skelya-assault-regiment-babel-wrote-about-this-yesterday
 
Details describing  the inhumane treatment of servicemen  are linked in this article in Ukrainian language.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: 9razyna | Jun 24 2026 22:37 utc | 34

@19
“particularly regarding Crimea, is meticulously calculated, and the way it is proceeding demonstrates that if Ukraine achieves exactly what we discussed with our partners at the G7—and this depends on our partners’ decisions—we will quickly ensure the conditions under which Russia will be forced to choose peace.”
I would guess that means destroying the Crimean bridge and starving the Russians trapped there. 

Posted by: schmoe | Jun 24 2026 22:42 utc | 36

The conversation Ritter had with Nima differs greatly from the one with Haiphong I linked to earlier. I also highly suggest the chat Diesen had with Max Blumenthal. Max and Scott both heavily emphasize the importance of the domestic economy on US electoral politics.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 25 2026 0:09 utc | 38

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 24 2026 18:52 utc | 9

I’ve been thinking for months that there was no way the EU was just going to hand over the two tranches of €45 billion without having a say in how it is spent with tighter scrutiny measures. Now I’m not even sure Ukraine will receive the full amount anyway.

They don’t. It will be interesting to see statistics on how Western money was spent but for now it’s clear that a large part will immediately go into EU military industry. There’s grift at every stage, not just Ukraine. (Embezzlement is standard procedure at Brussels, independently of Ukraine.)

Posted by: Konami | Jun 25 2026 0:22 utc | 40

 
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_/status/2069680660470432188?s=20 says
 
 

“Ukrainian channels are sounding the alarm on Kupyansk, characterising the situation as “hell”. This comes as Russian forces completely recaptured the eastern half of Kupyansk…”

 
 
Wait a cotton pickin’ minute! Didn’t Abu Martyanov al Putinculti etc all insist Ukranazistan had never recaptured Kupyansk? For that matter, why are Simplicius76 and others talking about what Russia will do after it captures (Krasni) Liman? Didn’t Russia capture Krasni Liman months ago already?

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 25 2026 0:27 utc | 42

Lavrov said this, Putin said that, and so obviously nothing else is needed. Russia will soon be in Lvov on Lavrov’s and Putin’s words.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 25 2026 0:17 utc | 46
 
Nah. I don’t believe Russia wants to enter the western part of Ukraine.
Better to take Odessa, then leave Ukraine landlocked and completely broken financially.
Let the Poles trade Lvov for the debt owed to them by a Ukraine that is full of pensioners and bitter, maimed Banderites.

Posted by: Liolia Paluzas | Jun 25 2026 0:35 utc | 44

So what’s going to happen? Nothing.
 
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 25 2026 0:25 utc | 48
 
****************
 
Nothing is happening so often these days that something must be up.
 
When I was little and my mother mysteriously appeared, unnanounced, and asked me what I was doing , I would innocently (I thought!) reply ‘nothing, Mum’ – but she knew I was up to something, so there would be multiple punishments; setting things right, a little dance with a peach switch for being naughty, and my mouth washed out with sandsoap (remember that??) for telling fibs..
 
I suspect that someone will be punished for doing ‘nothing’. 

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 25 2026 1:21 utc | 46

If true, that is a shocking number, but who really knows in the thick fog of claims and counter-claims.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 24 2026 20:06 utc | 22
 
so that should be something like 

• 2022 300k
• 2023 400k
• 2024 600k
• 2025 700k
• 2026 800k+ (already 400k first semester)

 
that woul probably mean average 2:1 including 3:1 in 2026 

Posted by: Newbie | Jun 25 2026 1:46 utc | 48

It would be excellent if Alastair Crooke would compose an article that contained all the information that prompts him to warn of escalation by Russia during his chat with Danny Davis. As I opined, all too often nowadays critical information is imparted in these chats that never make it into print. We see the usual suspects telling us to ignore what Putin and Lavrov say, but what they’ve recently said happens to be very important, so they need to be read/listened to more than ever. And it’s very fortunate that we have sources like Mr. Crooke who do read what’s said by those that matter and then relate that to us. 

