[Aljazeera] The Ukrainian military said it has recaptured several strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea close to Crimea, which Moscow’s forces had occupied since 2015.
The recapture of the so-called Boyko Towers platforms, which was reported on Monday, takes back an asset that Russia seized during the annexation of Crimea and places Kyiv closer to retaking the occupied peninsula, according to Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR).
[The Hill] Attempting to negotiate arms deals with Kim Jong Un and trafficking Cuban soldiers are just the latest signs of Russia’s growing desperation as it struggles to maintain its fighting force in Ukraine.
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive enters it fourth month, Russian forces are strained under heavy casualties, lack of equipment, limited training and low morale, forcing Moscow to look outside its borders for any help it can gain, U.S. officials, lawmakers and experts say.
With a new meeting between Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin soon expected, such a visit is indicative of the Russian leader’s "international pariah status" leading to "trouble sustaining the military effort," according to State Department spokesperson Matt Miller.
"Not only has he failed to achieve his goals on the battlefield, but you see him traveling across his own country, hat in hand, to beg Kim Jong Un for military assistance," Miller told reporters of Putin on Monday.
And Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) earlier Monday on MSNBC said Putin is "desperate for more equipment, he’s desperate for more support," forcing him to "make a devil’s deal."
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"Desperation" or a...'Coalition of the Willing.'
In November 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush, visiting Europe for a NATO summit, declared that "should Iraqi President Saddam Hussein choose not to disarm, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him."
According to the file, senior British officials had received American intelligence suggesting that mustard gas was being manufactured at a pesticide plant north of Baghdad using British-supplied equipment.
It was further disclosed that the Indian contractor which had built the factory at Samarra had acquired pumps from a UK manufacturer, Weir Pumps, without revealing their true purpose to the company.
Read: Officer under Saddam Hussein drew up Islamic State master plan: report
Moreover, after the Iran-Iraq war, it was revealed that not only Britain but many other western countries were used by Iraq to supply equipment as well as raw materials for the manufacture of chemical weapons, which killed some 100,000 Iranians with Iraqi chemical and nerve agents by the end of the war in 1988.
In addition, it was disclosed that the sales were made often with the knowledge of intelligence services of those countries.
Subsequently, the Iraqi dictator succeeded in dramatically increasing his chemical weapons production capacity - a development which became one of the principal justifications for the Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003.
[Ukrinform] Russia has concentrated more than 420,000 military personnel in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Vadym Skibitskyi, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said this at the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES), Ukrinform reports.
"The Russian Federation has concentrated more than 420,000 military personnel in our temporarily occupied territories and on the Crimean peninsula," Skibitskyi said.
At the same time, he noted that this figure does not take into account the soldiers of the Russian Guard, other agencies, special units, and law enforcement structures, which ensure the occupation "power" in the temporarily occupied territory.
[X thread] The intended message is pretty clear: if you do anything to try to ensure free and fair elections in Russia, you'll be sent to fight and possibly die in Ukraine.
Also: Will the real Vakhtin stand up? SOTA highlights an absurd situation in Russia's regional elections — a ballot paper on which six candidates of the same surname are listed, in an apparent effort to bury the real challenger to the United Russia candidate.
It's starting to actually look like Ukraine will get ATACMS (aka MGM-140). A short discussion is probably in order about how this came about, how it will be implemented, and what it's operational implications are. 1/n https://t.co/2E1rtH4CKz
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I'm no expert but I think of cluster bombs as an anti-personnel weapons. What kind of personnel are they going to attack deep inside Russia? I think it would be most unwise of them to attack civilian targets due to the possibility of retaliation in kind.
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These will probably come with the same requirement as other western weapons - no use in Russian territory.
[Telegraph UK] When Anya Pekareva heard that an 85-year-old woman had been murdered in Vyatskiye Polyany, a small town over 500 miles from Moscow that is home to some of her relatives, she thought it an odd coincidence.
Two days later, her parents told her that the woman was her grandmother, who had been murdered by an ex-convict who returned home to the village after fighting in Ukraine with the notorious Wagner mercenary group.
Ms Peskareva, a 36-year-old nurse from St Petersburg, reacted to the news so strongly that her parents feared she would stage a protest against the war, risking arrest and criminal charges.
"After Grandma’s killing, I just drew the line with friends. I said: ’Everyone who supports the war is guilty of my Grandma’s murder’," she told The Telegraph.
The murder of Yulia Buiskikh in March was the first of many carried out by ex-convict fighters returning home to Russia. "It was the first case of its kind. But now I’m tired of reposting news about other cases," said Ms Pekareva.
Across the country, Russians are now living with convicted murderers and rapists in their midsts — a disastrous consequence of Vladimir Putin’s decision to replenish his forces by recruiting fighters from prisons.
Four days before Ms Pekareva’s grandmother was killed, local television ran a six-minute news bulletin saying that a local man, previously sentenced to 14 years for killing another woman, had returned home to the nearby village of Novy Burets and "a quiet life".
The villagers, mostly elderly women wrapped in shawls and winter coats, packed a local community centre at which the police chief tried to address their concerns.
The young man made his presence known in the village early on, staggering through the streets with "a bottle of beer in one hand, a pitchfork in another" and yelling: "I’m going to kill you all."
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Funny. Newsom lets violent criminals out of jail in California all the time, many of them are illegal aliens, and then they go on to commit even more violent crimes against innocent citizens. But I don't see the Telegraph making a big deal of it.
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^ Like all things leftist, that's different. No comparison at all.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Chernihiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, and Donetsk regions were affected.
The Russians conducted eight shellings (48 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. The enemy shelled the Novgorod-Siverskyi and Koryukivskyi districts with artillery, mortars and AGS. At night, a "Shakhed" hit a two-story residential building in Chaykyny. Fire. Previously - without victims. The data is being verified, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Sumsk , at night and in the morning, the Russians carried out four shellings of the border. 20 explosions were recorded. In the Khotyn community, an educational institution was damaged as a result of being hit by an enemy UAV. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 24 border explosions. 123 explosions were recorded. Esmansk, Khotynsk, Novoslobidsk, Znob-Novgorodsk, Krasnopilsk, Velikopysarivsk, Bilopolsk, Shalyginsk, Yunakivsk communities came under fire. Novoslobodsk community: a mobile phone tower was damaged as a result of mortar shelling.
The night was restless in Dnipropetrovsk . Defenders from the "Shid" Air Defense Forces shot down nine "Shakhed-136" drones over the region. Nikopol district suffered from artillery shelling. At night, the enemy attacked the communities of Nikopol, Marganetska and Myrivska. Already in the morning - again in the district center. Damaged private enterprise. Two houses and a gas line were damaged. Information about the consequences is being clarified. Previously, there were no deaths or injuries everywhere. Yesterday afternoon, Russian troops shelled two districts of the region. The aggressor attacked the Novopavlivska rural community. The truck of a local resident was destroyed. The enemy directed artillery at Nikopol as well. People were not injured.
In Mykolaivska yesterday afternoon, air defense forces and means destroyed a reconnaissance UAV of an unknown type. Yesterday, during the day, the enemy struck the water area of Ochakivska hromada. There are no casualties.
