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Putin shows off his toys: Buyers at Russian arms convention are treated to display of missiles, trucks and tanks after he boasted his arsenal is ‘decades ahead of Western rivals'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2022 08:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparently decades ahead of those who he's turned them over to operate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2022 9:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The captured M777 howitzer and M142 HIMARS displays would be interesting to see. It’s ingenious for the Russians to invite the Ukrainians to simply sell them the equipment outright - reduces the casualties associated with capturing them outright
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 08/18/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Decades ahead... uh huh. St. Javelin begs to differ.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/18/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  This is getting embarrassing.
Posted by: Secret Master || 08/18/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Ooooh! Scary! I am shaking in my boots.
Posted by: magpie || 08/18/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Ahhhh, but did he specify WHICH Western Rivals? Russia is decades ahead of Argentina, Peru, etc.
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Russians carried out 16 strikes on Donetsk region, using prohibited projectiles, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Since the beginning of August, more than 6,500 residents of Donetsk region have left for safer regions, almost 1,300 of them are children.

by Zaza Pavalishvili


The occupiers shelled 11 settlements in the Donetsk region. Bakhmut and Avdiivka suffered massive blows. There are wounded and dead among civilians.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Russia struck Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Toretsk, Kurakhove, Zaytseve village, Karlivka village, Bilbasivka settlement, Pivdenne village, Novomykhailivka village, Kostyantynivka village, Kurakhivka settlement," it says. in the message.

Artillery, tanks, "Uragan" anti-aircraft missile defense system, mortars and rockets were used for shelling by the invaders. During the day, 17 objects were destroyed and damaged - 13 residential buildings, outbuildings, garages. The police collected evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian Federation.

In addition, 614 citizens were evacuated by the police during the day.

"In total, since the beginning of August, more than 6,500 people have left for safer regions, almost 1,300 of them are children," the ministry's message summarizes.

We will remind, on August 15, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liquidated another 150 soldiers of the Russian Federation , most of them in the Donetsk direction.

Russian Federation struck Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, - OVA

[LB] In the morning, five rockets were fired from Belgorod over Kharkiv Oblast.

by Iryna Lysohor


The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil Oblasts, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv and Zhytomyr Oblasts.

At night, the enemy launched a missile strike in the Odesa region . As a result of the impact of two rockets, destruction and fires broke out at one of the recreation centers and in several private buildings nearby. Three civilians were injured. The rescue operation is ongoing. The circumstances are being clarified, according to the summary from OVA as of 8 am.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russia again shelled the Kryvorizky and Nikopol districts . Nikopolskyi was hit three times during the night. In Nikopol, six private houses, cars and low-pressure gas boilers were damaged. In the Chervonogrihorivska community, a local enterprise and the recently repaired Nikopol highway were affected. The power line was cut. People were not injured. In the Kryvorizka district, the enemy hit the Shirokiv community. Without victims and destruction.

During the day, the Russian occupiers intensively fired artillery and rockets at Kharkiv and the region. The Saltivsky district of Kharkiv was shelled several times from salvo missile systems. Residential high-rise buildings, critical transport infrastructure were damaged, and open areas were hit. No casualties.

During the day, the occupiers shelled Kharkiv, Izyum, Chuguyiv, and Bogodukhiv districts throughout the region. This morning, the Defense Headquarters recorded the launch of more than five rockets from Belgorod. Rocket strikes damaged residential buildings, several fires broke out. In the Izyum district, critical infrastructure was damaged by shelling, and grass burned in open areas. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties.

In the Luhansk region last night, the enemy launched six artillery barrages and four mortars, launched a rocket attack, tried to hit the positions of our troops from tanks, and used aviation twice. Russian attacks were repulsed in seven directions. At one point, the fighting is still going on.

There was a rocket attack on Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region at night. There are no casualties among the civilian population. Also at night - a rocket attack on the village of Kurakhivka. A direct hit into a private residential building. The rescue operation is ongoing, the State Emergency Service forces are extinguishing the fire and clearing debris. Druzhkivka shelling in the morning. About a dozen private houses were damaged. During the day, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, the village were shelled. Zaitseve, village Karlivka, Bilbasivka village. During the day, two civilians were killed and seven were wounded.

Yesterday evening, the enemy hit the port infrastructure of Mykolaiv with rockets from the Smerch salvo fire system. Without human losses. Tonight, the Russian occupiers once again bombarded Mykolaiv with missiles of the S-300 type. It is known that civilian objects were hit, in particular, the P. Mohyla National University and one of the city's enterprises. Private houses were also damaged. Previously, there were no victims or victims. Detailed information is being clarified. The village was also shelled at night. Shiroke of Shirokivska hromada. Hits were on agricultural buildings and the road. There are no casualties. Shelling of the territory and nearby settlements of the Berezneguvat community continues. Information on victims and damage is being clarified.

The situation in the Kherson region is persistently dire - air raids, loud explosions and shelling, house inspections, looting and abductions continued during the past 24 hours . Residents of the region also reported massively about fighter jets flying over the territory of the regions. During the day, the Russian military shelled six settlements in the Kherson region, as a result of which local residents were injured. In addition, there is information that the occupation authorities and the military have significantly increased the pressure on the residents of the region. In particular, checks of documents, telephones, and transport have increased.

We will remind you that yesterday, from the territory of Belarus, a Russian Su-34 aircraft struck infrastructure objects in the territory of the Zhytomyr region . The threat of further missile and air strikes remains.

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Operational summary of the Ukrainian General Staff for the evening of Wednesday, August 17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The Russian military is suffering such losses that they are demoralized and look for any opportunity to avoid hostilities. " They are trying to simulate minor injuries, resorting to various simulations; an increase in the facts of sabotage of officers' orders is recorded, especially when it comes to offensive actions ," they say in the summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Wednesday, August 17.

In the Volyn, Polessky and Seversk directions, the situation remained unchanged. At the latter, the enemy is improving the fortification equipment of the positions. He carried out artillery shelling near Chernivtsi, Pavlovka and Gudovoy, Sumy region.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery carried out shelling of the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Novaya Nikolaevka, Dementievka, Korobochkino, Pechenegs, Russian Tishki, Odnorobovka, Lebyazhe, Novoye, Svetlichnoye, Sosnovka and Rubizhnoye. The enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops in the directions of the settlements of Lebyazhe and Bazalievka, but had no success , retreated.

In the Slavic direction , enemy units with cannon artillery fire and multiple rocket launchers tried to defeat our units and destroy civilian infrastructure in the areas of Brazhkovka, Dibrovnoye, Mazanovka, Dolina and Dovgenkiy. The enemy tried to advance in the directions of Novodmitrovka and Mazanovka, but to no avail , retreated.

In the Kramatorsk direction , in order to displace our units from occupied lines, the enemy fired from tanks and artillery near Nikolaevka, Kramatorsk, Verkhnekamensky, Tatyanovka, Serebryanka, Grigorovka and Raygorodok. Inflicted an air strike near Ivano-Daryevka and Vesely. With assault actions, he unsuccessfully tried to improve the tactical situation in the direction of the Veseleye settlement .

In the Bakhmut direction , shelling was recorded near Bakhmut, Zaitsev, Yakovlevka, Belogorovka and Mayorsk. The occupiers used aircraft to strike at Soledar. Ukrainian soldiers suppressed all enemy attempts to improve the tactical position of units in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Kodema, Zaitsevo and Mayorsk.

In the Avdiivka direction , the enemy continued shelling near Avdiivka, New York, Peski, Vodyanoye, Poprosnoye, and Nevelskoye. Launched an air strike near Maryinka. The enemy has a partial success in the direction of the settlement of Poprosnoye .

