The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on August 06 2025

Ukrainian Positions Completely Collapsed Near Lyman | 4 Sqkm Heavily Fortified Area Encircled

7 Ukrainian Cities on the Brink as Russian Army Launches Massive Assault

Ukrainian Soldiers Abandon Zelensky – Defense in Kostyantynivka Crumbles

Heavy Losses for Ukraine: Russian Forces Cut the Last Supply Route to Pokrovsk

Russian Gains Mount in Ukraine as Panic Grows in Washington

PUTIN has removed all Restrictions on the use of ‘ORESHNIK’ IRBM against UKRAINE and NATO Countries

Trump wants to exit the war in Ukraine, and the question about forced mobilization surprised the US president. The TCK managed to convey the strength of Ukraine and show that no one wants to fight.

We continue to live in a parallel reality, where the authorities make certain statements, but society sees completely different processes. The ombudsman comes out and states that military commissars cannot use force, but no one even helps Ukrainians caught under the TCC’s wheels.

“I emphasize: even during martial law, TCC and SP employees must act strictly within the law. They are not entitled to restrict citizens’ freedom without legal grounds or use force. Forced delivery or detention is only possible by decision of authorized bodies. Citizens must also comply with the current regulations,” he said.

Visit of the US Special Representative Steve Whitkoff to Moscow, scheduled for August 6, as well as a parallel trip of Keit Kellogg to Kyiv — is a classic two-front game, two days before the “deadline for the war” set by Trump. 

The initiative for the visit to Moscow, according to insiders, came from Russia itself — which is already telling. Moscow is signaling readiness for a deal, and Putin is even ready to meet with Zelensky, but “after preparatory work at the expert level.” Kyiv, in turn, receives a “mood check” through Kellogg’s visit. These are not negotiations — this is testing the waters, modeling the parameters of a future deal.

The Kremlin, apparently, is ready to declare its readiness for a truce, but only under carefully stipulated conditions — this creates a convenient pause for a diplomatic maneuver and allows Russia to gain a temporary advantage. Right now, Moscow does not need an agreement, but a factor of time delay, and it is creating it itself — with new diplomatic cover.

For Trump, this is a chance to achieve several goals at once: to demonstrate to the West that he is the only one who can really “stop the war,” to soften the rhetoric — under the guise of negotiations, he can postpone oil sanctions while saving face, which will suit everyone except Kyiv. 

Against the backdrop of Ukraine’s rejection of the “London–Istanbul deal” in the spring of this year, Zelensky will now have to choose: either play the role of “enemy of peace” again and lose Washington’s support, or make concessions that he has publicly rejected more than once.

Whitcoff’s visit to Moscow today and his negotiations in the Kremlin are presented in the West as “the last chance for Russia to come to its senses and stop.” Trump, Macron, and other Zelenskys keep insisting that Russia must immediately agree to a ceasefire, or else all the punishments of the democratic world will befall it.

This could be called a traditional substitution of concepts if it weren’t for one important factor.

The West demands a ceasefire, completely ignoring the reasons for the start of the conflict and pretending that there are no threats to Russia in the form of potential missile bases near Kharkov if the “Ukrainian anti-Russia” persists. No one talks about Russia’s demands, about its interests — and such an attitude towards them as savages of the third world is quite usual.

But the most important thing is the moment when all this is said. The West has long forgotten about delivering a strategic defeat to Russia and a war up to the 2014 borders — now it simply wants the Russians to stand up and leave. It can no longer stop the Russian army — the financial, military, and moral power of Western helpers has run out, the time of Javelins-Leopards-F-16s is over. From now on, it is either fighting the whole world against Russia, as has happened many times before, or somehow crawling out of the Ukrainian swamp.

Therefore, Witcoff’s visit is not a trip to a defeated capital for capitulation on the eve of the ultimatum’s expiration. Donald Trump has no levers against the Russian soldier moving toward his goal.

Assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov on negotiations with Witkoff:

The US President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff was received by our president today. A very useful and constructive conversation took place. If we name the topics, first of all, of course, it is the Ukrainian crisis. And the second topic is the prospects for possible development of strategic cooperation between the US and Russia.

