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[LB] Sumy, Luhansk, Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions were also affected, and the enemy hit Vinnytsia with a rocket.
The Russians fired seven times (37 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. The enemy shelled the border with grenade launchers and mortars. Shelling - on the territory of Koryukivskyi, Novgorod-Siverskyi districts. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Sumsk, at night and in the morning, the Russians carried out four shellings of the border. 29 explosions were recorded. The communities of Shalyginsk, Krasnopilsk, and Khotynsk were shelled. Previously - without human losses and destruction of civil infrastructure. Yesterday, during the day, the Rashists carried out 27 shellings of the border territories and settlements of the Sumy region. 167 explosions were recorded. The communities of Bilopolska, Seredino-Budska, Novoslobidska, Putivlska, Krasnopilska, Khotinska, Esmanska, Velikopysarivska, and Shalyginska came under fire.
In Dnipropetrovsk at night, the aggressor shelled the Velikomykhailiv community in the Synelnyk district. Damaged power line. I targeted this community again in the morning. He also directed his artillery to the Nikopol district. Kissed the Marganets community. The consequences of the attacks are being clarified. Previously, there were no casualties or injuries. Yesterday afternoon, the enemy shelled Nikopol with heavy artillery. Shells damaged four private houses, an outbuilding, power lines and a gas pipeline. People survived.
A cruise missile was shot down in Kirovohradska this morning during the morning alarm. There was no damage, no casualties or injuries.
In Luhansk, Novoyehorivka and Bilogorivka were damaged by enemy attacks yesterday. Also, Nevsky and Tverdokhlibov came under Russian artillery fire. During the day, the enemy fired 158 rounds (553 shells).
In Kharkivska last day, in the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy carried out an air strike in the area of Kozachai Lopan, carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 20 settlements, including Vovchansk, Khrypuny, Karaichne, Mala Vovcha, Budarki. On the Kupyansk direction, the enemy launched an airstrike in the area of Kotlyarivka. Borova, Kupyansk, and Kislivka were subjected to artillery and mortar attacks. Enemy shelling with guided aerial bombs took place in Cherneschyna. The building, warehouses and workshop of the agricultural firm were damaged. There were no casualties. As a result of the strikes on the central part of Kupyansk - the territory of the bus station, the central market - two residential buildings, administrative buildings and non-residential premises were damaged. A 61-year-old man received an explosive injury and shrapnel injuries, his condition is average. In the settlement of Kopanky, a residential building was damaged as a result of anti-aircraft fire, and a 49-year-old man was injured (concussion). In the village of Zapadne, a residential building burned down due to shelling by the occupiers. There were no casualties.
In Zaporizhzhia, 21 settlements were affected by the terror of the Rashists over the past day. 83 artillery shells hit the territory of Gulyaipol, Novoandriyivka, Zaliznychny, Robotyny, Biloghirya, Chervony, Pyatikhatok, Stepnohirsk, Pavlivka and other front-line towns and villages of the Zaporizhzhia region. Also, the enemy carried out four UAV attacks on Olenivka, Biloghiri, Novodarivka and Kamianskyi, as well as eight RSZV attacks on Gulyaipol, Temyrivka, Novodarivka and Kamianskyi. A 52-year-old woman and a 67-year-old man were injured as a result of the artillery strikes in Gulyaipol, in addition to this injury, a 59-year-old man who came under artillery fire in Orichov was injured; all were taken to a medical institution. 21 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities.
In Donetsk last day, snipers shelled 15 settlements: Avdiyivka, Chasiv Yar, Velika Novosilka, Zarichne, Raiske, Shcherbynivka, Memryk, Myrne, Nelipivka, Novokalynovka, Novoukrainka, Urozhayne, Uspenivka, Shakhtarske, Shevchenko. Seven residential buildings (two of them multi-apartment buildings), the administrative building of an agricultural enterprise, the premises of an oil shop, 20 garages, a Christian spiritual center, and a power line were damaged. One person was killed and one was injured in the region during the day.
In Mykolaivska yesterday afternoon, the enemy fired artillery at the water area of Ochakivska community. There are no casualties.
In the Kherson region, the enemy fired 61 shots (290 shells) during the day, including four shots (14 shells) at Kherson. The rioters targeted the districts of 21 settlements in the region. In a field near Novaya Kamianka, a tractor driver was blown up by Russian explosives. A 62-year-old man was injured by the detonation of a mine, the victim was hospitalized. A 69-year-old man received non-life-threatening injuries as a result of Vesely's shelling. During the day, one person was killed and one person was injured due to Russian aggression.
We will remind, Vinnytsia OVA reported that a Russian missile hit a private enterprise at night. There are victims.
According to the General Staff, the enemy launched missile and 44 air strikes , launched 70 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population. Residential buildings and other civil infrastructure were destroyed.
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[Korrespondent] In the autumn-winter period, the Russian Federation again intends to attack the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, including the energy system, according to Kyiv.
Winter in Ukraine will not be easy, because the madness of the Kremlin leader may result in new Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy. This was announced on Friday, September 1, by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov in an interview with NV .
“The winter will be difficult and difficult, given this crazy man who is nearby on our territory. Of course, he will try to make problems for us. But I can say for sure that this issue is now in a completely different form. difficult period," Danilov said
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council noted that this issue has already been discussed many times at meetings of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the competent structures are already doing some work.
Danilov noted that not only central authorities, but also local ones are working on the preservation of energy facilities.
"We need the maximum involvement of people who are on the ground. This is a joint work. And there is a big problem when they think that issues that fall within the competence of local governments should be resolved in Kiev or in the Office of the President or the Prime Minister's Office - keep in mind that this is not entirely true. Today, each territorial society must deal with its territory so that they have their own light. This is a joint work and business," Danilov said.
Earlier, DTEK announced the amount of expenses for the preparation of thermal power plants and mines for the upcoming winter. We are talking about billions of hryvnia.
DTEK also spoke about providing mines with equipment before winter . Machine builders produced 10 new harvesters and hundreds of thousands of spare parts and accessories.
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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
21:54 Zelensky will attend a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, as well as a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine, which is scheduled for September 20, Albanian representative Ferit Hoxha said. Albania presides over the Council in September. It is expected that world leaders will begin to gather in New York from September 18 to attend a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
21:29 Russia is now saving missiles, preparing for mass strikes in winter, said OK Pivden speaker Natalia Gumenyuk. According to her forecasts, the enemy will again hit energy targets, which remain his priority.
"We are now observing the fact that they are accumulating missile weapons. Because it is obvious to everyone that the latest attacks are more economical," Gumenyuk said. She added that the current change in tactics aims to find gaps in Ukrainian air defense.
20:43 The Russians fired artillery from a village in the Belozersky community of the Kherson region in the evening. A tractor brigade on the territory of an agricultural enterprise came under fire - one person was killed, another was seriously injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
20:11 Zelensky, in an evening video message, announced a "fruitful autumn" in the matter of cleansing the state "of those who are still trying to weaken Ukraine from within." On this occasion, the President held a meeting with law enforcement officers today.
19:28 NATO countries and partners will hold the largest naval exercises in the Baltic Sea and for the first time will practice actions in the event of a Russian attack in this region, said Jan Christian Kaak, Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. "We are sending a clear signal to Russia about vigilance: only not with us. A reliable deterrence must include the possibility of an attack," he stressed.
19:06 The Russians fired heavy artillery at Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region twice today, one person was injured, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said. 15 private houses, outbuildings, cars, solar panels, power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged.
18:57 Zelensky said that today's meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief was only about the front: "In detail - Kharkiv region, Donbass. In detail - south: Zaporozhye, the left bank of the Kherson region. In detail - the evacuation of the wounded. In detail - the plans of the enemy. We are doing everything to give more strength to our soldiers."
18:30 Ukrainian troops have made “noticeable progress” in the south of the country in recent days, said John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council. He clarified that Washington has observed "a noticeable advance of the Ukrainian armed forces" south of Zaporozhye over the past 72 hours. He also called it "unhelpful" to criticize the counteroffensive of his partner and friend who is fighting a violent regime.
At the same time, Kirby noted that the White House does not support or encourage the UAF to strike deep into the territory of the Russian Federation: “There have been no changes in terms of our policy regarding strikes deep into Russia. We do not encourage or support them. We are focused on the fact that Ukraine could win back its territory, its own land."
17:44 The Russians fired on the Seredina-Buda city of the Shostka district of the Sumy region from the territory of the Russian Federation, four people were injured. 16 apartment buildings, 12 private households, a critical infrastructure facility, five administrative buildings and institutions, three educational institutions, shops and vehicles were damaged, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
17:25 The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, who is famous for his forecasts about hostilities, issued a new batch of predictions and analytics of the current situation in an interview with 1 + 1. The main theses from it are in the material Budanov's New Forecasts .
16:46 Prigozhin's death demonstrated Putin's weakness, Zelensky said during a video conference speech at an economic forum in Italy: "His weakness also consisted in the fact that he promised Prigozhin certain guarantees, and then kills him. This, of course, indicates that "how weak his own words are. That's very important, I think. I think all of our partners need to pay attention to that."
15:51 Budanov, in an interview with Natalia Moseychuk, commented on the possibility of killing Putin: “We need to think about all the steps, what is more profitable - to kill him or let him finish off Russia? What will happen in the event of an unsuccessful attempt and what consequences will this lead to? what you see now."
14:59 The Australian company Electro Optic Systems announced that it will transfer Slinger anti-drone systems to Ukraine, which are also capable of shooting down helicopters. A total of 160 systems will be delivered. The company clarified that the supply was financed by the United States.
14:32 The Russians fired mortars at Kherson, one person died, the OVA reported.
14:28 Governor of the Pskov region Mikhail Vedernikov said that more than 200 people joined the territorial defense detachment of the Druzhina after the drone attack on the airport.
13:45 The Russian Federation has put the Sarmat strategic missile system on combat duty, said Yury Borisov, head of Roscosmos.
13:36 Budanov, in an interview with 1 + 1, called the minimal threat to Ukraine from the mercenaries of PMC Wagner, who are in Belarus. According to him, they will arrange provocations on the western border, but without weapons.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate also said that China does not want a military defeat for Russia and at the same time really supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine. According to Budanov, Beijing "needs a configuration in which Russia does not suffer an open defeat, but it is also desirable that Ukraine regain its sovereignty."
