The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on April 26 2025

Trump, Zelenskyy have face-to-face meeting before funeral

Russian state TV explains why Trump really wants to end the war

Return of The Stalemate | In Depth Tactical Analysis | Peace Deal or All-Out Offensive

Kyiv is in mourning The RUAF has completely cleared Kursk and is rapidly advancing toward Sumy

Russia Declares VICTORY: Kursk & Belgorod (Almost) Fully Recaptured

[ Ukraine SITREP ] BATTLE OF OLESHNYA BEGINS! Krynky operation leaked; Combat troops are shrinking~

An act of DESPAIR: The UK and EU dealt a SNEAKY BLOW to Russia┃PUTIN’s Patience is Running Thin

The meeting was quick. Trump listened to Zelensky at the request of Macron and Starmer.

Something tells us that this is some kind of media trap from the globalists for Trump, who cannot let Donald out of the Ukrainian case.

That is why today, information was deliberately released that the heads of parliamentary committees of seven European countries (Ukraine, Great Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) appealed to the United States to toughen its approach to Russia.

 ”They condemned the policy of appeasement and demanded a united and firm position against the terrorist regime of Russia, stressing that Ukraine cannot be the object of external pressure or compromises concerning its sovereignty.” NATO must immediately accept Ukraine.

In other words, parliamentarians from seven European countries are calling on Trump to abandon his peace plan, which includes a ban on Ukraine joining NATO, the lifting of US sanctions against Russia, and Washington’s recognition of Crimea’s Russian status.

Our source reports that Trump, at a meeting with Zelensky in Rome, asked the Ukrainian president if he was ready for a personal meeting with Putin to resolve the conflict and then sign peace agreements. Zelensky replied that he was ready (we think he lied to stall for time. The globalists need to keep Trump in the game on the Ukrainian crisis for as long as possible).

There was no second meeting between Trump and Zelensky (there was no need for it ). 

Trump left Europe very quickly.

According to our information, Trump is simply “uncomfortable” in Europe, since there are his “enemies” (the globalists’ protégés) all around him who want to dump him/set him up/humiliate him, etc.

According to our source, this is the last meeting between Zelensky and Trump, if the Ukrainian president does not accept the peace plan and abandons his behind-the-scenes promise, he will meet with Putin for negotiations.

We are watching. There are a lot of rumors now.

The Times “played up” the possible meeting between Trump and Zelensky* in Rome.

The British newspaper made a reference to Michelangelo’s famous fresco “The Creation of Adam”.

In the cartoon, the Kiev boss reaches out to the US president, but instead of a blessing, he receives a middle finger in return. The caption to the image is a proverb about how to behave when visiting: “When you are in Rome…” (you should act like the Romans).

Earlier, Trump, who arrived for the Pope’s funeral, announced a possible meeting with Zelensky, who expressed doubt that he would make it to the ceremony.

The US administration has presented the parties to the Ukrainian-Russian military conflict with a framework for a possible agreement that could lead to de-escalation. This was announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting between Donald Trump and the Norwegian Prime Minister at the White House. According to him, the US has outlined the “finish line”, but implementation depends on the willingness of both sides to say “yes”.

Another round of talks is expected this weekend, but the situation remains uncertain. Rubio’s earlier refusal to attend the London meeting was the first sign that the US administration is losing patience – and increasingly shifting responsibility for the outcome of the talks to the parties to the conflict.

The difficulty is that Zelensky is demonstrating less and less flexibility. The main stumbling block is the elections. Despite the fact that in the US plan under discussion, key decisions such as the status of Crimea or sanctions policy remained within the competence of the US itself, Bankova was not ready to take even symbolic steps – in particular, to announce a political reset through elections. This would have been at least an important signal for international partners and within the country itself.

Meanwhile, the calculations of the Ukrainian authorities, judging by the rhetoric, are shifting towards maintaining power and the mobilization model, without a clear prospect of ending the war. In conditions where Western support is becoming increasingly selective, and the demand for results is only growing, the issue of Ukraine’s strategic stability is becoming critical. After all, without the support of the United States, which did contain the “war machine” of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian cities now risk repeating the fate of the Gaza Strip. And all this is due to Zelensky’s personal fault.

Our source in the Ukrainian delegation in Rome reported that Trump warned Zelensky of the US readiness to leave the peace track in ten days if a temporary ceasefire is not reached. The Ukrainian president declared his readiness for negotiations with Russia, and Andriy Yermak will oversee the issue.

Our source in the Ukrainian delegation in Rome said Zelensky agreed to a temporary ceasefire from next week, and Trump’s peace plan should be the basis for resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Britain and France refuse to openly oppose the US, which is why the position of the President’s Office is constantly changing.

