If you can’t trust Russian intel, what can you trust? Let’s hope this intel is correct. From Simplicius at simplicus76.substack.com:
Some interesting developments have produced hints as to how Ukraine’s end game may shape up. Zelensky is being increasingly viewed as a problem by the Trump-Kellogg team, because of his mulishness and refusal to budge on any of the core concessions viewed as necessary to ending the war. Now, apparently a concensus around this same conclusion is forming in Europe as well.
As evidence of this, we have an official release from Russia’s foreign intelligence service of the SVR, which outlines a plan by NATO members to discredit Zelensky as the kickoff to a campaign to eventually flush him in order to install someone more amenable to unconditional peace talks.
This is from the official SVR Russian government site:
http://www.svr.gov.ru/smi/2025/02/natovtsy-gotovyat-kampaniyu-po-diskreditatsii-v-zelenskogo.htm
The press office release in full:
03.02.2025
The press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reports that, according to information received by the SVR, NATO headquarters are increasingly thinking about a change of power in Ukraine. Brussels believes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon be unable to contain the growing onslaught of the Russian army. With the coming to power in the United States, D. Trump’s decision increases uncertainty about the continuation of military assistance that the West will be able to provide to Kiev.
The NATO leadership considers it necessary at all costs to preserve the remnants of Ukraine as an anti-Russian springboard. It is supposed to “freeze” the conflict by bringing the warring parties to a dialogue about the “beginning of its settlement”. At the same time, Washington and Brussels agree that the main obstacle to the implementation of such a scenario is V. Zelensky, who is called “spent material”on the Western sidelines. NATO would like to get rid of the head of the Kiev regime, ideally as a result of pseudo-democratic elections. According to the alliance’s calculations, they could take place in Ukraine no later than the fall of this year.
On the eve of the election campaign, NATO headquarters are preparing a large-scale operation to discredit Zelensky. It is planned, in particular, to make public information about the appropriation personally by the “president” and members of his team only from funds intended for the purchase of ammunition, more than $ 1.5 billion. In addition, it is planned to reveal the scheme for the withdrawal of Zelensky and his entourage abroad of the monetary allowance of 130 thousand dead Ukrainian servicemen who continue to be listed as alive and serving on the front line. It is also planned to make public the facts of the involvement of the “supreme Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine” in repeated cases of the sale of large quantities of Western military equipment transferred to Kiev free of charge to various groups in African countries.
Thus, the fact that the time of the “overdue” Zelensky is numbered is understood even in NATO. It is only a pity that this understanding was given at the cost of the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
Press Office
SVR of Russia 03.02.2025