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 25 2026 2:16 utc | 50

Revealed: How Bulgaria Has Been Arming Ukraine for Four Years
 
Bulgaria has been one of Ukraine‘s most significant arms suppliers since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. That much has been known in general terms for some time. What has not been publicly discussed in detail until now is the scale and the method, specifically, how Sofia has used third countries as intermediaries to transfer Soviet-era heavy weaponry while maintaining a degree of official distance from the deliveries.
 
The picture comes from Bulgaria‘s own submissions to the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA), the international transparency mechanism through which countries voluntarily report their weapons exports and imports. Bulgaria has filed reports for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Read together, they tell a story that goes well beyond the official aid packages announced in Sofia.
 
The indirect pipeline through Czechia and the UK
 
The most telling entries in the recent reports concern exports to the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Both are enthusiastic supporters of Ukraine, but neither has a plausible use for Bulgarian T-72 tanks, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, or Soviet-era self-propelled howitzers. Defense analysts, including the Ukrainian defense publication Defense Express, have drawn the logical conclusion: these two countries have been acting as logistics intermediaries, receiving the equipment formally and passing it to Ukraine.
 
The 2025 report is the most detailed. That year, Bulgaria exported 65 armored vehicles to the Czech Republic, among them 22 T-72 tanks, 40 MT-LB tracked transporters, two HMMWV armored vehicles and one BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle. Alongside these, 38 D-30 122mm howitzers went to Prague. To the UK, Bulgaria sent 18 self-propelled 2S1 Gvozdika howitzers, three MT-LB transporters and three BS-3 100mm anti-tank guns.
 
The 2024 report shows a similar pattern. That year, 11 MT-LB vehicles went to Czechia along with 144 artillery systems including BM-21 multiple rocket launchers, D-30 howitzers and 120mm mortars. Poland received 41 armored vehicles including 33 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers and 8 MT-LBs.
 
Going back to 2022, the year the war began, the numbers are striking. Bulgaria sent 12 T-72 tanks and 31 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles to Czechia, along with 84 MT-LB vehicles to Poland, and 82 Gvozdika howitzers, 8 BM-21 rocket launchers and 6 D-20 152mm howitzers to Poland as well.
 
None of these reports list Ukraine as the final destination for this heavy equipment. The Czech Republic, the UK and Poland are named as the recipients. Whether that reflects the actual final destination or a deliberate structuring of the transfers to provide Bulgaria with political cover at home is not stated in the documents. The interpretation from Defense Express and others is that it reflects the latter.
 
Direct deliveries to Kyiv
 
Alongside the indirect pipeline, Bulgaria has also sent weapons directly to Ukraine, listed as such in the UN reports. In 2025, direct deliveries included 3,000 Bulspike single-shot disposable anti-tank rocket launchers, 100 ATGL-L2 grenade launchers, 100 7.62mm light machine guns and 50 ZU-2 14.5mm anti-aircraft guns. In 2024, Ukraine received 1,000 Bulspike anti-tank launchers and 50 82mm mortars directly from Bulgaria.
 

The 2022 and 2023 reports do not list Ukraine as a direct recipient of weapons, though the indirect transfers through Poland, Czechia and Romania in those years are substantial. In 2023 alone, Poland received 26,000 anti-tank rocket launchers, 2,360 light machine guns and 6,950 grenade launchers from Bulgaria, while Romania received nearly 11,000 anti-tank launchers and 1,347 heavy machine guns. As with the heavy equipment transfers, the assumption among analysts is that a significant portion of these found their way to Ukrainian forces.
 
