The Duran Podcast - Russian Strikes Are Breaking The Zelensky Regime

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

Russian Strikes Are Breaking The Zelensky Regime

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Ukraine and the continuation of strikes into Kiev. I believe we are on our fourth day of Russian drone missile strikes into Kiev. I don't think this has ever happened in the entirety of the SMO, continuous multi-day strikes into Kiev. What is going on? Well, I think that this is absolutely unprecedented in the period of the SMO. And I can remember when the Russian missile offensives against Ukraine began back in the autumn of 2022, the Russians used to launch two big missile strikes a month. I mean, they would be spaced out over an entire month.

But you'd have one particular night when they would be striking with missiles. And then a few weeks later, about two weeks later, there'd be another strike. And then every or the rest of the time, it'd be relatively quiet. and those missile strikes were not focused on Kiev. And then obviously over time that began to change. We began to see the get-out drones appear, and that led to a more intense struggle and more intense attacks overall.

But every day, more strikes every single day, night after night, day after day, starting to look like this is going to be a permanent thing, well, this is completely new. And it is devastating. And there are articles now, even in the mainstream media here in Britain, which are admitting that it is devastating, that it is exhausting the Ukrainians,

the people who are still trying to shoot down these drones, are becoming more and more tired because the drones just keep coming. And you can't just keep doing. this day after day, night after night, the fire crews that are running around trying to put out the fires. And, you know, we're talking about enormous fires in many cases. They are becoming tired as well. And so that in itself is weakening the defenses, the reactions of people in Kiev, the authorities in Kiev to all of this. But of course, it is also having a devastating effect

on the local economy. We see buildings be destroyed, warehouses being destroyed, ammunition dumps being destroyed. And the Ukrainians have no response to this because, as we've discussed in programs, their air defences are now massively depleted. They don't have Patriot missiles in anything like the numbers that they used to. Probably they don't have any actually anymore. I mean, they launched some say three, some say eight against, on the first night of these, I've heard three, I've heard three, on the first night of these strikes, but there's been nonsense, and there doesn't seem to be any response anymore. And we've had not just more and more drone strikes, but the drones themselves have changed.

So the original Geraan drones, which were basically copies of the Iranian Shirehead drones, they had turboprop engines, they were propeller engines, they were relatively slow, they flew relatively close to the ground, they were fairly easy to shoot down. They also had to operate on pre-programmed itineries, because there was no way that ground controllers could control their operations after they were launched. But now we have these new, much more advanced drones, Grand drones, quite different from the old ones. They are jet-powered. They fly at much higher altitudes. They fly at much higher speeds. they are able to conduct vertical dives, which make them extremely difficult to shoot down when they're attacking a particular target.

And there's every reason to believe that they are guided by ground controllers. The Russians have this system of repeater stations on the border with Belarus, the ones that Zelensky at one time. was threatening to destroy, if you remember. He had to pull back from that, but they're able to receive signals and to send signals back to ground controllers in Russia. And the result is that these drones, I mean, they're basically a kind of cross

between a missile and a drone. They're not the pure Girand drones that we used to see. They're much more sophisticated. and they're very much more difficult to shoot down. And they're on a kind of carousel apparently. They come, they spin around Kiev, causing massive problems and exhaustion to the people who are trying to shoot them down. Then they come down and strike and then more appear.

So it's wave after wave of these drones. And as I said, it's just destroying Kiev. I mean, we are increasingly seeing the economy, the local economy of Kiev breakdown. There is pictures now, there are pictures of empty shelves. Shops are starting to run out of food and other things. And a Ukrainian minister said that Ukraine, not just Kiev, has run out, is lost around 90% of its warehouse space, which again puts Ukrainian attacks on wild berries and ozone, the Russian equivalent of Amazon, into some kind of perspective.

Because as we could see, in Russia, yes, they've lost warehouses, but on nothing like the same kind of scale. Yeah, Aletsky's 40-day terror campaign that he announced, that has now expired. The goal of that was to create shortages, fuel and food in Russia and eventually lead to an overthrow of Putin. The exact reverse now is happening. It's happening to Zelensky. He's got food and fuel shortages. And we're even getting videos from Ukrainian citizens in Kiev, in the Valve all over. And they're posting videos of supermarkets with just shelves empty.

