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

[ChloeTzang]

How most Ukrainians see where we are with the war......

 

[ChloeTzang]

After declining for months, the number of Russian officers being killed in action has increased sharply. There are reasons for this.

• Russia has a top-down command structure and no NCO corps. Subordinates are not empowered to overcome, adapt, and improvise. This has been a cornerstone of Russian military doctrine since the Tzars. This forces senior officers to the frontlines.
• The first thing to break in combat with the ZSU is the Russian battle plan, and unlike 2024, when Ukrainian forces made several disastrous mistakes, opportunities like botched troop rotations have been thin. Russian command structure hasn't changed, Ukraine's is finally incrementally and continuously improving. Basically, Ukraine is constantly inside the Russian OODA loop.

2 things are happening.

• Drones mean there is no such thing as in the rear with the gear. The most cowardly REMF is still in harms way. ISTAR UAVs see everything. Movement is difficult. Command staff meetings near the FLOT are dangerous. Any OPSEC lapse is deadly. Because of the top-down command structure, decapitation attacks hit Russian units harder.
• The second thing is that when Russian battle plans fall apart, senior officers above company commanders are forced to go to the FLOT. Sometimes to take over, sometimes to enforce orders that are impossible to execute, sometimes to deal with refusniks and insubordination.

Assessment: The increase in Russian officers KIA is due to the lack of operational success on the frontlines. So far, the only operational goal achieved in 2025 was the capture of Velyka Novosilka. Everything else has been tactical and at a brutually high cost.

Conclusion: Russia's 2025 Summer Offensive is not going to plan. The lack of operational success is putting increasing pressure on commanders to achieve more than picture reports in abandoned villages. More field officers are going to the front line / contact zone to enforce orders and are consequently dying.

 

[ChloeTzang]

MIG AIRCRAFT PLANT STRIKE NEAR MOSCOW​

 

[Lazaran]

MIG AIRCRAFT PLANT STRIKE NEAR MOSCOW​

Anna in Ukraine totally clowned Whiskey Pete & DonOld the dotard in that video.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Anna in Ukraine totally clowned Whiskey Pete & DonOld the dotard in that video.

She's good. Love her clips and she does a great job summarizing key events too.

 

[Lazaran]

She's good. Love her clips and she does a great job summarizing key events too.

Her snark, shade, and serious commentary skills are next level.

She keeps hammering the point (so even DonOld the dotard can understand) that Ukraine is surgically targeting Russian military targets & military production / support sites with precision drone strikes, etc, while Russia indiscriminately targets Ukrainian cities & civilians with massive drone & missile strikes.

Her snarky / shady comment related to Whiskey Pete’s vacuous non-contribution to the drone war conversation was a figurative public knifing with a perfectly targeted / delivered thrust and a gratuitous twist of the figurative blade at the end.

Bravo, Anna in Ukraine!!!





Slava Ukraini!!!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine has just shattered Russia’s summer offensive in Donetsk. With two precision strikes, it eliminated Russia’s local command structure and obliterated the ammunition depot meant to sustain a massive assault on Pokrovsk. The result: chaos, fire, and exposed Russian troops with no leadership or supplies. As Ukrainian forces tighten control over the skies and roll out homegrown weapons, Russia’s plans for Donetsk are crumbling fast—and Ukraine is only just getting started.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[Lazaran]

Side question:

Where is Russiaguide???



That traitorous Putinista POS has been MIA from their own thread.

I wonder why???



We. Know. Why.



Russiaguide



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[ChloeTzang]

And for those are delisional emough to think that this war can end any other way than with Putin's death and Russia's defeat......

 

[ll74]

I'd be fine if Putin accidentally met his demise by some outside force.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Update from Ukraine | What a Story! General's Lover Ruins Ruzzian Air Force​

This is wonderful. I laughed my way thru the whole thing.....major security breach, outrage, arrests.....

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine is implementing it's Clear Sky strategey with its own interceptor drones.....$1800 Ukrainian drones taking out $25-50k Russian drones...

National rollout coming soon.

 

[ChloeTzang]

'You can't trust Putin or Trump': Col (Rtd) Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on Ukraine, Russia and chemical weapons​

US President Donald Trump has called out Vladimir Putin's "bullshit" and appears to be getting ready to back major US sanctions against Russia. Could this be the end of Trump's soft spot for the Russian dictator? Veteran army officer and chemical and nuclear weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon about what might happen next and why we can't trust either Trump or Putin. They also discuss Russia's campaign of chemical weapons in Ukraine, the dangers of not supporting Syria's new Islamist government, and the significance of the new French-British nuclear weapons deal.

