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U.S. intelligence officials don’t expect Ukraine to reach the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in its counteroffensive, according to people familiar with a classified forecast. Melitopol is at the intersection of two important highways and a railroad line that allow Russia to move troops and supplies from the Crimean Peninsula to other occupied territories in southern Ukraine.

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine has Success on the South | Robotine Will be Liberated very soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G36D5au244A The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 16th August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-539-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Russians got richer last year during the War in Ukraine.The West shed trillions with the US leading the way losing $5.9 trillion under Joe Biden.MORE – The US lost more wealth than any other country last year, shedding $5.9 trillion, while North America and Europe combined got $10.9 trillion poorer.https://t.co/Q25EFnbs4f— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 16, 2023The Business Insider reported:Russians got richer last year even as the war in Ukraine raged on, while the US and Europe lost trillions of dollars, UBS reported.Russia added $600 billion of total wealth, the Swiss bank found in its annual Global Wealth Report, published Tuesday.The number...

The cold, hard truth in the war between Russia and Ukraine today is that Ukraine’s last-gasp offensive has failed, and no amount of spin will change the outcome.As Part 1 of this series examining the past performance and current capacity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) detailed, Kyiv’s troops in 2022 achieved some exceptional and major battlefield successes. Hope was high heading into 2023 that these wins would pave the way to ultimate victory in the war. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian senior leadership suffered from a combination of bad decisions, an overestimation of their own capacity, and – sadly – an...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost 2 Generals in one day | Ukraine's next step after Urozhaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjrnFj8BiE The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 16th August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-539-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

I will try to make this simple. It is a complex question, but it is something we should be contemplating if the world is going to avoid a nuclear holocaust. It boils down to three possibilities:*Unconditional Surrender *Negotiated Settlement *Prolonged Conflict and Exhaustion, i.e. StalemateFrom Russia’s perspective the military operation in Ukraine is not a war. War means destroying the enemy — physically, materially and politically. Despite the claims from Western propaganda, Russia has shied away from inflicting mass civilian casualties. Russia has not tried to destroy Western ISR platforms, Ukrainian government infrastructure or Ukrainian political officials. In short, Russia...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian biggest mistake | Ukraine takes more ground with new tactics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nHj9x3FLvA The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 13th August 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-536-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Biden is requesting another $24 BILLION from Congress for Ukraine, after the record-breaking $113 BILLION they approved last year wasn't enough...If they’re admitting it on CNN, then you know things must be bad. That’s very much the case for the state of NATO’s counter-offensive in Ukraine, as Western officials are being quoted saying that it’s “extremely unlikely” that Kiev will make enough progress in the coming weeks to “change the balance” of the war in their favor.That’s as Congressman Mike Quigley told CNN that the briefings he witness in Europe with U.S. commanders are “sobering” calling this “the most difficult...

Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor FACT: People in Washington know the Ukrainians are finished, they know they can't replace the losses.The question now is what comes next and nobody wants to accept publicly the fact that the Russians are in a strategically powerful and dominant position. 10:39 PM · Aug 5, 2023 · 2,086 Views

The killing continues: The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost 845 men on Aug. 2 and 575 Aug. 3 during its hara-kiri “counter-offensive” without sufficient air support, the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed Gateway reports that over 40,000 Ukrainians have died in the “counter-offensive” since June 4.On the Donetsk front, the Russians claim to have repelled 8 enemy attacks and counterattacked on Aug. 2, “improving the situation” for the Russian Army.Three American Army veterans were also killed, including Geoff Johns, killed July 31st near Bakhmut, Visegrad 24 reports. Andrew Webber, who graduated from the...

Between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians have lost one or more limbs since the start of the war.The Wall Street Journal writes about this, noting that these figures are comparable to the First World War.The publication cites the data with reference to the Kiev charitable organization Houp Foundation and the German manufacturer of prostheses Ottobock. The latter, in turn, rely on the data of the leadership of Ukraine and partner companies.The article notes that the actual number of injured may be even higher, since the process of prosthetics takes a long time.The publication writes that at the beginning of the war,...

