For Those Who Might Be Wondering Why We Might Be In Ukraine

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Zelenskiy Sends Big Warning to Russia After Signing Historic Defense Deal With Sweden |​

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed a “new and meaningful chapter” in Ukraine-Sweden relations as both nations signed a letter of intent paving the way for Kyiv to acquire up to 150 Gripen fighter jets. Speaking after renewed Russian strikes, Zelenskiy thanked Sweden for its support and vowed to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.

 

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MAGA voters are ‘very unhappy’ with Trump’s handling of Putin​

“[Voters] are very unhappy about how Trump has handled Russia, and therefore, he needs to show them something that he's trying, that he's just not, doing nothing.”

MAGA supporters are putting “pressure” on Trump to stop Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, following the “failure and humiliation” of the Alaska summit and the Kremlin leader rejecting a US state visit, says secretary general of Nako, Olena Tregub.

 

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Meeting for Peace in the city where WE the US and NATO promised the Ukraine “Give up your nukes. We have your back!”

Why are we there? Duh! Cuz Putin will take all that we allow him to take.

“Our” markets in Europe? Lost to the Chinese, so economically does Europe matter to “us” now? Are Oligarchs in the US really beholden to the US? Fuck no! They are globalists!

 

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Russia’s large-scale summer offensive involving over 100,000 troops has failed to seize strategic ground near the Pokrovsk axis in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian forces have regained tactical initiative, conducting clearing operations in the Dobropillia sector. Since August, nearly 13,945 Russian troops have been neutralized, alongside the destruction of numerous tanks and armored vehicles

The failure underscores Russia's mounting manpower attrition and Ukraine's growing proficiency in layered defense, precision strikes, and battlefield intelligence supported by NATO-standard command integration.
The main Russian mission in direct violation of Putin's order and deadline failed. Instead of taking control of the entire Donbas, the Russians lost thousands of soldiers and hundreds of armored vehicles without being able to even capture Pokrovsk.

 

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Meeting for Peace in the city where WE the US and NATO promised the Ukraine “Give up your nukes. We have your back!”

Why are we there? Duh! Cuz Putin will take all that we allow him to take.

Now cancelled. That didn't last very long. Trump should just leave Ukraine to Rubio. who at least knows how to keep his foot out of his mouth. The man can't delegate for shit

“Our” markets in Europe? Lost to the Chinese, so economically does Europe matter to “us” now? Are Oligarchs in the US really beholden to the US? Fuck no! They are globalists!

 

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Russia now may be losing 50,000 troops a month—and Putin has no easy options​

We don’t know for sure how many Russian troops are dying in Ukraine right now. But it’s more than the Kremlin can replace.

Is Russia losing 30,000 troops a month as its wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 44th month? Or is it losing more than that—50,000 a month ... or even more? As the Russians shove more and more regiments and brigades into the narrow salient northeast of the fortress city of Pokrovsk, their casualties are increasing. Different sources disagree over exactly how much Russian casualties are increasing. They don't disagree that more Russians are dying, getting maimed, or going missing, many of them in and around the chaotic, 40-square-kilometer salient.

Leaked documents reveal baseline Russian losses

A leaked Russian document provides a baseline for Russian losses between 1 January and 1 September this year. According to the document, Russian forces suffered 281,550 casualties in those 245 days:
86,744 killed in action
33,996 missing in action
158,529 wounded in action
2,311 captured

That's 35,000 casualties a month through the early weeks of Russia's renewed push toward Pokrovsk. Of those 35,000 casualties, several thousand were probably temporary as the more lightly wounded recuperated and returned to service. Given that Russia recruited nearly 32,000 fresh troops a month over the same eight months, there's a good chance the Kremlin enjoyed a small troop surplus throughout much of 2025. But Russian commanders' determination to capture Pokrovsk, one of the last urban strongpoints between the Russians and the free twin cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, has erased that surplus. Now the Russians are almost certainly losing more troops than they're recruiting every month. It's unclear how deep the deficit is, however.

