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It’s time to summarize the strategic and political context of what has been happening over the last two weeks. This text is dedicated to that.  The entire intense discourse surrounding negotiations (both in the West and the East, as well as from internal sources) was based on a simple logic: Russia cannot be defeated in a competition of capabilities, so […]

My biography has taken such a peculiar path that I’ve had the chance to work with various intelligence agencies: Soviet, Ukrainian, and American. So, I know for sure: the main problems for intelligence agencies arise when they are managed not by professionals but by politicians. This very issue seems to have arisen with respect to the Main Directorate of Intelligence […]

News that you won’t hear in the media and that might seem unimportant right now in the context of the swift operation in the Kursk region: ● Fact ■ What it threatens ● The enemy is less than 6 km from Selydove (I saw it personally). Defending the city for a long time and effectively is extremely difficult due to […]

The blue duct tape is running out. No, this is not a joke. Soon, there might be fundraising for duct tape… In less than two weeks of the Kursk operation, more than 2,000 prisoners (rumor has it that it’s over 2,500 bodies). Mostly conscripts. To put things into perspective, the entire Kursk group amounted to up to 10,000 bodies. So, […]

Almost everyone is closely following the course of the special operation in the Kursk region—how much territory is controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which settlements are involved, and the potential directions of further strikes. But what is happening on the diplomatic front in connection with Kursk is no less important. And here we have a very telling reaction. China, […]

Finally, one should ask oneself whether a “sudden removal” is possible. The answer is straightforward: a sudden removal is possible in two cases (excluding the exotic version of poisoning orchestrated by other intelligence agencies, which I consider almost fantastical, although Putin does everything to provoke everyone): a lone shooter, as was recently the case with Trump, or a deadly fright […]

I don’t comment on the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Sumy and Kursk regions in military terms. it is really a wonder that the Russian invaders suddenly remembered that a state border does exist! But I would like to give a reference in terms of international law. First, according to Art. 51 of the UN Charter, Ukraine has […]

After taking the necessary pause, I now have the right to speak up following the fact that our political leadership has effectively acknowledged the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region. When there was much talk last year about the Ukrainian counteroffensive, I dreamed it would be something like what we are witnessing now: a swift raid by our mechanized brigades […]

In Lipetsk region last night, there were powerful explosions as munitions on the enemy airfield burned and detonated following an attack by Ukrainian drones. Sevastopol also experienced loud explosions during an attack by Ukrainian naval and aerial drones. In Kursk region, a column of Russian troops was reportedly destroyed, and possibly more than one. Once, in 1939, the all-powerful Nazi […]

On February 23, 2021, a year before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Zelensky signed a law allowing for the demarcation of our state border. During the demarcation process, topographic filming or aerial photography of the area is conducted, which is then used to create a large-scale topographic map of the border zone. Border markers (posts, barbed wire fences, […]

How a group of volunteers from the ground forces reconnaissance battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed an officer sabotage group of the elite special operations forces of the Russian armed forces. On July 28, near the village of Mkhy, Semenivka District, Chernihiv region, a reconnaissance group from one of the reconnaissance battalions of the Ukrainian Ground Forces discovered and […]

Recently, there have been few events worthy of serious analysis. Among them, there are even fewer positive ones. But the one remain is russia war againts Ukraine. Can Ukraine adapt to a constantly changing war? The only notable achievement is the complete interception of the russian shaheds that attacked Kyiv and the Kyiv region at night, made possible by increased […]