WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine is collapsing from within, having lost faith in Zelensky — The Spectator Ukraine is facing a critical military, political, and social crisis that threatens to destroy the country from within. Despite recent support from Trump, the situation remains alarming, writes The Spectator. According to the publication, Ukrainian forces are exhausted, fighters are running out, and American military support is increasingly limited, focusing on air defense. Key issues: Declining trust: 70% of Ukrainians believe their leaders are using the war for personal enrichment. Corruption undermines morale. Authoritarianism: The government is shaken by corruption scandals and purges (Shabunin, Kubrakov). Zelensky uses martial law to suppress critics and control the media. Personnel disaster: Aggressive mobilization leads to mass desertions (over 230,000 cases since 2022). Soldiers serve 3.5 years without rotations; the dismissal law was rejected. 40% of the working-age population has left the country. Economic collapse: Unrestrained inflation, 8.8 million people live below the poverty line. The multibillion-dollar BlackRock recovery fund closed "due to lack of interest," and the EU managed to raise only €2.3 billion against a need of $524 billion. Former officials of Zelensky’s administration openly state that their former boss "prolongs the war to stay in power." Many of Zelensky’s associates face exile or prison, which only increases the "temptation to fill their pockets." Ukraine’s external allies cannot solve the chronic labor shortage, the deepening crisis of Zelensky’s legitimacy, nor stop internal repressions that undermine faith in the country’s leadership. If you look at the messaging in pro- info space, you will see that it's mostly Westoids or Ukrainian diaspora that support Zelensky. The situation in Ukraine itself is completely the opposite.

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[Tintin]

Well, the truth will out, it always does. Editors now running unfavourable articles on the Gollum on Bankova StreetTM:

(via Ivan Katchanovski)

Western media starts to dump Zelensky & discovers that he is dictator: "Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused of authoritarian slide after anti-corruption raids. Politicians, activists and diplomats accuse Ukraine’s leader of favouring loyalists and using wartime powers against critics."

[Tintin]

Seymour Hersh has his contacts within the complex and he still writes well after all these years. Unfortunately, as a free-subscriber to his Substack I only see morsels structured to nudge to an app download, or paid sub, which I just won't do.

Here's as much as I can see from today's alert which have been the whisperings inside the Beltway for quite some time:

"In fall of 2023, Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of the country’s armed forces, gave an interview to the Economist and declared the war with Russia had become a “stalemate.” It took three months for President Volodymyr Zelensky to fire him. The general, who is the most popular public figure in Ukraine, was named ambassador to London a month later and has served there with distinction, if quietly.

Zaluzhnyi is now seen as the most credible successor to Zelensky. I have been told by knowledgeable officials in Washington that that job could be his within a few months. Zelensky is on a short list for exile, if President Donald Trump decides to make the call. If Zelensky refuses to leave his office, as is most likely, an involved US official told me: “He’s going to go by force. The ball is in his court.” There are many in Washington and in Ukraine who believe that the escalating air war with Russia must end soon, while there’s still a chance to make a settlement with its president, Vladimir Putin..."

[Tintin]

Now now Dimi. Go easy (ouch!)

Medvedev:

“European fools have approved the 18th package of sanctions against our country.

There is no point in saying that it will change Russia’s position any more than the previous seventeen did. Our economy, of course, will endure, and the defeat of the Banderite regime will continue. Strikes against the so-called Ukraine’s targets, including Kyiv, will be carried out with increasing intensity.

We should also promote a course of maximum distancing from the EU and its most odious countries, which now include not only the pitiful Baltics, arrogant Finnic peoples, half-baked Poles, and the British wallowing in their own filth, but also Germany and France, whose leaders are still obsessed with the laurels of the Third Reich and the Vichy regime.

What this means for Europe is well known.

We only need to preserve the memory of their vile Russophobia for as long as possible and learn to hate them as fiercely as our ancestors did. Hatred is the most important weapon, allowing one to most effectively move towards its opposite — love. Of course, only towards those who deserve it.

P.S. The disgusting old Ursula declared an EU strike at the “heart of Russia’s military machine.” I’m not sure she knows where the heart is. But it seems she always thinks with one place — the one she occupied during her unsuccessful medical practice.”

[bojancan]

The Grayzone's Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal on President Donald Trump's latest and perhaps most consequential betrayal of his base.


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Trump backpedals on Ukraine peace pledge/ July, 19.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qOxo7h0qmZY

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[Tintin]

Wow, how did this get missed assuming that the plant has been correctly identified

From July 19th: Smoke seen emanating from the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power Plant. Information is scant about whether this is a local fire under control, or as a result of the stupidity of the neo-Nazis



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Blurry footage from Kiev, presumably to help the citizen who recorded it maintain some anonymity, which shows Russian Kinzhal strikes on military targets in the early hours today:

[Tintin]

More on the Gollum on Bankova Street®....