In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions , the occupiers used tanks and various-caliber artillery to fire at the areas of the settlements of Bolshaya Novoselka, Konstantinovka, Pavlovka, Solntsevka, Olgovskoe, Vugledar, Volshebnoe, Gulyaipole, Novodanilovka, and Malaya Tokmachka. Air strikes were recorded near Shcherbakov, Maly Shcherbakov and Zheleznodorozhny. In order to clarify the positions of fire weapons and adjust the fire, the invaders used the UAV. The invaders also made an unsuccessful attempt to advance in the direction of Shevchenkovsky and have partial success in the direction of Novomikhailovka.

In the Yuzhnobuzhsk sector, the enemy continues to concentrate his efforts on holding positions and preventing the Defense Forces from creating favorable conditions for a counteroffensive . Using the available firepower, it is trying to inflict maximum losses on our units along the line of collision. Does not stop aerial reconnaissance by unmanned aerial vehicles. Inflicted air strikes near Belogorka, Lozovoye, Belaya Krinitsa and Posad-Pokrovsky. The enemy tried to improve the tactical situation in the direction of Belogorka. Our soldiers completely broke their plans and threw them back to their previous positions.

In the waters of the Black and Azov seas , the enemy naval grouping continues to carry out tasks to support the actions of the ground grouping of troops. Two carriers of sea-based cruise missiles are in readiness for the use of high-precision weapons .

August 17 is the 175th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 17th, 2022
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[Korrespondent] 23:10 Andrey Alekseenko, the current mayor of Russian Krasnodar, will become the head of the occupation administration of a part of the Kharkov region. This was first reported by propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, and then confirmed by Radio Liberty sources in the city hall. In December 2021, a criminal case was opened against Alekseenko on suspicion of taking a bribe.

23:06 Ukraine is behind at least three explosions in Russian-occupied Crimea - at the Saki air base, at the ammunition depot in Maisky and at the airfield in Gvardeisky, CNN reports, citing an anonymous source among Ukrainian officials. According to the channel, the report describes the Saki air base as a heavy but one-time loss for the military infrastructure of the Russian occupiers in Crimea, and the subsequent attacks as proof of Ukraine's systematic military potential in delivering strikes on the occupied peninsula. More details - in the material Rocket season in Crimea .

22:49 In Kharkov, the Russians launched a missile attack on the hostel, Zelensky said. According to Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA, the death toll rose to six people, 16 were injured.

22:27 Zelensky, in an evening video message, said that in the Zaporozhye region and in some areas of the south of the country, the occupiers are trying to improve their situation, "but strategically it is hopeless for them."

22:24 As a result of the Russian strike on Saltovka in Kharkiv, two people were killed and ten injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. He urged the locals to stay in cover as the enemy is still chaotically attacking the city.

21:58 The mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, reports on the shelling of the Saltovsky district. As a result of the impact, a strong fire broke out in a residential building, there is no information about victims and injured yet.

21:55 Canada will provide Ukraine with $450 million in gas for the heating season, Shmyhal said.

21:51 Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod hopes that the EU will make a joint decision to ban the issuance of tourist visas to Russians: "If this cannot be done by a common decision, on the Danish side we will consider the possibility of imposing restrictions that will further reduce the number of Russian tourist visas."

21:47 Zelensky, in an evening video message, named the hottest spots on the front: "Avdiivka direction, Bakhmutskoye, Kharkiv region and some other directions - there are now the most difficult hostilities. I am grateful to each and every one who withstands this pressure, who defends positions and helps our warriors."

The president also said that Ukrainian diplomats, nuclear scientists and the IAEA are in constant contact and are now working on sending an IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant: “The Russian army must withdraw from the territory of the nuclear power plant and all neighboring regions, take their military equipment from the station. any conditions and as soon as possible. Ukraine is ready to ensure proper control by the IAEA, and the corresponding mission can be sent to the Zaporozhye station in a legal way, very quickly and as efficiently as possible."

21:16 Zelensky talked to the students of Chile: "He frankly told what is happening in Ukraine and why the Russian war against our state continues. He called for spreading the truth about this war in his country and in his region."

20:41 The Ukrainian military managed to repel several assaults by Russian aggressors in the Donbass, but the enemy had partial success near the village of Opytnoye in the Avdiivka area, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an evening report .

20:27 The ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Belgium and Spain are starting a diplomatic mission in Ukraine - they presented their credentials to Zelensky, the OP said.

19:42 The Russians have restored the bridge on the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, deputy of the Kherson Regional Council Sergei Khlan said on the air of the telethon.

19:36 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are waiting for ATACMS missiles for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, which hit at a distance of up to 300 kilometers. According to Reznikov, the decision on these missiles will be made in favor of Ukraine. These statements were made after the next "blooming bavovna" in the Crimea. Meanwhile, the international press writes that Ukraine has found the weaknesses of the Russian Federation and seized the initiative in the war. More details - in the material Ukraine can checkmate .

19:33 In Crimea, a "court" fined a visitor to a karaoke bar 50,000 rubles for asking a DJ to play a song by Ukrainian rapper YARMAK to Dike Pole , Kommersant writes. The DJ himself, who put on the song, received ten days of arrest "for discrediting the Russian army." The complaint against him was that the video shows the symbols of Azov and that the video sequence ends with the words Slava ZSU.

19:27 Today, 21 people were buried in Bucha, who were killed in February-March and who could not be identified, City Council Secretary Taras Shapravsky said. According to him, preliminary DNA samples were taken from the dead so that their identities could be established in the future. The process of burying unidentified people in Bucha has been going on for more than a week. In total, more than 50 people have not been identified - 15 of them were buried on August 9. In total, 419 people died on the territory of the Buchansk community in February-March.

19:24 Ferry Lavrenty moored in the port of Mariupol, which left Yeysk. The invaders announced his arrival on 1 August. According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko, the ferry went with the identification systems turned off. "Something will be picked up at the port of Mariupol and dragged to Yeysk," he wrote.

19:20 Lukashenka approved a draft agreement on a program of military-technical cooperation with the Russian Federation until 2025, which provides for the joint production of weapons.

19:15 CNN, citing an internal report of the Ukrainian government, writes that Ukrainian forces are behind the explosions in Crimea.

18:47 Twice as many Jews have left Russia since February than in the entire previous year, writes the BBC. So, in less than half a year, 20.5 thousand Jews left the country, while in 2021 this figure did not even reach 10 thousand. This is the largest exodus of Jews from the Russian Federation since the collapse of the USSR. According to the head of the repatriation department of the International Commonwealth of Jews and Christians, Benny Hadad, mostly people are fleeing not from war, but from a regime that is increasingly reminiscent of a totalitarian one.

18:38 After the explosions in the Crimea, the Russians are urgently moving their planes and helicopters deep into the peninsula and to the airfields of the Russian Federation. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine recorded the flight of at least 24 aircraft and 14 helicopters.

18:12 Ukrainska Pravda has published an investigation about the "Monaco battalion" - Ukrainian people's deputies who went to Nice and Monaco during the war. According to the publication, there are people’s deputy from the Opposition Platform for Life Grigory Surkis and his brother Igor, people’s deputy and capital developer Vadim Stolar, developer from Dnipro Vadim Ermolaev, and oligarch Konstantin Zhevago. The State Bureau of Investigation began investigating whether they legally left Ukraine.

17:24 Estonia plans not to let Russians into the country with visas issued in other EU countries, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said.

16:55 UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Lviv , his office said. Erdogan's visit to Lvov is also expected. On Thursday, August 18, they are to meet with Zelensky.

16:39 China will send a contingent of its troops to Russia to participate in joint military exercises with the participation of several other countries, including India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan, the Chinese Defense Ministry said.

16:30 The Russian occupiers continue to prepare for holding quasi-referendums in the occupied territories of four regions of Ukraine, but it will be possible to organize it only in the Luhansk region. Both Russian and Ukrainian sources speak about this. Yes, and the ruler of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in his speeches only talks about protecting the territories of the "LDNR". More details - in the material "Holiday" is canceled .

