Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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At this point, Ukraine is really fighting against the N.Korean and Iranian weapons; Russia either doesn’t have them anymore, or they are keeping what they have left ‘in storage’ or hidden.
But, even the N.Koreans and Iranians are running out of the weapons that Russia is dependent on.
did you steal that Russia! joke from BlueSky?
Notice how quiet the United States Senate has been about this new development in the Ukraine corruption scandal 🤔? Why? Because the U.S. Senate are recipients from the money laundering.
cc: @LindseyGrahamSC @LeaderJohnThune @SenJohnBarrasso @SenatorSlotkin Full list below: https://t.co/OHS1796zOb pic.twitter.com/CKrh7IB6T0— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) November 28, 2025
This is for you
X’s new location feature exposes apparent fraudster accounts posing as Americans, Gaza journalists🤔
Yup
Russia went from exporter of fuel to importer of fuel
Exporter of food to importer of food
Exporter of weapons and ammunition , 2nd to US, to net importer of weapons
Budget surplus to massive new debt
National wealth fund to issuing billions in bonds
Collapse of auto, truck, and farm equipment industry
Coal industry collapsed
Steel industry collapse
4to 1 businesses calling it quits, to start up businesses
So much for the “self-sufficient “
Yup pitin did that(with some help from Ukraine) and only in less than 4 years
Imagine kidnapped Ukrainian children would be first
If russia is paying for munitions and mercs from NK with missile tech, NK should reconsider, maybe russia needs to import missile tech from NK😂
Another “fearsome “ Russian missile is intercepted by the groind😎
Nice try, but he doesn’t care about Russian corruption or war crimes, or attacking civilians, or invading one’s neighbor or sending it’s men to the slaughter.
Hopefully North Korea and Iran are beginning to worry they need to hold on to the weapons they have in an uncertain world.
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during a press conference with Russian state media in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 27 that Russia is making significant gains across the frontline such that Ukraine and the West should concede to Russia's demands before the situation worsens for Ukraine.[1] Putin implied that some Western officials are attempting to rush the US-proposed peace plan because they fear that Russian forces will collapse sectors of the frontline in Ukraine, destroy Ukraine's most combat-capable elite units, and degrade the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian military writ large. Putin claimed that these Western officials are willing to achieve a quick peace even at the expense of Ukrainian concessions. Putin then made a series of exaggerated claims about purported Russian battlefield gains, including that Russian forces have completed the seizure of Kupyansk; captured about 70 percent of Pokrovsk and completely encircled both Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad; seized just over 21 percent of all buildings in Siversk; seized most of Vovchansk; and advanced within one to two kilometers of Hulyaipole.[2] ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces have only seized 15.72 percent of Kupyansk, 64.48 percent of Pokrovsk, 10.14 percent of Myrnohrad, 2.16 percent of Siversk, and 35.66 percent of Vovchansk; and that Russian forces have advanced within two kilometers of Hulyaipole from the east. Putin also claimed that Russian forces have seized a “significant” amount of territory in “Komsomolsk,” even though there is no city in Ukraine with this name.[3] Putin may have been referring to Kostyantynivka, although ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces have advanced in just 0.07 percent of Kostyantynivka. Though the situation in specific sectors of the frontline is serious, especially in the Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole directions, most of Putin's assertions are exaggerated and do not correspond to the battlefield reality he claims to represent, nor do they indicate that the frontlines in Ukraine will collapse imminently.
