Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025

[Jingthing]

5 minutes ago, zmisha said:

Well, Vladimir Putin's narrative is to avoid any agreements as long as possible. So when the Americans go into a deep denial of everything their Z opponents say, the Americans help Vladimir stall for time. Thank you for your help.

Yes Trump is a traitor. 

[stevenl]

16 minutes ago, MicroB said:

In pidgeon English

Always funny, language corrections with mistakes.

 

I do appreciate your posts btw, well thought and laid out.

[zmisha]

32 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Always funny, language corrections with mistakes.

Our shining leader, Vladimir, said that we should learn Chinese instead. His family members are learning Chinese also. So English is no longer our priority.

[bannork]

North Korean soldiers deployed to support Vladimir Putin’s army are reportedly sowing chaos on the battlefield, with Russian troops expressing fear that they could be shot by their own allies.

Last year, Pyongyang sent a contingent of 11,000 troops to help Moscow retake the Kursk region, parts of which remain under Ukrainian control following a surprise counteroffensive.

A leaked message from a private communication among Tuvan units claims that the North Korean troops have lost discipline and are behaving unpredictably.

Putin fuming as North Korean soldiers wreak havoc in Russian army

[zmisha]

4 hours ago, bannork said:

 

A leaked message from a private communication among Tuvan units claims that the North Korean troops have lost discipline and are behaving unpredictably.

Putin fuming as North Korean soldiers wreak havoc in Russian army

People from the Democratic Republic prefer democracy to hard discipline. It’s natural.

[bannork]

During the Ukraine war, which has lasted more than three years, at least 49,000 soldiers have deserted from the Russian army, according to journalists from "Important Stories," who accessed lists of military personnel accused of desertion. This number is equivalent to the strength of a military corps comprising several divisions.

By the end of 2024, two extensive lists of alleged deserters appeared online—referred to as "five-hundredth" in the Russian military.

Journalists from "Important Stories" verified this data and concluded that at least 49,000 soldiers of the Russian Federation Armed Forces were considered deserters or individuals who left their units without permission.

Russian desertion crisis: 49,000 troops abandon the frontlines

[sharot724]

13 minutes ago, bannork said:

During the Ukraine war, which has lasted more than three years, at least 49,000 soldiers have deserted from the Russian army, according to journalists from "Important Stories," who accessed lists of military personnel accused of desertion. This number is equivalent to the strength of a military corps comprising several divisions.

By the end of 2024, two extensive lists of alleged deserters appeared online—referred to as "five-hundredth" in the Russian military.

Journalists from "Important Stories" verified this data and concluded that at least 49,000 soldiers of the Russian Federation Armed Forces were considered deserters or individuals who left their units without permission.

Russian desertion crisis: 49,000 troops abandon the frontlines

Better known as Push comes to Shove.

Why would a young man fight to restore the Empire?

Makes sense to leave Russia.

Thailand needs to start a routine of checking Visa expirations!

Don't want any of them cowards here.

[MicroB]

The flouncing 47th President.

 

15th May:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4ge3e7dqleo

 

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Look, nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay? And obviously he wasn't going to go. He was going to go, but he thought I was going to go

 

20th May:

 

https://news.sky.com/story/unlimited-potential-in-us-russia-trade-says-trump-after-two-hour-putin-call-13371047

 

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My whole life is deals, one big deal, and if I thought that President Putin did not want to get this over with, I wouldn't even be talking about it because I'd just pull out

 

21st May:

 

https://unn.ua/en/news/sort-it-out-yourselves-nyt-found-out-what-trump-told-zelenskyy-after-calling-putin

 

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Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders after his call with Putin that Russia and Ukraine would have to find a solution to end the war themselves.

 

[zmisha]

On the 13th St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Anton Kobyakov (Adviser to the President V. Putin) has recently said that USSR collapsed illegally, which means that legally it still exists. "And since this is so, from a legal point of view it turns out that the Ukrainian crisis is an internal process".

Z guys are glad that Vladimir Putin has such smart advisers. Indeed, if Vladimir Putin's sweet wet wishes are legal in the legal sense, then Russia will get the whole world as an ally which will greatly help to win in Ukraine.

[MicroB]

 

Russian critical semiconductor plant hit

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-trump-putin-eu-uk-sanctions-b2754911.html

 

[bannork]

Russian officials say they intercepted a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight into May 22, with 105 drones reportedly shot down over 11 Russian regions, including 35 aimed at Moscow.

The strike is being described as one of the largest Ukrainian drone assaults in recent weeks, coming just one day after an attack on a Russian semiconductor plant tied to missile and aircraft production

As the drones approached the capital, all four of Moscow’s international airports — Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky — were temporarily shut down.

Mass Drone Strike Targets Moscow, Russian Airports Shut Down

 

[kwonitoy]

 

[kwonitoy]

Bringing the war to the folks of moscow

[bannork]

Ukrainian drones struck a major industrial facility in the Russian city of Yelets overnight on May 23, causing fires and injuring at least eight people, Russian officials said Thursday.

The targeted facility is believed to be the Energia plant, Russia’s largest manufacturer of chemical power sources, including lithium-ion batteries used in drones and other military hardware

Ukraine Hits Russia’s Largest Drone and Missile Battery Plant

[problemfarang]

UPDATE:

we are having heavy fighting at Toretsk lately. at some points we are having hand to hand combat too

its so difficult to hold the city now.. they are coming from all sides. 

most likely we will change our positions soon.. 

we are short of ammo too. at this point we dont have arty support at all. all we have is drones. russians has no arty too, drones like us. and manpower. they are having serious logistic problems. they have less tanks now too. they are mostly using APCs or foot attacks and of course drones. good news is their drone pilots are really bad. we also noticed that 20% of their drones are dud

anyway i dont think we can hold the last part of the city anymore.. sadly

AZOV is here too

and ukraine police squads

 

SLAVA UKRAINI!

[bannork]

On May 22, a war criminal Andrey Kondratyev was attacked in the Russian city of Kurgan. He is a chief designer at Kurganpribor, one of Russia's leading military-industrial enterprises, according to RBC-Ukraine's sources in Ukraine’s security services.

Kurganpribor is involved in the development and production of devices and systems for the Russian military-industrial complex, including missile technology, the company specializes in high-tech components for the Russian military, such as impact sensors used in missile and shell fuzes.

Top Russian missile designer attacked in Russia's Kurgan

 

[bannork]

Russia's leading tanker group, Sovcomflot, posted a net loss of $393 million in the first quarter of 2025, Reuters reports.

The decline was caused by new Western sanctions, which led to operational problems, decreased revenue, and the idling of some sanctioned vessels.

In 2024, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions against Sovcomflot and its fleet to reduce Russia's oil revenue, which it can use to fund its war against Ukraine.

Russian shadow fleet operator hit with massive losses from sanctions

[Hakuna Matata]

John Mearsheimer: Ukraine is DOOMED/ Negotiations are Headed Nowhere