Estonian YouTuber Artur Rehi breaking down latest news. Some not verified for military movements but some good clips of the poor state of the mobilization in Russia.
Anti-Russian bias for those that care.
[Jerusalem Post] When Vladimir Putin decided to start rebuilding the Soviet Union by conquering Ukraine, he didn’t realize that Russia’s industrial base was too weak to support his military adventures. As his promises of international greatness clash with reality on the battlefield, he faces discontent and accusations of defeatism and, worse, treason.
One thing Russia has always been good at is amassing territory. Someone calculated that between around 1450, when the Grand Duchy of Muscovy came into its own, and the demise of the Russian Empire in 1917, it expanded at the average rate of three square kilometers per hour.
World War I brought an end to the empire. Lenin denounced Russian imperialism, declaring the principle of national self-determination. Some nations on the western edge of the empire broke loose, but the Red Army brought Ukraine, Transcaucasus and Central Asia back into the fold. The Bolsheviks married Russia’s expansionist drive to their millenarian ideology, developing a version of the land grab based on a supposedly scientific claim of the inevitable worldwide triumph of communism.
The task of spreading communism by the bayonet — and keeping it there — required a large war machine, which in turn required a powerful industrial base. Stalin’s industrialization thus gave absolution priority to military production. During the 1930s, and before Hitler’s rearmament gained momentum, the Soviet Union produced more tanks than the rest of the world combined.
The Soviet military got the best equipment and manpower, as well as advanced technology and science. Military jobs paid well and attracted the best graduates. Some 15-20% of Soviet GDP was devoted to the military-industrial complex, and the true share was probably higher since some civilian production also served the needs of the Defense Ministry and its agencies.
#1
The world has moved on, not always necessarily in a better direction. That said, trying to revive "greater Russia" in the absence of the Soviet level of commitment to getting there is not going to work out for them.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/23/2022 8:51 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Not wishing him any harm, but I still have my doubts about Vlad's longevity.
#3
^knowing many years of Russian history, I can say whoever replaces Putin could be much worse or should I say more strident. Day by day we will see massive pressure placed upon Ukraine and western peoples intent on war with Russia. The west shoots off their guns and they shoot their own foot. They manage this like Ukraine is a blue managed state.
#6
Russia has already lost. It bungled its original war goals and is still bungling the new short term war goals. The real question is how much will Russia lose by?
A Ukrainian "win" would be getting all their original land, including Crimea back, but I seriously doubt that will happen. More than likely Ukraine will get something in a cease fire after another humiliating Russian retreat. And then in a few years another war will kick off.
#8
Democrats cash cow must be protected at all costs. Autumn rains soon and Ukraine has equipment ill suited in such conditions. So the West has adopted a long term money pit as we did with Afghanistan. Ukrainian economy is a wreck and so ongoing money appeals. Manufactures will not be to keen to supply equipment when it is shone to be poorly performing. Diplomatic efforts of the West have only served to escalate tension and isolate Russia. So "If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends." Such enlightened words of Blinken.
#10
Dale, I'm no fan of the Democrats, but they're not the ones who started this war. Putin did.
Stop trying to shift the blame. It just makes you look stupid.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
09/23/2022 15:16 Comments ||
Top||
#11
Until Russia's main concern is addressed, the encroachment of NATO into eastern Europe, and the lies that allowed it to happen, no ceasefire or negotiation will suffice to bring peace.
You're delusional if you think Russia will accept a ceasefire for any reason other than to reload, until those concerns are met.
The west has to do the one thing it has refused to do: negotiate with Russia.
#12
^Ditto that. The West offers the stick when it would have been much more reasonable to offer something more agreeable as a carrot. So it seems diplomacy has passed. Eight years of NATO encroachment tolerated by Russia until now. With current environment Russia reaction is bring it on. Russia proceeds with referendums. When the vote goes for Russia. Any attack on these areas will be treated as an attack on Russia.
#14
Dale, I'm no fan of the Democrats, but they're not the ones who started this war. Putin did.
Stop trying to shift the blame. It just makes you look stupid.
I think it was Democrats in the State Department who made themselves look aggressive and stupid when they engineered the Maidan Coup. How can they say Putin is the aggressor and ignore that? How can they say Putin is the aggressor while insisting that NATO expand into Ukraine? And exactly what are the Biden family interests in that country?
How long has Putin been in power and exactly why did he wait until just last February to start this particular war? You think there is no possibility that Biden had something to do with it?
Yes, Putin is losing. Russia's military/industrial complex is no match for America's. But does that mean we should kick his ass just because we can? Does that mean we shouldn't bother attempting to negotiate a peaceful solution because we're winning?
You push that guy until his back is against the wall and then you act all butt hurt when he fights back.
But my question is: Where and when will it stop?
I heard somebody say it will stop at the border but those borders have been in flux for over a thousand years. Exactly, what border? You gonna risk nuclear war for the Donbass? For Crimea which was never a part of Ukraine until ethnic Ukrainian Nikita Khrushchev drew a line on a map in 1956 when it was all the Soviet Union anyway? Same thing with all of Ukraine, technically. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine itself was never independent, always either a part of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
Where and when does it stop, Rob?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/23/2022 17:50 Comments ||
Top||
#15
I think it was Woodrow Wilson who first advanced the principal of self-determination, mean the people on the ground should be allowed to determine which nation should rule the territory where they live.
I think most Ukrainians would vote to be independent of Russia because of all the animosity between Ukrainians and Russians going way, way back into history.
But what about Donbass and Crimea? Did anybody ask the people who live there?
Just today Fox News was claiming that Putin's current referendum in Donbass asking the people exactly that question is a sham. But Fox News always tells us that Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 election are false. How do they know? Do they have poll watchers in Donbass?
Finally, how would you feel if Xi Jinping deployed his troops on our border?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/23/2022 18:00 Comments ||
Top||
#16
tolerated by Russia until now.
Thanks, Dale. The re-assembling of the Soviet Union should have hiccups under that asshole
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/23/2022 20:06 Comments ||
Top||
#17
Ukraine itself was never independent, always either a part of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
Parts of the Ukraine have also been in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, as well as being ruled by the Golden Horde. In more recent times it was semi-independent at part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth; also known as the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth. So it's history is a bit more complex than that.
[ZERO] Once again Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has served the role of issuing more severe 'read between the lines' warnings and threats fresh off President Vladimir Putin's Wednesday speech announcing partial mobilization of national forces and which confirmed referendums of occupied portions of Ukraine to join the Russian Federation.
Putin's most alarming line came when he said, "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people," following with "It’s not a bluff." He had also stressed Moscow is ready to use "all available" means to protect its "territorial integrity".
Medvedev has taken the president's words further in Thursday statements, stressing that regarding Russian-seized territory and the move to vote in several areas - including the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - "there is no going back" and that even a 'nuclear option' could be on the table.
"The Donbas [Donetsk and Luhansk] republics and other territories will be accepted into Russia," he posted to Telegram. That's when the former president and top national security official doubled down on Putin's nuclear warning, stating:
Russia has announced that not only mobilization capabilities, but also any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new principles, could be used for such protection.
Putin and Medvedev's statements mark the first time any top Russian officials have affirmed readiness to bring newly acquired Russian territories under Moscow's nuclear doctrine.
However, it remains that Russian forces do not yet control 100% of any of the four main territories where annexation votes are to be held - with some referendums set for early as this weekend according to prior reports.
To review of the past 48 hours of Kremlin decision-making which is poised to escalate this war even further, here is the logical course of what just got enacted in the call-up of some 300,000 reservists:
#12
JOE, while you're here, could you perhaps recommend an authentic Russian restaurant or two in southern CA? I'd prefer cheap, casual places with no Little Italy issues, but am open minded.
[RFERL] The U.S. Treasury Department on September 15 added top Russian finance officials, relatives of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and a Russian children's rights official who allegedly directs the removal of Ukrainian children to Russia to its sanctions blacklist.
The new sanctions target 22 individuals and two entities that the Treasury Department said advanced Moscow's objectives in Ukraine before and after Russia launched the invasion of its neighbor.
The list includes three of Kadyrov's wives and three of his adult daughters. It also places additional sanctions on the Chechen leader, who has been under U.S. sanctions since December 2017.
Kadyrov was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general for his role in Russia's war against Ukraine launched in February, the Treasury Department said, adding that Chechen units allied to Kadyrov have operated in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv where Russia’s troops committed atrocities and destroyed homes.
"Kadyrov has recruited for Russia's war efforts through mixed martial arts clubs, which enables him and his units to continue their activity in Ukraine," the department said.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement that as Ukraine "presses forward with defending its freedom," the U.S. government is "taking steps to further degrade Russia's ability to rebuild its military, hold perpetrators of violence accountable, and further financially isolate [Russian President Vladimir] Putin."
The new sanctions took aim at the heads of key Russian financial institutions, including the National Payment Card System (NSPK), which runs the Mir payment network; the National Settlement Depository; the Non-Bank Credit Organization Central Counterparty National Clearing Center (CCP NCC), which manages settlement for the Moscow stock exchange; and the Deposit Insurance Agency.
The treasury also blacklisted Maria Alexeyevna Lvova-Belova, the presidential commissioner for children's rights.
Working directly under Putin, the Treasury Department said, Lvova-Belova has overseen the deportation of "thousands" of Ukrainian children to Russia.
"Lvova-Belova's efforts specifically include the forced adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families, the so-called 'patriotic education' of Ukrainian children, legislative changes to expedite the provision of Russian Federation citizenship to Ukrainian children, and the deliberate removal of Ukrainian children by Russia's forces," it said.
The treasury also designated Task Force Rusich, which it described as a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... paramilitary group fighting in Ukraine, including near Kharkiv, and associated with the Vagner mercenary group controlled by close Putin associate Yevgeny Prigozhin.
"Rusich has a long history of fighting alongside Russia-backed proxies in the Donbas region of Ukraine, and in 2015, Rusich mercenaries were accused of, and filmed, committing atrocities against deceased and captured Ukrainian soldiers," the department said.
It said Rusich is led by Alexey Yurevich Milchakov and Yan Igorevich Petrovskiy.
"Milchakov, who has developed a reputation for extreme brutality, was maimed in Rusich’s initial combat near Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2022," Treasury said.
Petrovskiy, who was expelled from Norway in 2016 after being declared a threat to national security, is Rusich’s lead military trainer and replaced Milchakov as commander after his injury, the department said.
U.S. Treasury sanctions freeze any assets those designated might have under U.S. jurisdiction and forbid any U.S. individuals or companies -- including international banks with U.S. operations -- from doing business with them.
In a parallel move, the U.S. Commerce Department banned the export of quantum computing services, hardware, and software to Russia and Belarus. The Treasury Department said the move would degrade Moscow's ability to rebuild its military after heavy losses in its ongoing war in Ukraine.
[DAILYSABAH] Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said all means could be used to defend territories "incorporated" into Russia from Ukraine.
In a post on Telegram, the ally of 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... cited the decisions regarding partial mobilization that say, among other things, that any weapons in the Russian arsenal, including nuclear, can be used for the protection of the regions.
Putin announced on Wednesday a partial military mobilization calling up to 300,000 reservists for probable deployment to Ukraine and underlined that Russia will use all means to defend the country.
"Referendums will be held, and the Donbass republics and other territories will be admitted to Russia," he said, referring to breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine's industrial heartland.
He added that the protection of all the joined territories will be "significantly strengthened" by the Russian armed forces.
"Russia has announced that not only mobilization capabilities can be used for such protection, but also any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear and weapons based on new principles," wrote Medvedev, who is now the deputy chairperson of Russia's Security Council.
Ukraine's self-declared republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, along with Russian-controlled parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, will hold referendums on joining Russia from Sept. 23-27, a move the international community says is illegal and would not be recognized.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/23/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
So... when the troops that legally cannot be deployed outside Russia's borders find themselves fighting an insurgency in occupied territory, how will the people of Russia react? Just dream of Stalin and accept it?
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
09/23/2022 7:27 Comments ||
Top||
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] September 22 is the 211th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
7:00 am . The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
The Russian Federation carried out 8 missile and 16 air strikes, 115 attacks with MLRS on military and civilian facilities in Ukraine. The infrastructure of more than 40 settlements suffered.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the Russians in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, Odradovka and Novomikhailovka.
Aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 41 strikes on Russian positions. The defeat of 21 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Russian Federation, 4 strongholds, 15 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems was confirmed.
Rocket troops and artillery inflicted fire damage on 24 objects of the Russian Federation in a day.
Zaporozhye region . Early in the morning , Zaporozhye was subjected to rocket attacks . Civilian infrastructure was destroyed, there are dead and 5 wounded.
Dnipropetrovsk region . At night , Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts were hit by 20 shells . A 35-year-old man was killed. 17 multi-storey and private houses, a gas pipeline and power lines were damaged. Shells also hit two hospitals, a school, a football field, a local history museum, administrative buildings, several shops and a market.
8:00 a.m. Nikolaev region . At night, 9 S-300 missiles were fired at Nikolaev . Residential buildings, civil infrastructure institutions and administrative buildings were damaged.
9:00 a.m. Kharkov region . The Russians destroyed refrigerator cars with the bodies of their soldiers by hitting the train station in Kharkov.
Chronology of the war in Ukraine: Thursday, September 22 - photo 1
10:00 a.m. Crimea . A downed drone is reported in Dzhankoy.
Zaporozhye region . An explosion is reported in Melitopol , tentatively in the area of the Central Market. 3 people were injured, Russian media write. Mayor Ivan Fedorov reported 6 dead Russian soldiers and accused the Russian side of the "act of terrorism", while the Russian side blames Ukraine for the opposite.
