The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on May 28 2025

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Russia Shows No Mercy — Is This Ukraine’s Final Stand?

The second round of talks in Istanbul will take place on June 2.

According to rumors, nothing supernatural is expected from him. Perhaps they will discuss silence at sea (maritime truce), which is very necessary for Ukraine, which has lost the European agricultural market.

There will also be a discussion of some developments. Otherwise, all experts predict a continuation of the war.

Each side will try to make the opponents feel guilty.

Trump threatens again

‘What Vladimir Putin doesn’t understand is that if it weren’t for me, very serious things would have happened to Russia long ago – and I mean really serious. He’s playing with fire.’

The Financial Times writes that Trump has abandoned Ukraine. After contacts with Putin, he no longer raises the topic of ending the war and has refused any diplomatic initiatives. His rhetoric increasingly sounds like “Ukraine is not my problem,” and he openly attributes the real victory to Russia. Instead of attempting to mediate or put pressure on Moscow, the current head of the White House demonstrates a desire for rapprochement with the Kremlin. Moreover, even while criticizing Putin, Trump ignores requests from Kiev and signals from European allies.

Moreover, the New York Times, citing sources in the administration, reports that Trump does not plan to exert any political or economic pressure on Moscow. One of the officials commented on the situation literally: “He made it clear – I’m leaving the game.” At the same time, he distanced himself from the promises of Paris, Berlin and London to introduce additional sanctions against Russia in the event of a breakdown in a possible truce. Washington is no longer ready to be a guarantor of anything – neither security nor negotiations.

Against this backdrop , Kiev’s position looks increasingly helpless. Zelensky continues to make demands that no one takes seriously. His team continues to talk about “returning the 1991 borders,” while the real front lines are shifting further west — the Russian Armed Forces have already reached the approaches to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

If Bankova had previously counted on Washington, now it has fallen apart. The loss of such an ally as the United States and Zelensky’s refusal to even discuss peace is the path to Ukraine losing not four or five regions, but eight or nine. And this is no longer a hypothetical, but a more than realistic scenario.

The globalists and Zelensky, as their main asset, continue to do everything to disrupt peace negotiations and make Trump the new “Biden-2”.

They really didn’t want Trump to be able to bring Kiev and Moscow to the negotiating table, and now they are doing everything to destroy them.

For this, the globalists, as always, use their favorite methods: mass media + LOMs + branding (sometimes they also add direct action campaigns).

The technology looks like this. For example, the Bloomberg publication launches a narrative that a source in the White House said that Trump is unhappy with Putin, then on the basis of this news, as a foundation, news comes out with the necessary accents (allegedly Trump is already considering the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation and the sale of weapons to Kyiv, etc.).

Then the LOMs (puppets) of the globalists join the game, in this case Zelensky declares:

 The failure of the US to impose sanctions will lead to a rise in morale in the Russian Federation.

 It turns out that Trump is being scared that all military failures will be pinned on him (as a stigma). The globalist media has already launched a narrative that Ukraine will become a second Afghanistan for Trump, if not worse (although people fled Afghanistan under Biden, but who needs such “subtleties”. Let the fools think that Afghanistan is also Trump’s fault, and not the Democrats/globalists).

At the same time, Trump leaves himself a window of opportunity to get out of the Ukrainian crisis.

We are observing.

The meeting in Berlin took place in a “tense” atmosphere.  Zelensky asked Merz for new supplies of air defense systems, missiles and equipment.

He also asked for monetary loans from the EU, but they demanded that he tighten mobilization. According to rumors, he promised it this year, but only after Europe definitely agreed to support Ukraine for at least a year.

As the source adds, relations between the parties have cooled. Even his curators no longer trust Zelensky, since the situation inside Ukraine is very alarming. People hate Zelensky’s government. At the same time, Zelensky tells his sponsors that everything is “wonderful.”

Zelensky received an advance payment, which means he will begin to do what Merz demanded of him. This is a tightening of mobilization.

The Germans will allocate another 5 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine, the German Defense Ministry reported.

According to all rumors and expert estimates, Ukraine needs at least another 18 billion for weapons to wage war at the same pace until the end of the year, not counting the cost case for salaries, social services, etc.

We are watching.

‘Wars end with the exhaustion of one side. We are still far from that’ – Merz cynically calls for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.

