[Youtube] Sept 20, 2022 Also shown: what is claimed to be an abandoned Russian position — rows of full backpacks and equipment left behind when they fled.
[Radio Free Europe] Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a partial military mobilization in Russia as his invasion of Ukraine nears seven months and Kyiv regains territory in its counteroffensive.
Putin also warned the West that "it's not a bluff" that Russia would use all the means at its disposal to protect its territory.
Putin's address, broadcast to the nation on September 21, comes a day after Russian-occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to hold votes on being incorporated into Russia, triggering outrage and condemnations not only in Kyiv but from much of the international community.
Analysts say the Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukrainian successes on the battlefield.
The referendums, which have been expected to take place since the first months of the war, will start on September 23 in the Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, and Donetsk regions.
In his address, Putin accused the West of engaging in "nuclear blackmail" and claimed, without providing proof, that "high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states" had allegedly made statements "about the possibility of using nuclear weapons of mass destruction against Russia."
"To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries. When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal," Putin said, adding, "It's not a bluff."
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From the Facebook page of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots:
⚡️Putin announced partial mobilization:
The conscription to military service will be subject only to citizens who are currently in the reserves and primarily those who have served in the Armed Forces, have certain military accounting specialties and relevant experience.
Conscripted to military service will necessarily undergo additional military training, given the experience of special military operations before sending to units.
The mobilization activities are starting today.
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Russian business paper RBC says that all tickets for direct flights today and tomorrow from Moscow to Istanbul, Yerevan, Tashkent and Baku have sold out
Sounding like Obama is not the mark of a strong, confident leader.
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....These are reports I'm seeing from some folks I consider reliable:
Sept 21 (Reuters) - One-way flights out of Russia were selling out fast on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin ordered the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists.
Direct flights from Moscow to Istanbul in Turkey and Yerevan in Armenia, both destinations that allow Russians to enter without a visa, were sold out on Wednesday, according to Aviasales data.
MOSCOW'S MOBILIZATION:
Muscovites have reported the following:
'A military patrol is already walking down Lenin Street, stopping people and issuing summonses. Beware!'
'They just took three guys from Lermontov Street and put them into a military detachment.'
Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow releases a statement warning Kyrgyz citizens to stay away from Russian army recruiters and contact the embassy if they’ve received draft notices
Reported that in Russian social media people have started calling the ”mobilizatsiya” (mobilization) ”mogilizatsiya” instead. ”Mogila” is Russian for grave.
Starting to remember the definition of a Russian Comedy.
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Criteria for Russian mobilization:
1. Who served.
2. Who has a military specialty that is needed now (which one is needed now is classified).
3. And most importantly. Who has BATTLE EXPERIENCE.
Kinda narrows down the 1 million number even more, esp #3.
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If they're grabbing people off the street, it argues against a selective mobilization.
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One of the reasons to annex Kherson and Zaporizhzhya is so the Russians can draft the men like they do in Donbass.
Was watching a video of a Donbass girl complaining there were no men left in her town, only 14-15 year old boys. This is widespread throughout the Donbass and kills 2 birds with one stone for the Kremlin. Cannon fodder for the Russians and a conquered land denuded of men that the Russians can colonize with proper Russians.
"A veteran infantryman is a terrified infantryman."
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Everyone has been talking about how winter is going to be super-harsh in a Europe without fuel.
Nobody is talking about how harsh it will be for troops in the field. If the Ukrainians make vodka available to be found half the Russian military may freeze to death during the winter.
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Because the British disinformation office don’t told you the reasons regarding Putin speech. I think that Russia doesn't have a problem with manpower because of casualty rates as most of their forces sit miles away from the front line in the artillery corps. Less than 6000 casualties versus close to 90000 dead Ukrainian
The problem is the 6 month tour of duty has finalised and many have taken the cash and do not want to return.
Also, the legal status of the Special Military Operation places strict parameters on who and how many regular Russian defence forces can be recruited.
Russia will need to change the legal status of the SMO and may need to start using their regular forces.
By conducting a referendums and including the dombas region into the territory of Russia it allows the regular defence forces to be mobilised.
I think this is the reason why President Putin made the announcement
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Their armies may be similar (big Soviet army vs small Soviet army), but the way each side fights the media war could not be more different. Simply put, the Russians lie by ommision, while the Ukrainians simply make things up Ghost of Kiev style. Which brings us to the casualty numbers...
Around 6K for the Russians is plausible. You do not have to be a moron to believe this, but you do need to know the trick: this is just the Russian forces and does not include the LPR & DPR militias who have been handling the bulk infantry combat in the Donbas while the Russians run the artillery further back from the front. We look at this as Rus vs Ukr, but from a combat point of view, it is Rus + LPR + DPR vs Ukr*.
I have not seen reliable numbers for DPR/LPR casualties.
[WSJ] It was late February, and the Russians, from an elite airborne unit, were riding atop their vehicles, as if expecting a warm greeting. One wore a Cossack woolen hat instead of a helmet. Another hadn’t loaded his rifle.
The few dozen Ukrainians from the towns of Irpin and Bucha had other intentions, which they had written on the cement mixer and bulldozer that blocked the road: "Welcome to hell."
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....There won't be a referendum, and they know it. There might be an announcement along the lines of, "Hey, we had a vote after lunch and everybody wants to be Russian."
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I see a good future for this sort of thing. Red areas can hold referenda and report to blue cities that they have been declared independent as a result of the vote and will now be on their own.
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[Vesti] The enemy continues to focus on attempts to completely occupy the Donetsk region , organize defense and hold the occupied territories , as well as disrupt the active operations of the Defense Forces in certain areas. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Tuesday, September 20.
Over the current day, the Russian military occupiers launched seven missile and 20 air strikes, carried out more than 15 attacks from the MLRS on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine. As a result of the terrorist actions of the Russian troops , the infrastructure of more than 20 settlements was damaged during the current day.
Among them are Slavyansk, Seversk, Soledar, Bakhmut, Ugledar, Stepnoe, Nikopol and Ochakov. In the village of Pechenegy, the Russians tried to destroy the dam of the Pechenegsky reservoir , but to no avail. However, "the threat of air and missile strikes by the enemy on the entire territory of Ukraine remains."
In the Volyn and Polessky directions, the situation is unchanged. In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and artillery of various calibers:
in the Seversky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Mikhailovo and Guta Studenetskaya of the Chernihiv region and Novovasilovka and Ryasnoe of the Sumy region;
in the Slobozhansky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Kazachya Lopan, Strelecha, Glubokoe, Dergachi, Figolovka, Dvurechnaya, Shevchenkovo, Kupyansk and Kamenka;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Yarovaya, Prishib, Donetsk, Serebryanka, Shchurovo, Raygorodok, Ozernoe, Curve Luka, Nikolaevka, Seversk, Ivano-Daryevka, Razdolevka, Aleksandrovka and Grigorievka;
in the Bakhmut direction - Verkhnekamennoye, Vyemka, Spirna, Veseloye, Belogorovka, Yakovlevka, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Veselaia Dolina, Odradovka, Nikolaevka Second, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk and New York;
in the Avdeevsky direction - Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Novomikhailovka, Pervomayskoye;
in the Zaporizhia direction - Novoselka, Novopol, Vremovka, Bolshaya Novoselka, Ugledar, Novomayorskoe, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Gulyaipole, Malinovka, Krasnoye, Dorozhnyanka, Maly Shcherbaki, Malaya Tokmachka and Kamenskoe.
in the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction , more than 25 settlements were subjected to shelling by the enemy, incl. Vysokopole, Mirolyubovka, Novogrigorovka, Belogorka, Blagodativka, Shirokoe, Zarya, Shevchenkovo, Ternovye Pody, Pravdino, Mirna and Aleksandrovka.
As a result of the successful actions of the units of the Defense Forces in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, the enemy continues to suffer significant losses. Medical institutions in the city of Gorlovka are overcrowded with seriously wounded servicemen of the Russian Federation.
