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[Regnum] The British authorities have added the Wagner PMC to the list of terrorist organizations, this follows from a statement published on September 15 by the British Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The department reported that on September 6, a decree was submitted to parliament recognizing the “Russian mercenary organization “Wagner Group” as terrorist. A corresponding decision has now been made, which comes into force immediately.
Belonging to or supporting this organization is now a criminal offense. He faces imprisonment for up to 14 years, along with which a fine may be imposed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
It is also indicated that the PMC became the 79th organization on the list of banned organizations in the UK. These include Hezbollah, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Al-Qaeda (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), other radical Islamist organizations, and Nazi groups. Another 14 organizations associated with Northern Ireland are included in a separate list.
At the same time, this list does not include either the Ukrainian nationalist group “Azov” or other organizations similar to it.
As Regnum reported , British Interior Minister Suella Braverman previously announced her intention to include the Wagner PMC on the list of terrorist organizations. She explained that a decree is needed that would enshrine this status at the legislative level. London believes that the group's activities in Ukraine and Africa pose a security threat.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov did not comment on this intention of the British authorities and recalled that the Wagner PMC does not exist in the legal field. In July, the group was recognized as a terrorist organization by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
[Kyiv Post] A Ukrainian armed forces unit at the forefront of the recent fighting to liberate the village of Andriivka has released drone footage of what it claims is Russian artillery firing on its own troops as they try and surrender.
The video posted on Telegram by the 3rd Separate Assault Infantry Brigade, shows Ukrainian troops still under fire as they clear Russian positions in the now-destroyed village near Bakhmut.
Three of Moscow’s soldiers surrender and are made to lie on the floor as they’re secured. Then what appears to be an artillery round explodes right on top of troops from both sides.
As the smoke clears it becomes clear the Ukrainian troops have been incredibly lucky — all survived.
As for the Russian troops, according to the 3rd Separate Assault Infantry Brigade commentary on the Telegram post "one is captured in pieces, two are lucky and are taken out to live."
[X thread] Former Wagner Group fighters are finding, to their dismay, that few employers want to hire them; they can't even get jobs at Burger King. "They were promised a life with a clean slate and [the authorities] failed to fulfill their promises," a relative complains.
4/ Wagner members and their relatives are complaining in online forums that they are being excluded from jobs at defence companies, factories and the Russian National Guard. Instead, they're having to work as taxi drivers, construction workers and doormen.
5/ MO interviewed some of the relatives. Svetlana, the mother of one Wagner fighter, says that her son – an ex-convict – planned to take a job at a new factory building kamikaze drones in Kamchatka. Even though he had an official pardon, the owners weren't interested.
8/ MO contacted a recruitment agency working for the Chernyshev military engine plant. It was told that the company's corporate security department "does not let in candidates with convictions for theft, drugs and murder, even those who have been pardoned."
The Russian government lied to them? Let us all be shocked together, dear Reader. Though it is fair to say that this is absolutely not particular to the government of Russia.
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I suspect that the former convicts who fought for Wagner are viewed with trepidation. The former Spetznaz are probably still in demand. Big difference in the two categories.
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Though it is fair to say that this is absolutely not particular to the government of Russia.
We had no visions of politics or grandeur. We had maturity, experience and knowledge. We knew what had to be done. We were paid well and achieved success. Why do they hate us ?
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I would have thought they would be in high demand. Russian oligarchs have been building their private armies. Perhaps it is just the Wagner brand that is tainted.
[IsraelTimes] Over 150 businesses and people hit with punitive measures in Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , UAE and Georgia in bid to deny Kremlin access to finances, technology.
The United States said Thursday that it was sanctioning more than 150 businesses and people from Russia to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Georgia to try to crack down on evasion and deny the Kremlin access to technology, money and financial channels that fuel President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s war in Ukraine.
The sanctions package is one of the biggest by the State and Treasury departments and is the latest to target people and companies in countries, notably in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member Turkey, that sell Western technology to Russia that could be used to bolster its war effort.
The package also aims to hobble the development of Russia’s energy sector and future sources of cash, including Arctic natural gas projects, as well as mining and factories producing and repairing Russian weapons.
"The purpose of the action is to restrict Russia’s defense production capacity and to reduce the liquidity it has to pay for its war," James O’Brien, head of the State Department’s Office of Sanctions Coordination, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The US is sanctioning a newly established UAE company, which provides engineering and technology to Russia’s Arctic liquefied natural gas project, as well as multiple Russian companies involved in its development.
Putin wants the Arctic LNG 2 project to produce more liquefied natural gas and make Russia a bigger player in the energy market. In July, Putin visited the LNG site in Russia’s far north and said it would have a positive impact on "the entire economy."
The US package includes sanctions on several Ottoman Turkish, Finnish and Russian companies that the State Department and Treasury say help Moscow source U.S. and European electronic components — such as computer chips and processors — which the US says ended up in weapons used by Russia.
Treasury sanctioned what it called "a Finland-based network" that sent a wide range of electronics into Russia, including cameras for drones and lithium batteries. Finland is a European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member that supports sanctions on Russia and the most recent to join NATO.
The State Department also is targeting Ottoman Turkish companies that have provided ship repair services to a company affiliated with Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Before the war, O’Brien said, Russia imported up to 90% of its electronics from countries that are part of the Group of 7 wealthy democracies, but sanctions have dropped that figure closer to 30%.
Sanctions, he said, "are effective" and "put a ceiling on Russia’s wartime production capacity."
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[LB] Chernihiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, and Donetsk regions were attacked.
Explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi region in the morning, air defense was working. The information is being clarified, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
There were five shellings (24 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day in the morning. The enemy fired mortars, artillery and anti-aircraft guns in the Koryukiv and Novgorod-Siversky districts. Without victims and destruction.
In Sumy at night, the Russians carried out two shellings of the Znob-Novgorod community. Six mortar explosions were recorded. Previously - without human losses and destruction of civil infrastructure. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 26 shelling of the border. 151 explosions were recorded. The communities of Velikopysarivsk, Khotynsk, Bilopolsk, Seredino-Budsk, Krasnopilsk, Novoslobidsk, Myropilsk, Esmansk came under fire.
In Mykolaivska this morning, the occupiers from Kinburnska spit struck the open territory of the Radsadivska territorial community with rocket launchers. No damage or casualties. Yesterday afternoon, the enemy struck the water area of Ochakivska hromada. There are no casualties.
In Luhansk yesterday, the Russians opened fire on Nevsky in the morning and in the afternoon. One house was completely destroyed, two more have damage of varying degrees. Nadiya and Novoyehorivka withstood air strikes. Nevske and Bilogorivka were damaged by the enemy's artillery and mortar attacks. During the day, the enemy fired 147 rounds (539 shells).
In Kharkivskathe villages of Strilecha, Pletenivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Kotlyarivka of the Kupyan district were hit by airstrikes. The settlements of Kucherivka, Kislivka, Ivanivka, Synkivka, and Berestov came under enemy shelling and mortar fire. And also Neskuchne, Nesterne, Okhrimivka, Budarki. The enemy continues to support a group of troops guarding the state border. Enemy troops are conducting active subversive activities in the border areas in order to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops in the directions in which the enemy is increasing the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod region. Five private houses were damaged as a result of artillery shelling in Vovchansk, Chuguyiv district. No casualties. Enemy shelling took place in Podolih, as a result of which a private household was damaged. There was no information about the victims.
In Zaporizhzhia, there were 118 shellings on 31 settlements per day. The enemy carried out nine RSZV attacks on Novoivanivka, Uspenivka, Novodarivka, Charivny, Levadny, Robotyny, Maly Shcherbaki, and Lukyanivka, six airstrikes on Orikhov, as well as nine BpLA attacks on Trudovo, Maly Shcherbaky, Pyatikhatky, and Malynivka. 94 artillery shells fell on the territory of the front-line towns and villages, in particular, Gulyaipol, Orikhov, Biloghirya, Temyrivka, Olhivskyi, Lugivskyi, Preobrazhenka, Stepnohirsk, Stepovoi, Plavniy, Pavlivka, Lobkovo, and Kamiansk. As a result of the artillery attack on Preobrazhenka, a 34-year-old man was injured and hospitalized. There were 28 reports of the destruction of residential buildings, farm buildings and infrastructure facilities.
The Russians fired 91 rounds (349 shells) in Khersonsk during the day, including six rounds (20 shells) on Kherson. The occupiers targeted the districts of 29 settlements of the region; administrative building and church in Beryslav district; a critical infrastructure facility in the Kherson district; the territory of the plant in Kherson. One child died, six people were injured, one of them a child.
In Dnipropetrovsk, the Nikopol district suffered from attacks at night. The enemy twice covered the area with heavy artillery. The Russian occupiers damaged an infrastructure object in the Chervonogrigorivska community. Also, as a result of the shelling, dry grass took over. Firefighters promptly extinguished the flames. The enemy also targeted the Marganets community. Fortunately, people were not affected. Yesterday afternoon, the enemy attacked Dnipropetrovsk region twice. At first, he hit the Mezhivska community of the Synelnyk district. Then - along Marganetskaya. A fire broke out, which was promptly extinguished by rescuers.
