The essence of this war in one picture:

or another one. Two other frontlines in picture1 and picture2. All aspects in one phrase: Unpunished evil returns. It is a part of the escalating world war of autocracy against democracy as antagonism between rich (world ruling party) and intelligent (civilization engine). True goal of "collective putin" is infinite power and enrichment, so that Ukraine is only a critical resource and a way to consolidate autocracies. Nowadays, autocrats unite with populists in their opposition to middle class, that is regressive because only the latter are progressors whereas the former are just redistributors. The global threat is regressive evolution of HI and society (e.g. Soviet/Putin Russia) leading to Dark Ages characterized by obscurantism, autocracy, antihumanism, misinformation, stagnation.

• Overview
• Parity to be achieved
• No enough will to stop the war
• Corruption, autocracy, and maladministration as source of all problems
• Critical problems
• Solutions
• Timeline
• Commonly reported facts about Russians

Overview

Be aware of Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing Ukrainian genocide by Russia) and unprecedentedly horrible (for a civilized society) war crimes by Russia, and make no mistake that EVERY criminal since 2014 will be punished [we remember, Myrotvorets, rwc.shtab.net, Putin's list, 5am.in.ua, gur.gov.ua, warcrimes.gov.ua, rwc.shtab.net, rgtr.molfar.global, Stryebkov's project, G7 declaration, US database, Wagner data, missile controllers, missile launchers, Parubiy, Zelenskyy, Shuklinov, Marchenko, Poroshenko, collaborates included, propagandists included,... there will be no place to hide, sooner or later, we must follow Israel's approach, it is working]. See accurate live map. It is worth reminding that Foreign nationals should avoid any travel to Russia.

Clarification for Don'tLookUp-ers: yes, it is a genocide, and you are next in the line (unless your are on the dark side). In the post-Soviet epoch, Putin's Russia systematically kill Ukrainians including our first pro-Ukranian president candidate Chornovil in 1999. The first attempt to kill Ukrainians massively was made in 2013 during Revolution of Dignity. Then a true genocide began on occupied territories starting with brutal murder of Rybak. On the RF territory the genocide of non-russians is permanent, the most horrible is the murder 50k civilians in Chechnya in 1999.

Stay immune to Russian propaganda: just assume by default that their EVERY statement is lie, and keep in mind that RF has ENORMOUS disinformation network spread all over the entire world [informnapalm, Sych, Bereza], and EU/US has no protection against this [Hristenzen].

REMEMBER: Russia is a hardcore terrorist state supporting terrorrism all around the world [Hristenzen], so to stop the terror, RF must be deputinized/demilitarized (including ban on nuclear weapon and complete wipeout of Putin's mafia). To prevent Russian terrorism in future, we have to remove its feed - slaves and easy money - liberate enslaved nations and internationalize colonized natural resources (all former EU colonies were internationalized except for Russia which is the only remaining colonial country in the world, and I don't see any justification for this exemption). To put it simply, to have a peace, Russian Federation must be decomposed into Russia and non-Russian states (constituting majority of RF territory) [make russia small again, Berezovets, Bereza, Budanov, Chernik, Danilov, Fedyna, Friz, Hudymenko, Kuleba, Lylo, Poroshenko (Щоб добитися миру, маємо путіну влаштувати пекло), Kasparov, Reznikov, Roman Ratushnyi, Wałęsa, Zabuzhko, Zabuzhko, johnsmith]. It is just a time for a TOTAL RECALL of all occupied territories (Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Finland, Konigsberg, Manchuria, Kurils) and freedom for multitude of nations imprisoned in RF including purely non-Russian regions such as Siberia and North Caucasus (e.g. Chechnya, Kuban, Tatarstan) - Russians exploit those nations as slaves: they use those people as "cannon fodder" in wars and they "suck out" all natural resources from those lands without any payback but with huge ecological harm [CSCE, ombudsmen, Ben Hodges, ISW map, Perito, Bereza, Friz, Viatrovych, Gulnara Akbarova, ROK, rosanticenter, Crimea, Lugandon is the best-documented textbook case].

IMPORTANT: It is not a usual war, Russians declare extermination of Ukrainians [example, holy war, Zabuzhko] and they target and kill mostly civilians (4.04.2025) wiping out everything they touch, so there will be no peace until

• demilitarization of Russia,
• return of all kidnapped Ukrainians,
• comprehensive reparations,
• punishment of ALL war criminals,
• elimination of KGB/FSB worldwide-network (agents, lobbyists, disinformators etc).

Analysis from Kasparov, Piontkovsky, Khodorkovsky, Felshtinsky, Butusov, Zaluzhnyi, also Applebaum, Belkovsky, Bezsmertnyi, Chmut, Chornovil, Dovgopoliy, Eidman, Grant, Hristenzen, Illarionov, Istrebin, Klimkin, Koch, Kuzio, Latynina, Nevzlin, Ohryzko, Portnikov, Savchuk, Scherba, Shuklinov, Snyder, Soros, and reposts and SoundCheck from Chekalkin, and map by texty.org.ua

How to support Ukraine financially: A direct targeted support is the best option, whereas blind support of state-controlled organizations is the worst option because you might be fueling our mega-corruption (see example and details below). I guess the best way to support the state budget is to pay legal fees in time and in full, considering any ever-emerging extra fees and Ze-Hetmantsev-style robbery as a tax on Ukrainian Army and a punishement for electing corruptionists in 2019. For more serious support consider credible private and public organizations. The most credible one known to me is Poroshenko Foundation whose public part is Solidarna Sprava Hromad (ГО Справа Громад). Other organizations and people with clean reputations (per my knowledge) include Повернись живим, Фонд Юрія Бутусова, Фонд Юрія Касьянова, Демократична Сокира, Безпечне небо, Hospitallers Paramedics, Ярина Чорногуз, Fundacja TeofiPolskie Serce, волонтер Антон Сененко, волонтер Анна Домбровська, Валерій Прозапас, Ігор Кондратюк, Юлія Кіян-Кузьменко і Петро Кіян, Петро Шуклінов, Борислав Береза, 5-й канал, Еспресо TV. See also this review. Be aware that your money for army might go to Ze-pocket via extra taxes imposed on some volunteers. If we assume that Ukraine needs 15B$ monthly for parity including 5B$ from personal donations, then 50M nonmilitary Ukrainians worldwide translates into 100$/month/Ukrainian. Unfortunatley, actual donations are of the order of 1$/month/Ukrainian according to these numbers.

Info for pessimists: Always compare current situation with what was before and also with realistic best- and worst-case scenarios. Then you will clearly see that we are lucky and Ukraine history is spiraling up steadily in the last 40 years starting from destruction of Soviet prison of nations in 1980s and till now when destruction of Russian prison of nations becomes possible. Just revisit challenges in terms of opportunities. Looking back to 2013 when Ukraine unofficially was just a part of G8-level Russian empire, I could not even imagine that Ukraine would gradually get a complete separation from that empire in 9 years, whereas Russia would transform into a fading outcast. On a larger timescale, it has been exactly 800 years since Kyivan Rus transforming later into Ukraine is permanently occupied by Mongol Empire transforming later into Russian Empire, starting from our historical defeat at Battle of the Kalka River on May 31, 1223, located on the current front line. So it is an opportunity to get the long-awaited freedom and defeat or even destroy that evil empire.

Info for forcedly mobilized Russians: Everybody understands that you are slaves in RF, and RF considers you as a cannon fodder with a very short lifetime, so you have only a few options to save your life: 1) protest (you will save millions of lives); 2) leave RF (warriors can then join Freedom of Russia Legion or Russian Volunteer Corps or any other Russian antiputin forces); 3) surrender ASAP in case if you are sent to a front-line (preferably with a salvage) [Zelenskyy (in Russian from 3:45), Vera Mironova]. In case if you just want to exchange your life for LADA, remember that it is a usual Russian "lohotron": in reality your family will get a grocery set or a bag of "pelmeni", and also, according to official Russian statistics 9 people out of 10 are "missing" rather than "killed in battle". See the project "Хочу жить".

Many thanks for everybody helping Ukraine: Ukrainian Army including Zaluzhnyi + volunteers + core supporters including health and emergency and funding and those who was killed or wounded, president Poroshenko and other pro-Ukrainian forces, mayor Klitschko and other pro-Ukrainian government, international partners including Poland and Baltic countries, UK, France, Germany, pro-Ukrainian part of US, Canada, Czechia and other EU countries, Japan, many other countries as well as all people standing against Rashism and corruption [IFL support tracker]. Your help saves millions of lives and trillions of dollars because analysis of occupied territories clearly shows that Russia planned to repeat Stalin genocide devastated this region in the past century.

Shame to everybody who uses this war for own enrichment and usurpation of power [Bereza, Zozulia]. See the long list of our top corruptionists and power usurpers below. This is accompanied by internal war against democracy and opposition (political and economic repressions) run by Kolomoyskyi-Zelenskyy-Yermak autocratic regime: majority of oppositioners are under repression or persecution by this regime [Ariev].

Shame to countries supporting war: ... it was a shame in 2022. Now it is more like WW3 because everything is colored, and the dark side is uniting and using every opportunity to divide-conquer-and-grow. The dark side is Russia, Iran, North Korea, Hamas. The gray side (the main reason why this war cannot be stopped) is the rest of autocracies including China and "my-business-first" part of US/EU/UA (Trump, Orban, Fico, Zelenskyy). Shame to Trump-Mask administration capitulating to and/or collaborating with exhausted Putin (in Feb 2025 US:RF potential is 100:1). The defending side is the democratic world under the permanent attack to divide and conquer. [Khodorkovsky]

Shame to companies supporting war: Auchan and Leroy Merlin supply their products to Russian Army

List of companies doing business with Russia (OTP bank, Raiffeisen Bank)

Parity to be achieved

Everybody asking cynical or stupid questions why Ukrainian Army retreat must read this first because no parity = no win, i.e. with "too little, too late" support of Ukraine by EU/US contrasted to enormous technological and financial investments into pre-war RF by EU/US, the war could be stopped only if RF would stop invasion for some internal reasons [Illarionov,Kasjanov, Firsov, Herbst, Snyder, Vernivskiy].

