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Russian Army conducts assaults in 10 directions - Ukrainian General Staff
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The most active battles continue in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled 20 attacks in the areas of 11 settlements.

Since the beginning of the current day, 76 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Most of the attacks by Russian invaders have already been repelled, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report on Tuesday, September 2.

Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions our defenders repelled three attacks by the Russians. Another battle continues.

In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, three enemy attacks have been stopped in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk and Krasnoye Pervoye. Four more combat clashes are ongoing.

In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressors stormed the areas of Kupyansk and Petropavlovka four times. Two combat clashes are ongoing.

In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked five times near the settlements of Karpovka, Kolodyagi and in the direction of the settlement of Dronovka. Three combat clashes continue.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers made 10 attempts to advance forward in the direction of the settlements of Stupochki and Predtechino. Four combat clashes are ongoing.

In the Toretsk direction, our soldiers stopped four enemy offensives in the areas of the settlements of Shcherbinovka, Toretsk, Yablunovka and Poltavka. Another combat clash continues.

In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 21 assaults near the settlements of Mayak, Novoye Shakhovoye, Volnoye, Dachnoye, Novoekonomicheskoye, Mirolyubovka, Mirnograd, Promen, Lisovka, Udachnoye and in the direction of Pokrovsk. The defense forces have already stopped 20 attacks.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked three times in the Ivanovka and Shevchenko areas. Two combat clashes are ongoing.

In the Dnieper direction, the enemy twice attempted to advance in the direction of the settlement of Antonovka.

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SVO member heads Dagestan's Ministry of Nationalities after accusations of war crimes in Ukraine
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[KavkazUzel] Temirlan Abutalimov, who was awarded the title Hero of Russia for his participation in military operations, has been appointed acting Minister for National Policy and Religious Affairs. In Ukraine, Abutalimov is accused of executing prisoners.

The appointment of 28-year-old Abutalimov as acting Minister of National Policy and Religious Affairs of Dagestan was announced by the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, at a meeting today. 

Before his appointment, Abutalimov “studied the experience of public administration for more than a year” and “practiced in government bodies,” and completed an internship in the administration of the head of Dagestan under the personal mentorship of Melikov, the press service’s official statement noted. 

Tamerlan Abutalimov received the title Hero of Russia from Putin in December 2023, a month before that he was awarded the Order of Courage. He participated in military operations in Ukraine since September 2022 - "after the announcement of partial mobilization, he volunteered for the front" - and before that he worked as an investigator in the Khasavyurt GOVD, according to the biography of the military man, published in the Spetsnaz Rossii newspaper. 

Temirlan Abutalimov became a participant in the “Time of Heroes” program, designed to retrain participants in military operations as civil servants, in May 2024. At the same time, it became known about the execution of four Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered near the village of Rabotino in the Zaporizhia region. The official authorities of Ukraine declared Abutalimov involved in this crime. 

The shooting of the prisoners was filmed by a drone: as can be seen in the footage, four unarmed Ukrainian soldiers with their hands raised approach five armed fighters, surrendering; they force the Ukrainians to lie face down on the ground and shoot them point-blank. 

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated that it had identified the participants in the execution by intercepting radio messages, in one of which the commander directly ordered his subordinates to shoot the prisoners. All five soldiers whose details the department provided belonged, according to Ukrainian intelligence, to an assault group of a unit permanently stationed in Shali (Chechnya). Among them was the commander of the assault company, Senior Lieutenant Temirlan Abutalimov.

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Current information on the situation on the front line on September 2 (updated)
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[NewsFront] 21:16 RF Armed Forces reached significant progress in the Serebryansky forests, pressing the enemy to the Seversky Donets and eliminating the remaining pockets in the rear.

20:59 Russian drone operators chose the tactics of “information strikes” in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

UAVs of the Center group of forces dropped propaganda leaflets on enemy positions calling for the surrender of weapons.

