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

[ChloeTzang]

Azerbaijan Ready to Join NATO after Russia HITS Azeri Embassy​

 

[ChloeTzang]

France Just Signed a Massive Arms Deal With Ukraine​

France has just signed a massive new arms deal with Ukraine, and it’s one of the biggest military commitments Paris has made since the full-scale invasion began. This agreement includes major airpower upgrades, deep defense cooperation, and long-term support that directly strengthens Ukraine’s ability to fight — and survive — in 2025.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Inside Ukraine's Air War with a MiG-29 Pilot​

Today we're fortunate to be joined by YellowTail 29, a MiG-29 pilot in the Ukrainian Air Force. He gives us a quick tour of his aircraft and then talks about why he became a pilot, the process for joining the air force today and the challenges of missions over the modern battlefield. This interview was organized by Ukraine Aid Operations and a link to their ongoing fundraiser is below.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Canada's SURPRISING Winter Gear Donation to Ukraine Revealed​

Canada just sent Ukraine a care package that could only come from the Great White North: top-tier winter combat gear, LAU-7A Sidewinder missile rails, and a mix of spare parts that Ukrainian brigades will put to use faster than you can say “two-four of maple syrup.”

In this video, I break down Canada’s latest military aid to Ukraine and why this package matters far more than people realize. Winter is an enemy. Cold drains morale, slows reaction time, ruins equipment, and punishes anyone who isn’t wrapped up like an Arctic expedition team.

Canada, which considers minus-30 a mild inconvenience, sent the kind of winter kit that turns Ukrainian troops into walking polar fortresses: these aren't just ANY wimter kit

• Combat parkas engineered for temperatures where steel snaps
• Insulated bib pants that feel like wearing a portable cabin
• Arctic mitts thick enough to embarrass a Wookiee
• White balaclavas that hide both faces and heat signatures
• Cold-weather boots built for terrain where even penguins hesitate

This is the gear Canada issues to soldiers who regularly train in weather that would make Michigan residents cry. If anyone knows how to fight in winter, it’s the Canadians.

And then there’s the spicy part of the donation: 38 LAU-7A Sidewinder launcher rails. These normally live under fighter jets, holding AIM-9s. But in Ukraine, everything becomes a project. These rails can be mounted on trucks, boats, static launch racks, and whatever else Ukrainian engineers decide to weaponize by sunrise.

This is peak Ukrainian ingenuity meeting peak Canadian generosity.
I also unpack the strategic context behind Prime Minister Carney’s larger defense spending push, why Canada is hitting NATO’s 2 percent early, and why that shift is a much bigger deal than people realize. Canada didn’t send dusty gear from storage. They sent kit their own troops trust with their survival.

The lessons from this package are clear:

• Cold kills, and winter gear is combat power.
• Launcher rails matter, because missiles don’t fire themselves.
• Canada gives in the most Canadian way possible: quietly, kindly, and with surprising lethality.
• Ukraine turns every donation into a battlefield advantage, no matter how simple the part looks.

This is one of those stories that seems small until you zoom out and realize what it means for Ukrainian readiness, survivability, and flexibility heading into deep winter.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Russia’s air defense system is failing

Russia’s air defense system is failing at the exact moment it is being tested by faster drones, deeper strikes, and wider disruptions across the country’s industrial interior. Over the last two weeks, Ukrainian forces and sabotage teams have repeatedly exposed structural gaps that the Kremlin once insisted did not exist. At the same time, the United States is tightening secondary sanctions that target the energy network funding Moscow’s war. The result is a coordinated pressure system hitting Russia from the air, on the rails, and through global markets.

Ukrainian jet powered drones are now reaching targets nearly 1,450 km from launch, a distance comparable to flying from London to Rome. These strikes are hitting refineries, fuel hubs, and power stations that were supposed to be shielded by layered defenses. Facilities at Ryazan, Saratov, Volgograd, Kuibyshev, Novokuybyshevsk, and Tuapse have all suffered major damage, even though each site sits under radars and missile belts the Kremlin once advertised as among the best in the world. The repeated failures in Oryol, where three strikes in two weeks caused rolling heat and power outages, reveal deeper weaknesses inside Russia’s early warning grid.

