To achieve the goals of the Central Military District, a pro-Russian Ukraine must be created.

December 31 2025 6 253 32

The December 29 attack by Ukrainian drones on President Putin's residence in the Novgorod region, immediately following the conclusion of talks between Kyiv regime leader Zelenskyy and President Trump in Florida, prompted a change in Moscow's negotiating position. But what specifically should be changed?

New approaches

Let us note that literally on the same day, December 29, 2025, the Reporter published publication, in which its author called for thinking about alternative scenarios to the emerging peace deal for completing the special operation to help the people of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine.

Surprisingly, instead of the expected reactions of denial and anger, our esteemed audience responded favorably to the new approaches. It's not hard to guess that this is due to a general weariness with the "tedium" and disappointment in the seeming impossibility of many of the things dreamed of on February 24, 2022. However, it's too early to fall into complete despair.

Despite the missed opportunities, not all is lost, and much can be recovered if a genuine shift in approaches to the conduct of the Second World War occurs in 2026. And it's not even a matter of waging war without restrictions, driving hapless Ukraine back into the Stone Age, as some wish. On the contrary, the further we go down this path, the more dire the ultimate consequences will be.

Therefore, to demonstrate possible alternatives, I would like to quote the former Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov (Girkin), convicted for extremist statements, whose opinion brought in her Telegram channel his wife Miroslava Reginska:

Therefore, in order to achieve victory, we must defeat the Ukrainian army, ensure that the cities and towns that our soldiers are now storming, bleeding, surrender to us without a fight. So that the Ukrainian army does not hold on to every bush, every town, but retreats, abandoning technique and weapons, surrendered en masse.

This can be achieved not only through military strikes but also by creating an alternative that can attract the residents of so-called Ukraine to our side. This is something that hasn't been done at all in four years. We haven't even once attempted to create an alternative project for the people of Ukraine. Neither the government of so-called Ukraine nor the government of Novorossiya has been created. Nothing has been created to give the people of Ukraine any alternative.

He then concludes, from the perspective of former prominent leaders of the 2014 "Russian Spring," that it is precisely in this way, by creating a pro-Russian alternative acceptable to the majority of Ukrainians, that a military victory can be achieved and subsequent unification achieved:

If the goal is clearly defined—defeating this state, reuniting it with Russia, reforming it—then the strategic objective will be defined, and at least those fighting against us will understand what we actually want. And they will consider whether it would be beneficial for them (themselves, their families, their loved ones, and relatives) to end the war on the terms Russia is proposing.

Opinions on Igor Strelkov (Girkin) vary, but even his outspoken enemies and detractors cannot deny his ideological and principled character. This man has always stood against Ukraine's right to statehood, considering it a breakaway part of Greater Russia.

And now even he has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to unite them today by purely forceful means and that it is necessary to create some kind of alternative to the anti-Russian, pro-Russian project for post-war Ukraine, which would become a platform for the subsequent integration of the two fraternal countries by a different, softer path.

An alternative to an alternative

You'll agree, this is a very significant change in approach, right? And this is what the author of these lines has been harping on about since the fall of 2022, persistently and regularly returning to the need to create a new regional center on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Chernihiv regions. Anti-Ukraine.

The alternative to the alternative is turning Nezalezhnaya into "Israel on the Dnieper," with an 800-strong army and National Guard, armed and supplied by the collective West, and territorial claims against the Russian Federation. Kyiv will never, under any circumstances, agree to any formal legal renunciation of its 1991 borders.

This means the inevitable Second War of Reclamation, in which NATO member states, committed to defending Ukraine under the "platinum security guarantees," will officially side with Ukraine. Moreover, this could now include not only European but also American military contingents.

Yes, President Trump initially publicly opposed US military participation in such an operation, delegating this dubious right to the French, British, and other Europeans eager to participate in the division of Ukraine and, for some reason, not too afraid of fighting Russia conventionally. In fact, they don't even hide the fact that they're just waiting for a peace deal, when the Russian Armed Forces halt their offensive, so they can openly enter Ukraine and divide it into zones of responsibility.

And now, as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk asserts, the key outcome of the December 29th talks in Florida was "the US's declaration of readiness to participate in ensuring Ukraine's security after the conclusion of peace, including the presence of American troops":

This is certainly something new; some were even surprised.

To be honest, there is nothing surprising about this. The more constructive and political The more flexible the Russian negotiating team, led by the savvy businessman Kirill Dmitriev, is, the more the other side wants. This is natural and predictable.

