Defying Trump, Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes

from the New York Times

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anger at the Trump administration burst into view on Thursday when he said he would no longer abide by President Trump’s demand to stop striking Russian oil refineries.

It was a remarkably vocal expression by the Ukrainian leader of frustration with the United States, as Kyiv grapples with what it sees as a betrayal by Washington.

Mr. Zelensky’s remarks, in an interview with The Financial Times published on Thursday, brought to a head days of mounting tensions with the Trump administration. It drew expressions of support from European allies in Brussels, but could be a risky move for a country that has depended heavily on U.S. support.

In the interview, Mr. Zelensky appeared baffled by Mr. Trump’s decisions, criticizing Mr. Trump for making deals with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and for openly admiring dictators who have clung to power. Mr. Putin, the Ukrainian leader said, is “real evil.”...

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Putin says he saw ‘no provocation’ from Iran before US-Israeli war

from PressTV

Russian President Vladimir Putin has blasted the United States over the war of aggression against Iran, saying he saw no provocation from the Islamic Republic before the war began.

Taking part in the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Putin was asked to give his assessment of the ongoing attacks on Iran.

“I saw no provocation from Iran,” Putin stated. “There’s no justification for this attack; Russia will not stand idle while innocent lives are threatened.”

Putin defended Iran’s stability amid growing regional tensions, saying Western predictions of internal collapse have failed and Tehran managed to deal with the current crisis from inside.

Putin argued that Iranian society has become more united and consolidated despite the mounting pressure on Tehran...

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Putin calls for data on Romania drone incident to be shared

(The president of Romania says it may have been an accident caused by a disabled drone flying off course. Let's see how fast Kyle K. and Ben from Meidas Touch STFU about Russia attacking Romania now) 

from RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an “objective investigation” into a drone incident in Romania in which two people were injured. Moscow is ready to share its assessment if it is provided with either the debris of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or the data about it, he told journalists on Friday.

A drone crashed into an apartment block in the eastern Romanian city of Galati near the Ukrainian border early on Friday. The Romanian Defense Ministry claimed the UAV had originated from Russia.

Putin noted that drones have previously crashed in various EU nations, including Finland, Poland, and the Baltic States.

“A short time later, it would emerge that these incidents had nothing to do with Russian aircraft at all. Rather, they involved drones of Ukrainian origin that had gone off course due to electronic warfare… or technical shortcomings,” the president said during his visit to Kazakhstan.

Putin called on the Romanian authorities to share “objective evidence” with Russia, adding that Moscow did the same when the Ukrainian military targeted a Russian presidential residence in a drone strike. “Let them [Romanians] do the same and provide the evidence to us,” he added. 

Romanian President Nicusor Dan, who visited the drone crash site on Friday, told journalists that the incident could have been caused by Ukrainian air defenses. According to him, the drone was a part of a group of Russian UAVs deployed against targets in Ukraine.

“Some of them were shot down over Ukrainian territory, and one of them was probably hit above the city of Reni. Its trajectory changed and it came toward Galati,” he said, adding that the Romanian authorities have data on the drone’s movement. According to Dan, the incident was not considered a deliberate attack by Russia but rather the consequence of military operations not far from the Romanian border...

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Incident Involving Drone in Romania

from Sputnik News

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had just learned of an incident involving an alleged Russian drone in Romania.

"I was just told... It may seem strange, but I just learned, before entering this hall, that something happened with what was supposedly our drone," Putin told reporters. 

No one can say who the drone that crashed in Romania belongs to until an examination is carried out, the Russian president said, adding that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did not visit Romania and did not examine the wreckage of the alleged Russian drone.

 

"We know that Ukrainian drones have flown into Finland, Poland, and some of the Baltic states. The initial reaction was exactly the same as now in Romania: look, the Russians are coming, the Russians are shooting. Then, a short time later, it turned out that these had nothing to do with Russian aircraft, but were drones of Ukrainian origin," Putin said.

