Edit. Included the wrong post.

Trump disclosed his plans with European leaders on Wednesday. The meetings would include only those three men, and would not include any European counterparts.

It was not immediately clear if Putin or Zelensky had agreed to the plan Trump described.https://t.co/DnGEhrDtcD

— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) August 6, 2025

Very slim chance Putin leaves Russia or Zelensky goes to Russia, unfortunately

jbeaman88 said:

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Very slim chance Putin leaves Russia or Zelensky goes to Russia, unfortunately

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why not go to Warsaw or Vilnius then

there is that part of Russia in Kaliningrad maybe Putie Poot would go there...

Ukraine has developed a new reuseable interceptor drone.

"The Mongoose is a jet-powered, fixed-wing UAV equipped with a heat-seeking guidance system and a multi-barrel shotgun designed to disable enemy drones by targeting their engines or propellers."

SHOTGUN

⚠️ For more than a week, no mass launches of “Shaheds” have been recorded on the territory of Ukraine. The number of launches does not even reach the daily production figure, which means that accumulation is taking place.

❗️The reasons for this lull remain unknown for now. pic.twitter.com/N517zGb7vm

— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 7, 2025

Waffledynamics said:

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⚠️ For more than a week, no mass launches of “Shaheds” have been recorded on the territory of Ukraine. The number of launches does not even reach the daily production figure, which means that accumulation is taking place.

❗️The reasons for this lull remain unknown for now. pic.twitter.com/N517zGb7vm

— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 7, 2025

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Just in time for the next round of peace talks.

Panic is spreading tonight throughout several Telegram channels affiliated with the Russian Armed Forces, as reports indicate that another coordinated attack by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) using truck-launched drones, similar to Operation Spiderweb, may be underway or… pic.twitter.com/7R7jI5zjSV

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 7, 2025

We can only hope.

There is news in Russian chats that FPV drones are currently flying out of this car... but this photo is our psychological operation through bots throw into their chats 😅

Most likely, the Russians are just spreading panic( pic.twitter.com/cej2UmUPaE

— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 7, 2025

Ukrainian unmanned sea drones launch FPVs drones of their own against air defenses in occupied Crimea hitting several key radars essential for defending the peninsula. RADARS.

Ground drones launching drones will be next.

Ukrainian ground drone launching strike drones. It was just a matter of time pic.twitter.com/mJIj13PdFX

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) August 7, 2025

From that link:

A Ukrainian AN-196 “Liutyi” Long-Range One-Way Attack Drone passes at low altitude over Sochi during tonight’s large-scale drone attack against infrastructure targets in Southern Russia. pic.twitter.com/Lmu0DZrHZf

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 24, 2025

It's really kind of wild the Jet age began at the end of WWII and now slow propeller driven suicide drones are so effective.

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It's really kind of wild the Jet age began at the end of WWII and now slow propeller driven suicide drones are so effective.

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they are only effective because the Russkies and Ukes do not have enough anti-drone weapons.

the USA and Israel will not be in the same position-

Hamas and Hizbullah and Iran fired literally OVER 1000 drones at Israel and their hit rate is around 4%.

And that depleted our stockpiles of interceptors so severely that we paused shipments to Ukraine. It's also something Ukraine sees pretty regularly. Russia is working on producing enough drones to launch attacks like that every month. That's something even we would have trouble countering after awhile unless we increase our production capabilities substantially. It's also unsustainable from a cost perspective as we saw with US warships shooting down Houthi drones and missiles.

It's a strategic problem no matter how you slice it.

Ukraine modifies a crop duster aircraft to hunt larger drones. It isn't the first civilian aircraft it has converted for this mission.

EXPEDIENT

ABATTBQ11 said:

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And that depleted our stockpiles of interceptors so severely that we paused shipments to Ukraine. It's also something Ukraine sees pretty regularly. Russia is working on producing enough drones to launch attacks like that every month. That's something even we would have trouble countering after awhile unless we increase our production capabilities substantially. It's also unsustainable from a cost perspective as we saw with US warships shooting down Houthi drones and missiles.