12:00 . Donetsk region . It is reported about arrivals in uncontrolled Donetsk.
13:30 . Departure of male students abroad is no longer possible , said Andrei Demchenko, a representative of the State Border Service. Since September 14, the top military leadership has canceled the possibility of crossing the Ukrainian border by male students of foreign universities due to massive forgery of documents. This issue can be resolved if changes are made to government decree No. 57.
14:00 . Donetsk region . It is reported about the arrival in the area of the Donetsk airport.
15:40 . Donetsk region . One of the bridges in Bakhmut was blown up . It separated the city center and the industrial zone. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Bakhmut is a priority city for the Russian troops, and fighting is underway for it now.
As a result of the arrival in the area of the Covered Market in Donetsk, 6 people were killed, 6 more were injured, local "authorities" report.
16:20 . Donetsk region . It is reported about the arrival in Yasinovataya. The city is under the control of the Russian military and is part of the so-called "DPR".
17:07 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that world leaders should "talk" with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to "open the doors of the world."
17:30 All the goals of the "special operation" declared by the Russian Federation in Ukraine will be fulfilled, no matter how long it takes. This was once again stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
17:52 The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, Gladkov, claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Dvuluchnoye. According to him, as a result of a shell hit, a crater with a radius of 12 meters was formed, but there were no casualties or injuries.
18:18 Latvia has suspended the possibility of extending a temporary residence permit for citizens of Russia and Belarus who have received a residence permit on the basis of investments made or the acquisition of real estate in Latvia.
18:40 Power units of thermal power plants are massively stopped for emergency repairs - Ukrenergo.
19:00 During the day, the Russian army launched four missile and 17 air strikes, carried out more than 24 attacks from the MLRS on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine. The infrastructure of more than 30 settlements suffered. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Thursday, September 22.
19:19 China offers Ukraine and Russia to start negotiations without any preconditions. This opinion was voiced by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
19:44 The Russian army is trying to maintain the situation in the temporarily occupied territories. In Kherson, the administrative-police regime is being strengthened, housing is being checked and psychological pressure is being exerted on local residents. The formation of so-called "election commissions" continues. In Starobelsk, Luhansk region, the occupying authorities forbade the local population to leave the city from 23 to 27 September. The Russian Federation creates armed groups to bypass dwellings and force people to participate in the so-called "referendum". In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, local residents are promised monetary rewards and household appliances for providing passport data and obtaining Russian citizenship.
20:00 The Foreign Ministers of 27 countries, while in New York at the annual meeting of world leaders at the UN, made a political decision to prepare the eighth package of sanctions against Russia, and also agreed to extend the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
20:15 "G7 countries do not recognize "referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine," - German Foreign Minister.
20:33 900 thousand euros, which were collected in Latvia for the purchase of Bayraktar UAVs for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will be spent on the purchase of drones manufactured by Atlas Aerospace. This was announced by Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks.
20:55 Russia is likely to face logistical and administrative problems in mobilizing 300,000 people - British intelligence.
21:11 The occupation commandant's office has been destroyed in Svatovo. This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. The enemy organized a headquarters and an ammunition depot in the city. Everything went up in the air.
21:34 Over the current day, units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Zaitsevo and Novomikhailovka. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Thursday, September 22.
21:50 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace reacted to Putin's decision on partial mobilization.
" President Putin broke his own promise not to mobilize part of his population ," Wallace said.
22:00 Ukraine calls on Israel to share information about Iran's possible military support for Russia. Axios writes about it. The publication claims that on September 7, Deputy Commissioner of Israel for Euro-Asia Simona Halperin, who deals with the affairs of Russia and Ukraine, visited Kyiv. She met with Ukraine's Special Representative for the Middle East Maxim Subkh.
22:25 During the day, the aircraft of the Defense Forces hit ten areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment and two positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. Air defense units destroyed two Russian UAVs. During the current day, missile troops and artillery inflicted fire damage, in particular, on four command posts, two areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment, three air defense positions, an artillery position, as well as three ammunition depots. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Thursday, September 22.
22:54 EU leaders may approve new sanctions against Russia at a meeting in Prague on October 6-7. It is reported by Reuters, citing sources.
23:13 In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter.
23:34 President Zelensky addressed the residents of the Russian Federation in Russian, urging them, in fact, to sabotage the partial mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin. Traditional evening address of the head of the Ukrainian state.
00:00 Ukrainian troops in the next few days will be able to enter the "DNR"-controlled Liman. At least, this was stated by the adviser to the head of the OP Alexei Arestovich.
00:23 Reported about the shelling of Toretsk, and getting into a residential building. There is no official information yet.
Posted by: badanov ||
09/23/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:08 Pushilin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "grouped serious forces" in the north of the "DPR" - "it is possible that they will try to go on the counteroffensive." Meanwhile, Russian military correspondents write that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are bypassing Liman from two sides and taking the city in "pincers".
23:04 Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons will not affect the military support of Ukraine, said US Department of Defense spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder.
22:50 This evening in the Nikolaev region, the military of the anti-aircraft missile Odessa brigade of the air command Pivden shot down four Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones of Iranian production with two medium-range anti-aircraft missiles at once, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
22:47 In the Khotyn community of the Sumy region, three people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
22:45 In Russia, agendas for 300 thousand people were printed and signed in advance, even before the decision to mobilize appeared - Ukrainian intelligence proved this. "But the Russian leadership is preparing to take up to a million men into the army - this is the main thing that they are now silent about. We know that they will take everyone indiscriminately. Not only the military in the reserve, but any men," Zelensky said in an evening video message .
22:43 Zelesky said that today he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: "The questions are clear. The front line. Providing for our military. And the new threats that Russia creates. I will note right away: any decisions of the Russian leadership do not change anything for Ukraine. We should be interested in only our tasks. This is the liberation of our country, the protection of our people and the mobilization of world support for the realization of our tasks."
According to the president, the entire international community is now being diplomatically mobilized: “The circle of those who support us is now not limited to our traditional partners and those who openly supported our state after February 24. Almost everyone now supports us - this is such a reaction to new Russian escalation steps In particular, the farce with the preparation of pseudo-referendums in the occupied territory demonstrates what happened in 2014 in Crimea and Donbas."
The head of state commented on the possibility of negotiations: "When Russia claims that it allegedly wants negotiations, but itself announces mobilization... When Russia knows Ukraine's clear position about the impossibility of a diplomatic process after Russia holds any pseudo-referenda... Everything is clear to everyone. Russia itself buries the prospect of negotiations with his own hands."
22:27 Zelensky, in an evening video message, commented on the Russian decision to mobilize: "This is a frank admission that their regular army, which had been trained for decades to capture someone else's, could not stand it and crumbled. And now, due to mobilization, Russia's war against Ukraine for most citizens of the Russian Federation "This is not something on TV or on the Internet, but something that has entered every Russian home. It is the fact of Ukrainian strength that the Russian leadership reacts to, changing tactics and trying to draw even more Russian citizens and resources into the war."