Parity achieved by now:

• Ground forces (resulted in frontline freezing in June 2023).
• Geopolitics (resulted in discard of any capitulation plans in summer 2022).
• Corruption (unfortunately, it is our "second front", "thanks" to Ze-team who is working hard to achieve also parity in autocracy).
• Naval forces (Russian fleet is now largely deactivated by drones).

Parity to be achieved:

• State government (1:10, with Ze-government Ukraine is doomed) [Small dictatorship will never win large dictatorship, especially if the latter is managed by team of professionals whereas the former is managed by clowns, shopkeepers, swindlers, and revanchists].
• Defense industry (currently 1:∞ thanks to Ze, but is partially compensated by external help and good people, critical for long-time war).
• Military engineering (1:∞ thanks to Ze, critical for defense, partially solved by Poroshenko and good people) [Poroshenko, Gasko, Butusov, NYtimes, "fortifications" from Zelenskyy].
• Long-range attacks (1:5, critical to end the war under existing putin regime, military and war-fueling infrastructure must stop working).
• Attacks on enemy's territory (1:10, critical when applying "democratic" sanctions to autocratic regime, Kursk was fine - just keep going).
• Budget per frontline soldier rescaled by demographic potential (1:10, a few percent of 1M "NATO-standard" that is substantially smaller than in RF and China having substantially larger demographic potentials, i.e. we already have army much larger than can support it, where each unarmored/unarmed soldier is just a cannon fodder) [Portnikov].
• Military budget (1:7 including external help vs 21:1 combined GPD superiority, insufficient even for defense).
• Air forces (1:10, critical for fast large-scale advancements and demolition of fortifications) [aerial bombs].
• Sabotage (1:∞).
• International operations (1:10, e.g. against Russians/funds abroad fuelling the war).
• EU/US investment parity (1:10, since Putin's declaration of intent in 2004 Russia got at least 2000B from EU and 200B from US, whereas Ukraine got only 200B).
• Artillery and counter-artillery (1:2, the overwhelming majority of our human losses comes from shelling; also, frontline cities are open to Russian artillery used for demolition of these cities and killing all its residents).
• (Dis)information war (1:∞, Ze-regime is succesful only in disinformation of Ukrainians).
• Nuclear weapon (1:∞, since Budapest memorandum was violated by Russia, Ukraine's lost nuclear weapon now can be replenished back as part of NATO to deter Russia until it is demilitarized) [Sikorski].
• Protection of civilians (1:10, the sky of Ukraine is open to Russian missiles and drones used for everyday terror of civilians and destruction of infrastructure; this problem should be solved by air defence forces, extermination of bombers and missiles/drones stockpiles, and by equivalent counter-attacks such as one Russian oil refinery plant for each Ukrainian residental building counting from 24.02.2022) [Zaluzhnyi-Zabrodskyi-2022].

No enough will to stop the war

This war could be prevented (as early as in 2008) or stopped (as early as in summer 2022), but instead before Feb 24 the world, capable to crush Russia by a finger, was ready to accept a total destruction of Ukraine, and after Feb 24 we see endless escalation of the conflict because the world destroys Russian army slower than Russia rebuilds it using world's money and products. This indicates existence of some underlying fundamental problems in today's world. Otherwise, it is impossible to comprehend evident paradoxes:

• that Ukrainian ruling party (Ze-clan) is focused on its own empowerment and enrichment rather than survival of our country,
• that Russia is destroying itself,
• that the war is fuelled 99% by countries standing against the war by paying a fee to Russian state mafia for use of world natural resources,
• that US does not provide a help appropriate for its redundant capacity and our urgent needs (a few percent of NATO capacity),
• that EU is incapable to efficiently oppose an offender who is 10 times weaker economically and 100 times weaker technologically,
• that business activity between US/EU and RF continues to operate via proxies at scale comparable to US/EU support of Ukraine,
• that US persistently urges Ukraine to halt attacking RF (it is so brutally cynical that it questions if humanity is a core value of US).

There is just no enough will to stop the war:

• Too many people are not ready to step out of their comfort zone (e.g. business with Putin's Russia) to take even minimal actions to stop the war, and too many people use this war for personal profit [Nevzlin, Nikolov, banks 1, banks 2].
• The true frontline is not between Ukrainian and Russian armies but between those who collaborate with dictators and terrorists ("negotiate" in their own words) and those who fight them, with many people staying in the "gray zone". In this sense the war has already fully engulfed US and EU. In particular, there seems to be unofficial antiukrainian agreement between Putin's and Biden's administrations involving Sullivan and Burns [Illarionov].
• Ze-government is supposed to be fully focused on preventing (before 2022) and stopping (after 2022) the war. Instead Ze-clan is permanently focused on power usurpation and own enrichment from the first days they came to power in 2019.
• China can stop this war MOMENTARILY but does not do it. By 2023 China remains to be the only major economic, technological, military, and political supporter of Russia at the level of "no support = no war". However, China takes a position of maximizing its own profit out of this war and avoiding any own political and economic losses [G20, Reuters, Blinken, Hulyk, Klimkin]. Also, there in an overwhelming evidence that China supplies weapon and ammunition to Russia [FT, Telegraph, Politico, CNN, Kyodo News, North Korea's ships]. This position is largely due to failure of Ukrainian diplomats to establish good relationships with China [Illarionov@53:40]. Evidently, China considers Russia as its satellite and its eastern part as "historical Chinese territories", whose "peaceful" occupation by China is ongoing: cities has now been renamed and corresponding infrastructure planning is under active development.
• The offender in this war has been constantly fueled by countries standing against the war [Illarionov, Istrebin, Oil data, Illarionov@27:55, Romanko, Yatsenyuk, Zerkal, Illarionov, Kuleba, Medvedev, Gazprom]. An example is Russian gas import - it is noncritical for EU and is used only for superprofit and overconsumption. Indeed, annual non-luxury household gas use in Germany is about 10 Bm3 (here we assume that Germany has two times larger population than Ukraine but two times smaller demand due to mild winter and better energy efficiency) which is a tiny fraction of both total gas consumption (100 Bm3) and Russian gas (50 Bm3). Another side of this problem is unintentional supply of high-tech products from developed countries to Russia critical for Russian army and this problem has not been solved so far, and the speed of its solution is not faster than the speed at which Russia finds a new bypasses [Reuters, CNN, RUSI].

Corruption, autocracy, and maladministration as source of all problems

Report corruption to zakrytazona and other anticorruption organizations. Check also: prosud.info. Remember: зелені це недостиглі червоні. Ze-Ukraine in three words: madmen lead the blind (сліпих ведуть безумці).

Throughout the history of Ukraine, our main battlefield has been not on the frontline with external agressor but inside the Ukraine between democracy and autocracy. If democracy loses, a war comes in: Ya-regime brought invasion of 2014, Ze-regime brought invasion of 2022.

Our MEGAPROBLEM is a disastrous autocratic mafia-like russian-rooted Ze-regime (Kolomoyskyi-Zelenskyy-Yermak regime) [johnsmith, Bereza, Korsun]. The democracy ended right after Zelenskyy came to power in 2019 with dissolution of parliament and replacement of the entire government (from central to regional) with loyal people. Then heavy corruption and maladministration started, followed by usurpation and repressions, and the war of 2022 was used to install a practically autocratic regime by 2024 (диктатура пролетаріату і реваншистів). Russian army and Ukrainian corruption EQUALLY [Blinken, Kazanzhy, Grant, Prozapas, Sebastianovich, Politico] complement each other in a destruction of Ukraine. The key difference is that Russian army is weak and becomes weaker whereas Ukrainian corruption is strong and becomes stronger, so that during the war when our army is fighting with invaders for our freedom, Ukrainian government is fighting with our opposition against our freedom; repressions in modern Ukraine are quickly approaching the repression and mafia model of Putin's regime [johnsmith, Lemenov, Prozapas]; also traitors, dilettanti, and criminals are numerous at all levels of the country government system, whereas personnel changes are usually "bad to worse". On top of that, nobody will help a corrupted country. And phrase "why Russian soldiers should die for oligarchs money" can be applied to any corrupted country. The difference between autocratic regimes of Putin or Zelenskyy and democratic governences of EU or Poroshenko became very sharp in 2023 -- all mentioned here "nasty things" (зашквари) of Ze-regime are absolutely inconsistent with democratic world.

This problem MUST be solved by enforcing a permanent comprehensive control of Ukrainian government by EU and US supervisory boards [Gontareva], because every cent invested into Ukraine without a control will be stolen by corruptionists for sure. In fact, the main obstacle for financial support of Ukraine is that US/EU wants to give money to Ukraine whereas Zelenskyy wants money to be given to his team (and we know well how brutally these money will be misused). In this context, Ukrainians and Russians make the same mistake: they want to live by EU standards but don't want to follow EU standards.

Diplomatic consequences of our corruption are catastrophic because nobody will support an autocracy either it is offensive or defensive [Newsweek, Zelenko, Honcharenko]. On top of that, a puzzling persistence of many foreign politicians to communicate with Russian ruling "elites" but look down on Ukrianian ones (those emerged after 2019) might be caused by a stark contrast between Russian and Ukrainian powerholders: both are corruptionists and power usurpers, but the former are well-educated experienced professionals and world-recognized oligarchs whereas the latter are uneducated diletants seized power (proletariat) and world-condemned embezzlers (Kolomoyskyi). Many other international problems have been created by Ze-team, e.g., with Poland.

Demographic consequences are horrible: the population of Ukraine steadily and steeply declines in the last 30 years from 52M in 1990 (#22 in world) to below 40M now (#41 in world) with detrimental age distribution trend. Sharp contrast between Ze-centered Ukraine and people-centered democratic countries worsens the situation [Stepula]. Another demographic problem is moral and intelectual degradation of the proletariat accompanied by the brain drain and elimination of intelligentsia [Chekalkin, Prozapas].

