Why I don’t take the Ukronazi stuff seriously — look at who the Russians have on their side.
[IsraelTimes] Right-hand man of boss Yevgeny Prigozhin served in Russian military during Chechen wars, led mercenary group’s military operations since about 2014.
A rare photo of the Wagner group’s military commander shows a man with a shaved head, a cold stare and the Nazi SS symbol tattooed on both sides of his neck.
Dmitry Utkin, a veteran of Russia’s military intelligence division, the GRU, was reportedly beside Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on the plane that crashed on Wednesday north of Moscow, killing all on board.
Little is known publicly of this former army officer, who Russian media — including state-run outlets — were calling the Wagner "commander" as far back as 2015-2016.
At that time, the Kremlin was denying links to the mercenary group, which was already operating in Ukraine and Syria, where Russian forces were shoring up dictator Bashir al-Assad.
Then, in December 2016, Utkin was pictured alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... at a Kremlin reception for Russian "heroes" fighting in the Syrian civil war.
At around about the same time, Utkin’s ex-wife, Elena Shcherbinina, gave an interview to Russian state-owned news site Gazeta.ru, saying she was unable to reach him.
She said Utkin was born in 1970 and served in the Russian army in the Chechen wars.
He left the army in 2012 and set up a private security company, according to the dossier.center website founded by anti-Kremlin oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Shcherbinina told Gazeta.ru her former husband had found leaving active combat difficult.
"It was very hard for him to adapt. It bothered him a lot not to be fighting. He wanted a military career as a combat officer, not to wear out the seats of his pants sitting in some HQ somewhere."
WAGNER’S MURKY ORIGINS
It is unclear how Utkin met Prigozhin and how what would become the Wagner group was founded around 2014.
But the mercenary outfit was given Utkin’s call sign — Wagner.
Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... was a huge fan of German composer Richard Wagner and many observers see this nom de guerre as another indication of Utkin’s Nazi sympathies.
Several Wagner mercenaries have insignia and tattoos inspired by the Third Reich.
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Dmitry Utkin, the neo-Nazi co-founder after whom the Wagner Group is named, was also identified by his tattoos, according to VChK-OGPU. (Utkin famously has several Nazi tattoos.)
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This is like watching the remake of The Man Who Never Was. Which is why I would be unsurprised to see Prigozhin turn up as a warlord in Africa. Or Mars. I mean Barsoom.
It is curious that a big chunk of Wagner was on the same plane, given the number of parties who wish them ill. Seems like a poor security practice by people who should know better.
Does the New York Times ever get anything important right?
[RT] Ukraine has ramped up its drone attacks on targets inside Russia in an effort to encourage its population and military amid lackluster progress on the battlefield, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing US officials. Paleostinians have Qassams. Ukrainians have drones.
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Ukrainians aren't dying fast enough, they think they're being used as disposable Cannon fodder by foreign sociopaths in an unwinnable war.
Obviously ops like this should turn the tide and move Ukrainians towards charging into artillery ambushes.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Russian government has said 10 bodies and flight recorders have been recovered from the crash site of the ill-fated plane carrying Wagner Chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his allies.
According to officials on Friday, an investigative committee is carrying out molecular genetic testing to identify the bodies from the crash site.
The jet crashed soon after taking off from Moscow for St Petersburg. It was believed to be carrying the powerful mercenary group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, six other Wagner members, and a crew of three, Russia’s civil aviation authority said.
Rescue workers found 10 bodies at the spot of the jet’s remains, the Russian media reported citing anonymous sources from Wagner group which confirmed that their top leader was dead.
The officials have not confirmed the identities of the 10 bodies recovered from the wreckage.
Russian Sherlocks have opened a probe into what happened. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they have not yet said what was the suspected cause that led to the plane’s sudden fall from the sky. A video of the crash showed the plane spinning and falling from several metres high altitude as smoke emanated from it.
Prigozhin was also listed among those aboard the private plane flying northwest of Moscow. The crash has no survivors and comes exactly two months after Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against army chiefs.
While there has been no official confirmation of Prigozhin’s death, he has been eulogised by president Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... who sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash on Thursday and spoke of Prigozhin in the past tense.
Citing preliminary information, the Russian president condoled the death of Prigozhin and his top Wagner associates. While praising Prigozhin, Mr Putin said he also made some "serious mistakes" without elaborating on them.
Western politicians and commentators have suggested, without presenting evidence, that the Russian leader ordered Prigozhin to be killed to punish him for launching the June mutiny against the army’s leadership which also represented the biggest challenge to Mr Putin’s rule since he came to power in 1999.
British military intelligence said on Friday there was not yet definitive proof that Prigozhin had been onboard but that it was "highly likely" he was dead.
[GEO.TV] Months after Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's authority was challenged by the private military contractor Wager in June, he attempted to nip the future evil in the bud by issuing a decree that called on all employees of the mercenary companies to sign an oath of allegiance to the state.
Those people involved in military activities in Ukraine, Russian territorial defence units and are helping the army will be subjected to the latest decree.
The decree is seen by some observers as a part of Vladimir Putin’s bid to reassert his authority following Wagner's mutiny in June.
Natia Seskuria of the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank, told the BBC: "Putin wants to have tighter control on Wagner to make sure he won't be facing another crisis in the future."
The decree was issued two days after the killing of the Russian private army Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prighozin in a plane crash that claimed at least ten lives.
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I guess neither Russian socialist media, nor Russian paid media have gotten the memo.
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[LB] More than 40 combat clashes took place during the day.
by Vera Perun
Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled attacks by Russian troops in the Vugledar district of the Donetsk region in the Shakhtarskyi direction.
This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made 12 strikes on personnel concentration areas and one on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile complex. Units of missile forces and artillery hit the anti-aircraft missile complex and three artillery pieces at the enemy's firing positions.
Over the course of the day, the enemy launched two missile and 62 air strikes, fired 89 rocket salvo fire strikes at the positions of our troops and populated areas. As a result of successful combat operations, the forces and means of the Air Force destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles and four Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs.
More than 40 combat clashes took place during the day.
