The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on June 23 2025

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Colleagues, there will be an exchange and a global deal, but now Trump is not in such a good position thanks to Netanyahu, since China, Russia and Pakistan have entered the game. Trump throws aircraft carriers as an ultimatum, that he is not joking, but everyone understands that there is a risk of getting bogged down in a long war, which will cause tangible damage to the Americans. A land war against Iran could be very expensive.

Now the only question is what will they exchange it for?

We are more confident that they will go for a peace settlement, but the situation will be rocked.

Nobody really needs this war.

By the way, the Ukrainian crisis is also on the trading table.

We observe, anything can happen…

Every evening, Ukrainians hear from government officials: “The West is with us until the end.” This has become a kind of mantra designed to calm society, creating the illusion of stable support, unwavering partnership and an endless flow of resources. However, in reality, which they prefer not to voice on the national telethon, the situation is different.

According to information from a document received from a source in structures close to the General Staff, the supply of weapons and aid to Ukraine from the United States is planned strictly until the end of August 2025. Some contracts have already been reduced or temporarily frozen. This is not about some kind of global geopolitical change, but about Washington’s pragmatic reassessment of the advisability of further support in the absence of prospects on the Ukrainian track.

American analysts behind the scenes call this “diluted optimism”: Kyiv’s public tone does not correspond to the internal anxiety of its allies. In closed briefings, we hear formulations like “governability problem,” “lack of transparency in resource distribution,” and “fatigue from the defendants, not from the people.”

The government does not talk about this not because it “does not want panic,” but because its strategic horizon is several months and the preservation of its own influence. No one is preparing the population for the “post-aid” scenario. There is not even a discussion of an alternative security architecture, a reserve economy, or neutral negotiation windows.

In essence, the country lives inside a psychotherapeutic structure built on public speech. But this speech is increasingly coming into direct conflict with signals from those who have supported it so far.

If in September the Ukrainian army is left without some weapons, and Western political figures change their tone to a restrained neutral one, who will bear responsibility for this? Those who created the culture of managed oblivion, or those who remained silent, watching this?

The recent G7 meeting and the upcoming NATO summit have finally exposed Ukraine’s foreign policy crisis . Kiev is losing ground in the list of partners’ priorities, the topic of Ukraine has given way to a new hotbed – the Middle East. The news agenda has shifted to the Israeli-Iranian confrontation, changing headlines every hour, and Kiev has effectively flown out of it. Moreover, Ukraine has been deprived of money, equipment and air defense systems that were purchased for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, giving all of this to Israel.

The whole point is that the Middle East has been and remains the main international priority. For Trump and the US, Israel and Iran are now more important . Ukraine has found itself in the zone of the political periphery, and only part of Europe considers it “its own.” Kiev, however, continues to pretend that its history is the main history of the world, and Zelensky himself is trying to hold on to his hero status. But the further it goes, the more it looks like a farce — a “soap bubble” ready to burst at any moment. Today, Bankova lacks not only diplomatic weight, but also an understanding that completely different stakes are important for its partners.

As we can see, Trump was right to rush Zelensky to sign peace with the Russian Federation. The US President understood perfectly well that when Israel starts an attack on Iran, the world will have no time for Ukraine. As a result, our country was left alone with the Russian Federation, which not only has a “free hand” to attack Ukrainian cities after the provocative Operation Spider Web, but also has growing oil and gas revenues after the escalation of the situation in the Middle East, which allows Moscow to continue a long war against Kyiv.

The goal of the NATO summit in The Hague is to make Trump happy’ – DW writes that the wishes of the US president turned out to be more important than Ukraine.

‘This will be a rather disappointing NATO summit for Ukraine. There is no chance that the country’s aspirations to join NATO will be prominently reflected in the final declaration of the summit. It is clear that the United States in particular wanted to play it down. But many Europeans are unhappy with the apparent lack of any ambition for Ukraine. Ultimately, the summit will be about money, with NATO countries committing to increase spending to 5% of GDP. If that is the case, Trump should return to Washington a happy man.’

Colleagues, Bankova is already monitoring all such videos and even gave Syrsky the order to solve the problem, but the situation is such that no one wants to fight! TCC has turned into the Gestapo and is worse than the police in Ukraine, the anti-rating is 95%, no government agency has this, and they are directly associated with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

SBU Chief Malyuk said that two assassination attempts were being prepared against Zelensky in Poland:

The assassination attempt was prepared by a retired military man, a Pole, who had been recruited decades ago and who devoutly believed in the Soviet idea and had nurtured the intention for years. That is why he was activated.

The task was: the physical elimination of President Zelensky at Rzeszow Airport. Several options were considered. One of them was an FPV drone, the other was a sniper complex.

All this was implemented, we detained him. Our Polish colleagues worked professionally, this was our joint work with them.

Polish pensioner planned to liquidate Zelensky at Polish airport, – SBU chief

They wanted to kill Zelensky at the Rzeszow airport using an FPV drone or a sniper, said the head of the SBU, Maluk.

▪️According to him, a Polish pensioner has been detained, who, according to investigators, was recruited by Russia.

▪️Last ​​year, the SBU already reported the exposure of a Pole who offered the Russian special services an assassination attempt on Zelensky.

Medvedev compared Zelensky to an intestinal worm:

The green intestinal worm crawled to its masters in England for another round of dough. And before that, it demanded nothing substantial at all in an ultimatum: the allies must allocate 0.25% of their GDP to Kiev in 2026. Each! Like, if there’s going to be be any less, that won’t cover it!