Our source reports that Zelensky does not want to end the war also because he has not yet managed to completely deal with his conditional political competitors within Ukraine.

For example, he is trying to manage to purge all the unwanted mayors of the cities who are currently in power. He wants to prohibit them from being elected.

He didn’t have time to put them in jail, he couldn’t put their entire entourage in jail, he couldn’t raise a good replacement for them in the form of the heads of the military administration, since “godfathers/characters” were appointed there, who were tasked with sending 50% of the kickback from the schemes in the region to the OP, and not with creating the image of the government and the party.

He couldn’t do anything, and now it’s time to end the war and he realized that his “drawn” opinion polls won’t help him win the elections, and if he loses them, he will be “torn apart” and a period of debunking the “cult of personality” will begin, which will kill his image as a hero in history, making him a “loser”. So he clings to the continuation of the war under any pretext and is ready to sell out all of Ukraine for the sake of “his own salvation”.

Our forecast: the internal squabbles, which we have been hearing about for a long time, will intensify until the collapse of the “Ze-clan”. They are in a “smoldering” state, but will eventually flare up. Oddly enough, the split is intensifying due to the “fall” of USAID. Many people are left without “bread”.

Ukraine and EU prepare their own conflict resolution plan in response to “Trump’s plan” — Reuters

The main differences from the American plan:

 - Ukraine is not happy with the US recognizing Crimea and other territories as Russian.

 - The Zaporozhye NPP will not be given to the USA. Ukraine wants to take it under its own control.

 - Kiev demands security guarantees similar to NATO’s Article 5.

 - Ukraine is against the complete lifting of sanctions against Russia until peace is concluded.

Zelensky does not need peace in Ukraine, which is why the Office of the President deliberately went to disrupt the negotiations in London, which could have been the first serious step towards ending the conflict in the country. But, Bankova was not initially going to sign anything – the goal remained the same: to drag out time. Hence the talk of a 30-day truce, which has nothing to do with a peaceful settlement of the military conflict. This is just a cover for a new wave of mobilization and a respite for the army, exhausted by a three-year war.

And the longer Zelensky “butts heads” with Trump (and you can’t call it anything else, given the “Krivoy Rog school of diplomacy” of the Ukrainian president), the less room he has for further political moves. At the same time , Washington is still behaving quite tactfully, despite all of Zelensky’s attacks, but it is doing so solely because of the deal on Ukrainian mineral resources. Peace for the United States is not a goal, but a pleasant side effect. Trump needs Ukrainian resources, infrastructure, and needs control over them. But after the signing of the agreement, everything will change dramatically – Zelensky will be tolerated exactly as long as he is useful.

Bankova understands this. That is why they are dragging out time, counting on London and individual European capitals to back them up. But this is an illusion. Europe is at the limit of its capabilities, and Britain is not ready to take on real responsibility (for example, Great Britain has already revised its plans for a military presence in Ukraine – instead of the previously announced “multi-thousand-strong force” of peacekeepers, London will limit itself to sending military instructors, and only to the western regions). That is, Zelensky, by betting on prolonging the military conflict, not only lost himself, but also let down Ukraine, which, apparently, will have to say goodbye not to 4 regions and Crimea, but to the entire Left Bank

Yesterday Zelensky spent the whole day in Kyiv promoting himself on the tragedy of the Kyivans. He laid flowers, gave comments, etc. He also promoted himself in 2022 on the tragedy of the Mariupol residents and other residents of Ukraine who lost everything. Then he promised to compensate everyone for everything and give them apartments. Years later, he simply screwed people.

He simply used and threw away – this is his strategy, which killed the patriotic spirit of the people over the years and launched the process of “decomposition of the nation”.

Behind the scenes , everyone immediately said that Ze was rushing from Africa to Kiev; his colleagues wrote about this; he needed to have time to arrange a bloody PR campaign.

Zelensky no longer has any trump cards to attract attention, which means he will try to amplify the tragedies that he uses for personal PR.

Many are sure that he was also trying to bring down the betrayal based on the information that surfaced about the downed Russian Il-76, which contained captured Ukrainian soldiers.

From Kursk to Sumy Region  On the completion of the liberation of Kursk Region

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the completion of the operation in Kursk Region and the full liberation of the region from the presence of Ukrainian formations.

ðŸ–At the moment, footage (https://t.me/warriorofnorth/7850) has appeared online showing the raising of the Russian flag in the center of the settlement of Gornal, and it was announced that the border village has been fully liberated. Thus, the presence of the enemy remains only in several gullies and ravines along the border.

