Desperate Globalists Float Boots on Ground to Save Ukraine – SITREP 2/27/24

It’s quite remarkable how virtually every single item we wrote about in the last report has either come to pass or is slowly being proven accurate. The stampede of the Russian forces continues, with more territory falling today, which serves as the catalyst for some of the ongoing panicked escalations the report will focus on.

But first, let’s note those advances:

After capturing Lastochkino yesterday, Russian forces have continued to Tonenke, reportedly capturing or making it a gray zone as of this writing—confirmed by AFU sources:

And they have now begun the assault on Orlovka, which is the main stronghold of the region:

With the latest reports claiming AFU is already fleeing out the west end of Orlovka, as Russian forces advance through the center:

The advances are coming surprisingly fast, such that Ukrainian commentators are falling over themselves to explain what’s going on.

Infamous Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov gives his take, which is one of the threads that ties perfectly together with the last report. Recall the updates I’ve pushed about the corruption and embezzlement which has stilted Ukraine’s ability to build second echelon lines on almost every front. He addresses this directly:

The Russian Army continues to move forward, since no serious defense line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been constructed west of Avdievka – Butusov

“There are no words. The gap: here in Kiev the Supreme Commander-in-Chief says one thing, but at the front something completely different is happening. I want to say: beyond Avdeevka no field lines of fortifications have been built to this day. I saw our soldiers in holes in the middle of a field being attacked by Russian drones,” said Ukrainian military propagandist Butusov. No conclusions are drawn from previous failures.

This was corroborated by a new video showing Ukrainian troops attempting to fasten an ad hoc barb wire fence not far from the frontline, and getting liquidated by Russian FPV drones:

Things are getting so bad Ukraine continues to bring the Abrams into action in attempt to slow the Russian advance down. Unfortunately this time the fabled white whale of tanks was destroyed by Russian forces, marking the first fully confirmed Abrams kill of the conflict.

Before:

After:

Symbolically, it happened the same day a captured Bradley arrived by train in Moscow:

Officials are now getting worried. The next ‘thread’ which neatly follows the last report is the looming inevitability of Kharkov and/or the northern region falling.

What was wild conjecture just weeks ago is now being voiced openly by members of the Ukrainian Rada, like Oleksandra Ustinova here:

She frankly states that after Avdeevka, Kupyansk may fall—and Kharkov soon after. Recent reports have stated that Sinkovka area, near Kupyansk, is getting ‘critical’ for Ukraine. Not to mention unconfirmed reports that Russia has been placing new Iskander systems all along the border:

Apparatchiks on both sides of the ocean continue to voice this new urgency:

Listen at 0:30 where Schumer intimates “if we wait two or three months we will lose the war.”

In a new interview, Zelensky coyly confesses Ukraine will lose “a lot of people and territories” if the aid is not delivered asap:

To make matters worse, an ex-Colonel of the SBU continues another one of our ongoing threads from my previous report about Russia’s death by a thousand cuts tactic and how it may soon result in Ukraine’s collapse. Read what he says about the many-vectored attack—specifically about the rapidfire rotation of units that’s not giving Ukraine a chance to reinforce the constantly shifting axes of attack:

Ex-Colonel of the SBU predicts a new collapse of the front:

The Russian army is attacking on several sectors of the front, probing for the weak points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said retired SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov.

“The front is standing. What did the enemy start doing? He began to concentrate his groups in six directions – Kupyansk, Seversk, Liman, Bakhmut, Ugledar, Avdeevka and Orekhovskoye, Tokmak direction. And these groups have grown from tactical to operational. Operational – this is the army level of 50-70 thousand. They are pursuing a “swing” strategy – they will hit there, move away, hit there, don’t approach. Some of our commentators are starting to say that “meat assaults, we killed everyone, there is no one, and they keep climbing and climbing.” Please don’t listen – this is more related to panic. This is an underestimation of the enemy, it will come back to bite us, by the way, it’s already coming out ,” said the colonel.

He noted that the Russians are constantly rotating, training fresh forces, while the Ukrainian units are divided into those who know how to fight, but are mortally tired, and untrained newcomers. Both are potential sources of large losses.

“As a result, they will continue to press. Wait until we encounter certain problems in the tactical theater of military operations, which turn into operational-tactical ones. Then, operationally, the front collapsed. This is not me saying, but the military history of the First World War,” the Ukrainian expert worries.

The above only further confirms that everything we’ve been writing here about Russia’s strategy has been accurate, which further gives me confidence about much of the other projections for the future.

The dwindling conditions were again highlighted by a new Telegraph article that continues to paint a ghastly picture:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot fight in the Avdiivka direction due to a lack of ammunition, soldiers complained to The Telegraph.

