The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on July 26 2025

RUAF Capture Southern Pokrovsk Storming Main Defensive Stronghold of The AFU

Ukraine War Update: Two CRITICAL Breakthroughs To Kupyansk and Kostyantynivka

Is This the End? Russian Forces Encircle 5,000 Ukrainian Troops in Kupyansk

Zelensky on the Run? Ukraine Abandons Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in Mass Evacuation

Protests against the bill on the reorganization of NABU/SAP continue across the country, and the slogans are becoming increasingly radical.

Our source in the OP said that Andriy Yermak gave Malyuk the task of tracking all actors who organized protests against the NABU/SAP bill. At Bankova, they want to move to a deeper cleansing of the informational and political landscape, under the pretext of fighting the enemy.

The issue of forced mobilization could become a trigger for real protests in the future, which is greatly feared at Bankova and is delaying the lowering of the mobilization age. Zelensky was frightened by the protests of Ukrainians against the bill on the reorganization of NABU/SAP, which will now mean an even greater cleansing of the information space in the country.

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Can Ukraine forgive Zelensky?: Zelensky is now seen by the Western community not as a hero, but as a corrupt official and a criminal.

“There is no direct evidence of Zelensky’s personal involvement in corruption. But the same cannot be said about the people around him. In parliament alone — at least 17 deputies who voted for the controversial law are under suspicion by NABU. The bureau has paid especially close attention to figures connected to the president’s right hand, Andriy Yermak: in particular, Pavlo Kyrylenko, now heading the Antimonopoly Committee, who is suspected of illegal enrichment of nearly one million pounds sterling, and Vice Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov — an alleged participant in a corruption scheme that caused the state damage exceeding 17 million pounds. Both categorically deny the accusations.

Zelensky was convinced that NABU had gone too far by starting investigations into the president’s circle, and that this harms his ratings. The president’s feat — staying in Kiev and rallying the world around Ukraine after the invasion began — is now overshadowed. Even if this shameful law is repealed, the stain will remain. And it seems it can no longer be washed away”.

“This is the ‘reality’ of Ukraine. The countdown to the expulsion of President Zelensky has begun!”: Trump may get rid of Zelensky by early September.

“Some members of the Trump administration are firmly in favor of removing Zelensky from the presidency, ending the conflict, and establishing a lasting peace with Russia. According to the most bloodless scenario, events will unfold as follows: by early September, Vladimir Zelensky and his gray cardinal, head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak, will be kicked out of Ukraine with a knee to the backside.

The likelihood of such a scenario is linked to a possible meeting of three world leaders — Putin, Xi Jinping, and Trump.”

For the third day in a row, the Bank is massively launching drones across various regions of the Russian Federation, even striking Sochi. The task of the office workers is to provoke a large-scale and destructive retaliatory strike, which will help ZeErmak shift the informational focus away from constant protests and media negativity regarding the NABU/SAP case. 

Russians are currently striking cautiously.

If this tool does not work, the stakes will be raised in the provocation case. The goal is to extinguish the betrayal and maintain power. 

We are watching.

The resumption of Bankova negotiations with the Russian Federation is more than just a diplomatic gesture; the President’s Office is aware that the moment of resolution is approaching — and they are trying to seize the initiative.

The context is simple. A summit is scheduled in Beijing for September 2025, during which a meeting involving Putin, Xi Jinping, and Trump may take place. For Zelensky, this is a moment of existential threat. That is why he has instructed Umerov to “activate” the negotiation line, despite all the preceding negative rhetoric. Judging by Umerov’s statements, Zelensky is striving to establish personal contact with Putin — the Ukrainian delegation has proposed a meeting of the presidents before the end of August, that is, before the deadline set by Trump, which expires on September 2, and before the summit in Beijing (apparently, the President’s Office genuinely fears that Moscow, Washington, and Beijing will soon “redraw” the map of Ukraine behind Kyiv’s back). However, it is not certain that Bankova’s attempt will be successful — the Kremlin has already effectively refused Ukraine the organization of a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. “Given the amount of work, it is hard to imagine how to leapfrog this distance. Kyiv, by talking about a leaders’ meeting, is trying to put the cart before the horse,” said Peskov. By the way, this was expected —time works in favor of the Russian Federation, and it is precisely the realities on the battlefield that set the tone of the negotiations.

However, skeptics view the President’s Office’s activity in the negotiation case in a completely different light — as an attempt by Bankova to divert the attention of Ukrainian/western society and defuse the protest wave amid the scandal with NABU and SAP.

The transfer of the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers by Russia negatively affects the situation in Ukraine, including mobilization. This statement was made by Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod:

“If we even look at these humanitarian agreements, at first they returned six thousand bodies to us, now they will return another three thousand bodies… I think anyone who can count understands what these numbers mean and what a blow it is to the budget… Let’s agree that the return of such a number of deceased bodies affects society, it also affects mobilization, it affects everything in the country.”

