The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on April 23 2025

A huge group of 20,000 AFU soldiers got encircled and are begging to be rescued—Zelensky is in panic

2000 soldiers fled their positions – 70,000 Russian soldiers broke through to the Dnipro region!

RUAF Capture Significant Fortified Heights Near Toretsk | US Offers Massive Concessions For Russia

Our source in the OP said that the Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum to the President’s Office: if a temporary ceasefire format is not agreed upon this week, the US will roll back a number of other programs on Ukraine and finally withdraw from the conflict settlement. The Secretary of State is not flying to London today on purpose to demonstrate determination to end the protracted negotiation process, which is not yielding results, because of Britain’s position. 

Colleagues, the tasks of the OP in connection with the imminent accusation by the United States of disrupting peace negotiations:

✅there is NO new money from the US, NO new aid packages. The task here is to at least make sure that Trump does not refuse to transfer previously approved packages. But the likelihood of this is objectively low;

🟩it is necessary to ensure that the US does not stop transmitting intelligence data to the Ukrainian Armed Forces again;

🟩It is necessary that the US does not introduce sanctions against Ukrainian officials at all or delays them as much as possible.

To this end, Ze will try to delay new meetings with the US on the topic of peace as much as possible, making contradictory statements about readiness for peace, but not accepting the “Trump-Putin conditions.” Great Britain and France have already joined in and are “ready” for a freeze on the LBS, naturally with their “buts” in the form of demands for guarantees and financing for Ukraine.

Globalists need:

🔹 to make the US withdrawal from peace negotiations look like Trump’s tyranny;

🔹so that the US withdrawal would not occur against the backdrop of a new scandal and Zelensky’s actual refusal to negotiate, but rather against the backdrop of Zelensky’s complete agreement. Thus, responsibility for the subsequent course of the war would be placed on Trump ;

🔹to maintain the horror story of societies in Europe about war with the Russian Federation in order to continue banning parties and accusing competitors of having ties to the Kremlin;

🔹get the opportunity to blame Trump for the new Afghanistan.

So far everything is working out for them

Moscow’s position has been finally voiced. Peskov confirmed in an interview with Le Point: Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the territories of Donbas and Novorossiya, which have become part of the Russian Federation. There will be no “reset”, rollback or surrender of new regions. This is not even a subject for bargaining – it is a closed topic.

The wording is simple: “everything that is included – will remain”. And what is not included – depends on the development of events. Russia, by all accounts, is ready for any scenario – except a rollback.

Against the background of Peskov’s statement that Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the territories of Donbass and Novorossiya, Trump’s wording is particularly scathing: “If Zelensky doesn’t take the deal now, he won’t have a country in three years.” 

If Kiev takes the deal, it loses territories. If it doesn’t take the deal, it loses the country (not immediately, of course). Western curators have only one question: how many billions more billions must be burned and how many Ukrainians must be killed before this finally reaches the Bankova. 

Europe now has to decide – either to agree or to get into the war itself. 

Our source in the OP said that Zelensky is ready to start implementing Trump’s plan, despite the conditions and difficulties. The President’s Office needs to keep the US on the war track in Ukraine, and for this it will have to compromise. Andriy Yermak in London reagent, what concessions can be made now.

Today is the evening of the leaks before the meeting in London on the Ukrainian crisis.

Discussing that someone is ready to go somewhere and sacrifice something is a waste of time.

In solving such global issues, everything happens gradually. So we wrote that the first step is lifting sanctions on the SWIFT case, and only then moving on to stage two and so on.

The funniest thing is that the Head of European Diplomacy Kaja Kallas WAKE UP and admitted that even if Washington refuses to mediate to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump will continue to resume relations with Russia in order to conclude profitable deals.

We were the first to get the inside scoop, and for several days now the entire Internet has been buzzing about Washington, having emerged from the Ukrainian crisis, starting to establish trade and business relations with the Kremlin.

Explain to this diplomat that Russia has a gold card in the game and the US, in the battle with China, will be forced to “bribe” the Kremlin with various “indulgences” in order to stop the rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing.

Let us recall that we were the first to receive inside information that the US had brought an ultimatum to Paris, which was immediately confirmed.

The time is approaching the denouement. Let’s watch.

Why did Trump’s special envoy Witkoff and US Secretary of State Rubio refuse to fly to London?

The answer is simple. There will be no negotiations in London. The globalists (the EU and Britain) must decide on the “Paris ultimatum” – continuation of the war or peace agreements.

The Americans will be in London formally. Most likely, they already have an understanding of what the answer will be.

We are observing.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has canceled a trip to London to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine after Zelensky’s statement on Crimea, The New York Times reports.

