/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>492383
I kind of suspect that Russia got this pressure/these US concessions in exchange for something in west Asia, but I could be wrong.

I don't rule out something underhanded occurring, because it seems like EU "leaders" are more than willing to help the US continue to prolong this less directly.

Russian power and heat station hit by drone attack
A major heat and power station in the Moscow region has been hit by a drone attack, triggering a fire and forcing backup power and heat to be switched on, the governor of the Moscow region said, while blaming Ukraine for carrying out the attack.

The attack on the Shatura electricity and heat station triggered a fire, Andrei Vorobyov said.

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Moscow region governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said Ukrainian drones struck the Shatura Power Station, about 120km (75 miles) east of the Kremlin.

“Some of the drones were destroyed by air defence forces. Several fell on the territory of the station. A fire broke out at the facility. Now it is localised,” Vorobyov said.

More on drone attack in Moscow region
The Moscow region’s governor is convening a task force to determine next steps to restore infrastructure in Shatura after the drone attack on a local power plant, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.

“Water, sewer and electricity services in Shatura are operating normally. All measures are being taken to promptly restore heat,” Vorobyov was quoted as saying.

The report said the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow region reported three transformers were on fire when the first fire and rescue unit arrived.

There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine on the attack.

The Shatura Power Station, one of Russia’s oldest, was founded under Vladimir Lenin after the Russian Revolution and used to run on peat. It now uses mostly natural gas.

In the fourth year of the conflict, both countries have been targeting one another’s energy infastructures.

Restrictions at Moscow airport after drones shot down
Russia’s Federal Air Navigation Service says temporary restrictions are in place at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport after three Ukrainian drones headed for the capital were shot down.

As we reported earlier, Kyiv struck​ the Shatura Power Station, a heat and power station ​​about 120km (75 miles) east of the Kremlin, in a major attack that ignited a fire and cut off heating to thousands of people.

Russia says it takes control of three villages in Ukraine
Russia’s Defence Ministry says its troops have captured three villages in two regions of Ukraine.

The villages are Tykhe and Odradne in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Petrivske in the Donetsk region.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/23/ukraine-live

Professor of applied economics Steve Hanke on estimating the level of embezzlement on Ukraine aid money:

https://xcancel.com/steve_hanke/status/1992313381592916130

Guys i think Russia is about to take tge Dombass

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1995272011271360964
🇸🇳🇷🇺A third Russian shadow vessel was struck by USVs, this time off the coast of Senegal.

The tanker is currently sinking.

Britain's ruling class seems to be so desperate to keep this war going that they've actually decided to revive the old Skripal hoax, this time attempting to lend credibility to it by citing some of the worst clowns in the United States behind the Russiagate hoax.

https://x.com/Currentreport1/status/1997005145234895305
Earlier today a Ukrainian drone struck a high-rise building 1500 km inside Russia, housing key Chechen government offices.

In response Chechen commander Ramzan Kadyrov warned 'Our response will not take long, the enemy will soon receive my personal gift'

>>492564
Elaborate?

It's kinda funny that there are still people calling this a "Special Military Operation" when it's nearing 4 years of the most intense continuous period of war since Maidan and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1997423746337116211
RT - HUGE explosions rock Fastov, Kiev as strikes slam Ukraine

Power outages up to 11 hours hit the capital

Russia hitting back after Kiev’s strikes on civilian sites

>>492576
It still makes some degree of sense because Russia could have done far worse Ukraine years ago if they had used all the military tools at their disposal and did things like decapitation strikes. The point was never to completely obliterate Ukraine though, it was to dismantle the Ukrainian military and exhaust NATO's arms supplies.

Russian attacks cut power for thousands in Ukraine as peace talks press on
A ceasefire deal appears distant as energy facilities are hit in Ukraine and Russia says a drone has killed two people.

Russian attacks have left thousands without power in Ukraine, while a drone attack killed two people in Russia, as United States-led peace talks on ending the war, deep in its fourth year, press on.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russian night-time attacks damaged more than a dozen civilian facilities, disrupting power in seven regions.

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Russian authorities in the southwestern Saratov region, home to an important Russian army base, said a drone killed two people and damaged a residential building. Several windows were also blown out at a kindergarten and clinic.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had shot down 41 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight.

The latest round of attacks came after Kremlin adviser Yury Ushakov said on Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, which comprises the fiercely contested Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Ukraine has rejected Moscow’s demands to maintain its presence in Donbas post-war as US-led negotiations drag on.

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In the absence of a breakthrough in negotiations to end the conflict, hostilities recently intensified in the Black Sea, with Russian forces attacking two Ukrainian ports and damaging three Turkish-owned vessels, including a ship carrying food supplies.