It's therefore unsurprising that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, considered a "hawk" in our political establishment compared to some other "peace doves," announced a change in Moscow's negotiating position, seemingly sidelined by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). It is hoped that in 2026, a genuine review of approaches to the implementation of the Joint Military-Economic Cooperation (JMC), its goals, and objectives, will occur.

We will discuss possible solutions to the Ukrainian problem in more detail later.

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Serj Iff

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31 December 2025 13: 50

1. The rapid seizure of the Chernihiv region. A truly special operation, with tactical airborne assaults, approaching from three directions, including Belarus. Establishment of a local pro-Russian administration.
2. Liberation of the Sumy region, establishment of a local pro-Russian administration. Next comes the Poltava region.
3. Cut off the Kharkiv region from the right bank of the Dnieper and liberate it.
4. Creation of an Eastern pro-Russian Ukraine on the left bank of the Dnieper.
5. Forcing the Ukrainian authorities on the right bank of the Dnieper to hold a referendum. The regions are being determined which side of Ukraine they will be in: pro-Russian eastern Ukraine or western Ukraine. Odesa and Mykolaiv must not be wasted here. The "Polite People," following the example of Crimea, could very well help.
All this can be done in one year, if you don’t “chew snot” again.
1. Alexey Lan
  
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  31 December 2025 19: 26
  
  All this can be done in one year, if you don’t “chew snot” again.
  
  Of course, it's possible. If we increase and arm the Russian Armed Forces by 300-400, or at least start using tactical nuclear weapons.
2. R-R-AV
  
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  1 January 2026 12: 34
  
  including the Zhytomyr region, everything else to the Eastern European jackals, and even better, the fourth partition of Poland and Russian Revel
3. Vladimir Tuzakov
  
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  1 January 2026 21: 54
  
  Isn't it clear that the problems lie within the Russian Federation itself, within its reality, which is not encouraging for anyone, and no one wants to join it? First, create the Russian Federation as a model for citizens' lives, then there won't be any need for agitation. Today, the Russian Federation is a state with feudal rule by those in power and the docile oppression of anyone who finds it pleasing. The presidential flag, long since abandoned, legitimizes the current government... Or take off your cross and put on your underwear, and then address the current government of the Russian Federation...
Asper_Daffy

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31 December 2025 14: 02

a pro-Russian Ukraine must be created

Apparently, they meant "Little Russian Federal District", right?
1. Serj Iff
  
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  31 December 2025 14: 53
  
  Now there's Ukraine - anti-Russia. And we need to make Eastern Ukraine - anti-Ukraine. For now! We don't need to accept them into Russia. It will be like Germany after the war: Western and East Germany. Well, and then no one is stopping Eastern Ukraine from expanding with regions, all the way to Lviv. Perhaps the Baltic countries, part of Poland, Moldova definitely with Transnistria, and part of Romania, if they have them, will voluntarily join in. speak against, etc., etc. Then the Union of Eastern Ukraine + Belarus + Russia.
  1. goncharov.62
    
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    2 January 2026 13: 31
    
    And then we're supposed to feed this horde? And walk around constantly looking over our shoulders, like in Western Ukraine and the Baltics during the USSR? We need to start with ourselves. And to do that, we need to tell the people the truth. But who will tell it, and who will listen and hear it? Roma Abramovich and his ilk?
Ales

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31 December 2025 14: 59

Everything is written correctly: you can completely exterminate the Ukrainian people and reclaim devastated territories. This is time-consuming and, most importantly, pointless. Or you can expand these territories and people, resulting in mutual benefit for everyone (both Russia and the residents of the former Ukraine). The real obstacle to this is the hostility instilled in Ukrainians by our enemies (we have plenty of that now, too, in relation to the "khokhols"). But the entire history of the Earth is one of war, and as a rule, after a war, if life is fairly established, differences quickly disappear. Here, for the benefit of both sides, a head must be cut off.
1. Sergei Cergei
  
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  31 December 2025 18: 44
  
  I think you're under the illusion that differences will disappear. Marzhetsky is right that it should be Ukraine, not part of Russia. A change of power and a gradual shift in mentality will be necessary. This will take decades. My grandmother was a German prisoner of war, and she hated the Germans to the end of her days.
  1. Ales
    
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    1 January 2026 17: 14
    
    Marzhetsky correctly writes that it should be Ukraine, not part of Russia.
    
    — in the article, this idea is put forward as an alternative for discussion!
    