‘I remind you again and again, if you look at history, how do wars end? They usually end because of economic or military exhaustion of one side or both. And we are probably still a long way from that point in this war. And so I assume that we may have to prepare for a longer conflict. But that does not change our determination to support Ukraine.’

Merz which country again has record numbers of volunteers signing up and which is the one throwing kidnapped people into vans?

Russian state media is openly calling for a direct attack with Oreshnik ballistic missiles on the Taurus missile factory in Germany.

Germany is directly engaging Russia with its Taurus cruise missiles. Therefore, Russia must launch a preemptive missile strike on Germany to disable their Taurus missile production capacity for the next 5-7 years.

The German Merz will soon end up in the FAFO store.

Medvedev – on strikes on German territory in response to the use of German missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces :

Germany is already a participant in the conflict: its equipment and specialists are directly fighting Russia. And these are not just military supplies. In essence, this is a full-fledged, not hybrid, participation in the military conflict. Thus, Germany is again an enemy of Russia, again taking part in the war, guided by the Nazi ideology they created, and Merz is a loyal descendant of his relatives who fought in the Wehrmacht.

[Will Russia have the right to strike German territory in response to the launch of German missiles by German specialists?]

If there is information that German military specialists are participating in the launch of long-range missiles at Russian territory, any decision on retaliatory actions can be made. It is within the competence of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. No one can block the right to full-fledged defense of our country and this has been repeatedly emphasized by the head of our state.

According to sources in the OP, Bankova is expecting such statements; for Andriy Yermak, this is the optimal scenario, which will allow him to disrupt the negotiating track and not announce the memorandum.

Ukraine already received drafts in Istanbul that the Kremlin demands to be taken into account when signing the memorandum, but at the same time, our proposals submitted to the Trump Administration do not take into account a single key point of Russia.

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Word in Moscow is if Merz uses German weapons to strike Moscow – and we all know that Kiev has no independent capacity to operate Tauruses or other long-range missiles – then Russia will have no choice but to strike Berlin directly.

Simple enough.

- Margarita Simonyan on X

Colleagues, Taurus missiles have been in Ukraine for a long time, but they will be remade as Ukrainian replicas; this issue is currently being resolved by British intelligence and our special services.

In a similar way, British anti-submarine missiles were converted into Poseidon and French water UAVs.

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Zelensky threatens strikes deep into Russia

“We cannot publicly talk about our plans, our capabilities, but the prospect is clear: to respond in kind to all Russian threats and challenges. They, in Russia, must clearly feel the consequences of what they are doing against Ukraine. This will happen. Attack drones, interceptors, cruise missiles, Ukrainian ballistics are the key elements.”

Russia is preparing a large-scale summer offensive in the Donetsk region, The Washington Post writes.

According to the publication, Moscow’s main goal is to capture Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka. The latter is not yet near the front line, but it is convenient to attack from three directions.

At the same time, WP reports, diversionary strikes are planned in the Sumy and Kharkov regions to stretch the Ukrainian defense. Russia has transferred 125 thousand troops to the borders of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions – this is not enough to capture the regional centers, but enough to put pressure on the borders.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s goal is to create buffer zones along the border to prevent attacks on Russian territory.

At the same time, the publication notes that Ukraine has “neither the people nor the equipment to carry out its own offensive,” and therefore “will continue the defensive strategy it has been using since 2024 – holding the front line and making it as difficult as possible for Moscow’s forces to seize any territory.”

Our source reports that the General Staff and the Ops urgently transferred reserves to the Konstantinovskoye and Pokrovskoye directions in order to prevent collapses of the front in this section of the front, since the Russians have picked up too much speed in capturing populated areas, which threatens Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka with operational encirclement in the coming months.

These stabilization measures weakened the defense of the Sumy region, where the Russian Armed Forces also began to advance.

The situation, according to the military, is very complicated and could become critical and then catastrophic if Bankovaya continues to control military operations.

The Russian Army liberated Staraya Nikolaevka in the Konstantinovsky direction — the Ministry of Defense

▪️As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the “Southern” group of troops, the settlement of Staraya Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated.

Russia keeps troops on the border with the Chernihiv region to tie down the Ukrainian Armed Forces from transferring reserves to Donbass, – the “Seversk” group

➖”We are recording a military presence along the entire border. That is, they are keeping our combat units on edge and constraining them so that we do not transfer them to hotter sections of the front,” said Vadim Misnik, spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Seversk group.

