Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in fierce battles in the east and south of Ukraine.
The Russian invaders have concentrated a third of their attacks on the Pokrovsky direction. Seven clashes are currently ongoing there.
Since the beginning of the current day, 87 combat clashes have occurred on the front in nine directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, May 27.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, Ukrainian troops stopped four attacks by Russians in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Zapadnoye and Dolgenkoye. Another battle continues.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy twice attempted to advance in the Zagrizove area.
In the Liman direction, the aggressors attacked 14 times in the areas of Serebryansky forest, Nadiya, Novomikhaylovka, Redkodub and in the directions of Grekovka, Grigoryevka, Karpovka, Novy Mir. Seven battles are currently ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the defensive, repelling three enemy attempts to advance forward near Chasovy Yar, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and towards Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked five times in the areas of Druzhba, Dilievka and Toretsk. One combat clash continues to this day.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy attacked 28 times in the areas of the settlements of Zarya, Mirolyubovka, Malinovka, Lisovka, Zvirovo, Udachnoye, Novosergeevka, Novomikolaevka, Muravka, Kotlyarovka, Troitskoye, Bogdanovka, Andreyevka and in the directions of Yablunovka, Alekseyevka. Seven combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, our defenders repelled attacks in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinopol, Burlatskoye, Novopol, Zelenoye Pole. One combat clash continues.
Seven attacks were successfully stopped in the Orekhov direction. The enemy tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Malye Shcherbaki, Stepovoye and towards Novodanilovka.
There were 14 military clashes in the Kursk direction, two of which are still ongoing.
Let us recall that in one day on May 26, Russia lost almost 1,000 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1 million people since the beginning of the great war.
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[KavkazUzel] Five Circassian activists detained during a march with Circassian flags in Nalchik have been released from a special detention center. Two more marchers remain under arrest.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, during a march with Circassian flags, timed to coincide with the 161st anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War, at least eight people were detained in Nalchik. They were given three to ten days of administrative arrest under the article on participation in an unsanctioned action and obstructing traffic. The only woman of the eight detainees, Marina Kalmykova, was released after three days of arrest on May 25.
The Caucasian War, which lasted from 1763 to 1864, brought the Adyghe people to the brink of extinction. After the war and the mass deportation of the Adyghe to the Ottoman Empire, only a little more than 50,000 people remained in their homeland. The Russian authorities have still not made a decision to recognize the genocide of the Circassians during the war, according to a report from the "Caucasian Knot". The end of the war was marked by a parade of Russian troops in Krasnaya Polyana on May 21, 1864.
The release of five arrested activists was reported today by Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko. He published a video of the activists meeting their comrades at the gates of the special detention center.
“They released some Circassian heroes who were arrested for participating in a march in memory of those who died for the freedom of Circassia,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Kochesoko, Khusein Gugov, Zuber Ivazov, Timur Nakhushev, Kazbek Mamikov and Bashir Erokov have been released. Two activists, Idar Tsipinov and Beslan Gedgafov, remain in custody.
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[NewsFront] 21:22 UAV calculation of the Dnepr group of troopsstrucka stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region on the right bank of the Dnieper.
FPV drone operators of the Vostok group of forces carried out pinpoint strikes on critically important enemy unmanned aircraft control facilities in the South Donetsk direction.
20:49 The village of Okhrimovka in the Volchansky district of the Khar'kov region has begun to be actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a logistics hub for the transfer of personnel and equipment to the state border.
At night Northerners contributed adjustments to their route, delivering a precise strike on the bridge over the Volchya River.
20:08 In the Krasnoarmeysk direction, a crew of the 122mm D-30 howitzer of the Southern Military District destroyed enemy UAV point, and the crew of the 152m,m 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled gun of the Center group of forces is a camouflaged command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Zaporizhzhya direction, artillerymen of the "East" troop group destroyed a camouflaged mortar crew and a temporary deployment point of the enemy.
19:02 Russian Armed Forces advance near Ozaryanovka, –MAP.
18:42 Russian Armed Forces advance near Stroyevka, –MAP.
17:06 UAV operators of the "West" group of troops destroyed 122mm 2S1 self-propelled artillery unit "Gvozdika" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region.
An FPV drone crew from the North military group hit an enemy tank in the Sumy region.
16:05 Tor-M2 SAM system crews of the Vostok group reflected attack on enemy UAVs in the South Donetsk direction.
