Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025

[Rimmer]

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[thaibeachlovers]

49 minutes ago, TedG said:

Russia is slowing bleeding.   Putin thought this war would be over in a few weeks.   Now it’s year three and the war is slowing wreching the Russian ecomony.  

and here comes Trump to save the day for Russia.

It's not like anyone can claim they didn't know that was going to happen when Trump won the election. He signaled it often enough.

 

The error of Biden was not taking him seriously and stepping in to negotiate for Ukraine, which would have resulted in a better deal than what Zelensky is going to get. Trump isn't even involving Ukraine or Europe in the negotiations. Why would he? They were always junior partners, not to be taken seriously with their minor contributions. They don't even have serious military's, IMO. Run down by years of cost cutting.

Putin said long ago he wanted to negotiate, but Zelensky's ridiculous "never negotiate" stance killed any chance of a better deal.

 

IMO Trump cares nothing for Ukraine and is going to get the best deal for the US re raw materials, as the price for letting Ukraine exist.

For Trump, only the US matters, IMO.

[Mavideol]

sure Russia will deny any involvement, that's what they always do, they will never say "yes we did it..." whatever happened it's always somebody's else actions

 

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/russian-drone-damages-chornobyl-plant-s-confinement-says-officials/vi-AA1z5yPm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=63ab27e094b0422be4e080b9be4e4ed3&ei=72#details

[Mavideol]

and that would be Putin's  biggest mistake...

Putin may attack a NATO country from Belarus as early as next year, Zelenskyy says

 

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/putin-may-attack-a-nato-country-from-belarus-as-early-as-next-year-zelenskyy-says/ar-AA1z3f8C?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=cc45b23b57314d5d8a754cbb1778fea8&ei=80

[Mavideol]

really!! and he wants us to believe him 555 ... sure Russian military are so innocent, they would never do anything to hurt anybody, they never bombed civilians in Ukraine, never send missiles to kids schools, shopping malls, hospitals....

"Russian military doesn't do this," Kremlin says

 

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/russian-military-doesn-t-do-this-kremlin-says/ar-AA1z3r20?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=cc45b23b57314d5d8a754cbb1778fea8&ei=90

[beautifulthailand99]

The real tragedy for Ukraine and the West moving forward is that as U.S. aid falters and stops, populist uprisings across Europe will shut the door on further support. Even if a handful of leaders wanted to continue providing funds, the political will simply won’t be there. This is the MAGA doctrine supplanting NATO doctrine, and this was precisely the point of J.D. Vance's argument—that European "democracy" is more important than resisting Russian or Chinese imperialism. No doubt, there is quiet celebration in Beijing and Moscow.

 

As Lenin once remarked, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” The West, given enough rope, seems all too willing to oblige. The barbarians are not just at the gates—they are inside the walls. Let us not forget that Vance chose to meet with the AfD rather than Chancellor Scholz. MAGA, Musk, and their allies are not just enablers of this unraveling but its architects. They truly are the enemy within.

 

We had a good run, but all empires rise and fall. And when one is in serious decline, the fall comes even faster—hollowed out from within, burdened by social welfarism, entitlement, and a lack of shared purpose or will to fight for common values. As Gibbon observed in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.” The same may now be said of the West.

 

The MAGA calculus likely envisions a geopolitical trade-off where the U.S. secures strategic assets like Greenland and Panama, Russia takes Ukraine, and Xi claims Taiwan. In this zero-sum worldview, great powers carve up spheres of influence, abandoning long-standing commitments to allies in favor of transactional deals. It’s a return to a 19th-century style of power politics, where national interest trumps alliances, and stability is sacrificed for short-term gains.

 

The question is whether such a strategy strengthens U.S. power or accelerates its decline—because while America may gain territory, it risks losing global leadership and the trust of its allies. Meanwhile, Beijing and Moscow would be more than happy to play along, knowing that a divided and retreating West only works to their advantage.

 

https://archive.ph/98Rld

[stevenl]

"They truly are the enemy within."

 

 Presuming you're referring to the maga's, very correct. 

[beautifulthailand99]

14 minutes ago, stevenl said:

"They truly are the enemy within."

 

 Presuming you're referring to the maga's, very correct. 