Putin's exaggerated battlefield claims are part of his pursuit to actualize his theory of victory. Putin's theory of victory is predicated on the assumption that Russia's military and economy can outlast the West's will to support Ukraine to continue grinding advances on the frontline.[4] Putin and senior Russian defense officials have made several high-level public engagements in recent weeks to make exaggerated battlefield claims, creating the false impression that Russian forces are making greater gains than they actually are.[5] Senior Russian officials began to exaggerate Russian advances in Kupyansk in August 2025 and have claimed several times since that Russian forces have seized the town – including Putin most recently on November 20 – but even pro-war Russian milbloggers have denied the extent of these official Russian claims.[6] These exaggerated claims aim to convince the West to cease support of Ukraine and push Ukraine to capitulate to Russia's demands or allow Russian forces to continue their grinding offensive operations unimpeded, which would validate Putin's theory of victory. ISW continues to assess that a Russian victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, however.[7]
The rate of Russian advances does not exceed a footpace in all the areas where Putin claimed that Russian forces have made significant advances. Putin praised the claimed seizure of Kupyansk as the model by which Russian forces will make advances elsewhere on the frontline.[8] Russian forces have been using a new campaign design that utilizes battlefield air interdiction (BAI) efforts to degrade Ukrainian logistics and defenses such that Russian infantry can infiltrate into Ukrainian rear areas, accumulate, and consolidate advances.[9] Russian forces have been most successful at applying this campaign design not in Kupyansk but in the Pokrovsk direction, where Ukrainian forces have managed to stymie the Russian rate of advance in Pokrovsk to a footpace despite Russia's operational prioritization of this effort.[10] Russian forces have not yet seized Pokrovsk, a town of 11.5 square miles (29.78 square kilometers), despite operating within the town for over 120 days.[11] Russian forces have used this campaign design to some degree in the Kupyansk direction but have not yet succeeded in replicating the advances they have made in the Pokrovsk direction, however. Russian forces failed to sufficiently degrade Ukrainian defenses in the Kupyansk direction after first infiltrating into the town in August 2025, allowing Ukrainian forces to largely push back Russian forces.[12] Russian forces continue conducting infiltration operations into Kupyansk, but Ukraine has denied Russia the rapid seizure of the town.[13] Russian forces have made the most rapid advances in recent weeks using this new campaign design in the Hulyaipole direction, but even these advances are constrained to footpace.[14] The Russian military command would likely have to commit equivalent time and resources to other areas of the frontline as it is currently committing in the Pokrovsk direction to replicate the results of the Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole efforts elsewhere on the frontline or exploit gaps in Ukrainian defenses.
The current Russian force composition is not optimized to achieve or exploit a collapse of Ukrainian defenses. The war in Ukraine has become largely positional, and Russian forces writ large are sufficiently degraded such that they cannot currently conduct maneuver warfare at the scale necessary for rapid, operational-level advances that restore maneuver to the battlefield.[15] Russian forces have become optimized to fight positional warfare with low quality personnel, insufficient armor and mechanized equipment stores, and poor command and control.[16] Russian forces are currently conducting positional offensive operations as part of Putin's effort to outlast Western support for Ukraine.[17] Russian forces use three to five people on average for infiltration and assault operations, largely conducted on foot and only occasionally using light motorized civilian vehicles such as motorcycles, buggies, and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).[18] Ukraine's drone-based defenses, colloquially called the “wall of drones,” have some vulnerabilities that Russian forces have managed to exploit to make tactically-significant advances, but overall have denied Russian forces the ability to use armored vehicles and conduct mechanized maneuver, such that it has degraded the overall quality and ability of Russian forces to conduct such operations.[19]
Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that Russia does not recognize the US-proposed peace plan as a serious agreement and indicated that Russia is not interested in ending the war on the Trump administration's desired rapid timeline. Putin responded to a journalist's question about the US-proposed peace plan during the November 27 press conference, asserting that the peace plan is not a finalized treaty but a “set of issues” that the United States “proposed” for further discussion and final framing.[20] Putin stated that Russia generally agrees that the 28-point plan could be the basis of some future negotiations but noted that he will not discuss any final agreements because there are no such agreements. Putin also notably did not specify if he believes that the US-proposed peace plan would serve as the basis for Russia's direct negotiations with Ukraine. Putin later responded to a question regarding the possible risks of a “rushed” peace deal, stating that the “issues” in the proposed peace plan require serious consideration. On November 27, Putin continued to exploit the lack of clarity about the August 2025 Alaska summit to conceal the Kremlin's unwillingness to begin the peace negotiations process to end its war in Ukraine. Putin implied that US negotiators created the original 28-point peace plan following negotiations with Putin before the Alaska summit on August 15. High-ranking Russian officials have responded to the various peace plan proposals in recent days by reiterating their commitment to alleged US-Russian agreements from the Alaska summit in place of the documented 2022 Istanbul agreements, which the Kremlin has used to cite as its basis any future negotiations.[21] ISW previously noted that the Kremlin is exploiting the lack of official documents codifying the outcomes of the Alaska summit to add opacity to the negotiations discussion.[22] Putin's discussion of the US peace proposal suggests that the Kremlin views the peace proposal as a suggestion rather than a decisive effort to end the war in Ukraine and is setting information conditions to stall the peace process on this basis.
