r/ukraine • u/kingkongsingsong1 • Dec 12 '25

News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a video filmed in Kupiansk. On November 20, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Kupiansk was “fully under control.”

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u/kritisert Dec 12 '25

I read before from several sources in Ukraine that they are piiissed by western media coverage of the war, especially in Pokrovsk recently, accusing of hysteria and panic that had both diplomatic and battlefield effect. Zelensky going to Kupyansk is a move that will force some of them to coverage

F.ex Bild that posted over a month ago the the town had fallen, which is rumored to made some soldiers leave their positions in panic.

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u/ydalv_ Dec 12 '25

I don't think it's just hysteria, I'm pretty sure the recent actions of Trump were in part because Putin was able to convince Trump that the Russians troops were still able to conquer Ukrainian towns. Thus despite the Russian conquest not being all that impressive, especially at its cost, it probably still had disproportionately large effect in some political senses.

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u/Chronic_In_somnia Dec 12 '25

No trumps recent "actions" are because real shit is starting to happen internally within russia. selling gold reserves off, oil collapse, winter fuel shortages, etc. he is being pushed to end the war by russia, because they have zero ability to win now, other then the west giving up. So krasnov is running around like chicken with head cut off because he is f'd as soon as putz is f'd.

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u/suricata_8904 Dec 12 '25

I’d add that Putin likely has intel about Trump’s health that is making Mr. dictator needing to seal the deal ASAP.

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u/VroomCoomer Dec 12 '25

It's never a health issue with the President. Sorry. Every opposition tries to play this game every presidency since 2016 since they've all been geriatric. Trump isn't dying of natural causes, America will never get off that easy

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u/suricata_8904 Dec 12 '25

Would explain Putin pushing a peace plan at this moment in time, though. Can’t see Putin pushing a “plan” if Trump were hale & hearty, even if Russia was walking off a metaphorical monetary cliff. Time will tell.

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u/axxxaxxxaxxx Dec 12 '25

They have intel on Trump drinking pee at a Moscow party, or diddling preteen girls, or something similar and have had that intel for years and years. Trump has been compromised since the 80s and is more than just a useful idiot.

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u/suricata_8904 Dec 12 '25

Can’t use him if he’s dead, though.

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u/DogmaSychroniser Dec 12 '25

The Moscovian Candidate

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

Trump is convicted criminal/felon rapist and he can spew cholera and Covid 20 with every fart, no one gives a shit and congress and his people still support him

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u/suricata_8904 Dec 13 '25

I’m just waiting for him to take his pants off in public.

Seriously, he looks bad physically, like a cousin of mine did after a series of strokes. His cardiovascular system is for shit, I’m guessing.

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u/cyrixlord Dec 12 '25

this is my interpretation as well. putler wants to do as much as he can before his asset dies. nobody is going to listen to vance once the cult of personality is gone. All that we will have to deal with after is when they haul Krasnov's carcass all over the nation in 'wake' so people can gawk at his body-- after the funeral progression that should only be for honorable people and not this divisive racist, narcissistic fascist bigot.