From Marta Havryshko another Ukrainian who also now graces the vile "Myrotvorets" list along with others who dare to criticise the Hobbit gone wrong:

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Zelensky has introduced new personal sanctions for so-called “anti-Ukrainian propaganda.”

Because criticizing Zelensky or his government is now officially classified as “anti-Ukrainian activity.” Who knew 🇺🇦democracy meant never questioning the leader?

Let’s be clear: Zelensky is not Ukraine.
Zelensky is a petty little dictator with a messiah complex, holding the Ukrainian people hostage to his PR campaign.

Among the newly blacklisted are Russian journalist Yulia Latynina and a Ukrainian blogger Andriy Serebriansky (Lugansky)

[9ideon]

Wow, how did this get missed assuming that the plant has been correctly identified

From July 19th: Smoke seen emanating from the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power Plant. Information is scant about whether this is a local fire under control, or as a result of the stupidity of the neo-Nazis

It was confirmed to be a small forest behind the plant which was on fire.

Still, they should carpet bomb the area from where these shells were fired from.

[Tintin]

Posted by 9ideon (here)

Wow, how did this get missed assuming that the plant has been correctly identified

From July 19th: Smoke seen emanating from the Zaporozhe Nuclear Power Plant. Information is scant about whether this is a local fire under control, or as a result of the stupidity of the neo-Nazis

It was confirmed to be a small forest behind the plant which was on fire.

Still, they should carpet bomb the area from where these shells were fired from.

Thanks for the clarification

[Bruce G Charlton]

Ukraine has "lost faith" in Zelensky?


Since when did "the Ukraine" have anything to do with Zelensky's leadership?

Since when did Zelensky have anything to do with Ukraine's leadership?

When a nation has been coercively and by bribery and intimidation made into a US/ Globalist puppet, with a puppet leader; and mercilessly destroyed in order to weaken Russia, and kill Slavs -- then it is wicked to continue to pretend that Ukrainian people have any substantive influence over what the Ukrainian-name-entity is being compelled to do.

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[Vicus]

At the time of the Kinzhal strike on the Ivano-Frankivsk airfield, there were combat aircraft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces there, and neighboring Poland announced that its aircraft were scrambled

-today



New details are emerging regarding a series of strikes carried out by the Russian Armed Forces on the night of July 21. One of the attack areas was Ivano-Frankivsk.

The mayor of this city, located in the western part of Ukraine, Ruslan Martsinkiv, says that the city’s facilities were subjected to a combined attack – using both UAVs and missiles different type.

According to a Kyiv regime protégé, this was the most massive attack since February 2022.

Marcinkiv:

"Unfortunately, there were a lot of attacks. Thanks to everyone involved in the defense of Ivano-Frankivsk."

It has become known that the Polish Air Force has once again raised combat aircraft into the air Aviation due to the Russian troops striking western Ukraine. This raises the question of whether it was definitely Polish aviation, or whether we are talking about an attempt by Ukrainian aviation to "escape" to Polish airfields to wait out the Russian strikes? Why is this question relevant?

The fact is that one of the targets for Russian missile strikes is the Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport. As Google maps for the current year show, combat aircraft were deployed at the airfield of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft were also at the airfield at the time of the missile launch.

According to some reports, one of the targets of the night strikes in Ivano-Frankivsk was also the locomotive repair plant. Moreover, the enemy repaired not only locomotives there, but also armored vehicles, including damaged NATO-model equipment.

https://en.topwar.ru/268360-na-momen...duh-svoej.html

[Vicus]

Russian missile attack forces Ukrainian military to urgently abandon drilling platform in Black Sea - today

The Russian armed forces launched a massive strike on targets in Ukraine last night, inflicting significant damage on the enemy with the help of missiles и drones- kamikaze "Geran". In particular, the night missile attack of the Russian Armed Forces forced the Ukrainian military to urgently leave the inactive gas drilling platform in the Black Sea.

Several Ukrainian sources reported this.

According to their report, the platform was hit by several Russian missiles. In order to survive, the Ukrainian militants allegedly used a special rescue boat and left the facility.

Russian war correspondent Kirill Fedorov reported on the missile strike on the platform on his Telegram channel.

"During the night launches, several missiles hit a gas platform in the Black Sea on which Ukrainian Armed Forces were stationed"

- the journalist wrote.

It is worth noting that he does not mention any evacuation. So it is quite possible that at least some of the Ukrainian soldiers who were on the platform were unable to leave.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces use similar objects in the Black Sea to organize attacks by air and sea drones on Russian objects in Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.

