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[LB] Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kherson regions were also affected.
In the Kyiv region, the alarm lasted for almost two hours. Air defense was working. There are no hits. Previously, there were no victims. As a result of debris falling between settlements in the field, several grass fires were recorded; all liquidated. In one of the communities, the premises of a commercial establishment were damaged. The fire destroyed a truck and an excavator that were nearby. Fixations of debris fall continue. The data is being verified, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
There were six shellings (44 explosions) in Chernihivska during the day. The enemy fired mortars and artillery in the Novgorod-Siverskyi and Koryukivskyi districts. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
In Dnipropetrovsk at night and in the morning, the Russian army shelled the Nikopol district. Used heavy artillery. She beat around Nikopol itself and the Marganets community. There are no dead or injured. The consequences of the attacks are being clarified. Yesterday, an aggressor attacked the Nikopol district from a drone. He dropped the projectiles on the district center. An educational institution, a warehouse, a private enterprise and an infrastructure object were damaged. A mutilated residential building.
In Sumsk, at night and in the morning, the Russians carried out seven shellings of the border. 50 explosions were recorded. Krasnopilsk, Shalyginsk, Seredino-Budsk communities came under fire. The enemy fired mortars, artillery and anti-aircraft guns. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 30 shellings of the border territories and settlements of the Sumy region. 192 explosions were recorded.
The communities of Krasnopilsk, Khotynsk, Velikopysarivsk, Esmansk, Myropilsk, Shalyginsk, Bilopolsk, Znob-Novgorodsk, Seredino-Budsk came under fire. Velikopysarovsk community: commercial premises, lyceum premises, non-residential premises, two tractors, two cars and one private household were damaged.
In Luhansk , the enemy attacked Belogorivka. Artillery and mortars were used in Nevsky, Bilogorivka, Dibrov. During the day, the enemy fired 155 rounds (539 shells).
In Kharkiv last day, in the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the area of Veterinarny. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of Shevchenko, Staritsa, Gatysh, Pletenivka, Nesterny, Budarok. In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy launched an air strike in the areas of Petropavlivka and Krokhmalny. The enemy continues to fire artillery and mortar attacks on populated areas, including Masyutivka, Sinkivka, Ivanivka, Kislivka, Tabaivka, and Pischane.
In Zaporizhzhiain the past day, the enemy carried out 94 attacks on 26 settlements. 80 artillery shells fell on Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, the territory of Malaya Tokmachka, Olhivskyi, Levadnyi, Shcherbaki, Stepovo, Pyatikhatki, Plavnyi and other towns and villages in the line of fire. Nine airstrikes were recorded on Orikhov, Robotyn and Novodanilivka, UAV attacks on Novodarivka, Malynivka and Kamianskyi, as well as anti-aircraft fire on Stepnohirsk and Poltavka.
As a result of the airstrike on Novodanilivka, three local residents were injured: a 56-year-old man and 57- and 58-year-old women. The injured were taken to a medical facility for medical assistance. 59 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings, farm buildings and infrastructure facilities as a result of shelling by Russian military personnel.
In Donetsk, the enemy launched 1,304 shellings along the contact line: 597 in the Lyman direction, 368 in the Soledar direction, and 339 in the Donetsk direction. 14 settlements are under fire: Kostyantynivka, Toretsk, Avdiyivka, Chasiv Yar, Kurakhove, Ocheretyne, Velyka Novosilka, Kurdyumivka, Nelipivka, Petrivka, Novoukrainka, Shakhtarske, Klishchiivka, Halytsynivka. 25 residential buildings (including three multi-apartment buildings), three civilian cars, eight garages, premises of JSC "Chasovoyarsk Refractory Combine", power lines were damaged. In Donetsk region in a day: six wounded.
In Odesa , for almost three hours, Russian terrorists attacked the Izmail district with attack drones. Unfortunately, one person died. The employee of the agricultural enterprise was seriously injured and died in the hospital. Destruction and fires were recorded in several settlements. Portside and agricultural infrastructure facilities were damaged: elevators, administrative buildings, agricultural enterprises.
In the Kherson region, the enemy fired 65 rounds (279 shells) during the day, including four rounds (18 shells) at Kherson. The rioters targeted the areas of 24 settlements of the region, a mobile phone tower in the Beryslav district. During the day, the Russian army shelled Ivanivka in the Kherson district. Two women, aged 53 and 73, were injured.
During the shelling, they were in the yards of their houses. Both were hospitalized in moderate condition. The enemy hit Tokarivka - a 65-year-old man who was near the house came under fire. The injured was hospitalized. Doctors provide him with the necessary medical assistance. During the day, three people were injured due to Russian aggression.
We will remind, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continue the offensive operation in several directions. At the same time, they hold back the enemy's advance.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 23:01 Denmark's new aid package for Ukraine will amount to more than $43 million, writes the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The funds will be used for reconstruction and humanitarian aid. In particular, Denmark has taken a leading role in the restoration of the Mykolaiv region.
22:59 Blinken came to Kiev for the third time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. This time, the Secretary of State's visit came at the active phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. In addition, Blinken, for the first time since the beginning of the invasion, decided to stay overnight in Kyiv. This decision, like the entire trip, should be a symbolic signal of American support for Ukraine. Read more in the article What did the US Secretary of State bring?
22:33 Kuleba said following talks with Blinken that the United States is still not ready to transfer ATACMS missiles to Ukraine: "We discussed in detail the provision of ATACMS missiles. This option remains open. I hope that discussions in the US administration will lead to a positive decision."
22:28 Blinken said that 20 Ukrainians - former employees of the US Embassy in Kiev - serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "Twenty members of our embassy family serve bravely in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - and we salute their service, we salute their courage. Two men who for years guarding this embassy - Sergei Timoshenko and Vladimir Kapelka - were killed defending their country from the Russian invasion."
22:14 Blinken announced a new $1 billion aid package to Ukraine , of which $665 million is earmarked for military and civilian security assistance. Among other things, the package will include air defense support and "important mine clearance assistance."
21:32 NATO expressed "strong solidarity" with Romania after the drone incident. "We continue to closely monitor the situation and maintain close contact with our ally Romania," the Alliance said in a statement.
21:15 The strike on Konstantinovka was the deadliest in recent months and at the same time one of many that killed Ukrainian civilians. The most terrible shelling of the Russians - in the material How the Russian Federation kills peaceful Ukrainians .
21:03 The UN opposes the use of shells with depleted uranium, the office of the Secretary General said. In turn, the White House said that the shells transferred to Ukraine do not pose a radioactive threat.
20:57 Zelensky announced the creation of the first Recovery Office in Ukraine, which will be opened in Nikolaev with the support of Denmark.
20:35 The Pentagon announced the transfer to Ukraine of a new $ 175 million aid package, which will include depleted uranium ammunition - these will be 120-mm tank shells for Abrams tanks. The new package also includes: equipment to support air defense systems, ammunition for HIMARS, artillery shells of 155 and 105 mm caliber, 81 mm mortar systems and shells, more than 3 million cartridges for small arms.
20:23 The United States on Wednesday, September 6, will announce the transfer of armor-piercing ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine, writes Politico. A Pentagon spokesman explained to the publication that the United States decided to send ammunition because it is considered the most effective way to arm the Abrams tanks, which will arrive in Ukraine in mid-September.
Pentagon Deputy Speaker Sabrina Singh expressed her belief that Ukraine would use them "responsibly" if it supplied depleted uranium projectiles.
20:04 Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement in principle on the supply of 1 million tons of grain, the study of technical details will begin in the near future, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.
18:58 The US Senate intends to approve the allocation of additional funds requested by Biden for the needs of Ukraine in the amount of more than $20 billion by the end of September, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said. "Helping Ukraine regain its territory means, without firing a shot, to weaken one of America's biggest strategic adversaries ... And our colleagues will have the opportunity to do this when we approve additional allocations by the end of this month," he assured.
18:56 The Russian Federation requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on September 12 on the topic of "deliveries of foreign weapons to Kiev," Russian media write.
18:49 A search and rescue operation has been completed in Konstantinovka: 17 people were killed, 32 were injured , the National Police reported.
18:41 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that in connection with the discovery in the country of the wreckage, probably a Russian drone, an "urgent and professional investigation" should be carried out, and "if it is confirmed that this wreckage is part of a Russian drone, this situation will be absolutely unacceptable and will be a serious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Romania."
18:27 Zelensky announced that he had discussed a new defense assistance package with Danish Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen. He specified that this is already the 12th package, it is being prepared for the current month. The President recalled that Ukrainian pilots are training on the F-16 in Denmark, and now the issues of expanding the capabilities of the exercises, accelerating the real integration of modern fighters in the defense of the territory of Ukraine are being discussed.
18:05 As a result of Russian shelling, there are no buildings left in Maryinka - only ruins and remnants of foundations, Anna Malyar said. According to her, no less fierce battles are going on in Marinka than in the Bakhmut or Liman directions. The enemy makes one of the most powerful assaults, but cannot take control of the city.
