/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>496211
What's the purpose of that?

Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia kill at least five
Russian authorities say three people killed in the Moscow region and one in Belgorod in Ukrainian attacks.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/17/at-least-four-killed-in-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-russia

I've been too upset about this stupid war to keep detailed track of it, but I've completely been out of the loop about it for months. What's the current high level overview of the state of this conflict? Is it in a stalemate or is there intense fighting still?

>>496578
Ukraine doesn't seem to have much left militarily besides the ability to launch US-assisted drone strikes. The original intent of this military operation by the Russians was to dismantle the Ukrainian military, but it seems like now they need to properly advance already to neutralize these sources of drone production and operations. On the other hand, vast numbers of European leaders have staked their political careers on this war and they are absolutely desperate to escalate it to a full-scale European conflict. The Russian public is fed up with these terrorist attacks by Ukraine against Russian civilians, and people who were once sidelined (including lunatics who think Russia needs to do a nuclear strike to wake Europe back up to reality) are coming to the mainstream of Russian politics. I really think it's time for Russia to target the Zelensky regime and end the war quickly before there is a full-scale NATO-Russia nuclear exchange that ends civilization.

Russia has issued formal warning for people to leave Kiev. It looks like they're finally going to attack the decision making centers that allowed Ukraine-UK-US to attack those students in their dormitory several days ago.

>European diplomats stationed in the Ukrainian capital have refused to comply with Moscow’s suggestion they leave the city.
>“The EU is not going anywhere,” Katarína Mathernová, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, said on Monday. “We are staying in Kyiv.”
>A spokesperson for France’s Foreign Ministry similarly told France Info that it would be “out of the question to evacuate” its staff from Kyiv. In a statement, Poland’s Foreign Ministry condemned Russia’s warning, saying that any attacks on its embassy would be “treated as hostile acts.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/with-missiles-falling-on-kyiv-european-diplomats-stay-put/

Looks like some tough guys are about to win Darwin Awards.

a strange situation in Odessa

>>496643
Why are there Ukrainian-nationalist white British and Asian people in Ukraine?

>>496643
Why are these gentrifying settling foreigners harassing the local native homeless?

>>496630
Only NATO gets to bomb embassies of third parties during a conflict!
>>496643
the Thai/Indonesian rentboy who doesn't speak English is the cherry on top. typical anglo sex tourist.

>>496655
THAT'S a rentboy?

So apparently not only did Zelensky give notorious Nazi war criminal Andrei Melnik a state funeral, he recently renamed a special operations (re: war crimes) division to "Heroes of the UPA". Melnik and the UPA were responsible for massacres of Poles during WWII, and leaders in Poland are pissed.

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-poland-controversy-nazi-era-name-army/a-77412975

>>496822
I'm excited for the leaders of Poland to do absolutely nothing lol

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2066431313712652454
MenchOsint - Zircon direct hits in Kiev, total Patriot failure.
[video in link]

>>496822
Looks like Poland is threatening to revoke the Order of the White Eagle award it gave to Zelensky if he doesn't renege on these. This is serious business!

>>496950
Oh no, not the Order of the White Eagle trophy!
Any more of this insolence from the ungrateful Polacks and Zelensky might go to Moscow with a pact proposal!

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067301204389171264
Two days ago, President Lukashenko warned Israel that they need to seriously evaluate their actions and the genocide they're commiting in Gaza.

Yesterday, Israeli MFA called Lukashenko's comments "vile and antisemitic."

Today, a bus full of Belorusian children was targeted with a Ukrainian drone….

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067202276771389711
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 A bus carrying a Belarusian children's football team was hit by a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia's Bryansk region. The acting governor says it was a fixed-wing UAV — and that the strike was deliberate.

A woman travelling with the team died on the spot. Six people were wounded, four of them children. All were rushed to hospital and are now receiving treatment.

The bus was carrying 44 passengers, 28 of them children — the Gomel youth squad, headed to Gelendzhik for a holiday, not anywhere near a front line. Russia's Investigative Committee confirms the numbers. The rest of the group will be sent home shortly.

Ukraine hits Moscow refinery as Zelenskyy seeks Trump support to end war
Russia’s Defence Ministry says air defences shot down 555 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight.

