Zelensky's options range 'from bad to worse' - Washington Post

▪️The return of territories by military means seems less and less likely. The status quo is terrible. Currently, the fight has reached a dead end, Ukrainians are dying on the battlefield every day.
▪️Zelensky is largely “stuck”, and solidarity within Ukraine is weakening. Measures to increase mobilization split society.
▪️ “Ukraine does not have the strength for a new offensive,” Western diplomats say.

Source: WaPo

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The West cannot afford to rearm, let alone supply Ukraine - The Telegraph

▪️Artillery shells are inexpensive, but the problem is the lack of production capacity.
▪️Even the United States can produce only 28 thousand 155-mm caliber shells per month - less than 10% of what Ukraine needs.
▪️Despite the West’s desire to increase production, it may already be too late to believe in Kyiv’s success: “in the near future there will simply be no people left in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Source: The Telegraph

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At this point the pro-🇺🇦 echo chamber filled with delusional denial of reality, deranged projections and delirious copium is just laughable.

Even the client war media that's been shamelessly lying to us about valiant Ukrainian victories and abysmal Russian materiel and personnel losses, destroyed Russian economy and complete isolation, countless ailments of Putin and dissolution of the Russian Federation into rump independent republics can no longer hide the truth about the morbid state of the Ukrainian army, gruesome situation at the front, inevitable political crisis and macabre state of Ukrainian economy.

And yet in this echo chamber Russia is taking 20:1 loss ratios, but still relentlessly taking territory. It's losing scores of planes a day, but FABs are still falling on front line cities. It's squandering hundreds of units of armor, but still advancing along the whole front.

NATO is being very direct about not having anything else to spare for Ukraine, nor to outpace Russia in military production. The hysteria about speaker Mike Johnson being the murderer of Ukraine, Olaf Scholz not doing enough for Ukraine, or certain countries not doing enough for Ukraine is just a far cry to blame somebody for Ukraine's, but more importantly NATO's miscalculations based on faulty assumptions and self-indulgence of its own propaganda that has lead to complete failure to subjugate the Russian bear.

At this stage it takes Olympic level of mental gymnastics to explain away why, but more importantly how, Ukraine would be able to win this conflict militarily. None of the battlefield gore that 🇺🇦-stans likes to reply with on every post or the cope about the Black Sea fleet or the three day military operation or completely unrealistic Russian losses are going to change the reality on the ground. There are no conflicts without losses, but it's in Ukraine that we see hours and hours of footage of Ukrainian cemeteries taking hundreds of acres of land and people being beaten up, tortured and abducted from streets, grocery stores, public transport and work places to be thrown into vans with no windows and sent to the meat grinder by Zelensky's goons.

The worst part of it all is that the diplomatic solution is still not on the table by either Ukraine or their Western handlers and Zelensky has cornered himself with the decree prohibiting him from negotiations with Putin, even if he wanted to. But even if he wanted and was able to negotiate with Putin, it would not be just a political, but a literal suicide for him.

Zelensky and his criminal junta have sent hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to the slaughter. He's a butcher of the Ukrainian nation and more than likely its statehood, and the same ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis who were put in power after Euromaidan would crucify him publicly on the same square in Kiev, where ten years ago the fate of the Ukrainian people was hijacked by the cookie monster from the State Department.

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‼️BREAKING: Macron presented evidence of Russia's participation in discrediting the Olympics Games in Paris.

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China supplies Russia with satellite intelligence data and helps produce armored vehicles - Bloomberg
▪️According to the agency, the United States warned its allies about this.
▪️According to people familiar with the situation, China provided Russia with satellite images for military purposes, as well as microelectronics and machines for the production of tanks.
▪️China's support also includes optical instruments, rocket fuel and increased space cooperation.
▪️Beijing has created a “deep alliance” with Moscow, the publication reports.
▪️Previously, Western media wrote that the United States is supplying Ukraine with satellite intelligence information, and the allies are also directing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to targets in Russian-controlled territory.

Source: Bloomberg

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‼️JUST IN: Micron claims that Ukraine is not complicit in the earthquake in New York and that France has information implicating ISIS' involvement.

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I think the topic of "validity" of Ukrainian claims of the destruction of Russian airplanes in their massive attack on Russian airfields could be safely put to rest if even the ISW states that it found no visual evidence of it and Ukrainska Pravda put it into the print.

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Remember that time when Yolanda Navalnaya was crowned the new figurehead of the so-called Russian opposition?

Nope, neither do I.

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Due to a shortage of shells, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to look for budgetary but dangerous solutions - WSJ

◾Given the lack of new military assistance from the United States, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in order not to be left completely without ammunition, are forced to resort to “budgetary solutions,” The Wall Street Journal reports. So, some soldiers have to dive into swamps and walk kilometers through minefields in search of unused shells or remnants of Russian ammunition in order to then make bombs from them.
◾While the found and manufactured shells help, they cannot fully compensate for Kiev's huge shortage of shells: commanders estimate that Russian forces are firing about five times as many shells per day.
◾Soldiers from the 92nd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is fighting in the Andreevka area, told the WSJ that the shortage of artillery shells is so great that even when drones detect Russian targets, the brigade cannot always fire at them. “If Russian forces launched a large-scale attack, we would run out of shells. We are in constant saving mode,” says one of the military men.

Source: WSJ

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Ukraine will have to cede territory and retreat to more secure positions - Politico

◾Retreat may occur “in some combat scenarios.” The reason is a lack of shells and personnel.
◾“The only variable that can change the situation on the front is a major Russian mistake. But counting on your enemy to screw up has never been a good strategy,” says Matthew Schmidt, an assistant professor of national security at the University of New Haven.
◾Ukraine has no choice but to “dig in and try to the best of its ability to anticipate where, when and with what intensity Russian troops will attack next.”

Source: CNN

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Putin is using lightning as a weapon.

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The US Embassy in Moscow is officially run by clowns.

🤡🎪🇺🇸

"Кто не скачет, тот Москаль"

"Who's not jumping is Moskal"

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Putin is using bombs as a weapon.

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Ukrainian military commissars tried to mobilize a 14-year-old school student.

◾Employees of the Ukrainian recruitment office in the Izmail district (Odessa region) tried to mobilize a 14-year-old teenager: he was harshly detained on the street and forced into a minibus at gunpoint.
◾The incident occurred on April 2 in the village of Priozernoye, Suvorov community. The publication says that the guy survived physical violence and experienced psychological and social torture.
◾According to the young man, people in military uniform and balaclavas grabbed him, hit him on the back with a machine gun, put the barrel to his head, and then tied his hands with plastic ties.
◾It is noted that the military took the schoolboy out of the village, but upon learning his age on the way, they threw him out of the car right on the highway, threatening him with violence if he spoke about what had happened.

Source: Bessarabia Inform

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