In Luhansk last night, the Rashists carried out airstrikes along the entire front line - Novoselivske, Novoyehorivka, and Bilogorivka were affected. During the day, the enemy fired 142 rounds (537 shells).
In Kharkiv last night, the occupiers carried out airstrikes on the settlements of Vesele, Ohirtseve, Synkivka, Kislivka, and Kotlyarivka. About 20 settlements in the region came under enemy artillery fire. In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy continues to hold groups of troops to cover the state border, conducts active diversionary activities in the border areas with the aim of preventing the transfer of our troops to threatening directions. In Andriivka, a combine exploded in a field with an undetected explosive device. The driver received minor shrapnel injuries and refused hospitalization.
In Zaporizhzhya , the enemy fired 121 shots over the past day, 33 settlements were hit. 101 artillery shelling hit the territory of Gulyaipol, Orikhov, Zaliznychny, Robotyny, Malynyvka, Temyrivka, Preobrazhenka, Lugivskyi, Kamianskyi, Stepnohirsk, Lobkovo, Mali Shcherbaki, Plavniy and other front-line settlements. The enemy launched seven BpLA attacks on Gulyaipol, Novodanilivka, Charivnoy and Pyatikhatky, shelled Novopavlivka, Biloghirya and Novodarivka with anti-aircraft missiles, hit Orikhov, Malia Tokmachka and Robotyn with six aerial bombs, and four rockets hit Trudovy and Rizdvyanka. A 65-year-old man was killed as a result of a salvo missile strike on Novopavlivka. Seven reports were also received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities.
In Donetsk, the Rashists hit the populated areas seven times: artillery, mortar, tank. Five settlements are under fire: Druzhba, Chasiv Yar, Avdiivka, Siversk, Kostyantynivka. Three private residential buildings were damaged. One person was injured in one day in the region.
In Khersonska, the enemy fired 57 rounds (250 shells) during the day, including four rounds (13 shells) at Kherson. The Rashists targeted the districts of 26 settlements of the region; the territory and buildings of an educational institution and one of the units of the State Emergency Service, a critical infrastructure facility in Kherson; mobile phone tower in Beryslav district.
Yesterday morning, the enemy attacked the center of Kherson, the occupiers hit an educational institution. Due to the impact of enemy shells, the roof and windows of the building were damaged. A residential building was also shelled. A 68-year-old woman was diagnosed with a situational neurotic reaction. She was given medical assistance. Also yesterday, the occupiers attacked the Suvorovsky district of the city. A 69-year-old woman received a mine-explosive injury and neck injury. In general, two people were injured during the day due to Russian aggression.
It will be recalled that over 30 combat clashes took place during the past day. The enemy carried out five rocket and 87 air strikes, carried out 44 attacks from rocket salvo systems both on the positions of our troops and on civilian objects of our state. The occupiers also attacked Ukraine with 33 kamikaze drones of the "Shahed-136/131" type, of which 26 were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses. As a result of the Russian terrorist attacks, more than a hundred private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:52 Germany will not automatically supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine if the United States decides to supply ATACMS, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
22:21 Washington’s position regarding ATACMS for Ukraine has not yet changed, State Department Speaker Matthew Miller said: “We continue to negotiate with our Ukrainian colleagues, as well as within the US government, but we do not yet have a position that we can announce.”
21:45 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Russia does not hope to win: “The enemy only hopes that we will not withstand. Ukraine must withstand. Everything that strengthens us is a priority.”
The president also announced the preparation of strengthening the defense support package from Germany: “Air defense, artillery, equipment. What was agreed upon with Chancellor Scholz. What was discussed today with German Foreign Minister Bärbock. It is very important that partners hear the needs of our state ", our soldiers, the protection of our energy. I am sure there will be results. We are also moving with our other partners, in particular in air defense. There will be additional systems in Ukraine."
21:23 Biden faced pressure from both sides of the political spectrum in the US Congress: he is required to approve the transfer of ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. Read more in the material Long-range missiles for the Ukrainian Armed Forces .
20:47 The head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that from the new year the country should switch to a “war budget”, where there will no longer be spending on paving stones, stadiums, tennis courts “and other rubbish” - only defense and only weapons.
20:38 On August 24, Russia tried to fire at a civilian cargo ship flying the flag of Liberia in the Black Sea, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, citing declassified intelligence data. The Russians used several missiles, all of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defense.
19:53 Over the past two weeks, Russian military officers have reported “amazing things” happening in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea. Today, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense explained: it turns out that special forces carried out a unique operation and returned gas and oil platforms in the Black Sea between Crimea and Odessa under Ukrainian control. Read more in the article One step closer to Crimea .
19:32 A representative of the “administration” of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, said that Ukraine allegedly attacked Energodar with at least four drones, two of which hit a residential multi-storey building, and another hit the “passport office”.
19:27 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin congratulated the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov on his appointment. According to the press service of the US Department of Defense, this was their first conversation. The parties discussed immediate and long-term priorities for supporting the Defense Forces.
19:16 Kuleba said that he is aware of the support of “some forces” for sanctions concessions to Russia in exchange for its return to the grain agreement: “I know that there are some forces that support the Russian Federation’s concessions in this. I clearly said that if anyone -there is a desire to allow the Patrushev family, who despises, hates the West and wants to destroy it, to earn several hundred million dollars at Rosselkhozbank - you can connect it to SWIFT. How these people will have any respect for themselves after this is hard for me to imagine ".
18:51 The United States once again called on North Korea not to sell or provide weapons to Russia. “As we have publicly warned, it is expected that discussions on weapons between Russia and the DPRK will continue during Kim Jong-un’s trip to Russia. We call on the DPRK to comply with the public commitments made by Pyongyang not to provide or sell weapons to Russia,” the National Security Council Speaker said White House Adrienne Watson.
17:48 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock - they discussed defense cooperation, the protection of civilian life in Ukraine, including energy, “which remains a target for Russian terror.” The European integration of Ukraine was also discussed.
17:25 Germany, in preparation for winter, will increase emergency humanitarian aid to Ukraine by 20 million euros, Annalena Bärbock reported. According to her, this year alone, humanitarian aid to Germany reached 380 million euros, and in total all the country’s assistance, including economic and military, amounts to 22 billion euros, so Germany is the second donor to Ukraine in the world.
16:54 EU enlargement is a necessary geopolitical consequence of the war that Russia launched against Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock said during a visit to Kiev. She assured that Ukraine has “our strong support on its path to the European Union.” At the same time, Berbock added that in order to join the EU, Ukraine has a lot of work to do in implementing the anti-oligarchic law and fighting corruption.
16:09 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said that he wants to discuss the situation at the Zaporizhia NPP with Ukraine and Russia at a high level. According to him, due to the long shutdown of the station, “technical safety issues begin to arise.”
Grossi also said that there are no “significant or even insignificant” radiological consequences from ammunition with depleted uranium, and there may be consequences in some “very specific cases.”
16:04 Kuleba said following negotiations with his German counterpart Annalena Bärbock that the issue of transferring Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine “remains open, and the decision-making process within Germany is moving forward.” At the same time, the minister assured that Kyiv now better understands the specifics of the process of making a final decision by the German government and, for its part, is ready to do everything necessary to speed it up.