16:19 Representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko called on the German government to respond to how the Russian bureau of the state-owned media company Deutsche Welle promotes Kremlin propaganda narratives: "Let me remind you that DW is a state structure funded by German taxpayers. It is not yet clear to us why the Russian service of the German broadcaster plays along with Russian propaganda, manipulates quotes and replaces concepts."

Nikolenko cited several quotes from the Russian service of DW: “recognize Ukraine as a terrorist state”, “one mistake by Ukrainian defenders can provoke a nuclear catastrophe at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant”, “banning Russians from entering the West will not help defeat Putin”, “Vogue denied rumors about the publication of a photo Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun" and a photo of the Nazi Fuhrer next to the cover of the Zelensky spouses.

15:48 The SBU has established the chronology of the crimes of the Russian Federation at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the North Crimean Canal. In particular, two Russian servicemen who gave criminal orders were identified - this is the deputy commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet for logistics, Major General Mikhail Yasnikov, and the commander of the 11th separate engineering brigade, Colonel Dmitry Markov. They directly commanded the capture of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the undermining of the structures of the North Crimean Canal.

The investigation established that on February 24, the military of the Russian Armed Forces, using heavy weapons, seized the administrative buildings and facilities of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and took the personnel hostage, made it impossible for the hydroelectric power station to function normally, destroyed the road bridge and made a number of explosions of the structures of the North Crimean Canal in order to supply Dnieper water to Crimea. Yasnikov gave orders for the illegal seizure of both objects, and Markov led the explosions.

15:29 On Independence Day, a flower garden dedicated to Bayraktar was created in Kiev. It is located in the Obolonsky district, at the junction of Stepan Bandera Avenue and Bogatyrskaya Street, the KSCA reports. To create a composition of 265 sq. m landed more than 24 thousand flowers. By Independence Day, an actual composition will appear in each district of the capital - 200,000 flowers will be planted for this.

15:24 Members of the military council of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol were introduced to a new commander - Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov became him, Russian media write.

15:01 The Ukrainian military began to train partisans a few months before the invasion. In parallel, the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine formed a more structured and secret program, which included instructions on sabotage and explosions, writes The New York Times, citing several Ukrainian partisans who spoke with the journalist with the permission of the military.

14:38 There will be more sabotage, "excesses" and "pops" in Russia, and not only in Crimea, Podolyak said on the Air program: "Professional sabotage of the partisan type, and sabotage caused by the work of Ukraine, will increase." At the same time, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office refused to confirm that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were involved in the explosions in Crimea. He also predicts the growth of protest moods in the occupied peninsula.

14:33 Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate, said that "very acute events" can be expected on the entire front in the near future. According to him, August and September will be extremely important: “In the near future, of course, there will be very acute events on the entire front. And not only because of the binding to some dates. Now there is a lot of talk about Independence Day. must be taken into account."

14:29 The Cabinet of Ministers allowed during martial law to certify the wills of military personnel to their commanders. After certification, the commander must send the will through the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense or another body to the Ministry of Justice, after which notaries register it in the Inheritance Register.

14:13 The school year in Dnipro schools will begin on September 1 in a remote format. According to Mayor Boris Filatov, this decision is supported by 80% of parents.

13:54 Naftogaz is unlikely to be able to fulfill the task of the Cabinet of Ministers to accumulate 19 billion cubic meters of gas by the heating season, said the head of the company Yuriy Vitrenko in an interview with NV. According to him, at the moment there are only 12.3 billion cubic meters in storage. m. About 1 billion cubic meters per month will be able to provide domestic production, but another 4.5 billion need to be imported.

At the same time, Vitrenko assured that a smaller gas supply would not be critical: “It is important that these additional 4-6 billion cubic meters of gas are available during the heating season. Having a lot of gas in storage is not a panacea, because there is a limited capacity for lifting gas from storage. It’s better for us to have gas coming through the pipeline in winter - it’s much more efficient.”

13:31 Reznikov, following a conversation with his Norwegian counterpart Bjorn Arild Gram, said that Norway had decided to provide Ukraine with a new package of military assistance and take part in the training of Ukrainian soldiers.

13:03 After the Russian invasion, about 22,000 teachers left Ukraine, or 5% of the total number of teachers, educational ombudsman Sergei Gorbachev said. At the same time, he assured that there would be no shortage of teachers, because some of them would be able to work remotely from abroad, moreover, many school-age children left the country - according to various estimates, from 700 thousand to 1.5 million. Therefore, fullness there will be fewer schools this year, now there is even a problem with the formation of the first classes, Gorbachev added.

12:42 Ukraine has agreed with the United States that it will not use Western weapons supplied to it against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation. However, there are no such restrictions on Crimea, Donbass and other occupied territories, Reznikov said in an interview with Voice of America: “We have agreements with the United States that we will not use weapons provided to us by the United States and partners on the territory of the Russian Federation. But if Today we are talking about the de-occupation of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, where the enemy is located, then, accordingly, we have no such restrictions."

12:04 Reznikov, following a conversation with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, announced a new package of military assistance from the United States: "We discussed the current security situation, new needs on the battlefield and ways to strengthen the capabilities of the Ukrainian army. More help from the United States will come soon."

11:48 In the center of Melitopol, a strong explosion thundered near the commandant's office of the occupiers, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said.

11:13 In Mariupol, the invaders opened the second filtration point in the city. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, the queue for filtering today reaches more than 1,300 residents of the city. To pass the filtration, you must provide a passport, phone number and work book. Without a certificate of filtration, it is impossible to get a pass to leave the city and evacuate.

11:09 Four more ships with agricultural products left the ports of Odessa and Chernomorsk today, the Turkish Ministry of Defense reported.

10:52 Reznikov said in an interview with Voice of America that there will be no freezing of the war in Ukraine, but a decrease in activity is possible: "It is possible to reduce activity depending on what season. And again, modern war is a war of resources. Resources, of course , are depleted on both sides. And accordingly, each side requires time to recover. "

The minister noted that Russian troops have lost at least a third of their combat potential used in the invasion of Ukraine: "Their resources are also being wasted, which means that they will need some restoration. Therefore, let's say, the cooling of the situation in terms of combat collisions are possible.

10:34 At the moment, not everyone is being mobilized in Ukraine, but specific specialists, Reznikov said in an interview with Voice of America. He stressed that now there is no need to increase the number of personnel, and the ranks of the military are replenished through the search, for example, for UAV operators, signalmen, gunners or "special IT specialists."

According to Reznikov, mobilization tasks are determined by the General Staff: “They estimate this or that amount of forces and means that is needed at one time or another in the conduct of hostilities, and they also estimate losses. Let's be realistic - we also have losses, and the wounded, and unfortunately killed.

10:09 Australia took the land from Russia, which it leased to it for the construction of a new embassy building, Russian media write.

10:07 British intelligence writes that two of the most important Russian military airfields in Crimea are located in Dzhankoy and Gvardeisky, where explosions thundered yesterday. Dzhankoy is also a key road and rail hub that plays an important role in supplying Russian operations in southern Ukraine. The cause of yesterday's incidents and the extent of the damage are not yet clear, but the Russian command is likely to be increasingly concerned about the apparent deterioration in the security situation in Crimea, which serves as a rear base for the occupiers, analysts say.

10:01 Ammunition depot near Dzhankoy detonated for 24 hours, Russian media write.

09:57 This night Odessa region was attacked by Tu-22M3 strategic aircraft with the launch of X-22 missiles. Four civilians were injured, a fire on an area of ​​more than 600 square meters. m localized, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk.

09:54 In Lisichansk, the enemy headquarters, which was located in the former building of the SBU, was destroyed, the head of the IVA, Sergei Gaidai, said. Previously, about a hundred enemy soldiers were killed.

09:51 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with Reznikov, the Pentagon said. The parties discussed Ukraine's immediate and long-term needs for security assistance. Reznikov provided an update on the dynamics of hostilities in Ukraine. We also discussed planning the next meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine (Ramstein-5).

