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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Probe For Weakness And Then Attack Fast—The Tactics Behind Ukraine’s New Kursk Operation

Special operations forces may have assisted with pre-attack reconnaissance.

By David Axe | Feb 08, 2025, 04:50pm EST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/08/probe-for-weakness-an
d-then-attack-fast-the-tactics-behind-ukraines-new-kursk-operation/

The probe-then-assault tactic, led by infantry but enabled by fast-moving vehicles, was refined by the Russian armed forces as the wider war ground into its second year and Ukrainian mines, drones, artillery and anti-tank missiles rendered massed mechanized assaults impractical if not suicidal.

The Russians, with their three-to-one or greater manpower advantage in many sectors of the front, tend to send small groups of infantry toward Ukrainian lines, clearly assuming most of the scouts will get killed but apparently hoping a few of them discover gaps in Ukrainian defenses.

“Disposable infantry are the first to be employed,” the Royal United Services Institute in London noted. “As teams are destroyed by defensive fire, Russian forces will commit successive teams forward by the same line of approach. Ukrainian forces must continuously defend their positions against consecutive waves, expending ammunition, exposing the locations of their defensive positions and exhausting their personnel.”

If Russian manpower outlasts Ukrainian firepower, the Russians may take control of the weakened Ukrainian positions.

The main difference between the Russian and Ukrainian versions of this assault tactic is that the Russians have an abundance of troops, but the Ukrainians don’t. So the Ukrainians must be taking some other approach to probing Russian lines before the main attack.

Ukraine’s advantage in drones surely helps, but the presence of Ukrainian special operation teams in the vicinity of Ukraine’s most successful attacks may also hint at another Ukrainian advantage that lends itself to probing operations that aren’t virtual suicide for the scouts.

The Ukrainian navy’s 73rd Naval Special Operations Center—Ukrainian Navy SEALS, basically—is deployed in Kursk near the launching position for the recent counterattack toward Fanaseevka. The center’s job, it stated, is to “gather crucial intelligence on hostile forces.”

Highly trained Ukrainian commandos stand a better chance of surviving a risky reconnaissance mission than untrained Russian conscripts who may have signed their enlistment contracts mere weeks earlier. In that way, Ukrainian assaults may be less costly than Russian assaults—a necessity for a Ukrainian military that has consistently struggled to mobilize enough troops.

Indeed, a paucity of manpower may yet doom the Fanaseevka counterattack. “There is just one flaw” in the operation, the Russian blogger assessed. “Positions that were formally ‘secure’ but lack sufficient troops (or have none at all) are instantly lost.”

Sources:
1. WarTranslated
2. Royal United Services Institute
3. Ukraine Control Map
4. 73rd Naval Special Operations Center

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The Baltic States cut ties with the Soviet-era power grid that connected them to Belarus and Russia on February 8 as part of efforts to achieve full energy independence from Russia and further integrate their energy infrastructure with the European Union (EU).[15] The three countries are temporarily operating independently from the grid and, pending final tests, will synchronize with the EU’s grid on February 9. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on February 7 that this move ensures Russia can no longer use energy as a “tool of blackmail”- something Russia has repeatedly leveraged against countries reliant on Russian energy, including Moldova, Belarus, and Ukraine.[16]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-8-2025

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Russia has been suffering from significant labor shortages in both its civilian and defense industrial sectors since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.[4]

Russia reportedly has an estimated labor shortage of 1.5 million workers as of December 2024.[5]

North Korea's provisions of materiel and troops to Russia have significantly increased over the course of 2024, and the several thousands of North Korean workers that arrived in Russia recently may be the beginning of larger influxes in the future that could more significantly help Russia's labor shortage issues.

Russian forces initial use of small numbers of North Korean artillery and mortar shells grew rapidly, with 60 percent of Russian forces‘ artillery ammunition fired now being sourced from North Korea as of December 2024.[6]

Russian enterprises are not paying North Korean workers the same salaries as Russian citizens, so a significant influx of North Korean workers into the Russian work force in the future could financially benefit Russian enterprises that are having to offer high salaries to Russian citizens in order to compete against Russian military and defense industrial enterprises for employees. Significant increases in the number of North Koreans working in Russia's civilian sectors in the future could also free up Russian civilian sector employees to work in the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) or fight in Ukraine.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continues to reiterate his support for Russia and its war effort in Ukraine. Kim gave a speech at the North Korean Ministry of National Defense on February 9 that heavily focused on the threats the US and the West allegedly pose to North Korean security.[8] Kim criticized the US for protracting the war in Ukraine and claimed that he is "seriously concerned" about the West's alleged desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Kim notably claimed that the North Korean military and people will "invariably support and encourage" Russia's "just cause" to defend its sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity "in the spirit of" the June 2024 Russian-North Korean comprehensive strategic partnership agreement.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-9-2025

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Three Mirage Jets Help The Ukrainian Air Force Blow Up Russian HQs

To level the battlefield, the Ukrainians deliberately target Russian commanders and their staffs.

David Axe | Feb 9, 2025, 07:12pm EST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/09/ex-french-mirage-jets
-should-help-the-ukrainian-air-force-blow-up-more-russian-hqs-faster/

The first handful of ex-French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters have arrived in Ukraine. As widely expected, French contractors reportedly modified the supersonic, single-seat jets to carry the SCALP-EG cruise missiles France is also providing to Ukraine.

The jets’ arrival expands the Ukrainian air force’s deep strike capability at a critical moment. With outgunned Ukrainian brigades struggling to hold the line in eastern Ukraine, the air force is playing a key supporting role—targeting Russian command posts in order to disrupt front-line coordination and give Ukraine’s outnumbered ground troops a fighting chance.

French Pres. Emmanuel Macron pledged surplus French air force Mirage 2000-5s to Ukraine back in June. Ukrainian pilots and ground crews traveled to France for a crash training program. Eight months later, the first three Mirage 2000s and their pilots and maintainers were ready for action. “They will now participate in defending Ukraine's skies,” French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated.

The Mirages will join a growing fleet of ex-European Lockheed Martin F-16s in revamping the battered Ukrainian air force, which has mostly made do with the same few hundred ex-Soviet warplanes it had in service or in storage before Russia widened its war on Ukraine three years ago.

The air force has lost around 100 of these older jets to Russian missiles; 85 F-16s and potentially a dozen or more Mirage 2000s will complement the surviving Soviet models as the war grinds into its fourth year.

