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

[ChloeTzang]

What’s Really Happening in Pokrovsk ​

Pokrovsk is now one of the hardest, most brutal battles in Ukraine. While Ukraine continues to land deep drone hits inside Russia, the fight on this sector has become a grinding test of endurance.

Russian forces are pushing wave after wave of troops into the line, often with almost no regard for losses, just to gain a few hundred meters and maintain narrative momentum.

This video breaks down the real situation in Pokrovsk — the terrain, the tactics, and the strategic logic behind Russia’s relentless push. It also explains why Ukraine is holding, why the cost is so high for both sides, and why this battle matters far more than the map suggests. If you want to understand the war, you have to understand Pokrovsk.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Italy's B1 Centauro Tank Destroyer Just Arrived in Ukraine!​

In this video, take a look inside Italy’s quiet delivery of the B1 Centauro, a wheeled tank destroyer that Ukraine is now using on the front lines. Until now, the rumors were just that: rumors. But the Ukrainian 78th Air Aslt. Regiment has released footage confirming these vehicles in combat, complete with slat armor, fresh paint, and the kind of battlefield upgrades only Ukrainians can dream up. Somewhere in Ukraine right now, an Italian-built tank destroyer just went full Ferrari on a Russian BMP. The Centauro has arrived, and it’s already turning Soviet armor into scrap metal.

THis clip breaks down what makes the Centauro special: a 105mm NATO-standard turret mounted on an eight-wheeled chassis that can hit 100 km/h on the highway. It’s half the weight of a main battle tank but still hits like one. That speed and firepower combo gives Ukraine something it didn’t have before, a long-range, mobile bang bang platform that can redeploy across the front in minutes.

This video also explores why Italy sent them now, how many may have been delivered, and why this low-key transfer matters strategically. Italy’s approach has been quiet but effective: modernize with the new Centauro II and free up the older but still deadly B1s for Ukraine. It’s another example of Europe’s silent realignment, where even the smaller players are stepping up. And let’s not overlook the irony: a weapon built in the Cold War to stop Soviet tanks is now being used to destroy Russian ones. History doesn’t just rhyme, it fires back.

We’ll also cover how Ukrainian crews have already modified these vehicles with slat cages and “mangal” grills, turning them into street-fighting machines. Italian engineering meets Ukrainian ingenuity, and the result is a fast, lethal hybrid that fits perfectly into Ukraine’s evolving NATO-standard arsenal.

This isn’t just a story about hardware, it’s about adaptation, logistics, and the future of Ukraine’s military modernization.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Denys being a bit more positive about Pokrovsk

 

[Rightguide]

It finally happened:

 

[ll74]

Lol

 

[ChloeTzang]

It finally happened:

That's a pro-Russian site and it's accuracy on anything Ukraine is highly questionable. Mostly repeatimng Russian propaganda for clicks and views

 

[ChloeTzang]

Russia's Pyrrhic Victory: The True Cost of Pokrovsk​

The situation in Pokrovsk is critical. As Russian forces advance into the city at a staggering cost, the strategic hinge of western Donetsk is becoming a meat grinder. In this Kyiv Post interview, former U.S. Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer gives Jason Smart his brutal assessment about this battle: Russia is gaining ground, but at what price? It is a price too high for Russia to bear.

The discussion focuses on the unsustainable losses in Russian vehicles and personnel, and the hard choices Ukraine now faces. Pfarrer assesses why Russia, previously, was willing to pay in blood for Pokrovsk - its rail links, road hubs, and strategic value - and how Ukrainian drone warfare and counter-battery fire are exacting a massive toll for every street. Moreover, now that the city has been largely destroyed - what does Russia really gain?

Pfarrer also examines the Russian tactics, the stress on Ukrainian air defense, and the operational tempo of these high-loss assaults. This is not a victory, but a brutal battle of attrition. Beyond the front, European enforcement on Russia’s shadow fleet and the tightening of financial channels raise friction and cost for the Kremlin’s war machine, aligning pressure at sea and on land.