 

Russia will conduct an objective investigation and provide an appropriate assessment if it receives objective data on the drone that crashed in Romania, Putin also said.

 

Earlier in the day, the Romanian Defense Ministry said that a drone had struck the roof of a building in Galati, injuring two people. Romanian authorities blamed Russia for the incident but provided no evidence. Furthermore, the Romanian military did not intercept the drone, although it was tracked by radar systems.

 

Xi Mentions 'Thucydides Trap' Learns Trump is Just an Idiot

Xi Mentions 'Thucydides Trap' Learns Trump is Just an Idiot 

TRT World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djxW6isw9XU

Times Now https://www.instagram.com/p/DYkCFigj0kU/

Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-slurs-through-rambling-commencement-speech-at-coast-guard-academy-in-connecticut/

Times of Israel  https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/new-iran-framework-sparks-concern-from-netanyahu-in-tense-call-with-trump-report/

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Save Yourselves from the Vampire Ball: libera te tutemet ex inferis

by Scott Creighton (H/T Aunt BB)

Libera te tutemet 

 

President Putin made a statement recently regarding the exposure of SOME of the Epstein files and how they show the savage, corrupt, malicious nature of Western elites.

'There is a strong desire in Western elites to freeze the status quo, the unjust state of affairs in international matters. They're used to filling their bellies for centuries with human flesh and their pockets with money but they need to realize the vampire ball is ending.' Vladimir Putin

LozzieB (@TruthFairy131) posted the video along with this statement. 

'EPSTEIN WAS IN EFFORTS TO OVERTHROW PUTIN WITH BILL GATES. 

The Epstein files reveal Bill Gates chief science advisor was coordinating with Epstein on Russian regime change operations, starting in January 2012. 

Boris Nikolic served as chief advisor for science and technology to Bill Gates. 

He was named executor of Epstein's $578 million will. He was also the go-between connecting Epstein to Russian opposition figures.' LozzieB 

Putin is correct. Our particular version of imperialism is well documented and goes back a very long time, even before this country was formed. It is rapacious and merciless and requires massive amounts of human blood to be sacrificed so our elites can satiate their hunger for... more. 

Always they want more. 

Putin on Venezuela and Bibi on Gaza

Putin on Venezuela and Bibi on Gaza 

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“Putin breaks the silence: Did Russia really betray Venezuela?”

(if the translation is accurate and I have no reason to think it isn't, Vladamir Putin says the obvious part out loud, that Russia cannot intervene when an internal coup with the Venezuelan military and certain political figures kidnapped Maduro and handed him over to the Americans. It is obvious. All the weapons and training the Russians helped Venezuela with were NOT USED to defend the country. In that circumstance, what is Russia expected to do? Invade?) 

from Poutin TV (H/T AuntBB and her Tall Grey)

 

With the Threat of Peace on the Horizon, Ukraine Nazis Launch Cowardly Drone Attack on Putin Residence

by Scott Creighton

Nope. The Nazis wont have peace. Not if they can help it. So as peace talks were making headway, Ukraine launched 90 or so kamakazi drones to blow up the formal resident of President Putin.

'... Trump hosted Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in Miami on Sunday for the latest round of discussions on a possible peace proposal for Russia. Asked whether Trump was right to assert that the world is now much closer to peace, Peskov said that “certainly” was the case.

During his joint press conference with Zelensky, Trump said the deal was 95% ready, even though he personally didn’t like to measure progress in percentages. “We’re doing very well,” he added. “We could be very close.” RT

Nope. None of that peace stuff. F-you says the Nazis in Ukraine.

'US President Donald Trump was “shocked” by the Ukrainian attack on the state residence of President Vladimir Putin, stating he did not foresee such “crazy actions,” according to Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov.

The presidential advisor made the remarks to Russian media after a call between Putin and Trump on Monday. Shortly before the conversation became known to the public, Moscow said that the Ukrainian military targeted Putin’s state residence in Novgorod Region with more than 90 kamikaze drones.

