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Any chance you could provide a link to this "recent article" and/or be a bit more specific about who these two Ukrainian journalists are?
I know nothing about these trackers, but I would imagine the arrows are a very vague representation of drone sightings by people on the ground. So they're not starting from an occupied zone, just seen there. Chances are a couple of dozen started from the same base, then fanned out half way across the occupied territory.
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Think it's from when (as stated by a poster above) they are picked up by residents and reported online
Or when they go boom. Like this one a few minutes ago
That's just the way the arrows are drawn. They originate outside the occupied zone.
Would be nice to send a couple drones a bit further south along the Russian coast. A certain someone has his gaudy mansion down that way. Could do with some….”remodelling”
According to the Telegraph Trump's peace plan includes security guarantees for Ukraine and Russia maintaning the territory it holds.
It includes potentially freezing the conflict and the territory occupied by Russian forces while assuring Ukraine with security guarantees to ensure that Moscow cannot attack again, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/02/05/trump-plan-ukraine-peace-deal-unveiled-security-summit/
Sounds like a terrible 'deal'. Would Ukraine hold the area it has around Kursk too I wonder. Can Putin be trusted to stick to any deal?
Thats what a lot of Russian conscripts thought too!!!.
Links to support this please or else it's all projection
While all the time being fully aware of the governing principle of Nuclear War, the MAD doctrine. In an all out nuclear war, there will not be any winners. So therefore, it would be MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) to ever start such a war. Would Putin start such a MAD war? I doubt it very much.
Swap Ukraine or Ukrainian to Russia or Russian in your crap and you are pretty spot on. I managed it in a few words and not the lengthy bs you come out with.
What a deal! Mayne this is why it took longer than day one.
completly wrong op, they were russian symptisers who were arrested and charged
If that's the case Russia will be going all out to try and get as much Ukraine land as they can before hand, that's if Ukraine agree to it of course at the conference. Regarding Kursk I say Russia will get it back but probably end up Ukraine getting the same amount of their own land back in exchange for it. It's a hard one to call if Ukraine would agree to it if they were told by the US were not going to supply you with anything if you dont agree to it. I say at this stage Russia would agree to it as there screwed to a big extent but if the US does walk away from Ukraine then Russia might continue on as they might feel they could win then.
Russian reserves really starting to run out. They really need the war to end soon. It would be absolutely insane for Ukraine or the EU to accept a crap deal.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/26/russian-war-economy-moment-of-truth-vladimir-putin-stagflation-cash-reserves-financial-crash/
Putin has zero leverage.
If he threatens nukes then it's immediately a regional escalation involving NATO members.
He'll be lucky to hang on to sevastapol.
Can Putin be trusted to stick to any deal?
That's why the security guarantee is so crucial. If it's solid enough, such as NATO membership im all but name, the question of Putin's trustworthiness becomes moot…
I don't think there's an outcome where Putin is lucky to hang on to Sevastapol.
If Putin hangs on to Sevastapol, he probably holds the Donbas too. It will take a Russian implosion for the latter to fall and if it does, and I hope it does, then all bets are off, Putin will be lucky to hang on to his underpants.
After the last round of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting strategic infrastructure, Russia's irony reserves have been completely wiped out, as "their man on boards.ie" proves.
Considering his latest comments, I'm surprised Trump hasn't proposed that the US take over the whole region and turn it into a golf course . . yet.
Interesting development
if the ‘vast majority of UKr do not want to fight ‘ for a VERY CLEAR OBJECTIVE/ PURPOSE then, IMO , the vast majority of the Russians MULTIPLIED BY FIVE - if that’s possible- do not want to fight either for nothing apart from their BOSS’S WISHES.
Re Moscow not attacking again BECAUSE of American SECURITY GUARANTEE . How did the exact same guarantee go the last time that there was one when UKr gave over to Ru the keys to all of it’s nuclear arms ???????????????????????????? And the guarantee being made under a Trump administration. WHATEVER!!!!!!!!
The Russians have stated that they do not do business by agreements. For them agreements are only an means to an end.
Ukraine's media is struggling with grants being cut off according to Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Ukraine's Institute of Mass Information. Most of it appears to be from the US but also they hope that EU and UN can increase the amounts that they have been contributing.
Seems that assistance from various government sponsored aid groups such as Usaid and other Ngo's have been operating some time providing types of training and assistance going back as far as 2004 in Ukraine.
A piece was actually found going back to 2006 on USAID's very own website claiming the various assistance they and others provided.
Short article but to the point -
That leaves Moscow’s oft-tapped National Wealth Fund, which has already seen liquid assets plunge to $31 billion from $117 billion before the war, to fill any gaps. Åslund estimated that what’s left in the fund is only enough to finance three-quarters of Russia’s budget deficit this year.…“For at least the next year, the Kremlin should be able to keep its overheating economy from exploding into a full-blown crisis,” Prokopenko said. “Putin will likely still have the resources to sustain his brutal campaign in Ukraine—and perhaps the incentive to wait out the West.”
That leaves Moscow’s oft-tapped National Wealth Fund, which has already seen liquid assets plunge to $31 billion from $117 billion before the war, to fill any gaps. Åslund estimated that what’s left in the fund is only enough to finance three-quarters of Russia’s budget deficit this year.
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“For at least the next year, the Kremlin should be able to keep its overheating economy from exploding into a full-blown crisis,” Prokopenko said. “Putin will likely still have the resources to sustain his brutal campaign in Ukraine—and perhaps the incentive to wait out the West.”
The minute Russia offer to negotiate you know they're properly fooked. Their economy won't miraculously bounce straight back in a ceasefire scenario and who's going to finance the redevelopment of conquered territories? China maybe as they will still not been seen as a reliable creditor after stealing so many Western assets since the invasion.
As much as I think a deal might have been done a long time ago I'd be sick now if I was Ukrainian, who's been relentlessly attacked for 3 years. But then when my attacker finally punches himself out they call for a deal. As always it should be their decision and one that could end up dividing Ukraine further. The Ukrainian decision makers will need to be very careful about the nature of any settlements.
One big advantage that Ukraine has over Putin when it comes to Trump is that they know Trump loves praise, whereas Putin's whole psyche sits atop the belief that Russia under his rule is a superpower equal to the USA, and so Ukraine via it's "Donald you're the best, your ideas are biggliest" will hold his ear far more than a Putin who's got the stench of loser.
Could be a big Ukrainian breakthrough there.
I can't see most European nations just letting Trump & the USA reward Putin & his scummy evil empire by letting them keep their gains in Ukraine. Even if Trump really thinks he can just impose a deal on Europe, over the wishes of France, Poland, most ex Soviet & Baltic States, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway & Britain.
I'm not sure if Spain & Portugal would ultimately back Ukraine, but I would hope Italy, Greece & Turkey would. Obviously Hungary & Slovakia would support Putin, against the wishes of the own people. Germany is paralysed & doesn't know what to do, they can't be relied on.
If such a deal is imposed Europe needs to totally rearm & kick Russia out of Ukraine, Europe is more than wealthy enough to do so, certainly technologically advanced to do so, all is needed is the will. Even if there is a "peace deal" it's only a matter of time before Russia again expands westwards, their former colonies in Eastern & Central Europe know this, it's only brain washed hard left & far right tankie vermin that take the side of Putin & Russia.
We really can't have another century of Russia & America telling Europe what to do. Charles De Gaulle was right all along.
Europe needs to tell Trump to stick his corrupt "peace deal" where the sun don't shine!