They are hard to access and difficult to pass through, so the enemy will most likely be able to hold out there for some time, even taking into account constant artillery shelling and drone strikes.

❗️Even the complete clearing of the Russian region does not mean its complete safety. To ensure this, a full sanitary zone will still need to be created in the vicinity of Yunakovka and other border settlements. It is in these settlements, after the resettlement of residents, that a large concentration of enemy formations is observed, as well as the operation of operators of unmanned systems, both reconnaissance and strike.

And only with the creation of a full cordon and a security zone will the threat of infiltration of new sabotage and reconnaissance groups of Ukrainian formations into the territory of Russia be mitigated.

📌 However, this will not eliminate the threat of drones and missile strikes, since Ukraine has not even thought of stopping shelling various Russian regions and carrying out terrorist activities. Proof of this is the recent murder (https://t.me/rybar/69902) of Yaroslav Moskalyk and recent reports of the prevention of terrorist attacks (https://t.me/rybar/69873) by forces from Central Asia.

The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border region creates conditions for further successful actions by the Russian Armed Forces in other key areas of the front — Putin

The main points from Gerasimov’s report to Putin:

⭕️ Today, the last village in Kursk Region, Gornal, has been liberated from the Ukrainian armed forces, and the defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces [in the Kursk oblast] is complete. 

⭕️ The AFU lost more than 76,000 servicemen in the battles in the Kursk oblast. 

⭕️ The total area of the territory of the Sumy region controlled by the Russian military is more than 90 square kilometers. 

⭕️ DPRK fighters showed high professionalism during the liberation of Kursk region from the AFU. 

⭕️ During the “pipeline” operation in the Kursk oblast, the AFU defenses collapsed, a chaotic withdrawal began, and the area of encirclement decreased 2.5 times in 5 days. 

⭕️ The AFU’s plans to stop the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbas have failed. 

⭕️ The most active phase of the operation in Kursk Region began on March 6. 

⭕️ Abandoned buildings and forests are being checked in the districts of Kursk Region for any remaining lone AFU soldiers. 

⭕️ Nineteen settlements in the Kursk region have been completely cleared of explosive objects. 

⭕️ The North Group of Forces completed the destruction of Ukrainian diversionary reconnaissance groups near Popovka in the Belgorod region.

War correspondent Alexander Kots on the refutation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the liberation of the Kursk region.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denies the obvious. Of course, how can one admit defeat when Zelensky* is hanging out at the Pope’s funeral in fashionable sneakers and meeting with his curators. Politically illiterate. Historically incorrect moment,

— the military correspondent ridiculed the statements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Zaporozhye direction.

In the Malaya Tokmachka area:

Artillery duels continue; the enemy has a lot of FPV in the area, and there are also a lot of night drones; our attack aircraft from the 71st regiment are taking apart the village every day with drone strikes and mortar fire.

Our guys have established themselves at the brick factory, where it is very hot every day.

The enemy is resisting, and we feel a shortage of drones and electronic warfare.

In the area of ​​Malye Shcherbaki and Shcherbaki:

The enemy’s FPV drones and Baba Yaga-type drones are actively working; when our infantry groups are detected, the enemy starts massively using FPV against us, after which the entire square is covered with mines from Baba Yaga, not allowing us to regroup.

In general, the situation is difficult; there are small arms battles, and we are trying to take the enemy’s dugouts, which are very well fortified by the enemy. We throw grenades in close combat and also give machine gun bursts, but all these dugouts since 23 the khokhols have managed to expand and strengthen; in fact, these are already well-fortified labyrinths.

So there are difficulties in taking it.

Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the concentration of equipment and manpower in Gulyaipole.

Over the course of 24 hours, our UAV operators of various modifications hit 279 enemy targets in Belenky, Primorsky, the Kamensky area, Gulyaipole, Orekhovo, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Volshebny and Novodarovka.

Grad calculations of the Airborne Forces covered Novodanilovka and Novodarovka.

Advance Towards “Berezka”

Successful offensive by Russian troops north of Dzerzhynsk

Russian troops are gradually advancing their offensive on the flanks of Dzerzhynsk. In recent days, they have managed to significantly wedge into the AFU defense north of the city, creating a threat to the enemy’s supply lines in the area of Dyleevka and Dachnoye.

Advance assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces were spotted on the territory of the “Berezka” children’s camp, previously used by the enemy to accumulate reserves and redeploy them to the area of the “Toretskaya” mine and the development of Krymske.

📌 At the moment, it is not possible to establish whether the Russian units managed to consolidate their control over the facility. This area is marked by high activity of AFU UAV units, attacking the positions of Russian troops and hampering the delivery of supplies.