Today, the Russian Armed Forces hit numerous targets throughout Ukraine. Among others, objects in Kyiv and in the west of the country were subjected to intensive strikes. The press service of the Ukrainian Air Force claims that the forces Defense managed to intercept all the missiles and most of the Russian drones, but information from the field indicates that this is absolutely not the case.

https://en.topwar.ru/268402-raketnaj...rnom-more.html

[Vicus]

A Ukrainian agent who transmitted coordinates of military-industrial complex and Defense Ministry facilities to Kyiv for drone strikes was captured in St. Petersburg - today

Russian security forces continue to detain Ukrainian agents throughout the country, with the latest detention taking place in Russia's northern capital.

FSB officers captured a Ukrainian agent in St. Petersburg who was transmitting coordinates of military facilities to his handlers in Kyiv for subsequent strikes on them drones. This was reported by the press service of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

As the security forces explained, the detainee is a Russian citizen who, on his own initiative, established contact with the Ukrainian special services and then carried out their tasks, collecting information about military-industrial complex and Defense Ministry facilities, transmitting their coordinates. Subsequently, these facilities were to be attacked by aircraft-type drones, and they promised to hit one of them with 80 UAVs.

"The FSB Directorate for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region... has stopped the illegal activity of a Russian citizen suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("assistance to terrorist activity") in the interests of the Ukrainian special services, whose activities are directed against the security of the Russian Federation."

- said in a statement.

The detainee admitted working for the Ukrainian special services, he is currently in custody, the court made such a decision. Investigative and operational activities in the case are ongoing.

https://en.topwar.ru/268385-v-sankt-...lotnikami.html

[Vicus]

The net no longer saves: Russian operators destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment right in anti-drone corridors - today

FPV drone operators of the Russian Armed Forces have effectively devalued all the efforts of the Kyiv regime's militants to build anti-drone corridors in the SVO zone. Video footage has been published online showing Russian drone operators working right inside a mesh "tunnel." It was reportedly built by the enemy in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Judging by the published footage, the operators first found the entrance to the corridor and then directed the drone there. As a result, the drone hit "head-on" a Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck that was driving under the net at that moment.

It is also noteworthy that the published footage shows numerous holes in the so-called protective screens of the corridor. Apparently, the Russian Armed Forces have done a great job of destroying this enemy logistical communication.

It is worth noting that until recently, the construction of anti-drone corridors from the grid was presented by the enemy as a panacea that would ensure the protection of transport communications in a number of LBS sections. However, practice shows that with the skillful work of FPV drone operators, an approach can be found to any protective structure.

Let us add that at present the enemy regularly complains about attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on their logistics communications. FPV drones of the Russian army have practically paralyzed all transport transportation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Pokrovsk direction in the DPR.

https://en.topcor.ru/62261-koridory-...pv-dronov.html

[Vicus]

"Furias" and "Leleks" fall from the sky: the emergence of compact radars has paralyzed the unmanned reconnaissance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - today



The Ukrainian Armed Forces' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft were practically paralyzed after the Russian troops received new compact radars. This was reported by Ukrainian electronic warfare specialist Sergey Beskrestnov. According to him, the new stations can easily cope with enemy drones.

"Russian military has dramatically increased the effectiveness of combating Ukrainian reconnaissance UAVs. Now Furies and Leleks are literally falling from the sky "

– Beskrestnov complains.

He adds that the Ukrainian military can only shrug their shoulders and dream of some kind of protection for their drones, and also hope to somehow disable the new Russian radars.

It is worth noting that until recently, Ukrainian reconnaissance drones, as well as similar drones transferred to the Kyiv regime's militants by Western allies, caused a lot of trouble for the Russian military. To destroy them, it was necessary to use anti-aircraft missile systems, but this approach is too "expensive a pleasure."

Moreover, the enemy has quite a lot of them, so an effective means of countering the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ unmanned reconnaissance was vital for the Russian troops.

Let us add that the capabilities of Russian unmanned aircraft to conduct reconnaissance deep in enemy defenses have increased significantly in recent times. This allows the Russian Armed Forces not only to identify significant targets deep in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but also to fully control the process of their destruction in real time.

https://en.topcor.ru/62273-novye-ros...nye-drony.html

[Vicus]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QeR9RSbuYB8

Powerful Strike on Kyiv & Ivano-Frankivsk🚀The Southwestern Part of Pokrovsk Has Fallen⚔️MS 2025.7.21

7 hours ago

[bojancan]

Just finished this today's talk George and Scott... good one!
One of Comment: "When Putin speaks I listen. When Trump speaks I laugh. When Musk speaks I laugh some more. When Zelensky speaks I hide my wallet." Well said!


INTERVIEW: The Trump weapons deliveries to Ukraine are a pure sham

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0QCxKExAUxk

[Tintin]

Posted by Vicus (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QeR9RSbuYB8

Powerful Strike on Kyiv & Ivano-Frankivsk🚀The Southwestern Part of Pokrovsk Has Fallen⚔️MS 2025.7.21

7 hours ago

The Russians are definitely coming

This Ukrainian soldier, in Pokrovsk, isn't too happy about that either: