Published by @nsanzo ⋅ 06/11/2025
Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned of what it described as a “rapid deterioration” in the situation of Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk, where fighting is taking place within the city, albeit in an initial phase of the battle, and in Pokrovsk, the main focus of the fighting at the moment. In less publicized areas, primarily the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , which Russia does not claim as its own but where it is trying to gain a better negotiating position and territories to return in exchange for those it seeks in Donetsk, Russian troops are slowly advancing, capturing towns and stretching the depleted Ukrainian lines. The Ukrainian army, Russia claims, is suffering “serious and continuous losses from attacks against the advancing Russian troops” and is “trapped.” The Russian command is thus presenting the situation to justify its demand for withdrawal or surrender. The battle, especially the fight for Pokrovsk, will continue no matter what, because, given the task that the Russian authorities have assigned to their troops, the advance on the Ukrainian lines in Donetsk cannot be stopped unless Moscow finally gives in to the American demands for a ceasefire and a freeze on the front.
“Russian forces are trying to consolidate their hold on the industrial zone and residential buildings of the besieged city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, a [Ukrainian] soldier told Suspline on November 5. Archaeologist , a soldier with the 25th Airborne Brigade serving in the Pokrovsk area, stated that Russia’s objective is to approach from the south through Pokrovsk, encircle it, and cut off Ukraine’s logistics,” wrote The Kyiv Independent yesterday in its opening article on daily developments. It doesn’t take much reading to understand that this statement amounts to an admission of a serious situation. However, both Ukrainian authorities and troops, largely to maintain control, avoid a domino effect, and prevent damage to troop morale, continue to maintain that everything is under control. “Recently, we eliminated a group that was trying to cut off logistics, specifically the road to Rodinskoe,” Archaeologist insists . Hope must be maintained. However, the place the soldier is referring to, north of Pokrovsk, that is, the only area not under Russian control and which allows Ukrainian troops to try to maintain supplies or withdraw, reveals the situation.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, its forces are carrying out “active countermeasures” to prevent Russia from consolidating its presence in Pokrovsk, where, of course, Ukrainian troops are not under siege. Damage control does not prevent the Ukrainian population from seeing the reality behind the statements. Even the most sympathetic analysts admit that more than half the city is already under Russian control, which is advancing—always at the cost of thousands of casualties, according to these sources—without Ukraine being able to stop its progress. Eliminating the Russian presence in Pokrovsk would require a much larger operation than the one launched by Kirill Budanov last week. After the video was leaked to the press and quickly posted on the social media profile of Oliver Carroll, correspondent for The Economist , the Ukrainian reaction was to blame the messenger. The journalist was labeled a “degenerate” for revealing the landing of GUR helicopters that were allegedly planning some kind of offensive operation against Russian troops. The speed with which Russia released its response—the FPV drone attack against the troops who had landed—indicates that the flight was tracked by Russian operatives from the outset. In a context saturated with attack and surveillance drones, neither side needs media reports to know the state of the skies. The continued Russian advances in Pokrovsk, confirmed by Ukrainian media outlets such as DeepState, indicate that, predictably, the arrival of a few dozen special forces soldiers, whether elite or not, has not changed the dynamics of the battle, something that would require large numbers of troops or a significant increase in firepower. For the moment, neither of these circumstances has materialized, and the image of the city presented by Ukrainian reports from the area differs from the official narrative, which is trying to maintain calm.
“In short, Pokrovsk and Mirnograd are already screwed,” says a pilot interviewed by Hromadske , one of the many liberal media outlets that have emerged in Ukraine thanks to Western funding following the Maidan victory. The soldier, Valeriy, “just left his positions in Pokrovsk, where he spent 13 days. During this time, his unit had to retreat three times because the Russians were advancing rapidly through the city. The drone unit found itself 900 meters from the enemy and was forced to operate in a city that the Russians are penetrating deeper and deeper into.” “The pessimistic predictions about the future of this key city in southern Donetsk are not only expressed by soldiers working directly in the city, but also by officers,” Hromadske points out . Only the most die-hard supporters deny a reality that is obvious to most.
