[Kiev Post via Insider] Russian soldiers were inspecting a captured Ukrainian drone they had seized when it blew up and killed some of them, The Kyiv Post reported on Monday.
It said the drone was a "kamikaze" model — long-range winged drones that explode on impact.
A source in Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) told the outlet the Russian soldiers hacked the drone's control systems and were able to land it in Kursk, some 50 miles inside Russian territory.
The group was inspecting and taking pictures of their "trophy" when it self-exploded, killing some of them, the source said.
It is unclear how many died, but there were several senior people in the group, Kyiv Post reported, citing the intelligence source.
Insider was unable to independently verify the report.
In recent months, Ukraine has been targeting Russian cities with almost daily drone attacks. Their drones helped destroy a $500 million Russian air defense system and shut down Moscow-area airports.
But Russia has been able to deal a blow to these efforts with its jamming technology, which is said to be getting better and better.
UK think tank the Royal United Services Institute said in May that Ukraine could be losing 10,000 drones a month, mostly due to jamming.
"Russia deploys the jamming technique a lot — they jam the GPS signals, they broadcast noise on the same frequency that GPS satellites work at so that the drones lose their direction," Steve Wright, a drone technology developer and expert, previously told Insider. Emphasis added para 5.
According to sources in military intelligence, a powerful explosion occurred on the runway. The Russians intercepted a Ukrainian UAV near the airfield, and the drone supposedly "safely landed" on the runway. Afterward, the leadership of the aviation regiment and FSB officers arrived to inspect the "trophy" UAV.
"When the delegation tried to examine the "trophy" UAV, there was an ammunition detonation," one of the sources explained.
As a result, the dead and wounded were evacuated from the scene for an extended period. Those killed or injured during the explosion reportedly included:
The commander of the 14th aviation regiment.
One of his deputies.
A group of aviation officers.
A representative of the military counterintelligence of the FSB.
Airfield personnel.
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For the same reason Russia still has railroads. Hard to blow up and easy to fix. Even the Americans in WW2 stopped targeting rail junctions and switches and started going after the locomotives. Much harder to build a new chew chew.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks and injured two drivers in fiery explosions that led to the suspension of the ferry service between Romania and Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.
Video shot from the Romanian side of the Danube River showed rapid bursts of Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire streaking through the night sky followed by two orange fireballs exploding near the port area. Photos showed burned-out frames of trucks.
Romanian Border Police said ferries were anchored on the Romanian shores of the Danube in Isaccea due to the attacks on Ukraine. Traffic was being redirected through Galati, a Romanian town upstream on the Danube.
Ukraine's air force said it downed 26 of 38 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Russian forces targeted the area of Izmail in the Odesa region, in what has become a sustained campaign to target Ukraine's ability to export grain. Attacks on Monday killed two people in a grain warehouse in Odesa and badly damaged an abandoned high-rise hotel, officials said.
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[LB] Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Donetsk regions were attacked.
The Cherkasy region was attacked by the enemy at night with "shaheds". Air defense forces shot down four enemy air targets. There is a hit to an infrastructure object. Previously, there were no casualties. Liquidation of the consequences is currently underway, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
The enemy conducted 10 shellings (121 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. With artillery and mortars, he fought along the border of the Koryukiv and Novgorod-Siversky districts. He also used unguided air missiles (four explosions on the territory of the Semenivska community). No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
In Dnipropetrovsk this morning - an explosion in Kryvyi Rih. The "arrival" happened at one of the city's enterprises. Information about the consequences is being clarified. People were not injured. Yesterday, the Nikopol district suffered from enemy attacks. In the morning and afternoon, the Russian army terrorized the Marganets community. She was shelled by heavy artillery. She took aim with two kamikaze drones, dropped ammunition from the unmanned aerial vehicle. And already in the evening I drove around Nikopol. It passed without consequences. At night, the aggressor shelled the Nikopol district three times with heavy artillery. The district center, Myrivska and Chervonogrigorivska communities came under attack. Three private houses, two outbuildings, 40 solar panels were damaged. A defunct building and power lines were mutilated.
In Sumy at night, the enemy launched a mortar shelling of the Znob-Novgorod community. Two explosions were recorded. No consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 20 shelling of the border territories and settlements of the Sumy region. 77 explosions were recorded. The communities of Esmansk, Seredino-Budsk, Svesk, Shalyginsk, Krasnopilsk, Bilopolsk, Myropilsk, Velikopysarivsk came under fire. In the Seredino-Budsk community, power lines were damaged as a result of shelling.
In Luhansk, the enemy attacked Nevsky with aviation and artillery. Seven explosions were recorded during the day. The Russian air raids were also carried out on Nadiya, Novoyehorivka and Bilogorivka. In addition, Belogorivka withstood artillery strikes. During the day, the enemy fired 151 shots (539 shells).
In Kharkivska yesterday, as a result of shelling in Vovchansk, a house and an outbuilding were damaged, and a fire broke out. Cars were destroyed, private residential buildings were damaged. A 73-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were injured and hospitalized. As a result of shelling at 19:00, the city garbage dump was on fire. As a result of shelling of Cherneshchyna, the electricity transmission line was damaged. In the Andriyivka region, a mine exploded on a field during harvesting of a harvester; previously, ran into a TM-62M, suffered mechanical damage, there were no casualties. In a day, two people were injured in the region.
In Zaporizhzhia , over the past day, the Rashists have carried out 124 strikes on 23 towns and villages in the line of fire. There were 102 artillery barrages on the territory of the front-line settlements, in particular Gulyaipol, Novoandriyivka, Chervony, Charivny, Preobrazhenka Malynyvka, Levadny, Plavny, Kamiansky and Stepnohirsk. The enemy carried out eight UAV attacks on Novodarivka, Malynivka, and Levadny, a missile strike on Chervony Yar, eight RSZV attacks on Novodarivka, Malya Tokmachka, and Robotyny, and also hit Robotyny and Malya Tokmachka with five aerial shells. A 64-year-old resident of Gulyaipol was injured as a result of the artillery fire. Enemy artillery also killed a 70-year-old resident of Plavni. 28 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings, farm buildings and infrastructure facilities.
In Donetsk region, the Russians fired 19 shellings on populated areas. 11 settlements were under the fire of the Rashists: Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Chasiv Yar, New York, Severny, Diliivka, Druzhba, Zvanivka, Novoukrainka, Oleksandropil, Sloviansk. 13 residential buildings, an outbuilding, a cafe, a bus station building, and a market building were damaged. In a day, two people died in the region.
In Mykolayivska , forces and means of air defense shot down six Shahed-136/131 type attack drones at night. In the Berezneguvat community, a fire broke out at an agricultural enterprise as a result of the fall of debris from an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle shot down by air defense forces. No casualties so far. Detailed information is being clarified. Yesterday evening, the city of Mykolaiv was hit by a rocket. The hit took place at an infrastructure object on the outskirts of the city. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified. Also yesterday afternoon, enemy artillery shelling was recorded on the open territory outside the settlements, in the evening - on the water area of the Kutsurub community. There are no casualties.
The Odesa region was attacked by Russian terrorists with attack drones for two hours. Most of the drones were shot down. Unfortunately, the port infrastructure was hit in the Izmail district. Two men, truck drivers, were injured. One of them was given medical help on the spot, the second with a severe hand injury was hospitalized. The checkpoint building, warehouses, about 30 trucks, six vans were damaged. The fire has been extinguished.
In Khersonskathis morning, the enemy attacked Olhivka from aviation. The Rashists also shelled Kyselivka and Kherson. There are victims. The information is being clarified. Over the past day, the enemy launched 93 shellings (491 shells) in the region, of which nine shellings (28 shells) were fired at Kherson. The raiders targeted the districts of 28 settlements of the region, the territory and buildings of educational institutions and ZHEK in the Berislav district, the administrative building in the Kherson district, the territory and buildings of educational institutions, a dormitory, a pharmacy, a food industry enterprise and a market in Kherson. Yesterday morning, enemy aircraft attacked Berislav. The occupiers dropped four aerial bombs on the city. One of them hit the building of the housing and exploitation office. A 73-year-old and a 55-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman received non-life-threatening injuries. A 59-year-old woman with back and leg injuries was also taken to the hospital. In addition, a 27-year-old woman was hit by the enemy on her way out of the city. She was taken to the hospital with a shrapnel wound to the chest and spine. The enemy launched an artillery attack on the Dnipro district of Kherson. Two men and one woman died. Four more people are injured. They were taken to the hospital. The village of Kiselyvka was shelled yesterday evening. Four people were injured. 14 houses were damaged. During the day in the region: six people died, another 10 were injured. Four people were injured. 14 houses were damaged. During the day in the region: six people died, another 10 were injured. Four people were injured. 14 houses were damaged. During the day in the region: six people died, another 10 were injured.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:52 The United States intends to establish joint production with Ukraine of some types of military equipment on its territory, said Deputy Minister of Defense Bill LaPlante.