The situation at the front as of 18:00 on August 26 is as follows:
on the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly;
on Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi, the enemy carried out an air strike in the Udiv district of the Kharkiv region. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of more than 25 settlements, in particular, Liskivshchyna, Bohdanov, Chernihiv region;
Seredyna-Buda, Kucherivka, Khodyne, Stepne, Myropilske of the Sumy region and Zybyne, Okhrimivka, Varvarivka, Grachovka, Ambarne of the Kharkiv region;
on Kupyansk, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the Kislivka and Pischany districts of the Kharkiv region. The settlements of Hryanikyvka, Synkivka, Kupyansk, Orlyanske of the Kharkiv region were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar attacks;
on Lymansky, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the districts of Novoyehorivka and Beilogorivka, Luhansk region. He carried out airstrikes in the areas of Shiykivka, Cherneshchyna, Chervony Stav of the Kharkiv region, Tverdokhlibovo, Makiivka of the Luhansk region, and Spirny, Vesely, and Yampol of the Donetsk region. More than 30 settlements were hit by artillery fire from the enemy, in particular, Nevske, Bilogorivka of the Luhansk Region and Svyat Pokrovske, Zvanivka, Viimka, Rozdolivka of the Donetsk Region;
on Bakhmutskyi, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the districts of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Ivanivskyi, and Klishchiivka of the Donetsk region. More than 25 settlements were affected by enemy artillery fire, among them Kurdyumivka, Bila Gora, Diliivka, Oleksandro-Shultine, Druzhba of the Donetsk region;
on Avdiivskyi, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Pervomaysky district of the Donetsk region. The settlements of Novokalynove, Stepove, Avdiivka, Severne, Pervomaiske, Nevelske of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire;
on Maryinka Defense forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the Maryinka region of Donetsk region. The enemy carried out an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka area of the Donetsk region. The settlements of Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Kurakhove, Novomykhailivka, Kostyantynivka, Gostre of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire;
on Shakhtarsky, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the Vugledar, Vremivka, Blagodatny, Staromayorsky, and Urozhany districts of the Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements were affected by enemy artillery shelling, among them: Vugledar, Novoukrainka, Urozhaine, Rivnopil, Blagodatne, Privilne, Burlatske of the Donetsk region;
in Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the districts of Mala Tokmachka, Robotyny, and Novodanilivka of Zaporizhzhia region. More than 20 settlements were affected by the enemy's artillery shelling, among them: Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Gulyaipilske, Charivne, Lukyanivske, Plavni of the Zaporizhzhia region;
in the Kherson region , Khreshchenivka, Olhivka, Mykilske, Kherson, Dniprovske, Kizomys of the Kherson region were affected by enemy artillery fire.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol direction, are entrenched at the achieved boundaries, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures.
It will be recalled that the commander of the Ground Forces Oleksandr Syrsky announced the day before that the operational situation in the Eastern direction remains tense. After a month of fierce battles and significant losses of the Russians in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy is regrouping its forces and means, at the same time transferring the newly formed brigades and divisions from the territory of the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian intelligence has released an intercepted conversation of the occupiers, in which they alarmedly report on the repeated landing of Ukrainian troops, which took place in the western part of the peninsula near Lake Donuzlav.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
23:17 The Russians attacked Kherson: a shell hit one of the enterprises, one person was injured, the OVA reported.
22:55 Podolyak confirmed Zaluzhny’s recent meeting with the Western command on the topic of the counteroffensive: “This is a secret meeting for the media. Zaluzhny actively communicates with representatives of the ministries of defense or the general staffs of our partners. Almost every day ... These consultations are constantly taking place, especially with our partners from United States and Great Britain. But what exactly they are talking about, we will not discuss it."
21:29 Budapest and the Vatican have agreed on their goal for Ukraine, Hungarian President Katalina Novak said following a meeting with Pope Francis: "Our main topic was war. We agreed that we would work together to achieve sustainable peace as soon as possible. We also discussed that we can work together to ensure that the children who were taken away from Ukraine return home."
18:40 Serbian Foreign Minister Ivic Dacic said that his country did not sign the declaration of the Crimean Platform: "There are manipulations related to the so-called Crimean Platform, which Serbia allegedly joined ... The Prime Minister took part in this meeting through a video message, but we did not approve the text of the declaration, because it goes beyond the limits that are acceptable to us."
18:07 NATO command held a secret meeting with Zaluzhny on the Polish border, writes The Guardian, citing sources. The meeting was also attended by the entire command staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli and the Chief of the British Defense Staff, Tony Radakin.
The main issue on the agenda is the slow Ukrainian counter-offensive, as well as plans for military operations for the coming winter. The publication notes that after this meeting, the strategy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has changed: now the Ukrainian military has concentrated its efforts in the Zaporozhye direction and access to the Sea of Azov.
16:15 In the Zhytomyr region on August 25, while performing a combat mission, the crews of two L-39 combat training aircraft collided in the sky. All three pilots were killed, among them a well-known pilot of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade with the call sign Dzhus, the Air Force Command said.
14:58 Danilov said that the S-400 Triumph system at Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea was destroyed by a new Ukrainian missile: "The missile was new, the missile was absolutely modern ... Yes, this is our new product, which proved to be absolutely flawless."
13:31 A separate brigade has been formed as part of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the use of marine drones. The creation of a new connection became known during the celebrations on the occasion of Independence Day. In particular, as the presidential press service reported, on August 24, Zelensky presented state awards to military units and battle flags with ribbons with honorary names. The 385th separate brigade of special-purpose marine unmanned systems of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also received the battle flag.
12:47 The second ship left the port of Odessa along the Ukrainian corridor. Bulk carrier Primus under the flag of Liberia has been in the Ukrainian port since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Andriy Klymenko, head of the Monitoring Group on Sanctions and Freedom of Navigation, said. According to him, the ship is going to the Bulgarian port of Varna, the expected date of arrival is August 27.
11:26 The Russians hit the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region: according to preliminary information, two people were killed in the village of Podily, another was wounded, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. He clarified that the projectile hit the cafe, where there were local residents.
11:04 Late in the evening on August 25, the Russians fired artillery at the village of Olgovka, Beryslav district, Kherson region, one person died, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
10:25 British intelligence predicts that Russia will intensify its offensive in the Kupyansko-Limansky direction in the next two months in order to move west to the Oskol River and create a buffer zone around the Luhansk region.
09:41 On the evening of August 25, the enemy fired two Shahed-136/131 UAVs from the southeast direction, both were shot down within the Kharkiv region, the Air Force command reported.
09:12 In the Zaporozhye region over the past day, one person died and one was injured as a result of Russian shelling of Malaya Tokmachka. In Donetsk and Kherson regions - one wounded each, according to the IVA.
08:57 Residents of the Melitopol region have been hearing powerful explosions from Tokmak for the second day, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said.
08:31 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 26:
personnel - about 260,270 (+640) people,
tanks - 4390 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 8539 (+18),
artillery systems - 5379 (+18),
MLRS - 726 (+2),
air defense systems - 497 (+2),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4367 (+11),
cruise missiles - 1411 (+2),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 7823 (+33),
special equipment - 804 (+2).
07:27 During the day, more than 40 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, the Russians tried to attack in the areas of Novogorovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region; Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka, Pervomaisky, Maryinka and Ugledar Donetsk region.
Up to 1,500 Russian servicemen of Buryat nationality arrived in the village of Osipenko, Zaporozhye region, and were quartered in civilian houses with local residents and on the territory of a local hospital.
03:42 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a drone was destroyed on approach to the capital in the Istra district of the Moscow region, there were no injuries or damage. Dozens of flights have been delayed and canceled at Moscow's Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports.
00:06 Turkey sees no alternative to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said: "We know that alternative routes are being sought, but we do not see an alternative to the original initiative, as they carry risks."
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[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (26 August 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, during active operations, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, have improved the situation along the front line.
Five attacks by assault detachments of 115th Mechanised, 25th Airborne and 68th Jaeger brigades of the AFU have been repelled close to Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region), Novosyolovskoye, Raigorodka, and Novoegorovka (Lugansk people's republic).
The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, four armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers.
One field ammunition depot of the AFU 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade has been destroyed near Kislovka (Kharkov region).
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops, supported by aviation and artillery, repelled three attacks by units of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU Strategic Reserve near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 115 Ukrainian servicemen, seven armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one M777 artillery system, and one U.S.-manufactured M119 towed howitzer, UK-manufactured FH-70 gun, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, as well as one U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 radar station of counter-battery warfare.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have successfully repelled six attacks by AFU assault groups close to Minkovka, Kleshcheevka, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 225 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers.
One field ammunition depot of 54th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Netailovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, two attacks by assault groups of 63rd and 67th Mechanised Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, one pickup truck, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, in cooperation with Army Aviation and artillery, have repelled two attacks by the 31st Naval Infantry Brigade near Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The actions of one Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group have been suppressed near Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 200 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin, and Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery systems, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses wer up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, as well as 152mm Msta-B and 122mm D-30 howitzers.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 139 areas.
A command post of the 100th Territorial Defence Brigade has been hit close to Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
One P-18 radar station for detecting and tracking aerial targets has been destroyed near Chuguevo (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Air defence facilities have shot down 12 projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.
In addition, 37 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Olshana (Kharkov region), Volcheyarovka, Privolye, Zhitlovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Vasilyevka, Kirillovka, Yakovlevka (Donetsk People's Republic), Ilchenkovo and Tarasovka (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 464 airplanes, 246 helicopters, 6,122 unmanned aerial vehicles, 433 air defence missile systems, 11,513 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,144 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,062 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,441 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/26/2023 to 00:00 08/27/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 71 instances of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the wounding of six civilians in the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Evgenovka.
Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, Evgenovka, as well as a civil infrastructure facility in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
The region of six settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Kalininsky, Nikitovsky districts), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city. Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeivka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Yevgenovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 50 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky eight artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky 12 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 241 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 63 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
23:30 The Russian Armed Forces attacked the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnieper and Dnipropetrovsk region.
"At the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this region, a mixed blow is being dealt: missiles of an unknown type and a lot of drones are being used," Military Chronicle reported.
22:50 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that the Russian air defense systems stopped the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack with aircraft-type drones.
22:21 The administration of Kramatorsk reported damage to the gas pipeline as a result of the explosion.
21:24 Tu-22M3: murderer aircraft carriers
The Tu-22M3 long-range bomber bomber is designed to destroy sea and land-based targets with guided missiles and aerial bombs.
The aircraft was created to destroy local targets - primarily aircraft carrier strike groups. A long-range missile-carrying bomber can disable three large ships at once, since it is able to fly with several long-range missiles equipped with warheads up to a megaton. Hence the plane's nickname - "Carrier Killer".
The Tu-22M3 is armed with a 23mm GSh-23 cannon, three air-to-ground guided missiles, and bombs weighing up to 24 tons.
In addition to powerful weapons, the strength of the Tu-22M3 lies in its flexibility of use.
Variable sweep of the wing, the ability to fly at very high and extremely low altitudes, accelerate to 2300 km/h make it possible to bring a 42-meter aircraft to the target unnoticed, hit a given object and escape retribution.
21:23 In the Beryslav district of the Kherson region, the Russian militarydestroyedlarge caches and hangars with enemy military equipment, representatives of the Novokakhovskaya administration reported.
The reconnaissance forces of the Dnepr group of troops worked, pointing several Su-34 fighters at the objects. Ukrainian armed formations lost a large number of manpower, two armored personnel carriers and four military vehicles.
20:18 "Ghostly" developer supplies the Russian military in the Zaporozhye region with unique equipment - ground unmanned vehicles -video
The situation in the Zaporozhye direction remains tense, so our fighters have many tasks. Brave volunteer developers help them in destroying the enemy — they produce unique equipment that helps the Russian military out in the most difficult situations, and tests are carried out right in the NVO zone. Readovka found out from the programmer with the call sign “Ghost” why he voluntarily went to the war zone.
“I think that this is how I can be useful to our country. It became a shame that after partial mobilization, people began to move en masse, to look for a new place of residence in other countries. As a developer, it became unpleasant for me, so I chose this solution for myself - to come here and help our fighters, ”the volunteer told us.
He also noted that there are other programmers-developers who come to hot spots and support our defenders in carrying out dangerous tasks. All this happens on a voluntary basis, so volunteers need to unite, and not wait for a request from above - otherwise you can lose a lot of time.