The early months and the financial scale
 
The importance of Bulgaria‘s contribution in the immediate aftermath of the invasion is hard to overstate. According to Defense Express, in the first six months of 2022, Bulgaria supplied approximately a third of all ammunition used by the Ukrainian military and close to 40 percent of the fuel consumed by Ukrainian armed forces. The total value of Bulgarian arms exports to Ukraine during that initial period, routed through the US and UK, reached an estimated 2.7 billion US dollars.
 
Those numbers have context in the broader picture of Bulgaria‘s defense export economy. At the HEMUS 2026 defense exhibition in Sofia, Deputy Economy Minister Mihaela Karadimova announced that Bulgarian defense exports reached nearly 2.5 billion euros in 2025, maintaining the level seen in 2024. She described the defense industrial base as a strategic national asset and called for deeper integration into European defense consortia and NATO supply chains.
 
Bulgaria also provided repair and maintenance services for damaged Ukrainian military equipment, a contribution that does not appear in the UNROCA data but has been noted separately.
 
What the documents do and do not show
 
A few important caveats apply to reading these reports. UNROCA covers major conventional arms and light weapons, but does not include artillery shells, small arms ammunition or other consumables, which form a substantial part of any modern military supply effort. The reports reflect what Bulgaria chose to declare, and the declared destination is not necessarily the final destination.
 
What they do show is a country that has been running one of the more substantial Soviet-era re-equipment operations in Europe, quietly and consistently, across multiple governments with different public positions on aid to Ukraine. The political debate in Bulgaria about whether and how much to help Kyiv has at various points been heated, particularly around direct military assistance. The UNROCA documents suggest that regardless of what was said publicly, the pipeline kept moving.
 
Whether Sofia will maintain this level of support going forward is a separate question. The new government under Prime Minister Radev has signaled caution about additional financial and military commitments, citing budget pressures. But the production lines at Bulgarian defense manufacturers are running, the export figures are holding, and the intermediary routes through Prague, Warsaw and London remain well established.
 
https://www.novinite.com/articles/238879/Revealed%3A+How+Bulgaria+Has+Been+Arming+Ukraine+for+Four+Years
 

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 25 2026 2:59 utc | 52

And you response is to invoke some bizzare memories of your mother’s advice?!? Grow up. Jeez….  
Posted by: Skeletor | Jun 25 2026 2:35 utc | 59
 
**************
 
I share your pain, disgust, and frustration – I truly do. But there are enough barflies here who get angry and rage – and it doesn’t seem to achieve any better world-changing results than my feeble attempts at instruction and provoking thought via ‘dad jokes’ and amateur satire.
 
But to respond formally to your advice: Had I listened more closely to my dear mother’s advice I am sure that I would be a much better person today. And as for growing up, I think it is a bit late in the day (for me) to do that. It is difficult enough just to sit up in the morning. I find myself in the cohort of folk that never grew up – we just got older… until we don’t.

Posted by: General Factotum | Jun 25 2026 4:07 utc | 54

https://t.me/stranaua/239672At one of Odessa’s churches, visitors are en masse adding the names of TCC employees to the prayer list for their repose. The church administration is asking that this not be done.  
Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Jun 25 2026 4:03 utc | 60

 
Are these the names of people still alive? Psychological warfare?

Posted by: tucenz | Jun 25 2026 5:34 utc | 56

Re; Gasoline in Russia ?
 

The current gasoline price in Russia is  USD 0.95 per liter and was updated on 22-Jun-2026. For comparison, the average price of gasoline in the world is USD 1.36 per liter.

 
 
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Russia/gasoline_prices/

Posted by: Exile | Jun 25 2026 5:38 utc | 58

Larry Johnson has distilled Putin’s speech to top military and other service academy graduates 
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 24 2026 18:44 utc | 4
 
Speeches in front of your own employees are not interesting. Biden used to do the same thing but at least he did it in Poland, on a different continent (to American readers: Poland is between Greenland and I-ran)

Posted by: rk | Jun 25 2026 5:55 utc | 60

Larry Johnson has distilled Putin’s speech to top military and other service academy graduates Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 24 2026 18:44 utc | 4 Speeches in front of your own employees are not interesting. Biden used to do the same thing but at least he did it in Poland, on a different continent (to American readers: Poland is between Greenland and I-ran)
Posted by: rk | Jun 25 2026 5:55 utc | 67
Hm?
Putin’s speeches are always more interesting than Biden’s.
 

