Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 17:49 utc | 1
 
an excellent and realistic summary 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 23 2026 18:41 utc | 4

And Brother Andy now using RF as a foil to install even more Orwellian crackdowns in the UK, as if they need any more.
 
Over 62k citizens already arrested for ‘dangerous’ social media posts, read anti illegal immigration, anti green energy, anti high utility rates, anti war with RF, and anti IDF.
 
Just like 1984 from the King of the North…………..

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 23 2026 18:56 utc | 6

The west think it’s ‘unfair’ that Ukraine is being bombed back into the Stone Age…..
 
 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 23 2026 19:04 utc | 8

That Ukraine’s FM and western muppets are begging ceasefire implies that Russia is hitting the right targets in Ukraine. Keep going.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2026 19:11 utc | 9

 
 
The attacks are staggering—gas stations, fuel depots, factories, warehouses, ships… and they happen every night, using all kinds of weaponry.
 
I know Russia is far from achieving its stated and unstated objectives… I know Zaporizhzhia and Kherson remain… we are a long way from Odesa… I know every prediction made since February 29, 2022, has proven wrong.
 
But if Russia keeps up this pace, and if Kyiv holds out through this winter without surrendering, then that surrender will never happen…

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 19:38 utc | 10

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 19:38 utc | 10
 
who says the pace can’t increase further?

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 23 2026 19:40 utc | 12

Ukraine’s STEEL Industry WIPED OUT: Russia’s ECONOMIC War Will Be The END of Kiev | Mark Sleboda

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Russian forces have continued to carry out major strikes across Ukraine, with Monday night’s edition including the use of sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles, with targets such as a tobacco factory-turned-ammunition plant and an oil refinery in Kremenchug, and two logistics centers in Odessa.
 
This, as the Finanical Times reported that Ukraine has effectively lost its steel industry after Russian strikes brought production at the country’s three largest plants to a halt.
 
International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted Kiev wanted an economic war, and now it is getting one. As a result, Russia’s “economic strangulation” in Ukraine has “a much greater chance of ending this conflict sooner, rather than later.”

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mc6yIDrQY

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2026 19:53 utc | 14

Who remembers the 40 most terrifying days in the Galaxy? And Palantir’s automated attack system in Ukraine?
Well, Zelensky just said at the UN that PEACE MUST BE NOW, because in a few months the Russians will also have artificial intelligence…
 
“We need to slow down the rapid development of lethal weapons before we reach the next stage, because as early as next year, there is a real possibility that artificial intelligence, and not humans, will begin to determine what happens on the battlefield. And we need peace before we get to that point.”
Zelensky said, as quoted by the publication “Strana”.

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 20:10 utc | 16

I get diplomacy & pragmatism,  but honestly, can the Kremlin suck Donny’s cock any harder than these idiot statements:
 
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed earlier today that Washington had invited Putin to attend the gathering.”
 
“Russia is “grateful and appreciative,”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told told RIA Novosti on Wednesday night.”
 
“Peskov added that a decision on Putin’s possible attendance will be made and relayed through diplomatic channels.“

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 23 2026 21:07 utc | 18

Re: Posted by: Occam | Sep 23 2026 21:19 utc | 19
 
”Greater good of all mankind”…. sure, that’s it.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 23 2026 21:50 utc | 20

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 17:49 utc | 1

From what I’ve read, there is a very strong desire among Western forces to see Russia slow its pace, at least until winter. Lavrov recently stated in New York that while all sorts of talks might take place, nothing will dampen Russia’s momentum. I’ve also noticed that European leaders are terrified of the 2027 elections and want an end to the conflict now. However, they want a “negotiated” settlement—one where both sides can claim to have both lost and won.

That’s a good summary but I’m not sure about the EU position. It’s clear what they want to avoid: Ukraine losing on the battlefield. They also need to avoid revolt/turmoil in Kiev. They certainly do not want peace. Not only are there no genuine peace talks whatsoever, EUrope needs the Russian threat to exist. “Russian hybrid attacks” is the moral panic / scare of the week, and it’ll go on like this because that’s how EUropean states can get their populations to do almost anything and how EU becomes a totalitarian superstate.
 
Here are some things that they do want:
 
1. Any form of break on the battlefield. Russia gave that various fair chances (Minsk I-III) — too many chances, some would say– and, as you say, they now made clear it won’t happen again.
 
