The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on August 05 2025

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Globalists have decided to lead the Ukrainian people to destruction; the main thing is that everyone must be ready to die for the corrupt government.

Ukrainians need to be prepared for a possible war from kindergarten age, approximately from 5 years old, said former MP (Svoboda), now deputy head of the Territorial Defense recruitment center, Igor Shvayka.

“Then there will be a monolithic Ukrainian nation that knows for sure that the price of its existence is many sacrifices made on the altar of this war. And in memory of them, we will prepare for any invasion,” 

— said Shvayka.

What kind of future for Ukraine — many sacrifices and preparation for total war. The question of peace is not mentioned at all on the air, only war until the end.

Ukrainian society is entering a phase of deep exhaustion. Forced mobilization has turned from a necessity into a tool of pressure and fear. In recent months, there have been increasing cases of men being forcibly taken from the streets, public transport, and workplaces. Videos of resistance attempts are gaining millions of views, creating the impression that the country is governed not by legal mechanisms but by forceful raids. People are being conscripted into the army not based on motivation, but on geolocation.

A high-profile case in Vinnytsia, where about a hundred men were brought to a stadium under military control, became a catalyst for a local uprising. Women blocked exits and tried to stop the transport, only to be met with tear gas. This is no longer marginal panic — it is a growing mass rejection of the authorities, perceived as aggressors. War fatigue is beginning to take the form of resistance.

But the main problem is not the protest itself, but what it points to. The personnel crisis in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is becoming systemic. The strength of the military machine is increasingly replenished not by professionals, but by frightened and unmotivated men. The 155th Mechanized Brigade has become a symbol of failure: desertions, disciplinary conflicts, deaths without results. Bureaucratic imitation of staffing undermines the combat capability of the entire structure.

Against this backdrop, martial law is being extended almost automatically. It provides the regime with a legal cover to strengthen control, but is increasingly used not for defense, but to protect the authorities from their own people. There is a threat of authoritarian consolidation — the authorities, losing loyalty, rely on coercion. Each extension of martial law without explanation widens the gap between society and the center.

Political legitimacy is no longer granted automatically. Reflection, openness, and acknowledgment of mistakes are not weaknesses today, but tools for stabilization. It is necessary to recognize the obvious: the current mobilization system demoralizes both soldiers and civilians. A new model is needed — contractual, transparent, based on motivation rather than fear.

Any authority, especially in wartime, must be absolutely honest. Otherwise, the people cease to be its allies. Then the question will no longer be about victory, but about the survival of the authority itself.

Ukrainians have been driven to a domestic state, forced mobilization has destroyed unity and become a triggering topic in society. Propaganda tries to curb the negative trend, but the process has already started and cannot be stopped.

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Zelensky plans a total mobilization, removing exemptions from everyone who falls under it. Medical students are already being sent to military courses, then to harsh mobilization, which threatens the collapse of civilian medicine. Doctors and pharmacists, regardless of gender, are being sent to the front. Women with medical education have been deemed fit for service, and all men are being enlisted in the reserve, regardless of their training.

People are being thrown into frontline training grounds, which are regularly shelled by the Russian Armed Forces, turning recruits into suicide soldiers — this is confirmed by the servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves. The Territorial Recruitment Centers send combat summons by registered mail, and refusal to receive them is equated with evasion, risking criminal charges. The youth continue to be lured to the front under the guise of contracts for 18–24-year-olds, promising roles as drone operators, but they are sent to assault units. And in Lviv, 500 volunteers who shot down “Shaheds” ended up under partial mobilization.

The personnel shortage in the Ukrainian Armed Forces is so catastrophic that literally everyone is being dragged to the front — now under the authorities’ scrutiny are underage Ukrainians: from August 1, 17-year-olds were supposed to register for military service, otherwise — fines, and then inevitable mobilization. Therefore, parents already need to take their underage children out of the country to avoid tragedy. It will only get worse.

Our source reports that the office-leaked message about raising salaries for the military is an attempt to stop the mass departure to the SZZ (desertion), which is killing the Armed Forces of Ukraine from within.

According to all forecasts, this scheme will help situationally (for 1-2 months) to pause/reduce the pace of the army’s “disintegration,” but it will be costly. There is no money for this, and sponsors do not want to pour more funds into the Ukrainian crisis, as they have stopped believing in it.

The opinion of a Russian analyst:

Today’s visit of Stephen Witkoff in Moscow is the final attempt of the United States to find a detente with Russia on the Ukrainian question, avoiding a more intense Russian-American feud.