Another leaked document, detailing Russian casualties for 4 September, lists 995 total casualties, around half of them from the Center Grouping of Forces fighting around Pokrovsk. Incredibly, this is a slightly higher count than the official Ukrainian count of Russian losses for the same day. The Ukrainian general staff, which could be forgiven for projecting rosier figures, tallied just 810 Russian casualties on 4 September. The casualty rate among Russian field armies has probably increased since then. "On the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops activated attacks across the entire direction, suffering 18-to-20% greater losses over the last week," the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies reported Wednesday. If CDS is correct, the Russians are losing around 1,200 troops a day. If the typical ratios of killed to wounded to missing hold, 1,200 total casualties could mean 400 confirmed KIA a day. (Analysts widely assume most missing Russian soldiers are also dead somewhere along the 1,100-km front line.)

But at least one analyst has good reason to believe Russian losses are currently much greater.

Analyst Andrew Perpetua visually confirmed 825 Russian KIA in five days starting on 9 October. That's 165 dead Russians every day, on average. But Perpetua stressed that his count is probably low, as there are surely many Russian combat deaths that don't leave behind photographic or video evidence. Perpetua himself estimated he observes between 15% and 30% of Russian losses. Being conservative, that could mean that Russia's battlefield deaths are approaching 500 a day. Applying the usual ratios, that could mean 1,000 wounded and 250 missing. Again, most of the missing are probably dead. That's ... a lot of dead, maimed, and missing Russians. Potentially 50,000 or more total casualties a month.

The problem for the Kremlin is that there's no evidence it has boosted recruitment to match the deepening losses. If the Russian military is still adding 32,000 fresh troops a month, it's likely running a manpower deficit of around 20,000 troops a month that it can't replace. Russian leaders are worried. "Moscow is facing increasing difficulties replenishing the ranks of its invading army," Ukrainian-American war correspondent David Kirichenko wrote. The growing manpower deficit is evident in the extreme measures the Russians are taking to address it.

"With fewer Russians now prepared to volunteer, the Kremlin is seeking to recruit more foreign fighters," Kirichenko pointed out. There's recent evidence of Indians, Cubans and even Kenyans enlisting in the Russian armed forces. "Russia is still a very long way from running out of soldiers," Kirichenko stressed, "but Putin has no more easy options as he seeks to replenish his decimated invasion force and continue the war into a fifth year."

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/16/how-many-russian-dead/

 

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MAGA voters are ‘very unhappy’ with Trump’s handling of Putin​

What really stings the "MAGA" folks is the "TACO" accusation, whether it's with Chinese tariffs or Vladimir Putin.

His latest desperate whining for a Nobel peace prize is probably behind his latest "peace through surrender" statement that Putin should be allowed to keep the territory he invaded. But MAGA don't like that latest TACO!

 

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Russian supply lines to the front are collapsing; its troops are beginning to rebel and refuse to fight; Russian commanders resorting to torture to force troops to the front. When sub-zero temperatures arrive Russia’s army will struggle. No food, fuel or weapons.

 

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More Updates from the War

00:00 Intro
01:32 Storm shadows hit Chemical Plant in Bryansk
02:49 67-th GRAU arsenal
04:25 Dagestan oil refinery Dagnefteprodukt
06:26 Surgut. Russia's oil capital - fuel line
07:52 Russian owned oil refineries go up in flames in the EU
09:40 Real financial situation of different Russian oblasts
13:16 They borrow
14:41 Global oil prices drop - Russian price drops
16:03 Russia will lose the largest gas supplier status
17:35 Buy Me a Coffee Members
19:46 Russian bike assault
21:54 Solovyov probably stole the money
24:18 UA drones destroyed 2x RUS yak 52
25:44 UA will slowly perform a fighting retreat from Pokrovsk
28:20 UA striking RUS in the middle of Pokrovsk
29:01 Problems in Pokrovsk
32:24 Ukrainian manpower issues described

 

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Breaking! Ukraine gets 150 Gripen Fighter Jets from Sweden​

They're not coming immediately - first deliveries inapproximately three years -
Around $22 billion for the aircraft - European countries will be funding this
May be the possibility of getting some older ones earlier

 

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Moscow region under HEAVY BOMBARDMENT​

TV Host Daniel Tkiie and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Retired British Army Colonel discussed the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine. Fifteen Russian regions across Russia, including Moscow, are now under heavy attack using Ukrainian long-range drones, missiles, and under attack of British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to the recent reporting from the Russian media.