The parties also discussed additional strengthening of Ukraine's air defense on the eve of the winter season, promoting the export of Ukrainian grain, preparations for the International Food Security Summit, the participation of Germany and German companies in the first Defense Industries Forum, and the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
15:36 The Russian army fired at an outpatient clinic in the village of Stanislav, Kherson region, a paramedic and a patient were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
15:18 The Russians struck Nikopol for the second time that day - this time with Grad and heavy artillery. Three people were injured, a store, private and food enterprises, an educational institution, a five-story building, outbuildings and a car were damaged, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Police Department, Sergei Lysak.
14:57 Borrell announced the non-recognition of Russian “elections” in the occupied territories of Ukraine and emphasized that the leadership of the Russian Federation will be responsible for the consequences of these illegal actions.
14:31 Erdogan called on “not to marginalize” Russia in the negotiations on the grain agreement: “No process that marginalizes Russia in the Black Sea Grain Initiative will be viable.” He also announced an upcoming meeting on this issue between representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the UN, without specifying the exact date and location.
13:58 Brazilian President Lula da Silva has changed his position regarding Putin’s arrest: if yesterday he invited the Russian president to the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 2024 and stated that he would not be detained there, today he no longer gives guarantees. According to da Silva, if Putin visits Brazil, the decision on arrest will be made by the judicial authorities.
13:22 Zelensky said in an interview with CNN that he will discuss providing Ukraine with long-range ATACMS missiles with Biden and expects to receive them in the fall: “As for ATACMS, I will talk with President Biden again. These are not the first negotiations. We are moving forward. I hope we "We'll get them in the fall. It's very important for us not to pause in this counter-offensive, so I really need them."
13:07 After the special operation with the Russian Mi-8, the number of Russian military personnel who expressed a desire to surrender increased by 70%, said GUR representative Andrei Yusov: “There is a significant jump in the line I want to live separately and through other communication channels. After the successful operation, Sinitsa with Mi-8 and pilot, the number of Russian Army servicemen considering a similar scenario for themselves has increased. Appeal to the state project I Want to Live - the jump occurred by about 70% per day."
12:53 Peskov once again stated that there are no prerequisites for negotiations on Ukraine, and if they resume, “Kiev will have to recognize the realities of today.”
12:39 Zelensky said in an interview with CNN that there will be no “happy ending” in the Ukrainian counter-offensive: “We all want to have success and a happy ending. But this is not a film with a happy ending, we will not have a happy ending, we "We've lost a lot of people. There won't be a happy ending. We have to acknowledge that."
The president also emphasized that freezing hostilities would not mean peace: “Putin wants to take over our entire country, destroy all our homes, kill us.” According to him, victory means not only liberating the territory of Ukraine, but also preventing Russia from attacking other countries. "This is not our war, this is a common war. Do people in Europe want to try this when your families are attacked? I cannot advise this," he said.
As for the statements of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, according to Zelensky, he does not understand that Putin does not want to end, but to continue the war and divide Europe: “You either support Ukraine or Russia - there are no other options. It’s a matter of time when you "You will understand this. Compromise is possible with those who are ready to compromise. Has anyone seen Putin's readiness to compromise?"
12:12 Ukraine has returned under control the so-called “Boiko derricks” - gas and oil drilling platforms near the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. Russia occupied them in 2015, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they have been used for military purposes - in particular, as helipads and to house radar equipment.
The operation to establish control over the “Boiko derricks” was carried out by units of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region, in particular, the drilling platforms Petr Godovalets and Ukraine, as well as the jack-up drilling rigs Tavrida and Sivash, were returned to control. During the operation, it was possible to capture valuable trophies: a supply of helicopter ammunition such as NAR (unguided aircraft missiles), as well as the Neva radar, which can track the movement of ships in the Black Sea.
During one of the phases of the operation, a battle took place between Ukrainian special forces on boats and a Russian Su-30 fighter. As a result of the battle, the Russian plane was defeated and was forced to retreat.
11:29 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian troops destroyed six boats with Russian military personnel who were trying to regain positions in the Kherson region, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Pivden operational command.
11:26 Kim Jong-un went to Russia to meet with Putin, reports the South Korean TV channel YTN. The meeting with Putin is expected to take place on Wednesday, September 13, and will focus on Russian ammunition supplies. Bloomberg notes that North Korean weapons could allow the Russian Federation to continue its invasion of Ukraine, but they are not modern enough to change the course of the war.
11:23 The SBU detained in Kiev a contract soldier from one of the military units of the National Guard, whom the FSB recruited remotely in January of this year. He was involved in preparing new air attacks by the Russian Federation against critical infrastructure facilities in the capital. The attacker faces life imprisonment.
10:59 The German concern Rheinmetall will send another 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, Reuters reports. The company has agreed on supplies with the German government. Thus, the total number of infantry fighting vehicles transferred will be 80.
10:46 Poland will insure Polish investors and investors from other countries interested in the restoration of Ukraine - a corresponding amendment to the law on export insurance was signed by President Andrzej Duda.
10:25 The fictitious Russian “elections” in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are invalid in accordance with international law, says a joint statement by the head of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Krisjanis Karins, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tini Cox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic-Burić. “We strongly condemn the illegitimate sham “elections” that took place on September 8-10, 2023 in the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation,” the statement said.
The leaders of the Council of Europe emphasized that the so-called “elections”, held in gross violation of international law, are another illustration of Russia’s denial of the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. The leadership of the Council of Europe has confirmed its strong support for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
10:01 NATO will hold its largest military exercises since the Cold War in February-March 2024, writes the Financial Times. The exercises will take place in Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries, and will involve about 41 thousand military personnel, more than 50 ships, and up to 700 sorties. In this way, the Alliance wants to test its readiness to repel a potential Russian attack. It is also planned to increase the frequency of such exercises to two per year instead of just one.
09:52 At night, air defense destroyed all 12 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type , which Russia attacked from the south-eastern direction (Eysk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russian Federation), the Air Force command reported. The drones were flying in the direction of the Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions. 12 “martyrs” were destroyed within the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions, as well as one UAV of an unknown type.
The enemy also used tactical aviation, firing Kh-31P anti-radar missiles and Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles from Su-34/Su-35 aircraft into the Dnepropetrovsk region. Preliminary - no losses.
09:34 At night and in the morning, the enemy attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region with attack drones, controlled by missiles from tactical aircraft and artillery, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Air defense forces shot down 11 Shahed-131/136 type drones over the region. As a result of a missile attack on Krivoy Rog, a fire occurred, which rescuers promptly put out.
In the Grechanopodov community, four private houses and several outbuildings were damaged. The enemy also fired artillery at Nikopol, Marganetskaya and Mirovskaya communities. A private enterprise, two houses and a gas pipeline were damaged. Previously, no people were injured.
09:11 Last week, Ukrainian troops in the South successfully advanced in the area south of Rabotino and west of Verbovoy, Anna Malyar reported. Over the past week, 1.5 square meters have been released in the South. km of territory. According to Malyar, Ukrainian troops are faced with serious obstacles from the enemy, but “in some places the first line of defense” of the Russians has already been broken and Ukrainian troops are “moving on.”
