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  • Moscow Forces Complete Conquest of Luhansk Region, One of the Cradles of the War, Fighting Since 2014 to Secede from Ukraine and Join Russia

    07/01/2025 7:49:42 AM PDT · by Tom Tetroxide · 23 replies
    The Gateway Pundit.com ^ | 1JUL2025 | Paul Serran
    While the world is fixated on Middle East tensions, Russian forces continue pounding military and strategic targets all over Ukraine. Having amassed an enormous cache of kamikaze drones and missiles, Moscow is methodically implementing its ‘war of attrition’. As we have often discussed here on TGP, in this kind of warfare the main objective is not so much territorial gains, but rather a campaign to degrade the enemy’s capabilities to the point it can’t fight anymore. The only reason why this ‘attrition’ took more than a few months to be accomplished is that the US under Biden and all the...
  • Putin: NATO Told Us 'Where to Go'

    06/27/2025 2:09:42 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 38 replies
    Newsmax ^ | 6/27/2025 | Sam Barron
    Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the country was dismissed regarding its concern about NATO expansion. "We emphasized that the security of one nation or a group of nations cannot come at the expense of another's security. This principle is enshrined in international agreements that all parties have ratified," Putin said. "Yet, in practice, what transpired?" Putin continued. "One NATO expansion after another. We were consistently reassured, 'there's nothing to fear; it doesn't pose a threat to you.' When we expressed our concerns, asserting that we believed it did threaten us, what was the response? Nothing at all. We...
  • Putin: Would be 'happy' to meet with Trump

    06/27/2025 8:23:24 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 48 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 6/27/2025 | Christian Baha
    Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists on Friday that a meeting with his United States counterpart Donald Trump is "quite possible." "I'm always open to contact and meetings ... We would be happy to prepare for it," the Russian head of state asserted, calling Trump a "courageous man" and praising his efforts in relation to ending the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Putin once again criticized the Western countries for their behavior toward Russia, calling it "aggressive." He stressed that his country was "betrayed" by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as the alliance is expanding even though there were...
  • Trump: U.S. may provide Ukraine with more Patriot missiles

    06/25/2025 1:49:02 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 37 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | Susan Ferrechio
    President Trump said Wednesday the United States may provide Ukraine with additional defensive missiles to intercept Russian air attacks. The president, speaking at a press conference in the Netherlands where he was attending a NATO summit, said Ukraine is seeking more Patriot missiles as the war with Russia drags on into a fourth year. “They do want to have the anti-missile missiles, as they call them, the Patriots. And we’re going to see if we can make some available,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, they’re very hard to get.” Mr. Trump said the U.S. is supplying Patriot missiles to Israel,...
  • North Korea has lost more than half of its troops sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine

    06/16/2025 3:41:29 PM PDT · by Engraved-on-His-hands · 47 replies
    The Express (UK) ^ | June 16, 2025 | Carrington Walker
    Half of the thousands of North Korean troops sent to help Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine have died in action, according to British Defence Intelligence. Roughly 11,000 troops have been dispatched by Kim Jong Un to aid Vladimir Putin's war effort in Eastern Europe since 2022 as the ties between their two countries has become closer. Now it has been revealed that more than 6,000 soldiers from North Korea have lost their lives after being stationed to the frontline in the Kurk region
  • Russia Has Won the Ukraine War and ‘Defeated’ NATO

    06/06/2025 4:51:34 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 53 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/6/2025 | Andrew Latham
    The idea that Russia might still lose the war in Ukraine has become a kind of security blanket for Western elites – a comforting illusion clutched in think tanks, editorial pages, and official briefings long after the battlefield realities have changed. We are now well past the phase where optimism could be excused as ignorance. The facts are in. Ukraine is exhausted. The West is demoralized. And Russia, despite its many internal challenges, is grinding toward its war aims with brutal consistency.
  • After Putin call, Trump suggests Ukraine, Russia should ‘fight for a while’