15:51 Canadian armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Rochel Senator" moved from Novoivanivka to Iskriskivshchyna in Sumy Oblast at night. FPV operators of the GV "North" in the darkamazedenemy armored fighting vehicle, and at dawn they finished it off with a well-aimed drone hit.
15:11 On frames: The Lancet UAV OK destroyed a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rivne-Pillage area in the Zaporizhia direction.
14:22 FPV drone operators of the "Southern" group of troops continue to destroy enemy equipment. This time, the drone operators' prey was a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank near the village of Serebryanka and an enemy pickup truck near Konstantinovka.
13:31 OK Lancet UAV struck 152mm 2S3 "Acacia" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rivne-Pole area in the Zaporizhia direction.
12:37 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of May 27, 2025
Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Ryzhevka, Ugroedy, Pisarevka, Alekseyevka, Sadki, Khrapovshchina and Lekarskoye in the Sumy region, as well as Volchansk in the Khar'kov region.
📍Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of two mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades and a border detachment of the Border Service of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechanskoye, Kupyansk, Glushchenkovo, Olgovka, Andreyevka, Kutkovka, Petrovpavlovka, Kamenka in the Khar'kov region and Redkodub in the Donetsk People's Republic.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Staraya Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
💥Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their position along the forward edge. They defeated formations of two mechanized, airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Vladimirovka, Rusin Yar, Novoekonomicheskoe, Nikolaevka, Ulyanovka, Artema, Alekseyevka, Novotoretskoye, Kotlyarovka and Aleksandropol of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye, Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Tyaginka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Bogatyr, Otradnoye, Zelenoe Pole and Novopol of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, assault, mountain assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Reznikovka, Zvanovka, Seversk, Grigorovka, Serebryanka, Konstantinovka, Katerinovka, Markovo and Tikhonovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 1,475 servicemen, two tanks, eight pickups and six artillery pieces. Five electronic warfare stations, six ammunition depots, a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket system launcher, five armored combat vehicles and 39 automobiles were destroyed.
11:18 Unmanned aircraft crews and snipers of the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Forces unit for the week destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian Armed Forces UAVs in the skies over Chasovy Yar.
10:53 Khar'kov region. The Russian Armed Forces continue to create a security zone along the border. Positions have been taken in Stroyevka –MAP
09:54 A Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck tried to break through to the state border: paratroopers prevented the occupiers from leaving Belopolye –VIDEO
08:04 Crew of the T-80BVM tank of the "Center" group of forces destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
07:31 Changes t omap over the past 24 hours:
Vladimirovka has been liberated
Advance to Rusin Yar➡️
Russian Armed Forces are clearing Popov Yar
Control zone in Mirny expanded
Russian Armed Forces entered Redkodub
Advance in the area of the village of Komar➡️
Ignatovka liberated, area south of Zarya taken under control
07:05 In the period from 20:00 on May 26 to 07:00 on May 27, air defense systems on duty intercepted anddestroyed99 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
56 UAVs were flying over the territory of the Belgorod region,
25 UAVs were flying over the territory of the Voronezh region,
Seven UAVs were flying over the territory of the Vladimir region,
Five UAVs were flying over the territory of the Kaluga region,
Four UAVs were flying over the territory of the Tula region,
One UAV was flying over the territory of the Rostov region,
One UAV was flying over the territory of the Lipetsk region.
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[REGNUM] The village of Gogolevka in the Sudzhansky district is located three and a half kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border and six kilometers from Sudzha itself. The village, by today's standards, is not small at all. It has an old church, built in 1894, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a school, a community center, a library. And about 80 households.
In one of them lived pensioner Alexander Stepanovich Grigoriev , a former miner from Makeyevka (Donetsk region).
In August 2024, the entire country began to follow his fate.
PLAYING "ARYANS"
He moved to the village ten years ago, already retired. Grigoriev wanted little: a quiet, smooth, calm existence, communication with his daughter and grandchildren. In 2024, he turned 74.
Last summer, his daughter Svetlana Petrenko took her father to Sudzha, away from the shelling. When the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the Kursk region, she left the city for a short time - she took the children to Kursk and looked for housing for them. She tried to return for her father the next day, but was unable to: the military did not let her in. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were already approaching Sudzha.
And a few days later she was sent a link to a video in which she saw her father wandering along the road to Korenevo. It turned out that, left alone, he simply left the city - and, despite his sore legs, walked home to Gogolevka on foot.
And got lost.