17:01 A court in Luxembourg rejected the claims of four Russian entrepreneurs who challenged the EU sanctions. The court ordered the plaintiffs to pay legal costs. In particular, the court dismissed the claims of the ex-owner of the Pipe Metallurgical Company Dmitry Pumpyansky, his wife and son; co-owner of NOVATEK and SIBUR Gennady Timchenko and his wife; Tigran Khudaverdyan, former Managing Director of Yandex; Mikhail Gutseriev, owner of the Safmar group.
16:30 As of 16:00, the number of victims of the Russian attack on the market in the center of Konstantinovka has grown to 31 people, 16 people died. People still remain under the rubble, rescue work continues, the prosecutor's office said. According to preliminary data, 20 shops, power lines, an administrative building and the fifth floor of a residential building were damaged. Passenger cars and eight trade objects completely burned down.
15:57 Shmyhal specified that in Konstantinovka, among the 16 dead, one child, at least 20 people were injured.
15:48 The Russians hit the market in Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, preliminary it is known about 16 dead , there are also many wounded, Zelensky said. Local publics write that the strike was delivered from the S-300 on the market in the central part of the city, near the Mercury shopping center.
15:25 Blinken said during a visit to Kiev about "good progress" in the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "We are seeing good progress in the counteroffensive, and this is very encouraging. We want to make sure that Ukraine has everything it needs not only to succeed in counter-offensive, but also in the long term, so that such aggression does not happen again in the future."
The US Secretary of State also noted that with his visit he wants to "demonstrate our constant and resolute support for Ukraine in the fight against aggression." In addition, according to him, Washington "is determined to continue working with our Ukrainian partners in rebuilding the economy and building a strong democracy."
14:57 Romanian Defense Minister Angel Tilvar nevertheless confirmed that on Monday night, fragments of a Russian drone fell on the territory of his country. The wreckage of a Russian UAV was found near Plaura in Tulcea County.
14:01 Ukrainian military intelligence is not 100% sure that Prigozhin died in a plane crash in the Tver region, but confirms the information about the death of his "right hand" Dmitry Utkin, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate Andriy Yusov said in an interview with Ukrinform.
13:56 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the new UN proposals on the grain deal do not contain anything new and cannot become the basis for the normalization of Russian agricultural exports.
13:22 The Verkhovna Rada appointed Rustem Umerov Minister of Defense.
12:24 In the morning, the Russians fired a Tornado-S rocket from the MLRS Smerch along the village. Novaya Gnilitsa, Chuguevsky district, Kharkiv region. Residential buildings were damaged, one person was injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
11:52 Blinken during a two-day visit to Kiev may announce a new aid package for Ukraine worth more than $ 1 billion, Reuters reports, citing a senior State Department official.
11:49 The Prime Minister of Denmark Matte Frederiksen is visiting Kiev, now she is speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
11:34 Russia launched a missile attack on one of the districts of Zaporozhye, a civilian infrastructure facility was damaged. It is known about two victims - employees of the enterprise, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
11:10 The European Union intends to double the production of artillery shells in the next six months, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said in an interview with Bloomberg. The publication notes that now the EU manages to produce 300 thousand shells per year, although a million were planned. They want to reach this figure next year.
11:06 The UK will transfer Scimitar Mk2 armored reconnaissance vehicles to Ukraine, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land said. Its representatives visited Germany to assist the British Army in preparing the Scimitar Mk2 for shipment to Ukraine. In total, 23 armored vehicles were prepared within 32 days.
10:58 The European Defense Agency announced that it has signed the first eight contracts with manufacturers for the general purchase of 155 mm ammunition. The agreements concern ammunition for the most common self-propelled howitzers transferred to Ukraine: the French Caesar, the Polish Krab, the German Panzerhaubitze 2000 and the Slovak Zuzana.
10:54 Zelensky announced that he had held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander. The main theme is the preparation of the energy system for winter, a comprehensive plan to protect critical infrastructure facilities "from everything that a terrorist country can invent."
10:21 British Defense Minister Grant Shapps confirmed media reports about the destruction of the first Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine. He clarified that the crew members of the tank survived. The tank was hit by Russian artillery and caught fire. The British do not plan to send a new tank to replace it.
10:13 A new span was installed on the Crimean bridge instead of the one damaged by the attack of surface drones on July 17, Radio Liberty reports, citing satellite images.
09:45 Ukrainian troops in the South were successful in the direction of Rabotino - Novoprokopovka, and also continue to advance south of Bakhmut, said the speaker of the General Staff Pavel Kovalchuk.
09:19 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Kiev , UP reports.
09:02 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, six people were injured - in Konstantinovka and Shakhtyorsky. Three wounded in the Kherson region. In the Zaporizhia region, three people were injured in an airstrike on Novodanilivka, according to the IVA.
08:37 The operational situation in the eastern directions remains difficult, said Alexander Syrsky, commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the enemy does not leave plans to enter the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, is preparing to take revenge and seize the operational initiative.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian army is completing the training of assault detachments, shelling Ukrainian positions daily with artillery and mortars. In the Limansky direction, the replacement of troops with units of the 25th Army, which have been formed and deployed from the territory of the Russian Federation, continues. Fierce battles are going on in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is trying to hold their positions, but the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually knocking him out.
"Our main task is to provide reliable defense, prevent the loss of our lines and positions in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, as well as successfully move forward and reach certain lines in the Bakhmut direction. But the main thing is to do this with minimal losses among our defenders," said the colonel-general following a visit to the military units of the Liman and Soledar groups.
08:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 6:
personnel - about 266,290 (+610) people,
tanks - 4497 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 8682 (+12),
artillery systems - 5685 (+36),
MLRS - 748 (+1),
air defense systems - 505 (+1),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4519 (+7),
cruise missiles - 1447 (+0),
ships/boats - 19 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 8190 (+15),
special equipment - 852 (+1).
07:48 During the day, 28 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in the morning summary. In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Novoselovsky area of the Lugansk region, in the Limansky direction - in the Novogorovka region of the Luhansk region, in the Bakhmutsky direction - in the Zaliznyansky, Kleshcheevka, Belaya Gora regions of the Donetsk region, in Maryinsky - in the Maryinka region, in Zaporizhsky - in the Rabotino region Zaporozhye region.
07:34 Air defense forces destroyed 23 out of 33 air targets during night attacks , the command of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The enemy used seven Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 air-launched missiles - they were fired from nine Tu-95ms strategic aircraft from the Engels area; one Iskander-M ballistic missile; 25 strike UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type from the southeast and south directions (Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Chauda). Air defense forces destroyed all seven Kh-101 / Kh-555 / Kh-55 cruise missiles, one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 15 out of 25 attack UAVs.
07:23 In the Kiev region, during the morning Russian attack, as a result of falling debris, a fire broke out on the territory of a trading enterprise. The fire was quickly extinguished, there were no victims or injured, the State Emergency Service said.
06:49 The Russians attacked Kiev in the morning: previously, from the Saratov region, Tu-95MS strategic aircraft launched cruise missiles of the X-101/555/55 type. At the same time, missiles of a different type, probably ballistic, were fired at the capital, Sergei Popko, head of the KGVA, said. All enemy targets were destroyed, there were no casualties or destruction.
06:02 At night, the Russians attacked the Izmail district of the Odessa region with attack drones for almost three hours, Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA, said. One person died - an employee of the agricultural enterprise. Destruction and fires were recorded in several settlements. Port and agricultural infrastructure facilities were damaged - elevators, office buildings, and agricultural enterprises.
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[REGNUM] US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Kiev on an unannounced visit. Less than a day ago, the State Department announced that there was no information on the visit of the chief to Ukraine, but on the morning of September 6, the world media published a photo of the arrival of the head of American diplomacy to the Ukrainian wards.
Blinken met with his Kiev counterpart Dmitry Kuleba and delivered a speech at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
In general, as expected, the Secretary of State will discuss with the Kiev leadership all the same "counterattack", as well as the fight against corruption in Ukraine, ABC News reports . The same US agency sources say that Blinken will announce a new military aid package.
The State Department official also said in a comment to CNN: Blinken will announce more than $1 billion in financial support to Ukraine, although the source did not specify what needs the money will be used for.
The last time the head of the State Department came to Kyiv exactly a year ago, in September 2022. Then the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to occupy part of the Kharkiv region and the right-bank part of the Kherson region. Apparently, the United States planned to consolidate the successes of Ukraine on the military field, promising to supply it with new weapons.
This time, Blinken's intentions were more modest.
Speaking at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Blinken, contrary to obvious facts, praised the Armed Forces of Ukraine for "noticeable progress" in the counteroffensive.
It should be noted that two months ago he admitted on CNN that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, widely announced at the end of winter, is “hard”. According to him, the Russian Armed Forces have organized a "reliable defense", and the "counterattack" itself will not end in a few weeks. The US Secretary of State then stated that Ukraine would receive F-16 fighter jets, but made a reservation that their delivery would take several months.