In Donetsk region, the Russians opened fire 21 times: Smerch, Grad, artillery. 13 settlements are under fire: Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Krasnohorivka, Kurdyumivka, Nelipivka, Ivanopilja, Shakhtarske, Karlivka, Druzhba, Novodmytrivka, Nelipivka, Predtechine. 33 objects were damaged: 27 private residential buildings, three – power lines, a house of prayer, an economic structure, the premises of the State Enterprise "Ukrvetsanzavod". One person was injured in the region during the day.
We will remind you that the Defense Forces of Ukraine recaptured Andriyivka, Donetsk region, from the enemy. Heavy fighting continues. The settlement was liberated by the Third Separate Assault Brigade.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:52 Another ship blocked due to the war has left the port and is following a temporary corridor, said Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov. The bulk carrier Puma (Cayman Islands) left the Odessa seaport this morning and is now heading to the Bosphorus. The ship is loaded with 16 thousand tons of metal and 14 thousand tons of rapeseed. The bulk carrier entered the Odessa seaport on February 19, 2022 and could not leave the port due to the outbreak of hostilities. Since August 15, four vessels have already used the temporary corridor.
22:11 Zelensky, in an evening video message, confirmed the release of Andreevka in the Bakhmut direction, and also reported on the active actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka, Opytny and Vodyanoye of the Donetsk region, Verbovoy and Novoprokopovka of the Zaporozhye region.
21:54 The head of the OP Andriy Ermak held the eighth meeting with representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Ukraine regarding the implementation of the Peace Formula. The event was dedicated to the implementation of the sixth point of the Formula - the withdrawal of Russian troops and the cessation of hostilities. Representatives of more than 70 states joined the discussion, which took place on the territory of Antonov airport in Gostomel.
21:50 According to Pentagon forecasts, in 2025 the production volume of high-explosive fragmentation ammunition of 155 mm caliber will reach 100 thousand per month, that is, 10-15 thousand more than previously planned. Today this figure is 28 thousand; next spring it is planned to increase it to 57 thousand. In the middle of last year, the United States produced 14.5 thousand ammunition of this type per month.
21:37 Zelensky said that he held a wide meeting with representatives of law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Prosecutor General: “We must finally eliminate any oligarchic-corruption influence on public authorities in Ukraine and guarantee the sustainability of democracy in our state - long-term "Today, appropriate conceptual steps and a plan of measures for their implementation were proposed."
21:12 Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced new deliveries of military aid to Ukraine next week. He also confirmed that Biden will receive Zelensky in Washington on Thursday, September 21.
20:36 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: “Restrictions by the European Commission on the access of Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union market have been lifted. This is an example of true unity and trust between Ukraine and the EU. Now it is important that European unity "It also worked at the bilateral level. So that neighbors would support Ukraine during the war. And if their decisions violate EU law, Ukraine will respond in a civilized manner."
20:23 The scandalous MP Nestor Shufrich was charged with treason, and the search of his home became the main hit of the day in the country. The people's deputy was found with prohibited Russian symbols, awards, military jackets and special documents. Read more in the material of State Treason Shufrich .
20:20 Romania may begin to shoot down Russian drones if its territory is threatened, said Deputy Chief of Defense Staff Gheorghe Vlad: “Depending on the level of threat, we are ready to use all military power to protect Romanian territory.”
He also said that the Romanian army sent 600 troops to the Danube Delta region near the border with Ukraine: “We deployed several radars, intensified our defense and discussed the issue with our NATO partners to find a solution to counter Russian aggression.”
20:13 The defense forces continue the offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions, and have partial success in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the evening report.
Due to heavy losses, the Russians are trying to supplement the newly formed 25th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces - for this purpose, the local population is being mobilized in the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories. In particular, active campaigning is being conducted in vocational schools, technical schools and among graduates of boarding schools with the involvement of military personnel.
19:38 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, discussed in detail the situation at the front in all directions, heard reports from the command on completed special operations and planning for future ones. We also discussed the supply of weapons and ammunition, and heard a large report from the Ministry of Strategic Industry on our own production and the prospects for increasing it.
18:21 Belgium will take part in training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighters as part of the “aviation coalition” led by the Netherlands and Denmark, the country’s Minister of Defense Ludivine Dedonder said.
In particular, Belgium will send two F-16B two-seat fighters to Denmark next year for pilot training, and in the coming weeks a detachment of 50 military personnel, mostly technical personnel. Belgium will host six Ukrainian instructors and four mission planners to further train Ukrainian pilots and other personnel. In the coming weeks, the Belgian Ministry of Defense will also send a group of three military personnel to the training center at the Danish Skrydstrup airbase, where Ukrainian pilots are trained.
17:32 On September 14, the Ukrainian Sea Baby drone shot down the Russian missile ship Samum near the entrance to Sevastopol Bay, the UP reports citing sources in the SBU. The Sea Baby hit the rear right side of the vessel, causing significant damage and causing the ship to lose speed. The Russians had to tow Samum for repairs “with a large trim to the stern and a list to starboard.”
According to the publication, for this attack the SBU used an experimental model of a marine drone capable of operating in a storm, hiding behind high waves. During the special operation, the wave height reached 1.5-2 meters. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the day before that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack Samum with an unmanned boat, which was allegedly destroyed.
16:55 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk told, at the request of the British and French media, what type of cruise missiles Ukrainian pilots hit the Russian ships Minsk and Rostov-on-Don: “The Air Force aviation has two types of cruise missiles provided by partners to combat occupier. We hang the British Storm Shadow under the left wing of the Su-24M, the French Scalp under the right wing. Both missiles work perfectly, without a chance for the occupier. Under the wings of our bombers there is also a place for the German Taurus. Then the “game of cities” can be continued even more effective."
16:08 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius did not rule out that the decision to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine could be made within 1-2 weeks.
16:06 Zaluzhny said that he held a meeting with American and British partners. We discussed the situation at the front, the need of the Ukrainian army for shells, weapons and military equipment. “We are waiting for good news,” added the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the meeting participants focused on the issues of strengthening air defense, additional transport for evacuating the wounded, finding ways to repair equipment and restore the combat effectiveness of military units. The situation in the Black Sea was discussed as a separate topic.
16:01 Every day, dozens of Russian soldiers are captured in Ukraine, said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense: “Every day we record the arrival of dozens of Russians in Ukrainian captivity. Among them are those who were captured as a result of hostilities, and those who surrender voluntarily".
Yusov also spoke about the sharp increase in the number of applications through the state program I want to live : if earlier we received 70-100 applications a day, now it is 170 or more. The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate clarified that currently 1,000 applications are in the process of implementation and more than 200 are “successful cases of withdrawing Russian military personnel from the front line.” According to Yusov, such an effect among the Russian military was provoked by the successful special operation of the Ukrainian military intelligence Sinitsa, as a result of which a pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew an Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine.
15:47 The United States is close to a decision to supply ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine this fall, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper, Biden has still not approved the transfer, but White House officials said anonymously that they would take a "new look" at delivering the missiles this fall to bolster Ukraine's offensive. US military leaders say they have few such missiles, so the White House is considering transferring a limited number.
15:39 Ukraine has returned the bodies of another 51 dead defenders, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported. In total, the bodies of 1,832 Ukrainian soldiers have already been repatriated.
15:10 Great Britain added PMC Wagner to the list of terrorist organizations. The order takes effect immediately. Thus, the UK will consider belonging to the Wagner PMC or active support of the group a criminal offense that could lead to 14 years in prison, the government said.
15:07 As of today, the General Staff has no additional need for female doctors at the front, said Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar. As for military registration, according to her, “this is a norm concerning women with medical education”, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at the level of law.
“The General Staff then and now assures that they now do not need women in these specialties directly at the front, and I would like to remind you that registration does not mean mobilization. Secondly, we do not have women at the front who are there without their consent That is, even if a woman is a soldier, then those five thousand who are on the front line are women who gave their consent to this,” Malyar emphasized.
14:58 Germany is discussing with partner countries the possibility of temporarily transferring IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine, said the head of the Green Party, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee Omid Nuripour.
14:26 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan: “The cooperation of our state, all our law enforcement institutions, the Office of the Prosecutor General with the International Criminal Court is absolutely systemic and brings real responsibility for Russian war crimes closer. There is already the first clear the result is a historic arrest warrant for Putin. There will be all other fair results."
14:22 Millionaire pro-Kremlin blogger Yuri Podolyaka, who is now hiding in the Russian Federation, adjusted missile attacks on Nikolaev at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the SBU reported. He received intelligence information from his informant - the ex-head of the Nikolaev district prosecutor's office, who is now serving a life sentence for treason. Podolyaka forwarded the information he received from him to his handlers from the Russian special services. He also transferred to the Russian Federation data about Russian prisoners of war and information about daily passwords at Ukrainian checkpoints.
13:57 The Southern Defense Forces confirm that a Russian guided bomb fell in Novaya Kakhovka. KAB-500 hit a residential area, causing damage to several apartment buildings and causing casualties among the local population.
13:30 The Russians in the Zaporozhye direction are not creating strike groups, but are trying to transfer additional forces, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Pivden operational command.
