[WARZONE] A Ukrainian attack overnight on the port of Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Russian-occupied Crimea, struck a Russian submarine and a landing ship, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Videos and photos showed the port ablaze still this morning, after what the Russian defense ministry described as an attack using cruise missiles and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs, or drone boats).
Reuters reports that the Ukrainian military has said that its forces were responsible for hitting naval targets and port infrastructure in Sevastopol.
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#4 Could a drone strike create a sympathetic detonation?
Conventional explosives, yes. It will not cause a nuclear detonation of the reactor core. Wrong type of fissile material.
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And the reactor should be shut down in drydock with the sub getting ground power.
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Per the article the sub hit by the attack is a Kilo class diesel electric. I don't believe the Russians (or Soviet Union) ever deployed nuclear powered submarines to the Black Sea
hundreds of millions of $ equivalent when you include all the spares
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In this particular war, just costing Russia a lot of money is important. Whether the Ukes use the resulting air defense gap isn't as important as it might be in other conflicts.
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I thought S-400 never missed. That's what we are told, anyway...
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^^^ I was thinking the same thing Murcek. That have talked about that scrap heap like it was the greatest super weapon of all time for years now.
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The S series was really good... back in the 1970s. Unfortunately for Russia, it really hasn't improved that much. The radar is low fidelity, can't scan for low level threats and can't guide missiles to target. Pantsir was supposed to cover the low flying stuff and defend the S-300/400 at low and close range, but even that has proven to be a big pile of shit both in Ukraine and Syria.
I have little doubt the US could completely shut down and destroy any Russian air defense they have if they wanted too.
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As I recall, Israeli warplanes were able to pretty much ignore these systems in Syria. Made the Syrians look stupid. But then, Russians have had some success neutralizing Patriots too. Both systems will need to be upgraded as a result of what's been learned at the Ukrainian proving ground.
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Russians have had some success neutralizing Patriots too
Not really. They can be notched, just like any other radar, but they re-acquire the target very quickly and can do ground mapping in case you want to try to fly behind a hill to get closer (works for ground following cruise missiles too). But that does mean they have to have line of sight for it to work. Physics doesn't care about your life.
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Interesting you should mention that Skid. The US is working to allow different systems to talk to each other and grab missiles to direct them to different targets. Currently everything is working on their own network with their own code. And getting defense contractors to give others their code is... challenging. But, making good headway so if a Patriot fires a missile, and an F-35 has targeting data on a cruise missile, it can grab it and guide it in with its radar to destroy it. Not in full production yet, but they are close. Maybe 2024 for implementation.
[RT] The Czech Republic announced on Wednesday that it would not send military-age men who came as refugees back to Ukraine to be conscripted. Germany, Austria and Hungary have already made similar declarations.
European conventions exclude extradition for things such as desertion or draft evasion, Justice Ministry spokesman Vladimir Repka told the outlet iDnes. However, he added that if Ukraine files individual extradition requests citing a specific criminal act they may have committed, Prague may give them consideration.
Hungary has ruled out any extraditions outright.
"We are not investigating any Ukrainian refugees to determine if they have been called up for military service. Hungary will not extradite them to Ukraine," Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén told the outlet ATV on Wednesday. "All refugees from Ukraine are safe in Hungary."
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[LB] There were also unsuccessful offensive actions of the Russians in the area of Novomykhailivka and south of Novodarivka.
by Iryna Lysohor
The defense forces continue the offensive operation in the Bakhmut and Melitopol directions. In Melitopol, the defenders inflicted significant losses on the occupiers in terms of manpower and equipment, and forced the enemy to withdraw from their positions.
As a result of the assault actions, the defenders have partial success in the Robotyn district of the Zaporizhzhia region. Andrii Kovalev, the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced this on the air of the telethon.
"In the direction of Bakhmut, the Defense Forces are carrying out offensive operations south of the city of Bakhmut. They had partial success in the Klishchiivka area of the Donetsk region," he said.
The Russians suffer significant losses.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian army also continues to hold back the advance of Russian troops. The occupiers conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Orihovo-Vasylivka area.
Deterring the enemy's offensive continues in the Avdiyiv and Mariinsky directions, where during the day the Russians made more than 20 unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the defenders. There were also unsuccessful offensive actions of the Russians in the area of Novomykhailivka (Donetsk region) and south of Novodarivka (Zaporizka).
On the Lymansky and Kupyansk directions, the Russian invaders continue to shell the positions of the defenders.
We will remind you that the enemy launched seven rocket and 35 air strikes, carried out more than 56 attacks from rocket salvo systems both on the positions of our troops and on civilian objects of our state.
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[LB] Chernihiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Donetsk were also attacked.
There were five shellings (15 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. The enemy shelled the Novgorod-Siversky district with mortars and artillery. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data on the consequences are being clarified, according to the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Sumy , at night and in the morning, the enemy carried out two shellings of the border. Five explosions were recorded. The enemy fired mortars at the Znob-Novgorod and Seredino-Bud communities. Previously - without human losses and destruction of civil infrastructure. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 36 shelling of the border. 163 explosions were recorded. The communities of Krasnopilsk, Khotynsk, Velikopysarivsk, Esmansk, Seredino-Budsk, Shalyginsk, Putivlsk, Myropilsk came under fire. Krasnopil community: a water tower was damaged. Seredyno-Budsk community: a private house was damaged as a result of one of the shellings.
In Dnipropetrovsk that night and early in the morning, the aggressor again targeted the Nikopol district. With heavy artillery, he hit the district center, Myrivska and Marganetska communities. People were not injured. Four private houses, an outbuilding, gas furnaces were damaged. Almost two dozen shells arrived in the Nikopol district yesterday. The enemy covered the area with fire from heavy artillery. I visited Nikopol itself and the Marganets community. Six private houses, four farm buildings, cars, power lines were damaged. In the evening, the aggressor attacked the Sinelniky district - the Pokrovsk settlement community. People were not affected.
In Odesa, the occupiers attacked the south. Several groups of strike drones were directed to the Izmail district. Unfortunately, there is a hit. Damage to port and other civil infrastructure was recorded. Liquidation of the consequences is ongoing. Rescuers are putting out the fire. Six civilians are known to have been injured. Three people in serious and three in moderate condition were taken to the hospital, they are provided with all the necessary assistance.
In Luhansk, the occupiers use attack aircraft almost every day. Yesterday Nadiya and Dibrova got it. Bilogorivka was hit by artillery and mortar shelling. During the day, the enemy fired 139 rounds (528 shells).
In Kharkiv, the occupiers launched more than 20 artillery and mortar attacks on civilian infrastructure and the population of the border areas. In Kozachya Lopan, as a result of shelling, the front two-story part of 63 DPRP was partially damaged, an official car and four private cars were damaged. There are no casualties. A private house was damaged as a result of the shelling of Vovchansky Khutory. There are no casualties.
In Zaporizhzhia over the past day, the enemy fired 101 shots at 29 settlements. The Russians targeted Zaporizhzhia and the territories between Sonyachny and Volodymyrivsk with rockets, carried out seven MLRS attacks on Novoandriivka, Mali Shcherbaki, and Pavlivka, 11 BpLAs attacked Gulyaipole, Novoandriivka, Novodarivka, Olgivske, Stepove, and Mali Shcherbaki, and six enemy air strikes landed on Orikhov. 75 artillery strikes were recorded on the territory of Zaliznychny, Robotyny, Chervony, Malynyvka, Biloghirya, Poltavka, Stepovoy, Kamiansky, Stepnohirsk, Primorsky, Lukyanivsky and other frontline towns and villages. A 49-year-old local resident was injured as a result of artillery shelling on Orikhov - he was promptly provided with medical assistance. 28 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings, farm buildings and infrastructure facilities.
In Donetsk region, the occupiers shelled populated areas 16 times: an airstrike by an Kh-35 missile, Grad missile systems, artillery, and a tank. Under the fire of the occupiers: Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Krasnohorivka, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Kurdyumivka, Vodyane, Zelene, Orlivka, Novoukrainka. As a result of shelling, 12 private residential buildings were damaged. In one day, three civilians were killed and three wounded in the region.
In Khersonskaduring the day, the enemy launched 85 shellings (531 shells) in the region, including three shellings (11 shells) at Kherson. The rioters targeted the districts of 25 settlements of the region, the building of a preschool educational institution in the Kherson district, the territory of an enterprise in Kherson. The occupiers shelled the village of Sadove. A 56-year-old local resident was injured. The man was given medical assistance, further treatment will take place on an outpatient basis. Another victim is a 20-year-old police officer. He was hospitalized with a forearm injury and a contusion. Also, the enemy was chasing Poniativka of the Dar'iv community. They hit a private house. A 38-year-old man who lived in a neighboring house was injured. As a result of artillery fire in Kherson, a 55-year-old man was injured. In just one day, four people were injured due to Russian aggression.
It will be recalled that 34 combat clashes took place during the past day. The enemy launched 7 missile and 35 air strikes, carried out more than 56 attacks from rocket salvo systems both on the positions of our troops and on civilian objects of our state.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:15 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a meeting with Prime Minister Shmygal and Finance Minister Marchenko on the 2024 budget: “Next year we are adding significant budget funds to the military-industrial complex - to the production of weapons in Ukraine. And to drones, moreover "and for the purchase of what is needed abroad, and for Ukrainian production. A separate budget priority is supporting our veterans."
The President clarified that at least 1.6 trillion hryvnia will be allocated to finance defense and security, another almost 100 billion will be allocated for the production of weapons under the leadership of the Ministry of Strategic Industry and for the Ukrainian army of drones.