As for Putin's entourage, according to intelligence information, only a few of those who advocate war remain. Agents in the Russian Federation say that Putin and his entourage are called "the club of those who are over 70": they do not keep up with the change of events because of their age.
13:07 Two more ships follow a temporary corridor from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine to the Bosphorus, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said. According to him, bulk carriers Anna-Theresa (Liberia) and Ocean Courtesy (Marshall Islands) left the port of Yuzhny. They carry 56,000 tons of pig iron and 172,000 tons of iron ore concentrate.
13:01 Putin and Erdogan will hold talks in Sochi on September 4, Peskov said.
12:12 The issue of the de-occupation of Crimea can be resolved by military or diplomatic means - everything will depend on the behavior of the Russian Federation, Zelensky said at the opening of the business forum of the European House of Ambrosetti in Italy. He stressed that without the complete de-occupation of Crimea, Donbass and other territories in Ukraine and Europe, there can be no sustainable peace. "This can be resolved through diplomatic or military means... Russian troops must leave the peninsula without further pressure, this will save lives," the president added.
11:33 Lavrov claims that Saudi Arabia notified Russia that the meeting in Jeddah in early August on Ukraine was supposedly planned in order "to convince everyone of the futility of negotiations without Moscow."
10:59 Budanov said in an interview with 1 + 1 that Russia will be preparing for revenge, and it will take ten years for it to recover. "We will have ten years to prepare," the head of the GUR added. He also called it a "great idea" to transfer the war to the territory of the Russian Federation: "The war must be transferred to their territory ... The wider the operations, the better."
10:37 As a result of a night missile attack on a private enterprise in the Vinnitsa region, three people were injured, the head of the IVA, Sergei Borzov, said.
10:28 SBU detained an FSB sniper agent who was preparing an assassination attempt on the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region. This is the fourth member of the intelligence network, which on May 9 was preparing an attempt on the Ukrainian command. Two were detained on the eve of that day, another one a little later, and the fourth tried to hide. The figurant turned out to be a resident of Zaporozhye, a former military man with the call sign Phantom. After the unsuccessful organization of the assassination attempt, he received a new task - to correct the enemy strike on the front positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The perpetrator faces life imprisonment.
09:59 In Lyubertsy near Moscow, after a drone attack, a workshop for the production of electronics for missiles of the research and production enterprise Tomilinsky Electronic Plant is on fire, UE reports, citing a source in the Ministry of Defense. "The GUR operation, everything is successful, to be continued," the source added.
09:34 The airfield in Pskov was attacked from the territory of Russia, Budanov said in an interview with The War Zone. According to him, two Russian Il-76 aircraft were destroyed and two seriously damaged. This is also confirmed by satellite images.
09:06 In the Zaporozhye region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling of Gulyaipol and Orekhov, three people were injured. In the Donetsk region, one person died (in Mirny), another was injured. In the Kherson region, one person was also killed and one injured. In the Kharkov region, one person was wounded in Kupyansk, another one - in the village. Kopanki of the Borovskaya community, according to the OVA.
08:38 Ukrainian troops were successful in the direction of Novodanilovka - Novoprokopovka on the southern front, they are fixed on the achieved lines, Andriy Kovalev, the speaker of the General Staff, said.
08:33 At night, Russia launched a strike with Caliber cruise missiles. Launches of two missiles from the Black Sea (Feodosia region) were recorded, the command of the Air Force reported. One rocket was destroyed, the second hit a private enterprise in the Vinnitsa region, there are victims.
08:24 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the destruction of a drone near Lyubertsy. And the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that two "Ukrainian drones" allegedly attacked Kurchatov, an administrative building and a residential building were damaged. Another UAV was shot down in the Belgorod region, said the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
08:20 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 1:
personnel - about 263,490 (+470) people,
tanks - 4459 (+23),
armored combat vehicles - 8613 (+9),
artillery systems - 5530 (+23),
MLRS - 735 (+1),
air defense systems - 500 (+0),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4421 (+4),
cruise missiles - 1445 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 8009 (+33),
special equipment - 831 (+1).
07:36 Over the past day, more than 25 clashes have occurred at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary. In particular, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area of Novoegorovka, Luhansk region, and Maryinka, Donetsk region.
06:12 The US Department of Defense announced that it had ordered advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles AMRAAM for Ukraine. The American company Raytheon must purchase rockets worth $192 million by November 29, 2024.
03:24 Ukraine is likely to receive the first ten American Abrams tanks in mid-September, Politico writes, citing sources. According to the publication, ten of the promised 31 tanks are in Germany, where they are undergoing final reconstruction, after which they will be sent to Ukraine.
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[RIA] So, the "summer counter-offensive", which before that was "spring", gradually turned into an "autumn" one. To assess its "success", it is enough to recall the goals that were drawn in Kyiv and Washington.
For example, Volodymyr Zelensky announced his intention to spend his summer vacation in Crimea in 2023. And the talking head of all Western TV channels, retired American General Ben Hodges, who commented on the situation at the front day and night, constantly repeated until the spring of this year that "Crimea will be liberated before the end of summer 2023."
Summer is over, and now the Western media are trumpeting: "Ukraine's successes on the Southern Front may open the way to Crimea." That is, something clearly did not grow together with the summer vacation.
The funniest thing is watching those same talking heads now lash out in anger at those who ask uncomfortable questions about where those promised "wins" are. Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak recently accused these critics of "infantilism" and advised "to watch Rambo less". on the embankment of Yalta". He even added the word "I guarantee". And now he calls those who remember his "guarantees" "infants"!
For Western audiences, the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus, plays about the same role . Now he urges commentators to "moderate their pessimism" and is surprised at their expectations of quick victories. As if it weren't Petraeus personally, the day before the start of the notorious "Ukraine counter-offensive", he convinced the Western audience that "everything will be decided within 72-96 hours." That is, the same people who created unrealistic expectations of "an early victory over Russia" among Ukrainians and Western burghers are now accusing their audience of having these expectations!
These same experts periodically invent current "victories". Now all the Western media are simply crammed with articles and stories about the "liberation of the strategically important village of Rabotino", where no more than 500 people lived in the best pre-war years.
The Times provocateur Maksim Tucker happily writes: "Ukraine's flag flies again over Rabotino." And then he reports that this opens the way to Melitopol. The most curious thing is that the same author in the same newspaper literally a month before this article reported in the same terms that "Ukraine liberated the village of Staromayorskoe" and this allegedly "opened the road to Mariupol . " And even if one of the readers of this newspaper asked.
Another propagandist of Ukraine, the French Maidan singer Bernard-Henri Levy, who presents himself as an expert on this area (because, can you imagine, he was once in Gul'yaipole!), tells the audience: "liberation of Rabotino" means that "a) they (Ukrainians) passed Russian mines fields, b) the road to Melitopol is open." And it doesn’t matter that from Rabotino to Melitopol is more than 70 kilometers, and Ukraine has no idea how to break through to the fortified Tokmak, which is 20 kilometers from the front and to which, even according to another Russophobic propagandist from the German Bild, Julian Repke, “five more lines of defense ".
But Repke, unlike Levi, was not in Gulyaipole - how could he know the truth!
We will not here analyze the true situation at the front and the question of which quarters of Rabotino are under whose control are - we will leave this to the compilers of daily reports. But even if we assume that Western propaganda is not lying (it’s already ridiculous, right?), then it’s enough to recall what it also wrote about Russian defense lines at the start of “Ukraine’s spring-summer-autumn counteroffensive.”
I remember that in June, detailed satellite images of Russian fortifications in the area, published by The New York Times, were distributed throughout the Western media and social networks . Why not look at them now to all those who scream that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have passed the minefields of Russia, overcame the "dragon's teeth", "broke through the first, and therefore the main line of defense of the Russians"?
Yes, because these pictures showed that the first of the three main defensive lines to Tokmak is located not just south of Rabotino, but also south of Novoprokopovka, which, even according to Western propagandists, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not yet reached close.
At the same time, we must not forget that for two months after the publication of these images (and this is also recognized by Western propagandists), Russian engineering and sapper units continued to expand and strengthen the defense lines south of the current combat zone! Accordingly, Ukraine, having lost thousands of its best fighters and hundreds of pieces of Western equipment in the battle for the possession of one small village, has not even encountered the level of defense that the Russian army prepared for it further south!
But, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a recent interview, "society needs victories." It is in the absence of such that they invent them!
And he certainly did not even mean Ukrainian society. Kiev understands and has long recognized that the main threat to it is the weariness of Western states from the war and the constant failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Moreover, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba recently stressed that the main danger for the Kiev regime lies in the unfolding election race in the United States . But he assured that "all this will pass."
It will, of course, "pass away", only before the end of the American elections - even more than a year. And during all this time, it will be more and more difficult to feed your sponsors with promises of a "fast victory" in the absence of even the slightest success. Hence, with enviable regularity, the names “Staromayorskoye” or “Rabotino”, which are difficult to pronounce for the Western ear, appear in the information space. And they will continue to appear. If only these bored "infantile" burghers did not ask uncomfortable questions and did not try to remind the authors of victorious reports of their own words of a month ago.
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One of these days Western public will realize that where never was a country called Ukraine - it was all a PR campaign.
#6
The first Ukrainian money, zlatnyks (gold coins) and sriblianyks (silver coins) were produced under Kyiv Prince Volodymyr the Great in the 10th century. There's still a few of them available for collectors.
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#3 Exactly. Ukraine (means borderland in Slavic) is a commie invention. Supporteed by Globalists because they're the latest form of leftism.
#6 And then Mongols came and the center of Russian life moved north (most survivors did too). And then Gedeminnus conqueered Kiev, and people what became Ukrainian in 20th century been somebody's subject till 1991. At which point they proceeded to demonstrate why they've been subject all that time.
#8
Didn't the Soviets call it a Republic and wrangle a seat at the UN for Ukraine?
Yes, they did, those clever commie bastards.
It seems the history of Ukraine has been particularly turbulent. Curious, I just went to Encyclopedia Britannica's website to read about it.
Very interesting. Although there were brief periods of independence, most of Ukraine's history has been dominated by a series of alliances with more powerful neighbors or else times when they were outright subjugated. Romans, Byzantines, Poles, Lithuanians, Mongols, Greeks, Tatars and Turks all figured into it. Throughout it all, their history as a Slavic people has been intertwined with Russia, sometimes happily and sometimes not so much.
True independence in modern times had to wait until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Heaven knows they deserved it after what they'd been through in the early 1930s during Stalin's collectivization of Ukrainian farms. Millions of them either starved or froze to death although I don't believe anybody knows exactly how many. Then came Hitler's Wehrmacht. Imagine getting caught between Hitler and Stalin.
Now they're caught between Biden and Putin. Hopefully they'll get off a little easier this time but it's still too early to say.
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Even if there wasn't before, there is now, thanks to Grom's hero Putin. And they'll be seeking revenge on Russia for generations to come. Strong work!
#10
Romans, Byzantines, Poles, Lithuanians, Mongols, Greeks, Tatars and Turks all figured into it.
Ooops! Don't forget the Vikings.
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#9 "Ukrainians" always hated the Moscovites - it's a form of subling rivalry: Russians build world's biggest empire while Ukrainians were Polish serfs, and had to beg their "Russians Brothers"* to save them from Polish retaliation after Khmelnitsky uprising.
And to add insult to injury, Ukrainians - as individuals - had the same rights as Russians within the empire. Which led to a version of brain drain, Ukraine's best were becoming detested Moscovites for centuries.
In short, Ukrainians will be a lot better off once they are reintigrated into reborn Russian Empire - hopefully Russians will not repeat their past mistakes in tolerating Ukra Nationalism (Slavs who think they're Arians and torch bearers of Western civilization are too dumb to live).
*Russians are Moscovites (damn Moscovites is a tautology), or even ugro-finish-tartar mixture fake Slavs^#, to true Ukrainian patriots unless Poles come calling.
#The sites of the beloved by the "West" Ukrainian Nazis patriots outline Ukraine's mission as defense of Europe from Asiatic Moscovites.
#12
But China just issued a national map that officially incorporates some island Russia claims... and Han Chinese have been reportedly quietly settling in deserted eastern Russian communities for decades, with an eye toward eventually formally moving the border to formalize the situation. So there is some question how realistic plans for a reborn Russian empire can be, if Russia has already been losing control of the periphery.
My father was born in Riga, a Hanseatic League city, in 1919. His mother was a linguist involved in the project to codify the Latvian language, which up until then was considered a mere regional peasant dialect.
This is what Wikipedia has to say about the history of Latvia:
After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian, and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent Republic of Latvia was established on 18 November 1918 when it broke away from the German Empire and declared independence in the aftermath of World War I.[3] However, by the 1930s the country became increasingly autocratic after the coup in 1934 establishing an authoritarian regime under Kārlis Ulmanis.[16] The country's de facto independence was interrupted at the outset of World War II, beginning with Latvia's forcible incorporation into the Soviet Union, followed by the invasion and occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941 and the re-occupation by the Soviets in 1944 to form the Latvian SSR for the next 45 years. As a result of extensive immigration during the Soviet occupation, ethnic Russians became the most prominent minority in the country, now constituting nearly a quarter of the population. The peaceful Singing Revolution started in 1987 and ended with the restoration of de facto independence on 21 August 1991.[17] Since then, Latvia has been a democratic unitary parliamentary republic.
Lithuania:
For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July 1253. In the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe;[19] present-day Lithuania, Belarus, most of Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were all lands of the Grand Duchy. The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were in a de facto personal union from 1386 with the marriage of the Polish queen Hedwig and Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila, who was crowned King jure uxoris Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. The Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania was established by the Union of Lublin in July 1569. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighbouring countries dismantled it in 1772–1795, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory. As World War I ended, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, founding the modern Republic of Lithuania. In World War II, Lithuania was occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. Towards the end of the war in 1944, when the Germans were retreating, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. Lithuanian armed resistance to the Soviet occupation lasted until the early 1950s. On 11 March 1990, a year before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lithuania passed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, becoming the first Soviet republic to break away when it proclaimed the restoration of its independence.[20]
Estonia:
The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by Homo sapiens since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Papal-sanctioned Livonian Crusade in the 13th century.[8] After centuries of successive rule by the Teutonic Order, Denmark, Sweden, and the Russian Empire, a distinct Estonian national identity began to emerge in the mid-19th century. This culminated in the 24 February 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence from the then warring Russian and German Empires. Democratic throughout most of the interwar period, Estonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II, but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the Soviet Union in 1940, then by Nazi Germany in 1941, and was ultimately reoccupied in 1944 by, and annexed into, the USSR as an administrative subunit (Estonian SSR). Throughout the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation,[9] Estonia's de jure state continuity was preserved by diplomatic representatives and the government-in-exile. Following the bloodless Estonian "Singing Revolution" of 1988–1990, the nation's de facto independence from the Soviet Union was restored on 20 August 1991.
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[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (1 September 2023)
From 25 August to 1 September 2023 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched five group of long-range naval and airborne high-precision strikes at AFU command posts, radio electronic reconnaissance centres, port infrastructure, ammunition and western weaponry depots, as well as military airfields.
The strikes disrupted AFU strategic radio interference system control, wiped out workshops of uncrewed surface vehicles used by the Kiev regime to launch terrorist attacks, air defence systems, MLRS, hardware, as well as Western-made air-launched weapons.
Over the past week, the combat enviroment was the most tense and complicated in Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
In Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to launch 44 attacks at positions of the Russian Forces to no avail.
To reinforce efforts to break through Russian Forces defences, one of the last formation of AFU strategic reserve, namely 71st Jaeger Brigade, is deployed in this direction.
As a result of committed and competent actions of the Zaporozhye Group of Forces units, all AFU attacks have been successfully repelled.
Over the past week, more than 960 Ukrainian troops, 24 armoured fighting vehicles of different modifications, 28 motor vehicles, and 45 field artillery guns neutralised.
Severe AFU manpower losses in the course of so-called 'counteroffensive' are caused by the Russian Forces effective strikes at Ukrainian armoured hardware at distant approaches.
AFU formation command purposefully throws manpower in assaults as cannon fodder to cross Russian Forces minefields on foot with no fire support.
In South-Donetsk direction, the most intensive battles took place south of Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Professional command and control, cohesive actions of the Russian troops with support of aviation and artillery thwarted the enemy's offensive plans.
Combined strikes and committed actions of the Vostok Group of Forces repelled all AFU attacks. Over the past week, the enemy has suffered losses of up to 1,025 Ukrainian troops, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, 26 motor vehicles, as well as 26 field artillery guns.
In Donetsk direction, numerous attempts of the Ukrainian Soledar Group of Troops to break through Russian Forces defences near Klescheevka and Maloilyinovka (Donetsk People's Republic) have been foiled.
During the week, Russian Forces repelled 36 attacks in which the enemy has lost up to 2,385 Ukrainian troops, 30 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 75 motor vehicles, and 21 field artillery guns.
In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces improved tactical situation by seizeing enemy strongholds and key heights.
AFU units suffered heavy damage due to skillful use of weapons. Over the past week, the enemy has suffered losses of up to 470 Ukrainian troops, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, 21 motor vehicles, as well as 18 field artillery guns.
In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled 14 AFU attacks over the past week. Over the past week, the enemy has suffered losses of up to 540 Ukrainian troops, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, as well as 10 field artillery guns.
In Kherson direction, the main goal of Russian troops was to deliver strikes at AFU manpower, engage in counterbattery warfare, search and eliminate sabotage and reconnaissance groups, as well as impede enemy amphibious assaults on islands.
According to the data provided by prisoners of war from the 123rd Territorial Defence Brigade, the majority of AFU personnel waive to cross the Dnieper River as they are afraid of inevitable death from Russian strikes.
In this direction, the enemy has lost up to 230 Ukrainian troops, 31 motor vehicles, and 19 field artillery guns over the past week.
The Black Sea Fleet monitors the situation round the clock in the Black Sea waters by all means of reconnaissance.
On 29-30 August, the Black Sea naval aircraft managed to foil AFU special operation detachment's attempt to land on Crimean coast to launch terrorist attacks. Russian naval aircraft neutralised four boats and up to 50 Ukrainian troops.
Russian Aerospace Forces fighter jets and air defence units have shot down four Ukrainian Air Force aircraft and one helicopter over the past week.
Air defence and electronic warfare systems have downed 35 HIMARS MLRS shells, six JDAM guided bombs, five U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, as well as one Neptune anti-ship cruise missile, and one S-200 missile converted into a strike version over the past week.
In addition, 281 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including Tu-141 Strizh drone, as well as 29 fixed-wing drones were shot down in western regions of the Russian Federation.
In total, 466 airplanes and 247 helicopters, 6,293 unmanned aerial vehicles, 434 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11,587 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,147 combat vehicles equipped with multiple launch rocket systems, 6,162 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 12,602 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/01/2023 to 00:00 09/02/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 47 facts of firing by the AFU.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a girl born in 2016. in the Kiev region.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 23 civilians, including children born in 2008, 2009, 2013. in Kievsky, Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, Novonikolaevka.
A total of 35 houses were damaged in Kievsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Five civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged in the Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhaylovka, Aleksandrovka, Luganskoye.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 37 attacks from the MLRS, incl. incendiary, artillery 155mm, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky eight artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 180 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 44 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
22:57 The air defense system (air defense) shot down two air targets in the Belgorod region. This was announced by the head of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
In the Korochansky district and the Yakovlevsky urban district, two targets were shot down by air defense systems. According to preliminary data, no victims.
21:55 Zaporozhye direction, Orekhovsky segment. Situation for the evening.
Around 18:00, the Nazis continued to attack our positions using Western armored vehicles.
Our fighters beat off the roll with heavy losses from the Ukrainians. There is a fierce battle going on.
21:50 Situation on LBS from Front-line soldier
About Rabotino:
Ukrainians yesterday tried to encircle Rabotino, our guys fought back.
Ukrainians have minus half of the payroll of the 3rd Special Forces Brigade near Kleshcheevka.
Our guys have made great progress near Petropavlovka and in Belogorovka - the defense of the Ukrainians is cracking.
Everything is calm on the Ugledar front. Silence. Our soldiers are in place.
21:35 Severskoye direction.
Today, the Russian Army took several strongholds in the long-suffering Belogorovka, LPR.
The advance of our forces has been going on in this area for more than two months. The enemy is in a semi-circle.
21:20 MO RF: On September 1, at about 21.15 Moscow time, Russian air defense systems thwarted an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with an aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The Ukrainian UAV was destroyed in the air over the territory of the Belgorod region by means of air defense on duty.