12:59 As a result of falling debris from downed drones tonight in one of the villages of the Khmelnitsky region, 12 households, windows in a boiler room, 28 windows in a school and power lines were damaged. No people were injured, said Sergei Tyurin, first deputy head of the OVA.
12:51 A missile attack on Russian ships at a ship repair yard in Sevastopol caused them significant damage: the BDK Minsk was almost certainly functionally destroyed, and the Rostov-on-Don submarine probably suffered catastrophic damage, the UK Ministry of Defense reports and shows a new photo of these ships.
According to British analysts, any attempts to return the submarine to service will take many years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. There is also a real possibility that the difficult task of removing the wreckage from the drydocks will keep them out of service for many months. This will pose a serious challenge for the Russians to support the maintenance of the Black Sea Fleet. The loss of the Rostov-on-Don submarine deprives the Russian Black Sea Fleet of one of four submarines capable of carrying cruise missiles.
12:42 Putin said that 300 thousand “volunteers” have already signed up to participate in the war against Ukraine. He also claims that Moscow “has never refused negotiations on Ukraine, if the other side wants, let them say so.”
12:17 Ukrainian monitoring publics report that an aerial bomb fell from a Russian plane in Novaya Kakhovka. A pair of Su aircraft took off from the Taganrog area and fired controlled bombs towards the Berislavsky region, but one of them fell in Novaya Kakhovka.
12:06 The government adopted the draft state budget 2024 with its own general fund revenues of 1.56 trillion hryvnia and general fund expenses of 3.108 trillion hryvnia. The key emphasis of the project is defense and security, Shmygal said. More than half of all budget resources will be allocated for these purposes - 1 trillion 685 billion hryvnia. This amount is 113 billion more than this year. “There will be even more weapons and equipment. More drones, ammunition, missiles. Just like this year, every penny of taxes from citizens and businesses will go to providing for our Security and Defense Forces,” the prime minister emphasized.
12:03 In the occupied Gorlovka Donetsk region and nearby settlements, the Russians organized the delivery of summonses to men of military age immediately after their participation in “voting” in pseudo-elections, Anna Malyar reported.
11:52 Air Force Speaker Yuriy Ignat said that the target of the night drone attack was Ukrainian aviation, which strikes with long-range Storm Shadow missiles and the day before attacked Russian air defense in Crimea: “The Khmelnitsky region is attacked again. It is clear what the enemy is looking for. They are looking for where the commander is hid our bombers after the events that recently took place in our sea near Crimea."
11:45 The “authorities” of occupied Novaya Kakhovka stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly struck a residential area, one person was killed, 12 were injured. The first strike was carried out by a rocket; now the city is allegedly being shelled from mortars and artillery, the occupiers claim.
11:29 Lavrov said that the Vatican envoy plans to visit Russia to discuss the “Ukrainian issue”, Moscow is ready to communicate with him.
11:11 The Russian 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade has been defeated again. It was her that American experts previously dubbed “a symbol of the problems of the Russian army.” But this is not the only brigade that has suffered serious losses this week. Ukrainian defenders have already eliminated the second commander of the elite Russian 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment, Vasily Popov. Read more in the article Broken for the fourth time .
11:06 Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed that he will meet with Zelensky next week in New York.
11:02 The US Senate Armed Services Committee is investigating the actions of Elon Musk, who limited the operation of Starlink near Crimea in 2022, writes Bloomberg. The head of the committee noted that the situation showed "serious problems with responsibility for national security."
10:25 Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, at least 12 Russian military commanders have been removed from their positions, The Washington Post writes. Some of them were fired for critical mistakes, others - after criticism of the high command or complaints about the situation at the front. This indicates a continuing split in the army and massive discontent among the senior command, the newspaper notes.
09:48 American Republican Senator Mitt Romney called military aid to Ukraine an “extremely wise investment”: “We spend about $850 billion a year on defense. We use about 5% of this amount to help Ukraine. My God, to protect freedom and destroy the Russian army - a country with 1,500 nuclear warheads pointed at us. Being able to do that with 5% of your military budget seems like a very smart investment to me."
09:24 The third separate assault brigade stated that it had liberated Andreevka, Donetsk region, and the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces was “completely defeated.” Ukrainian fighters report that as a result of a lightning-fast operation, the Russian garrison of Andreevka was surrounded, cut off from the main forces and destroyed. In two days, the Third Separate Assault Brigade eliminated the enemy's brigade reconnaissance chief, three battalion commanders and almost the entire infantry of the 72nd brigade, along with officers and a significant amount of equipment.
Today, the fighting continues, Ukrainian units are being consolidated in new positions. “We emphasize that units of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation repeatedly suffered serious losses and defeats from clashes with the Third Assault earlier. Now, after restoration and regrouping, the enemy suffered a total failure. The capture and retention of the village of Andreevka is our path to a breakthrough and the key to success all further offensive," the message said.
09:12 At night, air defense destroyed all 17 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type , with which Russia attacked Ukraine, the Air Force command reported. All drones were launched from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russian Federation) and moved along different routes in the direction of the Khmelnitsky region.
08:51 Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have shelled residential areas of settlements in the Kherson region, an administrative building and a church in the Berislavsky district, a critical infrastructure facility in the Kherson region, and the territory of a plant in Kherson. One child was killed and six more people were injured, including a child.
In the Zaporozhye region, as a result of an artillery strike on Preobrazhenka, one person was injured, according to the OVA.
08:26 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 15:
personnel - about 271,440 (+470) people,
tanks - 4612 (+13),
armored combat vehicles - 8814 (+4),
artillery systems - 5972 (+28),
MLRS - 774 (+5),
air defense systems - 521 (+4),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4714 (+17),
cruise missiles - 1455 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8492 (+34),
special equipment - 889 (+0).
07:59 In this morning's report for yesterday's day, the General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops have captured Andreevka. Anna Malyar clarified that “it was difficult and the situation changed very dynamically several times yesterday.”
In total, 25 military clashes took place at the front over the past 24 hours. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bogdanovka area, in turn, the Defense Forces had partial success in the Kleshcheevka area.
In the Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Lastochkino and Avdeevka areas, as well as Maryinka, Donetsk region. In the Shakhtarsky direction, the Defense Forces hold the initiative and carry out assaults. In the Melitopol direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive, in the Verbovoy area of the Zaporozhye region, inflicting significant losses on the Russian troops in manpower and equipment.
05:54 During his visit to Washington next week, Zelensky will visit Congress, The Washington Post reports, citing sources. According to them, the visit has been agreed upon with the White House and is scheduled for Thursday, September 21. Zelensky will also meet with Biden at the White House, Reuters reports. The meeting is due to take place next week after Zelensky attends the UN General Assembly in New York.
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[Korrespondent] An agent of the partisan movement ATESH carried out a successful sabotage operation, as a result of which two trucks with enemy personnel were destroyed.
Today, September 15, an ATESH agent destroyed a group of invaders in the occupied Genichesk, Kherson region. This was reported by the TG channel of the ATESH movement.
“An agent from the RF Armed Forces knew the permanent location of the equipment and personnel of his comrades from a neighboring unit at the entrance to the city, near abandoned industrial buildings. And he hid a 10-kilogram “gift” there. At the moment the military was unloaded from the equipment, the SVP was activated. And successfully for us among two trucks,” the partisans said.
It is reported that two trucks carrying personnel were destroyed as a result.
Earlier it was reported that partisans blew up a car in Novaya Kakhovka. Russians say there are no military troops in Novaya Kakovka, which makes the attack a terrorist attack against local civilians
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Russians say there are no military troops in Novaya Kakovka
What, did they all drown when the dam was 'accidentally' blown up by the Russian operators (as the explosions were internal to the dam structure and the Ukrainians didn't have access to those areas)?
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The Russian troops meant to drop the explosives at the Ukrainian-held right bank of the Dnipro River, but instead bombed the Russian-occupied city of Nova Kakhovka, leaving people injured and multiple apartment buildings damaged, said spokesperson for Ukraine's southern command Natalia Humeniuk, according to the Kyiv Independent.
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[RIA] An American castrato promised to kill Russian journalists.
Oh dear.
No, this is not the premise of a B-category slash action movie. This is absolutely real news from the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, where what is happening is becoming “more and more wonderful.”
The official speaker of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is indeed a castrated man, a US citizen . He calls himself transgender and performs under the pseudonym Sarah Ashton-Cirillo. Yesterday, this creature released a propaganda video in which it promises that “next week the teeth of the Russian devils will grind even louder and the foam of madness will flow from their mouths as the world sees how the Kremlin’s favorite propagandist pays for their crimes. <…> We will get everyone Russian war criminals-propagandists."
To make us more frightened, Sarah speaks in a special villainous voice, rolling out vowels and whistling at hissing ones. Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are doing very badly at the front if they have to throw a former man into battle.
It is clear that Sarah’s audience is primarily residents of Independence Square. Immediately upon the release of the video, Ukrainian social networks greeted it with a friendly squeal of delight. Well, there are no illusions here for a long time. Many residents of the former Ukrainian SSR parted ways with the chimera called conscience years ago, and they really liked it.
However, Sarah’s stand-up is by no means a fake or baseless threats. We all understand everything perfectly. A year ago, Ukrainian terrorists killed Daria Dugina . This spring , Vladlen Tatarsky was blown up by order of Kiev terrorists . Zakhar Prilepin miraculously survived the assassination attempt . On July 22, the military commander of our agency, Rostislav Zhuravlev, was killed by a cluster munition.
