Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Quote:This thread works fine, and it is important to remember precisely what was happening 4 years ago. Signym has been predicting Russia's victory for all the years this thread has existed. Victory might actually arrive in two, maybe four, months:
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Hungary blocks EU sanctions AND $106 billion loan for Ukraine, risking a domino collapse
By Peeter Helme | 23/02/2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/23/hungary-blocks-eu-loan-sanction
s-ukraine-imf-domino/
“Without that support from the EU and the IMF, Ukraine’s economy would most likely collapse,” Maksym Samoiliuk, an economist at Kyiv’s Centre for Economic Strategy, told the Financial Times.
The Centre for Economic Strategy and DiXi Group warned in December that Ukraine needed to start receiving EU tranches by the end of March 2026. That deadline is five weeks away.
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Agreed. No reason to split this up into 10 other threads when we can keep all of your embarrassing post history on this topic right here.
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You may need to start a new thread here SOCOND?
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Agreed. No reason to split this up into 10 other threads when we can keep all of your embarrassing post history on this topic right here.
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Looking back in this thread and discovered 6ixStringJoker has been writing "Nobody cares" for four years. Obviously, he does care that the Russians win.
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KYIV, Ukraine, Feb. 23, 2026 — Four years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA5) released today by the Government of Ukraine, the World Bank Group, the European Commission, and the United Nations currently estimates that as of 31 December 2025, the total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is almost $588 billion (over €500 billion) over the next decade, which is nearly 3 times the estimated nominal GDP of Ukraine for 2025. https://tinyurl.com/4zj4v46y
Of the total long-term needs, reconstruction and recovery needs are the highest in the transport sector (over $96 billion (€82 billion)). This is followed by the energy sector (nearly $91 billion (€77 billion)), the housing sector (almost $90 billion (€77 billion)), commerce and industry sector (over $63 billion (€54 billion)), and agriculture sector (over $55 billion (€47 billion)). The cost of explosives hazard management and debris clearance is almost $28 billion (€24 billion), despite some progress in surveying and demining that helped to contain losses in this sector.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/23/world-bank-maps-ukraines-deepes
t-scars-195b-in-direct-damage-and-a-588b-bill-for-survival/
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Editorial: Trump’s theater and Europe’s fear could bring 4 more years of war
By The Kyiv Independent
February 24, 2026 10:46 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-this-war-can-last-another-4-year
s-but-it-doesnt-have-to/
The year is 2030.
With spring around the corner, Ukraine has just endured the toughest winter of the war yet. It was Russia’s eighth winter campaign against the country’s energy infrastructure. Ukraine’s air defenses have improved. Its grid has grown more resilient. But Russia’s weapons are deadlier, its drone swarms larger, its tactics more adaptive — inflicting severe damage and forcing millions to live in darkness.
Another U.S. administration has come and gone after promising to end the war swiftly. European leaders are once again renewing sanctions and announcing aid packages on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The United Nations has just released a report calling 2029 the deadliest year for Ukrainian civilians since 2022, when the full-scale invasion started.
Sounds impossible?
It shouldn’t.
Because here we are in 2026, marking four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion — and the pattern is already set. Russia escalates. Ukraine adapts. The West deliberates. Talks resume. Talks stop. The war grinds on — and Ukraine buries its dead.
In 2022, it was hard to imagine this level of destruction lasting more than a year. In 2023, it was hard to imagine it lasting three. Today, the idea that it could continue until 2030 feels unbearable — but not unrealistic.
Both Ukraine and Russia have demonstrated unwavering determination — one to attack, the other to defend — resulting in a war of attrition that has now lasted for years.
Backed by China and buoyed by continued global demand for its oil, Moscow has sustained its war effort, paying lucrative bonuses to volunteer recruits, upgrading its weapons, and scaling up their production.
With Western — or at this point, European — support, Ukraine has received enough financial and military assistance to keep its guns firing, expand its drone industry and largely hold Russian forces at bay, suffering only incremental territorial losses that come at enormous cost to Russian soldiers.
But what about the peace deal that U.S. officials insist is just around the corner?
When U.S. officials boast about the progress they are making in peace negotiations, they omit an inconvenient but crucial detail.
On the surface, the main barrier to ending the war is a piece of land – specifically, the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donetsk Oblast that Russia wants, and that Ukraine refuses to surrender.
But the impasse is not the land itself.
Russia continues to openly seek nothing less than military-political capitulation from Kyiv, and demanding the bloodless handover of Ukraine’s most fortified strongholds is just the first step. Ukraine, meanwhile, sees Russia’s real intentions for exactly what they are, and has no intention of capitulating.
For Russia, this war is about imperial restoration — whatever name the empire takes this time. Without Ukraine, that project will never materialize.
For Ukraine, the stakes are existential — its sovereignty, its statehood, its identity are on the line.
