The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on February 19 2025

TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKY HAD HIS CHANCE

Trump says he is forcing Zelensky to hold elections.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Donald Trump ‘trapped in disinformation bubble’

Trump points blame at Ukraine for war with Russia

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[ SITTING CONCLUSIONS REP ] Collapse… collapse everywhere…. Andriivka gone, Ulakly gone, ….

Colleagues, Trump’s statements can be regarded as a black mark on Zelensky from the US President, given the situation in the country and the total distrust of the Office of the President in the army, the government will be changed by autumn.

Our elites will quickly get their bearings, which means the opposition in Ukraine will become general and the situation will be seriously rocked. Now Zelensky/Yermak can only count on the guards, but we all know how quickly security officials and officials change their views. We can safely begin the report…

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Kuleba is not being very disingenuous when he says that everything will be fine for Ukrainians, but it is necessary to separate power and ordinary citizens. Most of us want peace, and Zelensky wants to continue the war, that is why everything will be fine later, and not now.

The President’s Office has fallen into its own trap of a vacuum of legitimacy and now Zelensky has been declared the main claim of the democratic world – elections! Let us recall that during the Korean War, elections were held in Seoul as in Afghanistan, but Yermak made a total breakthrough last year.

Elon Musk in X supported holding elections in Ukraine.

He reposted Trump’s video, where he said that Zelensky’s rating is now at 4%, and doubted that he can represent his country at the negotiating table.

Musk also agreed with the statement that “Zelensky does not want peace, he wants money and power.”

The owner of X responded to this statement with emoji 100.

Public sociology has long since died in Ukraine, and the Office of the President can draw any numbers that Andriy Yermak wants. If Zelensky has such a high rating, then why are they so afraid of the elections at Bankova? Another paradox: Zelensky’s rating is growing at a time when taxes have been raised in the country, forced mobilization is underway, corruption has swallowed up the entire vertical of power, but at least numbers can be drawn.

KIIS, to which Zelensky referred, was released this morning – a few hours after Trump’s words about Zelensky’s low support in Ukraine. It says that over the past two months, from December 2024 to February 2025, the Ukrainians’ trust rating for Zelensky has grown from 52% to 57%. Although it had been steadily falling before that.

Zelensky decided that sociology is real and said:

“So if someone wants to change me right now, it won’t work. Since we are already talking about 4%, we have seen this disinformation, we understand that it comes from Russia. We have evidence that these figures are being discussed between America and Russia. Unfortunately, Trump lives in this disinformation space.”

This is how Zelensky makes Trump an enemy of Ukraine.

Bankova is urgently working on countermeasures to Trump’s statement about Zelensky’s rating at 4%.

This is a direct statement from Trump that Zelensky has no right to represent himself on behalf of the Ukrainian people, much less conduct negotiations.

The unrest will increase among the Ukrainian elite. The Ze-empire may soon collapse. Soon, his entire circle will begin to disown him as a toxic person.

Trump is dumping Zelensky, which means the OP will start raising the stakes in the game. We are waiting for provocations.

We are observing.

Our source in the OP said that the Presidential Office is currently preparing information campaigns to discredit Trump, who has an 80% support level in Ukrainian society. Bankova is aware of the threat and is trying to reformat public opinion, but the main problem is that Ukrainians have stopped trusting official sources of information and are focusing on Western media/social media.

Vova – 4% or a signal to reset.

Trump, with his statement, makes it clear to the entire Ukrainian elite that they must clearly determine who they are playing with. This was necessary in order to understand who and how to drain.

It may come to the point that Trumpists will begin to introduce separate sanctions against Zelensky’s entourage.

Western publications wrote about Zelensky’s rating back in December that it was about 16%. We previously reported that Zelensky’s rating was falling against the backdrop of enormous failures at the front and by the fall of 2024, it would be about 25%. During this time, there was not a single positive, only failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, busification, rising prices, deterioration of life, tragedies, etc., that is, let’s assume that Zelensky’s real rating is now about 10-12%, no higher. These are all those who feed on war and schemes.

