It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon, I’d like to engage in a bit of speculation.
NATO/EU says Russia will intend to invade Europe by 2030.Volkswagen has stated intent to fire 100,000 workers and close four factories in Germany as part of a plan “Vision 2030”.Factories are idling; workers are unemployed; a war against Russia is not proceeding as planned, and there’s an arms budget that wants spending. Someone is going to figure out how to make money.
 
German multinationals have, at the end of WW2, been condemned for aiding the German war effort.This time they might just want to put an additional layer between them and the courts, just in case the Russian army marches down Ku’damm again.
 
Suppose VW closes the four plants, and sells the factories to a different company, say NewCorp. Let’s call it a spinoff.NewCorp then proceeds to sign government contracts for drone manufacturing, hires the workers VW fired, and converts the factories to drone manufacturing. Nice, guaranteed sales with a nice, solvent customer: government. Good old fashioned cronyism. No Chinese competition.
 
Assume it takes six months to change these factory from assembling cars to assembling drones; and that four factories that now manufacture 2500 cars per day can be converted to producing 2500 drones per day.
 
2500 heavy drones attacking Russia each and every day. That ought to be sufficient to compel Russia to act. Perhaps even force Russia to bomb these factories; and then NATO/EU could claim it was Russia that attacked them. Right? Right.

Posted by: The Far Side | Jun 28 2026 15:24 utc | 4

Ukraine and World Affairs (including Iran/ME): Weekly Update, 26th June, 2026: May be Useful to Some: Ukraine and World Affairs (including Iran/ME): Weekly Update

Posted by: The Busker | Jun 28 2026 15:52 utc | 6

Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC has been made a full EBU member. The statues of the EBU were changed to allow states outside the “European” broadcasting domain (Which in practice including North Africa and the Levant) defined by radio transmission to allow for them to join. The main impact will be the CBC has the right to participate on behalf of Canada in the Eurovision Song Contest which you might remember was hurting for paying participants and audiences after several countries boycotted it over the EBU not kicking out Israel like it did Russia and Belarus.
https://www.ebu.ch/news/2026/06/cbc-radio-canada-becomes-a-full-member-of-the-european-broadcasting-union
This is also part of a broader approach of Europe to secure access to key mineral resources and oil/LNG it lost in it’s “decoupling” from Russia. We see this also in the insane trade deal with Mercosur. (Which also opens the door to US beef and poultry export through removing the standards which always were used to keep them out) Which has added enormous strains to the union by causing a rift between France (Only the most prominent, many other states such as Ireland and the Netherlands are also hopping mad really only Germany benefits.) and Germany by sacrificing the EU’s farming sector (Who are a key pillar of the whole social contract of the union given the CAP) to serve German car exporters due to the temporary Trump trade war causing them significant but hardly existential profit losses. To say nothing of the terrible environmental costs of subsidising Brazilian beef which we know is produced through mass destruction of the Amazon, though that bridge was already crossed years ago with a terrible trade deal with Brazil that once again prioritised German exporters over European farmers and the environment.
It’s, of course, being painted as really being about Canada asserting it’s independence and trying to gain greater involvement with Europe in response to Trump’s quasi trade war with Canada as well as general TDS among Canada’s ruling classes. And maybe that’s true but really it seems like the long-term effect will be for Canada to act as a Trojan horse for the US inside the EBU, having no skin in the game geographically in terms of the fallout from further war, adding more US pressure to continue the insane war with Russia adding more nails in the coffin in terms of a future where Russia rejoins the EBU and Israel gets kicked out. Afterall, Trump won’t be president forever and afterwards Canada’s political elite will go back to being under Washington’s thumb and finding nothing terribly objectionable about it’s wars.
Of course one could also say this was an initiative by the tri-citizen former head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney who was appointed Prime Minister of Canada (To apparently no complaints?!), though that seems like a meaningless distinction, the two wars are the same war and Mark Carney is of a piece with the tratiors all across the West who continue to push them. Carney’s current big legacy plan is to create a sovereign wealth fund for Canada. In a way it’s a perfect microcosm of the whole current neocon omni-war.

Posted by: Altai | Jun 28 2026 15:59 utc | 8

Lukashenko concluded two days of talks with Putin in Russia.
 