20:58 Russian army entered in Glushchenkovo ​​on the Borovsk direction.

20:21 Published footage of the destruction of a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by FAB-500 strikes in the area of ​​the settlement of Krenidovka in Sumy Oblast.

19:45 Crew of the 152mm self-propelled artillery unit 2S19 "Msta-S" of the "East" group of forces destroyed enemy positions in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

19:37 Recorded change of the line of combat contact in the Dobropillya direction.

19:02 Russian troops are advancing in the Khar'kov region, –map.

18:47 Russian Armed Forces advanced in the Kupyansk direction.

Russian military installed control over Stepova Novoselovka.

18:41 According to operational information, our troops advanced to the southern outskirts of Shandrilogovo.

In parallel with this, our units are fighting in the central part of the village of Sredneye, developing operational success in the Krasnolimansk direction.

18:40 Russian military personnel have liberated another settlement in the DPR.

Russian military deployed tricolor in the village of Rusin Yar.

18:32 The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Krasnolimansk direction, –map.

17:04 Posted traditional video report on the destruction of six enemy drones from fighters of the counter-UAV unit of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District.

16:54 Russian pilots using LMUR missiles destroyed UAV control point of the 22nd separate motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Khar'kov region.
LMUR is a Russian ATGM, mounted to gunships.
15:22 Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the work of the Russian Armed Forces' strike drone crews in different directions.

15:10 As a result of fierce battles, soldiers of the 3rd battalion of 242nd Motorized Rifle Regiment deployed the regimental banner in Poltavka DPR.

14:02 Drone operators and artillery of the "Severyans" control Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the Khatnensky section of the front.

13:10 In the area of ​​the settlement of Butovka in the Chernihiv region, five Geraniums destroyed a blocked parking lot for a Ukrainian MLRS along with the covered equipment, –video.

13:04 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of September 2, 2025

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue conducting a special military operation.

Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of a tank, two mechanized, airborne assault brigades, an airborne assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepnoye, Kondratovka, Pershe Travnya, Varachino, Lesnoye, Pavlovka and Yunakovka in Sumy Oblast.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Udy and Chugunovka in the Khar'kov region.

Units of the West group of forces have improved their tactical position.

The manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Glinskoye, Vyssheye Solenoye, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region and Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic.

As a result of decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Fedorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.

Defeat was inflicted on the formations of three mechanized, airmobile, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Pazeno, Markovo and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the Center group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions.

The manpower and equipment of four mechanized, airborne, assault, two airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and two national guard brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Krasny Liman, Rodinskoye and Muravka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the "East" force group advanced deep into the enemy's defenses.

The formations of a mechanized brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a naval infantry brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Voronoe, Novopetrovskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Dorozhnyanka and Olgovskoye in the Zaporizhia region.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region, Mykhailivka, Lvovo, Tyaginka and Antonovka in the Kherson region.

11:30 UAV operators of the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division arranged " a hot " meeting with the enemy infantry, who had taken up residence in a house on the western outskirts of Malaya Tokmachka.

11:02 Strela-10 air defense missile system crews of the Center group of forces are covering artillery positions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, –video.

10:00 According to operational data, Russian Armed Forces occupied the territory of the Mirnogradugol mine in the northwest of Dimitrov (Mirnograd).

9:50 Summary as of the morning of September 2, 2025

At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched Geranium strikes on Izmail in the Odessa region (a logistics hub of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border), Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, Sumy and Chernihiv region.

In the Sumy direction there are heavy battles in Yunakovka, ours are trying to advance. The enemy carried out two counterattacks in the Andreyevka area with the forces of the 225th Separate Regiment.

In the Belgorod region, in the Borisovsky district, in the village of Belenkoye, a woman was injured as a result of an attack by a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the city of Grayvoron, an 18-year-old girl was injured by a drone strike.

The village of Borisovka was attacked by a UAV, one man received a barotrauma, four were injured.

In Shebekino, an FPV drone hit an apartment building, the balcony caught fire.