2. Full control over Kiev. This is what the current bitching Zelensky vs. EU over the 90 billions is about. EU is “willing to help” but demands law changes that would mean they take the main seat.
 
3. Failing a ceasefire, at least something that lets Ukraine get through the winter: “energy truce” and so on.
 
So altogether, I don’t think that EU wants the conflict to end but that they want to take it to a lower level. Ideally, this war goes on forever. Because Julian Assange is back, here’s a 2011 quote from him that’s so true:

The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.

Posted by: Konami | Sep 23 2026 21:54 utc | 22

The idiotic subordinance of Fr/GER/GB to their US Dominatrix’ is overthrown by that final crap oft baltics and balkans, who pretend to suck a german=english cock is more democratic than free dances with russians. 
History of Europe, first law: 
Never upset a russian general, they stop to pay for the hookers.

Posted by: OberstHecht | Sep 23 2026 22:11 utc | 24

For years now in the Ukraine-Russia SMO I have seen the wisdom of the “death by a thousand cuts”  strategy of Russia. 
 
Firstly, big arrow moves by RF would frighten the neighbours into mobilising NATO into direct boots and missiles. 
 
Secondly, to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure (including exports, mfg, steel production, the AFU,  transport, etc) little by little will make its rebuild more costly and slower, thereby lessening any re-militarisation and re-nazification. I actually foresee a situation where a defeated and deflated Ukraine with a sensible new regime may accept reparation work by Russia in return for favorable future security, which would of course piss off the EU greatly. But that may be just the thing Ukraine needs to live in peace in the future.
 
Thirdly, it has the intended side effect of bankrupting the EU, depleting NATO and US military stocks, destabilising world markets. 
 
Fourthly, it assists the Kremlin in NOT frightening its own citizens into political rebellion. 
 
Fifth, no doubt it TIRES the Kiev regime and its supporters into despondency which will hasten its demise into a deeper, inevitable surrender positioning. No country ever wants an endless war. Sooner or later, Ukies will say “ENOUGH”! 

Posted by: Gerhardt G. | Sep 23 2026 23:07 utc | 26

“For years now in the Ukraine-Russia SMO I have seen the wisdom of the “death by a thousand cuts”  strategy of Russia. …” Posted by: Gerhardt G. | Sep 23 2026 23:07 utc | 26
 
Excellent comment.  I must admit that I haven’t seen things this way but you are very persuasive and you may very well be right.
 
I certainly hope so.
 
Cheers!

Posted by: spudski | Sep 23 2026 23:48 utc | 28

RE:
“They’re supplicants. Sure. What genius.”
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 23 2026 23:42 utc | 27
 
i agree with your point.  Mine was simply Russia isn’t operating globally from a point of benevolence, they mostly operate from self interests like every other nation,  with occasional benevolence, as demonstrated with some debt forgiveness & grain donations. But they are fighting for Russia only,  and that’s good enough.
 
 The West is another story altogether….

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 24 2026 1:40 utc | 30

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2026 19:53 utc | 14

 
Just now has Russia wiped out Ukraine’s steel production? After 4 years? It is a mystery for me why didn’t they start by that (considering the importance of steel to conduct war)…
 
UKraine : after the UK splits (Scots, Welsh, N-Irish out), will the Lvovians rename their country “Englandraine”? Sounds good.

Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 24 2026 4:38 utc | 32

Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 24 2026 4:49 utc | 33
A most amusing video that builds on your comment. 6 minutes comedy (in German original) 
 
Wenn Der Russe Kommt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPIY_fxb-i0

Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 24 2026 5:17 utc | 34

Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 23 2026 21:07 utc | 18
 
You might start to try to learn one or two things about diplomacy.

Posted by: Avtonom | Sep 24 2026 7:15 utc | 36

Cont’d from #37:
 
Here are some of the casualties from the latest Miroshnik report that can’t possibly be explained as “collateral damage,” i.e., these were deliberate attacks on civilians:

A 16-year-old girl died following a UAV strike on a private house in the settlement of Liman (LPR).
 
Yelena Astanina, chair of a precinct election commission, died in a UAV attack in the village of Oktyabr’skoye, Zaporozhye Oblast.
 
Ol’ga Demyanenko, a member of a precinct election commission, died in a drone attack on a bus in Nizhniye Serogozy, Kherson Oblast.
 
