Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Better late than never, but the Ukrainian military should have been working on this 4 years ago:
Ukraine must restructure how its air defense is organized
By Igor Kossov | Feb 11, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/11/ukraine-to-revise-air-defense-p
laybook-zelenskyy-says/
Ukraine’s expert community has known about ways to improve air defense for some time, but the military “tried not to react to these suggestions,” according to Kostyantyn Kryvolap, a former aviation test engineer at the Antonov Design Bureau. His words echo those of a senior master sergeant, who complained of resistance to change among military leaders.
“What I hear the most frustration about, when speaking to supporters of Ukraine, is the use of manned jets… with quite expensive air-to-air missiles to intercept Shaheds,” DeVore said, calling this method “definitely wasteful.”
“There are much cheaper ways of bringing down things like Shaheds than with jets.”
The senior master sergeant, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that insufficiently-prepared troops don’t fully grasp the many nuances of their weapons, which the Russians are able to exploit if given the chance.
He added that teams are often deployed without considering best tactical practices, such as those calling for the creation of overlapping fields of fire. Finally, despite mobility being spelled out in their name, mobile fire teams often find themselves ordered to guard a limited location.
Kryvolap concurred that Russian reconnaissance has been able to map out where these teams are based around major cities. The Russians can use this to their advantage by flying around them.
The manufacture and use of radar systems is tightly controlled by the General Intelligence Directorate (GUR), due to the sensitive data these systems provide. This caution means that there are not enough radar systems to go around for all the air defense teams that might need them. Multiple people who spoke to Euromaidan Press expect that getting the intelligence agencies to disrupt their standard operating procedures will be challenging.
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The strangest chorus possible has emerged from some senior European leaders during the last two weeks. That chorus is that Europe cannot defend itself. The implication of this strange argument is that European states must bend the knee to Donald Trump’s USA, to get whatever scraps from the defense table that Trump is willing to throw their way.
More about which leaders are cheese-eating surrender monkeys at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-worst-argument-possible
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The data points to an uncomfortable conclusion for Europe: Russia's ability to sustain this war is improving while the scale of Ukrainian devastation increases.
Europe is faced with two options: go all in for a Ukrainian victory to reestablish peace and stability, or continue its present strategy until Ukraine can no longer be saved — and face the very real likelihood of war on its own soil.
By Hans Petter Midttun | Feb 14, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/14/russias-war-is-getting-cheaper-
thats-the-worst-news-europe-has-heard-in-years/
The strategic shift from heavy weapons and maneuver warfare to drone warfare and attrition means Russia's ability to sustain this war improves while Ukrainian devastation increases. Europe's present support has very limited effect on Russian missiles, drones, and guided glide bombs. Europe must fundamentally change its approach. It either engages at a time of its own choosing or accepts Russia escalating at a time of Moscow's choosing.
Russian air power has found a new role. Since 2023, guided glide bomb (KAB) use has surged from tens daily to 200-plus drops per day.
In 2024, Russia dropped around 40,000 guided glide bombs. In 2025, roughly 48,500. If current trends hold, 2026 could see 68,500. Range has grown from 60–80 km to 95–150+ km with jet-assisted variants, letting aircraft release outside many Ukrainian air defense envelopes. Russia's defense intelligence is developing modifications to reach 400 km.
Long-range strike drones: Russia launched nearly five times more in 2025 compared to 2024 (54,500 versus 11,200). Based on the first two months of 2026, the figure could reach a staggering 102,000 this year—of which, at current intercept rates, roughly 16,000 may reach their targets: energy infrastructure, logistical hubs, rail networks, defense plants, residential buildings, schools, and hospitals.
The operational and tactical drone picture is even grimmer. Including medium-range strike, surveillance, and reconnaissance drones, the increase based on early 2026 data is 360%: 276,000 downed drones, meaning roughly 330,000 launched. The actual number of successful Russian strikes will likely be far higher than the conservative 16,000 estimate.
Much more, including charts and graphs, at
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/14/russias-war-is-getting-cheaper-
thats-the-worst-news-europe-has-heard-in-years/
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Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
By Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 14, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/rubio-calls-for-the-end-of-a-to
lerant
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in the room gave him a standing ovation. The chair of the event, Wolfgang Ischinger even thanked Rubio for his wonderful “reassurance”. So, it seems that threats to invade Greenland do not matter; the unilateral, imposition of uneven tariffs on Europe never happened. Indeed, even the abandonment of Ukraine and the cozying up to Vladimir Putin was not really dividing the US and Europe.
One speech of questionable value, asking liberal, democratic Europe to agree to its own destruction, and the last 13 months just melt away?
If you want, you can watch Rubio’s whole speech and post speech interview here.
Rubio’s speech, in reality, pronounced the death of the liberal, democratic system that has governed the European continent (and the US-led world) since 1945.
The speech started with an attack on everything that the US stood for before Donald Trump. Around 26 minutes on the video above, Rubio begins to dissect the disastrous world that the USA constructed before Donald Trump rode to the rescue. This world, based on liberal democracy, commerce and the “rules based order” was, according to Rubio actually a “dangerous” and destructive “delusion”. To emphasize this fact, he used the word “delusion” multiple times.
And guess who was not a threat in Rubio’s speech? Dictatorial Russia and China is the answer. They were never mentioned as threats or challenges to freedom by Rubio in any way.
Much more at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/rubio-calls-for-the-end-of-a-to
lerant
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Putin Killed Alexei Navalny With Frog Poison — European Intelligence
Feb 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-killed-alexei-navalny-frog-poison-russi
a-wife-uk-europe-11524358
Russia poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs while he was in prison, the United Kingdom and European allies have said.
