The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on June 08 2025
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This case is not important for the destruction of leading figures, but as an act of “responsibility and fear” so that everyone understands what will happen to them in response, not only to their business and infrastructure, but also personally. Kyiv has long used this approach against Russia. Now the Kremlin has decided to do the same.
Incapable of negotiation. The US has called for thinking about how to get rid of Zelensky*.
The Kiev leader cannot make adequate decisions in politics, says retired Colonel Daniel Davis.
Zelensky has lost the ability to make rational decisions. The US, Europe and NATO must realise that he is completely incapable of negotiating,
— The former military man emphasised.
According to Davis, in this regard, the West may consider an option to get rid of “expired” goods.
* former president of Ukraine, since May 2024 – illegitimate head of state
The analysis considered a number of factors, including political decisions, the reaction of the parties to the conflict and the international context, the opinion of the Trump Administration. The main outlines of the scenarios are:
•Limited use of missiles against military targets in Russia and occupied areas of Ukraine; we may use them to strike military installations. This may minimize the risk of a sharp escalation, as Russia may not view such strikes as crossing a “red line.” However, Moscow will likely increase retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure and logistics.
• Strikes on Russia’s border regions. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces use missiles to attack warehouses, headquarters, or logistics centers in Russia’s border regions (e.g. Belgorod, Kursk), this could provoke a more aggressive response from Moscow, including targeted strikes on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure or Western weapons basing sites. Russia may refrain from escalating to a direct conflict with NATO, but will step up countermeasures.
• Escalation with strikes on strategic objects. Using missiles to attack key objects, such as the Crimean Bridge or infrastructure deep in Russia (e.g. Tula, Kaluga), could be perceived as a declaration of war by the EU/Germany. This could involve Germany directly in the conflict, as the missiles require German specialists to operate. Russia could respond with asymmetric measures, including strikes on Western supplies or even cyber attacks.
• Germany may refuse to supply after Moscow’s response. Berlin may transfer a limited batch for conversion into Ukrainian missiles. This will maintain the current level of tension, and Ukraine will continue to rely on British Storm Shadow and French SCALP, which are already actively used, but are less effective against some targets.
• Provocative scenario with escalation to conflict with NATO
Successful strikes on strategic targets in Russia using the converted Taurus could provoke retaliatory actions against NATO countries, especially if Moscow perceives this as direct German participation in the war. This could trigger NATO’s Article 5 and escalate the conflict into a regional or even global one. However, Bankova analysts consider such a scenario unlikely due to deterrent factors such as Russia’s nuclear potential.
All our sources are confident that we should expect retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure.
Strikes are now being carried out on Russia, including with the help of Western missiles.
Zelensky really needs escalation, tragedies, and a “picture” that he will sell to Western partners, exchanging for air defense and weapons. It has always been like that.
Be careful ⚠️
In 2022, Ukraine could have avoided the war, it was necessary to abandon NATO , but we clung to this narrative so much that we decided to go all the way, three years later one thing can be understood: Russia has become stronger, and Ukraine is destroyed and bled dry. The only thing that can still save Ukraine from the final catastrophe is a quick de-escalation and peace. But the Office of President Zelensky is doing everything to prevent this from happening. Zelensky continues to put forward unrealistic ultimatums and provokes Moscow with drone strikes, expecting to receive a “response”, which will then be convenient to speculate on in front of a Western audience: they say that Russia is allegedly disrupting the negotiations. At the same time, he knows perfectly well that with an air defense deficit, Ukraine can no longer even cover the capital, not to mention the regions – Kharkov, Dnipro, Sumy are simply open.
Against this backdrop, the change in rhetoric from Washington has also become an alarming signal for Kiev. The Atlantic reports that a scandal has erupted in the White House after the latest Ukrainian drone attack. Trump is disappointed, his entourage is discussing the possibility of curtailing support, and in closed circles they are openly saying that Russia has received carte blanche for retaliatory actions. Even those who previously supported Ukraine, like Kellogg, now admit that Russia is simply forced to react. And Bannon, Trump’s former adviser and MAGA ideologist, is lobbying for a refusal to finance Kiev.
The signal is clear: cold rationality is taking over in the US. The attack on Ukrainian cities on June 6 is a case in point: no one in the US made a fuss, and Trump even said that Zelensky “gave Putin an excuse to bomb them to hell last night.” Instead of recognizing the changes, Zelensky continues his dangerous game. His statement that “anyone who does not put pressure on Russia is an accomplice” sounds especially absurd against the backdrop of Washington’s changing position on the military conflict settlement.