The dozen or so ex-Danish and ex-Dutch F-16s that have arrived so far, minus one former Danish jet that crashed last year, have been flying air-defense missions targeting Russian drones and cruise missiles bombarding Ukrainian cities.

The Mirages may fly ground-attack missions. According to La Tribune, the French tweaked the air-defense Mirage 2000-5s not only to carry SCALP-EGs, but also to haul the Hammer glide-bombs Ukraine gets from France.

The SCALP-EGs are critical. Ranging as far as 155 miles with bunker-busting tandem warheads, the 2,900-pound missiles can hit Russian regiments where they’re most vulnerable: their headquarters.

In the months before launching their recent counteroffensive in Kursk, the Ukrainians went to great pains to find and strike the command posts of the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade. It’s no coincidence that, when they attacked on the southeastern edge of their 250-square-mile salient in Kursk last week, the Ukrainian focused their troops and firepower in the same sector held by the beleaguered and befuddled marine brigade.

The Mirages will only be as useful as their best munitions are plentiful. It’s unclear how many SCALP-EGs Ukraine has gotten from France and Italy. Perhaps as few as 100. It’s also unclear how many of the missiles Ukraine has left after years of hard fighting.

The French are trying to send more. Paris allocated $2 billion for munitions production this year, including a fresh batch of SCALP-EGs, many of which could wind up in Ukraine. “Yes, we continue to provide SCALP missiles,” said Gael Aller, France’s ambassador to Ukraine. “We don't have so many of them, and we have to buy more, so it takes some time.”

Ukraine is developing its own new deep-strike munitions. And while they’re initially being tested on old Soviet jets including Sukhoi Su-24 bombers, it’s possible they could eventually arm the Mirage 2000s, too—keeping the jets in action even when stocks of SCALP-EGs run low or run out.

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The first handful of ex-French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters have arrived in Ukraine. As widely expected, French contractors reportedly modified the supersonic, single-seat jets to carry the SCALP-EG cruise missiles France is also providing to Ukraine.


Who is flying these planes? Nobody said anything about training Ukrainian pilots. Since training was a HUGE stumbling block for the F-16s, wouldn't the Mirages need prolonged training too? I mean, you don't just toss the keys to someone who doesn't know how to drive, right?

And if they're not Ukrainian pilots, they must be ... French.



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Monday, February 10, 2025 1:26 PM

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Ok, I looked it up. Not much American MSM reportage, but in a specialty website

Quote:
Ukrainian Pilots Reportedly Completed Training on Mirage 2000-5F

https://theaviationist.com/2025/01/03/ukrainian-pilots-training-mirage
-2000-5f/

*****

So, how far back does the reporting go? Most of it only goes back to Nov 2024, which could be a CYA move by the French to cover sending their pilots to Ukraine. But I did find this

In 2023
Quote:
"We are not training Ukrainian pilots in piloting or using weapons systems. Instead, we are indeed training Ukrainian crews in France, particularly in air defense, and survival in the event that their aircraft is shot down. For operational and safety reasons for both the trainers and trainees, we cannot provide any further information.”

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/france-trains-ukrainian-pilots-to-s
urvive-ejection-behind-enemy-lines

In Oct 2024
Quote:
France Completes Training of Ukrainian Pilots to Operate Mirage 2000-5F Fighters

https://sputnikglobe.com/20241226/france-completes-training-of-ukraini
an-pilots-to-operate-mirage-2000-5f-fighters-1121271530.html

So apparently this training was done very much on the QT.

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Oops! Ukrainian general admits the country was not ready for invasion from Crimea.

Chonhar crossing had 1,500 mines when it should have had 200,000 for proper defense, Ukrainian general asserts

By Yevhen Buderatskyi, Valentyna Romanenko | Monday, 10 February 2025, 16:00

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/10/7497563/

Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, former Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, believes that in order to prevent Russian troops from breaking through the border from the temporarily occupied Crimea in 2022, legal decisions authorizing the deployment of the Armed Forces and the introduction of martial law should have been made.

(Ukrainian farmers would not allow the Ukrainian military to build the necessary defenses on their land since digging trenches and minefields would have interfered with their profitability. There was no legislation to override the selfish wishes of the farmers and therefore Russia had an easy time invading.)

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This Is Why Putin Will Never Win the War

By Anna Nemtsova | Feb. 10 2025 5:28AM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-why-vladimir-putin-will-never-wi
n-the-war-in-ukraine/

“This is not the first time we suffer from Russian invasion and occupation, but this time technology helps us against disinformation and manipulation. They miscalculated in Moscow. We’ve learned our lessons, and this time we were the most prepared.”

“What keeps us unbroken is the notion that we are on the right side of history, that our people are heroes, that we are a united civil society supported by dozens of Western countries.”

Commander Yuriy Fedorenko founded the Achilles Regiment with strict rules: respect the law, never drink alcohol, always stay shoulder to shoulder with your comrades. “I was wounded too, but despite the fact that there were health restrictions, I joined the army from the first day of the full-scale invasion,” Fedorenko told The Daily Beast. “There is no other way to protect your family, city, and state, except with weapons in your hands.”

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In an interview with Fox on Monday night, Trump said, "They (Ukraine) may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday."

What Ukrainian deal in exchange for US ammo is Trump talking about? This one: Trump Demands $500 Billion in Rare Earth Metals From Kyiv, Says Ukraine ‘May Be Russian Someday’ (if Ukraine doesn't give Trump $500 Billion)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/11/trump-demands-500bln-in-rare
-earth-metals-from-kyiv-says-ukraine-may-be-russian-someday-a87937

Here is the deal in Trump's words: "We are going to have all this money in there, and I say: 'I want it back.' And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth," Trump said during the Fox News interview. "And they have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don't feel stupid."