21:46 The Netherlands intend to transfer the first batch of F-16 fighters to Ukraine in 2024, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said. According to her, the specific timing will depend on the duration of training for Ukrainian pilots, which can last from six to eight months. Currently, work is underway to create a training center in Romania.
21:29 On the morning of September 26, Russia attacked with suicide bombers not only the infrastructure of the port on the Danube River, but also the ferry checkpoint on the border with Romania. As a result of the strike, the work of the checkpoint was stopped for the whole day, and the situation itself irritated local Romanians. Read more in the article Russia's strike on the Danube .
20:48 Russia is distributing a document among UN member states calling for support for its election to the Human Rights Council, from which it was expelled in April 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine, the BBC reports, citing a number of UN diplomats. According to them, Russia is waging an “aggressive campaign”, offering grain and weapons to small countries in exchange for their votes. Therefore, they do not rule out that the Russian Federation may indeed return to the Council.
19:55 Zaluzhny said that he had a final telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, and his successor in this post, Charles Brown. "We discussed the situation at the front with our partners. We informed about the progress of defensive and offensive operations. The situation is controlled. Our soldiers did not allow the loss of a single position. In some directions, despite the fierce resistance of the enemy, we continue to move forward. He also spoke about the basic needs of our army - These are air defense systems, artillery and ammunition,” said the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:07 The Russians fired artillery at Volchansk, Kharkov region, one person was wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported.
18:23 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with the President of the National Council of Austria Wolfgang Sobotka. We discussed, in particular, the implementation of the Peace Formula and the involvement of Austrian business in the restoration of Ukraine.
17:45 As a result of a recent operation by fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps, fighting on the side of Ukraine against the Russian Federation, several FSB officers, Russian border guards and military personnel were eliminated in the Kursk region, Budanov told NV. According to the forecasts of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, the scale of actions of Russian volunteers will grow: “The activities of the RDK and other units will develop, as well as the scale of events related to these activities.”
17:34 Norway will allocate an additional $92 million to provide vital assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons in Ukraine, the country's government announced.
16:58 The Russians fired at residential areas of Kherson, three people were injured, the OVA reported.
16:31 A group of deputies submitted to the Bulgarian parliament a draft resolution on the transfer of unsuitable S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine, mainly for use as spare parts. The document also provides for the transfer to Ukraine of excess 5.56 caliber cartridges from the reserves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If the project is approved by the parliamentary committee of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense, it will decide on the number of air defense systems and ammunition to be transferred to Ukraine.
15:52 An SBU drone dropped an explosive device on an electrical substation in the Kursk region, a number of Ukrainian media reports citing sources in the Security Service.
15:43 Special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that they are clarifying information about the liquidation of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet Viktor Sokolov: “As a result of a missile attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, 34 officers were killed. Available sources claim that among the dead is the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. Many are still killed "It was never possible to identify them due to the scattered fragments of the bodies. Since the Russians were urgently forced to publish a response with Sokolov supposedly alive, our units are clarifying the information."
15:39 The United States announced the introduction of additional sanctions, including against companies involved in the production of UAVs Orlan, Shahed and others. We are talking about companies from Europe, Asian countries and the Russian Federation. In particular, sanctions were imposed against six Russian enterprises associated with the military-industrial complex, and export restrictions were also introduced against five large companies, including the largest titanium producer in the Russian Federation.
15:13 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed an image of the supposedly living commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Viktor Sokolov, at a meeting - after the Ukrainian MTR reported his liquidation. The media noticed that in the video recording of the meeting Sokolov looked completely motionless on the screen.
14:46 The Romanian Ministry of Defense condemned the Russian attack on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region, including the ferry crossing across the Danube between the Ukrainian Orlovka and the Romanian Isaccea. The department noted that during the attack they monitored the air situation near their borders in real time.
14:25 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. We discussed the situation at the front, the plans of the Russian Federation, providing the front with everything necessary, increasing its own production of weapons, especially UAVs. In addition, they heard a report from the Foreign Intelligence Service on the state of affairs in the Russian army and the prospects for the development of the Russian military-industrial complex.
13:34 Drone attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation are mostly aimed at enterprises in the missile industry of the Russian military-industrial complex, Budanov said in an interview with New Voice. According to him, a third of such enterprises are located in the European part of Russia and are accessible to “unknown drones.” “When we practice certain actions at the facilities of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, we set only one goal: to slow down the production of Russian weapons,” noted the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
13:18 The Russians shelled Kiselevka in the Kherson region in the evening and in the morning, six people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. In addition, a policeman from the Dnepropetrovsk region was injured as a result of the shelling of Berislav. Over the past 24 hours, six people were killed and ten were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
12:37 Polish investigators came to the conclusion that the rocket that fell in Przewoduwa in November 2022 could not have been fired from Russia and was probably Ukrainian, writes Rzeczpospolita, citing sources. It was probably a S-300 anti-aircraft missile of the 5-55 series. The prosecutor's office allegedly knows from which position of the Ukrainian air defense forces it was launched. As a result of the fall of this rocket, two people were killed.
11:58 Russia struck missile assembly sites in Ukraine, NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov said in an interview with ABC: “What I can tell you is that, unfortunately, Russia hit the assembly site of these missiles.”
11:26 The “authorities” of the annexed Zaporozhye region stated that Russia plans to build a new railway line through the occupied south of Ukraine. It must pass from Crimea through the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions to the Rostov region, along the shores of the Azov Sea.
10:59 Defense forces hit the temporary control center of the occupiers near Kherson. The strike was carried out on a tip from the Security Service, the UP reports citing a source in the SBU. A HIMARS missile hit the headquarters during a meeting of Russian officers of the 24th motorized rifle regiment of the 70th motorized rifle division. The attack left eight officers dead and seven wounded.
10:13 British intelligence believes that after the attacks on headquarters in Crimea, the Russian Black Sea Fleet can still carry out basic operations such as security patrols and cruise missile strikes, but its ability to carry out more complex tasks - for example, long-range patrols or blockades of Ukrainian ports - has been significantly weakened.
09:37 The night Russian drone strike was aimed at the port and border infrastructure of the Odessa region, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, “there was a very serious risk for the passengers of the bus, which was preparing to cross the border, and the border infrastructure at the international checkpoint was damaged.”
Gumenyuk clarified that due to the night attack, the Orlovka-Isaccea checkpoint between Ukraine and Romania is not working. She also denied the information spread in telegram channels that the drones allegedly crossed the territory of Romania.
09:16 In the Zaporozhye region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed in Plavny, another was wounded in Gulyai-Polye, according to the OVA.
08:52 At night, the Russians attacked the Cherkasy region with suicide bombers, an infrastructure facility was hit. According to preliminary information, no people were injured, said Igor Taburets, head of the police department.
08:45 Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt said that a “Ukrainian drone” dropped an explosive device on an electrical substation, cutting off power to seven settlements.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 26:
personnel - about 276,670 (+400) people,
tanks - 4672 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 8946 (+19),
artillery systems - 6299 (+39),
MLRS - 792 (+1),
air defense systems - 533 (+0),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4924 (+29),
cruise missiles - 1529 (+11),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8763 (+17),
special equipment - 925 (+7).
08:17 During a night enemy attack, air defense destroyed 26 of 38 Shahed-type attack UAVs , the Air Force command reported. The drones were launched from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russian Federation, Cape Chauda - Crimea).