I mean, do you believe this? I also think another dynamic maybe at play in that, those shelves are not only empty because of the strikes at warehouses, but also because of the panic and people are going and they're stocking up. Absolutely. All of that. And I think there's a very important thing to say here because we're now getting not just these pictures of the shops and the situation in the shops. But we're also getting more and more pictures of fires and things like that across Kiev. Now, early on, in 2022, 2023, the Ukrainians had a very strong policy of not permitting pictures to be made, of damage caused by Russian strikes. And, you know, we did get pictures.

I mean, people were always able to make pictures with their mobile phones, and some of these pictures did come through. but the Ukrainian security services treated that very, very toughly, and we didn't get many pictures. Now we're getting floods off them, which suggests that the grip of the Ukrainian security services on the situation in Kiev and across Ukraine is starting to weaken, that people are prepared to take these pictures, post these pictures, the pictures get circulated, and the Ukrainian security services are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with this and are perhaps becoming unwilling themselves to go out of that way and round up people who are doing this sort of thing. So that in itself is perhaps a sign of weakening, a kind of weakening of resolve and morale.

Now there's something else, which is, of course, the situation is likely to get a lot worse very soon, because the Russian Defence Ministry has now published a statement which say that they received instructions from someone who can only be Putin to start massive strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities. Now, the Russians have never announced this before, not in this kind of way, but it looks as if they're preparing to broaden their attacks to attack what is left of Ukraine's energy system. Now, this has already been the subject of constant attacks by the Russians going back to autumn of 2022. And I've been reading all sorts of reports. They're in the Western media as well. This is not controversial that electricity generation in Ukraine

since 2022 has declined by four-fifths. The reason you don't get lights being switched off in Ukrainian cities is because Ukraine had a massive excess of electrical generation before the war. And on top of that, because the decline of the economy, there has been less demand for electricity. But you can already see that there's been a steep decline in electricity generation. Now, if the Russians resume attacks on the power generating system,

given that what is left is also said to be in bad shape, well, it's going to be disastrous. And of course, if the Russians also start to attack the gas supply network, the pipelines and all of those things, then that's going to be even worse because, of course, it's through gas that people in the cities get their heating during the winter. Now, the Russians previously, in previous years, avoided attacking the gas system, the gas pipeline network because Ukraine had a deal with Russia, whereby the Russians exported gas through Ukraine. and that continued right up until last year. And then last year, Zelensky stopped allowing Russian gas to transit through Ukraine.

Stopped it entirely. It was mostly intended, in my opinion, to undermine Orban in Hungary in advance of the elections. And to some extent, probably it did. But of course, stopping end. energy gas transit through Ukraine, removed any further inhibitions the Russians might have to attacking the gas supply system. So the Russians now have no reason other than their own, if you like, moral inhibitions from attacking the energy, the gas supply system. So if the electricity supply system is attacked and the gas system is also attacked, well, we have an absolute

catastrophe looming for the winter. And even though the assumptions are that it's going to be a relatively mild winter, mild winter in Ukraine is a relative thing. And one does wonder whether in that situation the cities are going to become habitable. There's already reports that the Ukrainian authorities in Herson City are telling the local population to leave because Russian strikes on the city of Herson are making life there unlivable. If that starts to affect other cities too, well, one can imagine what that will mean. Where do they go? Because we're also getting reports of the same thing happening in Kiev.

And I think a lot of residents in Kiev on their own, they don't need the government to issue any kind of a warning or anything like that. They're going to understand that this winter is going to be very difficult and they're going to have to leave. I mean, where do they go? Do they go to Europe? Do they go west towards Leviv? Yeah. Well, in some cases, perhaps they will go to the countryside.

I mean, you know, there's some small towns and villages and duchess and things of that, that kind of thing. But still, that I mean, they can only absorb a certain number. Well, they're going to say a certain number. Europe is becoming the European populations, Poland especially, are becoming increasingly reluctant to take people, as we've seen. And there have actually been some extremely ugly incidents of involving people, Ukrainian people in Poland. And I've seen pictures of confrontations between Ukrainians and Polish people, sometimes just because people speak Ukrainian. You know, Zelensky doesn't help with his whole pantheon of bandera heroes and stuff like that. I mean, he adds fuel to the fire.

He provokes a poland. By creating these bandera mausoleums and stuff like that. He's not helping. He's not helping at all. And going back to what you said about the fact that, you know, his 40-day campaign to destabilized Russia's to Russia and its economy and provoke an economic crisis and a political crisis there has backfired. And what he threatened to Russia is now actually overtaking Ukraine.