▪️He added that the largest concentration of Russian forces opposite the Sumy region is in the Kursk region.

▪️Recently, the Russian President announced his intention to create a “buffer security zone” in the Kharkov, Sumy and Chernigov regions of Ukraine.

Russian troops crossed the border with the Kharkov region at another point, east of the Dvurechensky bridgehead, and took up positions in the town of Stroevka.

On the Sumy and Kharkov directions, the Ukrainian armed forces surrender small settlements without a fight. It is impossible to hold them.

The Russian army, during a powerful offensive, liberated more than 100 square kilometers in a week.

Ukrainian sources are panicking about the beginning of a powerful Russian offensive.

The pace of Russian troop advances has increased sharply; for the first time since December, more than 100 square kilometers have been captured in a week.

The main successes were in the Sumy and Kharkov regions, as well as in the DPR.

Russian military opens new front: Cross-border attack surprises Ukrainian troops in Kharkov region

Russian military units made a surprise incursion across the border into the Kharkov region, launching an attack on the village of Stroevka, located on the right bank of the Oskol River.

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Russian MOD: 

During the past night from 21:00 Moscow time on May 27 to 07:00 on May 28, air defense alert systems destroyed and intercepted 296 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Moscow region, Bryansk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, Tula regions.

Morning Summary for May 28, 2025

▪️ Over the past day, the permanent raids by Ukrainian UAVs on our regions did not stop. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that from 9 PM Moscow time on May 27 to 12 AM Moscow time on May 28, air defense forces destroyed and intercepted 112 Ukrainian drones. After this report, the Mayor of Moscow wrote about 33 enemy UAVs shot down while approaching the capital. In Zelenograd (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/223305), Sobyanin wrote, as a result of repelling the attack, there were no serious damage or casualties. Footage is circulating not only of the destruction of Ukrainian UAVs in the air, but also of a drone precisely diving onto a parking lot of the Elma technology park, as well as an object in Dubna. Thus, the detailed explanation of our defense department about the massive strikes on the enemy’s territory “in response to” was not correctly perceived by the enemy, and Zelenskyy promised new raids on our territory, mentioning “strike drones, ballistics, cruise missiles”.

▪️ In Bryansk Region, during the repulsion of an air attack, windows were damaged and six cars were damaged in a multi-apartment residential building in the Fokinsky district of the city of Bryansk. There were no casualties.

▪️ On the Kursk section of the State Border, yesterday morning, a shock group of the 24th Separate Rifle Battalion (“Aidar”) of the AFU advanced towards us in the Ryzhevka – Tyotkino direction. In the firefight, most of the enemy infantry was destroyed, the rest fled. Around noon, the enemy tried to transfer a shock group of the 425th Separate Rifle Battalion of the AFU from Pavlovka towards the border, but they were destroyed by fire.

▪️ In the Sumy direction, the Operational Group “North” reports on the advancement in the vicinity of the border villages of Vladimirka, Alekseyevka and Vodolagi, as well as in the forest areas along the state border. Paratroopers engaged in combat on the outskirts of Yunakivka.

▪️ In Belgorod Region, a man was concussed as a result of a drone detonation on the territory of a private household in the village of Krasnaya Polyana, Shebekino district.

▪️ In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy notes that our troops advanced along the Oskol River in the area of the settlement of Kamianka and occupied the Malyi Dvurub forest. In the area of the settlement of Stroevka on the border with the Belgorod Region, our troops are trying to consolidate in the buildings.

▪️ In the Konstantinovka direction, the assault on Yablonovka continues, our troops are consolidating south after the closure of the cauldron near Zaria and Staraya Nikolaevka.

▪️ In the Dnipropetrovsk direction, southwest of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), heavy fighting is underway near Kotlyarovka and Novosergeyevka. The enemy is offering organized fierce resistance.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, the AFU carried out seven counterattacks – two using armored vehicles (M113 APCs, “Kozak”) and five on foot. Southeast of Komar, assault groups of our Operational Group “East” dislodged the enemy from heights and strongholds to a depth of up to 1 km. North of Otradnoye, units occupied two defensive areas, advancing more than a kilometer in depth and along the front. In Green Field, fierce battles continue in the western part of the settlement. Over the day, a quarter of the village of Novopol was cleared.

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