“Pokrovsk found itself on the brink of total occupation after hundreds of Russians infiltrated the city. The Ukrainian army has been unable to close the gaps in its defenses through which the enemy has been entering the city since the summer. This led to the Russians amassing forces in Pokrovsk, and by autumn, their presence had grown so large that it threatened to encircle the entire Ukrainian garrison,” the report continues, acknowledging what the authorities are trying to conceal. It does so by maintaining the anonymity required of sources who contradict the official narrative to prevent reprisals. In war, no one wants to admit defeat until it is complete. “Everything gray on DeepState ’s map of Pokrovsk should be painted red [as areas under Russian control are designated]. The Russians control approximately 60% of the city. The enemy is in Rodinskoe and Mirnograd. The situation is a mess,” a high-ranking officer fighting in Pokrovsk told Hromadske , contradicting the success The Kyiv Independent claims Ukraine has achieved against Russia on the road to Rodinskoe. “Those in the forward positions in Pokrovsk are already practically surrounded and have little chance of escape. There are buildings, blocks, and streets that are almost impossible to pass through without being shot at,” the same officer added.
“It’s not just sabotage and reconnaissance groups. You enter the positions, there are drones constantly flying overhead, soldiers killed in combat who aren’t being recovered, and there are numerous mines and artillery shelling along the logistics route. There are many different access problems. It’s quite demotivating,” the previously quoted drone pilot stated, adding that “one of the biggest problems is that, due to the constant advances into the city, pilots and drone operators are constantly forced to retreat and can’t carry out their primary mission because of the presence of enemy infantry.” The image is unequivocal: Russian troops are advancing, leaving Ukrainians no option but to retreat.
“Because of this, our second echelon isn’t functioning, and that’s what provides 90% of the attacks. Consequently, we can’t kill the Russians as they approach the city. And when we don’t have UAVs, Russia will always outnumber us in infantry,” the drone operator continues. “Because of the chaos the Russians sow in the city, on the one hand, they create problems for the rear units and, on the other, they prevent them from doing productive work, while this tactic guarantees them the opportunity to continue infiltrating the city undetected,” Hromadske adds , with an implicit admission that the Russian tactic is working.
Perhaps the clearest description of the current state of the front in that area comes from a soldier quoted in the article. “If Pokrovsk falls, there will be no Mirnograd. If Mirnograd falls, there will be no Pokrovsk. I can’t separate these two cities. If we consider that the Russians feel completely secure north of Pokrovsk and northeast of Mirnograd, then they can cover the remaining distance between them with FPV (First-Person View). They are doing everything possible to ensure that the city, if not physically surrounded, is encircled in such a way that it is impossible to leave,” she states. There is no encirclement, but Russian pressure surrounds the two cities, where neither special operations troops nor drone operators have, for the moment, managed to halt the Russian advance, a fact also confirmed by experts. Ukraine, insists Michael Kofman, has sent “reinforcements and elite units to Pokrovsk to stabilize the flanks, but this may not be enough given the scale of the Russian infiltration at this stage.” “If Pokrovsk falls, Mirnograd falls too, and the pocket closes,” he adds. “The immediate result is that Russian forces will operate drones from Pokrovsk, using the city to push back Ukrainian Armed Forces units,” he continues, underscoring the area’s importance. The Russian advance had left Pokrovsk an isolated salient under Ukrainian control, eliminating the city’s value as a logistics hub. However, while this might seem to lessen the severity of the potential fall for Ukraine, the real issue has long been not losing a strategic location, but rather Russia’s ability to use it as such.
https://slavyangrad.es/2025/11/06/medid ... -pokrovsk/
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From Cassad's telegram account:
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The thaw certainly affects the course of military operations. However, as a bare-bones territorial assessment shows, last year, oddly enough, the Russian Armed Forces' greatest advances occurred precisely at the peak of the autumn thaw. This year, too, we see that the pace of advancement in October was quite rapid—according to various estimates, from 524 to 590 square kilometers per month, which became one of the peak figures for 2025.