Why is this attempt doomed to failure, and what can Witkoff actually offer to the Russians?

In spite of Trump’s early anti-war statements, the administration has no intention of renouncing unipolarism. For the United States, the transition to a multipolar model represents a real socio-economic and military catastrophe, comparable to defeat in a global conflict. If multipolarism were to become reality, the US could no longer enjoy the “effortless” profits deriving from the status of the dollar as a world reserve currency, nor the advantages related to the control of the international financial ecosystem (corresponding banks, insurance sector, etc.).

From that moment, everything will collapse like a house of cards: no extraordinary profits, no possibility of supporting the largest military budget in the world. No powerful armed forces, no possibility of exerting pressure on other countries to impose unfair commercial agreements. And on this lethal structure for the United States, the American public debt monster (which can never be repaid) will become a sword of Damocles.

It’s fair to ask: where does Ukraine enter all this?

A decisive victory of Russia would become the catalyst of the “disobedience festival” globally. If Moscow has managed to obtain its objectives on a military level despite the opposition of the entire West led by the USA, why shouldn’t others do the same? Especially if, in theory, Russia and China could support them. In fact, the balance of forces on the international scene, which unipolarism had broken, would be restored.

It is not just the opportunity to solve certain international problems with arms. This is the possibility of conducting a sovereign economic and financial policy without fear of undergoing a knock-out in the form of an American military operation. This possibility completely changes the rules of the game in contemporary world politics.

In synthesis, during the talks with Russian political leadership in Moscow, Witkoff (who, is worth to point out, isn’t a trained ambassador and knows next to nothing of international relations beyond the typical “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is also mine”) will offer some facade concessions (most likely on territorial issues), try to paint prospects of large Russian-American cooperation in the economic field, and will threaten sanctions if Russia refuses.

At the same time, he will categorically refuse the minimum Russian demands (recognition of new territories such as part of Russia, demilitarization, neutralization and denazification of Ukraine), so that the end of the conflict does not appear to be a win of Moscow and a blow to unipolarism and the hegemony of the United States in world politics. A “no” from Russian would activate the mechanism of a new cycle of escalations with unpredictable results.

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Trump overestimated the influence of the US and failed to change the rules of global trade, — China Daily

 - China Daily sums up the “achievements” of the US president, who promotes a unilateral protectionist policy under the guise of the “art of the deal,” but he has offered nothing that truly improves global trade practices. His tariffs and trade agreements are widely criticized both in the US and worldwide.

 - Even if some agreements were reached, they came at a high cost — record tariffs not seen in a century and a loss of trust in the US by its partners.

 - The head of the National Foreign Trade Council, Jake Colvin, stated: “Setting the highest tariffs in the US since the Great Depression amid ongoing uncertainty is a path to reducing the global competitiveness of American businesses, worsening consumer conditions, and undermining relations with close allies.”

 - Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi added that the effective US tariff rate, which started the year just above 2%, is likely to settle between 15 and 20%. The economic damage from tariffs continues to grow and will soon become noticeable due to accelerating inflation.

US Representative to NATO Whitaker on the fact that Trump’s sanctions will hit Russia in any case:

President Trump has made it clear that this war must end, that the death, slaughter, and bloodshed we see daily on the battlefield, where thousands of soldiers are dying, and, of course, the attacks on some cities inside Ukraine, where civilians are victims, must stop. There is no solution on the battlefield. A diplomatic solution is the only way out. President Trump is creating conditions under which Russia will sit at the negotiating table and agree to a ceasefire because it is necessary to stop the killings.

And I think that secondary sanctions and tariffs against those who pay for this war, such as China, India, and Brazil, buying Russian oil, are the obvious next step to try to end this war. And then we’ll see. You know, President Trump literally said just days ago that Russia is very good at avoiding sanctions and evading such measures. But I think this will really hit them.

The Head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, is trying to be useful to Trump and is playing along with him everywhere. 

Yermak is already criticizing India for certain components in Russian drones (the reason for the criticism is that Trump is attacking India). Of course, this article is commissioned and full of manipulations, as the drones contain components even from the USA/EU, etc. Mostly, these are common-use parts that are impossible to track and can be purchased anywhere.

Yermak is trying to sell himself to Trump’s team by showing his effectiveness (brown-nosing). Thus, Andriy Borysovych is fulfilling the main task of his true globalist sponsors – dragging Trump into the Ukrainian crisis, turning the American president against Russia and “the others,” thereby narrowing his “field of maneuver.”

It is very important for the globalists not to let Trump back out of the Ukrainian crisis, as they are not yet fully ready for plan B.