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Breaking the Cycle of Russia's War in Ukraine

By Nataliya Bugayova | Feb 11, 2025

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/lessons-minsk-deal-break
ing-cycle-russias-war-ukraine

Putin can be made to accept a loss without escalating (to a nuclear war). He settled for less than his aims in Ukraine in 2014 and in 2022. Ukraine defeated Russia at the battle of Kyiv and expelled Russia from critical terrain in Ukraine in 2022, including from Kharkiv region and from Kherson city. The Russian authorities said Russia would be in Kherson ‘forever’ but withdrew the forces in 2022.[65] Putin was forced to accept Ukraine’s incursion in Russia’s Kursk region in 2024 — the first invasion of Russia since WWII. Putin reportedly ordered the Russian forces to liberate Kursk region by October 2024 — a mission failure as of February 2025.[66]

Russia’s decade of gains in Syria are at risk. Russian military basing and political influence in Syria were key to Russia’s power in the Middle East, in the Mediterranean and Africa, a pillar of its cooperation with Iran, a way to contest the United States and pressure NATO’s southern flank.[67] A decade of Putin’s work is at the mercy of HTS — militants whom Russia used to call terrorists but can no longer because HTS holds Moscow at its mercy.[68] Each time Putin accepted a setback, the new reality was not ‘negotiated’ with Putin — rather imposed on him by force. The United States will eventually recognize that the only way to have Russia accept a deal is to impose one on Russia.

The United States should not distract itself with providing Putin an “offramp.” Putin has an offramp — the Kremlin’s control of Russia’s information space. The Kremlin reframed or downplayed Putin's humiliating setbacks — from Russia’s retreat from Kherson to Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny to the degradation and expulsion of the Black Sea fleet from Crimea, and countless others.[69] This information control allowed Putin to normalize a new and worse reality in Russia each time, including softening the blow for an estimated 800,000 Russian causalities in pursuit of arguably mediocre battlefield results in Ukraine.

In other words, Putin and Russia failed before. There is no compelling reason why Putin should not be made to fail again. And if the information offramp fails him eventually, it is not the United States’ problem.

Putin is not invulnerable. This war is not lost despite Russia’s increased but nonetheless modest gains in eastern Ukraine. Russia has well-discussed advantages. Putin is accumulating risks and costs, however. Russia is facing growing cost of material and manpower, issues with Russian force generation system, and economic issues, such as inflation, labor shortages, the erosion of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and increasingly costly tradeoffs between funneling a limited supply of Russians to the frontlines or to buttress the economy.[70] Russia depends on partners to sustain its war.[71] Shifting US policies on China and Iran are putting Russia’s enabling partnerships at risk.

Putin’s accumulating problems will not matter if the Trump Administration gifts Russia time and space to regroup — as the Biden Administration’s policies of incrementalism have allowed Putin to in the past.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Here's how much Kyiv is paying young recruits to join military service

The offer risks stirring discontent among existing military personnel. Soldiers performing rear-guard duties such as planning, logistics, and air defense earn approximately 30,000 hryvnias per month, far less than the 120,000 hryvnias promised to new recruits.

Feb 12, 2025, 19:50 IST

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/118182778.cms

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Russian TV Says Army 'Ran Out' of North Koreans, 'New Batch' Expected

By Micah McCartney | Feb 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-army-tv-north-korea-troops-ukraine-war
-new-batch-2029757

A Kremlin propagandist on Russian state TV made a rare admission that North Korean troops are involved in the war with Ukraine, suggesting these soldiers suffered heavy losses and that a new batch of reinforcements is expected.

In a recent episode of 60 Minutes, a program on Russian state-owned TV channel Russia-1, political analyst and guest Dmitry Abzalov made a surprising admission about the North Korean boots on the ground.

"North Korean soldiers who fought — we ran out of them, and the next batch is coming within a month," he said, according to an English translation posted to X by Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs.

"There are no more North Korean troops as of now," he went on.

Host Olga Skabeyeva expressed surprise, noting: "It's just that state media didn't report it." In response, Abzalov likened the situation to Russia's initial denial in 2022 of using Iranian-made suicide drones in Ukraine.

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Quote:
Trump's envoy in Moscow [Witkof, not Gnl Kellogg] may have had lengthy talks with Putin, Fox News says

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-envoy-moscow-may-had-103422144.html

Quote:
Russian President Vladimir Putin invites Donald Trump to Moscow to discuss ending the war in Ukraine after ‘lengthy’ phone call

Https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/russian-president-
vladimir-putin-invites-donald-trump-to-moscow-to-discuss-ending-the-war-in-ukraine-after-lengthy-phone-call/news-story/7935f29572cc2a8560851be459569326

Quote:
Putin invited Trump to Moscow to discuss Ukraine, Kremlin says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/12/putin-trump-mo
scow-to-discuss-ukraine/78463575007/

Quote:
Putin and Trump speak by phone: LIVE UPDATES

https://www.rt.com/news/612591-putin-and-trump-speak-phone/


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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 4:10 PM

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Good. We'll fix it now.

I was hoping that after Trump was elected that it would be solved before he was even President officially, but now the Democrats and Joe Biden* can't claim the win here.



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Meanwhile, Zelensky's attack on Kursk yielded a lot of dead Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed American armored vehicles.

As they retake villages in Kursk, Russians are discovering a lot of war crimes: bodies of civilians bearing the marks of torture and execution. A village where a few dozen civilians were held hostage for six months, and only one man survived. A school where elderly people were sheltering, struck by HIMARS missiles. Dima of military summary believes more will be discovered as Russians advance farther. (And, no, Russians did not execute civilians in Bucha.)

Ukrainian military has collected appx 11 brigades (they say) in or near Pokrovsk, and is pressuring the Russian army from inside Pokrovsk.

Russia is advancing everywhere the front is active, from the south near Selidova Novosilka, north thru Andriivka, with the exception of Pokrovsk continuing north thru Toretsk (fully captured by Russia), Chasov Yar, and up towards Lyman, and Kupiansk.



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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:24 PM

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I can't wait to get to the bottom of just how deep into corruption the Biden Crime Family and the Obamas were here.

They've already scraped the Biden's off the bottom of their shoes, but the memories of Barack Obama's presidency and how the media framed it is the only beacon of light they can still turn to inside their minds.

Once it becomes clear how dirty Obama's hands were in all of this, that's going to finally shatter the Democratic Party once and for all.


Trump is going to finally destroy the Democratic Party simply by pulling back the veil and letting the Democrat politicians destroy themselves just by letting us see what they were getting up to when they thought it was all going to remain behind closed doors forever.

Tick Tock

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I can't wait to get to the bottom of just how deep into corruption the Biden Crime Family and the Obamas were here.

They've already scraped the Biden's off the bottom of their shoes, but the memories of Barack Obama's presidency and how the media framed it is the only beacon of light they can still turn to inside their minds.

Once it becomes clear how dirty Obama's hands were in all of this, that's going to finally shatter the Democratic Party once and for all.


Trump is going to finally destroy the Democratic Party simply by pulling back the veil and letting the Democrat politicians destroy themselves just by letting us see what they were getting up to when they thought it was all going to remain behind closed doors forever.

Tick Tock
It was not Biden who demanded a bribe, but rather Trump:

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-demands-500b-in-rare-earths-from
-ukraine-for-support/

With the war over, Zelensky can not give Trump the $500 billion bribe. Maybe Putin will give Trump the $500 billion bribe? Or maybe Putin will keep the money for himself. Putin did invade Ukraine to steal its wealth and the $500 billion worth of minerals is part of that wealth.

We will see if Trump realizes that after Russia wins, the American weapon makers can't make money from Ukraine and Trump can't either.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) recently launched the "Contract 18-24" voluntary recruitment program aimed a recruiting 18 to 24-year-old Ukrainians into the Ukrainian Armed Forces.[17] The Ukrainian MoD officially launched the program on February 11 and noted that the program offers 18- to 24-year-olds the ability to join the military under a one-year contract and the option to either reenlist after one year or return to civilian life. The Ukrainian MoD will pay volunteers 200,000 UAH ($4,700) upon signing a one-year contract and an additional 800,000 UAH ($19,120) during their service in addition to a monthly salary of 120,000 UAH ($2,870). Volunteers will receive three months of training before deploying to the frontline. The Ukrainian government will subsidize future mortgages, education, and medical care for volunteers and will permit volunteers to travel abroad after their one year of service. The program also exempts volunteers from mobilization for 12 months after their one-year contract ends. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated that the "Contract 18-24" program is part of Ukraine's ongoing efforts to create a professional military. Ukrainian MoD Spokesperson Dmytro Lazutkin stated that the MoD will pay one million UAH (about $23,900) to any Ukrainian servicemembers who were under the age of 25 when they signed a voluntary military service contract.[18]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
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The money isn't going to Trump, dummy.

In any case, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. Time to go digging thru all kinds of Ukrainian and USA accounts. I'll bet a lot of the $ went into a lotta pockets, and arms got sold around the world.

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The money isn't going to Trump, dummy.

In any case, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. Time to go digging thru all kinds of Ukrainian and USA accounts. I'll bet a lot of the $ went into a lotta pockets, and arms got sold around the world.
You speak as if you know Trump would not take bribes because he is a man of honor and high character such as Honest Abe Lincoln. His history will not support that view of Trump.

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Ukraine's European partners announced new military assistance to Ukraine amid the February 12 Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) meeting. The United Kingdom (UK) pledged 150 million pounds (about $188 million) in military support, including drones, "dozens" of battle tanks and armored vehicles, and air defense systems, and confirmed plans to provide Ukraine with an additional 4.5 billion pounds (about $5.6 billion) worth of military assistance in 2025.[1] The UK stated that it will provide Ukraine will over 50 armored and protective vehicles, including modernized T-72 tanks, by the end of Spring 2025.[2] Germany committed to supplying 100 IRIS-T air defense system missiles to Ukraine in the near future, and German defense company Helsing announced the delivery of 6,000 AI-equipped drones to Ukraine.[3] Norway joined the Ukrainian Drone Coalition and revealed plans to establish and equip Ukraine's "Northern Brigade" as part of a broader Nordic initiative in which the Nordic countries will equip and train one Ukrainian battalion each.[4] The Netherlands announced the delivery of 25 YPR armored infantry vehicles, Latvia announced the donation of 42 armored personnel carriers, and Estonia also pledged to allocate 0.25 percent of its GDP for military assistance to Ukraine in 2025.[5]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
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Ukraine's European partners announced new military assistance to Ukraine amid the February


Same problem of not being able to squeeze blood from a turnip. All of Europe together can't supply enough weapons at sufficient rate bc they've already emptied their cupboards and their manufacturing capacity is degraded ... thanks to them cutting themselves off from cheap Russian energy.

All they can do is throw Euros at Ukraine.

What are they thinking? They're delusional.

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The money isn't going to Trump, dummy.

In any case, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. Time to go digging thru all kinds of Ukrainian and USA accounts. I'll bet a lot of the $ went into a lotta pockets, and arms got sold around the world.
You speak as if you know Trump would not take bribes because he is a man of honor and high character such as Honest Abe Lincoln. His history will not support that view of Trump.

I speak as if Trump would not OPENLY take a $500 billion bribe, just like Biden wouldn't OPENLY send his son grifting around the world and Hillary wouldn't OPENLY solicit pay to play funds, but funnel them thru her "foundation' instead.

$500 billion ... that's a big, obvious chunk to swallow. Dontcha think?


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Dima, Military Summary Channel, claims that Kiev interfered with the rotation of international inspectors from IAEA stationed at the Zaparhrozhy Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) by droning the incoming team as they approached the station.

Zelensky blames Russia for attacking the IAEA team.

Just like he blamed Russia for attacking the ZNPP that the Russians themselves occupy.

Just like he blamed Russia for blowing up the dam that the Russians themselves control.

Just like he blamed Russia for blowing up its own pipeline. (And here is the link saying so)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63044747

Just like he blamed Russia for drone-attacking the Chernobyl NPP ruins yesterday

He's like the guy who lets out a stink bomb and then accuses the person next to him



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European diplomats are now telling the Financial Times that they figure they’ll be expected to foot the bill for Ukraine’s reconstruction – because Trump will insist on it – and also send troops to enforce a deal they had zero say in while the US refuses military involvement. Which is like getting handed a massive dinner check for a meal you didn’t even get to touch. Just picture it: EU soldiers walking around Ukraine at EU taxpayer expense to protect American resource ventures while US troops stay home, as Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has already stipulated, by adding that the EU needs to honor its commitments.

And Vice President J.D. Vance joined in the Trump administration’s stereoscopic spanking of the EU during their visit to the bloc by telling Europeans repeatedly – both during an artificial intelligence summit in Paris and before the Munich Security Conference – to stop censoring information and views they don’t like under the guise of it somehow being a peril to democracy.

The EU media has already suggested that it looks like the EU’s role is basically to shut up and accept the result of negotiations – like it has been kicked right out of the group chat before it even had a chance to log on, and still has to comply with the outcome of the meeting. Basically, at this point, Trump sees Europe as an ATM. Putin sees Europe as background noise. And Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky probably just sees his gravy train’s looming derailment.

Trump and Putin are already debating between caviar and steak for their peace talks while the EU stands outside like a rejected clubber, begging the bouncer to “check again, bro” – meanwhile, Zelensky is eyeing that tablecloth like a pyromaniac.



