It appears that the February US stop in military aid to the Ukraine was freelanced by Trump Defense Sec. Hegseth ON HIS OWN….
Trump did NOT give the order, which was later receded BY the President….
Russia drones Kyiv….
Ukraine drones Moscow….
A 205 man POW swap….
The US tried to pawn off deportee’s to Ukraine…
Putin is back to the old Soviet Union worry about the West encircling and defeating Russia…..
The West’s effort to get Russia to integrate with the West simply won’t work with a ole Ex-KGB Russian leader….
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The Pentagon under Pete Hegseth stopped arms shipments to Ukraine in February without being ordered to do so by Donald Trump, the then newly inaugurated president, Reuters reports. The order – which the news agency said blindsided top US national security officials, and the Ukrainians – was reversed within a week, but it cost up to $2.2m to cancel the 11 flights involved, according to records. Reuters said records showed Hegseth gave a verbal order for the stoppage after a 30 January Oval Office meeting where only the idea of stopping military assistance was discussed.
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Russian drones attacked Kyiv on Tuesday night sparking fires in apartments and other buildings. Ukrainian authorities reported falling debris caused damage and injuries as air defences shot down drones. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said six people were injured. For a third consecutive night, Moscow came under attack from Ukrainian UAVs, putting its key airports as well as some regional airports out of commission for most of the night. On Monday night and Tuesday morning, a Ukrainian drone barrageforced Russia to close a dozen airports deep behind the frontline as foreign leaders began gathering in Moscow for a second world war “Victory Day” parade.
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A Russian ballistic missile attack killed three people including a child at Sumy in Ukraine and wounded 10 other people – most of them children, one of whom was in a severe condition, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked his government to seek help from Ukraine’s western allies to finance and develop interceptor drones to knock down attack drones such as Russia’s Iranian-designed Shaheds. “We will develop this direction as much as possible and each region will have its own responsibility specifically for this task,” said the Ukrainian president. Ukraine already has some capability, with videos regularly posted online showing Ukrainian UAVs pursuing and ramming Russian attack drones out of the air, while other interceptors can fire shotgun cartridges to shoot down enemy UAVs.
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Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome ahead of the conclave to elect a new pope called on Tuesday for a ceasefire and negotiations without preconditions. Their statement “noted with regret that there has not been progress in promoting peace in Ukraine, the Middle East and many other parts of the world”, while offering their “heartfelt appeal to all parties involved to reach as soon as possible a permanent ceasefire and to negotiate, without pre-conditions” a longer-term peace.
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Ukraine and Russia handed over 205 prisoners of war each in an exchange on Tuesday, both sides announced….
The documents do not indicate how officials in Kyiv responded to the late-January proposal, relayed by a senior U.S. diplomat, that called for sending third-country nationals to Ukraine amid Russia’s deadly, devastating invasion — and despite the absence of a functioning airport there because of continual air attacks. A Ukrainian diplomat informed the U.S. Embassy only that her government would offer a response once it formulated a position, according to the documents, which show that similar proposals were issued to a number of other countries around the same date.
Ukraine has not accepted any third-party nationals from the United States, and there is no indication that Kyiv seriously considered the American proposal…
ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 6, 2025
- Ukrainian forces continued limited attacks across the international border near Tetkino and Novyi Put, Kursk Oblast.
- Ukrainian forces also continued drone, air, and artillery strikes aimed at isolating Russian units in and near Tetkino.
- Kremlin officials are continuing to leverage the mythos of the Soviet Union’s role in the Second World War to form the basis of a new state ideology that will span generations and that Russia intends to leverage to justify a future military conflict against the West.
- The Kremlin appears to be consolidating around an informal state ideology predicated on perpetuating the belief that the West is determined to encircle and defeat Russia.
- Russian officials also appear to be leveraging the story of the Second World War (referred to as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) to dismiss Russia’s early failures in the war in Ukraine and present the false image that Russian victory in Ukraine is as inevitable as the Soviet triumph over Germany became at the end of World War II.
- Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his desire to resign from his post but acknowledged that only Russian President Vladimir Putin can approve this request. Kadyrov has helped stabilize interethnic tensions in the North Caucasus, and leaving his post without a suitable successor could threaten the stability of Putin’s regime.
- It remains unclear who might succeed Kadyrov in the event of his resignation or death.
- Ukraine and Russia conducted a 205-for-205 prisoner of war (POW) exchange on May 6.
- Russian forces advanced near Kupyansk, Toretsk, Novopavlivka, and Velyka Novosilka.
Daily Kos grunt report for Today….
Russian economy IS weakening…..
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