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'Ten-year-old boy' blasts Ukrainian funfair with an RPG after he was allowed to handle the weapon - injuring 15 people and sparking panic as families thought Russians were attacking
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US ambassador to Russia leaves Moscow, will retire

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Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks near eight settlements in eastern Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] The enemy concentrated his efforts on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk region, maintaining the captured districts of Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv regions.

by Iryna Gamalii


Offensive actions continue in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv areas. The enemy continues to actively use air defense means to cover his troops. Conducts aerial reconnaissance with high intensity using UAVs. It is trying to improve the logistical support of its troops.

This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the 193rd day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion.

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out more than 10 missile and more than 24 air strikes on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, civilian infrastructure was affected in the areas of Peremoga, Husarivka, Novomykhailivka, Biloghirya settlements.

The threat of systematic massive air and missile strikes on military and critical infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine continues to persist.

Due to the lack of high-precision weapons, the enemy began to use outdated S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles more often. More than 500 such missiles were launched on the territory of Ukraine, some of which did not reach the target. The occupiers are armed with several thousand such missiles, but most of them are unusable.

In the Volyn and Poliske directions , the situation remains without significant changes.

In other directions, the enemy attacked military and civilian infrastructure using tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and rocket artillery, namely:

in the Seversky direction - settlements of Mikhalchyna Sloboda in Chernihiv region and Stukalyvka in Sumy region;

in the Kharkiv direction - Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv, Slatine, Sosnivka, Udy, Petrivka, Velyki Prohody, Stary Saltiv, Andriivka;

in the Slavic direction - Bogorodichne, Dolyna, Krasnopillya;

in the Kramatorsk direction - Sloviansk, Siversk, Raihorodok, Donetske, Ivano-Daryivka, Vesele;

in the Bakhmut direction - Zaytseve, Bakhmutske, Soledar, Bakhmut, Belogorivka, Viymka, Rozdolivka;

in the Avdiyiv direction - Avdiyivka, Novokalynove, Berdychi, Vodyane, Pervomaiske;

in the Novopavlivskyi direction , the enemy did not carry out active offensive actions, but shelled the regions of Krasnohorivka and Orlivka settlements;

in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Biloghirya, Olhivske, Zelene Pole, Novopil, Novosilka, Vremivka;

in the South Buzka direction , the enemy was shelling along the entire line of contact. Attempts to provide logistical support for the troops.

Units of the Defense Forces hold their positions and prevent the enemy from advancing deep into the territory of our State. The defense forces managed to successfully repulse the enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Bogorodichne, Pasika, Dolyna, Bakhmut, Pokrovske, Bakhmutske, Pisky, Pervomaiske.

During the day, in order to support the actions of the ground groups, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 6 strikes aimed at destroying the enemy's manpower, combat and special equipment, means of radio-electronic warfare, anti-aircraft defense and logistical support facilities. Information on losses is being clarified.

Missile troops and artillery of ground troops continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, disruption of the enemy's control system and logistical support. As a result of the impact of fire during the past day, the enemy control post, areas of concentration of military equipment and personnel of the tank battalion were hit. The "Zoopark" counter-battery radar station, the "Zhitel" electronic warfare station and a large number of the occupants' manpower were destroyed.

We will remind you that the enemy is experiencing military failures and catastrophic losses of personnel and equipment . Therefore, the Russian Federation is trying to create new military units and units. However, Russia will be able to form a new army corps only by the end of November.

The Armed Forces destroyed an enemy helicopter in the Donetsk region

[LB] Defense forces also shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle.

by Iryna Lysohor


On September 3, the Air Force shot down a helicopter belonging to the Russian occupiers in the Donetsk region.

The beating took place around 10:30. This was reported on Facebook of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The report states that anti-aircraft missile units destroyed another Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopter of the Russian occupiers and the "Forpost" unmanned aerial vehicle.

Russia produces a modification of "Forposts" capable of striking.

We will remind you that last day the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated 350 invaders and an enemy plane. Total enemy casualties are approaching 50,000.

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Russian army is tries to improve logistics - a summary of the Ukrainian General Staff
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The threat of massive air and missile strikes remains

The enemy continues to concentrate efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region, holding the captured areas of the Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 Sunday, September 4, 2022.

He is trying to improve the logistics of his troops. The enemy conducts high-intensity aerial reconnaissance using UAVs.

The threat of massive air and missile strikes on military and critical infrastructure throughout Ukraine remains.

