Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

[Windmill knight]

" Trump should'n think that the video archive of his past immoralities is only
in Mossad's hands ".
[ Dimitri Medvedev.]

Some wit commented : " As if to say From Russia with love."

Do you have a source for that? It doesn't sound like something Medvedev would say, and I'm seeing some people commenting on X that the statement is fake.

 

[Ricardo]

Do you have a source for that? It doesn't sound like something Medvedev would say, and I'm seeing some people commenting on X that the statement is fake.

It's a good question , with events like 911 they ( Russian Federation) have sufficient info. for leverage (?), as per transcripts, arguably it's probably the same for whatever shenanigans the Epstein net committed , maybe another aspect of the whole "Mexican stand-off "thing.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

British intelligence, with NATO allies is plotting sabotage to frame Russian oil transport as a threat to global shipping, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said.

Meanwhile,

Russian special forces captured two British officers in Ochakov.

 

[Adobe]

Do you have a source for that?

From my local AI:

No, there’s no credible evidence that Dmitry Medvedev actually said that.
The quote—“Trump shouldn’t think the video archive of his past immoralities is only in Mossad’s hands”—was circulated online, but fact-checkers found it originated from a questionable source with ties to Ukraine, not official Russian media. Medvedev has made provocative statements about Trump recently, especially on social media, but this particular line doesn’t appear in any verified posts from his X or Telegram accounts.

However Zerohedge seems to be going with it. (?)

Kremlin Urges 'Careful Use Of Nuclear Rhetoric' As Medvedev Pivots To Saying Trump Blackmailed By Mossad​

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Aug 04, 2025

"But this doesn't mean that Medvedev is done going after Trump in this latest tit-for-tat social media public war or words. He put the following out Monday on Telegram:"

“Trump should not think that the video archive of his past immoralities is only in the hands of Mossad.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1951807962185662892

Kremlin Urges 'Careful Use Of Nuclear Rhetoric' As Medvedev Pivots To Saying Trump Blackmailed By Mossad | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[axj]

He put the following out Monday on Telegram:"

It's not on Medvedev's Telegram, unless he deleted it:

https://t.me/medvedev_telegram

 

[mabar]

It's not on Medvedev's Telegram, unless he deleted it:

https://t.me/medvedev_telegram

Unlikely to have posted and deleted it, more than one would have noticed,
last post was on Thursday from last week.

 

[Adobe]

Just for clarity, I didn't say "He put the following out Monday on Telegram:" That is a quote from zero hedge posted above in quotes.

As an aside, and probably a bit comical, but does seem to fit here:

I thought that if the Russians "did" want to give the US a good swift kick in the pants, that's not kinetic, it could announce in a public forum."Hey Yanks! you know your not the only ones with Epstein files—911 files—JFK files. Want to share notes on line?"

 

[axj]

Unlikely to have posted and deleted it

Today Peskov sort of publicly rebuked Medvedev, saying that everyone should be careful with nuclear rhethoric and that it is Putin's position that counts at the end of the day:

Kremlin urges ‘careful use of nuclear rhetoric’

The Kremlin warned against escalating nuclear rhetoric after US President Donald Trump ordered the redeployment of submarines

www.rt.com

That may have been a reason for Medvedev to take back another public jab at Trump.

 

[mabar]

Today Peskov sort of publicly rebuked Medvedev, saying that everyone should be careful with nuclear rhethoric and that it is Putin's position that counts at the end of the day:

Kremlin urges ‘careful use of nuclear rhetoric’

The Kremlin warned against escalating nuclear rhetoric after US President Donald Trump ordered the redeployment of submarines

www.rt.com

That may have been a reason for Medvedev to take back another public jab at Trump.

When I click at the link, there was this ... Russians may not post much but things are happening.

Russia ‘no longer considers itself bound’ by nuclear treaty with US

Conditions for maintaining a “unilateral moratorium” on the deployment of intermediate-range missiles have “disappeared,” the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has said

Moscow believes that conditions for maintaining the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the US have “disappeared” and “no longer considers itself bound” by it, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The INF Treaty, which banned ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500–5,500km, collapsed in 2019 when Washington withdrew, citing Russian violations. Moscow has denied the claims, accusing the US itself of developing banned missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the collapse of the INF will significantly erode the global security framework.

“The Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of conditions for maintaining the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to state that Russia no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding self-imposed restrictions previously adopted,” the statement reads.

According to the ministry, the “actions of Western countries” are creating a “direct threat” to Russian security. It also noted that last year, the US deployed a Typhon missile launcher in the Philippines. The statement also referenced the Talisman Sabre exercise in Australia, where the US Army also fired Typhon.

The Typhon is a mobile ground-based launcher designed to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles (range up to 1,800km) and SM-6 multipurpose missiles (range up to 500km).

The Foreign Ministry also took notice of the Australian Army testing an American Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) for the first time in July. The PrSM is a has a maximum range beyond 500km and “is central to strengthening Australia’s land and maritime strike capability,” according to the country’s Defense Ministry.