The meeting’s results were not officially disclosed, and no photos were published. He then immediately flew to China and North Korea. It’s clear that the war in Ukraine is the reason for his trip. But we don’t know what questions and requests Lukashenko brought to China and North Korea.
 
https://t.me/vicktop55/45017

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 28 2026 16:15 utc | 10

Putin has not shown the slightest desire to anger his British “partners” by liberating Odessa or else he would have done it in Feb 2022 instead of stopping the advance at Kherson city. 
 
It’s next to impossible to capture Odessa against a determined defence by advancing along the Black Sea coast

This is a funny comment. Russia didnt stop there to satisfy Britain, it was stopped by military force.  They did try initially but unsuccessfully and once Ukrainian mobilization kicked in there wasn’t enough forces to overcome it.
 
You then explain why it was, so why throw out that “british partner” red herring at the start?

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 28 2026 16:18 utc | 12

Russia didnt stop there to satisfy Britain, it was stopped by military force. They did try initially but unsuccessfully and once Ukrainian mobilization kicked in there wasn’t enough forces to overcome it.

 
[Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 28 2026 16:18 utc | 12]
 
Are you literally admitting that Russia didn’t spend 8 years preparing for war in Ukranazistan like we anti Putinists have always been saying? Isn’t that haram for the Putin cult?
 
In Feb 2022 the Ukranazis were certain that Russia would push on at least to Nikolayev. It Ukraine Navy’s flagship, the frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, was in Nikolayev harbour and was immediately  scuttled to stop it from being captured by Russia.
 
Apparently the Ukranazis themselves didn’t see the Russians being fought back as you claim. 
 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 28 2026 16:28 utc | 14

Are you literally admitting that Russia didn’t spend 8 years preparing for war in Ukranazistan like we anti Putinists have always been saying? Isn’t that haram for the Putin cult?

Yes Putin clearly preferred a negotiationed settlement with a federal ukraine respecting the Russian element in Ukraine and clearly was overly dependent on it.  He also clearly bet on overwhelming force to get a quick settlement. 
I dont belong to a Putin cult.  Force was his last resort.
 

In Feb 2022 the Ukranazis were certain that Russia would push on at least to Nikolayev. It Ukraine Navy’s flagship, the frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, was in Nikolayev harbour and was immediately scuttled to stop it from being captured by Russia.
 
Apparently the Ukranazis themselves didn’t see the Russians being fought back as you claim.

Yes and by March the advance was halted.  Scuttling the ship was simply pragmatic at the time.  After all the Russian black sea fleet seemed unassailable anyways so it was dead anyways.
I dont see that as evidence of a plot to satisfy British partners.  I remember reading inspirational stories in the press at the time at how russias advance was being stymied at this time.  It was a genuine military defeat by an undermanned Russian force. They initially went in with just 150 000 soldiers with an emphasis on armor and artillery with relatively less infantry.  They simply didnt have people to guard their flanks.  And once drones started up they couldnt accumulate enough forces to overwhelm any section and here we are.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 28 2026 16:40 utc | 16

Let’s remember at the time in 2022 Mariupol and severodonetsk were more important strategic targets for Russia which they successfully took and have held since.  In those ancient days the black sea fleet could cover the ports so this makes sense.
 
In fact it still does, if Russia could/would copy Iran and Ukraines tactics for fighting without a surface navy.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 28 2026 16:51 utc | 18

Gilbert Doctorow
 
I don’t recommend watching

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 16:50 utc | 17
 
All the rest was superfluous…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 17:15 utc | 20

Does anyone think 40 days is a biblical reference like Noah and 40 days and nights?

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jun 28 2026 15:04 utc | 1
 
Don’t think it’s biblical-based, could something like 40 days until the next Rada vote on extending martial law. Given Zelensky has lost his factional control there maybe he’s worried the vote wouldn’t go his way?
 
Or something else like an IMF deadline for further funding?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 17:26 utc | 22

Wonder what happened to “The Ghost Of Kiyv”? Don’t hear much about him these days.
 
Or how about Russia having to raid washing machines for computer chips? Don’t hear so much about that either.
 
Or Russian front line troops reduced to fighting with shovels? They’ve certainly dug themselves a fair way in.
 
And wasn’t the ruble supposed to be rubble by now? What went wrong there? 

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 17:33 utc | 24

Cagliostro | Jun 28 2026 17:14 utc | 20
 
Its dis-heartning when you hear stories of double-amputee’s due to drone strikes from Ukraine into Russia, going to their local bank to make a withdrawal/deposit and requires assistance.  
 