    06/05/2025 5:49:23 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 5, 2025 5:54 p.m. EDT | Mary Ilyushina , Robyn Dixon and Michael Birnbaum
    The comments, in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were Trump’s clearest indication to date that he was unsure he would be able to quell Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Ukraine and Russia may need to keep fighting, President Donald Trump said Thursday, comparing the warring nations to squabbling children in what appeared to be a signal that the U.S. leader was losing interest in brokering peace in a conflict he once promised to end in a day. The comments, in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were Trump’s clearest indication to date that...
  • Ukraine ‘strikes Russian airfields destroying nuke bombers’ in huge drone blitz as footage shows aircraft up in flames

    06/01/2025 5:08:00 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 116 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 6/1/2025 | Will Stewart Harvey Geh
    TWO Russian airfields housing Putin's nuke bombers have reportedly been blitzed in an extraordinary drone strike - wiping out at least 40 aircraft. A Ukrainian security official told Reuters that the SBU conducted a large drone attack on Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers - which Russia uses to fire long-range missiles at Ukraine. The source did not specify where the drone attack took place, but Ukrainian media said that Olenya airbase - home to Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bombers - had been targeted. The second base under fire is understood to be the Belaya nuclear airbase in eastern Siberia’s Irkutsk region...
  • Russia: No talk of Turkish mediation in Ukraine talks

    05/30/2025 7:52:51 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 2 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 5/30/2025 | Christian Baha
    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday dismissed the idea of Turkey or any other country acting as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine during the proposed negotiations in Istanbul on June 2. Zakharova thanked Turkey for its hospitality and for creating a negotiating platform, noting that the first round of discussions was held in "comfortable conditions." Kiev has not yet confirmed its participation in the new round of talks, although Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said the negotiations must "yield results." Additionally, the country's President Vladimir Zelensky said Moscow had not sent a peace memorandum to Kiev, despite...
  • Exclusive-Russia does not see Vatican as a serious arena for peace talks, sources say

    05/26/2025 8:58:34 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Reuters AOL News ^ | 5/26/2025 | GUY FAULCONBRIDGE
    Russia does not see the Vatican as a serious venue for peace talks with Ukraine because the Holy See is the seat of Catholicism and is surrounded by Italy, a NATO and EU member, three senior Russian sources told Reuters. They also point out that many Russian officials cannot even fly there due to Western restrictions. The Vatican has so far been silent in public on the idea raised by U.S. President Donald Trump after a call with President Vladimir Putin that Pope Leo XIV could host talks aimed at ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two. Italian Prime...
  • Buffer Zone to Cover Nearly All of Ukraine — Medvedev

    05/25/2025 11:59:02 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 34 replies
    TASS ^ | 5/25/25
    It could happen if "If military aid to the Banderite regime continues," deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council saidMOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. A buffer zone will encompass nearly entire Ukraine if military aid to the Kiev regime continues, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has warned. "If military aid to the Banderite regime continues, the buffer zone could look like this," he wrote on his Telegram channel and posted a video where the buffer zone covers almost the entire Ukrainian territory but for a small part in the west. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced...
  • Zaluzhny: No Miracle Will Restore 1991 Borders – Ukraine Must Fight Smart or Not at All

    05/24/2025 1:42:04 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 37 replies
    Kiev Post ^ | May 23, 2025 | Julia Struck
    Ukraine’s former top general warns against false hopes of restoring 1991 borders and says only tech-driven warfare can overcome Russia’s war resources. Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces (AFU), retired Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, has cautioned against hoping for a return to Ukraine’s 1991 borders, warning that Russia still possesses the resources to continue the war. Speaking at the “Export of Security: Ukrainian Weapons in the World” forum, Zaluzhny said, as quoted by Ukrainian media: “I hope that there are no people in this hall who still hope for some miracle or wonder, for some...
  • Ukraine and Russia conduct massive prison swap as Trump praises the exchange: ‘This could lead to something big???’