New intelligence and reporting from energy analysts show how Washington’s sanctions and Kyiv’s strikes are now operating together. The older G7 oil price cap strategy is effectively over. In its place, the United States is pushing aggressive secondary measures designed to hit any entity doing business with Russia, while Gulf producers increase output and offer discounted barrels to India and Asia. This gives Ukraine the freedom to disable export terminals without driving global prices upward. The strategy is simple: take Russian barrels offline, replace them with Gulf supply, and drain the revenue that funds the war.

Ukraine’s strategy also strikes at the heart of Russia’s logistical depth. Sabotage along the Trans Siberian Railway in Khabarovsk has disrupted the movement of North Korean artillery shells headed to the front. Power grid failures around Veshkayma are forcing operators to reroute electricity through weaker lines, increasing the risk of cascading blackouts across the Volga region. Each disruption limits Russia’s ability to sustain its operations and exposes how thinly stretched its defenses have become.

For NATO and the West, the stakes are strategic. A weaker Russian air defense network reduces Moscow’s deterrent credibility and narrows its ability to escalate. As Ukrainian drones reach new ranges and as sanctions tighten around the energy sector, the war is moving into a phase where the Kremlin can no longer assume its interior is safe. Every successful deep strike accelerates the shift already underway: a Russian state struggling to protect the infrastructure that sustains its war machine and the economy that funds it.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 – Russia’s Air Defenses Are Failing
0:45 – Oryol: A City Left Without Heat
1:40 – Siberia Sabotage Stops the Trans-Siberian Railway
2:25 – Russia’s Refineries Are Burning
3:10 – The System Is Breaking
3:55 – Why Russia’s Shield Is Only a Showpiece
4:40 – How Ukraine Breaks the Network
5:20 – The Oil War Strategy
6:05 – Gulf States Undercut Russian Oil
6:50 – Ukraine Targets Russia’s Export Lifelines
7:35 – Power Grid Strikes in the Volga Region
8:20 – Russia Cannot Repair Its Soviet Era Grid
9:00 – The Ryazan Oil Refinery Hit
9:40 – Logistics Collapse Across Russia
10:15 – The Far East Becomes a Second Front
11:00 – The Truth Russia Cannot Admit
11:40 – Putin Protects Himself First
12:20 – The Strategic Breakdown
13:00 – Winter Will Punish Every Weak Point
13:40 – Final Conclusion
14:10 – Call to Action

Not so much that they're failing, it's just that Moscow NEVER had enough systems to cover the vastness of the country. And they ran into the same issue we, the US, experienced in the Red Sea. Using million dollar missiles to shoot down fifty thousand dollar drones is really, really, bad economics. Perun, if you're still following him, had a discussion on that very problem a few weeks ago.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Wonder what BSG’s take is on this? Where has that pixie been anyway?

Corruption in Ukraine

 

[ChloeTzang]

Not so much that they're failing, it's just that Moscow NEVER had enough systems to cover the vastness of the country. And they ran into the same issue we, the US, experienced in the Red Sea. Using million dollar missiles to shoot down fifty thousand dollar drones is really, really, bad economics. Perun, if you're still following him, had a discussion on that very problem a few weeks ago.

I must have missed that one of Perun's. I'll taje a look

 

[ChloeTzang]

Wonder what BSG’s take is on this? Where has that pixie been anyway?

Corruption in Ukraine

LOL. In hiding. Given it's the Jews that stole all that money and it's probably tucked away in Israeli banks now.

Everyone is carefully not mentioninng that the ringleaders of that little syndicate are all in Tel Aviv now.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[Rebel5soul]

I must have missed that one of Perun's. I'll taje a look

It goes deep into the weeds of cause-effect, action-reaction, and comparative economics but it's damn interesting. The Marine might be interested if you can tear him away from his crayons.

 

[Rightguide]

Not so much that they're failing, it's just that Moscow NEVER had enough systems to cover the vastness of the country. And they ran into the same issue we, the US, experienced in the Red Sea. Using million dollar missiles to shoot down fifty thousand dollar drones is really, really, bad economics. Perun, if you're still following him, had a discussion on that very problem a few weeks ago.