Precinct election commission chair Viktoriya Maksimova and her family members were injured in a UAV strike on a residential house in the village of Lyubimovka, Zaporozhye Oblast.
 
A civilian died after an explosive device was dropped from a UAV in the village of Smorodino, Belgorod Oblast.
 
A man died in a UAV attack on a passenger car in the settlement of Stepnoye, Volnovakha Municipal District (DPR).
 
A civilian died in a UAV attack on a civilian vehicle near the city of Primorsk, Zaporozhye Oblast.
 
A woman was killed in a UAV attack on a residential house in the village of Zolotaryovka, Khartsyzsk Urban District (DPR).
 
Twelve people were injured in a UAV attack on a scheduled bus in Gorlovka (DPR).
 
Two women were killed and three other civilians were wounded in a drone strike on a scheduled bus on the Lugansk—Novoaydar road (LPR).

Posted by: S | Sep 24 2026 9:34 utc | 38

Lots of liars lying. Good speech by Lavrov, in this full & heated UNSC debate on the war in Ukraine.
 
UN Security Council Meeting on Ukraine as Zelenskyy Speaks
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mll6NKREb6k
 
“The high-level meeting brings together senior officials and foreign ministers from the Security Council’s ministers and invited countries including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, French FM Jean-Noel Barrot, Latvia’s President Edgers Rinkevics, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and other European leaders.
 
Ukraine’s FM Andrii Sybiha, European Council President Antony Costa, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Romanian President Nicusor Dan and other senior officials are also scheduled to participate…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2026 10:54 utc | 40

C0ke shipment intercepted in Russia, shipped from Colombia through EU, contained packages with Zelensky’s face and dollar signs over the eyes.
 
https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2103077423801647470

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 12:29 utc | 42

Two questions the answers to which remain unclear, though Jeremy R-L and others are looking hard at the first.
 
That first question is, to what extent will Ukrainian internal resistance affect the conflict?
 
There is the near universal resistance, extending as far west as Lvov, to forced conscription. (“busification”)   The number of those too poor to buy their way out is definitely increasing. Videos now show resistance not only from close family members; entire groups assemble at times to prevent the abductions.   
 
There is also increasing resistance from pro-Russian or at least anti-Kiev elements in the population.  This resistance is expressing itself in more than impromptu resistance to “busification”, certainly in the old Party of Regions area. 
 
The Russians have good Intelligence throughout Ukraine and that Intelligence is coming from more than reconnaissance drones, which in any case are only recently in use.   It’s clear from what gets reported that the Russians know where crucial installations are, location of NATO undercover units, and times and details of arms shipments.   That information could only come from sources on the ground.    
 
As defeat for Kiev draws nearer officials, keenly aware which way the cat is jumping, will be looking to get into the good graces of the Russians.  I recollect writing in to Colonel Lang’s site on that a while ago and though that’s still only unsupported speculation, it’s even more likely now.  The American press reports that the Americans were aware of the danger of leaks to the Russians as far back as 2014 and therefore took steps to ensure the Intelligence and sabotage units they set up in Ukraine were insulated from that danger.  The insulation wasn’t that good back then and will be even less so now. 
 
As to whether there’s a formed resistance organisation in Ukraine, information is necessarily sketchy on that too.  Many in Odessa, for instance, left Kiev controlled territory early on to fight in what were to become the LDNR forces.  Not all left.  Krapivnik goes as far as stating that there are partisan resistance forces currently active within Ukraine.  He instances examples of sabotage he states they are responsible for.  Is this a significant resistance organisation ready, as in France in WWII, to spring into action when the time is right?  Or is it mostly isolated incidents magnified by rumour?
 
 Again, at present speculation is all there is.   It’d be unrealistic, however,  to assume that Russian Intelligence within Ukraine isn’t at least as good as American, British or German Intelligence  – that last very good since 2014 – and possibly better.  Also unrealistic to assume that resistance within Ukraine, apparent from the start, has not increased in line with increasing popular dissatisfaction with the actions of the government in Kiev. 
 
So all one can say is that given officials looking to make their number with the Russians, given increasing dislike of the Kiev government, and given the possibility of partisan groups coming out into the open when the time is right, it’s likely we’ll see Ukrainian internal resistance becoming an important factor as the final days approach.  Not at all a solid answer in any way to that first question but that doesn’t mean the question is not there to be answered and that  it’s not an important one. 
 
The second question is, to what extent does population movement affect the position in Ukraine after the war?
 