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I can't wait to get to the bottom of just how deep into corruption the Biden Crime Family and the Obamas were here.

They've already scraped the Biden's off the bottom of their shoes, but the memories of Barack Obama's presidency and how the media framed it is the only beacon of light they can still turn to inside their minds.

Once it becomes clear how dirty Obama's hands were in all of this, that's going to finally shatter the Democratic Party once and for all.


Trump is going to finally destroy the Democratic Party simply by pulling back the veil and letting the Democrat politicians destroy themselves just by letting us see what they were getting up to when they thought it was all going to remain behind closed doors forever.

Tick Tock
It was not Biden who demanded a bribe, but rather Trump:

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-demands-500b-in-rare-earths-from
-ukraine-for-support/

With the war over, Zelensky can not give Trump the $500 billion bribe. Maybe Putin will give Trump the $500 billion bribe? Or maybe Putin will keep the money for himself. Putin did invade Ukraine to steal its wealth and the $500 billion worth of minerals is part of that wealth.

We will see if Trump realizes that after Russia wins, the American weapon makers can't make money from Ukraine and Trump can't either.

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That's not a bribe. That's payment for services rendered, STUPID.

Just because your ASSHOLE who was taking bribes everyday out of this situation was giving away everything to them for free, doesn't mean that somebody isn't paying for it.

Now Ukraine is paying for it because FUCK UKRAINE.

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The money isn't going to Trump, dummy.

In any case, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. Time to go digging thru all kinds of Ukrainian and USA accounts. I'll bet a lot of the $ went into a lotta pockets, and arms got sold around the world.
You speak as if you know Trump would not take bribes because he is a man of honor and high character such as Honest Abe Lincoln. His history will not support that view of Trump.

I speak as if Trump would not OPENLY take a $500 billion bribe, just like Biden wouldn't OPENLY send his son grifting around the world and Hillary wouldn't OPENLY solicit pay to play funds, but funnel them thru her "foundation' instead.

$500 billion ... that's a big, obvious chunk to swallow. Dontcha think?
I think Trump is a crook who won't get the loot until after Russia loses and Ukraine begins mineral extraction during the following Peace. Maybe Trump won't send ammo to Ukraine once he realizes the loot can't be sent to Trump without delay.

'United States of extortion': New Trump Ukraine 'shakedown' called 'cheap mafia' move

By David Badash | February 14, 2025

https://www.alternet.org/trump-ukraine-shakedown/

Just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump’s administration is not only grappling with a growing colossus of self-inflicted crises, but is now igniting international tensions as well. The administration is pressuring Ukraine to relinquish rights to half of its valuable precious metals—just as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to begin negotiations to end Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

“Multiple lawmakers here in Munich told me the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves,” Washington Post foreign policy and national security columnist Josh Rogin reported Friday afternoon from the Munich Security Conference.

“Zelensky politely declined to sign it,” he added.

Trump has made it clear he expects Ukraine to hand over the rights to its rare earth minerals, which are extremely valuable.

“Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell phones, missile systems, and other electronics. There are no viable substitutes,” Reuters reported. The news outlet also noted that Trump “said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for financially supporting the country’s war efforts against Russia.”

“We’re telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earths,” Trump said. “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earths and other things.”

Trump’s expected haul: “close to $300 billion,” or more.

“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,” Trump said Monday, CBS News reported. “They have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

The New York Times on Wednesday suggested Kyiv may be willing to play ball with the billionaire businessman.

“President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.”

Earlier this week Bloomberg reported on Trump’s call with Putin, saying, “European leaders, who were broadly aligned with Washington under Biden, were stunned to learn of the call and some said it appeared to signal that Trump was selling out Ukraine.”

“Trump is skeptical of providing more aid,” Bloomberg continued, “and if he does then he wants the US to be compensated – perhaps in the form of access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Kyiv today to work on that part of the deal.”

Garry Kasparov, the internationally famous Russian chess grandmaster and now vice president of the World Liberty Congress, likened Trump’s demand to that of a Mafia don.

“Trump wants to give Russia something for nothing and expects Ukraine to give America something for nothing. Cheap mafia behavior,” he charged.

Olga Lautman, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and researcher of organized crime and intelligence operations in Russia and Ukraine, deemed the move “extortion.”

“This extortion by the [Trump] regime is outrageous. Europe needs to step up asap and help Ukraine,” she urged.

Professor Roland Paris, director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, doubly mocked the administration: “The United States of Extortion. (Can Google update its maps with this new name?)”

The Atlantic’s David Frum, a Bush 43 speechwriter, declared it, “Gangsterism.”

Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor for the right wing National Review, blasted the administration:

“The United States ought to back Ukraine because it is the right thing to do, morally, and, above all, because it is in the hard U.S. interest to do so. To shake down a country that is struggling for its very existence is, to my sense, repulsive.”

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser called it simply, “A shakedown.”

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Russia is reportedly intensifying efforts to coerce Russian mobilized and conscripted personnel into signing contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD). Russian State Duma Deputy Maxim Ivanov told Yekaterinburg-based Russian news outlet EANews on February 7 that his constituents in Sverdlovsk Oblast notified him that Russian military commanders are forcing mobilized Sverdlovsk Oblast personnel to sign long-term military service contracts with the Russian MoD that would classify them as professional contract servicemembers (kontraktniki).[73] Ivanov claimed that Russian military commanders want to increase the number of kontraktniki in their units but noted that commanders are sending any mobilized personnel serving in specialist roles, including artillery, communications, engineering support, and electronic warfare (EW) who refuse to sign a long-term contract to fight in infantry assault units. Ivanov stated that he appealed directly to Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov about this issue.

A Russian milblogger and former Storm-Z instructor expressed concern that senior Russian MoD officials are not acknowledging this issue and claimed that commanders in the Russian 85th Motorized Rifle Brigade (3rd Combined Arms Army [CAA], formerly 2nd Luhansk People's Republic Army Corps [LNR AC], Southern Military District [SMD]) are sending mobilized personnel to fight in infantry assault units on the frontline if they refuse to sign MoD contracts.[74] Another Russian source claimed that the Russian Military Prosecutor's Office investigated this issue and found instances where the Russian military command had forged the signatures of conscripts in the 90th Tank Division (41st Combined Arms Army [CAA], Central Military District [CMD]), including its 80th Tank Regiment, 6th Tank Regiment, and 239th Tank Regiment, and military unit 31612 (reportedly a company within the "140th Regiment" or the 429th District Training Center) but that the commands of these units refused to release the conscripts from their contracts.[75] Russian opposition outlet Verstka reported on February 12 that Russian commanders are forcing personnel mobilized in 2022 to sign contracts with the MoD, but that it is unclear if the MoD will honor the end dates provided in these contracts.[76]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
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Germany's bold defense move challenges NATO spending rules

February 15, 2025

https://essanews.com/germanys-bold-defense-move-challenges-nato-spendi
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During the Munich Security Conference, Chancellor Olaf Scholz emphasized that Germany is ready for a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact. This reform would involve excluding defense investments that exceed NATO's target of 2% of GDP from budgetary discipline. Scholz noted that "Germany is ready for this."