Yes. Their air defense resembles ours now that we have given away and expended vast numbers of our systems defending everyone besides ourselves.

 

[Lazaran]

Yes. Their air defense resembles ours now that we have given away and expended vast numbers of our systems defending everyone besides ourselves.

Russiaguide is a lying, traitorous POS - JUST. LIKE. DONOLD. TRUMP:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-ramps-missile-attacks-us-233915145.html



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Lookie there, Laz the Spaz doesn't know the difference between ballistic missiles and air defense missiles

AND THEN

posts a link that is 4 months stale in a dynamic that is changing daily.

 

[Lazaran]

Lookie there, Laz the Spaz doesn't know the difference between ballistic missiles and air defense missiles

AND THEN

posts a link that is 4 months stale in a dynamic that is changing daily.

Racist5soul just owned themself (MAGAts like Racist5soul can’t afford to "own the libs" anymore with DonOld & the MAGAt republicans crashing the economy …).



Russiaguide was comparing Russian air defense to American air defense (despite there being ZERO comparison) - and my post was directly on point, showing the treasonous stupidity of Russiaguide’s assertions.

DonOld & the MAGAt republicans have been SABOTAGING THE UKRANIAN DEFENSE FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS (withholding air defense systems, etc), and Israel relied primarily on their own air defense capabilities (while the U.S. ramped up air defense production under President Biden and invested in upgraded radar, missiles, etc…so…

Russiaguide LOSES (and Russiaguide’s simp, Racist5soul, LOSES).



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Yes. Their air defense resembles ours now that we have given away and expended vast numbers of our systems defending everyone besides ourselves.

And we're going to need to ramp up defense production big time to deal with China. Their Navy is growing like crazy and they are working really hard to improve. THat, and if their is a war it's likely they will be attacking, not us, which puts us on the back foot right from the start. Waves of sea drones......

 

[ChloeTzang]

MOSCOW NO FLY ZONE AGAIN​

Moscow is under massive drone attack right now. Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports are closed, the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin, reports.

Ukraine ensuring Russians in Moscow get to share the war experience.

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Pokrovsk Sector is a drone warfare nightmare for the Russians

Today, there are decisive updates from the Pokrovsk direction.

Here, the Ukrainian command have deployed some of their most lethal drone units to hunt down Russian infiltrators inside Pokrovsk. The special forces proved their effectiveness by dealing the enemy some of their worst losses in the biggest drone massacre of the war.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s arrival at Madyar’s headquarters on the Pokrovsk front marked the moment Ukrainian drone warfare entered an intensified phase. He came specifically to visit every major drone unit operating in this sector, from the First Azov Corps and the 25th Airborne to the 7th Rapid Response, Rubizh, and others, to ensure they had every tool needed to hunt down Russian forces. Both Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief Syrski issued the same directive: finish off the Russians in Pokrovsk, and what followed proved the order has landed with absolute clarity.

The 414th Brigade Birds of Madyar was deployed to counter Russian attempts to reinforce their forces inside Pokrovsk. The Russian command continues using the tactic of infiltration, and footage shows that now most of the soldiers are moving alone, trying to use the terrain and every advantage to hide, hoping Ukrainian operators will not spend drones on single soldiers. Yet, the images prove that the Ukrainian operators are following the order strictly, tracking and destroying even single soldiers, targeting them as many times as needed to be sure they are dead. The Birds of Madyar reported 8,005 Russian troops eliminated in October alone, proving how unstoppable their operators have become, with just one clip showing 39 Russian soldiers, six motorcycles, and a quad bike destroyed, infiltrators hunted day and night, and even soldiers hiding under rubble or inside garages found and neutralized. Madyar’s fighters have turned the entire southern perimeter of Pokrovsk into a drone-dominated kill zone. Anything that moves is targeted, and anything that hides is found in the massacre.