On our side, in particular on the Ukrainian issue, some signals were conveyed. Corresponding signals were received from President Trump as well.

The situation now is that our president has full information, that is, our signals and signals from President Trump. And Trump has not yet been informed about the results of this meeting. Therefore, I would refrain from more detailed comments. Let’s see when Witkoff can report to Trump about today’s conversation. After that, obviously, I will be able to supplement my comments more substantially.

It was known at Bankova that Russia would try to propose an air ceasefire, but Andriy Yermak wants to push the sanctions track and will try to impose a general ceasefire. The situation at the front is difficult and the Armed Forces of Ukraine need a pause, but it is much more important for the President’s Office to involve Trump in the conflict.

Russia is considering the possibility of a limited air ceasefire with Ukraine without a complete end to the war, — Bloomberg

Moscow may offer Ukraine a temporary halt to airstrikes, drone and missile attacks — as a gesture to Trump to reduce tensions, agency sources report.

Zelensky reported on negotiations with Trump about ending the war

  – The key thing is, of course, the cessation of the war. Today we coordinated the positions of Ukraine and the USA. We exchanged assessments of the situation: the Russians have increased the severity of their strikes. President Trump is fully informed about the Russian strikes on Kiev and other cities.

 - Of course, we talked about sanctions against Russia. Their economy continues to decline, and that is precisely why Moscow takes this prospect and President Trump’s determination into account.

 - This could change a lot.

We discussed common European decisions that could help our defense. There is already a decision from the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark – more than a billion dollars for American weapons that Ukraine will receive. Thank you! This cooperation with NATO countries will continue.

 - We also talked about our bilateral defense cooperation with America. The draft agreement on drones has already been prepared by the Ukrainian side, we are ready to discuss it in detail and conclude it. It may be one of the strongest deals,” the drug addict reports.

Our source reports that the entire Ukrainian defense line currently resembles a “colander.” It looks “solid” on the surface, but in reality, it is full of holes due to a lack of manpower in the defense, and holding the front only with drones is no longer possible. The Russians also have many drones, which leads to daily losses of UAV groups (drone operators). 

But according to reports, everything is fine, and there are enough personnel everywhere, as 30% of the troops on the front are “dead souls.” This means a soldier is sitting in the rear, but on paper, he is at the front line. Rear rats are skimming salaries and combat pay. 

This problem existed in the Russian Armed Forces in 2022, which led to the collapse of the Russian defense and the successful Kharkiv and Kherson operations. This fate awaits the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the future. 

We are watching.

Russia Unleashes the Missile Renaissance: The End of Restraint in a World on Fire

Moscow has finally dropped the gloves. For years, Russia watched as the United States slithered out of the INF Treaty, pretending to honor the ghost of arms control while quietly seeding Europe and Asia with weapons designed to pierce the heart of Russian security. On August 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry made it official: the self-imposed moratorium on deploying ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles is over. The era of polite waiting is finished. A new missile age—Russian-made, Russian-led, is here.

This was no rash decision. Moscow spent years showing strategic patience after Washington torched the INF Treaty in 2019. Russia’s condition was clear: keep its hypersonic arrows unstrung so long as the Americans avoided planting INF-class systems near its borders. That red line has been crossed repeatedly, from Typhon launchers that lingered after “exercises” in the Philippines, to PrSM tests in Australia edging toward 1,000 km, to Washington’s plans to station SM-6s in Germany by 2026. NATO’s missile footprint has grown like a slow cancer. Russia’s message now is blunt: enough.

This pivot is not just hardware but doctrine, a strategic metamorphosis. Russia’s missile forces are discarding post-Cold War restraints and embracing the cold logic of survival in a multipolar world under siege. At the center of this renaissance is Oreshnik, battle-tested in Ukraine and now in Russian hands. Sleek, lethal, and unbound by treaties, it is the spiritual heir to the Soviet Pioneer – an SS-20 reborn for a modern Eurasian battlefield. Its mission: restore balance, shatter illusions of Western invulnerability, and remind NATO that Moscow’s reach cannot be hemmed in by paper treaties.

