#RUS🇷🇺
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian military command largely prioritized efforts to seize the remainder of Donetsk Oblast and establish a buffer zone in northern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts in 2025 but failed to accomplish these goals.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces are currently unable to build out a strategic reserve and will therefore likely be constrained to grinding, slow advances at their current rate and scale in the coming year.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Δίκιο έχεις φυσικά. Αν θέλουμε την ιστορική αλήθεια, ούτε η 🇺🇦 ούτε η 🇷🇺 μπορούν απολύτως να πουν οτι η μια ή η άλλη ήταν "πρώτη". Υπήρχε μια φυλή, οι Kievan Rus, αλλά από αυτούς η καταγωγή και των δύο είναι συγκεχυμένη από μεταναστεύσεις, πολέμους κλπ. Ισχύει ότι το Κίεβο είναι παλαιότερο από
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December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🇷🇺 Russian Dep. FM Sergei Ryabkov reiterated that the Kremlin will not sign any peace agreements to end the war in #Ukraine “right now.”

Ryabkov demanded that any peace agreement must completely address the ultimatums that #Russia issued to the West in late 2021.
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
ISW:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers are acknowledging significant Ukrainian successes in the Kupyansk direction and criticizing the Kremlin and the Russian military command for providing false battlefield reports.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#putinKHUILO
#ruSSialsCollapsing
Manque flagrant de fret - l’armée de l’air 🇷🇺 manque d’avions de transport
L’armée de l’air 🇷🇺 n’a pas assez d’avions ✈️ de transport. Les anciennes machines tombent et les nouvelles ne se développent guère, pour certains modèles
🧵

www.flugrevue.de/militaer/rus...
Russlands Luftwaffe fehlen Transportflugzeuge: Frachter sind Mangelware
Russlands Luftwaffe hat zu wenig Transportflugzeuge. Alte Maschinen fallen weg, neue kommen kaum nach, für manche Muster ist Ersatz noch nicht einmal entwickelt. Wie lange geht das noch gut?
www.flugrevue.de
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Combat footage showing failed Russian mechanized assaults continue to demonstrate that Russian forces have been unable to restore mechanized maneuver to the battlefield.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Analyse @thestudyofwar.bsky.social:

De overdreven beweringen van de chef van de 🇷🇺 generale staf Gerasimov en minister van Defensie Belooesov "tonen juist aan hoe traag de Russische opmars verloopt".

🔗 understandingwar.org/research/rus...
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🇷🇺 🇪🇺 #Russia wants to drain Europe's investigative resources with its sabotage campaign, officials say

'The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’s time as terrorism.'

apnews.com/projects/rus...
Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative r...
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
ISW:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces continue counterattacking in the Kupyansk direction as Russian ultranationalist milbloggers acknowledge the severity of the situation for Russian forces.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‼️🇷🇺🤡🎪 - "La banque centrale russe a intenté une action en justice réclamant 18,2 billions de roubles ($229,36 milliards) de dommages et intérêts au dépositaire central belge de titres Euroclear"
www.reuters.com/business/rus...
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ISW:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces continue to advance within and near Kupyansk, and more details have emerged about the counteroffensive effort.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#Ukraine #Russia
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 13, 2025
Ukrainian forces continue to advance within and near Kupyansk, and more details have emerged about the counteroffensive effort.
understandingwar.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Which means it’s a malignant narcissist.

Throughout its miserable life, it has ASPIRED to be a Capo. It has fetishized & fancied this to such a degree, it likely BELIEVES it is one.

The rus Mob (Vory v Zakone, eg) made it, so perhaps the rus Mob will end it. When it is “convenient” for 🇷🇺 to do so.
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ISW:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Ukrainian advances in and near Kupyansk show that Ukrainian forces are capable of conducting successful counterattacks and making tactically significant gains, particularly when Russian forces are overstretched.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#Ukraine #Russia
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 12, 2025
Ukrainian forces recently liberated territory including part of the city of Kupyansk in a tactical counterattack in the Kupyansk direction.
understandingwar.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Kremlin is attempting to portray the claimed fall of Siversk as the start of the battle for Slovyansk — a battle the Kremlin has not set conditions on the ground to begin.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
12.2021, Kremlin statement:
All the way to Berlin is ours, it's our sphere of influence

Putin's RUS only knows how to do 1 thing:
Advance & vassalize

RUS has 17 million km2 of land they don't know what to do with but they're obsessed with an additional 0.7% of land that doesn't belong to them!

🖕🇷🇺
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇪🇺 The Kremlin is setting information conditions to reject any meaningful security guarantees for #Ukraine by threatening #Europe

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces have gained 0.77 percent of Ukrainian territory since the start of 2025 while suffering disproportionately high personnel costs.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia #ukraine
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
@denysdavydov.bsky.social

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Strikes Rus Base in #Crimea | #Pokrovsk is Critical | #Putin in India 🇮🇳 🤝🇷🇺

youtu.be/Q3audf_7og8?...

Ep 12/4/2025
#ukrainewar #battlefield update #otd
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Strikes Rus Base in Crimea | Pokrovsk is Critical | Putin in India
YouTube video by Denys Davydov
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ISW:

🇷🇺 High-ranking Kremlin officials continue to set conditions to justify potential future Russian aggression against Moldova and the Baltics.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#russia
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
ISW:

🇷🇺🇺🇲 The Kremlin is setting conditions to refrain from publicly discussing the outcomes of today's US-Russian meeting, possibly in order to obfuscate Russia’s likely rejection of the US-Ukrainian peace proposal.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#USA #Ukraine
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2025
US-Ukrainian talks reportedly continued in Florida on December 1 ahead of Steve Witkoff's meeting with Putin to present the peace proposal.
understandingwar.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
🇷🇺🚆📉 Cargo volumes handled by state-owned Russian Railways continued to fall in November, data showed on Monday, as the country's biggest commercial employer grapples with mounting financial problems.

www.reuters.com/business/rus...

#Russia
Russian Railways cargo volumes keep falling, data shows
Cargo volumes handled by state-owned Russian Railways continued to fall in November, data showed on Monday, as the country's biggest commercial employer grapples with mounting financial problems.
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🇷🇺 The Kremlin continues to advance a false narrative that Ukraine’s front line and political stability are on the verge of collapse in an effort to convince the West to capitulate to Russian demands that #Russia cannot secure militarily.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 30, 2025
Rubio stated that the US-proposed peace plan aims to ensure Ukraine's independence, sovereignty, and economic development.
understandingwar.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian ultranationalists, a key pro-war constituency for Putin, argue that #Russia should not accept any peace plan and should instead continue its war against #Ukraine

understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 23, 2025
US and Ukrainian officials indicated that the initially reported US-proposed 28-point peace plan is not final and is undergoing changes.
understandingwar.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
ISW:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian military officials continue to indicate that Ukrainian forces are pushing back Russian efforts to seize Kupyansk — in contrast to repeated Russian claims of seizing the town.

understandingwar.org/research/rus...

#Ukraine #Russia
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 22, 2025
Russian officials continue to set information conditions to reject the US-proposed peace plan, indicating the Kremlin's intentions.
understandingwar.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM