The timing of these events is remarkable. Almost so remarkable that one might think they are intentionally sequenced.
It started yesterday when the very popular former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov issued a striking warning about Ukraine’s government, corruption, and the need to develop an immediate mechanism for elections even while the war against Russia continues.
There is a great deal of support for Mykhailo Fedorov within Ukraine, as many people see him as a stronger and yet more pragmatic representative of the people. Fedorov holds strongest support from those under 50 years old, and yesterday he diplomatically called for Ukraine to organize elections in order to retain position as a democracy.
VIA CBS – The former defense minister acknowledged the difficulties of holding a vote during the war, including how to ensure soldiers, people who live near the front line and Ukrainians who fled the war can cast their ballots. “This is complex. … But complexity does not mean impossibility,” Fedorov said. (Citation)
In the background, the frustration of the Ukrainian people is bubbling up to the surface. In part because the hunters the Zelenskyy regime has hired to go find conscripts are now seen as living a life of indulgence. The conscript hunters who take the men off the streets are earning $150k targeting their own people for forced military service. The people are furious.
Simultaneous to this public statement about elections released by Fedorov, the anti-corruptions agencies in Ukraine announced investigations directly related to Zelenskyy’s government itself. It looks like Fedorov knew this was coming.
UKRAINE – Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said on Wednesday they had uncovered a group including a presidential official that had laundered 150 million hryvnias ($3.35 million) used to pay for bail in an energy corruption scheme.
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies launched a special operation against lawmakers and presidential advisers on Wednesday, hours before a key vote in parliament for a new defence minister aimed at cementing a shake-up by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The NABU and SAPO agencies said in a YouTube video the group comprised a deputy head of the presidential office, a former lawmaker, heads of the management and supervisory boards of a state-owned bank and others.
[…] The probe poses a fresh headache for Zelensky after ousted defence chief Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell statement late on Tuesday. (read more)
As if that wasn’t bad enough, even more news broke that puts a very negative light on the Ukrainian government.
BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian man was arrested Wednesday in Croatia in connection with the 2022 undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, Germany’s federal prosecutor said.
Ukrainian national Vladimir Z., whose last name was not given in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Pula, Croatia, by local police acting on a European arrest warrant.
“Vladimir Z. is a trained scuba diver who was part of a group of individuals who planted explosives on the ‘Nord Stream 1’ and ‘Nord Stream 2’ gas pipelines near the (Danish) island of Bornholm in September 2022,” prosecutors said.
He was “strongly suspected of jointly causing explosions, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destruction of buildings and structures,” they added.
Undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged the pipelines, which had been built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The damage added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (read more)
When I combine these events with the recent effort by western intelligence to shape a very specific narrative about the current status of the war, my sense of the landscape is that things are more tenuous and urgent than Zelenskyy and his loyal defenders would like to admit.
The psychology of war is as brutal on the citizens as the battles, and it has looked for two months like NATO/EU, western intelligence and elements in media have been trying to support a specific psychological narrative inside Ukraine that defies the reality of what is visible. That’s the only way I can make sense of the difference between western claims and the reality I saw in Russia.
Inside Russia there are signs of the war, indications that conflict impacting their economic status is taking place, but nothing even remotely close to what western media and NATO politicians have claimed. Support for Putin still seems exceptionally strong, and the stuff being promoted on MSM and social media about problems inside Russia are not based on reality.
If NATO wants to expand the conflict with Russia to engage in a direct military effort to support Ukraine, they are underestimating the strength and resolve of what you can literally feel inside the Russian Federation.
Russians are brutally pragmatic and hard and the past three years of battleground experience in modern warfare has built out the mechanisms of hard and callous combat readiness. Other than a few thousand Ukraine and special forces, the NATO alliance does not have combat soldiers with the intensity of hardness you see in the Russian people.
The west has to rely on technological advantages, and I honestly sense right now the NATO group are finding out that a digital war against an analog enemy doesn’t flow the way it might be planned in Brussels, London or Washington DC.
The alliance that has supported Ukraine the most is now facing a Ukrainian people who want this to end. As Fedorov politely notes – and his supporters vocally attest, you cannot claim to be a defender of democracy while simultaneously suspending the very systems of democracy, like elections.
President Zelenskyy is increasingly disconnected, not from his support base(s) in Brussels, DC or London, but increasingly from the people within his own nation. I’m not sure if Zelenskyy could win an election based on the sentiment I see carried outward toward Fedorov.
Again, if you stand back and look at the totality of events, a picture emerges that something is going to change very soon.
And so it begins.
Federov’s time is limited, i.e., short.