“Collaborative work has confirmed through laboratory testing that the deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuador dart frogs (epibatidine) was found in samples from Alexei Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death,” the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said in a statement on Saturday.
“Only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin to target Navalny during his imprisonment in a Russian penal colony in Siberia, and we hold it responsible for his death,” it said.
The U.K. worked with Sweden, France, the Netherlands and Germany.
Navalny died in February 2024, after he was transferred to a high-security penal colony above the Arctic Circle, sparking speculation about whether the Kremlin had killed him, which Moscow has repeatedly and vehemently denied.
Why It Matters
The findings challenge Russia’s claim that Navalny died of natural causes . . .
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Putin Killed Alexei Navalny With Frog Poison — European Intelligence
Feb 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-killed-alexei-navalny-frog-poison-russi
a-wife-uk-europe-11524358
Russia poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs while he was in prison, the United Kingdom and European allies have said.
Which UK and EU allies?
The kidfucker ones or the other ones?
Hard to know because it looks like a LOT of the current EU leadership is a bunch of kid fuckers.
Starmer is fucking cooked. Macron won't be far behind.
Let's drag Angela Merkel out of retirement and throw her in the fucking ocean where she belongs with the rest of her Muslims while we're at it too.
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Over 177,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified by media investigation
By Dmytro Basmat | February 14, 2026
https://kyivindependent.com/over-177-000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-uk
raine-identified-by-media-investigation/
Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 177,433 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine as of Feb. 13.
Since the media outlets' last update in early February, the names of 9,291 Russian soldiers have been added to the list of casualties.
The journalists note that the actual figures are likely significantly higher, as their verified information comes from public sources such as obituaries, posts by relatives, regional media reports, and statements from local authorities.
The confirmed death toll now includes over 57,200 volunteers, 21,400 recruited prisoners, and 17,000 mobilized soldiers, according to the media outlets. A total of 6,414 officers have also been confirmed to have been killed.
While Moscow does not disclose its casualty figures at all, President Volodymyr Zelensky told France TV in an interview on Feb. 4 that at least 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed on the battlefield since the start of Russia's full-scale war. Kyiv largely avoided commenting on its losses for the first two years of the full-scale invasion, until Zelensky announced in February 2024 that 31,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed.
Zelensky also told France TV that Russia would continue to incur staggering losses if it attempted to conquer all of eastern Ukraine by force of arms. His comments come amid the latest round of trilateral peace talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S., where the status of Ukraine's eastern Donbas territory remains a major point of contention in negotiations.
Despite the heavy losses, Russia has been able to make marginal advances in Ukraine's front line region as it is able to offset its casualties through fresh contract soldiers. The Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState reported that Russian forces occupied 4,336 square kilometers (1,674 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in 2025, accounting for less than 1% of the country
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces estimates that as of Feb. 13, Russia has lost around 1,250,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 22, 2022. The figures do not specify killed or wounded, though the overall consensus is that it includes dead, wounded, missing, and captured.
Mediazona published the complete list of identified casualties for the first time in February, marking three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the publication, volunteers manually enter and verify each record to prevent duplicate entries in the database.
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Weekend Update #172: Is Ukraine Causing More Russian Losses Than Putin Can Replace?
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 15, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-172-is-ukraine-c
ausing
Is Ukraine Causing More Russian Losses Than Putin Can Replace?
One of the reasons that in my research I try to steer people away from seeing individual battles as decisive (or in many cases even that important) is that history tends to greatly distort their impact.1 Writers, readers, film-makers, etc, like to make battles dramatic as events, not surprisingly, as it makes what happens during them seems that history is in the balance. In reality, individual battles decide very little. They usually cause far fewer losses than one thinks and effect the trajectories of a war only in small ways.
Far more important in understanding the course of a war is to follow longer term trends of losses caused, losses experienced, and new forces/equipment generated. . . .
To go from approximately equal loss/replacement levels to a 25% gap in a short period is striking. It is also worth noting that it happened because the Russians seem to be struggling to attract new recruits. This is not a surprise, as the Russian casualty-heavy way of fighting is not one that is likely to win them many eager new sacrificial lambs the longer the war goes on. In the past they have tried to get around this problem with massive financial incentives, however there are signs now that this enticement is losing its appeal. The Russians are also trying to lure/trick young men from other parts of the world to join their military, but that is probably not a war-winning tactic.
The Russian way of war, which too many brain-dead propagandists like to present as some inexorable steam-roller of suffering that cannot be beaten, is actually not effective as a long-term strategy. It is one of the reasons that the Russian inevitable victory argument, so beloved of Donald Trump and some others, is so wrong-headed. The Russian way of fighting actually contains the seeds of Russian defeat—if Ukraine’s friends want to support Ukraine to take advantage of that fact.
Now this is only two months so we need to be careful. Perhaps recruiting in a terribly cold winter was down for other reasons and will snap back. However if it continues and the Ukrainians are able to raise their monthly total of inflicted losses to 40,000 (I think 50,000 is ambitious so will go for the lower target for now), that will mean that even the small Russian advances should ground to a halt.
Armies tend to get either relatively stronger or relatively weaker. They rarely tread water for long periods. The trajectory over the last two months is that the Russian army could be getting weaker. That is a story of note.
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Over the course of the week, Russian forces fired about 1,300 attack drones, more than 1,200 guided aerial bombs and 50 missiles at Ukraine, he said, adding that almost all of the missiles were ballistic.
He also reported that in January, Russian forces launched 6,000 attack drones, more than 150 missiles of various types and more than 5,000 guided aerial bombs at Ukraine.
https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/zelenskyy-nearly-all-50-russian-miss
iles-this-week-were-ballistic-50584016.html
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