But he's not giving up on this. He's still talking about attacks with 1,000 drones every night on Russia. That's his latest thing. And he doesn't seem to be willing to acknowledge that, you know, this campaign is back firing disastrously upon Ukraine. And I think that it's not difficult to understand why. First of all, Zelensky never easily retreats or pulls back or accepts that strategies that he's adopted have failed.

That's a temperamental aspect of this. But ending the drone offensive, simply ending it, would... in itself stop funding flows. And of course, that is critically important for him. I mean, what happens to people in apartment buildings is less important, only at a political level, than keeping Azov happy, which is why we have all of these mausoleums

and all of these people being, you know, from the past, being re-buried, band-a-rides and people like that being re-buried. So he has to keep the Azov people happy, who he's becoming increasingly dependent upon. And he's also got to keep the West, the Europeans still invested in Ukraine by showing to them pictures every day that Ukraine is able to hit Russia and inflict damage. Because that's what the Westerners need in order to be able to go on sending the money, which is what you can. Zelensky needs. His funding problems are worsening because the economy is breaking down. The budget is, the budget deficit is increasing. The blockade of the ports is inflicting an ever heavy atoll. So he needs more money now, not less. So he's got to keep this thing going.

The only way that Zelensky will stop these campaigns is if he managed, is to get a mutual ceasefire with the Russians. And that means getting the Americans to persuade the Russians to stop. And we discussed in recent programs that the Russians are not going to stop. They're rejecting everything. They rejected the Radcliffe. They rejected the Vatican. Peskov put out another statement the other day and said that the only way you're going to get a trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Trump and Putin is as if it's about, you're Ukraine's capitulation. That's the only way you're going to get a meeting if Ukraine is going to be there to sign the surrender documents. That's the only way there's going to be a meeting.

Absolutely. I mean, exactly, which of course Zelensky is not going to do. So he's stuck. He come back. Well, I mean, he could in theory back down. But Zelensky, as the person that we have got to know over the last six, seven years is not going to reverse course. It is impossible temperamentally, politically for him to do it. Well, he's an actor and he takes direction. Yes. So he takes direction, as you said, from the Azov's. And they tell him, we want a mausoleum to bandera, even though it's going to piss off the polls, which is exactly what it did. Yeah. But Zelensky can't do anything but oblige and agree to what the Azovs are directing him to do. Ratcliffe and then the CIA, I have no doubt about it.

That was my guess, but I'm pretty confident in this. They are the ones that told Zelensky a thousand drones into Russia. There's no, there's not a coincidence that 24 hours after Ratcliffe is in Moscow. And he's making all these allegedly making demands and threats and trying to get Putin to a greeter ceasefire. That 24 hours later you have Zelensky talking about the plan, the ultimate plan now is a thousand drones into Russia. He's getting direction from all of these very, very bad forces. The one direction that he's not getting as an actor is someone to tell them. And the Europeans are not giving him good direction either.

But he's not getting something from the United States, someone in the United States. someone in the United States telling him, actor Zelensky, your script now is to read, we surrender. That's your line. No. Read it. He's not getting that and he will not get that. Before the SMO, Ukraine, going back to the gas and energy, before the SMO, Ukraine was

getting gas at discounted prices, almost free. They were getting the gas from Russia. And a lot of the gas storage in Ukraine is not exclusively for Ukraine. A lot of it is meant for Europe. How does that affect the EU if Russia starts going after the energy and the gas in Ukraine? Because even the Guardian had to admit the other day what you've been saying for a while now, we're way ahead of the Guardian of the financial ties. But they had to put an article saying that Europe and specifically the UK,

are very low on their gas storage targets for the winter. Yes. Absolutely. They're very, I mean, they are, dare I say, critically low. They say that gas consumption in Europe is 15% lower than it was before 2020, which is true. We know the reason why so much industry has shut down. We said it two weeks ago. We said it two weeks ago.

Again, but I mean, you know, so, you know, they, they, they, they. also say that the winter is likely to be mild this year because of the climate events, maybe. But the fact remains that even if you allow for all of that, the level of gas storage in Europe is critically low. And Europe has been failing to buy LNG because the Asians have been outbidding them. And there doesn't seem to be across Europe the sense of urgency. and the sense of concern and crisis that you would expect there to be over a situation like this, because they're so fixed on Ukraine and keeping the war going in Ukraine, that one gets the sense that they're not really thinking about these other things. Now, if the Russians go after the

gas storage facilities in Ukraine, and this is a complicated military operation, I mean, it's not you know, big tanks or things like that. I believe, you know, you keep the gas basically absorbed inside Earth. But, you know, that's not to say it can't be done. You're absolutely correct. A large part of the gas is European gas and it is part of the European reserves. Then however mild the winter is going to be in Europe, if those gas reserves are destroyed or rendered unusable, then we are going to have an even bigger crisis in Europe. I mean, I cannot myself see how we can avoid having a crisis of some kind in Europe. Definitely, even if everything goes well, we're going to see higher prices.