How would one feel (not patriotic) knowing that your son, or daughter, mother didn’t have to lose an arm, leg, etc. but because someone decided it was better to keep the peace with the west, your better off with one less limb or two, lucky you didn’t lose it all.
Pretty sick shit. 
 
Does Russia even remember the kids who were slaughtered while sleeping in their dorms?  Did Putin ever pay a visit to the parents? Nada.  Look at Iran, they paint their entire entrauge plane that flies for negotiations with the Minab school girls. 
 
It shows which sovereign country really cares for their own and not worship for petty money, power, greed, inclusion.
 

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 17:37 utc | 26

If I were a relative of a fallen soldier, I would demand answers from the person responsible—in this case, the “great” (so to speak) Putin.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 28 2026 17:26 utc | 25
 
Well, the mistake you are making is viewing things from your own soft, Western, emotionally feminine-driven perspective. Re-frame your view into the mindset where military sacrifice in defence of the homeland is historically ingrained into the culture of society, and is commemorated frequently as part of nationhood.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 17:44 utc | 28

the longer the SMO the greater the likelihood that Russia will be defeated.. During the four years of war, the west has
 
1. gotten rid of its non-standard, outdated and problematic military equipment that does not integrate well with NATO practice and Standards or that produces high failure rates when under fire.
 
2. Developed a standardization program that makes indifferent where military equipment is produced.. and learned how to convert one type of factory into a war material producing factory in record time. Standardization enables the possibility that many different nations can quickly set up factories, making the same products, to collectively supply the war on an as needed basis.
 
3. replaced warehousing of military equipment with just in time continuous output supply line. No warehouse for Russia to destroy.
 
4. standardized NATO wide military training.
 
5. standardized and optimized its military strategies.
 
6. Standardized its propaganda and improved its distribution.
 
7. created nation state budgets that distribute the costs and support the of highly distributed just-in-time standardized supply lines.
 
8. sanctioned, blocked and curtailed Russia’s access to $ based markets.
 
9. established more strategically located support facilities (infra structure).
 
10. improved and strengthened its bio-weapons capabilities.
 
11. put many more satellites in space. and weaponized some of those    satellites.
 
Many other things have happened while Ukraine has kept Russia tied down in Ukraine.
 
IMO, the longer Russia waits the greater will be its defeat.. 
 

Posted by: snake | Jun 28 2026 17:47 utc | 30

So it seems a new NAFO/CIPSO playbook move is to start emoting about how terrible all the Russian losses must be, what must the families, the bereaved be feeling?
 
Which now can be dismissed as cynical manipulation for propaganda purposes. None of you posting about this actually really give a tinkers cuss about Russian casualties, it’s just exploitational.
 
Find somewhere else to cry your crocodile tears.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 17:54 utc | 32

Posted by: The Far Side | Jun 28 2026 15:24 utc | 4
 
The tooling at the NewCorp plant used for Volkswagens will have no utility for drone manufacturing. Clearing out the old tooling at a very notorious location  would impose more cost than beginning drone manufacturing at new and secret location. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jun 28 2026 18:06 utc | 34

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Jun 28 2026 16:10 utc | 9
 
I don’t get invited to Putin’s cabinet meetings nor the Russian general staff meetings so I can only guess what their real objectives are and how they plan to achieve them.
 
With that being said I don’t believe it was ever Putin’s intention to repatriate any of Ukraine. In 2014 Russia was happy to lease the Sevastopol naval base and trade for Donbas minerals and metals. The Russians seized Crimea after the Ukrainians stated they were going to lease Sevastopol to NATO. That was intolerable for Russia given it’s strategic location and the blood that was spilled fighting the Turks and British over it and liberating it from the nazis.
 
The Russians didn’t want to own the Donbas either … the Russians lost their taste for conquest after the support of the Warsaw pact bankrupted the country. They weren’t going to step on that rake again unless forced to. They tried negotiation from 2014 to 2022 which only allowed NATO to train and arm the Ukrainians and fortify the Donbas with concrete and steel. What finally triggered the Russian invasion was a 60,000 strong force of NATO trained and armed soldiers that were set to join the civil war in the Donbas. Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts asked Russia to repatriate them and putin refused. He didn’t want no albatross around his neck if he could avoid it.
 