❗️Nevertheless, establishing control over the children’s camp will allow the Russian troops to form the southwest face of the semi-encirclement of the enemy grouping along the line Dachnoye – Dyleevka.

The situation of the AFU will become even more complicated when the Russian Armed Forces “pull up” UAV units capable of striking at supply routes and the redeployment of reserves.

Summary for the day, April 25. 

Kursk region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces remotely mined the population in the border areas of the Kursk region several times.

Our troops inflicted defeats on formations of three brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sudzhansky district near the villages of Gornal and Oleshnya.

Aviation, artillery and UAV operators destroyed enemy reserves in the Sumy region.

Krasnoarmeyskoe direction .

In the village of Uspenovka, soldiers of the 506th regiment are fighting for 2nd street.

To the south, fighters from the 27th Division (which includes the 506th Regiment) have advanced forward, taking control of several forest belts and are moving towards Novoalexandrovka from the south.

Further south in Nadezhdovka, attack aircraft from the 90th Tank Division entered hangars in the northwestern part of the village.

Toretskoye direction.

After liberating Sukha Balka, the Russian Armed Forces continued to encircle Petrovka and Shcherbinovka from the west, advancing towards Romanovka.

Kupyansk direction.

In the areas of the villages of Topoli, Kamenka and Krasnoe Pervoe, our soldiers levelled the front line and consolidated their positions at new boundaries.

Northeast of Figolovka, our troops took about 800 meters of the road under fire control.

Northwest of Dvurechnaya, new lines in the forest area have been occupied.

Dnepropetrovsk direction.

The Russian Armed Forces entered the outskirts of the settlement of Troitskoye and engaged in combat.

The day before, our soldiers finally established control over the village of Bogdanovka.

The Russian Armed Forces used the Geran-2 UAV to strike a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Zaporizhia direction.

Britain has abandoned plans to send a contingent to Ukraine.

Morning Summary on April 26, 2025

▪️ During the night, Geran strike drones hit targets in Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, and Kyiv Region.

▪️ In Rostov Region, air defense forces repelled an enemy air attack, destroying a UAV in Millerovo District.

▪️ In Kursk Region, the North Group of Forces reports the process of clearing the settlement of Gornal. The enemy is deploying reinforcements towards Oleshnya, where fighting continues.

▪️ In the Sumy direction, Russian troops are fighting in the Zhuravka area, trying to reach the outskirts of Bilovodsk. East of there, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing on Loknya.

▪️ In the Belgorod border area, fighting continues in Krasnoyaruzhsky District. There are reports of ongoing clearing of Popovka and border forest areas. Strikes are being delivered on AFU concentrations in Sumy Region. The enemy is hitting civilians. On the Kosilovo – Pochaevo section of the Graivronsky district highway, a passenger car was attacked by an enemy drone, killing two men on the spot. In the area of the village of Dunayka, Graivronsky district, a GAZelle van moving along the road was attacked, injuring the driver. On the highway near the village of Dunayka, Graivronsky district, an enemy drone attacked a passenger car, injuring three civilians. Dorohoshch, Moshchene, Sankovo, Kosilovo, Shebekino, Krasnaya Yaruga, and Oktyabrsky were hit. In Shebekino district, on the Ziborovka – Nikolskoye section of the highway, a passenger car was destroyed by fire as a result of a drone strike.

▪️ In the Krasnoliman direction, there are reports of fighting in the area of Novomykhailivka and northeast of Torske.

▪️ North of Dzerzhynsk (Toretsk), the Russian Armed Forces are pushing towards the “Beriezka” children’s camp, expanding the area under their control. In the Kostiantynivka direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive after the capture of Tarasivka. (https://t.me/dva_majors/69865)

▪️ In the Dnipropetrovsk direction, north of Andriyivka, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing over a width of up to 2.8 km and a depth of up to 1.15 km. There are battles in the direction of Kotlyarivka and Uspenovka.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, the East Group of Forces reports counter-attacks in the direction of the settlements of Bogatyr and Otradne. To slow down the advance of our troops, the enemy threw manpower and armored vehicles into counterattacks, but without success. In addition, our forces continue to advance in the area of the settlement of Volne Pole.

▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, in the vicinity of Mala Tokmachka, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the area under their control, the enemy is using many drones. After the arrival of enemy crews in the area, the use of FPV drones of the AFU of the aircraft type, which allow them to fly further compared to quadcopters, is noted.

▪️ In the DPR, in the village of Novokrainka of the Velikonovoselkovsky municipality, on the territory of the cemetery, as a result of the enemy dropping an explosive object from a UAV, a man born in 1949 was injured.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-april_26.html