    05/23/2025 5:06:47 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/23/2025 | Patrick Reilly
    Ukraine and Russia conducted a massive prison swap Friday, a key breakthrough from their first direct talks in more than three years of war. “A major prisoners swap was just completed between Russia and Ukraine. It will go into effect shortly,” President Trump confirmed in a Truth Social post just before 6 a.m. “Congratulations to both sides on this negotiation,” he said of the exchange agreed last week in the first direct peace talks between the warring nations since the early weeks of Russia’s 2022 invasion. “This could lead to something big???” he suggested. The warring nations each agreed to...
  • Russia Says No More Ukraine Peace Talks on Schedule

    05/22/2025 9:39:28 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/22/2025 | Breitbart London
    AP — Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first face-to-face session since shortly after Moscow’s invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would start ceasefire negotiations “immediately.” “There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “They are yet to be agreed upon.” During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their biggest such swap. Apart from that step, the...
  • Britain's Ambrey Reports Risk of NATO-Russia "Non-Linear Warfare" in Baltic Sea

    05/20/2025 9:31:34 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 9 replies
    TASS ^ | 5/20/25
    The British maritime security firm warns that "should a future Russia-Ukraine peace agreement fail to address EU-UK sanctions on Russian hydrocarbon exports, Russia is likely to reallocate its security resources, previously concentrated on the Black Sea, to the Baltic region"LONDON, May 20. /TASS/. Attempts by European nations to detain allegedly Russia-linked merchant ships in the Baltic Sea are heightening the risk of "non-linear warfare" between NATO and Russia, according to a report by the British maritime security firm Ambrey. The assessment indicates that, in the near term, there will be "heightened maritime security risks, particularly around vessels transporting oil from...
  • Trump: Russia, Ukraine to Begin Peace Talks Immediately

    05/19/2025 4:54:41 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 28 replies
    Newsmax ^ | May 19, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service
    President Donald Trump said his call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday went very well and that Moscow and Kyiv "will immediately start negotiations" toward a ceasefire and end to the war. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, "Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation...
  • Russia: Trump-Putin meeting 'not in preparation now'

    05/19/2025 7:44:28 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 7 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 5/19/2025 | Christian Baha
    Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov revealed on Monday that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States colleague Donald Trump is not being "in preparation" at this time, according to RIA Novosti. Meanwhile, Trump and Putin are expected to speak on the phone at 10 am ET. The White House further explained Trump also plans to call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after speaking with Putin. The US president is expected to issue a statement after his conversation with Putin.
  • Fears for Ukraine peace talks as Russian TV broadcasts Putin warning Donald Trump to stop trying to dictate terms

    05/18/2025 2:45:02 PM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 180 replies
    Russian state TV aired a video of Vladimir Putin warning Donald Trump to stop trying to dictate the terms of a ceasefire with Ukraine. Putin stressed that he plans to finish what he started three years ago and warned that Trump should not push him into a US blueprint for stopping the war.
  • Rush of diplomatic calls follow Trump's offer to join potential Russia-Ukraine talks

    05/12/2025 8:43:44 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 6 replies
    Straits Times ^ | 5/12/2025 | Staff
    U.S. and European diplomats went on a flurry of calls in the hours after U.S. President Donald Trump offered on Monday to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks later this week, trying to find a path that would bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump's surprise offer to join the talks on Thursday in Istanbul came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a fresh twist to the stop-start peace talks process, said he would travel Turkey and wait to meet President Vladimir Putin there. -snip- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks late on Monday with his Turkish...
  • Will Putin chicken out? Ukraine piles on pressure on Vlad to meet Zelensky as Russia stays deathly silent on showdown

    05/13/2025 4:11:06 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 68 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 5/13/2025 | James Halpin
    Putin could reject his own offer to Zelensky. UKRAINE is now piling the pressure on Russia as Vladimir Putin stays silent on his own offer to meet for peace talks on Thursday. Moscow's bungle has seen Volodymyr Zelenksy take up Vlad's offer to for a face-to-face meet in Istanbul for long-awaited negotiations between the two leaders. But the Kremlin has gone deathly silent as Putin weighs rejecting the offer he sent to the Ukrainians. Zelensky has filled the dead air and now said he will definitely go to Istanbul - but will only meet with his counterpart Putin and not...