Does Z-man do the “fell out the window” thing too?
He will be arkancided
10,000 orcs? Yes, often feels that way.
There was a sentence in this one, where the words….’Ukraine’and ‘anti corruption’….were used in the one sentence…am baffled.
It needs to end…the war, the corruption and all the rest.
It would be a great time for PDT to announce an audit of every dollar flushed through that corrupt dump
Rand Paul was going to do that a few years ago. He said if he donated $600 that would trigger an audit, or that sum would permit him to request an audit (can’t recall which…) Either way, it seems nothing came of it.
Rand Paul didn’t follow through on his big words? I’m shocked.
Another top aide fired as well. Corrupt to the core! Let the place burn.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-top-zelensky-aide-fired-amid-corruption-probe-house-raid
Let it burn after Scott Bessent freezes every account of every piece of human scam who received corrupt kickback cash and outright diversion of US aid. Maybe Ms Linda’s sister wouldn’t look so good after all.
I worry that the “something that will change” is Federov committing suicide via two shots to the back of the head.
……or he will get droned.
Either way, I suspect his time is short.
I’m surprised Z is still standing.
Those who assissinate politicians are all on his side….
Alexander begs to differ…rumor has it…
AI Overview
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned in London in November 2006 after drinking tea laced with the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210. A British public inquiry and the European Court of Human Rights concluded that the assassination was carried out by Russian operatives and “probably approved” by President Vladimir Putin.
We’ll see. It’s certainly very likely, but it’s also likely this is all arranged as a controlled ousting of Z in order to give the disgruntled Ukrainians a brief shot of hope in order to drag them along a little bit longer.
Might be reading to much but the start of the article sort of gives that impression from Sundance. Events seem a little too clean and obvious.
/middle finger to the EU and those funding the blood for money War
The people spoke when they voted to basically divide up the country where Russia now occupies and were ignored. That is the obvious solution and would end the war in one day as Trump promised. I guess the politicians need to milk much more out of the taxpayers in both the US and EU.
Does it really matter who’s in charge in Kiev? Outside powers will demand the war against Russia continue regardless of what the Ukrainian people or the various European peoples want.
Welp, to be fair, the Germans and the Russians have been fighting over the Ukraine for centuries with various groups within the Ukraine picking sides over that time. Sucks to be the “breadbasket of Europe” and be sandwiched (WORDMAN??) between the two historic superpowers (with a little Napoleonic interlude).
Buck: Did you just say the ‘Breadbasket of Europe’ is sandwiched between two historic superpowers?
That’s a wrap 🙂 🙂 🙂
You’re simply the best in the game.
Thanks, BNG!
My biggest pleasure comes from seeing everyone else’s creative juices flow.
Sometimes cheesy, but always cutting the mustard.
Cheese…Mustard?
It’s a queso mistaken identity 🙂
Guess it depends on where you’re coming fromage.
The winner, and still champion-WORDMAN!!
Treepers are simply The Best!
I call it bologna
Well, to be technical, the Germans only became a great power in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and then unification immediately afterwards (1870-1871). Prior to that, Germany had not been a nation-state but rather patchwork of small duchies and principalities (and Prussia).
Beyond the Pale, that pan era flat-out bred hard workers, little loafing.
Good!
I have always believed that the Ukrainians did not have the capability to pull off the bombing of the Nordstrom 2 pipeline. Am I wrong?
All roads lead to Langley. Training, tactical support, supplies… Then let the patsies do the deed and take the risk. Been the playbook across a hundred years and a hundred theaters of operation.
I might suggest that they lead to MI6 instead.
5is/same-same
“I might suggest that they lead to MI6 instead.”
I’ve always heard it as:
“All roads lead to Langley, and from there you’re gonna need a boat.”
Hard to figure that MI6 is anything but a shell. The rest of the UK is in ruins hard to figure that it would not be in the same shape.
Correct Terry. MI6/5/4/3/2/1 has been nothing since shortly after Maggie left office. I do love the “City of London” treepers that hangout. They provide me with chuckles.
Press Release from the US NAVY on BALTOPS 22
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3066830/baltops-22-the-premier-baltic-sea-maritime-exercise-concludes-in-kiel/
It appears that, on one side, we have Langley, London, Brussels, the DC UniParty, and Zelenskyy.
On the other side we have Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian anti-corruption organizations, and the angry Ukrainian people.
I pray that God intervenes on behalf of the latter group.
I also pray that God would rain down His righteous justice on the heads of the first group.
Give Zeppo an exit plan. Make him some sort of offer and put him up in a villa somewhere in Paraguay – like the U.S. did for Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
The technology to get a man down 300 feet underwater is apparently is very exclusive. Maybe only one agency in the world has that capability. Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett couldn’t do it for example just jumping off a boat on the surface.