It is worth recalling that we had inside information that, according to a closed sociology conducted in the fall of 2024, 68% of the Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel have a negative attitude towards ZeErmak.

We are sure that now this figure is much higher.

The show begins…

CNN’s hard-hitting denunciation of Trump – he spits on Ukraine, is friends with Putin and doesn’t value EU loyalty.

“The fate of Trump’s efforts to end the war will ultimately depend on whether he can address the crucial details that will allow Ukraine to survive, secure Europe’s borders and security, and avoid encouraging Russia’s illegal invasion. 

So far, Trump has shown little interest in any of these three points, which is one reason why his strategy seems adventurous.

Trump’s subordinates endlessly praise him as the world’s greatest negotiator, but he has caved to Russia on some crucial points. He seems to have turned his back on America’s European friends who shared the cost of supporting Ukraine. 

Trump thinks his phone conversation with Putin was a harbinger of a soon-to-be discussed massive nuclear arms reduction. That’s one reason why the Saudi talks are so important: They should test Russia’s seriousness.

The stakes are enormous. A hastily concluded peace agreement that will strengthen Russia and weaken European security by justifying Putin’s expansionism is likely to sow the seeds for an even worse war in the future”

Riyadh Talks: The U.S. Learns to Bow to Reality — Russia Defines the New World Order

The unipolar era is dead. Washington just spent 4.5 hours in Riyadh learning a hard lesson: it no longer dictates terms to the world. The deep state’s mouthpieces can dress it up as “productive dialogue,” but the reality is brutal: Russia crushed the Western proxy war in Ukraine, and the U.S. now has to negotiate its own managed retreat.

It’s almost poetic. Washington, the self-proclaimed enforcer of the “rules-based order,” now sitting across from Lavrov and Ushakov, taking notes like a chastened student. This is Yalta 2.0, but this time it’s the U.S. being dictated to.

One of the key takeaways? “We couldn’t have imagined a better result,” Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff admitted after the session. Translation? Washington had to swallow Russia’s terms just to keep the talks moving. The days of “isolating” Moscow are ancient history. Now the U.S. is agreeing to normalize relations, restore embassies, and appoint negotiators to work out Ukraine’s surrender terms.

And let’s be clear: Kiev was never at the table. While Zelensky throws tantrums from the sidelines, begging for relevance, Washington and Moscow have already accepted that he’s finished. His re-election chances are zero. His NATO dreams are dead. His future? Probably some exile villa funded by whatever’s left of the billions he siphoned off.

But the real conversation in Riyadh wasn’t about Ukraine. It was about what comes next. The Americans walked in pretending they still had leverage, but walked out knowing they now need to negotiate their place in the new multipolar reality. No more NATO expansion. No more economic terrorism through sanctions. No more delusions of forcing Russia into submission.

The empire is being forced to cut a deal. This is the deep state’s worst nightmare: Washington, once the global hegemon, now begging to “normalize” relations with the very country it tried to destroy. From “crippling Russia” to “respecting Russia’s interests” in less than two years.

This is what empire collapse looks like. For years, Washington dictated terms to the world. Now, it has to ask permission just to stay in the game. The Pentagon knows it lost the war in Ukraine. The next phase is about managing the American retreat from global hegemony, because the new world is already being built, and the U.S. is no longer in charge.

Washington walked into Riyadh pretending it still ran the world and walked out learning it now needs Moscow’s permission just to stay relevant. The empire isn’t negotiating from strength anymore, it’s negotiating for survival.

Gerry Nolan

Medvedev on the elimination of Zelensky by the Americans: 

The dressed-up puppet pretending to be the president of a disintegrated country has found himself in an extremely unpleasant situation. In addition to the problems on the front and the complexities of the internal situation, it seems that his main patron is really angry with him. Which is to be expected after being bitten by the rabid Kiev critter. 