In addition, from the territory of the Kherson region to the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region, two large trucks with the bodies of those killed from the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces were moved. Quantity is specified.
Due to the unsuccessful conduct of covert mobilization, the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation decided to withdraw the units of the 217th Parachute Regiment from the territory of Syria and their further preparation for transfer to the territory of Ukraine.
The units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye, Kurdyumovka, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka.
During the current day , aviation of the Defense Forces hit 12 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment and one position of an anti-aircraft missile system . Our air defense units destroyed one enemy UAV. During the current day, missile forces and artillery inflicted fire damage on 30 enemy targets , in particular, on 17 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, 10 areas of concentration of artillery, as well as on three ammunition depots.
September 20 is the 209th 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 .
[Vesti] September 20 is the 209th 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:
During the day, the Russian Federation launched 10 missile and 15 air strikes, carried out more than 56 shelling with MLRS in Ukraine.
Measures of the so-called "mobilization" in the territories occupied by the Russians are continuing. A ban was introduced for men to leave Crimea without the permission of the military commissariats.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mayorsk, Veseloye, Kurdyumovka and Novomikhailovka.
Aviation of the Defense Forces hit 24 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Russian Federation, 4 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems and one ammunition train. Air defense units destroyed a Su-25 aircraft, a guided missile and three Russian UAVs.
Rocket troops and artillery fired at 16 Russian targets in a day.
Dnipropetrovsk region . The Russians attacked the Nikopol, Marganets and Krasnogrigoryevsk communities 5 times with Grads and heavy artillery. More than 100 shells were fired at cities and villages.
8:00 a.m. Donetsk region . At night, the Russians fired on Bakhmut. Three entrances collapsed in one house. Two people can be under the rubble. Rescuers are on the scene.
Zaporozhye region. Two loud explosions are reported in Melitopol.
9:00 a.m. Nikolaev region . The Russians fired on Ochakov . The blows were applied to the aqua zone and the coastal zone. There were no casualties.
Kharkov region . At night, a missile attack was carried out on an infrastructure facility in the Chuguevsky district . No casualties.
9:30 a.m. Ukraine and Russia have agreed on the exchange of 200 prisoners of war , said Turkish President Erdogan.
11:40 am . Ukraine returned the bodies of 25 defenders .
12:15 pm . "Referendum" on the entry of the Kherson region into Russia will be held as soon as possible, according to Russian media.
14:00 . The “referendum” on the entry of the “LPR” and “DPR” into the Russian Federation will be held from September 23 to 27, according to Russian media.
15:00 . Zaporozhye region . There are reports of shelling and arrivals in Energodar in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant .
15:30 . "Referendum" in the Kherson region will also be held on September 23-27, Russian media reported.
The Russians are planning to rename the Zaporizhia region into "Zaporozhye region" in case of joining the Russian Federation.
17:00 The media write that the Elysee Palace urgently requested Macron's telephone conversations with Putin.
17:30 In the Kharkiv region, war crimes continue to be recorded in the liberated territory from Russian invaders. Fleeing, the invaders repeated what had been done near Kyiv in the spring. In particular, in the Kharkiv region, it was recorded that the Russians killed Ukrainian civilians, and these are not rare cases. The surviving occupiers will certainly bear responsibility for their deeds.
17:51 The "referendum" in the Zaporizhia region will include the question of secession from Ukraine, the formation of an independent state and its entry into Russia. This is reported by the Russian media.
18:08 Putin and Shoigu can make video messages about pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine - Russian media write about this. What exactly they plan to say is not reported.
18:55 The European Union has handed over thermal imaging equipment to border guards to monitor the border in the amount of almost 500 thousand euros. Currently, EU assistance to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has already reached 1.5 million euros.
19:15 The White House has information that Putin may be preparing to announce mobilization. This was stated by Biden's assistant for national security John Sullivan. At the same time, the Pentagon made it clear that the "referenda" in the Donbass will not affect the support of Ukraine by the United States.
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vesele, Kurdyumovka, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka. The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:45 It is reported that "in the event of a declaration of war, Belarus will be obliged to support Russia - this is implied by collective agreements between states"
19:59 Putin's address will be released around 20:00. Shoigu will probably speak right behind him, Russian media report.
A massive missile strike was inflicted on the Zaporozhye region. Several settlements suffered at once, - said the head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA Alexander Starukh.
20:20 As a result of the rocket attack on the village of Grushevka, Kupyansky district, 2 people were killed. 9 civilians were injured, including 4 children. This was announced by the governor of the Kharkov region Oleg Sinegubov.
20:39 The White House has information that Putin may be preparing to announce mobilization. This was stated by Biden's assistant for national security John Sullivan. At the same time, the Pentagon made it clear that the "referenda" in the Donbass will not affect the support of Ukraine by the United States.
20:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vesyoloye, Kurdyumovka, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka. The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:11 It is reported that "in the event of a declaration of war, Belarus will be obliged to support Russia - this is implied by collective agreements between states"
21:39 The Russian authorities think that an illegal referendum will be able to stop HIMARS and the Armed Forces of Ukraine from destroying them on our lands. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, wrote about this on Twitter.
21:55 Germany does not recognize referendums on the entry of Donbass and the liberated territories into Russia - German Chancellor Scholz.
22:12 Russian troops are taking measures to regroup their forces, constantly conducting aerial reconnaissance. The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:30 Erdogan called on all countries to support the peace initiatives he proposes to resolve the conflict in Ukraine through diplomacy. He stated this at a session of the UN General Assembly.
22:52 Teenagers who sang the anthem of Ukraine were arrested in Mariupol. This was reported by the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, local residents informed the occupiers about "offences."
“Looking at all this, you understand that for the sake of such young men it is worth fighting for the city!” he wrote.
23:07 Advisor to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky Mikhail Podolyak said that the war in Ukraine will not end this winter
In an interview with Sky News, he noted that it would be a "mistake" to believe that the conflict will end in winter. "It will continue with the same intensity ," Podolyak added.
According to him, Kyiv keeps secret the next steps in the counteroffensive.
23:32 The RF Armed Forces have launched 7 missile and 20 air strikes on the territory of Ukraine over the current day and carried out more than 15 attacks from the MLRS. The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
00:00 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba said that referendums in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions will not change the position of Kiev and the Ukrainian authorities will continue hostilities.
" Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will continue to liberate them, no matter what they say in Russia ," Kuleba wrote on the social network.
00:21 Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak called the forthcoming referenda "blackmail".
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[Korrespondent] 22:43 Vereshchuk called on Ukrainians in the occupied territories not to participate in "referendums", not to take Russian passports and not to cooperate with Russian troops. At the same time, she noted that not everyone will be responsible for these actions. So, for obtaining a Russian passport, criminal liability awaits civil servants. Teachers who agreed to teach children according to Russian standards will also be punished.
22:41 Russia's plans to hold the so-called "referenda" on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in the West are perceived only as the agony of the Putin regime. More details in the material Parody without meaning .
22:35 Russian TV channels have removed Putin's evening speech from their announcements. According to some media reports, it is postponed until tomorrow.
22:30 No "referenda" will change Europe's position on Ukraine, European Parliament President Roberta Metzola said: "To be clear: no sham referendums will change Europe's position on Ukraine and its territorial integrity. It will also not change the fact that it is Russia invaded sovereign Ukraine. Europe is with Ukraine."
22:02 In Ukraine, several cases of the use of Iranian Shahed-136 drones by the enemy have already been recorded. The effectiveness of these weapons is being studied, counteraction is being organized, said Yury Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a commentary to the UP.