Aye, some see me as a Putin shill, but they’d be wrong—whereas MAGA, at its core, very much is. I firmly believe Trump has been compromised for decades from his business dealings with the Russians. And why would Vance or Musk care so much about the AfD, an openly pro-Putin party that makes no effort to hide it and delight almost in every act of Islamic terrorism in Europe as they see it helping their cause.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

25 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Aye, some see me as a Putin shill, but they’d be wrong—whereas MAGA, at its core, very much is. I firmly believe Trump has been compromised for decades from his business dealings with the Russians. And why would Vance or Musk care so much about the AfD, an openly pro-Putin party that makes no effort to hide it and delight almost in every act of Islamic terrorism in Europe as they see it helping their cause.

 

 

You were shilling for Russia before Trump. Now you have an excuse to come and shill some more

[beautifulthailand99]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

You were shilling for Russia before Trump. Now you have an excuse to come and shill some more

Don't worry, Brian—I don't spend my every waking hour on here. I'll leave it to you to fight the good fight. Though I must say, it’s impressive how you've managed to condense so much lazy thinking into a single sentence. I was pointing out inconvenient truths before Trump, and I’ll continue doing so long after he’s gone. If that looks like 'shilling' to you, perhaps the issue isn’t me but your inability to distinguish nuance from narrative.

[Bkk Brian]

10 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Don't worry, Brian—I don't spend my every waking hour on here. I'll leave it to you to fight the good fight. Though I must say, it’s impressive how you've managed to condense so much lazy thinking into a single sentence. I was pointing out inconvenient truths before Trump, and I’ll continue doing so long after he’s gone. If that looks like 'shilling' to you, perhaps the issue isn’t me but your inability to distinguish nuance from narrative.

You do not worry me in the least.

[beautifulthailand99]

Sergey Maidukov - Could Ukraine descend into civil war? -THE SPECTATOR

 

In February 2022, as Russian troops stormed across the border, Ukrainians united under symbols that had previously divided them. The slogan Slava Ukraini! (Glory to Ukraine), once associated with Stepan Bandera’s nationalist movement, was taken up from Lviv to Ukraine’s south-eastern regions, where Bandera had long been viewed with scepticism.

In 2025, Ukraine’s nationalist fervor has waned, but this could be a temporary lull before another eruption of unrest. When nationalism is driven by vengeance and compounded by trauma, it often mutates into extremism. Ukraine may not escape this trend.

Vladimir Putin is undoubtedly factoring this into any peace deal. What he failed to achieve through his ‘special military operation’, he may attempt through destabilisation from within. A large group of unemployed, armed young men suffering from PTSD could be ripe for manipulation.

 

https://archive.ph/OUpGH

[beautifulthailand99]

Tellingly no MSM is shilling the Chernobyl 'incident' given that it was at totally heinous crime yesterday. I wonder why that is ? Cui bono. Willy OAM my favourite Aussie ex services You Tuber says the same and not a peep from the US. Even Redditt r/Ukraine doesn't seem bothered.

[tgw]

18 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Haha, reality check . Com.

You were deluded to think otherwise and now you can see how you were lied to all this time?

US funded Ukraine to indebt them and take their resorses. State land been open up for sale to foreign corps, and trump wants 500b in rare earth minerals.

It had nothing to do with saving Ukrainian people.

 

hihihi

it's relatively clear now that Putin is Rocket Boy #2

this will go nowhere.

Putin not giving in to Trump will just lead to more sanctions and more military aid to Ukraine.

[thaibeachlovers]

13 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

As Lenin once remarked, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” The West, given enough rope, seems all too willing to oblige. The barbarians are not just at the gates—they are inside the walls. Let us not forget that Vance chose to meet with the AfD rather than Chancellor Scholz. MAGA, Musk, and their allies are not just enablers of this unraveling but its architects. They truly are the enemy within.

I don't know that MAGA is the "enemy within", rather the hordes of uneducated aliens invited in by our lords and masters. Shades of the fall of Rome when the mercenaries hired to protect Rome decided to take it over.

Regardless, I agree that whatever the cause, the west is doomed, too much debt, too much corruption to walk it back, and the political will is with the liberal ethos, no matter how barking.

Trump may well halt the liberal tide for a while, but in the end another Canute. Any society that seriously considered that a man can actually BE a woman is IMO in the end stages, never mind the covid lockdown insanity and the man made climate fiasco. Spending all the people's money on war doesn't help. Every million $ missile is money NOT spent on improving citizen's lives.

