05/07/2026
๐บ๐ฆ In Kiev, a man having a medical situation and clearly in need of medical attention was abducted by Ukrainian mobilization forces. Local women pleaded for him and tried to help but were thrown aside by Zelensky's mobilization squad. This is commonly known as "busification" by local residents.
With casualties amounting to over 50k a month, and mobilization only producing less than 30k a month of fresh troops(explaining the constant violent abductions by mobilization teams), Ukraine is running a deficit that is clearly starting to show on the front lines.
With Konstantinovka fully liberated, and Slavyansk and Kramatorsk being approached and already well within Russian short range artillery strikes, Russia is taking advantage of these Ukrainian personnel deficiencies.
Likewise in the Sumy, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk fronts, Russia is making daily gains with very little resistance. Oftentimes the only thing protecting a settlement is Ukrainian drone operators, operating at a rear distance of the settlement itself.
Western "news" and "analysts" prescribe the "lack of speed" of Russia's territorial advances through very simplistic and agenda driven perspectives. Russia's stated goals of the special military operation have remained public and the same throughout the conflict, territorial expansion was never a goal. The main goal is not only to liberate its own regions and protect its own people in the Donbass and Russia but also to not have a threat on it's borders. Ukraine attacking Russians for over ten years in Donbass was and is a threat, as is their continued attacks on Russian civilians throughout Russia. Ukraine's stated plans to join NATO, an openly hostile(to Russia) military organization is a threat to Russia. Zelensky and other high ranking officials publicly stated desire to obtain nuclear weapons is a threat to Russia. Until Russia dismantles Ukraine's potential to launch any attacks on Russia, the special military operation will continue. After years of degrading Ukraine's potential, even with the unprecedented nearly one trillion dollars in support Ukraine has received, the effects are clearly seen now. Ukraine's positions under undermanned and underequipped across all fronts and drones are the only thing holding Russia back at all, Zelensky overtly conceded this by recently publicly asking Russia to stop hostilities outside of the Donbass region. Russian incursions are facing less and less resistance each week.
Zelensky has the opportunity to make the political decision to end the war. If Ukrainian troops retreat from the southern Russian regions, and refuse to join NATO, to limit their army size to a reasonable size, and to legally and verifiably ban na**sm and Russophobia from Ukraine, protecting the rights of local native Russian speakers then the war will end.