21:47 There will be no general mobilization in Russia, Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense and one of the authors of the amendments to introduce the concepts of “mobilization”, “martial law” and “wartime” into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “There will be no general mobilization. This has been said more than once and is being said directly by the president through his press secretary Dmitry Peskov and many other politicians at the federal level. "Law" is not the same as "mobilization". It is not adopted specifically for a special military operation, it is adopted in order to fulfill it for a long time."
21:16 Podolyak urged Ukrainians who are in the occupied territories to be vigilant and not provide their passport data to unauthorized persons. According to him, any participation in "referenda" will be qualified as an encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Podolyak also said that the world community should immediately and harshly respond to the attempt to annex the territory of Ukraine, increasing assistance with weapons and introducing new economic sectoral sanctions against Russia: "The Kremlin opposes the supply of modern tanks and ATACMS to Ukraine? It's time to give it."
21:01 Attacks in Kiev after the announcement of the results of the "referenda" will be regarded as aggression against Russia, Senator Olga Kovitidi said.
20:45 In the Kherson region, the Russians are stepping up their filtration measures: cases of "checks" of private houses and the abduction of civilians have become more frequent. So the Russians are trying to intimidate the local population in order to suppress resistance, said the head of the UVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine reported that two women were kidnapped in Kakhovka yesterday, one of them is journalist Zhanna Kiseleva, who previously headed the local publication Kakhovskaya Zarya.
20:41 Russia is losing at the front in Ukraine and is ready to take desperate steps to stop the development of the conflict, which is negative for itself. To quickly declare all the occupied territories to be Russia, and to prohibit unmotivated soldiers from surrendering under the threat of criminal cases, recruiting even more unmotivated soldiers along the way - such a simple plan is now being implemented in the Kremlin. At the same time, the Russians are very afraid of general mobilization. And what the Russian authorities may regard as a solution to the problem, on the contrary, may be the beginning of the end. More details - in the material Experts on "mobilization" in the Russian Federation .
20:30 Erdogan said in New York that he would never recognize the "referenda" that Russia would hold in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
20:14 A member of the "administration" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, said on Russian TV that "Zaporozhye region, following the results of voting on joining Russia, will declare independence within the existing administrative borders," that is, the entire region, including Zaporozhye itself.
19:59 Divisions of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye, Kurdyumovka, Nikolaevka Second, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka. In the village of Pechenegy, the invaders tried to destroy the dam of the Pechenegsky reservoir on the Seversky Donets River, but were unsuccessful, the General Staff said in an evening report .
19:55 Macron said that "referendums" will not have legal force. He also added that he expects to talk with Putin in the coming days.
19:38 Stoltenberg said that NATO will consider illegitimate the upcoming "referenda" on the accession of Ukrainian territories to Russia. In turn, the White House stressed that these "referendums" are an insult to the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity. The White House is also aware of reports that Putin may be preparing to call a mobilization, Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said.
19:04 As a result of today's shelling of the village of Grushevka, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region, two people were killed, nine were injured, including four children, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
18:38 The Rada adopted a bill to increase the border strip along the state border line to 2 km, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. According to the document, a special permissive border regime can be established in Ukraine within the two-kilometer zone.
18:35 The Kremlin, probably realizing that it will no longer advance in Ukraine, has decided to annex the territories that it managed to capture. For more details, see the article "Referendums" and "mobilization" in the Russian Federation: what is happening .
18:26 Erdogan held talks with Zelensky, the office of the President of Turkey said.
18:24 Germany does not recognize referendums on the entry of Ukrainian territories into Russia, Scholz said in New York: "It is clear that these fictitious referendums are unacceptable."
18:17 The occupiers took more than 2,000 Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation, Irina Vereshchuk said: "What we know from intelligence sources, we are talking about 2,161 children. This is as of September 1. These are children deprived of parental care, we call them" status children. "It is very difficult to say how many parental children. By the way, we have already returned 55 of them." According to the Deputy Prime Minister, now the task is to find the children who have been taken out and demand their return.
18:14 The Ukrainian flag was raised on the stele between the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
18:05 "The head" of the occupied Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said that it would be possible to vote at the "referendum" on September 23-26 without leaving home - there will be door-to-door bypass, and on September 27 - at the "polling stations". At the same time, there will be no online voting in the region - according to Balitsky, the region is not ready for this.
18:03 The US Department of Justice asked Congress to legalize the transfer of Russian assets to Ukraine, said the head of the ministerial working group on the application of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Andrew Adams.
17:59 The State Duma of the Russian Federation may consider the issue of "accepting new territories" immediately after the "referendums" as a matter of urgency, Oleg Morozov, head of the control committee, said.
17:50 Two more torture chambers were found in Kazachya Lopan, Kharkiv region - in the basements of the railway station and a local store, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
17:24 Arakhamia said that blackmail will not work with Ukraine: "During the six months of the war, Russia sent all its elite units to us. We were not afraid. As a result, some of these units no longer exist. Do they really think that Ukraine can be frightened by force Blackmail doesn't work here, just as the publicized Russian war machine doesn't work either.
17:16 The "authorities" of the occupied Zaporizhia region announced that the "referendum" will be held at the polling stations on Friday, September 23, and from September 23 to 27 - in settlements where there are no voting premises. The issue of secession from Ukraine, the formation of an independent state and its entry into Russia will be submitted to the "referendum".
16:50 The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation will organize polling stations in Russia for voting in "referendums" in the occupied Ukrainian regions, said Nikolai Bulaev, deputy head of the commission.
16:48 "Volunteers" of the "DPR" and "LPR" when the "republics" join Russia will become Russian military, said Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Duma Defense Committee.
16:46 Putin is going to speak today about "referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian media write, citing their sources.
16:44 Lukashenka instructed the Security Council to start preparing for defense in accordance with wartime standards: "The situation is very serious. I would even say dangerous. And in no case should we simplify. There is no need to be afraid of anything. We need to alert some military unit according to the norms of wartime - that means it is necessary.
16:40 "Referendum" in the Zaporozhye region on joining Russia will also be held on September 23-27 , said the "head" of the region Yevgeny Balitsky. He also said that he had signed a decree on the formation of "volunteer battalions".
16:37 In the colonies of the Rostov region, the voting of prisoners for the accession of the four occupied regions of Ukraine to Russia has already begun. This was reported by two sources of the Russian opposition publication We can explain in the correctional system. The administration of the colonies first of all sent those who have Ukrainian passports to vote, they said in one of the colonies. In another, they added that it is planned to send everyone to the vote in general.
16:18 At a meeting on the development of the defense industry, Putin announced the need to increase the production capacity of a number of defense industry enterprises, "study Western military equipment" that is used in Ukraine, "improve our own, do it quickly and efficiently."
16:15 Since October, the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region has been introducing a pass regime with the territory of Ukraine through the Vasylivka checkpoint, the "head" of the region Yevhen Balitsky said. Meanwhile, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement We are with Russia , proposes that the occupied region be called the Zaporozhye Territory after it "becomes" part of Russia.
16:09 Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics called on the international community to respond to the planned fake "referenda" of the Russian Federation with new sanctions and more weapons for Ukraine.
16:01 Kuleba commented on the announcement of "referendums" and "mobilization" in the occupied territories of Ukraine: "Neither fake "referenda" nor hybrid "mobilization" will change anything. Russia, as it was, remains an aggressor state illegally occupying part of Ukrainian land .Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will continue to liberate them, no matter what they say in Russia."
15:57 The enemy hit Bereznegovatoy of the Nikolaev region with Smerch multiple launch rocket systems. The elevator was partially destroyed, three workers were injured, OK Pivden reported. In addition, several buildings were damaged in the central part of the village, including a professional lyceum. There are no dead.
15:36 On the administrative border of Crimea with the Kherson region, the invaders began to build fortifications for the personnel and heavy equipment of the Russian troops, the representative office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported. It is also reported that at least 156 soldiers of the Russian army were buried on the peninsula as of September 20, 78 of them were probably citizens of Ukraine. The number of burials may be higher, since a significant part occurs without lighting.
