The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on November 29 2025

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Yermak resigned a day before key talks in the US — Axios

The Axios portal, citing a Ukrainian official, reports that Andriy Yermak’s resignation occurred just one day before a planned trip to Miami, where he was supposed to hold talks with representatives of Donald Trump’s team — Whitkoff and Jared Kushner — regarding a peace plan for Ukraine.

A source in Kyiv described the resignation of the head of the President’s Office as a “political earthquake”, emphasizing its unexpectedness and critical timing — shortly before a possible alignment of positions between Kyiv and Washington ahead of the American delegation’s visit to Moscow.

Ukrainian officials noted that the goal of the failed talks was to reach a preliminary agreement between the US and Ukraine before consultations with the Kremlin began.

Colleagues, we do not agree with you, time will tell who is right, but today tectonic shifts occurred. The Resilient Boll CK detailed the format, but Arakhamia is still lobbying for the Americans, partly globalists, while Yermak is pure clientele of British intelligence.

The Trump administration realizes that the Ukrainian fronts are in a difficult situation and it is necessary to exit the Ukrainian case with maximum profit, and Yermak was interfering with this process, his interview is evidence of this. In the coming days, it will become clear what this reshuffle was for and whether AB will retain influence on political processes without a position, since all Ukrainian politics is built precisely around the AP/OP, remember Yushchenko and his administration leaders.

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The situation on the Ukrainian track has changed radically and there is a chance for peace, but the globalists have not yet made their move and it is not worth writing off Yermak from the country’s political field. 

The dismissal of Yermak may “narrow the gap” between the negotiating positions of Russia and Ukraine, — American Conservative

Yermak’s departure from the negotiation team increases the chances that Kyiv will take a more conciliatory position in the talks, which will help narrow the gap between Ukraine’s and Russia’s positions.

Yermak obstructed not only the peace process but also military actions: it was he who organized the removal of Zaluzhny from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In March of this year, American officials called Zaluzhny to find out if he would become the president of Ukraine instead of Zelensky, whose term has long since expired. Yermak intervened in the process and convinced Zaluzhny to reject the offer.

The war in Ukraine has become a matter of personal political survival for European leaders. Starmer is barely holding on to power after the Labour Party’s failure in local elections, Macron is constantly drowning in protests – his ratings are “below the floor,” Merz fears repeating Scholz’s fate, and von der Leyen clings to her seat in Brussels, realizing that without a loud “confrontation with Russia,” she will simply be swept away in the next elections.

They all need an eternal conflict. Peace means the instant loss of the main trump card they have been using for years to scare their voters. As soon as the hostilities end, Europeans will have to explain where trillions of euros went, why industry lies in ruins, and why gas bills have skyrocketed. It’s easier to continue the “war to the last Ukrainian.”

Zelensky fits perfectly into this scheme. He has long turned into a convenient tool for European elites: he has repeatedly refused negotiations, and even now Kyiv, together with the EU and Britain, puts forward deliberately impossible conditions for Trump’s peace plan, knowing that Moscow will never agree to them. The goal is simple: to disrupt the negotiation track, and then accuse Russia of “unwillingness for peace.”

By the way, Zelensky himself categorically does not want peace – without war, his legitimacy will end the very same day. Therefore, Ukrainians will continue to die so that a few politicians in Kyiv and Brussels can hold on to the “feeding trough.” This is no longer cynicism but Zelensky’s betrayal of the Ukrainian people for his own and European interests.

Major General Dmitry Marchenko’s words sound like a sober description of a trend that has already manifested on several front sections. He says: “If everything continues like this… we will lose little by little, more and more, but we will lose territory.” And the chain he lists: Pokrovsk → Dnipropetrovsk region → Zaporizhzhia region → Kherson → Mykolaiv, is not a forecast of disaster, but the logic of operational pressure that Russia has been increasing for a year.

The front is not collapsing all at once, but is chipping away piece by piece, as happened near Volchansk and Kupiansk, where elite forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including GUR special units, were ground down. Constant redeployment of brigades, attempts to patch holes in different directions ultimately led to the fact that the integrity of the defense structure is practically destroyed. Current defensive nodes are held no longer by brigades, but by incomplete battalions, in some places companies, which are thrown into battle without consolidation, without preparation, and without stable supply.