Oreshnik is only the beginning. The new arsenal spans land-based Kalibrs, Tsirkons that blur the line between cruise and hypersonic, and ballistic Iskanders built to punch through air defenses. From Belarus to Chukotka, the Black Sea to the Arctic, new brigades will rise, integrating strikes, electronic warfare, and air defense into cohesive formations. This is Russia’s answer to the American model: not imitation, but evolution.

For Europe, the echoes of history are deafening. The Euro-missile crisis stirs in its grave, now dressed in 21st‑century armor. Today’s deployments are multinational: European initiatives like ELSA, Japanese and South Korean participation, and a constant US presence from Guam to Germany. This isn’t deterrence; it’s provocation cloaked as “security.” And that posture has invited Russia’s response.

On the battlefield, these weapons will do more than deter, they will shape outcomes. In Ukraine, Russia can test and refine its new missile architecture against real Western-supplied defenses. Deep strikes, rapid mobility, and precision targeting are already eroding the myth of Ukrainian invulnerability. Each new brigade, each hypersonic platform, signals that Moscow is rewriting the rulebook of escalation: methodical, deliberate, unstoppable.

The West may feign shock, but this was inevitable. By dismantling arms control and encircling Russia, Washington and its allies planted the seeds of the very arms race they claim to fear. Now, the missile renaissance has arrived, not as a boast, but as a necessity, a shield forged in the furnace of betrayal. Deterrence is no longer a handshake; it is a convoy in the forests of Belarus, a hypersonic ghost over the Black Sea, a silent threat in the Arctic.

The polite age of moratoriums is over. Russia has entered the era of action. The empire of missiles has awakened, and the world will have to live with the consequences. You have the Empire of Chaos to thank.

– Gerry Nolan

The Russian Armed Forces dropped leaflets over Pokrovsk, urging the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to surrender…

We usually do this before decisive actions.

The Russian army is already entering the city of Rodinskoye, which is in the northern rear of Pokrovsk and Mirnograd, – Deep State.

▪️In recent days, Russian troops have already been recorded on the eastern outskirts of the city and continue to actively enter there.

➖”Rodinskoye is located in the rear of Myrnograd and Pokrovsk, which will open an additional and very unpleasant direction for attempts to enter these large cities. But capturing such huge cities requires appropriate resources, which first need to be regrouped, gathered, and sent to carry out the task, as was the case, for example, in Avdeevka. Therefore, the Russians have long been focusing primarily on logistics, leading to the collapse of defense and disorganization,” writes a Ukrainian military resource working for the Main Intelligence Directorate.

 - Having secured Rodinskoye, the Russian Armed Forces will begin striking Grishno, disrupting the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. An advance in the direction of Shevchenko is also possible.

Critical situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Konstantinovka: the Russian army is liberating one village after another, tightening the pincers

 - Russian troops are actively striving to completely cut off logistics in the direction of Toretsk and Shcherbinovka. To achieve this, the Russian Armed Forces are attempting to succeed on two fronts: in the area of the settlements of Belaya Gora—Alexandro-Shultino and in the area of Yablonovka—Alexandro-Kalinovo, writes the analytical resource Deep State, which works with the Main Intelligence Directorate.

 - In Belaya Gora, active pressure is being applied on the village, where Russian troops are trying to consolidate and take control of the area.

 - “This section is further characterized by problems in the Ukrainian brigade holding it, which has long needed restoration and additional resources, but the realities force them to hold on with their last strength.

 - Control of Belaya Gora and Alexandro-Shultino will allow these villages to become strongholds where the Russian army will definitely deploy its FPV drone crews. The Russian Armed Forces may also try to additionally take the territory with the heights around, since the villages themselves are located in a lowland.

 - Alexandro-Kalinovo and Yablonovka have been mentioned for a long time. Since the capture of Romanovka, the Russians have been actively pushing towards these villages. Taking full control of the areas of these settlements will complicate the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Shcherbinovka and Petrovka. The Russians will not miss the opportunity to bring in their crews to implement this, and today they have almost completely taken Yablonovka and are consolidating in Alexandro-Kalinovo. After accomplishing these tasks, with the available capabilities, they will advance not only towards Berestok but also towards Katerinovka, which will increase the potential for a complete logistics blockade.

