I am grateful to Canada for our energy arrangements – this is important. We have concrete arrangements in the energy sector that will strengthen us both ahead of this winter and over the longer term.
Canada is also ready to support our Ukrainian veterans. A Veterans Fund will be established, and I am grateful to Canada for its contribution to this fund – $40 million – which will support our programs for veterans.
From the press conference with Mark Carney. (2/3)
Putin tells Trump that he wants to make a deal and the only holdup is Zelenskyy and Trump simply regurgitates it and goes back to posting AI slop on social media.
“Ukraine should compromise.”
“Ukraine should stop fighting.”
“Ukraine shouldn’t strike back.”
“Ukraine should give up land.”
Funny how everyone knows what Ukraine should do.
Here’s one idea:
russia should leave.
Ukraine flattening the Russian salient near Lyman and retaking 200 km² is an underrated victory Moscow wants to silence.
Proven professionals lead Ukraine's defense of the Donbas, and this news shatters Russia’s narrative of inevitable conquest
As I warned when Trump first came to office, it’s not the corruption you don’t see that is the biggest problem with demagogues and autocrats, it’s the daily corruption they perform proudly and normalize.
One less russian general to wage war against Ukraine.
Major General Igor Timofeev, aka “Brest,” former deputy commander of russia’s 36th Combined Arms Army, has died after a prolonged illness.
He had been fighting against Ukraine since 2015.
The list keeps getting shorter.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 RUSSIA’S “VICTORIES” ON PAPER ARE STARTING TO BREAK ITS OWN ARMY
Moscow can color a town Russian on a map. The problem begins when Ukrainian troops, functioning utilities, pharmacies and grocery stores are still there.
Days after Russia publicly presented another city as effectively taken, a Ukrainian general appeared in the supposedly occupied area without even wearing a helmet, openly mocking the Kremlin’s version of events.
The reaction from Russian pro-war channels was brutal. Mikhail Zvinchuk captured the operational absurdity:
“A strike cannot be called in on a village fictitiously taken by a neural network.”
That is the real danger of falsified battlefield reporting. If headquarters records territory as captured when Russian troops do not actually control it, artillery support, reinforcement, casualty evacuation and operational planning can all be built around a fictional front line.
Frontline Russian channels have directed particular anger at Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev, who reported Kupyansk captured last November and received the Hero of Russia star. Troops are now reportedly asking why soldiers are still fighting for a city their commanders already declared won.
The same pattern appeared around Vovchansk, where Putin spoke of a “cauldron” containing 2,000 Ukrainian troops. Yet accounts from inside the supposed pocket described functioning shops, mobile service and Ukrainian forces that had apparently not been trapped at all.
The consequences go beyond embarrassment. A 19-year-old Russian Spetsnaz serviceman reportedly described troops being dispatched toward coordinates based on unreliable reports and disappearing. One unit allegedly became so distrustful that personnel were assigned simply to observe whether Russian infantry were actually where commanders claimed.
Even Russian equipment procurement enters the picture: one contractor reportedly sourced helmets from China, ran out of money for body armor and used migrant workers to assemble inadequate protective gear.
Meanwhile, Russian frontline sources acknowledge that Ukraine’s reported 100,000-hryvnia payment for taking a Russian soldier alive creates a strange battlefield incentive. As one Russian channel put it: “When the enemy sees in you a pile of money, it protects you better than any body armor.”
Ukraine, by contrast, is described as increasingly automating dangerous logistics, with ground robots having carried out 25,000 missions.
And the distortion may extend beyond the battlefield. The thread claims Jared Kushner spent three hours meeting Putin’s aide and that a proposed peace map subsequently incorporated Russian General Staff territorial claims — the same claims Russian soldiers themselves are increasingly disputing.
That is the deeper problem for Moscow: falsifying battlefield success may please the political leadership, but eventually the fictional map has to confront real Ukrainian positions.
You can deceive a briefing room. Artillery, logistics and the soldiers on the ground still have to operate in the real world.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney signed the 100 Year Partnership Declaration between Ukraine and Canada.
Canada was the first Western country to recognise the restoration of Ukraine’s independence on December 2, 1991.
❗️Rutte: All for one and one for all. That is how NATO works. Russia wants to divide us, but we are united.
Russia wants to stop us helping Ukraine, but we are going to do more for Ukraine. Russia wants to act tough, but we are stronger.
Russia’s actions are a sign of weakness and a symptom of its failure to get its way in Ukraine.
You can call this bribery or socialism or just another lie, but remember it’s the Republican Party that endorses this garbage. Trump is deeply unpopular, but has promised he’ll rig the midterm elections for them, so they still won’t stand up to him.