One needs to abstain from drinking for at least 24-hours and remain sober prior to deep sea diving. So that rules Nolte out.
But marine robots can operate down there.
https://www.c6f.navy.mil/Press-Room/News/Article/3060004/baltops-22-a-perfect-opportunity-for-research-and-testing-new-technology/
Well if Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett couldn’t get it done, nobody can! 😂😂😂
Sundance explains this great need for elections, all of a sudden.
I really think this is about the ending of the Zelenskyy character and for many reasons that are deep and beyond the obvious lack of support.
Europe was this asshole’s big cheerleader and they are now deep in their own trouble and as we watch that invasion in Ceuta, we can see they are more and more in trouble and more and more occupied -or a better word is buried.
They’ve got money problems, invasion problems, Islam problems, tyranny problems, energy problems, supply line problems, corruption problems, Ursula problems, and this is the short list, it goes on and on.
They have no time to deal with Zelenskyy and this Ukraine game, this is now a losing game, and THIS is all aside from all the corruption that grows more and more clear to the masses.
I also think that Russia is of course dealing with their own problems and they need this to all wind down too.
Both countries need the off ramp that some fresh new players will provide.
This entire exercise is no longer useful.
So I see these elections as an urgent need to Reset.
Well thought out and well put. Thanks.
Makes sense , and looks like a sensible resolution.
We’re running out of options here !!!
Re: reset ? or…
…thoughts on the odds that L V would put on their being an honest election?
…thoughts on the odds that L V would be willing to place odds ?
…thoughts on the year$ it would take to verify an honest (or dishonest) election?
[ hint, it now about 6 years after the u.s. 2020 election…and truth is slowly oozing out….]
…similar delays in truth on the plandemic obfuscations … and …
( the media continues to play pretend… and as such, millions of people are way, way behind in knowing truths… )]
imho
Love thy neighbors…
They won’t be honest elections at all- they never are, they certainly won’t be there.
What they’ll be is the needed pathway towards completely changing the game there. They are the Save Face required to go about drastic changes that need to happen very soon.
You have an election so that the people think they brought about this change.
What is going on right now isn’t working for anyone at all, it all needs to change and probably urgently.
I know that Russia is rationing fuel, things are not good at all in Ukraine, Russia and then Europe and look at the season, we’re not that far from winter=heating season.
They damn near froze last winter in Ukraine, I’m sure they’d not like a repeat of that.
Thank you and it sounds like Sundance was just there, getting the bird’s-eye view of what’s really going on.
I sincerely hope not. He would never have the protection that the late Senator Graham had every time he visited!
Lavrov to Trump. Stop pretending the US isnt behind the attacks on Russia. Explain yourself!
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-08-14/russia-seeks-answers-from-us-about-alleged-support-for-ukrainian-attacks-lavrov-says
I suggest taking Reuters information cautiously. Reuters is based in the UK
Medvedev Threatens Japan with “Monstrous Consequences” Over Kuril Islands Dispute
https://united24media.com/world/medvedev-threatens-japan-with-monstrous-consequences-over-kuril-islands-dispute-21662
Zelenskyy’s usefulness to the West and NATO for carrying on this war long term is declining quickly. He just doesn’t have the required charisma any longer so they need a new guy. Fedorov may just fit the bill.
Zelenskyy is mini-Putin in the fourth installment of Austin Powers.
I guess it’s naive to hope that the new guy might prove to be the equivalent of a President Trump? In spirit rather than persona… 🙂
Wow, I didn’t see that coming!/sarc.
😂
Mykhailo Fedorov did not kill himself………..
That’s what Ursula is saying.
One of the lessons learned, or at least from my view, in regard to the battle in Iran is that nothing is as sure as you think it might be. Iran, again from my view, refuses to stop and NATO might find that Russia would be far harder to bring down. After all, doesn’t Russia fight like a bear.
Russia Fights like a bear robbed of her cubs.
for real
..and now after 4.5 yrs of war Russia- will go after UK… will UK dump…Z…????
Hopefully the average Ukrainian has had enough of Zelensky and his cohorts, destroying the country while enriching themselves.
So, will Fedorov replace Little Z to wind down the war (I didn’t get us into this, I have a mandate to get us out) or to expand the war and drag NATO into WW3?
sarcasm intended:
It $eem$ that thing$ were going $wimmingly (or $cuba) when the u.s. congres$ kept $ending support to ukr
(without accountability)
pel o$i and hari$$ hold ukr flag from zelen$ky:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=u+s+congress+embraces+ukraine+flag&source=desktop&conversation=097671281783920faa5516788589a9fe070f
(sarcasm ended)
Context:
Undersea explosions upon major gas pipeline on Sept. 26, 2022
( whom all was involved ?
and
whom are the current fall people, 4 years late ?
bran done said it under ‘investigation’.