20:40 In the Zaporozhye direction, during the assault operations, two groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated, they had discovered BRka (combat order) where it is indicated that "Russian paratroopers should not be taken prisoner and killed on the spot"
What do you say? Who else will pity them?
19:40 Drops from a copter of the 4th Brigade Lugansk 2nd Army Corps on the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kleshcheevka —video.
19:10 Videofrom the side of the enemy.
It flew over the boys again during the evacuation of the 300th. Zaporozhye direction.
18:35 "Brave" smash Nazis in the Krasnolimansky direction
In the area of Serebryansky forest, assault groups of the Azov Brigade made three attempts to capture our strongholds. All attacks were repulsed, the enemy lost four armored vehicles and two pickup trucks.
Due to high losses, the enemy made four attempts to transfer reinforcements of the 42nd, 67th Brigades, the Azov brigade and the 5th Brigade of the National Guard. The enemy was destroyed by artillery fire.
In the area of N. p. Torskoye repelled three attacks of armored groups of the 21st and 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy is destroyed by artillery fire.
An ATGM crew destroyed an armored car that had advanced for the rotation of fighters of the 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:55 Consequences of artillery attack by 122mm BM-21 "Grads" from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine residential areas of Donetsk.
The rounds exploded in the area of Shakhtyorskaya Square and the Donetsk City shopping and entertainment center, where a car wash was destroyed. As a result of falling into the yards of multi-storey buildings, cars are on fire.
According to the DPR JCCC, the artillery attack was carried out from the positions of Ukrainian militants in the village of Netaylovo - in total, 15 122mm Grad MLRS rockets were fired.
17:30 Zaporozhye direction situation as of 17.00 September 1, 2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, as in the last two months, the main battles unfolded south of Orekhov, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after an unsuccessful assault on Rabotino, concentrated on Verbov.
All yesterday, combined assault groups of 82 Air Assault Brigade and 46 Separate Mechanized Brigade attacked the village with the support of artillery. At some point, they even managed to get close to the western outskirts, where they were covered by artillery of the RF Armed Forces.
The Ukrainian paratroopers retreated, and the unit that participated in the battles refused to go into another "meat" assault and left their positions.
On the morning of September 1, the attack resumed with the forces of several detachments, but this time the Armed Forces of Ukraine could not even get close to Verbovoye. The advance has stalled again.
More curious in this case is how actively the enemy aircraft works in the sector. Over the past day, ten Su-25/27 and MiG-29 aircraft from the Mirgorod, Kanatovo and Dolgintsevo air bases were noted, which hit not only the front line, but also to the depth of the front along Molochansk and Tokmak with HARM missiles and MALD decoys.
In addition, civilians are forcibly evacuated from the settlements of Stepnogorsk, Yegorovka, Preobrazhenka, Novopavlovka and Gulyaipole. And if this is not surprising in the suburbs of Orekhov, then Gulyaipole stands out from what is happening and indicates a possible activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area.
16:50 Armored groups of paratroopers are holding defense in the area of N. p. Berkhovka and Yagodnoye on the Artemovsky direction:
The “winged infantry” is destroying Ukrainian militants who are trying to attack our defensive positions.
16:25 The first BTR-4, which the pilots burned with the first hit, was followed by the second one. Either he did not see the arrival of his brother, or he thought that he would slip through, but the reality turned out harsher.
As a result, after hitting the BTR-4, the tank was pierced and burning fuel spilled literally everywhere.
15:55 Accurate arrival of artillery, corrected from a drone, into the Ukrainian trench.
Only those who were underground survived -video.
15:20 Kupyansky section situation as of 14.00 September 1, 2023
Near Kupyansk, the situation is relatively stable. After the tactical advance of the Russian army, the battles moved to the positional stage with the mutual use of artillery, mortars and drones.
Due to the activity of Russian reconnaissance groups, the Ukrainian command transferred a battalion of an unidentified formation to Kupyansk, as well as reinforcements to the Dvurechnaya area, believing that the RF Armed Forces were preparing to continue the offensive.
In addition, to the west of Kupyansk in Bol'shie Khutory, an enemy unit was noted, armed with American equipment, namely the Hammer BBM and the Bradley IFV.
And to the south, in the Borovaya area, the 67th Mechanized Brigade is under staffing, which suffered losses, including in the Kupyansky sector. A total of 600 prisoners were transferred there from prisons in Vinnitsa, Volyn, Dnepropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions, who should leave for the battle zone within three days.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine pulled reinforcements to this line, partially weakening other areas. For example, to the south of Kislovka, at the turn of Berestovoe - Kotlyarovka, paratroopers of the 25th Airborne Brigade are operating, which confirms the serious losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kupyansk.
14:25 "Rapier" leads fire on enemy strongholds in the Ugledar direction
The artillery crew of the 100mm MT-12 “Rapier” cannon strikes dugouts and strongholds of the enemy. The gun is hidden in a dense forest belt to hide from enemy drones.
The commander of the gun with the call sign “Nemai” said that recently the enemy has been increasingly using cluster munitions. /TK Zvezda/
14:00 Statement of officer of the press center of the group "West":
In the Kupyansk direction, the assault units of the group of troops "West" continued to conduct offensive operations.
During the battle, they captured the stronghold, destroying up to two platoons of enemy servicemen and six people were taken prisoner. At the same time, four counterattacks were repulsed by forces up to a platoon, each with the support of artillery and armored vehicles from the 32, 41 Separate mechanized Brigades and 68 Separate Jaeger Brigade.
During the counterbattery fight, five artillery pieces were destroyed - three self-propelled guns M-109 "Paladin", 122mm 2S1 "Carnation", 122mm D-30 "Hammer", three mortar crews and an armored car "MaxPro" near the villages of Novosergeevka, Tabaevka, Sandy and Lozovaya.
The total losses of the enemy in manpower amounted to up to a company of military personnel.
13:30 Column of enemy vehicles broken in the northern part of Rabotino - Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region Balitsky:
From 07:30 in the morning, the enemy, consisting of brigades of up to 200 people on lightly armored and automotive vehicles, tried to enter Rabotino from the northern direction.
A massive fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy, as a result of which they suffered heavy losses and were forced to abandon offensive operations. The loss of soldiers from among the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 156 people.
Once again, on the Zaporozhye front, the Kyiv military leaders laid down a company of mobilized Ukrainian soldiers.
12:55 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the group of troops "Vostok" thwarted the attack of the infantry group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Priyutnoye, Zaporozhye region, with artillery fire. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.
The rotation of militants at combat positions in the Novodarovka area of the Zaporozhye region has been disrupted. Cars with fighters are destroyed.
Rocket and cannon artillery destroyed a temporary deployment point and an ammunition depot in the Konstantinovka area, a temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Urozhaynoye, a towed M-119 howitzer in the area of Velikaya Novoselka, as well as a pickup truck with militants and a crew of a portable mortar on an ATV in the area of the State Farm Oktyabr' DNR.
During the counterbattery fight, mortar crews were destroyed in the areas of Makarovka and north of Nikolsky, 152mm Msta-B howitzers in the areas of Il'yinka and Shakhtersky.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ol'govsky area. Aviation hit the places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Ugledar, Zolotoy Niva, Staromayorsky and Yrozhainoye DPR.
The crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down a Valkyrie-type UAV.
The servicemen of the Vostok grouping of troops show professionalism and dedication in carrying out combat missions.
The commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the motorized rifle regiment of the group, senior lieutenant Dmitry Voronin, as part of the unit, performed tasks to identify military equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the sectors of the South-Donetsk direction.
During the hostilities, the personnel under the command of Senior Lieutenant Voronin managed in a short time to determine and transmit to the higher headquarters the coordinates of the location of several units of lightly armored vehicles of the Ukrainian troops and the places of accumulation of nationalist manpower.
Intelligence data allowed the command to adjust the artillery fire. As a result, all identified enemy targets were destroyed.
12:30 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":
Aviation of the "Southern" group of forces carried out rocket and bomb strikes on four points of temporary deployment of 28 Separate Mechanized and 3 Separate Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement Belaya Gora of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, the assault and army aviation of the group hit accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Disputed, Belogorovka, Kleshcheevka, Novgorodskoye, Avdievka and Krasnogorovka.
Also, according to the accumulations of infantry units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kleshcheevka area, the crews of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems successfully completed the tasks.
The crews of artillery pieces of various calibers hit the control point for unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in Krasnogorovka and the enemy’s temporary deployment point in the Kurakhovo area.
During the counterbattery fight, a towed 152mm Msta-B howitzer was destroyed at a position near Aleksandro-Shul'tino, seven mortars of 120mm and 82mm in various sectors of the front of the Lisichansky and Mar'yinsky directions.
FPV drones hit two dugouts with enemy infantry in the area of the village of Razdolovka.
12:00 Situation on the Zaporozhye front as of 01.09:
So the summer ended, and with it the summer military campaign in Ukraine. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not yet abandoned their plans and continue their attempts to break through the defense line of the RF Armed Forces. And if the situation in the area of Pyatikhatki and Gulyaipol is quite stable, then the most active battles are unfolding on the Rabotino-Verbovoye line.
As we noted earlier, the pressure on Rabotino has significantly decreased and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now attacking in the direction of Verbovoye. It is very important for them today to take a line of heights to the south of two settlements, without control over which it will be very difficult to gain a foothold there.
After moving in this direction in the middle of the week, there have been no new successes at the moment, although the attacks do not stop. Cluster munitions are being actively used, and counterbattery combat is being waged. In the near future, new attacks on Verbovoye and, first of all, on the surrounding heights can be expected.
11:30 Yesterday, another Mi-28 shot down a Ukrainian drone, this time in Crimea.
Personnel publish the Ukrainians themselves.
11:00 Statement head of the press center of the group "Center":
In the Krasnolimansky direction, in the areas of the Torsky section and Serebryansky forest, coordinated actions of units of the Center group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire repelled four attacks by assault groups of the 42nd, 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The total losses of the enemy in this direction amounted to more than 40 militants. The group's air defense systems shot down three unmanned aerial vehicles and a Hymers MLRS rocket.
As part of the counterbattery fight, more than 20 artillery positions were opened and suppressed, the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount of the Ukrainian troops was hit.
10:30 Chronicle of special military operation: the events of August 31, 2023.
Ukrainian formations once again tried to strike a drone on Moscow.
Air defense systems intercepted the enemy apparatus in the Voskresensky district.