Social consequences might put our country into dark ages of multivel banditism from Portnov-Tararov down to street violence: Maletych case

Military consequences are terrifying: Ze-Ukraine cannot run a sustainable war against Z-Russia, because Putin's corrupted government reinforces army, whereas Zelenskyy's corrupted government reinforces corruption. Ze-regime compensates lack of drones, shelters, ammunition, and preparation by humans life - is there a difference from Z-regime? Is there any evidence that Ze-government values human life? Does Ze-government use human resources properly? Definitely not: in Z-Russia criminals and uneducated people go to the frontline whereas highly qualified specialists work in industry and government. In Ze-Ukraine everything is upside down, criminals and uneducated people go to government whereas no evidence exist that highly qualified specialists are used properly [uncertain state strategy, Sergiy Cherednik, Yuri Lushchai, Mykola Petrenko, Olexandr Polivodskiy, Sviatoslav Romanchuk, Ruslan Shulipa]. Military personnel purges starting from generals down to officers destroys our army from inside [Bereza]. Military mobilization in Ze-Ukraine has serious motivational problems [Gai]: What our Army is supposed to defend? Ze-clan? Ze-property stolen from Ukrainians? Bandits and corruptionists? Autocracy and repressions? Povetry and economic devastation created by Ze-regime? Or those whom "there is no difference" ("Какая разница")? Чи 4-разового уклоніста Зеленського? Why do we have 0.5M mobilization deficit with 13M Ze-voters? Oppositioners die at front line while Ze-clan get medals in rear [LidaSha-Chekalkyn]. Even more, Ze-regime transformed mobilization into slavery, "mogilization" (one-way ticket), corruption, and repression [Ariev, Bereza, Bulakh, Gula], and now fixed this by law [voting, Ariev, Poroshenko]. Ze-regime sends people to the frontline unprepared [FT via Bereza, Bogdan Zatula]. Ukraine has no future with Ze-government. [Chekalkin, Cherniak, Dombrovska]

IMPORTANT: There will be no bright future for Ukraine until its decorruption and punishment of ALL intentional and unintentional criminals especially top corruptionists and those who created national security breaches and persecuted their opponents.

Timeline:

• Excellent analysis from Mar 23 by Poroshenko: part 1, part 2.
• Screw-up from Feb 28: Stadion-2: Ze25 vs Ze19.
• Excellent analysis from Feb 16 by Poroshenko: in his interview for censor.net and his briefing.
• Regress by Feb 12: Political repression of Poroshenko as opposition leader with ban to support our army.
• Regress by Feb 11: Grand theft project of Ze-mafia with Rosatom.
• Regress by Jan 22: With multiple arrests of militaries, Ze-clan opens a new front in its war against Ukrainian army [Pogrebiskij].
• Regress by Nov 10: Freedom House reports that Ze-Ukraine is in the lower part of "Partly Free" countries (below Armenia, Georgia, Moldova).
• Regress by Sep 30: According to Financial Times, Ze-clan uses our people as cannon fodder.
• Update by Sep 29: 101st reminder that with Ze-government we are doomed.
• Update by Sep 28: On how much Ze-clan steals on weapon.
• Analysis from Sep 13 by Butusov: Excellent description of key problems and possible workarounds to mitigate antiukrainian actions of Ze-clan.
• Analysis from Sep 9 by Butusov: Small Soviet army will never win large Soviet army: our recent losses of territory in several directions results from 1) military maladministration on those directions and 2) absence of fortifications (Zelenskyy does not want to build fortifications because he will not be able to "build roads" = ransack state budget).
• Analysis by Aug 24: Modern history of Ukraine from Lutsenko + interesting discussion on who is the 2nd worst president of Ukraine: Kuchma or Zelenskyy.
• Regress by Aug 17: Ohmatdit as representative case of terrible things happening with our country under Ze-regime.
• Regress by Jul 18: Ze-party "legalized" corruption: now members of Ze-clan can rob Ukraine for a "fee".
• Regress by mid-Summer: At some point back in time, the amount of fuckups by Ze-regime became so huge that I lost count of them.
• Regress by May 15: Ze-government sabotages support of our Army [Butusov, Lutsenko].
• Analysis from Apr 24: US Department of State report on significant human rights issues involving Ukrainian government officials, in other words, now it is official: Ze-regime is a dictatorship.
• Analysis from Apr 20: Detailed analysis how Poroshenko was building our Army in 2014-2019 and Zelensky was destroying our Army in 2019-2022.
• Regress by Mar 19: Ze-regime is now promoting an idea that dictatorship is good for Ukraine.
• Analysis by Feb 15: Explanation why Zelenskyy dismissed Zaluzhnyi (Zaluzhnyi is trusted by 94% of Ukrainians).
• Analysis by Feb 14: Interview with Naumovich evidencing power usurpation by Yermak-Tatarov group of Ze-clan.
• Regress by Feb 7: Horrible transformation of our society under 5 years of Ze-regime [Prozapas].
• Update by Feb 6: Analysis of black side of SBU by Senenko.
• Regress by Jan 29: Zelenskyy bacame so impudent that he asked EU to give him money dedicated for support of Ukrainian refugees (translated: "Ми хочемо пилити і ці гроші").
• Regress by Jan 25: Ze-Ukraine is losing the drone war.
• Progress by Jan 22: Ze-regime persistently requests EU to provide cannon fodder (of Ukrainian origin) for its autocratic sustainability but is persistently sent along with Russian ship. See also comment by a displaced person.
• Update by Jan 21: Summary by Poroshenko.
• Regress by Jan 17: Ze-government is so anti-Ukrainian that it has been cited by Putin in his anti-Ukrainian statements.
• Regress by Jan 18: Ze-regime made another step towards Z-regime. Now Ze-approach to state management can be called as "bespredel" (свавілля, arbitrariness). Numerous facts show that Ze-clan uses war to eliminate democratic opposition, often physically. Not mentioning use of war for financial enrichment and empowering, see story about Pischanski.
• Update by Jan 10: Anaysis by Poroshenko of 5 most urgent problems (out of hundreds of critical issues). Analysis and summary by Kasjanov. 5-year summary by Lemberg. Message by Hudymenko.
• Progress by Jan 8: More and more people recognize that our enemies inside the country are as dangerous as those beyond the frontline.
• Regress by Jan 8: Ze-regime continues to find more ways to ransack local budgets.
• Regress by Jan 5: Ze-clan continues to rob Ukrainians by ransacking our small business.
• Update by Jan 3: Neat comparison of great mayor vs crackpot president ("горе-президент")
• Summary by end of 2023: Russia against Ukraine - no major advances from any side. Ze-clan against Ukraine - billions are stolen, no support of Army, more repressions, less freedom, larger TV at the expense of smaller fridge.
• Update by Dec 30: Analysis by Lutsenko
• Update by Dec 17: We lose Avdiivka because Ze-clan continues marauding instead of supporting our defenders. Also we got the answer were Ze-clan wanted to redirect money withdrawn from local budgets - not to Army but to Ze-pockets.
• Update by Dec 9: Ze-regime blocked opposition from diplomatic contacts that resulted in major loss of international support.
• Update by Nov 24: It turns out that Russian attacks are not needed to power down our energy system as long as it is in Ze-hands.
• Update by Nov 15: Analysis by Lutsenko - Ze-regime is evil; Ze-team is collection of traitors, corruptionists, and diletants; Ze-government created security breach for Russian invasion of 2022 resulting in thousands of deaths of civilians and major territory loss (more details here).
• Update by Nov 12: Unofficial verdict to Ze-judiciary by French judiciary: illegitimate.
• Regress by Nov 1: Avdiivka clearly shows failure of Ze-government to provide a support of our army (in other directions the situtation is absolutely unacceptable too). See report by Butusov and another report by Butusov: "Раптом виявилось, що за час війни у Авдіївці жоден керівник не побудував тилової лінії оборони, і окапуватись треба зараз." А ми ж знаємо, що ці "керівники" з Зе-команди закатували гроші в асфальт в той час, як росіяни будували укріп-райони на півдні. "Ніби дешевше кинути на пусте місце піхотинців з лопатою... ніж заритись у землю технікою..." Краще вже так: роздати цій зграї Зе-паразитів саперні лопатки і відправити в Авдіївку копати укріплені позиції для наших захисників - на іншу допомогу ці "слуги народа" неспроможні, тільки гадити можуть. Other comments related to anti-Ukranian actions of Ze-regime: Ariev, Bereza.
• Update by Oct 31: How to get out of Ze-disaster - action plan by Lutsenko.
• Regress by Oct 25: Under Ze-regime Ukraine is quickly moving towards repressive regime reaching position #4 in Tax Hell ranking and China-level of WJP Rule of Law Index.
• Update by Oct 22: More and more traitors have been identified in Ze-team.
• Update by Oct 19: Chervinsky is still under arrest, many Ukrainian patriots are repressed by Ze-regime. There is only one letter difference between Ze-regime and Z-regime.
• Update by Oct 11: The way how Israel government responded to terrorists attack proves that Ze-clan came to power just to brutally ransack the Ukraine.
• Regress by Oct 6: Recent steps of Ze-team on their way to authoritarianism.
• Regress by Oct 5: Now "slugi narodu" (Ze-party) feel free to beat people on street in a daylight.
• Regress by Sep 20: another attempt by Ze-clan to steal the budget [Porosheno, Poroshenko].
• Regress by Sep 5: Ze-clan has clarified its anti-Ukrainian interests.
• Regress by Aug 29: 4 years show that Ze-parliament is the worst parliament in the history of Ukraine.
• Regress by Aug 28: new Grand Scam from Ze-clan.
• Update by Aug 24: Who is Who in Ukraine: by military involvement, European Solidarity is the largest pro-Ukrainian force whereas Sluga Narodu and Holos are the largest "deviators" ("уклоністи" with their leader being "чотирикратний уклоніст"). By involvement in corruption, Sluga Narodu is absoutely dominant anti-Ukrainian force. See also List of deputies killed in a battlefield: 12 and 10 from European Solidarity and Svoboda, 0 (ZERO) from Sluga Narodu and Holos.
• Regress by Aug 10: Concise summary of regress after 2019 by Volokh.
• Regress by Aug 7: Poroshenko opened door to Europe, Zelensky tries to close it in a Putin style, i.e. Gulag but open for VIP (Від безвізу до безвиїзду лише один хрестик у бюлетені, also Lemberg).
• Update by Jul 27: Clear test of what political party is for democracy in Ukraine (including expected results from Holos, which should be renamed to "Продам свій Голос").
• Regress by Jul 19: Now bad news from corruption outnumber bad news from the war.
• Regress by Jul 13: Ze-propaganda in numbers.
• Regress by Jun 20: "Hromadske" media has been degraded to "zelensky rupor", now at the level of persecution of oppositioners.
• Regress by Jun 13: repressions by Kolomoyskyi-Zelenskyy-Yermak clan continue to escalate: Chornovil was attacked today, Ariev family is under attack last months, Poroshenko team has been permanently attacked since 2019. We have to reiterate that every criminal will be punished, no matter if he is red or green.
• Update by Jun 12: Concise clarification of criminal negligence of Ze-team from Lapin: росіянці дійшли до Харкова за 5 годин, ми вибивали їх 5 місяців. Вони захопили Каховську ГЕС за 12 годин, уявіть скільки часу ми будемо звільняти Херсонську і Запорізьку області. А знаєте чому? Бо вони проти нас будують укріплення,а ми для них будували дороги
• Update by Jun 9: another important kick to Zelenskyy's team from G7.
• Update from Jun 5: Siege of Kyiv continues! Not by Russia, but by nasty Ze-clan. 10 Ze-representatives steal our city budget and attack our mayor. They steal uor budget under protection of Ze-government.
• Regress report from May 22 by Politico: Time for Ukraine to launch an anti-corruption counteroffensive (гнати в шию зелених корупціонерів).
• Regress by Apr 20, 2023: tight budget for army and people, unlimited budget for Ze-team.
• Regress by Mar 15, 2023: new dictatorship laws from our government.
• Regress by Mar 6, 2023: Zelenskyy clan made another major step toward dictatorship by taking control over our main anticorruption institution [Ariev, Lemberg].
• Regress by Feb 24, 2023: Ukrainian corruption finally won Russian Army and retook its position of the top problem of Ukraine [Ariev]. It paralyzes all our efforts from inside. Zelenskyy's press-conference, including multitude of banned questions, demonstrated the problem clearly: our central government FAILS to manage our country properly.
• Progress by Feb 1: there is an opportunity to prosecute our top embezzler Kolomoyskyi who is considered criminal everywhere except for Ukraine where he is protected by Zelenskyy [Chornovil].
• Progress by Jan 25: finally Zelenskyy's team got a strong enough kick to stop corruption escalation [Butusov, Chornovil], but our government needs a constant kicking to move in the right directions, so a newly created hotline for reporting misconduct will be very helpful.
• Regress report from Dec 29 by NYT: New media law signed by Zelenskyy restricts press freedom in Ukraine.
• Regress report from Nov 7 by EU: Ukrainian corruption and judiciary remain to be totally inconsistent with EU standards.
• Regress report from Sep 5 by G7: 123rd notification from stakeholders that Ze-team is doing something terribly wrong.
• Regress by Jul 14: Just think how cynical are Ukrainian corruptionists – at the moment when Putin fires missiles onto sky-open Vinnytsia, Kolomoyskyi protected by Zelenskyy steals 4.3B Hryvnas which could close the sky over Vinnytsia – and this is only one case out of many.
• Regress by Feb 2022: MAJORITY of currently occupied territories were either fought by Russia in 2014 or YIELDED to the enemy without fight in Feb 2022 (and without explanations from our government so far) [Prozapas, Prozapas, Butusov].
• Regress by New Year 2022: Ze-kvartal mocks our patriots ("уроди" із Зе-кварталу порівнюють наших захисників із мавпами).
• Regress by end of 2021: Ze-team governance led to a huge mutiscale national security breach (military [tZE inform, Ariev, Butusov, Politico, Зустрінь весну без пороху], economic, political, diplomatic etc), which was probably the main reason why Putin took a risk to launch a large scale invasion in Feb 2022 considering this moment as the best opportunity window [Chornovil, Butusov]. ECA reports grand corruption in Ukraine (see Corruption Perceptions Index on p.65 - corruption was steadily decreasing during Poroshenko presidence but then started to fluctuate during Zelenskyy "state capture").
• Regress by end of 2019: Ze-clan freezes our missile program, stops integration with NATO, allows integration of RF agents into our military system, gives RF 65B via gas contract (one of the main reasons why Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022).
• Regress by Oct 1, 2019: Ze signed Steinmeier formula.
• Regress by 2019: All our modern problems are rooted here. Neglecting wiseman minority, majority started an experiment of what would happen if we let piggies into the garden to replace gardeners. The film showed a nice picture of beautiful piggies taking care of garden by eliminating weeds and fertilising soil. In the reality, piggies grew up to a multiplying herd of dirty aggressive dull-witted swines eliminating everything except for weeds and producing mountains of shit but promising bountiful harvest in future. Finally they broke the fence so that more carnivorous swines came in... Або ж за незліченними картинками з Інтернету: стадо баранів обрало шашлики і шоу, і одержало і то, і друге, але з баранів, про що їх попереджали (а тих, кого ще не з'їли, стрижуть по повній).