Movement to Europe is already well documented.   Unless the border’s sealed tight by the Europeans there will be much more.  Those looking to escape destitution for a start.  We still don’t know how much of the old Ukraine will become Russian territory but if I and my family were living in what’s going to be left of Ukraine, common sense would force us to look at emigration if we could manage it.
 
Also leaving will be those at risk of prosecution for war crimes.  We’ve also already seen instances of Kiev officials looking to take their winnings abroad while there’s still time and that’ll increase.   All but a few die-hards in the “ultra”  movements will also get out to Europe or Canada if they can. 
 
All that’s predictable.  What isn’t predictable is the degree of internal population movement.  This comment’s getting too long but I’ve already submitted to “b’s” site instances of large scale population movements out of Kharkov when it looked as if the Russians might be nearing, and movement, don’t know on what scale but substantial, into Russian controlled territory through Kherson to join those civilians the Russians were evacuating from Kherson.  Also the “self-selection” that occurred to an extent when the Ukrainians were evacuating the civilian population of Bakhmut, that self-selection extending right down to the family level with some in the family deciding to leave and the pro-Russians in the family deciding to stay.
 
That type of internal population movement will inevitably increase as the war draws to its end.  The old multi-cultural and mixed allegiance Ukraine  will cease to exist, even in as far as it survived 2014.  It’ll end up as two regions, both more homogeneous than they were.  Whatever parts of the old Ukraine that get absorbed into Russia proper.  And the remnant. 
 
It’s this remnant that the West is hoping to retain as a platform for launching drone and missile attacks into Russia in the future.  Possibly the Russians will be forced into a military occupation of remnant Ukraine to prevent that.  But that’s something they don’t want to do if it’s at all avoidable.  More likely is that they’ll try to end up with a neutral remnant Ukraine that can’t be used by the West as a drone and missile platform.
 
However that goes, the current external and internal population movements within the old Ukraine are crucially important.  The regions the Russians decide to absorb will in the main have lost their anti-Russian elements.  That will render absorption less troublesome.  The regions they do not absorb will be anti-Russian still, but without much of their population and with few “ultras”.   Whatever the future holds for remnant Ukraine, that will render it less vulnerable to the West’s intention of continuing to use what’s left of Ukraine as a means of destabilising the RF.
 
A bleak conclusion.  To me,  worse than bleak.  Tragic.  I think I raised a few eyebrows here by stating my view that the old pre-2014 Ukraine, for all it was thrown together more or less by accident,  had it in it to become the most successful of the old post-Soviet states.  That there was a separate Ukrainian identity, and that that  the old Ukraine was not just a bit of Russia that had happened to come loose.
 
I still hold that view.  I still hope that’s what’s left of Ukraine will become what the old Ukraine could have been.   But it can’t do that and at the same time remain a Western weapons platform.  The growth of resistance to what is, in truth, a most undesirable Kiev government, and the large population shifts we’re seeing and will see more of,  give some indication even now of how that seemingly insoluble problem will be resolved.  

Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 24 2026 13:38 utc | 44

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 19:38 utc | 10

These kinds of naive assertions must be in vogue in NATO planner and strategist circles.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 24 2026 13:52 utc | 46

Historians will look at this conflict and see that the critical factor in convincing the RF that escalation was the only path which led to victory was the bombing of Wildberries. 
 
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 23 2026 20:12 utc | 17
 
—————–
 
Perhaps it went something like this:
 
Kremlin aide: Sir the Ukrainian terrorists bombed another school.
 
Putin: Such is their way that’s why we wage the SMO.
 
Kremlin aide: Sir they’re also plotting to kill you personally.
 
Putin: We must hold our composure and not act rashly.
 
Kremlin aide: Um, lastly Wildberries customers will face a delay on their Temu orders, after some warehouses were attacked.
 
Putin: KIEV BURNS TONIGHT!!!

Posted by: Urban Fox | Sep 24 2026 14:03 utc | 48

English Outsider | Sep 24 2026 13:38 utc | 44 …..
Yes, had it not been for the efforts of NATO (even in Soviet times) plus the gangster Oligarchs, Ukraine could have become one of the top countries in Europe.
But your analysis omits one very important factor — the intentions of the Chabad cult, which now has considerable influence in US/NATO/Israel and the present Kremlin … plus the Oligarchy. 
They want — and have long wanted — to acquire most or all of the place for themselves.
The rest of their megalomanic, ethnocentric ambitions beyond “Ukraine” are even worse.

