https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3m6wwi7j2is2j
KABOOM!
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Yes I will speak of bread, and the million+ Russians dead and wounded, and the destruction pitin’s ego had wrought on Russia and the Russian people
Always discounting the destruction pitin’s ego has caused almost sounds like something RT would say, never mind 😂
As Russia collapses you only speak of Ukraine, never Russia, the cause of all of this, interesting
GDP graph?
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck a storage and launch site for Shaheds in Crimea near Cape Chauda.
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3m6ww4j24fk2j
44 s video
Add this one to your "Love a Good War" collection
Suitable for framing
Can you tell me which one?
Shooting the messenger not the message, sure sign of a biased mind.
Will ask again, what are excepted sources for you?
GDP graph???
Usual can’t dispute the information so attacks the messenger, this from the guy who posts memes that show President Trump giving the American people the finger😂
Well done Ukraine, the bear is turning into a teddy bear
Well done Ukraine, the bear is turning into a teddy bear
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Soon to be a dead bear ...
I see you're flashing your HS diploma around again.
You should never question why I call you illiterate.
Quite an interesting list of comments on bad things happening to Russia here at today’s page. There is also the strange report of a billion casualties and collapse of their government. Unless there is some bad news from China, or perhaps even India, otherwise missing today, all this bad news must be causing the perplexingly imperfect performance of the paid or paranoid purveyor of Putin’s putrid prospects.
US-Ukrainian talks reportedly continued in Florida on December 1 ahead of US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 2 to present the US-Ukrainian peace proposal. US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov reportedly held more meetings in Florida on December 1.[1] US President Donald Trump stated on November 30 that he does not have a deadline for a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine.[2] US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on November 30 that the US goal is to end the war while “help[ing] Ukraine be safe forever” and preventing another invasion.[3] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitri Peskov stated that Witkoff will meet with Putin in Moscow on the afternoon of December 2.[4]
The Kremlin is setting conditions to refrain from publicly discussing the outcomes of the December 2 US-Russian meeting, possibly in order to obfuscate Russia's likely rejection of the US-Ukrainian peace proposal. Peskov responded to a question about points in the latest US-Ukrainian peace proposal, stating that Russia does not intend to conduct negotiations through a “megaphone” or “through the media.”[5] Peskov stated that the Kremlin will release footage from the start of the Putin-Witkoff meeting on December 2, but that it is too early to talk about any public statements afterwards.[6] Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee First Deputy Head Alexei Chepa stated on December 1 that he would like the US delegation to “reaffirm the fundamental nature” of the positions that the United States and Russia allegedly reached during the US-Russia Alaska summit in August 2025.[7] Duma Defense Committee Deputy Chairperson Alexei Zhuravlev claimed on December 1 that the “right” negotiations are between Russia and the United States, who will present a “fait accompli” to Europe and Ukraine such that they will have “no choice but to…sign whatever [the United States and Russia] say.”[8] High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russian milbloggers have been consistently rejecting the 28-point peace plan and its subsequent iterations since it was first reported in mid-November 2025 because the proposed plans did not concede to all of Russia's maximalist war demands.[9] The Kremlin has been exploiting the lack of clarity about the Alaska summit to conceal the way the Kremlin — not Ukraine — is impeding the negotiations process by sticking to its original war demands.[10] The Kremlin will likely try to replicate this approach with the upcoming US-Russia meeting on December 2 and is setting conditions to conceal the details of the talks from the public, likely because Russia will reject the terms of the plan.[11] The Kremlin likely seeks to avoid framing Russia as an impediment to ending the war in Ukraine if Moscow rejects the peace deal that the United States will present to Russia, and that Ukraine agreed to. Russia previously rejected several US-proposed ceasefires that Ukraine agreed to.[12]
Prominent Russian milbloggers continue to undermine the Kremlin's effort to portray a Russian victory in Ukraine as imminent or inevitable. A Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger responded to the Russian Ministry of Defense's (MoD) December 1 claim that Russian forces seized Klynove (north of Kostyantynivka, about 10 kilometers from the current Russian frontline) by criticizing the MoD’s repeated exaggerations about battlefield successes.[13] The milblogger claimed that the Russian MoD is making premature claims that Russian forces seized settlements without offering any supporting evidence and is even claiming Russian success in settlements several kilometers away from confirmed Russian positions. The milblogger noted that the Russian MoD has made clearly false claims over five settlements in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area in 2025 alone — Orikhovo-Vasylivka in February 2025, Novomarkove in March 2025, Markove and Mayske in September 2025, and Fedorivka in October 2025. The milblogger added that recent developments on the battlefield are strengthening the current Russian negotiating position and insinuated that the Russian MoD is actually hurting its negotiating position by making false claims that could easily “backfire” with the emergence of evidence to the contrary. The Kremlin has repeatedly made exaggerated claims about the battlefield as part of its ongoing cognitive warfare effort to falsely portray a Russian victory as inevitable, such that Ukraine and the West should concede to Russia's demands now.[14] ISW continues to assess that while the situation in some specific sectors of the front line is serious, particularly in the Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole directions, the Kremlin's efforts to present Russia's victory in Ukraine as inevitable do not correspond to battlefield realities.[15] It is notable that the Kremlin's misrepresentation of the situation on the ground continues to be so far from reality that prominent pro-war milbloggers continue to feel compelled to issue their own corrective statements.