Nevertheless, for those on the ground, the weather presents additional challenges that must be overcome. On the other hand, sometimes bad weather can reduce the effectiveness of UAVs, which can sometimes be exploited.
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The active offensive of Russian troops continues in most directions, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting counterattacks in isolated areas.
1. North of Donetsk and in the Liman direction:
Russian troops began an offensive in the forested area west of Yarovaya with the aim of cutting off supply lines to the village.
2. North of Kharkiv:
Russian troops continue to advance in the southern part of Vovchansk.
The Rubezhansky district and a section of the T-21-04 road leading to the Aero L-29 junction have been completely taken under control.
A significant number of industrial buildings south of this road have been captured.
3. In the Shakhove direction:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces, simultaneously retreating west of Shakhove, conducted successful counterattacks and recaptured a number of positions east of this village, as well as east of Sofiyivka.
4. Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk directions:
Russian troops are clearing the "8th" and "Dinas" districts in Pokrovsk after eliminating the main pockets of resistance.
Assault operations continue in the area of the "Druzhba" dacha cooperatives—the last suburb of Pokrovsk firmly held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Further north, Russian units are attacking weakened Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Rodynske.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to struggle to withdraw small groups from Myrnohrad, which is practically encircled.
5. Novopavlivske direction:
Russian troops have consolidated several positions north of Dachne and adjacent to the administrative border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, west of Kotlyarevka.
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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) stated that Western allies of Kyiv are considering sabotaging the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which could lead to a reactor core meltdown. The agency also reported that a campaign is being prepared to blame Russia for the potential accident.
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Ukraine is suspending rail service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces-controlled part of Donbas—trains will no longer run to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
All trains on this route will terminate in Barvinkove in the Kharkiv region. From there, buses will transport residents of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the Kyiv-appointed military administration announced.
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American nazis in Kyiv
Response to Ali Winston on 764. Deep dive on a US marine rightwing accelerationist currently fighting with Azov.
Events in Ukraine
Nov 04, 2025
A few weeks ago, an interview came out on a topic I’ve written about quite a lot here. The man interviewed is an expert on the topic. However, I was quite dissatisfied.
The topic is stochastic, online-based terrorism. Globally, it is most associated with the 764 network, which involves the grooming of young people to kill or harm themselves or others. Today, the Iraqi police even announced it had arrested a ring of such sick individuals. Apparently, the network, led by a 14 year old, had incites 30 suicides through online games, as well as a spate of sexual violence.
Anyway, back to the interview. First of all, I just wanted to say I dislike arguing with people online. With that done, it was TrueAnon’s interview with Ali Winston.
I love TrueAnon, both as a guest and a listener. I also understand why they invited Winston, who is undeniably one of the most knowledgeable people on the topic. Winston was also responsible for publicizing the fact that Joshua Sutter, an influential figure for the 764 scene, was an FBI informant who had been paid $140,000 to publish book glorifying child rape and murder. I have enjoyed reading a number of Winston’s pieces.
But there was one reason why I felt a certain disquiet by the end of his interview.
In short, Winston was quite transparently trying to blame Russia for the post-2020 explosion in rightwing accelerationists in the west. This is apparently part of Putin’s nefarious plan to undermine western civilization.
Winston kept on circling back to two things.
Telegram
First of all, telegram, which he believes is the main reason why these ideologies are gaining in popularity. From 2019 onwards, western neo-nazis migrated en-masse to telegram. This was partly because they feared censorship in the wake of Brenton Tarrant’s mosque shootings in New Zealand.
Telegram is owned by Pavel Durov, who has a a very strained relationship, at best, with the Russian government. Online commentators who have made Ukrainophilia their main hustle entertain the theory that telegram is a Russian government op hiding behind the guise of freedom of speech. Durov, a libertarian who does not live in Russia, is supposedly on Putin’s payroll.
Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram | Economy and Business | EL PAÍS English
Mr Durov
If so, why is the Russian government constantly discussing banning telegram, and placing ever-greater restrictions on it?