References:

• Analysis: Ariev (2), Barchuk, Bereza (2, 3, 4), Butkevych, Butusov, Butusov, Butusov, Chekalkyn, Chornovil (2), Dovgopoliy, Grant, Istrebin, Kasjanov, Kniazhytsky, Kokh, Kryvonos, Kurbanova, Lemberg, Lutsenko, Novikov, Pavlyshyn, Poroshenko, Portnikov, Prozapas, Savchuk, Savchuk, johnsmith, Tregubov, Viatrovych, Volokh, Yuzhanina, Olexandr Zelen'ko, AntAC, epravda, legalized corruption, summary.
• Top corruptionists, all protected by Zelenskyy-Yermak (it is unclear who is real president now): Kolomoyskyi (top embezzler) stole another 4B in July, Yermak, Yermak-Tatarov, Tatarov-Zelenskyy, Tatarov, Tatarov-2023, Zelenskyy-Bakanov-Sivkovich-FSB, Simonenko, Derkach, Krivonos-Yermak, Hetmantsev-Tatarov, "sluga"-traitor (Kovalev), Koretskiy, self-voting Merezhko, Shuliak, Shuliak 2, Podoliak, Shurma-Yermak, Krivonos-Yermak, Trubitsin-Tatarov, Trubitsin-Bezugla-Yermak, Timoshenko (of Yermak) steals US military help, Reznichenko, Shapovalov-Reznikov, Kasai, Suhachov, Krupa's family - golden standard of middle-level Ze-corruption, Kunytskyy, Shkarlet (top plagiarist) is still education minister, Lutskiy-Shkarlet, Markarova's becomes richer while Ukraine becomes poorer: from Yanukovich till 3rd year of the war, Markarova, Ze social lifters (from petty criminals to power holders, Yurchenko, Droszdova, Povoroznyuk). Moseichuk (top propagandon), Trukhanov (dirty budget holder), and MANY others.
• Zelenskyy is formally not a corruptionist (just a power abuser) but covers up the corruption (benefits from corruption) and is an INCREDIBLY BRUTAL LIER ("я вам нічого не обіцяв", "бреше і оком не моргне", tough questions to Ze-2024 from Ze-2019 and his voters-2024) [Lemberg]:
  • promised 4000$ salary for teachers but in fact they barely get 200$ or 50% of average spending per person in 2023, and Ze-government does not want to increase it,
  • promised 200k for soldiers but many of them do not receive even 30k,
  • promised to use bike for commute but in fact uses the largest in history motorcade,
  • promised to sell presidential fleet but in fact evacuated it before the war and made it more luxury for himself,
  • promised to imprison corruptionists but in fact covers them up and imprison oppositionists,
  • promised no misuse of military funds but his team is the most impudent misuser,
  • promised no nepotism but in fact he is the largest nepotist in Ukrainian history,
  • promised end of povetry (кінець епохи бідності) but in fact the povetry began to escalate since Ze-presidence [Picodi, Bereza, Lutsenko],
  • promised low tariffs for people but in fact the largest tariff increase is by Ze-governance
  • promised 9Bhrn/year budget revenue from Casino but in fact legalized gambling and created online-Casino mafia stealing 0.5Bhrn/day(!!) from our pockets to Ze-pockets with negligible budget revenue [Poroshenko],
  • promised to be a president but in fact cannot connect a couple of words by himself ("random word generator"),
  • promised to listen to people needs but in fact he is the most "inaccessible" president and the only president with no public access to his office building,
  • promised that "everybody is president" but issued a law giving 15 year for that slogan ("привласнення державних функцій"),
  • promised that Trypilska TPP is 100% protected but in fact it was detsroyed by single airstrike,
  and this story is endless ("ні дня без зашквару", cynical lier). Now he is
  • pressing small business with taxes but himself he had been avoiding paying taxes.
  Compare this list with Poroshenko's list.
• The most unprofessional dilettanti (яке ж нещастя мати стільки *** при владі в такий складний для України час): Zelenskyy and his team including parliamentarians, ministry of defense, Reznikov, Arakhamia (2), Hetmantsev, Yermak, Bezugla and Bogutskaya, Kuleba, sexologist-ambassador (consequences) and other extremes (the entire list is too long to present here). Majority of professionals are in opposition and barred by Kolomoyskyi-Zelenskyy-Yermak clan from occupying positions of their expertise or doing work relevant for their expertise. To hide their outrageous unprofessionalism Zelenskyy's team systematically steals achievements of his predecessor (Poroshenko's team) as exemplified here or simply lies. Fortunately, foreigners understand that Zelenskyy's Chapiteau does not represent true Ukraine (also here). See also summaries from Butusov and Bereza.
• Most detrimental failures of Ze-team caused by unprofessionalism ("fuckups"): Zelenskyy's visit to Arab world.
• "Grand Theft" projects: Ze-corruption model, 10B theft in weapon procurement, "Grand Theft" project in construction, "Grand Theft" project in consumer electricity, "Grand Theft" with drones, theft project in media, Ze-marathon, military funding to construction (як Зе-влада "закатує в асфальт" гроші на Армію), another "asphalt" case, in 2021 roads budget exceeded army budget by 40%, corruption in weapon procurement, 1B "trees" project, "750B Grand Waste" proposal, "Casino" project, "steal and escape" project, mafia in agriculture, grain conflict with Poland, corruptioning Naftogaz, bankrupting Naftogaz, waste of money during war, stealing unemployment fund, theft of humanitarian aid, another waste for entertainment, inefficient use of reconstruction funds, discriminative bill 11103 for VIP, Rotterdam+ ("Пане Зеленський, скільки особисто вам занесли за Роттердам+?"), destruction of nuclear power security, 200% kickback, miriads of "smaller" thefts like this one for 126M, many theft projects and election tricks are hidden under take-pause-giveback and "two steps back, one step forward" combinations.
• Repressions, robbery and banditism in private sector:
  • Scheme 1 - false accusation followed by litigation and arrest [Rollton]
  • Scheme 2 - send businessman to frontline and ransack his business [Kuzkin]
  • Scheme 3 - robbery of investors by "інвестняня" [Poroshenko]
  • theft of Dovzhenko center
• Legal abuse is overwhelming, the most recent case is Chernyshov. SBU, BEB, DBR are corrupted, whereas anticorruption organizations are restricted [Poroshenko].
• Our judiciary system is like a mafia: Kolomoyskyi-Portnov (top revanchist), VIP retirees, VIP retirees with 100-fold pensions, judge - "sluga", judge - RF citizen, Arestova
• Military cases (security breaches): MEGACASE - surrender of southern Ukraine, surrender of Kherson, Zolote breach, Chonhar breach, Hostomel breach, Northern breach, SBU breach, Archer case, disinformation, disinformation, Bakanov (supported by Zelenskyy), Derkach-Dubinskiy, Derkach-Duma, Derkach-Dziubinsky, protected Dubinskiy, Demchenko, Kulinich, Yermak-Sharapov, Sharapov-Kovalenko, Gogilashvili, Slusarev, Chernigov disaster resulted from brutal Ze-capture of power and subsequent maladministration, 14 hours before the invasion were just wasted, poor coordination with volunteers, Pisky disaster.
• Military cases (war against Ukrainian Army): systematic demolition of our military leadership, systematic demolition of our military industry, Antonenko-Kuzmenko-Dugar case, Marchenko case, Kryvonos case, Chervinsky case (interview with Chekalkin), Taran case, disinformation, klystron story, Ukrainian drones story, another Ukrainian drones story, imported drones story, mortar story, heaters story, first aid kit story, golden eggs, golden bottles Stugna story, air defense (ППО) story, emergency vehicles story, selling military aircraft engines to Russia, anti-Army propaganda, penalty for counter-fire, brigade #128 case, SBU against volunteers, laws against volunteers, state mafia against volunteers, repressions of militaries, low compensation for militaries (compare to Буглак), poor military organization, blocking supply chains, bakery case, numerous cases of budget misuse [Poroshenko].
• Blocking reforms: blocking reforms, corrupted courts, failed judiciary reform, ignoring EU recommendation impudently.
• War against democracy: majority of "Poroshenko hunters" turn out to be traitors, hiding the work of Verkhovna Rada, media censorship, extermination of independent TV-channels, war with journalists, support of antiukrainian journalists, black lists, war with opposition, Ухилянти переслідують добровольців, blocking opposition access to media, blocking international contacts with opposition, creating "files" against oppositioners, persecution of Ariev, Alekseev case, Derkach case, misuse of SBU, SBU against oppositioners, another misuse of SBU in war with opposition, war against city mayors (Kyiv, Chernigiv, Poltava and so on); one of the nasty tricks used by Ze-team in war against opposition is to publicly accuse oppositioners, put them in jail, and then start slow-going prosecution which eventually ends with nothing, but this takes freedom and damages reputation of oppositioners, the most terrible is Antonenko's case being a prisoner for 3 years, the most recent is botoferma case.
• Other cases (it is impossible to track all cases because there is at least one new state-level case per day since Apr 2019): case#345, case#346, case#347, case#348, case#349, case#350, case#351, case#352, case#353, case#220817 - Kolomoyskyi stole hotel "Mir", case#220820 - "seizure" of Dovzhenko Studios, case#221115, case#221117, case#221119, case#221213 construction mafia's project 5655, case#230208 Tatarov, case#230209 Ananchenko, case#230301 Kobolev, case#230310 Hamaliy, Kopanchuk family, Monaco battalion, media-trash, Zelenskyy's President Office is even less transparent than Yanukovich's one, killing economy by inspectorates, killing economy by VAT-lock, killing economy by state racket, failure to reorganize economy during war, inconsistent international position, entertainment during war.