The SBU and GUR are not going to end here . Our special services work excellently, and the Kiev regime has no ability to organize a large-scale terrorist attack like those committed in Moscow during the Caucasian wars. But targeted killings are cheap and cheerful; there will always be some disposable Trepov or Vovk. They make a lot of noise, it’s easy to sell it to the residents of Square as a victory, but preventing such terrorist attacks is incredibly difficult.
The other day, a colleague from RT, Anton Krasovsky, received a message threatening that he could repeat Dugina’s fate. Just the day before yesterday, colleague Vladislav Shurygin received death threats over the phone; a criminal case has already been opened. Why, all of us who fight for Russia regularly receive threats on social networks, three of them, they come again. This is already a routine.
Through the mouth of their castrato, the SBU, the Main Intelligence Directorate, and the entire top of the Kyiv regime speak to the world community. They quite openly, brazenly announce that they are planning a terrorist attack against a Russian journalist.
It’s surprising that the world community obediently swallows all this. Where are you, all sorts of pen-centers and Amnesty International ? You have always been a plug in every barrel. What a cry arose as soon as it seemed to you that some of your well-fed propagandists were being offended. And now everyone has stuck their tongues where the sun doesn’t look.
Of course, the fact is that all these human rights activists, and the Main Intelligence Directorate with the SBU, are directly patronized from Washington . This, by the way, is a typically American style of terrorist war: in Latin American countries, Washington always ordered local intellectuals - writers, journalists, priests - as its hirers.
There is a lot of talk that it is time to recognize Ukraine as a terrorist state. But the trick is that this is not a state at all - just a huge, well-armed gang of murderers in the pay of the main sponsor of world terrorism.
What can we say here on behalf of the “propagandists”? Can't wait, guys.
All these threats are the weapons of the losers. They only give rise to healthy anger, unite us and force us to fight until victory. It means we are doing everything right if it bothers you so much. If Washington itself, through the mouth of your speaker, places orders for us live.
An amazing thing: the Western propaganda machine employs millions of well-paid, disciplined people, its turnover amounts to trillions of dollars, and with the help of high technology they lie twenty-four hours a day without a break for lunch. This is really Leviathan.
And here we are - Russian journalists, with our scratched laptops, in a trench, in a cafe, at the airport. There really aren't that many of us. We write hastily, without any special stylistic beauty. But we write the pure truth - and it simply kills all the enemy’s false narratives.
Well, what can we do? We tried sanctions - they probably thought that without the treasured Schengen visas we would immediately pay and repent. No, it didn't work. The author of these lines has been under sanctions from both Canada and the European Union for a year now - and nothing. Now they are trying to eliminate us physically, well, well.
I would like to ask our bright-faced non-twinists: do you really think that there is no need to fight the Kyiv regime? Do you really like what they do? For many years you turned a blind eye to the death of the people of Donbass - okay, let’s say it was far away. But now this regime is ready to kill your friends on the streets of your cities. Think about whether it’s really worth protecting these bloody scoundrels.
And yes, colleagues, do not disperse the American agenda, do not write about Ashton-Cirillo in the feminine gender. This is not a woman, this is just a man without a penis - a walking metaphor for Ukrainian terrorism.
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 (15 September 2023)
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in close co-operation with aviation and artillery, repelled four attacks by AFU assault groups near Klescheevka and Mayorsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 275 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three U.S.-made M777 howitzers, as well as one Gvozdika howitzer.
Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit close to Avdeevka.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems repelled two attacks by the AFU 47th Mechanised Brigade close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
A cluster of AFU manpower and hardware of the 80th Air Assault Brigade was neutralised near Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
Over 145 Ukrainian troops and three motor vehicles were eliminated.
In counter-battery warfare, two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, one UK-made FH-70 gun, three 122mm D-30 and one 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed.
In Krasny Liman direction, well-coordinated actions of the Tsentr Group of Forces, strikes by Army Aviation and artillery fire repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 63rd Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 55 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 gun were eliminated.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces repelled an AFU attack close to Novomayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Aviation and artillery inflicted losses on the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Vladimirovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The total losses of the enemy in this direction amounted to over 175 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 152mm D-20 gun.
In Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Sin'kova, Berestovoye, and Kislovka (Khar'kov region).
Up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M109 Paladin and one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radiation station have been neutralised.
An ammunition depot of the AFU 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade has been obliterated close to Kislovka.
In Kherson direction, up to 75 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, and two 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers were neutralised.
Moreover, an ammunition depot of the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade was neutralised close to Antonovka.
In the past 24 hours, the Black Sea Fleet detected and destroyed two AFU unmanned semi-submersible vehicles in the south-western part of the Black Sea.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 137 areas during the day.
In addition, a communication station of the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was hit close to Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
One P-18 radar for detecting and tracking air targets was destroyed near Novolozovatovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Russian air defence forces intercepted three HIMARS MLRS projectiles.
Moreover, 41 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles shot down close to Maloryazantsevo, Lisichansk (Lugansk People's Republic), Novoandreevka Artyomovsk, Gorlovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Pologi, and Tokmak (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 467 airplanes and 249 helicopters, 6,800 unmanned aerial vehicles, 437 air defence missile systems, 11,865 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,150 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,394 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,019 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:01 RF Armed ForcesdestroyEnemy DRG in the Bakhmut direction 19:31 Fights south of Artyomovsk: situation in Andreevka and Kleshcheevka:
In recent days, all attention has been focused on these two villages, which were practically wiped off the face of the earth. The enemy storms them with frenzy, suffering heavy losses. However, he fails to completely occupy them. Related to this is the incident of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, who hastened to announce the occupation of Andreevka. In fact, both villages are mostly in the gray zone.
- Kleshcheevka. Despite the fact that the enemy managed to push our troops back to the north-eastern part of the village, ours launched a number of counterattacks and improved their positions
– Andreevka has not yet been taken by the enemy, they managed to push it back. The work of artillery on both sides does not stop. Intense shooting battles are taking place for the village, reports RT military correspondent M. Gazdiev
It is interesting that Andreevka is being stormed by the highly promoted 3rd Assault Brigade “Azov” of motivated Nazis, but they still cannot take the village completely. But she managed to invent some losses in the command staff of the brigade opposing her.
19:00 Destroyed balconies, a crumpled car, bullet holes and craters from Western rounds - so looks residential area in Novaya Kakhovka, which was shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces today.
According to the head of the administration, the attack was carried out with a missile filled with destructive elements.
18:30 The field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces turned into a crematorium after arrival of UAV "Lancet" in the Svatovo-Kremenny direction
Near the Serebryansky forest, the enemy army set up a field warehouse with ammunition, but was suddenly destroyed by our airborne special forces. Probably, sensing the approaching death, the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants ran into their makeshift shack, where our Lancet kamikaze UAV had already flown out.
Each shell hidden in the warehouse brought the death of the militants closer by secondary detonation. At the missile storage site there are now only charred remains - no one can hide from our “birds”.
18:27 Destruction of the American counter-battery radar AN/TPQ-50 in the Krasnolimansk direction. Each such installation costs more than $1 million, and they are in short supply. Artillery work of the 348th Regiment -video.
18:23 In the DPR from 09/08/23. – 09.14.23. Six civilians were killed by the aggression of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and another 34 people were injured. This was reported by the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic.
18:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 15, as of 18:00, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:
17:27 Kherson direction situation as of 17.00 September 15, 2023
In the island zone of the Dnieper, the situation remains the same: the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still sending reconnaissance groups to consolidate on the islands, from which they plan to attack the left bank of the Dnieper in the future.
Over the past 24 hours, one boat attempted to deliver personnel to the northwestern part of Aleshkinsky Island, where it was destroyed by concentrated rocket artillery fire.
And another craft landed on Kozatsky Island from the northeast, where it was sunk by an accurate artillery strike. Moreover, a few hours earlier, two DRGs had landed from the north.
The creation of another tactical group, Normandy, looks interesting. This is already the third formation of this kind in the Kherson direction: there are also “Grom” and “Omaha”.
And the name itself clearly alludes to the operation of the Allied forces to land troops in Normandy in June 1944. Such symbolism is characteristic of the Ukrainian authorities, and it is likely that this group will take an active part in crossing the Dnieper and storming the Kherson region.
17:10 A total of 15 people were injured as a result of today’s artillery attack of Nova Kakhovka by Ukrainian nationalists, reports the Ministry of Health of the Kherson region
Doctors provide emergency medical care to the victims and take them to one of the medical institutions in the region. A total of 14 patients are being treated on an outpatient basis; one victim with shrapnel wounds was hospitalized at the Genichesk Central District Hospital.
Ambulance crews continue to be on duty at the scene.
16:54 They report that the Russian Armed Forces crossed the Oskol River in the Kupyansk direction
Units of the 138th Guards Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces crossed the Oskol River near the village of Novomlynsk on a wide front of almost four kilometers, thus entering the rear of the enemy group in the area of an important crossing near the village of Dvurechnaya.
16:39 They report a powerful airstrike on the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kupyansk.
