Russia announced after Ukrainian's intel chief Budanov admitted Ukraine would have to accept the 6,000 they refused to accept earlier.
So much for Zelensky's assurances that Ukraine had only lost 46,000 in the conflict in total.
Added to the 6,000 already known, the payout to families will total over $15 billion, which Ukraine doesn't have, obviously.
This is going to have major consequences for Ukrainian army commanders who have presumably been happily drawing the pay of many unreported dead soldiers.
And expect civil unrest when the huge figures are revealed to the Ukrainian people and that there is no money to pay the compensation either.
The sustained uptick in drone and missile attacks on Ukraine continues for the 5th night in a row. 500 drones and missiles striking multiple Ukrainian cities again.
Once again Zelensky has got a response escalation following his own escalation the previous week, but once again the US refused to come to the rescue and so Ukraine speeds up it's own decent into defeat.
Trump himself admits defeat, 'boys will be boys' and that there's nothing the US can do (absolutely no leverage on Russia whatsoever).
Ukrainian air defence is exhausted, minimal air defence missiles left even for Kiev so the city of Kharkov and other Ukrainian cities are completely open to missile attack.
Meanwhile the Ukrainian city of Sumy is being approached by Russian ground forces, Sumy is on the road to Kiev.
None of those 3 cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Sumy) are in oblasts previously on the Russian SMO list to be occupied but they may well be now.
Zelensky finding out that escalation is a double edged sword.
But Zelensky's delusion still trumps reality, he still expects NATO to send troops if only he can find the *right escalation, and, as he said in a recent interview, he still thinks Ukraine will win.
Expectations now that Russia will upgrade the SMO to an anti-terrorist operation. This will give Russian forces greater freedom to act not just in Ukraine but also domestically.
This is to counter those within Russia acting for Ukraine such as those involved in the drone attack on the Russian bombers and train attacks.
It will also allow Russia to go after the heads of the Ukrainian forces and regime leaders directly, just as the Ukrainian intel agencies have been assassinating Russians and Ukrainians in Russia.
EU/UK forced to change the narrative, the conflict is no longer about the defeat of Russia but is now about preventing Ukraine's defeat, Ukraine has western values after all (haha).
The snag being there's absolutely nothing the EU/UK can do to prevent Ukraine's defeat.
There seems no doubt now that diplomacy is over. The Russians are saying that they were always up for it but Ukraine's stance was always that Russia must give up all it's advantages before the Ukrainians would even consider talks.
Presumably the Ukrainians thought the EU/UK/US could make that happen, but they couldn't.
The Russians are now saying that as the Ukrainians have turned full on terrorists the time for talking is over.
Some commentators suggesting now that the Russian summer offensive is about a general, overall upscaling of attacks on land and air across the entire battlelfronts rather than any single big arrow manoeuvres.
They're saying that the recent persistent Russian increase in drone/missile attacks may well have been planned a month ago, well before the recent Ukrainian attacks.
Reports of continued desertions from the Ukrainian army, 91,000 in the last 5 months and so a total of 200,000 over the last year.
This is inevitable when your main means of recruitment is just snatching men off the street.
The Ukraine regime is running on pure PR and narrative at this point, anyone who can't see a collapse coming is not paying attention.
Of course, if the regime wasn't so pathological and deluded they would have come to terms long ago and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians would still be alive today.
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