Over 28,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the second month in the failing Ukrainian “counter-offensive“ with no air or artillery support, Russian Ministry of Defence Sergei Shoigu claimed. Shoigu previously put Ukrainians losses from the first month of the “counter-offensive“ at 26,000, as Gateway reported, putting the total Ukrainian dead since June 4 at 54.000. 1435 hapless Ukrainian young men died this weekend alone, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.“Over the past month, Ukrainian losses were up to twenty thousand eight hundred servicemen,” Shoigu claimed, speaking to the leadership of Russian Armed Forces: “20824 men and 2227 units of...

After the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, NATO needed another war to justify its existence. This war was supposed to contrast with previous NATO misadventures. It would be sharp and short with no Western casualties. And, this time, NATO would be victorious.NATO leaders seemed to relish the prospect of war. When in December 2021, in a last-ditch effort, Putin demanded that NATO stop eastward expansion and committed to not admitting Ukraine to NATO, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrogantly rejected any discussion of the subject.Nothing prevented Zelensky from avoiding the war either. If he had renounced his request for NATO membership,...

On his weekly Friday interview on Kossuth Radio, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said “only Western money keeps Ukraine alive and the Ukrainian army operational” and Europe “is at the limit of its capacity” to support Ukraine any further. Therefore, it is “up to the United States to decide the outcome” of the war, Orbán said.Instead of keeping the conflict local as during the annexation of Crimea, “the West chose to fight to the last Ukrainian soldier,” Orbán charged, escalating a regional conflict “to a Western, European, and then global level.”Orbán said that “if there is a war, then it...

Given Biden's recent decision to provide the Ukrainian military with cluster bombs, Ukrainian flag-flying is less about supporting an oppressed people and more a sign of backing Biden's militarism.Unfortunately, Ukraine is not the freedom-loving Utopia the U.S. media and Biden wants us to believe it is. Although the Western press has tried to whitewash any reporting of the more unsavory aspects of those defending Ukraine, a quick search on Google reveals solid investigative reporting done by Western journalists before Russia's invasion. At that time, articles in the Guardian, the BBC, and Reuters meticulously depicted the white supremacist and antisemitic tendencies...

The Biden Regime played a “vital” role in the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea which killed a couple and injured their child, investigative reported Seymour Hersh revealed. Joe Biden’s support of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky “can only come from Zelensky’s knowledge of Biden”, and “because he was taking care of Biden’s son,” Hersh writes.The attack on the Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to Russia 7/17 with a pair of submersible drones killed a Russian civilian couple who were driving across, and injured their child. It was the second attack on the bridge and was followed by Russia suspending the...

Remember that long-promised, overhyped Spring counter-offensive that U.S. officials talked about at the beginning of the year? Well, it turns out that pretty much everyone knew Kiev was not remotely prepared for it, and yet they sent Ukrainian soldiers to die anyway.That’s according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, which claims that “Western military officials KNEW Kiev didn’t have all the training or weapons … that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day.”Can we just take a minute to talk about how insane that is? Not only is...

"Ukraine has already lost the war. This is not going to won. Ukraine is disintegrating. It's armed forces are falling apart. They aren't bad people. They aren't bad soldiers. They have done all that is humanly possible. But, hundreds of thousands of dead in causalities is simply too much. All the hospitals are full. How many people they have left that they can throw at the advancing Russians is anyone's guess. But, I don't think it's too much. The question is, what do we do now? How many more have to die before we finally say enough is enough." --...

The bottom line on the “costs” supporting Ukraine:1️⃣ Zero American service members in combat.2️⃣ Zero American service members killed in Ukraine.3️⃣ A very small percentage of the American defense budget has been spent to assist Ukraine’s military.4️⃣ The Ukrainian military, in defense of their homeland, is systematically dismantling Putin’s Army.Good deal for America and all who love freedom.

Gateway Pundit reported that Russia claims Ukraine has suffered 26.000 casualities in one month of its failed “counter-offensive.” Now, even war hawk Foreign Policy magazine concedes that young men in Ukraine are being pressed into military service with no training and sent into the ”meat grinder“ in Donetsk.,/b>“On July 5, Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts“, writes Amherst professor Charli Carpenter on Foreign Policy, the magazine of the saber-rattling Council on Foreign Relations, where...