Putin reiterated that Russia cannot sign any peace or other agreements with the current or future Ukrainian government and reiterated accusations that any Ukrainian government not under the Kremlin's control is illegitimate, another clear rejection of the US peace proposal. Putin stated that it would be “senseless” for Russia to sign any peace agreements with the current Ukrainian government and emphasized that he has made this point repeatedly.[23] Putin reiterated the Kremlin's long-standing false narrative that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is an illegitimate leader and introduced a new claim that the Ukrainian Constitutional Court must first recognize Zelensky’s authority before Zelensky can sign any peace agreement with Russia.[24] Putin claimed that the Constitutional Court is “not working,” and thus cannot recognize Zelensky’s legitimacy. Putin claimed that he wants to secure an agreement with Ukraine but that an agreement now is “legally impossible” due to the falsely claimed illegitimacy of the Ukrainian government. Putin implied that Russia will not be able to conclude any agreements with Ukraine in the long term because Ukraine must end its martial law, conduct elections, execute a referendum, and form a new constitutional court to establish a legitimate government capable of concluding an agreement with Russia. Putin added that there are “plenty of sane people” in Ukraine who want to “build a long-term, historically sound relationship with Russia,” implying that Russia is only interested in signing agreements with a pro-Russian government in Ukraine that the Kremlin can manipulate or directly control. Putin is likely deliberately invoking the false narrative that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate in an effort to indirectly reject the US-proposed peace deal by inventing a justification against concluding a peace deal on the Trump administration's proposed rapid timeline, similar to the Kremlin's use of the claimed illegitimacy narrative to justify its lack of serious engagement in prior US-led peace initiatives.[25]
Putin demanded Ukraine's withdrawal from unoccupied parts of illegally annexed Ukrainian regions as a precondition for a ceasefire, not a peace deal. Such a concession would force Ukraine to withdraw to lines that are indefensible against renewed Russian aggression and would consign millions of Ukrainians to life under Russian occupation, therefore failing to guarantee a lasting peace. Putin stated that Russia receives numerous ceasefire requests but will stop active hostilities after Ukrainian forces withdraw from the unoccupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts, which Russia annexed along with the occupied portions in 2022.[26] Putin reiterated his commitment to continuing the war if Ukrainian forces do not withdraw, likely in an effort to reinforce the Russian false narrative that Russia can sustain the war effort indefinitely and that Russia's victory is imminent. Putin's statement is not a compromise aimed at advancing the peace deal but is a repetition of his June 2024 demand that Ukraine cede territories that Russia does not occupy and has struggled and failed to seize since 2014 and 2022.[27] Such a concession would force Ukraine to abandon its Fortress Belt, the fortified defensive line in Donetsk Oblast that has served as the backbone of Ukraine's defenses since 2014.[28] Russian forces failed to seize the Fortress Belt during Russia's initial 2014 invasion of Ukraine and since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, and it would likely take Russia multiple years to seize the rest of Donetsk Oblast alone.[29] This demanded withdrawal would also allow the Kremlin to secure more advantageous positions to renew aggression against southwestern and central Ukraine from the borders of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts by alleviating the need for Russian forces to cross the Dnipro River, a significant effort that Russian forces are currently unlikely to achieve without sacrificing the strategic initiative across the frontline, and conduct long and costly urban battles in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson cities.[30] Kremlin officials have routinely made claims over Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts, neither of which Russian forces occupy in any significant part, and have reiterated these claims in recent days.[31] The surrender of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts to Russia, in exchange for no guarantees for peace, would set conditions for Russia to pursue further conquests of Ukrainian territory in the future.
