Trump stays impatience with Zelensky about a ‘Deal’ Putin isn’t gonna make…..
Ukraine will help against Iran drone’s….
Ukraine and Hungary are back at each other…..
Putin is arrested internal opposition figures …
Daily Kos Grunt report below continues its look at how harshly Russian troop’s are treated …
A POW swap was just completed ….
Russian soldier’s going back didn’t seem to be real happy….
Ukraine holding and making some gains, in the conflict, due to Starlink cutoff to Russian military…
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US president Donald Trump on Thursday again urged Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to strike a deal with Russia, claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin was prepared to reach an agreement. “Zelenskyy, he has to get on the ball, and he has to get a deal done,” Trump said in an interview with Politico. Trump, returning to language he used during a tense White House meeting a year ago where he and vice-president JD Vance publicly berated Zelenskyy, suggested the Ukrainian president was in a weak position and needed to make compromises, saying “Now he’s got even less cards” and repeated his insistence that “Putin is ready to make a deal”, without providing evidence. Trump has long said that US support for Ukraine is wasteful to the US and has spoken admirably in the past about Putin, whom he invited to Alaska in August 2025.
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Zelenskyy said the US and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones. The Ukrainian president said various countries, including the US, have approached Ukraine for help in defending against Iranian drones. He said he had spoken in recent days to the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait about possible cooperation. Russia has fired tens of thousands of Shaheds at Ukraine since it invaded its neighbor just over four years ago. Iran has responded with the same type of drones to joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets.
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Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha accused Hungary early on Friday of detaining seven employees of Ukraine’s state savings bankwhile they were transporting cash from Austria back to Ukraine. Sybiha was writing on X after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said Budapest would force Ukraine with “political and financial tools” to reopen the Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungarian refineries. Hungary is one of the few European countries to maintain close ties with Russia since its Ukraine offensive. “In fact, we are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money,” Sybiha wrote. “If this is the ‘force’ announced earlier today by Mr Orban, then this is a force of a criminal gang. This is state terrorism and racketeering.”
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Repair crews have restored an external line to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in south-eastern Ukraine nearly a month after it was taken out of operation, the head of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation said. Alexei Likhachev, director general of Rosatom, said in a statement that repairs to the Ferosplavna-1 line connecting the plant to the power grid were completed late on Thursday afternoon. Europe’s largest nuclear plant, with six reactors, was seized by Russia soon after Moscow’s troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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A downed Ukrainian drone fell next to a five-storey apartment building in the port of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea, injuring nine people and causing considerable damage, the Russian-appointed governor said early on Friday. Mikhail Razvozhayev said the drone was filled with metal pieces and explosives fell next to the building, badly damaging it. Sevastopol hosts the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014…..
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ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 5, 2026
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine will support US air defense efforts against Iranian Shahed drone strikes in the Middle East.
- Kremlin officials are criticizing the United States for military operations against Iran and are using the escalation in the Middle East to set conditions to blame the United States for any future failures in negotiations for a peace in Ukraine.
- Other Russian officials are using US military operations against Iran to harshly criticize the United States and rhetorically place Russia and the United States in opposition and discredit US-led negotiations in Ukraine.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a routine decree on March 4 marginally increasing the authorized end strength of the Russian military as part of the ongoing Russian military reforms.
- Russian authorities arrested a fourth deputy of former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, continuing the long-standing Kremlin campaign to remove personnel loyal to Shoigu and neutralize his influence within the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area….
Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today….
2/ One of the administrators of the ‘Management Speaks’ Telegram channel, a serving Russian soldier fighting on the front line in Ukraine, wants everyone to know that he has had enough:
3/ “Admin ‘Svatovsky’ doesn’t even know where to begin, and whether anyone will care about our battles in villages and forests while the Israelis are fighting the Iranians.If our guys didn’t pretend to be the good guys and negotiate new rules every day,…
4/ …maybe I wouldn’t be losing men in the middle of nowhere for a village of 5 houses — I’d just drive past them! All the red lines have long been crossed ten times over, our border territories are being smashed without mercy!
5/ “Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, and other regions are subjected to daily German [sic] shelling, civilians are dying, and we continue to look for excuses for decision-makers who can’t pull themselves together and make a show of smashing those faggots!
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9/ “They don’t give a shit that people died, they don’t give a shit that we have nothing, and they don’t give a shit how we’re going to accomplish our mission!
10/ “We don’t refuse to work and never have, but when you see faggots stealing billions from the army for themselves, and you spend almost your entire salary to support yourself, because the bullshitters who report to the Supreme Commander will never tell him that…
11/ …Comrade Svatovsky has one bird [drone] per company, a half-fucked car for all occasions, and FPV drones paid for out of our own pocket and through the kindness of concerned civilians!
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