Why have they launched their own app, ‘MAX’, which they desperately hope will replace telegram? As of September 1, all new phones sold in Russia come with MAX pre-installed.
That’s because telegram certainly doesn’t only feature rightwing accelerationists and ‘Russian propagandists’. In fact, this year telegram has been cooperating even more with western governments to take down particularly offensive neo-nazi propagandists and child abusers. Telegram is also, of course, extremely popular in Ukraine.
Anyway, that’s telegram. Winston gave a dismissive answer to TrueAnon’s host, who mentioned the popularity of Discord as a child grooming platform. But that was quite a good question. After all, 764 actually emerged on Discord, not telegram.
The Base
Winston’s second obsession is the Base. This is a rightwing accelerationist organization that emerged in 2018. Its quite interesting founder, Rinaldo Nazarro, was originally employed by the FBI and Pentagon, but ended up moving to Russia, where he continues coordinating his group.
Now, I’m not going to argue that the Base has thrown in its lot with the Russian intelligence community. In early 2025, the Base offered financial rewards to those who attacked Ukrainian military objects.
They also have a ‘Ukrainian division’, called White Phoenix. I’ve been meaning to write about them for a while, but keep putting it off because it’s quite stupid. All they do is claim responsibility for every violent act that ever happens in Ukraine. To boost their ‘credibility’, the same 4 bots write the same old replies under every post.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to give the FSB a C for effort. The same goes for reputable western analysts like Janes Defense Weekly, who uncritically believed ‘White Phoenix’ when they claimed they had set up their own white ethnostate in the Carpathian mountains.
But I wouldn’t just blame Russian spooks for the Base. Ultimately, Nazarro started out in the early 2000s as the founder of ‘Omega Solutions International’, which involved Nazarro hawking his counter-terrorist intelligence to whoever interested. Plenty of people were, and Nazarro became an FBI and Pentagon contractor — he apparently became a neo-nazi in the course of his many service tours to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anyway, I find a fixation on the Base very strange. Ultimately, the Base didn’t actually do much. Its greatest feat was stealing a goat, then ritually dismembering it and drinking its blood. Psychedelic drugs were also involved. They also conducted military training and apparently planned to kill some anti-fascists, but it never went anywhere.
In this photo from a prosecution exhibit, alleged members of the The Base, a far-right terror organization, pose with the severed head of a goat. Eight men have been charged with animal cruelty related to the theft and killing of the animal.
But most of all, the Base really didn’t have much relevance for what Winston was meant to be talking about - online networks like 764. The goal of 764 is to convince unstable youth online to harm or kill themselves or others. The goal of the Base was to build a white ethnostate in the Pacific northwest. Not a small difference.
What wasn’t said
I was particularly frustrated by what Winston didn’t say.
Most of all, the fact that Winston spent so much time talking about the base but neglected to mention an organization that actually DID and DOES hugely influence 764. This is also the organization mentioned most in conjunction with 764 by mainstream extremism-analysts like the ADL and the West Point Terrorism Centre.
This organization is the Maniacs: Cult of Murder (MKU, or sometimes spelled MKY). The MKU, unlike the Base, was founded in Ukraine, and its founder is a fierce Ukrainian nationalist who is proud of his time in an Azov youth paramilitary. It must be a very strange type of Russian active measure.
But how can you have any discussion about online, youth-oriented 764-style activities without mentioning MKU?
The MKU was formed between 2017 and 2018 by a young Ukrainian named Egor Krasnov. Krasnov had the following interests - white nationalism, tattoos, meth (at least temporarily), and serial murder.
In his writing available online, he proudly admits to being a member of a Ukrainian nationalist youth militia, which was almost certainly Azov’s Natsionalny Druzhiny (National Militia, ND). He left or was expelled because he was too fixated on killing the homeless. He then got to work doing so with a group of young, like-minded individuals. I wrote about this part of his life here.
Anyway, there are several reasons why MKU was so influential globally. First of all, aesthetics. MKU’s black and white, nihilistic, Eastern European vibe was like catnip for terminally online teens around the world. Krasnov’s signature kill videos featured fast ‘horrorcore music, a genre combining aggressive electronic music, metal, and rap’, and became highly coveted gifs for his followers online.