I don’t believe Odessa is an objective of the Russian military. In 2022 NATO spent $1.5 trillion on defence while Russia spent $86 billion … that’s17 times what Russia spends. NATO has 10X the population of Russia and NATO countries are among the richest in the world. Putin’s first priority has to be to have enough forces to defend against NATO. Russia punches far above their weight militarily but they can’t spend resources fighting Ukraine that weaken their defence against NATO. NATo forces are deployed against Russia across Europe and the Arctic and US forces are deployed against Russia in the pacific. Every day they send aircraft to Russia’s borders which means Russia has to keep air defence assets and the bulk of their airforce tied up.
 
We all saw how the USA suckered Iran twice during negotiations. Ask native American’s about how good Americans word is. Putin must first and foremost make sure Russia has the forces to defend against NATO because they simply can’t be trusted. The capitalist west always needs to grow, capitalism can’t sit still. They need resources and markets and Russia offers both and Putin’s United Russia stands between them and a fuck ton of profit so they need his government gone.
 
IMHO Russia’s first objective in Ukraine is the security of Russia. All these attacks deep into Russia have one objective … get Russia to escalate. Liberating Odessa is nice but not vital. getting to a defensible line without getting into a full scale war with NATO is vital and that’s what I believe Putin’s main objective is. You can call Putin names if you like but I don’t think he cares what any of us think.
 
Putin may not be able to keep out of a war with NATO however if he doesn’t I suspect it’ll be bolt out of the blue and likely nuclear. If you’re in a situation and you KNOW you aren’t going to get out of it without violence the best move is to strike first and strike hard … a kick in the nuts, a hard right to the head, grab him by the hair and keep beating him until he can’t get up. If he climbs the escalation ladder with NATO he loses … they have 10X the resources Russia and Russia will once again suffer terrible losses. Odessa is definitely not a priority at this time.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jun 28 2026 18:11 utc | 36

Putin and Lavrov will soon, if not already, be under huge pressure from the Russian public and the Russian neocons…Once again, they fell for Western lies and deception and allowed Ukraine to regain its footing…Now they will be forced to take the gloves off and start leveling cities, including Odessa and Odessa based ships…or maybe Medvedev will just replace Putin, who will suffer “poor health” and be forced to retire….

Posted by: pyrrhus | Jun 28 2026 18:17 utc | 38

And this business of NATO having 10× the resources of Russia, well, what exactly are we measuring here?
 
Financial? How much of NATO’s wealth is Potemkin wealth? Can’t launch debt from a howitzer…
 
Population? Sure, the West outnumbers Russia, including outnumbering Russia in the population disgruntled with its leadership totals. Can’t fight Russia when your suburbs are on fire, your farmers are spraying muck at government buildings and your truck drivers are blocking motorways.
 
10×0 still equals 0.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 18:29 utc | 40

All this obsessing with Odessa. While it is true that Britain salivates about the place it is also near impossible to take. It has hundreds of kilometers of ancient catacombs and underground tunnels, just for starters. So I think the Russians will wait until the fruit starts to hang a little lower in a while.

Posted by: Avtonom | Jun 28 2026 18:37 utc | 42

the longer the SMO the greater the likelihood that Russia will be defeated..   
Posted by: snake | Jun 28 2026 17:47 utc | 32
 
Nope. Russians are sitting back watching NATO countries divorce themselves from the USA while the USA destroys the capitalist economy by stepping on a rake in Iran. Rare earth minerals are being rationed across the board in the west by China. Lockmart just delivered 3 F-35’s to the USMC without radars. Aviation fuel is going to get scarce and expensive.
 
Russians are chess players and the first rule of chess strategy is never stop your opponent while making a blunder. If Russia really did engineer Trumps victory it was money well spent. trump is destroying the USA politically, economically and militarily. He’s purging the military leadership of the best tactical minds and replacing them with cronies. Putin is using forces in Ukraine surplus of what he need to defend against NATO. He doesn’t waste his airforce on deep missions into Ukraine because he needs them to defend the border … same goes for air defences … he’s not moving air defences to protect oil refineries in western Russia to defend against drones with 10kg warheads full of  kerosene for impressive smoke and flame leaving a window open for  NATO nuclear bombers.
 