During the current day, the enemy launched 14 missile and more than 15 air strikes on military and civilian targets on the territory of our state. In particular, civilian infrastructure was damaged in the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Nikolaev, Voznesensk, Ochakov, Dry Pond.

Carriers of Caliber cruise missiles are in readiness for the use of missile weapons in the Black Sea. The enemy aviation group is conducting combat operations in order to support the actions of ground groupings, most intensively in the Yuzhnobugsky and Donetsk directions.

At the same time, the issue of replenishing its losses in manpower remains problematic for the enemy. Thus, in correctional colony No. 124 in the city of Donetsk, representatives of the private military campaign "Wagner" are trying to recruit convicts into their unit.

Also, in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Kherson, servicemen of the 127th regiment of the 1st Army Corps raised a riot, wrote a refusal to participate in hostilities. It is known that one of the reasons was the unsatisfactory comprehensive support: the personnel of this regiment were left even without water at the forefront. Some of the servicemen were taken away by representatives of the enemy counterintelligence, their further fate is unknown.

In addition :

in the Volyn and Polesye directions, the situation remains unchanged. The threat of missile and air strikes from the airspace and territory of the Republic of Belarus remains;

in other directions, the enemy fired at military and civilian infrastructure using tanks, military vehicles, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery, namely:

in the Seversky direction - 12 settlements of Chernihiv and Sumy regions, also used UAVs. The increased intensity of shelling along the state border is explained by the recent rotation of enemy artillery units in this direction. In addition, the use by the enemy of sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the border regions of Ukraine is not ruled out;

in the Kharkov direction, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Odnorobovka, Sosnovka, Udy, Russian Tishki, Petrovka, Russian Lozovaya, Bolshiye Prokhody, Stary Saltov, Petrovka, Nortsovka, Gusarovka, Chepol, Pokrovskoye. Inflicted air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Pobeda and Gusarovka. In addition, the UAV was used in the areas of the settlements of Pitomnik, Russkaya Lozovaya, Slatino, Ivanovka, Balakleya, Savintsy and Russian Tishki;

in the Slavic direction, the settlements of Bogorodichnoe, Dolina, Krasnopolye, Novaya Dmitrovka, Dmitrovka, Mazanovka, Suligovka, Karnaukhovka were shelled by the invaders. The enemy launched an air strike on Bogorodichnoye;

in the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Slavyansk, Seversk, Raygorodok, Donetskoe, Grigorovka, Ivano-Daryevka, Zvanovka, Disputed, Veseloe, Pereezdnoe. Inflicted an air strike in the areas of the settlements of Bogorodichnoye and Verkhnekamennoye;

in the Bakhmut direction, carried out shelling in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, Bakhmutskoye, Soledar, Bakhmut, Yakovlevka, Belogorovka, Vyemka and Razdolovka;

Novokalinovo, Berdichi, Vodyanoye, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka, Orlovka were shelled in the Avdeevka direction;

in the Novopavlovsky direction - Marinka, Paraskoveevka, Nikolskoye, Vugledar, Sweet, Shevchenko, Bolshaya Novoselka, Bogoyavlenka, Pavlovka, Novodonetskoye, Novomayorskoye, Neskuchnoye, Vremovka. The enemy also launched an air strike in the Novomikhailovka area;

in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy carried out shelling in the areas of the settlements of Zarechnoe, Shcherbaki, Novodanilovka, Belogorye, Gulyaipolskoye, Gulyaipole, Dorozhnyanka, Krasnoye, Poltavka, Olgovskoe, Novopol, Novoselka, Burlatskoe, Vremevka. He also launched air strikes in the areas of Belogorye, Poltavka and Vremovka;

in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the enemy continues to conduct defensive operations, shelling almost all settlements along the line of confrontation. In addition, he launched air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Lyubomovka, Bezymyannoye, Kostromka, Belogorka, Bolshoye Artakovo. UAVs were actively used to correct artillery fire.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine hold their positions and do not allow the enemy to move across the territory of our state. Our units managed to successfully repel enemy attacks in the areas of settlements Krasnopolye, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut.

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: September 4th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:18 Zelensky in the evening video message thanked the soldiers of the 63rd battalion of the 103rd territorial defense brigade, who ensured the result in the Donetsk region - "the settlement was liberated." The President also noted the 54th brigade, which moved forward in the direction of Lisichansk-Seversk. In addition, the head of state noted the 42nd separate motorized infantry battalion - "thanks to its heroic actions, two settlements in the south of our state have been liberated."