The Russian statement added further: “Decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by Russia’s leadership based on an interagency analysis of the scale of the deployment of American and other Western ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, as well as the overall development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability.”

Moscow has repeatedly voiced the possibility of lifting the moratorium, for example, after the US announced plans to deploy long-range weapons in Germany in 2026. In November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is developing intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in response to Washington’s actions. The Kremlin has not ruled out deploying the missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.

US President Donald Trump, who during his first term withdrew from the INF and the 1992 Open Skies Treaty which allowed conducting surveillance flights over each other’s territory, has suggested that he would resume negotiations on maintaining the existing restrictions on nuclear weapons with Russia.

 

[Evan]

Well I just got this in my notifications. Could be wrong but Nate @ Canadian Prepper is saying it’s official that Russia has left the New START Treaty today, which pulls all the stops out. There’s speculation that the MI6 agents caught near Odessa possibly sang about plans regarding the Russian shadow fleet or their other deterrents. Tomahawks being moved into Germany (and possibly Ukraine), shortening the 8minute stand down option, or something else. But the little playground fight between Trump and Medvedev has gone serious and the grownups are pissed.

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

Oh really ??? In WW1 when there were no tanks or trucks just railways and horses German army mobilized, crushed Belgium, reached Paris and almost took Paris in about 30 days.


When Napoleon took Moscow it was not capital city but Saint Petersburg was capital. Also when Napoleon took city he was pretty much destroyed because he lost most of his army during summer and had only about 100 000 soldiers left and than he decided to turn back because he had no chance do much else, Russia did not sue for peace because they were in stronger position.

Napoleon had chance to take Russia to her knees if he acted in different way but that is another topic.


I agree with that to some extent.

Who knows, maybe it was for the best, maybe not, although we remember that to some extent there was an attempt or a glimpse of something that fit in with that in the first stage. We all remember the immense convoy, several kilometers long, that was headed for kyiv, but which withdrew as a sign of good faith to facilitate negotiations before Boris Johnson sabotaged them (and, incidentally, to position those troops in more necessary places).
In any case, beyond generating pressure, I doubt the ultimate objective was to take kyiv at all costs, especially if there was some resistance. I'm more inclined to believe that they would act as the situation evolved.

Even an operational encirclement is more plausible than the main idea due to the enormous number of troops that would have been needed to attempt to take the city (in the entire SMO, there were initially around 200,000 troops against nearly 800,000 Ukrainians). Modern warfare is simply too destructive if large groups of troops are concentrated, given the improvement in the destructive power of weapons.

Considering that both armies are somewhat balanced given the availability of modern weaponry, more conventional hand-to-hand combat in cities would have been catastrophic, achieving very little.

The other option was to destroy kyiv through indiscriminate bombing, but that wasn't in Russia's plans for various reasons.
In the end, it's worth remembering that Putin sees this as a war against "dark forces" and not against the Ukrainian people; a long-term operation is a better fit for many reasons.

 

[youlik]

Iron Dimon reacted to the lifting of the moratorium. We also write about an increase in the production of 3 types of missiles used in the Iskander complex. These are ballistic, quasi-ballistic and cruise versions with ranges from 500 to 2500 km, and this is exactly what used to fall under the moratorium.

"Wait for further steps": Medvedev commented on lifting the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles
On August 4, 2025, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, commented on the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on lifting the moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF). He called this decision a consequence of the "anti-Russian policy of the NATO countries" and warned that Moscow's opponents would have to reckon with the "new reality."

"This is a new reality that all our opponents will have to take into account. Wait for further steps," Medvedev wrote.

He stressed that lifting the moratorium was a response to the build-up of "destabilizing missile capabilities" near the Russian borders, including the deployment of American INF missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

The statement came amid rising tensions, including recent threats by US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russia if a truce is not reached in Ukraine. Official representatives of NATO and the United States have not yet responded to Medvedev's words. Experts fear that lifting the moratorium could lead to a new round of the arms race.

This is probably preparation for one of those "steps" that Iron Dimon suggested waiting for.

Airspace was closed over the Astrakhan region - experts expect an Oreshnik missile strike
on August 4, 2025. Reports appeared on social networks and Telegram channels about the complete closure of airspace over the Astrakhan region for civilian aircraft from August 4 to August 8. No official comment has yet been received from the Russian authorities or the Federal Air Transport Agency, but sources attribute the restrictions to possible military operations.

Similar bans on civil aviation flights were introduced earlier, in particular, before the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile struck a target in the Dnieper. Then the rocket, launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan region, reached the Yuzhmash plant in 15 minutes. Experts suggest that the sky closure may be related to tests or preparations for the use of new weapons, especially after the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the lifting of the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.

Residents of the region and air passengers are urged to follow updates from official sources and take into account possible changes in the flight schedule.