I mean, that's inevitable higher gas prices. In fact, they're rising already. But if we start to see energy storage facilities, gas storage facilities in Europe, destroyed or put out of action, then, I mean, the price of gas is going to go much higher. The de-industrialization processes are going to intensify. The cost of living problems of many people in Europe are going to grow. And because of the enormous increase in indebtedness that we have seen, partly, and again, one of the reasons why European governments are so indebted was that in 2022, they subsidised gas use. I mean, they, in other words, gave consumers funding in order to pay the higher gas prices that arose out of the sanctions war of 20s.

But that lifted debt levels. Virtually everybody's saying that now with the situation of the bond markets being what it is, with debt levels as high as they are, governments just don't have the financial reserves to ease gas price shocks in the kind of way that they did in 2022. So, you know, we're facing a very, very bad situation this winter, potentially an extremely bad situation this winter. And coming back to your original question, if the cities in Ukraine become uninhabitable, where do these people go? Well, they will want to go to Europe.

I mean, they may not be welcome than Europe, but that is where they will want to go. And then, of course, how do European governments respond to? all of that, in the middle of these cost of living stresses and problems, where you would have thought again that they would be making preparations and would be thinking about all of these things. But no, I don't get the sense that they're thinking about any of these things at the moment. I haven't seen any European government. They're thinking about sanctions. I mean, this is what Malthus is now talking about. You're going to impose more sanctions. more sanctions on top of the other sanctions that we have, stretching all the way back to 2014 and beyond.

So we're going to have more sanctions achieving nothing. They are not addressing the problems that people in Europe, in Germany, in Britain, in France, everywhere are suffering. And they're not really alive so far to the crisis that is developing in Ukraine. Ukraine. Now, as I said, when we did this program a few days ago about the situation in Europe, and I spoke about the situation in Germany, one of the people I spoke to in Germany, a CEO, by the way, company CEO, she said to me that Mouths is living in a bubble. But there you get, they are all living in a bubble. That is the reality of where they all are. They are focused on one issue, Ukraine, to the point that they're not really paying any attention

to anything else. Stubb gave an interview to build the Finnish president. And he says that Russia only has one option left to escalate. And that's mobilization. He said that's it. He still believes that Russia is losing and that Ukraine is winning. And he believes that Russia needs to now mobilize. And in his head, he's thinking once Russia mobilizes, once they do this mass mobilization

after the elections, which is what he was... telling build, that's going to be the end of Putin. That's when the society is going to turn against him. This is what they're betting on. It's obvious. It's clear this is what they're betting on. They continue to bet on some sort of Putin regime change, and that's going to be the way that they get out of this mess.

Absolutely. By the way, the same in the Baltic States. There was an interview that the head of Estonian intelligence gave to Telegraph, said exactly the same thing. Russia is on its last legs, that everything there is going to pieces, that a revolution or a coup is round the corner. Even as we see how things are playing out every day now in Ukraine. And we haven't even talked about what's going on in the front lines where the situation is getting worse. Since we're talking about mobilization, let's get to the front lines.

And let me just read your quote from Budanov. And this was also an article in the telegraph as well. They also talked about this. But here's the exact quote from Budanov. Unfortunately, we have to accept it, mobilization as it is. We cannot do otherwise. We have to find the courage and honestly say we cannot mobilize fewer than 30,000 people a month. This is the minimum number needed to maintain what we have.

And the telegraph touched on this as well. Absolutely, which tells you again what the true level. of Ukrainian losses actually is. I mean, they have to be losing at least 30,000 men a month. Because notice that Budanov says this is the minimum level. The minimum. The minimum. Yeah. So when he tells us it's the minimum, that suggests that actual losses.

I'm not talking about people who have been killed. I'm not saying Ukraine soldiers are dying at the rate of 30,000 a month, because obviously including people who've been wounded and in some cases, many cases, severely wounded and all of that. But that does give us a ballpark figure now for the rate of Ukrainian losses. Now, Ukraine cannot continue to do this indefinitely either. We've already seen the tensions and problems within Ukrainian society, the way in which people are being hauled off the streets. there is now this incredibly sinister idea that is spreading of conscripting women. And I think we touched on this in a different programme.

