Donation Report. August 2026

Summer is over, and we can finally tally up the results of the ruZZian spring-summer offensive.
For Moscow, this year has been a military disaster. Over 8–9 months, they captured 990 sq. km while losing 820 sq. km. The net gain? A measly 170 sq. km.
The price tag for this minimal advance is nearly 300,000 ruZZian soldiers (they are currently losing about 40,000 men a month). For every single square kilometer gained, they paid with hundreds of lives—up to 1,700 casualties per net sq. km.

While North Korea actively aids Pootin by supplying heavy ballistic missiles carrying massive 2.5-ton warheads, Ukraine struggles to get enough interceptor missiles to defend its skies. Striking the launch sites inside russia isn't even up for discussion among Western allies. All that is being asked for is access to Starlink coverage up to 200 km deep into russian territory, just to hunt down and destroy those ballistic missile launchers—yet even that basic, pragmatic request remains blocked.

Realizing their impotence on the ground, the russian military has shifted to outright aerial terror. Kyiv is being targeted especially brutally right now. Jet-powered drones are launched around the clock: they fly at high speeds, are much harder to shoot down, and often just circle endlessly over the city to keep everyone in a state of constant panic. During air raids, the economy shuts down—malls, grocery stores, local shops. You literally can’t buy food because of non-stop sirens. Mass events and sports are banned unless there’s a bomb shelter nearby, which is a justified precaution since large crowds are a prime target.

They are deliberately striking civilian infrastructure: warehouses, factories, gas stations, food distribution hubs, pharmaceutical plants, passenger trains.
None of these are military targets. Failing on the battlefield, they are trying to break civilian morale from above.

Remember when the argument from Washington was: "The ultimate guarantee against another russian invasion will be the presence of American businesses operating in Ukraine"? Reality has exposed the flaw in that theory.

Look at the actual facts: right now, terrorussia is directly targeting American companies. FedEx, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Philip Morris, Mondelez, and Cargill grain terminals have all been hit. According to the American Chamber of Commerce, about 47% of US companies in Ukraine have been damaged or completely destroyed. It’s a direct assault on American capital, while Washington often seems to look the other way.

Meanwhile, russia has ramped up hybrid warfare across Europe: sabotage at defense plants, arson, cyberattacks, and hundreds of suspicious drones swarming over NATO military facilities. European hesitation only emboldens the Kremlin, while Moscow routinely dismisses all accusations as "anti-russian hysteria."

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s recent flight to Moscow on a military aircraft is a serious indicator. Back in 2021, right before the full-scale invasion, CIA Director Burns flew there to warn the Kremlin. If Ratcliffe is flying there now, it means russia is likely planning something highly dangerous—potentially testing NATO’s Article 5 in the Baltics. For Putler, who is failing to defeat Ukraine on the ground, escalating against NATO is one of the few moves left to force Western negotiations on his own terms..

Ratcliffe represents serious intelligence work. This stands in stark contrast to the approach of political envoys like Witkoff and Kushner, who often treat diplomacy in Moscow too casually. Showering a former KGB officer with compliments in the belief that it constitutes grand strategy fundamentally misunderstands the adversary. When Witkoff publicly gushes about how he’ll "fondly remember these wonderful trips to Moscow," it projects naivety. In Moscow, they see right through this flattery. They view overly eager diplomats not as partners, but as a sign of American weakness.

Interestingly, when talking to allies like Zelensky, Witkoff adopts a much tougher stance, showing he knows how to play hardball. But true global respect is earned through leverage and strength between equals, not by attempting to charm a dictator.

As for the broader conservative leadership, the current foreign policy messaging is concerning. The promise to end the war in 24 hours clashes with the reality of a grinding conflict, and repeatedly praising Putin’s supposed desire for peace ignores the brutal facts on the ground. I don't understand why this is repeated with such conviction, when it provokes laughter and makes these people appear completely out of touch with reality.

Instead of projecting a serious, actionable foreign policy, the focus too often shifts to social media spectacles — renaming lakes and gulfs or posting AI-generated videos of thousands of wins. While this might entertain a specific online base, it fails to project the gravity and strength the rest of the world expects from American leadership. The Republican Party has a proud tradition of serious, strong foreign policy, and it needs voices willing to demand a return to that standard rather than relying on internet memes.

And domestically, applying questionable financial promises to the campaign trail—like floating $5,000 "Trump dividends" to voters—it seems to me that, firstly, this is a clear case of vote-buying, and secondly, has anyone actually stopped to consider how much this would cost if the promise were to be fulfilled? As I understand it, previous promises to hand out money never materialized because the idea was utopian and nothing more than populism from the start. It feels less like strategic economic policy and more like an unsustainable attempt to buy goodwill.

I would welcome these negotiations, but I see this circus dragging on for a second year now.

And right now, our staff are hiding in a semi-basement under the stairs because our street is being bombed.
These are the results of your negotiations to end a war that was supposed to be over in 24 hours!

And we will keep fighting, because there is no other way. We will prepare for a winter that promises to be very difficult, and we will continue our volunteer work—because no one in this world will protect us except our own soldiers on the front lines!