HUSH HUSH

Putin Busted Plotting Massive Election Day Blitz

The rest of the world is looking the other way.

Vladimir Putin’s big midterm plot has been exposed by Ukrainian intelligence.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) had unearthed plans to launch massive attacks against his country while the rest of the world was focusing on the U.S. elections.

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“We have intel that Russia is preparing a new massive attack on our country—primarily targeting energy and logistics,” Zelensky said Monday in a statement shared by the SZRU.

“The assumption is basically that tomorrow the world will be watching the American midterms, and what is happening here in Ukraine, along with our difficulties with air defense and Patriot missiles, will be overlooked.”

Ukraine has a shortage of air defenses, with lower rates of deliveries coming from the U.S. under President Donald Trump than under his predecessor, Joe Biden.

In his statement, Zelensky also applied pressure on Trump directly, saying, “We must put pressure on Russia in such a way that it has no alternative but to end this war. America can do this, the world can do this.”

Zelensky’s statement may leave a bitter taste in Trump’s mouth for another reason.

Trump has faced increasing pressure from an affordability crisis driven by soaring gas and grocery prices. In a bid to lower energy costs before Tuesday’s midterms, Trump pushed for what the White House called an energy ceasefire. The plan aimed to prevent Moscow and Kyiv from attacking each other’s energy infrastructure.

It was a doubly attractive prospect for Trump, who could have bragged about a tangible step toward peace and about helping lower global energy costs.

It didn’t pay off. Ukraine said it knew nothing of the agreement but said it would honor it if Russia did. Russia replied by carrying out a series of strikes on energy infrastructure that killed dozens.

In his statement, Zelensky spelled out in black and white how far that ceasefire is from reality.

“This year, the Russians have adopted a new tactic—they are striking not only power generation facilities but also carrying out many strikes against power grids, against energy distribution infrastructure,” he said. “There is a lot of restoration work to do, and new strikes keep coming. Dozens of strikes a day.

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“Our energy workers and repair crews are doing an outstanding job, carrying out an enormous amount of work. Right now, the speed of restoration is just as important as having missiles for air defense systems.”

It comes after Kyiv’s drones set Russia’s Slavneft-YANOS refinery in the city of Yaroslavl ablaze overnight on Tuesday.

Independent Telegram channel Astra said that, in the aftermath, at least seven separate fires were visible.

Ukraine has orchestrated a brutal blitz of Russia’s energy infrastructure that has rocked its economy and led to Trump becoming frustrated with Zelensky for the impact it is having on global energy markets.

The scale of the problem was put into context on Friday, when Ukrainian intelligence claimed that a Russian SU-57 fighter had crashed because it had been filled up with low-quality fuel.

“One of the reasons why engines of this type can explode or suffer catastrophic failure is poor-quality fuel,” it said.

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