07:58 Over the past 24 hours, 25 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Kleshcheevka area, in Avdeevsky - in the Avdeevka and Severny areas, in Maryinsky - in the Maryinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region. In the Shakhtarsky and Zaporozhye directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding the defense on occupied lines, in the Melitopol direction they are continuing the offensive.
07:49 The Russians hit one of the enterprises in Krivoy Rog, the information is being clarified, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak.
07:26 At night, the Russians attacked the Odessa region with attack drones for two hours. Most of the drones were shot down, but there was a hit on the port infrastructure in the Izmail region, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. Two people were injured, the building of the checkpoint, warehouses, and about 30 trucks were damaged.
Igor Girkin got a severe beat down in Russian prison. Rumor a while ago was that he was housed with Ukrainian prisoners in hopes of Putin being relieved of his Girkin problem.
Russian VDV affiliated blogger complaining about Ukrainians taking half of Verbove and threatening to cut off Russian forces to the north in Novofedorivka.
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Abu, why should Ukraine shut down their government when it is the US who can't get their act together. The Ukrainian budget for the next few months is already in the bank. The main budget sources for the Ukrainians comes from their taxes (100% used to fund the war), European aid and lastly US aid.
US aid amounts to $50 billion/year. Half is financial (appropriations), including some loans. The other half is military. Much of the military aid is overvalued surplus goods that the US military won't use and won't replace (Humvee, MRAP, M-113 APC, M1A1, M2A2, old SAMs, 105 and 203mm artillery shells). The other part is equipment and ammunition the US uses and will replace with new stock (155mm shells, small arms and ammo, GMLRS, Patriot, JLTV, Javelin, Stinger). For example, replacing 1 million 155mm frag shells will cost $1 billion or less. The replacement stock money is spent with US defense contractors employing US workers. The amount that actually comes out of the treasury is probably $30-35 billion/year, $40 billion w/ replacement of stock. Off setting that are the billions in increased energy and weapons sales to Europe. Even the Germans are buying F-35s from us, a move the Germans never thought they'd do. Compare with the $400 billion stolen from Covid relief aid.
In the meantime, the Europeans are spending 50% more, much of it real money financial assistance. They are also sending a lot more equipment w/o overvaluing their obsolete weapons. That doesn't count the billions spent to support several million refugee women and children in their countries.
As for packing our shit and going home, we can't. The Russians have already said this the first step of reassembling the Soviet empire. If not stopped in Ukraine, they will invade the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Caucasus, and the Stans. Stationing in Europe 200,000 troops will cost at least $100 billion/year, not including equipement costs. Multiply that by 50 years like last time.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian defense forces continue to knock out the enemy near Zaitsev, Kleshchievka, Odradovka and Ivanovsky.
Ukrainian defenders in the Bakhmut direction destroyed dozens of Russian weapons and succeeded in the areas of four settlements. Representative of the Eastern Group of Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ilya Yevlash spoke about this on Tuesday, September 26, during a telethon.
“On the southern flank we continue the offensive operation. In particular, we have successes near Zaitsev, Kleshchievka, Odradovka and Ivanovsky. There our defenders continue to knock out the enemy. Under heavy fire they hold the line and gain a foothold on the achieved lines,” Yevlash said.
According to him, the enemy opened fire on our defenders in this direction 580 times. He used aviation four times, and there were 12 military engagements.
At the same time, the Defense Forces destroyed 141 invaders, in addition, the Ukrainian counter-battery units did a very good job: they managed to destroy 10 D-30 guns, three D-20 guns, two Pion installations and four Msta-B howitzers - that is, an entire division of artillery weapons.
In addition, according to Yevlash, the Ukrainian army destroyed enemy electronic reconnaissance equipment: Credo-1E, which detects the movement of equipment and people at any time of the year, the Murom-B observation station and the Irony optical-electronic device. The latter is used by the Russians to adjust fire and track the movements of our troops in this direction.
Let us recall that on Tuesday evening the General Staff reported that since the beginning of the current day, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have repelled attacks by Russian aggressors in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions in the Donetsk region, and also continued the offensive operation in the Melitopol direction and assault operations near Bakhmut.
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[Korrespondent] The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, neither confirmed nor denied the death of the Russian vice-admiral, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Viktor Sokolov. This is evidenced by the comment he gave to the American television channel CNN on Tuesday, September 26.
However, he noted that if the Russian occupier did die, then “it’s good news for everyone.”
“He is in our temporarily occupied territory... he should not be there at all. Therefore, if he is dead, then this is good news for everyone - we continue the deoccupation of our territory,” explained the Ukrainian official.
However, the head of the department did not confirm or deny in a comment to journalists the fact of Sokolov’s death during the Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.
Let us recall that on September 22, a missile attack was carried out on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. The day before, the MTR of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that 34 officers were killed then, including the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov.
Subsequently, the Russian Ministry of Defense released on Tuesday, September 26, footage of a board meeting in which Black Sea Fleet commander Viktor Sokolov allegedly participated.
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[RIA] Grandfathers were at war. Who for what? One - for the triumph of justice, peace, freedom, for a land liberated from Nazism and the end of all imperialist wars. The second is for the triumph of Hitler, so that there are no Jews, Russians and Bolsheviks on earth, so that the German Reich dominates. Which, as it seemed to the Ukrainian Nazis, would give them their own small project within the framework of a large one - Ukraine without Russians and all other nationalities.
Although Hitler and his top managers did not intend to create anything more than the “Ukraine” flight commissariat on these lands. But they preferred not to talk about their plans publicly.
But let's return to grandfathers and grandchildren.
Two grandfathers - Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky and Yaroslav Hunka (Gunko) - collided in the space of historical memory. One living and well 98-year-old Nazi who served in the SS division "Galicia". Hunka is the grandfather of Teresa’s not-so-smart granddaughter, who posted a shot from the reception room of the Canadian Prime Minister with the caption “Dedo is waiting in the reception room for Trudeau and Zelensky.” No sooner had Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau laid the blame on Speaker of Parliament Roth than journalists discovered a photo exposing political liars.
Zelensky is a hero, a Jew and an anti-fascist, the grandfather of the current President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky . He was also very unlucky with his grandson - he publicly betrayed him in the halls of the Canadian Parliament, when, together with other neo-Nazis (let's call those present as they deserve it), they applauded Hitler's punisher. Yaroslav Hunk was introduced as a “Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran who fought for Ukraine’s independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops at the age of 98,” a “Ukrainian and Canadian hero.”
That is, grandfather Hunka fought in World War II against grandfather Zelensky, our Russian (we take him for ourselves, of course) hero.
"Galicia", the so-called First Ukrainian Division, is notorious for brutal massacres of Jews, Poles, Russians, Belarusians, and Slovaks. In Nuremberg, the SS formations, which included “Galicia,” were recognized as a criminal organization.
In 1945, "Galicia" surrendered to the British on Austrian territory. They did not use Nazi criminals, despite the decisions of Nuremberg; on the contrary, they decided to use them in the fight against our country.
In 1947, 8,000 Ukrainian Nazis were transported to Britain, given passports and settled throughout the country. They collaborated with MI6, they were recruited as saboteurs for subversive work on the territory of the USSR, and they served in the British troops.
When “Nazi hunters” began to approach war criminals from “Galicia” in the mid-1980s, Canada urgently passed a law according to which war criminals would not be extradited. And many Nazis moved there. However, by the beginning of the 2000s, about 1,500 participants of “Galicia” remained in Britain.
What accomplishments are credited to the hero of Ukraine and Canada, for what service did Speaker Roth thank the old Nazi? For example, on February 28, 1944, members of the SS division "Galicia" killed 850 residents of the Pinyacka farm in Poland , burning them alive in their homes. In 1944, in Slovakia , “Galicia” suppressed a national uprising, killing civilians. There is a well-known punitive operation in the Slovak village of Nizna Boča, where the Nazis shot several people, including a 15-year-old teenager who was found with a Soviet coin in his pocket.
These are all examples from British sources. However, the investigations into the crimes were classified, and the topic was kept as closed as possible from the public. Nazis are always useful in the fight against Russians.
He started the war as a mortar platoon commander. Later he began to command a rifle company of the 174th Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division. Received two Orders of the Red Star.
