The Putin-loving brain-dead moron speaks...It is alive...
Putin will continue to offer peace terms that Ukraine can't accept. This will go nowhere.
DumbMike; "I highley respeact Putin, he is master and globil worlde leader. He si de bringer of piece".
Putin has been claiming the war is about to end for 4 years and hundreds of times, why is this time different?
Also considering that the war is at a stand still and Russia hasn't moved an inch in the last few months it doesn't look like Ukraine is about to fold.
How do you expect this war to end and what time frame do you expect? You have been wrong for the last 4 years and since you haven't made any silly claims on this topic lately it would be nice for you to give us all another laugh.
Right now, the war is going well for Ukraine. Russia is taking far more casualties. Most of the Russians being killed are by drones.
Ukraine is now the best at AI warfare. This, coupled with the production of their own long-range weapons, means Russia is taking substantial damage. At some point, Russians are going to realise they can't continue the war forever. They had some initial benefits of a wartime economy, but that will destroy the economy of their own country when going on for too long.
SB
Show me any public statement to journalists where Putin said the War will. Under the corrupt Biden Administration feeding corruption in Washington there were no negotiations to stop the war - in fact when Turkey tried to negotiate a ceasefire in April 2022 Biden and his partner in idiocy ordered the Ukraine Foreign Minister to leave Istanbul immediately after a draft agreement was reached and was about to be initialed.
Since then the War escalated and no talk of Putin about ending the War took place - so when and where did Putin make any statement that the War would end. When under Trump negotiations started to end the War Putin never said the War would end soon.
I expect no/thing since the USA and NATO countries did not adhere to sanctions they claimed they imposed and then traded with Russia. Trump started to put real pressure on Russia. Other than negotiations the Trump Administration put real pressure on Russia and n negotiations are continuing.
Unlike the site idiots claiming that Ukraine is winning the War and Putin wanted Ukraine incorporated in Russia there were no real evidence of that objective either. Putin played hard ball - but negotiations are continuing. Proof that Trump will act more decisively against Russia stopped Russia in their tracks.
I obviously I do not know what is discussed at present and you get your info from media lies so I cannot say when and how the War would end, A three day ceasefire and POW exchange are promising signs. Once there is more info on what is happening a forecast will be possible,, .
By the way if there are brainwashed idiots who allow the media to think for them it is you and other Ayatollah loving site members.
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Your hero Putin is good friends with Iran, and the Ayatollah in particular. The Shahed drones used in Ukraine were originally from Iran.
At the very start of the war, Russia tried to take Kyiv, but that ended in a roadblock disaster, and Ukraine pushed them back. Only an utter idiot thinks that Putin does not want to colonise Ukraine and make it part of Russia.
Your hero Putin is good friends with Iran, and the Ayatollah
As are the European leaders in every practical sense and the agonized woke set. And yet they are, rightly, dead set against the Russian dictator. They seem a bit conflicted.
As are the European leaders in every practical sense
I guess the fact that Europe isn't attacking North Korea makes Europe good friends with North Korea as well then.
America now help Russia against Ukraine. They cancelled the sanctions against Russia. Trump said that tis may be permanent, even once the Iran war is over.
America frequently visit Russia to negotiate a "peace" agreement, which is really just to surrender the Donbas.
Trump claims America must have Greenland to prevent Russia and China from gaining a foothold in the Arctic. Then one week later America announces joint mining expeditions between Russia and America in the Arctic.
Trumps security plan considers Europe the North, East and South, completing disregarding the growing EU. It seems to be some deal with Putin where Russia will take back Eastern European countries - but as party of Russia, not the USSR. As part of the deal America will take control of the Western Hemisphere.
Trump is getting played by Russia, because no one hates America more than Russia.. They know that Trumps actions will damage America in the medium to long-term. America is now owned by the Oligarchs, and becoming more like Russia by the day.
"I guess the fact that Europe isn't attacking North Korea makes Europe good friends with North Korea as well then."
Do they buy billions of energy from the Norks?
Do they buy billions of energy from the Norks
Have they denied their bases to spare the North Koreans. Have they denigrated the country that saved them from a Nazi super state…..on behalf of the North Koreans. Nope. But the increase in military spending on top of their moribund economy will be fair recompense.