The Chancellor assured that Germany will support Ukraine as long as necessary. He pointed out that to secure adequate resources for the future, it is essential to loosen budgetary discipline.

Scholz also criticized the earlier speech by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, accusing him of interfering in Germany's internal affairs. "We do not accept this," he said.

Scholz emphasized that the stakes are peace and security of the Old Continent, so Europe must act. Germany, as one of the key players on the continent, is ready to take steps toward increasing defense investments, which aim to strengthen security in the region.

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US proposed that Ukraine hand over 50% of mineral resources

By Ulyana Krychkovska, Alona Mazurenko — Saturday, 15 February 2025, 11:55

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/15/7498463/

During his speech on Friday at the security conference, Zelenskyy said that lawyers would review and advise on the document Bessent presented to him in Kyiv and suggest some amendments. He referred to the proposal as a memorandum between the US and Ukraine, not a security agreement.

Many of Ukraine's mineral resources are located in areas now controlled by Russian forces, three US officials noted.

Background:

• Bessent arrived in Kyiv on 13 February to discuss an economic partnership with Ukraine.

• At the time, Zelenskyy said that the US had presented Kyiv with the first draft of a "partnership agreement" that would provide for investment in Ukraine's mineral resources in exchange for further assistance.

• Vance and Zelenskyy had been due to meet earlier on 14 February, but according to the Office of the President of Ukraine, they agreed to hold the meeting at a later date to give the US the opportunity to work on the draft partnership memorandum that Ukraine had finalised and handed over to the Americans.

• A European Pravda source said that this happened because Zelenskyy and his American counterpart Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday, 12 February that Ukraine would finalise the draft partnership memorandum and hand it over to the Americans.

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And that will be never.


Zelensky refused to sign the agreement when he realized there were no American security guarantees in exchange.

In any case, Zelensky can't give away what he doesn't control. And if anyone is going to be making deals for those mineral resources, it'll either be the Chinese dealing with the Russians, or the USA dealing with the Russians.

******

Do you realize, SECOND, that nearly everything you posted about Russia and Ukraine is proving to be WRONG?? Go back thru your posts and check it out!

Why is that? (HINT: Your sources.)




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Do you realize, SECOND, that nearly everything you posted about Russia and Ukraine is proving to be WRONG?? Go back thru your posts and check it out!

Why is that? (HINT: Your sources.)
Signym, are you Russian? Eastern European? Daughter of an immigrant to America who was bitter until he died a disappointed man that he didn't rise to the level he would have back in the Old Country if he hadn't fled for his life?

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Zelenskyy reveals number of fallen Ukrainian soldiers

By Kateryna Tyshchenko | Sunday, 16 February 2025, 22:04

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/16/7498632/

"We have a fixed number of losses – 46,000 killed soldiers. Then, for today we have tens of thousands more who are missing in action or in captivity. And you cannot know for certain, because those missing in action could be dead or they could be in captivity."

Background: On 4 February, Zelenskyy reported that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war against Russia and that military personnel had been wounded 390,000 times.

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Russian Marines Flying Soviet Flags Paraded Right Into A Ukrainian Minefield In Kursk. Drones Finished Them Off.

Russian efforts to recapture Kursk Oblast are faltering.

By David Axe | Feb 16, 2025, 03:23pm EST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/16/russian-marines-flyin
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Confidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th Naval Infantry Brigade paraded right into a minefield laid by the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade.

The results were predictable—and emblematic of Russia’s faltering counteroffensive in Kursk. The counteroffensive ramped up in early November, three months after a strong Ukrainian force invaded Kursk and carved what is now a 250-square-mile salient from the oblast.

“The Russians again went on an assault in Kursk against the 47th Brigade and its auxiliaries,” the brigade reported. “In a column of more than a dozen tanks and about a company of enemies”—around 100 troops—“they threw the ‘elite’ Russian 155th Marine Brigade with the flags of ‘victory’ into the assault.”

Mines blew up some of the Russian vehicles. Drones struck others and also hounded the dismounted infantry. One shell-shocked Russian crewman bailed out of his damaged vehicle, trudged a few steps through the snow, fell flat onto his back—and then exploded as a drone slammed into him.

“We are extinguishing all the enemy’s attempts to advance in Kursk,” the 47th Mechanized Brigade crowed.

It’s not for no reason Ukrainian forces take such glee in killing 155th Naval Infantry Brigade marines. On Oct. 13, the Russian brigade captured, stripped and executed nine Ukrainian drone operators in Kursk—a war crime that signaled escalating Russian brutality as the wider war on Ukraine ground toward its fourth year.

The 47th Mechanized Brigade has defeated at least two major Russian and North Korean assaults this month. The brigade held the line along the western edge of the salient while Ukrainian paratroopers counter attacked on the eastern edge on Feb. 5, quickly advancing several miles. For the first time in months, the Ukrainian salient is getting bigger, not smaller.

The salient is a bargaining chip. Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed last week that his forces invaded Kursk in August in order to seize Russian territory Kyiv could eventually trade for Ukrainian territory the Russians occupy. “We are exchanging one territory for another,” Zelensky said.

But it’s not clear the Ukrainians can get favorable terms as U.S. Pres. Donald Trump impulsively takes control of possible negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

Any ceasefire could be fragile and brief without continuing U.S. support for Ukrainian forces, including the mostly U.S.-equipped 47th Mechanized Brigade. But Trump has demanded Zelensky give the United States half of Ukraine’s $500-billion reserves of rare earth minerals as payment for past U.S. aid—and as a precondition for future aid.