According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, explosions were allegedly heard between Kalinovo and Golubovka, as well as near Peschany in the Kupyansky district. Previously, there were warehouses and temporary deployment points for the 14th, 41st and 88th Mechanized Infantry Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
16:00 The number of victims in Novaya Kakhovka after the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces increased from 12 to 15 people.
15:18 The situation in the Zaporozhye direction, the Diary of a Paratrooper reports:
In the area of the village Rabotino
Fighting is still going on, we are advancing, enemy forces are advancing, after being hit by artillery fire, the enemy forces are retreating.
Heavy artillery fire is being conducted along the entire line.
Northeast of the village In Rabotino, where there are no populated areas, our Paratroopers are well entrenched and holding their lines.
The enemy has been actively using cluster munitions for the last three days, enemy artillery and mortar crews are actively working: the 82mm and 120mm mortars. A Polish 60mm mortar is also operational.
Almost throughout the entire sector, without any significant changes, the enemy did not attempt a breakthrough and did not occupy new positions.
N.p. Verbovoye is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and there is no enemy near Verbovoye.
All attacks by the DRG in small groups of up to 15 people and enemy armored vehicles are destroyed by artillery or our assault units.
15:15 Military expert Boris Rozhin about the main moments during a special military operation of the Russian Federation in one day by 14.39 Moscow time on September 15, 2023:
Zaporozhye direction:
Attacks in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy do not bring success to the enemy. Still no progress. Plans to break through between Rabotino and Verbov cannot be realized, therefore, due to the exhaustion of operational reserves, it is necessary to transfer units from other directions in order to maintain inertia and delay the moment of official abandonment of the offensive due to its failure.
In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, for political reasons, continue to conduct offensive actions in conditions where it has long ago entered the saturation stage. A similar situation developed in the Pyatikhatki area, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive fizzled out even earlier.
Vremevsky ledge:
Here the situation is identical to the situation in the Zaporozhye region. The enemy was bogged down in battles in the areas of Priyutnoye, Staromayorsky, Urozhaynoye, Novomayorsky and Novodonetsky.
After attempts to change the focus to attacks on Novomayorskoye, the enemy has now reduced the intensity of attacks and is regrouping.
As in the Zaporozhye direction, in some areas the enemy began to equip their new positions with engineering equipment in anticipation of mud roads and possible active actions of the Russian Armed Forces.
Donetsk direction:
The Russian Armed Forces remain active south and north of Marinka, but there has been no significant progress yet. Fighting continues at the ventilation shaft of the Trudovskaya mine. In the city itself there are no changes, as, indeed, in Novomikhailovka and Ugledar.
In the Avdeevka area, fighting continues north of Opytny, Nevelskoye and near Krasnogorovka. There are no special changes.
Artemovsk direction:
The main battles continue on the Kleshcheevka-Andreevka-Kurdyumovka line.
The enemy continues to try to gain a foothold in the ruins of Andreevka, which as a settlement. completely destroyed. The main positions of the RF Armed Forces are near the railway tracks. The enemy is sitting in the landings and at nearby heights.
Both sides claim control of the village, but in fact neither side has complete control over it. Fighting continues in the southern part of Kleshcheevka and in the area of adjacent plantings. Both sides are bringing additional forces here. The situation near Kurdyumovka is stable, the village is under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces. North of Artemovsk the situation is stable, local enemy attacks have been repelled. On the Seversky ledge and in the Soledar direction - without any special changes. In the Belogorovka area, our troops were able to take several oporniks, but it is too early to talk about serious progress.
Svatovo-Kupyanskoe direction:
Our troops again repelled local enemy attacks in the forest west of Kremennaya and continued the offensive towards Oskol, west of Svatovo. The pace of progress is not very high right now.
In the Kupyansk area, our troops continued to put pressure on the enemy in the Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, and Masyutovka areas. The enemy continues to evacuate areas adjacent to Kupyansk.
15:11 Special forces of the Airborne Forces hit a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank with strikes from the Lancet kamikaze UAV in the Kherson direction -video.
14:55 Andrey Gurulev, deputy of the State Duma, reports on the situation at the front without reference to specific areas:
“The enemy, having specifically run into our forces at the beginning of his counteroffensive, changed his combat tactics. They are no longer moving forward in large forces; they were obviously forbidden to abandon heavy equipment en masse.
Today they have switched to squeeze-out tactics, they are massively using cluster rounds, inflicting fire on the strong points of our units, assault groups, they have a lot of ammunition, they are trying to burn out absolutely everything. Yes, this situation forces our troops to retreat deeper. Not far, but in some places they lost up to 10 kilometers of territory. The enemy has somewhere occupied our defensive positions, which are very well equipped by our own hands.
After the refraction of the defense line, the enemies created conditions that made it impossible for our helicopters to use anti-tank missiles; due to the deflection of the line, they became accessible to enemy MANPADS. The efficiency of our helicopters has decreased.
The enemy has learned to work with our very well-made minefields. They competently clear them of mines, inflicting artillery fire and using trawls.
Our artillery has improved the quality of counter-battery warfare. There are results, but again the enemy is adapting. Basically, all of its guns are installed in depth at a distance inaccessible to our artillery. An estimated two artillery brigades were concentrated in the “hottest” directions, not counting the artillery of local brigades. We burned a lot of their towed artillery, they switched to using self-propelled guns. Our people say that it is very difficult, almost impossible, to catch them; after the second sighting shot they move and change position.
They have a lot of unmanned vehicles and even more. We have also adapted here, and over the last 2-3 weeks we have effectively begun to destroy them. Verba and Strela-10 air defense systems work well against UAVs. But the crests have a lot of drones, they use them wisely, you see these attacks not only at the front, but also in our deep rear.
The main conclusion is that the war continues. Yes, we are stronger, our warriors are stronger and more courageous, our troops are more professional. We endure, we adapt, we adapt, we win, we have already laid down a lot of the enemy’s manpower. But it is foolish to deny that today NATO with all its advanced technologies is fighting against us. We will win in any case, but Victory is separated from us only by one serious problem of ours - lies.
Yes, there is less of it than there was at the beginning of the SVO, but it is there. There are at different levels, they talk about it in the troops. False reports, unfortunately, lead to poor decisions at many levels. It exists, let’s acknowledge it and fight it, otherwise there will be trouble.”
13:29 On the situation in Andreevka and Kleshcheevka (Artemovskoe direction, Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka line)
n.p. Andreevka - The Armed Forces of Ukraine in radio intercepts talk about the defeated 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in Andreevka, only the commander of the 72nd Brigadedoes not know about it.
Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were severely punished for their nightly insolence in Kleshcheevka. Both n.p. under the RF Armed Forces. The enemy rolled back to their positions, again throwing 200x and 300x and the broken MaxxPro.
The situation around Artemovsk, or more precisely in its southwestern area, is still difficult.
12:27 The Russian army hits enemy equipment with the help of the Lancet UAV - footage from the battlefield in the Kherson region.
In the Kherson direction, the Russian army is actively using the domestic Lancet UAV, developed specifically for the destruction of ground equipment and artillery. In addition to its own camera, the kamikaze drone works in conjunction with a reconnaissance UAV, which shoots video from above, thanks to which the operator clearly sees the result of his actions and, if necessary, delivers another, final blow.
On frames it can be seen how an airborne special forces soldier directed the Lancet towards the enemy T-72 tank and attacked it, before one of the crew members managed to leave the combat vehicle. The first strike damaged but did not destroy the tank, to which the surviving militant returned. Next, a second blow was delivered that completely disabled the T-72, as a result of which the equipment caught fire.
11:32 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:
At the Vremevsky site the day passed relatively calmly. In the area of Novomayorsky, to the north, a moving enemy ARV was discovered; after the fire, the enemy abandoned the vehicle and ran away to land. Also during the night, several small infantry groups of up to five people each were seen retreating through forest belts towards Prechistovka. To the west of Novodonetsk, the activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was suppressed by the artillery of the 36th Army. Also, the guns of Group V worked on the enemy’s air defense in the near rear (Velikaya Novoselka-Zolotaya Niva-Prechistovka, etc.).
To the north of Priyutnoye, fire strikes are also carried out on positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zelenoye Pole-Temirovka-Novodarovka area. No significant enemy activity was detected.
There are no changes in the Ugledarsky section. Artillery duels.
10:37 Regarding fights for Kleshcheevka and Andreevka you need to understand the following:
Firstly, the southern flank of Artyomovsk remains practically the only place where active hostilities are taking place. There is no such activity on the northern front, since the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is aware of all the risks of major attacks from this direction.
Secondly, Andreevka, which is located between Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka, is a village of literally two streets, to which only two roads lead. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have a theoretical opportunity to go there, but there is nowhere to gain a foothold: instead of houses there are ruins. It is not easy to transfer heavy equipment: the terrain and many other things have an effect. The technique after the transfer may appear in full view.
Thirdly, the situation in the Andreevka area may lead the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the creation of a “mini-Rabotino” situation, when units that do not have the opportunity to immediately move on can accumulate on a relatively small piece of land.
Andreevka itself is located on a slope, and from the west, from where the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to occupy it, only part of the village can be held, but the risk of destruction of Ukrainian troops in this case increases manifold.