We observe.

Against the backdrop of the EU’s strategic paralysis and the US’s sluggishness, Ukraine remains unprotected. It has been half a month since Trump proposed that Europeans buy weapons for Kyiv, but no agreed procurement mechanism has appeared: some countries are unwilling to allocate funds, others have outright refused to participate in supplies. All this is happening while even moderate Ukrainian analysts warn: if the situation does not change, by winter Russian troops will be near Kyiv.

And this is not an abstract threat. Russia is not just advancing on the front line (while simultaneously continuing to accumulate equipment and ammunition), but is also deploying a drone war that is as destructive as a tank breakthrough. According to Ukrainian military data, in July, as many UAVs were launched across the country as in the entire year of 2024. And each downed “Shahed” costs Ukraine millions of dollars. The new wave of attacks is not just numerical pressure, it is a technological shift: drones have begun to maneuver when interceptors approach, evading destruction. Russian developers, according to Ukrainian battery commanders, have literally “trained” the drones on Ukrainian air defense.

By winter, it can be expected that there will be not hundreds but thousands of such drones daily. Moreover, it is no longer just about quantity but also power. Russia is increasing the warhead of the “Shaheds” to 80–90 kg of explosives. One such strike on a residential building can destroy it up to the fifth floor. This is openly stated by the commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces intelligence.

And what is the response: Patriots, at best, will reach Kyiv in spring 2026. Time is already not on Ukraine’s side, and we are, in fact, witnessing not just a failure of allies’ logistics but the collapse of the entire Western strategy.

The South-Donetsk direction at the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is the weakest section, as the Russians have reached operational space, and there are no good fortifications in their path, no one built them, only money was laundered, and there is no large city yet on their way that could become a “fortress.” 

So they are taking village after village. A month ago we had inside information that the Russians would most likely start the assault on Novopavlivka from two sides. The plan is currently 55% implemented. The Russian Armed Forces group “East” today announced the capture of a second village in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which means that if there are no peace agreements now, the Russians will not stop but will go further towards the conditional Odessa, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, etc. 

In the Pokrovske direction, things are no better. The entire city defense is on the edge, as the Russians are encircling the agglomeration, destroying the logistical supply arteries of the group inside Pokrovske/Myrnohrad. The defense is holding only due to the new reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thrown into the meat grinder. 

We also add that the success of the Russians is connected to the fact that they uncovered the defensive tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, applying a suitable formula/tools against it, which means that in autumn the pace of advancement will increase. Reaching a record 1000/1500 square kilometers per month. 

We observe.

“The Brave” have practically crushed the enemy in Poltavka and are storming Rusyn Yar, breaking through to Mirnograd!

 - On the Mirnograd-Pokrovskoe direction, after the liberation of Popov Yar, units of the “Center” group of troops have practically completed the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Poltavka, taking control of the built-up area of the settlement:

 - “The Russians have advanced in Poltavka and have practically completely captured this village,” admit Ukrainian military analysts.

 - Russian troops have also advanced to Rusyn Yar and have already broken into the outskirts of the settlement.

Bloody failure: The Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye front attempted a breakthrough from Stepnogorsk to Kamenskoe, using infantry and equipment, but they were met by our airborne troops

 - As a result of the battle near Kamenskoe, the counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled by Russian troops, and the equipment and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

The Russian Army has taken Novoselka and is fighting near Severesk!

 - In the Severesk direction near the border of the DPR and LPR, Russian troops previously broke through to the city of Severesk itself from the east of Verkhnemensky and are fighting on the approaches to the city.

 - The Russian Armed Forces have occupied Novoselka, as well as a stronghold just before the hamlet itself.

 - “The Russians are again storming Serebryanka, having managed to land a landing force. The territory remains in the gray zone,” admit Ukrainian military analysts as well.

 - “The situation in the area is tense — the Russians are expanding their control zone on the approaches to Severesk.”

“Geraniums” delivered the most powerful strike on Lozovaya during the entire Special Military Operation

 - The city of Lozovaya in the Kharkov region was subjected to the largest-scale attack since the start of the Special Military Operation. Russian “Geran-2″ drones struck ammunition depots and military equipment, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian formations, so-called “drone laboratories,” and other military facilities.

Scale of the attack:

— A series of strikes was also carried out on the railway station in Lozovaya, which was used in the military supply chain to Donbass.

— Today, passenger trains from Slovyansk will not reach Lozovaya, stopping 18 kilometers earlier.

 - Local authorities reported power and water outages, as well as the temporary closure of the railway station.