Caught between Russian invaders and American extortionists, Zelensky is walking a very fine line. He has so far avoided signing the minerals deal, but hasn’t ruled out some kind of U.S.-Ukrainian economic exchange as part of a wider security agreement. Any deal “still needs work to ensure Ukraine’s interests are safeguarded,” Zelensky said.

“Zelensky has handled negotiations very well so far,” concluded Tatarigami, the founder of the Ukrainian Frontelligence Insight Group. “Despite indirect extortion, he hasn’t caved.”

And on the snow-covered, blood-spattered fields in Kursk, the 47th Mechanized Brigade is buying Zelensky more time for diplomacy—and holding onto the best bargaining chip Ukraine has: hundreds of square miles of Russian soil.

Sources:

1. 47th Mechanized Brigade

2. Moklasen

3. Volodymyr Zelensky

4. Tatarigami

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Zelenskyy reveals number of fallen Ukrainian soldiers

By Kateryna Tyshchenko | Sunday, 16 February 2025, 22:04

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/16/7498632/

"We have a fixed number of losses – 46,000 killed soldiers. Then, for today we have tens of thousands more who are missing in action or in captivity. And you cannot know for certain, because those missing in action could be dead or they could be in captivity."

Background: On 4 February, Zelenskyy reported that 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war against Russia and that military personnel had been wounded 390,000 times.

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I don't know what the Ukranian women are going to do now that we've shut down plunging millions of Muslims everywhere.

The Democratic Party plan was that all Ukranian women would be molsted and impregnated by Muslims after all of this was over and those no good white men were all dead.

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Monday, February 17, 2025 3:31 PM

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Monday, February 17, 2025 4:24 PM

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46,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers?

How about a million?

Whatever Zelensky is smoking, I want some.



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Russia continues to advance on all active fronts, from the Selidova Novasilka area north all the way through Kursk. The only quiet area so far is the southern end of the front, from about Selidova Novasilka south thru Rabotyna and Krynky, where so much fighting took place in 2023.

Meanwhile, Zelensky is busy in UAE, apparently signing an agreement that will allow unrestricted transfer of (his) money into a UAE-based "business".



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Zelensky is a criminal and a war criminal.

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Russian commanders continue to give orders for Russian forces to execute Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) on the frontline. Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets reported on February 17 that footage shows Russian forces executing three surrendering Ukrainian POWs in an unspecified location after a Russian commander orders the soldiers to kill two of the POWs.[35] ISW has long assessed that Russian battlefield commanders are either complicit in or enabling their subordinates to execute Ukrainian POWs.[36]

Russian occupation authorities continue to violate the Geneva Convention by conscripting civilians in occupied Ukraine to serve in the Russian military. Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) Head Denis Pushilin signed on February 17 a plan to illegally conscript and train civilians in occupied Donetsk Oblast to work in military registration specialties in the Russian military.[102] The document calls for the Russian Volunteer Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation, and Navy of Russia (DOSAAF) to help train and prepare civilians for these specialties, including through "courage lessons" with veterans of the wars in Ukraine, Chechnya, and Afghanistan. DOSAAF is a Soviet relic that funds and promotes military service for Russian youth through military-patriotic programming and military skills programs and sends representatives to military draft boards to allocate conscripts with specialized skills into specific military roles.[103] Article 51 of the Geneva Convention explicitly prevents an occupying power from compelling the population it occupies to serve in the occupying power's military.[104]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-17-2025

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Ukrainian Artillery Blasted A Russian Assault Group In Ulakly. It’s The Kind Of Battlefield Win That Gives Ukraine Leverage Over Donald Trump.

As long as Russian forces struggle to advance, Ukraine can reject Trump’s mineral extortion.

By David Axe | Feb 17, 2025, 04:10pm EST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/17/ukrainian-artillery-b
lasted-a-russian-assault-group-in-ulakly-its-the-kind-of-battlefield-win-that-gives-ukraine-leverage-over-donald-trump/

In a cataclysm of artillery and drone strikes, Ukrainian forces smashed an attack by Russian troops in and around the town of Ulakly on or just before Sunday. Surveillance drones working for the Ukrainian Tivaz artillery group registered around 10 destroyed and abandoned Russian vehicles.

The failed assault, one of several in the southeastern corner of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine in recent days, may have signaled the failure of the Russian offensive in the area. The political implications are profound.

As recently as two weeks ago, the Russians had the momentum. They’d just ejected the Ukrainian Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group from Velyka Novosilka, a few miles south of Ulakly, and were poised to pursue the retreating Ukrainians and potentially achieve a breakthrough in the area where Donetsk Oblast meets Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Now a Russian breakthrough appears unlikely. “Exhausted by losses and intense battles over the past month, the enemy will not be able to quickly pursue Khortytsia OSG whose units are retreating from Velyka Novosilka,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies explained.

Not only have the Russians suffered heavy losses in their modest advance along the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia corner, they’re also experiencing broader shortages of troops and equipment that have compelled them to prioritize their attacks.

Desperate to eradicate the Ukrainian-held salient in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast and equally eager to capture the fortress city of Pokrovsk, 18 miles north of Ulakly, the Russians are diverting resources from southern Donetsk. “The enemy will not be able to break through to Zaporizhzhia or Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts, as they lack the necessary troops, funds and resources,” CDS assessed.

In conclusion, “the plan to collapse the southern Ukrainian front and advance toward Zaporizhzhia is unfeasible,” the analysis group asserted.

The exhaustion of the Russian offensive in southeastern Ukraine comes at a perilous time for the Kremlin. The administration of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump has threatened to abandon Ukraine unless the government in Kyiv consents to Trump’s $500-billion mineral extortion scheme. At the same time, Trump reportedly is considering pulling U.S. troops from NATO states bordering Russia.

Ukraine—and Europe in general—is grappling with the possibility that 80 years of strong U.S. support for European security may come to a bizarre and abrupt end. Given the chaos resulting from the American retreat, the regime of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin should be in the strongest possible position to demand huge territorial concessions in exchange for ending its wider war on Ukraine.

But Russia isn’t actually winning on the battlefield in Ukraine. Where its forces make gains, the advance is usually measured in yards—and might cost entire infantry companies with scores of troops.

Yes, the Ukrainian military is struggling to mobilize sufficient forces. But the Russian military is struggling, too—and it’s the one that must advance hundreds of miles against a technologically advanced foe in order to achieve Moscow’s original objectives, including regime change in Kyiv, by force alone.