09:46 Due to the lack of people willing to fight, Russia is trying to recruit citizens of Central Asian countries - in particular, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In addition to financial incentives, they are offered the opportunity to obtain Russian citizenship. At the same time, four battalions are being formed and trained in Chechnya to be sent to the war in Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports.

At the same time, a significant part of the "volunteers" in the formed battalions are local young men abducted by the Chechen security forces, mainly from villages. Under the threat of criminal prosecution on trumped-up charges or under torture, they are forced to sign contracts to participate in the war in Ukraine. This practice generates waves of discontent among the inhabitants of Chechnya and is perceived as a betrayal by the Muslim authorities.

09:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of August 17th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kharkov and Donetsk directions.

  • personnel - about 44,100 (+200) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1886 (+6),

  • armored combat vehicles - 4162 (+10),

  • artillery systems - 993 (+4),

  • MLRS - 263 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 136 (+0),

  • aircraft - 233 (+0),

  • helicopters - 196 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 792 (+2),

  • cruise missiles - 190 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 3054 (+5),

  • special equipment - 93 (+1).

09:18 The United States will contribute $68 million to the World Food Program for the purchase of Ukrainian wheat, Blinken said.

09:15 Ukraine has not lost a single HIMARS during the war, Reznikov said in an interview with Voice of America: “I can say with absolute responsibility that not a single HIMARS has been lost. Therefore, when you read in the Russian media or media, or social networks, that soldier Ivanov with Kalashnikov burst in and saw a truck in which he destroyed 12 HIMARS with a Kalashnikov at the same time, you can just laugh, twist it at your temple and say - well, such a propaganda system they have. This is nonsense."

09:12 Lviv authorities urged residents to stock up on firewood and potbelly stoves before the heating season, as well as buy an electric kettle, a battery-powered lamp, dry alcohol, and an electric stove. In addition, it is necessary to insulate the windows.

09:09 Podolyak, in an interview with The Guardian, called the construction of the Crimean bridge illegal and said that "such objects should be destroyed."

08:56 The Russians over the past day fired at Kharkov, as well as Kharkov, Izyum, Chuguevsky, Bogodukhovsky districts of the region. In particular, early in the morning, the Defense Headquarters recorded the launch of more than five missiles from Belgorod, one of which hit the Sloboda district of Kharkov. One person was wounded in Zolochiv, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.

08:48 In the Donetsk region over the past day as a result of enemy shelling, two civilians were killed - in Avdeevka and Zaitsevo. Seven more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.

08:44 The Russian army shelled two districts of the Dnepropetrovsk region at night - Nikopol and Krivoy Rog. Residential buildings, a gas pipeline, an enterprise and a power line were damaged. People were not injured, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko.

08:22 At night Russians fired at Nikolaev, rockets got to the Black Sea National University named after Peter Mohyla. According to the mayor Alexander Senkevich, a few days ago he published a video and showed that there was no military base there - ordinary university specialists work there. At the time of the shelling, there was only a bodyguard at the university, he was not injured. Debris and a shock wave damaged houses opposite the establishment.

07:45 Russian troops were conducting offensive operations in the Kharkiv, Slavyansk, Donetsk, Bakhmut and Zaporozhye directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary .

07:16 The Russians fired two rockets at Odesa region at night, OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk said. The recreation center, where the fire broke out, was damaged, and several private buildings were also damaged. Three people were injured.

06:28 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russia's goal remains unchanged - to achieve regime change in Kiev and take control of most of Ukraine. At the same time, Putin is trying to distort his true goals by claiming the "liberation" of Donbass.

According to experts, Russian forces are launching offensive operations around Bakhmut, southwest of Avdiivka and southwest of Donetsk, as well as unsuccessful offensive operations in the north and northwest of the Kherson region.

05:13 Latvia, following Lithuania, Poland, Norway and Canada, initiated fundraising for the purchase of Bayraktar for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the information is posted on the platform of the charitable organization Ziedot.lv.

03:41 The speaker of the "parliament" of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, said that Ukrainian agents have become more active on the peninsula: "The investigation will clarify the circumstances of the Dzhankoy incident in detail, but it is obvious already now: the agents of the terrorist Kiev regime have received a signal to become more active."

00:54 The leader of the DDT group, Yuri Shevchuk, was fined 50,000 rubles for "discrediting the Russian army."

00:09 The Ministry of Education has updated the school curriculum in connection with the Russian invasion. Now, in history lessons, children will be introduced to the USSR as an imperial-type state. They will also focus not only on repressions against Ukrainians, but also on Ukrainian resistance. A separate block will be devoted to the Russian-Ukrainian war, children will learn what the "Russian world", "rashism" and the policy of Russification are. Also, in the lessons of Defense of the Fatherland, the military-patriotic component will be strengthened.

At the lessons of literature, instead of Russian and Belarusian authors, they will study the works of world writers. Those authors who wrote in Russian, but were closely connected with Ukraine, remain in the program. In particular, these are Gogol, Korolenko, Bulgakov. The programs Literature (Russian and foreign), Russian language (grades 5-9), Russian language programs for grades 10-11 and Russian language and literature (grades 10-11) are completely excluded from the list of recommended for study.

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One of the main culprits of the war in Abkhazia is Yeltsin
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by Borislav Agadzhanov

[REGNUM] The Russian authorities and personally President Boris Yeltsin had every opportunity to prevent the outbreak of war in Abkhazia in 1992. But they didn't.

August 14 marks 30 years since the start of the war in Abkhazia, one of the bloodiest and most brutal wars in the post-Soviet space. The Abkhaz war, at least in the form and scale in which it took place, could well have been prevented. And a huge share of the blame for its unleashing lies with the then political and military leadership of the Russian Federation.

It should be noted that since 1988-1989, when the active phase of the confrontation between Georgians and Abkhazians began, the Russian "progressive public" openly sympathized with the Georgian side. The Moscow and Leningrad intelligentsia perceived the Georgian-Abkhaz contradictions in an extremely primitive way, reducing them to a black and white ideological scheme. Georgians were seen as democrats and liberals with progressive views, while Abkhazians were seen as communists, reactionaries and retrogrades.

Of course, such primitive ideological constructions had nothing to do with reality. However, after August 1991, this did not prevent them from being accepted almost completely by the new Russian authorities. And after coming to power in Tbilisi in March 1992, Eduard Shevardnadze's favorable attitude towards Georgia increased due to the "democratic" image of the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. It can be said that Boris Yeltsin favored Shevardnadze as much as "double size".

Firstly, according to old memory - as a colleague in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and secondly, according to a new fashion - as one of the fathers of the "new political thinking". The leader of Abkhazia, the orientalist Vladislav Ardzinba , did not belong to either the first or the second category, and therefore he was deeply alien to Yeltsin and his entourage.

Shevardnadze, in turn, immediately understood how he should deal with Yeltsin. The combination of a kind of "carrot and stick" seemed to be optimal. On the one hand, during personal meetings, the President of Russia had to be praised in every possible way, emphasizing his special democratic merits and the leading role in the collapse of the USSR.

On the other hand, at the slightest opportunity, Yeltsin should have been subjected to harsh, and sometimes rude pressure, accusing him and Russia as a whole of "great-power imperial behavior." After such processing, Boris Nikolaevich in the overwhelming majority of cases made all conceivable and unthinkable concessions.

In addition, Shevardnadze very quickly managed to find the hook on which he quite firmly planted Yeltsin and his inner circle. There were even two such hooks. The first was the promise that Georgia would join the CIS in the very near future. And the second is that Georgia will keep Russian military bases on its territory. Shevardnadze initially had absolutely no intention of fulfilling these promises, since Georgia firmly took a completely pro-Western foreign policy course. However, Shevardnadze and other Georgian statesmen managed to fool Moscow for a very long time, and the Russian political and military leadership, like a donkey, obediently followed the carrot hanging in front of its nose.