Since September 19, the occupation administrations have banned men from leaving the Crimean peninsula for Russian territory. According to Aksyonov, two battalions are being formed in Crimea, which will be sent to the war against Ukraine.
15:27 A member of the "administration" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, said that the "referendum" will be held only in the occupied territory for the time being, "we will continue to liberate the remaining territories." According to him, it will not be possible to hold a "referendum" in the city of Zaporozhye, even remotely, "so as not to endanger the people living there."
15:21 "Referendum" on the entry of the occupied Kherson region into Russia is also scheduled for September 23-27. Saldo said that he would appeal to Russia and other states for help in holding a referendum "in order to assist in establishing lawful constitutional order on the territory of the region."
15:19 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that in the near future the government of the Russian capital will deploy a "full-fledged infrastructure" to assist the Ministry of Defense in organizing the entry of foreigners into military service. He recalled that foreigners who have entered into a one-year contract for service in the Russian army will be able to obtain Russian citizenship "as simply as possible."
15:05 Pushilin addressed Putin: "I ask you as soon as possible in case of a positive decision on the results of the referendum, which we have no doubt, to consider the issue of joining the Donetsk People's Republic to the Russian Federation."
14:48 Mandatory mobilization in the Kherson region after the "referendum" will not be carried out, "recruitment into volunteer battalions at will" will be announced, Stremousov said.
14:46 Pushilin said that the "referendum" on the entry of the "DPR" into the Russian Federation will be held from 23 to 27 September.
14:43 Over the past couple of weeks, explosions in the barracks and warehouses in the rear of the Russian troops have become more frequent in the Luhansk region, a "huge number" of soldiers have been destroyed, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. He also said that as part of the "mobilization" men are caught right on the streets. At the public utilities of the occupied Luhansk region, a critical minimum of men was left - the rest are already at the front. At the same time, collaborators who collaborated with the occupying authorities and tried to escape are not allowed to cross the border with the Russian Federation.
14:37 Lavrov said that "the current situation confirms that the peoples of Donbass want to be masters of their own destiny."
14:28 The "People's Council of the LPR" has scheduled a "referendum" on joining Russia for September 23-27, local publications write.
14:07 In a forest belt near the village of Mirotskoye, Buchansky district, Kiev region, a burial place of two people with signs of torture, killed during the occupation of the area by the Russians, was found. The dead have their hands tied behind their backs and tape around their necks, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
14:02 The State Duma has adopted a package of amendments on military service. In particular, an aggravating circumstance for crimes against military service will be considered if they are committed not only in conditions of armed conflict or hostilities, but also "during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime."
Responsibility for non-execution of a military order, desertion, evasion from service, etc. is being tightened; introduces criminal liability for voluntary surrender and looting; those called up for military training from the reserve will bear criminal liability for failure to appear or unauthorized leaving of the place of service on a par with contract soldiers. It also introduces criminal liability for the repeated violation of the terms of the contract under the state defense order and for the repeated refusal to conclude a contract under the state defense order.
13:50 Yermak called "naive blackmail" the statements of the Russian Federation on "referendums" and mobilization: "Naive blackmail with threats and horror stories of" referendums "," mobilizations "from those who know how to fight only with children and civilians... This is how the fear of defeat looks like "The enemy is afraid, primitively manipulating. Ukraine will solve the Russian issue. The threat can only be eliminated by force."
13:47 Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin said that he supports the inclusion of the "LDNR" into Russia after their "legal expression of will."
13:45 Members of the "People's Council of the LPR" unanimously adopted a "law" on holding a "referendum", said State Duma deputy Viktor Vodolatsky.
13:32 Saldo said that he considers it necessary "to create and form volunteer battalions on the territory of the Kherson region to participate in a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine."
13:28 The State Duma approved an amendment to introduce the concepts of "mobilization", "martial law", "wartime" into the Criminal Code.
13:19 Balance said that after the "referendum" in the Kherson region, he would turn to Putin in order to "legally approve" the results of the "will" as soon as possible.
13:17 In Belogorivka, Lugansk region, the Russians destroyed the entire infrastructure of the Popasnyansky district water canal, leaving about a million residents of the Luhansk region without water supply, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that those Russian soldiers who fled from the Kharkiv region are strengthening in the defensive redoubts created in the Lugansk region over eight years. In Alchevsk, according to Gaidai, military bases of the Russian Federation have been located for a long time, they are periodically shelled.
13:08 The "administration" of the occupied Kherson region has decided to hold a "referendum" on the region's entry into Russia, said the "head" of the region Vladimir Saldo.
12:59 In Melitopol, a "nationwide congress of citizens" has begun, at which they will discuss the issue of holding a "referendum" in the occupied Zaporozhye region on joining Russia.
12:55 Amendments submitted to the State Duma propose to give two to three years in prison for refusing to participate in hostilities, and if it entailed serious consequences - from three to ten years. The Russians called up for military training, who are in the reserve, will be criminally liable for failure to appear or desertion on an equal basis with contract soldiers and conscripts. Russian media write, citing sources, that the State Duma may adopt a package of amendments to the Criminal Code today, and the Federation Council - tomorrow.
12:39 Amendments have been made to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on punishment of up to ten years in a colony for desertion (now they give seven years for it) or non-appearance of a contract soldier or conscript for service for more than a month "during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime or in conditions of armed conflict or the conduct of hostilities." Deputies and senators propose to introduce the concepts of "mobilization", "martial law", "wartime", "armed conflict" into the Criminal Code.
12:36 The EU Council officially approved the decision to provide Ukraine with 5 billion euros of macro-financial assistance.
12:31 The "public council" of the occupied Kherson region turned to the "head of the region" with the initiative to immediately hold a "referendum" on recognition as a subject of the Russian Federation. The "Soviet" stated that "joining Russia will not only be a triumph of historical justice, but will also secure the territory of the region, open up new opportunities on the way to the revival and restoration of the power of our land and the return to a full-fledged peaceful life." The "Chairman of the Public Council" said that the "referendum" would be held "as soon as possible."
11:53 Ukraine returned the bodies of another 25 defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
11:25 The "DPR" announced that their "public chamber" would take the initiative to conduct online voting in the "referendum" for a number of territories.
10:42 Britain intends to allocate at least 2.3 billion pounds sterling as military aid to Ukraine next year. According to the Financial Times, London's plans will be unveiled this week by Liz Truss on her first trip abroad as British Prime Minister to New York.
10:16 Medvedev said that "referendums" in the Donbas "are of great importance" not only for the "systemic protection" of the inhabitants of the "LPR", "DPR" and other territories occupied by Russia, but also "for restoring historical justice." According to him, "they completely change the vector of Russia's development for decades," after they are carried out and new territories are accepted into the Russian Federation, "geopolitical transformation in the world will become irreversible."
"Encroachment on the territory of Russia is a crime, the commission of which allows you to use all the forces of self-defense. But it is no less important that after the amendments to the Constitution of our state, not a single future leader of Russia, not a single official will be able to reverse these decisions," Medvedev said .
10:06 At night, the enemy launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility in the Chuguevsky district, there were no casualties, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy continued to shell settlements in the Kharkiv region along the border with the Russian Federation and the line of confrontation in the Kharkiv, Kupyansky and Izyum regions. In the Kupyansk region, three people were injured, in the Kharkov region, two were injured after being blown up by a mine.
09:35 The plane of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation again illegally took 135 children from Mariupol and the Donetsk region to Moscow. It is precisely known about one three-year-old girl from Mariupol, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. Children are immediately given Russian citizenship and plan to be resettled by Russian families in different regions. The children are currently kept in a camp near Moscow. The program of theft of Ukrainian children is accompanied by the children's ombudsman of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova.
09:32 Two loud explosions thundered in Melitopol in the morning, residents are observing black smoke near the city elevator, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
09:29 For the first time since the beginning of the war, three McDonald's restaurants have opened in Ukraine, but so far they only work for delivery.