It's a strategic problem no matter how you slice it.

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We would bomb the drone production which Ukraine can't do effectively. It also doesn't help that Ukraine can't attack Russian suppliers in China.

I'm shocked to read that we've only produced about 5000 tomahawks since they were introduced. Given that we produce less than 100 per year, on average, and we can burn through 100 or more in a single night it wouldn't take long to deplete our inventory in a major confrontation. I would like to see our inventory up around 15000. We probably have over 100k JDAMs in inventory however so it's not like we can't wreck stuff, we just need air superiority to do it.

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Ukraine modifies a crop duster aircraft to hunt larger drones. It isn't the first civilian aircraft it has converted for this mission.

EXPEDIENT

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Ukraine is improvising as they go. What is needed is a cheap countermeasure that can be mass produced. The plane costs approximately $500K and missiles at $10K each. I am sure they are working on that. Save the big cost items for the cruise and hypersonic missiles.

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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And that depleted our stockpiles of interceptors so severely that we paused shipments to Ukraine. It's also something Ukraine sees pretty regularly. Russia is working on producing enough drones to launch attacks like that every month. That's something even we would have trouble countering after awhile unless we increase our production capabilities substantially. It's also unsustainable from a cost perspective as we saw with US warships shooting down Houthi drones and missiles.

It's a strategic problem no matter how you slice it.

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We would bomb the drone production which Ukraine can't do effectively. It also doesn't help that Ukraine can't attack Russian suppliers in China.

I'm shocked to read that we've only produced about 5000 tomahawks since they were introduced. Given that we produce less than 100 per year, on average, and we can burn through 100 or more in a single night it wouldn't take long to deplete our inventory in a major confrontation. I would like to see our inventory up around 15000. We probably have over 100k JDAMs in inventory however so it's not like we can't wreck stuff, we just need air superiority to do it.

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I don't think your production number for tomahawks is accurate. There are archived sources from 10-15 years ago saying we had built more than that back then. We have fired almost 2500 in combat and reportedly have around 4000 on hand.

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lb3 said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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And that depleted our stockpiles of interceptors so severely that we paused shipments to Ukraine. It's also something Ukraine sees pretty regularly. Russia is working on producing enough drones to launch attacks like that every month. That's something even we would have trouble countering after awhile unless we increase our production capabilities substantially. It's also unsustainable from a cost perspective as we saw with US warships shooting down Houthi drones and missiles.

It's a strategic problem no matter how you slice it.

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We would bomb the drone production which Ukraine can't do effectively. It also doesn't help that Ukraine can't attack Russian suppliers in China.

I'm shocked to read that we've only produced about 5000 tomahawks since they were introduced. Given that we produce less than 100 per year, on average, and we can burn through 100 or more in a single night it wouldn't take long to deplete our inventory in a major confrontation. I would like to see our inventory up around 15000. We probably have over 100k JDAMs in inventory however so it's not like we can't wreck stuff, we just need air superiority to do it.

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I don't think your production number for tomahawks is accurate. There are archived sources from 10-15 years ago saying we had built more than that back then. We have fired almost 2500 in combat and reportedly have around 4000 on hand.

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Would love to what kind of havoc Ukraine could do with about 400.

ABATTBQ11 said:

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And that depleted our stockpiles of interceptors so severely that we paused shipments to Ukraine. It's also something Ukraine sees pretty regularly. Russia is working on producing enough drones to launch attacks like that every month. That's something even we would have trouble countering after awhile unless we increase our production capabilities substantially. It's also unsustainable from a cost perspective as we saw with US warships shooting down Houthi drones and missiles.

It's a strategic problem no matter how you slice it.