Another air attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repelled in the Bryansk region.
Thanks to the well-coordinated work of air defense crews and electronic warfare units, casualties and destruction were avoided.
In addition, the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group tried to penetrate the territory of the Navlinsky district in the region.
Russian units discovered the enemy and entered into battle with him: two saboteurs were eliminated, five were detained.
Russian troops continue to carry out airstrikes against concentrations of Ukrainian formations in the area of ??Vuhledar.
During one of the raids, the location of the enemy on the territory of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 mine was hit.
In the Orekhovsky area, Ukrainian formations continue to try to move northwest of Verbove.
At the moment, despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, Russian servicemen manage to repel all attacks.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy managed to occupy a new bridgehead on the left bank near the village of Sadovoe.
At the moment, Russian troops are working to eliminate the threat that has arisen.
On the Crimean Peninsula, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to strike with a Tu-141 Strizh jet drone at a substation in Dzhankoy.
09:14 Footage of the combat work of the T-72B3 tank crews of the Western Military District. Kupyanskoe direction -video
09:13 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, Kardashinka, Korsunka, Kazachi Lagery firing a total of 39 cannon artillery rounds.
Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed
08:09 Frontline summary on the morning of 09/01/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, fierce battles in the village of Rabotino. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to drive the RF Armed Forces out of the settlement. No success.
Russian troops counterattacked at Verbovoye. Armed Forces positions in Stepnogorsk, Maly Shcherbaki, Malaya Tokmachka, Gulyaipolsky and Krasnoye are under shelling. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Novoprokopovka, Verbovoe and Novopokrovka.
At the Ugledar sector, the RF Armed Forces counterattacked from the side of Zavetnaya Zhelanaya to Staromayorskoye. No advance.
Russian artillery worked for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novopol, Novodarovka, Neskuchny, Blagodatny, Yrozhaynoye, Zolotoy Niva, Shakhtyorsky, Novoukrainka, Ugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk).
Ukrainian - according to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Priyutoye, Zavetnaya Zhelanaya, Staromlynovka, Kermenchik and Novodonetsk.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops counterattacked near Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka. Under the blows of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belaya Gora, Ivanovo and Disputed. The Ukrainian army hit Russian positions in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka, Klescheevka, Bakhmut and Zheleznyansky.
In the Lugansk direction, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, were attacking Belogorovka and Novoegorovka. Russian troops fired on Ukrainian units in Serebryanka, Torskoye, Nadia, Berestovo, Kislovka, Kucherovka and Sin'kovka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Kuz'min, Kremennaya and Masyutovka.
08:08 Military summary in the morning:
On the Zaporozhye Front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked in the direction of the settlement. Verbovoye, from the front they report the destruction of several groups of a well-equipped enemy. The evacuation groups of the enemy are covered with fire. In Rabotino, the southern part of the settlement is controlled by the Russian Armed Forces.In the Vremevsky direction - artillery duels, the enemy is concentrating forces for new attacks on our positions.
In the Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine replenished the personnel with a small landing group near the Antonovsky bridge, where after that an artillery strike was inflicted. The recently formed bridgehead on our bank of the enemy's Dnieper in the area of the settlement is preserved. Sub-steppe. Fighting continues on the islands in the floodplain. Dnieper.
On the southern flank of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Armed Forces returned several positions under control.
In the direction of Kremennaya, enemy attacks were repelled on the Torsky ledge and in Serebryansky forestry.
In the Navlinsky district of the Bryansk region, two of the seven members of the Ukrainian DRG were killed, five saboteurs were taken prisoner.
Also in the Bryansk region, enemy UAVs were destroyed in the morning and evening. At night, Pskov again reported firing at air targets (on video). Fired at N. p. Tetkino in the Kursk region. Over the past day, 10 civilians were wounded in the DPR from artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the morning, the enemy fired three incendiary rounds from the MLRS and three cluster munitions at Donetsk.
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[REGNUM] One of the most common tricks is to scare each other with ghosts. In Russian history, ghosts appeared more than once, and each time the consequences of believing in their existence were deplorable.
A group of people who found themselves in power in the 90s, for legitimation and self-justification, frightened themselves and those around them with the fact that the USSR would come to life. They frightened - and built themselves new palaces with fireplaces, implemented dubious unprofitable projects for the state, allowed themselves to do everything without regard to the rules, decency and norms, to avenge real or imagined oppression and insults.
Yes, the collapse of the Soviet Union was not only the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, but also the biggest collapse of normality, decency and morality for tens of millions of people in ordinary everyday life.
Yes, this collapse was not forced, it was optional, illogical and did not bring anything comparable to losses in return.
The reasons for this collapse: unprofessionalism, hiding behind the "new conditions", irresponsibility, greed and insensitivity, turning into immorality, lack of respect for the people. And terrible, infernal hypocrisy.
That is why, because of the immorality of 1991-1992, constantly justified in the Bolshevik way, liberals still do not receive support in society.
But the non-support of the liberals does not mean at all that the idea of freedom is alien to the Russian people, that they are a pathological imperialist. This is wrong. It's just that the Russian people do not need freedom at the cost of losing honor, and the Russian people value the empire for justice and normality, and not blood and violence.
Frightening with the ghost of the USSR helped to normalize the rejection of ordinary everyday morality and morality. In the nineties, it was customary to make fun of a simple Soviet woman who said that there was no sex in the USSR. The taunts were so loud and so arrogant that they could crush, laugh and troll anyone who tried to defend morality. But what's the bottom line?
Thirty years have passed. Now sex is everywhere, even where it shouldn't be. Got better? Do we need this kind of sex?
For "sex" with the privatization of inefficient industries, we paid for the rejection of the concepts of valor and honor in the police and civil service. We paid for "sex" with political freedom and a multi-party system with one of the best education systems in the world. For "sex" with the lack of censorship, we got massive creative sterility and rampant vulgarity. The films that we still look at as works of art and want to revisit were shot incomparably more between 1959 and 1991 than from 1991 to the present time. And this is the same 32 years. We paid for "sex" with the Council of Europe in the "Big Eight" with domestic aircraft manufacturing, science and much more. And most importantly - everyday morality and ordinary morality.
But we still got something in return. We have become sophisticated. You won’t laugh at us now as much as at that naive and inexperienced woman who does not understand what awaits her in the future, a woman on Soviet TV.
When asked by an American participant if there is sex in Soviet television advertising, Soviet participant Lyudmila Ivanova answers: “We don’t have sex, and we are categorically against it.”
For this sophistication, the naive and uncorrupted people paid a high price. Yes, formally on their own, but in reality - as a result of the threat that a ghost will come. At first it worked great in the 1996 elections. Then - in 2011-2012. - They tried to scare us again. Communism was painted over on the ghost and imperial colors were added. It didn’t work, and foreign countries came to the rescue: immediately after Trump’s victory, the Democratic Party in the United States added foreign special effects to the ghost to make it look livelier and scarier. After February 2022, the whole world was spammed with images of a resurrecting ghost.
But we know that it is only a ghost. We remember that during his lifetime the deceased forbade freedom of enterprise, private property, introduced state atheism, settled the eyes of the sovereign in the beds of citizens, established the dictatorship of the absent proletariat, shot and exiled, introduced comrades' courts and mandatory membership in the pioneers, Komsomol and parties to achieve heights.
There is no more of this, it has died irretrievably. Revive a ghost - there are no bad ones and never were.
There is no need to be afraid of revenge, nationalism, aggressiveness and totalitarianism. The Russian people do not want this - they need normality, decency, honesty and trust around.
The time has come to collect the image of the country in which we want to live, without looking back at the specter of the USSR, but also without fear of the specter of liberalism of the 90s.
With good morals. With respect and dignity. With GOSTs for sausage. With an appeal to the elders by name and patronymic. With confidence in the state and its concern for citizens. With Uncle Styopa - now in a police uniform. With the best education and free healthcare. With safe cities. With enthusiasm. With our Sherlock Holmes and Winnie the Pooh. With respect for work, not money. With attention to abilities and talents, and not to the wallet.
With freedom and individual rights. With privacy. With private property and initiative. With government grants and investments. With a strong currency and large-scale construction projects. With new industrialization and innovative productions. With openness to the world and global business. With visa-free travel and international connections.
With processions and Christening at Easter. With prayers in churches. With prayers and prayers in mosques. With Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah in the synagogues. With meditations in datsans. With an accurate knowledge of the dates of the reigns of all emperors from Peter to Nicholas II, the Romanovs to Peter and the Rurikovich. With an understanding of the tragedy of the Time of Troubles. With the comfort of old houses with thick walls and hot tea. With elements of folk clothes in modern costumes. With obligatory school trips to historical sites and local history museums. With non-traditional folk cuisine and the habit of cooking and eating at home and inviting guests.
We need traditions and roots from the pre-revolutionary past - on which we have been standing for a thousand years so far and without which we would not exist.
We need social justice and normal human morality for the entire society from the Soviet era - which was not the case in the empire.
We need freedom and enterprise - the main thing that we have learned so well in thirty years, which was not there in Soviet times.
Various forces will periodically try to scare us with ghosts and offer to choose. Who do you love more - freedom or homeland? Individual or state? Mom or dad?
But they are easy to recognize: they are infuriated by the best image of the future of Russia - three grandiose flags in the waters of the Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg: imperial - Soviet - Federation.
We don't have to choose. We need everything. Because we know that ghosts don't exist, and we move on with the best history has given us.
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IMO: long as Russians remember that "Perfect is an enemy of good"- or even "Always chose the lesser evil", they'll be OK.
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[Regnum] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting in Moscow with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan , the press service of the Russian military department reported on September 1 in its Telegram channel.
SHOIGU: RUSSIA WILL EXTEND THE GRAIN DEAL IF ALL PROMISES ARE KEPT
“Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a meeting in Moscow with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, discussed a grain deal and joint work in Syria,” the statement said.
According to Shoigu, Moscow has made every effort to maintain the grain deal, it was stopped through no fault of Russia. However, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted, if the West fulfills everything that was promised to Russia, then the deal will be extended.
“But it turned out that this is more difficult to do than to build new corridors, new land routes,” he added.
The Russian minister also stressed that Moscow plans to continue strategic bilateral cooperation with Turkey to solve a variety of tasks. “I mean cases related to work in Syria,” he said.
