Flexelectronics in Ukraine refers to the Flex Ltd. electronics manufacturing plant in Mukachevo, a city in the Zakarpattia region of western Ukraine. The plant was hit by two Russian cruise missiles on August 21, 2025, causing a massive fire and wounding at least 19 people. The facility employed thousands of people and was one of the main employers in the city. The company is a Singaporean-American multinational with headquarters in Singapore and Austin, Texas.

Many targets were in western Ukraine. Zelenskiy said a missile strike on a U.S.-owned electronics firm was a "telling" indicator of Russian intentions in U.S.-led peace initiatives.

After a flurry of diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier this week there was agreement for a bilateral meeting between Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Now the signals from Russia are simply, to be honest, indecent," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "They are trying to back away from the need to hold meetings. They don't want to end the war. They carry on with massive strikes.”

Most of the overnight injuries were in an attack on the U.S.-owned Flex electronics manufacturer in Ukraine's far-west Zakarpattia region, authorities said. Storage facilities there were damaged.

"We believe it was a deliberate strike precisely on U.S. property here in Ukraine, on American investment," Zelenskiy said, describing the company as a manufacturer of appliances.

"A very telling strike...at the very time when the world waits for a clear answer from the Russians on their move in talks to bring an end to the war," he said, suggesting Russia's interest in U.S.-led peace efforts was not sincere.

Russia did not comment on Zelenskiy's claim that its military deliberately hit a U.S.-owned facility, but Moscow denies targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

A mayor near the damaged plant said it was owned by U.S.-listed Flex Ltd and employed thousands.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-overnight-strikes-lay-bare-russias-intentions-war-2025-08-21/

WHY WOULD RUSSIA BOMB AN AUDIO/DJ EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING FACTORY?….

ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO COMMENT YET FROM THE RUSSIAN DoD, ONE COULD SUSPECT THAT THE FACTORY WAS PRODUCING ELECTRONICS FOR DRONES “ON THE SIDE” AND THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES GOT GOOD INTELLIGENCE ON THE CAPER…

OVERALL, PUTIN WANTS PEACE, BUT ON THE TERMS THAT HE HAS SET ALL ALONG ADDING MORE EVERY TIME THE WEST DITHERS… THE WEST IS STILL HUMMING-ARRING ABOUT DEFEATING/DESTROYING RUSSIA — AND HAS UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF THE SITUATION.

RUSSIA HAS THIS CONFLICT COVERED. THE MORE THE WEST IS WAITING FOR A DEAL, THE MORE UKRAINE IS LOSING PERSONNEL AND TERRITORY…

THE TRAP HAD BEEN INSTALLED BY THE WEST IN 2014 TO SNAP ON RUSSIA IN MARCH 2022. PUTIN KNEW THIS AND RELEASED THE TRAP IN LATE FEBRUARY 2022 (SEE OUR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS THEN).

BY NOW, THE SAID TRAP HAS BEEN RESET TO ENSNARE THE WEST. 

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FROM THE SPECTATOR TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWeRkBDUw5o

Donald Trump has met both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky this week, raising hopes of progress in ending the Ukraine war – but is it really a breakthrough, or a trap? US deputy editor Kate Andrews speaks with associate editor Owen Matthews – author of this week’s cover story Putin’s Trap – and Sergey Radchenko, professor at Johns Hopkins. They discuss why Putin’s charm offensive may be designed to paint him as the 'reasonable' negotiator, leaving Zelensky isolated, and whether Europe or Trump himself will fall for it.

SEE ALSO: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putins-trap-how-russia-plans-to-split-the-western-alliance/

Though you wouldn’t know from the smiles around the table at the White House this week, a trap has been set by Vladimir Putin designed to split the United States from its European allies. In Washington on Monday, Europe’s leaders, plus Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed with Donald Trump that the killing in Ukraine should and can be ended as soon as possible. They lavished praise on Trump for reaching out to the Kremlin, despite having themselves treated Putin as a pariah for the past three years. And they even enthusiastically applauded the notion of security guarantees similar to Nato’s Article Five ‘all-for-one and one-for-all’ mutual defence clause as a way to safeguard Ukraine’s borders in the future.

But behind every one of these apparently promising areas of agreement lurks a fatal misunderstanding of the intentions of the one man in the world who has the power to make the war stop – Putin.

Let us not forget that the Washington talks were based on Trump and his team’s highly optimistic interpretation of what Putin had agreed to in Anchorage, Alaska. That team included precisely zero Russia experts capable of reading the hidden meaning behind Putin’s weasel words. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s leading point man on Kremlin affairs, is a real estate lawyer with no experience of diplomacy. And the last time that Trump himself spoke in person to Putin, in Helsinki in 2018, he was quickly persuaded by his Russian counterpart that Kremlin election interference was all just a big hoax.

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PUTIN DOES NOT USE "WEASEL" WORDS. (THE SPECTATOR DOES)... WHAT PUTIN SAYS AND HOLDS GROUND ON, IS FIRM AND FINAL... THE WEST — ESPECIALLY THE EUROPEANS — ALL USED TO PLAY DEVIOUS DOUBLE-CROSS GAMES, HAVE TO TRUST PUTIN ON WHAT HE SAYS AND WHAT LAVROV SAYS. FULL STOP...

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.