The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on August 28 2025

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While the negotiations and shuttle diplomacy are ongoing.

Both sides, to strengthen their bargaining positions and as insurance against the breakdown of talks, are relentlessly attacking each other with drones.

After Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian cities, many have flown to us.

Dnipro, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia are next, Odessa, etc. There is a possibility of missile arrivals at night.

Take care of yourselves. The war has not gone away, and the road to peace is still too long. So far, there is only “informational noise” about peace, which is sometimes used to distract attention.

As we assumed, it happened exactly as predicted, Gerbera is a precursor to a massive strike.

During the night, drones and missiles massively hit Ukraine. Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Sumy, western Ukraine, etc.

A tragedy occurred in Kyiv as a result of the massive strike. A residential building collapsed. The office immediately started doing PR on the bloodshed.

In response, Bankova continues to strike oil refineries in Russia. There was also a massive strike during the night.

Ermak’s negotiations in the USA will be tough, which means we have an interesting week ahead.

“He just wants it all to end. Almost regardless of how.” Trump is dissatisfied with Ukraine, — The Atlantic

The US president privately expressed his dissatisfaction with Zelensky and Europe, believing that their demands are unrealistic and that Ukraine needs to come to terms with losing part of its territory to end the war.

Trump is also unhappy that his loud diplomatic efforts have not been successful. Russia has hardly backed down from its demands. Putin and Zelensky did not agree to a joint meeting. The hostilities do not seem to be nearing an end. There is complete confusion.

All Ukrainians need to realize that if the war continues as ZeErmak, office workers, various media sluts, Soros supporters like Sternenko, etc. want, then tragedies like today’s in Kyiv will be hundreds of times more. Not only in Kyiv, Kharkiv, or Odesa, but at some point it will start in western Ukraine. Ukrainians will lose loved ones, property, business, and all this bullshit that supports the war will use your grief for PR to steal even more from the war. In reality, they don’t care about Ukrainians; they need the image to continue the “banquet.”

Russians massively struck Kyiv’s underground locations of decentralized Ukrainian military-industrial production, which are located in shopping center parking lots, etc. – source.

There was also a massive strike on railway infrastructure. At some point, the Russians could shut down all Ukrainian railways if they methodically hit the railway infrastructure and transport for a month. This will lead to a massive disaster. Logistics will die. The transfer of personnel and weapons to the front line will slow down. Prices for everything will rise. The fuel crisis will worsen due to shortages.

All our sources highlight the main reason for the escalation – Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure (previously it was under some non-aggression agreements. Zelensky betrayed the Kremlin again and crossed red lines, which means that attacks on Ukraine will increase every day and target any objects).

Think about it!

After a pause related to the negotiation track, Russia is again striking the capital, where most of the defense industry enterprises are concentrated. Currently, 8 deaths are reported along with widespread destruction.

Powerful explosions were heard in the city, and in the morning Kyiv was shrouded in smoke from fires being extinguished by helicopter.

According to official data, a five-story building was destroyed in the Darnytskyi district, a 16-story residential building, a private house, and a kindergarten were damaged.

In the Dniprovskyi district, a 25-story building was affected, cars burned in the yards, and a fire broke out in an office building. In the Solomianskyi district, a private residential house was damaged. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, damage was recorded at least at three sites, including an office building.

In total, the consequences of the attack were recorded at more than 20 locations in the Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiivskyi, Obolonskyi, and Desnianskyi districts, the Kyiv City Military Administration reported.

Night strikes on critical infrastructure and military facilities of Ukraine

On the night of August 26 to 27, 2025, Russian forces carried out a series of concentrated strikes by Geran-2 UAVs on energy, gas transportation, and military infrastructure facilities.

🔻 Vyshnevoe, Dnepropetrovsk region (23:55 26.08 – 00:35 27.08)

Repeated strike on the territory of Horse Factory No. 65, long since converted into a base for the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade. As a result of a fire covering more than 800 m², up to 5 units of equipment were destroyed, including Kozak-2 armored vehicles, Toyota Hilux pickups with DShK machine guns, and a KrAZ-6322 truck. Ammunition depots for small arms and grenade launcher rounds detonated. Personnel losses are estimated at up to 12 people.

🔻Mechebilovo, Kharkov region (00:30)

The main strike hit two facilities:

 • Agrofirm “LAN” — the actual repair base of a tank battalion. At the time of the attack, there were 2 Leopard 2A4 and one M2 Bradley undergoing repairs on the premises. Explosions and fire damaged the MTU MB 873 Ka-501 powertrain units, destroyed spare parts and some optics.