09:13 At night, the Russians continued to actively shoot in the Donetsk and Gorlovsky directions. In Bakhmut, they hit a high-rise building, three entrances collapsed in the house. There may be two people under the rubble, rescuers are working. Khromovo also came under fire in the evening - one person was wounded, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the UVA, said. The enemy fired at Seversk, Avdeevka and Bogoyavlenka of the Ugledar community, without any casualties.
In just the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one civilian of the Donetsk region, in Toretsk, was killed. Another 12 people were injured.
09:09 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 20. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Donetsk directions.
personnel - about 54,810 (+160) people liquidated,
tanks - 2216 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 4724 (+4),
artillery systems - 1323 (+10),
MLRS - 318 (+6),
air defense systems - 168 (+0),
aircraft - 252 (+1),
helicopters - 217 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 925 (+5),
cruise missiles - 239 (+1),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3587 (+6),
special equipment - 125 (+0).
09:06 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region will make a statement on the "referendum" on Tuesday, September 20, said the "deputy head of administration" Kirill Stremousov.
09:00 British intelligence reports that the Russian Federation has redeployed its submarines from Crimea to the Krasnodar Territory, since the security of the Black Sea Fleet base in Crimea has been undermined. Analysts attribute this to the increased potential of Ukrainian long-range strikes: over the past two months, the headquarters of the fleet and its main airfield of naval aviation have been attacked.
Intelligence believes that the guarantee of the Black Sea Fleet basing in Crimea could be one of the reasons that prompted Putin to annex the peninsula in 2014, but now the security of the base is directly undermined.
08:51 If a decision is made to supply American F-16 fighters to Ukraine, it will take two to three years, General James Hecker, commander of the US Air Force in Europe and Africa, said. He attributed this to the necessary training and logistical issues. At the same time, he added that now he "would not count" on sending these aircraft to Kyiv.
At the same time, Hecker acknowledged that the conflict in Ukraine is likely to last for years, not months, for which the United States has already begun to prepare. He also said that Ukraine has managed to save up to 80% of its aviation since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
08:23 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine undermines the already low morale even among the so-called elite Russian units and causes panic among influential people from the Kremlin. This, in particular, is evidenced by the fact that on September 19 the "authorities" of the occupied territories urgently started talking about holding "referendums" on joining the Russian Federation.
Analysts note that the Russian military is desperately trying to mobilize additional forces from all potential sources to strengthen its degraded and demoralized units, but are unable to create significant combat power. And the number of volunteer units that Russia can create is likely to decrease.
07:40 Over the past day, the Ukrainian military repulsed enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mayorsk, Vesele, Kurdyumovka and Novomikhailovka, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report .
07:15 Erdogan said in an interview with PBS that Ukraine and Russia agreed on the exchange of 200 prisoners: "200 hostages will be exchanged on the basis of an agreement between the parties."
06:21 The United States is discussing the possibility of supplying tanks for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to CNN, citing a US military official, the transfer of tanks to Ukraine in the future is "absolutely negotiable." This was confirmed by Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detch: "A spokesman for the United States Department of Defense said that the issue of transferring tanks to Ukraine is being discussed, but Ukraine will have to demonstrate the ability to support more modern models in order to receive them."
05:47 Erdogan said he does not lose hope of organizing a meeting between Putin and Zelensky in Turkey.
04:53 EU Foreign Ministers are discussing the creation of a mission to provide military assistance to Ukraine, Borrell said: "Today, all ministers decided to continue helping Ukraine. We will continue to use the EU mechanism for financing arms supplies successfully and effectively. We also continued discussing the proposal to deploy an EU mission to military assistance to Ukraine. This work is underway, we hope that we will soon see concrete results." He specified that the decision to create such a mission could be made as early as October.
02:12 Near Nova Kakhovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sank an enemy barge with military personnel, equipment and weapons, OK Pivden reported.
00:14 In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian authorities established control and carried out a sweep in 118 settlements that were under occupation, the sweep continues in 12 settlements, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Enin said on the air of the telethon. According to him, about 50 bodies of civilians were found in the de-occupied territories of the Kharkiv region on September 18, since the beginning of the de-occupation, law enforcement officers have found 168 bodies.
Of the 48 graves at the spontaneous cemetery in Izyum, law enforcement officers exhumed 52 bodies. Yenin confirmed that there are signs of torture on the bodies of the dead: "We continue to find bodies with signs of violent death, there are many of them. These are broken ribs, and broken heads, men with their hands tied, broken jaws, with cut off genitals." According to Enin, the spontaneous burial that was found near Izyum is not the last even in this city.
"They weren't really executions. They were... something else." Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] Photos and videos obtained by RIA Novosti refute Kyiv's claims about alleged mass executions of Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, the materials were published on the agency's Telegram channel.
The footage is dated May of this year - they show dozens of Ukrainian soldiers who died in battles with the Russian Armed Forces with bullet and mine-explosive injuries. At least some of the bodies show signs of decomposition, apparently from long exposure to the open air.
According to a correspondent of RIA Novosti, who was in these places in March and April, fierce battles were fought in the villages of Brazhkovka and Suligovka near Izyum and settlements constantly changed hands. As a result, Russian troops managed to establish complete control over the villages and surrounding forests.
"The bodies of Ukrainian servicemen were collected at the abandoned positions and taken to the morgue in the city of Izyum. The identity of some soldiers was identified. All information was transferred to the Ukrainian side," one of the participants in those events from local residents told RIA Novosti.
However, according to him, "the Ukrainian command, unfortunately, refused to take the bodies of their servicemen," so they had to be buried in a cemetery near Izyum.
Until September, no one remembered the dead - until the Ukrainian troops, having regained control over Izyum and the surrounding territories, began to exhume the bodies. Kiev has accused Russian troops of crimes against humanity.
“However, in fact, we are dealing with a humane attitude towards the remains of the dead,” said the source of the agency, who asked not to be named for security reasons.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists about Kiev's attempts to unleash the same scenario in Izyum as in Bucha . He called the statements of the Ukrainian authorities "a lie" and assured that Russia, "of course, will defend the truth in this whole story."
At the beginning of the month, the head of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, announced that the authorities had begun the evacuation of the population from Kupyansk, Izyum, Shevchenkove and Balakleya. On September 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that troops from Balakleya and Izyum had regrouped to the Donetsk direction in order to achieve the stated goals of a special military operation to liberate Donbass.
In April, Ukrainian authorities and the media released a video allegedly filmed in the city of Bucha, Kyiv region, where the bodies of the dead lie on the road. The Russian Defense Ministry called all photos and videos published by the Kyiv regime "another provocation."
As noted in the defense department, during the time that Bucha was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions.
[RIA Novosti] Kyiv is promoting the same scenario in Izyum as with the provocation in Bucha: this is a lie, and the Russian Federation will defend the truth, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters.
"This is the same scenario as in Bucha. Everything develops according to one scenario. This is a lie. This is a lie, and of course, we will defend the truth in this whole story," Peskov answered the question of how the Kremlin could comment on Vladimir 's statement Zelensky about the war crimes allegedly committed by Russia in the north-east of Ukraine.
Earlier, the head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, told RIA Novosti that Kyiv would try to repeat the provocation scenario in Bucha in the city of Izyum, which had previously been subjected to numerous shelling by Ukrainian troops.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:49 There is information that Ukraine is transferring all reserves, incl. from Kyiv, including the territorial defense forces for a decisive offensive.
The directions of possible strikes, including distractions, are seen as:
Breakthrough of defenses in certain sectors of the Kherson Front;
Offensive in Zaporozhye to Melitopol and Berdyansk;
Breakthrough in the DPR from Liman;
Breakthrough in the LPR from Belogorovka to Lisichansk and further to Lugansk
21:34 Enemy troops are gathering in Kharkov. Military echelons moving towards Kharkov were seen yesterday in Novomoskovsk. Platforms with military equipment were also seen in Lozova.
