Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Their winter attacks?
I thought Ukraine had this all buttoned up and the war was going to be over next week?
Ted said the guy with the AI thumbnails said so.
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Zelenskyy sets hard deadline on Patriot deliveries and warns of shake-up
The president is expecting responses from officials this week
By Liliana Oleniak | Wed, June 03, 2026 - 14:12
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/zelenskyy-sets-hard-deadline-on-patrio
t-deliveries-1780485120.html
Ukraine is facing a critical shortage of missiles for Patriot, NASAMS, and IRIS-T air defense systems. In many units, launchers are nearly out of ammunition, and Air Force representatives are forced to urgently request even 5–10 missiles.
Russian forces have increased the use of Zircon missiles during strikes against Ukraine. Last night alone, Russia launched eight such missiles; however, Ukrainian air defense was unable to intercept them because there wasn't any ammo in the right locations to shoot down the missiles.
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Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine present: "How to say hello to St. Petersburg Economic Forum (i.e., Russian propaganda event) with nice fireworks."
Two videos are here: https://imgur.com/gallery/unmanned-systems-forces-of-armed-forces-of-u
kraine-present-how-to-say-hello-to-st-petersburg-economic-forum-i-e-russian-propaganda-event-with-nice-fireworks-WT9DXvz
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Really, Signym? Do you want to revise that first sentence? Or is it the whole truth in your opinion?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ukraine doesn't have artillery, or planes, or air dedenses.
Russia does.
You're right. I should correct the fat- finger.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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To summarize the current situation:
Ukraine is busy attacking civilians. They targeted a school dormitory at night with at least 7 drones, killing 21 students and wounding 41.
In retaliation, Russia struck Kiev with about a dozen missiles.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is targeting a road between Mariupol and Crimea. The road mostly carries civilian traffic, and as a result of remote mining managed to kill more civilians. Ukraine is causing a shortage of gasoline in Crimea, but not apparently affecting the southern front at all.
Yesterday Ukraine targeted Saint Petersburg, where the economic forum is being held, a civilian train, and a civilian bus.
In the Donbas, Russia occupies about half of the city of Konstantinovka and has Ukrainian troops in a deep pocket in the southern end of the city. Konstantinovka is the southernmost city of the Slaviansk- Kramatorsk- Konstantinovka agglomeration. This agglomeration is also being approached from the east. Russia is within 9 kilometers of Kramatorsk.
In Zaparozhye region, Russia, is within a kilometer of Orekhov, which is a strongly fortfied village protecting the city of Zaparozhye.
In the north, Kupiansk is occupied, and Russia is advancing all along the northern border.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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The Russian ultranationalist community presented scenarios for Russia’s military and geopolitical future at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that likely somewhat differ from the Kremlin’s positions.
Russian business newspaper Kommersant reported on June 3 that Kremlin-affiliated Russian oligarch and Orthodox nationalist Konstantin Malofeev and Russian ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin presented several “future scenarios” for Russia at SPIEF.[1] The presentation slides outlined “good,” “inertial” (continuing), and “bad” scenarios for 2036 and 2050 . . .
The “good” scenario includes the Russian occupation of Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, and other Ukrainian cities and the collapse of the European Union (EU) by 2036 and other Russian narratives about alleged imminent victory in Ukraine.
The presentation’s “bad” scenario included a Russian military defeat in Ukraine, Ukraine joining NATO, the loss of Russian influence over post-Soviet countries by 2036, and the “colonization of Russia” by 2050.
The presentation’s “continuing” 2036 scenario speculated that Russia would use nuclear weapons if the military situation in Ukraine remained the same, effectively threatening that Russia would use nuclear weapons against Ukraine if the war continued on its current path.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-june-3-2026/
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From the Wall Street Journal
Russia’s elite is souring on the war. Putin doesn’t seem to care.
By Yaroslav Trofimov
Jun 03, 2026
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-elite-is-souring-on-the-
war-putin-doesn-t-seem-to-care/ar-AA24Mz5r
. . . Another hard-liner, historian and former Kremlin official Aleksey Chadaev, who runs the Ushkuynik drone-warfare research center, noted that pursuing the current course of war “is not just a path to ‘non-victory’, but to a full-scale defeat.” He has called for a pause so that Russia can reorganize itself for the next round.
Vasily Kashin, director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, last month published a widely discussed piece in Russia’s foremost foreign-policy journal. He argued that Ukraine will inevitably remain an anti-Russian, pro-Western country, especially after hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed or maimed in the war. He said the goal of installing a friendly regime in Kyiv—one of Putin’s original war objectives—is no longer realistic.
