The punches keep being thrown….
Starlink is back….
Musk give an excuse?
A NY Times piece below gives a view of Russians on their war with Ukraine….
The actor writes she is surprised that the average Russia says to her, a western journalist that things ‘are fine’ even ifs they are not….
The author then goes into the reality in Putin’s Russia….
NOT being ‘fine’ to Western Media could get you in SERIOUS Trouble…..
Something Donald Trump HAS been trying to lay on the American Media, eh?
Donald Trump, the businessman is sending US Money to a Russia that bombs civilian targets. in Ukraine…
No Remorse….
Ukraine IS the bad guy….
NOT Russia..
Not to this American President…
ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 24, 2026
- Ukrainian officials are confirming the resumption of unrestricted access to SpaceX’s low-earth orbit satellite communication technology (Starlink and Starshield) without disruptions in Ukraine on October 24.
- Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign against energy infrastructure in Russia and occupied Ukraine overnight on October 23 to 24 caused power outages across occupied Ukrainian oblasts including occupied Crimea.
- Ukraine agreed to observe a limited ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast beginning on October 27, indicating a convergence between Russia and Ukraine on the ceasefire start date, but the geographical extent and other terms of the ceasefire remain unclear.
- Russian forces recently advanced southeast of Dobropillya.
- Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian military, energy, and industrial infrastructure on the night of October 23 to 24. Russian forces launched 126 drones against Ukraine overnight.
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Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today….
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NY Times….
I always get the same question when I return from reporting in Russia: When will Russians finally be fed up with the war?
They might seem to have good reason now. The war, for years mostly background noise among many Russians, feels more present. The economy is limping. Drivers have to wait in line for gas. Warehouses and data centers are going up in flames. Even Moscow at times comes under heavy attack, as it did on Thursday, when Ukraine launched 630 drones into the region…
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Russians shrug for several reasons. They are silenced by the fear and conformity bred by a repressive government. They feel they have as much influence over their country’s politics as they do the weather. They are used to deprivation from centuries of political and economic crises. They keep their focus, as a coping mechanism, on what hasn’t changed. And they are flooded with anti-Ukraine propaganda from the state.
There is also a more fundamental explanation. Ukraine’s strategy, as it holds Russia to a near deadlock on the front lines, is to make Russians feel the war and demand an end. That includes the strikes on oil refineries that President Trump has pressured Ukraine to stop in recent days as he has openly favored President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Although the Ukrainian campaign has significantly cut Russian oil production, causing clear economic damage, it has not been enough yet to drastically change life in Russia. Kyiv lacks the ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones that Russia fires at Ukrainian cities every day. And Ukraine’s strikes, focused mostly on economic and military targets, do not instill the same fear as Russia’s systematic assaults on Ukrainian civilian targets….
Ukraine’s attacks have politicized some Russians who before now had tried to ignore the war. People have rallied around the flag. In Sofino, outside an apartment building with a gaping hole in the third and fourth floors after the Ukrainian strike, I asked three warehouse workers if they felt angry at the Russian state for starting the war and letting it drag on for nearly five years.
“Quite the opposite, the attacks make people hate them even more, because their homes have been damaged,” one young man said, referring to Ukrainians and their Western backers. He asked that his name be withheld….
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Maria described the costs of speaking up in Russia, where 1,856people are currently incarcerated as political prisoners, according to the banned human rights group Memorial.
“None of you have gone through the experience of the average person living under totalitarianism, repression, total fear and the absence of free speech,” she said. “You can’t demand that we go on strike or turn out for protests, because all we’ll achieve is ending up in prison — or getting killed.”….
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NY Times…
On the same day President Trump told reporters that Russia “has been fine on Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a photo taken moments after a Russian drone struck a Ukrainian playground.
The image showed 14-month-old Angelina, bundled up in a red jumper, her shoelaces tied in perfect bows, slumped, lifeless, in a stroller. Her face was blurred. A sprinkling of dust and debris was the only hint of her violent end.
“Her mother’s name was Inna,” Mr. Zelensky wrote. “She died in the hospital.”
The statements hours apart from the two leaders hammered home a reality: Never has the chasm between Mr. Trump’s view of the war and Ukrainians’ experience of it seemed so vast.
Mr. Trump continues to periodically lament the huge numbers of lives lost in the fighting, calling it a waste. He is trying to restart peace talks. But he has begun blaming Ukraine for his domestic political problems, and turning to Russia, the country that started the blood-soaked conflict, for a helping hand.
Ukrainians over the years have grown largely numb to Mr. Trump’s parroting of Russian talking points, and Kyiv has adapted after he ended donations of U.S. weaponry. But to many, Mr. Trump has crossed an irrevocable line by buying Russian diesel and suspending sanctions in what energy experts call a futile effort to bring down fuel prices before the midterm elections.
Mr. Trump, who has cut U.S. aid to Ukraine by 99 percent, is sending American money to the Kremlin — and therefore to a Russian war machine that the United Nations says is killing Ukrainian civilians at a “new horrifying level.”….
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