🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 The US will recognize new Russian territories for the sake of peace, according to The Telegraph

➡️Witkoff and Kushner will tell Putin that Trump is prepared to recognize Russian control over Crimea and other new Russian territories for the sake of a peace agreement.

➡️Ukraine will reportedly not be required to do so.

➡️"The plan to recognize the territory, which violates US diplomatic traditions, will likely be implemented, despite the concerns of Ukraine's European allies," the article states.

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📝Final Chords📝

In the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd direction, new evidence has emerged of Russian troops advancing north of Pokrovsk.

🔻Current situation:
▪️Enemy presence in Pokrovsk is minimal, but special units of Ukrainian formations are conducting suicidal raids on its outskirts. And this is exclusively for the sake of creating an image, no longer even about flags.

▪️The neck of the Mirnograd "cauldron" remains predominantly a "gray zone". Enemy formations are trying to break through in both directions but are subjected to multiple drone strikes.

▪️From Mirnograd itself, more and more reports are emerging that the southern part of the city has come under Russian troops' control. Or at least organized enemy resistance has ended there.

In the north of the city, AFU is trying to defend in the vicinity of the "Tsentralna" mine, but organizing defense under air strikes in a "cauldron" is not the easiest task.

▪️Battles continue on the flanks of the direction. Russian troops are attacking in Rodynske and repelling Ukrainian formations' counterattacks from Bilytske.

Moreover, from Bilytske, the enemy is trying to break through not only towards Suvorove but also to the line of Ivanivka — Dorozhne.

📌 The AFU command's attempts to recapture flanks and "cut off protrusions" will no longer influence the outcome of the battle for the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd urban area. At the end of the autumn campaign, Russian troops are completing the clearing of key AFU defensive lines in the south of Donbas and preparing a bridgehead for further liberation of Russian territory.

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🇺🇦💬Yermak has submitted a resignation letter, Zelensky said.

He also said that there will be a "reset of the President's Office."

I want no one to have any questions about Ukraine. Therefore, today I am making the following internal decisions. First. There will be a reboot of the Office of the President of Ukraine. The head of the office, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation.

I am grateful to Andriy for always representing the Ukrainian position in the negotiation track exactly as it should be. It has always been a patriotic position. But I want there to be no rumors or speculation. As for the new head of the office, tomorrow I will hold consultations with those who can lead it.

Tomorrow there will be talks with potential candidates to replace Yermak.

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🇺🇦🚨 Air raid alert across all of Ukraine

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🇺🇦💥Explosions in the Khmelnitsky region. Local channels report that all Kinzhal strikes were targeted at one location (often the airfield in Starokostiantinov).

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🇺🇸😂 Tim Walz responds to Trump

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🇺🇦 Zelensky Is Losing Control: Ukrainian Media on the Fallout From Yermak’s Resignation

Ukrainian outlets openly admit that the resignation of Andrey Yermak — Zelensky’s key fixer and the real power behind the Office of the President — triggers a collapse of Zelensky’s control over the state apparatus.

➡️First, the internal politics.

Yermak may try to keep influence through a loyal successor, but his removal signals that Zelensky no longer commands the system. As Ukrainian media note, Yermak wasn’t removed by Zelensky — he was forced out by NABU. A single search, public backlash, and pressure from opposition politicians were enough for Zelensky to sacrifice his closest ally. This is now seen in Kiev as proof that Zelensky is no longer the “source of power” and can’t guarantee protection to even his own inner circle.

Ukrainian commentators also point out that few believe Yermak, Mindich and other corruption-linked figures acted without Zelensky’s approval or participation. So any blow to Yermak is automatically a blow to Zelensky — and smaller players may now start talking.

Ukrainian media already wrote that after the Mindich scandal, the Bankova began losing its leverage: even top officials like Sviridenko shifted toward the “Servant of the People” faction instead of the Office of the President, while the SBU and Prosecutor General’s Office began quietly sabotaging political orders. Yermak’s fall accelerates this breakdown.