After Iran, Trump knows that he COULD bomb the shit out ofMoscow if he chose to.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Another good update from Denys

After the beheading of the Russian 155th Brigade, the unit is on the verge of open mutiny after the appointment of the butcher Sukhrab Akhmedov as irs new commander. The Marines of the 155th hae said they will never serve under this commander. Baci in 2022 his leadership was the cause of enormous losses in the 20th Combined Arms Army.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

I think we can be expecting to see more of this as the Russian summer offensive peters out....the tanks and IFV's are gone, the ammo dumps are being found and whittled down, the artillery is going and what's left has ammor shortages, Russian air defences are blyat now, and the Ukrainian Air Force has literally thousands of guided bombs they can now use more or less with impunity on the Russians. Russia has meat and drones left, and as the ZSU gains strength, meat by itself will not be enough- and the new Ukrainian interceptor drones are starting to come online.

Look at the stats on artillery losses. Russian artillery losses are showing a recent dramatic increase in 122mm guns (light blue) as a proportion of the total artillery losses. The 122mm weapons are: the 122mm 2A18 D-30 howitzer (towed) and the 122mm 2S1 'Gvozdika' (self Propelled). The D 30 was introduced in the 1960s and the Gvozdika is essentially the same gun but on a modified MT-LBu hull introduced in the 1970s. The 122's are shorter ranged than the 152mm, usually older, and likely indicates they're <a) running low on 152mm guns and/pr (b) running low on 152mm ammo. It's likely that the Russian storage depots are running low on any 152's to be pulled out and refurbished and the numbers are consequently getting funky. Another is that the Norks don't operate that many 152mm guns compared to 122mm guns and so it didn't have that big of a reserve to send to russia. Russia does not have functioning 122mm plants of its own. They ran out of their stocks of Soviet ammo while ago, so the spike likely indicates NK and China started to resupply them with 122mm again. Thus russia has spent most of what it could get from NK storage and is now working it way through NK 122mm ammo, which is less effective than 152mm

Another indicator that Russia is running down.....

Russian Telegram channels report a critical situation in the occupied town of Kondrativka, Sumy region — the Russian army’s 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment failed to assist the 30th Regiment's soldiers in breaking through the Ukrainian encirclement.

According to the occupiers, Kondrativka is now completely surrounded, and water and ammunition are being delivered to the soldiers trapped there only by drones.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

After Iran, Trump knows that he COULD bomb the shit out ofMoscow if he chose to.

There is a big difference between assisting Israel in its war with Iran by conducting a limited, targeted strike on Iran’s uranium enrichment sites and “bombing the shit out of Moscow.” Russia is a nuclear superpower.

 

[ChloeTzang]

There is a big difference between assisting Israel in its war with Iran by conducting a limited, targeted strike on Iran’s uranium enrichment sites and “bombing the shit out of Moscow.” Russia is a nuclear superpower.

Oh waaaaaay bigger and I dubt Trump would do it - he's just shit-talking like an idiot

 

[ChloeTzang]

Spny doing it right. Take their money first, THEN kick them off LOL

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukrainian SBU eliminates Russian assassination team in Kyiv who assassinated SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych - a big loss for Ukraine

Russia sent a deadly hit squad to assassinate Ukraine’s top spy, Ivan Voronych. In broad daylight, five silenced shots rang out in Kyiv—killing a key mastermind behind Ukraine’s intelligence victories. But Ukraine struck back fast. In just three days, the entire assassination team was wiped out. This video reveals the shocking details behind the killing, the high-stakes shadow war between the SBU and FSB, and what Voronych’s death means for the future.

 

[ll74]

Now Putin gets a.50 day ultimatum before sanctions.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ukraine is no longer quite so dependant on US Intelligence - Japan has has just revolutionized Ukraine’s battlefield intelligence.

By granting access to its cutting-edge SAR satellite network, Japan is giving Ukraine the power to see through clouds, camouflage, and darkness—anytime, anywhere. This real-time radar data is now directly integrated into Ukraine’s military systems, making Russian concealment nearly impossible. More than a tech upgrade, it signals Japan’s deepening strategic support and marks a turning point in Ukraine’s growing independence from U.S. intelligence networks.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[MajorRewrite]

Trump is going to supply arms to Ukraine … but only because other nations in NATO will be paying for them?

Transactional administration.