21:23 Shmyhal said that during a meeting with Scholz, he announced Ukraine's readiness to increase electricity supplies to the EU, which will contribute to Europe's energy security. Also, the Ukrainian prime minister emphasized the need to continue joint work on the demilitarization of the Zaporizhzhya NPP: "He proposed to work together on a possible EU and UN mission to the station, which should help in this matter."

According to Shmyhal, on the issue of new arms supplies, "there is a common vision of the need to increase the supply of heavy weapons." In addition, the prime minister said that this autumn a conference on the restoration of Ukraine at a high level would be held in Germany.

19:40 Zelensky announced that he had held the third meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander in a week: “There are no days off in the war. We keep in constant touch with those who are at the front. I won’t give details, but Ukrainian flags are returning to where they should be by right And the occupiers have no place on our land."

19:04 According to Estonian intelligence, active hostilities will end in Ukraine in 7-9 weeks, and Ukrainian forces have already achieved success in the temporarily occupied Kherson region. More details - in the material 7 weeks of war or the attack of the Russian Federation .

18:46 The occupiers hit Kholodnogorsk and Novobavar districts of Kharkiv, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. Two people have been hospitalized.

17:51 In the Luhansk region, the Russians flooded the mines, and the miners were taken to the front, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, it will not be possible to restore the enterprises - the invaders cut them into scrap metal.

16:43 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of today's Russian shelling, one person was killed in the village of Odnorobovka, Zolochiv community, and three people were injured in the village of Andreevka, Izyumsky district, the OVA reported.

16:19 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: “We discussed the early allocation of the next tranche of macrofinance from the EU. He pointed out the need to prepare the eighth package of sanctions, which should also contain a ban on issuing visas to Russian citizens. limiting Russia's oil and gas windfall profits. Considered the possibility of a rapid assessment by the European Commission once Ukraine has implemented its seven recommendations."

15:58 Today, 13 ships left the ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny - this is the largest number since the start of the grain initiative, the Ministry of Infrastructure reported. On board the ships are 282.5 thousand tons of Ukrainian agricultural products, which are sent to eight countries of the world. In total, during the operation of the grain corridor, 86 ships left Ukrainian ports with destinations in 19 countries of the world and 2 million tons of agricultural products on board.
It’s good that fewer will starve this winter. I have no idea how this compares to previous years’ numbers, so no idea whether this is symbolic or meaningful.
15:37 Ukrainian telegram channels published a photo of the military raising the Ukrainian flag over the village hospital in Vysokopolye in the north of the Kherson region. Later, Yermak published the same photo with the caption "Step by step." Russian military telegram channels also confirmed the advance of Ukrainian troops in the village of Vysokopolye.

14:16 Shmyhal said following a meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that the transfer of the IRIS-T air defense system to Ukraine is expected in the fall. Also this week, another tranche of macro-financial assistance from the EU in the amount of 5 billion euros is expected.

13:23 Russia has launched 3,500 missiles in Ukraine since February 24. According to rough estimates, it is necessary to clear about 200 thousand square kilometers of the country's territory. In six months, the State Emergency Service neutralized more than 186,000 munitions and almost 2,000 bombs, Ruslan Strelets, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, said.

12:35 Vereshchuk asked the Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine to send 10,000 tablets and laptops. The equipment is needed to educate Ukrainian children who were forced to leave their homes, the Deputy Prime Minister said.

12:03 Germany will allocate 200 million euros to Ukrainian migrants, Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze said: "The money is intended to ensure that migrants in Ukraine can continue to provide themselves with the most necessary things." She also plans to meet with Scholz to discuss possible ways to support the Ukrainian government in helping displaced people.

11:32 As a result of morning shelling of Ochakov of the Nikolaev area the elevator is destroyed, several thousand tons of grain are destroyed. Dozens of houses were also damaged, but there were no casualties, Deputy Mayor Alexei Vaskov said.

10:59 A Russian missile was shot down in the Krivoy Rog region, the air command of Skhid reported.

10:28 Ukraine's air defense has reached a level of efficiency when 50-70% of Russian missiles are shot down, Head of the Kiev City Military Administration Major General Mykola Zhirnov said in an interview with Army Inform: "Analysis of Russia's air and missile strikes shows that from 50% to % of enemy missiles are shot down by air defense systems - both aviation and anti-aircraft missile units.But, unfortunately, today we cannot ensure 100% effectiveness of air defense operations, this is due to objective reasons - an insufficient number of reconnaissance equipment, aviation and anti-aircraft missile systems. These are mainly Soviet systems that do not have the same efficiency and reliability as the air defense systems of NATO partner countries."

09:52 The Insider writes that the publication has at its disposal a video of the operation of Russian MLRS from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. It was filmed on the night of September 2-3. The footage shows that the MLRS are located in close proximity to the power unit.

09:48 British intelligence notes that in addition to combat fatigue and high losses, one of the main problems of Russian soldiers is probably problems with payment. This is likely due to inefficient military bureaucracy, the legal status of a "special military operation" and outright corruption among commanders. At the same time, analysts add that in Ukraine, most likely, there were problems with non-payment of combat bonuses.

09:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 4. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk and Krivoy Rog directions.

  • personnel - about 49,500 (+450) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 2049 (+15),

  • armored combat vehicles - 4430 (+27),

  • artillery systems - 1147 (+13),

  • MLRS - 294 (+1),

  • air defense systems - 156 (+3),

  • aircraft - 236 (+1),

  • helicopters - 206 (+1),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 864 (+0),

  • cruise missiles - 203 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 3276 (+8),

  • special equipment - 106 (+1).

09:26 At night, two explosions thundered in the Kievsky district of Kharkov. Previously, the enemy launched a missile attack on the city. As a result of the hit, a large-scale fire broke out in the restaurant building, there is no information about the victims, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also, over the past day, the invaders fired at Kharkov, Izyum, Bogodukhovsky and Chuguevsky districts of the region. One person died, two were injured.

08:40 The Ukrainian military is holding back the Russian invaders, they managed to repel attacks in the areas of the settlements of Bogorodichnoye, Pasika, Dolyna, Bakhmut, Pokrovskoye, Bakhmutskoye, Sands, Pervomayskoye, the General Staff reports in the morning summary .

08:12 In the Donetsk region over the past day, four civilians were killed by Russian shelling - two in Velyka Novoselka, one each in Seversky and Vodyany. Two more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.

05:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the Ukrainian military is hindering the deployment of Russian troops with limited attacks in the Zaporozhye region. And the Ukrainian counteroffensive, according to representatives of Kyiv, is a methodical operation to deliberately worsen the state of Russian forces and logistics in the south, and not an operation aimed at liberating large territories.

ISW analysts also note that the Kremlin may step up self-censorship among Russian bloggers and war correspondents covering the war in Ukraine. So far, Moscow has not detained bloggers for their publications.

Footage on social networks testifies to effective Ukrainian strikes in the west and in the center of the Kherson region, experts point out. Meanwhile, Russian forces launched limited ground attacks northeast and south of Bakhmut and north and southwest of Donetsk.

02:27 Ukrainian aviation inflicted 24 strikes on strongholds, areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, command posts and transport routes of the enemy. In particular, an ammunition depot in the Bashtansky district was destroyed and a ferry crossing near Berislav was hit, OK Pivden reports.

02:10 The United States sees signs that Russia may try to hold "referendums" in the occupied Ukrainian territories as early as September, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, said in an interview with Dozhd TV: "We are still seeing signs indicating that Russia is going to hold quasi-referendums as early as this month. This is their way of gaining some sort of political legitimacy in the military successes they have either achieved or want to achieve."

Kirby also noted that Putin demonstrates unwillingness to end the war: “This is not a war with the United States, this is not a war with NATO. Putin chose to start a war with Ukraine and the Ukrainians. And, unfortunately, nothing that we are seeing today allows us have any hope that he is ready to put an end to this war, to the killing of Ukrainian civilians."
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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief September 4th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:53 Special operation, September 4th. The main thing:

▪️Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated up to 50 foreign mercenaries in the Kurakhovo region in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported

▪️The military of the Russian Federation hit the headquarters of the Ukrainian national formation "Kraken" in the Kharkov region, said in the Defense Ministry

▪️During the day, Ukrainian troops lost 11 tanks and more than 150 people in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction

▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported about Ukrainian and Western journalists who tried to join the IAEA motorcade when traveling to the ZNPP: according to the agency, if the station was captured on September 1, they had to inform the world community about the transition of the station to Kyiv

▪️Representatives of Ukrainian or other media who were supposed to accompany IAEA experts to the ZNPP from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime on September 1 were not on the agreed lists

▪️There were no shellings of Zaporizhzhya NPP and Energodar during the night and Sunday morning, IAEA specialists will continue to work at the station until at least September 5, the regional administration reported

20:51 Electricity and water supply restored in Kherson, RIA Novosti correspondent reports

20:51 Electricity has been supplied to Melitopol, power supply is gradually being restored in the districts of the Zaporozhye region - authorities

19:05 Most of the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region was left without electricity, Rogov said.