This analysis connects the tactical fight for Pokrovsk to the broader strategic and economic war. Viewers will get a clear-eyed read on the high-cost, low-gain nature of Russia's advance, how Ukrainian tactics are adapting under pressure, and the strategic implications of this fight for the rest of the Donbas. This is an evidence-driven briefing for those who want facts, not headlines, to get the truth of what is now transpiring in eastern Ukraine.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Pokrovsk Reveals Ukraine’s Strategy — Here’s What You’re Missing​

Pokrovsk is not the decisive battle of the war, but it is one of the most revealing. The pressure there shows exactly how Russia is trying to grind forward using massed infantry assaults — and how Ukraine is responding with a strategy designed to buy time, trade space for attrition, and force Russia to pay a high cost for every advance.

What’s happening in Pokrovsk helps explain Ukraine’s entire approach right now: stretching Russian manpower, exhausting offensive momentum, and creating conditions for future counter-moves while deep strikes hammer Russia’s rear infrastructure.

In this video, we break down why Pokrovsk is so tough, why it matters, and what this hard fight tells us about Ukraine’s broader strategy at this stage of the war.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Timothy Snyder: How Ukraine Can Win — and Why Putin Can’t​

Timothy Snyder — one of the West’s most respected historians — just reframed what winning actually means in modern warfare. In this video, we unpack Snyder’s insights on Putin, Trump, and Ukraine’s evolving theory of victory — revealing why Ukraine’s fight is not only military, but moral, and why Putin’s system is already collapsing from within. Snyder doesn’t pull punches — and neither do we.

Watch to understand the deeper truth behind Ukraine’s resilience and the world’s shifting definition of power.

It's not about Ukraine winning on the battlefield. Its about Ukraine stopping Russia from winning on the battlefield until Russia breaks - and THEN Ukraine wins.

Putin can't give up and stay in ppower. Ukraine simply cannot give up, full stop. The war will go on until it's over. Ukraine's view is that the war will not end until some very serious things happen on the Russian side. In the meantime, a lot of Ukraine's war is being fought by civil society, by small groups helping and supporting units at the front.

The Ukrainian goal is Deoccupation. Kick the Russians out.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine Destroys Russian Base While Putin's World Implodes​

Ukraine destroys a massive Russian military base in a precision strike — largest Russian shahed drone storage facility taken out - massive explosions that webt on for hours. Over 1000 drones destroyed and 1500 warheads.....

....while new attacks shut down one of Russia’s busiest oil export ports (8%). With exports halted, more than 380 million barrels of Russian oil now sit stranded in tankers around the world, unsold and unwanted. Lukoil's Volgograd oil refinery was taken out a few hours ago in another drone strike.

Meanwhile, inside Russia, the chaos deepens: the Russian space station goes dark after power is cut for unpaid bills; Kremlin propaganda stars stage fake marriages in occupied Donetsk; and Putin launches a new arms race, pushing his collapsing economy to the brink.

This is the new reality of Russia’s war — military defeats, economic isolation, and desperation disguised as power.

Watch how Ukraine’s strikes are reshaping the map of Russian influence and accelerating the collapse of Putin’s system.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Pokrovsk WON’T BREAK… ​

Russia wants the world to believe Pokrovsk’s fall is inevitable—but Ukraine says otherwise. In this video, we break down the truth behind Russia’s propaganda, the real situation on the ground, and why Pokrovsk’s defense matters so much in the battle for Donetsk. Is the city truly encircled, or is Moscow selling a lie?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine Has Expanded It's Strikes to Include Russia's Power Grid

Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s energy sector are evolving. After crippling oil refineries and ports, Kyiv is now targeting Russia’s power grid—substations and transformers that keep the lights on. Massive blackouts are spreading across western and southern Russia, cutting power to cities and industries alike. As winter sets in, Ukraine’s new strategy could plunge millions into darkness and expose Russia’s growing vulnerabilities. Watch how Ukraine’s long-range campaign is changing the war.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine Turns the Tide as Heating Crisis Hits Russia Cities​

This is the moment the Kremlin's "Winter Weapon" was destroyed. On the night of October 29th, Ukraine drilled more than 1,000 km deep to strike Kanchurinsk, one of Russia's largest underground gas reservoirs—a facility TASS boasted was "fully stocked" just 19 days earlier. This puts Russians, already without fuel and electricity, at risk of freezing to death in the middle of winter.