08:42 The defense forces had success in the area of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka in the Bakhmut direction, Anna Malyar reported. “There we pushed the enemy out of their positions, and there we have some progress,” she said.
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces vacated 2 square meters. km in the Bakhmut direction, and in total during the offensive campaign near Bakhmut 49 square meters were liberated. km of territory.
08:37 German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock arrived in Ukraine for the fourth time since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, ZDF reports.
08:33 In the Zaporozhye region, one person was killed as a result of a Russian attack from an MLRS on Novopavlovka. Also, during the day, seven reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure in the region, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
08:31 Ukrainian troops liberated part of the village of Opytne near Avdeevka, said Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar. According to her, Ukrainian troops also had partial success in the Novomayorsky area of the Donetsk region during the week.
08:24 Iran intends to provide Russia with short- and long-range missiles in addition to UAVs, and Moscow in return may transfer weapons to Tehran that could “jeopardize the existence of Israel,” said the head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, David Barney. "We fear that the Russians will give the Iranians in return what they lack - advanced weapons that will certainly threaten our peace and perhaps even our existence here," Barney said.
08:13 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 11:
personnel - about 269,210 (+580) people,
tanks - 4560 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 8767 (+12),
artillery systems - 5839 (+28),
MLRS - 760 (+0),
air defense systems - 512 (+3),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4628 (+35),
cruise missiles - 1455 (+0),
ships/boats - 19 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8370 (+32),
special equipment - 877 (+5).
07:20 Over the past 24 hours, more than 30 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces have partial success in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region, displacing the enemy from their positions. In addition, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka areas of the Donetsk region. In the Melitopol direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive.
In the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky directions, the Defense Forces hold the initiative, holding the defense in the Keramik, Avdeevka, Severny, Maryinka and Rovnopol areas of the Donetsk region, where during the day the enemy made about 20 unsuccessful attempts to oust Ukrainian units from their positions.
The General Staff expects that mass forced mobilization will begin in Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in the near future. According to various estimates, from 400 to 700 thousand people could be drafted into war. In particular, this time it is also planned to call up about 40 thousand residents of the Chechen Republic, who will probably be used as barrage detachments behind the Russian troops. At the same time, among the population of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the numbers of planned mobilization remain minimal.
02:16 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian air defense allegedly shot down two drones over the territory of the Belgorod region.
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[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (11 September 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have successfully repelled five attacks by AFU assault groups close to Kurdyumovka, Avdeevka, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 200 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, eight motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
One ammunition depot of the AFU 28th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Dyleevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 38th AFU Naval Infantry Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Novomayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, aviation and artillery have hit a column of armoured vehicles of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 160 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, as well as three 152mm Msta-B howitzers.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems have repelled one attack by the 47th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 145 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three motor vehicles, and one UK-manufactured Stormer HVM SAM system.
In addition, in the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, U.S.-manufactured M119, as well as 152mm Msta-B and D-20 howitzers have also been destroyed.
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, three attacks by assault groups of 63rd and 67th Mechanised Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repelled west of Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In Kupyansk direction, the attacks, launched by aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of the AFU manpower and hardware close to Stroyevka, Sinkovka, Kislovka, and Peschalnoye (Kharkov region).
The enemy losses were up to 80 soldiers, two motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
One ammunition depot of the AFU 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade has been destroyed near Tabayevka (Kharkov region).
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, as well as the Bukovel-AD anti-drone electronic warfare system.
In addition, one control centre for Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles has been destroyed near Berislav (Kherson region).
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 132 areas.
In addition, one ST-68 air target detecting and tracking radar was destroyed near Trudovoye (Zaporozhye region).
One command post of the 100th Territorial Defence Brigade has been hit close to Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Air defence facilities have intercepted three HIMARS and Olkha projectiles.
In addition, 46 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Petrovskoye, Evgenovka, Artyomovsk (Donetsk People's Republic), Ocheretovatoye, Novoye, Mirnoye, Kharkovo (Zaporozhye region), Novaya Kakhovka, and Sagi (Kherson region).
In total, 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,628 unmanned aerial vehicles, 437 air defence missile systems, 11,779 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,149 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,331 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,905 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/11/2023 to 00:00 09/12/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 108 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Over the past 24 hours, information has been received about the injury of four civilians in the Kiev district of Donetsk, Yelenovka, Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka, and Kermenchik.
Eight houses were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky, Kirovsky districts of Donetsk.
Five civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, and Kermenchik.
Districts of seven settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka, Kermenchik.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 86 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlivske there were 17 artillery attacks from 155 and 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky there were four artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
At Volnovakha one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having released 338 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 70 artillery attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
23:26 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces dropped an explosive device from a UAV. The attack took place on the street. Lenin. There were no casualties.
21:01 Ukrainian troops fired 23 rounds of NATO caliber 155mm at Donetsk, Yasinovatsky district, Gorlovka and Makeevka, they reported representative office DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:20 Consequences of artillery attack of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.
19:12 Today, Donetsk has already been shelled 12 times using cluster munitions.
19:07 Air defense is operating in Donetsk. Three missiles were shot down over the city center.
18:55 Ukrainian militants launched four kamikaze drones at Energodar. Two of them hit a residential high-rise building, the third hit the passport office. The consequences are not yet known. VGTRK correspondent Olga Kurlaeva reports this.
19:00 The Front Bird reports from the Bakhmut direction:
“Fierce fighting is reported northwest of Bakhmut and in adjacent settlements. The enemy has been actively testing our positions for several days. When advancing, the dry land bears losses. For potion Bakhmut (Artemovsk), some kind of sacred place. Enormous efforts are being made to capture it, but everything is in vain, the dry land will not get through. Our armored vehicles performed well, the enemy rolled back.”
18:25 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 11, as of 18:00, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
– the roof of the building of MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 314 in Donetsk” on the street was damaged. Architects;
– st. Saltykova-Shchedrina, 4 – multi-apartment residential building.
Kuibyshevsky district:
– st. Rybalko, 28 “b” – private residential building, gas pipeline and power lines were also damaged;
– st. Spartak, 67 – private residential building, gas pipeline and power lines were also damaged.
n.p. Kermenchik (Velikonovoselkovsky district):
– 4 transformer substations are de-energized, 171 subscribers of the Volnovakha Distribution Zone are without power supply (Maly Kermenchik settlement, partially Novopetrikovka settlement).
17:15 Ukrainian tank T-72 blew upon a mine on the road Slavyansk - Soledar.
Soldiers of the "Veterans" Special Airborne Brigade are holding an important road junction here. The military removed the damaged car from a drone. Six Ukrainian Armed Forces militants tried to carry out a rotation. Russian fighters thwarted the plans of the enemy group by firing at it with artillery.
16:40 Large selection of destroyed and damaged Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment - tanks, MRAPs, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled guns, pickups -video.
15:37 Militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the city of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Zaporozhye region.
At least five explosions were recorded, operational services reported. A private yard on the street was damaged. Slavic. Information about casualties and damage is being clarified.
15:29 Acting regional governor Denis Pushilin spoke about the situation on the front line in the DPR -video.