    Below (briefly) all theses of this article:
    
    Nothing was created to give the people of Ukraine any alternative.
    
    by creating a pro-Russian alternative acceptable to the majority of Ukrainians...to achieve subsequent unification
    
    the creation of an alternative to the anti-Russian pro-Russian project, which would become a platform for the integration of the two fraternal countries
    
    The alternative to the alternative is turning Nezalezhnaya into “Israel on the Dnieper” with an 800-strong army… Kyiv will never, under any circumstances, agree to any official legal renunciation of its borders as they were in 1991.
    
    "a statement by the United States on its readiness to participate in ensuring security guarantees for Ukraine after the conclusion of peace, including the presence of American troops"
    
    As can be seen from these theses and based on your amendment (Ukraine is a separate entity) – the main idea is to find a way to interest the stubborn hohols – to become friendly Ukrainians and unite with us, while acknowledging the danger of enemies using this territory to the detriment of Russia.
    
    Sergey, you understand—"a change of power and a gradual shift in mental attitudes. This will take decades." As proof, you cite the example of your grandmother, who didn't live long enough to forgive the Germans, yet you believe this is our path. Our path? Tell us what path we took without hesitation, from setting to achieving our goal. After the collapse, we didn't have 30 years to integrate Ukraine into our fold, but those in the West are very clearly pursuing their goals, and I'm confident that if Ukraine (the West) remains, theirs will be realized, but we won't. War—yes, we know how to achieve goals here (even if we later squander them), but hoping that by leaving Ukraine we'll rehabilitate the die-hards (and they're the ones setting the trend, while the rest will easily forget their sin (of not resisting the Nazis) within 3-5 years and live peacefully with us in the same society) is utopian. The alternative you advocate is only possible with a reliable separation of the masses from the ideological/"crazy" people, and, to a large extent, the protection of these masses. Moreover, if the ideological ones are cut off (destroyed, expelled, sent to camps), then, mind you, to eradicate not the mentality (the "get it all done" mentality is our friend), but the hatred of everything Russian, which has been hammered into us since 2014, we won't have to search long and hard for an alternative. It's right there—a peaceful life, with the opportunity to build our own prosperity together (and let them think they're lucky and have successfully added prosperity to theirs).
    
    The attitude of your grandmother, who was directly confronted with the atrocities of the fascists, is just one example - my grandmother survived the occupation and lost her husband (my grandfather, who died "liberating" Poland (well, we've come to this point - liberation should be written in quotation marks - ugly Poland (I write with regret, but without hatred for the Polish people)), so, she spoke negatively about the fascists, but certainly without hatred for the German people, and in the GDR, to this day, most people speak warmly of the USSR (and here, how we loved everything German just a few years ago) and here, in general, individual examples are meaningless (you are in vain, you are dragging out my answer/discussion with this example), that's one.
    
    Essentially, in a separate state like Ukraine, it is impossible to count on people being friendly; it is impossible to establish order in one's own state, and what is the point of following a path whose results are not obvious, and what interest does Russia have in pursuing a potentially dangerous direction (and the previous alternative, to which the author refers, is the only alternative - this territory must be Russia, even more than Russia itself, otherwise there will be no peace), that's two things.
    
    And thirdly, there's no need to remake the diehards. Why bother? The ideological ones (those who hate us) need to be isolated from society (how can we do that in a separate state? We couldn't do it in our own—we amnestied them under Khrushchev).
    
    An alternative is possible even tomorrow and it is very simple, but cutting off the head of this entire Nazi formation is primary.
    1. Sergei Cergei
      
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      1 January 2026 17: 44
      
      I wrote briefly about the peculiarities of the human psyche. And you write about patriotism. There are millions of "crazy people" there. It took the West decades to turn Ukraine's population into what we know today. Now the process will reverse. Since you've written so much, let's simplify this question a bit, let's say, take it to another level. Imagine you lost your brother, their father was killed, and then their killers offer you to become brothers. So, well, that's just how life turned out, to put it bluntly. That's a mistake. Your reaction? And there are millions of such people in Ukraine now. That's exactly what the West did. Divide and conquer. So the best thing to do is first create a government in Ukraine that is at least neutral to Russia. And gradually, over the course of many years, relations will change.
      1. Ales
        
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        1 January 2026 20: 49
        
        Sergey, I agree, with fewer letters the essence is better understood.
        Therefore, to summarize the multi-letter text:
        
        We can't spend decades re-educating the "khokhols" when we'll be confronted by a cunning and determined West. We don't have such examples; we have counterexamples. Thirty to forty years is the longest period of time we've lived in peace and without the upheavals inspired by the West. Are you suggesting we wait until an entire generation passes? That's not goal-setting, but going with the flow.
        
