Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Russians often do not collect their dead - back in 2023, all the troops from the Russian controlled Donbas were left to rot and never counted, since they were not Russians.
After this war is over, assuming it does not get larger, the counts of dead and wounded will be estimates made by historians.
Its really fool’s errand to try to square up the numbers at this stage.
GLSDB with a 92 mile range, could make a significant contribution to the war. if they can start delivering dozens, or hundreds, per day.
I need more posts from both of you.
Putin not going to the peace talks in Istanbul, that he proposed. (Trying to slow roll President Trump)
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Moscow announced that their delegation would be headed by presidential advisor and propaganda architect, Vladimir Medinsky.
The Russian delegation will also consist of Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Director of Russian Military Intelligence Igor Kostyukov, and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin”.
Kyiv Independent:
“EU agrees on 17th package of Russia sanctions targeting ‘shadow fleet.’
The measures target almost 200 ships of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” 30 companies involved in sanctions evasion, 75 sanctions on entities and individuals linked to the Russian military-industrial complex, and more.”
Same stuff, different day. Not decisive.
War criminal Vladolph Putler may face his own little Nuremberg trial — if he lives.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“The Council of Europe on May 14 approved the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute Russia’s top leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, Ukrainian lawmaker Maria Mezentseva reported.
The decision marks a milestone in international efforts to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials accountable for launching the full-scale war against Ukraine.
“The decision was made in Luxembourg as part of the annual meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe,” Mezentseva, who chairs Ukraine’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), wrote on Telegram.
European foreign ministers gave political approval to the tribunal, which will operate under the auspices of the Council of Europe, during a meeting in Lviv on May 9”
If Chancellor Metz includes Turkey in Europe, this would be pretty big. Anyway, its a step in the right direction.
Putin did this.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe.
Following years of chronic underinvestment in defence and relying on the United States for protection, Chancellor Merz told lawmakers that “strengthening the Bundeswehr is our top priority””
By Europe, Merz probably means traditional Europe:
The chancellor called for Germany to take on additional responsibility within the European Union and the NATO military alliance. “Our goal is a Germany and a Europe that are so strong together that we never have to use our weapons,” Merz said. “To achieve this, we will have to assume more responsibility within NATO and the EU.” “Strength deters aggressors, while weakness invites aggression,” he added.
The chancellor said he believed that “anyone who seriously believes that Russia would be satisfied with a victory over Ukraine or with the annexation of parts of the country is mistaken.” He reiterated Berlin's support for Ukraine in fending off Russia's invasion, but stressed that Germany was “not a party to war, and we don't want to become one.” “This terrible war and its outcome will not only determine the fate of Ukraine. Its outcome will determine whether law and justice continue to apply in Europe and the world — or whether tyranny, military violence, and the naked law of the strongest will prevail.” “What is at stake in Ukraine is nothing less than the peace order of our entire continent.” Germany is one of Ukraine's biggest supporters, with the Bundestag approving a €3 billion ($3.25 billion) package in additional military aid for Kyiv for 2025 in March.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-aims-to-have-strongest-military-in-europe-merz/a-72546478
Russian officials continue to reiterate Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent call to base future negotiations with Ukraine on the early 2022 Istanbul protocols that included Russian demands for Ukraine's complete capitulation. Russian Ambassador-at-Large and former Russian occupation official, Rodion Miroshnik, claimed on May 14 that the April 2022 draft Istanbul protocols could be the basis for an agreement to end Russia's war in Ukraine.[1] Miroshnik is echoing Putin's May 11 call to “resume” the 2022 Istanbul direct negotiations in response to the May 10 joint US-Ukrainian-European proposal for a 30-day minimum general ceasefire.[2] Miroshnik noted that Russia and Ukraine could make “adjustments” to the 2022 Istanbul protocols to account for changes in the past three years, but specifically insisted that Russia's April 2022 demands that Ukraine significantly reduce its military capabilities and amend its constitution to add a neutrality provision that would ban Ukraine from joining any military alliances — including NATO — remain unchanged. Putin and Miroshnik are deliberately reiterating Russia's terms in the Istanbul protocols because the protocols included terms that would have amounted to Ukraine's surrender and left Ukraine helpless to defend against potential future Russian aggression — aims that the Kremlin continues to pursue.[3] The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT) reported in March and June 2024 that they both obtained several versions of the draft protocols from the April 2022 Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in Istanbul.[4] The draft protocols also would have banned Ukraine from hosting foreign military personnel, trainers, or weapon systems in Ukraine. Russia demanded that it, the United States, the United Kingdom (UK), the People's Republic of China (PRC), France, and Belarus serve as security guarantors of the agreement. Russia demanded that the guarantor states “terminate international treaties and agreements incompatible with the permanent neutrality [of Ukraine],” including military aid agreements. Russia demanded that Ukraine limit its military to 85,000 soldiers, 342 tanks, and 519 artillery systems as part of the Istanbul protocols. Russia additionally demanded that Ukrainian missiles be limited to a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles), a range that would allow Russian forces to deploy critical systems and materiel close to Ukraine without fear of strikes.