15:11 Regarding the situation in Opytny.
Regarding the entry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the settlement. Opytnoye, which is located south of Avdievka. The enemy managed to enter the outskirts of the village, after which he was immediately driven out of there. Opytnoye is completely under our control.
14:45 Update on the situation in Novomayorsky in the South Donetsk direction:
At 13.50 the enemy launched an attack with two MRAPs. One was destroyed by artillery fire, the second hastily left. Up to 10 people spilled from the damaged car. landing party, almost all were moderately or seriously wounded.
13:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 11, as of 13:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): - on the street. Tychina, a man born in 1959 was wounded.
n.p. Kermenchik (Velikonovoselkovsky district): - on the street. Yubileynaya, 58, a man born in 1988 was wounded.
Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
artillery attack at 09:00:
– per. Volny, 15 – private residential building;
– A total of 14 transformer substations, a hospital were de-energized, and 1,600 subscribers of the Oktyabrsky Distribution Zone were without power supply.
12:50 Opposite Novaya Kakhovk adestroyed APU hangar with Western equipment. It is reported that he was in Otradokamenka. Our scouts discovered the hangar and then aimed artillery at it.
12:34 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:
There is relative calm at the Vremevsky site. The enemy made no attempts to attack, but is regrouping in the forest belts north of Novomayorsky. The guns of the 30th Artillery Brigade do not give him the opportunity to do this calmly and force him to constantly be distracted by the evacuation of the dead and wounded.
Of the confirmed losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction, there is one infantry fighting vehicle. In the defense zone of the 40th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade there was mutual artillery shelling, but it did not lead to a shooting battle. The activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northwestern outskirts of Novomayorsky has not been noticed; if anyone is alive in these houses, they are sitting in the basements, the surface is under constant surveillance.
North of Priyutny, the enemy again launched an attack in an attempt to stop the successes of units of the 5th Army and the 247th Air Assault Regiment. Had no success. The not-so-well-trained units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which are participating in these attacks, again suffered losses during artillery artillery attack and gunfire, and then retreated.
In the Ugledarsky area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still not taking active actions.
12:26 Situation in Opytny:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to take the eastern quarry from the village and the opornik north of the village. Now they are trying to make their way deeper in small groups. That's all.
There are no fights in Opytnoye itself. At the same time, our positions in the village are closely attacked by enemy artillery. Otherwise, in Opytnoye there is a routine combat situation.
12:22 The Diary of a Paratrooper spoke about the next attempt of the DRG to break through to our borders in the Zaporozhye direction:
“Early in the morning, a well-camouflaged enemy group of 7 people was identified. Thanks to our competent UAV operators, a camouflaged DRG in Leshy suits was spotted. The group tried to crawl to our positions; backpacks were seen with them, presumably with grenades, to be thrown onto our lines. After discovering the group, the paratroopers inflicted fire on the target area using AGS and machine guns. Two hundred were killed, the number of wounded is unknown, the rest of the enemy DRG managed to hide in the plantings.”
12:10 Consequences of artillery attack of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A total of 17 houses were damaged in the Kiev, Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as four civil infrastructure facilities in the Voroshilovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts and the central part of Gorlovka.
The footage shows the results of arrivals at the combined type nursery-kindergarten No. 15 in the Voroshilovsky district of the city.
12:00 In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army launched a counterattack in the Novofedorovka area, there are tactical successes -Readovka
According to Readovka, our fighters are now counterattacking the enemy in the Novofedorovka area in the Zaporozhye direction. At the moment, the progress is going well - several forest plantations have been recaptured. These landings are of strategic importance because they open up the opportunity to go behind the enemy’s rear and impede the enemy’s offensive operations on Verbovoye and Novoprokopovka.
In parallel with the counterattack, the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are subjected to heavy artillery fire. Now the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Orekhovoy, Kamensky, Lobkovoye, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaypolye and Krasnoye have come under fire from our artillery.
11:32 Russian forces destroyed a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle during an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rabotina area of the Zaporozhye region - chairman of the “We are together with Russia” movement Vladimir Rogov
11:05 Donetsk and Makeyevka were fired at by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with cassette-filled rounds. In total, since midnight, more than 60 units of ammunition has already arrived across the DPR, most of the 155mm caliber.
The use of American and British-made cluster rounds, most of which are expired, leads to explosive contamination of territories and an increase in the number of civilian casualties.
10:50 The commander of the Iskander OTRK launch battery spoke about combat work in the special operation zone -video.
During a special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to launch strikes with high-precision missile weapons against infrastructure facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:44 It is reported that Russian aviation attacked positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Berislavsky region.
10:35 Consequences of artillery attack by the Nazis from the MLRS center of Donetsk -video.
10:27 Situation in the Zaporozhye direction at 10:00:
Units of the Russian Armed Forces are pushing the enemy out of the forest clearings in the eastern part of Rabotino. On morning 3, the Bradleys tried to drive in, one was destroyed but was not carried away by an engineering vehicle, the rest were driven back by artillery, and they were unable to pick up the wounded.
Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were taken prisoner; they talk about heavy losses and “incomprehensible meat assaults.” At the moment, artillery and tanks are working on the enemy.
10:08 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have increased drone strikes on residential settlements near Donetsk and Yasinovataya - adviser to the acting head of the DPR Yan Gagin
09:48 During the day, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 70 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces, and 244 rounds of ammunition were fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 47 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead. On Gorlovsky - 21 artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky - two artillery attacks from 155mm caliber artillery. The enemy fired at Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Makeevka, Yasinovatsky district, Shirokaya Balka, Panteleimonovka, Gorlovka.
Over the past 24 hours, three people were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka and Aleksandrovka.
A total of 17 residential buildings and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
09:30 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery seven rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka nine rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoe five rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki 17 rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka 12 rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Aleshki, firing a total of 35 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined
09:21 Last night, militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a massive attack on Novaya Kakhovka - presumably, due to the arrival, the city was left without electricity.
One of the enemy rounds hit the territory of the city water utility - windows were broken in the building, and the roof and car boxes were damaged, the Military Administration of Novaya Kakhovka reported.
The second shell hit the ambulance building at 1 Svetlova Street - the windows there were broken. Fortunately, no casualties were caused by the arrivals from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In addition, presumably, due to enemy shelling, electricity was lost in the city - KhMES employees are finding out the details of the blackout.
09:15 The Ukrainian Armed Forces transferred reserves, including heavy weapons, to Avdievka for attacks in the Donetsk direction. This was announced by Advisor to the Acting Head of the DPR Yan Gagin.
He noted that a large amount of NATO equipment, heavy weapons and a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel have now been transferred there. The enemy is preparing attacks in the Donetsk direction, Gagin said.
08:17 Frontline summary on the morning of 09/11/2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces counterattacked the flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Novofedorovka. There is progress. This is an important tactical success for Russian troops. It is possible to reach the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group advancing on Verbovoye and Novoprokopovka. Ukrainian positions in Kamensky, Lobkovo, Orekhov, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaypole and Krasny are under fire. Russian - in Nesteryanka, Kopany, Ilchenkovo, Novoprokopovka, Verbovoy, Novopokrovka and Novofedorovka.