There is no point in discussing the capture or non-capture of the village - this part has long been in the gray zone, since both the enemy and the RF Armed Forces understand that it is impossible to hold this area for a long time, and the losses will be huge. At the same time, any tactical success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction is temporary and the situation must be assessed not at any particular point in time, but as a whole.
10:15 During the day, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 70 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces, and 224 units of ammunition were fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 47 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Gorlovsky - 17 artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky - Five artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Volnovakha – One artillery attack from 155mm caliber artillery. The enemy fired at Donetsk, Makeevka, Valer'yanovka, Yasinovatsky district, Gorlovka, Gol'movsky, Zaitsev, Mikhailovka.
Over the past 24 hours, two civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Kiev region of Donetsk and Vesely. Six residential buildings and two civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in Donetsk and Valer'yanovka.
10:10 Personnel consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery attack of a residential area in Novaya Kakhovka. At least four multi-storey buildings were damaged. So far there is information about three civilians killed. The city authorities have created an operational headquarters.
09:50 Fights in Kurdyumovka (DPR) they are so intense that there are breaks between attacks of a maximum of half an hour. RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa spoke with Russian military personnel.
Almost everything prohibited in the world flies from the enemy’s side, as the fighters say. During the day there are a lot of kamikaze drones and cluster munitions.
“It is advisable not to go outside [from cover] at all [during the day], because one second can take your life,” says an attack aircraft with the call sign Angel.
Soldiers of the Akhmat special forces are training in positions against the enemy with the support of artillery of the Russian Armed Forces. All approaches to the village are mined so that not a single Ukrainian Armed Forces militant will enter it.
The place is strategic: through Kurdyumovka the enemy is trying to get to the road to Artyomovsk. But, as our soldiers say, we will not give up the village.
09:27 The work of the ATGM crews of the army special forces “Osman” to destroy the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhovsky direction -video.
09:23 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:
-- village of Saga seven rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery seven rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoe eight rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan eight rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka 6 rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Krynki, Korsunka, firing a total of 34 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and infrastructure damage are being determined
09:05 Near Belogorovka, the Russian Army took five oporniks, movement to the village. Fun. This is reported by Whisper Front.
08:50 Personnel combat work of crews of “roaming” 82mm automatic mortars “Vasilyok” in the Kupyansk direction.
08:35 The enemy made several attempts to storm the village. Verbovoe
The assault groups were destroyed by artillery fire and drops from a quadcopter, reports the Archangel of Special Forces. The evacuation could not arrive. Two MaxxPro vehicles were also hit.
08:19 Frontline summary on the morning of 09/15/2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with artillery support, attacked at Novprokopovka and Verbovoy. And the Russian Armed Forces will flank the Ukrainian troops from Lugovsky.
Russian troops are trying to cut off the flanks of the advancing Ukrainian Armed Forces group. The fighting near Verbovoy was actually just north-west of the village. Russian troops - attacks on Kamensky, Zapasny, Orekhov and Gulyai-Polye. Ukrainian - according to the Russian Armed Forces in Nesteryanki, Kopany, Il'chenkovo and Novofedorivka.
At the Ugledar site there is relative silence on the ground. Mutual attacks. The RF Armed Forces on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bolshaya Novosyolka, Urozhainy and Ugledar. Ukrainian army in Russian positions - in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie, Staromlynovka, Novodonetsk and Novomayorsky.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with artillery support, tried to storm Kurdyumovka. No success. The Russian Armed Forces counterattacked in the Andreevka area and regained a number of lost positions. The heights to the east are behind Russian troops. Ukrainian units also tried to enter Bakhmut from the southwest. No promotion.
Attack of the Russian Armed Forces on Bogdanovka. In this sector, the initiative has already passed to Russian troops. The artillery of the Russian Armed Forces worked against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kleshcheevka, Khromov and Sporny. Ukrainian - for Russian positions in Andreevka, Bakhmut and Soledar. To the north of the last of these settlements, an intensification of hostilities is possible in the near future.
In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, launched an attack on Belogorovka and much further to the north in the Berestovoe area. Under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Torskoye, Novosadovo, Ostrovsky and Kislovka.
08:11 Ukrainian militantsinflictedattacks with incendiary rounds on the forest belt. They do this purposefully, trying to burn out the entire forest belt so that the Russian positions are in full view for them. During daylight hours, you can see large areas of burnt forest belt - the enemy, through his actions, is destroying the unique nature of the Kherson region.
Militants are constantly trying to storm this reserve. But any attempts to cross the Dnieper end the same way.
08:10 Summary on the morning of September 15, 2023:
At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched Geranium strikes against enemy targets in the Khmelnitsky, Chernivtsi, Kirovograd and Nikolaev regions.
Artillery duels continue in the Kherson region; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are strengthening their positions in the northeastern part of the region along the Dnieper. In front-line settlements, regional authorities of Ukraine announced a mandatory evacuation of families with children.
On the Zaporozhye front there are battles near Rabotino and Verbovoy. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not stop sending personnel and equipment under fire from our artillery and aviation. The front line remains unchanged.
Heavy fighting continues south of Artemovsk (Bakhmut): the Ukrainian Armed Forces have concentrated their main efforts in the area of ??Kleshcheevka and Andreevka. Reports about the occupation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Andreevka were denied yesterday by official speakers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Bryansk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at Azarovka of the Starodub municipal district. In the Kursk region, a village is under fire. Tyotkino, Glushkovsky district, flights to the distillery area. The forklift driver was fatally wounded; the man died before the ambulance arrived. Gordeevka, Korenevsky district, was shelled twice. In the DPR, two civilians were wounded from artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:07 Pushilin’s advisor Yan Gagin told details of the destruction of the first British tank Challenger 2: Russian soldiers deliberately hunted for it
08:05 Military groups “Vostok” fought off attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction, the enemy, having suffered losses, retreated. This was announced by the head of the press center of the Vostok group, Oleg Chekhov.
According to him, the artillery hit the temporary deployment point of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ugledar, two ammunition depots in Uglesborochnaya, as well as the temporary deployment points of the 37th and 38th Naval Infantry Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Prechistovka and Zolotaya Niva. The Starlink satellite station and the control center for unmanned aircraft were destroyed. And one tank of the group forced a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment to retreat.
08:00 In the morning, Russian “Geranis” arrived in Ukraine - explosions were heard in the Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky regions.
In Ukraine, towards the morning, explosions began to be heard in a number of regions, including in Vinnitsa and Khmel'nitsky - presumably in the latter, Russian “Gerani” are working on facilities located in Starokonstantinov. So, there is a military airfield there, which is a legitimate target for destruction by the Russian army.
07:50 Chronicle of special military operation: events of September 14, 2023:
For the second day in a row, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are carrying out attacks on military targets in Crimea and the Black Sea. Thus, an S-300 air defense missile launcher near Uyutny was hit by an anti-ship cruise missile.At the same time, a massive drone raid was launched on the peninsula. A total of 11 enemy drones were neutralized in the skies over Yevpatoria.
Five Ukrainian unmanned boats attempted to attack the Black Sea Fleet ship Sergei Kotov. All attacking targets were promptly detected and destroyed by the crew using standard weapons
Ukrainian formations continue to shell settlements in the Kursk region. As a result of the strikes, civilian and industrial facilities were damaged. One person was killed and another was injured.
On the Vremyevsky sector of the front, after unsuccessful attempts to capture the villages of Novomayorskoye and Novodonetskoye, the enemy went on the defensive. Due to large losses in the rear, assault groups in this direction are being rotated and re-equipped.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again attacked Russian defensive formations at the Priyutnoye-Staromayorskoye line. Russian units successfully repelled the attack, forcing the enemy to retreat to their original positions.
In the Kherson direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper. Another landing on Aleshkinsky Island was disrupted, some of the watercraft were destroyed, the rest chose to retreat.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] A video from the phone of an Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter records a real war crime. Captured Russian soldiers at gunpoint walk into a minefield accompanied by calm comments: “They are going well. It just takes a long time." At some point, shooting starts - obviously, the prisoners are being driven forward like this. Then an explosion.
Does the person filming realize that he is a criminal? Obviously not. In the same way, German soldiers and officers gladly filmed how someone shoots people in the head, hangs them, photographed torn bodies, beaten, exhausted prisoners of war, without feeling any remorse. They were explained that all of these were not really people. And they themselves are representatives of a great nation, fighting for a great cause, cleansing the earth of all evil spirits. Therefore, everything is possible, no one will be punished.
The “patriot of Ukraine” feels exactly the same way, in whom feelings of superiority and impunity have been cultivated for many years, reinforced by the many crimes they committed in the not yet Russian Donbass. If you “defend the Motherland,” almost any sins will be written off to you. This is not difficult to notice in any conflict that gets into the network: as soon as they try to punish someone for committing an abomination, it immediately turns out that such a thing cannot be done. After all, this is either a volunteer, or a veteran, or a hero of the Maidan.
The latter, however, have already been forgotten. But the principle remains; it was invented ten centuries ago by the Catholic Church under the name “indulgence.” By taking part in a misanthropic, destructive project, any person receives atonement for future sins. Some crimes justify others that have not yet been committed.
It’s just that all this doesn’t seem to exist.