Ukrainian drones have hit a Moscow oil refinery for the second time ⁠this week while Russia fired missiles at Kyiv, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks support from the United States and Europe to reach a deal to end the war.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that its air defences shot down 555 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight, with almost 200 intercepted as they were approaching the Russian capital.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said several drones hit an oil refinery.

“Air defence forces continue to repel a massive attack. Several drones managed to reach the Moscow oil refinery,” Sobyanin said, adding that a shopping centre also suffered minor damage.

The attack on the oil facility is the second this week, after a drone attack on Tuesday halted operations at the refinery, according to the Reuters news agency, as widespread damage to Russian energy facilities worsens the country’s fuel crisis.

Reporting from Kazan, Yulia Shapovalova said the refinery is a “strategically important enterprise.”

“It provides a multi-million population of the Russian capital with around 40 percent of petrol and other oil products. It’s still burning heavily while, according to authorities, emergency services are taking measures to put out fires,” she told Al Jazeera.

The regional governor said that in the surrounding Moscow region, a high-rise residential building, an industrial facility and a number of private houses were also damaged in the drone attack. The Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow’s busiest, suspended flights and evacuated people, as several sought shelter in the car park, the airport said in a statement.

Ukrainian forces also struck a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal during an overnight operation on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest attempt to disrupt Russian military logistics in occupied Crimea, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Facebook.

Attacks in Ukraine
Kyiv meanwhile came under a second Russian air attack this week, as ballistic missiles were unleashed on the Ukrainian capital, city officials said.

“The enemy is attacking the capital with ballistic missiles. Stay in safe places until the air raid alert is over!” Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a Telegram post.

Authorities in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said one person was killed in a drone attack.

A man was also killed in the southeastern city of Dnipro, where the number of people wounded in a Russian strike rose to 11, according to regional authorities, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration said on Telegram.

Reporting from Kyiv, Al Jazeera’s Audrey MacAlpine said nine locations were hit after at least 239 drones and seven ballistic missiles were launched at Ukraine overnight.

read more:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/18/ukraine-hits-moscow-refinery-as-zelenskyy-seeks-trump-support-to-end-war

>>496950
They did it, those absolute madlads! Zelensky on suicide watch after being forced to return his most cherished award to Poland. Will he ever recover from this shame?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/20/top-ukrainian-officials-return-polish-awards-in-wwii-dispute

>>497045
Gerasimov-Syrskyi pact when?

Why is Zelensky trying to antagonize Belarus? I really don't understand the 4D chess the Man of Z is playing here. Is he trying to guaranteed a Russian pincer on Kiev from the southeast and north as well? Does this stupid coke addict even have a sense of self-preservation anymore?

>>497115
Because Lukashenko criticized "israel" and that matters a lot to the people with the money.

>>497192
Of course. All the talk about equality is only granted to women, men are left to rot

>>497196
>All the talk about equality is only granted to women
… by using their country as a NATO puppet state, raiding its resources, and forcing the women to flee en masse, often as ""models""?
Lmao yeah, Ukrainian women are getting such a great deal from the Europeans.

>>497198
Fair point but I never said it was women who forced it.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2072095144200032612
The parliament of Finland has voted to lift the country’s ban on nuclear weapons, meaning that American atomic weaponry could soon be stored right on Russia’s border. Moscow has already promised that a “timely and effective” response.

The measure, almost universally ignored by the media, is another significant step on the pathway towards a global war.

The United States already stores nuclear weapons in at least six NATO countries: Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Türkiye, and the United Kingdom. Finland joined NATO in 2022 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

MintPress sheds light on these worrying developments.

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2074029634807570625
Large explosion in Kiev

Jamarl Thomas | NATO Meets as Kiev Burns
Live now

https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2074955687398908290
Ukrainian people stand up against forced mobilization [video]

Speculation that Lindsey Graham was actually killed in Ukraine

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/lindsey-graham-bites-the-dust.html

<Did Lindsey Die in Kyiv?

