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[Regnum] Emergency Ministry pyrotechnicians destroyed five aerial bombs and 51 anti-tank mines from the Great Patriotic War found at a test site in the Leningrad Region. This was reported on September 21 by the regional ministry's press service.
"The discovery, consisting of five FAB-100 aerial bombs and 51 anti-tank mines, was made by local residents near a railway platform in the Tosnensky district," the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted.
The agency's employees ensured the safe removal of the shells and subsequent controlled detonation.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations warned against approaching explosive devices. Emergency services should be called immediately.
Last August, more than 350 pieces of ammunition from the Great Patriotic War were destroyed by explosive ordnance experts from the Crimean Ministry of Emergency Situations. The shells were discovered in the Feodosia urban district near the town of Primorsky. A total of 357 pieces of potentially hazardous ammunition were found.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Strength in truth ❗A remote worker from the Leningrad region stuck deodorant up his butt, lost his rectum, and will now wear a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.
A 21-year-old boy, out of boredom, stuck deodorant up his anus but couldn't get it out. Three days later, his anus began to tear with pain, and he sought medical attention.
Doctors urgently hospitalized the prankster with irreversible tissue necrosis. His rectum had to be removed, and now the guy won't have any time to be bored—he'll be carrying a bag of shit around his stomach for the rest of his life.
At one point during my brief career at the international consumer products company, I was put to analyzing the consumer comments that came in on the 800 number for the product we were in the process of improving. I was shocked to discover that there are people stupid enough to put any inappropriate but stickable container into any orifice into which something can be stuck. Also, anything that ought not to be used as personal lubricant will be — and in both cases the customer will call the 800 number to complain bitterly about the poor package design/product formulation.
Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 21, 2025, 5:44 PM — Regnum News Agency. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The regional emergency situations department reported this on September 21.
"The earthquake's epicenter is located in Kazakhstan, 9 km southwest of Almaty. The earthquake's energy class is 7.2. Its magnitude is MPV 3.8," the statement said.
The day before, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Emergency Situations warned residents of the country about a recorded earthquake, emphasizing that the tremors were not felt in Almaty.
At the same time, citizens were sent messages on their phones recommending that they leave their homes.
On the morning of September 19, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The epicenter was located at a depth of 39 km, 128 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Following a powerful earthquake off the coast of the peninsula, a tsunami threat arose within 1,000 kilometers of its epicenter. Waves ranging from 1 to 3 meters above high tide were predicted along several areas of the Russian coast.
Moscow, September 21, 2025, 12:12 PM — Regnum News Agency. Winter in Moscow and throughout central Russia will warm up by 1-3 degrees Celsius by 2050. Nikolai Tereshonok, head of the meteorology and climate department at the Central Administration for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, announced this on September 21.
"According to our calculations, in 25 years the potential temperature increase in Moscow and the Central Federal District will be between 1 and 3 degrees," TASS quoted the specialist as saying.
According to the climatologist, colder temperatures are not excluded, “but the overall trend shows a steady increase” in temperature.
"The saturation of the atmosphere with carbon is increasing, as is the greenhouse effect," Tereshonok explained.
He noted that winters in Moscow and the surrounding regions are getting warmer. The coldest winters were observed in 1893, 1942, and 1956. The absolute minimum temperature (minus 43.1 degrees Celsius) was recorded in Moscow on January 17, 1940.
The warmest winter on record was in 2020. Forecasters recorded the absolute maximum temperature (+9.6 degrees Celsius) in Moscow on December 6, 2008.
According to climate scientists, the average winter temperature in Moscow could reach minus 4 degrees Celsius by 2030. In 1970, it was minus 8 degrees Celsius, and from 1890 to 1930, it was minus 9 to 10 degrees Celsius.
On September 19, Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that the last summer heat wave in Moscow in 2025 will occur on Monday, September 22. Temperatures will reach 24–27°C (74–82°F). Next weekend, Moscow will experience daytime temperatures dropping to 7–12°C (45–55°F).
Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, noted that October-like weather is expected in Moscow and the Moscow region from September 25.
Both injured rescuers were hospitalized. According to doctors, their condition is considered moderate.
On the night of September 21, while extinguishing a fire following a Russian drone attack, Russian forces launched a second strike. Two rescuers were injured, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
It was reported that Russian troops attacked a critical infrastructure facility in the Nizhyn district overnight. A fire broke out after a drone strike, and rescuers quickly arrived on the scene. While firefighters were already at the scene, the enemy launched a second attack.
