The rashists are stuck. They have no achievements at the front. Internally, there is a financial pit and an inability to defend against attacks by Ukrainian UAVs that destroy oil refineries and oil export terminals. The population is beginning to suspect something, and “we don’t care, we’re tired of fighting” is gradually becoming a trend.
A more or less sane leader in Putin’s place would have already gone for a ceasefire and negotiations. However, sanity is not about the rashists. Therefore, being forced to decide something, they must first show that everything is supposedly on their terms. And for this, they will go for escalation.
What kind? They don’t have the strength for ground operations. But just like today in Kyiv and Dnipro — that’s just it. They don’t have much with rockets either, but they have enough for a few massive attacks, so this should be taken into account. Possibly, for a cumulative effect, they will start a hybrid attack on EU countries.
We have almost reached the shore. Thanks to our Armed Forces and other defense forces, we have not drowned. Now the main thing is to withstand the next few months. Well, and not to forget that Ukraine’s future is only in the fortress we have to build ourselves.
“The SVO can be completed by the end of the day if Zelensky orders the Armed Forces to leave Russian regions,” — Peskov.
This statement came right after a massive terrorist attack on Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv.
What follows from this? It’s simple. As of today, Russia has lost any chance to fully occupy the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions, which it recorded in its Putin-violated Constitution as certain Russian territories. The RF Armed Forces don’t have the strength or means for this; moreover, it’s even losing the ability to hold certain territories, which for the Kremlin regime may soon turn into another stage of the SVO with the adoption of “difficult decisions.”
Moscow is trying to achieve its goals through terror, and the war criminal Peskov confirmed just that with the above. Terror and murder, genocide of the civilian population — this is the only way for Russia to push Kyiv towards ephemeral concessions comparable to capitulation. The occupying country, the aggressor country, the terrorist country, being on the verge of capitulation, is trying to force Ukraine into it with blood and murder, just like in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025…
In general, this is all that needs to be understood about the position Russia finds itself in the fifth year of the war against Ukraine.
Photo: 5th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade
