Putin ignores Kellogg and Trump and tells Ukraine to turn up in Istanbul on June 2nd to receive the Russian memorandum on conditions they need for a ceasefire.

After Kellogg making demand of Putin in TV interviews Putin is putting the US in their place, the US are not, never were, nor could ever be a mediator to a conflict they themselves started back in 2014 and have continuously perpetuated ever since.

Now the west intends to gang up and all go to Turkey themselves to reinforce the Ukrainian team because, as Kellogg admits, they were the ones who wrote the Ukrainian memorandum anyway.

"We'll have what we call the E3. That is the national security advisors from Germany, France, and Great Britain” Kellogg said.

Putin has remained polite throughout the Trump team's bungled attempts at mediation over the past several weeks but now may be the time to tell them all to fuck off.

June 2nd is a good opportunity for Putin to turn the tables and not allow the NATO team in the same room, make them sit off in a side room like they planned to do to the Russian team during the Swiss peace talks a year or so ago.


Some commentators are saying that the massive drone offensive by Ukraine last week of some 750 drones was a long time in the planning and was expected to force Russia to the negotiating table.

That the Russians shot them all down and then hit Ukraine with an even bigger attack that was unstoppable was what made Trump and the west so angry.

And so now Merz's proposes to send Taurus missiles into Moscow and the 'Russian Hinterland', after all - what could possibly go wrong


What's really going on?

Ukraine and the west need a long pause before the Ukrainians collapse altogether. A long pause will allow NATO to rebuild and re-equip the Ukrainian forces (again).

But a pause would mean the loss of the Russians current battlefield advantage. They don't need a rest and their production lines are providing all the necessaries. So the Russians are content to continue to roll on especially as they are now in the main fighting season, the ground is firm and good for the movement of tanks and artillery around the battlefield.

Trump was sold the Ukrainian propaganda by the west's neocons that the Russian forces were tired and desperate for a pause as well as the Ukrainians, and thought the ceasefire idea would work all round. He's only now just catching up with reality.

Not only do the Russians not want to disrupt their summer offensive plans they also know that any ceasefire will prompt the west to slip western troops into Ukraine as 'peacekeepers' that will be impossible to remove without using deadly force. There's also the prospect of the west rushing Ukraine into NATO during a pause and giving it the protections that comes with membership.

Putin knows full well that NATO is using Ukraine to try to cripple Russia and so Russia must totally neuter Ukraine or they will never have peace on their western border.

Putin just needs to look at the Korean peninsular to see what a mess a prolonged ceasefire can lead to.

So it's unlikely Russia will stop fighting unless their demands are met or they achieve them on the battlefield, which they have every confidence of doing in due course.







Russia Fighting for COMPLETE COLLAPSE of Kiev's Forces, Not Ukrainian Land –Brian Berletic




Russia Won the War - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
3 hours ·
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from
24.02.22 to 31.05.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from
24.02.22 to 31.05.25
personnel ‒ about 987330 (+1250) persons,
tanks ‒ 10867 (+2) units,
armored combat vehicles ‒ 22652 (+5) units,
artillery systems ‒ 28475 (+54) units,
MLRS ‒ 1400 (+2) units,
anti-aircraft systems ‒ 1173 (+1) units,
aircraft ‒ 372 (+0) units,
helicopters helicopters – 336 (+0) units,
UAV operational-tactical level – 38215 (+145),
cruise missiles – 3265 (+0),
warships – 28 (+0) units,
submarines – 1 (+0) units,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 50198 (+109) units,
special equipment – ​​3902 (+0)

Must watch 5 minute video clip (if you haven't seen it already) in which Arestovich (former chief advisor to Zelensky) talking in 2019 of the western neocon plan and how it was all supposed to play out.

Ukraine was to deliberately provoke a conflict with Russia. NATO had spent years building, training and equipping the Ukrainian army who were to defeat Russia militarily while the sanctions crippled Russia economically. This was the cost Ukraine was to pay for being allowed to join NATO.

After Russia's defeat and Ukraine in NATO Ukraine would never have to worry about their security ever again. Or so was the plan.

The sanctions were supposed to do most of the work defeating Russia, reminder that a French politician said at the time that the sanctions would have the Russian economy on it's knees within 2 weeks.

After Russia's defeat militarily and collapse economically it would then be ripe for one the CIA's infamous colour revolutions and the installing of a new US friendly government which would usher in Blackrock and co to take control of the countries natural resources.

(5 minute snip near start of Col Baud interview 1st video below)


The Baud interview also points out that we in the west don't have objectives anymore and so we don't have strategies to address problems, we just have words and narratives - be it wars, sanctions, energy.

Policy is based on narrative rather than actual objectives.

Sounds like a post modernist world where facts and reality don't matter, only narrative matters.

And so nothing actually gets solved, nothing actually gets done.



On the battlefield May saw a doubling of Russian territorial gains (over 400 sq km) compared to previous months.

Small Russian FPV drones now able to operate 30km behind the frontline causing major problems for Ukrainian supply and support leading to a quickening pace of the Russian offensive.


The basic Russian tactic on the battlefield is now well established.

Advance on the flanks of a Ukrainian position while pounding it with FAB glide bombs and artillery.