An attack on the city of Odesa on Friday caused grain silos to catch fire at the port, according to Ukrainian deputy prime minister and reconstruction minister, Oleksii Kuleba. Posting video footage on social media of firefighters tackling a blaze on board what he described as a “civilian vessel” in Chornomorsk, Zelenskyy said the Russian attacks “had no … military purpose whatsoever”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/13/russian-attacks-cut-power-for-thousands-in-ukraine-as-peace-talks-press-on

It amazes me that people are so brainwashed that they never stopped to ask why their western government even supports Ukraine in this conflict. Where does their allegiance to Ukraine even come from? Up until the 90's they were part of the USSR, they couldn't have built up good relations that quickly. They can't point to any treaty they signed, and Ukraine isn't part of NATO, so why are people uncritically supporting them?

It seems to me that ignorance tends to side with fascism. And now the west is completely rotten with it.

>>492704
Russia's salami slicing of Europe can't be let happen without consequence.
It had to be stopped in Ukraine, before it reached Europe proper.

The west is rotten, but Russia is an abject hellhole for the people. America's 'shock therapy' meant it basically internalised all the evil of late stage capitalism in one quick hit.

>>492721
I don't agree with what Russia did, but I really doubt that they would have gone further.

It's also entirely evident that the EU is already effectively controlled by the US, and is even more insanely Zionist than Russia itself. EU foreign policy largely prioritizes the interests of the American state at this point, and with that in mind… why wouldn't Russia want to express similar influence over its direct neighbors? Especially when the US is backing coups in these countries - it doesn't justify this stupid war, but it's still weird to tolerate this kind of thing from the US, but not from Russia.

>>492721
I can't tell if this is just an ironic representation of an unhinged NATO/EU leader's screed about Russia, or someone who actually believes their bullshit.

Car bomb kills Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov in Moscow.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/22/russia-ukraine-war-live-moscow-probes-kyiv-link-after-bomb-kills-general

>>492873
It kind of feels like Russia is as devoted to wasting Russia's time and resources as NATO is.

Medvedev 2 hours ago: "The stinking Kiev bastard is trying to derail the settlement of the conflict. He wants war. Well, now at least he’ll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life."https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/2005722429772247176

>>492993
https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2005668567069651191
Lavrov: On the night of December 28-29 the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack on President Putin's residence in Novgorod with 91 long-range UAVs.

Such actions will not go unpunished. Targets and time for retaliatory strikes have been selected by the Russian Armed Forces.

>>492993
>>493006
The sad thing is it is the Ukrainian people who continue to pay for this CIA rat's games.

>>493006
https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/2006005446205923389
The mysterious soviet “Doomsday” radio station UVB-76 unexpectedly began playing Swan Lake.

This comes moments after promised retaliation by Moscow against Kiev.

>>493056
Am I gonna die?

>>493057
Eventually, yes.
Probably soon.
Maybe tomorrow.

>>493056
it's just pirates.
also, if you think uvb-76 is nothing else than a channel for spies you are retarded

>>493439
I read that the last time they played this was before the unrest in the '90s.

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2009391265016680774
Jan 8th, 5:26PM EST, MenchOsint: Around 50 Geran Kamikaze Drones flying towards Kiev tonight.

Ukraine calls on allies to raise pressure as Russia fires Oreshnik missile
Kyiv labelled the use of the weapon close to the EU and NATO border a ‘grave threat’ to European security.

Kyiv has called on its allies to increase pressure on Russia after Moscow used a newly developed missile in strikes on western Ukraine.

Russia said on Friday that it had used the Oreshnik missile amid a barrage of overnight strikes on Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine. Kyiv labelled the use of the weapon close to the European Union and NATO border a “grave threat” to European security.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the military has used the new intermediate-range ballistic missile among hundreds of other weapons in strikes that, according to Ukraine, killed four people and injured at least 22 in the capital.

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Russia also struck critical infrastructure in Lviv using an unidentified ballistic missile, said Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

Ukraine’s Air Force later said the missile travelled at a speed of 13,000km/h (more than 8,000mph) and that the specific type of rocket was being investigated.

Moscow first fired an Oreshnik – Russian for hazel tree – against what it said was a military factory ‌in Ukraine in November 2024. On that occasion, Ukrainian sources said the missile was carrying dummy ‌warheads, not explosives, and caused limited damage.

Putin has ⁠said that the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile is impossible to intercept because of speeds reportedly more than 10 times the speed of sound and that its destructive power is ‌comparable with that of a nuclear weapon, even when fitted with a conventional warhead.

