Putin ain’t happy about this planning….
But for Ukraine….
Deployement of Western Troop’s ..’Boots on the ground’ IS a MUST..
The Russian Economy KEEPS sinking….
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A Russian rocket attack killed two mine-clearing workers from a Danish humanitarian group, officials said. “The attack claimed the lives of two Ukrainian colleagues and left eight others injured,” said an announcement by the Danish Refugee Council. “At the time of the incident, DRC teams were conducting purely civilian humanitarian activities – working to clear landmines and explosive remnants of war.” The strike was near the outskirts of the regional capital of Chernihiv, 125km (80 miles) north of Kyiv. “First, the Russians littered the area with explosives and mines. Now they are killing people, civilians who are risking their lives to clear our land,” said Vyacheslav Chaus, the regional governor.
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Donald Trump complained to European leaders on Thursday that Europe must stop buying Russian oil he says is helping Moscow fund its war against Ukraine, a White House official said. It comes a few days, though, after Trump sympathised with the Moscow-friendly leaders of Hungary and Slovakia when their oil pipeline from Russia was bombed out of service by Ukraine. On Thursday it was unclear whether Trump was referring to Hungary and Slovakia’s imports – most other European countries stopped importing Russian crude in 2022, and Russian fuel in 2023 – or to possible indirect imports of fuels made from Russian crude in third countries such as India.
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The US president dialled in as the coalition of the willing convened in Paris. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who also took part in the meeting, said Trump was “very dissatisfied” with European purchases of Russian oil. Zelenskyy said the buyers were Hungary and Slovakia.
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Patrick Wintour writes that after the Paris meeting, Emmanuel Macronsaid 26 countries pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, including an international, non-frontline force on land and sea and in the air. “The day the conflict stops, the security guarantees will be deployed,” said the French president, standing alongside Zelenskyy. “We have today 26 countries who have formally committed – some others have not yet taken a position – to deploy a ‘reassurance force’ troops in Ukraine, or be present on the ground, in the sea or in the air.”
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Ukraine wants to see improved performance by interceptor drones against Russian aerial attacks, according to Oleksandr Syrskyi, the top Ukrainian commander. Senior officials on Thursday met to sharpen the effort. “We are creating a layered system to counteract enemy Shahed and Geran drones,” Syrskyi wrote, referring to the most commonly used Russian drones. “Our shared task is to train more crews, more interceptor operators, and provide them with more effective weapons and radars.” Ukraine’s air force on Wednesday said it had downed 430 of 502 drones and 21 of 24 missiles launched by Russia overnight.
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Britain has imposed sanctions on 11 more individuals and entities affiliated with the Russian state, targeting those involved in what it said were Moscow’s attempts to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukraine’s children. Ukraine says that more than 19,500 children have been taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory during the war without the consent of family or guardians, calling the abductions a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide….
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ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 4, 2025
- The British and French-led Coalition of the Willing and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in Paris to discuss possible future security guarantees for Ukraine that aim to ensure a just and lasting peace on September 4.
- Macron stated that a strong Ukrainian military must be at the center of any postwar security guarantees.
- Macron stated that 26 states formally agreed to form a “reassurance force” as part of security guarantees for postwar Ukraine.
- The Kremlin continues to explicitly reject any foreign troops on Ukrainian territory as part of postwar security guarantees.
- The Coalition of the Willing also outlined ways for states that are unable to deploy ground, sea, or air assets to participate in security guarantees for postwar Ukraine.
- The Coalition of the Willing discussed additional sanctions against Russia with US President Donald Trump as part of coordinated Western efforts to deny Russia funding for its war against Ukraine.
- Russian bankers continue to express concerns over the increasingly stagnant Russian economy.
- Ukrainian forces advanced near Kupyansk and Siversk and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Russian forces advanced in northern Sumy Oblast and near Velykomykhailivka.
Daily Kos grunt war update for today…
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Ukraine’s milestone shows drones prevent defeat, but don’t secure victory
Ukraine has reached a milestone, the country’s Ministry of Defense announcedMonday: more than one million drones delivered to military units since January, with two million expected by the end of the year.
Yet this achievement illustrates a counterintuitive phenomenon: increasing the speed of innovation and deployment of new technologies may not produce battlefield gains.
“Those one-way attack drones are not going to gain air superiority, and they don’t have air superiority—and that’s really one of the key attributes of the conflict in Russia-Ukraine, is no one does,” Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, commander of U.S. European Command, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said last week at an NDIA event in Washington, D.C. A “core mission” of U.S. and NATO forces, Grynkewich said, is maintaining air superiority when even small militaries can rapidly erode U.S. advantage….
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But Ukraine’s “static front line,” as U.S. Army War College professor Frank Sobchak called it in August, also shows that while rapid technology development can erode an opponent’s advantage, it does not necessarily buildadvantage of its own. The result is a new type of conflict: more nimble operations and far faster invention and deployment of new weapons, but slower decisive wins.
Grynkewich said U.S. air dominance will have to come from a mix of next-generation platforms, fighters and bombers—manned and unmanned—alongside cheap drones.
But the democratization that allowed Ukraine to build a massive drone force in just months does not lend itself to the construction of highly complex fighters and bombers, or other systems apart from consumer electronics, Michael acknowledged.
“With a drone, you can go from start to prototype in 18 months. You can’t do that for an F-35, right? You can’t have a startup just say, ‘Here’s an airplane.’”
In other words, fighter jets remain necessary, but technology trends are rendering them obsolete more quickly, so the U.S. advantage in air dominance is dissolving more rapidly—and coming at higher cost…