Stav
The European leaders are weak and useless insofar as talking to liars who abuse the sanctions there own sanctions they are supposed to apply and that makes them untrustworthy if being trustworthiness is concerned.
Germany is in economic decline with the GD} over the last 4 have decreassd every years.
What is there to discuss?
Stav
The European leaders are weak and useless insofar as talking to liars who abuse the sanctions there own sanctions they are supposed to apply and that makes them untrustworthy if being trustworthiness is concerned.
Germany is in economic decline with the GD} over the last 4 have decreassd every years.
What is there to discuss?
Do they buy billions of energy from the Norks?
No and we also buy virtually nothing from Iran either
In general Europe doesn't get much of its energy transiting out of the from the Straights of Hormuz. For the EU it's something like 6.2% of crude oil and 8.7% of it's LNG.
Have they denied their bases to spare the North Koreans. Have they denigrated the country that saved them from a Nazi super state…..on behalf of the North Koreans. Nope. But the increase in military spending on top of their moribund economy will be fair recompense.
Imagine writing that post and expecting a serious response.
What is there to discuss?
Absolutely nothing with you.
Imagine writing that post and expecting a serious response
If I expected a serious response I wouldn’t be addressing my comment to you….number 56.
In response to Mike's question, I’m not sure if the war is nearing its end, though like most people I hope it does—sooner rather than later. What I do know is that Russia isn’t winning a war it began under the illusion it could wrap up in just a couple of weeks. That alone marks a loss for Putin, and he’ll face heavy consequences from his own people.
"No and we also buy virtually nothing from Iran either"
We were talking about the Ruskies...not?
A "few" European countries still purchased gas from Russia, Hungary and a 2 other countries.
However, nearly all oil and gas sales from Russia to Europe have stopped.
This is less than 2% of the EU's oil and gas still purchased from Russia.
This is Peanuts...
Good.
We were talking about the Ruskies...not?
Sorry when you said Norks I thought you were referring to North Korea actually.
Anyway the last couple of months have been going quite well for Ukraine. While everyone was distracted with the Iran conflict, Russia started a new offensive about two months back and it's progressed very poorly, so poorly that it's being reported on very little. Many people don't even seem to know the Russians launched it. Their rate of advance is far slower than what they were able to achieve last year which wasn't particularly fast in the first place and it's been reported in the last few months that Russian causalities have shot up to over 30,000 a month, a casualty rate even Russia can't sustain.
Apparently what's changed in the last few months is that Ukraine has been able to develop new types of drones that are effective at medium range. Previously the Ukrainian's had good short and long range drone capability, but there medium range drone capability was lacking. This medium range is where the Russian's could build up concentrations of forces for their attacks largely unmolested by Ukrainian drone attacks. That safe haven now appears to be gone for them.
In addition their long range attacks seem to be impossible to deal with. Ukraine has done a good job of degrading Russian air defence systems and the sheer size of Russia is now working against the Russian's for once as they can't protect everything from Ukrainian drone attacks. Ukraine even has attacked as far Siberia at this point.
I remember last year when the Trump administration was pressuring Ukraine to take the deal that was on offer we had people arguing that Ukraine was best off taking the deal because they had little left in the tank. Ukraine has time and again proven the doubters wrong.
I'm hoping for a change in their fortune soon...the people of Ukraine deserves some peace.
Who.t.f are Norks ?
"Norks" is a slang term, primarily used in Australia and sometimes the UK, for a woman's breasts. The term originated in the 20th century and is often considered vulgar or coarse slang. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Drones are currently responsible for over 90% of Russian casualties ... the changing face of modern warfare & Russian war dead estimated at 350,000 ... total casualties 1.2 million.
Slava Ukraine
Norks = Nort Koreans..
Nork is a derogatory slang term used to refer to North Korea or its citizens. The word is a portmanteau derived from North Korea.
While the term is widely recognized as a pejorative, its usage and acceptability are subjects of debate:
I see it is considered a racial slur...it wasn't intended as such...I like Korean people... don't know any North Koreans, but I don't have any dislike for them either...even if they're Communist...let them be...each to their own.
