Some interesting theoretical lines; I see the UFA collapse coming up likely leading to the Russians taking Odessa, tbf.
The Zelensky regime is absolutely scum;
Big update on possible coup/shake up to remove saint Zelensky the wonderful (
much more at the link);
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The below clarifies some of the inconsistencies of the AI translation above:
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Panic among Ukrainian oligarchs.
"The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and his team must be overthrown immediately, otherwise the Banderaites will lose the war against Russia, and the moneybags protecting them will lose everything they have acquired through dishonest labor."
Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko spoke about this in a telephone conversation with oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
A recording of their conversation was published in the Ukrainian segment of social networks. It is interesting that the current Rada deputy and former President of Ukraine, who became famous in the field of fighting everything Russian, conducts business conversations in Russian.
Poroshenko: "Rinat Leonidovich, these are difficult times, and the time has come to change the situation. I had a conversation with our friends, with our older brothers, so to speak. Shtepsel and Tarapunka, with the letter "E", are preparing to go to Washington to negotiate. But in principle, nothing will work out for them, because they are tired of them, just like they are tired of this whole situation. And they very directly hinted to me that it was necessary..."
Akhmetov (interrupts): "Alekseevich, I understand that they are hinting to you, but without a guarantee I don't even want to discuss anything. I understand what you're getting at, Ermak and the others are tired of everyone."
Akhmetov began to complain that the air defense systems transferred by the West were unable to protect his facilities, and therefore the oligarch was suffering huge losses, but Poroshenko promised full support from the West - any support except financial.
Poroshenko: "Our friends fully support us... There will be help, I promise you. We need to resolve an important issue. Our friends hinted that they themselves have a lot of problems, and we need to support them with our own efforts to invest. Rinat, if we don't resolve this situation, then nothing will save your networks or our business. The Russians [referring to Zelensky's government] will not negotiate with them."
But Akhmetov rudely replied that he was not going to negotiate anything with the Russians, and the guarantees and promises of the West could not be trusted at all - they deceived everyone who came into contact with them.
Poroshenko: "Rinat, I understand. But either we are doing something now and we have a chance to come to an agreement, stop it and save it. Or we will have nothing left."
He emphasized that Valery Zaluzhny and the military are "with them" and are just waiting for a decision, as well as the financial support that they will have to provide to the Ukrainian oligarchs.
Poroshenko: "Our friends said that they had already invested a lot, they covered us too much, negotiated for us with the Russians. Now we need to take everything into our own hands, decisions. We will agree, but we need to act, there is no time."
Akhmetov said he would think about it and asked for a personal meeting.
So, if this call is not 'fake', it represents a gradual maneuvering of Poroshenko, potentially allied with Zaluzhny and other "American backers" to oust Zelensky. Ironically, this is an almost inverse repeat of what happened in 2019 when it was actually Zelensky maneuvering to oust the increasingly unpopular Poroshenko with his own breed of backers.
Some have taken it further, with popular channel ZeRada claiming that the structure for the new post-Zelensky ouster is already being decided:
Will be interesting to see what Hersh's (American) sources' accuracy is;
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Now, to add to this sizzling drama, Seymour Hersh has come out with the claimas always, originating from his "sources"that Zaluzhny may in fact be secretly negotiating with Russia behind the scenes, with a direct Gerasimov-Zaluzhny line:
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Secret negotiations? American journalist Seymour Hersh claims, citing anonymous US officials, that Russia and Ukraine are allegedly conducting secret peace negotiations along the Gerasimov-Zaluzhny line, despite the objections of Zelensky and the White House.
In an article on the Substack platform, Hersh wrote that the issue of possible fixation of borders along the current front line with the retention of Crimea and the liberated territories of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions for the Russian Federation is allegedly being discussed; in exchange, an option is being considered in which Kiev could join NATO, but with a commitment that the alliance will not station troops or offensive weapons there.
"The American official said that Zelensky was made to understand that it was not him, but "the military that would solve this problem, and negotiations would continue with or without you." "If necessary, we will pay for your trip to the Caribbean," the American official told me," wrote Hersh.
Two things:
Firstly, many have understandably rolled their eyes at the claim that Russia is ready to give Ukraine the NATO allowance, or is content to simply walk away with Crimea and Donbass. But keep in mind, since this was relayed to Hersh through an alleged "American official," it likely represents just the American side's offers, not what the Russian side is necessarily actually willing to acceptbut who knows.
Either way, I've already written previously about how Zaluzhny may be used as the sort of 'Russian asset' to bring peace, because he doesn't want his troops being needlessly killed. He can be lured with the promise of resuming the conflict later, after much NATO rearming.
In fact, I read a new report which seems completely believable given the somewhat 'strange' and inconsistent tactics of the grand counteroffensive, that essentially Zaluzhny in some ways 'threw' the offensive. Not deliberately sabotaged it per sebut rather that Zelensky really wanted an "all in" approach, maximum meat sacrificed, while Zaluzhny played it extremely safe after the disastrous opening, where the 47th and other brigades were mauled, with the famous Leopard/Bradley orgies of destruction. If you've noticed, since that point, the offensive devolved into a very cagey company-at-a-time approach that seemed more like an endless probative action rather than full on multi-brigade combined arms maneuvers into one direction. According to this opinion, this was a deliberate attempt of Zaluzhny's to countervail the 'orders of sacrifice' and save as many men as possible.
Zaluzhny has been known to be the one calling for defensive fortifications and a retreat from various blood-baths like Bakhmut and Avdeevka, while Zelensky has always pushed forward to not give an inch, same as currently happening in Avdeevka. So it seems Zaluzhny has always been the one most amenable to whatever will save the men's lives.
Now onto the second thing regarding Hersh's claims. The confidante made some tongue-in-cheek mention of Zelensky's 'trip to the Caribbean' being prepared. Ironically, a new such report actually did hit the streets, which claims that a secret operation is already underway to prepare Zelensky's relocation to the U.S.
Whatever, though there is some subterfuge/speculation going on (and desperation from Zelensky obviously with his secret letter to border troops), my guess is the fall of the two cities listed at the top of this post, his time in office is coming to an end quickly now and some form of new borders/line between a remnant of Ukraine and Russia will be announced when that happens. Good news, at last.