Under attack were Baytsury, Novostroevka-Pervaya, Yasnye Zori, Otradnoye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Murom, Voznesenovka, Dobroe, Orekhovo, Karabanovo, Tulyanka, Repyakhovka, Konovalovo.

In the Khar'kov direction, on the left bank of Volchansk, the enemy, thanks to the transferred reserves, is putting up fierce resistance.

Heavy fighting is underway in the Kupyansk direction. Both sides are exaggerating their successes in the information field.

In the Velikomykhaylivka direction (towards the Dnepropetrovsk region), the Russian Armed Forces leveled the front between Kamyshevakha and Maliyevka, closing another “pocket”.

In the Zaporizhia region, at least three Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked residential buildings in Energodar, Zaporizhia region; there were no casualties.

8:20 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Rostov region.

8:15 Assault detachment of the Baltic Fleet naval infantry brigade knocked out the enemy from a fortified village, breaking through mined plantings, fire and concrete barriers.

8:00 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "North" destroyed camouflaged positions and concentrations of manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Khar'kov direction.

Objective control footage received from the UAV in real time made it possible to verify the destruction of all identified targets.

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Bandera's Pioneers and Terrorist Supplier. 'Plast' from Frank to Parubiy's Bullet
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov

[REGNUM] A heartbreaking photo: the Carpathians, a crack in the rock, and above it a man, bracing himself with his hands and feet to become a bridge for children crossing the obstacle.

Dozens of Ukrainian public and political figures, as well as citizens simply crying over Andriy Parubiy, who was killed in Lviv, repost this picture, where the deceased himself, of course, shows an example of service. Since in his younger years, Parubiy was a pupil of the military-patriotic organization "Plast", which constantly held "high schools" in the Carpathian Mountains and other thematic hikes.

He is already being placed on a par with Konovalets, Bandera, Shukhevych and Oleg Olzhych, a fairly well-known writer and OUN* activist who collaborated with the German occupation authorities in Kyiv.

The comparison with the "knights of the spirit" elevated to the pantheon of the new Ukrainian historical myth seems rather far-fetched. After all, the scale of the personality of the lisping Banderite, who rose to the chairs of the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and secretary of the head of the National Security and Defense Council solely thanks to a coup d'etat, is quite insignificant, and he was only an executor of someone else's evil will.

However, this is not at all a random and very important comparison.

The fact is that three of the above-mentioned figures (except for Konovalets, who was too old for these things) were also members of Plast. And all of them did not die a natural death. Since the main task of this Galician copy of scouts for over a hundred years has been to supply manpower for the "liberation struggle."

Its members joined the Legion of the Sich Riflemen in the army of Austria-Hungary (and the name itself was invented by the "plastoviki"), then - the development of the network in the interests of the underground Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), which aimed at terrorist struggle against Poland. Then, quite logically, there was the OUN* and the combat wing of its Bandera branch - the UPA*.

And already in 1990, "Plast" began to work as a forge of personnel for the future seizure of power in Ukraine and the active incitement of war, which was the meaning of life of a "conscious patriot." Actually, Parubiy always said that his grandfather was supposedly a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Galician Army and fought against the Poles, and his uncles were in the UPA*.

So if you wanted to know how people like him managed to gain full power in Ukraine and plunge it into darkness, where the only sunshine is the hope of a joyful death in battle, then the answer is here.

Systematic combat and ideological training of young people, which has been ongoing continuously since 1911.

FROM IDEAS TO TERROR
On July 30, 1930, an important event took place on the road from the Galician town of Bibrka to the village of Glebovichi: five UVO fighters carried out an armed attack on a Polish state postal carriage with the aim of robbing it. They showed weapons, but did not kill anyone, since the task was not just to take money, but also to explain the ideological position.

