General Mud News Today

After training up reserves and taking delivery of tens of billions of dollars in advanced NATO hardware, Ukraine began a massive summer counteroffensive aimed at dislodging Russian forces from the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye. The counteroffensive has bogged down, with Russia reporting staggering Ukrainian losses in manpower and equipment.

 

Despite Zelensky’s much vaunted offensive making ‘noticeable progress’, Jack Conrad argues that, especially with the mud season fast approaching, we should not expect any big changes on the battlefield

“[T]hree-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.”

Teixeira, a Mass. Air National Guard airman, was arrested Thursday on charges of unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified documents.

Other than the usual Russian atrocities, nothing terribly significant happened.

Prominent Indian socialist feminist Kavita Krishnan has taken a strong stand in support of Ukraine. Here she explains why slogans about "peace" and "negotiations" miss the real issues in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Why we should oppose the call for negotiations to end the war “No war, negotiated end to the war” is also the position of the Modi Government as well as all Left parties in India. Sounds reasonable, right? Two sides are at war, both should negotiate instead of...

September opinion polls in Russia continue to show Putin maintaining high popularity and trust ratings, despite slow progress and significant setbacks such as in Kharkiv. Nevertheless, those ratings have taken a hit in response perhaps to that...

Despite the surprising relative incompetence of Russian General Staff, a decisive Ukrainian victory is not realistic

The US now claims providing Ukraine with targeting data/other relevant intelligence for the purpose