22:04 The Romanian Foreign Ministry again summoned the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in connection with the found fragments of the drone and expressed a “strong protest” against another violation of Romanian airspace. The Foreign Ministry also called for an end to “regular attacks against the Ukrainian population and civilian infrastructure and irresponsible escalation by Russia.”
21:59 Elon Musk has decided to transfer control over the part of the Starlink satellite Internet that is used in the war in Ukraine to the US Department of Defense, his biographer Walter Isaacson said. He explained that Musk no longer wants to be responsible for the boundaries and rules of communication use.
21:36 Entry into the European Union through the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is prohibited for vehicles registered in Russia. About how this will work, see the material Baltic States without Russians .
20:45 Budanov said that the DPRK has been supplying Russia with weapons for a month and a half. In particular, according to him, the Russian Federation receives 122 mm and 152 mm shells from North Korea, as well as Grad missiles.
19:34 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of three unmanned boats in the Black Sea.
19:29 The European Parliament adopted a resolution on relations with Belarus, in which it condemned the Lukashenko regime for repression and oppression of its people, and also recognized it as an accomplice in Russian crimes in Ukraine.
19:23 The Russians have increased the number of shellings and assaults in the areas of Marinka and Avdeevka, the situation there has worsened, Anna Malyar reported. She recalled that the Russians have not been able to capture these cities for more than a year, and during the fighting they “virtually wiped them off the face of the earth.” At the same time, a slight decrease in enemy activity is recorded in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, and the Russians are gathering with new strength.
“We are consistently making progress in the Bakhmut direction. We are very gradually but confidently moving forward there. The main battles are Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka,” added Malyar. As for the South, according to her, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are advancing there, but the Russians do not want to give up: “In the Rabotino area, for example, there are very serious battles going on.”
19:14 GUR representative Andrei Yusov said that the ships in the bay of Sevastopol suffered “significant damage” and “with a high probability” they cannot be restored.
18:29 Elements of a Russian drone were again found on Romanian territory - for the third time in the last few days. Moscow's massive attacks on the river port of Izmail, located just a hundred meters from the Romanian border, have increased security risks for NATO. However, instead of actively protecting its citizens, the Alliance denies attacks by the Russian Federation, and Bucharest asks local residents to take cover. Read more in the article How residents of a NATO member country hide in shelters .
18:25 Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov clarified that at night Russia attacked Reni and Izmail in the Odessa region with attack drones - administrative buildings, warehouses for grain cargo, containers for storing vegetable oil and vehicles were damaged. In total, since July 18, after the Russian Federation pulled out of the grain deal, 105 port infrastructure facilities have been damaged and partially destroyed. As a result of attacks on the ports of the Danube cluster and the blocking of sea ports, the export of grain cargo to the countries of Asia, Africa and Europe has been reduced by almost 3 million tons per month.
18:19 The number of victims as a result of a Russian drone strike on Zmievka, Kherson region, has increased to three, including two volunteers, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
17:37 In the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Southern Defense Forces destroyed an enemy boat of the KS-701 Tuna type, the command of the Ukrainian Navy reported.
17:13 The British TV channel Sky News reports, citing Ukrainian and Western sources, that Ukraine attacked the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol with long-range Storm Shadow missiles. Journalists called the attack "potentially the largest strike against Russian naval installations of the entire war."
16:40 Since July, after the Russian Federation pulled out of the grain deal, Russian missiles and drones have destroyed 280 thousand tons of Ukrainian grain stored in the southern regions, the Financial Times writes, citing UK government data.
The newspaper notes that Ukraine produces half of the world's vegetable oil exports and 10% of wheat. Over the past 12 months, about 35 million tons of grain have been exported through the Danube. Together with rail transport across Europe, this provided vital economic support for the country.
16:26 The European Union has extended sanctions against individuals and legal entities from Russia responsible for violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine for another six months, the press service of the EU Council reported.
16:18 The Oryx project claims that the large landing ship Minsk, which was hit today in Sevastopol, was not damaged, but destroyed.
16:03 The Russians dropped explosives from a drone in Zmievka, Kherson region - two people were wounded, including a female volunteer, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
15:29 The Crimean Wind Telegram channel showed the first photos of damaged ships in Sevastopol:
14:54 Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu urged not to worry about the UAV debris in the country: “No one is attacking us. Let’s calm the population, we are all going crazy... No one is attacking us.” Colaku assured that the situation is under control.
14:10 Zelensky said that he held the next meeting of the military cabinet: “Today, no details. But there will be results. The enemy will feel them.”
13:59 In Romania, in Tulcea county near the border of Ukraine, new debris was discovered that could be parts of a Russian drone, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
13:31 The Russians fired at Otradokamenka, Kherson region, for the second time today, another person was injured, OVA reported.
13:08 The New York Times writes, citing sources in the United States, Europe and Ukraine, that Russia has managed to increase missile production to above pre-war levels, despite Western sanctions, which “could mean a particularly dark and cold winter for Ukrainian citizens.”
The newspaper writes that Moscow managed to organize smuggling of the necessary components, in particular through countries such as Armenia and Turkey. US officials have said they can slow but not stop the smuggling. Therefore, now, according to the publication, the Pentagon is working to strengthen Ukrainian air defense, although due to the size of the country it will not be possible to protect all of it now.
According to the NYT, Russia has increased the production of not only missiles, but also tanks: from 100 vehicles per year before the war to 200 now. Moscow is also approaching production of 2 million artillery shells a year - twice as much as Western intelligence initially estimated. However, Russian production does not keep up with the consumption of ammunition on the battlefield and the wear and tear of equipment. Thus, while producing artillery ammunition at a rate of 2 million per year, the Russian Army fires 10 million such rounds. Therefore, it is looking for alternative procurement channels, such as the DPRK. The Russian Federation also lacks rocket fuel and basic explosives.
12:40 Kim Jong-un raised a toast to Putin’s health, expressed confidence in the “success of the Northern Military District” and wished Russia “new victories.” The meeting between the leaders of the DPRK and the Russian Federation has ended.
12:37 Germany transferred a new batch of military aid to Ukraine, which included, in particular, two Wisent 1 mine clearance tanks and 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles of the 1A3 modification, the country's government reported.
12:06 Elon Musk again tried to justify his refusal to turn on Starlink satellite communications in Crimea at the request of Ukraine: “The reason why Starlink was turned off was actually because the US imposed sanctions against Russia. They cover Crimea, and we are not allowed start connection". At the same time, he added that he would have turned on the connection if a directive had been received from Biden. Previously, Musk explained his action by saying that he did not want to participate in the escalation.
12:02 Russian aviation attacked Otradokamenka in the Kherson region in the morning, two people were wounded, the OVA reported.
11:55 Three more children from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories were returned to Ukraine, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. He clarified that these were two girls and a boy of 14-15 years old. They have already met their relatives.
11:28 Russia has been using Iranian Shahed attack drones against Ukraine for exactly one year - the first such UAV was shot down by the Armed Forces on September 13, 2022. During this time, the Russians launched more than 2,000 suicide bombers across Ukraine, the Ground Forces command reported. The total cost of these UAVs is, according to various estimates, from 40 to 100 million dollars.
11:23 The Ministry of Energy has developed in advance schedules for possible power outages, which can only be used in the event of shelling and damage to energy equipment. To date, no shutdowns of household consumers are expected during the entire autumn-winter period, the ministry emphasized.
10:50 GUR representative Andrey Yusov, in a comment to Babel, confirmed the damage to two ships during the night attack on the Sevastopol Marine Plant. According to him, we are talking about the diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don and the large landing ship Minsk.
10:47 Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Nikolai Oleshchuk commented on the night attack on Sevastopol: “In the meantime, the invaders are being “stormed” and are still recovering from the night battle in Sevastopol, I would like to thank the pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their excellent combat work. To be continued ".
10:45 British intelligence reports that Russia urgently transferred the newly formed 25th Army to the front in the Lugansk region due to a lack of reserves. Previously, it was planned that the new army would be deployed in Ukraine only from December this year.
10:41 Ukraine attacked the Redkinsky experimental plant in the Tver region with a drone, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing an intelligence source. The interlocutor clarified that the enterprise produces aviation fuel, “there was a hit and a defeat.”
10:37 Videos published on social networks from Sevastopol show that at least three powerful explosions occurred on the territory of the enterprise engaged in the construction and repair of Russian ships. There is evidence that the Russian Black Sea Fleet suffered serious losses. Read more in the article Attack on Sevastopol .
10:23 Zelensky will soon meet with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, said the head of the Polish Presidential Office Pavel Schroth.
10:16 In Russia, almost every week at least one Ukrainian military man captured in Mariupol is sentenced from 14 years in prison to life. Decisions are made by the so-called “supreme court of the DPR.” The plot is always the same - “for the murder of civilians,” says advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko. According to him, there are already dozens of such convicts, and the number is growing every week.
09:48 As a result of a night attack in the Odessa region, seven people were injured - six truck drivers and one local resident. One of the drivers is in critical condition, the prosecutor's office said. Port and civil infrastructure facilities and truck parking were damaged.
09:09 According to Russian public reports, preliminary, two people were killed and 26 were injured as a result of a missile attack on the Sevastopol Marine Plant named after. S. Ordzhonikidze. All the dead and injured were plant employees. Two vessels were damaged - the diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don and the large landing ship Minsk; they caught fire. Both vessels were undergoing repairs in dry dock.
09:02 The first group of Ukrainian pilots can undergo training on the F-16 in the United States before the end of the year, but they will be able to carry out combat missions later, said Michael Law, director of the US National Guard Air Force. He explained that after completing training in the United States, pilots will return to Europe for additional training with NATO. NATO allies also train Ukrainians in aircraft maintenance, and this training must be completed before the aircraft fly combat missions.