Russian forces are not yet confirmed to have seized all of Pokrovsk despite operating within the town for over 120 days. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on December 1 that Russian forces seized Pokrovsk, though it remains unclear whether Ukrainian forces may occupy limited scattered positions in northern Pokrovsk. The Ukrainian 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of the Air Assault Forces reported on December 1 that Russian forces have become bogged down in urban warfare within Pokrovsk, contrary to previous claims from Russian military and political leadership that Russian forces encircled Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk.[16] The corps reported that Ukrainian forces killed 1,221 Russian servicemembers and wounded 545 in the Pokrovsk agglomeration in November 2025, including 519 killed and 131 wounded within Pokrovsk alone. ISW continues to assess that Russian forces have incurred significant casualties in their monthslong campaign to seize Pokrovsk.[17] The corps reported that Ukrainian forces retain main and alternate rotation routes in Myrnohrad (east of Pokrovsk) and recently rotated troops in the town. The corps’ statements indicate that Ukrainian forces likely retain the ability to resupply forces within Myrnohrad, despite Russian interdiction of Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) between Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.[18] ISW has not yet observed evidence to confirm that Russian forces have completed the seizure of Pokrovsk as of this writing. The Kremlin may have announced the seizure of Pokrovsk prematurely on December 1 — as it has for numerous other settlements in Ukraine — as part of a cognitive warfare effort in order to shape the US-Russian negotiations in Moscow on December 2.
Ukraine's European allies continue to provide military aid and support to Ukraine's growing defense industrial base (DIB). Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced on December 1 that the Netherlands will contribute 250 million euros (roughly $290 million) to Ukraine through the Prioritized Ukrainian Requirements List (PURL) initiative, which funds NATO states’ purchases of US-made weapons for Ukraine.[19] Ukrainian Defense Minister Denis Shmyhal and Brekelmans also signed an agreement to jointly produce Ukrainian drones in both the Netherlands and Ukraine, which the Netherlands will purchase and then transfer to the Ukrainian military.[20]
The Russian military continues implementing longstanding plans to form new Russian divisions as part of the Russian military's transition back towards a force structure based on maneuver divisions, likely in preparation for a possible future war with NATO. The Russian Pacific Fleet announced on December 1 the reorganization of its 155th Naval Infantry Brigade into the 55th Naval Infantry Division.[21] Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in December 2022 that the Russian military command intended to form 17 new maneuver divisions, including by expanding five existing naval infantry brigades into five divisions.[22] The new 55th Naval Infantry Division is very likely not staffed at its full doctrinal end strength, given that the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade participated in combat operations, including in the Pokrovsk direction and previously in Kursk Oblast, which likely have significantly degraded the brigade.[23] ISW has observed evidence to support the formation and combat deployment of at least eight new Russian divisions since December 2022.[24] The Russian military command has formed the 104th Airborne (VDV) Division and the 27th, 68th, 69th, and 71st motorized rifle divisions from previously existing brigades, and the new 67th, 70th, and 72nd motorized rifle divisions since December 2022.[25] These divisions also likely have not yet reached their doctrinal end strength, as they have all been committed to active combat operations. The Russian military will likely be able to bring them up to their full end strength rapidly after the end of fighting in Ukraine.[26] ISW continues to assess that the expansion of Russian conventional forces and the Russian military's larger force structure reform back to maneuver divisions is in line with Russia's preparation for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future, as the Russian military command likely assesses that the Russian military will require more mass and higher echelon formations to wage effective combat operations.[27]
Balloon incursions in NATO airspace continue to shut down Lithuanian airports. Lithuanian authorities temporarily suspended operations at the Vilnius International Airport on the evening of November 30 into the early morning on December 1 due to balloons flying towards the airport.[28] Lithuanian air navigation company Oro Navigacija Director Saulius Batavicius stated that authorities detected roughly 60 balloons in Lithuanian airspace and that an unidentified actor launched the balloons continuously at varying altitudes and in small groups.[29] Lithuanian authorities have not attributed the balloon flights to any specific actor as of this writing, though Lithuanian officials previously attributed similar balloon incursions to Belarus.[30] The overnight balloon sightings come against the backdrop of repeated similar incursions from Belarusian airspace – the most recent of which occurred on the night of November 28 to 29 — that have closed the Vilnius Airport.[31] ISW continues to assess that Russia is increasingly engaging in covert and overt attacks against Europe and that ongoing Russian airspace violations are likely part of Russia's ”Phase Zero” effort — Russia's broader informational and psychological condition-setting effort that aims to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.[32] ISW continues to assess that Belarus is Russia's de facto cobelligerent in the war in Ukraine, such that suspected and confirmed incursions into NATO airspace from Belarusian airspace are very likely part of Russia's broader Phase Zero effort.[33]
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