Putin Declared A New War At Valdai

The madness is gaining momentum.

Every time the Russian dictator takes the podium with his latest “historic” speeches, the world is forced to watch a spectacle from a completely different reality. But the latest Valdai Club meeting exceeded all expectations.

This wasn’t just another one of Shepelavy’s shows—it was a full-fledged summit in Ward 404. It stood there, clinging to the podium as if it were its last hope, with trembling cockroach-like legs, and for nearly four hours spewed nothing but sheer madness, utter cynicism, and threats to all of civilization.

The most astonishing events took place not in the hall, where the bought-and-paid-for puppets had gathered, but outside it. While the bald dictator tried to pass himself off as the “ruler of the world,” strategic facilities were exploding right under his nose and all across Russia.

The Valdai Forum had to be shamefully moved from Sochi to the Moscow region—Putin was simply scared of Ukrainian drones. However, his flight to Istra did not save him: the glow from burning Russian factories and oil refineries illuminated his disgraceful speech more beautifully than any Kremlin spotlights.

Volgograd, Samara, Krasnozavodsk: how Russia burned while the bunker drummed

At the very moment when Putin was talking about “successes” and “stability,” Russia’s oil refining and defense industries were weathering yet another powerful blow. In Volgograd, residents spent a “thrilling” night amid the sounds of explosions and drones flying overhead, complaining about the complete lack of an air raid alert. The result was immediate—flames erupted near the Volgograd Oil Refinery (Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka LLC) and the nearby “chemical plant” of OAO “Kausitik.”

To give you an idea of the scale: the Volgograd Oil Refinery is one of Russia’s most powerful oil refineries, accounting for about 5% of the country’s total oil refining capacity. Together with the previously damaged Moscow Oil Refinery, this already amounts to a 10% reduction in the enemy’s capacity. And “Kausitik” is a critically important chemical industry facility that produces dual-use products for the Russian military-industrial complex. No matter what the local governor, Bocharov, might mutter about “debris falling on a residential building,” the industrial infrastructure was burning so fiercely that it was visible from every corner of the city.

Things were also heating up in Samara. There, the Samara Linear Production and Dispatch Station (LPDS “Samara”)—the largest oil transportation and distribution hub in Europe, owned by Transneft—was hit. It is a massive facility covering more than 216 hectares with 71 storage tanks, where four main oil pipelines from Western Siberia, Tatarstan, Orenburg, and Kazakhstan converge. A powerful explosion rocked the area at six in the morning, after which ground transportation in the city was halted and the subway was turned into a shelter.

But the most elaborate “welcome” for the dictator was the explosion at the Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant near Moscow. The facility is located literally 100 kilometers from Istra, where Putin was delivering his speech at that very moment. The explosions rang out precisely between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m.—during the opening minutes of the Kremlin’s “bunker grandpa’s” speech. The plant, which is part of the Rostec conglomerate and produces thermobaric warheads for “Shahed” drones and ammunition for law enforcement agencies, caught fire over an area of 1,000 square meters. Workshop No. 4 completely collapsed, and local residents felt the shock wave and smelled a distinct sour odor. So there you have it: Putin spouts nonsense, while 100 kilometers away, a factory fueling his bloody war is being blown to pieces.

Speech in Chamber No. 404: Insanity, Cynicism, and Shaky Legs

Putin’s entire opening speech lasted 46 minutes, after which he spent nearly three more hours answering pre-prepared questions. It was impossible to watch this without irony and disgust. He clung to the podium, his legs trembling; the nuclear “bells” no longer ring, but merely issue empty threats. But the funniest part was the dictator’s attempts to come across as a “sage.”

While spouting yet another dose of nonsense, Putin suddenly uttered a phrase that sounds like a verdict against himself: “Anyone can make a mistake, but only an idiot would insist on his mistake.” Just think about that! This is coming from a man who has been waging a senseless, bloody war for more than three years, has lost hundreds of thousands of his own soldiers, has turned his country into a global pariah and a raw materials appendage of China, and continues a blitzkrieg that failed long ago. There’s no need to even argue here—the dictator has given himself an accurate diagnosis.

And when asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Belgrade, Putin stooped to the level of a street thug, declaring: “For some reason, this girl is worried, but nothing worries us. We’re in politics.” This is coming from a creature who, out of fear of Ukrainian drones, cancels parades, postpones forums, and hides in underground bunkers!


“It looks ridiculous”: Putin candidly admitted why he doesn’t need peace

The dictator’s words regarding possible energy or transportation truces were very revealing. Recently, rumors have been circulating in the press about alleged tacit agreements: Ukraine would not strike Russian oil refineries, and Russia would stop destroying Ukraine’s energy sector and port infrastructure. Putin publicly and arrogantly rejected such ideas, openly admitting that he does not need peace.

“They tell us: let them stop striking your oil refineries, and you stop striking their ships. Let them transport civilian cargo and agricultural products. But what about our other civilian cargo, such as oil and petroleum products? Once they stop their attacks, there will be more diesel fuel—which, say, the United States so desperately needs. We’ll have more of it. We already have enough diesel fuel, but it won’t reach world markets because of the bans and sanctions against our oil and petroleum products... And in response to this, we’ll have to stop striking targets that are economically important to them. “You have to admit that this just looks ridiculous,” the Kremlin leader declared.

With this statement, Putin himself shattered all the illusions of Western peacemakers. He doesn’t need any compromises. He states outright: your sanctions are preventing me from selling diesel fuel, so I will continue to destroy Ukrainian cities, ports, and civilian ships. For him, war is the only way of life.