“The Russian military has objectively failed,” analyst Andrew Perpetua pointed out. “And they do not have the strength to ever recover from the degree to which they have failed. Russia cannot win this war on a battlefield.” But it can win at the negotiating table if, for some reason, Ukraine caves to American pressure to end the war on terms favorable to Russia.

Fortunately for Ukraine, Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky understands the political dynamics—and has so far refused to surrender. Publicly lavishing praise on Trump while also steadfastly refusing to sign the misspelled, exploitative minerals deal memo the White House forwarded to him, Zelensky “has handled negotiations very well so far,” according to Tatarigami, founder of the Ukrainian Frontelligence Insight analysis group.

Well-armed by its own industry, its European allies and the administration of former U.S. Pres. Joe Biden, “Ukraine has enough money to fund all of 2025 and part of 2026,” Perpetua concluded. “They have enough weapons and ammo to last most of 2025, and with aid from other nations (plus that money) they will be able to fight through 2025 without issue.”

So Zelensky can afford to politely say no to Trump while his troops continue to kill and maim hundreds of Russians every day. Zelensky can wait for peace terms that are actually good for Ukraine.

Ironically, that gives Zelensky leverage over Trump, inasmuch as Trump wants to be known as the man who brought peace to Ukraine. “The only way for Trump to achieve peace is through a fair agreement with guarantees for Ukraine,” Tatarigami explained.

Sources

1. Tivaz artillery group

2. Center for Defense Strategies

3. Andrew Perpetua (and here)

4. Tatarigami

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LONG READ: Can Ukraine go it alone (with a little help from the EU) if the US abandons it?

By Ben Aris in Berlin | February 18, 2025

https://www.intellinews.com/long-read-can-ukraine-go-it-alone-with-a-l
ittle-help-from-the-eu-if-the-us-abandons-it-367675/

Ukraine has about 1 million men in the field, but Zelenskiy says this will have to be increased to 1.5 million, and that without Nato membership or further US aid he will be looking to Europe to pay for it. According to recent estimates released before the start of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), a standing of that size would cost some $30 billion a year and in addition the EU would have to invest a total of $3 trillion over the next five years to upgrade its own defences.

The increase in the size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is needed as Russia is seriously outgunning both Ukraine and the EU. Zelenskiy noted that the EU has a total of 82 brigades, and Ukraine 110, while Russia fields a total of 220 brigades – more than Ukraine and the EU combined.

Europe needs to substantially expand its defence spending to deter and contain the Russian threat, Zelenskiy said. The Ukrainian president has also called for an “armed forces of Europe” to shore up European security as it becomes apparent that US President Donald Trump is likely to limit Nato’s security promises for those counties that don’t increase their defence spending.

“Even together, we cannot compare with the Russian army. Therefore, if we are talking about security guarantees, we must find money for a larger army in Ukraine, and we must find ways to increase the production of arms and also expand the army in Europe,” Zelenskiy said in his MSC speech.

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

46,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers?

How about a million?

Whatever Zelensky is smoking, I want some.



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Russia continues to advance on all active fronts, from the Selidova Novasilka area north all the way through Kursk. The only quiet area so far is the southern end of the front, from about Selidova Novasilka south thru Rabotyna and Krynky, where so much fighting took place in 2023.

Meanwhile, Zelensky is busy in UAE, apparently signing an agreement that will allow unrestricted transfer of (his) money into a UAE-based "business".




Don't stop watching before he gets to the Vikings. That's a hoot.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:01 PM

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I've watched Peter before, and decided he has nothing worthwhile to say.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:46 PM

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Quote:
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I've watched Peter before, and decided he has nothing worthwhile to say.

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Yes. Unless you want to dive back in his catalog and hear from one of the only guys on the Left that were calling EVs a failure back when it was very uncool to say so, Peter has nothing worthwhile to say about anything.

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Trump has Hallucinations about himself and Putin deserving a shared Nobel Peace Prize if only Ukraine would have taken their advice to surrender:

Trump says Ukraine ‘should have never started it’ in comments about war with Russia

Trump made the remark while deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

By Zoë Richards | Feb. 18, 2025, 4:31 PM CST

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-ukraine-shoul
d-never-have-started-it-remarks-war-russia-rcna192710

Trump went on to say: "I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down. But they chose not to do it that way."

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 9:12 PM

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Fuck Ukraine.

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Russian officials at the bilateral meeting continued to signal the Kremlin's unwillingness to negotiate on the war in Ukraine. Lavrov claimed that authorities in Romania and other unspecified EU states are discussing laying claim to Ukrainian territory.[14] Lavrov's claim is part of a wider Kremlin information operation that Ukrainian territory is actually the historical territory of other states such that only a rump state in western Ukraine might be left independent after Russia and Ukraine's other neighbors had absorbed most Ukrainian territory.[15]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-18-2025

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Europe’s big guns sideline the EU to get real on Ukraine

Macron’s mini-summit shunned Brussels’ normal obsession with consensus and revealed a new core with the region’s future in their hands.

By Tim Ross | February 18, 2025 4:00 am CET

https://www.politico.eu/article/sidelines-nato-europe-ukraine-politics
-war-russia-emmanuel-macron-uk/

LONDON — As Europe grapples with its deepest security crisis since 1945, a small group of the continent’s leading powers took a radical step: They dumped the traditional craving for 27-nation consensus at Brussels summits and tried to sort out the mess themselves.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s mini-summit in Paris on Monday brought together the leaders of Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark and even the United Kingdom — which left the European Union five years ago.

But there was no invitation for Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Slovakia’s Robert Fico — or others deemed too sympathetic to Moscow to be helpful in an emergency. Smaller EU states such as Latvia and Estonia were also excluded, even though they’re among the bloc’s most hawkish members on dealing with Russia.

This is not the way EU politics is meant to be conducted, but the Paris format lays bare the severity of the geopolitical shock that is currently roiling the continent. The streamlined summitry is a sign that patience is running thin with the EU’s exasperating Council meetings, where countries often fail to agree on proposals, or water them down to near irrelevance.

The task for those gathered in the Elysée Palace was to sketch out a plan for adapting to the brutal new realities of life without American protection. How can Europe help Ukraine win the best peace deal possible? And how can European nations continue to defend themselves against Russia now Donald Trump is walking away?

. . .

Even if Macron’s coalition of the invited can eventually design a common strategy, it may already be too late. Defense procurement takes years, and Russia’s entire economy is already geared up for war. As Menon put it: “If we had wanted to prepare for Trump 2, we should have started during Trump 1.”

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