Alongside them, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate deployed its elite special forces with the specific task to clear those Russians already inside the town, a decision that immediately altered the balance of the battle. Its drone operators are among the most skilled, and once they joined the fight for Pokrovsk, Russian losses skyrocketed. The special forces operators started using predominantly FPV’s with fiber optics to overcome Russian electronic warfare and ensure the drones would work even in bad weather conditions. As a result, with the best drone pilots operating together in one sector, destruction became systemic. In a single month, Ukrainian special forces eliminated more than 1,500 Russian troops, destroyed 39 artillery systems, and took out 18 electronic warfare and air defense assets. Their Pokrovsk record also includes 20 tanks, 62 other armored vehicles, and 532 trucks, cars, and motorbikes, but also ammunition dumps and critical fuel storage points deep in the Russian rear.

President Zelensky was so impressed by the results that he returned to the Pokrovsk direction to congratulate the troops personally. During the visit, he awarded soldiers, spoke directly with drone operators, and emphasized that Russia had achieved no success around Pokrovsk in recent days, despite launching one of the most intense offensive campaigns anywhere on the front line. He stressed that one-third of all frontline clashes in Ukraine occur in Pokrovsk, and half of all Russian glide bombs are launched at the town. In early November, the Russians even attempted 100 assault actions in a single day in this sector, an extraordinary number, surpassed only twice throughout all of 2025. This reflects Putin’s desperation, as Pokrovsk is crucial for his goal of claiming the entire Donbas, and the Russian command is now throwing everything it has into the fight.

Overall, the deployment of Ukraine’s most advanced drone units to Pokrovsk demonstrates exactly how seriously Ukraine takes its defense. During his frontline visit, Zelensky said clearly that Pokrovsk is Ukraine, this is Ukraine’s east, and the leadership of the country will do everything to keep it Ukrainian. Russia may control 81% of Donetsk and nearly all of Luhansk but taking the fortified towns in northern Donetsk will cost an enormous amount of manpower and equipment. The Pokrovsk Myrnohrad agglomeration is now a fortress defended not only by infantry but by the most lethal, coordinated drone network Ukraine has deployed since the start of the war, leading to the biggest drone massacre.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Magyar Strikes Hard! Russian Oil Sales Drop to the Bottom

Donestsk Thermal Power Plants hit - large areas in Donetsk now without electrcity
Voronezh - Ukraine reportedly (by Russians) used ballistic missiles to attack targets in Russia for the first time
Omsk - big blast - gas pipeline hit / sabotaged?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Russia's Economy Enters A State Of Collapse

Poland’s security services have now confirmed what many suspected: yesterday’s terror attacks on Polish territory were carried out by Russia. Moscow has crossed another line, exporting its violence deeper into Europe as its regime grows more unstable and desperate.

At the same time, Ukraine continues dismantling Russia’s energy infrastructure with precision strikes—refineries, depots, ports, and distribution nodes—pushing Russia’s already-fragile oil industry into a deeper collapse. Production is falling, exports are failing, and Moscow’s revenue crisis is accelerating.

Inside Russia, the situation is turning critical. Major companies can’t pay their workers, regions are running out of money, and the economy is unraveling at a pace the Kremlin can’t hide. What’s happening in Russia today looks eerily familiar to anyone who has studied history. The same mix of denial, brittleness, censorship, and chaos that defined the final years of the Romanov dynasty now shadows the end of Putin’s regime.

Tonight’s video covers:
– Poland naming Russia as the organizer of the terror attacks
– Ukraine’s new wave of strikes on Russian energy assets
– Russia’s collapsing oil industry and budget freefall
– Companies unable to pay salaries
– The accelerating breakdown of Russia’s economy
– Parallels between 1917 and the instability now gripping the Kremlin

A regime built on intimidation abroad and repression at home is running out of time. The cracks are widening.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oil Crash: Russia’s Economy Cannot Recover​

Russia is entering a financially catastrophic phase as oil prices collapse toward thirty six dollars per barrel, shattering the foundation of the Kremlin budget and exposing the economic weakness behind its war. A petrostate that depends on high energy profits cannot sustain a long conflict when its main source of revenue is falling faster than the government can respond. Every drop in price tears a deeper hole in the financial system that funds Russia’s military machine.

The impact is visible across the entire sector. Buyers in Asia are stepping back, shipping costs are rising, insurance coverage is shrinking, and Russian crude is piling up in floating storage that drains money instead of generating it. The shadow fleet that once carried sanctioned barrels is being blacklisted and pushed out of safe ports. Russia is exporting more risk and receiving less profit with every voyage.