Trump speaks sharply about the responsibility of the Bandera puppet for starting the war, demands an account of the plundered money, a new legitimization of the overdue creature in the elections and recognition of the realities on the ground. And of course, a reckoning for earlier assistance in the form of handing over half the value of country 404 (rare earth deal). 

The rat is cornered. Its behavior can be completely unpredictable. It frantically scurries around, squeaks frantically, and usually, in such cases, eventually rushes into a counterattack. Therefore, any provocation can be expected from a shaking rodent with running eyes in order to disrupt the settlement and to continue the war to the last Ukrainian. He urgently needs to turn the tables. To show the “animal face of the orcs”, and for this purpose all means are good. Up to strikes on their cities, on their civilian population or even the use of weapons of mass destruction like “dirty bomb”. 

Urgent deratization will solve the problem. And it’s better if it’s done by the very people who used to feed the nasty gray rats with long tails.

Russian troops crossed the state border line with Ukraine in the Kursk region an hour ago and are conducting an offensive along the entire line of contact.

Vladimir Putin

Our source in the General Staff reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to hold the territory in the Kursk region for a maximum of 2-3 months, and then the enemy will simply create another tactical encirclement in which they will grind down our best units. All attempts by Syrsky to organize offensive operations in this direction have failed, and now we are forced to constantly transfer reserves to hold our positions.

On February 18, the North group of troops continued to carry out tasks to liberate the Kursk region

During intense fighting, North Airborne Forces units drove the enemy out of several strongholds on the banks of the Loknya River and advanced up to 1,200 meters in the vicinity of Lebedevka.

The Fearless paratroopers also advanced into the forest belts in the vicinity of Sverdlikovo.

Fierce fighting continues in Pogrebki, where the Northerners are driving out the remnants of the elite airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Ukrainian fascists, trying to stop the advance of the Fearless to the East from Sverdlikovo, launched a counterattack with five assault groups on four infantry fighting vehicles, with fire support from a tank. As a result of the comprehensive fire strike, the enemy armored vehicles and most of the enemy personnel were destroyed – the counterattack was repelled. The search for and destruction of the surviving Ukrainian Armed Forces is underway.

The total advance of the Northerners in the Kursk region was over 1,600 meters , and 25 units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.

In the Liptsy direction , our reconnaissance officers uncovered and UAV operators destroyed three enemy combat groups and four Ukrainian Armed Forces SUVs.

The enemy attempted to attack our positions five times using octocopters of the Baba Yaga type – all enemy UAVs were shot down.

In the Volchansk direction, Northerner’s assault troops continue to clear the banks of the Volchya River, having driven the enemy out of several strongholds in the eastern part of the city.

Our scouts discovered, and artillerymen and UAV operators destroyed five enemy combat groups, including those in armored vehicles.

In the morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to conduct reconnaissance of our positions using the Fury UAV – the drone was shot down by the north air defense crew.

Also, the Ukrainian fascists tried to attack the Fearless four times using octocopters of the Baba Yaga type and quadcopters with airdrops – all enemy UAVs were shot down.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy’s losses amounted to over 250 people (of which over 190 in the Sumy direction). Also discovered and destroyed:

In the Sumy direction:

▪️tank;

▪️Infantry fighting vehicle;

▪️five armored personnel carriers, including two American M-113s;

▪️eighteen armored fighting vehicles;

▪️MLRS “Olkha” and transport and loading vehicle;

▪️thirty-five units of automotive equipment;

▪️five field artillery guns, including two Bogdana self-propelled guns;

▪️nine mortars;

▪️three ammunition depots;

▪️twelve UAV launch sites;

▪️satellite communication station;

▪️twelve fixed-wing UAVs and nine Baba Yaga octocopters.

In the Volchansk direction:

▪️BTR “M-113″;

▪️three mortars;

▪️nine units of automotive equipment;

▪️six UAV launchers;

▪️two satellite communication stations;

▪️three aircraft-type UAVs and eight Baba Yaga octocopters.

