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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukraine’s Armed Forces have lost the initiative on the battlefield, and even with the resumption of US military aid, the Ukrainians would have little chance of stopping the Russian army’s advances. The fact that Trump halted intelligence sharing with Ukraine makes it almost impossible for the Ukrainian military to halt Russia’s advances on the battlefield.
The Telegraph quotes a Ukrainian military doctor who points out that everything happening on the front is getting worse every day for Ukrainian forces, because in recent weeks the number of wounded Ukrainians has increased by 20%.
Artem—not his real name—a 30-year-old medic who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said that he had noticed a “20 percent” increase in casualties in recent weeks and expressed his belief that “the number will rapidly grow even more”.
“On top of this, it is getting warmer. Better weather conditions mean a higher intensity of fighting,” added Artem, who ferries injured soldiers to and from the front lines.
Another combat medic emphasized that the resumption of US aid would not stop Russian advances, because the front line is no longer as stable as it once was.
“The front line is not stable any more. It is not a line, but a zigzag, which makes it more difficult to defend,” said Slava, 27, speaking from a village on the border between the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions. “It’s sad to say, but we don’t have initiative on the battlefield anymore.”
The newspaper emphasizes that morale in Ukrainian forces is lowered and that they are overworked.
“The workload is absolutely insane. I have been in touch with other medics and everyone is saying they are overwhelmed,” he said. “We all have an empty look in our eyes because of everything.”
“I am going to say honestly how it is: everything is bad and it’s going to be worse, but we need to keep working and pushing,” Artem added.
All this is happening amid US President Donald Trump’s refusal to provide Ukraine with US military aid and intelligence data due to Kiev’s refusal to commit to peace negotiations.
Slava said that now was “not the time” to suspend the sharing of intelligence, saying that the move was a “gamble” with the fate of Ukraine.
“It’s not the time to appease the enemy. This step shows once again that the Republicans are for Russia,” he added.
The Trump administration announced the pauses in military aid and intelligence data after the US president and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting in the Oval Office devolved into a shouting match.
As Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said at an event on March 6 at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Kiev regime had “brought it on themselves.”
“The best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose. You got their attention,” he stressed.
It is recalled that US President Joe Biden said he was “convinced” that Russia would launch a special military operation only six days before it was launched on February 24. When asked how he knew this, Biden said, “We have a significant intelligence capability.” This example shows how crucial American intelligence has been for Ukraine, especially when remembering that the Kiev regime thought Biden’s intelligence was incorrect.
US intelligence has allowed Ukrainian forces to prepare for Russian attacks. Mostly gathered from satellite imagery and signals, US intelligence helps Ukraine track Russian troop movements and the location of their bases, which enables Ukrainian forces to attack them with missiles, including strikes inside Russian territory with US-made ATACMS and HIMARS.
A New York Times investigation published in February 2024 revealed that, after a command center of the Ukrainian military was destroyed, the CIA financed and partly equipped an underground bunker to replace it so that the Ukrainian military could track Russian spy satellites and listen in on conversations.
Although the United Kingdom and France have committed themselves to continuing to provide intelligence, they cannot replace that of the US. In fact, they do not have the range of US capabilities, are not on the same scale, and cannot take their place. London and Paris will only transfer their own intelligence to Ukraine and will not pass on data originating in the US.
With weapons and intelligence from the US halted, Ukraine is in a position that makes a military victory almost impossible. Now, Zelensky will eventually be forced to go to the negotiating table. However, as the Ukrainian service people highlighted, until Zelensky overcomes his ego and accepts a peace deal, the situation will only get worse.
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and not just in ukraine. if you didn’t believe it was a new world order when george herbert walker bush first uttered those words for the first time 36 years ago -you do now! they have a club you see… and we’re not in it!…
“they have a club you see… and we’re not in it!”
don’t worry about it. you have a bigger club.
tell me when our “bigger club” is prepared to make radical changes to the smaller “club” that hold our money and is willing to risk just about anything to make these images “stop”… before it’s too late!
it is unclear if the arrangement is now continuing under the same terms. one source familiar with the contract said it was.
russia backed syrian autocrat bashar al-assad during the war, swaying the conflict with its bombardment of rebels including the islamist group hayat tahrir al-sham that ousted assad in a lightning offensive last year
the cash arrived via plane at damascus airport on wednesday and was taken by a convoy of several trucks to the central bank, according to a separate source familiar with the matter.
