Yesterday, two events happened: first, the Russian army is still shamefully running.
Second, Russian missiles are destroying the civilian infrastructure of peaceful Ukrainian cities.
Occupants found joy in the latter. Finally, z-channels can take a break from their depression.
Finally Margarita Simonyan doesn’t need to be talking about peace and reconciliation:
behind the backs of the fleeing army, houses, factories, and hospitals are left without electricity.
3 trolley buses were burnt down in Poltava.
The entire squadron took a dump in front of a hospital before retreating.
They rejoice like Hamas militants: we can’t win, but we can make a mess.
Let us not pretend like our goal is dry analysis here.
We aren’t here to just watch how a regime that was built on lies and violence dies, having encountered a real army.
How the regime that thrived through deception and election fraud, the regime that attacked peaceful civilians in city squares,
the regime that killed and imprisoned its opponents, has to finally face reality.
How it faces the fact that it fights not harmless students now, but armed people,
how lies and fraud no longer work, how it now stands before us stripped of its fancy clothes.
We’ll talk about news too, but first I want to say a few words to those who are in charge of the regime, to its leaders.
I know you watch me.
SO WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO
Ukraine outplayed you so well that it will go down in textbooks on military strategy and tactics under the name of
“how to fight a pencil pusher who thinks he’s a Bonaparte”.
Most of your combat-capable forces are now between the Ukrainian troops and Dnieper river in the South.
They aren’t going anywhere and the AFU will be liberating a city after a city while they pick their noses.
And they wanted to fight NATO.
They called Zelensky a clown. You are the only clowns here, fucking geostrategists.
While you were carrying baggage for your bosses, hoping to one day become one, Zelensky created
an artistic team in a competitive market,
a team that earned millions in profits, and then he won in competitive elections.
He won without Pamfilova, without electronic voting, without removing competitors
and without political repressions against dissent.
He won against the then current president, and now he’s smashing you in the face
while having three times less the population and 10 times less money to be spent on war.
Whom were you intending to fight NATO with?
The unlucky fellas from Donetsk and Lugansk, whom you kidnap from the streets
and send to the frontlines to be a cannon fodder?
The clients of microfinance organizations from the 3th army corps, who apparently got too drunk
on their way to the war and never got there?
Or maybe with your army of convicts, whose efficiency at war is still unknown,
but what we do know is that they’ll soon return to the streets of Russian cities.
And all that treasure will fall under the command of a civil engineer Shoygu who never served in the army.
NATO armies are terrified by the prospect, Generals are fleeing the Pentagon.
16 HIMARS were enough to stop your offensive in Ukraine, by the way,
just one NATO country, Romania, has more than 50 of them.
Ukrainian soldiers are greeted as heroes and liberators wherever they go.
Not because they are their fellow countrymen, not because of their flag they bear,
but because you, after having achieved zero success at the frontlines, succeeded in terror, in despotism,
in violence, in war crimes that happen everyday.
Look how they’re greeted.
There is no doubt anymore that the Ukrainians will be greeted in the same manner in Lugansk and Donetsk.
People there had 9 years, not 6 months, to enjoy the Russian World.
You’ve turned their prosperous industrial cities into an arithmetic mean of Somalia and North Korea.
Poverty, lawlessness, torture, destruction, and the effective mass murder of all men that you could catch.
Donetsk — a city that hosted the European Football Championship in 2012 under the Ukrainian flag.
A city where people from neighboring regions went to work, and now, starting from 2014,
Donetsk is living through a real social disaster: people have to get water from some dirty streamlets.
And those who were kids of 10-12 years at the beginning of the Russian invasion — you drive them to fortified
Ukrainian positions to face death from the hands of their own compatriots. For nothing.
People of Donetsk and Lugansk know everything about what awaits those who believe in the Russian
world and what you bastards would do to them.
That any land you touch you turn into a disaster area, and its people into an expendable material.
Yes, all the people that you’ve kidnapped from the streets of the occupied territories now flee.