20:14 The senior post of the VAI spoke about his duties and the specifics of the work of inspectors in the NVO zone -video
19:04 Ukrainian TG channels reported explosions in Kramatorsk (DPR, occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
19:00 Sun of the Russian Federation defended counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction:
In the area of N. p. Torskoye, the enemy made two attempts to attack with armored groups of 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attacks were repulsed by artillery fire, the enemy suffered heavy losses. Artillery strikes prevented two attempts by militants to transfer reserves of 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the area of Serebryansky forest, three attacks of assault groups of the 42nd and 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled. The enemy was stopped by small arms and artillery fire. Army aviation inflicted two strikes on clusters of the 42nd and 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are preparing for assault operations.
18:37 Kherson direction setting as of August 26, 2023:
Near the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to “probe” the soil, sending one reconnaissance group after another in order to gain a foothold on the islands southeast of Kherson.
Yesterday, two enemy DRGs, five people each, tried to land on Melkiy Island in two boats. One of the boats was destroyed by artillery fire, and the other was able to unload the group and land the wounded members of the TRO.
On the way back, having come under heavy fire, the boat was also hit along with five people on board. The evacuation was thwarted, but there is still a DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the observation post on the island.
The command of the Ukrainian group "Kherson" sent another group closer to the night. The boat was moving towards the Dnieper along the Ingulets River, where it was destroyed by a strike drone of the RF Armed Forces.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to gain a foothold on the islands are currently unsuccessful. Russian fighters stand ready, artillery attack the approaches to the coast. However, the enemy deployed additional fire groups of the 406th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Kherson-Tyaginka line, intending to strengthen the fire cover of the assault groups.
18:40 There is some activity of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Ugledar. According to military commander Yevgeny Lisitsyn.
"A column of three tanks was seen to the east of the settlement, they were forced to retreat by artillery fire. It is reported that one of the tanks was disabled by a Lancet strike,” he added.
18:20 Zaporozhye direction, Orekhovsky section.
Our army at that moment entered the reserve. There is a powerful counterattack from our side. VKS works at the maximum level.
17:35 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 26, as of August 26, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- on st. Spartak, 34 wounded woman born in 1970
- on st. Spartak, 46 "a" a woman born in 1930 was wounded.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): - st. Spartak, 38 - a direct hit in a private residential building, followed by a fire.
17:19 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group
The advanced subunits of the Vostok group of troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, repulsed two enemy attacks in the direction of Urozhaynoye. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.
The activities of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Priyutnoye were stopped.
Rocket and cannon artillery fire hit the militants’ temporary deployment points in Staromayorsky, two strong points south of Novomikhailovka, two strong points and a mortar crew in the area north of Nikolsky, and the 122mm Gvozdika artillery installation southwest of Shakhtyorsky.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed a towed howitzer 152mm "Msta-B" and a howitzer M777 manufactured by the United States north of Neskuchnoye, another M777 was destroyed in the area south of Elizavetovka, as well as a towed howitzer 152mm D-20 east of Novopol and an AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery station south of Novomikhailovka.
Bomber, attack and army aviation hit the places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Velikaya Novoselka, Harvest, Staromayorsky, Malinovka.
The Tor anti-aircraft missile system and the use of Verba MANPADS shot down three UAVs of the Furia, Leleka and Sky Eagle aircraft type.
17:05 Russian troops are moving forward on the Kupyansky direction
Tankers from the Zapad group, together with attack aircraft and artillerymen, went on the offensive, the Telegram channel “Actually in Khar'kov” reports.
Our soldiers liberated Novoselovskoye, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to Berestovoye.
16:35 Howitzers of the 80th Tank Regiment work according to the forward supporters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Svatovo - Kremennaya. During the assault on the RF Armed Forces, the enemy lost three platoon strongholds.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine had to withdraw to reserve positions, where they are actively conducting engineering training. One of the Russian servicemen told RT military correspondent Igor Zhdanov about this:
“Our goal now is to prevent the construction of engineering structures, we are trying to suppress, cover. Targets are platoon strongholds, the manpower of the enemy.
16:00 Combat work of crews of 82mm mortars "Trending" of the Western Military District when performing fire missions in the Kupyansk direction in the NVO zone -video.
15:30 AFU militants fired at Nova Kakhovka - a local resident was injured
The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Nova Kakhovka. As a result of the shelling, a 25-year-old man was injured - he was riding a motorcycle near the Mayak store. With numerous shrapnel wounds to the chest, shoulder and an open fracture of the hip, he was taken to the Skadovsk hospital.
15:05 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for August 26, as of 15:00, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU of the cities of the Republic:
- st. Teachers, 15 - a private residential building.
13:55 Naval infantry burned the Bradley near Rabotino -video.
In the Rabotino area, an active offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues. Most of the village is under the control of the enemy, but it is too early to talk about the abandonment of the settlement by the Russian troops. Our guys do not stop inflicting fire damage on enemy equipment and infantry, seeking to break through our defenses.
13:30 Frames of destruction of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Operators of FPV drones disable an American-made APU armored personnel carrier with a precise strike.
12:59 Ukrainian militants fired five rockets from the MLRS in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - Representation of the JCCC DPR.
12:42 The situation at the Rabotino-Verbovoye section on August 26:
Reports about the taking of settlements under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not confirmed by the sources of the Military Chronicle on the ground. The night on the front line was relatively quiet.
The units of the Ukrainian army, after several dozens of small and large surges in recent days, have had a large regrouping - some units (mainly reconnaissance companies and battalions) are partially withdrawn from the front due to the loss of combat capability.
The artillery of both sides is now playing the main part: the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to use a large number of cluster munitions, Russian counter-batteries are returning fire and plugging Ukrainian howitzers.
Aviation is still of key importance: FAB-250/500 bombs with universal planning and correction modules (UMPC) are used by the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine both in the nearest rear areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Rabotino-Verbovoye area, and in tactically important objects in Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Novopokrovka, Yurkovka and Tavriysky at a distance of 25-30 kms from the front line. Heavy losses are incurred by the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, deployed to strengthen the offensive.
On video- an American armored personnel carrier Stryker destroyed on the positions of the Ukrainian army. Vehicles of this type are used by the 82nd Airborne Brigade, a formation prepared for strikes according to NATO standards and equipped, among other things, with Challenger-2 heavy tanks. In the battles near Rabotino, these tanks are still not used.
11:50 RF Armed Forces destroyed hangars with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction -video.
11:21 The Kiev regime continues the terror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services.
Yesterday, fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 53 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Alyoshki, Golaya Pristan, Sadovoe, Kazachi Lagery, Podstepne.
The artillery attack did not stop at night - the Ukrainians fired 30 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Vasil'yevka and Solontsy.
11:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 26, as of 11:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - a woman born in 1951 was wounded at the Trudovskaya bus station.
10:25 Circumstance in the South-Donetsk direction:
In the Vremevsky sector, there is a decrease in the intensity of artillery attack from the enemy, as well as a concentration of efforts on the evacuation of their wounded and the restoration of the combat capability of the forward units, which suffered losses during the week. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to transfer those units of the marine brigades that were previously withdrawn to the rear after losses incurred in the battles for Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye.
In the area of Velikaya Novosyolka, a newly arrived battalion of the 35th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by six tanks, has already been deployed. To the east of Urozhayne, artillery and FPV drones stop the movement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on vehicles, and systematic fire impact continues along the forest belts with infantry.
At night, the enemy made an attempt to attack on foot southwest of Staromayorsky. It was opened in a timely manner and, having suffered losses from the heavy weapons of our units, retreated. To the north of Priyutnoye, the activity of foot groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also remains. According to radio intercepts, as a result of the fire “combing” of the forest belts north of Priyutnoye, the enemy’s losses amounted to 10 militants.
In the Ugledar sector, a reconnaissance group of the RF Armed Forces opened two strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Novomikhailovka, and they were hit by fire. At night, in the Sladkoye area, surveillance devices detected the movement of an enemy group of up to 15 militants, the group was dispersed with a mortar and AGS, enemy losses amounted to five units of manpower.
There is some activity of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Ugledar. A column of three tanks was seen to the east of the settlement, and was forced to retreat by artillery fire. It is reported that one of the tanks was disabled by a Lancet strike.
09:15 Frontlinesummaryon the morning of 26.08.2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked Novoprokopovka. No advance. But similar actions in the direction of Ocheretovaty and north-west of Verbovoy brought them partial success.
In the first of the listed settlements there is a powerful fortified area of the RF Armed Forces. It is less than 9 kilometers from LBS. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Plavni, Orekhovo, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye and Gulyaipole are under shelling. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Novopokrovka and Novofedorovka.
In the Ugledar sector of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after shelling, they attacked near Priyutnoye, in the area of Staromlynovka and Kermenchik. No success. The RF Armed Forces delivered strikes against Ukrainian troops in Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions), Levadny, Staromayorsky, Blagodatny, Urozhaynoye, Bol'shaya Novosyolka and Shakhtyorsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were beaten according to the Zavetni Zhelansk and Novodonetsk.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the Ukrainian fortified area in Novomikhailovka from the southeast and northeast, and again conducted assault operations in Mar'yinka and on the southern approaches to Avdievka. LBS hasn't changed. Under the blows of the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Yekaterinovka, Elizavetovka, Pobeda, the city of Krasnogorovka, Il'yinka, Kurakhovka, Desired First, Karlovka, Netaylov, Berdychi and Keremi. Russian - in Donetsk, Vodyany and Gorlovka.
In the Luhansk direction, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, were attacking in the area of Novoegorovka. This is the resumption of attacking operations in this area. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Ivanovka, Nevsky, Berestovo, Kislovka and Sin'kovka.
09:09 Assault units of the RF Armed Forces seized three strongholds, destroying about 40 enemy troops in the Kupyansk direction. This was announced by Yaroslav Yakimkin, an officer of the press center of the Zapad group.
At the same time, five counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repulsed by forces up to a platoon, each with the support of armored vehicles.
08:50 Assault aviation of the southern group of troopshiton the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk, Soledaro-Artemovsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovsk directions.
The helicopter crews of the group's army aviation destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle and militants in the areas of the settlements of Bogdanovka, Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. Also in the Kleshcheevka area, Russian forces hit the accumulation of APU manpower with a volley of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" of the RF Armed Forces destroyed self-propelled guns in the Seversk region, an armored car, two pickup trucks and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Krasnogorovka and the village of Pobeda, as well as an enemy stronghold in Orekhovo-Vasil'yevka. Also, two Ukrainian towed howitzers and four 120mm mortars were destroyed in the area of Serebryanka, Dyleevka and Georgievka.
08:32 Over the past day, 63 facts of firing by the AFU were recorded.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Mineralny and the wounding of a man in Krasnaya Polyana. Residential housing construction in Staromikhaylovka was damaged. No damage to civilian infrastructure facilities was recorded.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Gol'movsky, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Kirovsky, Chervonogvardeysky districts), Vladimirovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 35 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 17 attacks from MLRS, artillery 152 and 122mm.
On Yasinovatsky 10 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
08:19 First frames shot down near the village of Rabotino UAF drone "Baba Yaga". RT military commander Vlad Andritsa noted that he had not yet come across such devices.
The commander of the Akhmat-South battalion, Musa Borziev, with the call sign St. John's wort, spoke about the features of the drone and how the fighters shot it down in the Zaporozhye region.
08:06 Summary on the morning of August 26, 2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, heavy battles are going on for the settlement. Rabotino. The enemy throws into battle the armored vehicles of the strategic reserve units supplied by the NATO countries. The enemy expands the zone of control in the direction of the settlement Verboye.
In the Kherson direction, battles are going on on the islands, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are landing small landing groups on our bank of the Dnieper, yesterday Russian military channels reported on organizational problems in certain parts of the Russian Armed Forces on the front.
The Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) section of the front is characterized by battles for Kleshcheevka and attempts by the enemy to break through the front even further south - near Kurdyumovka.
Fighting is underway on the Torsky ledge and in the Serebryansky forestry in the direction of Kreminnaya - the Armed Forces of Ukraine have made attempts to regain their previously lost positions.