Does that (obfuscation) sound familiar?
See flight 800 story….20 years of obfuscations… )
The U.S. Congress has embraced the Ukrainian flag on multiple occasions as a symbol of solidarity, most notably when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented a battle flag signed by frontline troops to lawmakers during a joint session on December 21, 2022.
Zelenskyy described the flag, which came from the battlefield in Bakhmut, as a “symbol of the victory of this war,” and received an American flag flown over the Capitol in return from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Lawmakers waving flags occurred again on April 20, 2024, following the House’s approval of a $95 billion aid package, where dozens of representatives displayed miniature Ukrainian flags on the floor.
This display sparked a debate over House decorum, with Speaker Mike Johnson and some Republicans criticizing the act as a violation of protocol, while Democrats defended it as a legitimate expression of support for an ally.
Photos :
https://search.brave.com/search?q=+photos+and+videos+of+2022+Zelenskyy+gifted+battle+flag+to+Pelosi+and+Kamala+Harris+who+held+it+up+before+both+chambers+and+members+of+Congress+support+wearing+blue+and+yellow+attire+pins+sunflowers+during+State+of+the+Union.&conversation=0976f2db707490e109f84a784634301e4056
“digital war against an analog enemy.”
Like germany blitz creak vs russian winter.
The munchkin’s time is running out.
NATO would be well advised to crack open the history books on WW2 and see how the vaunted German Nazi war machine fared against the Russians at Stalingrad. They would be wise to not go there.
Fedorov is the \1st sensible Ukrainian that I have heard speak. I had written all of them off as corrupt embiceles.
* Imbeciles
He’s as much a puppet as any of the rest.
What does Fedorov say about ending the war and the need for peace? It is fine and good to call for elections in order to preserve or restore the appearance of Ukraine as a democracy, but what is his motive for saying that? Is it to give the people some greater say in whether to continue the war or to bring about peace? Or is it to help ensure that as a “democracy” other democracies will be more willing to continue contributing money and weapons to keep the war going?
Very good question. Could just be another head fake to give the illusion of democracy.
Who is “letting” the former defense minister do this. In many other similar situations this would be he is getting out over his skis. I’m sure he values breathing on a rather consistent rate.
My thought also. I would suppose he has hired some competent protection.
BOOM!!!!
Sundance and hour ago I was praying you saw this.
Staged exit for little Z man.
Keep watching. Another resignation for corruption in Z’s cabinet.
Thinking way outside the box here, maybe it is thought that the US midterms are going in the Trump favor, or at least the GOPricks will hold Senate and the house. Perhaps the EUnuchs realize they can’t hold the present course for another 2 years and wait Trump out. They have to change directions.
In other words, the EUnuchs realize they can’t keep pretending for 2 plus more years.
Carney too, it seems.
Thanks SD for the inside Russian view. Other sources I had been going to for that just became too over the top Trump Derangement Syndrome on basically every topic to be able to read through.
The total number killed and permanently maimed is abhorrent.
Trying to find fact-based and politically neutral reporting on the war is almost impossible.
I hope the whole thing ends sooner rather than later so that the sanctions can be lifted and I can get cheap 7.62X 39 ammo and mil.surp. again. I know, I know, the late 90s is never coming back, but one can always hope.
There is an analog lesson being told and the serfs of this nation should pay attention, observe, learn and realize that others control the on/off switch to your digital world.
The more analogue you are, the better you can resist the globalist domination.
Good update on the war from Pete Blaber on youtube.
“Ukrainian anti-corruption forces”. that’s a hit me between the eyes oxymoron if I’ve ever read one.
Obiden and Nuland said they were going to blow up NordStream and they did. It’s shocking only because they lie about everything but for once they kept their word.
The Baltic is a NATO bathtub. I believe there were even NATO Exercises at the time. Norway and the US got the LNG business after the Big Man’s 10%.
Maybe the CIA needs a Ukrainian Fall Guy to get rid of Z-Bag, but I think it was the US Navy and Navy divers acting on orders from CINC Barack OBankster and whoever owns his gay ass this week.
Zelensky Tzu: Victory is close at hand when you forcibly conscript your citizens, letting them volunteer is a sign of weakness that must be avoided.