During the pursuit, organized by the Polish police on the trail, 23-year-old Gritsko Pisetsky, son of Ivan Pisetsky, an authoritative priest in Galicia, was caught while carrying the loot and therefore lagging behind the others. He was seriously wounded in the shootout and shot himself on purpose.

Under the cloak, the police saw a Plast uniform: Pisetsky had been a member of this organization since his studies at the gymnasium in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and after entering Lviv University, he transferred to the kuren of senior Plast members, the Forest Devils.

There he joined the UVO.

The incident became the reason for the final ban of Plast in the Second Polish Republic: searches and arrests took place in the organization's premises throughout Galicia. However, this did not prevent the organization from continuing to exist underground and continue to forge personnel for terrorist cells.

For example, on August 3 of the same year 1930, on Mount Makovka in the Carpathians, young Stefan Bandera took the third Plast Oath on the banner of the "Chervona Kalyna" detachment. And he was accepted into the organization back in 1922 at the age of 13, and his brothers were also ideologically educated there.

And in terms of ideas, the Galician version of the world-famous British scouts was very different from the original.

In Austro-Hungarian Galicia, it was founded by 19-year-old Lviv student Ivan Chmola and 21-year-old Petro Franko, son of the famous writer Ivan Franko, with the goal of developing the national consciousness of Ukrainians - as opposed to the youth "Union of Polish Scouts", also "scouts".

The name was chosen “like that of the Zaporozhian Cossacks”, in honor of the scouts, at the suggestion of the third co-founder, the Galician athlete Ivan Bobersky.

At the same time, 25-year-old Alexander Tisovsky, the author of that very oath, organized a plastov circle in his Lviv Ukrainian gymnasium.

And literally from the moment of its founding, Plast began to engage in combat training - practicing with mock-ups of "kris" ("rifle" in the local dialect), shooting revolvers, going on hikes and using the blue and yellow flag as part of the development of national self-awareness.

The image of the enemy had already been formed by the beginning of the First World War, when Chmola legalized his circles as the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS) Society. It was on this basis that the OSS Legion was created in the Austrian army, and Franco himself became its officer.

Hundreds of Plastuns went to “fight the Muscovites,” driven by the idea of ​​“liberating their Ukrainian brothers,” which could not have suddenly entered their heads—someone had been working on it purposefully.

Subsequently, the already transformed Sich Riflemen acted as part of the UPR army, since Chmola had made “bookmarks” in Kiev in advance. For example, at least one prominent member of “Plast”, which began to rapidly develop its network in the Dnieper region, was a member of the Central Rada – the Galician Yulian Okhrimovich, who illegally settled in Kiev on the eve of the First World War for “national” work with students.

After the defeat of the UPR, the Supreme Plast Council in Lviv restored its cells in all Ukrainian gymnasiums in what was now Polish Galicia, and launched branches in Volyn and Czechoslovak Transcarpathia. But the backbone of the educational corps was made up of “veterans of the liberation war,” who were simultaneously building a secret “Ukrainian military organization” to overturn the Polish state that had occupied the territory of the former West Ukrainian People’s Republic.

All youth organizations (and there were several more besides Plast) began to engage in very specific preparations for war - first of all against Poland, and secondly against the "Muscovites", the ideological foundations for which had already been laid by Mykola Mikhnovsky and Dmitry Dontsov.

The magazine "Plastovy Put" wrote that the creators of "Plast" "had before themselves the great goal of regenerating the psyche of the Ukrainian people." The result was a type of person like the above-mentioned Pisetsky or another young man - Nikolai Lemik, who was personally instructed and trained by Roman Shukhevych and Bandera.

The young man, without any hesitation, shot the head of the Soviet consulate office in Lvov, Andrei Mailov, in order to then, again, voice his political position in court and go to life imprisonment – ​​as a model hero.