Pointing to the example of the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran, Kashin said that even a major escalation, such as assassinating President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine’s military and civilian leadership, would likely bring to power a “more active, ambitious and radical” generation of Ukrainian leaders. . . .
. . . “It seems that in the fifth year of the war, some people are starting to realize that continuing the war for another year or two doesn’t seriously improve Russia’s negotiating position. It is becoming clearer and clearer to them that it’s time to wrap it up,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. “Elite discussion on the matter is starting to be normalized, with all the loyalty caveats. But does Putin realize that he is in a dead end, and that the war now has diminishing returns? This we don’t know. Nothing shows that he has changed his mind.”
The nature of the heavily militarized Russian state makes it unlikely that Putin will listen to voices of reason, said Pavlo Klimkin, a former Ukrainian foreign minister. “War is the modus vivendi of this regime; it’s like riding a bicycle—if they stop, they fall,” he said. . . .
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Vladimir Putin’s Second-Biggest Headache
With his war in Ukraine going badly, he may soon face another quagmire in Chechnya.
By Christian Caryl, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a former Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report.
June 4, 2026, 5:36 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/04/russia-putin-chechnya-kadyrov-suc
cession-war-ukraine-unrest/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a lot to worry about these days. What he originally planned as a quick regime-change operation in Ukraine has now gone on longer than the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germany, and Kyiv is increasingly bringing the war to the Russian heartland. (On June 3, guests at Putin’s showcase international forum in St. Petersburg awoke to the sight of blazing fires from Ukrainian drones.) The Russian economy is showing serious signs of strain. And even China, Putin’s most important friend and patron, has shown that it’s not willing to give Moscow unlimited support.
But there’s another problem brewing in the background—one that could produce serious instability at a time when Putin can least afford it. The Kremlin is confronting a potentially explosive succession crisis in Chechnya, the North Caucasus republic that has a long history of generating turmoil entirely out of proportion to its tiny size. The problem: Chechnya’s all-powerful leader, President Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is suffering from a serious illness, probably terminal, that could remove him from the scene at any moment.
Kadyrov’s favored successor, his 18-year-old son Adam, is too young to assume the throne. Putin could try to keep the Kadyrov family in power by allowing Adam to exercise nominal control under the guidance of a trusted ally or even a regent from Moscow. But such a solution could turn out to be harder than it looks. Ramzan’s harsh rule over the past 22 years—prompting some to dub him the Kim Jong Il of the Caucasus—has left behind countless grievances in a clan-based culture with deeply ingrained blood feud traditions. He has also driven many of his rivals into exile, where they have been patiently waiting to even the score.
And over the past four years, another complicating factor has joined the mix: the war in Ukraine, where Chechens are fighting on both sides. The Ukrainians, who officially recognized Chechen independence from Russia in 2022, have been doing everything in their power to embolden the opposition to Kadyrov—knowing full well that sparking a new war in the republic would cause a massive drain on Russian resources at a time when Putin is already facing a dangerous new phase in his war on Kyiv.
The Ukrainians remember something that many Westerners have forgotten. Putin rose to the presidency on the back of his reputation as a ruthless suppressor of Chechen rebels in the late 1990s. The ex-KGB man boosted his popularity with Russian voters by promising to pursue Chechen separatists without mercy—“if we catch them in the toilet, excuse me, we will wipe them out in the shithouse,” as he once famously put it. In reality, he combined that tough-guy approach with pragmatic outreach to one of the leaders of the resistance movement: Akhmad Kadyrov, who served for six years as the republic’s top Muslim religious official.
Kadyrov had fought on the rebel side during the first Chechen revolt from 1991 to 1994, when Chechen nationalists took advantage of the weakness of the central government under then-President Boris Yeltsin. Chechen insurgents fought the Russian army to a standstill in a brutal conflict and declared de facto independence that lasted until 1999, when the Second Chechen War broke out.
Then-Prime Minister Putin took a hard-line course against the rebels on the battlefield. The Russians’ indiscriminate tactics, which killed countless civilians, previewed their brutality in their war on Ukraine. At the same time, Putin made overtures to Kadyrov, who had come to oppose the radical jihadis who were coming to dominate the independence movemen
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Nobody cares. Nobody has ever cared.
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Has the Tide Turned Against Russia in the Ukraine War?
By Moscow Times Reporter and Bashir Kitachayev
June 4, 2026
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/04/has-the-tide-turned-against-
russia-in-the-ukraine-war-a92933
Ukraine last released official casualty figures in February, acknowledging that 55,000 of its servicemen had been killed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-55000-troops-killed-russ
ia-talks-zelenskyy-rcna257529
The website Ukraine Losses, which tracks military deaths using open-source information, estimates the number at more than 97,850. https://ualosses.org/en/soldiers/
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