At night, an enemy drone was destroyed over the Istra district of the Moscow region. In the Kursk region, as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of the Glushkovsky district, a civilian was killed, one woman was wounded. In the DPR, two civilians were killed due to artillery attack of the civilian population of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:02 Personnel combat work of crews of 82mm mortars "Tray" of the Western Military District in the Kupyansk direction.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] While I was away, I somehow missed the twist of the "Slavyan" case.
The plot is like this. Norwegian citizen Yan Petrovsky, aka “Slav”, came to fight in the Donbass in 2014 as part of the notorious DSHRG “Rusich”, which in 2014, among other things, acted as part of the RRT “Batman” of Alexander Bednov (aka “Batman”). DShRG "Rusich" even then was full of various far-right and even outright Nazis. Then the notorious Alexei Milchakov was also a member of it. Petrovsky, who lived in Norway from 2004 to 2014, says he has been a Russian nationalist and patriot since childhood. Aleksandr Bednov was a unit commander for the Russian separatists who was, along with his security detail, murdered in an arrest attempt in early 2015. It is thought that Wagner operators performed the assault. See that story here.
The finest hour of the DShRG "Rusich" happened on September 5, 2014, when the fighters of "Rusich" caught a column of the Nazi battalion "Aidar" on the highway and jammed more than 30 Nazis there along with equipment. Almost everyone has seen the video and photos of this defeat. There was also "Slavyan", who, like Milchakov, became famous in photographs with the corpses of murdered Ukrainian Nazis.
This is the link, so to speak.
Recently, Petrovsky, who has been actively involved in the SVO from the first days and who has a residence permit in Norway, went with his wife to rest in Finland (!), where he was received by local policemen and put in jail. According to reports, representatives of the SBU came there demanding the extradition of Petrovsky for the events of 2014-2015. In the process, as they say, "Petrovsky beat up some SBU officer there." DShRG "Rusich" is demanding that the Russian Foreign Ministry deal with Petrovsky's case and prevent extradition, threatening to dump him from the front if Petrovsky is not protected from extradition. Petrovsky has been in a Finnish prison since July.
In fact, Petrovsky, of course, set himself up, clearly not from a great mind. It is necessary to travel to those countries where they cannot detain and extradite, especially it is not necessary to travel to NATO countries and those associated with them. And now it all fell on the Foreign Ministry.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to pull him out, because there is a far from zero probability that he will be extradited to the Ukrainian Nazis, and they will certainly recoup him for the defeat of the Aidar column in 2014. It is unlikely that after extradition he will live to see the end of the war.
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The Ukrainians have requested the extradition of this real life Nazi and war criminal for prosecution. In the meantime, his Rusich force is refusing to fight until he is returned. Win-Win.
From the V Kontakte page of Power is in the truth
Moreover, what kind of identification can we talk about if the bodies are disfigured and burned. In general, with the level of conspiracy and Wagner's capabilities, identification is not an argument. Theoretically, identification is indeed easy to adjust. FACT NO. 2
Malian journalists added gasoline to the fire of rumors that Prigozhin was alive, who said that they had seen the founder of Wagner alive in Mali after the news of the crash. And although there is no evidence, only rumors, this is another reason for "I don't believe it!".
FACT NO. 3
The fact that it could have been a performance is also evidenced by the fact that Prigozhin has already died once. in the Congo in 2019. And also in a plane crash. Then, however, Prigozhin was inferior in popularity to his media namesake, so almost no one knows about this, but the fact remains.
Prigozhin was "buried" again in August 2022. Allegedly, he died after the shelling of the headquarters from Hymers. For several days he did not get in touch, it was not possible to contact him. But then he showed up and, as Andrey Bogatov ironically said, "helped look for his body."
FACT #4
Another reason to believe that this is all a set-up is the fact that it was very simple. All three Wagner commanders: Prigozhin, Utkin and Chekalov flew in the same plane, although they had never done this before, flying on different flights, so that in which case they would not be beheaded by PMCs in one fell swoop, as actually happened. Something, but they knew it, understood it, and this is inexplicable!
Moreover, Prigozhin, knowing what role he plays, always confused the tracks, could register for one flight, and then fly another, used doubles. And then I remember the second plane, which landed safely at the Ostafyevo airport near Moscow.
FACT NO. 5
Before that, it was said that the second plane was flying along the same route as the first one, from Moscow to St. Petersburg, but in fact it was flying on the return flight from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Some say that the plane was empty, according to another version, there were two citizens of the Central African Republic (CAR) on the plane. And this is thought provoking.
Firstly, in the Central African Republic, Prigozhin is almost a national hero.
Secondly, in the Central African Republic, in a closed village near Wagner PMC, there is an ultra-modern clinic and three German plastic surgeons.
Thirdly, during the July searches in the St. Petersburg office of Wagner, many wigs and passports were found with a photo of Yevgeny Prigozhin and other names and surnames.
Fourth, recently, organizations associated with Prigozhin have been buying up cryptocurrencies.
Fifthly, the same second aircraft that we started talking about, after landing in Ostafyevo, went first to Baku, and then to Turkey. And from Turkey it was possible to fly anywhere and dissolve, especially taking into account the four points I listed above about citizens of the Central African Republic, plastic surgeons, crypts and fake passports. But why was all this necessary?
FACT #6
As you know, on the day of the disaster, exactly two months had passed since the Wagner rebellion. At the same time, as we remember, despite such a terrible crime as a military rebellion, all charges were dropped from Prigozhin and released to fraternal Belarus, and his mission in Africa in the interests of Russia continued. Strange, isn't it?
But what if the president, simply out of friendship and as a respect for his services to the fatherland, gave Prigozhin time to finish his business and disappear? If so, then, considering all of the above, it turned out pretty well.
A representative of the Wagner group made a statement to those who came to the memorial of those who died in the Prigozhin plane:
“Do not try to arrange a boil inside, they are waiting for this. They are waiting for a weak Russia. They tried, they did it, and now we need to make sure that they don't succeed. To prevent the Stars and Stripes from getting what they wanted to do with this move. And Wagner has always been, and will always be. We'll do nicely next anyway. So that your husbands, children, do not go where we died, this is our task.