TERRORISM TALENT POOL
A well-known public figure of the Ukrainian diaspora (and, of course, a “Plastun”) Yaroslav Padokh wrote the following words in honor of the 75th anniversary of “Chervona Kalyna”:

“After the “pacification” (the forceful “pacification” organized in Galicia by the Polish authorities. — Ed.), the decisions of Plast and a number of other Ukrainian institutions as a reaction became a stronger and more reckless resistance against the Polish invader, which was led first and foremost by a member of the Detachment, the Regional Leader of the OUN* Stepan Bandera.”

And in the dock after the murder of the Polish Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki, next to "Stefko" sat his Plast comrades - at least nine of the 12 accused, including two girls who were following Pieracki.

The members of Plast included Mykola Lebed (the founder of the OUN* Security Council), who had eluded Polish justice at the time; Lev Rebet, one of the OUN* leaders who arrived in Lviv as part of the “marching group” with the Germans in 1941; the last commander of the UPA* Vasyl Kuk ; and both chiefs of the general military staff, Dmytro Gritsai and Oleksa Gasin.

The organization was under the patronage of the UGCC Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the spiritual leader of the Galician SS division.

The Plastoviki were the true support of the OUN*, the backbone of the officer corps of the UPA*, an asset of the German occupation authorities. And with their revival in Ukraine in 1990, they became one of the main instruments for recruiting young people into various nationalist organizations of the Order type.

Just as young Stefko Bandera listened to stories about the Carpathian avenger Oleksa Dovbush and the fighters for Ukraine around the obligatory evening campfire, now a new generation of youth learned and performed songs of Western Ukrainian nationalists, absorbed legends about the UPA*. Fortunately, all this tradition was carefully preserved and passed on by the huge foreign structure of Plast, which educated the diaspora.

It is characteristic that even in modern times the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church retained its influence here.

Therefore, the "Ukrainian scouts" regularly practiced collective prayers, and began the morning with a common reading of "Our Father" and a prayer for Ukraine. Which was supplemented by "political information" throughout the day.

It is not surprising that in old photos, the young Parubiy is raising a blue and yellow flag somewhere in the forest, which was then still a symbol of the fight against the “Soviet occupation.”

Already by the first "revolution", the orange one, there was an active group ready to try their hand not only at mountain hikes, but also at politics. It is somehow not a coincidence that the wife of the "orange president" Viktor Yushchenko, US citizen Kateryna Chumachenko, turned out to be a protégé of "Plast" and under her it received enormous state support.

So by the next revolution, “dignity,” a well-coordinated fighting force had already come out to the Maidan.

The "Address of the Plast leadership on the occasion of the anniversary of the seizure of power in Kyiv" lists important achievements: the first to go out with a flag to Maidan on November 21, 2013 was a Plast journalist from Channel 5, the first tents were set up by Plast members, they also became co-founders of many well-known Maidan organizations and several "self-defense hundreds". They were always in the front lines of the assault squads and suffered losses during the shooting of "peaceful protesters".

Behind the organization of which stood Parubiy, who did not spare his brothers, knowing that they would be glad to “give their lives for Ukraine.”

"When the next Sunday meeting again heard slogans from the leaders instead of an action plan, he called me in the hospital, where I was recovering from bruises: Yurko, I can't take it anymore. The guys and I are going. That's how Grusha (the shooting of "Maidan" activists on Grushevsky Street in Kiev. - Ed.) began. Parubiy and his associates directed its fire into the movement of volunteer battalions that went to the front to stop the Russians," writes former socialist and Maidan Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko on the occasion of the funeral.

Publicly admitting that it was a plan that was transformed into the next crime.

And the older comrades of the Plastuns, who went to fight, as in the old days, entered the new leadership of the country - for example, the Ukrainian healthcare system was buried by Plastun Ulyana Suprun, who was discharged from the USA.

They made an important turning point: Ukraine turned towards suicide. And they are no longer really needed - new youth organizations have come to replace the "scouts", where they immediately give camouflage and a machine gun, and prepare to quickly die "for Ukraine".

But Plast's achievements in destroying the former industrial, space and multicultural power must certainly be assessed "on merit."