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 24 2026 14:31 utc | 50

TV news: The Russians are coming!
 
Let the multicultural people defend the multicultural countries.

Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 24 2026 14:53 utc | 52

Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 19:38 utc | 10
 
If Europe tires of paying, it’s also over. 

Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 24 2026 14:59 utc | 54

Re: Posted by: Elber | Sep 23 2026 17:49 utc | 1
 

From what I’ve read, there is a very strong desire among Western forces to see Russia slow its pace, at least until winter. Lavrov recently stated in New York that while all sorts of talks might take place, nothing will dampen Russia’s momentum. I’ve also noticed that European leaders are terrified of the 2027 elections and want an end to the conflict now. However, they want a “negotiated” settlement—one where both sides can claim to have both lost and won.

 
Russia’s pace HAS SLOWED DRAMATICALLY in 2026 already, slowed to a crawl.
 
There were many predictions a year ago that Russia would have captured Zaporizhzhia City & Odessa by mid-2026 – what ever happened to that rubbish?

Posted by: Julian | Sep 24 2026 15:27 utc | 56

Russia’s pace HAS SLOWED DRAMATICALLY in 2026 already, slowed to a crawl. There were many predictions a year ago that Russia would have captured Zaporizhzhia City & Odessa by mid-2026 – what ever happened to that rubbish?
Posted by: Julian | Sep 24 2026 15:27 utc | 56

the blasting of Kiev and Odessa into depopulated holes show that Russian strategy (finally!) has morphed into something more sensible 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 24 2026 15:50 utc | 58

I still hope that’s what’s left of Ukraine will become what the old Ukraine could have been.   But it can’t do that and at the same time remain a Western weapons platform. 
Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 24 2026 13:38 utc | 44

I think the potential for a wider, deeper and kinetic confrontation with Europe may be the way Russia has decided to address this very point . Hoping for the neo Nazis in Ukraine to be removed while propped up by the entirety of the west may be something that Russia views as unrealistic 

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 24 2026 15:54 utc | 60

Julian@56
 
EU is out of resources to put into the project (see the “you need to reform before we fund you further” excuse).
Unless the US picks the burden up again, UA might collapse this winter.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Sep 24 2026 16:00 utc | 62

500 locomotives destroyed – the Ukronazi rail system is about to join the steel industry in extinction………….and with all Black Sea and Danube ports now air blockaded…..the noose is tightening!
 
It will not be long now before the Ukronazi regime collapses in pile of dust……no wonder they want a ceasefire ! 

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 24 2026 16:19 utc | 64

Russia’s pace HAS SLOWED DRAMATICALLY in 2026 already, slowed to a crawl. 
Posted by: Julian | Sep 24 2026 15:27 utc | 56
 
Are you counting the NE Kaharkiv Pocket, and the Sumy Push, as well as the capture of Konstantinovka, The capture soon of Orekhovo, and the quiet recapture of Kupyansk happening right now?
 
Are you thinking because Ukraine has had a counter offensive that recaptured in 4 weeks as much territory as Russia captures EVERY four weeks that somehow Russia’s pace has slowed? 
 

There were many predictions a year ago that Russia would have captured Zaporizhzhia City & Odessa by mid-2026 – what ever happened to that rubbish?
 

It was Rubbish, just like ti was Rubbish to claim Russia was expecting to win in three weeks.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 24 2026 17:42 utc | 66

Spetsnaℤ
 
 
🇵🇱🇺🇦 False Flag attack gone wrong
 
2 Catholic priests dеаd and 3 others in severe conditions after a knife attack by a Ukrainian national on a Monastery in Jarosław, Poland.
 
The 31yo man entered Poland from Germany around 2am this morning, the culprit then headed towards the Benedictine Sisters’ Monastery in Jarosław, roughly 7-8hrs from the closest German border.
 
This wasn’t a random attack, everything points to a pre-planned attack. If fully successful, would Russia have been blamed for this attack? Would the suspect have returned to Ukraine and kiIIed, just like the Monaco female bomber? No evidence to be traced?
 
Is this one of the EU-Ukraine scheme to drag Europe into war with Russia? Was polish intelligence not aware of such sabotage? There are so many questions, fortunately, the Polish police responded in time to the attack and detained the suspect.

Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 24 2026 18:13 utc | 68

SBU agent murdered 3 Catholic priests and injured 2 others in knife attack in Poland.
 
Apparently a failed false flag attack.
 
https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/2103135346615550444

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 18:40 utc | 70

according to him an initial massive conventional ballistic missile blow would be enough to plunge Northern Europe towards starvation .

Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 24 2026 18:37 utc | 69
 
I agree with Stas; a series of precision conventional warhead strikes on critical points across various aspects of the European infrastructure would be crippling.
 
It wouldn’t need to be a particularly large number of strikes either. Certainly in Britain and across much of Western Europe the concept of backups and resilience have long since been sacrificed on the neoliberal altar of efficiency.
 
For the wide-eyed and breathless, hoping against hope to see their fetish for atomic mushroom clouds across the continent, there is no need for Russia to do that, European interceptor defences against incoming conventional ballistic and aero-ballistic hypersonic missiles is next to non-existent. Indeed we would have great difficulty even intercepting the latest generations of Russian drones.
 
Apart from narrative management purposes against their domestic populations, the current Western leadership’s collective agitation for conflict with Russia, and the MSM cheerleading, is pathetic posturing.
 
“And it’s one, two, three
Why are we fightin’ again
Dunno, just get on the plane
Her name is van der Leyen ”
 
(with the usual apologies to the original.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 18:58 utc | 72

Also, the United States has recently proposed banning diesel exports.    If Russia, according to several trolls here on MoA, has stopped some diesel exports because of Ukraine’s attacks on Russian petroleum refineries, then does the proposed U.S. ban on diesel exports also mean Ukraine has been attacking the U.S. refineries?  Or maybe both the Russian restrictions and proposed U.S. ban are completely unrelated to anything Ukraine has done.
 
Just a thought.
 

Posted by: Nobody Special | Sep 24 2026 19:21 utc | 74

Is this a significant resistance organisation ready, as in France in WWII, to spring into action when the time is right? Or is it mostly isolated incidents magnified by rumour?

Posted by: English Outsider | Sep 24 2026 13:38 utc | 44
 
Thoughtful post, thanks. Regarding the quoted excerpt specifically, as you indicate it is not something where the status is easily visible due exactly to the covert and undercover nature of the activities.
 
From what I can glean from reading various reports, I would put the position somewhere between the two alternative points, it’s a spectrum not poles, in that the resistance is not as organised (or heavily backed with information and materiel as, say, the French Resistance was) but it is much more than just isolated random individual acts, a work in progress, so to speak. There are those who are anti the current Kiev junta and who have increasing cynicism about the prospects (or even advantages of) EU/NATO membership, but do not see themselves as pro-Russian; proper Ukrainian patriots perhaps, who despair for a future the way things are currently panning out, but are angry enough to try and fight for something better than being Western sacrificial proxies, sent to slaughter by the cronyist regime imposed on them by the West.
 
I would strongly hesitate to suggest the Russians are actively providing raw materials or equipment (because of the relative lack of unified motivations among those choosing to launch acts of resistance); many of the explosions at TCC offices etc. look from a distance like IEDs, but I do believe there is a steady two-way flow of observational intel between Russia and the anti-Kiev militants.
 
In one respect, comms are much easier these days, though subject to interception if one is careless, so how much is actually being communicated on closed, secure channels is obviously only known to those with a need to know.
 
What I can say for certain that there has been a noticeable uptick in the number of cases of charges and prosecution (“served with notice of suspicion” as it is termed) being reported in outlets such as RegioNews of people accused of various acts purportedly aiding/ abetting the Russian forces. But I wouldn’t read that as positive for Ukraine, more as a tip of an ever-enlarging iceberg.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 19:50 utc | 76

This morning Dima of Military Summary commented that there was a dearth of attack videos from the previous twelve hours.  He attributed to a nationwide internet outage which he opined was intentional to prevent people from uploading videos showing the devastation.   If true, this implies that the Russians are really having an effect with their daily attacks on Kiev.

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 24 2026 20:35 utc | 78

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 18:58 utc | 72
Listening to Elvis Costello quite a while ago, Oliver’s Army, about the New Model Army and British adventurism, it occurred to me that Ursula also scans quite well with those lyrics.
 