 

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Russia's Deadly Path to the Front​

oday we're looking at a Russian perspective of how the war has changed at the front. A few different mil-bloggers describe a battlefield so saturated with drones that the last 10-20km are often done on foot and medical evacuations are nearly non-existent. That lack of medevac is causing a staggering kill rate.

The rear is 50kms from the front, on foot.

 

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Ukrainian drones are already over Bryansk and Dagestan!​

Russia is once again disrupting peace talks by presenting Washington with old ultimatums regarding Donbas and NATO, while the summit between Putin and Trump in Budapest has been cancelled. The United States is postponing the transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which the Kremlin is using to prolong the war.

In response, Ukraine is launching powerful strikes on Russian territory, destroying targets in Bryansk and Dagestan, which has dealt a serious blow to the Russian economy. Meanwhile, more than 400 missiles and drones have attacked Ukrainian cities, killing civilians, including children. Against this backdrop, India is reducing its imports of Russian oil, and Moscow is supplying oil to Georgia for the first time — a new phase of the economic war is underway.

0:00 – Introduction
0:25 – Kremlin reiterates old demands: Donbas and no NATO in Ukraine
1:04 – Putin-Trump summit in Budapest in question
2:02 – US postpones transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine after call from Putin
3:06 – Massive Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine: 433 targets, dozens killed
6:05 – Ukraine strikes back: Bryansk chemical plant and oil refinery in Dagestan destroyed
8:10 – Energy war: India cuts imports, Russia supplies oil to Georgia

 

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Putin Calls Up Reservists After Ukraine Strikes​

In a dramatic move, Vladimir Putin has ordered reservists to report for duty as Ukraine’s long-range strikes hit targets deep inside Russian territory. The unprecedented attacks have rattled the Kremlin, disrupting logistics, oil depots, and ammunition sites once thought untouchable.

Ukraine’s precision strikes are changing the dynamics of the war — proving that no part of Russia is beyond reach. Putin’s decision to call up reservists reveals just how much pressure Moscow is feeling as Ukraine’s momentum grows.

 

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Kremlin Elites Prepare for the Coming Storm​

Putin’s grip on power is collapsing as Ukraine strikes deep into the Russian heartland.
Inside Moscow, the Kremlin’s elite are now waging a silent civil war, a power struggle that threatens the entire regime.

Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, once Putin’s ideological twin, has been cast aside. His son Dmitry, now Deputy Prime Minister, faces corruption allegations for moving wartime funds offshore, a sign that even the most loyal insiders no longer trust the system to survive.

Ukraine is using precision strikes to exploit every fracture. Explosions at Bryansk and Saransk have crippled military plants tied to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s network. Fuel shortages now stretch across more than fifty regions, echoing the 1990s collapse.

At the same time, technocrats like Andrei Belousov and Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina are struggling to control a war economy on the brink. Inflation, factory losses, and sanctions have driven Russia toward financial implosion.

This is no longer just a war between armies. It is a war inside the Kremlin itself, between spies, oligarchs, and bureaucrats who no longer believe in Putin’s future. The cracks in Moscow’s power structure are widening faster than they can be repaired.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
01:54 - Support the Truth: Like, Subscribe & Help Ukraine Win
02:32 - The Fall of Patrushev: Security Bloc Demoted
04:22 - Elite Theft & Economic Collapse: Why Officials are Stealing Now
06:15 - Ukraine's Brilliant Strategy: Targeting Oligarch Resources
09:55 - Russia's Economy Trapped: Runaway Inflation & Shortages
11:33 - The End of Putin: Self-Interest Fuels Kremlin Infighting
15:03 - Outro

 

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Gripen E - Human-Machine Collaboration​

Designed and built to fight Russia

 

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Russians Surrendered in Dobropilla Direction​

Motti tactics by Ukraine!