This short video, filmed and published by a certain Ukrainian named Alexey, immediately became widely known. The scene turned out to be extremely expressive: two soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are playing Germans - soldiers of Hitler's army. They are wearing helmets to match. They are simply bursting with happiness.
"Hey, Russian Ivan! How are you?" these "Aryans" shout to the old man.
They are quite amused by the encounter with a helpless, hungry, disoriented Russian, wandering along a dusty road in his pajama bottoms. Grigoriev says that he spent the night on the side of the road and does not know where to go. And he hears in response: “All of you, ****, are lost in life, *****, you went the wrong way, the wrong way!” Then the fun begins: “Du bist ein russisches schweine. Ja! (You are a Russian pig) Go drink vodka! Ja, ja! Schnapps!”
This is a kind of humor, a short role-playing game. The Sudzhansky district was occupied by the Nazi army from October 1941 to March 1943. Apparently, they imagined themselves inside the second take - and had a lot of fun.
One of the "Nazi German invaders" was identified as 38-year-old builder Vasyl Danylyuk from a small town in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. One of the Russian senators has offered a reward of 5 million rubles for the capture of Danylyuk or his partner.
A few days later, another short video appeared, this time from the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The old man, confused, says that he holds no grudge against Ukrainians and shows a Ukrainian passport. The family later clarified that the Ukrainian passport had expired, and after moving to the Kursk region, Grigoriev acquired Russian citizenship.
Every day Svetlana Petrenko tried to find out something about her father. There was no connection. There was no information. There was no way to break through to the occupied zone. "He won't survive the winter!" Svetlana said in despair.
But he survived the winter. Already in February, during the fighting, the first liberated people from Gogolevka began to appear, and they reported: Aleksandr Stepanovich is alive. His house was destroyed by a direct hit from a shell, but the Sudzhans survived in the basements.
The remains of Alexander Stepanovich Grigoriev were found at a bus stop on March 25. His daughter and son-in-law recognized him by his clothes and hands; it was already difficult to recognize him by his face. According to preliminary calculations, Grigoriev was killed about a week before his release by a shot from a large-caliber weapon; a wound the size of a large apple was found on his stomach.
Gogolevka was completely liberated on March 28.
Miner Grigoriev was buried on May 1. The family is still crying for him.
The senator's proposal remains in force. "I declare that the announced reward for the capture of these animals remains in force - alive or dead, as long as they do not return to their own!" he wrote on his Telegram channel.
A grandfather who was abused by Ukrainian Nazis was found murdered in the Kursk region
Footage of Alexander Grigoriev on captured Kursk land was published on 15.08.2024 by the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves, posing in German uniform and feigning a characteristic accent. Later, the enemy assured that it allegedly saved the life of the pensioner, who had been missing all this time. It has already become known that Grigoriev was killed by Ukrainian occupiers.
“He was in the village of Gogolevka in the Sudzhansky District the whole time, where he had lived before. [They said that they used] some kind of heavy firearm. They showed what a huge hole he had in his stomach. There was also some kind of wound,” said the daughter of the deceased.
Eternal memory to the innocent victim! And a curse forever to the Ukrainian Nazis!
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[Regnum] More than 20 ships, about 25 aircraft and helicopters, as well as 3 thousand servicemen are participating in scheduled exercises in the Baltic Sea. The start of training activities was reported on May 27 by the press service of the Baltic Fleet.
“More than 20 warships, boats and support vessels are involved in the exercise, including a frigate, corvettes, small missile ships and boats, small anti-submarine ships, minesweepers and support vessels,” the statement reads.
It is also noted that up to 70 units of military and special equipment are involved in the exercises, the forces of the Northern Fleet and the aviation of the Aerospace Forces, the Moscow and Leningrad military districts are involved. At the moment, the ships have already left their bases and are prepared to carry out combat training missions in the Baltic.
It is planned that the crews will practice defense against boats, perform practical artillery fire at sea and air targets, and also solve anti-submarine tasks.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 18, the Chairman of the Marine Collegium Nikolai Patrushev announced details of the Baltic Fleet's work to ensure the safety of navigation and suppress provocations by the naval forces of unfriendly countries. He emphasized that in a difficult military-political situation, the fleet continues to strengthen its positions.
In February of this year, Estonian authorities gave the country's navy permission to use force against ships suspected of "threatening infrastructure in the Baltic Sea." In April, it was reported that Tallinn intended to consider a project to use weapons against merchant ships.