Ghosts of the Past: The Minsk Agreements, Merkel, and the Total Lie About the Front Line

The Valdai Forum was not without its traditional Kremlin musings and distortions of history. Putin once again dredged up the rigid and lifeless Minsk Agreements, recalling 2019 and complaining about Western leaders.

“As for the Minsk Agreements, they were indeed difficult for our partners and for Ukraine... The gist of certain provisions boiled down to this: if Ukraine were to join NATO after all, then southeastern Ukraine would, in essence, have the right to secede from Ukraine... But, obviously, this is precisely what neither the Ukrainian leadership itself—which ultimately came to power as a result of a coup—nor its Western sponsors liked. And that is why they rejected the entire Minsk Agreements. Moreover, leading politicians from European countries have explicitly stated that they never intended to implement these Minsk Agreements. “Although I think that, in reality, some of them—at least—even though Ms. Merkel said we had no intention of doing so—I still believe she was actually hoping that we would somehow manage to move toward a peace process,” the dictator sighed.

He “forgot” to mention how Russia itself, on February 21, 2022, single-handedly and definitively buried the Minsk Agreements by recognizing its puppet entities, the “DPR” and “LPR.” He remains silent about the fact that Ukraine demanded only one thing—security, the withdrawal of Russian troops, and elections in accordance with Ukrainian law, not at gunpoint. But in the dictator’s world, the victim of aggression is always to blame.

Similarly, Putin shamelessly lied about the current situation on the front lines. He claimed that the Russian army had allegedly captured more than 1,300 square kilometers in September, and that the pace of its advance was “steadily increasing.” No independent sources or maps corroborate this nonsense. Moreover, the dictator bashfully remained silent about the Ukrainian “Vivaldi” operation, during which the Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated 176 square kilometers of our land just recently. The generals lie to Putin, Putin lies to the Russians, and in this vicious cycle of lies, they sincerely believe in their “victory.”

The West’s “blood business” and terror against Ukrainian bridges

While the Kremlin old man was rambling in Valdai, his army continued to carry out daily acts of terror against the civilian population of Ukraine. In just one night, the enemy launched more than 100 attack drones, nearly half of which were jet-powered. Residential buildings in Kyiv, Kramatorsk, and Sumy, as well as civilian facilities in Kharkiv, Kherson, and the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, came under attack.

It is worth noting the targeted strikes on Kyiv’s bridges. The enemy launched a massive attack on the South Bridge in the capital, attempting to paralyze the transportation system and intimidate the population. As military correspondent Bogdan Miroshnikov noted, the Russians aim to block the operation of the “green” metro line to cause a transportation collapse and force hundreds of people to gather at stations during air raid alerts—so they can then launch a bloody strike there.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rightly emphasized: no matter how hard Moscow tries to localize its production, every Russian drone and missile is critically dependent on foreign components. These are microchips and circuit boards from Europe, the U.S., China, and Japan. These are dual-use goods that flow unhindered into Russia through private front companies in Kazakhstan or other countries. Western companies often pretend they “know nothing,” playing dumb. But this shameful trade in blood must be stopped. Every drone can be neutralized right on the assembly line if partners demonstrate the political will to cut off the chains used to circumvent sanctions.

Striking at the Weak Spots: How to Break the Back of the Kremlin Regime

Hoping that Russians will rise up because of deteriorating living conditions or that Putin will suddenly take pity on his own citizens is a dangerous illusion. For centuries, Russia has built a system in which the value of human life is zero, and the population possesses boundless patience and absolute, servile obedience. Putin couldn’t care less how many hundreds of thousands of Russians end up in Ukrainian black soil—300,000, a million, or five million.

The only thing that can stop this carnage is the complete destruction of the Russian economy and severe military defeats. We have already blown up and damaged about 30% of Russia’s oil refining capacity. The goal of Ukraine and our partners is to bring this figure up to 70%, or better yet, 100%. Russian oil refining must simply cease to exist.

We need to strike at their most vulnerable points. For example, the “Yamal Cross”—the intersection of 17 key gas pipelines in Yamal that provide the Kremlin’s main source of revenue. We must put pressure on the enemy at sea and prepare for the de-occupation of Crimea. By the way, regarding the Kerch Bridge: turning Crimea into a peninsula-island has always meant that no army—neither during the Civil War nor in World War II—could hold it. The land corridor must be cut off, and as for the Kerch Bridge... well, perhaps they’re leaving it for now so that hundreds of thousands of Russian “invaders” and their Gauleiter Goblin-Aksenov have somewhere to flee, without serving as human shields for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. And only then will this illegal eyesore be sent to the bottom for good.

And most importantly—Ukraine desperately needs its own ballistic missiles. The emergence of Ukrainian ballistic missiles and the first systematic, significant strikes on Moscow will radically change the course of this war. The Russian elite couldn’t care less about the soldiers who are killed. But when the threat looms over their personal estates in Koncha-Zaspa—on a scale comparable to those near Moscow—and when their familiar way of life is shattered to pieces, they will very quickly realize that Putin’s continued existence is incompatible with their own survival.

No talks, diplomatic courtesies, or expressions of concern will stop the dictator. Only an empty wallet, burning oil refineries, and the total collapse of the war machine will stop him. And while Putin mumbles about his phantom “victories” at Valdai, our response must be united—more explosions, more precision strikes, and daily support for the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Let’s work toward victory and stay safe!

Irina Uzlova, “Channel 24”

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