The Epstein coalition's aggression against Iran has overshadowed news of the war in Ukraine, which has completely disappeared from mainstream media , but continues to claim victims, making it appropriate to update the situation on the battlefield . Indeed, even websites specializing in military coverage of conflicts have focused their attention on the conflict in the Middle East, both because of its devastating consequences for the geopolitical structure of a vast and sensitive area of the planet and because of the economic repercussions of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The Ukrainian issue is returning to the forefront, at times, in the form of extolling the results of a much-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive, which supposedly led to "significant" territorial gains, as well as the conflict between Zelensky and Orban over Ukrainian sabotage of the Druzba gas and oil pipeline, and Orban's subsequent veto blocking the disbursement to Ukraine of the non-repayable grant of 90 billion euros stolen from European welfare states to continue financing the war, thus fueling the theft and endemic corruption prevalent in the country.The regime press is doing its utmost to express its jubilation over the aforementioned territorial gains, resulting from the counterattack launched by Syrsky 's army , which involved a large swathe of territory on the border between Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. This counterattack involved a penetration of approximately 18 km in depth, affecting 100-150 km² of sparsely populated territory, transformed into disputed territory, with both Russian and Ukrainian forces.
In other words, General Syrsky, at Zelensky's request, identified what might be called the "soft underbelly" of a 1,000 km front and attempted to achieve a quick, if fleeting, success there.
The Russians, for their part, have allowed the Ukrainians to let off steam in this area, limiting themselves to containing them, in order to concentrate their efforts and resources on the unusually rapid advance for this war from Huliajpole, conquered by force, in the direction of Orikiv and are dangerously approaching the city of Zaporizhia, advancing along the Dnieper.
On another segment of the front, they are focusing their efforts on transforming the city of Pokrovsk into a strategic hub to fuel the advance toward the Dnipropetrovsk border, moving behind the cities of Kramatovsk and Slovyansk. This enveloping maneuver is unfolding while the city of Kostiantynivka is surrounded on three sides and has already been heavily infiltrated for months by Russian raiders operating in its southern and central districts. This is while drones, FABs, and glide bombs target the supply routes of the city garrison, which is constantly weakened by Russian artillery fire positioned on the highest salients in the surrounding territory.
But moving further north, it becomes clear that Russian troops have already partially overwhelmed the first fortified defense line of the cities of Kramatovsk and Slovyansk on the southeastern front. After crossing the Donesk Canal, they have moved within 8 km of their objective, putting the two cities within range of artillery, fiber-optic drones, glide bombs, FABs, and other weapons. These cities have lost their role as logistical hubs feeding the front, having themselves become part of the battlefront awaiting the infiltration. The administrative authorities of Slovyansk have ordered residents to urgently abandon the city. At the same time, the Russians are surrounding the city of Lyman on three sides. Lyman is now locked in a vise and close to a final assault, with some of its neighborhoods already infiltrated by Russian army vanguards.
The only other point of Ukrainian resistance that can be identified is the city of Kupyansk, largely retaken by the Ukrainians and where the front is now static, while the Russians are combing through pockets of Ukrainian troops in the surrounding area east of the Oskil River.
All this is happening while, at Putin's request, the Russian army is creating a 20-30 km deep buffer zone on the border with Russia in the Kharkiv and Sumy Oblasts to protect the border.
This reconnaissance of the situation on the front, which is by no means immobile, as Western analysts claim, but rather slowly moving as a result of the Russian strategy aimed at saving as many of its own troops as possible while simultaneously waging a war of attrition on the Ukrainian army in keeping with the belief that the best enemy is a dead one, tells us on the one hand that the objectives Russia claims to be pursuing at the negotiating table have almost been achieved on the ground: it is only a matter of time before they are finally achieved.
It is therefore natural to ask whether Russia's objectives are still those stated in the negotiations or whether it is moving toward a rapid realignment, as evidenced by events on the battlefield and some rumors leaking out of Moscow, given Ukraine's reluctance to conclude the negotiations.
There is no doubt that the war in Ukraine is costly for Russia, and that a segment of its establishment , led by Putin himself, would like to end the conflict, contenting itself with achieving certain objectives such as what will remain of Ukraine, its non-membership in NATO, the country's denazification, a military scaled down to numbers compatible with a policy of peace and good neighborliness, and tolerance toward the canonical Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, territorial demands can be scaled down to the boundaries outlined in the negotiations. But within Russia, there are those who opt for more radical solutions and believe that Russia's true security can only be achieved by acquiring a much larger portion of territory. This is simplified in the map we publish below, taken from the magazine Limes, but made public by the Russian Military General Staff.
As can be seen, the map includes the Kharkiv Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the entire Kerson Oblast, Kirivohrad Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, and Odessa Oblast. This suggests that, unless Ukraine is willing to accept a negotiated solution on the terms desired by Russia, the war will continue until Russia's objective is achieved, no matter the cost. Russia has demonstrated its full intention to persist in seeking a solution on the battlefield even if negotiations fail to meet its demands, which it considers minimal.
Pursuing this solution to the conflict would, however, marginalize Putin's choices and lead to the prevalence within the Russian establishment of those hardline elements that push for a continued war until the predetermined objectives are achieved, arguing that only this radical solution of structural neutralization of Ukraine can prevent future conflicts.
Those fanatics aspiring to Punti's death, so numerous among Europe's current ruling classes those who call for his poisoning, his succumbing to his alleged illnesses, those who hope he doesn't survive the internal pressure, and so on would do well to reconsider their calculations, given the risk of jumping from the frying pan into the fire and finding someone more intransigent in the Kremlin.
If there's one lesson from both the Ukrainian and Iranian crises, it's that using "orange revolutions" to destabilize states with the scale of an empire and a historical memory that stems from their geographic location, their resources, their tradition, and their structural composition, is unsuitable for achieving this goal. In other words, the theorizations and desires of Brezinski and his cronies and followers on the dissolution of Russia and Iran were and are unrealizable dreams due to the economic, cultural and strategic factors that guide the development of history and relations between states.
The Almoner of Kiev
Addressing the issue of the end of the war, a separate reflection should be made on the problems stemming from Kiev's political leadership. Zelensky's role as a great almsgiver is over, as evidenced by the fact that every time he goes abroad to scout for help, he returns with an increasingly empty wallet. He's like the monk in medieval tales who, after harassing peasants' wives, is chased by their husbands with shovels. The fact is that Ukraine's exorbitant demands, further burdened by the profiteering its rulers and oligarchs have made, and continue to make, prevents Europe, left alone, from allowing the foolish plan to disintegrate Russia, to be implemented by Ukraine, to succeed. The country's population is dwindling, its economic and energy infrastructure has been disintegrated, and it requires massive investments to somehow fuel the front. It is now clear that the contractors recruited from around the world, much less the population still present in the country, cannot provide sufficient strength to continue the battle. However, it is a common Western European mainstream practice to maintain that Ukraine will fight to the last man and woman, and this is a cynical and criminal plan.
Continuing the war will only allow the most radical segment of the Russian leadership to achieve its broader objectives, transforming Ukraine into a much smaller state, within Europe, landlocked and definitively diminished in its aspirations for development and prosperity. The surviving state will become a conglomerate infested with the most Nazi-like and violent nationalism, capable of infecting the entire continent, pushing it toward self-destruction and drastically impoverishing its populations, with the aim of exploiting their frustration and resentment to push them into war. It is therefore in the interest of the European peoples to cease all funding for the Ukrainian war effort.
Gianni Cimbalo
https://www.ucadi.org/2026/03/28/ucraina-eppur-si-muove-il-fronte/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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