In fact, the West is clearly dissatisfied with the stalled offensive, the symbols of which are the burning German Leopard tank, and now also the British Challenger-2 , military blogger Mikhail Onufrienko told IA Regnum.
From the American visitor, “as usual, a commanding roar: how to walk in formation and follow orders,” the source noted.
But the practical success of the counteroffensive depends on the amount of equipment supplied, and it is clearly insufficient, the expert argues.
“Moreover, no one is going to increase it: they didn’t even deliver what they promised,” Onufrienko points out. - Of the 1 million shells promised by the end of 2023, 226,300 pieces were handed over, including missiles. American Abrams tanks still did not reach. Yes, aircraft will be delivered, but, obviously, these will not be hostilities this year.
Washington has long been able to supply Kyiv with the same M1A1 Abrams main tanks and F-16 fighters, but so far has not done this, the expert notes. In his opinion, the United States, with all its interest in prolonging the conflict, does not intend to continue to seriously invest its own resources in the military supply of Ukraine. Blinken's inspection visit should give an answer - whether large-scale investments make sense.
CORRUPTION AS A HINDRANCE TO EXTERNAL GOVERNANCE
The idea of supporting Kyiv at any cost is becoming less and less popular in the United States, which is important in the context of the 2024 presidential campaign already underway, experts say.
“All potential bipartisan presidential candidates with a rating above 5%, except for Joe Biden , are in favor of stopping aid to Ukraine and negotiating with Russia. Therefore, Blinken needs to find out the situation on the ground and see what can be done, ” American expert Dmitry Drobnitsky told IA Regnum.
At first, Blinken will say that everything is fine in Kyiv, albeit difficult, and Ukraine is moving forward, Drobnitsky predicts the results of this “on-the-spot inspection”.
“It would be a big surprise for me if Blinken suddenly said that Kiev had failed and the United States was abandoning Ukraine ,” the expert noted. “ But they will almost certainly say something about corruption.”
It can hardly be considered a coincidence that Blinken's arrival coincided with a series of statements made by the leadership of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) of Ukraine, an agency created at one time on the direct orders of the United States, the Americanist believes.
In July, SAPO head Oleksandr Klymenko announced that a “large number” of criminal cases had been opened for corruption in the Defense Ministry.
Experts do not exclude that the head of the US State Department came to the "bride" of the country's new defense minister: the day before, the Verkhovna Rada approved the resignation of Alexei Reznikov , followed by three of his deputies leaving their posts. Instead of Reznikov, we recall that Rustem Umerov , a fellow of the Future Leaders Exchange Program FLEX, funded by the US State Department, became the new head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry .
As IA Regnum noted , the new head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is also connected with the United States by a family business.
It is significant that Reznikov was filmed remotely and hinted that corruption proceedings are next, Drobnitsky notes.
In his opinion, the corruption cases of Ukrainian officials “are already in the US Department of Justice”, their consideration is “at a low start” and this, in particular, is the reason for the arrest of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
On September 2, the owner of the Privat group and a sponsor of Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalions with several citizenships was placed under arrest. Kolomoisky is charged with the illegal withdrawal of more than 500 million hryvnia abroad in 2013-2020.
As IA Regnum noted earlier , the United States is thus eradicating the remnants of the oligarchic freemen, which is not needed in the regime of direct external control of Ukraine.
MEASUREMENT OF THE LEVEL OF "TOXICITY"
With his visit to Kyiv, Blinken solves another problem, domestic political and career, Drobnitsky believes.
According to the Americanist, the head of the State Department wants to demonstrate that he "and his clan, who saddled foreign policy ," control the situation in Ukraine (which many in Washington consider "toxic"). He also intends to show Kyiv "clients" that he, Anthony Blinken, is the main hope of the Ukrainian regime.
“Blinken on the sidelines of Kiev will say that Ukraine has only one friend left, and that is him,” Drobnitsky said. - Like, Biden does not understand, and not today or tomorrow he will be removed, the presidential adviser on national security Jake Sullivan , together with the Clintons , is preparing a plan for negotiations with Moscow. And if Donald Trump becomes president of the United States , you're just finished. Therefore, let's think together how to save the project of a democratic pro-Western Ukraine."
At the same time, the Secretary of State himself intends to assess how "toxic" the current Kiev regime has become, experts believe. “The fact that they began to write about Ukrainian corruption in the Western press is a fact. So, something will be said, ” Drobnitsky notes.
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It is my understanding the Noland Blinken group have won an internal struggle. Ukraine and Russia are sideline issues. China is the new focused struggle. If Ukraine losses so what. As with Afghanistan just move along. Ukraine will be Russia's problem. No concessions, no compromise so USA looks strong.
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 (6 September 2023)
Last night, the Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out a group strike with long-range precision weapons against a training base for sabotage groups of the AFU.
The facility has been neutralised. The goal of the attack has been reached.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have repelled ten attacks by assault groups of 80th airborne assault, 110th mechanised and 59th motorised infantry brigades of the AFU close to Kleshcheevka, Orekhovo-Vasilyovka, Khimik, Nevelskoye, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, the 17th Tank Brigade of the AFU has inflicted a fire attack on manpower and hardware concentration areas near Artyomovsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 285 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one Rapira gun, and one drone control post.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, have repelled an attack by an assault unit of the AFU 38th Mechanised Brigade near Novodonetskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, enemy manpower and military hardware concentration areas have been hit near Urozhainoye and Novodonetskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were over 180 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, and one D-20 gun.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops, supported by aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled four enemy attacks near Verbovoye and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
There were no changes in the tactical position of Russian troops.
The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, two U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, three U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, one UK-manufactured FH-70 gun, two Msta-B howitzers, two D-30 guns, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, conducting active defence, have improved the tactical situation near Sverdlovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
In addition, two counterattacks by assault groups of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU have been repelled close to Sergeevka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one D-30 howitzer.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of competent actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, aviation and artillery, two attacks by assault groups of the 12th Special Forces Brigade and the 63rd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have been repelled close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy losses were up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, four motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 103 areas.
Air defence facilities have intercepted 12 HIMARS and Uragan rocket-propelled projectiles.
In addition, 17 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been intercepted and suppressed by electronic warfare means close to Makeevka, Novonikolskoye, Melovatka (Lugansk People's Republic), Berestovoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Pshenichnoye, Semyonovka (Zaporozhye region), Olshana (Kharkov region), and Krynki (Kherson region).
In total, 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,426 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 air defence missile systems, 11,696 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,148 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,253 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,749 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
➡️AFU advanced towards Luhove, SE of Kam'yans'ke
➡️Russian units unsuccessfully counter-attacked near Robotyne.
➡️AFU tried to break trough towards Novoprokopivka and liberated new positions. (Those would be fortifications on high ground between Robotyne and Novoprokopivka)
➡️AFU regained a number of positions in Kreminna forest
Ka-52 w/ Vikhrs had been Russia's most effective weapon blunting Ukraine's armored offensive. That was a lot of missiles gone up in smoke and will severely hurt Russia's efforts.
➡️AFU made a small advance (~0,75km²) along the forest strip west of the railway tracks south of Andriivka.
➡️Russians have been recorded fleeing the northeastern parts of Klishchiivka
➡️A push to Andriivka and cleanup of Klishchiivka is expected next.
Andriivka has been abandoned but since it abuts Russian the defense line along a railroad embankment, the Ukrainians have not tried to enter it. Russians occasionally send patrols into Andriivka and get hammered by artillery.
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These collaborators or Russian agents are dying rapidly in Ukraine now. Whoever is behind this videoed the killing:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/7/7418878/
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[NewsFront] 21:00 The Urazovo village of the Valuysky urban district came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Governor of the Belgorod Region Gladkov
There were no casualties. A commission for the inspection and assessment of damage is working on the spot.
21:00 In Ukraine, from October 1, female doctors and pharmacists will be required to register with the military.
19:45 The situation on the fronts, a summary of the NWO:
Artyomovskoe direction, northern flank Today, our army carried out a number of counterattacks in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevo area. Three strongholds of the enemy came under the control of our army.
Svatovo-Kremenskoye direction. Today, our army has continued to build on the success of the west of Novoegorovka and Sverdlovka. 5 oporniks and 3 enemy observation posts were taken.
18:44 A resident of Stakhanov was wounded as a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, TASS reports with reference to the operational services of the region.
18:14 Destruction the first British Challenger 2 tank from the Kornet ATGM. Zaporozhye region. Rabotino / Willow.
At 6 am, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to attack our positions using 2 tanks and 3 armored vehicles. Having left on the road, our artillery began to work on moving equipment. But the attack bogged down when the “never destroyed tank” received a 152 mm guided missile under the turret.
It is noteworthy that the Challenger burned for more than a day. The reason for such a long burning could be uranium ammunition.
