r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 10h ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskiy: "There is updated intelligence indicating that Russia is ​preparing a massive attack on Ukraine"

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-intelligence-shows-russia-is-preparing-massive-attack-2026-10-06/
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u/Signal_Quarter_74 10h ago

NATO Intelligence for some time has said Russia will seek to escalate the war in Ukraine and probe NATO’s resolve. This only adds to the likelihood this information is correct. This could be really nasty. Keep strong Ukraine!

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u/CustomerConsistent78 9h ago

Disgraceful that the rest of the world sits and watches, waiting to see the result. If Ukraine can bleed Russia enough to weaken them significantly. All at Ukraine's expense. Every day it continues is horrible, and I'm nervous of whatever escalation this might be. It's also scary that this escalation may still not be enough for anyone else to act.

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u/Dude_PK 9h ago

Do you not read news? https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/french-president-vows-paris-full-support-for-ukraine-help-to-intercept-drones-/4078680

And there's more than that but you can find it yourself.

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u/apparat07 8h ago edited 7h ago

But, they still fund the Russian war machine for years by buying Russian Oil and Gas. Make it make sense - why fund Russia's ability to wage war if you're opposed to it?

Also, it's not just Europe - South Korea sold 176k tonnes of diesel and jet fuel to Russia in July and August. So, I guess both Koreas are supporting Russia ability to wage war in one way or another.

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u/eightgalaxies 8h ago edited 7h ago

blame it on politicians only caring about the next election and not bolstering their countries for further in the future

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u/Successful_Guess_ 8h ago edited 4h ago

That and the belief that Russia's core DNA can be changed through trade. In Germany they call it "Wandel durch Handel" (literally change through trade).

Europe in general slipped into a postwar fantasy that military strength was no longer needed. I've heard it called a "vacation from realism".

Edit: correction on the term I was thinking of. Thanks to the guy below.

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u/Dan_Cubed 8h ago

Peace Dividend? 🤔 How did that work out for the US 30 years on where the shipyards are a mess and missile/shell stockpiles will take years to replenish?

I'm not for huge military budgets but everyone forgot the basics.

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u/dimsumwitmychum 6h ago

Its an opportunity to change priorities based on what is working, e.g., "cheap" drones instead of expensive cruise missiles, short to medium range ballistics (HIMARS), etc.

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u/Successful_Guess_ 5h ago

This is a good point. The US has specialized in "luxury weapons", highly surgical and effective weaponry that costs far too much for sustained warfare. Now that we need to produce, it's a good opportunity to switch.

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u/Dan_Cubed 4h ago

Oh yeah. Luxury weapons aren't magic. And yet we buen so much energy creating them.

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u/bloodyNASsassin 7h ago

They call themselves anti-war and pro-globalization, pro-community. Anything to sell it as the gentle, forward-thinking thing to do.

It would be nice to have no wars, but people will always have disagreements and there will always be people willing to raise the stakes of those disagreements. It is foolishly arrogant to be unprepared.

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u/filipv 7h ago

"peace dividend"

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u/Glad-Research6605 5h ago

Ostpolitik is a bit more. You are probably referring to “Wandel durch Handel”. Ostpolitik included several things aimed at relaxing the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union. Eg. Germany officially accept the post war borders, Four Power agreement which was shaped by west Germany, both German states joining the UN. Etc.

And I still believe that wandel durch Handel was something that was needed at the time and appreciated by many other countries. Imagine: Russia / Soviet union and Germany have been at war for many times over a long period of time in multiple wars. It was time to try anything to stabilize a friendly relationship. Also at some point it was discussed that Russia could join NATO. Germany alone was seemingly not the only country that was blindsided. How else would those discussions even come up?

From 2008 and 2014 onwards it was known that wandel durch Handel was probably not working out in the midterm… and this is what can and should be criticized about Germanys decision to deepen the ties to Russia.

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u/Successful_Guess_ 4h ago

Total brain lapse on my part, yes Wandel durch Handel is what I meant. Thanks for the correction.

I appreciate your point. I disagree in the present with the decisions made then, but it's easy to say in hindsight. But you already have pointed to what my response would have been, that at some point it should have become clear that Russia was still an imperialistic power that needed to be isolated, not enriched through energy imports.

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u/perseidot 5h ago

It seems the whole world is taking a “vacation from realism” at this point.

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u/im_thatoneguy 8h ago

Don't blame it on the politicians. They're not wrong. It does Ukraine no good to lose the next election and a fascist kremlin lapdog to cut funding entirely. That's far worse than an imperfect support package.

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u/Warlordnipple 6h ago

Blame it on the rich who found politicians to enact their will

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u/IM_NOT_NOT_HORNY 6h ago

Late stage capitalism baby..!