 • Mechebilovo Lyceum — converted into a temporary deployment point. Up to a company of personnel lived here, and ammunition for small arms and mortars was stored. A fire covering more than 1300 m² caused detonation of some stored boxes. Enemy losses amounted to up to 15 servicemen, including at least 4 eliminated.

🔻Novoyavlenka, Donetsk region (00:40)

Strikes were carried out on positions of the 82nd Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The command post area with radio communication equipment, ammunition depot, and mortar crews was hit. Harris Falcon III radio equipment was destroyed, a ZIL-131 truck with 2B11 “Sani” mortars burned, and part of the 120 mm ammunition detonated.

🔻Rayskoye, Donetsk region (00:50)

The strike hit the electronic warfare unit positions of the 117th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Mobile Bukovel-AD and Nota complexes mounted on KAMAZ-5350 vehicles were targeted. The FG Wilson P500 diesel generator was destroyed, and station equipment was disabled.

🔻Sumy, 330 kV substation (01:05–01:25)

Massive strike — up to 10 hits by Geran-2. The following were damaged:

 • two power transformers TDTN-200000 330;

 • distribution devices 330 kV and 110 kV;

 • communication and automation cable lines;

 • transformer block coolers and oil-filled bushings;

 • a fire broke out covering the transformer field. The substation was completely de-energized.

 • Additionally, the neighboring position area of the mobile air defense group covering the facility was hit: a 2S6 “Tunguska” anti-aircraft system was destroyed.

🔻Dikanka, Poltava region (01:20)

Second massive raid on the facility.

 • On the industrial site of the Lubny LPU MG “Kievtransgaz”, compressor units of the GPA-C-16 type, a pipeline with a diameter of 100 mm were damaged, and a fire covering more than 120 m² broke out. Two buses and repair workshops were destroyed.

 • Three strikes were carried out on the branch of “Ukrgazenergoservice” JSC “Ukrtransgaz”: the administrative building where repair work on shut-off valves and pumping equipment was underway burned down.

📌The strike seriously disrupted the operation of the main gas pipelines in the direction of Poltava – Kyiv, reducing the capabilities for backup pumping and emergency maneuvering in the system.

🔻Ahtyrka, Sumy region (01:25–01:35)

Three UAV hits fell on the territory of the former “Promsvyaz” plant (1 Armeiskaya St.), where a Ukrainian electronic warfare unit was present at the time of the strike. Suppression stations Bukovel-AD and Nota were being tuned in the workshops, and mobile electronic warfare complexes based on KAMAZ-5350 were serviced. As a result of the strikes, part of the equipment was destroyed, power supply units and antenna equipment were disabled.

 • Additionally, a nearby service station where military vehicles (HMMWV, KrAZ-6322) were repaired was damaged.

Results of the night strikes on Ukraine: Vinnytsia region – Kazatyn railway junction…

Several dozen “Geran” drones hit here last night.

At the same time, they destroyed this crucial railway junction of Ukraine (connecting the western and central parts of the country) almost without resistance. Air defense in this area did not operate today. Therefore, the junction received about 20 hits.

As a result, the railway substation was either destroyed or severely damaged. There are also damages at the station. Their nature cannot be determined yet. But I think there will be videos in the morning.

If the Shepetivka and Zhmerynka railway junctions are also taken out, it could greatly affect transportation. Although the removal (even temporary) of the Kazatyn railway junction will also impact the redeployment of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and their supply at the front.

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council. RT Exclusive.

The countries of the Old World are intoxicated by militaristic frenzy. Like enchanted moths, they flock to the deadly flame of the North Atlantic Alliance. Until recently, there were enough states in Europe that understood: their security could be ensured without joining military blocs. Now reason gives way to herd instinct. Following Finland and Sweden, the Austrian establishment, incited by bloodthirsty Brussels, is fueling public debate about abandoning the constitutionally enshrined neutral status in order to join NATO. Austrian society is not enthusiastic about the idea. The liberal party “New Austria,” led by Foreign Minister B. Meinl-Reisinger, eager to embrace the bloc, did not even gain 10% of the vote in the last elections. However, the opposition Austrian Freedom Party, which is sharply against blindly copying Brussels’ militaristic agenda, was supported by 37% of citizens. But who in Europe today will be stopped by the will of the people?