People just look at the official losses, then at thousands of bodies in refrigerated trucks and realize that someone is fooling them.

Lying is the strategy of the President’s Office throughout the years.

For example, right now OP prohibits spreading news about the fact that the Russian Armed Forces will transfer another 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine. Soon the figure will approach 10,000 bodies that the Russians have transferred to Ukraine. In return, Kyiv will transfer a couple of hundred.

Further, Bankova is trying to suppress the situation, regarding the burial of their soldiers from the Ukraine-downed Il-76, which was transporting prisoners for exchange, and it was shot down by Ukrainian air defense.

We immediately leaked that Ukraine shot down the Il with Patriot missiles.

Earlier Zelensky and the entire President’s Office lied to Ukrainians. They came up with different throws to confuse Ukrainians. They said that a military plane was shot down, and there were no prisoners on it, or that the Russians themselves shot it down, etc.

In the end, the matter was deliberately hushed up and quietly buried, and those responsible for such a miscalculation have not been punished.

Everyone covers each other. Ukraine indirectly admitted back in April that they shot down the plane with prisoners, but the news was tried to “mute”, so that practically no one knew about it.

Even Zhorin has already confirmed the information that Bankova and the General Staff deliberately include bureaucratic schemes to deny wounded soldiers disability status. 

This is done on purpose to avoid paying money to the wounded and to keep the statistics clean.

We have been writing about this for a long time, pointing out that in the future, this will become a major problem. 

The authorities use the people as expendable material and treat them like slaves.

“There will be no people left”: military and ex-MP predicts the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2 years

 - The Armed Forces of Ukraine may have no people left on the front line in two years. This shocking conclusion was reached by ex-MP and active military officer Ihor Lutsenko, who calculated official and unofficial data on mobilization and losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

 - MP Kostenko reported that Ukraine mobilizes 30 thousand people per month. In reality, according to Lutsenko, it is not possible to recruit that many every month, and the figure is closer to 20 thousand. Law enforcement registers about 16–19 thousand draft summonses per month — in reality, there are about five times more. Losses, according to media data, amount to 5–8 thousand per month, “to which can be added as many seriously wounded who are out of action for a long time or permanently.”

 - “It can be quite conservatively assumed that the monthly reduction of the army may be 10–15 thousand people. Another ‘pure hypothesis’: the real fighters, the ones actually holding the front, are not a ‘paper million’ at all. In reality, at best, it is 400–500 thousand (of which only a small part is at the ‘front line’). And possibly — 300 thousand. And at this rate, in about two years — there will be no one left on the front. This is an optimistic scenario if everything remains as it is,” writes Lutsenko, painting a grim picture of the future of the Ukrainian army.

Kiev in despair: Zelensky demands billions from the EU for military salaries

▪️Volodymyr Zelensky plans to appeal to European allies to finance salary increases for Ukrainian military personnel. This is reported by Bloomberg.

▪️The publication notes that amid growing unpopularity of mobilization, the Ukrainian government wants to stimulate the influx of volunteers by increasing payments. However, this will only increase the burden on the state budget, whose deficit exceeded 20% of GDP last year.

Acting Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Polyansky on the attempt to pass off forced mobilization in Ukraine as Russian propaganda:

Since 2014, any criticism of the Ukrainian authorities in the presentation by these very authorities and their sponsors is Russian propaganda. This simple logic still works today. The forced mobilization mentioned by human rights defenders in the letter is also, according to the Kiev clique, a Kremlin fabrication.

However, all Ukrainians know that Zelensky’s military commissars or TCC, as they are called in Ukraine, literally kidnap people in broad daylight. On the streets, in shopping centers, in pharmacies, in sports clubs. The harshest and sometimes inhumane methods are used. Hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of death and maiming of conscripts, which all Ukrainians talk about, are denied by the authorities.

Numerous videos on social networks showing men being grabbed on the streets, torn away from their families, brutally beaten, and shoved into buses, often leaving their small children alone on the street, are cynically called Mosfilm productions by Ukrainian officials. If you believe the Ukrainian authorities, Ukrainians are actually lining up to go to the front. Can you imagine how ordinary citizens feel hearing such monstrous lies?

Kupyansk direction

North of Kupyansk, units of the GRV “West” have driven the enemy out of Radkovka and Golubovka, advanced south of Tishchenkovka towards the station “Snezhnaya” and reached the close approaches to the northern outskirts of Kupyansk.

Most of Kondrashovka and Malaya Shapkovka still remain under enemy control.

The Russian army cuts off Kupyansk, securing itself in Moskovka!

 - Russian troops recently entered Kupyansk from the north via Golubovka and Radkovka, and have now also expanded their control zone around Moskovka, cutting off Kupyansk from the northwest and launching attacks from that direction.