18:05 The power supply is turned off in part of Kherson and the Kherson region, our correspondent reports. Power engineers are reconnecting damaged electrical networks.

17:13 The threats of Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk will not affect the decision of residents of the liberated regions of Donbass to participate in the referendum, said the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky.

"Vereshchuk seriously thinks her threats will stop them?" Slutsky said.

16:20 Enemy continues offensive attempts between Nikolaev and Kherson, the Armed Forces of Ukraine threw large forces, trying to recapture Vysokopolye

▪️Ukrainian militants occupied the hospital and the western part of Vysokopolye in the Beryslavsky district of the Kherson region.
As you can see in the photo, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine raised the flag over the hospital in the part of the village they occupied, they were being hit by artillery of the Airborne Forces, and smoke from the strikes on the outskirts was visible in the background.

From the fighters from the front line:
Our fighters from the field report that the enemy has thrown a large force with armored vehicles.

Fierce urban battles are going on in the village, the Russian army is repelling an attempt by the enemy to attack.
We will soon release a detailed summary with data from the field.

15:13 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 150 soldiers per day during unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in certain sections of the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 in the Mykolaiv region;

▪️Aviation and artillery hit four command posts in a day, including the headquarters of the Kraken national formation;

▪️Aviation and artillery destroyed three ammunition depots in the DPR and the Zaporozhye region;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces liquidated 110 militants of the 30th Mechanized and 95th Air Assault brigades in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;

▪️On September 3, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used eight UAVs with suspended ammunition to strike at the territory of the nuclear power plant, they were blocked by means of the EW of the Russian Federation;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated up to 50 foreign fighters with strikes on two mercenary deployment points in the DPR;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces liquidated more than 120 Ukrainian nationalists with strikes on the points of deployment of the 80th Airborne Battalion and the warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defense shot down five Ukrainian UAVs, and also intercepted three HARM anti-radar missiles and seven HIMARS and Alder MLRS shells.

14:25 11 Ukrainian tanks, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, including four US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 10 other armored fighting vehicles, five pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 150 military personnel were destroyed per day - Russian Defense Ministry

14:25 Kyiv regime lost more than 150 servicemen in unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction - Russian Defense Ministry

14:25 On September 3, Ukrainian troops used eight drones to strike at the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, they were blocked by Russian electronic warfare equipment - Russian Defense Ministry

13:52 Residents of Dniprorudny were delivered electric stoves

Volunteers of the “We are with Russia” headquarters continue to provide targeted assistance to residents of the city who find themselves in a difficult life situation.

13:30 The members of the IAEA mission remaining at the ZNPP plan to leave on September 6, but they can extend their stay at the station, Vladimir Rogov said.

13:30 In Odessa, residents this mornings on won one of the residential buildings there are Russian flags and inscriptions: “Odessa is a Russian city”

12:19 The Russian army is delivering artillery and missile strikes along the entire line of contact - the main thing from the enemy report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️Russia continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region, holding the areas of Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Mykolaiv regions.

▪️Offensive operations of the RF Armed Forces continue in the Artyomovsky and Avdeevsky directions, active aerial reconnaissance is being carried out with the help of UAVs.

▪️Over the past day, the RF Armed Forces have carried out more than 10 missile and more than 24 air strikes on military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️The Russian army conducted assault operations in the areas of Bogorodichny, Apiary, Dolina, Artemovsk, Pokrovsky, Bakhmutsky, Pesok, Pervomaisky.

11:19 To Kherson again loudly

This time, the locals heard about 10 explosions near the Antonovsky bridge.

10:20 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that citizens of Ukraine could face up to 12 years in prison if they participate in referendums in Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine. According to her, it is better for citizens not to go to referendums if there is no way to leave the region.

09:35 Deliver fuel regardless of shelling and time of day: how combat work service of fuels and lubricants during the SVO.

06:54 MO RF showed personnel damaged equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.

The militants made an attempt to break through the defense, but met with resistance. The attempt was unsuccessful - their equipment was destroyed.

06:49 Zelensky's nuclear terrorism: During the shelling, one of the shells hit the ZNPP power unit. This was announced by the head of the military-civilian administration of Energodar Alexander Volga. The representative of the administration stressed that the facility was in a non-working condition. There is no threat to the population of the city, since the security system of power units cannot be violated with a single hit. Volga did not specify when exactly the hit occurred.

06:21 In the early morning in Ukraine, a large-scale air raid.