Peskov appeared after the rest and began to perform in his own style.
In June, Putin said that the content of Wagner was "fully provided by the state." Dmitry Peskov claims that the PMC did not have state funding
A Kremlin spokesman was asked if state funding for a private military company would continue as it registered in Belarus.
“There was no government funding. This has nothing to do with being in Belarus, this is a completely different order of the topic. Here I cannot answer this question. Of course, you can turn to the Belarusian authorities, but here I have no information for you right now," Peskov replied.
At the end of June, President Vladimir Putin said that the content of the Wagner PMC was "fully provided by the state." According to him, only from May 2022 to May 2023, expenses amounted to tens of billions of rubles.
“Despite the fact that the very maintenance of Wagner was on the shoulders of the state, in a year the owner of the Concord company (Prigozhin. - RBC) through Voentorg received, earned from the state, supplying food and providing nutrition services to the army, earned 80 billion rubles,” Putin said. “The state completely took over the maintenance, and part of this whole group, this very Concord company, at the same time earned 80 billion rubles,” the president explained.
Peskov added that he could not say anything about the future of Wagner PMC. “Let's not forget that there is no such structure, there is no de jure Wagner PMC. There is indeed a Wagner group, and the president has repeatedly said that it has made a great contribution to the course of a special military operation,” said the Kremlin spokesman.
Formally, one can of course refer to the fact that a contract was concluded with a private structure that acted as a private contractor of the state on outsourcing. And in this case, we are not talking about direct financing, but rather about certain contractual obligations (which, of course, no one has seen in the public field).
Nevertheless, it is obvious that without government contracts (including through the RF Ministry of Defense), the Wagner PMC would not have reached the peak of its power by the spring of 2023, given that the equipment was provided by the RF Ministry of Defense and the Wagner PMC "It was not purchased, but received for free for use.
Regarding the status, indeed, there are no PMCs legally in Russia, but in fact they are. The law, which was supposed to eliminate this legal incident, has not yet been adopted. The next round of debates on the topic of legal legalization of already existing PMCs will probably take place in the autumn.
It is also worth noting that after Putin spoke on the subject of Prigozhin's death, many officials supported softening assessments of Prigozhin, where the rebellion is presented as "Prigozhin's serious mistake." Yesterday, Dyumin spoke most vividly on this topic, calling the rebellion a mistake, but not a betrayal, and separately emphasizing that Prigozhin was not a traitor.
In general, a kind of partial posthumous rehabilitation of Prigozhin took place, despite all the ifs and buts. Well, in Africa and Belarus, Wagner continues to fulfill its tasks, although the future of PMCs is vague, since the loss of part of the top management of such a serious structure cannot do without consequences.
PS. It is not yet clear who and how killed Prigozhin and Utkin. So far, the detonation of an explosive device inside the aircraft looks like the most likely version.
A lively young man comes to Alexandre Dumas and speaks. Listen, master. There is a plot. Telegram link
Here, look. A convict becomes our king's cook. A? What?! Let's start right away with the trump cards. Let us capture the reader so that his hair stands on end in all possible and impossible places.
And then:
- bam - he is already a general and master of a secret order of mercenary warrior musicians, you understand.
“Musicians,” Dumas asks?
Yes, the young man is inspired. Just a whole military band, you understand. Violin in left hand. In the right, instead of a bow, such a hefty sword.
And these murderous troubadours, their order is officially banned by several laws of France at once. But financed directly from the royal treasury, you understand.
Dumas Père pulls out of his luxurious hair the first tuft of the evening.
But this, the young man continues, is only the beginning. Then the king gives the master general, who is a convict, who is a cook, the highest French award. Order of the Holy Spirit. For outstanding achievements in resolving colonial issues. Right in the front hall of the Louvre, in the presence of the nobility, you understand.
- Mon Dieu, but how ... - Dumas
Nothing, nothing, the young man laughs. Then the big war starts. Our beloved France opposes, for example, Flanders. Of course, our master general, who is a cook, a convict and a holder of the Order of the Holy Spirit, takes an active part in this mess.
So active that he, annoyed, runs out of people. And then he recruits for his secret and completely illegal order through advertisements.
- Sorry, monsieur?
According to the announcements, master! Right on the streets of cities, parchments are pasted with a proposal to join the secret order of warrior musicians. Hundreds of recruits rush there! And convicts too!
- Convicts?
- Well, yes, convicts. The Royal Chancellery gives the cook the right to recruit convicted robbers into fighters. Even from the salt mines, even from the galleys, but even from the Bastille itself!
Cannons, muskets, cuirasses, swords, good piercers and service sledgehammers are provided by the royal arsenal for the order, you understand. Cores in sufficient quantities, however, they do not give him. And this becomes the occasion for a lot of nasty slander against the poor superintendent.
The young man jumps up and starts rushing around Dumas's office in excitement.
The master raises a rebellion, he shouts, his orchestra marches in columns to Paris. Orleans is captured without firing a shot! The war elephant is stuck in the circus! The yard is in a panic! Guard is silent!
And at Paris, at Paris itself, master, they turn around and leave ...
- Where do they go? Why are they leaving?
- To Spain, of course. Under the personal guarantees of the Spanish king. Having previously dropped into the Louvre for a small secret audience with His Majesty the King of France.
And from there, from Spain, the orchestral assassins threaten to arbitrarily declare war on England. The general, the master, the cook, the rebel and the convict, returns to Paris and appears at the police station, you understand.
- Repent? Give up?
- What is there to give up, master. He demands back the muskets confiscated from him during the search, award swords and a carriage filled to the brim with gold monograms.
- Give away?
- Give away! And they help deliver. Right up to the Spanish border. In which he does not stay long, for some secret but urgent necessity calls him to France. And here, on a country road, his carriage is blown to pieces. Either the kerosene lantern failed, or the damned Dutch from a cannon hidden in the bushes ahead of time, you understand.
The courtyard is in mourning. The funeral of the ex-convict is arranged secretly, in order to avoid popular unrest. In the Netherlands, a holiday and general festivities are declared. England breathes a sigh of relief. There are rumors that the double of the Grand Master died in the carriage. The expression "guarantees of the Spanish king" becomes winged.