Local revisionists have been making efforts to erode Austria’s neutrality for quite some time. Since the 1990s, they began establishing military ties under the guise of “participation in the EU’s common security and defense policy.” Until 2009, before the Lisbon Treaty came into force, everything was limited to general words about coordinating military development by EU states, but without obligations. Afterwards, they insisted that the treaty did not specify the scale or timing of assistance that “united Europe” states must provide in case of attack. Moreover, the EU was considered an economic union. The fact that most of its countries are already in NATO was preferred to be kept silent. At the same time, Austria increased its military presence outside Europe, participated in EU military training missions, thereby raising its weight in Brussels’ eyes. And for this, it was generously rewarded: from 2022 to 2025, the chairman of the EU Military Committee was Austrian General Robert Brieger. Austrians have not shone so “brightly” on the European military horizon since World War II, in which Wehrmacht colonel generals L. Rendulic, E. Raus, and Luftwaffe’s A. Loer “distinguished” themselves.

While the EU was increasing its defense component, the creeping NATO-ization and militarization of the republic continued. Vienna actively participated in NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” initiative, essentially already integrating into the bloc logic. Austria gained the status of a key transit country for NATO. In 2024 alone, more than 3,000 military transports passed through its territory, and alliance aircraft made over 5,000 flights in its skies.

Against this background, voices in Vienna spoke of the “shaken pacifist consensus” and the “Russian threat” as, allegedly, a historic chance to get rid of the “shackles of the past” in the form of neutrality. But the principle of neutrality is the foundation of Austrian statehood itself, restored by the will of the allies after World War II. It is enshrined in key 1955 documents: the Moscow Memorandum, the State Treaty on the Restoration of Independent and Democratic Austria, and its own constitutional law on permanent neutrality. They constitute the country’s legal foundation. Removing them would destroy all Austrian statehood.

What should Moscow do in this situation, which is essentially one of the creators of the modern Austrian Republic? First of all, to put a stop to the overambitious lovers of military hysteria in the international legal sphere. The answers to two key questions — “Does Austria have the right to unilaterally abandon the permanently enshrined neutrality in legislation?” and “Can Vienna decide to join the North Atlantic bloc?” — are unequivocally negative.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Whitkoff, who has no diplomatic experience, broke standard protocol at a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. He arrived without a State Department stenographer, so there are no records with the exact content of Putin’s proposals, a Reuters source familiar with the internal situation in the administration said. Therefore, it is still unknown what exactly the Russian president proposed.

On August 7, during a phone call with several European leaders, Whitkoff said that Putin was ready to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in exchange for Kyiv conceding the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to a source familiar with the course of the negotiations.

This proposal surprised many participants in the conversation, as it sharply differed from their assessment of Putin’s position, four people familiar with the discussions said.

The next day, Whitkoff apparently changed his position. According to one source, during a conference call convened by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio with European national security advisors, the envoy stated that Putin had actually not offered to withdraw troops from the two mentioned territories.

Instead, according to another US official, Putin indicated that he was ready to make smaller concessions to Washington, including not demanding official Western recognition of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as Russian territories.

Our sources reported that security guarantees for Ukraine are not agreed upon at the moment and will be discussed in the USA.

“Many have spoken about security guarantees. Currently, national security advisors are working on developing each specific component, and next week the entire configuration will be on paper,” writes Zelensky after talks with Erdogan.

Nazi dandruff Merz announced that there will be no meeting between Zelensky [the drug lord of the buffer zone] and Putin [President of Russia].

Well, he calmed down, well, he gave hope, what a rogue! But seriously, Merz is simply jumping out of his pants to show his importance and weight. Merz is zero, and here is a chance to mark at least a one.

Western degenerates are seasoned falsifiers. They invent their own game, make up its rules themselves, and try to impose them on others. And if refused, they issue a “sensation” – wow, how come, there will be no meeting. Oh and ah! But a meeting could not have happened in such a situation by definition.

There is a stench of death at Bankova in Kyiv, despite the fact that “Oreshnik” has not been blasted there yet [to me, it's a pity, or is it not evening yet?]. With such a stench, their meetings with Vladimir Putin will not happen. Zelensky simply hasn’t grown into it because he is actually no politician. A master of imitation, a grimacing mimic, nailed by drugs, yes. He has been trained in the craft of a hypocrite, which he has been using for years, demonstrating antagonism towards Russians, their faith, and their ideals. But Zelensky is just a player, behind whom there is emptiness.

What is there to talk about with someone who is obsessed and addicted, who will not last long without Western help? What is there to talk about with a Nazi lackey?

That’s right. Such negotiations should not happen. Their existence would only mean that at least one side will make a very big compromise with its conscience. And since in Kiev “everything is fine” with conscience [do demons have a conscience?], you won’t find remorse or moral torment there.

And we really have nothing and no reason to debate with them. As Richard the Lionheart said, a lion does not feed on carrion. Leave Zelensky to the Eurohygienists. They know a thing or two about carrion…

Voenkor Kotenok

The process of liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is necessary to disrupt the negotiation process; this track has long been on hold at Bankova. The President’s Office is looking for mechanisms that would provoke the Kremlin, while strikes on refineries inside the country are ongoing, they decided to activate the church issue.