22:00 Zelensky addressed the Russians in Russian: "55,000 Russian soldiers died in this war in six months. Tens of thousands were wounded, maimed. Do you want more? No? Then protest. Fight. Run away. Or surrender to Ukrainian captivity. These are options for you to survive."
21:07 The Czech Foreign Ministry announced that it would not issue humanitarian visas to Russians leaving from mobilization.
20:45 The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Vadim Skibitsky, in an interview with ITV News, did not rule out that Russia would use nuclear weapons against Ukraine: "The explosion of tactical nuclear weapons will affect not only Ukraine, but also the Black Sea region. We remember the history of Chernobyl. Perhaps we there will be another catastrophe on our territory, in Eastern Europe." According to him, the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons may affect other countries - in particular Poland, Turkey and Bulgaria.
20:34 The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces announced that 120,000 people will be called up for military service in the fall, but "the events of the upcoming call-up have nothing to do with the conduct of a special military operation"; "There is no talk of any mobilizations, calls for full-time students studying at universities."
20:07 The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, as well as the village of Zaitsevo and the village of Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in an evening report .
20:01 The Saudi crown prince said in a conversation with Zelensky that Riyadh is ready to mediate between the parties to the conflict in Ukraine, Al Hadath TV channel reported.
19:42 German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said that Russian men fleeing mobilization can apply for asylum in Germany: "Anyone who opposes the Russian regime and is therefore in great danger can apply for asylum because of political persecution. Practice decision-making by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has already been adjusted accordingly."
Federal Minister of Justice Mark Buschmann added that "everyone who hates Putin's way and loves liberal democracy is very welcome in Germany."
19:09 Between Ukraine and Russia there was the largest exchange of prisoners since the beginning of a full-scale war. About who won more in it - in the material Big exchange .
18:40 Blinken said the US will continue to support Ukraine as it defends itself, strengthening its position to reach a diplomatic solution at the negotiating table.
18:37 The Belarusian media write that draft draft evaders from Russia have begun to be caught in the country. Thus, the Belarusian security forces received a verbal order to monitor apartments that are rented out, contact their owners and monitor new cars on Russian numbers. Also, at the airport in Minsk, they began to check men with Russian passports.
18:34 Chinese Foreign Ministry calls for the resumption of direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev without preconditions.
18:08 The Finnish government considers it necessary to stop Russian tourism, as well as transit through the country, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said.
18:00 Zelensky signed a decree on the formation of a working group that will develop the issue of creating a special international tribunal for war crimes against Ukraine. The group was headed by the head of the OP Andrey Yermak.
17:33 Norway has officially suspended the visa facilitation agreement with the Russian Federation.
17:04 Zelensky held a meeting in Kiev with Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini.
16:27 At an enemy checkpoint in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, men aged 18 to 35 were not allowed out towards Zaporozhye today, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the goal of the occupiers is to mobilize men. Fedorov warned that a hunt for men is being prepared in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, just as it was in 2014 in the LDNR. "It is necessary now either to try to leave towards Zaporozhye, or choose an alternative route - towards Georgia through the temporarily occupied Crimea. There is little time left," Fyodorov warned.
16:22 The number of civilian casualties due to the Russian occupation of Izyum may exceed a thousand people, said Deputy Mayor Vladimir Matsokin: "Today we can say that such burials are not in one place, but at least in three ... And if at first we estimated that the number of civilian casualties in our community is a thousand people, I am afraid that this figure can only increase."
16:19 EU leaders may approve new measures against Russia at a meeting in Prague on October 6-7, writes Reuters.
16:02 The SBU intercepted the "DPR" documents regulating the involvement of minors in the "referendum". In this way, the invaders hope to expand their "electoral base." According to the materials received, the leaders of the occupation administration plan to involve local residents from 13 to 17 years old in pseudo-voting. In order to strengthen control over "turnout", minors should be accompanied to "polling stations" by parents, guardians or representatives of "orphanages".
Also, in order to cheat indicators of the pseudo-referendum, it is planned to involve families from the Donetsk region who have local registration, but temporarily left for the Russian Federation. The relevant documents are prepared by the local "CEC".
15:47 The forests of the Kiev region cannot be visited for at least another year because of the mines left there. These territories would have been cleared of mines faster, but now the sappers have been sent to the Kharkiv region, where there is more work, said Roman Primush, deputy head of the State Emergency Service.
15:39 The G7 countries do not recognize Russia's pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine, new sanctions will be introduced in response, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said after a meeting of G7 ministers in New York: "Any referendums held under the conditions of the Russian military presence, intimidation and forced deportation cannot be free or fair".
The G7 emphasizes that any annexation of Ukrainian territory will be a gross violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and the UN Charter. The ministers called on all states to condemn pseudo-referendums and not recognize their results.
15:34 The Latvian parliament approved amendments according to which Russians will not be extended residence permits on the grounds that they have real estate and investments in Latvia, and will not be issued work visas. Residence permits already issued to Russians will now only be valid until September 1, 2023, and in order to renew them, you will need to confirm your knowledge of Latvian.
15:27 Russian media published a photo of the ballot at the "referendum" in the Zaporozhye region. "Voters" are offered to answer three questions at once: do they support secession from Ukraine, the formation of an independent state by the Zaporozhye region and joining the Russian Federation.
14:43 The closed clause of Putin's decree says that up to 1 million people need to be mobilized, the Russian edition Novaya Gazeta reports, citing a source in the Russian presidential administration. According to him, at first they wanted to put the entire text of the decree under the heading “for official use”, but later only one item was classified. "The figure was corrected several times and, as a result, settled on a million," the source said.
14:18 "Mayor" of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin reported six dead in the shelling of the covered market, six more people were injured.
14:16 Aksyonov promised the Crimeans called up as part of "partial mobilization" a one-time payment of 200 thousand rubles.
14:10 Pushilin said that it was he who concluded an agreement with the Ukrainian side on the exchange of prisoners. He also confirmed Medvedchuk's release. According to the leader of the "DNR", out of 55 prisoners released by the Ukrainian side, five people are from Donbass, the rest are servicemen from the Russian Federation.
13:48 Ukrainian male students who study abroad can no longer travel abroad during martial law, Andriy Demchenko, a representative of the State Border Service, said in a commentary to LIGA. According to him, since September 14, the top military leadership has canceled the possibility of male students crossing the Ukrainian border due to massive forgery of documents. In July-August alone, about 600 people were identified at the border who used fake documents about studying in foreign educational institutions.
13:32 Peskov, when asked by journalists whether the "special operation" can be called a "war" after the announcement of partial mobilization, answered: "No, this is a special military operation."