Putin also demanded that the international community recognize Russia's territorial conquests in Ukraine, likely to set legal grounds to justify a reinvasion of Ukraine at the opportune time. Putin emphasized that the international community must recognize illegally annexed Ukrainian territories as de jure part of Russia.[32] Putin stated that Russia does not need Ukraine to recognize illegally annexed territories, however. Putin stated that such international recognition will allow Russia to consider any violations of an agreement with Ukraine as a formal attack on Russia and employ all retaliatory measures or conduct a campaign to “restore rule of law” to Ukrainian-held territories. Putin also stated that he would want to discuss legal issues pertaining to Russia's occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts with US negotiators, not with Ukraine. Putin is likely demanding the international recognition of occupied and illegally annexed Ukrainian territories because such recognition would grant Russia multiple possible justifications for a reinvasion and may inhibit international support for Ukraine's defense against this Russian aggression. The Kremlin has previously set a precedent of accusing Ukraine of violating the Minsk II accords in the lead up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a justification for Russia's war.[33]
Russian forces continue to commit war crimes in the Hulyaipole and Pokrovsk directions. The Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office announced on November 27 that Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the Hulyaipole direction on the morning of November 27.[34] A source reportedly affiliated with Ukrainian military intelligence reported that Russian forces conducted the executions near Zelenyi Hai (east of Hulyaipole).[35] The Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported on November 28 that Russian forces executed a Ukrainian POW in Hnativka (immediately southeast of Pokrovsk) on an unspecified date in November 2025.[36] ISW observed an increase in Russian war crimes in the Hulyaipole and Pokrovsk directions in late October and November 2025, as Russian forces have intensified offensive operations in these directions and infiltrated into the towns.[37] ISW continues to assess that the Russian military command is endorsing and sometimes ordering war crimes on the battlefield and that Russia is torturing and abusing Ukrainian civilian prisoners as part of the wider military modus operandi.[38]
Ukrainian Presidential Office Head and prominent negotiator Andriy Yermak resigned from his position on November 28. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Yermak’s resignation on November 28 and stated that Ukraine's negotiating team will consist of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), National Security and Defense Council, and Ukrainian intelligence.[39] Zelensky stated that he will begin consultations on November 29 to pick Yermak’s successor and noted that he is “resetting” the Ukrainian Presidential Office. Yermak became head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office in February 2020 and has led several Ukrainian negotiating delegations over the last several months.[40]
Looks like the Air Campaign against Russian oil infrastructure is back on, after a brief pause over Russia’s fake peace negotiation smokescreen. Like the boy who cried wolf too many times, Russia has worn out its credibility with pretending to engage in peace talks, and doesn’t get as much of a pause as it used to anymore, from fake peace proposals..
We are back to another night, another Russia refinery in flames.
Kyiv Independent )29 Nov):
“Ukraine’s military reportedly struck one of southern Russia’s largest oil refineries overnight on Nov. 29, Russian Telegram media reported.
Photos and videos posted to social media by local resident purport to show a large fire emanating from the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai.…
…The Afipsky Oil Refinery has been a regular target of Ukrainian attacks, given its proximity to front line regions. The refinery was previously struck on Sept. 26, and twice in August.
The Afipsky refinery, located about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the front line, serves as a key logistics hub for diesel fuel and aviation kerosene supplies to Russian forces.
It accounts for 2.1% of Russia’s oil refining output, processing about 6.25 million tons of oil each year”
Two incidents involving the Russian shadow fleet were recorded in the Black Sea. Two oil tankers caught fire while moving along the Turkish coast. Turkey and Bloomberg reported that a fire suddenly broke out on the Kairos tanker. The 25-member crew was not injured, and rescuers were sent to the vessel. Port agents suggest that Kairos may have hit a mine. The vessel was heading empty toward Novorossiysk for another load of Urals oil. Kairos is a Suezmax class tanker flying the Gambian flag, measuring 274×48 meters. The vessel is managed by Alafia Trading Ltd, a company registered in Shanghai.
The second tanker, Virat, was also damaged in the western part of the Black Sea. It had been idle for most of the year after being subject to US and EU sanctions. According to Bloomberg, the Kairos was returning from India and headed for a Russian port.
Both vessels are included in the list of sanctioned carriers of Russian oil. They were not carrying any cargo at the time of the incidents. Since the beginning of the war, there has been a constant risk of ships being blown up by mines in the Black Sea.
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