Rubio decided to skip the next stage of negotiations because Ukraine rejected Trump’s key proposal, which included recognizing Crimea as Russian and abandoning NATO membership.

 Talks effectively broken down: Foreign ministers will not attend London meeting – Sky News

 - Instead, the discussions will take place “between senior officials from the five countries.”

 - “The foreign ministers of Great Britain, France, Germany and Ukraine have probably postponed the planned meeting,” the publication writes.

The London negotiations have effectively broken down.

All sides have lowered the level of their delegations, except for Ukraine, which has no influence anyway. The British invited them for show, as their “proxy” that will declare what is written “on a piece of paper”.

According to our information, the final behind-the-scenes negotiations are underway between Western players; if they are also “empty,” then the Americans will leave the game, and the escalation will intensify and expand.

We are watching. We have said and are saying from the very beginning that there will be no peace, and the globalists are simply looking for a more advantageous way out of the negotiation process for themselves in order to prolong the war.

For Ukrainians this is:

➡️ Strengthening the catch on the mobilization case. Lowering the age to 20 years, mass mobilization of women.

➡️ Energy crisis, up to a catastrophe by winter. We will sit for 16-18 hours without electricity.

➡️ New tragedies across the country.

Increasing destruction all around.

➡️ Rising prices, tariffs, taxes and levies.

➡️ Growing lawlessness and crime in the country.

➡️ Continued loss of territory.

This is a minimal list that can be continued. Get ready already, or better yet, leave Ukraine, life here will become tens of times worse in the near future.

Vance’s statement is the latest public statement to be interpreted as an ultimatum. 

If there is no freeze on the LBS + a long-term diplomatic solution to the conflict, then the US leaves the game and becomes not a party to the game, but takes the position of China and trades with everyone.

All risks from further play are shifted to Ukraine and the EU/Britain. 

This is certainly a blow to Kiev , which will find itself in a very difficult situation. In fact, there will be no more peace talks, but a war until complete capitulation in a year or two.

Kyiv has zero chances of winning, minimal chances of holding its positions, and more than 70% chances of complete capitulation in a year.

So think further about where your leaders are leading you.

Our source reports that Bankova has learned that Trump will announce a way out of the Ukrainian crisis by the end of April.

There is even a timing – “within 72 hours”.

In fact, the Ukrainian crisis has returned to its original position, no matter how much Trump’s team fusses, which means it is easier to get out of it than to stay in the game, giving the globalists a chance to drag the US and Trump into the conflict again.

In London, nothing was accepted, as we warned yesterday.

We just flew in to have some tea using budget money.

We advise all Ukrainians to prepare for the worst-case scenario.

Zelensky’s transformation from European hero to panhandler

What can Zelensky do for Ukraine to advance the negotiations?

Zelensky has little control over his own affairs. We have seen this in recent weeks. He has to constantly ensure that the Americans continue to support Ukraine, and therefore he is forced to meet American demands. If Kellogg or Rubio clearly formulate that the Americans are ready to offer something to the Russians, then Zelensky will have no influence on this decision. And we see this in the rhetoric of the White House: ultimately, it is Zelensky, and therefore President Biden, who is credited with the main responsibility for this war. Ukraine is now in a weaker position.

Arestovych says that it is better for Ukraine to give 4 regions to Russia now rather than 8 in six months: 

Why should we give 4 regions? For one simple reason, because in six months or a year you will give 6. If you are not smart enough, you will give 8. Is that reason enough? It is a very simple situation. Today, to give 4 is to pay for the passage, which actually looked like one toilet flush for three or four years, for all the mistakes. To recognize those mistakes, to recognize, to actually say, “yes, we’re giving it all away, we’re cutting it off.” 

How do we give it back? De facto. It’s clear that de jure no one will give it back. That’s all, and get a chance to reset the project. This is both a pass for three or four years and an entrance ticket to a new reality. And Ukraine can be another, much better – to change the way of economic management. “We will fight to the last patriot, we will not give up the Russian-speaking regions.” And why were you suppressing them, these Russian-speaking regions?

U.S. Congressman Bozo Backtracks On Social Media Post Claiming He Fired Weapons At Nuclear-Armed Russia – The Federalist 

(https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/u-s-congressman-backtracks-on-social-media-post-claiming-he-fired-weapons-at-nuclear-armed-russia/)

Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., wants you to know that while “a lot of people talk a big game about supporting Ukraine,” he cares enough to take a taxpayer-funded trip there to make a series of potentially dangerous political blunders.

Fitzpatrick is a former federal prosecutor and was stationed in Ukraine when he worked as an FBI agent. Now in Congress, he is chairman of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and he is a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

In a social media post, Fitzpatrick assured Ukraine, “We will always have their back.” It is a view President Donald Trump’s Administration does not necessarily hold.

