
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 09 MAY 2026:
There is a Potentially Ominous Escalation coming this Weekend on the Russo-Ukrainian Front of World War III !
Though most of my attention of late has to go with this Fundraiser, I need to tell you all that threats and counter threats between Russia and Ukraine concerning a major attack upon one capital, requiring an overwhelming counter strike upon the other, could happen as early as this weekend, returning the whole world’s attention away from the US/Israeli War with Iran.
RT REPORTS that “Moscow has formally warned all diplomatic missions and international organizations about a potential large-scale retaliatory strike on Kiev, urging them to leave the Ukrainian capital immediately, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
“Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry announced a two-day ceasefire on May 8-9 to mark the end of World War II in Europe, urging Kiev to follow suit and warning of a potential large-scale retaliatory strike on Kiev. The ministry pointed to comments made by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky earlier in the day, which it said contained threats to target Moscow during the Victory Day celebrations.
“Moscow’s warning must be taken with the utmost seriousness, Zakharova said in a statement on Wednesday. She revealed that the Foreign Ministry sent a formal note to all diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Russia, urging them to withdraw their personnel from the Ukrainian capital ahead of a potential retaliatory strike.
“The Foreign Ministry urgently calls on the government of your country/the leadership of your organization to treat this statement with the utmost seriousness and to ensure the timely evacuation from the city of Kiev of the personnel of diplomatic and other missions, as well as civilians, in view of the inevitable retaliatory strike by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Kiev, including against decision-making centers” should Ukraine proceed with its “criminal terrorist plans,” the note reads, as quoted by Zakharova.
“Russia is aware of the Western attitude toward Victory Day and the efforts to “rewrite history” and “systematically destroy Soviet memorial heritage,” Zakharova stated. “As they continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, they are acting as accomplices in the criminal plans hatched by the Kiev regime. However, the instinct for self-preservation should not fail them.”
There is a very strong likelihood that if Ukrainian President Zelensky tomorrow begins a sustained drone attack on Moscow up to and through attempting to drop drones into Red Square’s Victory Parade, staring at 10 AM on 9 May (Moscow Time). Afterwards, there could be a Russian retaliation of a scope not yet seen in this war. The Russian missile test site at Kapustin Yar, east of Volgograd deep inside the Russian Steppe lands has closed its airspace to all flying craft—what it usually does when preparing to fire the fearsome Oreshnik hypersonic missile for a demonstration.
The Russian government for the first time in this war has warned all foreign embassies in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, starting on 6 May, to evacuate completely from the central downtown district were the Ukrainian ministry buildings, the Presidential Palace and the Rada (Ukrainian) Parliament are.
Russia could use several Oreshniks to fall out of the heavens sometime by the night of 9 May into 10 May (Russian Time) to obliterate central Kiev and all of its government buildings! A Ukrainian attempt to drop drones into Red Square while it’s packed with marching soldiers and thousands of onlookers, might result in turning downtown Kiev’s Maidan Square into dust!
We are now entering a period where Russia will no longer show restraint after such attacks by the Western leaders who wrongly view that restraint as an act of weakness. The Russians have not reacted even when US-and NATO driven attacks hit its strategic bomber wing, and its early warning nuclear attack radar defenses. Such rash moves during the Cold War I grew up in, would have caused a full nuclear retaliatory attack on Europe and the United States. The Russians held back for that reason. Perhaps now, no longer!
My friend Carol Squire wrote to me on 8 May2026:
Hoping that Russia will continue to use restraint…
Your comment has inspired the following passage that will be in an expanded version of what I wrote for my HP-R readers, that I’m posting overnight for my thousands of readers of the free HogueProphecy Bulletin. I will start with the following contemplation.
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As Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament relates, “For Everything its season: and for every activity under heaven its time…”
“There’s a time for restraint.” But there is also “A time for restraint to become a FORCE of reckoning to those who choose to read restraint as “weakness” and exploit it.
Russia has erred letting too many of its red lines be crossed without punishment.
As I’ve said and written for over four years and counting of this war, Europe and America have grown a very bad habit of presuming they can do whatever outrages they want to do to Russia, and in a way, Russia by not responding to red lines crossed has not made clear through actions what its boundaries are to NATO and the United States in their conflict with Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy to indirectly wage war with it.
