Джейсон Джей Смарт, PhD. Writes at KyivPost.com. Check out the latest: YT & Substack: @jasonjaysmart.
❗ Unstoppable battlefield reversals are triggering open panic among Russia's military elites.
Youtube: youtube.com/live/IK_ZDTQ...

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Джейсон Джей Смарт, PhD. Writes at KyivPost.com. Check out the latest: YT & Substack: @jasonjaysmart.
❗ Unstoppable battlefield reversals are triggering open panic among Russia's military elites.
Youtube: youtube.com/live/IK_ZDTQ...
🔥 Chaos erupted along the front line as Russian defenses shattered near Lyman. Decapitation strikes on drone units and command hubs left frontline forces completely cut off. 👉 The Kremlin broadcasts total control, but commanders are losing entire sectors in real time.
❗ Mounting war costs are breaking Russia’s private sector and exposing a regime running on borrowed time.
Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/DGtc3iK...
🔥 Russia's top oligarchs are sounding alarm bells as Moscow's economy hits a dead end. Instead of wartime growth, private businesses are getting squeezed dry by crushing taxes and interest rates. 👉 Putin is running out of money to fuel his own war machine.
❗ Ukraine's latest strikes are shattering Putin’s image of strength and exposing a regime in crisis.
Youtube: youtu.be/YxQd2NGfipw
Substack: jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/trump-give...
🔥 An emergency just unfolded in Russia right as Vladimir Putin tried to enter the capital. Instead of a routine arrival, the dictator found himself completely blocked. 👉 He promises total control, but today he couldn't even enter Russia's largest city.
Here, in Kyiv🇺🇦, there in darkness as bombs fall. In Europe, there is in danger as Russia’s sabotage spreads. And in Washington: the US President just chose to fund the bad guys’ terrorism in the largest European war since WWII.
🔥 From Schröder partying with Putin yesterday; To spy chiefs caught for treason or stranded in Kyiv; Merkel traded security for gas, & now the AfD leads the polls. 👉 Germany’s Russia policy is an unbroken streak of catastrophic delusion.
❗️ Here is the fatal design flaw in Vladimir Putin’s system that turned his most loyal enforcers into his ultimate existential threat.
Substack: jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/putin-made...
YouTube: youtu.be/YnQqJd6ywgQ
🔥 They control nuclear weapons, state armies, and vast wealth. But, there's a catch: They are Putin's personal prisoners. The Kremlin’s top elites have total authority over the lives of millions, but zero control over their own. 👉 They run the regime, but they’re also its most prized hostages.
Russia's metals industry falling off a cliff, with 42% of all metallurgical companies now operating at a loss.
🔥 From Schröder partying with Putin yesterday; To spy chiefs caught for treason or stranded in Kyiv; Merkel traded security for gas, & now the AfD leads the polls. 👉 Germany’s Russia policy is an unbroken streak of catastrophic delusion.
👉 Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for Russia: They prove that the impossible is quite possible.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/BjiaYRh...
🔥 Russia’s high command is driving its own remaining forces into terminal decay. Fighters shooting down their own helicopters and key drone networks are blown off the map. 👉 The Kremlin isn't grinding down Ukraine; it is destroying its own armed forces from within.
⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Kremlin sells imperial greatness. Ask everyday Russians: they want stability, pay, and safe families. "National glory" isn't on the list. Is the war really for an empire forgotten in polls? Or because Russia has 87% more billionaires today than in 2022? Cui bono?
⚡️ Russia just bombed a sanctuary for rehabilitating injured birds in the Kyiv region, Ukraine🇺🇦. The birds burned alive. Their food & equipment turned to ash. All necessary to protect Russia from NATO… Or maybe it actually isn’t about NATO? Just wanton destruction by Putin.
⚡️ Russian terrorism incoming over Poltava Oblast. What appears to be a Kh-101 cruise missile screams past at roughly 800 km/h (500 mph), carrying about a 450 kg (1,000 lb) warhead. 👉 It flies at treetop height to evade detection before striking a peaceful Ukrainian city.
Rescuers drag dead bodies from a high-rise in Pryluky 🇺🇦 following a Russian attack. A child is pulled out - incredibly alive. This is Russian "liberation."
🔥 A Russian "shadow fleet" tanker is on fire off the coast of Sochi. The Aframax Rio was hauling oil to India under a Liberian flag. Wasn't on the EU’s sanction list - but Ukrainian kinetic sanctions took swift action to stop the kremlin’s cashflow.
⚡️ When Russian drones struck off Odesa🇺🇦, Capt. Oleksii Sidoruk (63) ordered his 15 crew below deck. He returned alone to the bridge to steer the ship. A strike hit the bridge. All 15 survived. Sidoruk did not. His body was recovered 11 days later.