There are important results from our troops in the Lyman sector of the Donetsk region as part of Operation Vivaldi, as well as from the Airborne Assault Forces grouping as part of another one of our active defense operations. The occupiers continue to be eliminated, and the designated objectives are being achieved. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi delivered a report today. Overall, this week, across all sectors of active combat operations on the front, our units neutralized 10,660 Russian troops killed and wounded. And every such Russian loss is confirmed by video evidence.
The most intense fighting is taking place in the Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, and Lyman sectors. Missions are also being carried out in the Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions. Based on this week’s results, the warriors of the Third Army Corps and the 68th Separate Oleksa Dovbush Airmobile Brigade of the 8th Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deserve special recognition. Thank you all for the results, warriors! Every such week on the front that becomes ours – Ukrainian – in terms of the overall situation prevents Russia from mounting greater offensive activity against Ukraine. The Commander-in-Chief and I also determined our next active steps. Glory to Ukraine!
I disagree with this decision. First, this should have been a G20 decision and not a unilateral one. Secondly, Putin deserves to be treated like dictator tyrant, war crimes pariah that he is. He’s a disgusting repulsive leader that hates America and the free world.
Žaluje ma advokát a Ficov poradca Marek Para. Vraj som svojim statusom poškodila jeho dobrú povesť. K tomu poviem len toľko, že ak pánovi Parovi tak veľmi záleží na dobrej povesti, tak by si mal lepšie vyberať svojich klientov a nie rozčuľovať sa nad mojimi statusmi.
Mňa pán Para svojou žalobou nezastraší. Aj naďalej budem bojovať proti korupcii, neprávosti a rovnako intenzívne budem poukazovať na to, ako sa podľa obžaloby v kauze Očistec za vlád Smeru zneužívala polícia.
Keďže už viem, že pán Para pozorne číta moje statusy, tak by som ho rada pozvala na verejné premietanie chaty z Čifárov, ktoré bude v pondelok 28.9. od 17:00 na Námestí SNP v Bratislave. Okrem pána Paru ste, samozrejme, pozvaní všetci. Viac informácií už dnes.
@nexta_tv Russia has rejected Ukraine immediate ceasefire proposal and called it pointless instead suggesting underlying issues of the conflict had to be addressed.
There you have it…
Long-time Ukrainian journalist Dmitri Gordon says that within the next two weeks, the Ukrainian military will inflict a catastrophe upon Russia of scale of enormity that it will unite all Ukrainians and "give us wings"
"They are fucked", he predicts.
Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine. The systems used included FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, and Pelican.
I thank our warriors for their accuracy: the Security Service of Ukraine together with the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service. Sanctions were also imposed on a facility in the Voronezh region. Moscow must end its brutal war and choose peace instead of building layered rings of air defense at the expense of other regions. Steps toward de-escalation are on the table – in energy and food security. What is needed is political will. I thank everyone who is strengthening Ukraine’s long-range capabilities. I am grateful to everyone who complements our long-range responses with responses through sanctions. Glory to Ukraine!
@khodorkovsky_en Elections in Russia are manipulated and nazi dictator Putin can not lose, otherwise he would go to jailnor would be killed. Ita a mafia-dictatorship state. Russian slaves are animals.
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“So this is where I want to challenge some of the optimism I'm hearing in European capitals about negotiated end to this war. So what would a ceasefire today actually deliver? If Russia is compelled to stop fighting tomorrow, under pressure, exhausted, out of reserves, the war economy does not simply switch off and the state build to run it does not simply dissolve.
We will still be dealing with a security service state now battle-hardened industry re-tooled for war production, more dependent on Beijing than it has been before, and with the domestic population conditioned to accept permanent hostility towards Europe as a status quo.
A ceasefire freezes the war. It does not reverse the transformation the war has produced. That is the distinction Europe keeps missing, the distinction between the end of fighting and the end to the threats.
So where does that leave the sanctions question, somebody will ask, right? Sanctions were never going to make ordinary Russians rise up. That was never the honest premise, and whoever sold it that way owes everyone an apology. The real premise is harder. Deny Moscow of components, the revenue and the technology this machine needs to function.
Reserves are close to exhausted, energy revenues are down sharply, growth has stalled. That is not collapse, it is a security service state running out of room, and it will double down rather than reform, because reform was never in its vocabulary.
Europe's task is not to wait for Russia to change from within. It will not, not on any timeline that matters to Ukraine or to us. Plan for Russia this war has actually produced is poorer, more repressive, more dependent on Beijing, and no less hostile. That is, I would say, not pessimism, it is realism, and realism is the only thing that has ever kept this region safe. So we build our architecture assuming the worst about Moscow and we have been proven right every time, and I see no reason to stop now. So that is my answer.”
“The war did not change Russia. It revealed Russia.” - Rihards Kols
Rihards Kols, Latvian Member of the European Parliament, speaking at the #RigaConf2026 plenary session "Preparing for Russia Remade by War".
“It is important correction we need to make in this room. The war did not change Russia. It revealed Russia. And this is precisely, and I will reiterate, that for years some of us in this region said this plainly, and we were told that we are exaggerating. There are some who are still saying that the Baltics, our region, we are exaggerating, that we were prisoners of our own history. So the war did not create new Russia. It stripped away the excuses that let people pretend the old one was becoming something else. And that is something being spread across Europe. Already was mentioned the dynamics on day to day. What is the changing on the war efforts, war economy? And obviously we can reiterate the numbers. Obviously the Russia today spends roughly 7 to 8% of GDP and roughly 40% of federal budget expenditure on defense and security. And it is the highest share since the Soviet collapse. And that should be noted. But on top of that, which is more alarming, is that church, state media, education curricula, industry, the courts have all been folded into a single machine whose output is the war effort. And that has to be registered. And really, do not make no mistake. That is not wartime mobilisation in the sense we understand in democracy, when we speak about a temporary redirection of resources toward an external goal. It is the opposite. The war has become the organising principle of the state itself, and the state has organised everything else around sustaining it.