Critical problems

Problem #1: Poor military organization of Ukraine and substantial resource superiority of Russia. This problem was noncritical on a short scale, but the blitzkrieg has now transformed into a large scale war of attrition, requiring a long-term military endurance of the entire country [Nasarov, Butusov]. So far we were lucky because Russia made more errors than us, but this luck is not eternal. We hope that Russians will stop this self-destructive war but it might not happen soon. Russia has substantial economic, demographic, geographic, and armory superiority over Ukraine. Therefore we can win only by more efficient military organization and more efficient use of all available resources. For military organization see Grant's article. For resource parity see kasparovru, Illarionov 1, Illarionov 2, Illarionov 3: we are still far away from it, and the main obstacle here seems to be inability of our government to manage our country efficiently during the war – Zelenskyy's clan came to power for "shashlyky" and can help Ukraine only within context of their personal profit ("шкурних інтересів") [johnsmith]. Moreover, many citizens stand aside from the war [Nozhevnikova] - it is the responsibility of our government to engage their social responsibilities - every Ukrainian elector must support our army either by work or by money.

Problem #2: Weakening of modern US/EU-style democracy vs strengthening of autocracy. This is a world war of autocracy against democracy ignited in 2007 [Illarionov 2024, Illarionov 2023, Illarionov 2022, Kasparov 2024, Kasparov 2022, Fursa, Haley, Inozemtsev, Klimkin, Lutsenko, Nevzlin, Shuklinov, Nevzlin, Bloomberg, poll in Gaza]. In this war, populism, formalism, and dirty money seem to be the main vulnerabilities of modern democracy. How vulnerable is our democratic world if such a miserable jerk (hu*lo in Ukrainian) as Putin can terrorize it for years. Evidently, modern autocracy has "operational superiority" over democracy: Economically depressed Iran and North Korea readily provides any weapon in any amount to Russia, whereas for economically superstrong EU/US a transfer of every single item of each type of weapon becomes an NP-hard problem. Looks weird, but after our every major attack far beyond the frontline, US makes a statement that they do not provide us offensive weapon and do not recommend us to attack Russian territory. Overall, the situation with military help is best described by "Give me the gun" scene from The Fifth Element. As pointed out by Russians themselves (see e.g. Potapenko), Western politicians often fully misunderstand Russia (see e.g. US experts in 2015) considering it as a regular state, but in fact, internally it is a lawless empire whose leader is a dictator and citizens are graded slaves, whereas externally it is a terrorist organization with unprecedentedly high internal resources to support the terror. That is how bad guys, dirty money, and all kinds of fakes are exported from Russia to Europe as clean and lawful stuff. It was a series of political "shortsightedness" of US/EU leaders in 2007-2016 including Obama, Merkel, Hollande, Sarkozy trying to extinguish a grease fire with water, that after "probe" invasions of 2008 and 2014 resulted in 2022 in the largest war since WWII [Johnson, Lucas] and follow-up conflicts escallations all around the world. Hong Kong and Xinjiang internment camps are other important parts of this story. There are also relevant discussion on economics by Angus Deaton. Illustrative examples:

• Sounds hillarious but autocracies heavily use freedom of democratic countries to destroy the democracy in these countries [Ariev].
• "Imperative tolerance" to things (religion, orientation, opinion, individuals etc) intollerant to other things. In this way tolerant people are doubly discriminated: by intolerant ones and by the imperative system.
• US-Russia "negotiations" about Ukrainian territory [article1, article2].
• Interesting comparison with WWII.
• How Putin keeps control over the strongest EU country - Germany,
• while Germany keeps stepping on the same rake.
• Security breaches inside Germany.
• RF controls up to 20% of German voters.
• How sponsors of Russian terrorism enjoy their comfortable life in EU.
• Why is Russia allowed to freely kill its emigrants in EU?
• Cultural vulnerability of modern democracies exemplified on Russia-Ukraine case: Step 1 - Russia introduced its religion in Ukraine under "freedom of religion" democratic principle ("of course", Ukrainian religion was always banned in Russia (formally as nationalism) because Russia was not supposed to follow democracy rules). Step 2 - Russia introduced its language in Ukraine under "cultural freedom" democratic principle (schools, books, documentation etc) ("of course", Ukrainian cultural activities were initially depreciated and then simply banned in Russia, also all Ukrainians were supposed to change their natonality in passports). Step 3 - Russia declared that Ukraine is primordial Russian territory.
• Autocratic regime of Trump-Musk in the country with long democratic traditions.

Problem #3: Antiukrainian propaganda in Russia, Ukraine, and beyond, escalating since 2000s (strong enough to make many people mentally sick [Meduza, Obozrevatel, Russians in EU], including #какаяразница political force ruling Ukraine since 2019) [Mingarelli]. Starting from Sep, there is a steady worldwide progress in immunization against Russian propaganda. Russian church is the largest antiukrainian organization in Ukraine, so it must be completely removed from Ukraine ASAP. Surprisingly, in 2024 ZDF journalist Armin Coerper actively participates in Russian propaganda (many thanks to ZDF to put Coerper's report into the right context).

Problem #4: Export of corruption and banditism from Russia with enormous funding (large fraction of RF budget, capable to corrupt a US senator or a Chancellor of Germany not mentioning leaders of small countries like Serbia or Hungary, or have lobby in US Congress and all-level EU institutions, or manipulate the US president) [Eydman, NashiGroshi]. In this way, a large fraction of EU/US politicians and businessman unintentionally became accessories of state-wide banditism in Russia, resulting in the largest robbery of a country by absolute sum of money washed out of Russia in 1990-2022 [Patrushev case]. George Santos is the most recent example of how dirty are politicians funded by Russia. Banditism of Wagner group in Africa is example of other kind [Belkovskiy@32:00]. Recruitment of EU/US residents for terrorism and banditism is another mechanism out of many [Berezovets].

Solutions

Developed countries and especially EU/US are obliged to support Ukraine as long as we assume that at the current evoluton stage of our civilization, lead countries are responsible for the global security (exemplified by UN, climate, waste, and other global initiatives), because Russian aggression against its neighbors would not be possible without an external financial, technological, and political support (see the above problems for clarification of this support) as well as without unilateral partial demilitarization of Ukraine in 1990s-2000s by US/EU. Not mentioning formal obligations according to Budapest Memorandum. Moreover, after establishment of autocracy in Russia in 2000s and occupation of Georgia in 2008, developed countries conciously continued to support aggressive and repressive putin regime. To make it clear: stop this support and Russia will collapse in a few years in the sense of not being able for any aggression. See also analysis by Illarionov of Mitt Romney's comment explaining why help in the amount of 1% of US military budget is insufficient to solve the Russia-terrorism problem, but any investments into demilitarization of Russia are super-beneficial for the global security. In addition, bellicose autocracies such as putin regime use "divide and conquer" approach, so by taking control over Ukraine RF gets substantial human and nonhuman extra resources (roughly speaking 25% of Ukrainians will be eliminated and the rest will be enslaved as was repeatedly done in the last 800 years) to invade the next EU country in a chain. [Piontkovsky].