And tens of thousands of elite warriors left without their general look around thoughtfully, and in their hands they don’t even have violins at all, you understand ...
“I don’t understand,” Dumas interrupts. As an intricate delirium of a mentally ill person, this has the right to exist. As a literary plot, no. Even my undemanding readers will not digest such a dish. Try to go to the postmodernists, or something ...
P.S.
Someone reading this story will say: "Why was it composed?".
For two reasons:
1) To show that life, as practice shows, is more twisted than the most fantastic novels.
2) Approximately providing the character of Yevgeny Viktorovich, he himself would have perceived such an opus, albeit posthumous, with considerable humor and irony.
However, the text is good. But...
Some moments are not fully disclosed: for example, with the Prince of Holland, a marijuana lover, on whose instructions the carriage was blown up. It is not told about the chief marshal of France, after whom the chief musician with his orchestra moved to Paris.
And yes, if Alexandre Dumas nevertheless took up this plot to write a book, the explosion of the carriage would not have been the finale. In the continuation of the novel, it would become clear that the master was riding in another carriage ...
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...Yevgeny is either Blackadder Dad ('As dead as a...great big dead thing.') or Oz Dead ('Not only simply merely dead, but truly most sincerely dead!').
Mike
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"Mr. Kurtz. Him dead. Him gah damn dead..."
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I'm doubtful Progozhin is dead, mostly because of who the people were who immediately pronounced him dead.
From the V Kontakte page of Sladkov+
On August 25, there were reports that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, Mark Milley, announced that the Ukrainian army had crossed the first line of defense of the Russian Armed Forces in Zaporozhye. Is this really so and where did the Ukrainian troops manage to reach in the end?
WHERE ARE THE FIGHTS GOING NOW?
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are still advancing in three main directions: Pyatikhatki - Zherebyanki, Rabotino - Verbovoye, Tarasovka and Pologi. The most fierce fighting takes place in the areas of Pyatikhatok and Rabotin. There, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to advance, losing heavy equipment.
Sources of the Military Chronicle in these areas note that Pyatikhatki, Zherebyanki and Rabotino are part of the so-called front line security zone. In fact, these are advanced fortified areas, in front of which there are minefields and the so-called zone of destruction of Ukrainian equipment. The advanced fortified area is not part of the first line of defense and acts as a protective barrier.
HOW IS THE DEFENSIVE LINE OF THE RF ARMED FORCES ARRANGED?
Since the summer of last year, the defensive line of the RF Armed Forces has been continuously expanding, and at the moment its total length from Zaporozhye to the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction, presumably, is more than 500 km. At the same time, the “cordon sanitaire” between Orekhovo and Novodanilovka, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are accumulating forces for further strikes, and Rabotin was equipped with minefields, which led, if not to the disruption of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then to its serious slowdown and the need to transfer strategic reserves.
The same minefields are located between the forward edge security zone and the first line of defense. These two areas are often confused with each other, since in Zaporozhye the fighting takes place at the closest possible distance: the distance between Novodanilovka and Rabotin is only 7.5 km, from Orekhov to Pyatikhatki - just over 20 km. The largest concentration of destroyed UAF equipment (between Verbov and Rabotin) is located less than 6 km from Malaya Tokmachka, one of the areas from where Ukrainian troops go on the offensive.
At the same time, the situation in the Rabotino-Verbove-Pyatikhatki sector cannot be called simple: Ukrainian troops, despite huge losses, continue to attack, but progress in this sector is minimal.
IF THE LINE IS SO DENSE, WHERE COULD THE APU BREAK THROUGH?
According to the Military Chronicle, under the "breakthrough of the defensive line," the chairman of the US National Security Council, Mark Milli, meant unreliable information provided to him by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In fact, it was about an attempt to break through the armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the northern to southern outskirts of Rabotin towards Novoprokopovka on the night of August 23-24. However, the convoy of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment could not overcome the two-kilometer section of the road: armored vehicles were detected from the air and destroyed by artillery strikes, after which the retreating Ukrainian troops were covered by aircraft.
The first line of defense, in front of which there are concrete "dragon's teeth" and anti-tank ditches, is located much to the south. Ukrainian troops did not reach him in 82 days of the offensive. The main line of defense around Tokmak is located almost 15 km south of the first line of defense, that is, in total, about 20 km did not reach the main line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In almost three months of the offensive, Ukrainian troops did not reach Melitopol for about 70 km, and more than 100 km to Berdyansk.
"The ongoing assault on Rabotino, attacks in the Staromayorsky area, activity on the Dnieper, our active defense in the area of Kremennaya and Kupyansk (I would still characterize our actions in these areas as active defense, in order to improve positions, and not as offensive actions), are characterized by heavy losses of the enemy and probably for the first time in the NWO, the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to experience a lack of manpower.
The tactics of meat assaults and meat defense against the "genius" of military thought Valera Zaluzhny, sooner or later should have led to something like this, and now I am extremely interested to see how Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa will begin to be raked out, for the sake of replenishing manpower.
Noisy nightclubs and full Kiev restaurants, as for me, this is just an unplowed field for Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices, and payoffs from getting into the ZSU will reach such an amount that it will be possible to fill the budget of some Moldova with them.
Internet killers of “Muscovites” will now be able to fully experience all the charm of driving the adored Bradleys and Strikers, on which our art, kamikaze drones, aviation will work day and night, and the lucky ones hiding in the rear areas may see for themselves that Kiev after all, he is lying when he declares that “the PPO has found out the missiles, that Geranium.”
From the V Kontakte page of Soldier of Fortune a time lapsed video of Russian artillery hitting Rabotino.
Since yesterday, there have been field reports that Ukrainians have conquered a key height between Novoprokopivka and Verbove (approx. Red circle on the map @Majakovsk73
). There is no visual evidence of that at the moment but the height is on the main Russian defensive line. Reportedly, this may jeopardize Russian defense in the area since Novoprokopivka and Verbove stand downhill.
To get to those heights, the Ukrainians would have had to break through the two layered Surovikin line.
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Additional information coming from enemy sources (this time Wagner) confirms that the Armed Forces of Ukraine breached the second line of defense of the Surovikin line.
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