17:46 Vladimir Rogov said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Rabotino could not advance beyond the ruins of a school in the central part of the village. The rest of the center and the southern part of Rabotino is a gray zone. Positions of the RF Armed Forces on the southern outskirts. In general - a complete repetition of Pyatikhatok.
Apparently, reports of the complete abandonment of Rabotino arose from Balitsky's message, which he made after our units that launched the counterattack retreated to their original positions. The Russian Defense Ministry specifically focused on this this morning when it stated that the tactical situation had not changed - during yesterday's counterattacks, the enemy was driven out of the southern part of Rabotino, where he was trying to gain a foothold. After that, our troops returned to their previous positions due to difficulties in securing a foothold in the destroyed village.
For us, it is most beneficial to further prolong the viscous battles in Rabotino and around it, since the enemy is losing strength and time here.
The enemy, in turn, strives to solve the Rabotino problem at any cost, extricate himself from the viscous positional battles and rush south in the direction of Tokmak. As the reserve brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Rabotino area are depleted, it will become more and more difficult to do this. Soon the rains will begin, and there will be mudslides, which will create additional difficulties for the enemy in an already bleak situation with a failed operational-strategic offensive plan.
17:28 Ukrainian "Bayraktar" was shot down in the vicinity of Zmeiny Island. The drone was destroyed by a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter. Earlier, Ukrainian resources reported on the activity of Russian Su-34s in the Zmeinoye area.
16:40 Vremyevsky section situation as of 16.00 September 6, 2023
Since yesterday, the activation of the enemy on the right flank of the Vremievsky sector has continued. From the side of the Zolotaya Niva - Prechistovka line, the forces of the 38th infantry regiment again tried to attack Novodonetskoye and Novomayorskoye. Ukrainian formations lost three armored vehicles and rolled back.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not yet use large forces in roll-overs, limiting themselves to maneuverable groups. However, massive artillery preparation and accumulation of personnel can serve as a sign of an approaching offensive in this direction.
On the left flank of the RF Armed Forces, artillery strikes were carried out against the enemy's concentration in Urozhainoye and to the east of the village, disrupting the rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The concentration of TRO detachments continues in the Priyutnoye area, where mutual shelling has been going on for the past few days, as well as in the Olgovskoye and Malinovka areas, which may also indicate that Ukrainian formations are preparing for coordinated attacks.
16:10 Consequences shelling of Volnovakha by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which two women were injured.
15:50 The Ukrainian army hit Konstantinovka from a plane (a city in the DPR, is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine). eyewitnesses sawstartrockets from an aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Druzhkovka area. According to preliminary information, there are many victims, dead and wounded at the impact site.
15:37 The AFU militants fired at the residential area of Stakhanov in the LPR.
15:20 Orekhovsky area situation as of 15.00 September 6, 2023
Fierce fighting continues on the Rabotino-Verbovoye line. In recent weeks, control over positions in the village has changed hands for the fifth time. The settlement itself is practically destroyed and for the most part is located in the gray zone. However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to advance to the southern outskirts and break through to Novoprokopovka, using the tactics of "meat assault".
That night, Russian units, due to the lack of tactical sense to defend the destroyed houses in the village, withdrew to prepared positions on the southern outskirts - for convenience, we marked the main fortified areas on the map.
The situation in Rabotino to some extent repeats the assault on Pyatikhatki - the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied the settlement, but left it several times, unable to withstand the fire of artillery and aviation from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Such a "creeping" advance, accompanied by the complete destruction of the buildings in the village and the oporniks, on which you can defend yourself, costs the Ukrainian formations heavy losses.
At the same time, the enemy is moving additional units to Verbovoy, clearly hoping that it will be easier to break through to the west of the settlement than to storm the heights in the south near Rabotino. However, night attacks in this direction did not achieve success. Again, heavy losses are reported in the ranks of the 82nd Oshbr.
14:50 The situation in the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction on 09/06/2023 - analysis from Multi_XAM:
Contrary to expectations, against the backdrop of a decrease in the intensity of fighting, the enemy resumed attacks in the Kleshcheevka area. Pro-Ukrainian publics report that the settlement is 80% controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is not true. The situation escalated on September 5, simultaneously with the offensive in the South-Donetsk direction.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine always strive to hide the direction of the main attack. If everything is clear with Novodonetsky - they are rushing to Volnovakha in order to cut the Donetsk-Mariupol highway, then no active actions are planned in the Bakhmut area. There is no necessary potential for this, and taking it will give Kyiv nothing but a media effect.
As a result of counterattacks over the past 2 weeks, we managed to squeeze the enemy out of Kleshcheevka and regain control over part of the heights west of the village. It cannot be said that we control Kleshcheevka, rather, most of it is under our fire control, which does not give the Armed Forces a chance to gain a foothold here. The eastern part is below us.
The enemy is trying to stretch our advanced forces, due to attacks to the south - on Andreevka and Kurdyumovka by the forces of the 28th mechanized brigade, militants of the Belarusian Volunteer Corps, acting with support, 3rd Assault Brigade "Azov" and 3rd Tank Brigade. Conducts constant reconnaissance of our positions.
Northwest of Kleshcheevka, the enemy created supply problems for us by destroying the crossing over the canal, and continues to keep this area under fire control by increasing the arm for the delivery of ammunition. It is possible to restrain the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area due to regular air strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the front line.
On the northern flank - southeast of Soledar - the enemy does not abandon attempts to establish control over the T-13-02 highway. However, in general, the situation in this area is stable. According to the Kirpichi VP channel, positional battles continue in the Berkhovka area, where our units partially pushed the enemy further south to the reservoir.
14:35 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for September 6, as of 14:30, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky district): - on 22 Kremlevsky Ave., a woman born in 1957 was wounded.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka: - on the street. Chkalova, 1 “a”, a woman born in 1951 was wounded.
n.p. Volnovakha: - on the street. 60 years of the USSR wounded women born in 1959, born in 1975
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Bogatyrskaya, 9 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Bogatyrskaya, 10 - a private residential building.
n.p. Alexandrovka: - st. Lenina, 226 - a private residential building.
n.p. Volnovakha: - a direct hit was recorded in the building of the House of Culture. Vladimir Zhogi on the street. Lenin.
13:49 Artillery of the “Nevsky” detachment destroys the ammunition depot of the Ukrainian formations in the area of N. p. with accurate shots. Vasyukovka on the Artemovsky direction -video.
12:45 Over the past day, the number of shelling of civilian objects in the DPR has increased by a quarter. This was announced by Ambassador-at-Large for Crimes of the Kyiv regime Rodion Miroshnik.
The JCCC of the DPR gives figures - 94 shelling and 362 arrivals of ammunition per day. At the same time, three-quarters are attacks on Donetsk, using rockets, MLRS and artillery.
“None of the cities under the Kyiv regime dreamed of anything like this, but there are no screams at the international level either from human rights activists or from monitoring missions. During this time, 1 person in the DPR died and 11 were injured of varying severity,” Miroshnik wrote in his Telegram channel. .
12:35 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 6, 2023)
Tonight, the Aerospace Forces of Russia carried out a group strike with long-range precision weapons at the training base for sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The object is hit. The target has been reached.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the "Southern" group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled ten attacks by assault groups of the 80th airborne assault, 110th mechanized and 59th motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Khimik, Nevelskoye and Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, in the area of the city of Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, fire damage was inflicted on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 17th tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the fighting in this direction, the enemy lost up to 285 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, a Rapira cannon, and an unmanned aerial vehicle control center.
In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the group of troops "Vostok", with the support of aviation and artillery, repelled an attack by an assault detachment of the 38th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Novodonetskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, the accumulation of enemy manpower and military equipment in the areas of the settlements of Urozhaynoye and Novodonetskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic was defeated. Enemy losses in this direction amounted to over 180 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, and a D-20 gun.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of troops, supported by aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, repelled four enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Verbove and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. There are no changes in the tactical position of the Russian troops. During the day, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, two US-made M777 artillery systems, three US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mounts, a British-made FH-70 gun, two Msta- B", two D-30 guns and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the "Western" group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery, improved the tactical situation in the area of the settlement of Sverdlovka of the Luhansk People's Republic by conducting active defense. In addition, two counterattacks of the assault groups of the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the area of the settlement of Sergeevka in the Luhansk People's Republic. During the day, the enemy’s losses amounted to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two vehicles, a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount, and a D-30 howitzer.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, competent actions of units of the grouping of forces "Center" in cooperation with aviation and artillery repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 12th Special Forces Brigade and the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the village of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic and Serebryansky forestry. Up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of air strikes and Russian artillery fire, the enemy’s losses amounted to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, four vehicles and a Msta-B howitzer.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of the groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated enemy manpower and military equipment in 103 districts.
