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Rus­sia had plan­ned to sei­ze the Ukrai­ni­an town of Pokrovsk, a logisti­cal hub in the Donetsk regi­on, by Novem­ber 2024. Its for­ces are a year behind sche­du­le. Ukrai­ni­an defen­ders, alt­hough vast­ly outn­um­be­red, have fought ten­acious­ly to hold on to the Don­bas defen­se line, kil­ling over 20,000 Rus­si­an tro­ops a mon­th in the pro­cess. Now, Rus­sia appears to be on the cusp of con­so­li­da­ting con­trol over the ruins of the town as it pushes more and more tro­ops into Pokrovsk’s shat­te­red buil­dings, and Rus­si­an dro­nes cut off Ukrai­ni­an defen­ders from resupply.

Pokrovsk is not an iso­la­ted batt­le. Rus­si­an for­ces are slow­ly tur­ning Ukrai­ni­an posi­ti­ons to the north and south into “pockets” and are on the out­skirts of Kost­yan­ty­ni­vka. Just as con­cer­ning, Rus­si­an for­ces are using new long-range wire-guided dro­nes and gli­de bombs to depo­pu­la­te towns as they come into ran­ge, hun­ting civi­li­ans in Kra­ma­tor­sk, just as they have depo­pu­la­ted the town of Kher­son in sou­thern Ukrai­ne. Recent advan­ces nor­thward along the Dnipro River risk expo­sing the eco­no­mic cen­ter of Zapo­rizhzhia to the­se ter­ror tac­tics. If the Don­bas falls, Russia’s aggres­si­on will turn to Ukraine’s second-largest city: Kharkiv.

The tra­gic iro­ny about the last nine mon­ths of war is that while inter­na­tio­nal dis­cus­sion has been domi­na­ted by the pro­spects for nego­tia­ti­ons and cease-fires, Rus­sia has ram­ped up the inten­si­ty of figh­t­ing. At the front, as well as in its long-range strikes on Ukraine’s cities, the Krem­lin aims to break the back of Ukrai­ni­an resistance. 

src: click (FA)

Lets go through it, why dont we…

1. Wer­te­wes­ten wars: Always on schedule…

2.

“kil­ling over 20,000 Rus­si­an tro­ops a mon­th in the process”

are tho­se Selen­skyj num­bers, sor­ry - I have to know, becau­se you dont sta­te sources [pos­si­ble, medi­um likelyhood]

3.

“Now, Rus­sia appears to be on the cusp of con­so­li­da­ting con­trol over the ruins of the town as it pushes more and more tro­ops into Pokrovsk’s shat­te­red buil­dings, and Rus­si­an dro­nes cut off Ukrai­ni­an defen­ders from resupply.”

How about you cosy shill men­ti­on the hard­ly touched but still clo­se to encir­cled Myr­noh­rad right next to it? Man, that will make a com­for­ta­ble base for Rus­si­as future war efforts, with high risers still stan­ding, if the Ukrai­ne cant secu­re an escape rou­te wit­hin the next - lets say month.

4.

“If the Don­bas falls, Russia’s aggres­si­on will turn to Ukraine’s second-largest city: Kharkiv.”

With Don­bas you mean the migh­ty “fort­ress belt” of Don­bas cities, the ISW inven­ted in April of 2024, and that was the rea­son that Ukrai­ne couldnt nego­tia­te for an end of the war? Couldnt accept the con­di­ti­ons? Last week that was the nar­ra­ti­ve, wasnt it?

5.

“The tra­gic iro­ny about the last nine mon­ths of war is that while inter­na­tio­nal dis­cus­sion has been domi­na­ted by the pro­spects for nego­tia­ti­ons and cease-fires, Rus­sia has ram­ped up the inten­si­ty of fighting.”

The tra­gic iro­ny is that you’­ve got a job.

Inter­na­tio­nal dis­cus­sion was Trump having a public shou­ting match with Selen­skyj, then taking on board all his tal­king points in a jiffy, then fuck­ing ending the nego­tia­ti­on track based on a fal­se pre­ten­se of a “non paper” (memo), that cir­cu­la­ted a week pri­or to the actu­al talks he kicked the rus­si­an for­eign minis­ter out of.

With the for­eign minis­ter then having to be infor­med by media reports, that their mee­ting in Hun­ga­ry wasnt just post­po­ned - it was canceled.

UND WISSEN SIE WAS DER RUSSE DANN GEMACHT HAT? Er hat raus­ge­ge­ben, dass er man­gels Alter­na­ti­ven den Krieg wei­ter­füh­ren wird, wäh­rend das kom­pe­ten­te Trump White House CNN zen­sie­ren muss­te um den “it didnt feel right” Sager von Trump bezüg­lich sei­ner ad hoc Posi­ti­ons­än­de­rung von You­tube zu tilgen.

Kam ja unge­mein über­ra­schend, dass Russ­land jetzt die Inten­si­tät der Angrif­fe hoch­ge­schraubt hat, oder?

But the fuck­ing CSIS still wants sin­gle use coun­ter dro­ne field data, while Euro­pe pays bil­li­ons, so how fuck­ing sur­pri­sed whe­re you… Not to men­ti­on the role of Euro­pe in all of this.

Ukrai­ne has been open to nego­tia­ti­ons, but the fail­u­re of its part­ners to app­ly pres­su­re on Rus­sia has ins­tead allo­wed Rus­si­an Pre­si­dent Vla­di­mir Putin to stall for time to chan­ge the facts on the ground.

Shut the fuck up, you idiot.

Das Ein­zi­ge was sich geän­dert hat war die fuck­ing suc­cess rate der rus­si­schen Luft­an­grif­fe. You cunt.

Arti­kel ist trotz­dem lesenswert.

edit: Nice pos­tu­re though. Five stars.

src: click

Thank god for face­book hires.

Veröffentlicht by me am Mittwoch, 12. November 2025 unter Allgemein, Media.