As reported by IA Regnum, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov confirmed earlier that the talks between the presidents of Russia and Turkey will take place on September 4 in Sochi. The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, citing sources, wrote the day before that Putin and Erdogan could discuss a new formula for a grain deal at the talks.
Pavel Seleznev, professor of the Department of Political Science at the Financial University under the Government, in an interview with IA Regnum , admitted that if the grain deal is resumed, this will mean that the West, through Erdogan, has conveyed such conditions that Moscow considered acceptable.
Aleksey Zubets, director of the Institute for Socio-Economic Research of the Financial University under the government , noted that during the negotiations between Putin and Erdogan, the grain deal between Russia and Turkey can be discussed in two versions. The first is Russian food, and the second is Ukrainian. And it is quite possible that these two directions of deliveries will be discussed separately.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan a grain deal and partnership in Syria. This was reported on September 1 to journalists in the defense department.
The meeting of the two ministers took place in Moscow. Shoigu congratulated Fidan on his appointment as foreign minister and noted that during the time he was in charge of the Turkish security service, a lot of necessary and useful things were done for Russia, Turkey and the whole world.
The head of the Defense Ministry stressed that Russia has made every effort to maintain the grain deal. The agreement, initiated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was stopped through no fault of Moscow.
“Today is not our fault, but it has been stopped. And here we can only say one thing, that if everything that was promised to Russia is fulfilled, then the deal will be extended, ” Shoigu said.
He added that Russia plans to continue strategic bilateral cooperation with Turkey to solve a variety of tasks. This is work on Syria, the establishment of relations between Ankara and Damascus with the participation of Russia and Iran.
As IA Regnum reported, on August 31, talks were held in Moscow between Fidan and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Turkish minister said that the meeting was a preparation for negotiations between the leaders of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Trying to see if the ramifications can be dialed back?
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[Regnum] On the eve of the start of a special military operation, the United States and its allies rejected Russia's proposals, went for broke and made a fatal mistake, says political scientist, director of the International Institute of Recent States Alexei Martynov . He stated this on September 1 to a correspondent of IA Regnum.
Former intelligence officer of the US Armed Forces, Tony Shaffer stated that the West was mistaken in not listening to the position of Russia and the statements of Russian leader Vladimir Putin . According to Schaffer, if such a policy continues, it is fraught with an escalation of the military conflict and direct NATO intervention.
As Martynov noted, there is some truth in these words.
“In December 2021, Russia invited the United States and a group of Western countries to sign the relevant strategic balance agreements, the draft of which was developed by Russia, ” Martynov said. — And as far as I understand, such initiatives are always bilateral negotiations. Obviously, there was a dialogue with the United States on this issue. The big question is why they rejected these offers and basically went for broke.”
The political scientist emphasized that the fact remains that Western countries have made a fatal mistake.
“Therefore, it is difficult to disagree with the former American spy, ” Martynov said. How will this end for everyone is a good question. I am still an optimist and I hope that common sense will prevail everywhere and among everyone. It is clear that half of the world is tying this return of sanity to global politics to the upcoming US presidential election next year.”
At the same time, he stressed that on the eve of the NWO, Russia did not put forward demands and did not set conditions. It was an initiative proposal to fix the status quo and refresh bilateral agreements on strategic balance, which are quite outdated in terms of the current agenda.
“In other words, there was an absolutely sound idea, which, by the way, was conditionally supported by the American side, ” Martynov explained. “ Such things are not prepared alone under the table, and then persistently offered for signing. Another thing is that then they (USA. - Approx. IA Regnum ) framed this matter in a completely boorish way (published these projects). That is, they clearly aggravated relations. Why they went through the escalation is unknown. Perhaps future historians will find the answer.”
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that, according to Shaffer, the reason for the current tension is that the West did not listen to Putin, who "explained very clearly what he wants to achieve." However, instead of accepting his point of view, his words continued to be ignored.
On the day the NWO began, Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled that Russia had been trying for 30 years to negotiate with NATO on equal and indivisible security in Europe. However, in response, she received only deceit.
Meanwhile, forecasts have already appeared that the West has begun to distance itself from Ukraine. For example, Western critical articles against the Ukrainian authorities are being published more and more often, and Zelensky's presence in the Western media space is also sharply reduced. There is even an opinion that the States will soon want to end the conflict in Ukraine, which is unprofitable for them.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , the NVO contributed to the establishment of the principles of justice and multipolarity in the world.
There was talk about an alleged breakthrough of our main line of defense near Rabotino in the Orekhovo-Tokmak area and, as a result, a long-awaited turning point in the counteroffensive. It seems to us that there is no breakthrough or turning point, and here is why.
So, about two weeks ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine reached the front line of our defense east of Rabotino and since then they have been trying to do two things: expand the bridgehead and overcome this front line. From the map at the end of the post, you can see why you can’t throw all your strength forward: you get a deep and vulnerable gut, fraught with flank strikes and encirclement. Even the current penetration from this point of view is already dangerous, and that is why the enemy is storming Rabotino so desperately: the capture of this village and the surrounding heights will allow expanding the front to the left, eliminating the flank threat from this side.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing along the main line of defense to the right, towards Verbovoye. Apparently, the intention here is to force our troops north of Verbovoye to retreat in order not to be cut off. The goal is the same: to expand the bridgehead and eliminate the flank threat. Only after that it is possible to throw all forces down, to the south, to overcome the hill along which the line of defense passes.
There are several problems here. First, the offensive along the front, and even in the lowlands between the two commanding heights, makes vulnerable the flanks, which will stretch as they move forward. This could be fully observed to the west, near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny, where, in the same way, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced where they could (along the lowlands), eventually got stuck and even rolled back.
Secondly, attempts to attack from a small foothold in three directions (forward and sideways) require three times as many forces and means that need to be delivered to the front line under shelling through the fields and the only country road. With this, judging by the daily shots of the destroyed equipment, there are problems.
But the most important thing is the slow pace. The concept of "breaking through the front" is appropriate when the bill goes to hours, maximum days. Then the enemy does not have time to react, and you can move on, breaking the defense and entering the operational space. It's like billiards, when a skillful player, without missing, can finish the game in minutes, without even giving the opponent a chance to hit back.
It's not like that here. The fighting near Rabotino has been going on for almost three months, and for the last month on the southern front - almost exclusively near Rabotino. During this time, the defenders can not only slowly bring up reserves, but also strengthen defensive lines, if necessary, build new ones, cover fresh minefields, and equip firing points. In a sense, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now in a worse position than they were three months ago: then they enjoyed the advantage of choosing the direction of the strike, but now that’s it, there’s no escape from the rut near Rabotino, and it’s very likely clear what and how they will do.
In order to develop success, the Armed Forces of Ukraine need to multiply the advancing grouping. It is doubtful that they could not do this before and will be able to now without exposing other sectors of the front. Without a multiple amplification, even local success will lead to nothing: the goal of the operation is not Rabotino, not Verbovoye, and not even overcoming the first line of defense. The goal is to reach the sea, and it is as far away as it was three months ago. The Armed Forces of Ukraine had a chance in early June, in an attempt to make a sharp leap forward, and they did not realize it.
Now it is impossible to enter the operational space, as we advance, it will be filled with new frontiers and fortified areas, new impregnable workers. There is less and less time, ahead of autumn, rains and winter.
https://t.me/vatfor/8800 - zinc
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They do not mention who dropped nuclear bombs on them, but they are watching who is celebrating the victory over them.
Japanese Foreign Minister: "Celebration in Russia of Victory Day over militaristic Japan can provoke an" emotional confrontation "between the peoples of the two countries."
Firstly, let the Japanese look into their own garden first - do sanctions against Russia really work to increase the love of Russians for the Japanese?
Secondly, dear Japanese, two nuclear bombs were dropped on your heads, only this did not provoke even a hint of an "emotional confrontation" with the United States. It's time for the Japanese leadership to make hara-kiri after they fell to their knees in front of the US and forgot who destroyed their cities with nuclear bombs.
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^I doubt that an average Japanese is aware of Russian victory celebration.
[RT] The government in Kiev intends to refer the EU to arbitration if the bloc extends its restriction on Ukrainian agricultural exports beyond September 15, President Vladimir Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff, Igor Zhovkva, said on Friday.
"If the European Commission extends its decision on Ukraine’s grain imports, we will complain to the arbitration panel under our agreement," Zhovkva said, referring to the trade pact with the bloc signed after the 2014 coup. Cheeky beggars, ain't they?
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[REGNUM] In the last summer days, August 30-31, an informal meeting of the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs of the EU member states took place in the Spanish city of Toledo. EU prepares for enlargement for first time in 10 years
In the not so distant future, the number of participants in such events may increase - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, following a conversation with foreign ministers, called for intensifying preparations for the admission of ten states to the European Union, moreover, clearly agreeing on the time frame for a new stage of expansion.
The last time this happened was ten years ago, in 2013, when Croatia joined the EU.
Currently, eight countries have the official status of candidates for EU membership: Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey (since 1999), Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia.
“Ukraine should become a new member of the EU, the Western Balkans too. The war in Ukraine has accelerated the process of EU enlargement. A candidate state can become a member of the EU if all conditions are met, but at the same time it would be good to set a political goal and horizon to give impetus to the process,” Borrell said.
Individual countries will need huge help to prepare for EU accession, especially Ukraine, he added.
The idea of Ukraine's admission to the EU already raised concerns due to its weak economy, and even more so after the outbreak of hostilities. In Kiev, of course, they would like to join the union as soon as possible and, as a full-fledged member of the community, continue to demand even more money and weapons from their partners, but now emphasizing that they not only can, but are obliged to do this.
According to sources in the British newspaper The Guardian, the most likely applicants for EU membership are Ukraine and Moldova, but nothing will be done to speed up this process unless maximum political pressure is exerted within the bloc. Why would member countries agree to an expansion contrary to the status quo, the interlocutor of the publication asked.
Nowhere without Ukraine
Almost no event of Western states is already complete without talking about the situation inside and around Ukraine, and this summit was no exception. Moreover, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrived in Toledo together with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna after a two-day visit as an honored guest from Paris.
On August 30, following the negotiations between the heads of the defense departments, Borrell said that Ukraine needs long-term, predictable, sustainable military support, moreover, against the backdrop of a counteroffensive - which, however, comes with a minus sign for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To do this, he proposed creating within the framework of the European Peace Fund (although it would be more correct to call it a war fund) a special fund for military support of Ukraine in the period from 2024 to 2027 in the amount of €20 billion, that is, €5 billion per year.