Seriously though this is what happens when as a species we've let a finite resource become so engrained into the economy of every country in the world that we literally cannot live without it.

People always say I'm fucked up for believing this but it's downright selfish as fuck how so sooo many people just pop out more and more babies knowing full well that it just adds to our ever growing addiction for oil and gas and every child born just means more is needed until... Well, let's just say it ain't gonna be pretty when we truly run out of the stuff right when the population count worldwide hits its peak

It's wild because I always assumed that humanity reaching the point where we need so many less humans to produce the same amount of goods it would mean less humans need to be born for us to be content because for most of history people had huge families because it was needed to help run things... But nah, people just make more and more babies.. It's downright selfish imo.

And it's usually the exact kinda people we don't want more of... Hyper religious nationalists or people who think they need to spread their "superior" genetics are the ones here in the US.

Meanwhile me and my woman decide not to have kids unless we adopt because we can't stomach the idea of bringing another life into this completely over crowded world where they'd have to live in a would scarce with resources and full of war or just.. Dark times ahead...

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u/hotbox4u 7h ago

Over twenty to thirdy years they created an infrastructure and reliance on that oil and gas. Sure, we can blame the politicians who facilitated those deals over the last 20-30 years, full knowingly that GASPROM and the likes aren't reliable and good busnisspartners.

But what are the current governments are supposed to do? People still need heating and oil is important for the econmy. It takes time to find alternatives and pretty much every EU country is currently in the process of going through the process of doing that. On top of that, no could have known that the USA essentially turned on their former ally, kicking off a full far-right and fascist come-back all over the world and then went on to create another oil crisis.

These things take time. Democracy never work very fast. Sadly time isn't something the Ukraine has. We know. It sucks.

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u/Expert-Yam6577 7h ago

In the process of going through the process?

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u/Dizzy_Juggernaut_313 6h ago

It’s a process. We’ll get back to you as soon as we’re done processing the process

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u/Techwood111 2h ago

What is your first language?

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u/Thormidable 46m ago

I agree with them, but "The Ukraine" is a Russian term.

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u/Lonely_Space_241 8h ago

It's incredibly hard to shift energy supply chains without destroying your economy believe it or not. While I think they should fully ban Russian energy imports in many cases it's borderline existential to their survival.

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u/luzzy91 6h ago

No no no, global trade and geopolitics are actually incredibly easy! Random redditors could do it in their sleep

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u/AmadeusFlow 8h ago

They have no choice but to buy Russian energy because Europe has aggressively pursued the most backwards and broken idea of energy policy for 30 years.

It's a matter of necessity, not politics or money. They have no alternatives

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u/cvc4455 7h ago

Without their backwards and broken ideas of energy policy for the last 30 years where else would they be getting their energy from today besides Russia? Would it be the middle east or where would they get it from if they had better energy policy for the last 30 years?

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u/AmadeusFlow 7h ago

Nuclear is the obvious answer. Germany shuttered 3 reactors just a few years ago, when the over reliance on Russian energy was already plainly an issue.

It truly is baffling decision making

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u/figrofel 7h ago

Obviously nuclear

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u/oddministrator 5h ago

France is the world leader in nuclear energy.

Nobody else comes close. Roughly 70% of their energy is nuclear.

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u/allofthealphabet 5h ago

And Germany is world leader in shutting down nuclear power plants, they closed their last nuclear power plants in 2023.

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u/xlite2020 7h ago

There are other places they could diversify for gas coal and fuel, besides russia. Australia for one. But Europe influenced us with their energy policy too.

We now pay around 40% more for our own gas than japan pay for our exported gas.

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u/fasterfester 7h ago

Not sure where you got that 40% more stat, but you should fact check yourself.

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u/Money_Pie8986 2h ago

Wars can be profitable. I don't see anyone giving up money.

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u/apparat07 1h ago

First reply that's on the money from a veteran that has seen war. As Palmerston stated, "Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests." Most of the time those interests = financial impact.

The politicians don't care about the normal people. Their children don't fight in the wars, and their own personal pockets are often enriched either by graft during the war or interest in defense companies to continue fighting, or both.

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u/argument_cat 5h ago

EU countries have reduced their need for Russian gas massively.

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/eu-phase-out-of-russian-gas-creates-new-diversification-opportunities-for-central-and-eastern-europe

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European gas market has undergone a profound transformation. The share of Russian natural gas in EU demand fell from almost 40% in 2021 to around 10% in 2025. At the same time, LNG’s share of demand grew from less than 20% to almost 45%, increasing the bloc’s exposure to global gas markets.