When both sides view the war in existential terms and both retain external backing, a multi-decade-long conflict is not far-fetched. History offers plenty of such precedents.
So yes, this war could last until 2030 — if the West’s current strategy remains unchanged.
In 2022, the West helped Ukraine survive but not win. Too many decisions that could have shifted the balance early — from advanced weapons systems to sweeping sanctions — were delayed, diluted, or delivered incrementally.
The logic behind this caution was clear: escalate gradually and leave space for Russia to reconsider its course before facing harsher consequences.
Thanks to this, visions of a truly just end to the war, with the return of all occupied territories, have faded.
Four years of full-scale war later, Ukraine is figh
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Agreed. No reason to split this up into 10 other threads when we can keep all of your embarrassing post history on this topic right here.
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You may need to start a new thread here SOCOND?
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Agreed. No reason to split this up into 10 other threads when we can keep all of your embarrassing post history on this topic right here.
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I presume you are unaware that every comment you have made reveals personal failure and the certainty of a shortened life. Kind of like everything the Russians do reveals that they cause their own suffering, their own relative poverty compared to Europeans, and their shortened lives on the actuarial tables of life expectancy.
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What is Putin hiding? 115 Russian statistics suddenly go dark
By Kathrine Frich | Feb 24, 2026
https://www.dagens.com/war/what-is-putin-hiding-115-russian-statistics
-suddenly-go-dark
Economic transparency in Russia is shrinking, according to Ukrainian intelligence officials.
Dozens of key statistical indicators have stopped being updated, while others have disappeared from public databases altogether.
Kyiv now claims the move is an attempt by the Kremlin to conceal the real state of Russia’s economy.
Data disappears
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) says Russian authorities have stopped updating 115 statistical indicators since the end of 2025.
According to the agency, 168 statistical tables have either been removed or reduced in official data collections.
The Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistics System reportedly no longer provides current figures for dozens of categories.
New entries are instead marked as “temporarily closed.”
The Kremlin has not publicly explained the changes.
Income and spending classified
The SVR claims that household income and expenditure data are now classified. This includes figures on public sector wages for teachers, doctors, nurses, researchers and cultural workers.
Information on social benefit payments has also reportedly been restricted.
As a result, it is no longer possible to see how much Russian households spend on essentials such as food, utilities, housing and medicine.
War and prison figures hidden
The Ukrainian intelligence service further alleges that data related to what Moscow calls its “SVO” campaign in Ukraine is no longer publicly available.
According to the SVR, figures on troop numbers and funeral costs have been removed. Media reports also indicate that data on prison populations is again being withheld.
Officials in Kyiv argue the data blackout is aimed at limiting public reaction to economic hardship.
In 2025, 31% of Russians reportedly said they did not have enough money for groceries, while 39% described the economic situation in their region as worsening.
Sources: Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SVR), Dialog.ua, LA.lv.
https://www.la.lv/115-statistikas-raditaji-vairs-netiek-atjauninati-pa
t-dati-par-partiku-klaisifceti-ko-kremlis-slepj#google_vignette
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Most of Ukraine lacks defense against ballistic threats, Zelenskyy says
By Liliana Oleniak | Tue, February 24, 2026 – 13:10
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/most-of-ukraine-lacks-defense-against-
ballistic-1771931443.html
Most of Ukraine's territory remains without air defense systems capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in an interview with Tagesschau.
80% of Ukraine's territory remains unprotected against Russian ballistic missiles
According to Zelenskyy, his previous statements on air defense were not a criticism of partners, but an attempt to draw attention to the real situation.
"I will not say where our Patriot systems are located. But 80% of our country's territory does not have such anti-ballistic missile systems," the President says.
He stresses that Ukraine continues to seek opportunities to strengthen its defenses.
Ukraine finds funds for air defense systems
The President emphasizes that even in the absence of a sufficient number of systems, Kyiv, together with its partners, is working to finance their purchase.
"Even if we are not given the systems, we have found the money for them together with our partners," Zelenskyy says.
According to him, he personally held negotiations with representatives of Germany, Norway, Northern European countries, and Canada. The President notes that air defense systems are extremely expensive.
"They cost between 1.5 and 2 billion per system. And a missile costs between two and three million," he explains.
Zelenskyy says that he agreed on the allocation of additional funds for these needs.
Ukraine calls on European countries to combine their technological efforts to create new means of countering ballistic missiles.
Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, also said that Russian mass attacks on Ukraine often combine several types of air threats at once. These include ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as strike drones. Under such conditions, even modern air defense systems are operating at the limits of their capabilities.
Read also: Russia sets record for ballistic missile launches at Ukraine in January
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-sets-record-for-ballistic-missi
le-1771262538.html
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Agreed. No reason to split this up into 10 other threads when we can keep all of your embarrassing post history on this topic right here.
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