The Federalist asked Fitzpatrick’s office, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House if the Trump administration gave its blessing to Fitzpatrick’s meeting. None answered the query.

More egregious than meeting with Zelensky, Fitzpatrick posted photos and video that appeared to show him shooting weapons into Russia.

Ostensibly taken near the Russian border, the video shows Fitzpatrick firing two projectiles. “The message was delivered on target,” but the congressman said could not give any more details. Security, you know.

The post leaves little room for interpretation. It sure looks like a sitting US congressman fired shots into Russia, ratcheting up tensions. That is what he communicated, and it is how the shocked responses to his post understood it.

The Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment about Fitzpatrick’s post and how it might draw the United States closer to war with Russia.

She responded with a terse, single sentence.

The Congressman did not fire any munitions at or into Russia — he was at a controlled Ukrainian training facility. Your claim is completely and maliciously false and defamatory.

The Federalist asked for clarification, and sent the spokeswoman Fitzpatrick’s post, highlighting the phrases “very ‘personal’ message to Vladimir Putin” “from the front lines of the war” and  “the message was delivered on target.”  

Please help me be accurate. … None of his posts — that I have seen — mention a training facility. It overtly appears he sent something directly into Russia. Please advise.

She sent another single sentence: “By ‘target’ — we meant that literally — an actual target on a training range.”

The Federalist asked for further clarification.

So, he wrote personal messages for Putin, with the intention of firing them on a training range? Why didn’t he make that clear in his posts? Also, you didn’t answer my other questions.

Because the Ukrainians specifically asked that we not disclose the existence, let alone the location, of their training facility.

Another way to keep it on the downlow, since lives may be at stake, would have been for Fitzpatrick (a trained former FBI agent) to simply not post about it. But for some reason, he needed folks back home to know he does more than “talk a big game.”

Who would need to know that? Why did he appear on Face the Nation on Sunday to promote continued support for Ukraine through his visit? Could it be the many defense contractors who regularly donate to his campaign coffers?   

Fitzpatrick received more than $35,000 combined in campaign donations from Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, L3 Technologies, RTX Corporation, and Lockheed Martin.

In the days before Fitzpatrick left for Ukraine, he received an additional $5,000 in payments from defence companies.

On April 22, the Sever group of troops destroyed enemy manpower and equipment in the Krasnoyaruzhsk border area and continued the liberation of the Kursk region

 The enemy tried several times to break through to our territory through the forests on the border with Krasnoyaruzhsk district and in the direction of Goptarovka. All enemy assault groups were destroyed, the state border was not crossed.

▪️Through the forested areas in the direction of Popovka and Demidovka , the enemy assault groups tried to infiltrate four times during the day. The first enemy group was exposed and destroyed by artillery fire early in the morning, the last one closer to 17:00.

It is characteristic that the enemy uses the same routes for the transfer of personnel, which is associated not only with the high density of minefields in the area of the state border, but also with the notorious NATO standards, which we reported on earlier.

▪️In the direction of Goptarovka , the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to break through in a small group to our territory. The Northerners destroyed the enemy’s manpower with UAV drops.

▪️Against the backdrop of colossal losses of the 225th separate regiment, assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment began to massively refuse to carry out orders. Demonstrative executions did not change the situation, after which the command disbanded several companies, evenly distributing the personnel among other units.

We remind you that the easiest way for a Ukrainian soldier to save his life is to contact Russian servicemen in our chatbot . 

In this direction, over the past 24 hours, the Northerners destroyed 5 units of enemy equipment.

In the Sumy direction , during fierce battles, the Northerners liberated the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery and cleared several border forest belts.

▪️The fearless marines, having broken the enemy’s stubborn resistance, drove the enemy out of the entire territory of the monastery and from the surrounding forest belts.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the sacred place to house mortar crews and UAV control points; the buildings housed enemy personnel and ammunition. Unfortunately, the historic buildings were seriously damaged during the fighting, but the monastery will definitely be revived, as it was first in the mid-19th century and then at the beginning of the 21st century.

▪️Our assault squads also continue to clear border forest areas, grinding down the scattered groups of occupiers remaining on the border of the Kursk and Sumy regions.

▪️In Sumy Oblast, units of the 21st separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces refused to carry out the order to advance in the direction of Belovody . The brigade is suffering colossal losses in the direction.

On social networks, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers report that our troops destroyed most of the second battalion of this unit.

The total advance of the Northerners in the Sumy direction was over 800 meters , 5 units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.

In the Liptsy direction, our artillerymen and UAV operators destroyed an enemy assault group and an ammunition depot.