Krasnov was arrested in 2020, but this aesthetic and the MKU’s videos became ‘viral’ on terrorgram. It was probably on telegram, which is largely used by Russians and Ukrainians, that English-speaking neo-nazis became in contact with MKU’s output around 2019, which was probably the peak of Krasnov’s activities. He boasts of killing dozens, and his output was certainly hyper-active.
But apart from the aesthetics, the MKU also pioneered an important new tactic. Instead of committing terrorist acts yourself, get kids to do them. Obviously, terrorist groups and intelligence services (MKU loves comparing itself to the FBI in its written output) have long done this. But this was the MKU’s whole strategy, and it was largely based on emotional manipulation (again supposedly based on FBI methods, according to the MKU).
An example of the MKU’s ‘FBI manipulation techniques’ from their online writings, which I covered here
Throughout 2019 and 2020, Krasnov focused on creating dozens of MKU cells around Ukraine and Russia. He continued doing this, it must be said, after he was imprisoned, which led to some ‘paranoid’ theories that he was cooperating with the Ukrainian government. By the way, as I covered here, this theory of Krasnov’s alliance with the Ukrainian government is actually embraced by many Ukrainian neo-nazis today, who believe that Krasnov’s purpose was to discredit excessively popular Ukrainian nationalists.
Anyway, this tactic of manipulating unstable youth online into harming themselves and others is the name of the game for 764. West Point’s 2024 article on MKU mentions 764 no less than than 44 times. The two are almost inseparable, but chronology needs to be kept in mind. The MKU was set up in 2017 and was most active from 2018-2020, though its propaganda continues to be churned out by admirers to this day. 764 emerged in 2021. The line of influence is quite obvious: MKU —> 764.
It’s unclear to what extent MKU actually exists today. 764 aligned individuals in the US and elsewhere still sometimes include the abbreviation in their graffiti. MKU itself claims that its organization persists using new forms of technology for communication. Perhaps.
A 2025 graffiti attack on a Canadian synagogue
But the important thing is the MKU’s influence on the current generation of school shooters and online child predators (many of which are children themselves). This is a quite real tactical influence. The MKU’s written output features detailed instructions on how to convince followers that unless their commit violence against themselves or others, they are worthless.
The second omission from Winston’s talk was a fact about the man he has written so much about, Joshua Sutter.
Sutter, a notorious American neo-nazi, has spent the past few decades publishing nazi satanist books at his ‘Martinet Press’. These books, which glorify mass terrorism, rape, and all kinds of other bad things, were financed by the US government - in 2021, Winston famously discovered that a US court had proven Sutter’s status as an FBI informant.
As we will see, Sutter has also been hard at work promoting MKU’s tracts. I also wrote here about how Sutter’s publishing house translated anti-government neo-nazis in Russia.
Anyway, the fact that Winston forgets to mention is Sutter’s 2018 visit for a high-level Azov conference, the ‘Pact of Steel’. The conference was organized by top Azov ideologue, ‘metapolitician’, and international outreach coordinator, Olena Semenyaka.
Sutter is the man with the bad beard
As I wrote recently, Semenyaka and Azov are fixated on the need to encourage a white nationalist takeover in the west. They do this by allying with extreme, terrorist-inclined neo-nazi organizations. They love inviting them to their conferences in Ukraine. In the promotional video for the 2018 ‘Pact of Steel’ conference, you can see Semenyaka wax lyrical about the ‘the paneuropean Reconquista Movement’ about to sweep the continent of racial deviants. The same video contains Sutter at 59 seconds, and his masked Atomwaffen friend at 57 seconds.
The latest such example of transnational outreach was the 2025 ‘Nation Europa’ conference in Lviv.
I’d like the reader to pause a moment and consider the fact that these aren’t some kind of mass events. These are conferences with a carefully selected guest list. And the Azov leadership decided Sutter was the man they needed to ally with.
