Top IPSO of the week (June 23–29, 2025): Emperor Pu feints with military spending; millions of Israeli refugees in Kharkiv; Kharkiv grandmothers and stormtroopers near Kursk; who has more drones?
Articles | | 467 | Author: Olena Zelenina, Oleksandr Sydorenko (cartoon)

Cartoon by Oleksandr Sydorenko.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the night shelling of Ukraine was “successful” and that “all designated targets were hit.” At the same time, photos of the aftermath of the strike on the city of Smila in the Cherkasy region appeared on the Internet — a huge crater right between high-rise buildings. This is not news to us, but the real news is the statement by war criminal Putin that the terrorist federation is allegedly cutting military spending.
Is the Kremlin cutting military spending?
The media reports that war criminal Putin has spoken about cutting military spending, meeting with Trump, and negotiations with Ukraine.
He called current defense spending “not insignificant,” praised Donald Trump's efforts to “resolve the Ukrainian crisis,” and indicated Russia's readiness for a third round of negotiations with Kyiv.
What's wrong here?
According to him, there are plans to cut defense spending, but at the same time, quote: “Russia wants to complete its special military operation with the result the country needs.”
It seems that in the fourth year of the war, even a hedgehog in the Polissya thickets has come to understand that the “result the country needs” is the establishment of a puppet government in Kyiv and the complete filtering of the Ukrainian population for loyalty to the emperor.
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