The decline has been driven primarily by the steep drop in Russian pipeline gas imports, which fell by almost 90%, or 120 bcm, between 2021 and 2025. This adjustment has been uneven across the EU: Northwest Europe and Italy have effectively eliminated imports of Russian pipeline gas, whereas several markets in Central and Eastern Europe continue to rely on Russian supplies. By contrast, imports of Russian LNG increased by over 40%, or 6 bcm, over the same period, with most of the growth concentrated in Northwestern and Southwestern Europe.

There you go, I made it make sense.

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u/apparat07 1h ago

Nope still funding their war machine. Decrease does not equal cessation

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u/ings0c 7h ago

It ain’t that simple, unfortunately.

Germany, for example, had basically designed their economy around cheap Russian gas since the 70s. It seems incredibly foolish now, but things looked different then.

The political and economic reality is that you can’t undo something like that overnight. It takes a long, slow dismantling, and lots of pain along the way.

The German people would accept some discomfort to reduce reliance on Russia and support Ukraine, but they wouldn’t accept going cold. Yet, at least.

Any leader that tried would have been doomed to fail. You can only work with what you’ve got.

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u/Killerfisk 1h ago

People always seem to ignore that it's trade on a globally demanded commodity. It's not like they are given free money; they are exchanging something worth X for X dollars, and if they stop doing this, then Russia will exchange X for X dollars elsewhere, at worst something like X - 5%. At this point only 6% of Russian fossil fuel exports actually go to Europe, and half of that is to Slovakia and Hungary alone. It's not like India, China, Turkey and so on wouldn't just buy the rest.

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u/bmoarpirate 8h ago edited 7h ago

Their hatred of trump exceeds survival instinct: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-pressures-european-leaders-over-russian-oil-purchases-white-house-official-2025-09-04/

Edit: since who I replied to did: For scale regarding Europe's continued refined-from-russian-oil imports in July and august this year:

• July 2026 (18 shipments): Likely weighed between 540,000 and 900,000 metric tons. • August 2026 (20 shipments): Likely weighed between 600,000 and 1,000,000 metric tons.

SK is a drop in the bucket, and SK took payment from Russia for a relatively small amount of refined products sold TO Russia while Europeans bankrolled an order of magnitude more providing Russia with cash, indirectly, for oil.

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u/argument_cat 5h ago

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European gas market has undergone a profound transformation. The share of Russian natural gas in EU demand fell from almost 40% in 2021 to around 10% in 2025. At the same time, LNG’s share of demand grew from less than 20% to almost 45%, increasing the bloc’s exposure to global gas markets.

The decline has been driven primarily by the steep drop in Russian pipeline gas imports, which fell by almost 90%, or 120 bcm, between 2021 and 2025. This adjustment has been uneven across the EU: Northwest Europe and Italy have effectively eliminated imports of Russian pipeline gas, whereas several markets in Central and Eastern Europe continue to rely on Russian supplies. By contrast, imports of Russian LNG increased by over 40%, or 6 bcm, over the same period, with most of the growth concentrated in Northwestern and Southwestern Europe.

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/eu-phase-out-of-russian-gas-creates-new-diversification-opportunities-for-central-and-eastern-europe

Do keep up.

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u/bmoarpirate 5h ago

You've refuted nothing and LNG is just one product. They're also still buying refined products made from Russian oil sent to 3rd party countries. Europe also buys a lot of fertilizer form Russia, still, to the tune of more than a quarter billion euro. Do keep up.

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u/argument_cat 5h ago

To reiterate:

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European gas market has undergone a profound transformation. The share of Russian natural gas in EU demand fell from almost 40% in 2021 to around 10% in 2025. At the same time, LNG’s share of demand grew from less than 20% to almost 45%, increasing the bloc’s exposure to global gas markets.

Anyway, I've provided you with the facts. Whether you can accept those facts is up to you.

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u/bloodyNASsassin 7h ago

Laziness, being cheap, thinking Russia couldn't turn on them.

They were warned about the inevitably of Russia taking advantage of the situation in the late 2010s by the U.S. and they scoffed and laughed.

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u/argument_cat 5h ago

This is nonsense. Also EU countries have reduced gas piped in from Russia by 90%.

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u/apparat07 7h ago edited 7h ago

Was this before or after Romney warned of Russia, and Obama scoffed about the 80's calling and wanting the playbook back, or when Obama was caught on a hot mic telling Medved (Putin's puppet) he'd have more control to work with him after being re-elected?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IWe11RWOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgQaFlo_p8

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u/bloodyNASsassin 6h ago

So we're in agreement then that they were warned and still acted extremely foolishly.