In one of the award documents in the column “Brief specific statement of personal combat feat” we read: “Comrade Zelensky Semyon I. is a good organizer and leader in his company. When the battalion approached the Western Bug River in battle, he personally "he found a ford and, under heavy enemy fire, simultaneously crossed the river with his entire company, without a single loss. And quickly began to push back the Germans beyond the Bug."
You read the award documents of Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky and immediately recognize the style of these papers, the format, and the handwriting. The description of feats is like that of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Most citizens in Russiaand the countries that were formed after the USSR had the same grandfathers and grandmothers. But we don’t and never had grandfathers like Hunka, the SS man who fled to Canada. The main mechanism of the current confrontation between Nazis and anti-fascists is that same family history, family memory. Who did your grandfathers fight with, whose side were they on?
A painful question, the answer to which we apparently will not find even after the end of the war: how did it happen that the grandchildren of the heroes take the side of the Nazis, the punishers and murderers of their people? Zelensky is not the first and far from the only example. This is a noticeable phenomenon - when they publicly betray the cause of their ancestors, forget about the graves of relatives who died in the Lvov pogrom or the Volyn massacre, and swear allegiance to the new European community, which is welded together by Russophobia and neo-Nazism.
How so? After all, we note that even the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Friends Center, Dan Panneton, who was outraged by the invitation of a Nazi to the Canadian Parliament, nevertheless emphasized that solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russia is incredibly important. But most Westerners do not make such reservations about Nazism, which is unacceptable. There are more important values than anti-fascism, There are stronger bonds than the general struggle against Nazism and anti-Semitism, namely, the fight against Russia, Russophobia, the creation of an anti-Russian international that is capable of uniting the real, Hitler-era Nazi with the Western ruling establishment.
Is this about family memory, is it about family honor? But Zelensky’s relatives died in the Holocaust.
But there are also advantages in this shameful ovation for the Nazis, which shocked many people both in Russia and in the world.
Some still doubt: is Russia right, and was it necessary to start the Northern Military District, and are we on the wrong side of history, have we confused good and evil? Moreover, propaganda on the other side keeps pouring out arguments, and if there are none, then it invents, falsifies, and stages a bloody performance, as, for example, in Bucha.
And now, looking at how the Parliament of Canada, in a single impulse, enthusiastically, enthusiastically applauds the Nazi, raising his hands high above his head, and the Nazi grandfather himself almost zigs and cries, touched by such glorification of his crimes - looking at this, any sane person will breathe a sigh of relief: no, we were not mistaken.
No, we are still faithful to the memory of our heroic grandfathers, who fought against the same hypocritical, cruel, greedy force, which did not even change their costumes - the same handsome Frau, that they went to look at the Nuremberg trials, and before that they looked at the Nazi marches in Nuremberg, the same bourgeois respectable gentlemen who betrayed their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis, the same justifications for their own hatred and crimes: someone else is always to blame, then the Bolsheviks - Jews are now Russian aggressors.
And the same mask of hypocritical innocence, when they were caught red-handed, they were poked in the nose by archival photos of young Yaroslav Gunko as part of “Galicia”: but we didn’t know that he was a Nazi, we weren’t warned, it was all an unfortunate accident.
So the secret was revealed: how could they? Why didn’t they stop Nazism in Europe then ? Because both then and now, Nazism is incredibly profitable, convenient and tempting. And therefore, grandfather Hunka-Gunko, protected and cared for, lived to an old age in honor and satiety, not only without repenting, but carrying his crimes as heroism through the decades.
Old age must be respected, we were taught, keeping in mind that all our grandfathers were real heroes of war and labor. But here we see another old age, the old age of a criminal and a villain, encouraged by the Western ruling elite. They respect and honor this old age.
Here, it turns out, is the border. Between our own and strangers.
The grandfather is not responsible for his grandson. And the grandson will be fully responsible for himself.
#1
You read the award documents of Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky and immediately recognize the style of these papers, the format, and the handwriting. The description of feats is like that of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Most citizens in Russia and the countries that were formed after the USSR had the same grandfathers and grandmothers. But we don’t and never had grandfathers like Hunka, the SS man who fled to Canada.
Baltic Legions refers to the three Baltic Waffen SS divisions:
20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian)
19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)
#2
But we don’t and never had grandfathers like Hunka, the SS man who fled to Canada.
That’s because the Russian/Soviet Union grandfathers who did all the evil Communist stuff never had to flee, Grom. They got to stay right there and get promotions for a job well done, because the Soviet evil stuff started under Lenin and kept going until Stalin died in 1953, with less evil stuff going on after that until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989.
#3
"Sure, he's a son of a bitch nazi, but he's our son of a bitch nazi."
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#4
That's not the point TW. The point is, Natasha exaggerates: most Russian minorities had SS/gendarmerie units in Nazi service. For that matter, there was Vlasov's Army.
Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN)
[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (26 September 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled four attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces near Krasnogorovka, Pervomayskoye, and Khimik (Donetsk People's Republic).
During the day, over 310 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed or injured, as well as five tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, and eight motor vehicles. In counterbattery warfare, the Russian troops hit one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In Zaporozhye direction, two attacks of AFU 71st Jaeger and 36th Airmobile brigades near Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region) were repelled by actions of the Russian Group of Forces units, air strikes and artillery fire. Up to 70 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles have been neutralised. Also, one U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system and one 122mm D-30 howitzer were hit during counterbattery warfare.
In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces units supported by aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on the enemy near Berestovoye (Kharkov region) and Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic). Up to 50 Ukrainian troops and two motor vehicles have been neutralised. One 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery guns was eliminated. Moreover, two AFU field command posts were annihilated close to Seredina-Buda (Sumy region) and Kislovka (Kherson region).
In Krasny Liman direction, three attacks launched by assault detachments of the 67th Mechanised Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Chervonaya Dibrova and Kuzmino (Lugansk People's Republic) were repelled by professional efforts of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopter strikes, and artillery fire. In addition, strikes were delivered at clusters of enemy manpower and hardware near Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forest.
During the day, the enemy has lost more than 90 Ukrainian personnel killed and injured, as well as two armoured fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks. Also, one 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and one 152mm D-20 howitzer were hit during counterbattery warfare.
In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces, supported by helicopters and artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU units near Rovnopol and repelled one enemy attack close to Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). The enemy's losses over the past 24 hours have amounted to up to 120 Ukrainian personnel killed or injured, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, over 15 Ukrainian servicemen and ten motor vehicles have been neutralised.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 117 areas during the day. In addition, a Ukrainian Anklav anti-UAV electronic warfare station was uncovered and destroyed near Dnepropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk region). An ammunition depot of the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade has been wiped out close to Kiselyovka (Kherson region).
Russian Aerospace Forces have eliminated one MiG-29 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force at the Kulbakino airfield near Kulbakino, Nikolayev region.
Air defence systems have shot down five HIMARS MLRS shells, one JDAM guided bombs, and one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile during the day. In addition, 57 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed near Artyomovsk, Spartak, Nevelskoye, Novopetrikovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Lisichansk (Lugansk People's Republic), Krynki, Kazachyi Lageri (Kherson region), Veliky Vyselok (Kharkov region), Tokmak and Pologi (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 479 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,172 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defence missile systems, 12,151 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,155 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,542 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,477 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
#1
Video of the Russian-Wagner Il-76 crash released. Pilot overshot the runway upon landing, ran off the end and exploded. Some Russian sites had speculated it was a MANPAD.
#3
The Malian air force isn't listed as an Il-76 operator. What kind of flag of convenience switcheroo occurred with the Wagner owned TZ-98 and did it occur before or after Prigozhin's death?
The Il-76 that crashed was reportedly registered as TZ-98T. Some reports have claimed the aircraft was linked to, or even owned by, the infamous Russian private military company Wagner Group, which has gained international notoriety because of its role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its murky role in several conflicts in Africa. The same sources report that the aircraft had recently been transferred to the Malian Air Force, for which it was carrying a supply flight.
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[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/26/2023 to 00:00 09/27/2023
Over the past 24 hours Representative officereportedabout 14 facts of firing from the AFU.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a man, at the station. "Donetsk-North".
Residential buildings at the station were damaged. "Donetsk-Severny", as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 11 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlovka there were two artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky there was one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 35 units of various ammunition were fired.
A previous 35 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.