13:13 The SBU reported suspicion to a metropolitan blogger who filmed provocative streams for the Russian media discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He filmed the video during the movement of military convoys or vehicles of Ukrainian defenders on the territory of the capital region. In his streams, the blogger insulted the Ukrainian military, and also tried to record their faces and car license plates. The media write that we are talking about the founder of the road accident Kiev UA resource, Vlad Antonov.
12:59 Ukraine is working on the exchange of prisoners in the "all for all" format, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said.
12:54 "Mayor" of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin announced a missile attack in the area of the city administration along Artem Street. Also, according to him, as a result of the shelling of the covered market in the city center, there are many injured, there are dead.
12:37 In Melitopol, the invaders staged a terrorist attack in a crowded place in order to accuse the Ukrainian authorities of terror on the eve of the pseudo-referendum, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the explosion occurred at the Central Market of Melitopol, where there is always a large crowd of people. As a result of the explosion, six Russian servicemen were "injured", including liquidated.
12:26 This morning, the enemy inflicted nine attacks on Zaporozhye, including a hotel and a restaurant in the central park of the city. The object received significant damage, one person died, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh. Another rocket hit the TV tower. The old woman explained this by the fact that the enemy is preparing for a propaganda information campaign. The missile also hit a critical infrastructure energy facility. For a while, the backup generator had to be turned off, including in the regional hospital. The problem has already been solved, but the infrastructure still needs to be restored.
In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the bases of the Ukrainian military near Zaporozhye were allegedly destroyed.
12:18 North Korea has never supplied weapons to Russia and is not going to do so, North Korea's central telegraph agency said, citing an official from the country's Defense Ministry.
11:47 Aksyonov said that in three regions of Crimea today "electronic warfare systems were suppressed and Ukrainian military drones were shot down by air defense forces." Meanwhile, Ukrainian publics write that the Russians shot down their own drone in Dzhankoy.
11:20 Alain Delon will conduct an interview with Zelensky, French TV channel BFMTV reported. It will be shown on the French TV channel TV5 at 13:30 on Friday, September 23rd. This will be the 86-year-old's first public on-air appearance in over a year. For the past ten years, the artist has been retired. Earlier this week, the actor already expressed support for Ukraine in the war against Russia.
11:16 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have banned their citizens from participating in the war against Ukraine and warned that this is punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years, writes Anadolu.
11:07 Erdogan called the exchange of prisoners "an important step" towards ending the war. According to him, the exchange of prisoners took place as a result of negotiations with Putin and Zelensky, mediated by Turkey.
10:58 "Authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye region said that the explosion in Melitopol was "a terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services aimed at intimidating citizens on the eve of the referendum", three people were injured.
10:31 An explosion thundered in Melitopol, previously in the central market area, according to the occupying "authorities" of the Zaporozhye region.
10:25 British intelligence believes that Russia is likely to face logistical and administrative problems in mobilizing 300,000 people. According to analysts, the Russian Federation will try to assemble new formations with a large number of mobilized reservists, who are unlikely to be combat-ready for several months. And even this limited mobilization is likely to be extremely unpopular with part of the Russian population. Putin is taking significant political risks in the hope of building much-needed combat power, the intelligence says.
Also, the British Ministry of Defense believes that this step by Putin "is in fact a recognition that Russia has exhausted the supply of volunteers who want to fight in Ukraine."
10:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of September 22. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Donetsk directions.
personnel - about 55,510 (+400) people liquidated,
tanks - 2236 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 4776 (+28),
artillery systems - 1341 (+1),
MLRS - 318 (+0),
air defense systems - 169 (+1),
aircraft - 253 (+0),
helicopters - 218 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 941 (+9),
cruise missiles - 240 (+1),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3630 (+20),
special equipment - 125 (+0).
10:03 The FSB announced that it allegedly prevented an attempt by "Ukrainian special services" to commit a terrorist attack at an "oil and gas complex facility that supplies energy" to Turkey and Europe. A Russian "recruited by the SBU" in Ukraine and four more Russians - "accomplices of the Ukrainian special services" who ensured the "preparation of sabotage" - were detained.
10:01 The Russians destroyed the refrigerator cars with the bodies of their soldiers, hitting the station in Kharkov, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk.
09:59 The enemy hit Zaporozhye and the suburbs with nine missiles, said Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko. The hotel in the central park was damaged, there is significant damage, people remain under the rubble, rescuers are working. There is also a hit in an electrical substation and a TV tower.
09:57 At night, Nikolaev was subjected to massive rocket fire, previously by S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems. Damaged multi-storey buildings, gas pipeline, water supply, administrative buildings. Previously, without casualties and victims, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
09:52 In the Kharkiv region, not far from the village. Grakovo, Chuguevsky district, during the repair work, two employees of Kharkovoblenergo and one employee of the State Emergency Service were blown up by a mine. One of them died, two were hospitalized with injuries, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Over the past 24 hours, five people were wounded in the Kupyansky district, including a 13-year-old child, and one was wounded in the Kharkovsky district.
09:48 As of the evening of September 21, 338 bodies have already been exhumed in Izyum - 320 civilian and 18 military, the prosecutor's office said.
09:37 The Russians fired at night on the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. In Nikopol, as a result of shelling of the central quarters, one person was killed. In Krivoy Rog, a two-story building was on fire due to an attack by an enemy kamikaze drone, people were not injured.
09:18 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that partial mobilization in the Russian Federation will not affect the course of the war in the coming months. At the same time, such a move exposed the many problems that Russia is facing in its hesitant invasion of Ukraine, and which Moscow is unlikely to be able to resolve in the coming months. The mobilization of part of the Russian reserve may be enough to maintain the current level of the Russian armed forces in 2023 by compensating for Russian losses, according to analysts, although this is not obvious. In addition, Russian reservists are initially poorly trained and do not undergo retraining after the expiration of the conscription period.
Partial mobilization, therefore, will not deprive Ukraine of the opportunity to liberate more of its occupied territory during the winter, according to ISW.
08:58 In the morning, the enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye. Infrastructure facilities became the main target of the occupiers, residential buildings around were also damaged. According to preliminary information, it is known about one dead and five wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
08:36 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, five civilians were killed - two in Kurakhovo, one each in Bakhmut, Avdeevka and Karlovka. Another 12 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:40 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, Odradovka and Novomikhailovka, the General Staff said in the morning report .
06:09 The EU will introduce new sanctions against the leadership of Russia and people involved in organizing "referendums" in the "DPR", "LPR", Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to a statement by the EU foreign ministers, which was read out by Borrell. In addition, according to him, EU foreign ministers agreed to increase arms supplies to Ukraine.
02:17 The patronage service of Azov published a photo of the released defenders:
02:02 Zelensky at a meeting of the UN General Assembly presented the Ukrainian five-point peace formula: "First: punishing the aggressor. Second: protecting life. Third: restoring security and territorial integrity. Fourth: security guarantees. And fifth: decisiveness. We are ready for peace. "But to a fair and just world. That is why the whole world is with us... Russia wants war. But Russia cannot stop the course of history. Humanity and international law are stronger than one terrorist state. Russia will have to end this war. The war it start."