05:07 The bridge in the area of ​​the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station received significant damage as a result of a series of missile attacks on it by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

04:05 The Ukrainian authorities are constantly blackmailing teachers in Energodar and sending them threats, the head of the military-civilian administration of the city of Alexander Volga, located in the Zaporozhye region, said.

02:43 Rocket strikes are delivered on targets in Nikolaev, powerful explosions are thundering in the city.

02:10 Tank of the 100th Brigade with indirect fire struck strengthening of the Armed Forces

Tankers of the 100th Brigade destroyed the fortification of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomaisky area, firing indirect fire, which was corrected with the help of UAVs.

0:21 A missile attack is being carried out on targets in Kharkiv, a series of explosions in the city. Smoke hit enemy targets.

Posted by: badanov || 09/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Check this denazification effort out:

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1566678928273571840
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 || 09/05/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Watch Russian state television, it is not hard to see Russians refuse to allow Ukrainians to be who they want, Russians get to decide that. Except they don't anymore.

Any American supporting these utopian criminals needs to move to Russia and their Brave New World culture:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1566265477890035713
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 || 09/05/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||

#3  The Ukrainians are skells and moochers. The Russians are no better.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 16:11 Comments || Top||


Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: September 4th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:41 Artillery of the People's Militia of the DPR inflicts fire damage on accumulations of enemy manpower and equipment, destroys the fortified areas of Ukrainian nationalists near the settlements of Pervomayskoye and Avdievka .. Fire came from D-20 guns with a caliber of 152mm.

21:16 To Severodonetsk arrived first batch of textbooks.

The total number of books has exceeded 3,000 copies, according to his TG channel, acting. Nikolai Morgunov, Head of the City Administration.

The delivery was organized with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Luhansk People's Republic and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

This is only the first delivery, the second is scheduled for September 6, after which the students of the city will be provided with textbooks in full.

20:12 Ukrainian troops shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic four times in an hour, firing nine rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 18 mines with a caliber of 120mm and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.

"Fishes were recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions:

-- the settlement of Ozaryanovka - the settlement of Zaitsevo: 11 mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
-- the settlement of Leninskoye - the settlement of Shirokaya Balka: seven mines with a caliber of 120mm were fired;
-- the settlement of Krasnogorovka - the city of Donetsk (Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts): five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
-- the settlement of Orlovka - the settlement of Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district): four rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired, ”the representative office said in a statement on the Telegram channel.

19:32 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 19.30 on 04.09.2022

Over the current day, according to information from the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired more than 132 round of ammunition from BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, tanks, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm and 152mm, as well as 120mm mortars.

The artillery was fired at the areas of seven settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, four civilians were injured. Eleven houses were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

The complex of works on the clearance of anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1S) is ongoing.

We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died and five were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

19:00 On photographs, damaged as a result of yesterday's (09/03/2022) shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of a food industry enterprise at the address: st. Bridge, 9 (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).

18:30 Chairman of the public organization "Union of Women of Donbass", member of the Civic Chamber of the LPR Natalya Pryimak handed over humanitarian aid from Russian social activists to teachers and families with newborn children from the liberated Lisichansk.

18:25 Result of shelling on the street Vasilchenko, 7 in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

18:20 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:

— n.p. Friendship - n.p. Zaitsevo: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Friendship - n.p. Zaitsevo: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Orlovka - city Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky regions): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Ozaryanovka - n.p. Zaitsevo: 11 mines fired in 120mm caliber.

17:10 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports that the Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv regions are under attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of the Kirov region, a man born in 1955 was injured and taken to hospital No. 25.

16:54 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Golmovsky: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - city Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky regions): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

16:27 Under aimed fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky.

16:05 Specialists from the Moscow region put an end to the 60-year desolation of the hospital in the south of the DPR. About ittoldOleg Morgun, head of administration of the Novoazovsky district.

The last time the central district hospital was renovated was in the 60s of the last century. Everything changed when the Moscow region took patronage over the district.

"Everything is being done from scratch: communications, plastic windows, facades, interiors, redevelopment. Huge amounts of money are being invested. Even the wires are pulled out of the walls, because they do not meet the standards. Everything is done very conscientiously and people are trying," he said.

15:16 Photo facts of crimes of Ukrainian militants who once again subjected the Central City district of Gorlovka to artillery strikes. Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.

14:52 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - city Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky regions): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.

14:26 The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated up to 50 foreign fighters with strikes on two mercenary deployment points in the DPR.