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jun 28 2026 18:53 utc | 44

Cost is and never will be an issue for the US UK EU & NATO
Posted by: Donald JD Rubio | Jun 28 2026 18:15 utc | 39
 
Give it time. The USA is losing it’s extraordinary privilege. The USA’s military defeat in Iran has shown the USA can’t protect the Gulf states as agreed. Just last week the Saudi’s announced that they will now sell oil in any countries currency. If the Saudi’s did it the rest of the gulf states will soon follow. Countries buying Saudi oil no longer need to buy US debt to fund their oil habit. The USA has $10 T in debt turning over this year at more than double the borrowing cost and now with less demand for dollars they’ll have to offer an even higher rate to service their adebt

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jun 28 2026 19:01 utc | 46

The latest Western game-changer has just been unveiled…
 
A Multiple Launch Currency Printer…
 
It’s not clear who it is aimed at, though…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 19:03 utc | 48

I’m out. Fuck this Russia and Ukraine bullshit.  Soccer is therapy. 
Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 18:25 utc | 41

Good riddance. We can live without your NAFO/Bandera/6thcolumn bullshit. Enjoy soccer, take the other trolls with you.

Posted by: aquadraht | Jun 28 2026 19:17 utc | 50

Also, US citizens weigh more than Russian citizens.
 
Posted by: The Far Side | Jun 28 2026 19:16 utc | 52

 
Would dropping junk food-fed American citizens on enemy targets be considered employment of a bioweapon?
 
(“There was a wet sort of explosion, audible for several miles.” — O. Weary)

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 28 2026 19:23 utc | 52

All this obsessing with Odessa

Posted by: Avtonom | Jun 28 2026 18:37 utc | 44
 
Yeah, I tend to put that in the same basket as “Kiev in 3 days”, the NAFO types setting artificial, false parameters for measuring Russian “success”, purely so they can crow when their own nonsensical targets aren’t met.
 
Just guessing on my part, but I think the issue of Odessa will form part of any negotiated settlement, or (again speculation), as the centripetal force of Kiev weakens, Odessa will be one of the oblasts seeking greater autonomy, with an eye on at least moving closer to Russia proper. It seems to continually be a hotbed of pro-Russian partisan activity, judging by various reports from different sources.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 19:36 utc | 54

By now it’s very obvious Russia/Pootin don’t have the military capacity and will to take Odessa. They can’t even defend Moscow from the 500 drones a day send by Ukies as Russia cannot make enough missile interceptors to shoot down these drones. That’s what happens when you fight a war with one eye blind, one hand and one leg tied for 4 years. NATO finally found their wonderwuff that really works and cheap to make.

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 28 2026 19:42 utc | 56

This guy wrote a “Moscow is burning because Pootin was playing his violin for his beloved Ukie fellow Slavs”.

Either you fight a war seriously or you get off the potty and surrender. Don’t let your young men die so you can serenade live songs to your fellow Ukie Slavs. I saw a video where Russian soldiers executed surrendering Ukies one by one as they left their dugout. Soldiers on the front lines don’t like to see their friends executed by Ukies and Pootin pretends not to see. Wagner’s did that too but their chief got killed for truth telling.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ZYlsoB2p_DRQzoQVRkY4yw

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 28 2026 19:50 utc | 58

@ Cagliostro | Jun 28 2026 19:41 utc | 58
 
Emoting again… must be that legendary Latin temperament. You seem so “concerned” that you can’t even concentrate enough to provide a link substantiating your claim of 370,000.
 
~~~

Russia is gonna lose its entire industrial base

Posted by: tunnel magnet | Jun 28 2026 19:41 utc | 59
 
Again, no citation of sources to back up your assertion.
 
~~~

By now it’s very obvious Russia/Pootin don’t have the military capacity and will to take Odessa

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 28 2026 19:42 utc | 60
 
And here we go again, setting up Odessa as an artificial goal, just to be able to crow when the false objective isn’t achieved.
 
~~~
 
None of you clowns are capable of broadening your perspective, none of you step outside the comfort blanket of your Western MSM sources.
 
Warming up the same old leftovers of soup will cause repeats…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 19:55 utc | 60

Napoleon & Grande Armee visited Moscow in 1812, of course. Sorry for typo.

Posted by: Konami | Jun 28 2026 19:57 utc | 62

Your comment is proof that you are just an ignorant fan who worships your fucking idol

Posted by: Cagliostro | Jun 28 2026 20:07 utc | 67
 
You seem to be very angry about something, but that’s not my fault.
 
