Details Regarding The Peace Deal. Rus Media Continue Manifesting. Critical Ukraine Update, 11/24/2025.

Since yesterday, more details have surfaced of the US-pushed Russian peace deal that turned out not even to be of American origin but rather Russian. There were talks yesterday in Geneva between Ukrainian and US officials, where once again the conditions of this peace deal were discussed.

What's interesting here is that the US was forced to "refine" that peace deal because the previous points in it were found unacceptable by Ukraine, which included withdrawing troops out of Donbass and Donetsk Oblasts and abstaining from joining NATO. Also, reducing the military size was also a large issue.

Marco Rubio has stated that the meeting went well, and great progress was made. Yet, Trump claimed that Zelenskyy was showing "zero gratitude" for US efforts to end this war.

I assume Trump believes that all points of that initial peace deal were fair, which is just unbelievable to me, given that this very peace deal was written by Russian officials and simply handed over to US counterparts.

Here's what Senator Mark Warner stated in regard to that peace deal:

This was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians, did no consultation with Congress, no consultation with the Europeans, obviously didn't read in Zelensky and the Ukrainians, and now they're getting ferocious pushback.

Meanwhile, the Russian propaganda network has been extensively manifesting before the cameras. I wanted to include this yesterday but completely forgot I had this saved. A Russian propagandist, Skabeeva, literally started the video claiming that the US peace deal will "crush" Zelenskyy.

She later went on and began rejoicing that if Ukraine does not accept this peace deal in the coming days (a week), the US will stop weapon deliveries to Ukraine. Skabeeva looked so happy yesterday, as if she received a Christmas gift.

Skabeeva later said, "We received more details… Zelenskyy began preparing for capitulation", given that Zelenskyy said that even the strongest steel can break. She then added that Ukraine will have to agree to a peace deal by Thanksgiving; if not, the US might stop all cooperation with Ukraine in general.

What's interesting here is that Zelenskyy is expected, together with a handful of Ukrainian officials, to fly to Washington this week to discuss the peace deal with Trump. However, what Skabeeva did not tell her unfortunate audience was that this peace deal did not even originate from the U.S., but from Russia.

Given that she was getting so many "updates" while talking, how come nobody told her that the Russian officials submitted those peace conditions to selected people of the White House, like Witkoff? Quite strange; perhaps this narrative wouldn't have been beneficial for the Kremlin if she had brought it up.

The discussion quickly changed after Skabeeva quoted Zelenskyy stating that even the strongest steel can break.

One of the "war experts" in the studio began claiming that all military goals are aligning and could be considered a victory, while admitting on stage that many viewers "won't agree with me."

Yet many of those viewers are actually Russian bloggers themselves, who have previously criticized people like him for twisting facts. He concluded his remarks by encouraging people to call Trump "the smartest one, the one to be thanked…

He argued that the Russian military is winning, though he did not specify the exact location — Pokrovsk, Pokrovsk perhaps? A place that the Russian commanders were forced to mobilize reserves due to high losses? Is that the area of this supposed victory?

Russia has already lost over 65,000 troops just in the Pokrovsk sector alone in two months. Interestingly, most Russians have never heard of Pokrovsk before, as it is a small town, yet this is the town that Russian occupiers failed to seize in two years. While paying over 300,000–400,000 troops for it prior to this current offensive starting, after the Russians established a foothold in the city.

Donetsk has been a nightmare for the Russian side. No wonder they want Ukraine to withdraw from Donetsk, as most of Ukraine's defensive lines are in Donetsk, and the Kremlin understands that Ukraine wouldn't be able to make new ones during this winter.

Russian forces are believed to still be advancing in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad directions, and there is a high chance that both of these settlements will fall to the Russians soon. Though losing over 400,000 troops for a tiny town is just insane, the Russians will call it a victory.

ISW stated that Ukraine still maintains a limited foothold in central Pokrovsk; however, it is proving to be far too difficult to operate in such conditions. Russians also established a "kill zone" on Ukrainian entry points into the city. Here's what the report read:

Ukrainian forces continue to counterattack and maintain a limited presence within and around Pokrovsk. The Ukrainian 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of the Air Assault Forces reported on November 23 that fighting is ongoing in central Pokrovsk and that Ukrainian forces are preventing Russian forces from accumulating enough forces to push into the northern part of the town.