In this video, we examine this four-pronged strategic blow to the heart of Russia:
THE FINAL VULNERABILITY: How Ukraine undermined Russia's "strategic depth" doctrine by striking its "Winter Weapon" 1,000 km deep. What does this mean for millions of people, losing the facility that stabilizes gas pressure in winter?
THE KREMLIN'S COVER-UP: Why didn't the Russian Ministry of Defense mention this strategic disaster in Bashkortostan while claiming to have shot down 100 drones? Why is Putin more afraid of his own people freezing to death than of them rebelling?

FOUR-PRONG ATTACK: How the Ukrainian SSO's strikes on Lukoil's Stavrolen petrochemical plant and the Mariysk and Novospassky refineries on the same night are strangling the Russian war economy?

SYSTEMIC PARAXATION: How this wave of attacks has locked down 13 Russian airports, including Moscow? Is this an admission of the complete failure of Russian air defenses?

Putin's promise of "stability" was reduced to ashes by the flames rising from Kanchurinsk.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Kremlin Panic: Aide Warns of New Civil War​

Russia is on the brink, and its own top insiders are now admitting it. As Ukrainian drones hammered Russia's industrial core overnight, gutting the Lukoil-Volgograd refinery and hitting the Kostroma power plant, Putin's top ideologue, Alexander Kharichev, published a chilling public warning. He has explicitly identified a "new civil war" as a primary threat to the Russian state, a stunning admission of panic from within the highest ranks of the Kremlin. The system is fundamentally breaking.

This internal collapse is a direct consequence of failures on the front. In Pokrovsk, Russian forces are bogged down in a desperate, bloody battle, failing to secure the strategic victory propaganda has falsely claimed. Ukraine's General Staff confirms the city holds, and elite SBU and HUR units are exacting a heavy toll, exposing the profound weakness of Moscow's war machine.

The drone strikes on Russia's oil core, combined with the meat grinder in Pokrovsk, are fueling the very internal contradictions Putin fears. The lies are unraveling, and the elite are fighting over dwindling resources. This video breaks down Kharichev's new "civil war" warning, the battle map reality in Pokrovsk, and the devastating economic impact of the strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:24 - Pokrovsk Battle: The Reality vs. Russia's Lies
02:17 - Ukrainian Counterattack & Elite SBU Action
03:51 - Inner Turmoil: Putin's Top Sociologist Warns
06:08 - The Fatal Soviet Warning: Why Putin Fears System Collapse
07:10 - Ukraine Hits Russia's Strategic Core & Infrastructure
10:25 - Sanctions & Logistics: Strangling Russia's Economy
12:17 - Outro

 

[Lazaran]

Pokrovsk Reveals Ukraine’s Strategy — Here’s What You’re Missing​

Pokrovsk is not the decisive battle of the war, but it is one of the most revealing. The pressure there shows exactly how Russia is trying to grind forward using massed infantry assaults — and how Ukraine is responding with a strategy designed to buy time, trade space for attrition, and force Russia to pay a high cost for every advance.

What’s happening in Pokrovsk helps explain Ukraine’s entire approach right now: stretching Russian manpower, exhausting offensive momentum, and creating conditions for future counter-moves while deep strikes hammer Russia’s rear infrastructure.

I explained that ^ in an earlier post.

My “Alamo” analogy was not some throwaway post.

“REMEMBER POKROVSK!!!”



Slava Ukraini!!!

 

[Rightguide]

That's a pro-Russian site and it's accuracy on anything Ukraine is highly questionable. Mostly repeatimng Russian propaganda for clicks and views

Not so. He uses multiple sources as he proves in his videos.

 

[ll74]

Not so. He uses multiple sources as he proves in his videos.

The city is still not controlled by either army

 

[Rightguide]

Are they short handed in Ukraine?