>Except Lindsey just happened to be in Kyiv on Saturday and he happened to tour a drone factory that was possibly struck by Russia that evening. I’ve read multiple reports and it’s unclear if the facility Graham toured was indeed hit by Russia. For example, here’s the International Business Times:

<SkyFall, a Ukrainian drone company whose facility was struck, confirmed that the US Republican senator visited the company’s production facilities on 11 July 2026, where he was briefed on the development and production of combat unmanned systems. During the visit, Graham was shown a range of systems, including heavy reconnaissance-strike Vampire drones (known on the front lines as ‘Baba Yaga’), Shrike first-person-view drones in multiple configurations, and P1-SUN interceptor drones designed to counter Shahed-type loitering munitions. He also said he had reached an agreement with the White House on a Russia sanctions bill.

>But:

<…Ukrainian authorities have not publicly identified the SkyFall facility visited by Graham as one of the sites hit in the Russian strike.

>So it’s not yet clear that the facility Lindsey toured was even hit by Russia. According to the Kyiv Post, “SkyFall is a Ukrainian technology-defense company that unites a large R&D center, scalable production lines, and a certified SkyFall Academy for training pilots, instructors, and technicians.”

>It’s also possible Lindsey made another unannounced  visit to a facility that was struck.

>According to TASS, Russian forces struck military-industrial complex enterprises in Kiev on Saturday:

<Ukrainian military industry enterprises in the city of Kiev, involved in the production and storage of medium-and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, were hit…

>The report doesn’t say which.

>Larry Johnson, for one, is calling BS on the official line based simply on the timeline:

<Senator Graham arrived in Kyiv between 09:45–10:45 local on July 10th. The train he took from Poland departed Warsaw at 18:15 hours local on July 9th. It was an overnight train. To arrive in Poland in time to take the 18:15 train, Lindsey would have departed Dulles International Airport at around 0700 local on July 9 — the flight from Dulles to Warsaw is 9 hours.

<So Lindsey Graham arrives in Kyiv by 11 am Friday morning. He meets with Zelensky and tours a drone factory. Then we are asked to believe that he returns to Washington, DC after spending less than 24 hours on the ground. Again, I call bullshit!!

<The earliest train back to Warsaw departs Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi at 07:40–08:00 on the 11th and arrives Przemyśl Główny in the afternoon (~17:00–18:00). That is at least nine hours. That would make it roughly 1100 hours in Washington, DC. Let’s assume he has an hour to get to the airport and the plane takes off at 1900 hours local from Poland. The flight going west takes 10 hours… This means the earliest the plane could have landed at Dulles is midnight on the 11th. That is 3 ½ hours after Graham reportedly died at home.

>Andrew Korybko pleads to “Stop The Madness: Putin Didn’t Kill Lindsey Graham!” His reasoning:

<One theory being pushed by Russia’s friends is that Graham was killed during a Russian strike on another Ukrainian drone factory that he secretly visited, but Trump confirmed that he spoke to Graham the night before he passed after he already returned to the US. It’s implausible that he of all people, who’s known to be very emotional, would cover up the killing of his close friend by Putin. It’s even more implausible that the anti-Russian deep state would too and thus eschew a chance to further escalate against Russia.

<While it’s true that some leading Russian figures threatened Graham in the past, it’s par for the course to talk smack about one’s wartime adversaries, and Graham mostcertainly was Russia’s adversary since he sincerely believed in the anti-Russian cause of his country’s establishment and deep state. To that end, he championed the most hawkish anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian policies, even up till his death since he was preparing to push through his radical sanctions bill targeting Russia’s oil clients before his passing.

>About the only convincing aspect of that argument, to my mind, is that more Blob members would be running with the Putin-killed-him-theory (regardless of whether true or not) if they wanted escalation.

>>497744
>One theory being pushed by Russia’s friends is that Graham was killed during a Russian strike on another Ukrainian drone factory that he secretly visited, but Trump confirmed that he spoke to Graham the night before he passed after he already returned to the US. It’s implausible that he of all people, who’s known to be very emotional, would cover up the killing of his close friend by Putin. It’s even more implausible that the anti-Russian deep state would too and thus eschew a chance to further escalate against Russia.
I don't find this argument very convincing - that's not to say that I necessarily believe that he was killed by Russia in a bombing (he could also have snorted bad coke, been poisoned, been assassinated with a "heart attack gun" by someone else who acquired the technology, been killed by Ukrainian oligarchs, died of untreated AIDs, etc.), but I just don't buy the reasoning here.