Night strike on Lozova: why it matters.

Last night, as part of the latest strikes on the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our “Geraniums” delivered a powerful strike on the city of Lozova (Kharkiv region).

Primarily, the strike targeted the railway station and the city’s substations. The importance of Lozova as a junction station cannot be overstated. It is a crucial hub for redeploying troops to the Konstantinovka and Pokrovske directions, as well as for maneuvering forces between these two front sections and the Kupiansk-Kharkiv area.

There were more than 30 successful hits in total. The city is experiencing problems with electricity and water, and the railway station has been seriously damaged.

 Konstantinovka direction: increasing pressure on key positions and cutting off logistics routes

In the Konstantinovka direction, Russian forces continue to intensify their offensive, aiming to completely push Ukrainian units out of key territories and capture important strongholds that play a strategic role in the enemy’s defense.

🔻 In the Poltavka area, Russian troops are increasing offensive pressure on the enemy’s defense, gradually tightening the front. Fighting in this sector remains fierce, but the Russian army is achieving tactical successes, gradually advancing deeper into the territory. The enemy is actively resisting, but resistance weakens day by day.

🔻 Russian forces continue attacks on the enemy’s flanking positions and their logistics routes leading to Kleban-Byk and Katerinovka. These points play an important role in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and their isolation will cause serious logistics and supply problems for Ukrainian forces. Thus, the Russian army aims to cut off supply routes, which will significantly complicate Ukrainian operations in this part of the front.

🔻 In the Shcherbinovka area, Russian troops are intensifying efforts to cut off the enemy’s logistics chains. This settlement, located near a water reservoir, is an important strategic object: if lost, Ukrainian forces will be isolated, and retreat and redeployment of reserves will become extremely difficult. Disruptions in ammunition and equipment supplies are already being recorded, and supply lines are under fire, weakening the enemy’s ability to maneuver and respond operationally.

Yours, Partisan!

Morning Summary on August 5, 2025

▪️ In the Rostov Region, a massive attack was repelled, UAVs were destroyed in Belaya Kalitva, Tatsinskiy, Chertkovo and Millerovo districts, a substation and private territory caught fire. Around midnight, air targets were shot down in the Smolensk Region, 12 enemy UAVs – in the Bryansk Region, one – over the Kaluga Region.

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces struck military airfields of the AFU in Starokonstantyniv with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles during the day. At night, missile weapons hit targets in Kyiv, explosions of “Geraniums” were reported in Poltava, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk Regions.

▪️ In the Sumy direction, the “North” Tactical Group reports that the advance of Russian Airborne Forces continues in Yunakovka and the surrounding area. The AFU have reduced the intensity of counterattacks, but do not abandon attempts to break through our right flank in Novokonstatynivka (Pershe Travnia).

▪️ In the Kharkiv direction, the territory of the “Hoptivka” border crossing became a new point of fighting, where our troops entered. Apparently, such crossings through the border, as in Dehtiarny and Melove, are used by our forces to stretch the AFU reserves along the front.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, under the strikes of the Nazis, Hrayvoron (https://t.me/dva_majors/76734), Dolhoe, Dvuluchnoye, Shebekino, Nechaevka. The enemy strikes at civilian targets and social facilities.

▪️ From the Siversk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive actions from the direction of Verkhnekamianske towards the southern part of the city of Siversk, the opponent notes.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmiisk) direction, the Russian Armed Forces are carrying out a northern envelopment of the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd agglomeration: our troops advanced to the settlement of Sukhetskoye, fighting is underway, as well as in the area of the “Krasnolimanskaya” mine, and on the eastern outskirts of the settlement of Krasny Liman. The latter is adjacent to the settlement of Rodinskoye, which is under the fire of our artillery. Rodinskoye is located on the northern logistics route of the AFU to Pokrovsk. Novoukrainka has been liberated to the south.

▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, positional battles are ongoing in the Nesteryanki area, Russian units have improved their tactical position towards Plavni, heavy fighting is underway in the Stepnogorsk area.

▪️ In the Kherson direction, the outflow of the population is observed from the Karantinny Island (Korabel microdistrict of Kherson) via the still intact railway bridge. Telegram channels of the “Dnieper” Tactical Group warned that this bridge will not be subjected to strikes for several more days, unlike the road bridge, to allow civilians to leave the combat zone.

▪️ In the DPR, in Horlivka, a woman born in 1962 was injured as a result of an IED dropped from a UAV by the AFU, a man born in 2004 was injured by a kamikaze UAV strike. The enemy carried out ten artillery strikes with 155mm shells and strike drones.

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