“This should be a ceiling, but not a mandatory spending target. If we can spend less, the better,” he said.
The money should be used to implement a plan to support Ukraine, which the EU has been developing for several months, it provides for arming the Armed Forces of Ukraine and training the military. Part of the funds are planned to be spent on covering the costs of the community countries for the purchase of weapons, ammunition, spare parts for military equipment, as well as for training personnel for the Ukrainian army.
Borrell also put forward a proposal to increase the target for the number of Ukrainian troops trained under the EU's European training mission to 40,000, as the initial target of 30,000 fighters would be reached as early as October.
The head of European diplomacy hopes that his ideas will be implemented by the end of 2023.
However, there is no guarantee that this will work out - on the eve of the summit, Financial Times sources said that disagreements arose among the EU countries on the need to increase the community budget due to problems in national economies with the planned 4-year assistance to Kiev. Countries are divided and some are calling for spending cuts. For example, spending on Ukraine.
Attempts to raise the topic of the effectiveness of military efforts caused a real hysteria in the Ukrainian diplomat. Kuleba "recommended all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to free one square centimeter on their own." Such questions and criticisms about the pace of the " counteroffensive " he called a spit in the face of the heroic Ukrainian soldier.
Sounded in Spain and words of support, which are like honey for the ears of Kyiv.
So, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said that we need to think about how Europe can help Kiev even more, and her Lithuanian colleague Gabrielius Landsbergis called on the West to stop saying the phrase about “ supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes ”, because it no longer works - you need to set the task of being with Ukraine to the bitter end. However, not all participants of the summit were in the same mood.
One against all
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó, spoke out at the summit . It was on the Ukrainian issue that he was one against all in the most direct sense.
Hungary opposed the allocation of a new €500 million military aid package to Ukraine and the creation of a special fund of €20 billion for 2024-2027, as suggested by Borrell.
“Unfortunately, today I was the only one who spoke out against this approach. We don't want four more years of war. We want this war to end as soon as possible ,” the diplomat said in an interview with the Hungarian M1 TV channel on the sidelines of the event, lamenting that the vast majority of EU countries still “ want at any cost and by all means ” to continue to arm the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Leaving for the summit, Szijjarto, in a video message on his social media page, predicted with regret that his colleagues would talk in Toledo about new arms supplies to Ukraine, and not about peace talks. The voice of peace must be strengthened, he said, because every weapon given to Kyiv kills more people, and this is what Budapest wants to prevent.
Moreover, the minister demanded that the leadership of the European Union report in detail on what about €50-70 billion already allocated to Ukraine has been spent.
In an interview recorded in Toledo, Szijjártó admitted that he was under intense pressure to force Hungary to vote for another €500 million tranche of military aid to Ukraine to finance arms supplies, as well as a €20 billion package for the next four years. However, he remained true to the position of his state and blocked these initiatives.
According to the minister, if Hungary agreed, then it would have to allocate 80 billion forints (over €200 million) from the funds of its taxpayers, who are in no way responsible for the war in Ukraine.
Money and language
A decision on additional funds for funding related to Ukraine is out of the question until Kiev removes the largest Hungarian bank OTP from the list of “international war sponsors,” Szijjártó warned, and he got there on May 4 by decision of the National corruption prevention agencies due to ongoing work with Russia.
Borrell wanted to raise the issue of the need to remove this shameful stigma from the financial institution at a specially organized meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Hungary and Ukraine, but Kuleba refused. Apparently, not wanting to look pale when trying to justify their country's act in this situation and thinking about what to say in response to the conclusions of EU lawyers, presented by the head of European diplomacy, that OTP's actions did not violate any EU laws or sanctions.
If Ukraine agrees with the opinion of lawyers, then it will have to actually approve the cooperation of the Western structure with Russia, and this will create a dangerous precedent, and who knows how many European, and maybe even American companies, referring to the example of OTP, will resume working with partners From Russia. Sanctions don’t work anyway, Vladimir Putin “didn’t complain at all” about them in conversations with Western politicians, which, as it turned out from the publication of the German newspaper Bild, was very surprised by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron .
In relations between Budapest and Kyiv, there is another serious problem that hinders the promotion of pro-Ukrainian initiatives in the international arena - this is the observance of the rights of ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine. And it appeared long before the start of the NWO.
After the Maidan, the Verkhovna Rada, by its very first decision, invalidated the law “On the Fundamentals of the State Language Policy” (known as the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law), according to which in regions where representatives of national minorities made up at least 10% of the population, the regional language could be used on a par with the state. Thanks to this, in the city of Beregovo (Transcarpathia), both the state Ukrainian language and regional Hungarian were freely used in official everyday life.
Budapest was not going to turn a blind eye to this and, referring to the violation of the rights of the Hungarians, blocked the holding of the Ukraine-NATO Council. Now this topic can become a serious obstacle on the way of Ukraine to the EU.
“Hungary will take this into account when the EU begins to study in the fall the extent to which Ukraine met expectations regarding the start of accession negotiations,” Szijjártó warned.
From September 1, 15,000 ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia are deprived of the right to continue their studies in universities in their native language due to new Ukrainian laws, the Foreign Minister noted, calling the current situation a serious violation of international law, and this is not an unfounded accusation of a Hungarian diplomat, but a fact, earlier confirmed by the Venice Commission.
Shadow of Austria-Hungary
At the summit in Toledo, Szijjarto single-handedly resisted not only pro-Ukrainian, but also anti-Russian initiatives.
“One of the EU member states has announced the need to impose sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry, but the Hungarian government still will not agree to this. And not only because it is contrary to national interests, but also because the proposal for nuclear sanctions undermines the competitiveness of the European economy and makes us look stupid,” he said.
While the EU is discussing restrictive measures against Russian nuclear energy, the United States continues to work closely with this sector, Szijjarto noted: according to the latest statistics, Washington more than tripled its imports of uranium from Russia in the first half of 2023, to such high levels, which have not been since 2005 - about a quarter of nuclear reactors in America operate on Russian fuel.
However, at the summit, there were still officials who spoke out against the blind boundless support of Kyiv.
In an interview with journalists, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said: “We are talking about what the European Union is ready to continue to do for Ukraine, we have already done a lot. But from the point of view of Austria, I would like to say quite clearly that our line is unchanged: it is clear to us that we will neither supply weapons nor finance the supply of weapons. This is incompatible with our neutrality."
Although in fairness it should be said that Austria has long begun to act contrary to the status of a permanently neutral state - when, within the EU, it joined the anti-Russian sanctions.
And in order not to be caught in pro-Russian views - which is now considered unacceptable in the West - Schallenberg condemned Moscow's conduct of a special military operation, but at the same time stressed that it remains to be discussed whether Ukraine really needs this €20 billion and how it will be spent.
To the question of the host in an interview with the Austrian radio program Ö1-Morgenjournal, does anyone else believe that Ukraine will be able to return its territories with the help of military means and whether the minister believes that the war must go to a victorious end, or there are alternatives, such as a frozen conflict, Schallenberg replied: “Of course there are alternatives. Of course, I am the first who would like diplomacy. I want peace to reign again. Kyiv must decide for itself when this step will be taken.”
Surprises from Africa
But if Ukraine has become accustomed to demands and military actions since 2015, then military coups in African countries came as a complete surprise to Europeans. At the end of July in Niger, the military overthrew President Mohamed Bazum, and on the morning of August 30, just on the opening day of the summit in Toledo, immediately after being re-elected for a new term, the current President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was placed under house arrest.
As it became known to the American publication Politico, on the eve of the meeting of the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs, the European External Action Service circulated " Informal document on possible restrictive measures of the EU in connection with the situation in Niger", which refers to the request of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) contained in in a letter sent to Borrell to impose sanctions against the organizers of the military coup in Niger, as well as officials who hinder or undermine efforts to restore constitutional order.
The foreign ministers of the EU countries expressed support for ECOWAS, whose head Omar Alle Touré , together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ousted government of Niger, Mohamed Bazuma Asumi Masudu, who managed to escape to Nigeria, arrived in Toledo.
Borrell said that Brussels agreed to consider all initiatives in detail, and when asked if the EU was ready to support a military operation in Niger, he replied: "If we are asked to jump out the window, we will not do it."
Borrell called the events in Gabon alarming and expressed concern that this coup would further destabilize the situation in the region. But the Europeans themselves should also be concerned.
“In Niger they wave Russian flags, they sing anti-French songs, and this shows that our soft power, our influence is much less than we thought. The European Union must rethink its approach to relations with African countries. We still use an overly arrogant tone,” Shallenberg said.
And his Luxembourg colleague Jean Asselborn stated that the EU policy has failed and continues to go according to plan. The minister called on Europe to start a dialogue with Africa again, and to make it clear to the representatives of the Black Continent that they not only want something from them, but can also offer something.
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[REGNUM] In the early morning of September 1, 1939, Luftwaffe aircraft attacked Polish airfields, minutes later the Schleswig-Holstein battleship opened fire on the Westerplatte naval base, and Wehrmacht divisions crossed the German-Polish border from the Baltic to Silesia. So 84 years ago, the battles of the Second World War began simultaneously on land, at sea and in the air, which affected one and a half billion people and cost the world tens of millions of lives, including 27 million citizens of the USSR.
By historical coincidence, the end of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind falls on September 3 - in three days Russia will celebrate the anniversary of the surrender of Japan. Nearly a century after the end of the Second World War, the situation in the world seems to be returning to normal. The “Western democracies” are abandoning the system of collective security and are striving to strike our country with proxy hands (if before the war the Third Reich was predicted to play the role of “ram against Moscow”, now this fate is assigned to Ukraine).
Germany, as in the prewar years, is rearming. Poland dreams of hegemony in Eastern Europe, wants to increase military force and insists on reparations from Germany - the next requirement of Warsaw was voiced by the deputy head of the Polish Foreign Ministry Arkadiusz Mulyarchik on September 1 in an interview on the anniversary of the start of the war. Japan revives the army and in its military strategy relies on the defeat of Russia.
The Second World War was preceded by many local conflicts, which modern historians consider, if not part, then the prologue of a global catastrophe. For which Western countries were preparing in advance, by the will of a historical case turned out to be our allies in World War II. About the background of what preceded the war, about its first days and how relevant the parallels between 1939 and 2023 are, IA Regnum spoke with military historian and writer Alexander Shirokorad .