Sutter also brought with him to the conference some young fellows from the Atomwaffen Division. This latter group, according to Winston, is, like the Base, essentially a Russian ‘Active Measures’ operation. If so, it must be extremely successful, since it has managed to infiltrate the most powerful Ukrainian nationalist militant organization on earth. Azov, according to the western press, is Ukraine’s most militarily advanced force, and the first to adopt NATO standards.
Sutter update
I feel somewhat guilty of fueling Mr Sutter’s ego (he often replies to me on twitter). However, since today’s topic is the link between the MKU and western freaks, I couldn’t resist.
So, back to Sutter-watching. Sutter has resurrected his twitter account. He is now called ‘thatrealfed’.
This self-glorification as the CIA’s strongest soldier certainly isn’t new, though I actually feel some personal responsibility here. That’s because Sutter retweeted and approvingly replied to some of my twitter threads about his alignment with the NATO deepstate.
Anyway, though Sutter is quite far from being a Satanist James Bond, he still is real. And his account is filled with posts glorifying the MKU. This one, for instance, features a famous photo of Krasnov and an excerpt from the MKU manifesto.
His pinned post is a new publication of the MKU’s manifesto, the ‘Haters Handbook’.
It is illegal to own this book in the USA, UK, and Canada, so it is quite interesting how Sutter is able to boast about publishing it. But that probably isn’t too surprising, since he is an FBI informant who has been given over $140,000 from his federal employees to publish obscene books since the 2000s.
Anyway, this is just one reason why I found Winston’s claims that the FBI is cracking down very seriously on all these fellows rather questionable. Sure, they have arrested a number of young 764 predators, actions which I can only applaud. But meanwhile, you have Sutter, an FBI employee, churning out propaganda for the next generation of 764 freaks? It doesn’t quite add up to me.
Sutter’s twitter banner and first tweet on his new twitter (October 11, 2025) is an MKU propaganda poster. Asides from all the countries with MKU cells, it features the Ukrainian language slogan ‘THE CULT WILL RISE, AND RUSSIA WILL FALL!’
He also likes trolling Russian ‘paranoia’ about CIA Satanist cults in Ukraine.
This includes an MKU image with the subtitle ‘This photograph was taken in Novosibirsk, Russia. Date - October 22, 2025’.
Sutter particularly enjoys the fact that Russian analysts are concerned that MKU operatives are encouraging school shootings to destabilize Russia. I wrote about precisely this phenomenon here.
Anyway, as you can see, Mr Sutter is quite certainly not a ‘Russian active measures operation’. In fact, he is quite confidently throwing in his lot with NATO. Which I suppose is natural, given both the violent nihilism of the west and the more banal fact that he is paid by them.
With that, let’s move onto another American neo-nazi accelerationist who was a member of Atomwaffen and the Base. Though he detests Sutter as a fed provocateur, he also loves Israel and NATO.
Last month, this drone operator from the US Marine infantry even decided to go fight in Ukraine with Azov. His stated goal — to gain experience for guerilla warfare in the west.
Our new subject has an immense amount of quite detailed online output about his experiences. In the past few weeks, he has been very impressed with the strength of national socialism in Ukraine. He also name drops a number of individuals and networks mentioned earlier in today’s article.
Let’s take a look.
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https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/ ... is-in-kyiv
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That's Legendary Aid.
Speaking about German snipers in the SMO.
Aid is correct--those Germans will follow their Nazi heirs, they will be exterminated on the Russian soil.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/11 ... y-aid.html
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Ukraine is committing grave violations of international humanitarian law
Stephen Karganovic
November 5, 2025
The neo-Nazi regime in Kiev is openly engaging in odious practices against civilian non-combatants that constitute a grave violation of international law and a crime against humanity.
With complete impunity, the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev is openly engaging in odious practices against civilian non-combatants that constitute a grave violation of international law and a crime against humanity. As Russian troops advance and take control of an increasing number of towns and settlements, one of the ways in which the Kiev authorities are coping with that embarrassing situation before the arrival of Russian troops is to conduct mass deportations of the local Ukrainian population to zones in the rear that they still control.
