Kiev’s forces remain on the backfoot across the front line, while the military has complained of manpower shortages.
Ukraine wants to go on the offensive against Russia, US President Donald Trump has said. Kiev’s forces remain on the backfoot across the front line, while Ukrainian officials have reported manpower shortages amid a mobilization campaign marked by violence and public resentment.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Trump replied that the US is “looking at… options” when asked what message and support he could deliver to Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky ahead of their meeting in Washington on Friday.
“They want to go offensive… I’ll make a determination on that,” Trump added. However, the US president declined to specify any timeline, objectives, or what would be required for a potential push.
Last month, Trump suggested that Ukraine could recover “the original borders from where this war started,” echoing Kiev’s maximalist goals but offering no details on how to achieve this. The remarks came as US officials signaled they were considering supplying Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles. According to Trump, he could approve deliveries if he concludes that “this war is not going to get settled.”
The last significant Ukrainian offensive came in August 2024, when Kiev’s troops staged an incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region. While Ukraine initially made limited gains, the advance soon stalled, and its troops were gradually pushed back by the spring.
Kiev had previously attempted a counteroffensive in summer 2023 along the southern sector of the front in an attempt to reclaim Crimea. However, the advance faltered against fierce Russian resistance, dense minefields, and layered defenses. Ukrainian officials later attributed the failure to delayed Western arms deliveries, intelligence leaks, and a dispersion of effort across multiple axes of the front.
Russian troops have continued to push back Kiev’s forces in recent months, making gains in Donbass and capturing territory in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Region. Ukraine has continued to struggle with manpower shortages, as its mobilization campaign has been marred by draft evasion and reports of violent incidents involving recruitment officers and reluctant conscripts.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is open to diplomacy with Kiev, but “in the absence of alternatives, [it] continues the special military operation” to safeguard the country’s national interests.
Trump is surrounded by ill gotten advisors
Fake whisperers
Neocon Jews proselytes and other war mongers attached to the sugar fix of the Military Industrial Complexity
And endless undeclared wars of attrition on foreign soils that have bankrupted America
Linked to the CIA Mossad MI6
To the US killing people is a thriving business
Guns oil drugs – the big three
Trump wants to prolong the war
Trump suggested that Ukraine could recover “the original borders from where this war started,” echoing delusional non nonsensical divorced from reality thinking
Trump is always short on detail while making preposterous unachievable absurd claims
Leaving everything open then coming in to snatch the glory
Trump is backing up the Ukraine war effort with nothing but lip service and hot air
Echoing the fragility of the US dollar printed into obscurity and irrelevance
Russia is in the drivers seat all the way like China over Trumps 100% tariffs which if implemented will backfire spectacularly for all the world to see
Trump deals in vagaries and wild assertions
In supplying Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles makes the US an in existential threat to Russia not its proxy Ukraine
These missiles in most instances which can be nuclear tipped that may reach their target cannot be guided without the input of American military satellites and no doubt advisors and US military know how
Initiating in response an invitation for a reciprocal calling card that may not be well received
That’s how serious this has become
Everything is on a haired trigger requiring just one fatal error misjudgment or mistake
And its game over
Gilbert Doctorow: NATO-Russia War May Now Be Unavoidable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pUbyemlm6s
Putin moderate is increasingly being put on the spot
To take more direct action against US Nato forces operating as proxies
Putin is being challenged more openly by more radical voices such as hardliner Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia
Who represent the equivalent of neocons in the US
If not for Putin and his moderating influence with these people at the helm who are emerging from the shadows demanding a more drastic response we would more than likely be in WW3 by now
Putin is a strategist and understands fully the implications of the fallout of a nuclear war and its unimaginable effects for Russia albeit the world
Russia is being forced into a decapitation surgical first strike scenario
Then its all over to ‘usem’ or ‘losem’
There will be no protracted drawn out nuclear war
And no winners
Only the dead and the living dead
Bertrand Comparet: Russia in Bible Prophecy
Once they take Odessa and they will, the Goblin and his friends, including the West are done. The bigger threat is how the West responds, when it looses.
Marketing stunt by the worlds arms dealer. Ukraine is, in some cases, along the front outnumbered 6-1. This is a horrible joke and a ploy to line already bulging, bloody pockets of the military industrial complex and its shareholders.
Peace…peace, they say, then sudden destruction comes upon them.
Gaza Genocides are back to ‘business as usual’…another J3wi$h / Zionist / Globalst betrayal of most ‘deals’… just like in the J3wi$h-owned pawn shops in Brooklyn, Chicongo, Miami Beach and New Jersey..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYwp3L-S9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TULDNDhVQ7o
Nothing will come of this meeting, except the BRIC Nations, having nukes, will win World War Three!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Ls0lDFX7o
And then there’s…(ooooohhh…dare I say the word should Mossad Unit 8200 catch me out…) IRAN!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3mGikVjOI
I want to be 18 again – but that’s not going to happen either.