Russia Warns of Major Attack on Kiev as “Cup of Patience Has Overflowed”

Early this month, Russia’s head of state said the war in Ukraine was coming to an end. The leader of Ukraine responded by suggesting that Kiev, too, was open to peace discussions. But a few weeks later, Moscow is urging foreigners to leave the Ukrainian capital “as soon as possible” because a “powerful” attack is coming. The warning comes on the heels of fierce strike exchanges between the two rival nations.

According to the state media organ RT, Russian officials told reporters that Moscow is about to hit Kiev as payback for a Ukrainian strike on a college building in Starobelsk in the Lugansk region, which was annexed by Russia in 2022. “According to the Foreign Ministry, the Russian military will now systematically target defense industry facilities in Kiev,” per the report. Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu told reporters, “It can happen at any moment,” adding, “We warned how hard we can strike, and we demonstrated that as well. We have all the means in place for it.”

Strike Exchange

Over the last week, Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging strikes. The particulars are difficult to verify because most news reports are based on claims made by Ukrainian and Russian officials, neither of which can be taken at face value. But there’s a preponderance of evidence suggesting the war appears to be escalating, not winding down, at least for the near future.

On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia deployed its powerful Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile during an intense attack on Kiev. According to reports, this marked the third time the Russians used that weapon since it invaded Ukraine in 2022. Reports say the attack, which also included drones and other missiles, killed two people and injured about 80. Russian officials confirmed using the Oreshnik.

Kiev appears to have responded with an attack the Russians claim resulted in the killing of 21 students, while injuring many more.

Ukrainian military officials have also reported that Kiev hit Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery and a number of Russian military targets on May 27. This is part of a series of attacks on the Tuapse refinery over previous months. The Tuapse refinery is considered one of the largest oil-processing facilities in Russia. Some of the fuel produced there is used to supply the Russian military.

Send More Missiles

Meanwhile, Zelensky is pleading with U.S. President Donald Trump for more weapons to withstand the coming Russian barrage. Reports say Zelensky recently sent Trump a letter “warning that Ukraine is facing a worsening shortage of air defense systems, particularly anti-ballistic missile capabilities.”

In the letter, Zelensky also complains about the insufficiency of the program that allows NATO countries to buy weapons for Ukraine. “The current pace of deliveries through the PURL program is no longer keeping up with the reality of the threat we face,” he says. “I ask for your help in protecting Ukraine’s skies from Russian missiles.”

Scandals

There is no record of how Trump has, or if he has, responded. But there is at least one member of the Republican Party who isn’t sympathetic to another of Zelensky’s hat-in-hand routines. Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida blames Zelensky for getting in the way of a peace deal. “Not to mention,” Luna also said, “you are refusing to hold elections AND your government funneled money the U.S. sent to Ukraine back into Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.”  

In her social-media post, Luna mentions just one of a number of fraud scandals tied to the Zelensky regime. She is referencing a report by Just the News published at the end of March, which said that U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian communications discussing a plot to “route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy in the war-torn country and move them to the United States to enrich then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”

There appears to be no further verification of this claim by the U.S. government. But the ruling Ukrainian regime has been covered with allegations of fraud and scandals, including investigations into a Zelensky business partner who is suspected of stealing and laundering $100 million from the country’s nuclear power company as well as engaging in other fraud and financial crimes.

Martial Law

Luna also mentioned that Ukraine has turned into an overt autocracy that, unlike Russia, isn’t even pretending that citizens have the power to choose their leaders. After Russia invaded, the Ukrainian government cancelled presidential, parliamentary, and local elections and implemented martial law. That continues to this day. Zelensky’s term ended almost exactly two years ago, May 20, 2024, yet he’s still president and the people who were in the government then are still there today.

Ukraine has also cracked down on critics. Ukrainian authorities have shuttered various media outlets, eliminated other political parties, arrested religious leaders, and even killed journalists. In essence, Ukraine is a totalitarian state in which citizens risk repercussions for dissenting and have no means to choose leaders who might diligently pursue a peace deal with Russia.

Running Low

And this is the country that American taxpayers funneled billions of dollars to under the Joe Biden administration and are being asked to send more weapons — weapons, it just so happens, that the U.S. military is running low on.

The Washington, D.C., think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report on Wednesday saying it will take years for the U.S. military to replenish its missile stockpiles. This corroborates statements that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reluctantly made during a congressional hearing.

Among the weapons that the United States is running low on are the Patriot interceptor missiles Ukraine is asking for.

The major cause of munitions depletion is Trump’s unconstitutional war against Iran. Reports say the military expended years’ worth of munitions in just 39 days. Hegseth said American support for Ukraine during the Biden administration didn’t help either.

Stay Out of It

Trump should not give Ukraine anything. In fact, his administration should go a step further and remove any remaining U.S. involvement in Ukraine, including intelligence. Propping up Ukraine only prolongs the war, which increases chances of continental escalation, which then boosts chances of a world war. Such a war would almost certainly draw in the United States. It could also lead to a nuclear exchange, which would then provide globalists a strong incentive for a world government.

Regular Americans have nothing to gain by continuing this war. Any narrative about Russia planning western expansion after its war in Ukraine are pure fantasy. U.S. threat assessments have come to this exact conclusion as well. Russia does not have the power to pose a realistic threat to the rest of Europe. European officials who are saying otherwise likely know better and they are probably saying such things for other, more sinister, reasons.

As we said just weeks before Russia invaded in 2022, this is not our war. Three months later, we made the case that this is a war between two villains. While we had adequately documented Vladimir Putin’s history of corruption and tyranny over the years, we included information making the case that Zelensky is an amoral globalist figure whom the Western Deep Staters are using as a pawn. A lot has emerged since confirming all of that.