Posted on 05/24/2025 8:00:12 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin's forces are massing next to Russia's border with Ukraine's Sumy oblast, it has been reported, following evacuations from the region and a threat that Moscow has identified further territorial targets in its full-scale invasion.
Sumy governor Oleh Hryhorov said thousands had been evacuated from the region on Ukraine's northeast border and next to the Kharkiv oblast, according to the Kyiv Independent. On the other side of the frontier Russian troops numbers are said to be increasing.
It comes Putin is trying to justify the renewal of Russian plans to seize Sumy City—16 miles from the border—and illegally annex the whole of Sumy Oblast, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
However, Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko told Newsweek that the city of Sumy would be too big for Russian forces to capture.
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” “Russian ballistic missiles have been upgraded, making them significantly harder to intercept—even with American-made Patriot systems.”
Became obvious in the last hit - the Patriot System was forward-deployed (whoops) and an Icelander Missile zoomed into it.
“Moreover, the missiles are no longer following simple ballistic paths but are now maneuvering mid-flight along quasi-ballistic trajectories, making it harder for Patriot systems to calculate interception points.”
I’d swear just last week a Zeeper here claimed that hypersonic Russian missiles were incapable of maneuvering. I guess more gaslighting in trying to get us into this war.
At least Starmer was smart enough to work a trade deal with the U.S.
The EU screwed around and are about to find out. (FAFO)
This Institute for the Study of War is a leftist/neocon warmongering outfit set up to instigate war.
Russia did not go into Ukraine with enough troops to take Kiev. This was known by everyone at the time. Kiev is huge and it would have taken a massive amount of troops for street warfare.
Why this keeps getting bandied about as fact escapes common sense.
Z must be the Maxwell House of Ukraine: “Good to the last soldier.”
He really has only one card to play and that card is in Pripyat. That card is a suicide play for Europe. Just ask Gorby.
Nice UKE-nazi patch!
Zeepers are short on common sense. It is not available on Amazon.
A comment from my . . . specialty of sorts.
Ukraine’s natural gas flow. Always very low. Beneath GAZPROM notice and below Ukraine’s peak nat gas consumption.
Heads up. What little they have, and what little flows (not the same thing), is out of Kharkiv and Poltava. It’s not enough to matter to anyone (including Ukraine, below domestic consumption), but it’s going to be under Russian control, it appears. This is the only known mineral supply of the country, that Trump wanted.
FYI.
Lots more dead Russians soon.
Re post 29.
LOL.
It is past time to send the drones to burn the Hermitage.
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