08:43 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The Russian president promised to help North Korea with the construction of satellites and the development of the space sector, and Kim Jong-un said that for the DPRK the “first priority” is relations with Russia and Pyongyang will always be together with the Russian Federation “in the fight against imperialism.”
08:25 At night, air defense destroyed 32 of 44 Shahed-136/131 attack drones , the Air Force command reported. Russia attacked the Odessa and Sumy regions with several groups of attack UAVs from three directions: Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Cape Chauda, Kursk. The main direction is the southern regions of the Odessa region, port infrastructure.
08:19 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 13:
personnel - about 270,350 (+590) people,
tanks - 4584 (+16),
armored combat vehicles - 8792 (+14),
artillery systems - 5902 (+30),
MLRS - 766 (+2),
air defense systems - 517 (+2),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4650 (+5),
cruise missiles - 1455 (+0),
ships/boats - 19 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8444 (+31),
special equipment - 884 (+3).
07:35 Over the past 24 hours, 34 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Kupyansky, Limansky and Bakhmutsky directions, the enemy is not abandoning attempts to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Orekhovo-Vasilievka. In turn, the Defense Forces had partial success in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region.
Not far from Avdeevka and Marinka, the enemy made more than 20 unsuccessful attempts to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions. All enemy attacks were also repelled in the areas of Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region and south of Novodarivka, Zaporozhye region. At the same time, in the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky directions, the Defense Forces continue to hold the initiative and carry out assault operations.
In the Melitopol direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive and have partial success in the Rabotino region of the Zaporozhye region.
07:13 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Ordzhonikidze ship repair plant in Sevastopol at night with ten cruise missiles and three unmanned boats attacked a detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Air defense systems allegedly shot down seven missiles, and all unmanned boats were also allegedly destroyed. Two ships undergoing repairs were damaged as a result of being hit by cruise missiles.
Razvozhaev said that as a result of the attack in Sevastopol, according to preliminary information, 24 people were injured.
05:21 Russia attacked the south of the Odessa region - several groups of attack drones were sent to the Izmail region, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. As a result of the hits, damage to the port and other civil infrastructure was recorded, and a fire broke out. Six civilians are known to be injured, three of them in serious condition.
04:18 Crimean publics reported seven explosions in Sevastopol, after which a fire started in the area of the 13th shipyard . The fire was assigned a fourth class of complexity. The “Governor” of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported on the work of air defense, and also confirmed that a fire occurred in the Kilen-balka area “not at a civilian facility,” according to preliminary information, due to a missile attack.
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[Korrespondent] The Kremlin will pose a serious threat to the West even after the end of the war against Ukraine, they believe in Prague.
The West must be prepared for the fact that Russia's war against Ukraine will continue for a long time. Moreover, even after the end of the war, the Russian Federation will pose a danger to Europe. This was announced on Wednesday, September 13, by the head of the General Staff of the Czech Republic, Karel Rzheka, writes Reuters .
“The Kremlin will act less and less predictably and will remain a serious threat to the West even after it is defeated in Ukraine,” he said.
In his opinion, given the current situation at the front, “in the near future, neither side will be able to achieve their stated goals.”
Commenting on the Ukrainian counter-offensive, the Czech military officer emphasized that he was not disappointed with its pace, despite the existence of opposing assessments.
"This is what a military offensive looks like. It's not like in a World War II movie. It takes time," he said.
Rzheka emphasized that the Czech Republic, given its small size, provided significant assistance to Ukraine and noted that the allies should continue to help Kyiv.
"It is important that we continue to support the Ukrainians for a long time. We are looking at our reserves, plans and concepts and trying to determine what else we can provide. We still have some, including heavy equipment," he added.
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 (13 September 2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by aviation and artillery, have repelled eight attacks by assault groups of 80th Airborne Assault, 3rd Assault, 59th Motorised Infantry and 110th Mechanised Brigades of the AFU close to Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Pervomaiskoye, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 140 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In addition, one ammunition depot of the AFU 79th Airborne Assault Brigade has been destroyed near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In South Donetsk direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Vostok Group of Forces, supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, two attacks by assault groups of 38th and 36th brigades of the AFU Naval Infnatry have been repelled close to Novomayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 235 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, as well as one electronic warfare station.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian grouping of troops, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems have repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU near Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, enemy manpower and hardware of 47th Mechanised, 48th Airmobile, and 82nd Airborne Assault brigades of the AFU have been hit near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were over 205 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
During the counterbattery warfare, U.S.-manufactured M777 and M119 howitzers, four 122mm D-30 guns, one 152mm D-20 gun, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer have been hit.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of competent actions of units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Ground-Attack and Army aviation, and artillery, two attacks by assault groups of the 21st Mechanised Brigade and the 12th Azov Special Operations Brigade have been repelled east of Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 65 servicemen and two armoured fighting vehicles.
In Kupyansk direction, the attacks, launched by aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of the AFU manpower and hardware close to Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Ol'shana and Kotlyarovka (Kharkov region).
The enemy losses were up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured personnel carriers, and two motor vehicles.
In addition, in the course of counter-battery warfare, one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one M777 artillery system, and one U.S.-manufactured M109 Paladin howitzer have been destroyed.
One ammunition depot of the AFU 114th Brigade of the Territorial Defence of Ukraine has been destroyed near Glubokoye (Kharkov region).
In Kherson direction, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems have hit one manpower concentration area of the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade near Alekseevsky Island.
As a result of the fire attack, over 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised Ukrainian P-18 and ST-68 radar stations for the detection and tracking of air targets near Lukashevo (Zaporozhye region) and Krutoyarovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), as well as enemy manpower and military hardware in 129 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down 5 projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.
In addition, 37 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed and suppressed by electronic warfare stations close to Blagodatnoye, Zaitsevo (Donetsk People's Republic), Verkhnekamenka, Novovodyanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Kardashinka, Sagi (Kherson region), Novogorovka and Tarasovka (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 467 airplanes, 248 helicopters, 6,706 unmanned aerial vehicles, 437 air defence missile systems, 11,811 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,150 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,359 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,958 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/13/2023 to 00:00 09/14/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 57 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of eight civilians in the Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Kalininsky districts of Gorlovka.
A total of 23 residential buildings were damaged in the Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Gornyatsky district of Makeevka and the Central City district of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Kalininsky, Nikitovsky districts), Mikhailovka, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Gornyatsky, Chervonogvardeysky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 39 attacks from MLRS, AGM-88 HARM, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlovka there were 14 attacks from MLRS, attack UAVs, 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
A total of 188 units of various ammunition were expended.
In the previous day, 98 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
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21:50 Today, two News Front military correspondents again came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but not at our army positions, but on a public road. Georgy Medvedev and I were just driving home from work, like a lot of other people.
21:25 Enemy offensive near Novomayorsky: a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit was captured -video.
Soldiers of the Vostok battalion captured militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the battles for Novomayorskoye at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR, reports the commander of the Vostok battalion and deputy head of the Russian Guard for the DPR A. Khodakovsky:
“The prisoners are stripped for full inspection, but they smoke our cigarettes, eat our dry rations - not a single bloody snot... Well, these have already won theirs - they are lucky. The time will come when they will return home safe and sound.”
20:45 On the Rabotino-Verbovoye line continue intense fighting, but there are no changes on the front line at the moment: the Ukrainian Armed Forces are bringing up new reserves and preparing to continue the intensive phase of hostilities as part of their previous tactics in the Verbovoy direction.
In addition, there are attacks on the heights between Rabotino and Verbov. We will inform you as the situation develops.
19:50 Report on the work of 152mm Hyacinth crews in the Donetsk direction -video.
19:30 RF Ministry of Defense: On September 13, in the Black Sea, naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet discovered and destroyed three unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:00 Vrem'evsky section: unsuccessful attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Novodonetskoye and Novomayorskoye Situation as of 16:00 September 13, 2023 Telegram channel “Fisherman“.
The enemy continues to try to improve the tactical position by attacking forest plantations at the Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye line. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repeat their usual actions over and over again: individual infantry fighting vehicles and armored fighting vehicles bring assault groups of 10-20 people to the line of combat contact, who are trying to gain a foothold in new positions.
Since the morning, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have carried out four similar attacks, which were unsuccessful.
The Russian Armed Forces quickly manage to detect the enemy’s movement on the approach, cover the personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with artillery, forcing the Ukrainian formations to retreat.
Two surges from Levadnoye in the direction of Priyutnoye were reflected. In the forest plantations near the populated area, the enemy has been accumulating manpower and armored vehicles in recent weeks. Nevertheless, Russian units regularly identify strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and strike them with artillery.
The Ukrainian command, obviously, does not yet plan to abandon a further offensive in the Vrem'evsky sector. However, after changing the direction of attack from Staromlynovka to Novomayorskoye and the lack of success in conducting “meat assaults,” the 18th battalion of the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost partial combat capability. Additional forces are regularly transferred to the Prechistovka area to replenish Ukrainian units, which also become a tasty target for Russian artillery.
18:30 FVP drones with precision hits destroy militants in the dugout:
Our fighters detected the movement of militants in the dugout, after which they sent a “bird” to smoke them out of there. After two arrivals, the militants decided to move to a nearby dugout, where our kamikaze drone covered them. /rt.com/.
17:55 From the front line: Our guys knocked out Ukrainians from Kleshcheevka.
17:35 Soldiers of the Dnepr group of troops destroyed an American-made M777 howitzer with loitering ammunition -video.
The enemy's camouflaged firing position was revealed with the help of UAV operators and destroyed along with the crew.