21:03 Ukrainian troops at 2025 hrs Tuesday fired two cluster rounds of “NATO” caliber 155 mm into the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, reported representation DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:35 The situation in the village of Kleshcheevka in the Artemovsk direction from military correspondent Alexander Kots.
Last night, the enemy east of Kleshcheevka crossed the railway line in one area and began to gain a foothold.
From night on there was a battle all day long. I just received a message from a friend: “Recaptured.”
The enemy was again thrown back behind the iron.
18:25 The Russian Armed Forces launched a high-precision hit at the joint warehouse of weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region.
As a result of the defeat and subsequent detonation in Kiselevka, 12 hangars were destroyed, in which more than 3,000 tons of ammunition of various calibers were stored.
18:01 Military personnel of the Dnepr group of troops continue to destroy military installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Kherson region.
On frames destruction of a temporary deployment point, a hangar with foreign-made equipment and the location of an enemy UAV correction crew
17:28 Fixation of consequences of the artillery attack of the Leninsky district of Donetsk 12:25 09/26/2023
Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the fact of artillery attack of the Leninsky district of Donetsk using the HIMARS MLRS, and also clarified the direction of fire and the type of missiles.
The enemy fired from their positions located in the area of the settlement. Dobropolye, from the HIMARS MLRS using M-31 missiles (fragmentation).
17:10 Soledar direction situation as of 17.00 September 26, 2023
In Bakhmut, the situation remains practically without any significant changes - there is a positional struggle with the mutual use of weapons, from artillery and aviation to FPV drones.
According to many channels, Russian paratroopers carried out a successful attack on enemy positions in the Orekhovo-Vasil'evka area. To date, there is no detailed information about the assault, so for now the events there remain in the “fog of war.”
On the southern flank, the front line at the Kleshcheevka-Andreevka-Kurdyumovka line is also without significant changes. From time to time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to attack Russian positions in small groups, but to no avail.
However, now in the rear areas in the Bakhmut direction there is a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces units. If you look at the areas where they are concentrated, possible directions of attack emerge: Razdolovka and Lisichansk, as well as Zaitsevo - Kodema.
Moreover, the main task is to cover Bakhmut, and attacks on Lisichansk and Kodema are highly likely to be distracting. There is no particular tactical meaning for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in such an offensive, but it has great symbolic significance.
Therefore, the attack on Bakhmut should be considered in the context of planning a large-scale operation in the south, where an escalation in the Soledar, as well as the Belgorod or Bryansk directions will be intended to pin down the Russian Armed Forces.
16:59 It’s loud in Berdyansk. Residents of the city heard loud explosions.
According to preliminary data, our air defense successfully worked against an enemy missile that Ukrainian Armed Forces militants fired at a peaceful city. The rocket was shot down on the outskirts of the city. Information about casualties and damage is being clarified.
16:35 Destruction of tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zaporozhye direction. Verbovoe. 1620 hrs 26.09
During the next unsuccessful offensive attempt, the enemy deployed a smoke screen in the hope that this would protect his armored vehicles from the eyes of the ATGM and artillery.
Having determined the exact coordinates, fire was opened on the Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks. The result is that at least two destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks were left to burn out in the field.
16:24 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are transferring forces from the Khar'kov region.
According to “Come and See”, in the morning a Ukrainian column left Kharkov in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk.
Her movements were recorded by observers not only in the city, but also in the region.
“A column with armored vehicles, including Western ones,” notes the channel’s source.
According to him, most likely, the equipment will be transferred to the Zaporozhye direction.
15:25 During the 3.5 months of the “offensive”, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot take 16 houses in Pyatikhatki,told soldiers of the RF Armed Forces to RT military correspondent Stanislav Obishchenko.
Here and in the area of the village of Rabotino, they are ground up from 152mm D-20 howitzers by Russian artillerymen - mobilized and volunteers from North Ossetia and Moscow. The main targets for strikes are enemy support forces, ammunition depots and personnel.
According to the fighters, previously the Ukrainian military tried to storm our positions, but now they move only in small groups, which the Russian Armed Forces immediately work on.
“They are trying to move forward, they understand that it is very painful, these are big losses, because [we have] a concentration of artillery, the number of rounds is so large that [they] no longer have the desire,” noted a military man with the call sign Beard.
14:27 Destruction of crossings over Oskol in Kupyansk
Russian pilots launched a strike with an X-38 guided missile at the Ukrainian Armed Forces crossing the Oskol River in Kupyansk. The hit was right on target, and the bridge collapsed.
The missile hit the southern part of the bridge, and one span is missing in the northern part. Consequently, supplying the group near Kupyansk through this crossing is currently impossible.
Repair or restoration will take time, so enemy units east of Kupyansk may have certain problems replenishing supplies and rotating personnel.
Russian air strikes on crossings are one of the most important tasks in preparation for an offensive. Cutting off supplies will affect the enemy’s defense, and no matter how powerful the fortified area is, without logistics it will be difficult to hold it.
14:00 They report the “arrival” of the DPR in Kramatorsk (occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces)
The blow fell on the territory of NKMZ - Novokramatorsky Machine-Building Plant - closer to the former carriage depot. Two tracked self-propelled guns with ammunition were destroyed; there is currently no information about manpower losses, Militarist reports.
There were also two “arrivals” from the Ukrainian air defense - in the area of the bridge on Yasnogorka (50-70 meters from the bridge near the railway track) and Shpichkino station without civilian casualties. Near the bridge, an anti-aircraft guided missile entered the ground and “triggered” 20-30 minutes after it fell.
13:30 In the Kupyansk direction, the zone of control near Sin'kovka and Petropavlovka has been significantly expanded thanks to the courage of the 25th and 138th Brigades - Shoigu
12:37 Ukrainian militants fired two rockets from MLRS at Donetsk - representative office of the JCCC DPR.
12:26 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:
In the Vrem'evsky sector, the enemy is still not taking active actions. In his near rear in Prechistovo you can regularly observe the movement of units, but they do not go further than the southern outskirts of the settlement and forest belts in this area, they are trying to restore defensive positions, which are regularly “invigorated” by our artillery.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine show a little more activity between Urozhainy and Novodonetsk, but this is also suppressed by artillery work. The enemy does not use large forces; there is only movement of small groups through forest belts.
In the area of Staromayorsky-Priyutny, the artillery of the 5th Army worked in the rear areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Zeleny Gai, Novodarovka, Makarovka, Ravnopol).
Artillery has also been active in the Ugledar area over the past 24 hours. Our guns planned to hit Ugledar and its surrounding forest belts, as well as Vodyanoy, Konstantinovka and Novomikhailovka.
12:14 The air defense system repelled another Ukrainian attack on Tokmak.
At 11:05 Moscow time, the criminal Kiev regime tried to strike the city of Tokmak. The air defense system of the Russian Armed Forces activated.
There were no reports of casualties or destruction.
11:55 More than 10 kg of TNT were found in a Ukrainian cache by Russian Guards in the DPR.
Military personnel of the Russian Guard, during reconnaissance and search activities carried out jointly with military counterintelligence, discovered a hiding place of Ukrainian militants.
During an inspection of a non-residential building in one of the settlements of the DPR, 27 TNT blocks with a total mass of 10.8 kg, two RPG-27 grenade launchers, shots for an RPG-7 hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, 11 shots for an under-barrel grenade launcher and 5 grenades with fuses, 14 magazines were discovered to the machines.
Methodological recommendations from the Ministry of Defense, the Security Service and the National Guard of Ukraine on the use of communications equipment, the organization of combat work of artillery units and special training of troops were also discovered.
11:27 The Russian Armed Forces repulsed a series of attacks in the Rabotino area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to advance on the Zaporozhye front. This was reported by the “Come and See” Telegram channel.
“A series of attacks were repulsed in the Rabotino area. They attacked in small groups. The enemy has been driven back,” the channel’s source said.
According to him, the situation on the Zaporozhye front is currently stable.
10:21 During the past 24 hours, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 35 incidents of firing from the AFU, and 119 ammunition was fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 18 attacks from AGM-88 HARM, attack UAV, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Gorlovka - 12 artillery attacks from 152mm caliber artillery.