21:34 APU attack on Nova Kakhovka was inflicted by "Tochka-U" - local authorities
21:04 Four civilians were injured due to the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a residential building in Nova Kakhovka
According to a representative of emergency services, four people were previously injured as a result of another attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - two were hospitalized, the rest refused hospitalization.The first footage has emerged.
21:04 Air defense works in Melitopol. Presumably, by the sound, they shoot down a drone. We are waiting for the details
20:30 the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a residential building in Nova Kakhovka. Two people were injured - the representative of the emergency services
20:19 Ukrainian troops are shelling the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, air defense is working, local authorities report
19:15 The shelling of the territory of the nuclear power plant in Enerhodar in the Russian-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region led to damage to the special building and the cooling system of the station, the press service of the city administration reported.
“Damage was received: a special building, a cooling system, as well as a canteen, where station workers were at the time of the start of the shelling,” the report says. It notes that among the workers of the station and the servicemen of the National Guard guarding the perimeter, there were no victims. According to the administration, the shelling of the nuclear power plant was carried out using high-explosive fragmentation shells.
19:11 The battle for Kupyansk continues: the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran into Russian rebuff – Le Monde
The French newspaper writes that the Russian army is holding back the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kupyansk region. The RF Armed Forces continue to hold the railway junction and repel unsuccessful attacks by the Ukrainian army.
We are preparing and will soon release a brief summary from this sector of the front from ours.
19:11 Office of the President of Ukraine says Russian "pseudo-referenda" will negate the slightest chance of ending the war through diplomacy - Reuters
18:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are now shelling the village of Tyotkino in the Kursk region.
This was announced by the governor of the region Roman Starovoit. The warning system went off in the village, the residents are in shelter.
The head of the region added that as a result of another Ukrainian attack today in Volfin, a 60-year-old woman was injured, who at that moment was working in the garden. She was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
At least six arrivals were recorded in the village.
18:16 The Office of the President reacted to the flow of information about the holding of "referendums" in the territories of Ukraine controlled by the Russian Federation.
The head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, called it "naive blackmail" and said that "the threat can only be eliminated by force."
17:19 Ukrainian artillery shelled the village of Shchebekino in the Belgorod region. Smoke from the arrival of a shell is visible from the village.
Since the “regrouping”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been regularly shelling the border areas of the Belgorod region. The goal is ordinary terror: the Ukrainian command does not care that in settlements there are most often no military targets or even a hint of the presence of the Russian Armed Forces.
How can this be stopped in the short term? Continuous monitoring of the border and instant defeat of all targets. And in this, Iranian strike UAVs, capable of being in the air for a long time and detecting artillery installations and sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from a long range, can very well be away.
And the appearance on the front lines of these shock drones, according to rumors, is just around the corner.
17:19 Suicide attempts to break through the enemy near the city of Orekhov in Zaporozhye continue
▪️In recent weeks, the enemy has been concentrating forces in the region of the city of Orekhov for a counteroffensive with a strike in the direction of Orekhov-Melitopol.
▪️The enemy almost every day throws small groups here for slaughter.
▪️Today, another armored group with untrained infantry from the defense system moved out of Orekhovo and launched an attack on the positions of the 503rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment.
▪️Artillery crews of the RF Armed Forces, ready for an attack, opened fire on the coordinates.
▪️For about two hours, a fire defeat was inflicted on the Orekhovskaya sector of the front.
▪️The enemy could not advance, having lost several infantry fighting vehicles and several infantry units killed and wounded, the survivors retreated to their original positions, taking the wounded.
▪️On September 14, the enemy made a similar attempt, but then our troops let the APU closer, burned three tanks, three American-made M113 armored personnel carriers, captured a tank and seven militants, incl. one officer.
16:10 Chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Rogov proposes to name the region Zaporizhzhia region after it becomes part of Russia
16:10 In the Zaporozhye region since October, a pass regime has been introduced with the territory of Ukraine through the Vasylivka checkpoint, the head of the Balitsky region said
16:09 Russian security forces uncovered an agent of the Ukrainian special services - a retired colonel of the SBU and head of the Kherson branch of the Kharkov University of the Air Force Sapoga, who recruited his former students for spying in favor of the Kyiv regime, saidRIA Novosti source
15:12 18+ Hard shots. Photos and videos obtained by RIA Novosti, refute Kyiv's allegations about alleged mass executions of Ukrainian military personnel near the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region.
The materials date back to May of this year - they show dozens of Ukrainian soldiers who died in battles with the armed forces of Russia with bullet and mine-explosive injuries. At least some of the bodies show signs of decomposition, and appear to have been left out in the open for a long time.
14:32 Russian Defense Ministry briefing:
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian military strikes on the deployment points of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed five depots of weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions;
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired five times at an electrical substation near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant during the day. The radiation situation at ZNPP is normal;
— The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 24 artillery shells from the settlement of Nikopol in a day towards the Zaporozhye NPP;
- Russian troops destroyed the workshops of the armored plant in Nikolaev, where military equipment of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was being repaired;
- Russian troops destroyed more than 70 servicemen of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region in a day;
- Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR;
- Russian air defense systems shot down more than 2,000 Ukrainian drones during the NMD.
13:27 An interesting situation is developing in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.
The grouping of the Armed Forces leaves no attempts to resume the offensive and is clearly in a hurry.
At the same time, the defeat of units of the 28th Brigade in the area of the village of Pravdino and the isolation of the forces of the 24th, 57th and 46th brigades at the “Andreevsky bridgehead” significantly reduced the combat capability of the Ukrainian group on the right flank and in the center of the battle order.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to transfer part of their efforts to the Kryvyi Rih direction, but so far it has turned out poorly.
It would seem that it is worth pulling up reserves in order to prevent the collapse of the entire defense system in this direction.
But instead, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is building up a grouping near Artyomovsk, where Wagner PMC fighters are still operating with relative success, and also concentrating significant efforts in the Oskol and Kharkov directions.
Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to consolidate the operational success of the past three weeks of fighting, but jeopardize the entire strategic plan of the operation to defend the country.
This indicates that the planning horizon in Kyiv has been significantly reduced and the regime is struggling to achieve at least some success right now.
12:52 Russian heavy flamethrower systems destroyed positions of the Armed Forces
Footage of the use of TOS-1A "Svinopek" was filmed in the Kharkiv region.
The calculation of the reconnaissance drone corrected the impact.
12:52 SBU recruit children to strike
Ukrainian special services recruit children from dysfunctional families in the Kherson region. Such "agents" send them the coordinates and photographs of Russian equipment. Such activity was detected at one of the checkpoints of the Don Cossack battalion. During the check of teenagers' phones, correspondence with representatives of the SBU was found
11:49 Melitopol is shelled by Ukrainian terrorists
Explosions near the airfield and in the city center. Near the city elevator, residents observe black smoke. We find out the details, - said the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov.
11:49 The referendum on the accession of the Kherson region to Russia will be held as soon as possible, said the chairman of the public council of the region
11:48 Kherson Public Council accepts request for a referendum
10:38 Russian air defense continues to protect the peace of the inhabitants of the liberated territories.
Tonight, an air defense system went off at least twice over Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region.
10:35 Zelensky's meat grinder: 110 people are thrown into battle - only 40 people return
Surrendered Ukrainian militant told that the leadership did not listen to the complaints of its military personnel and throws at Russian tanks without heavy weapons and artillery support
09:15 “I have a desire to sue the government, the command [of the Armed Forces] in court. Make sure everyone knows the truth." The Ukrainian prisoner said that the leadership did not listen to the complaints of their servicemen and accused them of lying:
“They sent us to Bakhmut later. And it's good that we were late. The guys from the 4th company began to come ...