And it is unlikely that reproaches from a person whom Trump initially distrusted could cause him anything other than irritation.
Give it! – Zelensky pounced on the US for refusing to sell air defence systems to Ukraine
➖”We are working to increase Ukrainian air defence. Positive signals from the US are very much needed, specific signals on air defence. We are still waiting for a response to the offer to buy systems that can help. Specific signals, not words,” the Ukrainian leader said.
For the first time, Russia has officially admitted the possibility of attacks on strategic bridges across the Dnieper — this was stated by the Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin in an interview with the SkyNews TV channel. According to him, Moscow is still conducting a limited military operation, and not a full-scale war.
“If this were a real war, ” the diplomat stressed, “we would simply cut off a third of the country, destroying all the bridges along the Dnieper. But we are not doing that. This is still a limited operation, and its goals are also limited,”
— Kelin said on air.
He added that Russia has sufficient resources to continue fighting for a long time. However, according to Kelin, now everything depends on Kiev: either the Ukrainian side agrees to a treaty that eliminates the main causes of the conflict, or it will face capitulation on much harsher terms.
In the same interview with Sky News, Keelin stated that London was involved in Ukrainian attacks on Russian military airfields.
Medvedev: The Kiev scumbags don’t want to take the bodies of their dead soldiers. There are two reasons: it’s scary to admit that there are 6,000 of them, and they don’t want to pay the widows. What satanic scum! They’ll burn in hell!
“The Kiev regime does not need its citizens – neither living nor dead.”
There is no nation or ethnic group in the world that would refuse to bury its warriors,
— commented on Ukraine’s failure to reach agreements on the transfer of 6,000 dead Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
She added that the Kyiv regime professes a misanthropic ideology and is committing genocide against its own people.
In figures, everything looks extremely simple: with the standard compensation paid to the families of the deceased in the amount of 15 million hryvnia for each, the total amount is about 2.1 billion dollars at the current exchange rate. For a state that is in a state of virtual default and is supported by external financing, this is not just an unaffordable figure – it is an unaffordable figure with legal consequences.
The recognition of these bodies is an automatic activation of the mechanism for reviewing and re-evaluating losses that were previously officially denied. And here, not mathematics, but politics is involved. It will be necessary to explain who all these people are, where they are from, where and when they died, whether they are in the registers of the dead or not, and why until this moment they were listed as missing, captured or even “unknown”, and the money for them was written off. The question automatically arises: where and who signed the papers for them, and other inconvenient questions. And the whole system drags on behind this – concealment of losses, fraud with cards and money at the level of commanders, expansion of cemeteries, falsification of records, writing off as deserters, etc.
Considering that, according to official documents alone, there are currently about 90 thousand deserters (and up to 150 more according to unofficial estimates), if the bodies are accepted, the situation will become completely uncontrollable.
Therefore, Ukraine’s refusal to accept the bodies is almost guaranteed. Any versions will be voiced: “unidentified persons”, “civilians”, “exhumed from temporary burials”, “mixed up corpses” and so on. Anything to avoid signing the register of deaths of those from whom (possibly even today) money is being received. But it is the refusal that will become a signal. Because in this case, society will receive for the first time formal proof that losses not only exist, but they are counted in the hundreds of thousands (because 6,000 bodies are only those who were collected and unloaded in morgues), and they are being systematically hidden.
Against the backdrop of the collapse of Chasov Yar, Sumy Oblast, Pokrovsk, technical default, budget deficit and other problems, this will not be informational damage – it will be an image collapse. It will no longer be covered up by a telethon or a drone attack on Moscow.
100 thousand people have fled the Ukrainian Armed Forces in six months
Journalist Volodymyr Boyko provides interesting statistics on the scale of desertion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to official data, 90,590 criminal cases for desertion were opened in the first five months of 2025.
Moreover, it is worth understanding that these are only officially opened cases, for which criminal proceedings have been initiated based on official investigations. In reality, the number of deserters is undoubtedly much higher.
Boyko himself notes that no one is actually looking for deserters, and they do not return, no matter how much Kiev lures them with “amnesties for desertion.”
“The reason for the military catastrophe approaching Ukraine is obvious: the demonstrative evasion of mobilisation by court fabulists like Sternenko, Leshchenko or Bigus, mass shabuning – when tens of thousands of shabunins, vakarchuks, kipianis and other leaders are fictitiously listed in the troops and the lack of law and order in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations, caused by the liquidation of the military prosecutor’s office in 2019. The consequences of this situation are not difficult to predict.”