It's quite clear. And I've looked into this. They are not talking about asking women to volunteer. Women have already been given that option long ago. And there are apparently already significant numbers of Ukrainian women in the army. but what they're talking about now is conscription, conscription of women. Now, this is, I mean, this is sinister. And the way some people in the West support this is even more sinister.

But when a government resorts to doing this kind of thing, that tells you where the true mobilisation crisis really is. Now, about these stories about mobilization in Russia. I was going to ask you that. What do you think? Well, the Russians deny this. It's September. We're coming close to the elections.

I believe it's the 18th of September? What's the date of the Russian problem? I believe you're right. And there's somewhere around there. Somewhere around there. The Russian authorities, the Russian government has repeatedly denied that there are any mobilization plans. there's been this issue of these three decrees that Putin signed, the secret decree.

Some say that one of them is a mobilization decree. But you have to take that against the public denials that mobilization is being planned. I don't myself see why at this moment in time Russia would need a further mobilization. I mean, there doesn't seem to be any shortage of men on the front lines. The Russians are pushing forward. If they are going to mobilize, it can only be for one reason, I would have thought, to launch a further offensive towards Kiev itself, just to say. But on that issue, as far as I can see, there are already ample reserves

and forces ready to launch that strike. the Russians, according to their own claims, are enlisting 30,000 men a month, and these are volunteers. I don't see any reason to think that conscription is coming in Russia. Let's let's say they do mobilize. What does that mean for Russia or for the Kremlin and Putin administration after the elections? Let's just say they do it. Yeah. Is that the fall of Putin? Is that the fall of his administration? No, it isn't.

Again, I think this is a massive misconception. When they mobilized, when they did announce a mobilization, 300,000 men in the autumn of 2022, Russian society overall took it calmly. Yes, some middle-class, liberal-minded people left the country and went to Georgia. Many of them, by the way, have returned. Most of them have returned, by the way. But overall, Russian society took it very, very calmly. And I expect that they would do so again this time. And this time also, given the Ukrainian drone attacks, the strikes across Russia, all of those sort of things, it's probably easier to justify a further mobilization in Russia than it was in 2022.

because Russians can see for themselves that their country is under attack. And as you know, there is always within Russia this complaint that the army isn't moving forward fast enough, that it isn't being aggressive enough. And if the mobilization is sold to the Russian people as necessary. Firstly, to defend Russia, but also to end the war more quick. I think Russian society would take it very calmly. I think the assumptions of people like Stoop that an announcement of mobilization is going to provoke a crisis in Russia

is far-fetched to say the least, but to repeat again, that's in the event that it happens. At the moment, I don't get the sense that it is. I think Putin is finally after a year, of waiting for the Trump administration or the U.S. to strike a deal, hoping that there would be some sort of diplomatic solution to this conflict with the Trump presidency. I think Putin has finally realized that that's not going to happen. And he is going hard now. Or at least he's starting the process of going hard. I think that's very, very clear now.

Well, I mean, he's given instructions. And as is the instructions. must have come from him for massive strikes against the Ukrainian energy system. And the Russian Defence Ministry are telling us as much. Now, just to make one point, which you haven't made before, which no one has made, if you want to send from the United States a peace envoy to Moscow, the worst person you could think of from within the administration is John Radcliffe. And why would you send John Rad? Why would it be such a bad move to send Radcliffe?

Because the Russians believe, and quite probably Putin himself believes, that Radcliffe and the CIA were complicit in the attack on Valdi residents back in December of last year, which the Russians see as an attempt to. to get Putin killed. So that is what the Russians think. The Russians see this as a joint, believe this to have been a joint CIA Ukrainian operation to try and assassinate Putin. And, well, given that that is so, given that that is what the Russians think,

is it really a good idea to send to Moscow the man who Putin believes tried to kill him? Yeah. The reports are that Trump sent Ratcliffe? No, Trump didn't send Radcliffe and Trump didn't order Ratcliffe is the reverse. Ratcliffe told Trump, I'm going. And Trump said, okay. Because it's the CIA that's running this, this proxy war, not the Trump administration. There were no Trump orders to Radcliffe to go. It was the exact opposite. Correct. Because Ratcliffe sees that everything is crumbling. Yes. And so he said, I'm going to Ukraine. I'm going to Russia to, to, try and scare and scare the hell out of Putin or the Russians, give them some threats and some demands. And Putin refused to see him, and he told Lavrov then see him either. Not that Ravkov, I think, has any desire to see him.