Forced relocation is legally defined as the coercive movement of individuals or groups from their established homes or territories, due to government policies or conflicts. In Ukraine, displacement fitting this definition is being carried out under military orders. There is no explanation for that based on military necessity or because of a reasonable concern for the safety of civilians. Nor is there evidence of prior consent by the deportees. The reasons for the deportations are entirely propagandistic and political.
Collective West political circles have ignored this practice and have not publicly condemned such conduct on the part of the Kiev regime. Their media have confined themselves to bland and matter of fact reporting (here and here and here) whilst avoiding any discussion of the legal and humanitarian implications of such actions.
Lack of reaction on their part is natural and to be expected because highlighting this issue, or even acknowledging its existence, would discredit the entire mendaciously constructed victim/aggressor Ukraine Project narrative. However, the lack of critical attention to this subject on the Russian side is incomprehensible.
Forced transfer of civilians was recognised as a criminal offence by the Nuremberg Tribunal. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [ICC] criminalises the forcible transfer or deportation of civilians as a crime against humanity. The prohibition of the transfer or deportation of civilians was formally codified as part of international criminal law in the Fourth Geneva Convention, “Relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war,” which went into effect on 12 August 1949. Further to that, in a resolution on basic principles for the protection of civilian populations in armed conflicts, adopted in 1970, the UN General Assembly affirmed that “civilian populations, or individual members thereof, should not be the object of … forcible transfers”. In a resolution on the protection of women and children in emergency and armed conflict, adopted in 1974, the UN General Assembly declared that “forcible eviction, committed by belligerents in the course of military operations or in occupied territories, shall be considered criminal.”
The applicability of these normative provisions to the Ukrainian authorities is indisputable also in light of UN Refugee Agency’s Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, specifically Principle 5, which provides that:
“State practice also underlines the duty of parties to a conflict to prevent displacement caused by their own acts, at least those acts which are prohibited in and of themselves (e.g., terrorizing the civilian population or carrying out indiscriminate attacks). As stated in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement:
“All authorities and international actors shall respect and ensure respect for their obligations under international law, including human rights and humanitarian law, in all circumstances, so as to prevent and avoid conditions that might lead to displacement of persons.”
The cited conventions and normative principles regulating conduct toward civilian non-combatants in zones of armed conflict unquestionably apply to the Kiev authorities because they are part of the public and customary international law to which Ukraine, as member of the United Nations, is obligated to adhere.
But regrettably, governments and international institutions are not insisting that it should do so. Scant if any attention is being paid to the brazen violations that Ukraine is continuously committing in this regard. The Kiev regime is not being called to account for its abuse of Ukrainian civilians.
The Kiev regime’s use of civilians in combat zones as pawns for propaganda purposes must be forcefully condemned and international public opinion must be made aware of this unacceptable conduct. The war crimes commission of the Russian government, whilst focusing on individual offenders, as it properly should, must also shine a strong burst of light on regime violations of international humanitarian law such as this. They do not point merely to individual offenders but incriminate collectively the entire decision-making echelon of the Kiev regime leadership.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/ ... arian-law/
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Wedding in Donetsk
November 5, 11:03 PM
Mizulina and Shaman married in Donetsk. DPR head Pushilin was present at the registry office.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/10170880.html
(A pretty big deal in Russian pop culture I think.)
All crises at the front are due to a shortage of people.
November 6, 1:14 PM
Mild hysteria of the Ukrainian "historian" Ponomarenko.
Drones, drones, drones. Today, they are one of the key factors for gaining an advantage on the battlefield. However, it would be a grave mistake to rely entirely on the availability of UAVs. Because people remain the decisive factor. All crises on the front lines are not due to a shortage of drones, but to a shortage of personnel at the front lines and in the rear.
