Dr. Michael MacKay

Since the beginning of the day there have been 116 combat engagements on the battlefront where fascist russia is invading Europe in Ukraine.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 22:00 on 18 October 2025 regarding the russian invasion

Freezing the front lines of Russia’s invasion is not a path to peace but a sure way to extend the war.

It would reward Russian aggression and give the enemy breathing space to prepare the next offensive. It abandons millions of people to occupation and slavery, destroying hope.

Putin’s “grey cardinals” have been extremely adept at navigating Trump’s growing mental incapacity – they’re still winning the day.

Trump’s Russian handlers continue to get across the aggressor state’s maximal demands of waging unrestricted warfare against Ukraine.

Mainstream news media are framing Trump’s betrayal of U.S. national security and slavish devotion to Russia as “wanting diplomacy, not escalation.”

In reality, Trump is doing exactly the opposite: boosting Russian invaders and weakening Ukrainian defenders.

Putin puppet Trump is doing everything in his power to escalate, extend and expand Russia’s war of aggression.

The Trump regime is selling over-priced weapons for grift. Ukraine is producing affordable weapons to defend the West from aggressor Russia.

Finance Ukraine’s defence industry directly. Ignore the Russia-backed Trump regime.

Trump said there must be a ceasefire in Russia’s war. Then Putin ordered Trump to ignore that subject.

Trump said Ukraine is able to free all its territory. Putin gave Trump a talking to and now there will be no Tomahawk missiles for the defenders.

The estimated combat losses of russians over the last day: 1 150 persons, 498 UAVs and 41 artillery systems | MoD News The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 18.10.25: personnel: about 1 129 180 (+1 150) persons, tanks: 11 267 (+1), troop-carrying AFVs: 23 396 (+2), artillery systems: 33 789 (...

Increased russian and North Korean losses over the past day:

>1,150 personnel

tanks +1
armoured personnel vehicles +2
artillery systems +41
multiple-launch rocket systems +2
aircraft +1
operational-tactical UAVs +498
vehicles +131
special equipment +2

mod.gov.ua/en/news/the-...

Russian/North Korean losses, 24 Feb 2022 – 18 Oct 2025:

1,129,180 personnel

11267 tanks
23396 armoured vehicles
33789 artillery systems
1522 MLRS
1228 air defence systems
428 aircraft
346 helicopters
71523 UAVs
3864 cruise missiles
28 ships/boats
1 submarine
64672 vehicles
3980 special equipment

Putin puppet Trump says he wants to freeze the front lines of Russia's invasion and call it "peace." He wants to reward Russians for armed aggression and illegal occupation.

Trump is too mentally incapacitated to remember Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire and Russia rejected it.

Peace will only come with Ukraine's victory and a humiliating defeat for the Moscow invaders.

The refusal of the United States to provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukrainian defenders will escalate the Russian invasion.

Putin exercised his complete mastery of Trump to extend the war he started.

An explosion occurred in one of the workshops of the "Avangard" plant in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, on the territory of the russian fascist invaders.

The facility produces ammunition and components for multiple launch rocket systems.

Ukraine is 1,500 km to the west.

Kherson region, along the Dnipro River: "In the Prydniprovs'ke direction, the enemy once tried in vain to approach the positions of our defenders towards the Antonivka Bridge."

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 22:00 on 17 October 2025

Zaporizhzhya region: "In the Orikhiv direction, with the support of aviation, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of Kam'yans'ke and Stepove."

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 22:00 on 17 October 2025 regarding the russian invasion

In the Oleksandrivka direction, the russian fascist invaders tried 12 times to break through Ukrainian defences in the the areas of Oleksandrohrad, Sichneve, Novomykolayivka, Novohryhorivka, Malynivka and Vesele as well as towards Orestopil'. One combat engagement is ongoing.

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In the Pokrovs'k direction, the russian fascist invaders conducted 33 assaults on Ukrainian fortifications in the areas of Shakhove, Zapovidne, Rodyns'ke, Krasnyi Lyman, Novoekonomichne, Myronohrad, Lysivka, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Udachne and Filiya as well as towards Pokrovs'k and Novopavlivka.

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Northwest of temporarily-occupied Horlivka, in Donechchyna, russian invaders tried to advance 11 times in the areas of Torets'k, Shcherbynivka, Rusyn Yar and towards Kostyantynivka and Berestok.

–General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 22:00 on 17 October 2025

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In the Sivers'k direction, in Donetsk region, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy assaults on Yampil', Dronivka, Hryhorivka and Pereyizne.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 22:00 on 17 October 2025 regarding the russian invasion

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In the Lyman direction, the russian fascist invaders attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 12 times near Hrekivka, Karpivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve and Tors'ke as well as towards Koroviy Yar. Two combat engagements are still ongoing.

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In the Kup'yans'k direction, in Kharkiv region, the rashists attacked seven times in the areas of Petropavlivka and Pishchane as well as towards Kup'yans'k.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 22:00 on 17 October 2025 regarding the russian invasion

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In the north of Kharkiv region, the russian fascist invaders stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders 15 times near Vovchans'k as well as towards Bolohivka, Obukhivka, Kolodyazne and Kut'kivka. Two combat engagements are ongoing.

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North Korea supplies a large number of KN-23 ballistic missiles to the russian terrorist state, used to hit civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

Supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine to hit strategic and military targets in Russia is not by any measure "escalation."

Russia does not want peace.

Militants of the russian terrorist state are attacking Ukraine with drones.

Incidentally, the Ukrainians have gotten so good at tracking enemy air targets that only individual districts need to go into a state of alert, rather than whole regions.

The Ukrainians propose exchanging their drone technology developed in the 2020s for the Americans' Tomahawk missile technology developed in the 1970s. A more than fair deal …

A lesson for Americans:

By late 2013, most Ukrainians could see President Yanukovych was a russian asset. Due to corruption, the rule of law and representative democracy were broken.

Ukrainians decided to practice direct democracy. They carried out the Revolution of Dignity.

No matter how much he sucks up to Putin or attacks Americans in the streets of their cities, the Epstein files aren't going to go away for Trump.

Russian terrorists fired artillery at Khrinivka, Klyusy, Huta-Studenets'ka, Orlykivka, Hrem'yach (Chernihiv region); Bobylivka, Bila Bereza, Starykove, Malushyne, Kozache, Hirky (Sumy region).

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 16:00 on 17 October 2025

Putin directed Trump to a meeting in Alaska because it is "Russian America" to the Moscow empire.

Putin is directing Trump to a meeting in Hungary because it is a puppet state of Russia and serves as the Kremlin's veto within NATO and the EU.

Russia owns Trump.

The russian fascist invaders shot down one of their own Su-30SM fighters over temporarily-occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian navy radio intercepts indicate the crew of two ejected from the aircraft.

The estimated cost of an Su-30SM is around $50 million.