The land of the free, ladies and gentlemen.

I thank all friends of Ukraine and everyone who helps us obtain important information and supports Ukrainian intelligence operations. Our intelligence agencies reported on the results of their work to assess the internal situation in Russia and obtain documents that end up on the Russian leader’s desk. We understand that Putin rarely receives information that is entirely truthful and unvarnished. But even what he sees in the documents that reach him still allows conclusions to be drawn. In particular, the so-called “projected indicators” of Russians’ dissatisfaction with Putin will continue to rise steadily, and he is already being conditioned to accept the idea that this growing dissatisfaction cannot be stopped and that this indicator “will not plateau” by September, when parliamentary elections are scheduled in Russia. As for the level of support for Russia’s ruling party, a steady downward trend is being recorded, which means significantly greater electoral fraud will be needed. They are also reporting a substantial rise in protest sentiment in Russian regions. We believe these reports also do not yet take into account the potential events of June, July, and August, which are bound to further affect the situation in Russia. The entirely justified pressure on Russia over this war will continue and intensify – and it won’t be just our pressure. So by September, Putin will be facing significantly worse indicators. Unfortunately, to all the public and non-public peace proposals we have made, the only response has been words about continuing his war. The internal situation in Russia should convince him of the opposite: that peace is needed. Ukraine is proposing to negotiate a dignified peace. Obviously, the trends will not change, and over time this may mean that an agreement will have to be reached with someone else from Russia – someone who will not shut themselves off from reality. Glory to Ukraine!

With Ukraine having developed midrange strike drones that reach all the occupied areas, which now can no longer be resupplied due to their geography being stuck in between the frontline and the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, the strategic advantage is with Ukraine.

They never heard of Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Well, this is the charitable explanation of Trump's behavior towards Ukraine. There are other explanations too.

There is literally zero evidence to what you’re accusing me of. But just like Trump everything with you people is either projection or confession. You are all so predictable. Show dozens of pictures of Trump and Epstein together over decades, teen beauty pageants, the misogyny and sexism from his own mouth, the accusations from dozens of women and girls, FBI interviews, court cases, his own sworn testimony, and on and on and your response is: The Biden’s are pedophiles. It’s so completely mindless and stupid and sophomoric that it makes me wonder if they literally have brainwashed you people. Wake the fuck up Nacho. Whose interets do you think you’re protecting? Because I promise you they don’t give a shit about you.

With complete lower air dominance over the occupied territories, there is now a real chance that Ukraine will take its territory back before the end of the year. I suspect they leave the Kerch bridge intact to give the occupiers and civilian Russian opportunists an escape route. Better to not have to deal with them once the territories have been recaptured.

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Ahh, there is the admission of guilt about the strategy he is following himself.

I strongly criticize Musk for his right-wing extremist ideas, his broken moral compass, and his computational worldview, but lazy takes like the one below only give the Musk fanboys and girls more ammunition to fire back at the people criticizing him. Please, put a little more effort into getting the facts right.

Putin is aiming to make this war even dirtier than it already is. It is his only chance of winning it. He hopes Ukraine will do the same to Russians. He hopes that will lead to outrage in Russian society (he controls Russian media, and Russians do not know what crimes Putin commits in Ukraine). He hopes that as a consequence, many will enlist in the army. The only thing Ukraine can do is not to succumb to the temptation to pay back in kind.

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Ah yes. That was one of the four ludicrous justifications for the invasion. What were the other four again? I think (1) genocide on Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass, (2) denazification, (3) preemptively preventing NATO expansion. They subsequently tried each of these justifications to see which one would stick. They settled on the last one: NATO.

As someone who hailed Musk 15 years ago (it is that long ago) for taking on the fossil fuel industry, I fully agree with this. To everyone following Musk for a long time, it was clear that he would become the first trillionaire (I tried to search in my timeline for all the tweets in which I said so, but it seems they have disappeared?). This is obviously *not* the right way for humanity. Musk is extremely powerful now. But power without democratic accountability is, well, what is the right word? Feudalism? Musk already partially bought the US government. And he is coming for more.

We all know the r-word that Trump will use when the US team loses their first game in the World Cup. He is like the parent at the sidelines shouting and cursing at the arbiter with every correct decision against their team.

Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation. Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731

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Exactly. Everyone who knows Russia understands how ridiculous this is. I am not saying that the fossil fuel-fueled standard of living in St Petersburg and Moscow has not improved in the last decade. With their petrol money, Russians simply buy lots of Western goods (BMWs, Iphones, Industrial machines, electronics, etc.). So in the bigger cities, you see what looks like prosperity. But if you look at the fundamentals or go to the countryside, you will see something entirely different.