 

Trump may hasten the fall of the American era, or not, but the end is coming, and it's not going to be pretty.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Tellingly no MSM is shilling the Chernobyl 'incident' given that it was at totally heinous crime yesterday. I wonder why that is ? Cui bono. Willy OAM my favourite Aussie ex services You Tuber says the same and not a peep from the US. Even Redditt r/Ukraine doesn't seem bothered.

I did a quick search about that, but not able to ascertain why you think it is so serious, given it didn't result in widespread contamination, or an explosion.

Perhaps you can educate us as to why it is so serious?

[Mavideol]

have to agree with  Zelensky, Nato is very undecided when it comes to final decisions, always the "if" "but" "what".. in one hand they criticize Putin and send "some" money to Ukraine on the other hand they keep buying Putin's gas and petrol thus financing Putin's war. The amount of money sent to Ukraine are just pennies compared to the amount of money they send to Putin paying for gas and oil, hypocrisy at it's extremes!!!

Zelensky says Putin's whims are blocking NATO decisions

 

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/zelensky-says-putin-s-whims-are-blocking-nato-decisions/ar-AA1z6yu7?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=9ef96cd7edb7489af9d18a4bac86e247&ei=56

[beautifulthailand99]

9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I did a quick search about that, but not able to ascertain why you think it is so serious, given it didn't result in widespread contamination, or an explosion.

Perhaps you can educate us as to why it is so serious?

Well only fools would attack a nuclear reactor that is self evident. Occam's razor says who had most to gain just before the Munich Conference certainly not Russia. The Daily Mail went full tonto for a brief moment Chernobyl Attacked and did others. Now nothing - no smoking guns, radar trails,further evidence. Nothing - just crickets. The first casoalty of war is truth identifying that in the blizzard of news stories is the challenge. In the old days the narrative was much easier to control , not now. We are all in control of out own bespoke news rooms.

 

https://news.google.com/search?q=chernobyl&hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

[frank83628]

Well well well, will ya look at that.

How's them apples....

That's gotta be some egg on some faces aye.

 

Some of us said it from the start..but no, you all preached 'Ukriane is winning' & 'Russia is doomed', if you'd have listened to somethig other than your USAID funded democrat backing media you wouldn't look so stupid now.

 

 

And if the EU wants to continue its not through NATO....

 

Go Putin!!

 

[beautifulthailand99]

Wow absolutely stunningly brutal. Trump changes everything.

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/5146149-zelensky-war-ego/

 

Not long ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian in Ukraine. He made his living playing a fictional president on television. Then, by a twist of fate, he became the real thing. And before he had time to adjust to the role, history threw him onto the world’s stage, catapulting him from a middling entertainer into an international symbol of resistance.

Overnight, the media transformed him into the embodiment of courage, the Churchill of Kyiv, the man who refused to flee, the warrior standing against tyranny. But what if this narrative is entirely false? What if Zelensky, rather than being the hero in this story, is actually the man who won’t allow the war to end — not for the good of his people, but because peace would mean his own downfall?

A good leader prioritizes the survival of his nation. He knows when to fight, and more importantly, he knows when to negotiate. Zelensky, however, has made it clear that his power depends on war, and war alone.

 

[tgw]

12 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Wow absolutely brutal. Trump changes everything.

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/5146149-zelensky-war-ego/

 

 

the people who write this apparently have sh*t for brains.

but they got mitigating circumstances because their goal is to manipulate opinion.

readers believing this drivel have it way worse.

 

martial law while the country is at war? wow. who would have thought that?

 

also, it's not even possible to hold elections, since part of the country is controlled by the invader.

 

these arguments show such profound stupidity that it's even difficult to reason against them, any hope of arguments founded on reason reaching the brains of these people seems in vain.

 

[beautifulthailand99]

9 minutes ago, tgw said:

 

 

the people who write this apparently have sh*t for brains.

 

martial law while the country is at war? wow. who would have thought that?

 

also, it's not even possible to hold elections, since part of the country is controlled by the invader.

 

these arguments show such profound stupidity that it's even difficult to reason against them, any hope of arguments founded on reason reaching the brains of these people seems in vain.

 

The Hill is one of the most respected US politcal  websites - it's no Grayzone and I can't see them ever printing anything like this a year ago. The fact that they have tells you all you need to know.