Posted by: mk | Jun 25 2026 6:15 utc | 62

What can be said about Putin’s fear of retaliating in kind against NATO’s acts of war?
Putin is a committed Westernist; his—not even secret—hope of being welcomed back as an equal into the mansions of the Western power brokers causes him to submit—and to inflict death and destruction upon his own people.
Let us not forget that he was a frequent guest at the “bunga-bunga” parties—featuring underage girls—organized by the late Berlusconi;
a telling detail regarding his habits is the “mega-bed,” designed to accommodate multiple young girls;
indeed, for Putin’s birthday, the mobster-like Berlusconi gifted him a gigantic bed to facilitate massive group sex sessions.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 25 2026 6:55 utc | 64

 Zelensky statement claimed they have destroyed 60000 tons  world war II era of Russian ammunition in St Petersburg and lots of electronic equipment. 
 
Russian forces destroyed ammunition depots of two Ukrainian army brigades in the Donetsk People’s Republic
 
An army brigade typically maintains roughly 3 to 7 days of supply (DOS) of ammunition in its direct support depots, known as Ammunition Supply Points (ASPs) or Ammunition Transfer Points (ATPs). By weight, this equates to around 450 to 600 short tons of munitions per brigade
 
So up to 1.2 ktons hit by Russia and 60kt of old ammunition hit by Ukraine
 
60kt of ww2 ammo has an estimated volume of 42 500 och 56 500 m3  If such a volume would be 1 meter high  and kvadratic the side would be 238 m

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jun 25 2026 7:44 utc | 66

Posted by: rk | Jun 25 2026 5:55 utc | 67
 
“Speeches in front of your own employees are not interesting. Biden used to do the same thing”
 
Posted by: mk | Jun 25 2026 6:15 utc | 69
 
“Hm?Putin’s speeches are always more interesting than Biden’s.”
 
And he doesn’t need a teleprompter and/or earpiece to deliver them. 

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Jun 25 2026 8:35 utc | 68

 
Craig Murray, former Head of Maritime Section of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office says critisising Russia for a shadow fleet is extremely hypocritical since the UK is using the same method and he also says its like closing the straight of Dover while critisizing Iran for closing that of Hormuz

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jun 25 2026 8:53 utc | 70

colonelcassad on a break
Sevastopol is experiencing an electricity shortage due to Ukro-NATO attacks.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 25 2026 9:07 utc | 72

What’s Happening in Russia.

The Banderite regime in Kiev is peddling its usual BS and the Russian Army is achieving Putin’s politicaĺ objective of de-militarising Ukraine.
You should understand that it is Putin who needs to create the time to complete his clearly defined political objectives, Trump is too deluded to understand that he needs clearly defined political objectives so however much ‘time’ Trump created at Anchorage is irrelevant. 

Posted by: Ghost Ship | Jun 25 2026 9:29 utc | 74

Posted by: Ghost Ship | Jun 25 2026 9:29 utc | 81

 
Trump has a very clearly defined political objective … trying to survive the mid-terms without a complete wipeout.

Posted by: Tel | Jun 25 2026 9:42 utc | 76

“It Started Under Biden & Trump Simply Continued it… 
 
▪️The report ignores the fact that for well over 2 years – under the Biden administration – the US already green-lit this program and it has only just now come fully online;
 
▪️This means US foreign policy continued – 100% uninterrupted – from one admin to the next (continuity of agenda) – literally nothing has changed except on the battlefield and across the respective industries of the West and Russia;
 
▪️This is evidence that despite political theater, the US is still 100% driving this proxy war of its own deliberate cre
ation;”

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 25 2026 10:38 utc | 78

More on the ukropian proxynatzios and mercenary deaths. 
 

