Giorgi Revishvili

Spoke with The Sun and broke down Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi in the Lyman direction:
- The operation’s importance: alleaviating pressure on the Fortress Belt from the north;
- Launching Operation Vivaldi: protecting critical logistics routes for Ukrainian forces;
- Tactical successes: clearing Russian infiltration and liberating several important settlements, creating opportunities for further offensive and defensive operations;
- Shaping the operational environment: electronic warfare, strikes on launch sites, drone units, and disrupting Russian logistics;
- Airborne ground robots: using deception and ground robots behind enemy lines.

Large plumes of smoke continue to rise from Russia’s Ust-Luga port following an overnight Ukrainian drone attack.

The Port of Ust-Luga is one of Russia’s largest and most strategically important export hubs on the Baltic Sea.

Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea, setting parts of the facility ablaze in the latest drone attack. 1/

Zelenskyy says discussions in Abu Dhabi covered a potential prisoner exchange involving either 1,000 for 1,000 or 1,500 for 1,500.

I believe this will be the only tangible outcome of these talks. It is difficult to imagine any type of breakthrough.

Very interesting article:

Yermak frequently misunderstood Wiles and the American way of communicating.

"Susie [Wiles] would tell him 'I will see what I can do,' when asked about something, and Yermak would then go talk to the president, presenting this as his win,"

Yermak did not understand the extent to which he was disliked by the Americans, they said, claiming that former U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg had attempted to persuade Zelensky to avoid the ill-fated meeting in the Oval Office, but his advice was dismissed by the overbearing Yermak.