Inside the country, the damage multiplies. Budget data has disappeared from public release, major companies report severe profit declines, and households have withdrawn billions from the banking system. Industrial shutdowns are expanding and regional populations continue to fall. These pressures combine into a financial crisis that cuts directly into Russia’s ability to fund artillery, missiles, drones, and basic logistics.

This price crash is not a temporary setback. It is a structural break that accelerates Russia’s decline and limits the Kremlin’s capacity to project power beyond its borders.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Why Russia's Oil Crash is a Game Changer
02:15 - Moscow Hit Harder Than the USSR: The $36 Barrel Budget Disaster
03:50 - China & India Pullback: Secondary Sanctions Fear Hits Russian Oil Exports
04:46 - The Collapsing Shadow Fleet: Stranded Tankers & Blacklisted Hulls
06:49 - Russian Energy Giants' Profits Plummet: Gazprom Neft Down 65%
08:05 - The Quiet Crack: Russian Industrial Base & Demographic Collapse
09:55 - Kremlin Forced Out of Europe: The Dismantling of Lukoil's Foreign Empire
11:25 - Shrinkflation & Printed Money: Quietly Robbing Everyday Russians
12:27 - The Final Blow: Why Profitable Oil is Running Out
14:55 - Outro

 

[Rebel5soul]

The authors are totally correct about the acceleration. Here's some information they didn't cover. They are going to have to shut down wells now, they have no alternative and this is the worst possible time of year to have that happen. Once those well heads freeze that well is unusable and a new well will have to be drilled to get to the reserves. That means that there is going to be no quick recovery for the Russian economy.

Most of those wells were drilled by Western companies, Russia doesn't have the expertise or technology to restart many of their more recent fields. If Russia doesn't come to terms, and fast, the Russian population will be condemned to living in a third world backwater for another generation.

 

[Lazaran]

And we're going to need to ramp up defense production big time to deal with China. Their Navy is growing like crazy and they are working really hard to improve. THat, and if their is a war it's likely they will be attacking, not us, which puts us on the back foot right from the start. Waves of sea drones......

Why the fuck do you agree with a traitorous imbecile like Russiaguide???



President Biden had already established a ramp up of production to replace the EXPIRING munitions, etc, that we were sending to Ukraine.





Do you believe that right wing nonsense about the U.S. sending ALL the money and NEW munitions, etc, to Ukraine???



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Lazaran]

The Pokrovsk Sector is a drone warfare nightmare for the Russians

Today, there are decisive updates from the Pokrovsk direction.

Here, the Ukrainian command have deployed some of their most lethal drone units to hunt down Russian infiltrators inside Pokrovsk. The special forces proved their effectiveness by dealing the enemy some of their worst losses in the biggest drone massacre of the war.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s arrival at Madyar’s headquarters on the Pokrovsk front marked the moment Ukrainian drone warfare entered an intensified phase. He came specifically to visit every major drone unit operating in this sector, from the First Azov Corps and the 25th Airborne to the 7th Rapid Response, Rubizh, and others, to ensure they had every tool needed to hunt down Russian forces. Both Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief Syrski issued the same directive: finish off the Russians in Pokrovsk, and what followed proved the order has landed with absolute clarity.

The 414th Brigade Birds of Madyar was deployed to counter Russian attempts to reinforce their forces inside Pokrovsk. The Russian command continues using the tactic of infiltration, and footage shows that now most of the soldiers are moving alone, trying to use the terrain and every advantage to hide, hoping Ukrainian operators will not spend drones on single soldiers. Yet, the images prove that the Ukrainian operators are following the order strictly, tracking and destroying even single soldiers, targeting them as many times as needed to be sure they are dead. The Birds of Madyar reported 8,005 Russian troops eliminated in October alone, proving how unstoppable their operators have become, with just one clip showing 39 Russian soldiers, six motorcycles, and a quad bike destroyed, infiltrators hunted day and night, and even soldiers hiding under rubble or inside garages found and neutralized. Madyar’s fighters have turned the entire southern perimeter of Pokrovsk into a drone-dominated kill zone. Anything that moves is targeted, and anything that hides is found in the massacre.