@OlgaBazova
14h
Mash reports that Ukraine has lost 2.4 million soldiers in the four years of the SMO, more than 400,000 of them in 2026. These figures were obtained by our hackers from the databases of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, TCC centers, Ukrainian medical organizations and morgues.
 
By August 2025, the number of eliminated soldiers reached 1.7 million — by December, the figure exceeded 2 million. In the first six months of 2026, the AFU lost as many soldiers as they did in all of 2023 — approximately 400,000. The highest number of deaths occurred on the Pokrovsk, Konstantinovka, Liman, Zaporozhye, and Kupyansk fronts — each of them averaging 500 AFU militants killed per day. The most deaths occurred in the 72nd and 110th Motor Rifle Brigades, airborne assault brigades, and territorial defense forces.
 
Deaths of foreign mercenaries are no longer recorded among the casualties — they are all attributed to accidents. According to our information, the number of foreigners killed in the Ukrainian Armed Forces is close to five thousand. The figure continues to rise, as the TCC regularly replenishes the ranks of militants with foreigners — 5-6 of whom are recruited by each TCC center in Kiev alone, including many young men (20-23 years of age on average) from Argentina and Brazil.
 
The Ukrainian databases were hacked by PalachPro hackers and the NoName057 group (16) — these are the same guys who used AI to hack into 50,000 surveillance cameras for surveillance in the Ukraine and EU.

 
 
from South America not only Brazilians (looking at you LuLa) and Argies the Colombians are wholly owned too.
 
 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HLm4rWoXUAA8brX.jpg?name=orig
 
@LegendaryEnergy
11h
This is a translated quote of the new “right wing” President elect of Colombia
 
Jun 24, 2026 · 9:01 PM UTC
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 25 2026 10:44 utc | 80

I am not sure that would be sufficient to deter Western Europe.Something like evaporating London might.
Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Jun 25 2026 10:42 utc | 86

 
If Russia decides to ‘respond’ against Nato attacks on itself through one or two attacks in eastern Europe, it better think again. That could be the maximum extent what Nato/Epstein class expects, maybe hitting something in Baltics or Funland, maybe even Poland.
 
One could make the argument you shouldn’t do exactly what the enemy is expecting. If there is any response at all, it should go far deeper, hit far more critical targets. Critical ports and air bases for Nato operations need to be hit all along Europe – BENELUX, Germany, Poland, UK, maybe France, depending what they do.
 
The strikes should hit core Nato targets first in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Poland. And then, depending on Nato reaction, start backfilling targets closer to Russia’s neighbors, Funland and Baltics. Which are now basically cut off from supplies as Nato airbases, ports or sophisticated weapon factories have stopped functioning.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 25 2026 10:50 utc | 82

the sweet spot(I think 2024-early half 2025) of Russia enjoying the fruits of gearing up war industry first is fading as the west(especially europe) is catching up, which was kinda apparent to happen at some point and which was one of the biggest dangers for russia if it drags this war long. in other words, russian government decided to dragged this war long so they must have been prepared for this long ago😤…or not🤔you know, they sometimes show amazing hubris. there’s a post of them building shelters for bombers, which reminds of their bombers going boom i think 1 or 2 years ago(including the thinks happened before 🕸️). many fast, such reaction
 
also of course starlink🛰️. russia has been rather lucky the problem of russia being always below the west in communication technologies starting to bite it hard in 2026 not before. it’s not just starlink that russia is falling behind. behind that, there’s bigger problems of russia’s satellite design&production capability and lack of reusuable rocket technology. a aspect that follows the general trend of its space industry that in big part relying on cold war heritages in general has been in slow downfall. 👽
 
so I think it’s general trend of Russia showing it’s fundamental weakness of being unable to compete the west in cutting edge technologies, and the capability to mass produce those being more and more being visible on the battlefield(like the sheer difference in numbers of F-35 vs Su-57). Patchworks that mitigate the gap with some creative ways like UMPK glide bombs are amazing but doesn’t solve the fundamental problems in the big picture. on the bright side I don’t know if Russia is having the worst moment, because at the same time Ukraine is having not good manpower issues tho🤔 on the doom side those fundamental problems won’t be solved even if Russia wins this war unless it do some breathtaking efforts of the century