17:00 WarGonzo:
Exclusive. Who dealt the decisive blow to the Challenger?
The crew of the artillerymen of the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment, with a shot from the 152mm D-20 howitzer, deprived the English tank of the ability to move around the battlefield, turning it into a stationary target.
But the decisive blow from the ATGM on the enemy vehicle was delivered by the paratroopers, leaving no chance for the damaged vehicles to evacuate.
16:30 How the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Odessa regiontriedshoot down “Geranium” using small arms and machine guns on homemade carts
They don’t even take lead, unfortunate air defense officers.
16:00 Artillerymen of the 205th Brigade destroyed the location of Ukrainian militants near Kherson:
In the area of the railway bridge, a point of temporary deployment of a territorial defense unit was destroyed by an accurate hit. As a result of the impact, the ammunition for 152mm Giatsinth-B detonated -video.
15:30 Soledar direction: successful counterattack of the Russian Armed Forces near Kleshcheevka situation as of 14.00 September 13, 2023 Telegram channel “Fisherman“:
Intense clashes broke out southwest of Bakhmut at the Kleshcheevka-Andreevka line. As a result of a counterattack by combined units of the Russian army, they managed to drive the enemy out of Kleshcheevka.
Despite this, the village remains in the gray zone due to the massive fire of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village. Russian troops hold the northeastern outskirts, while Ukrainian forces concentrate forces to the west for a new attack.
The situation in Andreevka remains in the fog of war. This morning information appeared that the village had been completely recaptured by fighters of the Russian Armed Forces, but a little later doubt arose again due to conflicting information about the line of control along the railway track.
Due to a lack of evidence, we have placed the village in a gray area until more definitive data becomes available. Nevertheless, positional battles at Andreevka continue.
14:30 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South Donetsk direction, advanced units of the Vostok group of troops, with artillery support, stopped the advance of two groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry in the direction of Novomayorsky. An armored combat vehicle "Mastiff" was destroyed by an attack UAV. The personnel were hit by artillery fire. During the offensive operations in the Staromayorsky area, the group’s assault units liquidated a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry during the battle.
Artillery fire hit the temporary deployment points of the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Urozhainy and Prechistovka and the 27th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Ugledar and Uglesborochnaya, including an ammunition depot. An armored combat vehicle in the Novomayorsky area was destroyed by Lancet loitering ammunition.
During the counterbattery fight, mortar crews were destroyed north of Novomayorsky and in the Ugledar area. Bomber, attack and army aviation hit places where troops and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces accumulated in the areas of Staromayorsky, Urozhayny, Prechistovka, Velikaya Novoselka and Malinovka.
Military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and professionalism when performing combat missions.
The commander of the motorized rifle brigade section of the group, Sergeant Pavel Organistov, as part of the unit, carried out tasks of fire destruction of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the sections of the South Donetsk direction.
During one of the battles, the personnel of the assault group under the command of Sergeant Organistov, despite the constant fire from the artillery of the Ukrainian troops, managed to hit several units of enemy equipment and eliminate over a dozen nationalists.
At the same time, Pavel Organistov personally destroyed the machine gun crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with fire from standard weapons.
14:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:
In the Krasnolimansky direction in the area of ??the Torsky ledge and Serebryansky forestry, units of the Center group of troops repelled and thwarted six attacks by assault groups of 63 and 67 Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with air strikes and artillery fire.
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 50 militants. Two armored combat vehicles and a Pickup vehicle were destroyed.
13:30 Andreevka: ours are storming Ukrainian positions.
12:55 Northern part of Kleshcheevka controlled With our guys, artillery fire and counterattacks, they do not allow the Ukrainians to gain a foothold in the territory they occupied.
"Krasukha" can discover all types of air targets, including those moving at extremely low altitudes. The complex also affects enemy aircraft, preventing them from flying. tass.ru
12:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:
Assault and army aviation of the “Southern” group of forces struck concentrations of manpower of attacking units and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, destroying the command post of a unit of the 110th mechanized brigade and an infantry fighting vehicle in the Lisichansky, Soledaro-Artemovsky, Aleksandro-Kalinovsky, Avdeevsky, Mar'yinsky directions.
The group's artillery destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, a strong point and a temporary deployment point, positions of an AGS grenade launcher crew and an anti-tank missile system in Vesyol, Verkhnekamensky, Yurkovka, Krasnogorovka, Kleeshcheevka, Lastochkino, Pervomaisky.
During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, 122mm D-30 and 152m MSTA-B howitzers, and two 120mm mortars in Verkhnekamensky, Avdievka, Ivano-Dar'yevka, Antonovka and Predtechino.
Crews of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems destroyed two enemy strongholds and inflicted fire on manpower concentrations in Verkhnekamensky and Malolinovka.
FPV drones destroyed five enemy dugouts and a temporary enemy deployment point in Razdolovka, Vasyukovka, Krasnogorovka.
11:30 Missile strike of the Ukrainian air forces on Sevastopol authors of the Telegram channel Fisherman:
At around 0300 hrs on September 13, Su-24M bombers of the Ukrainian Air Force launched ten Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles at Sevastopol.
Five Su-24M took off from the Starokonstantinov airbase in the Khmel'nitsky region. Four reached the missile launch line over the Nikolaev and Kherson regions, and one carried out an attack from the direction of Zmeiny Island.
Units of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division shot down seven targets: five by the Pantsir-S1 air defense system, one by the S-400 division, and the seventh missile by the MiG-31 fighter.
Unfortunately, three Storm Shadow missiles reached their target: the landing ship Minsk and the submarine Rostov-on-Don, which were in dry dock, received varying degrees of damage.
We would like to pay special attention to the presence of “colorful” footage of arrivals from different angles, which will undoubtedly be used by Ukrainian structures to generate reports on the effectiveness of ongoing attacks, since they simplify the collection of information for the enemy.
After a long break, cruise missile attacks on Crimea have resumed. With a very high degree of probability, raids will continue in the coming days (and not only in Sevastopol).
In a recent analysis, we said that massive attacks on the Crimean Bridge should be expected in the coming week (we are not hinting at anything, but the Kiev Chabadniks will soon celebrate the New Year, and this public really loves such symbolism).
As for today's attack, it looks like a rehearsal timed, moreover, for the beginning of the battle (for Sevastopol in 1854).
Historical note: The Russians were soundly defeated at Sevastopol two years later, in 1856. 11:00 Zaporozhye Front, 10:20 09/13/2023, Verbovoye. Reports Front bird:
From early morning, infantry groups move into the trench to the west of the settlement. Verbovoy. Artillery and mounted grenade launchers are working against them, and aviation has also joined in. In the morning, the Ka-52 made 2 passes to land APU clusters.
Last night, in 20 minutes, eight FAB-500s flew into enemy concentration areas.
The situation is steadily tense.
10:30 Situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:
Zaporozhye direction
In the Orekhovsky sector of the Ukrainian Armed Forces front, at the cost of heavy losses, they managed to wedge themselves between Rabotino and Verbov, but the Russian Army regularly counterattacks, preventing the militants from gaining a foothold.
Meanwhile, on the Vrem'evsky ledge, the enemy unsuccessfully attacked our positions in the area of Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky.
Svatovo-Kremennoe direction
Near Kupyansk, our fighters continue to expand the zone of control at Sinkovka and Petropavlovka.
At Torskoye, Russian soldiers repelled all the attacks of the militants, as in Serebryansky Forest.
Artyomovskoe direction
Fierce fighting continues in Kleshcheevka; ours counterattacked. There is almost nothing left of the village, which prevents military operations.
So far, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have distinguished themselves only by the massive use of cluster rounds and kamikaze drones.
There are battles in the south of Andreevka, now the village is in the gray zone.
10:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the “West” group:
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of the Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and the attack aircraft of the West group of forces carried out 13 missile and bomb attacks on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units in the area settlements Sin'kovka, Kislovka, Novoegorovka and Ivanovka.
During the counterbattery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed a mortar crew and an ammunition supply point in the Novoselovskoye, Tabaevka area.
The total enemy losses amounted to two platoons of manpower.
09:23 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 09/12/2023 to 00:00 09/13/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 98 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information has been received about the death of a civilian, a man, in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
Four civilians were injured of varying severity in the Kiev region of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and Kremenchik.
Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kiev, Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Leninsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhailovka, Kermenchik.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 68 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlivske there were 23 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
At Yasinovatsky there were six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
At Velikonovoselkovskoe one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 284 units of various ammunition were expended.
In the previous day, 108 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
09:22 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Tavriysk firing a total of 30 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
08:10 Summary on the morning of September 13, 2023
At night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired several missiles at the Sevastopol Marine Plant, despite the air defense, several of them reached the target. A serious fire broke out at the facility, in total 24 people were injured.
The Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes at night with Geranium UAVs on the port cities of Reni and Izmail in the Odessa region, which are located on the border with Romania.
Rabotino on the Zaporozhye Front was on fire yesterday: our troops used heavy flamethrower systems “Solntsepek” and MLRS against the advancing enemy forces. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are torn between settlements. Rabotino and Verbovoye bring reserves into battle.
To the south of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) there are heavy battles: the Ukrainian Armed Forces, supported by dense artillery fire, are advancing near Andreevka, trying to take the populated area in pincers, sending assault groups forward. Fighting continues in Kleshcheevka: the Russian Armed Forces are holding defenses on the northeastern outskirts of the village, most of which is in the gray zone.
In the Kherson direction there are battles for the islands: the enemy has gained a foothold on one of them, and our artillery is working on it. Just like the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry at the Antonovsky Bridge.