Air defense systems intercepted 12 HIMARS and Uragan multiple rocket launchers per day. In addition, 17 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed and suppressed by means of electronic warfare in the areas of the settlements of Makeevka, Novonikolskoye, Melovatka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Berestovoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Pshenichnoye, Semyonovka of the Zaporozhye Region, Olshana of the Kharkiv Region and Krynki of the Kherson Region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 467 aircraft, 248 helicopters, 6,426 unmanned aerial vehicles, 435 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11,696 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,148 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 6,253 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 12749 units of special military vehicles.
12:07 AFU militants fired 10 rockets from the MLRS at the village of Aleksandrovka - the representative office of the JCCC DPR.
11:47 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly attacking in the Artyomovsk direction in the DPR in order to cling to the railway, but are destroyed daily by Russian units. Apty Alaudinov, deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps, commander of the Akhmat special forces, stated this on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are removing the last resources from other areas and transferring them to the Artemov direction, where Russian units destroy them daily.
11:35 An industrial enterprise was damaged in Zaporozhye as a result of a strike by the Russian army
As a result of a precise strike by the Russian army, an infrastructure facility caught fire in Zaporozhye. The same information was confirmed by "local authorities", but did not specify which object was damaged.
10:46 A powerful explosion sounded in Zaporozhye.
Local residents report a powerful explosion in temporarily occupied Zaporozhye. A column of smoke is currently rising over the city. It is not yet known exactly where the blow was struck.
10:20 The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC recorded 94 facts of firing from the AFU during the day, 362 ammunition was fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 71 shelling from the MLRS, AGM-88 HARM, 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead. On Gorlovsky 11 shelling from artillery 152 and 155 mm, incl. with a cluster warhead. On Yasinovatsky 7 shelling from 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead. On Volnovakhskoye 2 shelling from 155 mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead. On Svetlodar 3 shelling from 155 mm artillery. The enemy fired at Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasinovatsky district, Valeryanovka, Olginka, Lugansk, Gorlovka, Golmovsky, Mironovsky, Svetlodarsk.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a man in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. 11 people were injured of varying severity, including a teenager born in 2006, in Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk.
10:00 The Russian army is advancing in the Kupyansk direction - what is happening at the front on the morning of September 6:
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian fighters are expanding their bridgehead near the Zherebets River. Precise strikes by our army destroyed the manpower and equipment of the enemy in the Sinkovka area.
In the Zaporozhye direction, our soldiers continue to fight for Rabotino. It is reported that the enemy tried to attack in the direction of Verbovoy, but to no avail.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, the line of contact remains unchanged, positional battles continue in Kleshcheevka. An enemy attack attempt near Yakovlevka was repelled. Clashes are reported near Andreevka, where the enemy lost a lot of manpower.
Relative calm continues in the Donetsk direction - the enemy uses artillery, but is in no hurry to storm.
09:25 The Russian army tactically left the village of Rabotino (Zaporozhye region),declaredEvgeny Balitsky.
The settlement now almost does not exist and it is inappropriate to stay there, on a bare plane, without the ability to dig in, the acting head of the Zaporozhye region added on the air of Solovyov LIVE.
“We are content to be at the heights, and they are dominant. And the enemy is in the funnel below,” the head of the region explained.
09:19 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
according to n.p. Aleshki 14 shells;
according to n.p. Podstepnoye 9 shells;
according to n.p. Cossack camps 18 shells;
in the village of Krynki 12 shells;
according to n.p. Sagas 7 shells;
according to n.p. Cardashinka 8 shells;
according to n.p. Staraya Zburyevka 9 shells;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of New Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, Kardashinka settlement, Dnepryany settlement, Podlesnoe Cossack camps firing a total of 39 shells from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
09:05 In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian army destroyed 155-mm self-propelled guns "Crab" of Polish production and mortar crew in the area of Stelmahovka, Urochischa and Revuchy
In the same direction, the enemy carried out four counterattacks on the positions of our troops in the area of Sergeevka and Kovalevka. Artillery fire repulsed all counterattacks. The crews of attack helicopters Ka-52, Mi-28 and ground attack aircraft inflicted 15 missile and bomb strikes on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the 14th separate mechanized brigade and territorial defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Sinkovka, Berestovoye and Ivanovka.
Rocket troops using a guided missile for the MLRS "Tornado-S" struck at the point of temporary deployment of the 66th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vyshy Solyony. The total losses of the enemy amounted to more than two platoons of manpower.
08:37 Destruction of two tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the crews of attack helicopters Ka-52 VKS RF–video.
08:15 The calculation of "Osa-AKM"showedhow militant drones strike in the special operation zone
On account of the battery of the Osa complexes of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, there are several hundred drones, two Su-25 attack aircraft, one helicopter and one Su-27 fighter of Ukrainian militants. Even "NATO" type rockets, with which the enemy is attacking our positions, are destroyed on approach.
Evidence of the relevance and successful operation of the Osa complex are fragments of the HIMARS MLRS ammunition, which was successfully neutralized by our anti-aircraft gunners.
08:11 Su-25 crews inflicted strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
As a result of combat use, camouflaged fortified field positions and enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.
08:10 Personnel combat work of crews of "wandering" 82-mm mortars "Tray" of the Western Military District in the Kupyansk direction.
08:07 Vostok grouping stopped an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to cross the Wet Yaly River, said Oleg Chekhov, head of the group's press center.
08:05 Calculations of the Tor-M1 air defense system destroyed more than 200 drones in the Krasnolimansky direction.
“We aim at this point, capture it and look at the monitor that it is flying. We discuss, we look at the parameters. Is it a bird or something else? Altitude changes, range - we report. They look there, their “bird” or not theirs. We get the go-ahead for destruction. I already have more than 50 downed targets on my account, ”said the deputy head of the calculation with the call sign“ Bear ”.
Since the first day of the special military operation, the air defense units of the Center group have been providing cover for military units, carrying out round-the-clock combat duty.
08:00 Summary on the morning of September 6, 2023:
At night, attacks were made on the ports of Izmail, Reni, and Kiliya. Explosions also sounded in the capital of the enemy.
On the Zaporizhia Front, the enemy increased activity in Rabotino, abandoned by our troops, despite the counterattacking actions of the Russian Armed Forces. A landmark event in this area was the world's first destruction of the British Challenger tank.
In the Vremevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces repelled several attacks by enemy infantry and equipment.
In the Avdeevsky direction, after long positional battles near the settlement. An experienced APU with forces up to a motorized infantry platoon, with the support of armored vehicles and artillery, undertook attacking actions. On the approach to our defense line, the Russian Armed Forces lost up to 20 people from fire, and retreated.
South of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the Armed Forces of Ukraine have advanced in Kleshcheevka in recent days, where there are heavy battles for every meter. The battle is also going on near Andreevka. In the direction, the enemy lost up to 225 militants killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles, 9 vehicles, an M777 howitzer and a Grad MLRS.
Defensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces continue near Kremennaya: on the Torsky ledge and in Serebryansky forestry.
Enemy UAVs were destroyed in the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, as well as over the Crimea. In the Belgorod region in the settlement. Kozinka killed a civilian, shrapnel wounded a woman. Also fired at N. p. Vyazovoe and other border villages. In the DPR, a man was killed by shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 11 civilians were injured.
07:57 Consequences shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which one civilian was killed and two were injured.
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[Regnum] There is no clear understanding yet of when deliveries of 1 million tons of grain to Africa will begin as part of an initiative announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin following talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on September 5.
“No, this understanding does not exist ,” he answered the corresponding question.
Peskov added that in practice they have already begun to implement the initiative on gratuitous deliveries of Russian grain to the poorest countries in Africa, which Putin announced at the Russia-Africa summit in July.
As IA Regnum reported , on September 4, in Sochi, Putin announced that he had reached the final stage of negotiations on the supply of 1 million tons of grain to six African countries through Turkey with the assistance of Qatar. He also expressed hope that Qatar would support this initiative.
Erdogan said that in the course of negotiations with the Russian president, an agreement was reached on the supply of grain to poor countries. He noted that Turkey is ready to process grain into flour before that.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis killed one and a half million Jews in Ukraine. This was announced on September 5 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian organizing committee "Victory".
During the meeting, the president noted that it is necessary to see the connection between the events of those years and today and asked how many Jews were killed by the Nazis in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War.
How many Jews were killed in the Russian empire, followed by the Soviet Russian empire, because people believed the what they read in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a vicious fiction created by the Russian secret police? We’ll never know how many Ukrainian kulaks died of Stalin's engineered famine during the collectivization period, though estimates range from 1.5 million to 3 million. We’ll also never know how many Ukrainian Jews died during the same period, before the Nazis arrived.
“Yes, we found the numbers, 12.7 million citizens of the Soviet Union,” said Alexander Shkolnik, director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War .
The head of state asked to clarify how many Jews of this number were destroyed by the Nazis and collaborators on the territory of Ukraine during the war years. The director of the museum found it difficult to answer this question.