According to the president, the five commanders of the defenders of Mariupol will remain in Turkey until the end of the war - these are the terms of the exchange. In Turkey, they will be under the personal protectorate of the Turkish president and in comfortable conditions. They will also have the opportunity to meet in person.
01:59 A complete list of released Ukrainian servicemen has appeared online . Of the 215 people - 124 officers.
01:37 Zelensky commented on the exchange of prisoners: "This is definitely a victory for our state, for the whole society. And most importantly, for 215 families who will be able to see their loved ones in safety. Hero of Ukraine Yevhen Bova. Hero of Ukraine Lev Pashko. Hero of Ukraine Denis Prokopenko. A total of 108 fighters of Azov, 188 heroes of Azovstal and Mariupol. Eight were wounded during the Russian terrorist attack in Yelenovka. A total of 215 heroes! These are the soldiers of the National Guard, our army, the Navy, others. Once again, I thank everyone who realized this victory for Ukraine."
01:03 Yermak spoke about a large exchange of prisoners, which took place in several stages and in different locations. Ukraine returned 215 people from Russian captivity - "these are the military, border guards, policemen, sailors, National Guardsmen, Troshniks, customs officers, civilians ... Among them are officers, commanders, Heroes of Ukraine, defenders of Azovstal and pregnant military women ."
"Denis Prokopenko "Redis", Sergei Volynsky "Volyn", Svyatoslav Palamar, Denis Shlega, Oleg Khomenko - commanders from Azovstal - they are already safe. This is the result of personal agreements between President Zelensky and President Erdogan," Yermak wrote. He also confirmed the release of ten foreigners who fought for Ukraine and were threatened with death - they are already in the city of Riyadh.
" We exchanged 200 of our heroes for Medvedchuk , who has already given all possible evidence to the investigation. And the five heroes-commanders of Azovstal - for 55 Russian prisoners who are of no interest to us," Yermak added.
00:12 Putin announced partial mobilization. Partial mobilization can become massive at any moment, experts warn
Exclusive: Ukraine’s military has grabbed dozens of tanks left by fleeing Russian troops in the east, adding crucial weaponry to its arsenal https://t.co/N0SBt9jUrd
One of the people put the number of tanks captured around 200, without specifying how many of those were operational or able to be repaired. At least some were destroyed. https://t.co/N0SBt9ksgLpic.twitter.com/QsyvxoX6nV
[An Nahar] Kremlin-installed officials in Ukrainian regions controlled by Moscow's forces vowed on Thursday to press ahead with polls this week on annexation by Russia, after world leaders condemned the votes and said the results would be void.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was expected to defend what Ukraine's allies are calling an unlawful land grab, during a U.N. Security Council meeting called by La Belle France over rights abuses in Ukraine.
Four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine -- Donetsk and Lugansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south -- announced that they would hold the votes over five days, beginning on Friday.
Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed head of Kherson, which fell early into the Russian invasion, said the referendum would go ahead in his region regardless of the criticism.
"The date has been set. We have the green light. Voting begins tomorrow and nothing can prevent this," he told Russian state-run media.
"People have been waiting and they're demanding that this vote is held soon," he added.
Western leaders convening in New York this week unanimously condemned the ballots.
Speaking at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... accused 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... of "shamelessly" violating the U.N. Charter with a war aimed at "extinguishing Ukraine's right to exist as a state."
- DOOR-TO-DOOR VOTING -
The integration of the war-scarred regions into Russia would represent a major escalation of the conflict, as Moscow could then try to say it was defending its own territory from Ukrainian forces.
After the votes were announced by his proxy officials in Ukraine, Putin announced that Russia would call up some 300,000 reservists to bolster the war effort and cautioned that Moscow would use "all means" to protect its territory.
Former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said in a statement on social media that those means included "strategic nuclear weapons". He predicted the voting regions "will integrate into Russia."
For most observers, the results of the concurrent votes are already a foregone conclusion and were rushed because Ukrainian forces were making sweeping gains in a counter-offensive to recapture the east.
The referendums are reminiscent of a similar ballot in 2014 that saw the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine annexed by Russia. Western capitals said the vote was fraudulent and hit Moscow with sanctions in response.
Election officials in the Donetsk region, which has been partially controlled since 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists, said that voting would take place door-to-door for the first days. But it would only be possible in polling stations on the final day, Tuesday.
Putin's move this week to call up reservists for Ukraine sparked small protests across Russia, resulting in more than 1,300 people being detained.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/23/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
Old skool voting like a town in Switzerland uses: they plant a ceremonial sword in the middle of the field and the 'AYE' votes line up on one side and the 'NAY" on the other.
In this case the Russians dig a burial pit on the 'NAY' side ...less work after the 'vote'.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:56 Aerospace forces of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 150 Ukrainian military and mercenaries in the Zaporozhye region with high-precision weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. 23:33 Ukrainian artillery fired 13 shells at Energodar and the territory adjacent to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in a day, the Russian military suppressed enemy units with return fire. The radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP is normal, the Ministry of Defense clarified.
23:09 Russian air defense systems shot down 37 shells of Ukrainian HIMARS and Alder multiple launch rocket systems, as well as 17 drones, in a day.
22:51 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed up to 100 militants and up to 20 units of military equipment, including the installation of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the Kharkov region. Up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers were also killed there as they tried to cross the Oskol River.
22:38 Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery hit a platoon of MLRS HIMARS in the Nikolaev region.
22:18 In Kherson, four saboteurs were detained who were planning terrorist attacks on civilian facilities to disrupt the referendum and intimidate residents, another one of the saboteurs resisted during the arrest and was liquidated, the GUMVD for the region reported.
19:05 Our gunners in the Kursk region gave the Armed Forces a good light in response to the shelling of border villages. Coverings in the Sumy region.
17:28 The SBU was preparing an assassination attempt on the head of the Zaporozhye region, involving ordinary citizens - RIA Novosti with reference to a resident of Melitopol detained by the security forces.
17:23 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are currently firing mortars at the border village of Elizavetovka, Kursk region, the governor said.
13:10 In Melitopol, as a result of a Ukrainian terrorist attack, 6 civilians were wounded.
11:34 Today, in three regions of the Republic of Crimea, the UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed by electronic warfare systems and shot down by air defense forces, the situation is under complete control - the head of Crimea Aksyonov.
11:05 In Melitopol, an explosion occurred near the central market. The explosion occurred in a clothing store, injured 3 people, their lives are not in danger, according to the authorities of the region. The terrorists are trying to intimidate people before the referendum.
11:02 During the days of the referendum on the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can strike with NATO precision weapons - the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region.