Why would they fight for you after you’ve ruined their lives?
But that’s only the beginning, soon they’ll be defecting to Ukraine, to those who bring them peace.
NATO generals who prophesied the fall of Kyiv in 96 hours are truly shamed.
You’ve won this one. They couldn't imagine that you’re such morons.
Couldn’t imagine the level of idiocy that unfolds when a third grade nomenclature from Petersburg
who was never in charge of anything and had never been elected anywhere,
but has ambitions worthy of a galactic emperor, are given reign over the biggest and richest country.
You’ve shit your pants. So what is the plan now? Putin declaring mobilization?
What mobilization? You’ve found mere thousands of “volunteers” willing to accept 300 000
in a country where 30 000 is considered to be a good salary in most regions.
Whom will you “mobilize”? Russia is not Donetsk, there are places to hide.
You can declare anything you want, you can declare that the Moon is now your territory, now try to make it a reality.
Now you’re destroying the energy infrastructure of Kharkiv, Sumi, and Dnieper.
To do what? To show one more what f**ked up dickheads you are? Well the Ukrainians already know that.
You’ve turned Mariupol into ruins, misery and destruction follow you wherever you go.
Factories and hospitals will turn on generators, people in their homes will light candles
for your army and will keep beating you harder than ever.
Or did you truly think that by destroying power substations you show force, not panic?
All your 20 years of lies have now become obvious.
Where’s your Ramzan Kadyrov, who was getting away with publicly humiliating Russia for years… why exactly?
So that he could now sit in the backlines just in case something terrible happens?
There, it happened, so what’s Kadyrov doing?
Kadyrov is posting voice messages in Telegram, jumping from one subject to another,
and if he was a member of my staff and not your general, his voice would have me concerned for his health.
Where’s your intelligence? We know where American intelligence is, it’s somewhere a couple of meters from Putin,
it knew everything already back in October.
Where are all your FSB, GRU, SVR?
Where are all those thousands of deadbeats living off the state’s budget,
how come they knew nothing of the plans of Ukraine’s command?
Still sharing one bed in a hotel to save up on secondment costs during an operation to poison yet another enemy and traitor?
Why couldn’t you just sit tight on your silly asses?
It was all lies, and you knew it, or at the very least you could guess.
There is no army. There is no super weapon.
Armata is nothing but a prototype to use during parades, it doesn’t exist in reality.
Your army are not “polite people” from special operations forces
(whom you for some unknown reason killed near Kyiv during the first days of war),
but unlucky fellas from poorest regions who have nowhere to go to.
You knew that the Russian armed forces is a metaphor for its own dry rations.
When a pretty box hides an expired cheap meat paste from Magnit.
What were you going to do with all this? What was the plan?
To sow discord within NATO leadership, so that all those generals and analysts
who didn’t think you were such batshits would lose their positions for incompetence?
You wanted to wage a war like Stalin?
Human waves and all?
Well to wage a war like Stalin you need to be like Stalin.
You need to be in the head of a totalitarian army that couldn’t care less about losing a million people.
And you couldn’t find ten thousand misfits even after promising them 200 000 roubles.
Leonid Parfenov once said: they want to rule like Stalin while living like Abramovich.
It doesn’t work like that, you only live like Abramovich because you rule over a consumerist, atomized, and still civilized country.
A country that for now is unfortunately incapable of mass anti-war protest
but exactly because it's atomized and indifferent, it won’t let you kill a million people at the front. Even for money.
Because if Russia had real, not imagined enemies, they could just come and take what they wanted.
What would stop China from taking the Republic of Tuva?
Only the fact that the chinese government aren’t stupid.
Because Russia has nothing to defend itself with, its army is dying in Ukraine.
Plus, it’s now entirely financially dependent on comrade Xii's good mood.
So much for building an empire, we’ve become a satellite state of China and India.
Now, my dear armchair Alexanders of Macedon, let me remind you of one simple thing:
the longer the war continues, the worse the terms of surrender will become for you personally.