Europe | Turning the tide of war
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May 10th 2026|7 min read
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THIS YEAR’S Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9th involved nothing triumphal. For the first time in two decades tanks and other military vehicles did not rumble through Red Square in celebration of the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany. Russia’s authorities deemed it too great a risk to cram armoured vehicles and missile-carriers into nearby staging areas—they would have made far too juicy a target for Ukraine’s increasingly effective drones. In the run-up to the big day, mobile internet services in Moscow and St Petersburg were cut off for security reasons. Large numbers of air-defence systems were redeployed from remote parts of the country.
Rubbing in the insult Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, issued a decree to “permit” the parade to proceed, saying that Red Square would not be attacked. This came shortly after Ukraine and Russia agreed to a three-day ceasefire brokered by America, though by May 10th both sides were accusing the other of having violated it. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, speaking after the parade, said he thought the war was “coming to an end”.
Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war
The symbolism of the diminished parade is hard to overstate. A day that was meant to epitomise the military might of Mr Putin’s Russia instead signalled its vulnerability and weakness. In this, at least, it was an accurate reflection of Russia’s battlefield setbacks, and of Russia’s fear of the growing effectiveness of Ukraine’s long-range strikes. For the first time in nearly three years the initiative in the war appears to have shifted in favour of Ukraine. Having got through a harsh winter, when its cities and energy grid were pummelled almost nightly by massed Russian drones and missiles, Ukraine is now turning the tide. It is imposing increasing costs on Russia by almost every measure.
Not only has Russia’s expected spring offensive been a flop, but in April Russian forces suffered a net loss of territory for the first time since August 2024 (when Ukraine seized territory in Russia’s Kursk oblast). The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think-tank in Washington, recently listed contributing factors to Ukraine’s successes: ground counter-attacks and mid-range strikes by Ukraine’s forces; the end of Russia’s illicit use of Starlink terminals in Ukraine; and the Kremlin’s paranoid throttling of the Telegram messaging app at home. By our calculations, based on ISW maps, Russia has lost control of 113 square kilometres over the past 30 days.
Map: The Economist
“Overall, it feels like an inflection point in the war,” says Sir Lawrence Freedman, an emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London. “If the Russians have nothing to show for their efforts I would not be surprised if in some places things start crumbling.” Losses of soldiers, running at 35,000 a month, exceed the pace at which Russia can recruit replacements. And behind the raw numbers—nearly 1.4m killed and seriously wounded since Russia’s invasion—is a grimmer new development. Until last year, the ratio of killed to wounded Russian soldiers may have been between 1:2 and 1:3, poor by modern standards but roughly in line with past conflicts. In March Mr Zelensky said that Russia was suffering almost two dead soldiers for every one wounded. “The stoicism and fatalism of Russian soldiers must be wearing thin,” says Sir Lawrence.
The dead-to-wounded ratio appears to be rising because so many casualties—perhaps as many as 80%—are now caused by so-called first-person view (FPV) drones. Loaded with explosives, these drones hunt enemy soldiers and imperil attempts at medical evacuation, which in any case has never been a high priority for the Russians. “They simply leave their wounded on the battlefield,” says Seth Jones, a senior military analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Russian soldiers complain that Ukraine’s new autonomous drones are inaudible until they dive. They use artificial intelligence and are controlled with fibre-optic cables to thwart jammers. Alexy Chadayev, the director of a drone-development and testing facility in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod, wrote on April 7th that Russia had “lost leadership” over the past six months to Ukraine and was struggling to move units close to the front. “We have enormous problems with last-mile logistics,” he said. “Up to 90% of our [drone-team] losses are currently occurring there.” Russia has been forced to impose restrictions on the size of convoys in Donetsk to make them harder to detect. Only two lorries are allowed to move together.
A drone “kill zone” of some 20km between the front lines is being extended far to the Russian rear, Sir Lawrence argues. This has a greater impact on Russian operations than Ukrainian ones because the Russians are trying to advance. For Ukraine it is far more effective to take out the supporting infrastructure for an offensive than it is to kill the few troops who now lead attacks.
The Ukrainians face similar problems in the drone-saturated killing zone, but they place a much higher value on the lives of their soldiers, and so make greater use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for evacuation and carrying supplies close to the front. And in most places they are not trying to advance.