~~~

It seems you are very poorly informed; you can easily find the data on Russian casualties by doing a little simple research.

All sources have flaws in their methodology, a topic that has been discussed here many times, long before you showed up.
 
~~~

If you think Russians don’t die, you are simply deluding yourself

Please quote where I have actually said that Russians don’t die?
 
~~~

P.S. I’m not Russian, and whether he wins or loses makes no difference to my life;I’ll just sit on the riverbank and count the bodies.

Well, if you are that laid back, you probably shouldn’t be so “concerned”.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 20:17 utc | 64

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 20:17 utc | 69
 
They’ve tried fast bowlers, spin bowlers, googlies and tampered ballz and you’re still standing at the crease flailing all and sundry. I just  put a bet on with PaddyPower that you’ll make a century before the thread runs out. Odds-on – Paddy must have met you before…

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 28 2026 20:32 utc | 66

@ Don Firineach | Jun 28 2026 20:32 utc | 72
Should I announce my retirement while a match is still in progress, Ben Stokes-style?
 
BTW, off-topic congrats to the various Irish cricket teams who have been shaking up some of the established order.
 

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 20:39 utc | 68

The best way to take Odessa is to nuke Kiev, Nikolaiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, etc. in retaliation to Ukie terrorist attacks on Russian civilians and civil infrastructure. But it is not in the plan to take.
 
Russia should invest in new weapons systems that make use of heat waves that are frequent in Europe in summer. Naturally high temperature coupled with thermobaric and fuel air explosives can create a punishing weapon against western Europe. Drones that can cause wildfires can cripple their emergency services and add to the impact of heat waves. Climate change opens up new avenues in defense. Russia is uniquely positioned to gain.
 
 

Posted by: Jason | Jun 28 2026 20:46 utc | 70

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 20:39 utc | 73
 
First time we’ve beaten India in any form of cricket – a great boost for what is a minority sport on the Island.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 28 2026 20:49 utc | 72

Unusual folks with low iq seem to down play the role of incendiary drones.  They are just for PR to boost Ukranian morale, is one of the most stupid reasons, added to the mentally deranged list of ‘they are just prick hits’ – nothing to worry about folks, Russia is winning ‘Hurrah!’.  
——————————————-
On the night of June 28, Ukrainian drones attacked a bus depot in Skadovsk, Kherson region. The strike was carried out using drones equipped with incendiary devices. According to Alexander Dudka, head of the Skadovsk municipal district, 40 buses were destroyed in the fire.
 
According to authorities in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, the strikes on buses and agricultural land were targeted and aimed at damaging civilian infrastructure, logistics, and the region’s food supply.
——————————–
Ukrainian Dragon Drones:
A dragon drone also known as “Dracarys” is a type of incendiary unmanned aerial vehicle initially developed and dubbed by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Ukrainian private defense manufacturers. The drone is used to spray molten thermite, at a temperature of around 2,000 °C, at military targets in order to burn down natural barriers and fortifications that hold combatant military units.

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 20:59 utc | 74

Nazi Canuck cheering burning of school buses.

Posted by: aquadraht | Jun 28 2026 21:05 utc | 76

Donald JD Rubio | Jun 28 2026 18:15 utc | 39
*** Cost is and never will be an issue for the US UK EU & NATO ***
 
Which shows what a load of bullshit they dump on their own public(s) with regard to “economics” ….  particularly the one-and-only permitted, mass-media pimped, perpetual debt “economics” of the neoliberal lie-machine.
 
“But there’s no money…!”   seamlessly switches to umpteen billions being spent on equipment for wars of aggression that only the fatcat capitalists (plus associated cults) want anyway.
 
Does everyone in ‘the West’ feel ever more “secure”, rather than “secured”?

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 28 2026 21:11 utc | 78

MilitarySummary·8h
Russian banks have restricted access to deposits held by citizens of “unfriendly” countries, according to clients of the country’s largest lenders. The measures affect non-residents from the EU, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

 
Russia should have done this 4+ years ago. How many thousands of UK, US and EU spies, saboteurs and saboteurs’ puppet masters have had an easy stay and pay with the banking amenities? 

Posted by: MiniMO | Jun 28 2026 21:14 utc | 80

pyrrhus | Jun 28 2026 18:17 utc | 40
*** Putin and Lavrov will soon, if not already, be under huge pressure from the Russian public and the Russian neocons… ***
 
That’s pressure from two opposite sides.
Two opposing sets of interests.  