There is only one dimension of reality, in which for eight years the terrorists in Donetsk fired at themselves, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces only watched in horror. In which peace-loving Ukraine, democratic and European, striving for creative work, was suddenly subjected to aggression, although for the same eight years it convinced everyone around that it was at war with Russia. And before that, everything bad that happened in it was the machinations of the Kremlin and its agents. Again, not a single one was found to blame among our own people.
Therefore, Zelensky goes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to give speeches in court. The UN's independent international commission of inquiry into violations in Ukraine visited four regions and concluded that war crimes had been committed there by the Russian army. European countries are involved in the Ukrainian initiative to create a special tribunal “for the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine”; it already includes 32 countries. The commission noticed destroyed residential buildings, listened to the testimony of witnesses, looked into the pits with dead people and understood everything overnight, without even delving into the details.
Details arise casually and are immediately drowned out: well, yes, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used cluster munitions to shell their own cities. And what?
“There is no count of crimes,” the Ukrainian press chokes with indignation. And he demands to punish everyone who shot, beat, tortured, killed and robbed. And most importantly, punishment for the “ideological masterminds.” If we again draw historical analogies, then the Ukrainian occupation press spoke in the same spirit in 1941–1943. The main thematic blocks are about the victories of German weapons and the wise decisions of the Fuhrer; devastating articles about subversive activities and numerous crimes of Jews and “soviets”
Surely the writer does not mean to imply that the crimes of the “soviets” were merely imaginary!
and, finally, numerous testimonies about the awakening of the Ukrainian spirit. Ultimatums to “speak in Ukrainian” and excursions into the unique history of a nation that has risen after the Moscow yoke.
Then, too, the matter seemed resolved to everyone.
All of Europe united in a single impulse to put an end to evil in the East once and for all, and the best patriots of the Ukrainian Reich Commissariat and the Galicia District stood shoulder to shoulder with it. And, judging by the same newspapers, things were always going well for them.
Only somehow it all turned out that in the end they turned out to be war criminals, whose cases were filed in huge volumes. And the “ideological masterminds” began to be hanged in Nuremberg. And what’s most interesting is that Europe completely agreed with this. Moreover, there were a huge number of witnesses to crimes committed by the “forces of good” and their voluntary assistants. And among the latter there were a huge number of people who wanted to tell the details of the lives of their colleagues, just to preserve their own.
Now no one notices the ideological inspirers of the war in Ukraine itself, who diligently fueled it since 2014. They never noticed destroyed houses and schools, artillery strikes on hospitals, torture, rape, illegal imprisonment, shootings of civilian vehicles and simply people who inopportunely caught the eye of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or murderers from volunteer battalions. How point blank they don’t see the abuse of prisoners or the missiles launched at Konstantinovka for the sake of a picture for the arrival of a distinguished guest from Washington. European and Ukrainian newspapers are again full of reports about an imminent victory.
It is all the more important to carefully document all crimes of past years. Record video interviews of living witnesses who have suffered grief. Collect and attribute footage like this of guys walking through a minefield. And not just putting it in a drawer for later, but now showing it to people all over the world in many accessible ways.
The foundation of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who is directly involved in inciting war in Donbass and war crimes, is promoting the Internet project “Voices of Peaceful”. It contains more than eight thousand interviews of people selected to show a picture of the world that is favorable to manipulators and liars. The testimonies of hundreds of thousands whose lives have been destroyed by Ukraine are just waiting for such an opportunity. But for the new Nuremberg, their words will outweigh any manipulation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Stanistav Stremidlovsky
[REGNUM] Following the synod held in Rome from September 3 to 13, the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church made two “important decisions.”
During the discussion, special attention was paid to the relations of the UGCC with the public. The reason for this decision was criticism in Ukraine and beyond the statements of Pope Francis during a video conference with Russian Catholic youth gathered in St. Petersburg.
Let us recall that the pontiff called on Russian young people to remember the great Mother Russia and the great emperors Peter I and Catherine II. In Ukraine, these words were perceived as a transition to “pro-Russian positions” in the current conflict. This rebounded on the local Greek Catholics, who are under the canonical subordination of the Vatican.
According to the American Catholic portal Crux, the bishops decided to develop a program for recruiting Greek Catholics who could represent the UGCC “in the outside world, becoming, in essence, its full-time diplomats.” Moreover, it is planned that they will work “ along with the diplomatic and communication efforts of the Vatican.”
The second solution is also related to this.
Since, as the Ukrainian conflict does not end, more and more refugees who left Ukraine abroad are settling in new places of residence, fears are growing that these people will never “return to Ukraine” again, as a result the Church will be split, and the bulk of believers will be live abroad ." Therefore, the bishops intend to intensify missionary work on church care and accompaniment of the diaspora.
The new approaches outlined by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church indicate that it is ceasing to connect its future with Ukraine.
As British Bishop Kenneth Novakovsky, who took part in the synod in Rome, noted, under the leadership of the head of the UGCC, Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk, “we are increasingly developing our Church not only in Ukraine, but throughout the world.”
The second direction is now, apparently, becoming a priority.
Although at the beginning of 2022, the leadership of the Greek Catholics and Ukrainian officials affiliated with them were optimistic about the chances of establishing the UGCC as the dominant Church in Ukraine.
“ It is absolutely desirable for the state to strengthen the authority, prestige and status of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ,” he stated in those days in an interview with the LB portal. Ambassador of Ukraine to the Holy See Andrey Yurash. “The UGCC is a very dynamic structure and a religious community with enormous potential (perhaps the greatest internal) in our state.”
But first it was necessary to create a situation where pressure would be put on the Holy See, which actively interacts with Russia, to shift the balance in favor of accepting Kyiv’s arguments.
This could not be done. Vivid disappointment in the Vatican was demonstrated in May of this year following a meeting with Pope Francis by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who stated that he did not need the mediation services of the Holy See.
The last goal against the Greek Catholic goal was recently scored by Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine. In an interview with the Ukrainian Channel 24, he actually accused the Holy See of corruption, stating “the Russian Federation’s investments in the Vatican Bank (Institute of Religious Affairs - Author’s note )” and that it should be “analyzed in more detail.”
Archbishop Shevchuk tried to minimize the damage to Greek Catholics from such accusations. He said that the Ukrainian ambassadors to Italy and the Holy See assured him that Podolyak’s speech was a “personal opinion.”
At the same time, the head of the UGCC admitted that if earlier Pope Francis was the most respected religious leader in Ukraine, now “ his popularity has fallen to 3%, and after the misunderstanding with “Mother Russia” I cannot say how many Ukrainians today talk about their full confidence in dad."
However, the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church cannot afford to intensify nationalist rhetoric, thus distancing themselves from the Holy See and its “pro-Russian” nature.
As the Italian Catholic portal ACI Stampa notes, following the synod in Rome, the UGCC is expected to be “a national, but also a global Church, which must also renounce nationalism.”
Of course, this will not be easy for Greek Catholics to do, even in a number of foreign countries.
For example, in Poland, where Uniate parishes perceive themselves as the only instrument for preserving the national spirit in local communities facing serious Polish cultural pressure. The answer to this is seen by Greek Catholics as efforts to preserve the Ukrainian language and the Ukrainian version of shared history.
In Ukraine itself, in turn, a situation may arise when the only way to preserve the Greek Catholic dioceses as a “national Church” will be their transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, from which “globalism” is not required.
It is possible that such Uniates will repeat the Lvov Council of 1946, the initiators of which, as noted by political scientist Oleg Khavich, were Greek Catholic priests who relied on the desire of their parishioners to return to Orthodoxy.
Speaking in October 2016 at St. Michael's College University in Canada, Archbishop Shevchuk emphasized: “We are a completely Orthodox Church, with Orthodox theology, liturgy, spirituality and canonical tradition.” Thus, the Uniates who disagree with the departure of the UGCC to the West will lose practically nothing by joining the OCU.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] By the end of this year, the Russian Navy will receive 12 ships, including surface and submarine ones, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on September 15 at a meeting at the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet (PF).
“Two ships have already been commissioned this year, and twelve more will arrive by the end of the year,” Shoigu said.
According to him, among them are the frigate Admiral Golovko, the strategic missile submarine Emperor Alexander III and the nuclear submarine Krasnoyarsk.
As Regnum reported earlier, in 2023 it is planned to receive three Project 22,800 Karakurt ships into the Russian Navy, which are capable of delivering high-precision missile strikes.
These ships are capable, operating in the near sea zone, of delivering high-precision missile strikes against critical targets on land and enemy ships at sea. The head of the Russian Ministry of Defense also recalled that in July the Black Sea Fleet was replenished with a serial ship of this project, the Cyclone.
The man is positively scraggly looking these days.
[Regnum] Army General Sergei Surovikin is in Algeria as part of a delegation from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Izvestia newspaper reports, citing a source.
“Officially, this is not a military visit, but an intergovernmental meeting during which weapons systems are proposed,” the newspaper’s interlocutor clarified, adding that the meeting was attended by high-ranking officers who themselves used these weapons in the special operation zone.
According to the publication’s source, Surovikin is in Algeria as an honored guest, without a position.
As IA Regnum reported, in early September, journalist Ksenia Sobchak published a fresh photo on the Telegram channel, allegedly of General Sergei Surovikin and his wife.
