The Russian leader’s military maybe pounding the Ukraine Capital Kyiv….
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Russian’s all over the country are now on LONG lines top get gas due to the Ukraine attacks on Russian oil/gas facilities….
The ‘War’ with Ukraine is everywhere for Russian’s as it is Ukrainians….
Will Valdimir Putin ‘Blink’
Does he actually know what the status of things ARE?…
What would a REAL Cease/Fire and Peace ‘Deal’ cost him?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country.
Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, and mounting military casualties are prompting prominent figures to start pinning the blame on Putin.
“It is a crisis,” said Vladimir Milov, a Russian economist in exile who served as deputy minister of energy in 2002. “What we are seeing right now is an extreme acceleration of public admissions that we are in trouble.”
German Gref, head of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, is one of the most high-profile elites in Russia to issue blunt criticism calling for the war to end.
“I don’t think there’s a single person who isn’t concerned about anything other than a rapid end of hostilities, that’s clear,” he reportedly said on Russian state TV earlier this week, responding to overwhelming negative economic trends….
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Ordinary Russian citizens are feeling the impacts on their pocketbooks. They’re experiencing strikes in major cities and are having to cancel typically idyllic vacations in Crimea on the beaches of the Black Sea…
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…Russian forces are stalled, and it’s unclear if Putin is denying, unwilling to confront or misinformed about the true nature of the battlefield.
A reportedly leaked Russian Ministry of Defense map from April showed Russian forces occupying Ukrainian towns it had failed to capture. The ISW said it had reason to believe the map was authentic and matched claims of military advances and victories from top Russian generals.
Stepanenko said it’s possible Putin is operating on misinformation…
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Putin’s pain is self-inflicted, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is looking to drive the knife deeper to force the Russian leader to the negotiating table.
On June 25, Zelensky posted on social media a photo of him meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Secret Service and announced a “40-day influence operation” aimed at compelling Russia to end the war. …
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ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 3, 2026
- Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed late on July 3 that Russian forces seized Kostyantynivka, contrary to all available evidence of the true extent of Russian advances in the city.
- Putin likely staged the meeting with his commanders late on July 3 at least in part to influence Western media coverage of the war into the weekend, particularly the July 4 holiday in the United States.
- The United States reportedly warned Poland that Russia is considering kinetic provocations against Poland and other NATO states.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating sharply fell in late June 2026 after weeks of steady decline.
- The Russian government continues efforts to increase domestic fuel supplies amid intensifying gasoline shortages across Russia.
- Unknown actors reportedly detonated an explosive against a car carrying members of the Rylsk Raion, Kursk Oblast administration on July 3.
- Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces advanced on July 3.
- Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted a long-range strike against Russian energy infrastructure in Belgorod Oblast. Russian forces launched two Kh-59/69 guided aircraft missiles and 105 drones against Ukraine overnight.
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Daily Kos grunt report for Today….
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