Some Western officials have expressed scepticism, suggesting that the weapon is not seen as a game-changer on the battlefield.

The Defence Ministry in Moscow said that the attack was in retaliation for a Ukrainian drone strike on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence last month.

Ukraine and United States President Donald Trump have both rejected the Russian claim of the attack on Putin’s residence.

The ministry said the latest strike also involved other ground and sea-launched missiles to target Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

“Such a strike close to [the] EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on social media.

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Ukraine’s appeal to raise the pressure on Russia comes as it continues to discuss efforts to end the nearly four-year-long war with European and United States allies.

An agreement was reached this week that Europe would deploy troops after any ceasefire, but Russia on Thursday rejected the plan.

Such troops would be “considered legitimate military targets”, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned, branding Ukraine and its allies an “axis of war”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/9/ukraine-calls-on-allies-to-raise-pressure-as-russia-fires-oreshnik-missile

MenchOsint - An Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was reportedly shot down by a Russian S-300 air defense system.

What is it going to take for the Russians to finally decide to clean out the rats in Kiev?

Two killed, dozens wounded in large Russian drone attacks across Ukraine
More than 200,000 people in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhia are without power after a Ukrainian strike.

Two people have been killed and dozens injured in overnight Russian drone attacks across Ukraine, where strikes on energy infrastructure have caused power outages in freezing temperatures, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In a social media post on Sunday, Zelenskyy said the Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa regions were targeted in an attack that included more than 200 drones.

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The Russian government has made several demands over the past months, including territorial concessions and assurances that Ukraine won’t seek NATO membership.

Ukraine is also facing an acute energy crisis due to continuous Russian bombardment this winter.

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On Sunday, more than 200,000 consumers in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhia were left without electricity after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday, Moscow-installed Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.

In a statement posted on Telegram, Balitsky said work was ongoing to restore the power supply but almost 400 settlements remained without electricity.

Temperatures are well below freezing throughout the southeastern region, about 75 percent of which is controlled by Russia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/18/two-killed-dozens-wounded-in-large-russian-drone-attacks-across-ukraine

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2014362583948525647
French Forces seized a Russian Oil Tanker "Grinch" in the Mediterranean Sea.

The operation was carried with the UK according to the statement, but ads-b data confirms the US has been tracking this tanker for a week.

>>493906
Fuck france

>>493906
They keep seizing russian tankers, they really want to escalate don't they

Yep.

Eh, you guys haven't forgotten about me yet have you? Spot me some more billion tens? You know I'm good for it. I'll even launch a missile at Iran.

Philippines now buying Russian oil.

Vietnam in talks to buy Russian oil.

Not to be somekind of annoying leftcom but the conflict in ukraine is such an obvious case of a classic 1914-style inter-imperialist war, and anyone who sides with either side, whether it be the conservative hellscape of an oligarchy, Russia, or the west's Nazi-infested, glorified, and excuse my language, fleshlight that is ukraine is but that a liberal.

>>495180
So you actually think Russia is imperialist in the same way that the United States is? Are you retarded?

>>495182 (me)
Imperialism doesn't just mean "big country" dude, it has a very specific meaning.

>>495183
Indeed it does, and by any definition that's actually consistent and useful, Russia's side doesn't meet it. It may be correct to call it "revanchist", but imperialist it is not. Educate yourself:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/13/russian-imperialism/

>>495182
>>495183
>>495197
Ah, ok, I see. russia isn't imperialist; it's just a nuclear-armed, conservative, capitalist oligarchy that engages in great power competition, particularly in places like africa with their wagner merchanaries and territorial expansion fueled by both material and chauvinistic desires. Ok, alright, you got me there, folks. (Before anyone points out yes if all of this russia makes musolini here then the west and nato is aldof hitler with ukraine alone)