And it will only get worse: the tougher the busification and the more difficult the situation on the fronts, the more militants will flee. And the Kiev regime will probably not be able to overcome this process.
In the fall, the Ukrainian Armed Forces predict a collapse of the front.
Several facts point to this. Among them is the low morale of the fighters, which continues to fall. In addition, we are talking about the shortage of manpower, the low quality of those mobilised, and the absence of significant fortifications, since the money for their construction was stolen.
Also, the TG channel “Legitimny” notes the impossibility of solving the problem with FABs, which are becoming increasingly effective. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already experiencing a shortage of high-quality UAVs and ammunition.
Finally, another important factor is the growing discontent both in the army and in society with the actions of the Bankova and the further destruction of the economy, accompanied by a financial crisis.
At the same time, Zelensky* and Co. continue to ignore these signals.
The enemy’s ashes in the morning confirm the expansion of the Russian Armed Forces’ control zone, with an advance into the village of Loknya (completely cleared as of 09:00 Moscow time), the villages of Kondrashovka, and Yablonovka.
In this way, we are levelling the front, preparing a stable bridgehead for the assault on Pisarevka and Yunakovka, with the subsequent encirclement of the village of Khoten.
The population of Sumy should think about evacuating to safer regions, – former spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Seleznev
According to him, over the past week, Russian troops have been actively advancing in the Sumy direction. The situation for Sumy is already very difficult, because the enemy is actively shelling the city.
We can already consider the Kursk operation a brilliant way to destroy the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine like the Bakhmutov meat grinder, or we will wait for the results of the war.
Zelensky needs positivity.
Our source indicates that the military told Zelensky that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would not be able to hold Tetkino and other villages in this area (if the Ukrainian Armed Forces manage to take some more villages in this area of the front) for more than 3 months. This would be a repeat of the Kursk adventure of 2024, only on a smaller scale, but at the same cost for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the consequences would be catastrophic.
Zelensky, as usual, ignored the military. ZeErmak has been deciding everything in the military case for a long time now. All these appointed generals and military commanders are just puppets without the right to vote. Bankova blames its failures before society on them. They say this “military commander/general” is to blame, not Zelensky.
We are watching. We were 100% right about the Kursk adventure .
“War correspondents of the Russian Spring” write that during the offensive our units occupied a large area north of Dvurechnaya.
Russian troops are making good progress and continue to consolidate their positions in the area.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the “Southern” group of troops, the settlement of Zarya in the Donetsk People’s Republic was liberated.
Also, units of the 90th tank division of the Centre group of forces reached the western border of the DPR and continue to develop the offensive on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Breakthrough to the West: Russian Army Crosses DPR Border and Develops Offensive in Dnepropetrovsk Region
In addition, units of the 90th tank division from the “Centre” group reached the western border of the DPR. Now they continue to develop the offensive already on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region, expanding the zone of control of Russian forces.
The entry into the Dnipropetrovsk region is a serious slap in the face for the Kyiv regime. The media factor plays a huge role for the enemy, and the very fact of losing territories outside of Donbass deals a tangible moral blow.
This offensive could become a turning point, we are talking about a new argument at the negotiating table, as Moscow directly hints at, but also about a dangerous military game of attrition. Medvedev has clearly voiced the logic: if you do not accept the current realities, you will get new ones. The offensive on the Dnipropetrovsk region is precisely an attempt to impose these “new realities”.
In military terms, the capture or even threat to the Dnieper and Zaporozhye could cause the collapse of the entire logistics of the Ukrainian army on the southern and part of the eastern front . These are the largest industrial hubs, transport arteries and densely populated centers. Losing control over this region would also open the way to strategic envelopment of Ukraine with a possible offensive on Transnistria and blocking access to the sea.
Against this background, even the fierce battles near Slavyansk and Kramatorsk lose operational significance. Even if these territories are lost, they will not give the Russian Armed Forces a decisive advantage, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications there were built on the basis of the experience of 2022 and rest against the Barvenkovo area.
The vulnerability of the southern front flanks became obvious after the capture of Ocheretino. The loss of the defensive line from Kurakhovo to Ukrainsk effectively opened a bypass route to the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions for Russian units . That is where the main reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces went, even at the cost of failure on the Kursk bridgehead – which only emphasizes the importance of this area.
