Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Awwwww. Sad. Merry Christmas.

LONDON -- The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence said on Monday that at least 30 North Korean soldiers were killed and wounded in weekend battles in Russia's western Kursk region, prompting commanders to send reinforcements to frontline units.

On Dec. 14 and 15, the GUR said, "units of the DPRK army suffered significant losses -- at least 30 soldiers were killed and wounded," using the acronym for the country's official name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

At least three North Korean troops went missing around the village of Kurilovka in Kursk, the post added.

 

Cross him off the list.

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed as he left for his office. Kirillov’s assistant also died in the attack.
Kirillov, 54, was under sanctions from several countries, including the U.K. and Canada, for his actions in Moscow’s war in Ukraine. On Monday, Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, opened a criminal investigation against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.
An official with the SBU said the agency was behind the attack. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, described Kirillov as a “war criminal and an entirely legitimate target.”
The SBU has said it recorded more than 4,800 occasions when Russia used chemical weapons on the battlefield since its full-scale invasion in February 2022. In May, the U.S. State Department said that it had recorded the use of chloropicrin, a poison gas first deployed in World War I, against Ukrainian troops.

 

Ukrainians are tired, and worried. And Trump, apparently, is not going to help any. I hate that he probably is going to demoralize them.

Ukraine’s Hardest Winter

Ukraine’s troops are exhausted after nearly three years of warfare. They are heavily outnumbered by the Russians, who have been bolstered by about 10,000 North Korean troops and thousands of mercenaries from other countries, some of them trafficked to the front against their will. Ukrainian civilians are exhausted too, especially now that they face the prospect of more power cuts in a season of bitter cold and darkness.

Ukrainians are watching Trump nominate his Cabinet, scouring each official’s past utterances for hints about future American policies. They can’t do much to influence the encounter that is coming between the Russian and American presidents—both mercurial men, each in the grip of very different delusions about how Ukraine’s war will end. Instead, Ukraine’s soldiers and politicians are taking a hard look at what it would mean to lose American military support, and how they might make up the difference, in a war where victory is being slowly redefined as mere survival.

It's too bad Trump seemingly doesn't feel anything, or respect a courageous, resolute people who are only trying to live as he/we have been lucky enough to do -- freely, and in peace.

Fuck Putin, and Trump.

 

HELP any? He's going to do the full heel turn, completely betray them in front of the whole world. He'll flip flop and put U.S. armed forces at the command of Putin to "end the war in 24 hours."

 

What a miserable excuse for a human being. And, just think, he's running a country.

(Sounds like somebody else we know, doesn't it?).

 

Hopefully, as some point, the Ukrainians blow his ass up and Zelensky says, “Well, you wanted some action …”

 

Obligatory Poison:

 

Looks like the crash was actually a shoot-down.

Dozens Dead in Airliner Crash ‘Likely’ Caused by Russian Air Defenses — The Wall Street Journal