Not for the country, not for the system, you don’t care about either of it anyway,
but for you personally, because those who’ll be the last to flee the ship will have to answer for everything.
You blew it all. Trillions of dollars of free money from oil and gas.
A wonderful economic growth off low base. No enemies in the world.
We could’ve become a prosperous country and one of the largest economies of the world.
We could attract people, we could become world leaders in medicine, education,
we could be creating the best IT services in the region and then in Europe
No other government in the History of Russia ever had it this good, no other government blew everything this bad.
Now let’s move on to the frontline news.
FRONTLINE NEWS
Yesterday, the collapse of the Russian front in the East of Ukraine continued.
The army is on the run and the AFU has reached their national border almost everywhere in the Kharkiv region.
Ukraine officially declared Izyum liberated, while the Russian army has to now be creating
a new frontline at the only natural obstacle left:
rivers Oster and Seversky Donets.
The only other thing behind Russian soldiers’ backs is the pre 23rd of February demarcation line.
And the Russian command will have to organize everything themselves at this new frontline.
Because their troops are now fleeing the Lugansk region in panic.
Fleeing Svatovo and Starobelsk.
Plus, the AFU has two footholds on these rivers near Kupyansk and Liman.
The Ukrainian army isn’t advancing from there only because its supply units couldn’t keep pace.
After all, in just 4 days the AFU liberated a territory only a little smaller than Kathar.
Establishing logistics there will take some time.
There is now a discussion in Z channels about where Kyiv might move its victorious forces now.
To the Donbass? To the South maybe? There are many options.
What if Ukraine decides to collapse the southern front too? Like by advancing to Melitopol.
A breakthrough like the one that happened at Balakleya would threaten the main forces of the Russian army.
Because if the AFU would show up near Melitopol, it would directly threaten the Crimean isthmus.
The entire Russian army from Kherson to Energodar may be encircled.
There would be no point in holding the only regional center in Ukraine (Kherson).
But yesterday another event happened that will transition the war to a new stage.
At the very end of the day, Russian missiles took revenge for the defeat of their troops on peaceful citizens of Ukraine.
They damaged several thermal power plants in the East of the country.
As a result, several districts in major cities — Kharkiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Kremenchug, Pavlograd — were left without electricity.
Left without water too, because the plumbing cannot work without electricity.
Ukraine railways have canceled some important trains, and in Kharkiv people had to exit
trains right in tunnels due to the halting of the metro.
Z-channels joyfully wrote that due to the problems with electricity, Ukraine had to de-energize Roven,
Khmelnitsky, and South Ukrainian nuclear power plants. Kyiv did not confirm that information yet.
We are again in a situation when you can’t say a single good word about the Russian army’s performance on the battlefield,
but when it has no equals in causing a mess in the end.
CONCLUSION
So how do we conclude?
We conclude with a simple thought: if you’re a part of the Russian leadership and can affect events, do that.
Defection, sabotage, open disobedience — any act of resistance may mean trouble for you right now,
but in future you’ll become “the one who didn’t shoot”.
You have eyes to see. You can't help seeing that the war is lost.
That the war was started under a completely fictional pretext.
Ok, having used to PR and doublethink that pretext didn’t seem like something important to you,
it seemed normal to you to feed the viewers of TV channels with the NATO threat and the restoration of the USSR
while keeping your money in the countries of the abovementioned NATO.
But now it’s not just Soloviev words. It’s a real war now that will end in defeat.
Do you really think that you can just wait it through?
Alright, at some point you might have thought that the lost war could be pushed into the background,
that you could repeat the 2015, conduct fake referendums and be done with it.
But it won’t work now. Ukraine won’t allow you.
It’s fully intended to defeat you. Not on TV, but in real life.
To betray Putin now would be dangerous.
On the other hand, we are now at the point where to betray in time means to anticipate.
There are only two options: either you become the one who anticipated, or you will fall to those who did.
Rewatch titanic: there won’t be enough lifeboats for everyone.
Only the smartest and the fastest will be saved.
See you tomorrow.