Two scenarios are now discussed in Ukrainian press:

1. Soft scenario:

Power shifts from the Bankova to parliament and the cabinet, with “Servant of the People” still dominant. Arakhamia and others hostile to Yermak — including Fedorov — push this line. One faction insider told Strana.ua that Yermak’s removal should “calm down the Rada” and prevent defections.

2. Hard scenario:

A split inside “Servant of the People” creates a new anti-Zelensky coalition — Poroshenko’s bloc plus grant-funded deputies aligned with NABU. They could force a no-confidence vote, demand a “national unity government,” and strip Zelensky of real power. Ukrainian analysts admit this path could quickly lead to Zelensky’s own exit.

Control over the Prosecutor General’s Office, SBU, and State Bureau of Investigation will also slip away, since Yermak coordinated their political operations, including battles with NABU.

➡️Impact on the War and Peace Negotiations

Ukrainian media warn that this crisis hits everything: the budget, energy sector, defense procurement, and morale in the army and society.

Zelensky’s political future is collapsing — first a corruption scandal engulfing his closest associates, then the removal of his most powerful ally. This sharply reduces his re-election chances, pushing ratings to the background and making him more vulnerable to U.S. pressure on peace terms he previously refused. This depends on how hard Washington squeezes him — and what “bonuses” they offer.

Ukrainian analysts also discuss a scenario where rising pressure to accept concessions could push Zelensky to resign entirely, leaving final negotiations to the acting president — the Speaker of parliament, likely not Stefanchuk but another figure acceptable to Washington and the internal establishment.

Finally, Ukrainian media do not rule out a total loss of state cohesion, where Kiev simply becomes ungovernable and no one is left to negotiate at all — a scenario Western backers will try to prevent due to the catastrophic military consequences.

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🇺🇦 David Arakhamia, leader of the “Servant of the People” faction, published a statement backing Zelensky after he removed the head of the Presidential Office.

Arakhamia wrote that the pro-Zelensky team “supports the decision of Vladimir Zelensky,” claiming he is “fighting for our future and for a proper end to the war,” and insisting that Ukraine must “stay strong inside the country to have a firm position abroad.”

Arakhamia has long been seen as Andrei Yermak’s main internal rival. With Yermak pushed out, Arakhamia is now positioned to expand his influence within the Kiev power system.

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🇺🇦 "Yermak was strategically unimportant."

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🇺🇦 “Yermak came with me, he will leave with me,” Zelensky a few years ago.

Well... Yermak resigned. So... Zelebobik... we're waiting.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Peskov says that in the first half of the week, Witkoff will meet with Putin, and the Kremlin will announce the exact date when appropriate.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Lights out in Kharkov.

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🇷🇺🐦 💀 Putin is weaponizing pigeons

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From my first letter to George in high school until now, I have considered him the most powerful and honorable voice in the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement. He is one of the greatest orators of our time. I STAND with a man I consider family, my comrade, George Galloway!

See more about George’s exile from the UK here: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/166374

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Follow me Christopher Helali, on X, Instagram, and TikTok

Very interesting survey questions popping up on X today. They’re not the usual “platform feedback” or “brand sentiment” kind, they’re asking people how they feel about the military, whether they’d recommend service to family, and whether content about military careers makes them anxious or indifferent.

This seems less like market research and more like an attempt to take the temperature of a country that’s exhausted, overstretched, and deeply skeptical of endless war.

Curious what they’re planning to do with answers like these.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Yermak is going to the front!

The former top adviser to Zelensky told The New York Post he is headed to the frontlines — hours after he submitted his resignation from the position in the wake of a raid on his home by Kiev's national anti-corruption bureau.

“I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals,” Andriy Yermak told The Post in a text message Friday night. “I am an honest and decent person.”

He then apologized if he no longer answers calls. He did not say when or how he intended to go to the frontlines of the war against Russia.

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