Near Kremennaya, the Russian Armed Forces covered a large group of enemy infantry with artillery fire, thwarting another breakthrough attempt on the Tor ledge.
In the Belgorod region, the Grayvoronsky urban district was under fire. In the DPR, a civilian was killed and four were wounded by Ukrainian Armed Forces fire.
08:05 Frontline summary for the morning of 09/13/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops, after artillery bombardment, attacked Ukrainian positions southwest of the village of Rabotino. The goal, as a few days earlier in the eastern sector of the fighting, is to hit the flank of the advancing Ukrainian group. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, are trying to reach Novoprokopovka. Fierce fighting on the outskirts of a populated area. Verbovoy has a similar situation. The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian units in Novodanilovka, Omel'nik and Malaya Tokmachka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the Russians in Kopany, Ilchenkovo and Novopokrovka.
On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces resumed attempts to advance at Novomikhailovka and continued in Mar'inka. With the support of aviation, they attacked on the southern approaches to Avdievka. No success.
In the Bakhmut direction there were fierce counter-fights in Kleshcheevka itself and just north of the village. In the last of the sectors, the Russian Armed Forces occupied the defense line behind the railway line, leaving a number of positions. In turn, Russian troops continued counterattacks in the Orekhovo-Vasil'ievka area.
In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces carried out offensive operations west of Novoselovskoye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding their positions. Russian troops attacked Ukrainian units in Belogorovka, Makeevka, Novoegorovka, Ivanovka and Sin'kovka. In the area of the last named settlement on earth there is relative calm.
For reference Annalena Berbock is German foreign minister. by Gregor Spitzen
[REGNUM] Listening to Annalena Burbock's speeches and interviews is an incomparable pleasure from the constant expectation of surprises. What will Madam Minister do this time?
Will you surprise with your encyclopedic knowledge of history? Will he discover and prove a new theorem in geometry? Will you give a master class on diplomatic etiquette? Or will she simply once again show the whole world what a strong and independent woman in a responsible government position is capable of?
And Burbock did not disappoint!
The fourth visit of diplomatic solidarity to the capital of Ukraine since the beginning of the Northern Military District opened new depths of the alternative talent of the head of the German Foreign Ministry, which was once again revealed to journalists during interviews and joint briefings with Ukrainian colleagues.
Thus, Burbock gave a very original assessment of the interim results of the summer Ukrainian counter-offensive, saying that it was not the Ukrainians who were hopelessly stuck in Russian defensive lines, but “Putin who was stuck in the trenches in eastern Ukraine with his campaign of terror.”
It’s sad that Annalena Berbock didn’t even understand what kind of stupidity she said last time, saying that the minefields of the Kherson region and Zaporozhye are comparable in area to the territory of West Germany, since she repeated it again in front of FAZ journalists
The question of whether Germany should supply Kyiv with long-range cruise missiles was parried by Baerbock in her signature style. Avoiding a direct answer, she stated that Ukraine needs not only cruise missiles, but also powerful air defense, and in general, it is necessary to open a “winter air defense umbrella” over the entire critical infrastructure of the country.
The mentioned umbrella will likely include new supplies of German Iris-T installations, as well as ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, the production of which, according to rumors, has finally been established at the enterprises of the German military-industrial complex.
However, the plans of one of the leaders of the German “Greens” extend much further than short-term arms supplies to Ukraine.
No less important for Annalena Berbock are the issues of the post-war world order and the punishment of those responsible for “crimes against humanity.” So, in particular, according to Berbock, everyone who “kidnapped Ukrainian children” and participated in unleashing an “aggressive war” should bear responsibility. According to the head of German diplomats, “international criminals” should be judged by “an international tribunal based on Ukrainian law and enjoying international support.”
Although it is not the job of the foreign minister to give countries guarantees of German economic assistance, Annalena Bärbock in Kiev did give them, vaguely promising “direct supplies of weapons for self-defense and medium-term economic support until reconstruction.”
However, there were also specifics.
Thus, the German minister signed a document in the capital of Ukraine regulating the first steps in the construction of a wind generator station in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (!). Annalena, it seems, did not think about how economically justified the project of building wind turbines would be in close proximity to the source of the cheapest type of energy - nuclear.
However, such an approach fits well into the paradigm of behavior of Burbock’s party colleagues. The “Greens” plan to dot the entire German coastline along the North and Baltic seas with wind generators, so that by 2035 they will produce a total of about 20 GW of electricity (in order to appreciate the flight of thought and the monumentality of the plan, it is enough to know that currently the total wind energy capacity of Germany , where seemingly every unoccupied piece of land is dotted with wind turbines, is 25.7 GW).
In their conversation with the minister, FAZ journalists also touched upon other pressing issues, in particular German peacekeeping initiatives in the Sahel - Central Africa, where, to be honest, the local authorities are not very keen to see the German military contingent. In particular, Germany this year had to withdraw its last peacekeepers from Mali, where after the change of government they turned out to be unwelcome guests.
Nevertheless, the head of the German Foreign Ministry is very determined: “We support ECOWAS as a regional organization in West Africa to prevent the destruction of democracies. We help ensure that migration and terror do not destabilize other states.”
Of course, calling the political systems of the ECOWAS countries democratic, for example in Nigeria, was a great exaggeration on the part of Berbock, but the philosophical question is what exactly is an African-style democracy, where as a result of a bloody military coup a completely sane character can come to power, deposing a real cannibal, chosen in full accordance with Euro-Atlantic parliamentary traditions, remains largely debatable.
Let's return, however, to the long-awaited surprise from Annalena Berbock, which everyone has been waiting for so long.
And the minister did not let down the audience, frozen in anticipation, declaring that over the past year she had worked hard for 560 days! 560 days, Karl! Five hundred sixty! Truly, commenting here only spoils it.
What a blessing that Otto von Bismarck, the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Reich, will no longer see what newfangled trends towards inclusivity and gender emancipation have brought the German Foreign Ministry.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Volkonsky
[REGNUM] This text is about what the former Russian city of Kharkov has become, how it lives and how a person who has not given up his beliefs lives in it. Its author is just such a person. He did not run away from the city, like many, having gone through the most difficult time with him. He understands that he is taking a terrible risk, including by offering to publish his notes and sketches to IA Regnum . However, it was his conscious decision to talk about what was happening. Because this is the voice of those who are not heard. Who is locked in the prison that the state has turned into, who is under the supervision of voluntary guards who have received power over other people's lives. Those who have not yet lost hope.
July... It's hot... The asphalt is melting underfoot... In the sun, the thermometer has broken through the mark of forty degrees and is climbing higher... In Kharkov, citizens, worn out by the scorching sun, crawl along the streets, and expensive cars with air conditioning rustle along the roads with tires. In cars without air conditioning, drivers and passengers look like boiled crayfish. Fountains have been launched in the parks (at least in the central Shevchenko garden), a dolphinarium is operating, and in the KhPI sports complex, which was bombed last spring, the swimming pool has reopened (by some miracle the missiles did not hit it).
You can only guess that a war is going on a hundred kilometers from here, a real war with a mountain of corpses on both sides of the LBS, only from the air sirens that sound every half hour, and from the windows of houses boarded up with plywood, which residents have either abandoned, having fled to the west, or are in no hurry rebuild in anticipation of a new offensive. No one knows whether it will happen or not, but everyone remembers Putin’s words about the demilitarized “sanitary zone,” some with horror and some with hope for the arrival of the Russian Armed Forces. The latter are a disappearing minority and there are many reasons for this.
Nobody pays attention to air raid alarms anymore, or even reacts, except for banks and some particularly “advanced” ones, such as the telecom operator Vodafone, whose stores, following the instructions of the authorities, close their doors during this time and kick out visitors. Kharkov is a front-line city, there is still a curfew from 23:00 to 05:00 in the morning, and street lighting is only turned on for a couple of hours. Without it, you can’t see anything, it’s pitch black—you could prick your eyes out.
True, cleaning vehicles drive around at night, cleaning and putting the city in order, and they haven’t stopped driving all this time since the beginning of the Northern Military District, for which special thanks to Mayor Terekhov. This is precisely what brought the horror-stricken minds of Kharkov residents to their senses in the first days of the special operation, when the city was subjected to massive shelling. Nowadays, too, arrivals happen almost every day, but Kharkov residents, accustomed to this, are not even interested in where and what was blown up. Who cares…
The city returned to almost peaceful life, there were significantly more people, all previously closed shops, cafes and restaurants were opened. There are significantly fewer military personnel in the city, but raids on potential conscripts in the metro (which has worked and is working completely free all this time) and on the streets continue. The war and military commissars are gathering their harvest, and there are significantly fewer conscript and middle-aged men. In reality, only pioneers and pensioners come across).
No one is buying salt and matches in stores anymore; goods are almost the same as before the war (which cannot be said about prices, which have increased exponentially). At the same time, “Kraken”, the most combat-ready and trained by Western instructors Kharkov unit of “Azov” (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation. - Ed.) also disappeared from the city. Finally, these ideological fascists were sent where they should be - for disposal at the front , where, as they say, their ranks have already been greatly thinned.
The garbage is removed, water and electricity are available, and the dollar exchange rate is amazing in its unshakability. Thus, there seems to be a war, but it is as if it is not there. It’s like I’m watching a bad dream and I just need to wake up. There is news on TV with burning houses, and in our markets there is a brisk trade in cherries and crowds of idle young people, mostly of high school age, who are not yet in danger of being drafted into the army, are wandering around the streets.
Did I think at the beginning of the Northern Military District that a year and a half after it began, I would not know how active hostilities would end, and most importantly, where? Here are my notes from those days (I wrote “on the table”, without any hope of publication).