Immediately after the overthrow of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Russia began to disinterestedly help the new Georgian authorities build their own combat-ready and fairly large army. For this, literally an astronomical amount of weapons, ammunition, equipment, fuels and lubricants, property, real estate left over from the Soviet army was transferred to Georgia. With the full support of Russia, Georgia, which at that time was not even a member of the CIS, managed, according to the Tashkent agreements of May 15, 1992, to legitimize a significant share of the Soviet military legacy.

The impression was created that Moscow had absolutely no idea of ​​the catastrophic consequences of such a rapid militarization of Georgia. Russian generals and diplomats, like parrots, mindlessly repeated phrases about national armies as a necessary attribute of new sovereign and independent states.

But before they could end their own autonomies once and for all by force of arms, the Georgian authorities needed to receive full international recognition within the borders of the Georgian SSR, and for this it was necessary to join the UN. That is why Tbilisi decided to temporarily stop hostilities in South Ossetia (and not at all because of Shevardnadze's desire to establish peace, as the Russian democratic media assured), but immediately after joining the UN, start a war already in Abkhazia. On June 24, 1992, an agreement was signed in Dagomys between Georgia and Russia on a truce in South Ossetia.

However, it was extremely important not only and not so much the official agreement, but also what was achieved as a result of informal negotiations between Shevardnadze and Yeltsin. Most likely, it was during these unofficial talks that Shevardnadze received Yeltsin's agreement in principle to carry out a Georgian military operation against Abkhazia.

Apparently, Shevardnadze convinced Yeltsin that the military action in Abkhazia would take place easily and quickly, literally within a few days. This may explain the very strange behavior of Russia in the period immediately preceding August 14 and immediately after the start of the war. Russian generals continued to intensively pump weapons and ammunition into the Georgian army even when the fighting was in full swing.

So, the explanations of the Minister of Defense of Russia looked completely ridiculous, Pavel Grachev, who justified the transfer of the Grad multiple launch rocket systems to the Georgian army by the fact that the Minister of Defense of Georgia Tengiz Kitovani, promised him that, they say, these weapons would not be used in Abkhazia. When Grachev was pointed out that the Georgian army is widely using in Abkhazia precisely these installations transferred by Russia, the Russian minister, either with sincere or with fake bewilderment, stated that “Tengiz Kallistratovich, it turns out, deceived me!”
Pavel Grachev was the last commander of the Soviet 40th Army, the main combat component of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He also was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan in 1989.
Before the Georgian invasion of Abkhazia, Russian officials and "democratic" media were actually repeating Tbilisi's arguments word for word about the need to disarm illegal armed groups, unblock railways, and release hostages. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that after the start of hostilities Russia did not react in any way to Georgia's aggression.

It is extremely revealing that on August 14, 1992, Yeltsin was on vacation in Sochi, very close to the border with Abkhazia. If the President of Russia would like to prevent the outbreak of war or stop it in the very first hours, he would immediately take emergency measures, in particular by summoning Shevardnadze and Ardzinba to Sochi. However, Yeltsin did not even think of doing anything like that and did not even express his attitude to what had happened.

Moreover, Ardzinba for several days could not get through to the President of Russia via government communications. Other Russian officials actually sided with Georgia. It looked particularly cynical that at the time the Georgian invasion began in Abkhazia, more than 40,000 Russian citizens were on vacation, and their lives, health and property were in serious danger.

The calls of the Abkhaz leadership to Moscow to intervene in the conflict remained unanswered, and therefore Ardzinba was forced to seek help from the authorities and the public of the republics of the North Caucasus. The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus and the head of Chechnya readily responded to calls from Sukhum Dzhokhar Dudayev. They began to quickly transfer armed detachments of volunteers to Abkhazia.
Sukhum Dzhokhar Dudayev was formerly a Soviet Air Force general, president of Chechnya. He led Chechens in war against the Russian Amy before he was killed in 1996.
It should be noted that the Russian leadership did not predict the full severity of the consequences of the creation of volunteer detachments in the North Caucasus and treated this phenomenon with incredible frivolity.

Russia continued to continue to take a pro-Georgian position in the conflict, which was especially clearly manifested on September 3, 1992, during a meeting in Moscow between Yeltsin, Shevardnadze and Ardzinba. This meeting, despite the peacemaking efforts of the President of Russia, did not lead to any positive results.

Meanwhile, intense hostilities in Abkhazia very quickly led to a sharp aggravation of the situation throughout the Russian North Caucasus, especially in Kabardino-Balkaria. And when the Georgian side realized that a quick and easy victory over the Abkhazians was impossible, then Shevardnadze, trying to blame all military failures on Moscow and enlist the full support of the West, on September 25 made a sharp anti-Russian speech at the UN General Assembly in New York. And only after that did the Russian authorities begin to realize that the one-sided orientation towards Tbilisi was a mistake. But it was already too late. The meat grinder of the Abkhazian war, launched with the full connivance of the Russian leadership, has started working at full capacity.

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August 2008: Georgian heroes who were not
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by Borislav Agadzhanov

The article debunks one of the most hyped Georgian propaganda myths about the “heroic battle” that allegedly took place during the August 2008 war between Georgia and Russia.

[REGNUM] One of the main propaganda myths of modern Georgia is the myth of the heroic battle between Georgian soldiers and Russian "occupiers" that took place on August 11, 2008 on a highway near the village of Shindisi. This accidental clash, which lasted only a little over an hour and ended in the complete defeat of the Georgian side, is given an absolutely epic significance in Georgia, almost comparable to the fateful for Georgian history of the Garnis 1225 and Krtsanis 1795 battles with the Khorezmians and Persians.

The events in Shindisi are regularly reported on television, written in newspapers, and even a feature film was made about them. It has already become an obligatory tradition that every year on August 11, leading Georgian politicians deliver pathetic speeches dedicated to “the courage and self-sacrifice of national heroes.” This year 2022 is no exception. President of the country Salome Zurabishvili arrived in Shindisi and laid flowers at the memorial of the dead, and then attended the church memorial service in honor of the fallen.

"Today, all of Georgia will once again honor the memory of the outstanding Georgian soldiers who heroically fell in battle. Their devotion to the freedom and independence of the Motherland will always remain a proud example of our modern history, on which future generations will grow up." Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili wrote on social networks.

"Our future generation is growing up on the history of the heroes of Shindisi. Their love for their homeland and their self-sacrifice is the power to unite our country! I bow before them! Glory and eternal memory to the heroes!" – said the Speaker of the Parliament Shalva Papuashvili.

So, in the Georgian interpretation of events, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Brigade entered the battle with superior Russian forces and died heroically, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. However, the Georgian side does not have a clear and single version of what happened, but there are numerous and rather different versions of these events. So, according to one version, the Georgian soldiers deliberately went on a suicidal attack, since by doing so they diverted the Russian forces from the rest of the Georgian troops, thus giving them the opportunity to retreat without loss.

According to another version, Georgian soldiers accompanied a column of Georgian refugees, and, having entered into battle with Russian troops, they saved peaceful Georgian citizens from inevitable death. Common to all versions is that the Georgian heroes quite consciously sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland, people and colleagues. A total of 22 Georgian fighters entered the battle with a huge number of Russian soldiers (their number ranges from 100 to 400 people) with tanks, artillery and, according to one version, even a helicopter!

After a hard and long battle, Georgian soldiers, showing miracles of heroism, inflicted colossal losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment (as many as two KamaAZ vehicles filled with corpses were taken out). After the Georgian heroes no longer had the opportunity to fight, they blew themselves up with grenades (according to one version, all the Georgian soldiers who remained alive by that time did this, according to the second, two of them, and according to the third, only one). A certain Russian general, who does not have a last name, was so shocked by what had happened that, having taken off his cap, he knelt in front of the bodies of the killed Georgian soldiers,

In fact, the real events in Shindisi had absolutely nothing to do with pathos Georgian propaganda (in no case should its influence on Georgian society be underestimated - for example, 25 percent of Georgians were sincerely sure that Georgia had won a victory over Russia in the August war!) and developed in a completely different way.