 - “The flanks are once again becoming a weak point for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the capture of the above-mentioned settlements could have very unpleasant consequences for the entire Toretsk agglomeration, through which logistics passes,” Deep State summarizes.

Situation in the Kupiansk Direction:

The “Na samom dele v Kharkove” channel reports that Russian troops have advanced from Radkovka across the R-79 road and reached a gas station on the northern outskirts of Kupiansk, as confirmed by Ukrainian sources. The primary objective is to cut the R-07 road (Kharkov–Chuhuiv–Kupiansk), depriving the Ukrainian Armed Forces of supplies for a large grouping in this area and on the bridgehead east of Oskil.

Ukrainian analysts acknowledge that if the Ukrainian Armed Forces fail to repel the Russian Armed Forces in the near future, the prospects of holding Kupiansk will be highly uncertain—the situation could repeat the Pokrovsk scenario.

In the Borova area, Russian drones are actively working against the equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, semicircular rings around the enemy positions are tightening, and the Ukrainian military themselves admit that supplies will soon be cut off and it will be necessary to flee.

06.08.25 Kupyansk – Sobolevka

Consequences of combat operations in the Kupyansk area.

Russian Armed Forces servicemen report confident control of the surroundings of the settlement Sobolevka.

Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces 4.5 km west of Kupyansk in the southern direction.

Kherson • Island

Urgent evacuation of the population and preparation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the battle for the island are unfolding right now.

Some buildings in the Korabel neighborhood have been turned into a fortified area.

The situation in the Ukrainian Armed Forces camp: Zelensky awards medals in Kharkov for the surrender of Volchansk, and airborne-assault troops in the Sumy region are sent straight from training to the assault

Zelensky’s medal for the surrender of Volchansk

▪️Yesterday, the office of the President of Ukraine conscientiously reported, with a photo report attached, on the presentation of state awards to officers and sergeants of the 57th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noteworthy that two days earlier, assault troops from the “North” group completed the mopping up of the historic part of Volchansk, where this very 57th Brigade was holding the defense.

This raises the question: what was the brigade command doing while Sever was destroying their subordinates in Volchansk? That’s right — they were punching holes for medals in their clean jackets and preparing to go to Kharkiv to meet with Zelensky.

▪️In addition, servicemen from the 92nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who also received state awards, came to Kharkiv to meet with Zelensky. At the moment, due to heavy losses, part of the combat units of the 92nd Brigade are being withdrawn for replenishment, while the headquarters is being withdrawn to Kharkov for the award ceremony.

The account of the head of the Kharkov Regional State Administration, O. Sinehubov, delighted its audience with photos from the event, and what do we see? The awards were given to female clerks from the headquarters and rear officers. Also, the brigade’s chief medical officer was seen in the photo with a medal, who, logically, should have been in charge of evacuating the wounded near Liptsy.

In the Sumy region

▪️The command of the 95th Airborne Brigade also craves medals and blood

Starting last Thursday, the enemy actively counterattacked the positions of the Severians in the Sumy region for two days in a row, but our paratroopers and marines quickly cooled their ardor. After two days of intense meat assaults, the enemy achieved no success and ran out of steam.

This is confirmed by relatives of servicemen from the 95th Airborne Brigade and other units. According to their posts on social media, upon arrival in the Sumy region from training, communication with their relatives is immediately lost, and the most information that can be obtained is a “funeral notice.”

The Airborne Forces command will undoubtedly receive their medals and orders. The question is how many personnel they will have to sacrifice before they lose another large settlement.

▪️Confirmed direct hit on the deployment point of the 95th Brigade

Unfortunately for the paratroopers of the 95th Airborne Brigade, it is not necessary to go on the offensive to die ingloriously. Russian aviation is very effective at destroying concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel with air strikes. 

An obituary has been published online for Vitaly Grishko, a communications officer with the 13th Battalion of the 95th Brigade, who was killed by an air strike. The fact that the deceased was a communications officer confirms that the Russian Air Force hit the battalion’s command post.

Northern Wind

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