syria began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract during the 13-year-old syrian civil war, after damascus’ previous contract with a subsidiary of the austrian central bank was terminated due to european sanctions.
syria gets new cash shipment from russia in sign of warming ties
the assad regime began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract agreed during the country’s 13-year civil war.
the new arab staff & agencies
06 march, 2025
syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in russia on wednesday with more consignments expected in the future, a syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties between moscow and syria’s new rulers.
i’ll believe what you are saying is “true” only when i see dozens of stories like the ones that came out of baghdad in 2003 boasting about the shrink wrapped plastic pallets containing $12 trillion worth of $100.00 bills to desitnation($) unknown… russia would have no reason to do this because their currency is sound and can do business with it’s energy wherever and whenever it wants to…
the reason why the u.$. did this to iraq is because iraq was making deals with it’s energy in currencies other than $usd which meant that the u.$. would be forced to negotiate in “other currencies” chief among them the euro. this is why iraq had to be neutralized with the story that saddam and his family were harboring terrorists that did 9/11….
which is why the french were furious; petrofina had inked a major – and exclusive — deal with iraq right under bush’s nose. american solution to everything: bomb or blow up the competition…..
the uk alone bankrolled the cannibal head choppers to the tune of at least £4 billion – and they were minor players. but don’t bother yourself with that – just keep blowing smokescreens out of your ar**.
cred ca nu scapa nimeni viu din kursk!
se vor razbuna mult!? f mult!
care umbrelă franceza? in golful biskaya un submarin in 2016 a dat muzica tare!
întrebat gen fr care se ocupa de dom nuclear, a raspuns : daca doreau sa atace parisul in atacau de la cercul polar din baza lor. e un semnal, un avertisment.
păduchii de la elisee nu au rachete. nu au triada nucleara.
afd in germania nu mai are unde creste. e clar. nu mai sunt germani sa i voteze. trebuie sa convinga musulmani.
curând si romanii vor fi minoritari in romania ca germanii
cand vin suveranistii elevati?
i hope for the disintegration of traitorous russia. i hope the same people liberate chechnya too. as soon as the turks get tired of erdogan, who also destroyed libya because he envied gaddafi. by the way, let’s not forget, erdogan also destroyed egypt, but sisi took it fixed. this is the turkish nato turkish sultan who will not live forever. then a pro-western candidate comes to lead turkey and a democrat comes to the white house.
miss your usaid funding much? or has the uk foreign office made up the difference?
that $40 billion a year buys a lot of presstitute whores and shekel-a-line hasbara hate scribblers.
cigo moron,
again writing only in your gypsie language and commenting your own comments many times again.
have you mental problems?
dont be shocked, but i agree with u…why posting in romanian and talking to oneself…odd
cultural diversity on southfront
i’d rather read romanian than your nazispiel.
but russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with damascus in the weeks after assad fled to moscow, with an eye on keeping its two key bases in the country’s coastal region. a senior russian diplomat visited damascus in january and syrian president ahmed sharaa held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin on 12 february
two days later, syria received its first shipment of local currency from russia
they will pass the intel to ukraine just like turkey past the intel to isis with or without permission.
but i think someone needs to do more research and present the western people with the real grade
of us involvement in ukraines military infrastructure now that trump who can pretend innocence in this it should be possible to concentrate on what biden did to not upset trump while giving the people the evidence how deep into this the west really is.
it’s a us operation, and it’s more evidence of how reality-challenged the orange imbecile really is.
five eyes? five eyes plus? nine eyes? fourteen eyes? echelon? please.
this cause me anxiety–now i go to gay bar swallow much jizz worship dollar bill humiliated cuz russians superior to us amerikunts
” however, as the ukrainian service people highlighted, until zelensky overcomes his ego and accepts a peace deal, the situation will only get worse.”
well, they voted for this thug .. and now they are getting everything they deserve.
kursed kursk kaput. ukrainian phd and kkk leader david duke filed a complaint over use of its acronym..
many christians shipped to death .
he needs to cook longer, soften him up before taking a bite out of him.
ukraines years of training and arming by the mafia run states is failing . just like the real analysts predicted years ago . but the little hats of khazarian descent did it anyway .
becuz yuri expose me as humiliated bitter nazi retired janitor in burgerland with only a pet squirrel i post many times fringe absurdities at south front
these hapless ukie schmucks are just cannon fodder for the jewsa, (((blackrock and zelensky.)))
“the best way i can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose. you got their attention,”
attention… yeah, definitely.
cooperation… no way.