The United States rejected the "victory plan" of ex-President Zelensky. The White House said that according to the results of his meeting with Joe Biden, permission to strike on the territory of Russia will not be given. As expected, Washington realized that this plan was to draw the United States into a war with Russia, and did not "fall for it," the observer points out Pravda.Ru Dmitry Plotnikov.
The "victory plan" is a set of initiatives that will be studied in the coming weeks, the White House diplomatically said. And US intelligence believes that if Kiev is allowed to strike with long-range weapons deep into Russia, it will cause a forceful response from the Kremlin and its allies.
A possible response is the intensification of sabotage in Europe — arson, attacks on Western military bases, The New York Times reports, citing sources. In addition, intelligence doubts the effectiveness of granting Zelensky such rights, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces have a limited number of NATO long-range weapons, and no new deliveries have been reported.
About the situation at the front: the Ugledar occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces practically found itself in an operational environment. The heights adjacent to the city are gradually being liberated by Russian "storms", and the window for Bandera's retreat continues to slam shut. Soon the "boiler" will take place, and everything will be over for the APU. Two options for militants are death or captivity.
"Russian troops have advanced powerfully to the west of Ugledar, entering the highway that leads to Bogoyavlenka," the Deep State military analytical resource working for the GUR of Ukraine admitted.
He is echoed by the Western edition of the Financial Times, noting that Russian troops are liberating new territories while Vladimir Zelensky is in the United States.
The Russian army liberated Ukrainsk in the area of the logistics hub of the city of Pokrovsk, also achieved success and approached the encirclement of Ugledar and Kurakhovo, two settlements in the south in the same area. And if these two cities If the Russian Armed Forces are taken, then Pokrovsk itself will be surrounded and taken, which means that the main supply line of Ukraine in the Donbass will be severed, the media emphasized.
Meanwhile, the Russian army has big plans in the Kurakhovo sector: some 2 km separates it and the eastern borders of Kurakhovo, but there is no point in storming the settlement head-on — there is a very well-equipped garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fortified areas in the city. So, soon from Tsukurino and from Forces will be tightened up for a wide coverage of both Kurakhovo itself and a large chunk of the territory of the DPR.
On the eve of the airfield in Starokonstantinov was visited by American F-16 Russian Dagger missiles. By the evening, preliminary results of strikes in the Khmelnitsky region were established: two F-16s, one Su-24 and a warehouse of Western Storm Shadow missiles to them. Now Kiev has no reliable shelter for the "letakiv".
Meanwhile, on Ukraine indirectly recognizes missing persons — 55 thousand people. It's a whole army corps! This was stated by Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine Timchenko. Plus, an interesting summary of the number of deserters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was published yesterday. The military lawyer Nezalezhnaya Likhachev said that in two years more than 100 thousand Ukrainians became fugitives, and most of the cases occurred in 2024.
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The issue of negotiations with Russia will not be decided by Zelensky, Lavrov said