In the Ugledarsky sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with artillery support, continued attacks at Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky. Fights for these settlements. The Russian Armed Forces attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Levadny, Novodarovka, Staromayorsky, Urozhayny, Zolotaya Niva, Prechistovka and Vodyanoy (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name north-west of Donetsk). Ukrainian artillery worked in Priyutny, Zavetnoye Zhelenie, Staromlynovka and Kermenchik.
On the Donetsk front, after artillery bombardment, Russian troops tried to advance in Mar'inka. No success. The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an offensive in the Opytnoye area and in the direction of Spartak. There is progress.
The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian positions in Paraskovyevka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Soledar), Antonovka, Georgievka, the city of Krasnohorivka, Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka), Avdeevka, Berdychi, Keramika, New York, South and North (settlement northwest of Gorlovka). They themselves are under fire in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered Andreevka. The Russian Armed Forces counterattacked near Kleshcheevka. With the support of artillery, they also tried to advance in the area of Berkhovka and Orekhovo-Vasil'ievka. Russian long-range weapons operated against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Belaya Gora, Ivanovsky, Chasovoy Yar, Razdolovka, Seversk, Vesyol, Sporny and Verkhnekamensky. Ukrainian - according to the Russian Armed Forces in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka and Bakhmut.
08:15 Msta-B calculations work on infantry and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
One of the main tasks of the artillerymen of the Eastern Military District is to disrupt the rotation of nationalist units in positions, destroy tanks, armored vehicles and enemy firing points.
08:10 Artillerymen from Transbaikalia destroy enemy tanks and self-propelled guns, as well as fortified areas of the Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction from the 152mm 2A65 Msta-B gun -video.
08:07 Military personnel of the “West” group of forces launched two counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansky direction in the direction of Kovalevka, as well as two attacks in the area of Petropavlovka and Ol'shany. This was reported by the head of the group’s press center, Sergei Zybinsky.
08:05 Summary on the morning of September 11, 2023:
The Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes with Geranium UAVs all night on enemy targets in Krivoy Rog. They reported on the work of air defense in the Chernigov region.
In the Vremevsky direction, with renewed vigor, the enemy resumed “meat assaults” on the Novodonetskoye - Novomayorskoye line, shifting the direction of concentration of efforts to the east after a long lack of success at Urozhainy. The tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the same: the infantry is delivered to the LBS in armored vehicles, after which it tries to get closer to our positions.
On the Zaporozhye Front there are battles for Rabotino. The enemy is trying to gain a foothold in the populated area and surrounding areas. Artillery duels are taking place, the Russian Army is using aviation and artillery against the advancing enemy.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred units of the 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade and heavy NATO equipment to the settlement area of Opytnoye, preparing offensive actions. A reconnaissance group from the newly arrived brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was intercepted and prisoners were taken.
In the Kherson direction, battles for the islands continue, artillery duels are taking place, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are constantly launching attacks on our populated areas.
Near Kremennaya on the Torsky ledge and in Serebryansky forestry several enemy attacks were stopped during the day; one of the advancing groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was covered at the moment the column was formed.
At night, two UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were shot down over the Belgorod region, the region was under enemy artillery fire. In the Oryol region, near the settlement. Somovo suppressed an enemy drone by means of electronic warfare. In the Zaporozhye region in Melitopol, the air defense system went off. The enemy fired 244 rounds into the DPR, three civilians were wounded.
08:02 Military groupings of troops “Vostok” ripped off rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in positions in the Novodonetsk region, said the head of the group’s press center Oleg Chekhov.
Artillery fire also destroyed an electronic warfare station in the Rovnopol area, temporary deployment points for Ukrainian military personnel in Neskuchny, Ugledar, Novomikhailovka, as well as a hangar with automotive equipment in Uglesborochnaya.
08:00 Russian tank crews hunt for Western equipment in the area of the village of Rabotino
The crews try to fire from afar from closed positions, so as not to take unnecessary risks.
The term "closed positions" means that tankers fire at coordinates in the same way as artillery does. The target can be located at a distance of up to 10-12 kilometers. In this case, you have to rely on air reconnaissance.
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[REGNUM] The “Three Seas Initiative,” designed to unite the countries of Central and Eastern Europe located between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas, initially had an anti-Russian orientation. This is not surprising, since in geopolitical terms it was based on the idea of the “Intermarium”, which was promoted by the dictator of Poland Jozef Pilsudski in the 1920s and 1930s. The talk was about creating a confederation uniting all European countries that are located between the three mentioned seas, which would be a “cordon sanitaire” against the Soviet Union.
True, after World War II, the USSR itself created a socialist bloc in this space, which until the end of the 1980s restrained the advance of the West. But with the collapse of this bloc, and then the Soviet Union, the geopolitical void in the Intermarium was occupied by the United States, relying on its main ally in the region - Poland.
It was Polish President Andrzej Duda who became the main promoter of the creation of the “Three Seas Initiative” (ITM) consisting of a dozen countries - Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Estonia. It is worth noting that eleven of them, except Austria, were NATO members and joined the EU after 2004.
Andrzej Duda enlisted the support of Croatian President Kolinda Grabar - Kitarovic , and in August 2016 the first ITM summit was held in Dubrovnik, at which the organization was formalized.
But the second Three Seas summit, held in July 2017 in Warsaw, became much more resonant, primarily in connection with the arrival of US President Donald Trump. The declaration adopted as a result noted the main goals of the ITM - developing infrastructure and strengthening security (including energy) in the region, as well as strengthening transatlantic ties in the context of “threats emanating from Russia.”
But the Warsaw “Trimorya” summit turned out to be a kind of swan song for the organization.
Although the member countries of the initiative multiplied various structures (business forum, chamber of commerce, ITM investment fund), their work did not go beyond declarations. Infrastructure projects passing through the Trimorye, supported by the EU and the USA (Baltic-Adriatic railway corridor from Gdansk to Bologna, Via Carpathia highway from Klaipeda to Thessaloniki, liquefied natural gas transportation network with terminals in Poland and Croatia and connecting pipelines), additional political no add-ons were required.
And the expansion of the organization was limited by the initial condition: it could only include EU member countries.
Thus, in November 2019, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz justified himself: “President of Ukraine Zelensky asked us to annex Ukraine to the Three Seas.” At this stage this is not possible, just like the Balkan countries.” He added that today only EU countries can be members of this association. The head of Polish diplomacy then noted that the Trimorya initiative should not be associated with geopolitics, since it is only an infrastructure project.
But with the beginning of the Northern Military District, the situation in Europe changed radically, and “Trimorye” also received a new impetus.
In June 2022, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced at the seventh ITM summit in Riga:
Three Seas Initiative Summit in Bucharest, Romania, 6 September 2023
“We decided to create a special new type of partnership with the Three Seas Initiative, in addition to a strategic partnership - a partnership through participation. This is a new type of partnership, which is intended not only for Ukraine. Today we gave it to Ukraine, but we proceed from the fact that the same partnership can be shared by those countries that are located in Central Europe and are not members of the European Union, but seek to join it.”
But at the eighth Trimoria summit, which took place on September 6–7 in Bucharest, it turned out that Ukraine received the status of partner-participant only now, together with Moldova. Nothing was said at the event about granting such status to Albania and Montenegro, which have access to the Adriatic Sea and have long been negotiating accession to the European Union.
The main event of the Bucharest summit was the first increase in the number of full members of the organization - Greece joined the Three Seas Initiative. Thus, the activities of ITM expanded to three more seas - the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean.
At the same time, the first day of the summit was largely devoted to discussing the situation in Ukraine, and not only in connection with the hostilities.
The tone was set by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who in a video message to the participants demanded not to continue the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain to Eastern European countries of the European Union after September 15.
“I would like to separately address the European Commission. The basis of Europe is, in particular, free competition and keeping promises.
Ukraine keeps its promises and never interferes with free competition. But we will not calmly accept the violation of promises given to us, the violation of the Association Agreement, the violation of the conditions of the free market. European institutions should not increase disappointment in Europe; they should increase confidence in the promises made in Europe.
If we need to fight for Ukraine and the foundations of our common Europe in arbitrations, we will fight in arbitrations. Although we don’t want this. If we need to fight on the platforms of international organizations, we will fight there too. But we hope for unity, and we know that unity will triumph ,” Zelensky said.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis tried to smooth out the tension , saying: “The forum will strive to reduce the gap between Eastern and Western Europe and achieve greater cohesion, prosperity and sustainability.”
“A stab in the back of Ukraine.” Poland showed its true intentions
However, in the final joint statement of the Bucharest ITM summit, it is customary to say only about support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, but the issue of grain is passed over in silence. At the same time, none of the specific business projects that were discussed on the second day directly related to Ukraine, although on the eve of the event a substantive discussion on the post-war reconstruction of this country was announced.
Apparently, the movement of ITM to the East will remain declarative at least until the cessation of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. At the same time, Greece’s entry into the Trimoria is a real step by the organization to the South, which can also count on multilateral funding.
Firstly, Greece is, although problematic, an “old” member of the European Union, and various EU programs, including infrastructure ones, have been running in this country much longer than in the “new” ones. And secondly, Greece is already a participant in two global infrastructure projects.
We are talking about the Chinese “Belt and Road”, in which the Greek port of Piraeus and the railway from it to Budapest are one of the key elements, as well as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) ). The decision to create the latter was made at the G20 summit in New Delhi literally on September 10. By the way, for IMEC the port of Piraeus is also one of the main transport hubs, and the corridor itself is considered in the West as an alternative to the Chinese project.
Thus, the Mediterranean Sea becomes a priority in the “Trimorye”, and the center of gravity of the ITM shifts south from Poland to Greece. However, from the point of view of Russian interests, this does not change anything - the Three Seas Initiative will maintain and even strengthen its anti-Russian orientation, given Athens’ orientation towards Washington.
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[REGNUM] Early next year, NATO plans to hold its biggest military exercise in Europe since the Cold War. According to the Financial Times , a record number of troops are planned to be involved in the maneuvers, which are called Steadfast Defender. The participation of 41,000 military personnel, from 500 to 700 aircraft and more than 50 warships is expected. The exercise will involve contingents from 32 states, including (for the first time) Finland and Sweden, whose application to join the alliance has not yet been ratified.
The exercises will take place in Germany, Poland and the Baltic countries in February and March 2024. According to the scenario, NATO will practice “repelling a Russian invasion” in one of the alliance member states. When planning operations, real geographic data will be taken into account to create more realistic combat scenarios.
The upcoming maneuvers will be “part of a new training strategy under which the military alliance will conduct two major exercises each year instead of one,” the FT reports. NATO countries plan to work out cooperation in new conditions and fundamentally new approaches to planning strategy and tactics.
The exercises are part of a review of NATO’s global strategy, the publication explains. The alliance abandons the tactics of using limited military contingents (an example of which were operations in Iraq and Afghanistan) and begins to practice the actions of large formations with the participation of heavy armored vehicles, aviation and large-caliber artillery.
The change in NATO's approaches to combat planning occurred under the influence of the military conflict in Ukraine, where Western strategy showed its worst side.
UKRAINE IS IN THE “ZERO ECHELON”
Military expert, reserve tank forces officer Alexander Mikhailovsky, in a commentary to IA Regnum , suggested what kind of situation NATO would try to simulate.
“A conditional “invasion” is taking place on the territory of Poland. However, it faces serious resistance. HIMARS systems destroy the rear of the advancing enemy, and fifth-generation F-35 fighters seize air supremacy, the expert believes. — The next stage of the exercises - an armored fist from Abrams and K2 tanks invades enemy territory and completes its “defeat.”
Particular attention will be paid to increasing firepower and conducting counter-battery warfare using Korean-made K9 self-propelled artillery systems, which the Polish army is actively purchasing.
“In fact, this is a bell that rings for our soul,” the expert notes. It turns out this situation: there is a first echelon of NATO, which is now actively militarizing. These are Poland, Finland, and Ukraine, which has joined them.
“And let’s add the Baltics,” continues the expert. “Their alliance can throw them into battle at the forefront of any aggression. Because, as we understand, any “invasion” on our part is a chimera, they are preparing for an offensive war.”
The second echelon is the developed countries of Europe: Germany, France, Great Britain, Mikhailovsky points out. “They are not eager to fight, and Russia is far from them, but if the States press them, they will not go anywhere. And only behind them appears the American contingent, which by this moment has completed the transfer of large forces across the Atlantic,” the expert noted.
In a broad sense, such a strategy does not provide for any significant contribution from Ukraine, which can be withdrawn from the conflict before it enters the main phase, the interlocutor noted. The only role that the Ukrainian Armed Forces can play is to draw the attention of the “imaginary enemy” and give NATO time to prepare for military action.
In any case, the alliance plans to reconsider the role of individual states, which should be “at the forefront” of the confrontation with Russia, the military expert pointed out. Hence the special attention to the training grounds of the Baltic States and Poland and the inclusion of Finland and Sweden. Speaking about a change in the alliance's strategy, it is necessary to pay attention to what is happening with the armies of our closest neighbors.
POLES ARE CHANGING FROM WHEELS TO TRACKS
“When it became clear that the tactics of “small contingents” a la Yugoslavia or Iraq did not work, NATO began pumping up some of its countries with heavy weapons. The most obvious example is Poland, which is now actively militarizing,” Mikhailovsky pointed out. While the military-industrial complex of European countries is primarily arming Ukraine, Poland is actively purchasing weapons from South Korea and the United States, the expert recalled. “Slowly but surely, the Polish army is transforming into a kind of striking fist, which will be assigned a special role in the new NATO strategy,” Mikhailovsky noted.
The expert listed: Poland plans to receive 1 thousand Korean K2 tanks and 150 American Abrams tanks in the most modern modification M1A2 SEPv3. In addition, Warsaw plans to receive 500 HIMARS rocket systems by 2025. Most of the new equipment will go into service with the newly formed military units deployed in the east of the country.