On the morning of August 11, the paratroopers of the 104th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment of the 76th Pskov Guards Airborne Assault Division, who had just entered Tskhinval, which had just been liberated from Georgian troops, received an order from the command to move on an accelerated march to the south, cross the border of South Ossetia with Georgia and go north - the western outskirts of the Georgian city of Gori. In total, the paratroopers had to go along the highway for about 60 kilometers. At that time, the battalion group included a very small number of personnel and equipment: only two incomplete companies - about 200 people on lightly armored airborne combat vehicles BMD-1, a battery of four Nona self-propelled artillery and mortar guns, as well as three armored personnel carriers with twin automatic anti-aircraft guns mounted on them.

The paratroopers moved at high speed from the village of Khetagurovo along the road towards the settlement of Variani, Gori region of Georgia. The reconnaissance platoon of the battalion moved at the head of the column. When the convoy was near the village of Shindisi, one of the armored vehicles of the reconnaissance platoon suddenly died out and it was not possible to start it again. Due to the fact that the group did not have special equipment for towing a faulty vehicle, the regiment commander led the column, Gennady Anashkin and battalion commander Oleg Gritsaev, decided to leave her under guard right on the highway.

The scouts who were in the stalled BMD, with the exception of the driver and gunner, moved to other vehicles, and the column continued its movement. And seven more paratroopers were allocated to guard the faulty BMD. Thus, a total of nine men were left on the highway next to the railroad tracks, led by Sergeant Vladimir Orlov .

Meanwhile, it turned out that the Pskov paratroopers were advancing so rapidly that the Georgian troops remained behind them. And about 15 minutes later, a retreating convoy of an engineering company of the 2nd Senaki Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Army drove up to the BMD from the north. The column consisted of 12 vehicles: Toyota, Land Rover jeeps and three Ukrainian-made KrAZ trucks. Georgian soldiers, as we remember, according to the official version adopted in Tbilisi, there were 22 people. But the Russian military believes that there were from 40 to 70 of them.

The fact that the Russian paratroopers were ahead of them was not known to the Georgian sappers, and therefore the meeting with the enemy turned out to be a complete surprise for them. As, however, for the Pskov paratroopers. However, the gunner of the stalled BMD, Private Sergey ShishkovI followed the road very carefully and therefore noticed Georgian cars at a distance of about 250 meters. Shishkov was not at a loss and instantly made the right decision. He grabbed the RPG-26 grenade launcher lying on the armor and fired an accurate shot. The cumulative grenade hit the Toyota moving ahead of the column and destroyed it. All five people in the car immediately died, including the commander of the Georgian sappers, Captain Vepkhia Jishkariani.

Therefore, in the very first moments of the battle, the Georgian soldiers lost their command, which to a large extent was the reason for their subsequent defeat. Shishkov continued to destroy the Georgian column. He jumped inside the BMD and began direct fire to shoot enemy vehicles with high-explosive fragmentation shells from a 73-mm gun. Thus, Shishkov single-handedly burned half of the Georgian column. The remaining half were destroyed from grenade launchers and small arms by the hero's comrades. At the same time, Private Anton Isaev showed special courage., which lay down next to the BMD and accurately watered the enemy with automatic fire. The Georgian soldiers who survived and completely lost their vehicles fought very chaotically and rather indecisively. The shootout lasted a total of about an hour and a half. The Russian paratroopers began to run out of ammunition.

However, the column of the 104th regiment, which had gone forward, could not help its soldiers, since it discovered a large rear base of Georgian troops near the Variani railway station and Russian paratroopers began to destroy it. Therefore, Gennady Anashkin asked for help from colleagues from the 693rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 58th Army via radio.

Motorized riflemen immediately sent several tanks to help the fighting paratroopers. The sight of Russian tanks approaching the battlefield completely demoralized the Georgian soldiers, and they scattered around the neighborhood, then hiding in the houses of local residents. The Georgian military retreated so hastily that they abandoned their comrade, wounded in battle, who had to lie for two days among the dead bodies of his colleagues in a gutter.

Thus, the battle near Shindisi ended with the complete defeat of the Georgian side. All 12 vehicles in the convoy were destroyed. 17 Georgian soldiers were killed, including their commander, and some more were wounded. The Russian paratroopers did not suffer any losses; not a single one was killed or even wounded among them.

Later, secret Georgian maps containing plans to seize not only South Ossetia, but also Abkhazia were found in one of the wrecked cars.

It is noteworthy that the photographs of the defeated Georgian column, which soon got on the Internet, were taken on the same day by none other than the now infamous Arkady Babchenko, who was passing by the battlefield as part of the Chechen battalion "Vostok."

In contrast to the “Shindis battle” monstrously promoted in Georgia, the events of August 11, 2008 are rather little known in Russia. The five days of the August war in South Ossetia brought so much horror and grief, and so much courage and heroism was shown in them, that an ordinary, in fact, clash at Shindisi was simply lost in their background. However, the courage and selflessness of the Russian paratroopers-guardsmen did not go unrewarded. Participants in the battle near Shindisi in the Kremlin were awarded orders by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev himself. Privates Sergei Shishkov and Anton Isaev received the Order of Courage, and Sergeant Vladimir Orlov received the badge of the Order of St. George IV degree. The rest of the paratroopers were awarded medals. Gennady Anashkin and Oleg Gritsaev, who led the fighting of the 104th Airborne Assault Regiment, became, respectively, the Hero of Russia and the holder of the Order of Courage.

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#1  Somehow I doubt Russians get to hear the truth that they wouldn't have beaten the Nazis without US supplies. But they get endless lectures about how everyone else in the world lies about Russia.
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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief August 17th (updated)
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Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:50 Near the village of Staroe Selo, Sumy region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the bridge across the Psel River and the approaches to it, as well as the sides of the adjacent highway, while the local population was deliberately not warned about this.

The militants are planning to blow up the bridge and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of supposedly indiscriminate strikes on transport industry facilities, according to an already worked out scenario with wide coverage in Ukrainian and Western media.

20:47 In Kyiv, a local confectionery began to produce cupcakes with photographs of mothers and wives of dead Russian soldiers.

Previously, similar cakes were made with dead soldiers and officers of the RF Armed Forces.

20:46 Ukrainian troops shelled the area of ​​the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, at least 6 "arrivals" were recorded, the station itself was not damaged, the authorities of the region told RIA Novosti

20:39 A resident of Irpin was declared suspected for denying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

The woman, in conversations with acquaintances, denied the facts of the killings of civilians by the Russian military.

19:27 Today, in Energodar, law enforcement officers detained two Ukrainian artillery spotters. They helped to strike at the territory of the nuclear power plant and the city.

17:40 The UN Secretary General arrived in Lviv, where tomorrow he will hold a trilateral meeting with Zelensky and Erdogan.

17:22 Military commissar Poddubny: “Ukraine continues to collect weapons that have been decommissioned by other countries. It is reported that Croatia has reopened and handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine 15 each Soviet 130-mm guns M-46. Whether Zagreb handed over ammunition is not known. M-46 fires up to six rounds per minute, firing range 27.5 km.

17:00 NATO is ready to intervene in the situation around Kosovo if stability is under threat - Stoltenberg.

13:26 Two more fresh Ukrainian colonels liquidated in the last days of the RF Armed Forces.

1. Colonel Igor Oleksyuk
2. Colonel Petr Melnyk

13:00 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 17, 2022

- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit nine command posts;
- At the railway station Kalinindorf, Kherson region, a large number of servicemen of the reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, weapons and military equipment were destroyed during unloading;
- Three fuel depots and nine depots of rocket and artillery weapons were hit;
— Four Ukrainian UAVs were shot down;

11:47 In Dzhankoy and Yalta, a conspiratorial cell of terrorists "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami" (banned in Russia), consisting of six citizens of Russia, was neutralized - FSB.

11:36 There will be no global famine, especially since grain prices have been steadily declining over the past few months, and this is largely due to the agreements that were reached between the Russian Federation, the UN, Turkey and Ukraine - Dmitry Birichevsky, Director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

10:25 The detonation of ammunition at the ammunition depot blown up by saboteurs in the Dzhankoy district stopped in the morning. Sappers began to work on the spot, who must ensure the complete clearance of the territory and the possibility of the return of evacuated citizens.

10:22 In Odessa, the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was "covered" at night.

09:10 Explosions of ammunition at a military warehouse near Dzhankoy in the north of Crimea have stopped - the head of the district.

08:16 Zelensky's traditional evening address. The key thesis is that Zelensky called on the inhabitants of Crimea and other territories controlled by the Russian troops not to approach military facilities and warehouses of the Russian army. He stated that the destruction of the logistics of the Russian army will continue. He thanked all Ukrainians who help the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian special services and intelligence.

08:05 "15 percent imposed sanctions against Russia, 85% did not impose sanctions against Russia": Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian calculates who in the world community is for Russia and who is against it.

08:04 Russian servicemen became winners in the individual race of the international competition "Masters of armored vehicles"

08:02 Russian Aerospace Forces in the morning launched rocket attacks on Nazi military facilities in Odessa, Nikolaev and Kharkov.

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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: August 17th, 2022
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:25 Republican forces showed correspondents vacated positions at Ugledar.

20:05 VFU shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Romodanovskaya, a man was wounded.

19:05 The rear cities of Donetsk report on the work of air defense.

18:46 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 17, receivedadditionalinformation on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:

Kirovsky district:

- a woman born in 1979 was wounded.

Kuibyshevsky district:

- a woman born in 1975 was wounded.

Receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk, Kuibyshevsky district:

- st. Korean, 22/1 - a private residential building;
- st. Latvian, 21/1 - a private residential building;
- st. Dolinskaya, 17 - a private residential building.

n.p. Gorlovka:

- the 110 kV line was damaged, without power supply to 6030 subscribers of the settlements of the Izotova mine, the 6-7 mine, Mercury, Komarova, Stalsbyt.

n.p. Makeevka, Chervonogvardeisky district:

- st. Cheremukhovaya, 79 - a private residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

18:27 Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a massive shelling of Energodar - the military-civilian administration of the city.

17:22 Fixing the consequences of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk 17.08.2022

Military experts of the JCCC confirmed the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk, using artillery systems of 155mm caliber, and also specified the direction of firing. So, VFU fired from the direction of their positions located in the area of ??the settlement. Galitsinovka.

Area of responsibility of the 56th Motorized Rifle Brigade (commander - Colonel Sirchenko Sergey Anatolyevich; head of the BrAG - Colonel Puchkov Artyom Yuryevich).

Damage was recorded at five addresses:

Ave. Kyiv, 5, 5 "a", 5 "b" - apartment buildings, cars were also damaged;
Ave. Kyiv, 20 - administrative building;
Ave. Kyiv, 7 "a" - Shop "Comfy".

17:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

16:57 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia will establish the circumstances of the death and injury of civilians as a result of shelling by Ukrainian militants of Panteleymonovka, Aleksandrovka and the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

The fact of the shelling of the kindergarten in Gorlovka by the VFU will also be recorded. The Russian Investigative Committee will identify persons from among the Ukrainian nationalists involved in these crimes.

16:56 100th Brigade destroyed an entire unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

An entire unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Nevelskoye was demoralized by artillery fire from the 100th brigade of the DPR army and fled, abandoning their positions. When the fleeing soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left their trenches, they were destroyed by well-aimed mortar fire.

16:49 Today, a high-ranking delegation from the DPR arrived at the Uglegorskaya TPP:

Andrey Gennadyevich Chertkov, Minister of Energy and Coal;
head of administration of Debaltseve Igor Vladimirovich Zakharevich;
and about. General Director of Energy of Donbass Yevgeny Vladimirovich Zheleznyak.

Evaluated the state of the released object. The forecasts are excellent - the operation of the thermal power plant can be restored by the summer of 2023.

16:30 Russian investigators are working at the site of a HIMARS missile strike on a residential building in Pervomaisk (LPR).

15:43 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

15:23 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting aimed fire on Gorlovsky villages of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova, Mikhailovka and the village of Ozeryanovka. As a result of the shelling, the administration of the Nikitovsky district of the city of Gorlovka was de-energized.

15:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Orlovka - n.p. Makeevka: four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:03 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 17, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:

- a woman born in 1979 was wounded;
- a man born in 1973 was wounded.

Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:

- st. Yunokommunarskaya 26, 28 - private residential buildings;
- As a result of shelling, PFM “Lepestok” was scattered along Kremlevskiy Ave. -zapada-pohoronila-mezhdunarodnoe-pravo-strong)".

Kievsky district:
- Kievsky pr., 5, 5 "a" - multi-apartment residential buildings;
- Kyiv Ave., 7 "a" - "Komfi" store.

n.p. Gorlovka:
Central-City district:
- st. Pervomayskaya, 87, 89 - multi-apartment residential buildings.

settlement of Izotov mine:
- st. Krasnodonskaya, 65 - a direct hit in a private residential building.

microdistrict "Komarova":
- st. Shashurina, 19 - apartment building;
- st. Dolomitnaya, 11, 13 - private residential buildings;
- st. Morozova, 25 - a private residential building.

settlement Zaitsevo:
- st. Tokareva, 2 - a private residential building;
- st. Poletaeva, 38 - a private residential building;
- st. Rybalko, 69, 212 - a private residential building;
- per. Trade, 12 "a" - a private residential building.

settlement Panteleymonovka:
- st. Karl Marx, 13 - shop;
- st. Karl Marx, 15 - apartment building.

13:42 According to eyewitnesses, arrivals of enemy rounds are observed near the KamAZ Center in the Leninsky district, in the village of Krasny Pakhar (Kuibyshevsky district), in the village of the Lidievka mine (Kirov district). The information is being specified.

13:20 In Donetsk, they continue to eliminate the consequences of the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the brewery, as a result of which storages with ammonia were damaged.

The Ukrainian army used French high-explosive fragmentation rounds with a caliber of 155mm. The main blow was taken by the botanical garden known throughout the post-Soviet space, one of the largest in Europe. It is located in close proximity to the release site.

13:06 The shelling of the Petrovsky district has begun! Be careful, take care of yourself and your loved ones, do not go out unless absolutely necessary!

13:01 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 17, 2022

- In the area of Slavyansk, as a result of a strike on an ammunition depot, more than 3,000 122mm artillery rounds were destroyed;
- Over the territory of the DPR, a Tochka-U ballistic missile was intercepted in the Donetsk region and seven rounds of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.

11:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Maryinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm.

11:35 During the shelling of the Kirovsky district, civilians were injured:

- woman born in 1979 (St. Akhmatova, 84);
- a man born in 1973 (St. Tchaikovsky, 58).

11:17 In the DPR, the amount of estimated wages in construction has been increased. Now it will amount to 42,200 rubles.

Previously, the level of estimated wages in construction was 25,000 rubles.

11:16 As of August 17, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated 268 settlements, including Vershina.

11:02 According to updated data, as a result of armed aggression by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numerous damages to civilian infrastructure in Gorlovka were additionally revealed. In the village of Nikitovka station, a house on the street was damaged. Krasnodonskaya, 65.

Damaged glazing in kindergarten number 4 on the street. Dokuchaev, 11 in the village of mines. N. A. Izotova.