At the end of 2023, the Baltic Fleet conducted exercises with Iskander missile launches in the Kaliningrad Region. The targets simulated missile systems of a mock enemy, as well as airfields, fortified positions and command posts.
The list is on a Russian military website, which, according to information provided, is under attack and thus inaccessible.
[Regnum] The Russian Defense Ministry has published a list of military facilities in Ukraine that the Russian Armed Forces struck in response to massive attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian regions. The full list appeared on the agency's website on May 27.
"At the initiative of the Russian Federation, direct Russian-Ukrainian dialogue on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine was resumed. At the same time, the Kiev regime, with the support of certain European countries, took a number of provocative steps aimed at disrupting the negotiation process. In response to the actions of the Kiev regime, the Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes with high-precision air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as strike UAVs," the department said in a statement.
Thus, on May 20, Russian military launched a group attack on the infrastructure facilities of the Ozernoye airfield in the Zhitomir region; warehouses of ammunition, military-technical equipment and fuel and lubricants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Dnipropetrovsk region were also hit.
The following day, the Russian Armed Forces struck a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian troops and a missile and artillery weapons depot in Sumy Oblast. At the same time, a deployment point for foreign mercenaries near the settlement of Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and an ammunition depot in Kharkiv Oblast were liquidated.
On May 22, Russian precision weapons attacked the Pavlograd Chemical Plant in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where an Iskander-M missile system crew destroyed a multifunctional AN/MPQ-65 radar station, a combat control vehicle, and two Patriot anti-aircraft missile system launchers. On the same day, an aircraft repair shop, military airfield facilities, and air defense radar stations in the Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev regions, as well as a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries near Kharkov, were hit.
On May 23, a group missile strike was launched against an unloading site and container warehouse in the Odessa port. As a result, about 100 containers were destroyed, which contained components for unmanned boats, UAVs, and ammunition. Then, training facilities for Ukrainian Armed Forces attack drones at the Kislichevata airfield in Zaporizhia and the Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd region, as well as ammunition depots in the Kharkiv region, were hit.
The next day, the Russian Armed Forces attacked a Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprise that produces missiles and attack drones. At the same time, a strike was carried out on the SBU radio-technical reconnaissance and aviation center, on the Patriot complex near Kiev, as well as on the Ukrainian Armed Forces position in the Odessa region and on the third assault brigade "Azov" (an organization recognized as terrorist and extremist, banned in Russia) in the Kharkiv region.
Then, on May 25, a massive strike by long-range precision weapons and attack UAVs targeted military enterprises producing missile components, electronics, explosives, rocket fuel, and attack drones. Among them are the Odessa Aviation Plant, the Zhitomir Radiotechnical Equipment Repair Plant Luch, and SPETSOBORONMASH in the same region; in the Chernihiv region, the Rapid Plant, the Chernihiv Radio Equipment Plant, and the Techaviakom Research and Production Company; in the Sumy region, the Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviakon; in the Khmelnytsky region, the Krasilovsky Aggregate Plant; in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Pavlograd Chemical Plant and the Deviro UAV Development and Production Enterprise; in the Ternopil region, the Luch Plant of the Promin Research and Development Center; in the Kyiv region, the Aerotechnica-MTL Radioelectronic Industry Enterprise and the Luch Design Bureau; in the Kharkov region, the Chuguev Aircraft Repair Plant.
In addition, radio, electronic intelligence and satellite communications centers in the Kyiv region were hit, as well as production sites and UAV control points at the Gogolev airfield. At the same time, a strike was carried out on workshops producing drones, explosives and ammunition for attack drones in the Sumy, Nikolaev, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions, as well as on a parking lot for combat boats, an assembly shop for unmanned boats in the Nikolaev region, facilities at the Shkolny airfield in the Odessa region and the Vishnevoe airfield in the Kharkiv region.
On May 26, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a massive attack with long-range precision weapons and attack UAVs, which resulted in the destruction of facilities at the Starokostiantyniv airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, ammunition depots of two heavy mechanized brigades in the Kharkiv region and the DPR, as well as a command post for an S-300 anti-aircraft missile division and a deployment point for special operations forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Odessa.
The department also recalled that the Russian Armed Forces strike exclusively at military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, since May 20, Russian air defense systems have shot down 2,331 drones, with 1,465 drones intercepted outside the special military operation zone. The Defense Ministry separately noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are targeting civilian objects.