So I want to be really blunt, because I think this room can handle it from seeing familiar faces. Russia is not a state that happens to be run by a strong man who came out of the KGB. Russia is a state built and operated by security services, for security services as a permanent condition.
putin is not aberration sitting on top of normal state apparatus. He is the product of the apparatus, and so is whoever comes after him. We, we ask often and in this format as well, in previous years, what happens after putin? We are asking the wrong question. The right question is what happens to the system whose entire logic is a threat detection, repression, and control regardless of who occupies the top chair. Individuals do leave voluntarily or through windows or having too much tea. The services, the networks, the operating logic, they remain.
And there is a comfortable story in the Western capitals that ordinary Russians are quietly against this war, that repression is holding back at Latin majority that would choose differently if only given a chance. I do not believe that, and frankly the evidence does not support it. If there were a real organised majority demand for change inside Russia, we would see it. Not because Russians are uniquely passive, history proves the opposite when the conditions are right. But because when a majority generally wants a change, it finds a way to make that one visible, costly to ignore, and difficult to suppress indefinitely.
So the simple, uncomfortable logic conclusion is this. The absence of visible mass demand for change is itself the evidence. Passive discontent that never translates into political consequence is not resistance, it is accommodation.
And there is the line I want people to sit with. You cannot wake up someone who is only pretending to be asleep. A society that quietly benefits from empire, that quietly enjoys the mobilisation of victimhood and grievance the Kremlin sells it, does not need waking. It needs to be confronted with costs it cannot ignore.”
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Hitler said “give me the Sudetenland Land and we will have peace.” The Allies did and that only fed Hitler’s appetite.
Encouraging Ukraine to give land to Putin is foolish and very naive. 70% of Americans want us to do more to support Ukraine.
@clashreport Imagine if Putler invaded the US and this fucking idiot was in charge of negotiations
“If the US, you know, wanted to give up Texas, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together.
The US right now does not want to do that”
Fuck off
Letter to Trump.
The renowned Soviet and Russian director and writer Eduard Topol has penned an open letter to US President Donald Trump regarding Putin and his war.
Here is the full text of the letter. Unfortunately, Trump will most likely not read it—by all appearances, he is accustomed to watching cartoons and does not absorb texts longer than two sentences:
"Dear Mr. President! Dear Donald! As the author of fifty books and a dozen films about Russia, I believe I have the right to share this with you before your meeting with Putin.
You should know that he cannot end the war against Ukraine—even if you were to hand over your Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Trump Tower in New York, and a dozen golf clubs to him.
And this is not because he does not want to take a break from the war, but because he cannot.
For he knows Russian history not from Medinsky’s textbook, but as it truly was:
The return of Russian troops from Europe to Russia following the victory over Napoleon led to the Decembrist revolt against the Tsar in 1825.
Russia’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War led to the Revolution of 1905.
The flight of a million Russian soldiers from the Russian-German front during World War I led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the February Revolution of 1917.
The peace treaty Lenin signed with Germany enabled the Bolsheviks to execute the entire Tsarist family.
The return of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in February 1989 marked the beginning of the USSR’s collapse.
Given these facts, Putin cannot end the war against Ukraine or send his troops home." Only the option of keeping almost his entire army in Europe as an occupation force in May 1945 saved Stalin from a coup in the postwar period.
That is precisely why Putin dreams of occupying Ukraine, as well as the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, and so on: to keep his army away from Moscow.
He remembers how the 525,000 soldiers returning from Afghanistan in 1989 turned into "Afghan bandits" who terrorized the entire population of the USSR.
And he knows what will happen when one and a half million soldiers return from the Ukrainian front—men who have learned to kill, loot, and rape professionally.
The war against Ukraine has enabled Putin to get rid of two million of his most active opponents by forcing them to flee Russia; as for the remaining young Russians, he either sent them to the front or recruited them from penal colonies.
Today, any war—whether against Ukraine, the Baltic states, NATO, or whomever else—is the best means of compelling Russia to submit to Putin and his junta.
Unfortunately, none of your advisors will explain this to you before your meeting with Putin, but you can have my arguments verified by Jack Matlock and Michael McFaul.
I do not want Putin—that bandit, thief, and murderer of millions—to continue with his brazen deception, his lies, and his misleading of my president.
Of course, I am neither a military expert nor a political scientist, but I am a writer with a good memory.
I remember how Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II drove the price of oil down to 9 dollars a barrel and supplied the Afghans with "Stinger" missiles, thereby halting Moscow’s conquest of Afghanistan and bringing about the collapse of the USSR. If you want to stop Putin and the imperial ambitions—shared by at least half of the Russian population—you must do the same: drive the price of oil down to at least 25 dollars a barrel and supply Ukraine with weapons that will help it defeat the aggressor.
As for your desire for American-Russian business partnerships: in practice—and not merely in words—this might not happen for another hundred years, or perhaps never at all.
If you would like to know why, give me a call; I would be happy to explain it to you.
Sincerely,
Eduard Topol
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