25 February. I slept for six hours, normal. In the morning, the Su-24 was working, ours (in the Russian sense), it was bombed, or it worked so hard with air-to-surface missiles that my windows almost flew out, then the Ukrainian MLRS went to thresh. They will take the city at night, already now there is no one in the city, all the shops are closed, there is no water anywhere, the garbage has not been taken out for two days - they are waiting for Putin.
February 26, 10:30 am. The air raid alarm had already gone off twice, and the mayor asked residents to leave their homes and take shelter in bomb shelters, basements or the subway. I’m sitting in my “basement” on the 5th floor, waiting for Putin until he comes.
February 26, 23:30. The whole sky over KhTZ is on fire, a video of this glow has already appeared online with the hashtag: “Evening Kharkov”, at one o’clock in the morning the shooting died down. According to personal contacts among the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there is information that the Ukrainian military has been given the command not to resist in order to save their lives. Tonight everything will be decided, in the morning I hope to see the miracles of changing shoes.
But it didn’t happen... Alas and ah! The city was really ready to surrender, the mayor addressed the townspeople on local TV with a call to strengthen themselves and not lose heart, for the first time calling them Kharkovites, not Ukrainians, and said: “We are Kharkovites, God is with us, we must hold on!”
The 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which defended the city, disappeared somewhere, and when on February 27 the “assault” began, which cannot even be called reconnaissance in force, Kharkov was defended only by the Nazis of the local Freikorps, the special police unit “Kord” and scattered units of the defense forces put together literally the day before.
You know how the “assault” ended. After these events, only one thing is clear: something went wrong with the Russians from the very beginning. They walked as if to a parade, but encountered fierce resistance. About the parade - this is not a speech formula, in reality the equipment came with St. George ribbons on the armor, and on Kholodnaya Gora, falling behind the column, a car with a dress uniform got lost. I don’t know what happened to the driver; respectable citizens could have torn him to pieces.
As a result, the euphoria of the first days of the SVO gave way to surprise and misunderstanding. They were replaced by fear for their fate and dull apathy. A sticky fear crept under the shirts of most recent sympathizers of the Russian Federation and shackled their souls. If before February 24 the number of such people in Kharkov fluctuated from 40 to 60% (in different periods after the Maidan in different ways), then with each new rocket bombing of the city this number melted, until a year and a half later it dropped to a statistical error of 2–3 %.
Perhaps there are more of them, but voicing your position is more expensive for yourself, even at home in the kitchen behind closed windows and doors, not everyone will risk it. Believe me, these are not empty words - here such a twilight of fascism began that Hitler and Goebbels smoke with envy, asking from hell: “But it turns out that this was possible?”
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Now my life here is not worth a penny. The life of any person here now is not worth a penny. I could get hit by Russian missiles (I have already, I wouldn’t wish the pleasure on anyone). What the arrival of a winged Iskander is like can only be understood by a person who has fallen under it, when a 5-story building rises and falls under you from an explosion some three hundred meters away, and so on twice in a row. The only thing worse than the arrival of the winged “Caliber”, but so far God has been merciful. I might as well end up under Ukrainian Grads. I’ve also been hit before, I survived only by a miracle, when one rocket from the package did not reach my house some 20 meters, pierced the building in front, burning the top floor along with the residents, and the second rocket flew over it 20 meters, from the explosion of which I The ceiling fell right on me and blew out all the windows in the whole house. And this is just "Grad" not even “Hurricane” or “Smerch”. I’m not even talking about artillery and mortars here.
This is my difference with the residents of the LDPR, who tell me that the Donbass endured for 8 years and ordered you to do so. There is no need to compare the ammunition that arrives to us and to the Donbass; even the 152mm cannot be compared with the winged “Caliber”. No Donbass has ever known the intensity of shelling that Kharkov experienced in the first days of the Northern Military District, when a missile raid lasts two hours in a row, from which the earth trembles and a bloody glow blazes throughout the sky, or when an artillery cannonade with 15-minute breaks for lunch lasts the entire day and you just count whether it’s departing or already arriving, distinguishing “Grad” from “Tornado” or “Hurricane” by the sound and praying to God: if only it doesn’t hit you this time.
Half of northern Sal'tovka and Pyatikhatka are now in ruins, and no one is going to restore them. Only a person who finds himself here and now can understand the horror and nightmare of what is happening.
At the same time, I am not afraid of Russian missiles or bombs. They know where they are flying, a plane arrives at night, and in the morning someone does not find either the military registration and enlistment office, or the tank or aviation school, or the regional state administration or the SBU department in their usual places. I’m afraid of the Ukrainian MLRS and heavy artillery, which are making noise like they’ve been blown up all day, and I only hear flights, but their ammunition isn’t flying to Russia, is it? Although, you must admit, getting under friendly fire is much more offensive than being under enemy fire, and living surrounded by enemies who only dream of handing you over to the basement as a hidden quilted jacket.
They could kill me right on the street just because some strange man with a machine gun and a blue bandage pulled over his civilian clothes didn’t like me. Or be bolted to a tree with a sign that says “Marauder.” Or beaten half to death. And if they want to check your phone on the street and it turns out that “there is only a push-button phone,” this is generally a 90 percent chance of being subject to “identification.”
Believe me, all these moral monsters, gopniks, who have received firearms at their disposal, and call themselves fighters of the terrorist defense, are much worse than the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I have already encountered those, they have no time for you, they are fighting with an external enemy, in principle, people are under oath, I understand them - they are defending their homeland (an ugly homeland, but what it is). They called us up and went to fight. I tried to let one such warrior go ahead in the line at the cash register (although they have the right to go without a line at all), so he refused, saying, I’ll wait.
I can also die in the dungeons of the SBU, where my vigilant neighbors will hand me over as Putin’s spy, who signals to him at night by turning on the light in the kitchen. Just like in the SBU, it is useless to prove that you are not Putin’s spy when your computer is full of compromising evidence about yourself (from a cover of the USSR anthem to the “enemy resources” that you visited in recent months). The funny thing is that you won’t get anything at all for a Nazi military march, as well as for having a swastika all over your back or SS runes.
I no longer condemn my friends who, not only talk about forbidden topics, they are even afraid to think in this direction. And believe me, it’s not evening yet! If Kharkov used to be a Russian city, now there are 95–97% of “mutants” here. And they all fiercely hate Russia and Putin. Explaining to them that everything is to blame for their “president of the world”, who brought the war, is a disastrous endeavor. This is objective reality. And the longer all this continues, the deeper the furrow will be between our once fraternal peoples, who are killing each other to please the overseas puppeteers who are cutting coupons from this.
Personally, I don’t see a way out. Things have gone too far. Maybe you see? Every Ukrainian family already has those killed in this war or acquaintances and friends of those killed. And this is a furrow that has run between us for generations. And I’m still not saying anything about the generation of zombies born in the 2000s, for whom there are no authorities and who perceive history in the form in which it is fed to them by the scoundrels and degenerates who came to power in Ukraine in 2014.
The real twilight of fascism will begin if the Russian Federation stops its Northwestern Military District halfway, limiting itself to already occupied territories for reasons of supreme expediency. Although this will be death not only for me, but also for her, just with a time lag. I hope the Kremlin understands this and will follow through to the end.
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[REGNUM] On the night of September 12-13, the Ukrainian Air Force launched a missile attack on Sevastopol. The target was the Ordzhonikidze shipyard, where warships and submarines of the Black Sea Fleet were being repaired. Judging by the official statement of the Ministry of Defense, ten cruise missiles were fired at the plant.
Seven of them were shot down on approach by air defense forces. The military department also stated that two ships that were being repaired were damaged. In addition, the ships of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed three Ukrainian surface drones - unmanned boats that tried to enter the bay of Sevastopol.
Footage of one of the damaged ships has appeared on the Internet, presumably the large landing ship of Project 775 Minsk. There is also information that a diesel-electric submarine of Project 636, capable of striking with Caliber cruise missiles, was damaged.
CHOOSING GOALS AND MEANS
From the statement of the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Nikolai Oleschuk, we can conclude : the attack used Storm Shadow, British long-range air-launched cruise missiles supplied to Ukraine.
The attack on Sevastopol could indeed be carried out using Storm Shadow (or their French version of SCALP), military expert, author of the Telegram channel “Russian Engineer” Alexey Vasiliev told IA Regnum.
According to his assessment, the strike was carried out by Su-24 bombers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Starokonstantinov base in the Khmelnitsky region. “There were five planes, each carrying two Storm Shadow missiles,” the expert explained.
Our air defense responded normally, Vasiliev emphasizes. “The missile launch was detected in advance, everyone was ready, thanks to which some of the missiles were shot down on approach,” the military expert pointed out. “There can be no complaints about air defense here, because no air defense guarantees 99.99% protection.”
The expert noted that Storm Shadow missiles are a difficult target for air defense systems; they have jamming systems and fly at ultra-low altitudes, so they are not easy to detect.
Moreover, according to a number of Ukrainian media, a combined strike was carried out on the base in Sevastopol.
Before launching cruise missiles, the bombers launched S-200 anti-aircraft missiles. These “anti-missiles” from the air defense system were converted by the Ukrainians into an attack weapon for striking ground targets. It was this maneuver that supposedly made it possible to “deceive” Russian air defense systems.
The Ordzhonikidze Severmorozvod was chosen as a target for the strike due to the fact that ships undergoing repairs could not escape the impending strike, Vasilyev explained. Warships and vessels in Sevastopol Bay change their location when a missile launch is detected, but a strike on factory docks can guarantee the result.
