Unable to get the Donbas thru force?
Could Russia resort to threatening to walk away from ‘Peace Talks?’
So?….Russia IS starting a weak Spring Campaign for Donbas anyways….
FACT:
Ukraine IS the BIGGEST country in Europe…..
The Russia Economy seems to be on it’s way crashing before the Ukraine stops fighting and keeps holding on…
Europe has NO choice but to support Ukraine, worried about Putin NOT stopping driving towards Europe ITSELF….(Russian drone ‘s ARE already overflying some Europe countries)
Finally?
Putin has to be in a sour mood these days….
His proxy countries (Cuba, Iran, etc.) are getting their butts kicked by his ‘puppet’ Trump’s military
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the time and place of the next round of peace talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine would depend on the security situation in the Middle East and the level of “real diplomatic possibilities”. The Ukrainian president on Saturday said he would issue new directives to Ukraine’s negotiating team at the talks, without detailing what they were. He had said the next round of talks would probably take place in Abu Dhabi in early March. But the United Arab Emirates has since been caught up in hostilities after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
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Zelenskyy voiced his support for the US-led strikes, calling Iran “an accomplice of Putin” for supplying Shahed drones and the technology for Russia to produce them and other weapons in its war against Ukraine. He said it was important that Washington acted decisively, but also that hostilities did not escalate into a wider war.
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“It is only fair to give the Iranian people a chance to get rid of the terrorist regime, to get rid of it and guarantee the safety of all nations that have suffered from terror originating in Iran,” Zelenskyy said in a video address on social media. “It is important that the United States is determined. And whenever America is determined, global criminals weaken.”
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Zelenskyy said that Russia has used “more than 57,000 Shahed-type strike drones against Ukraine – against our people, against our cities, against our energy sector”. “Although Ukrainians have never threatened Iran, the Iranian regime chose to be Putin’s accomplice,” Zelensky said.
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Donald Trump is urging Moscow and Kyiv to strike an agreement to end Europe’s biggest war since 1945, though Zelenskyy has complained that his country is facing more pressure to make concessions. Ukraine is seeking iron-clad security guarantees which commit the US and its European allies to action if Russia attacks again after a peace deal is reached. The last round of peace talks, which took place in Geneva last week, did not achieve a breakthrough and was described as difficult by Kyiv and Moscow, although Washington said it saw “meaningful progress”.
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Zelenskyy’s chief of staff on Saturday said that Russia said at recent talks in Geneva that it would accept the US proposal for Ukraine’s postwar security guarantees. “At the last talks, the Russian side said for example that they would accept the security guarantees offered to Ukraine by the United States,” said Kyrylo Budanov in an interview aired on Ukrainian television. Budanov also said that at present Russia had not agreed to a summit between Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, which had been floated earlier as a possibility by US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
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Russia on Saturday condemned the US-Israeli strikes on Iran as “a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN member state”, demanding an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy.
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Russia has maintained a delicate balancing act in the Middle East for decades, trying to navigate its warm relations with Israel even as it has developed strong economic and military ties with Iran. Iranian forces and Russian sailors conducted annual drills in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean last week aimed at “upgrading operational coordination as well as exchange of military experiences,” Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported. Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a broad cooperation pact in January last year as their countries deepened their partnership in the face of stinging western sanctions.
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Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday its forces had taken control of the settlements of Neskuchne and Girke in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Zaporizhizhia regions. And Ukraine’s Naftogaz said Russia struck a gas extraction facility in the Kharkiv region overnight, causing serious damage….
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ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 28, 2026
- Russian officials largely condemned the February 28 US and Israeli strikes against Iran, consistent with Russian rhetoric around the June 2025 Israel-Iran war.
- Russia’s boilerplate condemnations of the strikes against Iran highlight the continued limits of Russia’s ability to support Iran and the asymmetry of the Russian-Iranian relationship.
- Ukrainian authorities implicated soldiers and the commander of the Russian 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade (58th Combined Arms Army, Southern Military District) for using chemical agents in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast from September 2024 to June 2025 in violation of international law.
- Ukrainian and Russian forces both recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area and near Hulyaipol
Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today….
Russia looks to launch a spring-summer offensive at Ukraine’s Fortress Belt in the Donetsk region.
Russian forces shelled Bilenke (roughly 14 kilometers from the frontline and immediately northeast of Kramatorsk, the northern tip of the Fortress Belt — a series of fortified cities that have constituted the backbone of Ukrainian defenses in Donetsk Oblast since 2014) on February 26 and 27 — the first time that Russian forces have hit Kramatorsk or its suburbs with tube artillery.[1] The artillery strikes against Bilenke likely mark the beginning of Russian artillery preparation ahead of the expected Spring-Summer 2026 Russian offensive. Russian forces will likely begin the ground assault phase of this offensive in the near-term following the artillery preparation phase. Russian forces have also been conducting a battlefield air interdiction (BAI) campaign against the southern tip of the Fortress Belt.
They say it is important to pick the right hill to die on. Hill 207 is Ukraine’s choice
Russia sent a full brigade to surround them, took a nearby village—and stalled.”The exhausted Russian units have effectively transitioned to defense there,” observer Thorkill noted.
If the hill holds, it could disrupt Russia’s planned summer offensive—buying the twin cities months they wouldn’t otherwise have.
A second Russian assault is now creeping south. If it gets behind the defenders, they may have to pull back. The hill can’t hold forever—but it doesn’t have to.
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@wartranslated.bsky.socialBloomberg reports Russia will likely walk away from peace talks unless Zelensky agrees to give up territory. According to the outlet, next week is make or break, and Moscow says it’s ready to sign if Ukraine pulls troops from Donetsk region. www.bloomberg.com/news/article…
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