u see things aren't escalating yet, it is the same war as the past 60 days that is taking place in mostly media silence and in a different form.
To be fair, Ukraine is trying to escalate
slowly, they are doing so
over the next 40 days. It's almost as if we are apologizing to the citizens as we escalate slowly. As a Ukranian Canadian, this makes perfect sense to me. Sorry if you don't agree.

At the end of that forty day period, Ukraine hopes to force Putin to the peace table through citizen discontent.
That's the plan but it is already 4.5 years too late IMO. In other words that's not a 40-day escalation, that's a 4 years and 4 months and 44 days escalation!
I remember clearly that on the first week after Russia invaded Ukraine (that's in 2022) I said the Ukrainians should start hitting Russian energy infrastructure. In fact I used invasion of Yemen as the example and the devastating Yemeni retaliation against US-Saudi oil installation that forced them to stop the bloodshed in Yemen. Today we have another example: Iran. When the Epstein Axis attacked Iran and hit Iranian infrastructure, the Iranian forces retaliated by devastating any energy infrastructure that belonged to the Axis. That war lasted for only 40 days before US begged for a ceasefire!
Although to be fair I have to mention that some of the Ukrainian commanders tried that in early days but they immediately faced US regime's anger and when Biden's orders came down, the sockpuppet (Zionist Zelensky) forced them to stop and fired some of them preventing these commanders from doing what's being done today!
Will be effective
now?
It's hard to say but we have to consider that Russians have invested heavily in the objectives of this war and they have already paid a very heavy price. They are not going to simply pull back just because some of their infrastructure were hit causing some degree of citizen discontent.
At the end of the day Russia sees NATO as an existential threat. That's no joke. They aren't going to stop just because of "citizen discontent" when an existential threat still exists at their doorstep.
Here is another thing to consider. A comparison:
- In Ukraine the Zelensky forces have been arresting people on the streets to force them to go to the front line to "defend" (read: die for NATO). The situation is so bad that some sources suggest that less than 8% of the recruits are willing to fight! The Zionist Zelensky's coercive policy is turning bloody too. Ukrainian people are attacking these enlistment officers. At least 118 such attacks were recorded, including fatal stabbings in first 6 months of 2026.
- Russia is drafting people to go to war too, there is similar refusal over there too but nothing major and nothing violent! In fact majority of Russian troops have volunteered and have signed up to go to war. Since as I said Russia sees NATO as an existential threat.
(Isn't it curious that the attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure began only after US regime did a violent takeover of Venezuelan oil? hmmm.)