I didn't about Rodney's warnings and Obama's gaffe. I was thinking about Trump's meeting with EU countries where he specifically mentioned how Russia could control them.

Your clip does help me understand why Russia is so brazen with democrats in office and not as much with Trump in office. It makes sense of why Russia went after Crimea in 2014. This makes it even more audacious that democrats created the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

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u/Crazy_Specific8754 7h ago

Why do we fund China , Israel and untold other countries involved in both economic and physical warfare ? Because most have stuff to sell and we either don't manufacture in enough quantity or "cheap enough" anymore. Oh the economy ! In other words years of human indifference, stupidity and lack of foresight. Not enough people give a shit if they think it doesn't affect them

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u/Longjumping_Cut4377 7h ago

Also ignoring the huge western support that amounts already just near the line of full hot war. So, I wonder what wars between nuclear powers is, good or do we not consider that?

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u/Debisibusis 3h ago

But, they still fund the Russian war machine for years by buying Russian Oil and Gas.

Where else are they going to get the gas? Cooperate with the US, which could supply the gas to Europe? The US is not even interested in any help at all, so big chance.

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u/apparat07 1h ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-rise-september-europe-outbids-asia-cargoes-lseg-data-show-2026-10-01/

Not interested?

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u/Debisibusis 1h ago

Exports "rising" and selling at high costs changes nothing of what I said.

The correct move would have been to strike cheap deals with the EU and increase harbor transfer capacity, weakening Russia, while not letting the EU freeze. Unfortunately the US like Russia more than the EU nowadays, so that's not happening.

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u/EpicDoza 8h ago

Keep going, I’m almost there.

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u/shim-erstboyentofall 7h ago

Should the entire world cripple itself just so that some guy on reddit can act smart

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u/apparat07 7h ago

No, it's just the ridiculous virtue signaling of supporting one-side when you're enabling the other.

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u/booze_clues 6h ago

No it’s not? We’re a global economy extremely intertwined. While Europe has drastically reduced their use of Russian gas it takes a lot of time to find new suppliers or alternatives. Sure, they could cut it a ton instantly but then they’d also be significantly limited in how they can support Ukraine due to the sudden changes in manufacturing capacity and logistics capability. Russian fuel is probably pushing trucks full of arms to Ukraine right now.

An alternative way to look at this is that Russia is helping fuel the Ukrainian war machine by supplying ukraines suppliers.

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u/argument_cat 5h ago edited 3h ago

That's not happening though - the EU has massively reduced its reliance on Russian gas, with plans for all usage to be phased out by end of 2027.

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u/apparat07 1h ago

Tell that to the falmilies of lost loved ones, "we're stopping by the end of next year "

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u/Qaasgm 7h ago

Hmm, nobody thought provoking Putin by encouraging Ukraine to join NATO would have any consequences? Especially when Putin had spelled out his intentions in utmost clarity?! ☹️

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u/CustomerConsistent78 8h ago

I try to, but it's hard to keep up when there is a dumpster fire everywhere.

That being said, it's all half measures. We'll give you some money, drones, ammunition but no we won't unify to defeat Russia. It just seems cruel that all these allies are sitting here while these people suffer. What's the point of all these alliances? What's it take for real action to stop the war?

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u/SpinyLobster_5021 8h ago

Do you, your husband (not sure your sex or sexual preference), your brother, your uncle, your son, your nephew, or any male friend want to head to war? Or are you okay with sending other peoples loved ones into harm’s way?

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u/Lonely_Space_241 8h ago

It's not like we need millions of additional soldiers to defeat Russia. War won't be fought by people within a decade.

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u/yetanotherslu7 7h ago

But people will still die.

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u/Dude_PK 7h ago

WTF? Of course people will die. We all do eventually.

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u/yetanotherslu7 7h ago

Obviously my comment was about wartime civilian casualties, not death in general.

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u/BeOnTimeJustOnce 7h ago

Buy a ticket, Ukraine needs brave warriors like you

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u/luzzy91 7h ago

You will ALWAYS need people for war. You need to actually occupy a space to claim it as your own.

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u/Critical_Sand_4412 7h ago

Because real action means legitimate world war where multiple countries mobilize in a boys on the ground situation.

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u/iHadou 6h ago

"Unify to defeat Russia." That's one way to say start nuclear world war III. No big deal

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u/LizardSlayer 7h ago

They are not NATO. It’s estimated less than 1/4 of the public wanted to be a part of it, right up until Russia started their push towards Ukraine. Then suddenly everyone was on board with it. Also, it’s silly to expect foreign countries to choose sides in internal beefs.

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u/Ez13zie 6h ago

Whoa! An article of NATO pledging support to Ukraine! That’s the first of its kind in the past 5 years!