In the village of Panteleymonovka, houses were damaged at the following addresses: st. Karl Marx, 15, st. Karl Marx, 9, st. Karl Marx, 11, st. Pioneer, 2, st. Pioneer, 1, st. Pioneer, 4, st. Pioneer, 6 and school number 19 on the street. Serdyukov, 4.

09:18 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 August 16 to 06:00 August 17:

Over the past day, the Representation reported 65 facts of firing by the AFU. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm and 82mm, and small arms were also used. On Yasinovatsky - 155mm artillery, 120mm mortars. On Gorlovsky - OTRK "Tochka-U", MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm. Having fired 389 units of various ammunition.

Under enemy fire were areas of ten settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Leninsky, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo (southern), Gorlovka (Central-city and Nikitovsky districts), Shirokaya Balka, Panteleymonovka, Novobakhmutovka , Yasinovataya, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky and Kirovsky districts), Yelenovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka, Panteleymonovka.

Wounds of varying severity were received by 12 civilians in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, including those from previously liberated territories - Vladimirovka.

A total of 30 housing constructions were damaged in Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Gorlovka, Zaitsevo, Golmovsky, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.

In the previous day, 53 shellings were recorded from the side of the VFU.

08:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

08:41 Damaged in Pervomaisk after a night shelling of cities from the MLRS HIMARS.

08:33 This morning in the Kuibyshev district, near houses No. 33, 33a, 41, 41a, anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Petal" were found.

08:15 Report of the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC over the past day, August 16: from the armed formations of Ukraine shelling was recorded on the settlement. Pervomaisk using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (three missiles).

08:11 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny decided once again to complain about Russian artillery. According to him, up to 60,000 units of ammunition arrives at Ukrainian militants a day.

Zaluzhny is especially upset by the situation in the direction of Avdeevka - Peski - Marinka. Also, the commander-in-chief of the ukrovermacht complains that at the moment the main goal of the Russian Army is to oust the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Donbass.

08:00 Center of Donetsk. Air defense works.

07:50 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 16, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka, Panteleymonovka village:
- a man born in 1975 died.

Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on August 16, 2022 amounted to 14 people (two died, 12 injured).

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Russian Black Sea Fleet commander appointed
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Commentary from a V Kontakte posting by Military Informant.

Vice Admiral Viktor Sokolov is officially presented to the members of the military council as the new commander of the Black Sea Fleet. In this position, he replaced Admiral Osipov.

There was no public event introducing the new commander, and according to sources, there will not be in connection with the introduced yellow level of terrorist danger in Sevastopol.

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About the board to Bulgakova and the Ukrainian cross in Sandarmokh
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Commentary by A. Stepanov

[ZenYandex] According to media reports, on August 15, a memorial plaque to the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov was removed from the facade of the Kyiv National University. The initiative to remove the board was taken by the founder of the public organization "Expert Corps," Tatyana Shvydchenko. In her opinion, Bulgakov is a symbol of Russian culture, having nothing to do with Ukrainian. In addition, the activist believes that in all his works the writer belittled Ukrainian culture and "poured mud at it." Shvydchenko also said that she would fight for the removal of a memorial plaque from the facade of the KNU in memory of the students and university staff who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

I do not like the phrases about “ball-shaped” inspired by Bulgakov’s work. If only because I consider Bortko’s film a dull perestroika propaganda, and there is an alternative, “Heart of a Dog” by Italian Alberto Lattuada. In it, Professor Preobrazhensky and Bormental are vile and cynical types, and Sharikov is a sincere being who, although he does stupid things, does it without malice and evokes sympathy. The film ends as the victory of the eternal masters of life over the desire of "every cattle" to become a man. symbolically ends.
Soviet filmmaker Vladimir Bortko released his rendition "Heart of a Dog in 1988.
However, I digress. After all, it turns out that the image of "Sharikov" as a miserable, vicious, deceitful and thieving person is applicable just to liberals, nationalists and anti-communists. They glued it to us, but in reality they, the "de-communizers," turned out to be the real "balls." And it is very symbolic that the memorial plaque about Mikhail Afanasyevich suffered precisely from such people.
Sharikov is the name of the recipient of the dog's heart. Mikhail Afanasyevich is the given name and patronymic of the writer Mikail Bulgakov.
But remembering Bulgakov, I remembered one of his wonderful stories about the civil war in Ukraine, which I advise everyone to read. The story with the provocative title "I Killed" was written and published in 1926. The plot in brief is as follows: Doctors are arguing about their guilt in the death of patients, and suddenly one of them, Dr. Yashvin, tells how he did not manage to leave Kyiv in time and ended up being mobilized into the Petliura army. He observes the atrocities and murders taking place there, and when he treats Petliura's colonel Leshchenko, he can't stand it and shoots his patient...

After a silence, I asked Yashvin:
"Is he dead?" Did you kill him or just hurt him?
Yashvin replied, smiling his strange smile:
- Oh, be calm. I killed. Trust my surgical experience.
Symon Petilura was a Ukrainian politician, statesman of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and national leader who led Ukraine's struggle for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917 (1918-1921).
Mikhail Bulgakov was not a Bolshevik and did not incite class hatred towards his enemies in his story. He simply described the Ukrainian reality of that time. By the way, if Petliura's colonel Leshenko, or rather his prototype, had remained alive then, with a high degree of probability his life could have ended in the Karelian Sandarmokh. From the category of "murderers and participants in genocide" he would automatically move into the category of "innocent victims of Stalin's repressions." Yes, I remind you that the largest group of 1,111 people actually shot in 1937 near Medvezhyegorsk are Ukrainian nationalists. Petliurists, and not ordinary ones, but officers and even ministers of the Petliurist government, involved in the genocide of the Jewish population of Ukraine in 1919-20.

According to historian Artem Kirpichenok, the Jewish pogroms of those years were the largest extermination of Jews in Eastern Europe until the Second World War. Over the course of several years, up to 200,000 Jews were killed and maimed. However, for some reason, modern politicians are in no hurry to name the perpetrators of this massacre, there is a certain conspiracy of silence around this topic.

Why? Because various atamans also participated in it, and the Volunteer Army of General Denikin, whose remains were “patriotically” transferred to Russia at the expense of the budget. So it is extremely inconvenient for the current Russian fans of the “white cause” to remember the pogroms.

However, Symon Petliura's Ukrainian formations distinguished themselves most of all in the pogroms. For example, in 1919, in one city of Proskurov, they killed 2,000 people - mostly representatives of the local proletariat. This is how one of the participants, who later became a famous Ukrainian poet, Vladimir Sosyura, described what happened:

"They stuck a bayonet between the legs of one schoolgirl… And they shot like this: they shoot and look not in such a way as to get fatally, but somehow, they fire a volley and run in a race to the still alive shot. And they grab from the clothes what everyone marked on their victim before the volley ... they said that the Cossacks of the first kuren swore under the flag not to take money, but only to cut. They went to the city and slaughtered almost all of Proskurov's Jewish poor, tailors and shoemakers. They did not look into the bourgeois quarters. There was one Cossack who knew Hebrew. He approached with his comrades to the locked door and addressed the frightened inhabitants in Hebrew. He opened…"

However, after the Euromaidan, the Ukrainian authorities erected monuments to the Petliurists, naming streets and squares in their honor. And in the Karelian Sandarmokh, the monument to the "sons of Ukraine" was erected more than ten years ago. After all, including on this topic, two generations of Ukrainian nationalists were brought up, who were told how the "flower" of their nation was shot in distant Karelia. Although they were nationalists, among whom there were enough real killers.

Therefore, it would not hurt, following the example of Katyn, where a stand was erected in memory of tens of thousands of captured Red Army soldiers tortured by the Poles, to establish a similar stand in Sandarmokh, next to the Ukrainian cross. A stand that would tell about the numerous victims of Ukrainian nationalists during the civil war. With statistics, quotes and photographs. This would be an adequate and civilized response to the liberal and nationalist "Sharikov" for a memorial plaque to Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov.

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