Trump, even more than "being emotional" is a massive, massive liar, and his relationship with Lindsey Graham was clearly a marriage of convenience, I doubt that Trump had any sincere personal affection for him. I think that Trump would have no difficulty lying about it even if he was aware of a hit being carried out (which he wouldn't necessarily be), and, obviously, a US Senator being taken out would be liable to prey upon Donald Trump's personal insecurities, and he might not want to encourage the idea that doing such a thing is so easy. I also think that what Korybko terms the anti-Russian deep state probably feels similar such insecurities at this point - they worry more about being perceived as weak than they do about developing pretexts (when they want a pretext they just lie), and they're aware, on some level, that Lindsey Graham is broadly reviled by much of the American people and western public who are aware of who he is, and they might well be uncomfortable with throwing a credit for a death people in the west celebrate to Russia.

https://nitter.net/Megatron_ron/status/2077770447131656552
BREAKING: 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱 Bombastic Recorded conversations have emerged of Ukraine's intelligence officer Vitaly Zhikovich admitting that Ukraine is carrying out terrorist attacks across Europe, alluding to the Monaco attack, per RT

He claims that they get technology from the Mossad.

He also claims that Zelensky wants a lot of civilian casualties, that he himself enjoys killing, and that he recruited ISIS terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks.

https://x.com/RT_on_X/status/2077785703631495261
Russia OBLITERATES Ukrainian cargo ship in Black Sea which was en route to deliver arms to ODESSA region — MoD

UAV operators conducted PRECISION strikes, sinking the vessel to the bottom of the sea

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2077978581070651863
Russia renews strikes in Odessa. Recall, Russia has been restricting docking access from international ships even striking a few.

Russia’s Lavrov says will meet Rubio on Thursday in Manila
The Russian foreign minister says he will meet the US secretary of state in the Philippine capital for talks set to focus on the wars in Ukraine and in the Gulf region.

“The meeting will be useful in any case. It’s good to ask questions and get answers,” Lavrov told reporters.

He said the meeting would take place on Thursday morning on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering of Southeast Asian foreign ministers in the city.

Moscow has condemned Washington’s latest attacks on Iran.

https://aje.news/inpqpc?update=4795760

Reminder it's been 12 years since 2014 and 4 years since the start of the special military operation.

As if it wasn't any more blatantly obvious that Ukraine was a puppet instrumentalized in wars waged by the US, their drones flew over the Caucasus and attacked an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea. There's only one way Ukraine can do targeting from such long distances and it's through US satellite reconnaissance.

>>498071
Ukraine is at war with Iran now?
Link article about this too, not that I even doubt it at this point, but I'm just interested in reading more about it.

>>498071
>>498075
I don't know but this one was a while ago:
Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine's drone support makes it a legitimate war target
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/14/iranian-lawmaker-says-ukraines-drone-support-makes-it-a-legitimate-war-target

https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5301043-claims-ukrainian-cell-operating-iraq-stir-controversy

>“We have an intelligence unit tasked with analyzing information, and it concluded that there is Ukrainian interference in Iraq,” al-Aboudi said in a televised interview broadcast on Monday evening.
>“We arrested a small number of groups that carried out strikes inside Iraqi territory and targeted several installations. During questioning, they admitted that they were working for Ukraine,” he added.

This is getting a little ridiculous.

>>498078
I mean about Ukraine striking an Iranian ship.

Guys this is a massively retarded question but why does russia need boots on the ground in Ukraine putting their men in danger when they could be using missiles, airplanes, drones and other remote firepower? They've demonstrated that they have the capability to penetrate air defenses, so why not sit at home and bomb their positions, their supply chains, their installations and assets?

Also, how is foreign ammunition and hardware even getting into Ukraine? It's the same question, can't they see this stuff come in from a satellite? Couldn't they bomb it before it's unpacked?

https://x.com/itsalireza_akb/status/2084007731556405719
The body of Martyr Nima Moradi, who was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike, was repatriated to Iran today

>>498187
Because no war has ever been won with bombardment. While Russia's stated goal has been to demolish the Ukrainian military and its NATO materiel, eventually they do need to send troops in to bring the final end to the Kiev government.

BOOOOOO