According to their conversations, they did not have heavy weapons. [They] got in touch: "Tanks are hitting us." And they answered: “We released a bird [UAV], you are lying, there is no tank.” A total of 110 people are taken [to battle] - 40 people are brought [back]. We didn't want to go."
08:18 It's loud in Melitopol. Two loud explosions were heard in the city, reports Vladimir Rogov.
07:47 Personnel combat work of the crews of the 220mm BM-27 MLRS "Hurricane" of the Central Military District in the zone of the NMD. Unmanned aerial vehicles provide fire correction and additional reconnaissance of targets to Russian gunners.
06:24 Su-34 crews destroy high-precision missiles of the Ukrainian Nazis in the NVO zone. The Su-34 fighter-bomber, nicknamed "Duckling," uses high-precision weapons to 100 percent destroy military facilities of Ukrainian militants. The X-29 missile allows you to destroy all targets that stand in its way.
05:01 Live firing of 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS crews at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries.
The blows are applied with 220mm rockets. According to the gunners, the work is carried out so intensively that they do not have time to rest. UAVs conduct fire correction and additional reconnaissance of targets.VideoMinistry of Defense of Russia.
01:08 Strikes are being made on targets in Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as in the Kharkiv region.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:46 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 20, received
additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
d. Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
— as a result of the explosion of the PFM minePetal» wounded man born in 1987
#petals, #interactive_map
As of 21:00 September 20, the Republic has already registered 69 cases undermining civilians, incl. two children, I passed PFM «Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
n.p. Novoandreevka (included in the area of ??responsibility of the administration of the Telmanovsky district):
- a man born in 1956 was wounded.
As of 21:00, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on September 20, 2022 is five people . The information continues to flow.
As of today, as of 21:00, the enemy fired 136 units of ammunition of various types, including artillery with a caliber 155mm and 152mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:34 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the Kirovsky district of Makeevka, firing three rounds with a caliber of 152mm and three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, reported on Tuesday, the representation of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
“Ryby were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions:
-- the settlement of Krasnogorovka - the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired;
-- 19.50 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Orlovka - the settlement of Makeevka (Kirovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired, ”the representative’s Telegram channel reports.
19:33 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 19.30 09/20/2022
Over the current day, according to information from the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired more than 110 units of ammunition from tanks, barreled artillery of 155mm and 152mm caliber, as well as 120mm mortars.
The artillery was fired at the areas of nine settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. One house building was destroyed, and 19 residential buildings and two civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
The complex of works on the clearance of anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1S) is ongoing.
19:00 Video of People's Militia of the LPR with the consequences of a strike by Ukrainian troops on the village of Krasnorechensky, Kremensky district of the Republic.
18:28 Work of Russian and Donbass drones in Donbass and Kherson.
18:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 20, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
— injured girl born in 2014 (was injured on 09/19/2022)
Additional informationon damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- st. Elizarova, 4 - a direct hit in a private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (Golmovsky settlement):
- per. Club, 4, 9 - private residential buildings;
- st. Shokalsky, 3, 8, 18, 38 - private residential buildings;
- st. Kalmiusskaya, 2 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
17:55 Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin and Head of the Administration of the Head of Nikonorov Alexei laid flowers at the place of death as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of 13 civilians on the square. Baku commissars of Donetsk.
17:27 VFU shelled Novoandreevka in the Volnovakha district, a man was wounded.
17:24 On the street. Savrasov in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man was blown up by a PFM-1 mine.
17:01 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants at 60 Years of the USSR Street in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
16:44 Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" successfully are moving forwardon the Artyomovsky direction. War correspondents of the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR visited the combat formations of the Wagner PMC fighters, who are conducting a successful offensive in the Artyomovsk region and recently occupied an important stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located on the territory of an electrical substation.
15:19 Kyiv security forces fired on the village of Nizhnyaya Duvanka, Svatovsky district, using HIMARS MLRS (three rockets), the LPR Representative Office in the JCCC reported. As a result of the shelling, a kindergarten, a school, and industrial premises of an agricultural enterprise were partially destroyed. Additional information is being specified.
15:18 We worked on Liman with 220mm rockets from BM-27 MLRS Hurricane.
We are talking about the Red Liman. Literally an hour ago, they worked on it with cassette "Hurricanes". Everything suggests that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after a massive art preparation, will again try to storm the city. Detachment "Kuban" and other volunteer and mobilization units continue to hold the line. But it becomes more and more difficult to repel enemy attacks.
15:17 On photographs- the consequences of a massive shelling of the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine:
As a result of the shelling, a kindergarten, a school, and industrial premises of an agricultural enterprise were partially destroyed. Additional information is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:13 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 20 enrolled additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- a man born in 1961 was wounded.
- as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal", a man born in 1954 was wounded.
As of 13:30 September 20 in the Republic registered already 68 cases of undermining civilians, incl. two children, on mines PFM "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
Additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. 60 years of the USSR, 39 - a direct hit in a private residential building, followed by a fire.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Kuprin, 269 - a direct hit, the house was destroyed;
n.p. Gorlovka (Golmovsky settlement):
- per. Club, 7 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
14:33 Consequences of today's strikes in Alchevsk from MLRS HIMARS.
14:28 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia fixed the consequences of the shelling of the AFU college in the city of Perevalsk, LPR. The investigation established that at least four rockets hit the educational institution. At the same time, a student born in 2004 received injuries incompatible with life. Four more children and one teacher received shrapnel wounds of varying severity and were hospitalized. The college building suffered significant damage.
14:03 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants st. Kuprin in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
13:54 Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Novozhelannye of the Donetsk People's Republic. MO RF
13:41 Effects shelling of the city of Alchevsk (LPR) by the armed formations of Ukraine. As a result of the shelling of N. p. Alchevsk, using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (in total, four missiles of the M31 GMLRS type were fired by the enemy), 11 apartment buildings, two pharmacies, a clothing store and a cafe were damaged. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
13:18 On the street. Tokarev in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man was blown up by a PFM-1 mine.
12:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting art preparation for the assault on the Liman. This is reported by the sources of the project. wargonzo in the Krasnolimansky district of the DPR.
At night, the enemy tried to organize a breakthrough in the Shchurov area. Now Krasny Liman is under heavy artillery fire. It looks like preparations for a real assault.
12:54 Seven civilians in the village of Krasnorechenskoye (LPR), including three children, died as a result of artillery fire from the AFU.
The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC received information that on the evening of September 19, 2022, as a result of artillery shelling by Ukrainian armed forces of the village of Krasnorechenskoye (Kremensky district, LPR), seven civilians died, of which three children (twins, a girl and a boy born in 2021. and a girl born in 2015). Two houses were destroyed. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC
12:15 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 20, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- a man born in 1983 was wounded.
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
— V. Arsenova St., 5 — MOU "School No. 46 of Donetsk";
- st. V. Arsenova 10, 12, 13, 15 - apartment buildings;
- st. 60th anniversary of the USSR, 14, 16, 18 - apartment buildings;
- st. 60 years of the USSR, 41 - a garage fire was recorded.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Kornilova, 10 - a private residential building;
- st. Uglekamennaya, 24 - a direct hit in a private residential building.
Petrovsky district:
— 20 transformer substations were de-energized, without power supply to 2000 household subscribers, n.p. Alexandrovka.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
12:06 APU opened fire on the village of the mine. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
12:00 Ukrainian militants conduct aimed fire on the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky. Arrivals of enemy rounds are recorded along Shokalsky Street, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.
11:22 On the front line, a hundred meters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the fighters of the Wagner PMC showed liberated substation near Artemovsk. The Ukrainian military suffered huge losses and left the most important strategic area - from here the enemy's fortified areas are visible at a glance.
10:50 As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Arsenov in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a man was wounded.
10:35 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 10.30 09/20/2022
The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.