“Mykhailo Fedorov was seen attempting to circumnavigate the sun in a winged outfit from the roof top of the highest skyscraper in Kiev. Standing near, as to provide moral and cheerleading support, Vlodomir Zelenskyy was seen gesticulating wildly and could be over heard crying out, “You’ll melt your wax if you fly too high!”
Sadly, the attempt was ultimately fatal.
Is this new kid a Cannon Fodder Murderer of Ukrainians like Der BribenFuhrer Zelensky?
They don’t need a new face with the same old CIA Policy of Slaughtering Ukrainians for the World Mafia.
Wait I thought the Russians blew up the pipeline for mysterious reasons only understood by the Ukrainian flag pin people and of course our magnificent media. I am pretty sure that the Ukrainian Constitution prevents actions not approved by the pro-democracy members of the EU and Great Britain. You know the ones that are extremely unpopular with their people and outlaw leaders of more popular political parties. Piano boy is made from mold of these great men.
conscription hunters likely funded by USG inflationary spending and laundering. i.e. you and me getting hosed with tax and inflation.
Good 🙏
There are people who are working today (as in the past) for the appearance and reign in the world of the Anti-Christ.
They do so by any means at their disposal. These are people who hate Christ and HIS Church. For some it has been part of their family for generations.
They find it easier and more profitable financially to subvert and disrupt and destroy in Ukraine than elsewhere for now.
This is an intense hatred that cannot be fought with just political tools.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
So, we should expect to see the West’s fraud mechanisms instituted in Ukraine. We will see Z-man come forth and say the elections are on, but to ensure people’s safety, they will be held by mail-in ballot. They will use Dominion machines or similar to count the ballots, all while the only people who get to supervise the counting are those within the Z-government. They will not require ID, and we will see ballot mules picking up and delivering ballots.
Then Z-man will give a victory speech.
I say this partially tongue-in-cheek, but not really, because it’s more than plausible. The EU/NATO/US-Uniparty’s worst nightmare is Federov winning an election. Not Trump’s. Not Putin’s. Not the American, European, Ukranian or Russian people, but those who need war for grift.
Federov, winning, if fair and fraud-free elections are held, would bring about the end of the war within weeks. He knows people want it to end, he knows Ukraine cannot win, and it would already be over if not for US and EU dollars. He’s seen it. Federov would come in, come to a peace deal, one that benefits Ukraine, Donbas, and Russia, and Trump would be front and center in this deal.
It’s the globalists’ worst nightmare.
It will be Russia who will dictate term of surrender….no one else…we did not have a real intension to stop this war….is not anymore SMO…..but brutal war to surrender…..
The peace talks have repeatedly failed. boris made sure of that from the start.
Plan B: election. Dump Zman. Negotiate again.
Zelensky was appointed and installed to execute a proxy invasion of Russia so that Europe could topple the country from a safe distance. The Russians have demonstrated that EU/NATO knows nothing about war, or what it is doing.
But, Europe still wants its “Operation Unthinkable.” They think that their “wunderwaffen” will make it easy. The tinderbox is ready to light.
“Z” won’t be allowed to go away until he accomplishes his mission for Europe, or Ukraine runs out of men aged 15-65.
Remember your history lessons: the normal state of affairs in Europe is always War, not peace. Not thirty years after “The War To End All Wars,” they were right back at it again.
Operation Forrest Gump: Anti-corruption raid heaps pressure on Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president fires a top aide after the National Anti-Corruption Bureau alleged a group of top officials laundered money to pay a former minister’s bail.
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-fires-top-aide-after-anti-corruption-investigators-search-office-iryna-mudra/
From the official web site President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/all
DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE №734/2026 On the dismissal of I. Mudroy from the position of Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Dismiss MUDRA Iryna Romanivna from the position of Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. President of Ukraine V. ZELENSKYI August 19, 2026
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digest of materials for August 19
NABU announced a new special operation against Zelensky’s office.
The results did not take long to appear —
Irina Mudraya was removed from her position.
And new appointees are right there.
Read more about these and other topics in our digest.
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You would think this would be top news in England but no, it’s that Harry and MeAgain are moving back to a private residence outside London.
Ukrainska Pravda: Zelenskyy is 3rd or 4th in polling. 1) Federov 2) Valerii Zaluzhnyi 3rd…………….
Fedorov better make sure he’s got personal security.
If something were to happen to him I would expect a massive fury would erupt inside Ukraine. By all accounts he is popular among the people.
Then Federov would be Bederov.
He needs to stay way from windows and building roofs.
The more bloviating from Mark Levine, Trey Gowdy, Jack Keane and all the other fakes, the more unstable Ukraine gets. One Hryvnia = approx $22.52. Dump them while you still can.