“And I'll tell you. One and a half million people. Women, old people, children, one and a half million people. If in total six million were destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, then this is a quarter - 25% of the victims, ” Putin said.
The President also pointed out that it is necessary to raise and publish such information so that there is no misunderstanding with whom exactly Russia is fighting on Ukrainian territory today, what goals it pursues there and who is its opponent.
“Not the Ukrainian people, but these nonhumans and their descendants. But you need to show it, it’s still there, ” he stressed.
As IA Regnum reported , on May 17, Putin, in a message to Russian Jews and everyone celebrating the Day of Salvation and Liberation, noted that soldiers and officers of the Russian army are fighting in the special operation zone with direct followers of Nazism. The President stressed that the present and future generations of people should sacredly keep the historical truth about the Second World War in order to understand what any connivance with nationalism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia is fraught with.
Putin also said on June 16 that Russia would never forget the crimes of Nazism. He stressed that the country suffered the most in the fight against fascism.
#1
Ukrainian legions of doom
Who fill Comrade Putin with gloom,
Why put bones on your suits
And in Aryan snoots
While you hopefully "Heil!" Johann Frum?
#2
Ah, TW, you know why my mother's family didn't go back to Ukraine after the war? Because they were afraid of being killed by Ukrainians - as lots of other returning Jews were.
p.s. What's Vlad is trying to do with this, and with his "Zelensky is not really a Jew", is chill Russian hyper-"patriots" who make the inference (quite logical for their kind): Zelenski is Jew, therefore all the Jews are enemies of Russia therefore "Kill the Jews, save Russia".
Now, I'm not saying that Vlad is a humanitarian, or (G*d forbid) philosemitic. Just very smart & pragmatic.
#4
/\ Ref #2: Now, I'm not saying that Vlad is a humanitarian, or (G*d forbid) philosemitic. Just very smart & pragmatic.
Yes, smart & pragmatic intelligence operative indeed. He has achieved life-long political tenure among a "voting" population. The dream of all communists and democrats.
#8
you know why my mother's family didn't go back to Ukraine after the war?
My father was completely uninterested in meeting Latvian emigrés in America, Grom. Buncha antisemites, he said. He was polite when Mr. Wife shared the photos he’d taken on a business trip to Riga in 1994, but not even slightly curious about what had become of his hometown.
Returning Jews were killed in a number of countries — Poland comes to mind — and harassed in even more. My German half-Jewish cousin, Rheinhilde, whose mother survived Auschwitz while Hilde was allowed to withdraw from society for the duration, was still being harassed by the clerks at the Hildesheim town hall when we visited in the 1990s for having not had the grace to die quietly during the war instead of insisting that she did too have the same right as her neighbours to rebuild her home and live in it, instead of letting her valuable property go to those who ought to have had it all along.
#9
p.s. What's Vlad is trying to do with this, and with his "Zelensky is not really a Jew", is chill Russian hyper-"patriots" who make the inference (quite logical for their kind): Zelenski is Jew, therefore all the Jews are enemies of Russia therefore "Kill the Jews, save Russia
A useful insight, Grom. Russia does have a strong patriot/white supremacist movement in the culture, tied to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups around the world— which until current events included Ukraine.
A recent photo appeared on Russian socialist media, purportedly of Surovikin, unshaven and in civilian clothes walking arm in arm with his wife, so he ain't dead.
[Regnum] Data about General Sergei Surovikin was removed from the website of the Ministry of Defense from the section "Commanders in Chief of Armed Forces" .
In the section "Commanders in Chief of Armed Forces" there was a photo of the general and the position - commander in chief of the airborne forces.
As reported by IA Regnum , on September 5, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing that he would not give any comments about Surovikin.
Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin appointed Surovikin as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces in November 2017. On October 8, 2022, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Surovikin as commander of a group of troops in the NVO zone.
On August 23, 2023, information appeared that Surovikin was relieved of this post and the head of the General Staff of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov , became Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces .
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] A detailed analysis of the briefing ( https://t.me/bio_genie/3792 ) by Igor Kirillov 🇷🇺, Chief of the Russian Chemical and Biochemical Plant Troops, on US military biological activities in Ukraine dated September 6, 2023:
In the period from August 8 to August 17, 2023, a 2nd meeting of the working group on strengthening the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons. The Western group of countries promoted the idea of creating a voluntary financial fund at the site of the Convention, controlled by a specially created committee with the possibility of allocating earmarked funds for projects that are beneficial to them.
The Russian Federation came out in favor of ensuring equal access to technologies and scientific achievements in the biological field, urging not to allow unilateral restrictive measures against the states parties to the Convention. Russia was supported by a number of countries against the backdrop of the reaction of the world media to the publication of documents on the military biological activities of the United States.
The reports of non-governmental organizations - Interpol, the World Health Organization, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Committee on UN Security Council Resolution No. 1540, whose tasks are in no way related to the subject and goals of the Convention, traced pro-Western ideas about the optionality of the BTWC verification regime and the possibility of replacing it with non-core mechanisms .
During the work of the expert group on strengthening the BTWC in Geneva, the Pentagon published the policy document “Review of Biosecurity Policy”, which defines the actions of the US Department of Defense in this area for the period up to 2035.
The foreign network of biolaboratories controlled by the United States will be expanded and the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which was previously imposed by the American administration on the post-Soviet countries, will be continued.
As Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Security Programs Deborah Rosenblum stated, “…biodefense is no longer the prerogative of only specialized army units…”. The military-biological nature of the planned activity is also evidenced by the fact that it will be carried out by the Biodefense Council, chaired by US Deputy Secretary of Defense William La Plante.
The number of people involved in the implementation of biostudies of administrative structures in the US has increased significantly. Earlier it was reported about the creation of the White House Office for Pandemic Preparedness, led by Major General of the US Air Force Paul Friedrichs. It was noted that the work of the department will focus on pathogens that could trigger another global emergency.
On August 1, the State Department's Bureau of Global Health and Diplomacy was formed. The official goal of its activity is "... international cooperation in the field of effective prevention, detection and control of infectious diseases, including HIV / AIDS ...". In practice, the bureau will be responsible for setting policy and coordinating Washington's efforts to establish a global infectious disease monitoring system and achieve United States leadership in this area.
There is documentary evidence of the participation of the State Department in the implementation of the Biosecurity Enhancement Program since 2016. In accordance with the Funding Plan, at least $40 million is allocated to attract various non-profit and non-governmental organizations to participate in the program.
The scale of military biological activity is confirmed not only by the documents received, but also by statements by representatives of political circles in the United States. During an interview with American TV presenter Tucker Carlson, Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. dwelled in detail on the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent signing of the so-called Patriot Act, which, according to the American politician, "... resumed the arms race , but with the use of biological weapons, ... and the Pentagon began to invest a lot of money in its development ... ".
https://t.me/bio_genie/3793 - zinc
https://t.me/bio_genie/3792 - full text + documents
#1
Another non story. There has never been any secret about bio-defense efforts by the US. Russian propagandists are adept at manipulating gullible westerners.
#2
Yes, I'd imagine NIH and NIAID are funding antifa runs labs now too. They're off to a slow start, the lab workers keep getting side-tracked making meth...
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry issued an extensive clarification of Russia's official position on the "grain deal". So to speak, following the visit of "friend Rejep" to Russia.
In short, Russia will not return to the "grain deal" until all its conditions are met. Since the West is not going to fulfill any of Russia's conditions, the prospects for a "grain deal" are zero. Turkey and the UN do not have the necessary leverage to influence the position of the West, so their proposals cannot restart the "grain deal".
Against the backdrop of increased attention being paid to the “Black Sea Initiative” for the export of Ukrainian food (stopped on July 17), concluded in Istanbul on July 22, 2022 in one “package” with the Russia-UN Memorandum on the normalization of domestic agricultural exports (valid until 2025) (these agreements are called the “grain deal”), we believe it justified to reiterate the Russian position in detail.
After the “Black Sea Initiative” was curtailed, which, as you know, did not justify the declared humanitarian purpose (out of 32.8 million tons of cargo, less than 3% were sent to countries in need) and was used by Ukrainians to carry out attacks against Russian facilities, no disaster occurred. Contrary to the alarmist statements of Westerners and the UN Secretariat about rising food prices and worsening threats of hunger, the cost of grain on world markets is steadily declining (in August, the reduction was about 4-5%, and from the peak values of March 2022, the decline was already 25-40% ).
In general, there is no global physical shortage of food - there are problems with its distribution, but not with production. In other words, because of the cessation of the sea export of Ukrainian grain, no one died of starvation and the food crisis did not happen, as predicted in Western capitals and the UN. Which is not surprising, because it is difficult to feed humanity with 32.8 million tons of predominantly fodder corn and feed grain.