Because of complete failure of international agreements, they should be considered as geopolitical tools. This war shows that countries can sign any document but in reality that does not impose any obligations. The most blatant example is Budapest Memorandum - a meaningless piece of paper created a huge security breach for Ukraine. Basically, Ukraine's was deprived its long-range attack capabilities by the memorandum signatories including Russia and US, but now when Russia attacks us with long-range missiles, those signatories don't want to give us a proper counter-weapon. Moreover, U.S. Altered Himars Rocket Launchers to Keep Ukraine From Firing Missiles Into Russia. Some agreements are simply antihuman: We have to pay 10k per Russian captive that exceeds budget of majority of Ukrainians.

Because of complete failure of old international organizations (OSCE, UN, Interpol, WHO, Red Cross, Amnesty Int, church) in fulfilment of their core functions, countries should rely on their-country-focused international unions and organizations, considering the rest of organizations as dirty geopolitical tools. References [Lutsenko, Chornovil, Truss, Klimkin about UN, Milei about UN, Nevzin about UN, terrorists in UN, Heritage about Interpol, Barchuk and Lemberg and "Angel of peace" medal about church]. It is a pity that UN has been transformed into a tool for legalization of offense, war, invasions, genocide, massacre and other horrible things, where truth is replaced by representative majority opinion: roughly speaking, half of the world can kill another half of the world and proove its innocence by majority. See examples how UN and Red Cross are used to help HAMAS terrorists.

The length and aftermath of this war are fully determined by developed countries by balance of their intentional support of Ukraine (amount and quality of weapon) vs unintentional support of Russia (amount of superprofit they get from Russian corruption). Of course, the required balance itself depends on strength of Russian army and Ukrainian corruption, but these factors are less variable.

It is clear that majority of Russians should be restricted from entering civilized countries (a standard rule applied to citizens of terrorist states - every Russian must get clearance first) because roughly speaking every second Russian is a bad guy or barbarian or zombie, and you don't know how to filter them out at the border. In the worst case scenario they are KGB-agents, terrorists, murderers, and saboteurs, whereas in the "light case" scenario they constitute the "Fifth column" propagating violence in various forms from verbal and hooliganism to criminal cases including beating, organized banditism, and theft [Honcharenko]. Also, we should always REMEMBER that Russia can attack any country with non-negligible fraction of Russian-thinking population (e.g. Germany) to "save russkiy mir". Importantly, Russians kill people consciously, i.e. whatever they say on camera in a civilized world, they follow their leaders upon first call like terrorists [Bereza, VolunteerInfo]. The fact that the percentage of rashists among russians is very high is given by number of "likes" for this Paris restaurant whose owner supports putin.

It turns out that scientists in Russia should be isolated from world scientific community because they actively participate (voluntary or involuntary) in offensie weapon development, including even those who obtained their professional training abroad: see Dzmitry Tsetserukou (arXived here). If we educate barbarians to civilize them, there is a risk that they use the obtained knowledge for creation of weapon against us.

All Russian export must be taxed to fund restoration of Ukraine. Now there is a nice idea of Michael McFaul to tax also Russian travelers.

Russia state must be constantly pressed/attacked by all means. This resolves many problems: 1) Decrease Russian resources for doing crimes against humanity, both intrastate and interstate. 2) Decrease support of the war and Kremlin junta by Russian oligarchs. 3) Make Russian citizens aware about horrible war crimes their army is doing. 4) Create a demilitarized zone to stop shelling of Ukraine (Russian Tornado missile range is 200 km, which includes 7 oblasts: Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Orel, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar).

Some RF resources must be temporarily shared with Ukrainians until a complete restoration of the damaged Ukrainian resources. This includes a territory (for living, agricultural, and industrial use) and damaged infrastructure (medical system, power plants, airports, railway, natural resources etc) [Tsibulko].

Timeline

Analysis from Apr 23: Analysis of sanctions by Gudkov, Aleksashenko, and CASE center

Update from Apr 17: Trump's capitulation to Putin (or collaboration with him) - shame to US

Analysis from Mar 9: on Jeff Merkley's critical analysis of national security breach

Update by Feb 28: The political position of Trump-Musk clan has been fully unveiled - they stand with Putin. Let now see if US will join RF in it violation of Budapest memorandum. Is it a start of the Putinization of America?

Analysis from Feb 21: by Frederick Kempe

Analysis from Feb 20: by Illarionov of all the nonsense produced by recent public statements of Trump, see also fact checking by ISW, and another analysis by Illarionov.

Update by Feb 14: The first meeting Trump:Putin ended with 0:3 defeat: 1) Trump's statements after meetings with Putin sound like he is brainwashed on these meetings [Piontkovsky]; 2) Putin got back his high-level criminal in exchange for an ordinary US citizen kidnapped by RF for this purpose; 3) To demonstrate that Trump is taken under control, Putin attacked nuclear power plant right after the meeting [johnsmith].

Analysis from Jan 27: by Zaluzhnyi

Analysis from Jan 20: by Poroshenko

Analysis from Dec 20: by Kasparov

Analysis from Dec 15: by Poroshenko

Analysis from Nov 8: by Illarionov: autocracies can be succesfully defeated, but only by violent actions.

Analysis from Oct 18: by Zaluzhnyi.

Update by Sep 19: Mark Robinson's case is one out of many examples how bad guys can easily join government in politically "most developed" countries.

Update by Aug 5: Prisoner swap of hostages for killers - total defeat of democratic world by dictators giving the green light for terrorism [Kasparov, Eidman].

Analysis from Aug 2: Connections between Trump and Putin explained by Felshtinsky.

Analysis from Jun 29: by Felshtinsky.

Analysis from Jun 22: by Yakovenko and Kasparov: excellent strategic analysis of this world war.

Analysis from Apr 28: by Cooper: low money-to-weapon conversion rate for US help, Ze-corruption destroyed access to non-US/EU weapon markets, too many Soviet-style officers in ZSU.

Analysis from Apr 25: Comprehensive analysis of modern Russian history by Felshtinsky: a KGB-managed state with huge international network.

Analysis from Apr 12: by Chmut. Basically, Ze-regime is a disaster.

Analysis from Mar 30: by Butusov. Basically, Ze-regime is a disaster, Ze-media distort reality, Ze is a lier.

Analysis from Mar 25: by Kasparov.

Analysis from Feb 25: by Liudmila (Malva) Meniuk.

Analysis from Feb 11: Disinformation by privately owned mass media is now ubiquitous.

Analysis from Feb 1: by Zaluzhnyi.

Update by Jan 31, 2024: Test for ability of World Court to punish an offender failed - just another evidence that UN is no more than a discussion club.

Analysis from Dec 23, 2023: by Poroshenko.

Analysis from Oct 31: by Zaluzhnyi.

Analysis from Oct 25: by Prozapas.

Update by Oct 20: Baiden's speech [transcript]: "history has taught us that when terrorists (=HAMAS&PUTIN) don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators (=PUTIN) don’t pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction". They will pay.

Update by Oct 7: Unpunished evil returns [ZSU, BILD, Kasparov, Illarionov, Illarionov (14.10.23), Khodorkovsky, Nevzlin, Krotevych, Berezovets, Yermolenko, Shenderovich].

Analysis from Aug 29: by Illarionov.

Analysis from Aug 7: Here is a concise description of Russia Today media.

Update by Aug 5: Ukraine should use symmetric response to Russian attacks ("symmetric" means that RF fired 10k drones/missiles against our infrastructure damaging thousands of civil objects so we may fire back the same number).

Update by Aug 4: Excellent analysis by Ariev on how we were providing Russia with weapon to kill us.

Update by Jul 26: analysis by Illarionov of a tacit collusion between Baiden and Putin administrations.

Update by Jul 11: concise summary of the NATO summit, clarification of the current situation by Kasparov, Nobody in the world considers Zelenskyy seriously (including his office) except for Ze-electorate pumped up by Ze-propaganda, numerical analysis by Lemberg, Putin builds drones while Zelenskyy build roads [also Kasjanov], analysis by a soldier.

Update by Jun 6: Russians continue to prove that they are terrorists by destroying Kahovka Dam and Power Plant. REMEMBER: The faster Russia is destroyed, the less harm it will create for our world.

Update by Jun 3: There are active antiputin activities in Belgorod oblast, so Putin bombs Belgorod oblast to suppress them (Putin always bombs any territories which he cannot control).

Update by Apr 28: Being unable to attack military targets and critical infrastructure, Russians are now fully focused on killing unprotected civilians, see Russian attack on Uman and Donetsk (Donetsk is occupied but Russians kill Russians to "justify" killing of Ukrainians - sounds alogical if you forget that Russia is a slave state; their propaganda is on par - they falsify Donetsk's report with Uman's picture).

Update by Apr 12: Чергове нагадування, що "Голос" продається.

Update by Apr 8: A new threat - cheap guided aerial bombs threatening frontline regions. To eliminate this threat we need tools for destruction of Russian aircrafts beyond the frontline.

Update by Apr 4: Danilo Melnik on how critical for us to minimize losses of our frontline defenders (a reminder that on the frontline, Ukraine losses best Ukrainians whereas Russia lossess worst Russians).

Update by Mar 27: Interview with Muzhenko - should be read in full.

Update by Mar 14: Our army is critically low on ammunition.

Update by Mar 13: 2214 members of European Solidarity party became defenders of our country in Army, whereas 120 members of Sluga Narodu party became traitors.

Update by Mar 12: "Original" approach to "neutrality" by Switzerland: they feel free to operate dirty Russian money and destroy weapon critically needed to save human lives in Ukraine.