Over the past 24 hours, according to the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 243 pieces of ammunition from barreled artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm,
as well as 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, 10 civilians were killed and thirteen were injured. Thirty-three housing constructions and nine civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, seven armored vehicles and vehicles. Losses among the enemy personnel amounted to more than thirty nationalists.
At present, a set of works on the clearance of anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C) is ongoing.
10:08 All night attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Liman are repulsed. This is what sources in the volunteer battalion BARS-13 "Russian Legion" defending Krasny Liman from the direction of Drobyshevo say in the morning:
“Our positions are at the spearhead of Liman's attack from the northwest. Yesterday afternoon, ours were attacked by up to two companies of infantry. And so every day, several attacks a day, and at night they probe. The night stayed. This morning, an attempt is expected to break through dill in our direction.
This is not reconnaissance in force, the Ukrainians are serious in order to bypass the Liman and immediately go to Svatovo - and this will immediately collapse the entire defense of the northern part of the LPR. That's why they're going for a breakthrough."
Russian volunteers continue to hold Liman and will stand to the end!
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of September 20, 2022
Over the past 24 hours, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
- up to 50 personnel;
- six armored personnel carriers;
- two long-term firing points;
- 11 units of special vehicles;
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements. Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Stakhanov, Kremennaya and Krasnorechenskoye with the use of 155mm artillery guns and the American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing 16 rounds and four missiles.
As a result of the shelling, the Stakhanov complex children's and youth sports school No. 2, two retail facilities were destroyed. The following were damaged: the City Palace of Culture named after M. Gorky, the Stakhanov City Department of Justice, a garment factory, the MKS mobile network subscriber service department, a boiler room, a beauty salon, a service station and nine cars, two apartment buildings.
Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian troops have been shelling N. p. Alchevsk and Svatovo using the M142 HIMARS MLRS, firing seven missiles. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining.
During September 19, they cleared more than eight hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Zolotarevka and Topolevka.
The NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, is delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas. Also in one of the divisions of the NM of the LPR within the framework of the Popular Front project “Everything for Victory!” humanitarian cargo was handed over, which included equipment and necessary equipment.
09:51 AFU are shelling the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Ukrainian militants from positions in Krasnogorovka are shelling residential areas of the Kirovsky district of the city. NATO artillery of 155mm caliber is used against the population.
09:34 Reported about the renewed shelling of the APU of the Azotny village in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
09:28 Mayor of Donetsk publishes the consequences of today's shelling of the Azotny village in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the shelling, a woman born in 1979 was injured.
09:23 Almost 3,500subscribers in Svatovo were left without electricity as a result of shelling by Kyiv militants - LPR Ministry of Emergency Situations
08:35 Ukrainian units leave their advanced positions south of the village of Artemovsk. This fact is associated with the loss of combat capability, heavy losses, and the successes of our and allied forces in this direction, reports Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic Andrei Marochko.
08:18 Additional information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic on September 19 was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- a woman born in 1979 was wounded.
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on September 19, 2022 is 23 people (10 killed, 13 injured). The information continues to flow.
Additional informationon damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Somova, 74, 76 - private residential buildings;
- st. Umova, 44 - a private residential building.
Kyiv district:
- he is. Bashkirskaya, 79, 81 "a" - private residential houses.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
08:05 During the day, 10 people were killed on the territory of the DPR, 15 more were injured. Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on September 19 to 08:00 on September 20, 10 people were killed and another 15 civilians were injured as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:00 The enemy continues to accumulate manpower, weapons and equipment in the area of the settlement of Seversk. In the areas of concentration there are small strike units that are carefully camouflaged and constantly change their places of deployment, according to Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic Andrei Marochko.
08:00 Artillery of the 3rd brigade wipes out the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Mayorsk. Soldiers of the 3rd Guards Brigade continue to advance forward.
At the moment, the artillery of the brigade, using UAVs for adjustment, is destroying enemy fortifications in Mayorsk, which will avoid unnecessary losses of assault units during the liberation of the settlement.
08:00 Over the past day in Donetsk, one person was injured by stepping on a banned PFM-1 mine dropped by Ukrainian militants.
07:52 As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Somov, a woman was wounded in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
07:00 Summary of the LPR Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, September 19. From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 4 artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Stakhanov and Kremennaya with the use of artillery pieces of 155mm caliber (16 rounds) and the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (four missiles of the M31 GMLRS type).
As a result of the shelling, the Stakhanov complex children's and youth sports school No. 2, two retail facilities were destroyed. The following were damaged: the City Palace of Culture named after M. Gorky, the Stakhanov City Department of Justice, a garment factory, the MKS mobile network subscriber service department, a boiler room, a beauty salon, a service station and nine cars, two apartment buildings. Additional information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
05:38 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine:
- Svatovo with the use of MLRS HIMARS (three missiles); Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
02:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine:
- Alchevsk using MLRS HIMARS (4 missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
0:15 Lyman is being attacked from two directions right now. This is reported by wargonzo sources on the Donbas front line. The defenders of the city verbatim report the following:
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine again began to storm Liman from two directions - from the west and north-west. We have losses. Let's hold on and fight with all our might."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Referendums will be held from 23 to 27 September in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
2. Referendums will be held both in-person and in absentia (with door-to-door visits) for security reasons.
3. After the referenda, all territories will apply for membership in the Russian Federation, which will be considered as a matter of priority.
4. After consideration of applications, all territories will become part of the Russian Federation - de facto, 4 new subjects of the Russian Federation.
5. DPR and LPR retain their names and flags. It is not yet clear by region. Zaporizhia is proposed to be called the Zaporozhye region.
6. According to sociological surveys, one can count on 70-85% for joining the Russian Federation, with an average turnout of 65-75%.
7. The USA, NATO and Germany have declared that they do not recognize the results of the referendums. In Ukraine, they immediately became hysterical that holding referendums would cross out the slightest chance of negotiations.
8. The war in Ukraine, of course, will not stop, but now it will have a qualitatively different context. Today, he is waiting for the announcement of specific measures to modernize the NWO.
[ColonelCassad] The State Duma is preparing a package of amendments related to tightening the screws on issues of mobilization, martial law and the actions of soldiers at the front.
The State Duma introduces the concept of “mobilization”, “martial law” and “wartime” into the Criminal Code. The amendments introduce a whole set of new articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “Voluntary surrender” (Article 352.1) and “Looting” (Article 356.1). For surrender, one faces from three to 10 years in prison, if there are no signs of high treason. For looting - up to 15 years in prison.
The list of aggravating circumstances includes the commission of a crime “during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime” (Article 63).
Unauthorized abandonment of a unit during the period of mobilization and martial law (Article 337 of the Criminal Code) will be punished more severely:
- from two to 10 days - up to 5 years in prison, and not up to one year
- from 10 to one month - up to 7 years in prison, and up to three years old
- more than a month - from 5 to 10 years in a colony, and not up to five years.
They also came for the refuseniks. Non-fulfillment by a subordinate of an order of a superior given in the prescribed manner, during a period of martial law, in wartime or in conditions of an armed conflict or combat operations, as well as refusal to participate in military or hostilities, is proposed to be punished with imprisonment for a term of two to three years ( Part 2.1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code).
A group of articles on non-execution of the state defense order and violation of the terms of the state contract is also introduced (articles 201.2, 201.3, 285.5, 285.6 of the Criminal Code).
The second reading of the bill is scheduled today. The State Duma can adopt it simultaneously in the third, final one. By analogy with the package of laws on military censorship, it can be approved by the Federation Council, signed by the president and published before the end of the day.
The amendments were introduced by State Duma deputies D.F. Vyatkin, E.A. Valeev, V.I. Piskarev, A.V. Kartapolov, L.E. Slutsky, O.A. Nilov, V.A. Davankov, V.I. Sobolev, N.V. Kolomeitsev, as well as senators A.A. Klishas and O.F. Kovitidi.
The bill comes into force from the day of its official publication.
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