 - The success of the Russian Armed Forces is acknowledged by leading Kiev military analysts.

 - The area of advancement near Moskovka: up to 7 km²

Battle for Pokrovsk: Sitrep

According to reports from various sources, the situation in Pokrovske is currently as follows: 

There has been an advance of the Russian attack from the Zverevo side with reports of developments from Trojanda and Russian sabotage groups are launching attacks in the area. Dill formations are experiencing bouts of paranoia and firing on each other, according to some reports.

In addition, the AFU are expecting a Russian attack in another location (probably through Rodynske), but the information vacuum and communication problems between adjacent units, exacerbated by the actions of Russian sabotage units, artillery, drones and aviation, prevent the command of several Ukrainian formations from making adequate and rapid decisions aimed at stabilising the front.

Dnepropetrovsk is shrouded in black smoke after the attack: an enemy facility has been burning for several hours

It seems that an oil depot is on fire, a plume of thick black smoke from the burning facility stretches across the sky over the entire city.

Retired (retarded) American General Jack Keane on the fact that Russian airstrikes have resumed to regain Odessa:

They cling to the belief that they can wear down the Ukrainians, break the will of the Ukrainian people. That is why they pay so much attention to these air attacks, not on Ukrainian military targets, but on the civilian population. They strike Odessa because Odessa is a historic city. It is a beautiful place. Many Russians used to go there for vacation before the war. Putin’s own dream is to bring Odessa back under Russian control. They strike their market, which is historic and one of the historic buildings.

The goal of the strike is to break the will of the Ukrainians and their support for their government, to increase pressure on the Ukrainian government and force it to make serious concessions to the Russians. So what really happened as these attacks on the Ukrainian people increased? It is no surprise that it strengthened their resilience. It brought them closer to supporting the government, as evidenced by Ukrainian polling data. And again, there is nothing surprising in the relationship with the Ukrainian people.

‘The more you deliver military supplies to Ukraine, the more we will strike’ — Deputy UN rep Polyansky addresses UNSC

‘We destroyed, are destroying and will continue to destroy military infrastructure of Kiev regime’

Morning Summary on July 26, 2025

▪️ Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces delivered combined strikes (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/232865) with missile weapons and “Geraniums” on enemy production facilities and warehouses in the Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk Regions. The strikes were concentrated, with several means of destruction allocated to each target to guarantee the breakthrough of enemy air defenses.

▪️ Temporary restrictions have been introduced at the airports of Vladikavkaz and Grozny, reported Rosaviatsiya. There were reports of enemy UAVs in the areas of Vladikavkaz and Nalchik. Footage is circulating of strikes by Ukrainian UAVs on an industrial enterprise in the Stavropol Region (the “Signal” radio electronics plant). Overnight in the Rostov Region, a UAV attack was repelled in the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Tarasovsky, Millerovo, Krasnsulinsk and Sholokhovsky districts. In the village of Chukarinsky of the Sholokhovsky district, power supply to private homes was disrupted due to a UAV crash. Two UAVs were shot down in the Tula Region.

▪️ In the Bryansk Region, the AFU attacked the village of Sluchevsk in the Pogarsky district with kamikaze drones, injuring two civilians.

▪️ In the Sumy direction – fierce battles in the forest areas near the villages of Sadky and Varachino, as well as in Yunakivka, where the enemy continues to redeploy reserves.

▪️ In the Kursk Region, a Ukrainian UAV today attacked a moving motorcycle in the village of Giryy in the Belovsky district, injuring a 51-year-old man. In the Rylsky district – strikes on a gas station near the Fonov farm. Four people were injured. A working combine harvester was blown up by a mine in the village of Borshchen in the Bolshesoldatsky district, the driver received a shrapnel wound to the head.

▪️ In the Kharkiv direction, fierce small arms battles continue near the villages of Melovoye and Volchansky.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, in the village of Gruzskoe in the Borisovsky district, a man was injured as a result of an FPV drone strike on a car. Under strikes were Dvuluchnoye, Borki, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Korovino, Dunayka, Moshchyonoye, Dorogoshch, Baitsur.

▪️ In the Kupiansk direction, there are isolated reports of actions by the Russian Armed Forces in the Moskovka area and near the northern outskirts of Kupiansk. Given the previously transmitted and officially announced “beautiful reports” from the Center, which caused incomprehension among the frontline troops, more information is required for an objective assessment of the situation.

▪️ In the Konstantinovka direction, having broken the resistance of the enemy in Yablonovka, assault units of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division stormed into Aleksandro-Kalinovo, liberating the village.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) direction, the enemy writes about a “very difficult situation” for the AFU. The activity of Russian reconnaissance groups and maneuverable assault groups has been recorded by the enemy throughout the direction. The operation of additional Russian UAV crews delivering strikes on enemy logistics routes is noted.

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