"The motti tactic was a method used by Finnish soldiers during the Winter War (1939–1940) against the Soviet army. It means surrounding and cutting a large enemy force into smaller, isolated groups — like logs (“motti” means a pile of firewood in Finnish). Once the enemy units were surrounded and trapped, Finnish troops could destroy them one by one instead of facing the whole army at once.

The tactic worked well in forests and snowy conditions, where small, mobile Finnish units could move quickly on skis and attack from several directions."

The motti tactic = surround, divide, isolate, and destroy the enemy piece by piece.

 

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Ukraine SHATTERS Russia’s Delusion of Safety​

Ukraine’s campaign of drone and missile strikes has expanded deep into Russian territory, hitting key targets in the Bryansk region. On October 20, 2025, multiple Ukrainian drones struck the city of Klintsy, damaging buildings and injuring at least one civilian, according to local reports. Governor Alexander Bogomaz confirmed the attacks, contradicting Moscow’s claims of “no damage.”

Over recent weeks, Bryansk has faced repeated strikes on infrastructure, including the Elektrodetal military plant on September 29, a major thermal power plant on October 6, and pipeline and communications sites on October 19. Ukrainian forces have claimed responsibility for several of these attacks, signaling a sustained effort to disrupt Russian logistics and expose the Kremlin’s weakening control over its own territory.

 

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The Wall Street Journal and Fox News praised Trump for taking the restraints off Ukraine and letting them fire US-supplied missles deep into Russia.

In an Oval Office press conference Trump urgently denied that report. He says Ukraine doesn’t have his permission to do that.

He clearly still doesn’t want to upset Putin.

 

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Ukraine's Strategy for Victory

Trump chooses to play more vain games; the Ukrainians dismantle the last European empire. The shape of Ukraine's push to win the war, not simply pause it, is becoming clear.
Andrew Tanner

Trump and Zelensky both made statements recently which indicate that Ukraine does indeed intend to mount a serious counteroffensive - in truth, has begun the first phases already. It remains to be seen whether a Ukrainian counter-punch can escalate into an operational triumph on the order of what happened in 2022, but the possibility is real. Sometime in 2026, if trends continue, Ukraine’s growing power and reach will become too much for Putin’s empire to bear. Slowly, often painfully so, but nevertheless quite surely, Ukraine has turned the tide. It hasn’t been by accident.

Creep and Counter is a term taken from the world of real time strategy games like Starcraft and Warcraft.

In these, players manage economic and military systems in a competitive race to build the biggest, toughest army in the shortest amount of time. The winner musters enough combat power in the correct combination to overcome their opponent’s mix and destroy their base. Two default strategic approaches soon came to predominate once Real Time Strategy titles began incorporating extra-tough hero characters who would gain skills as they obtained experience points from defeating enemy units. Maps usually had groups of hostile neutral units, termed creeps, sitting near nodes of resources, which effectively became experience mines for heroes as much as barriers to expansion. To prevent your opponent from freely leveling up to dangerous levels by creeping, or invest in the higher-tier infrastructure that enabled production of more effective fighting units, rushing cheap fighting units at them as early and often as possible could be incredibly effective. Every time their army left the base to creep, it would soon find itself running back home to protect it. Having to replace casualties would hinder the process of improving the base and army, and eventually the rushes would grow too large to stop.

On the other hand, the side committing energy to constant rushes usually couldn’t rapidly improve its own base as quickly, either. And if the target found ways to be efficient at both creeping and defending, the situation could turn around in a hurry, particularly by using the attacking mobs as creeps! When faced with a determined rusher, a capable player could divide the match into two phases: careful and patient development, then, after a tipping point is reached, inexorably turning the tide.