As Angelina Jolie tours war-torn Ukraine, her driver is arrested and drafted into the army​

11:03 am, November 5, 2025
Source: Meduza

During American actress Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian visit to Ukraine on November 5, military draft officers detained her driver, according to multiple reports. That evening, authorities stopped Jolie’s motorcade at a checkpoint in the Mykolaiv region and seized one of the drivers when he couldn’t produce the required documents, then handed him over to the local draft board. A video circulating on Telegram appears to show Jolie arriving at the enlistment center, reportedly to help the detained man.

According to the news agency UNIAN, the driver is a Ukrainian citizen born in 1992 and a reserve officer, but he does not have a valid mobilization deferment. UNIAN reported that Jolie continued her visit after learning the man’s circumstances. “Neither she nor her representatives influenced the work of the draft office staff,” the outlet quoted a source as saying.

The detained driver is expected to join Ukraine’s armed forces under the current mobilization order.

Earlier in the day, Jolie arrived in Ukraine for her second visit since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. She was seen in Kherson, wearing a bulletproof vest, visiting several medical facilities, and meeting with children and local officials. Her first humanitarian visit was to Lviv in April 2022.

More here: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/1...-driver-is-arrested-and-drafted-into-the-army

 

[ll74]

Are they short handed in Ukraine?

As Angelina Jolie tours war-torn Ukraine, her driver is arrested and drafted into the army​

11:03 am, November 5, 2025
Source: Meduza

During American actress Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian visit to Ukraine on November 5, military draft officers detained her driver, according to multiple reports. That evening, authorities stopped Jolie’s motorcade at a checkpoint in the Mykolaiv region and seized one of the drivers when he couldn’t produce the required documents, then handed him over to the local draft board. A video circulating on Telegram appears to show Jolie arriving at the enlistment center, reportedly to help the detained man.

According to the news agency UNIAN, the driver is a Ukrainian citizen born in 1992 and a reserve officer, but he does not have a valid mobilization deferment. UNIAN reported that Jolie continued her visit after learning the man’s circumstances. “Neither she nor her representatives influenced the work of the draft office staff,” the outlet quoted a source as saying.

The detained driver is expected to join Ukraine’s armed forces under the current mobilization order.

Earlier in the day, Jolie arrived in Ukraine for her second visit since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. She was seen in Kherson, wearing a bulletproof vest, visiting several medical facilities, and meeting with children and local officials. Her first humanitarian visit was to Lviv in April 2022.

More here: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/1...-driver-is-arrested-and-drafted-into-the-army

Of course they are shorthanded.....Russia invaded their country and they continue to fight against that invasion.

 

[Rightguide]

Of course they are shorthanded.....Russia invaded their country and they continue to fight against that invasion.

Ahahahaha, what a dunce.

 

[ll74]

Ahahahaha, what a dunce.

You want them to surrender.
You still think Putin is a strong and galliant leader and that Zelensky is not.

 

[Rightguide]

You want them to surrender.
You still think Putin is a strong and galliant leader and that Zelensky is not.

Tell us about how these two men are Russians agents:

Another thing, when you think about that combat line of contact In Ukraine, think of a line whose length is the equivalent of a line from Baltimore Maryland to around Orlando Florida. That's a lot of space to defend if your forces have been significantly reduced as Ukraine's have been.

 

[ll74]

Tell us about how these two men are Russians agents:

Why?

Another thing, when you think about that combat line of contact In Ukraine, think of a line whose length is the equivalent of a line from Baltimore Maryland to around Orlando Florida. That's a lot of space to defend if your forces have been significantly reduced as Ukraine's have been.

And if Ukraine wants to continue to fight, they will.

The alternative, that you want, is capitulation.

 

[Lazaran]

Tell us about how these two men are Russians agents:

OK, I’ll tell Russiaguide that they’re Russian agents:

Glenn Eric Andre Diesen(born 1979) is a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator and politician currently serving as a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway.[1] He has been a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international television network RT for several years, and has been accused of promoting Russian propaganda.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He is active in the pro-Russian party Fred og Rettferdighet.[1][7][4][

And:

https://www.mediamatters.org/russia...er-turned-putin-apologist-mainstreams-russian



Hope that ^ helps Russiaguide.



Russiaguide



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The alternative, that you want, is capitulation.

Followed my mass murder and what will be a genocidal campaign to eliminate Ukraine culture and language - already happening in the occupied territories