Update by Feb 28: Outrageous case which was quickly corrected but a large scale problem exist: theoretical physicist was sent to front-line totally unprepared and without any consideration of his skills and abilities (facebook) - partially solved. That is impossible in Russia - RF does not send highly qualified nonmilitary people to front line - how it can be possible in Ukraine? If we lose our best people and RF loses its worst people, we will lose this war just because there will nobody to revive the country. If we will not keep our military human loses at low enough level, we will lose this war just due to demographic factors. Countries in which highly educated people are used as cannon fodder and poorly educated people sit in government are doomed. It is significant superiority of Russia in number of well-educated people that allows 1) Putin to make his thesis that Ukraine is part of Russian culture; 2) Zelenskyy to make his stupid jokes about Ukrainians, e.g. in Svaty.

Update by Feb 3: Interview with Podolyak explaining why US military help goes slowly (explanations are not very clear, but one can conlcude that the bottleneck is at our government: it cannot process enough amount of military help because majority of workforce is engaged in corruption-friendly projects like selling food to our army for triple price, whereas international military help comes without a cashback and under strict control).

Update by Jan 31: Interview with Illarionov (economic microsanctions against RF are not working -- modern business is as cruel as it is described in apocalyptic science fiction; while Putin's antihuman plans are clear, positions of both Zelenskyy's and Biden's administration remain to be controversial -- it is unclear if they make enough efforts to save human lives, because for a long time the frontline looks like a bloody meat grinder killing thousands of people everyday)

Update by Jan 23: Phillip Karber's interview (we have strong army but feeble government, to win this war we need either more efficient government or more soldiers)

Update by Jan 15: Analysis by Tom Cooper (we need artillery, we needed it yesterday, and we will need it tomorrow)

Update by Jan 14: New Russian Army commander "celebrates" his appointment with a massive attack on Ukrainian cities resulting in destruction of 9-story apartment house – a reminder that Russian military-related industry must be fully destroyed together with Russian army

Update by Jan 13: Illarionov's analysis of Putin's near-future offensive plans (in the last months, 1) Russia is systematically preparing for another war escalation at any cost paid by Russian people; 2) Zelenskyy's team is systematically preparing for shashliks at any cost paid by Ukrainian people; 3) Ukrainian Army is solving puzzles of how to distribute 3 tanks between 100 units; 4) our partners are solving puzzles of how to find these 3 tanks and how to split their delivery in 12 packages)

Update by Jan 9: the most ingenious description of religion and how to communicate with unprepared people

Update by Jan 6: Michael McFaul's interview, Illarionov's analysis of Arestovich's interview

Update by Dec 27: Richest people in Ukraine in 2022

Update by Dec 22: Winter solstice present from Ukrainian army - 100k invaders are liquidated

Update by Dec 15: Zaluzhnyi's interview, Bereza

Update by Dec 12: G7 Leaders' Statement: the world is united against Russian aggression and will support Ukraine with any required military and nonmilitary help; all war criminals including Putin will be punished; Russia will pay for damage; the only possible peace is "just peace" starting with complete and unconditional withdrawal of Russian forces from the territory of Ukraine; sanctions against Russia will be intensified including oil and gas industry; "any use of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would be met with severe consequences".

Update by Dec 8: Resolution of the Forum Free Russia conference - its main message is that "conflict de-escalation" strategy chosen by EU/US since 2014 in practice looks like gradual capitulation resulting in the opposite effect - conflict escalation.

Update by Dec 3: Macron (or Putin via Macron) says new security architecture should give guarantees for Russia, so it is important to clarify possible guarantees: 1) to begin with, Russia must quit all occupied territories of all countries and pay comprehensive reparations; 2) next, all war criminals of all Russian wars must be punished including Putin; 3) also, Russia must be properly demilitarized including no militaries in 200 km zone at western borders and no nuclear weapon at all; 4) then and only then, we guarantee complete protection of Russia's western borders (Konigsberg is not an authentic Russian territory; not sure if there are authentic Finnish territories occupied by Russia) and help with protection of its eastern borders somewhere at Ural and southern borders somewhere north to North Caucasus; 5) also, we guarantee support of freedom and sovereignty for all nations imprisoned in RF.

Update by Nov 22: Russia still has a lot of missiles

Update by Nov 20: message from Austin explaining why it is critically important to punish and denuclearize Russia for world security; analysis by Illarionov; Zelenskyy stays firmly on impossibility of armistice despite strong pressure from Russia in its urgent need of a respite and prorussian forces worldwide cynically trying to minimize their business losses

Update by Nov 15: To remind the world that Russians are terrorists, Russians conducted massive missile/drone/artillery attack on Ukrainian cities on the 1st day of the G20 summit, which is now should be called G19 summit. See also detailed analysis by Tom Cooper.

Belgrade Security Conference Oct 27: analysis by Illarionov and other experts

Analysis by Tabakh and Illarionov on Oct 19: see here, includes 1) discussion on how to present facts (it is unacceptable for Arestovich, Zhdanov, Zelenskyy to hide the truth); 2) Ukrainian government should use antiputin forces in Russia and Belarus to win this war.

Update by Oct 17: Drone war begins. Russia systematically and massively attacks our cities with drones and missiles trying to fully destroy our civil infrastructure and terrorize civilians. We must respond symmetrically without terrorizing civilians.

Progress by Oct 10: massive Ukraine-wide air strike targeting civilians reinforced the global understanding that Russian Empire must be destroyed as terrorist state and prison of nations. Also, it showed that 1) we are strong and prepared; 2) RF is weak and collapsing; 3) the world is united against Russian aggression. Now we expect an appropriate response from US/EU: give us air defense systems and heavy weapon including long-range missiles and consent to attack military objects on Russian territory until complete demilitarization of Russia. Oct 12 update: that massive air-strike resulted in this military help

Progress by Oct 8: 1) RF is internally destabilized; 2) terrorism/sabotage/blackmail/corruption is the only remaining Russian weapon, fortunately, more and more Western politicians recognize RF as the terrorist state, fortunately, nuclear terrorism is prevented by the threat to destroy RF army (NATO can do it in a few days with conventional weapon), unfortunately, "conventional" terrorism can be stopped only by providing long-range missiles to Ukraine and extermination of chief terrorists (Kovalchuk-Putin-Prigozhin-Surovikin-Kadyrov); 3) RF is still strong in blackmailing Western politicians (e.g. Merkel) and businessmen (e.g. Mask); see analysis by Piontkovsky.

Progress by Oct 1: RF is now doomed in isolation, see analysis by Illarionov; mobilization in Russia is equivalent to genocide of its own population – it was started a long time ago with non-Russian population but now takes more and more Russians.

Progress by Sep 10: Many problems and uncertainties of the first several months of the war have now been resolved (e.g. "we are deeply concerned" impotence is cured), so that now we are in some steady state with more-or-less clear perspective (need Tomahawks, train and equip 20 brigades, steady weapon supply) [Reznikov, Zaluzhnyi-Zabrodskyi, Piontkovsky, Illarionov, Zhdanov, Butusov, Kasparov]. The urgent need of Tomahawks or any other weapon capable to attack Russian territory till Ural (i.e. including entire native Russian territory, colonies must be decolonized) AND demilitarization of 100 km zone around cities was recently reminded by attack on our critical civil infrastructure [Brink, Klimkin]. To summarize, Zed is dead but we still need to find a couple of pipe-hittin' nigga's with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. In contrast, there is no progress or even stabilization of the front-line in our war with corruption.

Major threats by Sep 2: It has been clear now that Russia use Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant not only to terrorize EU with the eco-catastrophe threat, but also as a "human shield" to keep the front-line military base there.

Progress by Aug 24: Steady weapon supply by our partners has now been established allowing for more efficient and systematic extermination of russian invaders. See also message from Reznikov.

Progress by Jul 10: Finally we got the long-awaited weapon: with 100km-range high-precision artillery ("HIMARS-light") we are now able to eliminate Russian ammunition dumps which they need to wipe out our cities by continuous shelling. Also, we urgently need middle- and long-range artillery to eliminate Russian rocket launchers used by them to destroy shopping malls, schools, and other highly populated areas far from the front line. [Shuklinov]

Progress by Jul 9: Russia is ignored on G20, in other words Russia was expelled from G7 after invasion-2014 and from G20 after invasion-2022.

Analysis by Illarionov on Jul 3: see here, the main conclusion is that in order to survive we need a financial/weapon support from our partners matching at least 30% of their unintentional financial support of Russia, and it is realistic because the required funding constitutes a small fraction of NATO military spendings, so the only needed is 1) political will of our partners to support us and 2) political will of our government to not misuse that support (and our own budget).

Progress by Jun 29: NATO changed RF status from partner to evil #1 and several other things marking new level of support by our partners [Piontkovsky: video and text]

Major threats by Jun 29: Starting from June 25 Russians began to demonstrate a naked terrorism by everyday firing of cruise missiles onto civil objects with large concentration of civilians (shopping malls, residential areas) located far from the front-line. This is just another reminder for the rest of the world that there will be no peace until Russian army is fully exterminated and Russia is fully demilitarized with a strict international control of its army in the next 10 years at least.