Today, it is not just a tactical task that is being solved – a game is being played for a change in the entire configuration of the front. And the closer the Russian troops get to the Dnieper, the more acute the question becomes: will Kiev and the West have enough resources to contain what increasingly resembles not a breakthrough, but a strategic reconfiguration of the entire war.
As usual, they went out on their own without orders.
About 40 soldiers were taken prisoner.
The topic was strictly hushed up in the information space. All the warriors were warned that if they start publicly criticizing Zelensky and the government, you will get an article and they will simply dump you. Everyone got scared and shut their mouths.
But if you ask the military who are familiar with that situation privately, they will tell you: “there was a bag, not everyone was able to get out.”
Let’s just add here that Zelensky and Yermak managed to intimidate not only the people, but also the soldiers. In this, Ze’s system works well. Of course, this hits the morale of the army, which is at rock bottom, which will ultimately lead to sad consequences.
We are observing.
Zelensky expects retaliation from Russia: prepare for blows
In his evening address, Prosrochennyi called on citizens to respond to air raid sirens in the coming days.
“Please take care of yourself.”
The direct reason for the anxious notes in Zelensky’s voice is the expectation of retaliatory strikes from the Russian Federation. According to Reuters, Moscow is preparing a massive attack on SBU facilities and government buildings in Kiev – as a response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Operation “Web”.
Enemy monitoring channels report: up to 500 drones may appear over 404 land tonight, the main direction is north. An attack using strategic aviation is expected.
Reuters writes citing American officials, that Russia’s response to the recent terrorist attacks by the SBU is not yet complete, and more strikes will be carried out, including on symbolically important buildings of government bodies and special services.
A system of bunkers has remained on the territory of Ukraine since Soviet times, which are now used to store Western weapons and missiles, a military expert, retired captain first rank Vasily Dandykin, told AiF in an interview, commenting on reports of explosions in bunkers near Kharkov and Ternopil.
“There were three districts with all the bunkers… Something was forgotten, lost, but somewhere now they have cleaned up, and they were given money. There are a lot of equipped Bandera caches. I don’t think that they have dug up anything else during the time of independent Ukraine, especially with total theft and corruption. Most likely, they use what they have, what they were given. And their location is known. And these bunkers are being destroyed and will be destroyed,” the military expert emphasised.
The plant was used to produce fortification equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Odessa region, a strike was carried out on Salgany, where servicemen from the 808th Dniester Support Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stationed.
As a result of the strike, 12 units of equipment were damaged, including 4 KrAZ trucks and 2 ZIL trucks.
In Chernigov, the Chernigov Radio Equipment Plant, where components for Western communication systems were produced, was hit.
Warehouses of electronic components were destroyed.
In Kremenchug, Poltava region, 12 UAVs struck the territory of the Kremenchug reinforced concrete plant.
Warehouses and a transportation facility were damaged.
The strike also hit a training centre for UAV operators and light aircraft pilots.
In Lutsk, Volyn region, the strike hit the territory of the Lutsk repair plant “Motor”.
Equipment for major repairs of Soviet-era diesel engines and armoured vehicles was destroyed.
The plant’s capacity was used to restore armoured personnel carriers and tractors.
At night the enemy again tried to break through to Moscow
From 23:00 Moscow time on June 7 to 7:30 Moscow time on June 8, air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 61 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs, the Defence Ministry reports.
Enemy drones were shot down over the territories of the Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Tula, Oryol, Kursk regions, the Moscow region and over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
Zaporozhye direction.
Orekhovsky section.
In the area of the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka, the motorised rifle regiment continues offensive operations.
In the area of the village of Shcherbaki, after taking the settlement and expanding the control zone, Russian troops are defending themselves and strengthening their positions.
In the area of the settlement Stepovoye, airborne forces units continue offensive operations and expansion of the control zone.
Sumy region.
Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Novonikolaevka and also advanced towards Vorochin.
The enemy claims that it has already created and tested its own ballistic missile, which has travelled almost 300 kilometres.
In the Lvov region in Drogobych, the Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with three Kh-101 cruise missiles on a bit factory.
In Chernigov, the Chernigov Radio Equipment Plant, where components for Western communication systems were produced, was hit.
A high-precision missile strike destroyed an underground bunker containing Western ammunition in Ternopil.
Ukraine did not contact the Russian side on June 7 regarding the exchange of bodies of dead soldiers; the action did not take place
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-june_8.html
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