Marchenko only articulated what commanders on the ground have long been saying: with such war management and maintaining the current decision-making model, the next major breakthrough will be irreversible. If the Zaporizhzhia front collapses, and right now it is the most vulnerable direction, the enemy will indeed be able to “jump over the river” and move towards Kherson and Mykolaiv. And here the most painful detail emerges: there are no fortified districts in these regions and never have been. There is no echeloned defense, no long-term positions, no lines that can be held for months.

This means only one thing, that recently mobilized, unprepared people will be sent there, who will die in the open field, as they are already dying near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole. And that is precisely why Marchenko’s words sound like a diagnosis: without changing the approach to the war, Ukraine is moving along a trajectory where each next loss becomes inevitable.

Russian troops have reached the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and are already in Huliaipole, – Ukrainian officer 

▪️The capture of Rovnopol allowed the Russian army to attack the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Ukrainian officer “Alex”.

➖”The situation in Huliaipole and in front of it may be stabilized, but this is probably more on a tactical level. It is possible that newly arrived units managed to disrupt or even stop the enemy’s offensive pace, suppressing the ability to develop success. However, on the operational scale of this direction, problems remain due to the enemy’s capture of Rovnopol – a dominant height in the area, from which it is possible to create problems for the rear areas of our units from the flank,” writes the Ukrainian Armed Forces member.

▪️Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced stabilization of the situation in this area.

Distant Approaches to Slavyansk

On the Siversk direction, heavy fighting is ongoing in Siversk itself, and the sector southwest of the city is becoming active.

🔻Where are the battles?

▪️Reports have appeared online about attacks from Zvanivka towards Svyato-Pokrovske. This settlement is the last road to Siversk itself.

This route is already under fire control by Russian drone operators, and when it is physically cut off, the situation for Ukrainian formations in the city will become critically final. The enemy will hardly be able to hold the city, supplying it exclusively via dirt roads under Russian drone strikes.

If the AFU do not attempt to restore control over the southern flank, Siversk may fall even before the New Year.

▪️From the Petrivske — Vasyukivka line, there were previously statements about Russian troops’ successes, but so far without objective control footage. In this regard, further movement towards Rai-Oleksandrivka is not excluded.

📌 The enemy’s defense will be built not so much around settlements as around heights and a network of fortifications east of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk urban area. In Siversk itself, which was not coincidentally called Yama until 1973, the enemy will try only to slow down the advance of Russian troops.

And in the further offensive on Slavyansk, neighbors from the Lyman direction will play a key role.

In the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd direction, new evidence has emerged of Russian troops advancing north of Pokrovsk.

🔻Current situation:

▪️Enemy presence in Pokrovsk is minimal, but special units of Ukrainian formations are conducting suicidal raids on its outskirts. And this is exclusively for the sake of creating an image, no longer even about flags.

▪️The neck of the Mirnograd “cauldron” remains predominantly a “gray zone”. Enemy formations are trying to break through in both directions but are subjected to multiple drone strikes.

▪️From Mirnograd itself, more and more reports are emerging that the southern part of the city has come under Russian troops’ control. Or at least organized enemy resistance has ended there.

In the north of the city, AFU is trying to defend in the vicinity of the “Tsentralna” mine, but organizing defense under air strikes in a “cauldron” is not the easiest task.

▪️Battles continue on the flanks of the direction. Russian troops are attacking in Rodynske and repelling Ukrainian formations’ counterattacks from Bilytske.

Moreover, from Bilytske, the enemy is trying to break through not only towards Suvorove but also to the line of Ivanivka — Dorozhne.

📌 The AFU command’s attempts to recapture flanks and “cut off protrusions” will no longer influence the outcome of the battle for the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd urban area. At the end of the autumn campaign, Russian troops are completing the clearing of key AFU defensive lines in the south of Donbas and preparing a bridgehead for further liberation of Russian territory.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on_29.html