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Katherine Boyle on SRS podcast is excellent. She goes into the Ukraine war a bit and basically states our greatest weakness right now is the ability to rapidly produce munitions. Whereas russia, china, Ukraine are at the forefront. Its a very good listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2oAwUzLJUPrO6dw8SXH3ak?si=VcTCL-B6QT-z6XAbOPMkDg

Here's the latest campaign update. As always, if too long, scroll down to the bullet summary points.

In advance of his Alaska trip, Putin continues to demand to get paid to make peace. "Kremlin officials are reportedly demanding that Ukraine cede to Russia strategically vital unoccupied territory in Donetsk Oblast and freeze the frontline in other areas as part of a ceasefire agreement." These lands encompass Ukrainian oil, gas, mineral and agricultural resources valued in the hundreds of billions.

ISW

UPDATE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's deal Saturday, saying, "Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier."

Read more:https://t.co/bXCnhGNpI1

— AllSides (@AllSidesNow) August 9, 2025

Really impressive how Ukraine is holding this sector. It's still in imminent danger and most likely will fall soon, but they've been almost frozen like this for a while now.

hey fXXkers....
day 15.. still not falling pic.twitter.com/f28UzF4MNY

— david D. (@secretsqrl123) August 9, 2025

A driver in awe provides a decent BDA of an ongoing fire at Russia's Saratov oil refinery. https://t.co/Jp1sQIiPmg pic.twitter.com/nqdTgNyi4V

— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) August 10, 2025

Sums up Ukraines soldiers on the front lines:

Captain Filatov, on the front line, said there was no time for wishful thinking about diplomacy or leaders bringing an end to the conflict.

"We've fought so long that we rely only on ourselves, not on presidents, gods or talks," he said. When asked if his men maintain hope, he glanced at a passing soldier: "Vasyl, do you have hope?"

The soldier laughed. "No," he replied.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-frontline.html

Russia now stepping up attacks in the south, too. Kherson under siege again. SITREP

Russia is hunting civilians in Ukraine for drone practice. Chatting today with @kelley7622 to better understand the ongoing 'human safari' in Kherson. pic.twitter.com/KnFZyll7GN

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) May 29, 2025

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪

🤡 "The Baltics are a geopolitical misunderstanding. Who wants to burn in a nuclear Armageddon for the Baltics? Well, who?"

Russian propagandists have begun to talk about "Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn in three days". pic.twitter.com/6pTtKvDP1U

— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 10, 2025

Sums up soldiers on almost every front line ever

Waffledynamics said:

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🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪

🤡 "The Baltics are a geopolitical misunderstanding. Who wants to burn in a nuclear Armageddon for the Baltics? Well, who?"

Russian propagandists have begun to talk about "Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn in three days". pic.twitter.com/6pTtKvDP1U

— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) August 10, 2025

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Latvia reinstated conscription mid 2023.

Because of Russia, Russia, Russia!

Putin isn't backing down from his insistence that Russia must get paid to make peace.

"The Kremlin earlier this week reiterated demands that Ukraine give up territory, abandon its bid to join NATO, and accept limits on its military, in exchange for a withdrawal of Russian troops from the rest of the country."

ALASKA
EU

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Putin isn't backing down from his insistence that Russia must get paid to make peace.

"The Kremlin earlier this week reiterated demands that Ukraine give up territory, abandon its bid to join NATO, and accept limits on its military, in exchange for a withdrawal of Russian troops from the rest of the country."

ALASKA
EU

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"withdrawal of troops from the rest of the country"? They are demanding to keep all of the territory they currently occupy, plus some that they don't. Not a big "give" for Vlad there...

I.e. Ukraine must give us everything and agree to disarm while we rebuild our military to finish the job later. Might as well go ahead and demand that Ukraine pay to rebuild the orc-occupied portion of the country while he is at it...

Seeing a lot today on Russia's potential breakthrough north of Pokrovsk, so here's a map.

This is a collation of recent Sentinel-2 and other satellite imagery from August 8-10 (methodology below). Topline: small Russian assault groups most likely breached Ukrainian lines. pic.twitter.com/PoPh74zYzo

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) August 12, 2025

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