On Yasinovatsky - three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Svetlodarsky - one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoe – one artillery attack from 155mm artillery. The enemy fired at Donetsk, Nikolsky, Makeevka, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Golmovsky, Mironovsky.
Over the past 24 hours, information has been received about the death of a civilian in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, and one person was wounded in Nikolskoye.
Four residential buildings and one civil infrastructure facility were damaged in Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
09:50 Slavyansk. At night inflicted missile strike at the enemy's location.
09:27 SAM "Buk" works on nationalist drones in the Ugledar direction.
The medium-range complex scans the sky for tens of kilometers. It can escort and destroy several targets at once. After duty, the Buk immediately goes to a new shelter. The launchers are in constant motion, even when they have not fired a single shot.
09:20 A representative of the Russian Investigative Committee spoke about the situation with artillery attack of the DPR by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the day -video.
09:02 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
–- in the village of Kazachi Lagery 12 rounds;
–- in the village of Aleshki 9 rounds;
–- in the village of Krynki 9 rounds;
–- in the village of Dnepryany 7 rounds;
–- in the village of Gornostaevka 9 rounds;
-- Velikaya Lepetikha 7 rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Dnepryany, Korsunka, Krynki, Kazachi Lagery firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined
08:17 Frontline summary on the morning of September 26, 2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, after powerful artillery strikes, reached the northern outskirts of Novoprokopovka. They also move from the northeast through the forest belt. Similar offensive actions at Verbovoy did not bring success to the Ukrainian units. The Russian Armed Forces are carrying out strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlements of Rabotino, Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka. Ukrainian artillery is working on Russian positions in Tokmak, Kopany, Il'chenkov and Novopokrovka.
In the Ugledarsky sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, after artillery barrage, tried to advance near Priyutnoye and along the highway in the direction of Zavetnoye Zhelanie. No success. The Russian Armed Forces shelled Ukrainian positions in Staromayorske and Urozhainy. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Russians in Staromlynovka, Novodonetsk and Novomayorsky.
In the Bakhmut direction there are oncoming battles near the railway line in the area of Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked at Orekhovo-Vasil'ievka, where they had recently been greatly strained by Russian troops. Russian artillery is targeting Ukrainian positions in Andreevka, Kleshcheevka and Orekhovo-Vasil'yevka. Ukrainian - according to the RF Armed Forces in Kurdyumovka, Bakhmut and Dubovo-Vasil'ievka.
In the Lugansk direction there are also oncoming battles in the Serebryansky forest in the Dibrova area. But much further north, Russian troops managed to occupy new positions near Kislovka. Behind the settlement is the important logistics route H-26. But in front of it are the heights that control the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:05 Military personnel of the “South” group deflected nine attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces attack aircraft in the Donetsk direction, enemy losses amounted to over 230 military personnel. This was announced by the head of the group’s press center, Giorgi Minesashvili.
Air defense and electronic warfare systems intercepted three Ukrainian HARM anti-radiation missiles.
Minesashvili also said that the aircraft of the “South” group hit the temporary deployment point of the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Maksimil'yanovka of the DPR.
08:01 Personnel combat work of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS crews of the Western Military District in the Kupyansk direction.
Military intelligence officers of the Western Military District discovered a strong point with personnel and a concentration of enemy armored vehicles.
The 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS battery was given the task of covertly taking positions and striking.
The artillerymen left cover and moved to firing positions. The crews positioned the guns according to coordinates and fired 220mm rounds.
Having hit all the targets, the guys quickly left the firing positions, leaving the enemy no time to retaliate.
07:50 Summary on the morning of September 26, 2023
In the morning, a missile danger was declared in Ukraine; in the first half of the night, the enemy recorded the takeoff of our missile carriers. Also in the morning they reported an attack on Krivoy Rog. “Gerani” worked at night: explosions were heard in the Cherkasy region, the port of Reni in the Odessa region. They reported on the work of air defense in the Nikolaev region: our UAVs attacked the Kulbakino airfield. On the Zaporozhye Front, the enemy rotates units near the line of combat contact, conducts reconnaissance in force, sending small groups of infantry forward.
In the Kherson region, our aviation is increasing the number of attacks on the enemy bank of the Dnieper with air bombs. The enemy is operating on the islands, trying to expand the zone of control.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces carried out successful offensive operations near Opytny, taking several strong points. Sources highlight the bravery of the Storm Z units (from among the prisoners), who suffer heavy losses, but complete the assigned task.
The enemy does not stop daily attacks on Crimea and Sevastopol with NATO missiles and Storm Shadow missiles; on the eve of the peninsula's air defense repelled another missile and UAV attack. Drone raids on the Kursk and Belgorod regions are becoming massive. Over the Belgorod region yesterday, seven UAVs were shot down in a short period of time; in the Kursk region, the enemy launched drones throughout the day: the last one was shot down at about 5:30.
In the Bryansk region, drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also destroyed yesterday, one on approach to the regional capital. In addition, the enemy struck the border Starodub municipal district with the Grad MLRS. As a result of Nazi artillery attack of the DPR, one civilian was killed and one was wounded.
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[Regnum] Why does Armenia need Russia if it could not protect the Armenians in Karabakh? - they ask in Yerevan, where refugees are arriving. Why does Russia need Armenia? - they ask in response in Russia, surprised by the reproaches and accusations of “betraying an ally.” These questions do not simply follow from one another, they are part of one, more general and main thing - how do Russians generally relate to Armenians?
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[Regnum] The past week was marked not only by the tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh, but also by the aggravation of the already difficult situation in the long-suffering region in the south of Serbia, on the territory of which sixteen years ago the Albanians proclaimed their republic.
On Sunday night, in the town of Banska, not far from Kosovska Mitrovica, a shootout between Pristina security forces and unknown people began, resulting in the death of a Kosovo “policeman.” This was followed by a “force operation” in Pristina, which resulted in the storming of a medieval monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the killing of several Serbs.
According to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic , September 24 was the most difficult day for the Serbian people since the March 2004 pogrom and the declaration of independence of the “Republic of Kosovo” in February 2008.
WHO SHOT WHOM?
On Sunday morning, information appeared in the Kosovo media about the murder of a policeman at the entrance to the village of Banska near Leposavić. Another “law enforcement officer” was allegedly wounded, and a patrol of Kosovo security forces arriving at the scene was fired upon by unknown assailants.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced the presence of “heavily armed masked professionals” on the territory of the municipality and immediately accused them of belonging to “ Serbian armed groups.”
At the same time, the Chairman of the Serbian Parliament, Vladimir Orlic, emphasized that the main person interested in the escalation of the conflict is Kurti himself. And he urged to wait for the results of the investigation before drawing conclusions.
However, no one was going to wait for the results of the investigation.
Following the Kosovo authorities' accusations against Belgrade, there was an immediate reaction from Western partners.
The “organized brutal attack” on the Kosovo police was condemned by several European officials. The most revealing was the lightning-quick reaction from the American diplomatic mission - Washington called for bringing the guilty Serbs to justice as soon as possible.
The border crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak on the administrative border with central Serbia were closed. In the north of the region, a force operation was launched to search for intruders. Information has emerged that Serbian municipalities in the north of the region will be declared a “counter-terrorist operation zone.” Representatives of the EULEX mission arrived in the village of Banska, and began to bring equipment from the NATO peacekeeping contingent (KFOR) to the site of the incident.
In the middle of the day, reports appeared from the Rasko-Prizren diocese of the SOC that Kosovo security forces were storming the Banjska monastery.
It was built in 1313–1317 by the Serbian king Milutin and was considered the fourth most important monastery in Serbia. The thing is that for a long time Banska was the royal tomb - Milutin bequeathed to bury him in the monastery, and after his death his will was fulfilled. However, after the tragic defeat of the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the king's ashes were transferred to Trepca and then to Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo told reporters that thirty heavily armed Serbian “terrorists” had barricaded themselves on the territory of the monastery. According to him, people in uniform without identification marks represent “ an organized formation that arrived to fight in Kosovo.”
However, at the time of the assault, Abbot Daniel and the brethren of the monastery, as well as about thirty pilgrims from Novi Sad, including children, were in the shrine. All of them became hostages of the situation and were forced to take refuge in the monastery from shelling by Kosovo security forces.