NATO RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT MONITORED THE STRIKE
It is possible that NATO reconnaissance aircraft were indirectly involved in the operation. According to the European monitoring service ItaMilRadar , the day before the strike on Sevastopol, NATO reconnaissance aircraft were observed in the western part of the Black Sea.
300–350 kms from Sevastopol, two RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic reconnaissance aircraft were spotted at once: US Air Force aircraft 62-4131 with the call sign JAKE11 and a British Air Force aircraft with the call sign ZZ665.
Both aircraft took off from RAF Mildenhall and were operating on the same mission. Their specialization: searching for sources of electromagnetic radiation based on land, sea and air.
Immediately after the attack, on the morning of September 13, an RQ-4B reconnaissance drone with the call sign FORTE10 flew to the Crimean coast.
“In principle, they could participate,” Vasiliev believes. - If they provide coverage of the situational situation regarding the presence of our aircraft in the air, which are engaged in interception. They can notify the Ukrainian Armed Forces in order to select the optimal time for an attack to launch missiles. But there the target is known, static, so they didn’t need guidance.”
TANGIBLE DAMAGE
Official sources have not yet reported the condition of the damaged warships. In any case, it will not be possible to compensate for even a temporary failure soon.
As the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, explained to IA Regnum, the situation for the Black Sea Fleet is complicated by the fact that some of the ships that are regularly included in the fleet cannot return due to Turkey’s position in the Black Sea straits.
Earlier, Turkey announced its intention not to allow warships of both Russia and Ukraine into the Black Sea until the end of the conflict.
“As I understand it, we are talking about the old-built landing ship Minsk, this is a significant loss,” Admiral Komoyedov commented on reports of damage. “The situation is such that we can count the landing ships in our Navy on our fingers. “Minsk” is a Polish-built Project 775 ship; now there won’t be any new ones like this. New ships are now being made in Kaliningrad, but there are not enough of them.”
So, this is a loss for the fleet, because the ability to transport goods, and first of all, to transport troops, is reduced, the admiral stated. And new ships will not appear, because the Black Sea “gates”, the straits, are closed, Komoyedov added.
PREVENTIVE PROTECTION IS A REAL BUT DIFFICULT TASK
The attack on the Sevastopol Marine Plant once again raises the question of the need to improve the protection of the city and its waters from air strikes. This problem must be solved comprehensively, Admiral Komoyedov emphasized.
“It’s time for Sevastopol to wake up. The ships should be protected, because the crews cannot be blamed here - the ships were docked ,” the interlocutor pointed out. - So there must be a comprehensive, layered defense. It didn’t matter whose missiles were made—USA, British, German—they had to be shot down on the approaches. On the third, fourth, fifth line of defense, in the end. The blows continue, and it is clear that our shortcomings, our shortcomings are now being returned to us.”
A preventive means of protection against missile strikes could be the destruction of aircraft carrying Storm Shadow cruise missiles and their bases. Previously, the Starokonstantinov airfield was repeatedly hit by missile attacks, but some Su-24 aircraft equipped to use NATO cruise missiles still remain in service.
But, as Alexey Vasiliev notes, in the current conditions there is no solution to this problem that would guarantee a 100% result.
“Only 10–12 of them have been converted, that is, not many at all,” the expert estimated the number of Su-24s in the enemy air force. “But the fact is that the base in Starkonstantinov was equipped with concrete shelters for aircraft back in Soviet times; it’s difficult to hit them precisely.” You need to catch the plane so that it is not in cover. In addition, the presence of hangars makes reconnaissance difficult. Whether he is there or not in the shelter is unclear.”
NATO assistance also plays a role, Vasiliev added. When we launch weapons of destruction, NATO records this and notifies Ukraine. “The existing aircraft take off, so by the time the missile arrives the airfield is already empty. Restoring the airfield takes 2–3 days. Then it can be used again, that is, it will not be disabled for a long time,” the expert noted.
Even a synchronized strike on all Ukrainian Air Force airfields does not allow all existing aircraft to be destroyed in the air; they operate at ultra-low altitudes, hide as much as possible and land at alternate airfields equipped on highways, Vasiliev added.
Therefore, for now, the only way to eliminate the threat of cruise missiles remains the destruction of carrier aircraft in the air immediately at the moment of the strike, the expert summarizes.
In the future, the situation with the use of cruise missiles by the Ukrainian Air Force may become even more complicated.
In 2024, the first F-16 aircraft supplied from the reserves of NATO countries should arrive in Ukraine. In addition, Ukraine is negotiating with Germany on the supply of Taurus cruise missiles with a range of over 500 km. According to CNN , the White House is also close to transferring ATACMS tactical missiles to Ukrainian troops, which will further increase their ability to strike Russian territory.
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[Regnum] As a result of a night missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol, according to preliminary information, 24 people were injured, four are in moderate condition. Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev announced this in his Telegram channel.
“I am at the scene of a fire on the southern site of Sevmorzavod. There is no danger to civilian objects in the city,” the governor of Sevastopol assured.
Emergency services are providing assistance to all victims.
Mikhail Razvozhaev called on local residents not to post photos and videos of the consequences of the missile attack online, so as not to help the Kyiv militants.
As Regnum reported, on the night of September 13, the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol was attacked by a missile strike from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The fire was caused by a missile attack. All emergency services are working at the scene.
The inability to win at the front became the reason for the increase in terrorist activity on the part of Ukraine, said Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Yuri Kokov.
The weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries do not affect the course of the military conflict with Russia. American journalist and political commentator from Prague Bradley Blankenship voiced his opinion in an article for the Global Times .
[RT] The people leading India and China lack the ability to predict the long-term consequences of their policies, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed.
Mikhail Podoliak pointed to what he called "the problem of the modern world," singling out India and China, in an interview with Ukrainian media on Tuesday.
"The problem with these countries is that they do not analyze the consequences of their own moves. These countries, unfortunately, have low intellectual potential," he said. And they say Ukraine doesn't belong in the EU!
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India can contemplate his words while they drive their rover around the lunar south pole.
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Hmmm. Some guy in pre-WW II German used to say the same thing about Jewish people. It went poorly.
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^That's not the point MM. I don't think Indians, let alone Chinese, are in any danger from Ukrainians.
The point is: given the profound cultural achivements by Ukrainians ...
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It's said most serial killers got started abusing animals or cutting the heads off their sisters' dolls. So, it pays to take any utterances such as that reported above with a bit of caution. Given historical experience, and all...
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Anyone speaking in terms of diminishing the humanity of others deserves wary attention.
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I guess my point is, what are people who casually say this sort of thing capable of, given the opportunity?
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At the end of WWII, Stalin 'invited' Russians and Belarusians into Donbass and Luhansk to replace the workers killed by the Holodomor, Nazis, and Soviet Army.
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Is that a great part of the world, or what?
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#8 So, you admit that some Ukrainians were killed by Soviet Army while fighting for the Nazis?
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I sought for a long time how to explain the current Ukraine war to Americans. And I believe that I've found one.
Just think of the Mafia bar in the movie as Donbass
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Underestimating your enemy is a piss poor strategy. That's why I always laugh when people try to tell me that China is on the verge of extreme economic problems and the country might disintegrate. They've been saying such things as long as I can remember but it ain't happened yet. India and China are both ancient civilizations that have forgotten more than Ukrainians ever knew.
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#2 Actually, that could not be further from the truth. The Big H said that Jews were intellectually superior and used that superiority, along with a sense of being all together against the host society, to ruthlessly exploit and live off of the host.
Naturally this wasn't true of all Jews, but almost every time you found a ruthless leech like this, he was Jewish. It's a case of confirmation bias. Like how cops get the idea that all black kids are violent when only 1/3 of them are.
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#10 #8 So, you admit that some Ukrainians were killed by Soviet Army while fighting for the Nazis?
Why stop there? Polish Army killed some Ukrainians who were fighting for Russians who were fighting for Nazis. Big whoop. Bonus question: Who killed the chief rabbi of the Polish Army, and where?
[IsraelTimes] The author of a biography about Elon Musk says he was “mistaken” when he wrote that the tech mogul deactivated his Starlink satellite fleet to foil a Ukrainian attack on a Crimean port.
Walter Isaacson now says that while Ukrainians thought Musk had deactivated the system, in actuality it had never been activated in that area, part of a decision made to avoid the system being used for military offensive action.
Much appreciated, Walter.
The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine.
At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea.
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[RIA] Europe is arming itself. In the "Garden of Eden" conveyors for the production of shells are being launched, new buildings of military factories are being built. Purely peaceful enterprises are moving onto a war footing. The European Commission, having forgotten to fight for gay rights, issued a large-scale order on the topic of a coordinated increase in the volume of weapons produced in the EU.
The process is being closely watched from overseas. The New York Times notes that European governments have made “herculean efforts” to finance their military-industrial complex. However, there are still a lot of problems in the European defense industry: they were shown by the training ground called “Ukraine”.
“Ukrainian soldiers are faced with the fact that 155-mm shells from one manufacturer sometimes do not fit Howitzers produced by another manufacturer,” American journalists reproach European defense workers. “Ammunition and spare parts are often not interchangeable, which leads to frequent breakdowns and complicates repairs ".
The report is illustrated with photographs from the Swedish Saab plant. He is well known among us for his cars. We should not forget, however, that for almost a hundred years Saab has been one of the leaders of the European military-industrial complex.
In the 1930s, the Swedes sheltered German aircraft manufacturers: Germany's aircraft production was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles. Throughout World War II, Swedish-German companies provided the Third Reich with aircraft. The Saab-18 was a good bomber, the Saab-21 a fighter.