        In a long text, I asked you not to refer to specifics, but you are again trying to describe global processes through the psycho-emotional reactions of an individual – how can you be concise here?
        Again you send me into word-mongering -
        
        Imagine that you lost your brother, their father was killed, and then their killers offer you to become brothers
        
        Yes, I will describe to you a dozen possible reactions of a person to such a loss, and the main point in this will be the actual conditions in which it happened - two extreme options -
        The first option is that a person is imbued with hatred, armed, in contact with the enemy, and is losing a loved one before his eyes—there is a high probability that he will die in an attempt to take revenge on the enemy.
        The second extreme scenario is that a person doesn't accept hate propaganda, is in a peaceful life, and receives a death notice for a loved one who was captured by the TCC and thrown into a trench without proper training or abilities (a nerd). There's a high probability that he will die trying to take revenge on the authorities who ruined his life, but promised peace in the elections.
        
        Human emotions from loss—by their very nature, emotion—cannot last long (usually seconds or minutes), let alone decades or even months—is a medical fact, confirmed by the maximum mourning period among various cultures, which lasts a year. Any longer, and the resulting losses and eventual extinction of the population—a phenomenon nature can only accept as an exception. It is human nature to accept loss and move on—to live.
        
        That's it, I've finished my report and I don't want to waste any more time, especially with your approach -
        
        I wrote briefly about the peculiarities of the human psyche
        
        but the problem is of a different order and I have already written about this.
Alexey Davydov

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31 December 2025 15: 15

To achieve the goals of the Central Military District, a pro-Russian Ukraine must be created.

If the US and UK allow it.
They may already have the keys to war between Russia and Europe and Japan in their hands, and the expected timeframe for readiness for it in the enemy press is nothing more than routine disinformation.
Will we have the time and opportunity to retake Ukraine if/when they unleash their war and we're fighting superior forces on several distant fronts at once? What do you think?
Perhaps we should admit that the key to resolving this issue is to first coerce the United States into abandoning war. And to achieve this coercion, we need a prior change of power in Russia. In that order, and not the other way around.
1. goncharov.62
  
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  2 January 2026 13: 38
  
  Do you have candidates? Real ones, ones that people will follow? Don't suggest people like Navalny, or even "leaders" from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia to United Russia... They're all cards from the same deck, and it's a marked one at that.
  1. Alexey Davydov
    
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    2 January 2026 13: 45
    
    Do you have candidates? Real ones, ones that people will follow? Don't suggest people like Navalny.
    
    This sounds strange coming from a person who needs to protect, at the very least, the lives of himself and his family.
    If you don't like the options you have, will you sit around?
    With a specific purpose, or as a protest?
    Are you expecting the solution to be handed to you on a silver platter and for them to bow at your feet?
    Or will life later force you to search for this decision in your underwear, like the residents of the Kursk region awakened by the enemy?
    1. goncharov.62
      
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      2 January 2026 16: 58
      
      Stop blah-blah, you haven't answered the question. And there are no candidates because the field is cleared. Whether it's for the better or not is another matter. And don't whitewash it if you have nothing to say or are afraid...
      1. Alexey Davydov
        
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        2 January 2026 18: 08
        
        If we all throw our hands up like you, they'll just kill us. All of us.
        Perhaps it makes sense to strain yourself and save the country, your children, and their future. You want others to think for you. Russia won't survive like this. Everyone, each and every one of us, needs to think now and find a way out. Then the Lord will be able to help us. With our own hands.
        
        goncharov.62
        
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        2 January 2026 20: 15
        
        Don't attribute your thoughts and arguments to me. I respect your opinion, but you should be more careful, too.
Nikolay Malyugin

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31 December 2025 16: 05

The rhetoric addressed to the people and the regime itself must be different. But I'm afraid this won't happen for many reasons.
Sergey Latyshev

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31 December 2025 17: 06

The idea is correct, but very, very late. And hardly possible in the current "rake in the dough and then go to Israel" climate.

Because Ukraine has already seen a real, not fictitious, "alternative" in the LPR and DPR.
Poverty, closing businesses, corruption, the dominance and infighting of obscure officials (who quickly joined United Russia), basements, mutual shelling, miserable wages and prices outside Moscow, people who went to work in Ukraine (all according to the media). And then Muscovites abandoned everyone and went back to Moscow. (Strelkov and Co.)

During the broadcast, the intelligence chief explicitly stated that the goal was to annex the territories to Russia. Which was quickly accomplished.