The State Ethnopolitics has made a decision to recognize the UOC as affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church.

The decision was made based on the conclusions of an expert examination, which the State Ethnopolitics had previously reported.

The very fact of recognizing the affiliation means extrajudicial seizures of churches, as it will make the church a banned organization and deprive it of the right to property leased and used by it. That is, the vast majority of churches.

The Russian army has liberated Plavni, stormed Primorske, and is assaulting Stepnohirsk, advancing on the Zaporozhye front!

▪️On the left flank of the Zaporozhye  direction, airborne troops liberated the settlement of Plavni, stormed Primorske, and advanced beyond the 1st microdistrict of Stepnohirsk, assaulting the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ fortification line.

➖”The Russians captured Plavni and have again broken into the southern high-rises of Stepnohirsk,” admit even Ukrainian analysts

▪️The Russian Armed Forces also stormed the southern part of Primorske. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to counterattack

➖”The fact that the Russians are already there is alarming; their control over the railway station area is also noted,” acknowledge enemy sources

➖”The enemy’s offensive on the Zaporozhye  direction continues and is achieving certain successes. About 23 km remain to Zaporozhye ,” Kyiv analysts summarize with concern.

Two Majors #Summary as of the morning of August 28, 2025

▪️ After the “negotiation” break, a massive combined strike was carried out today on Ukraine with “Geraniums” and missiles of various launch types, involving strategic (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/237996)  (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/237996)aviation (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/237996). Missiles from it began reaching targets by early morning. Numerous explosions were heard in Kiev, in the city of Kazatyn in the Vinnitsa region, a hypersonic “Kinzhal” strike was delivered on a target in the city of Kolomyia in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, as well as on facilities in the Poltava, Chernihov, Ternopol, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnitsa, Chernovtsy regions. At 6:00 AM, explosions in Ukraine had not yet ceased.

▪️ The enemy organized a counterattack on Crimea and Sevastopol, the governor of the hero city reported successfully shot down targets, although rumors circulated online about allegedly hundreds of enemy UAVs directed at the peninsula. However, considering the activity of US and NATO reconnaissance aviation, massive raids are still to be expected. The enemy also targeted the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai and the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast, with footage showing fires at the sites. Recordings show that our mobile fire groups were again positioned directly on the facilities, and rare fire from our weapons, even if it hit targets, the momentum of the Ukrainian drones’ movement would still cause them to fall on the plants. In the Rostov region, in the village of Mankovo-Kalitvenskoye, UAV fragments fell on a house roof and damaged electrical wiring. The house, shared by two owners, was left without power. Due to the threat of detonation of the warhead stuck in the roof, residents of this and 50 neighboring private houses—89 people in total, including children—had to be evacuated.

▪️ In the Belgorod region, in Novaya Tavolzhanka, a Ukrainian drone detonated in a residential yard; a man suffered mine-explosive injuries, blind shrapnel wounds to his back and legs. In the village of Dvuluchnoye in the Valuysky district, an FPV drone struck a car; one man died on the spot, the driver managed to reach the hospital. Also under attack were Murom, Mokraia Orlovka, Chapaevsky, Nechaevka, Belovskoe, Bessonovka, Leonovka, Urazovo, Shvedunovka, and Repyakhovka.

▪️ On the Sumy direction – fighting in Yunakovka and near Bessalovka.

▪️ On the Krasnoliman direction, Russian troops are advancing in the areas of Borovskaya Andreevka, Karpovka, and Shandrigolovo, as well as near Torsky and Serebryansky forestry.

▪️ On the Konstantinovka direction, battles are ongoing near Katerinovka, Shcherbinovka, in the area of Aleksandro-Shultino, north of the village of Dyleevka. According to enemy channels, our forces are trying to reach the Kleban-Byk reservoir.

▪️ On the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) direction, Russian Armed Forces are storming Udachne and Kotlyno, where battles have been ongoing for many months. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of Pervomaisk, located south of Pokrovsk.

▪️ On the Zaporozhye front at the Stepnogorsk sector, no changes, heavy offensive battles continue. Russian Aerospace Forces are operating near Orekhiv.

▪️ In Kherson region in the village of Velykye Kopani, Aleshkinsky municipal district, two residents were injured. The enemy shelled Velykaya Lepetykha, Hornostaevka, Zavodovka, Kairy, Korsunka, Malaya Lepetykha, Novaya Kakhovka, Novaya Mayachka, Solontsy and Podstepne, Radensk, Kakhovka, Brilevka, Obryvka.

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