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VEF-2025: Yakutia to surprise visitors with baby mammoth and cave lion cubs
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[Regnum] Visitors to the Eastern Economic Forum, which starts September 3–6 in Vladivostok, will have access to two world-class scientific sensations at once. The carcasses of ancient animals, the baby mammoth Yana and the cave lions Boris and Sparta, have already been delivered to the Yakutia pavilion in special cryochambers. It is presented at the Far East Street exhibition, and the unique exhibits that have become world-famous were discovered at different times on the territory of the republic.

In 2025, the main theme of the tenth, anniversary Eastern Economic Forum will be "The Far East: Cooperation for Peace and Prosperity". The business program includes more than 100 thematic sessions, divided into seven blocks. More than 4.5 thousand people from more than 70 countries and territories are expected to take part in the forum.

"And we thought: how can Yakutia surprise with its pavilion this year? We received a proposal to take the baby mammoth Yana there, who made a splash in the world. In the first 24 hours, publications about Yana's presentation collected about 19 million views," Anatoly Nikolaev, rector of the North-Eastern Federal University, told TASS on September 2.

The baby mammoth's carcass was discovered in June 2024 in the Batagaika thermokarst slump. The find was made public on March 27, 2025, at a scientific seminar at the North-Eastern Federal University. An autopsy of the carcass was also performed there. Scientists have suggested that Yana is the oldest of the six previously discovered baby mammoths in the world, excluding fragmented remains. The researchers emphasize that Yana is one of the best preserved baby mammoths in the world.

The perfectly preserved specimens of cave lion cubs discovered in 2019 in the Abyisky district also became a world-class sensation.
Very, very cool.

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Russian The Federal Penitentiary Service denied rumors about Strelkov's deteriorating health
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[Regnum] The media reports about the alleged deterioration of the health of the former head of the Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Girkin (pseudonym Strelkov ), who is serving a term, are untrue. This was reported to Izvestia on Tuesday, September 2, by the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Kirov Region.
Girkin claimed since 2014 that he was instrumental in the takeover in Crimea and the war in the Donbass.
“The information about Igor Strelkov’s deteriorating health is not true,” the agency’s representative said.

Strelkov's wife Miroslava also confirmed this on her Telegram channel, noting that there is no talk of emergency hospitalization or critical deterioration of her husband's health.

Before this, some media outlets reported that Strelkov, who was serving a sentence in a penal colony, had allegedly gotten worse.

Girkin was detained in July 2023 and on January 25, 2024, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to four years in a general regime penal colony for calls for extremist activity after a series of posts on the Telegram messenger.

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#1  He's not dead yet, but then he stays away fron high windows.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/03/2025 8:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
RUSSIA Targets EU Leader’s AIRCRAFT…
[YouTube]
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#1  Forces: Germany Revives Conscription to Strengthen Military

Why does this sounds familiar?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/03/2025 3:45 Comments || Top||

#2  ...yeah.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/03/2025 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Nope. GPS jamming affects all aircraft in the target area not just one. Evergreen was among the first commercial carriers to experience jamming when we cut the corner near Yuhzno Sakhalinsk back in the early 90’s. And flight aware shows no “one hour en route hold.” Actual flight time and estimated flight time were less than 5 minutes off
Posted by: Griter+Slash1619 || 09/03/2025 17:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Lord knows how Mr Lindbergh ever made it across the Atlantic. Did they even have electromagnetism back then?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/03/2025 17:57 Comments || Top||

#5  GPS? Not Galileo System? tut, tut.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/03/2025 20:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe's Bolshevik killers were frantic
And scrambled across the Atlantic.
"That Hitlerite Yankee
Has made me quite cranky!"
The scandal, of course, was gigantic.
[second flight ensures]
Posted by: Bigfoot Glimp9263 || 09/03/2025 21:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Ensues, even.
Posted by: Bigfoot Glimp9263 || 09/03/2025 21:24 Comments || Top||



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