Once the cauldron is formed swap the bombs and shells for TOS thermobaric rockets to decrease resistance further then advance with troops to drive the opposition back out through the killing field that is the open end of the cauldron.

The tactic is greatly aided by the Ukrainian high command's reluctance to give up any territory at all even when there are better, stronger defences a short distance away.

For a brigade commander to even suggest such a thing will get him sacked as was proved recently.


Since Russia forced the Ukrainians back out of Kursk oblast Zelensky is complaining that there are now 50,000 Russian troops sitting on the border staring at him, this is completely unfair and so just what does NATO intend to do about it ????

So there is a reason why, when you have a relative manpower shortage, you should refrain from opening up new fronts all over the place, who could have known?


Zelensky is now saying that the conflict will probably not be resolved until Putin is gone.

He is probably correct because if Putin is no longer there then Medvedev will take over in which case Kiev would likely be wiped off the face of the planet within hours.


Col. Jacques Baud: Russia Pursues Military Solution as Diplomacy Fails




Ukraine drone swarm failure angers West

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
1 hour ·
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from
24.02.22 to 01.06.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from
24.02.22 to 01.06.25
personnel ‒ about 988560 (+1230) persons,
tanks ‒ 10872 (+5) units,
armored combat vehicles ‒ 22656 (+4) units,
artillery systems ‒ 28527 (+52) units,
MLRS ‒ 1401 (+1) units,
anti-aircraft systems ‒ 1173 (+0) units,
aircraft ‒ 372 (+0) units,
helicopters helicopters – 336 (+0) units,
UAV operational-tactical level – 38366 (+151),
cruise missiles – 3268 (+3),
warships – 28 (+0) units,
submarines – 1 (+0) units,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 50325 (+127) units,
special equipment – ​​3903 (+1)

Russ advance 200 sq km in 7 days says Bild German news agency. Compare that the advance for the whole of May was 400 sq km. The article says that a lack of Ukrainian manpower was the main problem.

London's Telegraph newspaper carries the story that Trump will not be going to congress for a new aid package fo Ukraine and that Europe must step up to do what it can to replace US aid.

There is no way Europe is going to be able to support Ukraine to anything like the degree of the US. This all spells hard times for Ukraine ahead both of the social budget such as pensions as well as militarily.

The Ukrainian government meanwhile has started to default on loan repayments is reported in the Financial Times.

The NYT reports on the Ukrainian memorandum that seems to be nothing other than a call for a ceasefire, there's no peace plan apparently though Kellogg said that western countries did contribute to it which many assumed meant the memorandum included Kellogg's 22 point peace plan.


Of course they are, that's what happens when a nation commits suicide, the neighbours pick over the bones.










NATO's Tactics Exposed As Macron Threatens CHINA




TRUMP PUSHED ASIDE by SENATORS /Lt Col Daniel Davis




The West in PanicHigh Offensive PaceNovopil & Vodolahy FallMilitary Summary 2025.05.31

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
1 hour ·
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 02.06.25 were approximately /
The estimated total combat losses of the enemy
from 24.02.22 to 02.06.25
personnel ‒ about 989700 (+1140) persons,
tanks ‒ 10874 (+2) units,
armored combat vehicles ‒ 22663 (+7) units,
artillery systems ‒ 28575 (+48) units,
MLRS ‒ 1401 (+0) units,
anti-aircraft systems ‒ 1175 (+2) units,
aircraft ‒ 372 (+0) units,
helicopters helicopters – 336 (+0) units,
UAV operational-tactical level – 38622 (+256),
cruise missiles – 3271 (+3),
warships – 28 (+0) units,
submarines – 1 (+0) units,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 50462 (+137) units,
special equipment – ​​3905 (+2)

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/01/euro ... bases-intl

Ukraine hits air bases thousands of miles inside Russia in audacious military operation
By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Tim Lister, Mitchell McCluskey and Helen Regan, CNN
6 minute read
Updated 1:00 AM EDT, Mon June 2, 2025

According to our sources, the special operation "Web", as a result of which the SBU hit 41 Russian strategic aircraft, was prepared for more than a year and a half

The President of Ukraine, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Volodymyr Zelensky, personally supervised the operation. And the plan was implemented by Vasyl Malyuk and the Service team.

According to our sources, this operation was extremely complex from a logistical point of view. The SBU first transported FPV drones to Russia, and later - mobile wooden houses. Later, on the territory of the Russian Federation, the drones were hidden under the roofs of houses, already placed on trucks. At the right moment, the roofs of the houses were remotely opened, and the drones flew to hit the Russian bombers.

We have unique photos showing exactly how the drones were prepared for the attack on military airfields.

Sources in the SBU emphasize that the people who took part in this historic special operation have been in Ukraine for a long time. So, if the Putin regime demonstratively detains someone, it will be another staged performance for the domestic audience.

SBU Head Malyuk during the special operation "Website"
Zelenskyy reacted to the attack on Russian airfields

"Absolutely brilliant result. Independent result of Ukraine. A year, six months and nine days from the start of planning to effective implementation. Our operation is the most far-reaching. Our people who prepared the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory on time. Of course, we cannot tell everything now, but these are Ukrainian actions that will definitely be in history textbooks. Ukraine is defending itself, and quite rightly so - we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war."