I think a reckoning is coming. The time is right for it.
For the first time–and there is a “time” for everything under heaven– Russia since 6 May 2026 has very publicly warned diplomats in embassies across central Kiev’s government district to leave the area, or suffer the consequences of becoming fatal casualties if they do not.
They are not listening. They do not respect the warning. No one has left their embassies. The message has come from Russian Ministry of Defense. That the warning is coming from the Russian Ministry of Defense is a first in this war. Usually the Russian Foreign Ministry diplomatically makes such communications.
This time it is coming from the generals, the Russian military. President Putin and the Russian Security Council has permitted them to take over on this matter. That means it is highly likely that a kinetic response is about to come, a act of military might so devastating to the government district of Ukraine’s capital of Kiev that it will shock the world, and perhaps AT LAST shock the Europeans and American leadership to FAFO, to find out just what crossing a Russian Red Line looks like in the flames and devastation that is coming.
A few days before the 6 May warning, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a list of ALL the many factories across European NATO countries–especially factories in Poland, France, Germany and the UK–that openly and blithely build the Ukrainian drones and parts for drones use for daily and nightly attacks on Russian oil refineries and infrastructure, by the hundreds.
The list is Russia’s “target list” for its conventional hypersonic missiles to destroy! ALL of these factories across Europe to be annihilated in less than 12 minutes after launch deep inside Russia.
We may be coming to this point–a point I’ve been writing about since 2022 in my HogueProphecy Reports, trying to warn my readers what was coming in some future year in this war when the Russians break the Ukrainian Army in a war of attrition.
Such wars always seem static with little maneuver, like two hands and arms in a wrestling match. There’s just a little shaking, a little movement for a long time, then… BAM! The loser’s arm hits the table, sometimes with a compact fracture exposed.
In the spring and summer of 2026, the Ukrainian compound fracturing is likely to begin. Then there will be great movement of Russian arms. Then will come the most dangerous moments of this long war, where fools in European capitals rush in to add their meager forces to the slaughter.
It would be better for them if Russia, now, for the first time, categorically made one of their red-line-crossing threats retaliated to, with all the power and horror that Russian’s military might can bring down from the heavens at MACH 12 times the speed of sound.
It is a very dangerous move!
Because the rulers of Europe and the US are truly idiotic folk. They are mediocrities who know no limits.
They have to be scared straight.
Russia is at fault for not scaring them straight enough until now.
It’s late. Perhaps too late.
Then again, if the terrible, bold-swift stroke of an Oreshnik “sword” is rendered, big enough. It just might even enlighten an idiot to learn where boundaries are that should never be crossed again.
It might even–strange as this may sound–scare the leaders of the West straight, because the next step is nuclear, and no one wants to go that far with this.
The Russian Bear may be slow to finally define his boundaries in the violent ways that impacts even fools hard enough to conjure some intelligence hiding in them.
There’s a time for restraint.
There’s also a time for no restraint at all.
That time has come.
We may see it come on Sunday, 10 May or on Monday, maybe Tuesday, 11 and 12 of May.
If it doesn’t come. If Russia doesn’t match the escalation of its threats with actions, this “civil” behavior may be wrongly timed under heaven for what is needed to scare Russia’s enemies straight.
For it is the time for violent demonstrations, so terrifying that there will follow a time for peace, under heaven.
[UPDATE, LATE 09 MAY 2026]
Good news! In short, this more frightening Russian threat than any others, got the US Trump administration to heed Russia’s phoned in threat to obliterate central Kiev and have Washington sit on Zelensky to stop his threats to attack the Red Square Parade. So, the Russian Bear’s roar was enough gravitas to stifle “Le Goblin Vert” (AKA the Green Goblin) President Zelensky’s terror plans to attack Red Square.

Oreshnik multiple warheads surrounded in the bright glow of their plasma sheaths setting fire to the atmosphere at 10 to 12 times the Speed of Sound before they drill deep into the earth cutting through 4 levels of a heavily fortified underground missile factory installation, cutting it like butter with their kinetic energy!

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(08 May 2026)