Strongly exaggerated, at the suggestion of the same Westerners and UN members, and the role of Ukraine as a world granary. The share of this country in the total export of wheat was already small (5%), and now it is objectively decreasing even more, taking into account, among other things, the reduction in acreage due to radiation and chemical contamination of the soil as a result of the use of depleted uranium ammunition supplied by the West. At the same time, Ukrainians have other (besides the Black Sea) opportunities to export their goods - by land and river routes to the EU, along the so-called "corridors of solidarity".
It is no secret that such transportation is more expensive, and Europeans are in no hurry to actually show their declared solidarity with Kiev: in May, the European Commission banned the import of Ukrainian wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower into Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria (only transit is allowed) . On September 15, when the next moratorium expires, Brussels will have a great opportunity to reconsider its own decision and lift the ban on the import of Ukrainian grains, which risk completely flooding the markets of Eastern European countries. There will also be an opportunity to send grain from Ukraine to needy countries in Africa and Latin America free of charge, since Washington and some European capitals are so worried about this. For some reason I just don't believe it.
Under these conditions, as the Russian side has repeatedly and in detail noted, if the Westerners and Kiev really need the Black Sea corridor, then it is time to take concrete steps to lift illegal unilateral sanctions against domestic entities engaged in the production and export of agricultural products and fertilizers. We are talking about the normalization of the activities of banks and companies, the establishment of transport logistics and insurance, the resumption of the supply of spare parts. The solution of these “systemic” tasks is provided not only by the Russia-UN Memorandum, but would also fully comply with the high-flown declarations of the Americans and Europeans that their sanctions do not prevent access of Russian fertilizers and grains to world markets.
However, instead of real exemptions from sanctions, Russia only receives a new batch of promises from the UN Secretariat. This time, the UN Secretary General and his experts put forward four supposedly "breakthrough" proposals - SWIFT for the "subsidiary" of Rosselkhozbank; creation of an insurance platform; unblocking the foreign assets of Russian fertilizer companies and establishing access for our ships to European ports. In exchange, the Russian side is required to give guarantees for the immediate and full restoration of the "Black Sea Initiative".
However, in reality, the current proposals, like the previous ideas of the UN, do not contain any new elements and cannot become the basis for achieving qualitative progress in the normalization of our agricultural exports.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, including in public comments, there are no working alternatives to reconnecting the specialized Rosselkhozbank to SWIFT - neither with the options of branches and subsidiaries, nor through a marginal channel with JP Morgan, which, by the way, was closed after the collapse " Black Sea Initiative. And a few days before the Russian-Turkish summit in Sochi, Rosselkhozbank received a notification from Commerzbank in Frankfurt about the closure of a correspondent account in euros.
We have been promised the creation of a special insurance platform for Russian agricultural products since August 2022, but for unknown reasons this has not been done so far.
The same applies to the access of Russian ships and cargo to foreign ports - the UN was unable to deal with the sanctions obstacles arising in connection with this (in the form of declaring the entire territory of Russia a zone of military risks, as well as introducing Russian specialized transport and insurance structures and the companies themselves on the sanctions list).
In order to unlock their foreign assets, fertilizer companies are even directly invited to recognize their sub-sanctioned status, in order to then ask for concessions “at their own peril and risk”.
It is obvious that all these palliative measures and workarounds are intended only to create the appearance of work, but do not lead to a real solution to the problem - the removal of sanctions restrictions on the specialized Russian economic operators. For the same reason - a direct sanctions ban on the import of spare parts to Russia as "dual-use" goods - the UN does not even mention the corresponding "systemic" task.
The UN Secretary General continues to remain silent on the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, despite his special visit to Kyiv on March 8 and a separate proposal on April 26. After the Ukrainians blew up on June 5 in the territory under their control a pipeline that annually provided raw materials for fertilizers sufficient to produce food for 45 million people, the UN Secretariat prefers not to recall this core element of both Istanbul agreements at all.
The question of the further plans of the UN to ensure the implementation of the Russia-UN Memorandum remains open, since A. Guterres assured that there are no intentions to withdraw from the agreement. However, at present, the relevant activities have actually been suspended: the overseeing agreement of UNCTAD Secretary General R. Greenspan since July of this year. there is an invitation to come to Moscow for the next round of consultations, but at present even regular progress reports have been stopped. However, the UN representatives are still in the Joint Coordinating Center in Istanbul without a mandate due to the termination of the Black Sea Initiative.
In this regard, Russia reiterates its principled position, which was clearly voiced by President Vladimir Putin on September 4, that we will be ready to consider the possibility of reviving the Black Sea Initiative, but only after the requirements for lifting the sanctions status from Russian companies engaged in the field of agricultural products and fertilizers. It is obvious that while the prospects for appropriate steps on the part of Western countries are not visible, and in Kiev they even declare that they will continue to seek tougher sanctions against Russia, not caring in the least about the needs of the countries of the Global South in grain and fertilizers, as well as about food security generally.
For its part, Russia will continue to export domestic food and fertilizers, which will help stabilize world prices and improve their overall availability. We also continue our efforts to donate our products to those in need.
In particular, Russian fertilizers have already been sent to Malawi (20,000 tons) and Kenya (34,000 tons). In the coming period, it is planned to send such fertilizers to Zimbabwe (23,000 tons), Nigeria (34,000 tons) and Sri Lanka (55,000 tons). In addition, free deliveries of 200,000 tons of Russian wheat to Somalia, the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali and Eritrea are planned before the end of the year.
The joint project of Russia, Turkey and Qatar to supply 1 million tons of grain from Russia for processing in Turkey with subsequent free transportation to the poorest countries is also extremely in demand. Moreover, we are talking about the same amount of food that was sent to those in need within the framework of the "Black Sea Initiative" for the year.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] In September, the last of the reserve brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trained with the help of NATO, left for the front.
The last reserves went on the offensive - they went together to strengthen the attack on Rabotino. Even the 82nd brigade had to be obtained with carefully stored Challengers
In addition to them, by the way, the "Offensive Guard" joined the offensive (what is it ( https://t.me/z_arhiv/18626?single)? ). In particular, "Kara-Dag", "Spartan", "Azov" (yes, these are the basics of the National Guard of the 15th brigade of the NGU, and not the 3rd ODShBr) - deployed between Rabotino and Novopokrovka. And to the north, the Novopokroyks sent the National Guard to reinforce: 11 (Mikhail Grushevsky) and 27 (Pecherskaya).
From the latter, in an attempt to stabilize the front near Svatovo, a new 43rd mechanized brigade was sent, and the 68th Jaeger Brigade was also transferred there.
At the same time, in the battle for Rabotino for three months, the enemy participated:
🔹 12 brigades
🔹 Three regiments
🔹 + a bunch of separate battalions and UAV units, as well as several artillery brigades.
Comparing with the so-called "leaked report" , which allegedly revealed the plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the offensive - the image shows all the new brigades and which of them are already involved.
offensive in the south
🟩33 Mechanized Brigade
🟩47 Mechanized Brigade
🟩23 Mechanized Brigade
🟩31 Mechanized Brigade
🟩14 Regiment
🟩78 Airborne Regiment
🟩82nd Airborne Brigade
🟩38 Naval Infantry Brigade
🟩37 Naval Infantry Brigade
🟩47 Artillery Brigade
🟩23 Mechanized Brigade
🟩116 Mechanized Brigade
🟩117 Mechanized Brigade
🟩118 Mechanized Brigade
Kleshcheevka
🟥22 Brigade
Kremennaya
🟥42 Mechanized Brigade
🟥44 Mechanized Brigade
🟥21 Mechanized Brigade
🟥32 Mechanized Brigade
Svatovo
🟥43 Mechanized Brigade
Kupyansk
🟥88 Mechanized Brigade
🟥41 Mechanized Brigade
☑️On June 19, 2/3 of all brigades were involved (infographics)
✅Accordingly , at the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have involved all the new brigades from the leaked report.
In addition, the enemy began to actively engage "individual rifle battalions." They are given to brigades while they send line battalions on rotation. At the same time, on paper, they are included in the 141st, 142nd, 143rd and 144th brigades.
✉️"Z-committee"
In Ukraine, from October 1, women will be put on military records.
There is already a catastrophic shortage of men, now they plan to rake in the women.
Work also continues to organize the deportation of male refugees from Europe.
The raking of students, people with various types of disabilities, etc. is facilitated. and so on.
A total of 300,000 new cannon fodder won't pick themselves up. Volunteers are long gone. There remains the routine of processing the remaining male population of Ukraine into minced meat, which we will observe at least in the next year.
#1
UKR has been requiring women to register, they opened up military positions to women last years, and it looks like UKR is to start conscripting them next month, if the source is correct,
"October 1, women will be put on military records.
There is already a catastrophic shortage of men, now they plan to rake in the women."
#2
UKR is to start conscripting them next month, if the source is correct,
Doctors and nurses. Women have been allowed to volunteer and many have volunteered to be front line medics and other specialties, like in the US Army. They are also drone operators taking a heavy toll on Russian invaders.