Meanwhile, thanks to recent updates on X, a lot of these Russian bloggers have been partly exposed, if one could call it that.

One of the leading Russian bloggers with a high Russian following don't even live in Russia, and might not even have citizenships there. Here are two of those channels. I brought one up in yesterday's update:

These two are the most followed pro-Russia channels on X. In fact, there might not even be such a person as Aleksey Berezutski, unless he moved to Africa to seek a better life by escaping mobilizations, which really is improbable.

The other individual on the left actually lives in France, of all places, and joined X in May of 2022, the year Russia invaded Ukraine. Quite suspicious, to say the least. Only the boldest and most optimistic Russian bloggers live abroad, by the looks of it. I wonder if this has some implications for their Russian followers.

Meanwhile, regarding propaganda, Russia's ideologist Dugin tweeted that Ukraine will be theirs in just two years if it does not accept a peace deal, while simultaneously attempting to sabotage Ukraine's sovereignty and supporting the rewriting of its history:

This is the guy who received the nickname of being "Putin's brain." He has been making wide statements since 2022, most of them dealing with the West and Ukraine.

There are basically countless things he said in reference to Ukraine before, including:

This is a battle for our people, our history, our soul

While in a different place stating the following:

Ukrainians must be killed, killed and killed. There can be no other conversation

According to Dugin, Ukrainians suffer from an 'illness' that supposedly requires rewriting Ukraine's history and increasing funding for mental institutions. Yet he even advocates for their killing outright. Seems like Dugin and Putin got something in common.

The worst part is that he himself believes Russia will not stop with Ukraine; there is a deeper goal — the restoration of the Russian Empire within its original borders.

Zelenskyy has touched on the reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine, and I don't believe he was entirely correct to say it didn't have anything to do with Russia wanting more land. Here's what Zelenskyy said:

The nature of this war, and Russia's attempts to prolong it, demonstrate that their objective is not territory, nor the behavior of a neighboring state. Their aim is Russia's supposed 'right to wage war,' a 'right to subjugate others,' and a fundamental disregard for security

Russia has a lot to gain by seizing Ukraine; taking Kyiv, Dnipro, and Zaporizhia would be incredibly beneficial for the Kremlin. However, what would open more doors for the pro-war Kremlin regime would be having a foothold near the Polish border. Chances are Belarus would become part of Russia as well, granting Russia this massive chunk of territory that borders NATO.

This is what Russia wants and needs. It is safe to say the EU would enter a very dangerous phase in its history. Russia would find a way to provoke the countries in Eastern Europe; that's what they did with Ukraine, after all. Zelenskyy was right, however, to say that Russia does want to wage war.

The worst part is, Russian citizens have been brainwashed into believing that NATO has done some incredible harm to Russia, when NATO has been anything but a tolerant military alliance to Russia.

They had done absolutely nothing for Ukraine prior to 2014, other than shipping humanitarian aid. There was no NATO expansion, though Finland and Sweden did join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine for security purposes, thankfully.

To provide an illustration of the sort of crap Kremlinists use to persuade Russians, Zakharova has gotten very upset after reading an article on the Telegraph about a Finnish sniper who eliminated 500 Russians on his own, later gaining the nickname "White Death."

She got very upset because the article had called this sniper a hero while depicting Russia as causing problems and the West attempting to rewrite history… She called that article "Neo-Nazi propaganda."

This reinforces the idea that anything that shows Russia's defeat is regarded as Nazi propaganda, and bringing to the surface the war crimes of the Soviet/Russian regime is somehow a wicked thing. If not for the brave people of Finland, there wouldn't be a Finland anymore.

The Kremlinists are acting like victims again, despite, at that time, being the source of most problems in the EU, apart from Nazi Germany. Zakharova is the Kremlin's puppet; she has no rationality in her head.

But then again, that's what propaganda does to your brain. According to her reasoning, the world should have seen Russia's violations of the Baltic airspace as a good thing too.