“Actually, here we also see a revision of NATO’s strategy. Instead of wheeled armored personnel carriers, which were riveted in the thousands under Iraq, tanks are now being ordered on a mass scale,” Mikhailovsky noted. In Ukraine, everyone saw why this is important, the expert pointed out
The situation is similar with artillery. The entire first half of 2022 was marked by the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of firepower. “ Then we found a lifesaver in the form of “Hymars.” We tested dozens of them and decided to purchase hundreds. There was a “debut” in Ukraine, the equipment showed its best qualities. Now quality is also multiplied by quantity,” the expert added.
FINNS ACQUIRE DAVID'S SLINGS
Russia’s other neighbor, Finland, has also taken a course towards militarization, and the general line of the alliance can be judged by the military purchases of the Finns (as well as by the re-equipment of the Polish army).
In 2022, the newest NATO member sharply increased military spending, notes IA Regnum’s interlocutor . Moreover, most of the spending goes on new weapons. Finland, like Poland, relies on purchases in countries that are “farther away” from Ukraine - the USA and Israel. For the first time, Israeli David's Sling missile defense systems, which are considered a much more accurate and modern analogue of the American Patriot systems, will be deployed near the borders of Russia.
In addition to purchasing new weapons, Finland will also provide its territory for new US Army bases. According to the Helsinki newspaper Iltalehti , Washington plans to station military aircraft at the Finnish Air Force base in the city of Rovaniemi, located near the Arctic Circle, 200 km from the border with Russia.
Thus, NATO seeks to embrace Russia from the south, southwest, northwest and north at once.
NATO IS REARMING - THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES ARE REARMING
Although Ukraine remains outside the brackets of military exercises, at the same time it plays an important role for NATO as a testing ground for testing not only new tactics, but also new weapons, Mikhailovsky notes.
“Such a concentration of forces in Eastern Europe cannot but concern Ukraine. But here the connection is not direct, but rather inverse, ” the expert argues. — That is, the Polish Abrams will not go straight from the exercises to Zaporozhye. But as the alliance is being re-equipped with new models, weapons are being released that are waiting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
The Pentagon is driving the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a new offensive
The aviation of NATO countries is switching to the F-35 - and this means that a stock of obsolete fighters of earlier models is appearing; the alliance's tankers are switching to Abrams - old tanks are being freed up, etc., Mikhailovsky explained. According to him, “an inverse relationship is formed here: the more actively the NATO bloc rearms with modern equipment, the more opportunities there are to transfer everything else to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
“If, as a result of the exercises, there is a need to develop new models of heavy armored vehicles, then the existing Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, as well as wheeled armored vehicles a la Maxx Pro or Caugar, will be considered obsolete and will go to “junior partners,” the expert predicts .
TECHNIQUE FOR COUNTERACTION
The only adequate response to the deployment of additional NATO forces should not be entering into another “arms race,” but a qualitative strengthening of the Armed Forces with a simultaneous gradual increase in personnel, experts believe.
“Actually, both Sergei Shoigu and the leaders of the defense department spoke about this,” Mikhailovsky noted. He recalled that the formation of new military units is already underway - in particular, in Karelia, near the Finnish border.
“Artillery battalions of special power are being formed, because the Ukrainian conflict showed that our 152 caliber is inferior in places to 155 mm,” a military expert gave an example.
In addition, the further we go, the more obvious it is that further work is needed on the creation of our guided artillery ammunition, adds Mikhailovsky.
“First of all, to nullify Poland’s deployment of Haymars and other artillery weapons,” the expert shared his opinion. He listed the weapons that our army urgently needs: we need high-precision MLRS "Tornado-S" with appropriate ammunition, we need self-propelled guns "Malka" of 207 mm caliber "in quantity."
“Then the strategy being developed by NATO, where the emphasis is on increasing firepower, will not work,” Mikhailovsky concluded.
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[Regnum] The National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights analyzed the composition of kvass and sweet drinks purchased in the largest retail chains in Russia and found that 30% of the drinks studied exceeded the alcohol content standard three times. The organization reported this in a letter to the government, which Izvestia reviewed. "Shut up!" They slurred... Social activists examined kvass purchased in chains such as Magnit, Pyaterochka, Lenta, Verny and Azbuka Vkusa. It was possible to find out that a third of the samples had irregularities in the composition of the drinks. For example, Magnit and Azbuka Vkusa sold several brands of kvass with a short shelf life.
In particular, violations were recorded in such trademarks as “Muromsky”, “Nikola”, “Tsar’s supplies” and others. In them, the producers exceeded the permissible proportion of alcohol by three times, with the current standard being 1.2%.
“In fact, such products are alcohol, and their production and circulation should be regulated in accordance with the relevant alcohol legislation,” the letter to the government says.
As Regnum reported , earlier police officers in the Krasnoyarsk Territory conducted an experiment on the effect of different drinks on breathalyzer readings. Volunteers were offered to drink kvass, kefir, energy drink and non-alcoholic beer. Before the tests began, they were tested on a device that showed the absence of alcohol.
Immediately after drinking kvass and non-alcoholic beer, a breathalyzer showed the presence of alcohol in the exhaled air. After drinking a glass of kvass – 0.9 mg/l, and after “zero” beer – 0.121 mg/l. However, ten minutes later, during a re-examination, no alcohol was detected in them. Energy drinks and kefir had no effect on the breathalyzer readings.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vladimir Putin has slammed legal proceedings against former US president Donald Trump as 'politically motivated persecution' that 'shows the rottenness of the American system'.
Trump, who is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is facing a series of criminal cases in which he is charged, among other things, with trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat by Joe Biden.
The Kremlin, which cultivated friendly relations with Trump during his presidency, has repeatedly spoken out in defense of the former president.
'As for the persecution of Trump, for us, in the current environment, it's good because it shows the rottenness of the American system,' Putin told an economic forum in the Far East.
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[GlobalEspresoTV] Tehran plans to supply short- and long-range missiles to Moscow in addition to Shahed-type “kamikaze” drones, which Russia is actively using in the war against Ukraine.
Mossad Director David Barnea shared the information, the Times of Israel reports.
According to Barnea, previous similar agreements to provide Russia with missiles were disrupted.
Instead, Iran may receive from the Russians the weapons it needs to attack Israel.
"Our fear is that the Russians will transfer to the Iranians in return what they lack, advanced weapons that will certainly endanger our peace and maybe even our existence here," Barnea said.
COOPERATION BETWEEN IRAN AND RUSSIA
Back in November 2022, the media reported that Russian terrorists and their partners from Iran had allegedly agreed to jointly produce drones for use in the war against Ukraine. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of a system for training specialists in the development and production of drones.
In February 2023, the Western media again reported that Iran and Russia were holding secret talks on the construction of a plant for the production of “kamikaze” drones. At the time, Iran denied this information.
On August 16, British intelligence indicated that Russia had apparently begun using drones of its own production.
The Washington Post, citing internal documents between Iran and Russia, reported that the Shahed factory in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, Russia, plans to produce 6,000 “kamikaze” drones by 2025.
And in late August, Defense Express reported that Russia plans to increase the production of Shahed drones by 100-180 per month.
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Iran has been "attacking" Israel and have been "six months away from a nuclear weapon" since, what, 1982?
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^^ Sounds like nuclear science is not the field to go into then...too risky. Iranian Urban Studies or Persian Women Playwrights of the 19th Century are much safer fields of study.
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