Both injured rescuers were hospitalized. According to doctors, their condition is considered moderate.
Russian drones have begun dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities, the mayor of Nizhyn reported.
Russian troops dropped unknown explosives on Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast. This is a new type of attack used by the enemy, Nizhyn Mayor Oleksandr Kodola reported, according to Suspilne.
According to him, on September 19, the occupiers dropped unknown explosives from drones onto one of the city's central streets.
"This is a new type of attack; the Russians have never used anything like it before. Experts are still investigating the explosives used. Fortunately, no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged," Kodola noted.
As a reminder, on the night of September 21, while extinguishing a fire following a Russian drone attack, Russian forces launched a second strike. Two rescuers were injured.
As reported, as a result of the Russian drone attack in Ukraine, 21 attack UAVs were hit at 8 locations.
22:04 Force Group "North" expands control zone near Otradnoye in the Khar'kov region. 21:52 Private Nikita Pavlov of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a drone and carried out his wounded comrade.
20:33 According to operational data, the Russian Armed Forces have taken up new positions west of Serebryanka,map.
20:20 Severian artillery destroys Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV control posts in Vovchansk,video.
20:12 In the SVO zone in the battles for Russia fell Polish volunteer Jerzy Tyts, head of the Kursk Memorial Society, which was involved in restoring monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland, reported the Kursk regional government.
19:05 Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that as a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a civilian was killed and five were injured.
18:15 Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Rakityansky district of Belgorod region.
A drone struck a car in the village of Proletarsky. The driver died instantly from his injuries. The vehicle was damaged.
Another drone attacked a commercial building in the village of Proletarsky. An ambulance crew is transporting two men with shrapnel wounds and a woman with a preliminary diagnosis of barotrauma to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2.
A fourth victim with shrapnel wounds is receiving medical treatment at the Rakityanskaya Central District Hospital. The building's façade and windows are damaged.
In the village of Novoleninskoye, a man suffered a mine blast injury and shrapnel wounds to his arms and legs after an FPV drone attacked his car. The victim was taken to the Rakityanskaya Central District Hospital, where he received the necessary medical care. He will be transferred to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2 for further treatment. The vehicle was destroyed by fire.
17:33 A UAV operator destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces moped in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, video.
16:47 In the period from 15:00 to 16:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
16:06 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired upon Zaporizhzhia's Vasilyevka, there are casualties
The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at an apartment building, injuring 12 people, three of whom were in critical condition.
15:29 During the battle for Vovchansk in the Khar'kov region, a soldier of the 1009th Motorized Rifle Regiment destroyed a house with Ukrainian infantry,video.
14:45 Fighters of the Sever group defeated engineering equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Rzhanoye in the Sumy region, video.
14:10 In the period from 11:00 to 13:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
13:52 Crews of ZU-23 anti-aircraft guns of the North group of forces destroy reconnaissance and attack unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, providing reliable cover for Russian positions.
12:45 Ministry of Defense summary of the progress of the Special Military Operation as of September 21, 2025
Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of three mechanized, two heavy mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Iskriskovshchina, Varachino, Sennoe and Pavlovka in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of a motorized infantry, two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Bely Kolodez, Velykyi Burluk, Polnaya and Vovchansk in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 185 servicemen, a tank, seven vehicles, a field artillery gun, a counter-battery radar station, an electronic warfare station, and four ammunition depots.
Units of the "West" force grouping improved their tactical position. They defeated the personnel and equipment of three mechanized brigades, two assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade, and a National Guard brigade near the settlements of Kupyansk, Prystin, and Nechvolodovka in the Kha'rkov region, and Kirovsk, Shandrigolovo, Drobyshevo, Dronovka, Krymki, and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 225 troops, a Canadian-made Senator armored fighting vehicle, 16 vehicles, and four artillery pieces. Ten electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated formations of seven mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, a mountain assault brigade, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade, and a National Guard brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Seversk, Stepanivka, Reznikovka, Oleksandro-Kalinovo, and Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 220 troops, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, two armored combat vehicles, 11 pickup trucks, and five field artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations, four ammunition depots, and a fuel depot were destroyed.