Russia demanded these terms in the first and second months of the full-scale invasion when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv City and making gains throughout northeastern, eastern, and southern Ukraine. Russia is now attempting to reiterate these same demands after three years of war, despite the fact that Ukrainian forces have since successfully forced Russia to withdraw from northern Ukraine, liberated significant swaths of territory in Kharkiv and Kherson oblasts, and blunted the Russian rate of advance across the theater. Miroshnik’s observation that Russia and Ukraine could adjust aspects of the Istanbul protocols to reflect the changes in the war over the past three years is an attempt to frame the Kremlin as willing to negotiate, which obfuscates the fact that Russia has actually maintained its long-term goal of total Ukrainian surrender. Putin, Miroshnik, and other Russian officials continue to demand Ukraine's full surrender in an attempt to secure Russia's strategic goals by drawing out negotiations while continuing to make battlefield gains.[5]
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also reiterated the Kremlin's demands that any resolution to the war must result in regime change in Ukraine and restrictions against the West ahead of negotiations in Istanbul. Ryabkov stated on May 13 that the upcoming Istanbul discussions would need to address the “primary sources” of the war in order to achieve a sustainable end to the war, likely alluding to Russia's continued demand that any peace agreement address the war's “root causes.”[6] Ryabkov also reiterated the claim that Ukraine must continue to “denazify.” Russian officials repeatedly invoke the term “denazification” to demand regime change in Ukraine and the installation of a pro-Russian proxy government in Kyiv.[7] Russian officials have defined the “root causes” of the war as NATO's alleged violation of commitments not to expand into eastern Europe and along Russia's borders in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, and the Ukrainian government's alleged discrimination against Russians and Russian language, media, and culture in Ukraine.[8] Ryabkov's statements reflect the Kremlin's long-standing effort to achieve its pre-war demands that call for NATO to abandon its open-door policy and for the installation of a pro-Russian proxy government in Kyiv, despite recent Kremlin efforts to feign interest in good-faith negotiations.
Polling from early May 2025 indicates that the majority of Ukrainians support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the legitimate leader of Ukraine and are against holding elections before a final end to the war — in accordance with Ukrainian law and the Ukrainian Constitution. The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published a survey conducted from May 2 to 12 that showed that 74 percent of respondents trust Zelensky — an increase from 69 percent in March 2025.[9] The May 2025 KIIS poll showed that 71 percent of respondents do not support holding elections after a ceasefire, even if Ukraine receives security guarantees, and instead think that Ukraine should hold elections only after the establishment of a final peace agreement and a complete end to the war. KIIS noted that the majority of respondents in all regions of Ukraine support Zelensky and do not support holding elections until after the end of the war. The poll's majority opinion that elections should not occur until after the end of the war is in line with Ukraine's law on martial law and the Ukrainian Constitution, which stipulate that Ukraine cannot hold elections during martial law and cannot lift martial law while “the threat of attack or danger to the state independence of Ukraine and its territorial integrity” remains.[10] The Kremlin has repeatedly tried to weaponize Zelensky’s alleged “illegitimacy” to reject and delay ceasefire proposals and negotiations and to set conditions to renege on any future agreements Russia may sign with Ukraine.[11] The Kremlin has also repeatedly attempted to justify its invasions of Ukraine by claiming that large portions of eastern and southern Ukraine want to join Russia.[12] The KIIS poll — the results of which were relatively consistent across all regions of Ukraine - undermines these Kremlin narratives.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-14-2025
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Putin is thinking. Some Russian patriots have “begun to feel fear”
The Kremlin has called for an end to insinuations and the spread of gossip around the Istanbul talks and Vladimir Putin's position on them.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich is thinking. He is doing important things, for example, he approved the composition of the delegation for talks with Ukraine. And he is thinking a lot. And he will make the right decision in the current situation. Believe me,” a source in the Presidential Administration close to the president told us.
At the same time, a number of Russian patriots, supporters of continuing the SVO and the struggle until complete Victory over the Kiev regime and the West, admit that they have “begun to feel fear.” “It is clear that Vladimir Vladimirovich will make the right decision. But against the backdrop of a lack of understanding of what will happen next, various hostile elements within Russia are raising their heads. They are waiting for the SVO [war in Ukraine] to end soon. They are almost directly threatening to kill patriots, such as Alexandr Gelyevich Dugin [see below]. “This situation raises serious concerns, sometimes even fear,” admitted our interlocutor in the Kremlin, who is called a “hawk” in certain circles. “I hope that Vladimir Vladimirovich will make the right decisions not only on the SVO, but also on internal threats,” he added. And he refused to go into details, noting that “everyone who understands the situation” heard him.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/5668
11MAY2025 Кремлевская табакерка
“Putin chose war, years of great feats and great bloodshed lie ahead.” Dugin made a statement after which he could “die unexpectedly.”
Philosopher Alexandr Dugin commented on the president's nighttime statement on the Ukrainian crisis and negotiations with the Kiev regime: “Shortly before Vladimir Vladimirovich's speech, I wrote : “Let those who want the war to suddenly end be damned.” I am glad that Putin chose war, that now everything is clear. We have years of great battles, great feats and great bloodshed ahead. I am grateful to the president for his choice!” Alexandr Gelyevich clarified that he now expects a total mobilization of several million people (”which the cowards from the Ministry of Defense will be forced to declare”), an intensification of fighting and a complete transition of Russia to a war footing.
“We must live in such a way that there are no discussions in society about whether war is necessary or how long it will last. We must live in such a way that anyone who is against war, against the true Russian spirit, culture, religion, is destroyed by society itself. This is the path that our President Putin has chosen. And this is not just my opinion, this is what all the healthy forces in the Kremlin, with whose representatives I communicate, think. There is a lot of war ahead, and thanks to Vladimir Vladimirovich for this. After all, he is saving Russia with war,” the philosopher added.
Our sources in the Presidential Administration are reluctant to comment on these words. And one even expressed irritation. “Mr. Dugin, of course, has a certain access to information. But with his pathos and talkativeness, he cannot keep it to himself. You know, after some of the statements he makes, Alexandr Gelyevich may suddenly die. I hope he heard me,” said a high-ranking interlocutor of the channel in the Kremlin. He did not specify what the philosopher might die of. He only joked grimly: “From the joy that the war can be long.”
Russia is on track for a million casualties in early June.
Putin did that.
Somebody stop him.
Or something like the economy.
Darn those Russian smokers 😎
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