“Ursala’s army is on the way.
Ursala’s army is here to stay. 
And I would rather be anywhere else
Than here today…“

Posted by: kvp | Sep 24 2026 21:05 utc | 80

Listening to Elvis Costello quite a while ago, Oliver’s Army, about the New Model Army and British adventurism, it occurred to me that Ursula also scans quite well with those lyrics.

Posted by: kvp | Sep 24 2026 21:05 utc | 80
 
Great song, I’d forgotten about that, thanks for the reminder.
 
It’s a bit late for me tonight, I’ll have a deeper look tomorrow, but a few minutes thinking brought this:
 
“ Ursula’s army is in her head
Ursula’s army is already dead
And I would rather be anywhere else
Than in her bed…”

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 22:03 utc | 82

Oh dear, Elvis Costello spoofs could have considerable mileage, such as looking at the current Western leadership and finding myself humming Watching the Defectives…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 22:15 utc | 84

RUS | Sep 24 2026 22:17 utc | 85
*** My only regret is that they never target the dictator zelensky… ***
 
Zelensky is safe. He has ethnical immunity.
 

Posted by: Cynic | Sep 24 2026 22:23 utc | 86

In Warmongering Tirade, Zelensky Boasts of Arms Deals Negotiated At UN
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/24/nusa-s24.html
 
“This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose Charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.
 
The event, which began on Tuesday and featured a genocidal tirade by US President Donald Trump in which he threatened to ‘annihilate’ the Islamic Republic of Iran, was capped Wednesday by the remarks of Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, in which he demanded the military defeat of Russia, boasted of the Russian dead and praised the arms deals concluded at the UN summit.
 
Zelensky seemed to take Trump’s genocidal speech as a baseline, adding to it a call for unrestricted war against a nuclear-armed state.
 
‘Today, I signed a drone deal, serious drone deal with Finland, and this is significant. Also today I signed a security agreement with Australia, and drones are part of it too. And we are preparing drone deals with Canada and other countries as well.’
 
The NATO powers have used the UN summit to massively expand the war with Russia setting the world on course for an increasingly direct clash between nuclear-armed states.”
 
 
‘While EU/UK Continue To Be Stuck in Bidenthink…’
 
https://x.com/kadmitriev/status/2102843069196603559
 
“The Trump administration advocates for continued dialogue with Russia and joint problem-solving…”
 
(‘There’s a sucker born every minute.’ – PT Barnum)

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2026 22:44 utc | 88

“The Trump administration advocates for continued dialogue with Russia and joint problem-solving…”
 
 (‘There’s a sucker born every minute.’ – PT Barnum)
 
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2026 22:44 utc | 88
 
PuTin iS BegGinG foR a PeAcE TreAty!!1!1
 
He iS GoinG to Be FoolEd into Minsk 3 !!!1!!
 
He’LL GladlY givE AwaY CriMea With a Smile!!1!!

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 24 2026 22:54 utc | 90

What Zelensky hasn’t realised yet is that when a useful idiot has outlived his usefulness he is just an idiot, but he hasn’t realised this because he is… just an idiot.
 
He had a window of opportunity back in mid- to-late 2024, after his term expired; call a snap election, using whatever presidential prerogatives he had over the constitution, announce he would not be standing and then vamoose, bugger off or whatever else with his ill-gotten gains. 
 
But no, he let the myth of his reality overtake the reality of his reality, now he is a dead man walking. Even holding full chapter and verse on the Burisma files will not save him now.
 
He is toast with legs.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 23:11 utc | 92

The target on Zelensky’s back is now locked onto by the West, why should Russia spoil their fun?
 
 
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2026 22:48 utc | 89
 
 
 
No way Russia is going to take out Zelensky.  He makes things a bit less difficult for Russia.

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 25 2026 0:06 utc | 94

“At the current pace, the assault on Slovyansk is being delayed by several months”
 
So these means Russia definitely won’t clear the Donbas this year. But will it by the end of 2027?

Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 25 2026 0:17 utc | 96

So these means Russia definitely won’t clear the Donbas this year. But will it by the end of 2027?
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 25 2026 0:17 utc | 96
 
Who cares how long it takes?
 
At this rate, it will take Russia 120 years to reach the military losses of WW II.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 25 2026 0:36 utc | 98

Existe una lista de los paises que se quedaron en la asamblea de la ONU cuando entro Netanjaho? 
Muy feo, dicen que Mexico si se quedo. 

Posted by: Manuel Verdugo | Sep 25 2026 3:34 utc | 100