There is a serious transformation of the line of contact. Previously, such a distance from the LBS was considered operational, if not the beginning of a strategic one, but now it is moving to the tactical level. All this makes it necessary to review the established norms of logistics and the deployment of troops in the near and middle rear areas.

The new Lancet drone destroyed the Malachite radar at a record distance of 101 km.
On August 4, 2025, Russian military Telegram channels reported that on the night of August 2 to 3, the reconnaissance of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) discovered the Ukrainian mobile radar station P-18 Malakhit, installed on the base of a KrAZ truck. The coordinates of the target were transferred to the calculation of the ZALA Lancet reconnaissance and strike complex of the Rubicon center.

The Lancet barrage munition successfully destroyed the radar at a distance of 101 km from the take-off point, which became a new range record for this type of drone. The strike confirmed the high accuracy and effectiveness of the upgraded version of the Lancet, capable of hitting targets at a considerable distance.

Earlier it was reported about the use of a Lancet with a PTM-3 anti-tank mine to destroy armored vehicles. Experts note that increasing the range of the drone enhances the capabilities of the Russian forces in their area.

The half-witted ukrops is again plotting something similar to the Kursk adventure.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrating 50,000 troops near the border with the Bryansk region, probably preparing a new strike.
On August 4, 2025, the Telegram channel Mash reported that about 50,000 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), including mercenaries from Turkey, Poland and Georgia, are concentrated in the Chernihiv region, a few kilometers from the border with the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. According to sources, the purpose of the concentration is to prepare for another attempt to break through the Russian state border.

Over the past week, Russian border guards and Airborne troops have repelled about 10 attacks in small groups and eliminated 3-4 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region. The day before, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used a drone on a fiber–optic line to blow up a bridge on the Novye Yurkovichi-Klimovo road near the village of Rudnya-Tsata. The AFU field headquarters, according to Mash, are located in the cities of Gorodnya, Koryukovka and Novgorod-Seversky, Chernihiv region.

It is reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces began accumulating reserves in the area shortly after being ousted from the Kursk region in May 2025, when the first field headquarters were erected. In response, the Russian army has significantly strengthened the group on the border with the Bryansk region, reinforced aviation within a radius of 150 km from the border and promptly eliminated the DRG.

No official comments have yet been received from the Russian Ministry of Defense or the Ukrainian authorities on the situation.

Ukrop data on mercenaries. I must say that with a relatively small number of these mercenaries, they are potentially more combat-ready than ordinary AFU servisemen, because many of them have previous combat experience.

Mercenaries from 37% of the world's countries serve in Ukraine.
Acting Head of the Department for Coordination of Military service for Foreigners in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Konstantin Milevsky stated that currently volunteers from 72 countries serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is 37% of the world's countries. According to him, about 40% of them are from South American countries.

Milevsky noted that at the beginning of the full-scale conflict in 2022, 100-150 foreign volunteers joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine every month, and now this figure has grown to 600 people per month. Significant growth is associated with the work of the Foreign Recruitment Center, which has begun to function fully. To date, more than 8,000 foreign volunteers have joined the units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while the total number of foreigners in all types of Armed Forces is probably at least twice as many.

The statement came amid reports of the concentration of 50,000 Ukrainian troops, including foreign mercenaries, in the Chernihiv region for a possible breakthrough of the border with Russia. There have been no official comments from other countries regarding the participation of their citizens in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Железный Димон отреагировал на снятие моратория. Так же у нас пишут об увеличении производства 3 видов ракет, используемых в комплексе "Искандер". Это баллистические, квазибаллистические и крылатые версии с дальностями от 500 до 2500 км и это как раз то, что раньше попадало под мораторий.
А вот это вероятно подготовка к одному из тех "шагов", которых предложил подождать Железный Димон.
Налицо серьезная трансформация линии боевого соприкосновения. Раньше подобное удаление от ЛБС считалось оперативным, если не началом стратегического, а теперь это переходит на тактический уровень. Все это вызывает необходимость пересматривать устоявшиеся нормы логистики и дислокации войск в ближних и средних тылах.
Полоумные укропы опять затевают нечто похожее нв Курскую авантюру.
Укропские данные по наемникам. Надо сказать, что при относительно небольшом количестве этих наемников, он и потенциально более боеспособны , чем обычные ВСУшники, потому что многие из них имеют прежний боевой опыт.

 

[Alreadyin4thDensity Love]

Is anyone able to give me one reason why Israelis and Netanyahu would not give Zelensky few nuclear warheads in order to balance current Russian influence in Middle East and support for Iran ?

 

[axj]

Is anyone able to give me one reason why Israelis and Netanyahu would not give Zelensky few nuclear warheads in order to balance current Russian influence in Middle East and support for Iran ?

What would Israel gain from it? The risks for them seem to outweigh any benefits. Though the Western "elites" may get desperate enough to pull off something like that.

 

[Ricardo]

Also , 4th density sts don't like nukes usage for affecting their side of things. However it hasn't prevented them being used to some extent of course.