The Russian Aerospace Forces liquidated more than 120 Ukrainian nationalists with strikes on the deployment points of the 80th Airborne Battalion and the warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

13:38 On photographs, provided by the residents of Horlivka through a chat-bot, house at the address: st. Young Guards, 5 (Central-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka), destroyed by the shelling of Ukrainian neo-Nazis. In the village of Zaitsevo (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), a house was damaged along Smolenskaya street, 12.

12:15 APU again fired upon a quarter of the Central City district of Gorlovka. The goal was once again multi-storey residential buildings. Gorlovsky's central Pobedy Avenue was hit. One nine-story and five five-story houses were damaged. Once again, there were no casualties. Part of a 155mm shell pierced a residential apartment at 81 Pobedy Avenue. A gas pipeline was also broken near it. Partial damage was received by the hotel "Stirol". Video: NM DNR

11:51 Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR removed the body of a missing resident from under the rubble of a house fired at by Kyiv security forces in Pervomaisk. This was announced in his Telegram channel by the head of the city administration Sergey Kolyagin.

11:45 VSU launched an attack on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street Bakhrushina is a wounded man.

11:09 the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Makeivka (Kirovsky district): three rockets were fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane" rocket launcher;
— n.p. Belaya Gora - n.p. Zaitsevo: seven missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: four each 152mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Friendship - n.p. Zaitsevo: four shots fired from a tank;
-- n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

11:00 Volunteers of the Popular Front with the support of the NM LPR delivered humanitarian kits for needy residents of n.p. Sirotino.

10:45 According to updated information, the number of victims today as a result of the shelling of the Central City district of Horlivka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased to two. On the street of the Young Guard, a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded on August 18, 1984. All victims are provided with qualified medical care at City Hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka. Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.

10:35 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 04.09.2022

The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.

Over the past 24 hours, according to the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 241 pieces of ammunition from BM-21 122mm Grad multiple launch rocket systems, tanks, 155mm and 152mm barrel artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, 10 civilians were injured of varying severity. Twenty-three housing constructions and thirteen civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: one tank, two trucks and more than twenty personnel.

At present, a set of works on the clearance of anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C) is ongoing.

10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of September 4, 2022

Over the past 24 hours, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:

- up to 40 personnel;
- two armored personnel carriers;
- four units of special automotive equipment;
- one artillery mount.

Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During September 3, they cleared more than seven hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Novodruzhesk and Shipilovka.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.

09:47 Information was received about the wound as a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression of a civilian of Gorlovka on the street. Academician Paton.

According to updated data, as a result of yesterday's shelling (03.09) of the Central City district of Gorlovka (81 Pobedy Ave.), a woman born in 1982 was injured by Ukrainian militants.

09:35 Destruction by a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomaisky area. UAV of the 11th Regiment of the NM of the DPR filmed the moment of the destruction of the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Pervomaisky.

08:56 Destruction of infantry in the offensive zone of the 4th Brigade of the LPR army.

08:36 Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk, Gorlovka and Zaitsevo in 10 minutes - the authorities of the DPR.

08:05 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv district): three rounds fired with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Friendship - n.p. Zaitsevo: six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

07:20 DPR Special Forces destroys strengthening the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of ATGMs. The action takes place in the Avdievka area.

03:03 Servicemen of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd AK NM LNR destroyed Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yakovlevka area.

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About the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kherson
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian blogger Andrey Chervonets, except as noted

I think in just a few days we will find out the approximate losses of Ukrainians in the area of ​​​​the crossing over the Ingulets River and to the south, in the area of ​​the Sukhoi Stavok settlement. Maybe we will not reach the maximum result in terms of destroyed Ukrainian soldiers, but at least we will be very close.

One thing I can say for sure, there is hell, I mean hell for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They have not yet had such losses, and to be honest, I don’t know how the Ukrainians will come up with a win. Not only everyone, few people can drive such a quantity of equipment and personnel into the bare steppe under the blows of everything that is possible, including bomber aircraft.

Voenkor Kotenok

Says Chervonets:
The brothers began to estimate the losses of the Ukrainians in the Kherson offensive, noting that there was no clarity.

There are no exact figures yet, and this is so, if only because: 1) the operation is still ongoing, and the Ukrainians are trying to shove in some places, getting a sopatka (at least a platoon per light day of losses); 2) We use both MLRS, TOS, and FAB-500 in the enemy’s battle formations. And this, you understand, is ammunition of a volumetric explosion and a caliber of such that, as in a playful will attributed to Taras Shevchenko: “Then take the brushes, give them to the dogs to cook.”
TOS is a flamer thrower armored tracked vehicle. FAB-500 is a 500 kilogram fuel air bomb. Taras Shevchenko is a Ukrianian writer.
And if no joke, then the joyful howling in the networks of the Ukrainians was noticeably less (they were forbidden to discuss the army, well, well). But already after the first day of the "offensive" in Kyiv, it was hinted that in just one day the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded the number of those killed in the Ilovaisk cauldron-2014.