>>495225
You've made no attempt to engage with my central point: that imperialism is not the same thing as revanchism. Let me highlight the relevant parts from that article for you:
>imperialists take control of a country that does not want them there and resists. A revanchist wants to absorb former imperial lands where the population is largely the same ethnicity and welcomes the revanchist power to protect them from an outside threat.
>To call Putin’s move on Ukraine “imperialist” is to say Russia had never conquered those lands before and that he might indeed keep going to conquer lands Russia has never controlled: i.e., Western Europe.
>Russian imperialism in Ukraine took place nearly 250 years ago under the reign of Catherine the Great. That was when the Russians defeated the Turks and occupied what came to be known as Novorossiya. Putin went back further than that to make Russian claims (Lenin in 1922 gave Donbass, and Khruschev in 1954 gave Crimea to Soviet Ukraine, not independent Ukraine) and he has been open about his feeling that those lands and Russia are one. He spoke at length about it in his interviews with Oliver Stone in 2017.
>Despite these revanchist or irredentist positions on Ukraine, Putin did not act on them until 2022. Carlson asked Putin twice why he didn’t move on Ukraine earlier if he held these views and twice Putin evaded the question. >The Western media is saying that Putin is lying about acting to defend the Russian speakers of the Donbass; that he was motivated by territorial expansion.
>Putin was acting both to defend Donbass’ Russian speakers (who were under imminent renewed attack in February 2022) and also saw the opportunity to reunite the old imperial lands with Russia. That opportunity was seen in the Kremlin as a necessity because of the West’s rejection of Moscow’s diplomatic efforts to avoid conflict and plans to include Ukraine in NATO.
>Given the results of the four regional referendums in 2022, plus the one in Crimea in 2014, it is clear the people of those regions wanted to rejoin Russia after the coup and the revival of Ukrainian extremism.
>One can condemn or criticize revanchism, but one cannot call it imperialism.

>>495226

I was not just talking about Europe when calling Russia imperialist, but anyhow, let's go through these interesting points you gave one by one.

>imperialism dosen't requre a conquest to be tottaly new or never done before thats such a arbitrary distinction

>much of the donbass was arelady under control of the ukranian people's republic upon the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets in december of 1917, it was not a case of lenin randomly for no reason giving it to the ukranians and as for crimea its complicated with it having been previously majority tatar until russian colonialism during the 19th and 20th centuries not to claim that ukraine is the rightful owner there but still

>western europe is a part of the imperial core and most unlike and least suseptible to imperialism like the rest of third world and claims of russia having imperial intrests in western europe is just that nafo probogandist fearemongering and cold war style paranoia that i of which never once implied to be the case

>the way you phrase "Russian speakers (who were under imminent renewed attack in February 2022)" is strange with it implying that zelensky was about to carry pogroms or expulsions in eastern ukraine while in reality its due to well the conflict between the pro russian "people's republics" and the ukranian military there now i won't deny that the donbass haven't been victim of indiscriminate bombings but it hardly justefies the same ocurring to ukranian cities

>russia atempting to secure its own sphere of infulunce peacefully without wasting manpower and resourcecs in compromising with the west and failing dose not disporve the my assertion

>some shaky referendums in the imidiate aftermath of an invasion dose not make "wholsome 100% brothely reunification of peoples" make plus it would be irrelavent if it was after all if germany stopped at austria and the sudeten would it then be ok?

>yes obviously many russian speakers in ukraine would be more symphatetic to russia in the aftermath of the mainly western led maidain upheval simmiraly to how a french person in alsace lorraine suffering discrimination might be more symphatetic for a french reconquest of that region hence world war one wasn't an imperialist war or something

>well i guess if its just revanchism all those wagner merchanaries must just have some really personal beef's in africa

Now i don't particularly care about the supposed glory of ukranian nationhood and hell i even go as far and say that there is an argument to be had that russia is the lesser evil and them winning would be a better alternative than total western domination (though it seems like its gonna rather be no mans land 1917 over there lol) but please don't bluff yourself into think that this whole mess is something other then two great powers beefing it out while the common people suffer. After all, what do you have to say now what do you say in context of russians moving into abondend apartments in a ruined muripol or reports of ukranian children now orphaned from their parents due to this war and being adopted by russian parents in russia. Look, I have no more love for the government in kyiv and their azov neo nazi lackys who larps as perun worshipers or western oligarch overlords, but neither am i intrested in being a campist cuck for what is essentialy a nationalist project fuled by the resource/geopolitical interests of what is really a rivaling empire just because its soldiers have le epic soviet flag patches or restore old statues of stalin (and lenin ironically enough) oh and btw yes i am say the norks are cucks for sending their soldiers there lol (not to be entirely negative though just heard russia sent some oil tankers to cuba during the blockade so props to vlad here outdoing the peoples republic itself lol tho just ingnore all the talk aobut third worlders including cubans alledegly being duped into serving in the russian army against their will)

>>495225
Russia is materially fighting a war against imperialists, therefore it's anti-imperialist.

>>495228
"both sides bad" is actually the most cowardly take. You sound like the type of person who equates stalin with hitler saying they're both bad.

>>495229
Ah yes and the united kingdom fought against the german empire and therefor no such thing as british imperialism genius logic

>>495230 say what you will about stalin after all i have my critisism of him but atleast he actually was a bolshevik lol please tell me what putin and his unite russia party is