“The Russian side made it clear that such reckless actions would certainly not go unanswered,” Ushakov stated. “The US president, according to Putin, was shocked by this news and expressed outrage, stating that he could not have imagined such crazy actions on the part of Kiev,” he added.' RT

I doubt Voldamort (I know but that is what I call him, so there) Zelensky had anything to do with this. It's literally the Nazis from Right Sector or Azov who are calling the shots over there and I bet they did it, well obviously they did it to scuttle the peace process.

Now, did they act on their own due to their rabid hatred of Russian or were they compelled by European business interests or American MIC asshats?

You be the judge. Just don't forget, once again, Ukraine scrubs any possible peace deal, once again.  

Trump’s second meeting with Putin is off

 (So congrats Ben from The Midas Touch. You got what you wanted. The meeting between Trump and Putin which could have helped produce an end to a 3-year-old war which has taken millions of lives has been cancelled due to Europe's malign influence. You and the Nazis in Ukraine should be happy. BTW, did you know Zbigniew Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard is largely about curbing Russia's influence in the world and expanding NATO right to their doorstep... in Ukraine? Awesome work there Benji. You and EuroFascists are keeping Zbigniew's dream alive!)

David C. Hendrickson, in his article in Foreign Affairs on November 1, 1997, saw the core of the book as the ambitious strategy of NATO to move eastward to Ukraine's Russian border and vigorously support the newly independent republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, which is an integral part of what Hendrickson said could be called a "tough love" strategy for the Russians. Hendrickson considers "this great project" to be problematic for two reasons: the "excessive expansion of Western institutions" could well introduce centrifugal forces into it; moreover, Brzezinski's "test of what legitimate Russian interests are" seems to be so strict that even a democratic Russia would probably "fail".^[14]

(Good job Ben from Midas Touch and other Russophobes... the dreaded threat of peace has been killed in the crib just like the truce deal was whacked back in April of 2022. Let's hope your great work will cause another million murdered Ukrainians and Russians. Genius.) 

from Politico

President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is off.

The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

As Trump Tries to Make Peace in Ukraine, His Detractors Try to Scuttle it Like Israel Did in Gaza

by Scott Creighton

Listen to this bullshit from Google AI regarding Ukraine and Zelensky:

'Reports alleging that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has canceled elections and locked up opposition candidates are false and misrepresent the situation in Ukraine. Due to Russia's full-scale invasion, martial law is in effect, which prohibits elections in wartime according to the Ukrainian constitution. Zelenskyy has not personally locked up opposition candidates, though some pro-Russian parties were suspended in 2022 due to the war.' Google AI

Due to war. Due to war, Zelensky has shut down the government, canceled elections and is locking up not only opposition party members but also journalists. 

'On March 3, 2022, the Criminal Code of Ukraine was supplemented by Article 436-2, titled "Justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants". The article, which has been criticized by the OHCHR and other human rights groups,^[85][86] states punishment by correctional labor up to two years or imprisonment up to eight years for such speech.^[87] Gonzalo Lira, an American pro-Russia blogger who died in custody^[88][89] in Ukraine, was among those arrested under this law.^[90] 

But Scott, you say, that's due to war, not Zelensky.

Yeah, only... it's Zelensky who keeps refusing all the deals offered by Russia in order to keep the war going.

So yeah, it's Zelensky. 

From Dec. 2021 to Feb 2022,Ukraine stepped up it's bombing campaigns in the Donbass region of Ukraine targeting civilian infrastructure along with military militia positions. 

The Biden administration funneled record numbers of munitions into Ukraine for that very purpose thru the end of 2021. 

Origins of Special Military Operation: History of Ukraine Conflict

(I have been covering this since it started back with ObamaGod' regime change op in Ukraine. I can tell you this is exactly what I have been reporting for the past 10+ years, verbatim, and is not Russian state propaganda. The people of Donbass had a right to declare themselves a special region and to ask the world for help when they were being bombed by our puppet regimes. Russia was well within international law to respond to Donbass' pleas for help when they did.) 