Units of the Center Forces Group improved their position along the forward edge. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, two Jaeger brigades, three airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, three territorial defense brigades, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Dimitrov, Nikolaipole, Rodinske, Krasny Liman, and Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic and Ivanovka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 500 servicemen, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, three Cossack combat armored vehicles, six cars, and a field artillery gun.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses, defeating formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade, and a National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novovasilevskoye, Uspenovka, Poltavka, Novohryhorivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Novonikolaevka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 340 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 14 vehicles, and an artillery piece.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades and three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Tyaginka, Nikolskoye in the Kherson region, Stepnogorsk and Stepovoye in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, nine vehicles and four electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
11:58 In the period from 10:00 to 11:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
11:01 Crews of Su-35S fighters cover bomber and attack aircraft, as well as army aviation helicopters, when carrying out air strikes against military facilities and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:47 Information about inflicted Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out strikes in the Belgorod region over the past 24 hours:
In the Belgorod district, four drones attacked the villages of Lozovoye, Nikolayevka, and the hamlet of Tserkovny, one of which was shot down.
In the village of Nikolayevka, a carport, and two outbuildings were damaged.
In the village of Lozovoye, a private house was damaged, and an outbuilding was destroyed by fire.
In the Valuysky Municipal District, the villages of Butyrki, Dolgoe, Kukuyevka, Novopetrivka, and the village of Dubrovka were attacked by six drones, five of which were suppressed and shot down. A gas line was damaged in the village of Dubrovka.
In the Graivoron Municipal District, 21 munitions were fired and nine drones were attacked, one of which was shot down, in the town of Graivoron, the village of Gorkovsky, and the villages of Bezymeno, Dronovka, Dunayka, Kozinka, Poroz, and Rozhdestvenka. A garage and two cars were damaged in the town of Graivoron.
In the Krasnoyarsk district,
the villages of Krasnaya Yaruga and Prilesye, Vyazovoye, Repyakhovka, Staroselye, Terebreno, and Otradovka were subjected to four shelling attacks, during which nine munitions were fired, and attacks by 25 drones, 12 of which were shot down.
A civilian was injured in the village of Krasnaya Yaruga. The man continues to be treated in the hospital. Yesterday, a man injured in a drone attack on a car on September 19 near the village of Otradovka sought medical attention. He was diagnosed with mine blast injury and barotrauma. He continues to be treated in the hospital.
In the village of Krasnaya Yaruga, two apartments in an apartment building and a truck were damaged.
In the Rakityansky District, the villages of Proletarsky and Rakitnoye and the village of Kiselevo were attacked by four drones.
In the village of Proletarsky, a business building and four apartments in an apartment building were damaged.
A car caught fire near the village of Kiselevo; firefighters extinguished the fire.
In the Shebekinsky Municipal District
A total of 37 drones struck the villages of Voznesenovka, Maksimovka, Meshkovoe, Murom, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Chervona Dibrovka, and the hamlet of Bondarenkov, 30 of which were suppressed or shot down.
A car and equipment belonging to a commercial facility were damaged in the village of Chervona Dibrovka, a public utility facility and a passenger car were damaged in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a power line was damaged in the village of Maksimovka, a commercial facility was damaged in the hamlet of Bondarenkov, and two private homes were destroyed in the village of Murom, one of which was destroyed by fire.
This morning, a civilian was killed in shelling in the town of Shebekino. Three private homes and a car were damaged.
10:08 AM at night, Russian Armed Forces inflicted an attack on an enemy facility in Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast
After the explosions, a large-scale fire started, fuel tanks are burning.
9:50 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a UAV control center near the settlement of Aleksandrovka, as well as an ammunition depot near the settlement of Novodmitrovka, –video.
9:00 Servicemen of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed two mortars and a self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, video.
8:23 Russian Armyknocked out the enemy from Shandrigolovo and storms the center of Sredny, advancing towards Liman
Continuing their offensive in the Krasnolimansk direction, Russian troops drove Ukrainian Armed Forces units out of the last houses in Shandrigolovo.
Russian Armed Forces have also advanced into neighboring Sredny and are consolidating their positions near the village center. Further south, our congratulators are storming the forest belts, advancing toward Derilovo and Novoselovka.
8:00 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 19 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
- 12 – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
- Four – over the Black Sea,
- Two – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
- One – over the territory of the Kursk region
[X] Former commander of Russia’s “Center” and “North” army groups, Alexander Lapin, has been dismissed from the Russian military.
This is the same general who failed to defend the Kursk region, lost Volchansk, and became infamous for his clashes with Prigozhin and Kadyrov. Lapin was despised by pro-war Z-bloggers, who accused him of staggering incompetence.