This is the harshest article I've ever seen about Zelensky from a US Mainstream Media outlet - absolutely insane and a sign of the times. If anything the Hill is a left-leaning Democrat source not a conspiraloon rag.

 

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/hill-media-bias

 

[beautifulthailand99]

https://archive.ph/jW2xn

 

“The Russian army probably has more Javelins than the British Army now,” a British source said , adding that although he and his colleagues supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the effort to support Kyiv “was built around lies”.

 

The" Great Betrayal" is being prepped at haste. 

 

[tgw]

4 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

The Hill is one of the most respected US politcal  websites - it's no Grayzone and I can't see them ever printing anything like this a year ago. The fact that they have tells you all you need to know.

This is the harshest article I've ever seen about Zelensky from a US Mainstream Media outlet - absolutely insane and a sign of the times. If anything the Hill is a left-leaning Democrat source not a conspiraloon rag.

 

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/hill-media-bias

 

what does it matter - they published such "personal opinion".

 

seriously, after all the atrocities, people who support Putin, when you look in the mirror, how can you even look ?

 

and before someone posts nonsense, how is the following not supporting Putin:

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Putin is the villain, Zelensky is the hero. That is the framework. That is the script.

 

I researched John Mac Ghlionn, the author of the "opinion" above, and I understood everything. 

 

The guy is a click baiting provocateur, the Tucker Carlson of the press.

 

he goes on

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There are countless reports of Ukrainian men being dragged from cafes and nightclubs and thrown into vans like criminals.

Martial law means there is no way out. You cannot leave the country. You cannot refuse. This is not the mark of a confident government. This is the behavior of a desperate regime trying to hold itself together by force.

 

That's how conscription and mobilization are like.

In WW2, people in Europe didn't run to the recruitment office.

My grandfather had no choice but to go to war.

My great grand father had to go twice. He got gassed both times.

 

Clearly, that Mac Ghlionn guy has no idea what war is, he lives in an alternate reality.

 

He is a disgrace to all brave men defending their country.

 

I encourage everyone to contact The Hill to express disappointment at their publishing the drivel of such a clickbaiter. That's not journalism, that's stooping too low, the barrel's bottom has been scraped away.

I don't care what their statistics about "reader engagement" say.

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

https://archive.ph/jW2xn

 

“The Russian army probably has more Javelins than the British Army now,” a British source said , adding that although he and his colleagues supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the effort to support Kyiv “was built around lies”.

 

The" Great Betrayal" is being prepped at haste. 

 

In response to all your posts above, thanks for posting some common sense dealing with reality, not wet dreams.

 

Meanwhile the Euros are finding out that not having a serious military means they are not being taken seriously- ignored ( along with Zelensky- pouting from back stage- what sort of numptie says he will never negotiate? ) in Saudi.

[beautifulthailand99]

https://archive.ph/CcTXJ - time to get marching again

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

4 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

https://archive.ph/CcTXJ - time to get marching again

 

 

If anyone was unsure if Starmer is a moron, that should enlighten them.

 

What is it about politicians that never served wearing military uniforms for publicity photos? Shame on him for doing so. I can think of a couple of other politicians that wear fancy dress uniforms when they never saw the inside of a barracks. Charlatans all.

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[beautifulthailand99]

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If anyone was unsure if Starmer is a moron, that should enlighten them.

 

What is it about politicians that never served wearing military uniforms for publicity photos? Shame on him for doing so. I can think of a couple of other politicians that wear fancy dress uniforms when they never saw the inside of a barracks. Charlatans all.

It's probably a bargaining ploy a cheque that he doesn't think he will ever have to cash. There are already British troops in Ukraine. Mostly in the air bases arming the storm shadow missiles.

The German chancellor couldn't keep his mouth shut at the right time...

 

[bunnydrops]

On 2/1/2025 at 8:37 AM, Gweiloman said:

That’s right. It seems like towns and villages are falling under Russian control almost on a daily basis. Budanov reportedly said that by the summer, if things go on as they are now, Ukraine would effectively be finished. 
 

Latest news of course is that certain EU nations are planning to resume purchases of Russian oil and gas. They are even talking about repairing and reopening Nordstream as energy prices are really hurting their economies. Who would’ve guessed lol.

In 14 months, the Russians gained an area about 2.5 times the size of Bangkok. Most of that area is empty fields. They have lost a good portion of area to the Ukranians in their own country.