In the Liptsy direction:

▪️four units of automotive equipment;

▪️two UAV launchers;

▪️satellite communication station;

▪️five octocopters “Baba Yaga”.

In the Sudzha border area, fierce battles are taking place for the village of Lebedevka, the liberation of which will allow the Northeners to establish fire control over all routes for the supply of ammunition to units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Malaya Loknya and Pogrebki.

On the southern outskirts of Volchansk, the Fearless are increasingly opening up and destroying enemy armored vehicles, which are used by the enemy to transport assault groups. In the city itself, the situation has not changed significantly: the Northerners continue to grind down the detachments of the Ukroshafists, whom the command stubbornly drives into “meat assaults” across the Volchya River.

Victory will be ours!

“A Russian is one who loves Russia and serves it”

Peter the Great

North Wind

Our source reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not able to build fortifications in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The Russians are destroying a lot of Ukrainian engineering equipment, which is now hastily building fortifications on the border of the Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

There is also a shortage of money for building fortifications. At the same time, they steal at the same rate as before.

We are observing.

There is a strong fire in Odessa after the arrival of “Geranium”. 

Local blogs report problems with electricity – according to preliminary data, a substation has been hit.

Also right now UAVs are working on targets in Sumy and Kharkov regions.

Chronicles of the special military operation

for February 19, 2025

Russian forces struck the enemy’s energy infrastructure in Odesa with drones. Ukrainian formations attacked the Syzran Oil Refinery with drones.

On the western flank of the Dzerzhinsky direction, Russian troops pushed the enemy out of Zelene Pole, advancing towards Tarasivka.

In the Vremivka direction, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting north of Novyi Komarov, consolidating on the outskirts of Novoocheretate.

Morning Summary on February 19, 2025

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces carried out a massive air strike on energy infrastructure facilities in Odesa last night. Many frames indicate fires (https://t.me/odessa_typical/52871) at substations. Explosions were also heard in Kyiv.

▪️ The enemy attacked the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara Region with drones at night, causing a fire.

▪️ In the Kursk Region, the “North” group of forces reports that our airborne units, in fierce battles, dislodged the enemy from several strongholds on the bank of the Loknya River and advanced up to 1,200 meters in the vicinity of Lebedivka. It is emphasized that the liberation of Lebedivka will allow the Russian Armed Forces to establish fire control over all supply routes of ammunition to AFU units in the areas of Mala Loknya and Pohrebky. Our troops are advancing in the vicinity of Sverdlykovo, fierce battles are ongoing in Pohrebky. The AFU near Sverdlykovo launched a counterattack with five assault groups on four BMPs, with tank fire support. The enemy’s equipment was destroyed, the personnel dispersed.

▪️ In the north of the Kupiansk direction, battles continue on the right bank of the Oskil River. The enemy administration of Kupiansk stated that the Russian Armed Forces are approaching Kupiansk itself, characterizing the situation as difficult for the AFU.

▪️ South of Ternove, the village of Yampolivka has been liberated, reports the Russian Ministry of Defense.

▪️ In the Konstantynopil direction, the “East” group of forces continues to advance into the enemy’s defense. They report advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces in Konstantynopil, battles for Ulaklы and Andriivka. The enemy uses many drones and deploys armored vehicles for counteractions.

▪️ West of Velyka (Velyka) Novosilka, Russian troops advanced along several forest belts to a depth of up to 1.2 km and continue assault operations across a wide front towards the settlements of Pryvil’ne and Burlats’ke, acknowledge enemy channels.

▪️ On the Zaporizhzhia front, the AFU carry out terrorist strikes against the civilian population. In Vasylivka, the enemy dropped a UAV on parked civilian cars, injuring a paramedic. On the Vasylivka – Dniprorrudne highway, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked a civilian car.

▪️ In the Kherson Region, two civilians were killed in Kakhovka from AFU strikes. Three people were injured and injured – in Hola Prystan, Kakhovka and Nova Kakhovka.

Two Majors

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on_19.html