Instead of the front, he’s been given an “honorable exile” — a position as assistant to Tatarstan’s leader Rustam Minnikhanov. Now the general will oversee contract soldiers and the “social adaptation” of veterans.
In reality, it’s a quiet retirement under the wing of the Shoigu clan: a safe place to lie low and stay out of the way.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal named Lapin among those responsible for Ukraine’s breakthrough in the Kursk region.
General Lapin Thrown on the Scrap Heap
Former commander of Russia’s “Center” and “North” army groups, Alexander Lapin, has been dismissed from the Russian military.
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Moscow, September 21, 2025, 7:34 PM — Regnum News Agency. Russia is demanding that the West provide the results of investigations into the alleged poisonings of blogger Alexei Navalny (an individual listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia) and former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. This was announced on September 21 by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
She made this statement against the backdrop of information that Navalny was allegedly “poisoned again.”
"It turns out Navalny was poisoned again, according to his sect. Only this time, this entire foreign agent gang has unanimously demanded test results from Western clinics—2024," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
According to the diplomat, when Navalny was brought to Berlin in 2020 for alleged Novichok poisoning, no one in his circle requested test results from the German Charité clinic, but took his word for it.
According to Zakharova, no one supported the Russian authorities' calls to provide research results so that they could rely on facts rather than made-up slogans.
"We join the fathers and mothers of 'Russian democracy' in once again demanding that Western laboratories provide test results. But they should provide all of them: the Salisbury-Amsbury ones, the aforementioned Berlin patient... and at least some 'test results' from the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 terrorist attacks," the diplomat concluded.
In December 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia does not have treatment methods available in Germany for Navalny. Germany is concealing the results of the blogger's medical examination while he was undergoing treatment.
In 2021, Navalny fell ill during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow and was hospitalized. After Russian doctors stabilized his condition, Navalny was cleared to travel to Germany for treatment. At Berlin's Charité Clinic, he was suddenly "detected" to have exhibited signs of cholinesterase inhibitor intoxication. No evidence was provided, and tests performed in Omsk showed no such substances in his system.
In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a maximum security penal colony for creating an extremist group. In February 2024, he died in Penal Colony No. 3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. After a walk, he felt ill and lost consciousness. All necessary resuscitation measures were administered, but they were unable to save him. Paramedics pronounced him dead.
In August 2006, Skripal was found guilty of treason for working for British intelligence. The court sentenced him to 13 years in prison and stripped him of his rank of colonel and military decorations. In July 2010, Skripal was released as part of a prisoner swap with the United States; he remained in the UK.
In March 2018, the BBC reported on the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter, who lived in Salisbury. Before the investigation was completed, Russia was blamed. Lavrov then declared Moscow innocent and willing to cooperate in the investigation. But the offer was not accepted.
One of the bacteria is without a doubt: Noli ursum pungere
Madrid, September 21, 2025, 9:15 PM — Regnum News Agency. Scientists have identified two types of dangerous bacteria that could have caused the destruction of Napoleon Bonaparte's army during his military campaign in Russia in 1812. This was reported by the Spanish newspaper ABC.
Experts analyzed dental DNA taken from the remains of 13 soldiers found in a mass grave in Vilnius in 2001. The tests showed that each of the deceased was found to be infected with Borrelia relapsing fever and Salmonella paratyphi type C, bacteria transmitted by blood-sucking parasites, particularly lice.
Until recently, historians assumed that the cause of death for most of the retreating army was typhus and trench fever, but there was no reliable evidence of the presence of these pathogens.
"After all stages of verification and authentication, no reliable evidence was found relating to either Rickettsia prowaszekii, better known as the causative agent of typhus, or Borrelia quintana, which causes trench fever," the authors of the material noted.
Paratyphoid fever, as DNA studies have shown, was widespread in Europe for several millennia. By 1812, this disease, transmitted through fecally contaminated food or drinking water, was well understood. Its symptoms included headache, rash, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, and others. However, according to scientists, it is not mentioned in official documents describing Napoleon's campaign due to its specific symptoms, which could have gone unnoticed among other illnesses.
In Japan in 2024, doctors discovered a flesh-eating bacterium that could kill a person in two days. The disease, caused by a rare tissue-damaging streptococcus bacterium, began spreading in Japan after the country eased COVID-19 restrictions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
❗A remote worker from the Leningrad region stuck deodorant up his butt, lost his rectum, and will now wear a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.
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