(Russia and Putin aren't the bad actors in this case. Obama, Biden, Poreshenko, Zelensky and Trump are.) 

from Sputnik News 

...

In the spring of 2014, people's republics were proclaimed in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In response, the Ukrainian authorities accused the population of "separatism" and began a military operation in the region, which escalated into full-scale combat. Tanks and aviation were deployed against the people's militias.

 

Cities like Donetsk, Gorlovka, Lugansk, and Debaltsevo were subjected to artillery shelling by the Ukrainian regime for years. Residential neighborhoods, hospitals, and schools were destroyed.

...

Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to power in 2019, continued the repressive policies of the Kiev authorities toward the population in southeastern Ukraine. On February 17, 2022, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics reported the most intense shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in months. 

On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, and on February 24, President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from Donbass.

The Russian president explained that the decision was made to protect people facing genocide by the Kiev regime. On February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin said: "The circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. The people's republics of Donbass have requested help from Russia. Therefore, in accordance with Article 51, part 7 of the UN Charter, with the consent of the Federation Council, and in accordance with the treaties on friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Federal Assembly with the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, I have decided to conduct a special military operation."

MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATION

• Ensuring the rights of Russian-speaking populations 
• Legitimizing the will of the people 
• Demilitarization (neutralizing the military threat and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO) 
• Denazification (stopping the spread of neo-Nazi ideology) 

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Putin’s Conditions for Peace Deal: Ukraine Gives Up Donbas, No NATO, and No Western Troops

(As I have said many times, Russia will settle for NATO remaining out of Ukraine and Donbass becomes part of Russia since they are why Putin got involved in this whole thing in the first place. And here we are. But Puppet Zelensky wont have it. Donbass left Ukraine on their own after our Nazi-backed coup in 2014 and have been bombed ever since by Kiev. Donbass will never go back to Ukraine just like Crimea wont. It is a good deal for Ukraine since they aren't really losing anything they hadn't already lost before Russia got involved. But it was always about baiting Russia into the conflict and so, they wont accept it.) 

from AntiWar

Reuters reported on Thursday that Russia’s demands for a peace deal in Ukraine include Ukrainian forces withdrawing from the Donbas, a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO, and for Ukraine to keep Western troops out of the country.

Russian sources told Reuters that Putin had compromised on his initial conditions, which included the Ukrainian withdrawal from the territory in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Under the current offer, Russia is willing to freeze the lines there and also return small amounts of territory it controls in Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk.

For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly rejected the idea of ceding the territory Ukrainian forces still control in the Donbas, and European leaders appear to be backing his position.

When it comes to NATO, the Reuters report said that Moscow is seeking a legally binding pledge from the alliance that it wouldn’t move further eastwards. A guarantee that Ukraine wouldn’t join NATO was one of Russia’s main demands to avoid the invasion, but the Biden administration refused to engage on the issue...

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Trump's Peace Accord Meeting Today: Will TDS of the Left Derail it?

 Trump's Peace Accord Meeting Today: Will TDS of the Left Derail it? https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/08/trumps-peace-accord-meeting-today-will.html

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Trump's Peace Accord Meeting Today: Will TDS of the Left Derail it?

by Scott Creighton

This afternoon, President Trump will be meeting with President Zelensky (his term ended a while ago and refuses to allow fresh elections meaning... like Benjamin Netanyahu, when the conflict is over, so is his political career... back to playing piano with his penis for laughs I guess)  regarding Trump's recent talk with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Also attending the meeting remotely will be British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Needless too say this is a high level bit of diplomacy the Trump administration is about to pull off in pursuit of bringing the Ukraine/Russia war to an end.

As expected the fake alt-left has nothing positive too say about this potential war-ending maneuver. Were it ObamaGod doing this I am sure they would already be lining up to give him yet another Peace Prize especially since he didn't deserve the first one. Hell, even Google AI knows it, and Google AI is an idiot.

Obama has been at war for longer than any other president in US history. The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. "Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. 