Welcome to the essence of Ukraine’s strategy since early 2024. The tipping point has arrived.

Trump being Trump, his frank admission about Ukraine being able to push the Russians back, was naturally overshadowed by a return to parroting Putin’s favorite talking points, even considering another summit, this time in pro-Putin Orban’s Hungary, though looks like that won’t pan out. What I consider far more important than his predictable zag back to putting pressure on Ukraine was Trump feeling the need to first state that the Ukrainians could actually win back all their territory. Trump may be dishonest, but that doesn’t mean he never tells the truth, at least part of it, when it suits his interests. He admitted Ukraine’s potential for two reasons: the first is that he was simply setting Zelensky up for another ambush meeting, which reportedly happened when the two spoke in D.C. He loves to play with whiplash like that - all flattery going into the meeting then showing his true face when it happens. The second reason is that Trump does not want to be caught out wrong like Biden was time and time again. Trump is still carefully hedging his bets, almost certainly receiving intelligence reports that back up what Kellogg, the sane deputy working on the Ukraine War, has been telling him all year: yes, Ukraine can win this.

Zelensky, for his part, simply stated that “certain measures” are being prepared at the front. This is the language Kyiv usually employs to before unleashing something.

It’s something of a meme these days in pro-Russian - and even a portion of (supposedly) pro-Ukraine - circles to insist that Ukraine has no reserves, nobody wants to fight, and other patent nonsense like that. But based on the best available evidence, even using pessimistic assumptions, Ukrainian mobilization and recruitment is more than able to keep pace with casualties. In large part because casualty rates have reportedly dropped by more than half since Syrskyi took over from Zaluzhnyi, largely thanks to drone-first tactics. Extrapolating from historic death rates, assuming they’re roughly a third of total unrecoverable losses - dead, critically injured, deserted, each generally occurring in roughly equal proportion - Ukrainian forces need fewer than ten thousand recruits each year to maintain standing combat power. Reported capacity for training replacements can cover that in a month or two. Though up to about two hundred thousand permanent losses is a horrific toll, the Ukrainians still maintain an army of over a million people. Reports of brigades operating at 40% strength still emerge, but there’s nearly always context missing.

Fewer casualties, along with the equally reduced rate of equipment losses over the past year, together suggest that the Ukrainians have been regenerating combat power faster than the enemy can destroy it. Compared to 2023 and the first half of 2024, when Ukraine was probably breaking even, for this past year much of Ukraine’s combat power has been getting a degree of rest behind a wall of drones. How much ground have the Ukrainians gained in the race? Tough to be sure - the Ukrainians naturally keep that kind of information under wraps. But I think it’s fair to estimate that roughly thirty thousand Ukrainian fighters, close to enough to staff a corps, have been preserved. On the equipment side, the situation continues to improve. Though US support for Ukraine has waned, domestic production has ramped up to keep pace, even offset the need for imports from European partners when it comes to artillery systems and increasingly armored vehicles. Domestic Ukrainian armored vehicles like the BTR-4E are worthy weapons, equivalent to a US Stryker, and tracked IFVs are entering production as well.

Contrast this to the prevailing state of affairs among the Russians. Leaked Moscow casualty reports have confirmed that the Ukrainians have been completely honest in their public statements this whole time - if anything, they’ve actually missed a consistent fraction of casualties inflicted for which there were no clear visual records. When a HIMARS cluster shot hits a training ground, it’s pretty tough to be 100% certain if there are ninety fading heat blobs on the screen or eighty. Especially when the bodies don’t stay intact. Often in counterbattery work you’re shooting at a spot triangulated by radars, not a confirmed target on a drone feed. Old techniques still work. Thanks to the fighting over the first eight months of this year alone, the Russians are down almost three hundred thousand bodies, with the fatality fraction over forty percent and rising every month. This toll of course masks even higher fatality rates among assault troops, who are used as meat shields to soak up Ukrainian fire and reveal positions.