After the war, the concern successfully sold its aircraft and weapons for export. For the last year and a half, it has been supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with anti-tank guided missiles. Today, when Sweden has already crossed the NATO threshold with one foot, it is time, the Americans believe, to make the Swedish concern one of the leaders in the European arms race.
The problem is that the European military-industrial complex is deeply competitive within itself. Manufacturers produce weapons for export, adapting to certain foreign customers. If they change the characteristics of their products, they will lose customers.
Uniformity is also not helped by the fact that EU national governments cling to sovereignty over their defense industries. This is too tasty a piece of production; they are trying not to give it to overseas owners.
It is not surprising that there is complete inconsistency in the range of manufactured weapons. Only 18 percent of the products of the European military-industrial complex comply with the declared NATO standards for weapons and ammunition. The Americans are dissatisfied with the fact that today Europe produces 27 different types of Howitzers, 20 types of fighters, 26 types of destroyers and frigates. But this is a disgrace! “Europe must unify its defense,” commands The New York Times from overseas.
A similar opinion is shared in London. The peaceful “weekend” for Europe is over, it faces a decade of war: “No matter how the war in Ukraine ends, <...> a wounded, vengeful Russia will remain a threat as long as Vladimir Putin or his like-minded followers remain in power.” .
The most intelligent newspaper The Guardian approvingly quotes the prominent Nazi Rudolf Hess. "Guns or butter?" — journalist Paul Taylor slightly paraphrases his famous statement and answers in full accordance with the original: of course, guns! Don't complain, Europeans, that the arms race will leave you without schools and hospitals; if the Kremlin villains attack, you will be left without schools and hospitals at all.
But where to get the money for all this? The average annual salary of a worker at Saab is about 53 thousand euros. Add to this a social package, training, and insurance. Moreover, if previously European manufacturers successfully made money from arms sales, now they are asked not to sell them, but to store them in anticipation of a military conflict with Russia. “Waiting for the barbarians,” so to speak. Well, what if the barbarians don’t come?
Then it will turn out that the arms race has finally finished off the European economy, completing what was started by coronavirus lockdowns and anti-Russian sanctions. This appears to be exactly what Washington and London are working towards in concert.
Europeans will really have nothing left but war with Russia. This is exactly how London and Washington acted in the 1930s to pit Germany against the Soviet Union.
On the one hand, they sponsored the military-industrial complex and invested in the local defense industry. Who did not invest in Hitler - Henry Ford and Prescott Bush (grandfather of the future US president), Morgan and Rockefeller. On the other hand, they kept the population of Germany on a starvation diet - only the completely impoverished people could be sold nonsense about expanding living space to the east. There is no butter - well, the burgher goes to the front to earn at least enough bread and margarine for his children.
The Anglo-Saxon plan today looks exactly the same. It is perhaps not advisable to introduce a tax on military spending in the EU, argues Paul Taylor from London; it is better for the European Union to take out a joint targeted loan for the defense industry. Where to borrow? Needless to say, in London and Washington.
The condition of the loan is the requirement to close ranks and completely unify the defense complexes of all European countries - under the strict supervision of the Anglo-Saxons, of course. Their main idea is to turn Europe into one huge defense plant, where screwed-up burghers rivet shells, and after work they train at shooting ranges and spend five minutes hating Russia.
A single army, a single military-industrial complex, a single ideology based on fear and hatred of our country, large-scale preparations for an offensive to the east. As they say, find ten differences with the Hitler regime. There was a "Garden of Eden" - there will be a Fourth Reich.
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Pure bleat and projection from a Russian apparat that was hoping Europe would stay asleep. Good ol' Vlad managed to wake up at least some of them. Strong work!
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[REGNUM] After Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that Warsaw would in any case ban the import of Ukrainian grain into the country, the European Parliament decided to react at the political level.
Let us recall that on September 12, Morawiecki’s statement appeared on the Polish government portal. In it, he shifted responsibility for the fact that “ cheaper Ukrainian grain flooded ” Poland to certain companies that wanted to make money from it and did not think about the interests of Polish farmers, as well as the European Union, which for a long time did not want to “ notice the problem of grain imports from Ukraine”.
Therefore, the Polish government will “maintain a complete ban on the import of Ukrainian grain after September 15” (the deadline previously set by the European Commission for Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia).
The Prime Minister explained this violation of general trade rules and EU legislation purely by the interests of Polish farmers. But the European Parliament accused the Polish authorities of an opportunistic political game.
On September 12, a debate took place in the EP regarding ensuring the import of Ukrainian grain after September 15.
Although the decision to extend or lift the embargo will be made not by deputies, but by the European Commission, the voice of legislators will be taken into account. As the Polish portal Tygodnik Poradnik Rolniczy notes, most of the MEPs who took part in the debate opposed the extension of the embargo. Representatives of the European People's Party, Socialists and Democrats, Liberals and Greens said that the European Union should help Ukraine sell grain.
“Everything possible must be done to develop export opportunities, but some populist politicians in Hungary or Poland are taking advantage of this as elections approach,” said German MEP Viola von Cramon-Taubadel. "In my opinion, Ukrainian agriculture deserves 100% support. We must ensure grain gets to those who need it and fight those who try to stop those exports."
Spanish MEP Clara Aguilera stressed that the European Commission should not be concerned that an election campaign is underway in Poland.
“We need to ensure grain exports from Ukraine,” she commented. “The fact that there are elections in Poland is not our problem.”
In turn, MEP from Lithuania Andrius Kubilius accused “ some governments of Central European countries ” of using populist measures.
The German business publication bne IntelliNews quotes Morawiecki as saying during an election rally in the town of Kosów Lacki that he “sent an ultimatum to the European Commission” with a “clear demand - either you extend the ban on the import of four Ukrainian grains until October 15, or we ourselves Let's extend this ban."
Voting for elections to the Sejm and Senate of Poland will take place on October 15. Perhaps Warsaw is hinting to Brussels that its position will change after this date?
The question is whether the Kiev regime will be satisfied with this.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal promised to initiate proceedings against Poland at the World Trade Organization.
“In the event of a violation of trade law in favor of pre-election political populism, Ukraine will be forced to apply to WTO arbitration for compensation for damages for violating the norms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,” Shmygal said.
According to one of the Ukrainian publications, the Polish authorities are seriously concerned about possible image losses, especially “if Kiev is active in this matter.” And he is determined.
Ukraine would like to export about 56 million tons of grain this year. This implies monthly land exports through the “solidarity corridors” of 4.7 million tons. Now the average monthly volume is 3.2 million tons.
Expanding existing routes and organizing new ones requires additional costs.
If the European Commission agrees to extend the embargo beyond September 15, it will have to find an additional 300 million euros to subsidize the transport of approximately 10 million tons of grain. And Brussels will have to choose who it is with—Warsaw or Kiev.
It is possible that in this situation the Kiev regime will decide to take non-standard measures.
The Polish magazine Myśl Polska drew attention to a number of statements made by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during the Yalta European Strategy forum.
“He switched to threats against Europe,” the publication writes. “In his opinion, until now, Ukrainian refugees have behaved “with dignity” and “showed gratitude” to the European countries hosting them. However, everything could change if European countries withdraw or reduce support for Kyiv. “It is difficult to predict how millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries will react if their country is abandoned,” Zelensky warned.”
As President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen stated, today “four million Ukrainians have found shelter” in the European Union. Most of them are concentrated in Poland. It is possible that they were precisely what Zelensky had in mind when he talked about the unpredictable reaction of “millions of Ukrainian refugees” who would see how Poland “abandoned ” Ukraine.
The head of the office of the President of Poland, Pavel Sprat, recently announced a new meeting between his boss Andrzej Duda and the President of Ukraine. One of the topics will be the Polish ban on the import of Ukrainian grain. In it, Duda is on Morawiecki's side. Let's see how Zelensky reacts to this and what arguments he will give to his colleague.
[RU-news: Google Translate] The restoration of Ukraine will not happen soon and a completely different government will deal with it. Ukraine's cities destroyed during the fighting still cannot be rebuilt due to widespread corruption and unfair practices. This was reported by a local resident living in Northern Saltovka in Kharkov.
After fighting in the city's largest residential area ended in March 2022, the shelling stopped in the summer and tens of thousands of Kharkov residents returned home. However, most of Saltovka remained destroyed. There is still no light, heat or water in the apartments, and looters are looting the remaining homes.
The restoration of Ukraine is an unplowed field for corrupt officials
Although European funds provided significant assistance, they left the region due to extensive corruption and dishonesty. Some residents received new windows from the French foundation, but the walls and entrances still leave reminders of the fighting. The Kharkov resident is surprised that the city of Mariupol recovered faster than Saltovka. And this despite the fact that Mariupol suffered much more severely.
Earlier, the head of the Turkish company that produces attack drones Bayraktar TV2, Haluk Bayraktar, spoke about how Kyiv demanded a kickback of $10 million from him in exchange for the opportunity to build a plant in Ukraine. Imagine what a field for kickbacks the restoration of Ukraine represents.
Nobody knows yet how much money needs to be poured into the restoration of Ukrainian cities. It is impossible to give an exact answer to this question, since the cost of restoration depends on many factors, such as the scale of destruction, needs in various areas (for example, infrastructure, housing, health, education, etc.), availability of financing, etc. I think the game plan changed.
Plan A: The hoi polloi are unhappy with our flight retreat from Afghanistan? No problem. We'll order Ukraine (we own them after all) to provoke RF into attack and smash Russia with sanctions. Who'll remember Afghanistan after we bring Russia to it's knees?
Plan B: Lets prolong the fighting to maximize the damage, and then let Russia take Ukraine and be stuck with restoration.
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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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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.