A WAVE OF FAKES
Meanwhile, photos of the “liquidated Serbian terrorist” were already being widely distributed on the Internet.
True, he turned out to be an Azerbaijani soldier killed in the direction of Talish back in 2016.
There have been attempts to find the “long hand of the Kremlin” behind what is happening in northern Kosovo. The Albanian Post, citing its informed sources, reported that it was not even Serbian paramilitary forces that attacked the “Kosovo police,” but fighters from the Wagner PMC and special forces officers of the Russian army.
A large-scale information campaign has begun on social networks.
As evidence of the presence of Russians in the Serbian temple, an audio recording circulated on Twitter, according to which Russian speech was heard in the besieged monastery. It’s just that the only phrase that even slightly resembles the Russian language sounds like the question “Is there spice?” (which, you see, would hardly have bothered the “terrorists” at the time of the shootout with the Kosovo police).
But even such a poorly put together fake was enough for foreign media to begin seriously discussing the presence of the Wagner PMC and Russian special forces soldiers in Kosovo.
The zest to the madness of what was happening was added by the statement of the Austrian blogger and activist Günter Fehlinger, who heads a certain “European Committee for NATO Development”. Fehlinger called for an immediate strike against Serbia with the words “The Serbian war against Kosovo began in Banska. Bomb Belgrade right now!
CARTE BLANCHE FOR TERROR
At 20:00 on September 24, Aleksandar Vucic made an urgent address to the nation. The most emotional part was the part about recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed republic, which Western partners are trying to achieve from Belgrade by hook or by crook.
“Serbia will never recognize the monstrous creation that you created through the bombing of Serbia and lies. We are always ready for dialogue, but forget about recognition of Kosovo,” the Serbian leader said harshly and added: “ Do what you want - even kill us all.”
The president said that the shootout began after Kosovo Serbs set up a barricade of two trucks near Banjska, and Kosovo police opened fire on them.
“I warned many times both in New York and in Brussels that this could happen... It happened,” Vucic concluded, in no way justifying the murder of the Albanian security officer.
We must pay tribute to the President of Serbia, he really warned the inhabitants of the cozy headquarters of international organizations that sooner or later the “powder keg” would explode and it was simply unsafe to ignore the situation further. This is exactly what the president spoke about the other day and during his speech at the UN General Assembly, but the international community is diligently pretending not to hear him.
The scale of terror by the Kurti authorities against the Kosovo Serbs is growing: this year alone, the Kosovo authorities tried 41 times to provoke a direct conflict in the north of the region. There were 15 cases of aggression against Serbian children and 56 attacks on objects of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Since “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti came to power, 401 incidents have already been recorded, including attacks on Serbian families, illegal arrests of Serbs, and destruction of Serbian houses by Albanians. If 54 attacks were recorded in 2020, then in 2021 there are already 133 incidents. Over the past year, Serbs and their property were attacked by Albanians 164 times.
This means that every two or three days there are provocations against the Serbian population in the region. Separately, it is worth noting that cases of destruction of Orthodox shrines and cemeteries have become more frequent in recent years. “Raids” by the Kosovo police, as well as arrests of the Serbian population for far-fetched reasons, have also become frequent.
“If we are talking about de-escalation, no one has done anything about it. Because the international community gave Kurti carte blanche for terror ,” Vučić emphasizes. During the address, the President confirmed that Albanian snipers killed three Serbs in Bansk. The body of the fourth victim will be found in the surrounding area a little later.
NO ONE HAS ILLUSIONS
Pilgrims from Novi Sad, after the “filtration” procedure in Kosovska Mitrovica, were sent to the administrative line. Six Serbs were detained in Kosovo for preparing an “attack”, and the head of the “Ministry of Internal Affairs” of the self-proclaimed republic demands from Belgrade the extradition of four more Albanian snipers injured by fire and hospitalized in a hospital in Novi Pazar.
According to Dzhelal Svechli , they must " stand trial for their terrorist actions." The vice-chairman of the Serbian List party, Milan Radojicic, was also declared one of the suspects in the “terrorist attack” - his documents were allegedly found in one of the seized cars.
In the next three days, mourning for the victims has been declared in the Serbian municipalities of Kosovo and Metohija.
They are all ordinary residents of Zvecan and Leposavić. There are no Serbian terrorists or Russian fighters among them: 50-year-old Igor Milenkovic, who worked as an ambulance driver at the Clinical Center of Kosovska Mitrovica, has two children left, 31-year-old athlete Stefan Nedeljkovic was very loved by his friends, and Bojan Mijailovich just recently became a father. On Wednesday, mourning events will also take place throughout Serbia.
A meeting of the National Security Council was held in Belgrade, following which “all necessary” decisions will be made. However, no one has any illusions: the current aggravation is far from the end, but only the beginning.
There are few ways to resolve the Kosovo conflict, and Western diplomats and European officials who have assumed the role of mediators are no longer able to provide them. However, how to curb your “child”, led by the odious Albin Kurti.
Each round of negotiations in Brussels ends with the smug grin of the Kosovo “prime minister” and the face of the Serbian president, full of tragedy. While the obligations guaranteed by the Brussels Agreements to create a Community of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo are ignored, right before our eyes, the army of the self-proclaimed republic, prohibited by UN resolution, is being formed from the Kosovo “security forces”.
With all the flexibility of the Serbian leader, who is stretched out in a geopolitical twine, and the reluctance to transfer the frozen conflict into a hot stage (which, according to him, always ends in tragedy), unfortunately, the next clash is only a matter of time.
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[Regnum] A statement by the coordinator of strategic communications at the National Security Council, John Kirby , about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky , was criticized by former US Army intelligence officer Scott Ritter.
Mr. Ritter has been a busy little pundit recently.
In an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel, the military man ridiculed Kirby’s words that only the Ukrainian leader will determine when the time comes to sit down at the negotiating table with Putin.
Ritter said that Kirby was mistaken and outright deceiving.
“Military actions will not end when Zelensky wants it. The only thing he will have to do is sign the surrender,” the ex-intelligence officer added.
The expert considers the unconditional victory of Russian troops over the Ukrainian Armed Forces to be the only result of the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, the head of the Kyiv regime introduced restrictions on negotiations with Moscow, Ritter concluded.
As Regnum reported, in October 2022, Zelensky signed a decree on the impossibility of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The head of the Kyiv regime had previously stated his reluctance to negotiate with him in his speeches. As an acceptable way to end the conflict, he named the condition of the withdrawal of Russian troops to the country’s borders as of 1991.
Putin has repeatedly stated that he has never refused negotiations, but, according to him, the key to solving the problem of Ukraine is on the side of the West. The Russian President emphasized that if he really wants peace, it is enough to stop supplying arms to Kyiv, and then Ukraine will soon want to sit down at the negotiating table.
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Actually, the one thing the little converso $hit can't do is sign peace. And, in any case, Vlad is not stupid - he won't repeat the mistake Ariel Sharon did with Gaza. "Independent" Ukraine = NATO base for attacking Russia.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The number of published episodes of the use of FPV drones in the NWO zone has exceeded 1,000!
According to statistics of colleagues from LostArmour @lost_armour, by the evening of September 26, 2023, 1,002 episodes of the use of FPV drones in the NWO zone had been published. The number of published videos is growing rapidly every month; in September it exceeded 450 for the first time.
Of the 1,002 targets, 165 were guaranteed to be destroyed, and another 111 targets were guaranteed to be damaged. Successful hits were recorded on 346 videos, but it is not possible to assess the damage caused (as a rule, there is no footage of objective control). The results of another 185 episodes of the use of FPV drones are not known for certain. Unfortunately, blunders were recorded in 49 cases.
The most common targets of FPV drones are: enemy positions (275 episodes), vehicles (148 episodes), infantry outside cover (135 episodes), light armored vehicles (126 episodes) and various buildings (90 episodes).
Considering the number of publication sources, some frames may have gotten lost and not been taken into account in the overall statistics. In addition, many even successful episodes do not make it online. The real combat score of FPV drones is much higher.
https://t.me/lost_armour/1641 - zinc
1. The process is ongoing - every month there are more and more of them (but still not enough). Further growth in volumes and optimization of the price/quality ratio with an increase in the average fault tolerance of assembled drones is necessary.2. With the support of the channel, from 1200 to 1400 FPV are sent to the front every month (thank you to everyone who helps!) In fact, they have switched from supplying ammunition to supplying modern weapons, although the installation of warheads is, of course, done at the front.