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Women with medical education to be considered eligible for military enlistment Women with a medical or pharmaceutical education must register at military enlistment offices from Oct. 1, Fedir Venislavskyi, President Volodymyr Zelensky's representative in parliament, said on Sept. 7. This will mean that these women, like Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60, will not be able to leave the country without special permission. Under martial law, they must stay in Ukraine as they may be called up at any moment for military service.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Military Informant
Another photo of the most modern Russian 125-mm armor-piercing feathered sub-caliber projectiles 3BM60 "Lead-2" in service with the RF Armed Forces.
BOPS 3BM60 "Lead-2" has a tungsten core and allows modern Russian tanks, like the T-90M, T-72B3 and T-80BVM, to confidently hit in the frontal armor of modern western tanks like the Leopard 2A6, Challenger 2 or M1A1 Abrams, supplied to Ukraine.
The first confirmation of the presence in the ammunition of Russian tanks of new 125-mm armor-piercing feathered sub-caliber projectiles 3BM60 "Lead-2" appeared.
Previously, in the BC of Russian tanks, basically, only significantly outdated 125-mm BOPS "Mango" were seen, which no longer met the necessary criteria for modern ammunition.
However, now, with the introduction of the newest Lead-2 shells in ammunition, Russian tankers will be able to hit the supplied Western tanks in frontal projection from a much greater distance.
BOPS 3BM60 "Lead-2" has a tungsten core and is used together with the propellant charge 4Zh96 "Ozon-T" as part of the 3VBM23 shot, providing an estimated penetration of about 300mm homogeneous steel from two kilometers at an angle of 60 degrees. The projectile length of 740mm, which is practically the limit for domestic automatic loaders, allows it to be used only from new tanks, such as the T-90A, T-90M, T-72B3, T-80BVM.
#1
The fundamental problem with Russian APFSDS rounds is that they are limited in length (hence penetration power) due to the two piece ammo required by their tank auto loaders.
#3
Russians have been using depleted uranium rounds in Ukraine for some time, as they have in Syria and the Chechen conflicts, so this hyperventilating by them is disingenuous at the least.
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Romania’s Defense Minister Angel Tîlvăr confirms that the authorities today found fragments of a suspected Russian drone around 100 meters away from the border with Ukraine.
#2
Even with photo and now on site evidence, the Romanians were being "See no evil, speak no evil!" until they couldn't cover it up anymore.
They should have just come out and said, "Yeah, it hit our territory in a remote area as the drone was falling. No harm, no foul this time Russia. But you damage one building, hurt one person on Romanian soil with your drones NATO is coming for you."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Stanislav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] In Poland - an innovation. From September 1 this year, all Polish schoolchildren, from the fourth grade of elementary school to secondary school, will take sports tests every year. Test results - running, jumping, push-ups - will now be entered in the "passport of sports talents", which will also indicate the parameters of schoolchildren. The official explanation says that this is necessary to create a base of physically gifted children. However, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita believes that there is something more behind the "passport".
When I was young, my public school tested all fourth and sixth graders for the President’s Physical Fitness Award. I still have the patches I earnt in a bin in the back of the basement, along with the Israeli coin set I won for placing fifth (out of five) in the Hebrew high school bible contest. I suspect then as well as now in Poland it was not about building a data base — while we still had the draft back then, girls did not register for the draft — but more about getting kids into better shape: that which is measured will be paid attention to.
The publication drew attention to the fact that the database of "sports talents" of schoolchildren will be available to "a government agency or an institution that is not a government, but performs public tasks, for the purposes necessary to carry out public tasks ."
Professor Grzegorz Sybiha calls the "sports talent passport" something like a new population database.
“We do not know all the purposes of using this information, since it is postulated that they can be taken to perform any legislatively defined state task ,” notes the professor. “ Thus, the idea of creating a “passport” is hidden in the phrase “state task”, and it is not clear who will ultimately use the collected data.”
Marek Rutka , a member of the Sejm of Poland, gives his answer.
He believes that information about the physical fitness of children is of interest to the Ministry of National Defense. In this way, it will have at its disposal a complete database of potential recruits for the Polish army. At the same time, the consent of the parents is not required to enter information about their child in the “passport of sports talents”.
The question is why now the military department needed a total assessment of the physical condition and health of Polish schoolchildren, because before it somehow managed without it.
Apparently, the matter is in the task set by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to increase the size of the army to 300,000 people.
According to the former commander of the ground forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak , this task is impossible to complete without the return of the general conscription.
Compulsory military service in Poland was abolished in 2009.
Since then, not a single party in the country has stuttered about her return, since such a proposal would portend her political death. Even now, when PiS is actively exploiting the topic of Poland's security during the parliamentary election campaign, and its leaders are talking about the creation of more and more new divisions, statements about the return of the general conscription are not heard.
But without this measure, says Skshipchak, a large army will have to be forgotten.
“Without the resumption of the general draft, there is no chance of finding soldiers for new divisions created from scratch ,” the general emphasizes. Our authorities are aware of this . Even the Americans are wondering how they are going to do this without the general call.”
Indeed, against the background of the massive rearmament of the Polish army, the purchase of new tanks, howitzers, aircraft, multiple launch rocket systems and other "beautiful toys" it is not clear where the people who will master them will come from.
Compulsory military service would solve many problems. But first, the Polish authorities must explain to the public the need to return to such an unpopular measure. And it will be more difficult than to justify the increase in defense spending to 4% of Poland's GDP.
An appropriate ideology is required.
Some experts do not see anything serious in the militarization of Poland, believing that it is of a political technological nature and is associated with the desire of "Law and Justice" to rule forever.
At the same time, the German publication Junge Welt states, the “militarist performance” staged by PiS sends two conflicting signals at once.
On the one hand, the leader of the ruling party, Jarosław Kaczynski , says that the Polish army should become " the backbone of NATO's eastern flank".
On the other hand, Polish government speakers tell the public that “ rearmament, unprecedented in its history, makes the country “ self-sufficient in terms of security”, i.e. independent of existing alliances, the seriousness of which the Polish political class secretly doubts after the experience of the 1930s .”
In other words, Warsaw assumes the collapse of the North Atlantic Alliance and, most likely, the European Union in the foreseeable future.
Considering that the Polish rearmament programs will reach their design capacity in 10 years, the Warsaw strategists give both alliances a lifetime of up to 2030-2035. After that, Poland's hands will be completely untied, which is unlikely to please its neighbors.
They perceive numerous Polish integration initiatives with caution.
Today, Warsaw proposes to build highways linking the countries of Central and Eastern Europe for the sake of better movement of civilian goods and people. And tomorrow, South Korean and American tanks with white and red flags will roll over them?
“ A significant part of our society is still afraid of the Poles ,” writes the Lithuanian edition of IQ. - Because it is not clear how many percent there are still left, for whom "Vilna is ours." The Poles, armed to the teeth by the Americans, will have nothing to restrain. Theoretically, NATO member countries do not fight each other, but if you remember the Turks and Greeks, then nothing is guaranteed.
In addition, Poland is religious and believes in miracles, which means that they happen there from time to time. For example, some military leader will feel like the embodiment of Pilsudski and go before the elections to restore order in Eastern Kresy in order to raise the ratings at the same time.
The fears expressed by the Lithuanian edition still look exaggerated. The accelerated rearmament of Poland is not necessarily caused by its expansionist plans.
The problem is that the alternative explanation for the militarization of the country on the Vistula is even worse.
Perhaps Warsaw is preparing for a new big war in Europe, which will also affect the Western European countries, as it was already in the 20th century. In the end, it was from there that foreign troops were the first to come to Poland for the last two centuries.
#2
Russian cope, i.e. lying to themselves. Poland prudently rearms as Moscow threatens to invade everyone from Latvia to Britain. Meanwhile Russian capabilities and manpower are destroyed in Ukraine and the road to Moscow is wide open and unmanned.
Poland is religious and believes in miracles, which means that they happen there from time to time.
I think it is a great miracle that current national and international problems haven't already combined well enough to collapse everything, some time ago.
#5
Russia has destroyed herself the last century and continues to do so this century. From a great, though backward, power with a vast population to a middling and fast declining autocracy. They are well on the road to another breakup and reorganization or absorption.
One thing that struct me as a young lad was that according to demographers the Soviet Union was "missing" 100 million people going by their reported birth and death rates if they were a normal country. Those are the missing and the never born children of the 20 million from internal genocides and 30+ million dead in wars.
I'll give you some credit Grom. You were smart enough to get out while you could.
#11
Replace Russia w/ Palestine and you would be making and bigger ass of yourself in your vatnick sweatsuit and cheap sandals. You are a hypocrite of the highest order.
#12
Making friends and convincing skeptics again, Grom?
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#13
Israelis, two, cultured but knackered,
Who happen to notice a placard:
"Speak Russian?"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Regnum] During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis killed one and a half million Jews in Ukraine. This was announced on September 5 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian organizing committee "Victory".