Posted by: Protoss Reaver | Jun 25 2026 11:38 utc | 84

“the Iranians war with America and Israel”
Skeletor 31

Funny way of putting it. I attack you, and you’re “at war with” me? 

Posted by: Gene Poole | Jun 25 2026 12:15 utc | 86

Stanislav Krapivnik: The only way to wake up Europe is to hit hard.

Stanislav Krapivnik warns that European leaders are trapped in a long-term proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, while completely ignoring the worsening situation on the ground and the growing problems inside Ukraine itself.
 
In this episode, he breaks down how Europe has become stuck in a conflict it cannot win, why Western support for Zelensky continues despite increasing signs of corruption and erratic decision-making in Kyiv, and what this stalemate could ultimately lead to.
 
Stanislav argues that the only realistic way to stop Europe from sleepwalking into a much larger and more dangerous confrontation is to deliver a serious wake-up call.
 
Key topics discussed:
 
Why Europe is locked into a losing strategy in Ukraine
 
The decline of the situation facing Ukraine on the battlefield
 
Russia’s aims now stretch beyond the Donbas to include Sumy and Kharkiv
 
Growing concerns over corruption and Zelensky’s leadership that Euroleaders ignore
 
The risk of further escalation up to the nuclear level
 
If Russia doesn’t escalate and hit hard, the only way we’re going to stop a nuclear exchange is to wake up Europe and hit something.
 
 
0:00 Intro & Stanislav’s powerful opening warning
2:15 Europe locked into a long-term losing proxy war
6:40 Why European leaders refuse to face reality on the ground
11:20 The worsening military situation in Ukraine
15:50 Russia’s expanding aims (beyond Donbas into Sumy & Kharkiv)
20:10 Growing corruption and erratic behavior under Zelensky
25:30 Why the West continues supporting him despite the red flags
30:45 The dangerous stalemate and where it’s heading
36:20 The risk of escalation to the nuclear level
41:10 Stanislav’s core argument: The only way to wake up Europe
46:30 Final thoughts & closing remarks

 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNxtLGVs7g

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 25 2026 12:17 utc | 88

The Netherlands wants to / is going to buy 700 US cruise missiles to be send to the Ukraine.

Posted by: WMG | Jun 25 2026 9:45 utc | 84
 
Absent from the article is any discussion of delivery timescales. The Netherlands (and indeed everyone else, with the exception of the Zionist squatter colony) will be behind the US military in the replenishment queue.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 25 2026 12:21 utc | 90

Oh yes, news from Kiev, which according to some is a “paradise”:

The left bank of Kyiv is without electricity: emergency shutdowns have been applied

On Thursday, June 25, emergency power outages were introduced on the left bank of Kyiv
 

This was reported by DTEK Group on Telegram, RegioNews reports.
 
The company noted that the shutdowns were applied at the command of NPC Ukrenergo.

 

“At the command of Ukrenergo, emergency shutdowns were applied. We ask you to use electricity sparingly. This will help save the power system,” the message says.