Alongside them, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate deployed its elite special forces with the specific task to clear those Russians already inside the town, a decision that immediately altered the balance of the battle. Its drone operators are among the most skilled, and once they joined the fight for Pokrovsk, Russian losses skyrocketed. The special forces operators started using predominantly FPV’s with fiber optics to overcome Russian electronic warfare and ensure the drones would work even in bad weather conditions. As a result, with the best drone pilots operating together in one sector, destruction became systemic. In a single month, Ukrainian special forces eliminated more than 1,500 Russian troops, destroyed 39 artillery systems, and took out 18 electronic warfare and air defense assets. Their Pokrovsk record also includes 20 tanks, 62 other armored vehicles, and 532 trucks, cars, and motorbikes, but also ammunition dumps and critical fuel storage points deep in the Russian rear.

President Zelensky was so impressed by the results that he returned to the Pokrovsk direction to congratulate the troops personally. During the visit, he awarded soldiers, spoke directly with drone operators, and emphasized that Russia had achieved no success around Pokrovsk in recent days, despite launching one of the most intense offensive campaigns anywhere on the front line. He stressed that one-third of all frontline clashes in Ukraine occur in Pokrovsk, and half of all Russian glide bombs are launched at the town. In early November, the Russians even attempted 100 assault actions in a single day in this sector, an extraordinary number, surpassed only twice throughout all of 2025. This reflects Putin’s desperation, as Pokrovsk is crucial for his goal of claiming the entire Donbas, and the Russian command is now throwing everything it has into the fight.

Overall, the deployment of Ukraine’s most advanced drone units to Pokrovsk demonstrates exactly how seriously Ukraine takes its defense. During his frontline visit, Zelensky said clearly that Pokrovsk is Ukraine, this is Ukraine’s east, and the leadership of the country will do everything to keep it Ukrainian. Russia may control 81% of Donetsk and nearly all of Luhansk but taking the fortified towns in northern Donetsk will cost an enormous amount of manpower and equipment. The Pokrovsk Myrnohrad agglomeration is now a fortress defended not only by infantry but by the most lethal, coordinated drone network Ukraine has deployed since the start of the war, leading to the biggest drone massacre.

I tried to explain this ^ to you (and Denys Davydov): Pokrovsk (etc) is NOT done being a Ukrainian attrition trap for Russian soldiers, etc.



Slava Ukraini!!!

 

[ChloeTzang]

I tried to explain this ^ to you (and Denys Davydov): Pokrovsk (etc) is NOT done being a Ukrainian attrition trap for Russian soldiers, etc.



Slava Ukraini!!!

Thse Ukrainian soldiers fighting inside Pokrovsk now are the units that have trained for this kind of warfare - hunter-killer teams that operate together with their drone support. Unlike the Russians who are meat straight off the streets......

 

[ChloeTzang]

The authors are totally correct about the acceleration. Here's some information they didn't cover. They are going to have to shut down wells now, they have no alternative and this is the worst possible time of year to have that happen. Once those well heads freeze that well is unusable and a new well will have to be drilled to get to the reserves. That means that there is going to be no quick recovery for the Russian economy.

Most of those wells were drilled by Western companies, Russia doesn't have the expertise or technology to restart many of their more recent fields. If Russia doesn't come to terms, and fast, the Russian population will be condemned to living in a third world backwater for another generation.

Ohhhh yes. And a lot of their oilfields are old too - once they stop pumping it's apparently incfredibly ifficult to bring them back into production. Also they have no big tank farms and storage like we do and there's no where to store the pil already in the pipelines - so with winter, the oil will freeze in the pipelines and burst them. Major ecological damage and ruined pipelines. And like you said, western-supplied equipment and expertise needed. Russia is screwed - they are already short of money to fund the war and now India has stopped buying their oil. Their tank production is shutting down - so is their economy, and the natives in the colonies are getting restless. The loot for the oligarch's is drying up.

Russia can keep throwing meat in but as long as Ukraine keeps fighting, victory is now inevitable and as you said, Russia will be screwed for a generation - and on top pf that they also face a demographic disaster. Pokrovsk is kind of irrelevant right now except as a way to suck Russians in and kill more of them.