But anyway, so the result was that he ended up meeting Bortnikov Naryshkin and passing his messages to Putin through them. That was, I mean, that was a major snob, just to say. And people, there's been a lot of spinning around this, but that is what happened. And, you know, they're still trying to get other people to join in and to try to get the Russians to change course. The foreign minister of Brazil, telephone Lavrov, spoke to him the other day. Fidun, the Turkish foreign minister and Erdogan are trying to get the grain deal up and running again. We know what all this is all about. The Russians are shutting the doors, and that is a decision that comes from Putin himself now.

He is no longer interested in any of these initiatives. He gave them a lot of chance last year. Now it's over. Trump blew it. The front line, to wrap up the video, and anything to talk about very quickly on the front line. Lots of things are happening on the front lines. The first is if we go to the north where there's been all this speculation that there's a huge big Russian buildup in Bryansk region in Russia and that the Russians are thinking about advancing into Cherenegov region, which if they do, by the way, that brings them, I mean, dangerously close to Kiev again. Anyway, there it looks as if it.

The Aletki's going to panic. Oh, if that happens. He's going to lose his shit. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. There, in that generally similar area, we could see what is now a clear collapse of Ukrainian defenses around the city of Sumi.

Sumi, smaller place. It's about 250,000 people, I've been told. Or at least it was before the war, not anymore, I suspect. But it's a regional capital. It's also apparently at the center of an important road. and railway network that, you know, connects Kiev to Kharkov and those sort of places. And the key thing is, of course, Sumi is on the main road to Kiev itself. So, you know, if you have the Russian army going into Chenigov and Sumi has fallen,

that, I mean, everything is going to look incredibly difficult in the north, and Kiev itself will be under a lot of pressure. And Kharkov, a little to the south, would be under a little to the south, would be under severe pressure too. Well, the defenses around Sumi are collapsing. Sumi is starting to look as if it is going to be encircled by the Russians fairly soon, that the Russians are to the north, to the east, increasingly to the south of Sumi, and the first Russian forces have now advanced in positions where they would be able to envelop Sumi from the West. So it looks like a battle for Sumi, for the city of Sumi, is coming.

So that's already very, very bad, alarming news for the Ukrainians. But the Ukrainians, as we know, Zelensky, the Azov people, they're all fixated on Dombas. Things are getting going bad there too. the area around Slaviansk, the Russians are now apparently close to capturing a suburb of Slaviansk called Nikolaevka, which would open a route to advance into Slaviansk itself. There's apparently been a significant Russian breakthrough in the south. The Russians are close to establishing a cauldron in Dvoropil, another town to the south.

west of this whole line of fortified cities. The defenses there are collapsing, apparently. The Russians, according to some reports, they have now returned to that village of Zolotti-Kalodias that they briefly captured in August 2025, which caused an enormous panic in Ukraine. The Ukrainians recaptured it, but they had to send reserves from all across their front lines to do that, and that meant that the Russians were able to wrap up the back. of Pakrovsk, well they've now controlled Pakrovsk, they've returned to Zelotik Kalodias, that brings us closer to the point where there's going to be an encirclement of the fortified cities. And that is on the horizon. And in Zaporosia region, there's now drone footage

showing Russian troops in the center of Oreckhoff itself, which confirms. that the Russians are deep inside Oerejov, and there are rumors that the Russians are creeping northwards again up towards the city of Zaporosia itself. So the front lines are terrible and getting much worse. And as usually happens in this war, what we're probably going to see is also to place this full one after the other, very fast, Dobropilia, O'Rejov. Drushivka and Alexevka, Drusivka, Leman, Nikolaevka, all of these places are probably all going to tumble rapidly. And again, the London Times sent a team of journalists to Drusivka, which is one of the southern towns in the line of fortified cities, the Slovianskermatose places. And again, reading between the lines, you could see that they were shocked by what they saw.

there. The sky full of Russian drones, enormous pressure on the Ukrainians in Drusivka as well. He was brave of those journalists to go so close to the front lines. It's surprising that the Ukrainians let them go there. But the fact that the fighting is taking place in Drusivka, or at least the pressure, is on Drusivka, shows. proves that our analysis of how the front lines are moving is the correct one. Because if you follow DS, Deep State and all of these other places, Dhrushivka ought to be far in the rear. Well, it clearly isn't. And that's UK reporting.

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