“We have lost our fighting spirit. We simply do not have the means to fight. If this continues for a few more years, it will be a disaster: either we will run out of people, or everyone will simply leave the country,” one of them said.

He added that now the Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to leave advantageous positions and decide “which village to give to the Russians next.” Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that the EU is unlikely to be able to send the promised 1 million shells to Ukraine.

It’s gotten to the point the CIA director was again dispatched to Kiev to stop things from unraveling:

CIA Director William Burns secretly visited Ukraine last Thursday, February 22 – New York Times According to the newspaper, this is Burns’ tenth visit to Ukraine in two years. The purpose of the visit is to “calm down Ukrainian leaders” who fear that American intelligence services, due to the blocking of US aid, will become less active in helping Kyiv “fight Russia”

And outlooks continue to get bleaker:

Western intelligence agencies report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will exhaust their ammunition reserves by June, taking into account what Ukraine will receive in the coming weeks. Spiegel writes about secret negotiations between Germany and India on the purchase of shells through intermediaries. New Delhi has more than 100 thousand free shells. Negotiations are being held in secret (no longer), so that the partnership with Russia does not fall apart.
In Germany, they note that they have a shortage of shells, but a lot of money. 155-mm shells are also being sought in Arab countries. By the end of March, Germany will transfer 170 thousand shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

What’s interesting is we’ve seen the repeated projections for two months or so being the time period when things could unravel. This happens to roughly coincide with when Zelensky’s presidential mandate runs out, and questions of his legitimacy will begin rising. (ER: We don’t believe in coincidences in terms of timing. Much feels timed and orchestrated right now.)

But now that things are looking so bleak, there is panic behind the scenes as factions are already forming to begin using this question of legitimacy as a springboard:

The vacuum of legitimacy is the main problem for Ukraine in the future, which will become clear on the weakening of international relations with our strange.

Zelensky’s political opponents are increasingly raising the topic of completing the president’s five-year cadence, writes The head.

In particular, the ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, People’s deputy Dmitry Razumkov said that the powers of the current president of our country, Vladimir Zelensky, end in the spring of 2024, after which his powers are transferred to the speaker of the parliament.

“The Constitution clearly states what should happen: there is a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, he acts as president before a new president is elected and he assumes his rights,” — explained the nardep.

According to Razumkov, elections in Ukraine can be held after the end of the military conflict: “Everything is standard, everything is democratic. I understand that neither Zelensky nor his office likes this, but the law is the law”. Also, the ex-speaker of Rada added that he would like the situation in Ukraine to change and there were more “adequate people in the offices where decisions are made”.

The fact that Zelensky’s legitimacy after May 21 — was also called into question by ex-nardep, Doctor of Law Valery Karpuntsov.

“The norm of the Constitution states that there is no ban on the election of the president during a state of emergency or martial law. And if we look at the parliament, then such a ban is in the Constitution. Moreover, the Constitution clearly indicates how the president’s powers are transferred to another person in case of some situations that are not standard (rejection, death, voluntary retirement or for health reasons). In this case, the powers in a “circumcised” form are transferred to the chairman of the parliament”, — said Karpuntsov.

“If the president decides to transfer powers, not to resign voluntarily, then in this case nothing passes on to the chairman of the Rada. And we have a clean criminal situation when the authorities are usurped and this is already qualified under the criminal code”,— he added.

It is not surprising that against the background of such statements in the political circles of Ukraine, rumors have begun about preparations for the appointment of the head of the Office of President Andrei Ermak as the country’s prime minister. As the rumor fabula says, Zelensky has matured the plan to put the most reliable person and key member of his team (i.e., Ermak) in the post of prime minister, to exclude the possibility of using the position of the head of government to undermine the power of the president through the topic of “illegitimacy”.

The situation for the Office of the President is aggravated by the fact that in Ukraine Zelensky’s dissatisfaction with political elites and ordinary citizens is growing. The president cannot forgive corruption, failures at the front, and now inhuman, anti-people mobilization. At the same time, Zelensky himself and he himself dismissed the rating by resigning the head of the Armed Forces of Zaluzhny, popular in the country and in the West, appointing in his place a virtually obedient puppet of Syrsky (and this case, political opponents of Z can also successfully “download” in the spring of 2024).

And in light of this—what is the natural thing for them to do? Why, blame Russia of course! This is where things are headed:

“Maidan-3”: Russia is preparing a special operation to question Zelensky’s legitimacy after May 20, when his term ends

▪️The propaganda statement is published by the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine. The campaign will reach its climax allegedly in March-May 2024, they plan to spread panic, quarrel Kyiv with its allies, disrupt arms deliveries and mobilization.

