Dmitry Medvedev Maps Ukraine's Erasure

On May 25, 2025, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s aide and Deputy Chairperson of the Security Council of Russia posted an interesting video on Telegram, floating a "buffer zone" plan. 

It suggests almost the entirety of Ukraine is a buffer zone and I'm sure if Medvedev has his way, this will become the blueprint for Russia's takeover of Ukrainian territory that can safeguard the country's long-term security. 

"If military support for the 'Banderite (Nazi collaborator from World War II in Ukraine)' regime continues, the buffer zone could look like this", he (left) had said. 

Russia is already in the process of creating the buffer zone, reportedly 100km deep. Earlier, on May 22nd, President Putin, in fact, confirmed at a government meeting: "A decision has been made to create the necessary security buffer zones along the border". And adding: "Our military is currently undertaking this".

And US President Donald Trump on Sunday called his Russian counterpart “crazy”, following Moscow's largest aerial attack yet on Ukraine, which was in retaliation to repeated Ukrainian drone strikes against civilian targets deep inside Russia. BBC reported that overnight Sunday, Russia had fired 367 drones and missiles in one wave – the highest number in a single night since Putin launched his Special Military Operation in 2022. 

[FYI, Putin's helicopter which was flying over the Kursk region was forced to shoot down Ukrainian drones while the Russian president was aboard, Maj Gen Yuri Dashkin, an air defence commander, told state television on Sunday. As per The Telegraph on May 26. This points to an assassination attempt, if you ask me]. 

Oh, and Trump had even added: "I've always said that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that's proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!"

Yeah, right! In fact, this conflict has never been about a little bit of Ukraine or all of Ukraine, as Trump seems to suggest. This conflict is about NATO's pugnacious provocations and their incessant inclination to push closer and closer to the Russian border.

Whether he likes it or not, Putin will complete his Ukraine agenda asap. 

On May 14, China launches 12 satellites for a planned artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer constellation in space. It's a system that could rival the most powerful ground-based supercomputers once fully deployed. 

This cluster of satellites are the beginnings of a proposed 2,800-satellite fleet led by the company ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab that will one day form the "Three-Body Computing Constellation", a satellite network that will directly process data in space. They are part of a plan to lower China's dependence on ground-based computers. 

Although the US and Europe have performed tests on space computers, China's array is the first to be deployed at an operable scale.