3. The enemy is also actively using FPV and we are also suffering significant losses from this type of weapon. On both sides, FPV operators are actively hunting heavy and light armored vehicles, cars, trucks, other equipment, as well as individual small groups of infantry.
4. The future lies not only in increasing the number and quality of FPV on the battlefield, but also in the development and implementation of new means of combating drones at the tactical level. In the future, a dangerous combination with FPV will be cassette launch and the introduction of neural networks, coupled with an increase in lethality and flight range.
[RT] Ukraine is heading into another demographic spiral, with its fertility rate projected to sink to the lowest in the world amid its conflict with Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
According to the paper, Ukraine’s population is shrinking not only due to hostilities that have left tens of thousands dead but also because of a "baby bust," a trend that started long before February 2022 when the conflict between Moscow and Kiev erupted.
True. It has been commented upon here in the Burg. Also that Russia has the same problem, with only a slightly less horrible birthrate.
The WSJ noted that the number of births in the first half of 2023 was 28% lower than during the same period before the conflict. "Ukrainian demographers are now forecasting [that the fertility rate] will become the lowest in the world," the report says.
Ukraine’s fertility rate was already the lowest in Europe before 2022, with just 1.2 children born per woman. It needs to be around 2.1 for the country to maintain its population size.
The current demographic crisis has been exacerbated by the mass exodus of Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, to neighboring countries, with nearly 10 million people fleeing to the EU alone, according to EU Commissioner Thierry Breton. According to Worldometer, Ukraine population: 51 million in 1991, 40 million in 2022.
How is Russia doing? Their people have been fleeing for the exits, too, though Russia’s starting population is higher, and possibly a lower percentage has left. But in a race to extinction, getting there second is not necessarily a win in the long term - Russia has also been below replacement for a long time.
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When Russia decriminalized domestic violence in February 2017, civil servants tasked with protecting women in the country’s far east were dismayed by the new vulnerability of their wards. Yet few officials opposed the measure. President Vladimir Putin signed off on the bill after the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, overwhelmingly approved it by a vote of 380 to 3.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Footage shows Ukraine's new underwater kamikaze drone 'Marichka' being checked ahead of deployment against Vladimir Putin's navy.
The newly-designed torpedo - which can carry around 1,000 pounds of explosives - is set to be unleashed on Russian warships and submarines as Ukraine continues its efforts to repel Vladimir Putin's navy in the Black Sea.
It is also expected to be aimed at the £3 billion Crimean Bridge - a vital Russian supply route into Ukraine which Kyiv's forces have already hit twice during the war - and which the Russians have managed to only partially repair.
The footage shows the 20-foot long, £355,000 sea weapon being checked in the water at a secret location ahead of its deployment.
It is a development by Ammo.Ukraine volunteers which boasts an invulnerability to Russian radio-electronic warfare systems, making it largely 'invisible to the enemy'.
Ukraine unveils new 'invisible' 20ft underwater kamikaze drone
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The Leopard Bundeswehr crew captured by the Russians in Ukraine is a false piece of propaganda. Almost on the level of ridiculousness as shooting down a Storm Shadow crew.
[RT] EU countries have continued to snap up large volumes of critical commodities from Russia by importing them via third countries, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing customs data and other documents.
According to the report, commodity trading giant Glencore purchased at least 5,000 tons of copper sheets made by Russia’s Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) this year. They were exported from Turkiye to Italy’s Port of Livorno in July.
The outlet noted that there is no blanket ban on trading Russian metals. Restrictions, however, have been imposed on certain Russian businessmen and metal producers as part of Western sanctions. The UK and EU placed sanctions on UMMC executives last year, while the US introduced wider restrictions on the company itself this July.
"There is no suggestion that Glencore has breached sanctions. However, the trades underline Europe’s dependency on Russia for critical commodities as well as the growing role of Turkiye as a transshipment hub," FT wrote, adding that Dubai has also become a "home to middlemen for importing Russian commodities into Europe."
Glencore reportedly said the shipment was the "final part" of a contract that was in place before the start of the Ukraine conflict, adding that it has undertaken no new business with UMMC since then.
Statistics cited by FT reportedly show that imports of Russian copper by Turkiye have nearly tripled to 159,000 tons in the first seven months of this year compared with the same period of 2022.
Meanwhile, Italy has become Turkiye’s largest export destination for copper, growing 3% in 2023, the outlet wrote. Experts suggest that the EU nation was becoming "an integral part of the trade route for Russian copper."
European officials have been raising concerns that trade with Russia through third countries such as Turkiye, China, and the UAE was hampering the effectiveness of Western sanctions. HIMARs, UAVs, tanks - give me a break!
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[Regnum] Canadian authorities, after investigating the activities of Yaroslav Hunka, who fought in the ranks of the SS “Galicia” division, who was honored on September 22 in parliament, should demolish the cenotaph to the SS men, which was installed in the province of Ontario, writes the local edition of the Toronto Sun.
As the publication says, a giant monument in honor of the 14th SS Division at the Ukrainian cemetery in Oakville was erected long before the scandal broke in September.
“This is a shame and a slap in the face to Canadian Jews. This is a spit on the grave of every Canadian veteran. Instead of renouncing these evil murderers who perpetrated the Holocaust and exterminated millions of innocent people, Canada is a place known for giving them a standing ovation and even having a giant memorial in their memory.
The Toronto Sun notes that Oakville Mayor Rob Burton said back in 2020 that he was disgusted to see the memorial in the city and, if provincial laws allowed for it to be demolished, he would have done so 14 years ago. He made this statement after unknown people wrote “Nazi war monument” on the cenotaph.
The local police, who were looking for vandals, noted in turn that they were shocked that such a monument even existed.
Meanwhile, amid the scandal in Canada, Polish Education Minister Przemyslaw Czarnek proposed considering the possibility of extraditing the former SS man. According to him, he sent a letter to the director of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Karol Nawrocki , with a request to urgently study the documents to determine whether Jaroslaw Hunka is wanted for crimes against the Polish people and Poles of Jewish origin.
As Regnum reported, at a meeting of the Canadian Parliament in honor of the visit of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, among others, 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran of the SS Galicia division, was invited, whom speaker Anthony Rota introduced to the applause of the audience as “a fighter for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.” during the Second World War."
The First Ukrainian Division, also known as the 14th SS Volunteer Infantry Division “Galicia”, better known as the SS Division “Galicia”, was a tactical unit of Nazi Germany recruited from Ukrainian volunteers.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not respond to the Hunka incident until September 25, four days later. He accused Russia of “provocation” and “disinformation”, and shifted responsibility for what happened to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Western countries have raised a generation that does not know who fought with whom, and this is fraught with the return of fascism to Europe. Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov emphasized that the incident with inviting a Nazi to the Canadian parliament is an outrage against the history of the country that participated in the anti-Hitler coalition.
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said that Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota should resign after he organized a celebration of a Ukrainian SS man in the country's parliament. RIA Novosti reports this
“What happened on Friday is completely unacceptable. This is a shame for the House, for Canadians. I believe that the speaker should listen to the members of the chamber and resign,” the agency quotes the diplomat as saying.
As Regnum reported , on September 22, Canadian parliamentarians, together with the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky , who arrived on a visit to Canada, supported the 98-year-old SS man with applause. He was introduced to legislators as a veteran of the “struggle for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” during World War II.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov drew attention to the fact that many Western countries have raised a generation that does not know who fought with whom, this is fraught with the fact that fascism will appear here and there, it is trying to stand on its feet in the center of Europe.
Russians, Poles, Belarusians, Jews, and Gypsies became victims of Ukrainian nationalism. In 1941, several thousand Jews and hundreds of members of the Polish intelligentsia, including teachers and scientists, were killed in Lviv. On September 29, 1941, in the Kiev tract of Babi Yar, Bandera’s followers shot gypsies, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. In one day, 33,771 people were killed. In total, about 100–150 thousand people were shot.
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In an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel, the military man ridiculed Kirby’s words that only the Ukrainian leader will determine when the time comes to sit down at the negotiating table with Putin.