▪️According to the plan, in the first half of June the situation in Ukraine will be able to be shaken and then, taking advantage of this, Kyiv will be inflicted a military defeat in the east, this is the key idea of their operation, Zelensky’s propagandists claim.

▪️ “It is worth noting that the theme of Zelensky’s “illegitimacy” after May 20 is now being pumped most actively by supporters of ex-President Poroshenko; based on the logic of the Intelligence Committee’s statement, they are “Russian agents,” write the Kyiv media.

▪️Ironically, Poroshenko himself, when he was president, also listed his critics as “agents of the Kremlin,” and his political strategists in 2016 even announced the “Shatun” plan allegedly developed in Moscow to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.

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One more update in this regard:

The Office of the Ukrainian President has prepared the text of an appeal to the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ukraine regarding the legitimacy of Vladimir Zelensky’s tenure as head of state after the expiration of his powers on May 20, the local publication “Mirror of the Week” reports, citing sources in the Zelensky administration.

It is noted that they want to pose several questions to the judges. In particular, despite the fact that according to the constitution, voting cannot be organized during martial law, the office plans to clarify whether the basic law allows for presidential elections to be held under these conditions.

The second question concerns the legitimacy of the powers of the president after the expiration of his five-year term in office. The publication writes that, according to the plan of the leadership of the presidential office, deputies from the pro-presidential Servant of the People party will make an appeal to the Constitutional Court. But the appeal has not yet been transmitted to parliamentarians.

As you can see, a mad scramble is taking place to secure Zelensky’s spot after May 20th, with the ground already being seeded about how any question of Zelensky’s legitimacy is the work of Russian security services—a natural and predictable step to dissuade and perhaps eventually jail opponents who will dare challenge him when the date comes.

So finally—we get to the culmination of all this. Things are looking bleaker than ever, with Ukraine seemingly headed for potential collapse sometime in the next three or so months. The frontline situation is set to potentially turn catastrophic in that period, as critical ammo is being projected to deplete right at the time that Zelensky’s legal mandate to rule comes to an end. One can clearly see how this can become a recipe for another coup or collapse via infighting.

I should mention here that it’s also been revealed that Europe is going to deliver even less ammo than they had ‘revised’ their promise to. You’ll recall it was supposed to have been 1M total shells, which got changed to around 500k. Now it’s being said that only 300k will have been delivered when all is said and done—a fact I pretty much predicted as I was skeptical of Josep Borrell and co.’s boastful promises.

Not only will the EU miss its target to give Ukraine a million artillery shells by March, it will likely also miss a revised target of 520,000, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said. 

Speaking at a press conference in Kiev on Monday, Zelensky said that “out of the million shells that the European Union promised us, not 50% came, but 30%, unfortunately.”

So: with things unraveling, what is left to be done? It seems the most radical of hawks wanted to float a trial balloon of WWIII in order to frighten Russia into some sort of concessions.

First, the genie was let out of the bottle by Slovakia PM Robert Fico, who had just attended the meeting of European heads in Paris:

It sounded like a joke at first, until Macron confirmed it:

It was further confirmed by Polish president Andrzej Duda, who said a concensus was not reached on the topic:

But before anyone is taken with flights of panic, it should be stated that virtually every other NATO country has already issued statements that no troops would be sent to Ukraine. This includes Spain, Italy, Greece, Finland, Germany, and now even the U.S.

Furthermore, recall that this isn’t a new idea. I’ve written in my earliest articles more than a year ago about how Poland was openly petitioning to send NATO troops into Ukraine literally from the first weeks of the war.

Thus in some ways this is nothing new. However, it does signal that the West is truly running out of ideas and are beginning to float some of the most extreme ones to see what will stick. And though this one was rejected offhand, it nevertheless shows that such almost unthinkable things are seriously being discussed by the top European leaders behind closed doors.

Furthermore, some of the refutations are vague enough to suggest this topic is not totally off the table. For instance, in response to the firestorm Rishi Sunak’s office said UK “had no plans” for “large-scale” deployment of troops in Ukraine:

Not only does “has no plans” sound fairly temporary, but “large-scale” deployment is obviously meant to exclude other types of non-large-scale deployments.

Of course, we all know from the Pentagon leaks that UK, US, and others already have hundreds of spooks and special forces in the country. Recently, Russian Colonel General Rudskoy again confirmed that NATO troops are already in the country under the guise of ‘mercenaries’:

“NATO military personnel, under the guise of mercenaries, participate in hostilities. They control air defense systems, tactical missiles and multiple launch rocket systems, and are part of assault detachments,” he said.

But there is likely a faction inside the global deep state who is militating for a forced entry of NATO into the conflict, one way or another.