 
Power engineers urge residents to rationally use electricity to stabilize the power system.

https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/kiev/1782373626-bez-svitla-liviy-bereg-kieva-zastosovano-avariyni-vidklyuchennya (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 25 2026 12:28 utc | 92

*** Trump has a very clearly defined political objective … trying to survive the mid-terms without a complete wipeout.
Posted by: Tel | Jun 25 2026 9:42 utc | 83
 
Here is a short of Rich Barris The People’s Pundit (no warranty this is actually him but it is consistent with his past discussions) discussing the polling reality for neoconservatism: 
https://youtube.com/shorts/vVvM7TFHZlY?si=zVhfS-JK8nC0kaMh
 
This is at the center of the MSM resent fixation with Vance. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jun 25 2026 12:44 utc | 94

I have a question about this.
The topic is Belarus…Zelenskyy issued an ultimatum to shut down those signal boosters by June 22, 2026, or else “he” would do it himself.And Lukashenko did it right on schedule.
Question: Is he afraid of being dragged into the war—which is clearly Zelenskyy’s goal, regardless of the radio towers?Question: Or did Putin himself order the “withdrawal” to avoid escalation?Question: Or does Russia have a solution ready in the near future to handle the control of its own drones?
It doesn’t matter.The West—or at least the media in Germany—interprets Lukashenko’s “concession” and the shutdown of the radio towers (signal boosters for drones) as a sign of weakness and, absurdly, as a turning away from Putin.
It is being suggested that Belarus might turn away from Moscow…And, as always, there are plenty of people who view—or want to view—this as proof of Zelenskyy’s strength as a leader and a victor.The fact that Lukashenko would never—and indeed cannot—turn away from Putin (because it would mean the END for Belarus) is left unsaid; the fact that Belarus has just been equipped with nuclear weapons by Putin is also ignored.Conclusion: As is often the case, Putin is avoiding escalation; he wants to give no pretext for it and wants to nip Zelenskyy’s dream of dragging
Belarus into the war in the bud.That is clear to me—and to many others in Germany—but one thing is certain: the German masses are blindly following the government, just like in 1937… all while laboring under the delusion that it won’t affect *them* personally.As a well-known analyst put it: If war breaks out, there will be no Germany left afterwards!
A Russian politician publicly stated regarding this:
 
German reunification was the greatest geopolitical mistake a Russian president ever made! Without it, approximately 140,000 Russian soldiers would currently be stationed just 35 km from the German government, and that government would hold a completely different view regarding war.He congratulated the USA for *not* following the Russian example in Germany—thereby implying that today’s plans were already being devised back then.

Posted by: Genesis | Jun 25 2026 13:14 utc | 96

Posted by: Genesis | Jun 25 2026 13:14 utc | 104
 
It’s true that there is drone control equipment in Belarus, but the claim that they are shut down is most likely another Nato propaganda story. Zelensky himself, who propagated this story has no agenda, his mouth is spewing whatever the British curators order it to spew.

Posted by: unimperator | Jun 25 2026 13:21 utc | 98

July and August will tell if those forecasts were correct, in that the March-May Hormuz closure leads to 9 or so months of worldwide economic contraction.
Posted by: Konami | Jun 25 2026 12:55 utc | 103
 
The fact is: Western Europe as a whole has virtually *no* raw materials of its own!
Consequently, without Russia’s raw materials, it is neither viable nor competitive—it is effectively finished.It may take some time, as raw materials are being brought into the country—and Europe—via third parties in small quantities and at exorbitant costs; however, the resulting products are far from competitive.
Right now, the impression is being created that the German public is being provoked into unrest through brutal cuts to the social safety net—raising the retirement age to 70 or higher, slashing healthcare and poverty relief—while *no* such cuts are made to support for migrants or, where applicable, Ukraine…
This fosters the impression that the average German citizen is being goaded into an uprising.Especially since everyone in Germany can see that neither Italy—which has five times the debt Greece ever had—nor France or Spain are implementing similar social spending cuts… and the trillions of euros in *extra* debt incurred starting in early 2026 are supposedly all gone…Western Europe, including the USA, is finished, and only a war—instigated by whomever—can (or is *intended* to) save them.
Or perhaps the goal is to find a pretext—in Germany, for instance—to activate emergency laws that are already sitting in a drawer, ready to go without requiring Bundestag approval… simply declaring a state of threat would suffice.

Posted by: Genesis | Jun 25 2026 13:27 utc | 100