Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia, including Moscow region have been ongoing for more than 40 hours.
Moscow airports closed - another air traffic train wreck for the Russian public.
DS has no updates, last was almost 18 km2
But S as a new post and updates on recent gains
Let's (almost) end with this phrase
"They (RF) now have a completely different terrain ahead of them, where the industrial landscapes of the Donbass, gradually fading away, give way to steppe lands with much rarer settlements - all the way to the Dnieper"
S also has a video of moto-units, I remember comparing earlier about egypt/india chariot driver +archer
Talk about ships that have sailed
"I suppose we’re getting closer and closer to full Skynet automation in the killing fields"
Back to iskaders, a reference to double tap earlier
About the recent comment by a Russian official that, legally, the dissolution of USSR required a referendum in Ukraine (referendum that hasn't been done), I have the feeling that it is to introduce the idea that ALL ukrainian oblasts should vote by referendum if they wish to (1) join Russia (2) join their fate to the Galicians in a demilitarized and denazified shithole.
SMO, not war, because Ukraine is not a foreign country. Slow SMO so that the inhabitants of Ukraine have some time to come to reality about which side has decency, morality and a future, and which one hasn't. A master trap.
DJT has reportedly rejected demands by EU warmongers that negotiations on the Ukraine conflict should result in an unconditional ceasefire. When DJT spoke to Ursula, Macron Dior and Friedrich “uses the small spoon” Merz after his call w/ VVP, they insisted that this next round of talks on resolving the conflict “must” end w/ an unconditional truce.
They in fact demanded the adjective “unconditional.”
DJT rebuffed this.
For his part, Peskov asserted that “the interests of entering the peaceful settlement process are above all else. The primary goal is to begin this negotiation process, and all other questions are secondary. There are no deadlines and there cannot be any.”
Meanwhile, General Mordvichev, a veteran commander of the Siege of Mariupol in 2022 and of the Battle for Avdiivka in 2023-2024, has just taken the helm of the Russian Ground Forces.
No military brings in a proven strategist, whose nickname is General Breakthrough, in order to strike a truce. After having submitted the AFU/Azov spectacularly in Mariupol, he followed that up by neutralizing the citadel of Avdiivka, from which cluster munitions and petal mines had been launched @ Donetsk City since 2014.
Notably, however, our Fave Podcasters & Bloggers spend less time on strategic LOC issues than superfluities attendant to talks & diplomacy, including a focus on Zelensky’s clothes or a focus on Macron Dior dusting his nose. These superfluities are *without heat.*
It’s as if the blogosphere has grown bored w/ the machinations of battle, as if the grit alone can’t hold their attention any longer, and are casting desperately about for new dimensions/new angles.