They killed, etc. 1,700,000 people, they will kill even more... Hello, pro-Russian Ukraine? How strange.

(Ps Strelkov spoke a lot, and supposedly relatively honestly... now he's sitting in jail for a long time... no matter how you treat him)
Mikhail L.

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31 December 2025 19: 15

What to talk about next?
What kind of pro-Russian Ukraine can we talk about if V. Putin is afraid to unite the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, not trusting them?
Former Soviet republics and even Serbia are leaving the Russian Federation...
From their position: Russia produces nothing and therefore has no future!
This basic economic issue needs to be resolved.
But time has shown that the current Russian leadership is incapable of this...
And this has already been said many times!
UAZ 452

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31 December 2025 20: 57

Pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine after the last four years would be an unprecedented example of mass masochism in world history, and is therefore extremely unlikely. And all Ukrainians have been observing the example of former Ukrainian territories under Russian control for eight years, particularly in the case of the LPR and DPR. Frankly, it's hardly a success story, even by a stretch, and since 2016, shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces hasn't been the biggest problem for residents of these territories.
1. Vox Populi
  
  +1
  
  1 January 2026 13: 19
  
  Yes, and yet even now this is not understood, or not fully understood, among us “at the top” and, by the way, “at the bottom” too...
Victor Kovalev_7

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31 December 2025 21: 03

To "demonstrate possible alternatives, we quote former DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov (Girkin), convicted of extremist statements, whose opinion was cited by his wife, Miroslava Reginskaya, on her Telegram channel:...."
nonsense...because it's not real even now..
Victor Kovalev_7

-1

31 December 2025 21: 07

It is hoped that in the coming year of 2026 there will be a real revision of approaches to the implementation of the SVO, its goals and objectives.

Reporter quote!!!
Sergey Dymsky

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1 January 2026 09: 53

We should have bribed Ukraine's leadership back in 2022. We would have spent about a billion dollars. But Ukraine would have been ours.
prior

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1 January 2026 10: 16

The goal of the leadership of the USSR, the elite of the USSR and the people of the USSR in the war with Nazi Germany was one for all, clear and unambiguous.
The goals of Russia's oligarchic elite, its financial circles, its leadership, and Russian citizens in the war against the nationalist Kyiv regime, which are different to the point of being opposites, are not precisely defined, not formulated, and, as a result, are unattainable.
In short - "once upon a time there was a swan, a crayfish and a pike...."
To be convinced that this is indeed the case, just read the comments on this site or a similar one. Some are hunting for wood, some are hunting for firewood. Overall, the "unity" is evident.
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
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  1 January 2026 17: 10
  
  In short - "once upon a time there was a swan, a crayfish and a pike...."
  
  Brezhnev speaks to workers:
  - Comrades, soon we will live better! A voice from the crowd:
  - And we?
AdeptV

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1 January 2026 14: 38

A pro-Russian Ukraine must be created.

At least Ukraine is neutral here, and that's a good thing. It's too late to talk about a pro-Russian one.
Avarron

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2 January 2026 07: 57

If even a part of Ukraine remains, there will be a constant threat. And the drones, which are flying toward Russia in increasing numbers, won't stop. It's just that Ukraine, as a state, is currently launching them, but they will be launched by "underground fighters," against whom Ukraine, if it remains, will supposedly be powerless. "They're hiding very well in the forests, we're doing everything we can, but we can't catch them. They're the criminals, and otherwise Ukraine is white and fuzzy."
The bombings by our generals won't stop, because why should they? Try to establish a precise connection with Ukraine. They'll say there's no such connection, that these are some amateur, ideologically motivated individuals without state support. They find their own weapons and explosives, even from the very same battlefields, and wage an underground struggle against which Ukraine, no matter how much it wants to, can do nothing.
And what should Russia do in this case?
Officially, the country denies launching the UAV, saying, for example, that it is doing everything possible to catch the villains, but its capabilities are limited by the destruction inflicted on it by Russia, etc.
At the same time, NATO troops are located on the territory of Ukraine and agreements similar to Article 5 exist.
What should Russia do in this case?
Semich

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2 January 2026 08: 39

However, terrorist attacks, sabotage, and provocations will continue even under these conditions for many years to come. This is due not only to the intentions of the "collective West," but also to the banal stupidity in the poisoned minds of "Ukrainians."
Muscool

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2 January 2026 13: 11

Our officials can't even make Russia pro-Russian. They've chosen the right allies for themselves—Armenians, Kyrgyz, and Kazakhs. With allies like that, you don't need enemies.