09:56 The FSB prevented an attempt by the Ukrainian special services to commit a terrorist attack at the “oil and gas complex facility that supplies energy” to Turkey and Europe. A Russian recruited by the SBU in Ukraine has been detained. In addition, four accomplices of the Ukrainian special services, who provided preparations for the sabotage, were detained.
09:35 The Ukrainian authorities, having given the order to resume the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, are seeking its complete decommissioning - Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.
09:04 Ukrainian special forces continue to thin out. It became known that the Russian army killed a junior sergeant of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Maxim Dnestryan. Location, date and circumstances of death are unknown.
08:03 In the morning, a rocket attack was carried out in Zaporozhye, it is reported that the light went out in several areas.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFrontInfo] 20:33 As a result of today's shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, seven civilians were killed and eight more people were injured.
20:32 As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Akhmatova in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man was wounded. 20:31 AFU killed a civilian on Kievsky Ave. in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
20:11 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 22, receivedadditionalinformation on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kyiv district:
- a girl born in 2003 died.
Kirovsky district:
- a man born in 1992 was wounded.
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
- a 5-month-old child was injured (as a result of shelling on 21.09.2022)
As of 20:00, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on September 22, 2022 is 15 people (seven died, including a teenager born in 2008, eight injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- 46 Kyiv Ave. - office building, Avoska store, Basilik cafe - a fire was recorded.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- st. Yakub Kolas, 7 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Shashurina, 15 "a" - Autocooperative "Kometa".
As of today, as of 20:00, the enemy fired 253 unit of ammunition of various types, including 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad", as well as artillery caliber155mm and 152mm.
19:40 As a result of the evening shelling of the territory of the Kirovsky district, a man born in 1992 was wounded in the courtyard of his own house.
19:27 T-90s are crushing Ukrainian fortifications in the Maryinsk direction. Tankers of the 291st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Southern Military District are methodically destroying the enemy fortified areas near Maryinka, using modern equipment - T-90 tanks.
18:20 Kyiv district of Donetsk as a result of the shelling, a girl was killed, there are hits on residential buildings.
17:44 st. Polygraphic, Kyiv district - a direct hit on the house, opposite the bus stop, landmark - "Avoska". The fire started.
17:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): 6 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:30 The exact number of foreign observers at the referendum in the DPR on joining Russia and the list of countries from which they will arrive will be made public after the start of voting - the CEC of the DPR.
17:20 According to the DPR JCCC, over the past half hour, Ukrainian nationalists fired nine rounds with a caliber of 155mm in the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of the city. Arrivals were recorded in the area of Railway Station Square and near the administration of the Kievsky district. Information about damage and casualties is being specified.
17:15 Those who died during the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district:
- a young man born in 2008;
- girl born in 2008;
- a man 38 years old;
- woman born in 1982;
- unknown man (approximately 45 years old);
- unknown woman (age impossible to determine).
Alexey Kulemzin
17:12 The Central Election Commission of the DPR announced its full readiness to hold a referendum.
16:26 Additional information was received about five more victims of the shelling of the Covered Market:
- women born in 1953, 1963, 1973, 1982;
- man born in 1979
All the wounded are provided with qualified assistance in the medical institutions of the city.
16:07 Due to the danger of hostilities in the village. Abakumov in the Kirovsky district, the movement of bus route No. 41 was temporarily suspended. Until the situation stabilizes, traffic will be carried out along a shortened route to the Lidievka Mine stop.
15:42 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:31 Residents of the LPR are ready to say "YES" to Russia at the upcoming referendum. Agitation of youth activists - members of the "Volunteers for Russia" movement on the streets of Lugansk for participation in the referendum on the entry of the LPR into the Russian Federation.
15:15 The head of the DPR said that the area of the Covered Market in Donetsk was fired on today with 155mm rounds, presumably with the use of a French-made CAESAR howitzer - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Rossiya 24.
15:10 According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, six dead and seven injured as a result of the shelling of the center of Donetsk. Unfortunately, these data can still be supplemented - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Rossiya 24.
15:00 In the future, as soon as there is an opportunity to get our guys out, we will do it - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Rossiya 24.
14:46 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 22, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district):
According to preliminary data, six civilians were killed, another six people were injured of varying severity.
Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Voroshilovsky district:
- st. Chelyuskintsev - hitting the tramway opposite the flower pavilions, minibus No. 38 was damaged;
- st. Artem, 133 "in" - a direct hit on the pool of the Donetsk National Technical University;
- bul. Shevchenko, 6 "b" - direct hits on the territory of the Central Market.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Akhmatova, 40 - a fire was recorded in a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- st. Picturesque, 46 - Michurinsk penal colony No. 57.
13:40 Pushilin on the exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine:
I understand the feelings and emotions of everyone, but I signed the decree, proceeding from the fact that the lives of our guys are most important.
The head of the DPR said that 215 people were handed over to the Ukrainian side, some of them were representatives of the national battalions.
13:20 In Donetsk, when hitting the Covered Market, 6 people were killed, including a girl born in 2008, six people were injured.
13:00 According to preliminary data, at least 5 people were killed during the shelling of the Covered Market. The data is being specified.
12:42 Donetsk under massive shelling, the blows fell on the covered market and in the Donetsk City area - the mayor.
12:31 According to preliminary information, as a result of the shelling of the Covered Market in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, there are dead and wounded.
12:27 An arrival was recorded in the area of ????the city administration of Donetsk on the street. Artem.
According to the JCCC, the fire on the city center is being conducted from the settlement. Orlovka. five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired in the Voroshilovsky district.
12:17 Attention! The center of Donetsk is under intense shelling from the Ukrainian fascists. Voroshilovsky, Kyiv and Kalininsky districts under shelling.
A hit was recorded at the entrance of the building of the Covered Market, arrivals in the Donetsk City area are reported. The fire is carried out from heavy artillery with a caliber of 155mm. The shelling continues. Be careful. Don't go outside unless absolutely necessary.
12:04 The Nazis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the Nikolaevsky bridge in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
11:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: on the settlement. Lisichansk using MLRS HIMARS (4 missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
11:30 As a result of the shelling of the village of Gurty (Kalininsky district of Gorlovka), houses on Krasnoyarskaya Street were damaged by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Houses were also damaged at the following addresses: st. Krasnoyarskaya, 8a, st. Krasnoyarskaya, 1, st. Krasnoyarskaya, 1a.
11:13 AFU are shelling the city of Uglegorsk, its outskirts. Residents are asked not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary. If necessary, move to cover.
11:12 The forces of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated Zhovanka in the Artemovsky district - the headquarters of the DPR's territorial defense.
11:04 Leninsky district of Donetsk arrivals in the area of the TV station.
10:25 Kyiv district of Donetsk remains under enemy fire. At 10:00 Ukrainian fascists fired three more 155mm rounds.
09:39 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
09:10 Destruction command post in the Avdievka area. The DPR special forces figured out the car on which the commanders moved, following it, they determined the house in which the headquarters was located. Then the artillery came into play.
09:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Friendship - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): seven rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
08:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Friendship - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): seven rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
08:37 Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on September 21 to 08:00 on September 22, as a result of shelling of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, one person was killed and seven more civilians were injured.
08:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Netailovo - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
08:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Kramotorsk - n.p. Enakievo: five missiles were fired from the MLRS "HIMARS".
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Last night, an exchange of prisoners of war between the Russian and Ukrainian sides took place.
The commander of Azov and his deputy Denis Prokopenko "Radis" and Svyatoslav Polomar "Kalina" returned from Russian captivity. They also report the release of Volyn and Chemist. They were exchanged for 55 Russian servicemen. Apparently, this is all that was captured during the "regrouping" in the Kharkov direction.
They also canceled Medvedchuk, for 200 Ukrainian soldiers.
No. You have to release yours. But this process must always be done correctly.
A simple example. The exchange fund on the Russian side is still about tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers. For Medvedchuk, no matter how much you don’t give a damn about him (he’s nobody), if hypothetically, okay - exchange for 200 SIMPLE VSUshnikov and Teroboronists, with the condition that they will never again participate in hostilities - you can.
Give those exactly. However, there are not ordinary APUs. judging by the photo, at least a very significant part of them are dung.
Next moment. How did you meet the dung beetles? "Kvartal 95" that same evening met those with fanfare and spotlights, hundreds of photos on social networks. The Russian side, God forbid, if today or tomorrow shows the rescued, they will show it from the side, from behind. And in a week, when the topic has already come to naught due to many new events, one or two interviews will be shown.
Why once again bloggers, military correspondents, point to such things? Not because we are interested in it, but because it is impossible to hush it up. There is a recognition of the problem - it is solved. No recognition of the problem - it will never be solved.
Recently (also writing as an example) numerous questions have been raised, including:
- and a terrible shortage of UAVs at the front, although we have the most advanced and unparalleled in development, but they are not at the front. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supplied with everything by NATO, have;
- and the insufficient number of groups used in Ukraine, when it comes to the fact that in the offensive we knock out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions with smaller forces, but there is no one to consolidate the success. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have an army of 700 thousand, plus other power structures, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have the entire participating group - up to 150 thousand people
- and the absence of military correspondents at the front, thank God, this was decided not in the first days, but in two weeks)
- and so on.
These and other issues, after a period of non-recognition and resistance, were nevertheless recognized. Some have been resolved, some are already being actively resolved.
But in terms of the information component, the Ministry of Defense, where that cart was, practically remained there. But it is worth recognizing that the work of the information front on the part of the state apparatus is absolutely unsatisfactory, for a deuce with a minus. From the Russian side, it is now being pulled out only by military correspondents and, surprisingly, bloggers.
Above, as it were, they should understand that attending the information war is obligatory. The information field does not physically accept vacuum. You will not actively fill it with information, moreover, with positively truthful information, there is enough of it, this field will instantly be occupied by the enemy with his PR and throwing in a lot of information, actively seasoning it with fake information.
In conclusion, I will cite the opinion of Daniil Bezsonov, previously known in the militia under the call sign Goodwin, now the Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR. In my opinion, it is the most emotionally sustained, but to the point and sharply illuminates the topic.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Those who are necessary to complete the tasks will be called up - these are, of course, shooters, tankers, artillerymen, drivers, driver-mechanics
2. As such, there is no call-up order from the reserve, but priority is given to those who have suitable military registration specialties
3. The number of those called up is determined by the regular needs of completed military units.
4. One of the main factors is the availability of combat experience.
5. Both officers and privates and sergeants will be called up.
6. Under the law, privates and sergeants under 35 years of age, junior officers are subject to conscription for mobilization up to 50, seniors up to 55.
7. There are positions that can be filled by women with relevant military specialties, for example, medical workers - but the need for such specialists is minimal
8. In accordance with the law, the following will not be called up:
• reserved citizens, these include employees of defense industry enterprises
• recognized as temporarily unfit for health reasons
• engaged in constant care for a family member or group I disabled
• having 4 or more dependent children in under the age of 16
• those whose mothers, in addition to them, have 4 or more children under the age of 8 and raise them without a husband preparation"
10. If a military pensioner, regardless of belonging to law enforcement agencies, is retired (over 65 years of age or for health reasons) and removed from the military register, he is not subject to conscription for mobilization
11. Quotas for the number of those called up from the reserve are not set based on volumes of the available mobilization reserve, each region has a separate mobilization task, it depends on the number of citizens on military registration in the region of residence in Russia is registered with the military, can be called up.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] G7 foreign ministers have said they will pursue further sanctions against Russia, following President Vladimir Putin’s move to mobilize reservists for the war in Ukraine.
Ministers from the Group of Seven “deplored deliberate Russian escalatory steps, including the partial mobilization of reservists and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric,” they said in a statement on Wednesday night.
For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
The G7 would “pursue further targeted sanctions and are committed to sustained economic and political pressure on Russia,” they said after a meeting on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly.
“We will study, we will adopt, new restrictive measures, both personal and sectoral,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who attended the meeting, told reporters earlier on Wednesday after a meeting with his European colleagues.
The G7 ministers from Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union’s top diplomat, also condemned a plan to hold “sham referenda on sovereign Ukrainian territory” in the occupied Donbas.
The voting “cannot be free or fair” while Russian forces are present, they added.
The ministers repeated a pledge made at the beginning of September to “finalize preparations” for the implementation of a price cap on Russian oil.
They also called on Russia to “hand back the control” to Ukraine of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been the target of strikes in recent weeks.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/23/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
Posted by: Fred ||
09/23/2022 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
#1
Finland said Wednesday it is preparing a national solution to "limit or completely prevent" tourism from Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
"This national solution may include new legislation, which would be adopted very quickly," Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told a press conference.
Finland drastically limited tourist visas for Russians in September.
"Finland does not want to be a country that is a transit country for Schengen visas issued by other countries either," Haavisto said.
The Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania — which border Russia — have already toughened their own visa rules leaving Finland as Russia's last EU neighbor for Schengen visa holders to transit through.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
09/23/2022 7:25 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Wise move. Why poke the Russian Bear without a well thought out plan? Comparing American Vietnam War draft dodgers to Canada and Russian 'mobilization' evaders -- rather doubt Putin will be as passive as LBJ... Also, after the Spetznatz 'tourists' to Crimea in 2014 who would want a large number of military age Russians crossing the border...?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Jerusalem Post] When Vladimir Putin decided to start rebuilding the Soviet Union by conquering Ukraine, he didn’t realize that Russia’s industrial base was too weak to support his military adventures. As his promises of international greatness clash with reality on the battlefield, he faces discontent and accusations of defeatism and, worse, treason. 
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
[DAILYSABAH] Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said all means could be used to defend territories "incorporated" into Russia from Ukraine.
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