Progress by May 24: message from Shuklinov

Progress by Apr 29: Rammstein summit of Ukraine-supporting countries (showing that the balance of forces now is 10:1 compared to 1:10 on Feb 24 when Ukraine was alone standing against Russia) and possible Lend-Lease for Ukraine vs. No-Resources in Russia

Major threats by May 25: Outrageous unprofessionalism of our government is moving to the front line: Some military units are thrown to the front line unprepared (no weapon, no communication, no supplies) resulting in meaningless casualties [Butusov, case#1, case#2]

Major threats by May 15: Russia fails with the military operation and thus returns to its most capable methods: terrorism, coercion, subversion, falsification, corruption and "tolerance stretching", utilizing numerous vulnerabilities of political systems of Ukraine and EU [Shulipa]

Update from Mar 17: Message from Arnold Schwarzenegger

Commonly reported facts about Russians

Commonly reported facts about Russians*** in this war (we knew this before, implying no positive evolution, see also analysis by Yakubova, Illarionov, Shcherbakova, notes by Ponasenkov):

• If asked to characterize Russian nation in a single statement, I would say that they have a perverted living philosophy of a pest, which is hard to perceive and describe: something like "corruptio optimi pessima", close to "I will harm myself just to make a harm to you" or "I don't want to live better, I want you to live worse", though their own formulations sound even more awkward, e.g. "Боятся значит уважают". Internally this results in a nation of slaves, and originates from Mongolian roots of Moskovia [Sergeev].
• We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist. See also Rashism and explanations in Russian. Moreover, Russia is also state-terrorist [Zelenskiy, Ponomarev].
• It is one of the most cruel, brutal and destructive nations – nation of bandits:
  • They are much more cruel, brutal and destructive than Germans occupying the same territory in WW2 [illustrative facts].
  • Majority of Ukraininans have been oppressed by russians – my family has been terrorized by russians since 1939.
  • If you want to write a comprehensive encyclopedia of crimes against humanity ever recorded in the world history, it is enough to take russians only – this nation is unable to create a Hubble telescope, but ANY crime can be found in russian history, and they are "ready and happy to repeat" (the authentic Russian is "можем повторить").
  • Russian concentration camps are the deadliest and the most inhuman ones, and their number is overwhelming, see recent example.
  • Russia has the world-toughest multilevel repression system varying from massive propaganda destroying any will of democracy for majority of population till broad set of methods applied to the rest of people which are immune to the propaganda up to physical extermination of unlimited number of people (e.g. during Stalin's epoch 10-20% of population was killed, similar genocide is observed on ALL occupied territories).
  • They ransack, devastate and destroy occupied territories (everything out of Moskovia) like locust, examples include Siberia, Southern Russia, rural Russia, Ukraine in Stalin's period, Donbas after 2014, all recently occupied territories [Siumar, Bereza, Goncharenko, Kherson, bing, burnt crop fields].
  • They readily use terrorism if cannot achieve their goals by other means.
  • 30% of russians approve use of nuclear weapon in their war against Ukraine.
  • They do not value human life (prefer car for son and authentic russian "бабы еще нарожают"), attack as zombies [Demshin], russians readily kill russians (a ruthless murderer who killed 5 russians got a medal from Putin), they use multilevel barrier troops, kill disabled veterans, millions of people are killed by putin's regime.
  • Putin's regime is ready to kill unlimited number of russian civilians under false flag operations [Blowing Up Russia, Belgorod 2024].
  • Commanders-in-chief of Russian state and private army (Surovikin and Prigozhin) as well as governors of occupied territories are official criminals.
  • Public torture and execution is now considered acceptable by Russians, e.g. in Prigozhin's army, whereas nonpublic sadism in Russia has long history.
  • They readily spend annual budget of one oblast for one-day attack of Ukrainian cities [Bereza].
  • Their own cultural heritage is so thin that they destroy other cultures fiercely (e.g. burn books, exterminate intelligentsia [Ulyana Malyar]) or steal some elements (e.g. Borscht vs Shchi, many other elements).
  • They enforce russification of all nations living in and near RF [Muharskiy] and instil (already at school) hatred against other nations (mainly from US and EU) [ConflictObservatory].
  • They distort or steal history (examples of russian myths: "матч смерти", "28 панфиловцев", not counting delirium of putinists); to this end they destroy historical documents and monuments, e.g. they removed Holodomor monument in Mariupol leaving no doubt that Russians were responsible for Holodomor in Ukraine in 1930s.
  • For this reason, "impudent boorishness" (наглое хамство) became their national feature - if you see an impudent boor it is likely to be russian.
  • Known statement of Bismarck about Russia has now become well proven: any agreement with russians is not worth the paper it is written on; so that the only possible negotiations with them is Bruce Willis' approach in 5th Element [Johnson].
• As a state they are terrorists: from direct blackmail by nuclear bomb to distributed indirect terrorism like those crazy climate activists urging to stop gas/oil production outside Russia
• As a nation they have self-affirmation problem: the origin of Russians is unclear, evidently they originate from East Slavs living at the northeastern outskirts of Ruthenia, which however was a large sparsely populated area without any civilization in places of the largest Russian cities. The only major center there was Novgorod, so it would be naturally to associate "historical Russians" with that region which is located north to Belarus and east to Baltic states. Concerning Moscow region, the closest settlements were 200 km northeast including Rostov, Suzdal, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, so one might associate "geographical Russians" with that region. Then the area of East Slavs was occupied by mongols by 1240, and then Moskovia became a growing center of control of East Slavs by mongols, gradually transforming into Russian Empire by conquest of nearby states, so one might associate "modern Russians" with those moskovites. It was probably the conquest of Novgorod in 1478 when "moskovites" enslaved "historical Russians" and became "modern Russians". Then massacre of Novgorod showed truly inhuman nature of "modern Russians" exterminating "historical Russians". This explains why "modern Russians" are so aggressive and different from Slavs formally being Slavs: for centuries moskovites (initially as part of Golden Horde) conducted genocide of regional nations by enslaving and gradually exterminating them, reaching the apogee as Soviet Union with the largest rate of conversion of other nations to Russians (half of modern Russians are converted Ukrainians, Ukrainian Siberia, see recent statistics and example how they convert surnames). "Homo-soveticus" project failed, "Rossiyane" project also failed, so Rashists now run bloody "Russkiy mir" project (it will fail too) [Fursa, Korman, Gasanov]. On the other hand, this war is an opportunity for Russians to end up with their denationalized imperial-colonial-vassal past and return to their historical Novgorod-Rostov national roots (I'm not a historian to be accurate here).
• Short explanation from Bereza why Ukrainians and Russians (same for Jews and Palestinians) being ethnically similar are so different as nations.
• Overall, Russian Empire turns out to be just a huge soap bubble and empty vessel in terms of culture, economy, and army. This also explains why "territory" is sacred for majority of Russians because it is the only thing they can be "proud" of (the rest is just russian mythology). And russian imperialism is a consequence of colonial nature of 90-99% of RF territory.
• Many, if not majority of Russians from "russian glubinka" live primitively (as "твари" in authentic Russian word):
  • morally degraded, sometimes to the level of moral insanity;
  • looks awkward but they leave their feces out of toilet in occupied Ukrainian homes ("умом Россию не понять", (Russian excrementalism);
  • do not have basic conveniences (like hot water or washing machine);
  • do not have access to natural gas (abundant in Russia substance by which Putin put EU on knees);
  • steal everything they can steal (including underpants and socks that did not surprised me because my grandmother surviving Russian invasion in WW2 told that Russian women wore Ukrainian nightgowns as evening dress);
  • their language is overfilled with authentic Russian expletives (in every single phrase);
• They are SDs (a person repeatedly trying to break a wall by head), a recent example is Chornobaivka, the best example is Putin who is considered by Russians as Greatest Defender of "russkiy mir" but in fact he is Greatest Destructor of Russia. To be rigorous, the number of SDs in Ze-government is probably the same as in Z-government.
• They are also bunglers and spoilers (сказочные бракоделы), e.g. post-McDonalds or Roskosmos failing 30 years in a row (unable even to repeat Soviet space achievements).
• They are unable to create new things, instead they just copy illegally almost everything from films to cars, usually in a low quality and with 100% plagiarism.
• 20 years of heavy propaganda made Russian society and many citizens of eastern regions of Ukraine deeply sick mentally [Kasparov, Gudkov, example, example]; such basic thing as conscience is absent in middle class Russians [Rodnyansky].
• RF is fully controlled by KGB/FSB as a state mafia [Felshtinsky].
• Many Russians emigrants hate their new home but don't return to Russia: example.
• There is a clear difference between "good Russians" and other Russians: in discussions of Russian invasions in Ukraine or Syria, good Russians are concerned with how many Ukrainians or Syrians have been killed by Russians, whereas other Russians are concerned with how many Russians have been killed and how many Russian resources have been wasted [Kasparov].
• It is now clear what our neighbors are true friends and what are potential enemies, we just need to remember that Belarus and Konigsberg are also parts of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, see also Lutsenko's post.

*** Strictly speaking "rossiyane" (denationalized citizens of the prison of nations called Russian Federation), but it is now a responsibility of Russians to clean up their name. It should be emphasized that majority of critically thinking Russians are against the war including scientists (except for failed scientists like Rashism-ideologist Kovalchuk who is also an example of denationalized citizen being Ukrainian+nonRussian converted to homo-soveticus), uncorrupted politics and businessmen, prominent artists (Pugacheva, Makarevich, Akhedzhakova, Galkin, Shevchuk, Nazarov, Serebryakov), majority of intelligent Russian emigrants, Free Russia Forum, Freedom of Russia Legion, Foundation Stop Inform Terror, partisans, other "good russians", see multiple interviews of Radio Svoboda with Moscow citizens, but any dissidence inside Russia is brutally suppressed (see e.g. Boris Nemtsov, Anna Politkovskaya, Aleksandr Skobov, Yevgeny Roizman, Ilya Yashin), so that majority of RF citizens are silent accomplices of RF crimes. At the same time, majority of Ukrainians (and other nations too) do not think critically, so they are as vulnerable to propaganda and brainwashing as Russians. In other words, three rules should be kept in mind. The first is the 80/20 rule. The second rule is that up to 80% majority vote can be achieved purely by propaganda as was simply formulated by Boris Berezovsky, proved for Russians by Putin, and succesfully applied to Ukrainians by Kolomoyskyi. The third rule is that any person who came to power exclusively to get power will abuse that power to eventually become a dictator. The best example is our 2019 elections when the pro-Ukrainian forces standing under the slogan "Army, Language, Faith" were defeated by oligarchs-backed populists-po*uists standing under vulgar slogans like "Зробимо їх разом", "Какая разница", "Надо просто перестать стрелять", "Мова не нагодує", "Хуже не будєт", "Маю право на помилку": the majority reached 75/25, the candidate was an antiukrainian vulgar-style humorist^§§, and the abuse of power started right after the election, so that here we "greatly surpassed" Russians-2000 by all three factors. The only reason why democracy in Ukraine survives is because Ze-regime has no as much money as Z-regime to suppress any democracy. In addition, Russians have been brainwashed and repressed since 2000 whereas in Ukraine this process started only in 2019.

^§§ Zelenskyy's phrases: назвав українців дебілами (disclaimer: можливо він тільки себе і колегу мав на увазі), antiukrainian jokes, antiukrainian jokes, brutal antiukrainian jokes, true face of Zelenskyy, another collection, "promised" to return Ukraine in a disastrous state, brutally ignored viyskomat, moving frontline, supported Yanukovych, another "revelation", emerging dictator.