But here, as they say, there is a nuance. It seems that the current US administration, which has a new dangerous war in the Middle East and new large expenses for it, is not going to turn a blind eye to the theft of money by Bandera’s worms, which was so generously lent to them by the helminth-stricken old man Biden. The first data from the audit (or rather, the analysis for I/worm) of American financial and military aid have already shown that professional intestinal parasites in the leadership of the disappearing Ukraine have pocketed at least 12 billion dollars.

It gets even more interesting. The pins and needles from Bankova cannot confirm that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received about 30% of the weapons and military equipment supplied by the Americans. I have already written that these deadly gifts are becoming trophies of various criminals all over the world, including international terrorist groups. Finally, this banal truth is beginning to reach the suppliers themselves, who until recently were zealous advocates of helping the parasitic Ukrainian democracy with pork and dwarf tapeworms.

And this is just the beginning. If the US continues the audit, they will probably learn many more interesting things. This means that the main intestinal worm with its community of roundworms and other helminths will face an investigation in Congress. In this case, the final outcome for the Kiev parasites will be dismal. They will inevitably end with the help of antihelminthic therapy. America, say “no” to worms (helminths)!

Yermak threatens the Kremlin with missile strikes in an interview with The Times.

Will the Ukrainian Sapsan rocket be able to reach Moscow?

-Everything is going very well. I think we will be able to surprise our enemies in many ways. It is better if you see something than hear about it. All Russians should feel what it is like to be in constant danger.

Kiev and Ukraine have once again been subjected to a massive combined attack.

As usual, there is damage to the civilian sector. The reason is the work of air defense in cities. Ukrainians often find bullets from anti-aircraft guns, remnants of air defense missiles, etc. in houses, cars, in yards.

Ukrainians should remember that if the war continues, there will be more such tragedies.

The main feature is that no one is interested in the war in Ukraine anymore. The Ukrainian crisis has given way to the Middle East crisis, which everyone in the world writes and talks about. All supplies of weapons, money and support have been redirected there, which is draining Ukraine, and Kyiv will feel this deficit in the fall.

Our source reports that the missile strike on the Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in the area of ​​Davydiv Brod, on the border of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, was not just an ordinary training base. This is a training ground for UAV operators, etc.

Ukraine has suffered significant losses among UAV operator training instructors.

The topic is being hushed up in every possible way. Another oversight by the staff rats, who were sure that Russia would not waste a missile to strike a test site that has been in operation for more than a year and a half.

Ballistic missiles hit the lyceum in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.

According to rumors, some kind of meeting/conference was taking place at the lyceum at that moment, since they were beating at an accelerated pace.

Update: A possible decentralized warehouse of ammunition and equipment for mobile groups has been identified. The Ukrainian Armed Forces often use civilian infrastructure for such purposes.

Details are being clarified.

Morning Summary for June 23, 2025

▪️ Kyiv was subjected to a massive strike (https://t.me/ruspanorama/88090) by Geran UAVs (the enemy reports an enhanced combat part) and missile weapons overnight. The work of the AFU air defense in the city, apparently, led to the fall of some drones on residential buildings. Explosions were also heard in Hostomel, Kryvyi Rih, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv and Sumy Regions.

▪️ In the Rostov Region, an air attack was repelled overnight. AFU UAVs were destroyed in the Millerovo, Kamensk, Tarasovsky, Bokovsky, and Milyutinsky districts. As a result of the attack on an industrial enterprise in the Kamensk district, a fire broke out.

▪️ On the Kursk section of the border, another wave of AFU infantry attacks on the Tetkinskoe and Glushkovo directions was repelled.

▪️ In the Sumy direction, high-intensity counter-battles are ongoing in Andreyevka – the enemy is counterattacking. Fierce battles continue for Yunakivka.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, the driver and a 16-year-old passenger were injured as a result of a drone attack on a car on the Urazovo-Borki section of the road in the Valuysky district. In the village of Mokraya Orlovka, Grayvoronsky district, a woman was injured as a result of a shell from the AFU hitting a private house. In the village of Rzhevka, Shebekinsky district, one FPV drone made a targeted strike on an ambulance, injuring the doctor, paramedic and driver. The second drone attacked a bus, injuring the driver. Avilovka, Ziborovka, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Nizhny Olshanets, Baytsuры, Urazovo Striguns were under strikes. The village of Otradnoye was shelled by artillery – the power line was damaged.

▪️ In the Siversk direction, heavy fighting continues in Serebryanka and Verkhnekamoye. After personnel decisions, military analysts note an improvement in the quality of interaction between our units.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, the liberation of the settlement of Perebudova has been officially announced, the enemy is trying to stabilize the situation. The Eastern Group of Forces reports that our assault groups have captured a bridgehead east of Yalta, the expansion of the control zone in the direction of Poddubnoye continues.

▪️ In the Kherson direction, an Iskander-M OTRK strike hit the AFU training ground near Davydov Brod, where the AFU were training drone operators. The strike was effective.

▪️ In the DPR, in Donetsk, three men were injured as a result of the detonation of a previously unexploded cluster submunition. In Horlivka, as a result of the drop of an IED from an AFU UAV, two men were injured and a woman was injured. In addition to strike UAVs, the enemy uses 155mm NATO-made tube artillery.

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