For the last year and a half, the Russians have been employing an "infiltration and accumulation" tactic in Donbas, taking advantage of the lack of a continuous front. Small groups of 3-7 fighters infiltrate through the tree line. The first group is followed by more, and so on daily. Drones kill some along the way, but many of those who make it there are still numerous. As a result, a group of enemy soldiers suddenly appears in a town we control. Then, depending on circumstances, they seize a building or several buildings, fortify their position, distracting our forces, or advance and threaten our positions from the rear. And so they advance. We're seeing this again in Yampol and Pokrovsk.
Countering this tactic with UAVs alone is impossible. A drone "kill zone" without people is an illusion. Infantry is needed to hold the defensive line and prevent enemy groups from infiltrating and gaining a foothold. So don't be surprised that the front is constantly retreating, and we're losing positions and settlements one after another. Without infantry, other scenarios are simply impossible.
The next step should be to intensify the hunt for man-catchers, capturing everyone possible, and then confining them to basements and plantings.
P.S. The photo shows the Russian flag in the southern part of Volchansk. Most of the city's ruins are already under Russian control.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/10171559.html
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France’s Plans To Deploy Troops To Ukraine Risk Sparking A Major Crisis
Andrew Korybko
Nov 06, 2025
Putin must decide whether to reach a deal with Trump over this for escalation-management purposes or climb the escalation ladder by authorizing strikes against those troops if they deploy there.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that France is plotting to deploy up to 2,000 soldiers, the core of which will be Latino assault troops from the Foreign Legion who are presently undergoing intensive training in Poland, to Central Ukraine in the near future. This follows Chief of Staff of the French Army Pierre Schill declaring that his country will be ready to deploy troops to Ukraine next year as part of “security guarantees”. Putin earlier warned that any foreign troops there would be legitimate targets.
Nevertheless, SVR reported in late September that “the first group of career military personnel from France and the United Kingdom has already arrived in Odessa”, yet no crisis followed. The reason might be that neither of them confirmed their forces’ presence there, perhaps for escalation-management purposes, so they and Russia aren’t (yet?) making a big deal about any potential casualties. Up to 2,000 conventional troops, however, would be impossible to hide and thus represent a major escalation.
French President Emmanuel Macron first flirted with deploying troops to Ukraine in February 2024, but nothing came of it likely due to reluctance among his NATO allies to risk World War III with Russia. One year later, new Secretary of Defense (now War) Pete Hegseth informed the bloc that the US won’t extend Article 5 security guarantees to allies’ troops in Ukraine. Since then, reports circulated that Trump might authorize US intelligence and logistics support for precisely such a post-war deployment.
These rumors followed his Anchorage Summit with Putin and preceded the US’ latest escalation against Russia by two months, the latter of which was assessed here as being driven in part by Trump believing that he can coerce Putin into the most realistic maximum concessions possible. About that, Russia is unlikely to ever cede the disputed territories under its control since the constitution prohibits that, but it’s hypothetically possible that it could accept the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine one day.
It’s unimportant if some consider this to be a political fantasy since that doesn’t detract from the argument that Trump is formulating US policy towards the Ukrainian Conflict with this scenario in mind. Whether this potentially French-led force would deploy during hostilities or only afterwards is a subject of debate, not to mention whether any such force would ever deploy there at all, but France remembers what Hegseth said in February and therefore probably wouldn’t do so unilaterally without US approval.
Accordingly, it should be assumed that Trump is aware of Schill’s declaration of intent about next year’s possible deployment to Ukraine and Macron’s potential plans to deploy assault troops even sooner but at the very least didn’t object, perhaps even encouraging this as leverage over Putin (as he might see it). If so, then Putin must decide whether to reach a deal with Trump over this for escalation-management purposes or climb the escalation ladder by authorizing strikes against those troops if they deploy there.
It was predicted here in late September after SVR’s report about French and UK troops in Odessa that “Direct Western intervention in the conflict is now arguably turning into a fait accompli, it’s just a question of how Russia will respond and whether the US will then be pulled into mission creep.” The two latest news items confirm the accuracy of that analysis, which lends credence to the overall assessment that Trump is “escalating to de-escalate” on better terms for the West and worse ones for Russia.
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Odessa is a Russian city. Just sayin'
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