IA Regnum: Alexander Borisovich, there are different points of view on where to count the “real” start of the war: from the morning of September 1, 1939, from the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, from the Munich agreement between Hitler and the Western powers about the fate of Czechoslovakia, or from diplomatic contacts of pre-war Poland with the Reich. What do you think is the starting point?
Alexander Shirokorad: For some reason, everyone believes that the war - just like a world war, began on September 1. But it actually began on September 3, after Britain and France declared war on Germany. Moreover, the Poles themselves and a number of historians see the main merit of the Polish government between September 1 and 3 in that it turned the local Polish-German conflict into a world war. That is, the Poles, oddly enough, even brag about the fact that they actually unleashed it.
For example, these are the statements of individual Polish politicians. But I can make a more ironclad argument, literally and figuratively.
IA Regnum: Which one?
A. Sh .: Shipbuilding programs. All the rulers talk about peace, but warships are not tanks or planes, the production of which can be deployed in two or three weeks, and increased in one or two months. The battleship construction program is being prepared for a year, then the ship is being built for about another two or three years, preparing for launching, and so on.
After the Washington Conference of 1922, a pause was taken for more than ten years in the construction of new battleships. And somewhere in the mid-thirties, preparations began for the construction of battleships in all the leading countries of the world.
In England, they laid the "King George V", in France - "Richelieu". They even had to enter service in 1939-1940. Germany also laid down super battleships, but they were to be launched at the end of 1942-1943. The Soviet leadership also laid down the ocean fleet, it was planned to put it into operation in 1942-1943. What happens? That England and France considered 1939-1940 in advance as the time of the beginning of a big war.
All data on shipbuilding programs are published in many reference books. They, unlike some controversial political issues, are not subject to doubt, they are all known.
Undoubtedly, Hitler is the greatest criminal of the twentieth century. The Holocaust, the attack on the USSR and other grave crimes against humanity are on his conscience. The question is: can we assume that the Nazi dictator alone unleashed the Second World War?
IA Regnum: Usually Western democracies are accused of pandering to the appetites of the Nazis.
A.Sh .: In fact, England and France laid the first stone in the Second World War back in 1919-1920, at the Versailles Conference. Moreover, the most interesting thing is that during it, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George told the French chairman of the conference: "Do not make Poland a second Alsace-Lorraine."
And the commander of the French army, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, said: "This is not peace, this is a truce for 20 years!" Foch was only six months wrong, but Lloyd George accurately pinpointed the start of World War II. It was still 1919.
The question arises: if it were not for the predatory terms of the Treaty of Versailles, humiliating for Germany, which was not defeated on the battlefield, would there be a war? In Germany, without exception, all parties and movements opposed the Treaty of Versailles.
Suppose for a second that in 1933 the elections to the Reichstag were won not by the Nazis, but by the Communists. That was? Back in 1930, the leader of the German Communists, Ernst Thalmann, said that Soviet Germany would not pay a pfennig in reparations and would never tolerate borders imposed against the will of the peoples: about a third of Germany was given to the same Poland, Czechoslovakia, and so on.
What would have happened if Hitler had not survived after being wounded during the Beer Putsch in Munich in November 1923? This means that Telman would have started the war, it would just have been conducted in a completely different way. And the Jews would not be in concentration camps, but in the government and the Reichstag of Germany.
IA Regnum: Pre-war Poland was also called an ugly brainchild of the Versailles system. To what extent, in your opinion, is this definition justified?
A. Sh.: The Polish state was created by force. Within the borders of 1939, Poland included territories where about 60% of Poles lived, and the rest were Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Germans, Jews, and so on. But even 60% are not purebred Poles.
Warsaw equated the Kashubians in the Baltic Pomerania and the Lemkos in the Carpathians with the Poles, who have much more differences with the Poles than Russians with Ukrainians and Belarusians. And in Poland they announced that these peoples do not exist, do not exist. By the way, they were still pursued by the communists after 1945. They were all included in the 60% of Poles.
Nevertheless, the Polish leader Józef Piłsudski tried to create an "Intermarium federation" from the Baltic to the Black Sea, "od mozha to mozha" - "from sea to sea", as he said. The Baltic states, Smolensk, Kyiv and even part of Romania were supposed to enter there.
IA Regnum: But these are still plans, but in reality Poland had a chance not to attack, but to defend itself from superior enemy forces.
A. Sh .: The Poles have a symbol of faith - the defense of the Westerplatte peninsula. Almost until 1991, I myself believed that it was really Polish soldiers who defended their native land there from September 1 to 3. Later I found out the details and was very surprised.
It turns out that this is a peninsula that was not part of Poland, but of the Free City of Danzig, which was formed in 1922 by the League of Nations. This primordially German city, founded by the Germans, was torn away from Germany. And the population of Danzig was 95% German. Rejected and did not even know what to do with it. They couldn’t seem to give it back to the Poles either - the population was against it - and they came up with the status of a “free city”. In this free city of Danzig there was not even an army, there were only police formations.
And the Poles wanted to capture Danzig. Since 1936, there have been threats that one corps will solve all problems. Warsaw asked to arrange a customs terminal on the territory of the Free City, where more than two hundred Polish soldiers were stationed under the guise of customs officers. What was erected there seemed to be blockhouses, which turned out to be in fact powerful forts, into which six guns were brought, almost 20 machine guns, and so on. In addition, the Poles asked for permission to post their mail in Danzig.
By September 1, 1939, there were 120 postmen with machine guns and machine guns. And all these postmen and customs officers were supposed to capture Danzig, reacting to some demonstrations by the few Poles of the city, during which Polish blood was to be shed.
It is difficult to say how much the Poles were aware of the German attack. But not a single German soldier entered the territory of the free city of Danzig until September 3. With 120 armed "postmen" the police of the city finished off in a matter of hours, and the "customs officers" had to be tinkered with, because they had powerful casemates, pillboxes and guns, they were transported for about three days. True, the old German training battleship Schleswig tried to help from the sea, fired several shots, but didn’t hit anywhere.
And where the terminal was, there is a huge monument and a museum of the Second World War. The Poles believe that the defense of Westerplatte is perhaps the most important battle of the Second World War. But the museum is exclusively anti-Soviet. There is not so much about the Germans as dirty tricks about the Soviet Union.
And further. Germany had a very large merchant fleet in the late thirties. By June 22, 1941, on the eve of the attack on the USSR, all German merchant ships left Soviet ports and generally left the Baltic Sea, since the Red Banner Baltic Fleet could simply sink them. And by September 1, 1939, all German ships sailed the world's oceans, and several dozen ships were captured. And all these iron arguments indicate that Germany hoped for a local conflict "a la Czechoslovakia."
And on September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany. As I said, from now on the war can be considered a world war. Otherwise, you can count from 1937, when Japan invaded China.
IA Regnum: Again, before the invasion of the Third Reich in Poland, there was still the annexation of Austria and the Munich agreement on Czechoslovakia. There is a consensus in post-war Austria that it was their country, and not Poland or Czechoslovakia, that was the first victim of Nazism. How justified is this?
A. Sh.: It is impossible to consider the capture of Austria as the starting point of the Second World War. Even the programs of the most leftist parties in Austria until 1933 contained demands for the Anschluss - unification with Germany until the Nazis came to power there.
When German troops entered Austria in 1938, none of the Austrians went to the partisans. Maybe someone sat at home and cursed, but the overwhelming majority of the population, in any case, welcomed the German troops. Who was dissatisfied and with whom Germany could have a conflict is Italy. But Hitler was able to negotiate with Mussolini.
As for the Munich Agreement, the situation is different there. The Soviet Union was ready to help Czechoslovakia, it had military cooperation with Czechoslovakia, but Poland refused to let the Soviet troops through. Moreover, Poland, together with Germany, took part in the attack on Czechoslovakia, seizing the Teszyn region from it.
IA Regnum: And as a result, it lost its own statehood a year later, with the actual non-interference of Western guarantors.
A. Sh.: That's right. As far as Poland is concerned, today it is not able to admit that Joseph Stalin returned statehood to it.
And one more small nuance. In 1943, rebuking the presumptuous Polish prime minister in exile, Winston Churchill said that Britain did not start the war for Poland. This is an indisputable fact. The same can be said about Ukraine now, where the war is supported by the West not because of Ukraine itself, not because of some areas that Washington and London do not care about.
IA Regnum: Don't you think that today we are seeing the ideas of Western exclusivity and expansionism in action?
A. Sh.: These ideas have always existed, they have not gone away. Think Kipling. They are peculiar not only to Western Europeans, but also to the Poles - Belarusians, Ukrainians, Jews, and so on have always been considered inferior. Pogroms organized Jewish pogroms in 1939 and 1941. And by the way, in 1945 there were also Jewish pogroms, which we try not to mention, but they were very large. And by the way, the Poles gave the Nazis 90% of the Jews on their territory. And they prevented the return of surviving Jews to their homes after the victory.
Poles are waiting for an apology from Ukraine for the Volyn massacre
By the way, the Soviet press in the 30s called Poland a fascist state, until 1939. And let someone explain to me the fundamental difference between the SS of Nazi Germany and the SS of Poland - the “Union of Streltsy”. The tasks are the same - helping the army and suppressing anti-government forces in peacetime. Security squads.
In September 1939, no one spared the Poles. And the Soviet Commissariat of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, who declared about Poland that “the ugly offspring of the Versailles Treaty is over,” only repeated what Pilsudsky had said earlier about Czechoslovakia, in the division of which the Poles took part in 1938.
IA Regnum: Poland constantly pops up when discussing the beginning of World War II. Today we also see a similar and not very far-sighted policy of Warsaw in the eastern direction. Mateusz Morawiecki calls to "destroy the Russian world". Don't you think that Poland, with such a policy, is ready to become Ukraine No. 2 at any moment?
A. Sh.: The Polish ruling circles equally hate Russia and Ukraine. Now they are playing a very dangerous game of roulette. If the Ukrainian state collapses and the Poles play somehow well, they can grab Western Ukraine for themselves, including Lviv. But if they try, for example, to send troops not in the event of the collapse of Ukraine, but earlier, that is, to inflict some sort of blow on Russia, this may lead to the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Poland.
And then there are two options. Either NATO will disown Poland, or apply the "fifth article", and the third world war will begin. Another thing is that, with a certain development of the situation, it can grab a hefty piece of Ukraine. In this case, the Ukrainian state will simply fall apart. The game is very difficult.
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