And near Ilovaisk, with the calculation of the losses of the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians themselves are also not all openwork: in the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves they underestimated to 300-plus, figures of 420-450 flashed on the network, in the military prosecutor's office of Ukraine they estimated the number of killed and missing at more than 500 ( plus the same number of wounded), and the Verkhovna Rada published the figure of its own investigation of 1000 - killed in action.

So judge for yourself - the Ukrainian Army climbs for the sixth day (began on the night of August 29), and if every day is like the Ilovaisk cauldron, then mourning tapes will be hung out not only in Transcarpathia.
Ilovaisk refers to the 2014 Ilovaisk cauldron in Donetsk in which several thousand Ukrainian soldiers and militants were trapped, and later liquidated by the separatists.
With Zelenskiy, Ukrainians are taking new steps into hell.

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China-Japan-Koreas
China holds on to $100 billion of Russia's assets and will not let them use it.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 09/05/2022 00:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  A warning to all who partake in the Middle Kingdom's 'beneficence'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/05/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So, is that China's signal that they think Russia will lose?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/05/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait till Hunter and Brandon get wind of this.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep. China is asshole.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  The Chinese & the Russians never were friends and never will be.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/05/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  The practical thing to do would be to use that yuan to purchase the items from China for export to Russia that are useful. Or to invest it in Chinese factories to build hypersonic missiles, upgrade the Chinese fighters to Russian standards, procure Chinese laser weapon technology etc. If the trust level isn’t there at that level buy factories making “plastic dog poop” and export it all over the world with the contracts payable in Rubles. All that being said - the article explicitly states that a separate agreement is needed to convert yuan to rubles for repatriation. The Russians can simply negotiate that agreement, once they identify the Chinese price points
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 09/05/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#7  I've been wondering when China will seek to "acquire some territory in Eastern Siberia.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  They can't even say lebensraum
Posted by: Frank G || 09/05/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  China plays the long game and would devour Russia (or all of Asia)given the chance, its their way
Posted by: 746 || 09/05/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  when China will seek to "acquire some territory in Eastern Siberia.

I was under the impression that Han have been quietly filtering in and settling for decades — plenty of villages with no native occupants left to notice the newcomers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2022 23:00 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Let us be your guinea pig: Ukraine's bold pitch to Australia to put our cutting-edge patrol vehicles dubbed the 'Hawkeis' into action on the battlefield against Russia
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#1  Testing out another country's new war toys has been SOP for thousands of years. The cold war especially was notorious for it from both sides.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/05/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany's Russian gas crisis sparks coal rush
Less dependence on Russia, more resilience? A very good thing while the Germans rediscover common sense on the subject.
[NEWINDIANEXPRESS] A rush like this in the summertime, it's unheard of -- everybody wants coal," says Frithjof Engelke, a supplier of the briquettes which have become a hot commodity in the German capital.

A looming shortage of Russian gas in the wake of the Ukraine war has reignited enthusiasm for this method of heating private homes despite its sooty residue and heavy carbon footprint.

Engelke, 46, head of the century-old Berlin business Hans Engelke Energie, says it's brought a bonanza for his family business: "My holidays will have to wait."

He and his team are frenziedly taking orders, organising deliveries by truck -- now booked out until October, and getting supplies ready for those who come directly to pick up coal from his warehouse.

On a hot summer's day, he weighs and bags loose coal amid the dust and din of his filling machine, then arranges the bags on pallets, awaiting customers.

In Berlin, 5-6,000 homes are still heated with coal -- only a fraction of the city's 1.9 million homes, say municipal authorities.

Engelke's customers are often elderly people, sometimes entirely dependent on coal and living in old dwellings that have never been renovated.

Others are lovers of the "cosy" heat emanating from often ornate old ceramic stoves.

But this year, new customers have arrived "en masse", says Engelke, whose medium-sized company has also diversified into wood pellets and fuel oil.

"Those who heat with gas but who still have a stove at home now all want to have coal," he said, citing a phenomenon seen throughout Germany as winter approaches.
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#1  Germany back to coal. And people wonder why I laugh at the eco-freak greenies.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2022 17:21 Comments || Top||



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