What does Trump hope to achieve with this effort? Well, that is simple, he wants a 'win'

Trump's acolytes are famous for uttering the phrase 'promises made promises kept' whenever the Glorious Leader does anything in direct contrast to what he promised in the run-up to the election.

He promised to end the Israel genocide quickly and yet has since the election done nothing but help it continue and even speculate about stealing Gaza for a Trump hotel.

Promises made, promises kept.

Putin-Trump summit ‘erased’ Western narratives – EU state’s leader

Zelensky to head to Washington 

Putin says it was a useful meeting 

from RT

The summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in Alaska has challenged the West’s entrenched confrontational narratives regarding relations with Moscow, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has claimed.

In defiance of the EU’s prevailing approach, Fico halted Bratislava’s military aide to Kiev in October 2023, and has been a vocal critic of the bloc’s sanctions against Moscow, as well as suggestions that Ukraine join NATO.

In a video posted on Facebook on Saturday, Fico stated that the sheer fact that Putin and Trump had met in person was the “most important thing” about the summit in Anchorage on Friday.

“Politicians need to meet and show mutual respect, to talk and try to understand each other,” the Slovak prime minister argued.

He further claimed that the high-profile meeting had “rejected the black-and-white view of the military conflict in Ukraine” and essentially “erased a single mandatory opinion on the war.”

“We must speak equally about security guarantees both for Ukraine and for the Russian Federation,” taking into account the “historical roots” of the conflict, Fico emphasized...

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The True Left Admits Trump/Putin Summit was NOT a Failure

Our leaders are supposed to meet with adversaries in order to work toward PEACE rather than just continue to appease the MIC with endless, mindless war. Trump's meeting with Putin may be a good start to that end but the fake alt-left is too busy hating him to remember what the left is supposed to stand for.

summit updates plus Ukraine neo-Nazi pics  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/08/trmp-putin-summit-live-updates.html

Pentagon images  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/08/moments-after-plane-hit-pentagon-before.html

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Trmp Putin Summit Live Updates

by Scott Creighton 

 RT is posting live updates from the summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Seems the MIC hired some crisis actors or a rent a crowd to hang around outside the base waving Ukrainian flags as if folks in America want desperately to see the war continue as long as possible. 

 Of course these pro-war ass-hats forget what started all of this.

 And they seem to forget who they stand with when they stand with Ukraine:

 

 

No justification for attack on Iran – Putin

from RT

Israeli and US hostilities against Iran are groundless and unjustifiable, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

The top Iranian diplomat, who landed in Moscow and met with the Russian president on Monday, said earlier that the visit was needed for “closer, more precise, and more serious consultations” with Russia, in the wake of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

During the meeting at the Kremlin, Putin described the attacks on Iran as “an unprovoked aggression,” for which “there can be no justification.”

The actions of Israel and the US are “illegitimate” and violate international norms, he added.

The Russian leader noted that he was glad to see Araghchi in Moscow, saying that his visit would allow Russia and Iran “to discuss these pressing issues and jointly think about a way out of the current situation.”...

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Putin says Russia supports Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy amid US threats

from RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reaffirmed his country’s support for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s right to develop and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

In an interview with Sky News Arabia on Saturday, Putin asserted that Moscow supports Iran’s right to use nuclear energy peacefully and is prepared to provide the necessary assistance in this regard.

His remarks came amid the Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic, backed by the United States, which came amid the Iran-US indirect nuclear negotiations.

The Trump administration in Washington has used the pretext of Iran’s nuclear energy program to threaten Iran and its leadership with military aggression.

Iran, while maintaining that its nuclear energy is peaceful and solely for energy purposes, has warned against American direct intervention in the Israeli terrorist aggression.

Russia has traditionally supported Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy and it has been involved in Bussher nuclear power plant, which is operated by Russia’s Rosatom.

Putin said the concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear program should be resolved through dialogue and mutual agreement, in a clear rejection of US war rhetoric...

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