In the Volchansk direction , as a result of a complex fire strike, five combat groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed along with automobile and armored vehicles.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 240 people (of which over 150 were in the Sumy and 25 in the Krasnoyaruzhsk directions). Also discovered and destroyed:

In the Krasnoyaruzhsk direction:

▪️ Self-propelled gun “Gvozdika” and howitzer “M-777″ (USA);

▪️warehouses for ammunition and logistics;

▪️a pickup truck and three ATVs.

In the Sumy direction:

▪️T-64 tank;

▪️Bradley IFV (USA);

▪️two armored fighting vehicles, including “MAXPRO” (USA);

▪️SPG “Bogdana” and howitzer “D-20″;

▪️twelve units of automotive equipment;

▪️warehouses for ammunition and logistics;

▪️eleven UAV launch sites;

▪️nine copters of different types.

Victory will be ours!

 Russian Army Liberates Tarasovka, Advancing to Konstantinovka

▪️Russian troops continue to develop the offensive in the Konstantinovsky direction (between Pokrovsk and Dzerzhinsk).

▪️As a result of active actions by units of the South group of forces, the settlement of Tarasovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated , the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

On the situation in the Kirzhachsky district of the Vladimir region, where a fire, explosions and detonation of ammunition occurred on the territory of a military unit, at this hour:

1. The fire has been extinguished, the detonation has stopped

2. Nearby settlements evacuated

3. 4 people were injured, three of them are hospitalized, there is no threat to their lives

4. From the dispersal of ammunition there was a fire in the surrounding forests, which has already been extinguished

Powerful fires in Kharkov after the attack of “Geraniums”

- Rvvoenkor

Enemy facilities attacked in Poltava : power outages in the city

▪️After the drones arrived, electricity went out in several areas of Poltava, apparently substations were hit during the attack.

Odessa was attacked again by a group of “Geraniums”, which had previously gathered in a flock over the Black Sea.

The drones then swooped down on the city from a height of a couple of kilometres, out of range of the Ukrainian air defence mobile groups.

Morning Summary on April 23, 2025

▪️ All night, our Geran drones struck targets in Ukraine. Explosions were heard in Odesa, Kharkiv, and Kyiv Region. In Poltava, there were reports of power outages after the strikes. In the morning, there were reports of explosions in Kirovohrad and Zaporizhia Regions. Footage captured our strike UAVs attacking a factory in Kharkiv during the day.

▪️ Our air defenses destroyed enemy drones over Tula Region at night.

▪️ In Bryansk Region, the enemy is burning border villages with drones. In Klimovo District, 29 homes burned down. In the village of Khoroshnoye – 25 homes and a store. In the village of Brakhlov – 2 homes, the kindergarten building was damaged. In the village of Sushany – two homes. In the village of Grudskaya in Sevsk District, two homes burned down. Some villages do not even make it into the official reports: the strikes are constant.

▪️ In Kursk Region, the Gornalsky St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery was liberated (https://t.me/dva_majors/69627) and several border forest belts were cleared.

▪️ In the Belgorod border area, through forest areas towards Popovka and Demidovka, AFU assault groups tried to infiltrate four times. The first enemy group was detected and destroyed by artillery fire in the early morning, the last one closer to 5 PM. Further north, they report another attempt by a small enemy group to advance towards Goptarovka, Kursk Region. The enemy has intensified strikes on civilians. In Volokonovsky District, in the hamlet of Shakhovka, an explosive device was dropped from a drone on a private house at night, injuring a woman. In the afternoon, in the village of Kosilovo, a drone struck a car, resulting in four people being injured: a married couple, their son, and a 16-year-old girl. Another drone attack occurred on the section of the Grayvoron – Ilyok-Penkivka highway, injuring the driver of a vehicle. In Krasnoyaruzhsky District, at the turn to the village of Sergievka, an enemy drone struck a KAMAZ truck, killing the driver. In the village of Kazinka, Valuyki District, a drone struck a car, injuring a man. Another drone attacked an employee of an agricultural enterprise in a field near the village of Pochaevo, Grayvoronsky District. In Shebekinsky District, five drones attacked an enterprise in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, injuring an employee. In the village of Ilyok-Penkivka, an employee of the Orlan unit was injured by a drone strike. Shakhovka, Gruzskoe, Ilyok-Koshary, Grafovka, Oktyabrsky, and Chayki were also under drone attacks.

▪️ In the Siversk direction, according to the enemy, the Russian Armed Forces continue offensive operations in the Grigorovka area.

▪️ In the Konstantinovka direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of Sukhaya Balka. There are reports of the success of our assault units in the Tarasovka area.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-april_23.html