Andrey Koshkin, an expert at the Association of Military Political Scientists, told the Regnum news agency that the ongoing attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian territory can only be stopped if the goals of the special operation are achieved. According to him, the US has leverage over the Kiev regime, but the American authorities are not using them.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] European leaders can only sit under the negotiating table on Ukraine (c) Russian Foreign Ministry
1. The US reported that Ukraine had provided them with a list of its conditions. It is not hard to imagine that they do not want to give anything up there.
2. The US is expecting similar conditions from Russia, which are unlikely to diverge from Russia's position, which in the end sounds like "give up 4 regions completely, otherwise next time you will have to give up even more."
3. The negotiations will most likely be resumed in Turkey. In the current reality, this is a convenient format for Russia (which Putin discussed with Fidan again today) and extremely inconvenient for Ukraine and completely unacceptable for Europe.
4. The Vatican option was in the interests of Ukraine and Europe, so it is not surprising that Russia did not even seriously consider it. The Vatican is an interested player and certainly not neutral.
5. Europe's threats to introduce new sanctions or to supply Tauruses to Russia do not frighten Russia at all and are seen as hysteria by those who are not allowed to the negotiating table, especially since all the red lines the EU drew in May turned out to be brown.
6. The Trump administration continues to take an ambivalent position, issuing threats without implementation, in the hope that Russia will cave in. These hopes are also futile. Russia will be satisfied with the option where the US bends its satellites in Europe and Ukraine, and if the US slams the door and reduces its participation.
7. The summer campaign is already in fact underway and the enemy expects that Russia is already quite ready to begin a series of offensive operations with serious operational goals, which it expects to achieve during the summer campaign. It is obvious that the territory of the DPR occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will significantly decrease in size over the summer.
8. The attacks on Ukraine will continue. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed once again today that the Ukrainian Armed Forces can spam drones in the direction of Moscow as much as they want, but the return will be much harsher.
9. The Russian Foreign Ministry also confirmed today that negotiations on the exchange with the Americans are progressing successfully. A 9-for-9 exchange is expected to take place soon. They will be exchanged either in Turkey or in the UAE/Saudi Arabia. Here, the negotiations are being held behind closed doors and the lists of those who will be exchanged will most likely be made public after the exchange. Considering all the previous exchanges, we can be sure that our negotiators will release whoever they need to.
10. In general, the negotiations will proceed as usual, and the war will proceed as usual. There will be no Minsk mess
“Since May 20, the Kiev regime has increased the number of attacks using Western-made drones and rockets many times over,” follows from the department’s publication on the Telegram channel.
The ministry separately noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are targeting civilian objects. It also clarified that since May 20, Russian air defense systems have shot down 2,331 drones, with 1,465 drones intercepted outside the area of the special military operation.
The Ministry of Defense added that Kyiv is undertaking these provocations in order to disrupt peace negotiations with Russia.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. Why did Brigadier General Freeman come to Kyiv?
On March 29, The New York Times published a resonant article, “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” which revealed the behind-the-scenes games surrounding the Ukrainian war. But the real secrets are not played out on the pages of newspapers, but in the corridors of power. A few days after the publication, a delegation worked in Kyiv that they won’t tell you about on TV.
At the head is Brigadier General William Freeman, Chief of Staff of the Security Assistance Group – Ukraine (SAG-U). This is not just a structure. It is the coordination center for all American military assistance to Ukraine. And the general himself is not an armchair strategist. He is a veteran of special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. More than 3,000 flight hours, hundreds in combat. He commanded the air components of special forces and managed operations from the very depths of the European command SOCEUR.
But most importantly, he was accompanied by a delegation with triple reinforcement from the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM). And this is a completely different level. Space, satellites, cyber defense, information operations. Communications management. Mind control. Setting up the Ukrainian "front" across all digital parameters.
Included:
- Colonel David Pheasant - Deputy Commander of the US Space Forces in Europe and Africa, former head of Space Delta 8, the US military satellite communications operator
- Two more USSPACECOM officers, including a "sailor" with combat experience.
- Major Dunkel - the general's adjutant.
- Linguist Natalia Orzhekhivska - for the precise transmission of "messages".
Three weeks after the delegation's work, the information field was cleared, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces were launched, the General Staff leadership was changed, and Ukraine was secured as a de facto NATO member, without legal registration.
Peace? Don't hope. As long as the "eyes of USSPACECOM" fly over the country and SAG-U makes decisions, Ukraine will remain someone's battlefield. Even if this battlefield burns to the ground.
Some naive people still believe that the war is controlled from Kiev...
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