On August 23, Colonel General Viktor Afzalov was appointed acting commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces instead of Surovikin, who was relieved of his post. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov recommended that all questions regarding Surovikin be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.
[Regnum] Slovakia will unilaterally extend the ban on the import of grain from Ukraine, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic reported on September 15 to the Slovak TV channel Markiza.
“The Minister of Agriculture confirmed to TV channel Markiza that Slovakia will unilaterally extend the ban,” the publication said.
According to the TV channel, the ban on the import of grain from Ukraine from Slovakia will begin to apply on the night of September 15-16.
As Regnum reported , the European Commission previously announced that it would not extend the embargo on the supply of Ukrainian grain to the European Union, which was in force until September 15. The European Commission noted that Ukraine pledged to take measures to prevent surges in grain supplies to the European Union, and also to present an action plan to control grain exports to the EU by September 18.
Despite the decision of the European Commission to lift the embargo, Poland announced on September 15 the extension of the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain. According to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki , Warsaw will not listen to Brussels or Berlin, stressing that the embargo will be extended starting at midnight on 16 September.
Following Poland, Hungary introduced a similar ban. As Hungarian Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy noted , Budapest will ban the import of 24 goods from Ukraine. In addition to grains, it included beef, pork, lamb, goat meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, honey, sunflower seeds, and wine.
Hungary has introduced a ban on the import of 24 types of agricultural products from Ukraine, according to a government decree. The supply of grain, vegetables, meat and honey was banned.
As Regnum reported, on September 15, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw would extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain, despite the decision of the European Commission to lift the embargo. He added that Warsaw would not listen to Brussels or Berlin, stressing that the embargo would be extended starting at midnight on September 16.
Earlier, the European Commission announced that it would not extend the embargo on the supply of Ukrainian grain to the European Union, which was in force until September 15. The European Commission noted that Ukraine pledged to take measures to prevent surges in grain supplies to the European Union, and also to present an action plan to control grain exports to the EU by September 18.
Representatives of Ukraine at a meeting on the export of agricultural products accused Poland of deliberately obstructing the transit of Ukrainian grain. One of the accusations was that Poland deliberately introduced veterinary controls in order to prolong waiting times at border crossings, where products remain idle for almost two weeks.
In the spring of 2023, Polish farmers went on strike due to the fall in grain prices by almost half. The price collapse was triggered by the import of cheaper grain into the country from Ukraine. The Polish authorities said that they would put first not the interests of Ukraine, but the interests of their own economy. Similar statements were made in Hungary.
Representatives of Ukraine at a meeting on the export of agricultural products accused Poland of deliberately obstructing the transit of Ukrainian grain. This was reported by the Polish radio station RMF FM.
“A very tense situation has arisen due to the unusually emotional behavior of the Ukrainian side,” one EU diplomat who participated in a meeting on Ukrainian exports told the publication.
One of the accusations was that Poland deliberately introduced veterinary controls in order to prolong waiting times at border crossings, where products remain idle for almost two weeks.
At the same time, the European diplomat noted that emotions will not help in this situation - history has economic and political dimensions.
Everyone is waiting for September 15, when the EU will decide to extend the ban on grain imports from Ukraine.
As Regnum reported , the authorities of Ukraine and Poland began an “agrarian war” due to Warsaw’s possible ban on the import of Ukrainian grain.
The “seed of discord” was sown in the spring of 2023, when Polish farmers went on strike because grain prices had almost halved. The collapse was provoked by the import of cheaper grain from Ukraine into the country. In addition, on the eve of the elections, Polish politicians are making loud statements about agricultural relations with Ukraine.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sent an ultimatum to the European Commission on September 12 to extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain into the country.
The politician made an unequivocal demand: either the EU will extend the ban on the import of four types of Ukrainian grain on September 15, or we ourselves will extend this ban.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Zaporozhye direction.
Attacks in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy do not bring success to the enemy. Still no progress.
Plans to break through between Rabotino and Verbov cannot be realized, therefore, due to the exhaustion of operational reserves, it is necessary to transfer units from other directions in order to maintain inertia and delay the moment of official abandonment of the offensive due to its failure.
In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, for political reasons, continue to conduct offensive actions in conditions where it has long ago entered the saturation stage. A similar situation developed in the Pyatikhatki area, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive fizzled out even earlier.
2. Vremevsky ledge.
Here the situation is identical to the situation in the Zaporozhye region. The enemy was bogged down in battles in the areas of Priyutnoye, Staromayorsky, Urozhaynoye, Novomayorsky and Novodonetsky.
After attempts to change the focus to attacks on Novomayorskoye, the enemy has now reduced the intensity of attacks and is regrouping.
As in the Zaporozhye direction, in some areas the enemy began to equip their new positions with engineering equipment in anticipation of mud roads and possible active actions of the Russian Armed Forces.
3. Donetsk direction.
The Russian Armed Forces remain active south and north of Mar'inka, but there has been no significant progress yet. Fighting continues at the ventilation shaft of the Trudovskoy mine.
In the city itself there are no changes, as, indeed, in Novomikhailovka and Ugledar.
In the Avdeevka area, fighting continues north of Opytny, Nevelskoye and near Krasnogorovka. There are no special changes.
4. Artyomovsk direction.
The main battles continue on the Kleshcheevka-Andreevka-Kurdyumovka line.
The enemy continues to try to gain a foothold in the ruins of Andreevka, which as a settlement is completely destroyed.
The main positions of the RF Armed Forces are near the railway tracks. The enemy is sitting in the plantings and at nearby heights.
Both sides claim control of the village, but in fact neither side has complete control over it.
Fighting continues in the southern part of Kleshcheevka and in the area of adjacent plantings. Both sides are bringing additional forces here.
The situation near Kurdyumovka is stable, the village is under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces. North of Artemovsk the situation is stable, local enemy attacks have been repelled.
On the Seversky ledge and in the Soledar direction - without any special changes.
In the Belogorovka area, our troops were able to take several oporniks, but it is too early to talk about serious progress.
5. Svatovo-Kupyanskoe direction.
Our troops again repelled local enemy attacks in the forest west of Kremennaya and continued the offensive towards Oskol, west of Svatovo. The pace of progress is not very high right now.
In the Kupyansk area, our troops continued to put pressure on the enemy in the area of Sin'kovka, Petropavlovka, Masyutovka. The enemy continues to evacuate areas adjacent to Kupyansk.
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PS. The photo shows the ruins of Andreevka, for which fierce fighting continues.
Commentary by Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots from his dzen.ru page.
This is Andreevka. For clarity. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been trying to recapture this village for several months. Two broken streets. This is more likely for Ukrainian lovers to laugh at the capture of small villages by our troops.
At the same time, statements about the capture of Andreevka by Kiev do not correspond to reality. Heavy fighting on this line - from Kurdyumovka to Kleshcheevka - continues.
The Ukrainian military has good results in the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on the evening of September 15.
“There is a significant and very necessary result for Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction - our soldiers liberated Andreevka. The 3rd assault, all the forces involved, the headquarters, the commander - General Syrsky. Guys, thank you all,” said the head of state . Let us remind you that earlier a scandal arose due to information about the battles in Andreevka. A day earlier, Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar said that “Andreevka is ours.” However , the military men from the 3rd separate assault brigade mentioned by Zelensky said that Malyar’s words about the capture of Andreevka were erroneous , premature, and could cause harm.
According to the president, Ukraine’s active actions continue in the areas of Kleshchievka and Kurdyumivka. “ The 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade operates very powerfully in the areas of Opytny and Vodyanoye... The Verbovoye area is our indestructible warriors, thank you! The Novoprokopovka area is well done! I am proud of all the soldiers who are bringing our victory closer,” Zelensky emphasized.
Andriivka: the enemy garrison was completely defeated
The defenders destroyed almost all the infantry of the Russian 72nd Motorized Rifle Brigade.
by Iryna Lysohor
The 3rd separate Assault Brigade reported the details of the liberation of Andriyivka of the Donetsk region. As a result of the lightning operation of the defenders, the enemy garrison of Andriivka was surrounded, cut off from the main forces and destroyed.
This was reported in the Telegram of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade. In two days, its fighters eliminated: almost all the infantry of the Russian 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, together with officers and a significant amount of equipment.
"As of now, the fighting continues, our units continue to consolidate in new positions," the defenders noted.
The brigade emphasized that units of the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation had repeatedly suffered heavy losses and defeats from clashes with the 3rd Assault Brigade earlier.
"Now, after recovery and regrouping, the enemy has suffered a total failure," the defenders added.
Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar announced the dismissal of Andriivka yesterday. The 3rd Assault Brigade called her words false and premature and noted that such actions harm the defenders.
Malyar edited the post and said that the released information was coordinated with the military, but there was a "communication failure." The General Staff officially announced Andriivka's dismissal on the morning of September 15.
[Breitbart - h/t Gates of Vienna] Imports of petroleum products from India by Germany — accused of reselling imported Russian oil to the rest of the world by the EU and others — have soared this year, including from $40 million in the first seven months of 2022 to $484 million in the same period of 2023. The meteoric rise is a 1,110 per cent increase in 12 months.
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