Farther back from the front line, Russia is suffering mounting losses to Ukraine’s mid-range drones (with ranges of 50km to 300km). Mr Zelensky recently claimed that procurement of such systems so far this year is five times greater than in all of 2025. Targets include ammunition depots, drone warehouses, command-and-control posts, surface-to-air-missile launchers, radars and deployment points where armoured vehicles and troops are concentrated.
Added to the battlefield setbacks is the increase in the scale, range and intensity of Ukraine’s deep-strike operations in Russia. In March, for the first time, Ukraine surpassed Russia in the number of long-range drone attacks it launched. Economic and military targets almost 2,000km from the Ukrainian border are regularly being hit. That brings 70% of Russia’s population within range of Ukrainian drones. “The attacks have caused psychological damage to Russia,” says Mr Jones.
On April 25th four of Russia’s best combat aircraft were damaged in a strike on Shagol airfield deep in the southern Urals. An oil refinery and pumping station at Perm, in the Urals, was set ablaze in early May. Oil infrastructure across multiple regions and oil-export hubs are being hit with increasing frequency. In April attacks on ports and refineries forced Russia to cut production by as much as 400,000 barrels a day, Reuters reports. On April 29th Mr Zelensky claimed that internal Russian reports indicated that the ports of Novorossiysk and Ust-Luga were operating at respectively 38% and 43% below capacity. However, overall Russian oil exports only fell by 7% in April and its revenues nearly doubled thanks to the Iran war.
Russia’s size and the systematic year-long Ukrainian campaign to degrade its air-defence systems makes protecting even valuable assets almost impossible. “They can’t defend against drone attacks with area defence,” says Mr Jones. “And they don’t have point defence at many of the locations where they need it.” Whereas Ukraine has developed several types of interceptor-drones that are now shooting down about 95% of Russia’s Shahed-type attack drones, Russia has been slow to produce its own versions.
The crucial question is whether Russia’s various setbacks—on the battlefield or through the destruction of economic infrastructure—are indicators that Mr Putin’s opportunities in Ukraine are shrinking. Sir Lawrence says much depends on the next few months, and in particular on whether Russia can counter Ukraine’s advances in drones. Another concern is whether Russia is husbanding its forces for a big offensive in the summer. “The reality is that they are struggling at the front and not much is going right for them,” he says. Mr Jones agrees: “It’s hard to see how things can improve for Russia. If you’re briefing Putin, it’s a pretty bleak picture.” ?
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Read the following about the potential end of the Ukraine War:-
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said he thinks the war with Ukraine could end soon.
"I think that the matter ?is coming to an end," Putin told reporters, according to Reuters.
Putin’s words came a day after Trump announced a three-day ceasefire to celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, as well as a massive prisoner exchange between both nations.
The ceasefire began on Saturday and will run through Monday, Trump wrote on Truth Social. "The celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II."
"This ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prisoner swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country," he added. "This request was made directly by me, and I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy."
The day was celebrated with Russia’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.
The war in Ukraine has dragged on for more than four years after Russia invaded the country in February 2022, with the Kremlin initially believing it could win quickly yet Russia still hasn’t been able to take the entire Donbass region.
Putin told reporters that he would prefer to talk to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder when asked about talks with European leaders.
He added that he would only consider speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a lasting peace deal had been agreed upon.
On X, Zelenskyy confirmed the exchange of prisoners captured during the four-year conflict, which began when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
"Within the framework of the negotiating process mediated by the American side, we received Russia’s agreement to conduct a prisoner exchange in the format of 1,000 for 1,000," he wrote. "A ceasefire regime must also be established on May 9, 10, and 11. Ukraine is consistently working to bring its people home from Russian captivity. I have instructed our team to promptly prepare everything necessary for the exchange."
Zelenskyy also thanked Trump for his diplomatic involvement in the process and said he hopes the United States will make sure Moscow abides by the agreement.
If the Ukraine War ends the site members who hate Trump can concentrate on t he Iran War sitiation.- they have not writtenf or mont hs about th e U<raine War and left Ukraine issues on site,
The weak and corrupt Obama and Boden Administrations caused havoc in the world and the countries hating the USA presidents causad major problem in international relations, Under Trump there is a different scenario - negotiate or you get punished.