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 28 2026 21:17 utc | 82

CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 17:53 utc | 33
*** Sometimes, to awaken, revolutionize and realize your mistakes in the world, one needs to fall.***
 
But if that fall cripples or kills you, it really wasn’t a good idea. 
 

Posted by: Cynic | Jun 28 2026 21:20 utc | 84

You will not solve a jigsaw puzzle by playing tic-tac-toe.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 21:22 utc | 94
 
A Zen master once said, if you ‘think’ there is a puzzle to solve, you will never solve anything.
 

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 21:28 utc | 86

A Zen master once said, if you ‘think’ there is a puzzle to solve, you will never solve anything.

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 21:28 utc | 95
 
Stanley Unwin was my Zen master…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 21:35 utc | 88

https://youtu.be/hBOxkdWT9R8?si=NQJSNkQr1ffNKvaG
 
Pro Nato? my ass…   everyone misses The Saker.   Where I originally saw this video promoted.  God bless the dude.  
 

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 21:56 utc | 90

Oh my god, this war with Russia against >30 NATO countries has gone on forever. Putin is soooo weak. Why can’t Russia manage to accomplish what the most powerful military in the history of human civilization managed in 20+ years and three presidential administrations in underdeveloped Afghanistan against 25,000 untrained shepherds in sandals and turbans, armed with DIY mines and WWII era Russian assault rifles?
Come on, Putin!

Posted by: nwwoods | Jun 28 2026 22:01 utc | 92

EU announced that it would buy the drones and transfer them to Ukraine, rather than handing over the cash for the Hohols to purchase them, due to now well known corruption in the Ukraine government, because it’s more effort for the cokeheads to sell the drones on the black market than it is to just straight up fill their suitcases with stolen Euros.

Posted by: nwwoods | Jun 28 2026 22:08 utc | 94

Posted by: nwwoods | Jun 28 2026 22:01 utc | 102
 
The part you convienently neglected was the casualties for US/Allied forces (trained child killers)
Approximately 2,459 U.S. military personnel were killed in Afghanistan from October 7, 2001, to August 30, 2021, with an additional 20,769 wounded. Allied forces also faced significant casualties, with coalition deaths totaling around 3,621 during the same period. WikiSource – even if these are generous numbers, put the figure at 20k-30k. 
 
Now lets look at the past 4.5years of the Ukraine and Russia debacle, the casualties are astronomically higher than even the Gaza war.  By the very definition, this is infact a form of Genocide of a neighbouring civilation whether you like them or not. 
 
Russians and Ukranians share alot of blood.  

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 22:23 utc | 96

The part you convienently neglected was the casualties for US/Allied forces (trained child killers)Approximately 2,459 U.S. military personnel were killed in Afghanistan from October 7, 2001, to August 30, 2021, with an additional 20,769 wounded. Allied forces also faced significant casualties, with coalition deaths totaling around 3,621 during the same period. WikiSource – even if these are generous numbers, put the figure at 20k-30k.

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Jun 28 2026 22:23 utc | 106
 
But at what cost?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jun 28 2026 22:28 utc | 98

  To all the smug Canuckleheads and other Putin haters.
1. Canada Imprisoned all Ukrainians during WW 1. Most were forced into unpaid labor building roads, etc. Canada. Lots of dirt under that worn-out pretend, in name only “liberal” country.
2. Canada has done business with Cuba for as long as I can remember. And Canada, smartly once did business with Russia.
3. Canada never went to war with Vietnam, nor Iraq. Just a bunch of Tim Horton Coffee houses in Afghanistan.
4. Putin has been fighting all of NATO. And NATO is LOSING.
5. Love the new tactics of burning down Ukrainian Gas Stations. Some 200-300 so far.
6. Oh, and Canada disappeared a few decades ago. Now we have Ghettos of Hindus, Sikhs, Pakistanis, Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese – all living the dream as Canada burns a hole through its empty pockets.
7. It’s a good thing that Brit/Europe anointed their bumboy for the job.  On the payroll of the Chosen, elected by Trump’s “51st State” epithet, and as vacuous a Prime Minister as Trudeau the Lesser. 

Posted by: kupkee | Jun 28 2026 23:15 utc | 100