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British troops will be deployed in Ukraine for the first time under plans being discussed with military chiefs, UK’s new Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has disclosed.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Grant Shapps said that he had held talks with Army leaders about shifting an official British-led training programme “into Ukraine” rather than relying on UK and other Nato members’ bases.
He also called on more British defence firms to set up factories in Ukraine.
UK Army will train Zelensky’s military on the ground and Navy may move into Black Sea.
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It there some reason training centers and defense plants in Ukraine would not be considered as juicy military targets by the Russians?
I notice we have two articles on sending 'advisors' to Ukraine, one British and one American. Trial balloons to gauge citizen reaction to escalating the war, perhaps. I can see the Brits going all in on playing The Great Game, but the pushback from Americans who remember Viet Nam might provide an excuse to begin winding down our commitments in the region.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:28 Kiev sent an official invitation to US presidential candidates to visit Ukraine, Ermak said. According to him, the Office of the President is in constant contact with both parties of the American Congress, and support for Ukraine is an “absolute priority” in the United States. “We have once again seen how the Americans support us. And it is societies that shape, in particular, the positions of politicians,” Yermak added.
21:39 Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak held the ninth meeting with representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Ukraine on the implementation of the Peace Formula. The event was dedicated to the implementation of the seventh point of the Formula - “Restoration of Justice”. The meeting, which took place on the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve of Babi Yar, was attended live and online by representatives of 76 states.
20:43 Seven EU countries have ordered 155-mm artillery shells for Ukraine, Reuters reports. The order has been placed under contracts awarded by the European Defense Agency (EDA). However, the EDA refused to name countries or the size of orders, saying that much of the information is confidential. At the same time, in response to a Reuters query, Lithuania and Luxembourg stated that they are among these seven countries.
19:14 There is a planned rotation in the US military leadership. The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, whom the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny called his friend, is leaving his post. Read about what Ukraine can expect from such changes in the article New Chief US Military Officer .
18:32 Zelensky announced important news in an evening video message: “This week has significantly strengthened our state and our people. Tomorrow there will be important news for Ukraine: for our soldiers, for our entire state. We are working to ensure that the next weeks will add more to Ukraine fortress - inner fortress and necessary cooperation with the world."
18:28 Relevant specialists will soon arrive in Ukraine to organize the production of air defense systems, said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak: “There is a very fundamental solution that we will begin to implement very soon. Soon specialists will arrive to us who will develop a plan for our own production of everything, what we need, first of all, air defense systems."
18:20 Representatives of French defense enterprises, who visited Kiev the day before, signed about 20 contracts, letters of intent or memoranda of understanding with Ukrainian industrialists, the French Ministry of Defense reported. Their trip became part of the first Defense Industry Forum, which is taking place today in Kyiv.
18:01 Mercenaries of PMC Wagner left the territory of Belarus and began to return to Ukraine. As Ukrainian intelligence officers say, relatively few Wagnerites have recently arrived in the Donetsk region - about half a thousand, but soon their number may increase significantly. Read more in the article Return of Wagner to Donbass .
17:27 Switzerland has allocated $109 million for mine clearance in Ukraine. The funds will be provided during 2024-2027. In 2022 and 2023, the country provided about $16 million for mine clearance in Ukraine.
16:43 In Slovakia, volunteers collected 650 thousand euros for a Bozena-5 mine clearance machine for Ukraine. Manufacturer The Way Industries promises to deliver it by the end of the year. He will also send additional equipment and train sappers to operate the machine.
16:06 Romania began to move air defense systems closer to the border with Ukraine after debris from Russian drones fell on its territory. These systems should strengthen the area close to the Danube. The number of patrols and observation posts will also be increased there, Reuters writes, citing sources in the Romanian Ministry of Defense.
15:38 Putin signed a decree according to which Ukrainian citizens will be able to continue to enter and leave the Russian Federation without visas and using internal Ukrainian passports, including expired ones.
15:25 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso, and discussed, in particular, cooperation in the field of energy security, trade financing, support for critical infrastructure and municipalities, food security, etc.
14:07 Great Britain imposed sanctions against officials of Russian “administrations” in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea. Their assets will be frozen and entry prohibited. Also included in the list of sanctions are the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurenkov and the Secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Natalya Budarina.
13:56 Orban called Ukraine’s entry into the EU unrealistic: “Is it possible to start negotiations with a country that is at war? We do not understand what the territory of this country is, because it is still at war, and we do not know what its population is, because "that this population is leaving. Taking in a country without knowing its parameters would be unprecedented."
13:43 Russia is jamming GPS communications in Romanian territorial waters, which, in particular, threatens shipping, said Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Defense Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces. According to him, limited communications could lead to collisions between ships and incidents on the NATO border - military missiles or drones could miss and strike objects in Romania or in its waters. Petrescu also said that drifting sea mines have more than once ended up on the shores of countries in the Black Sea region and exploded there.
12:59 Russian air defense shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter near Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, reported journalist Yuri Butusov. According to him, the fact of the destruction of the enemy aircraft is confirmed by monitoring channels. Also today, one of the Z-bloggers published a photo of the Su-35 with wishes to the pilot for “eternal flight,” thereby confirming the death of the crew.
12:17 Near the village of Giryi, Belovsky district, Kursk region, an SBU drone discovered and eliminated the Russian Kasta radar station, Ukrainian media report citing sources in the Security Service. A special feature of this radar was its ability to detect air targets at extremely low altitudes.
11:44 The West wants to increase weapons production in Ukraine, writes The New York Times. According to the newspaper, this was the reason for the unexpected visit to Kyiv of the NATO Secretary General and the defense ministers of Great Britain and France on September 28.
10:56 British intelligence writes that in recent weeks hundreds of former mercenaries of the Wagner PMC began to redeploy to Ukraine individually and in small groups. The exact status of the redeployed fighters is unclear, but it is likely that at least some of them were transferred to official Russian units.
10:49 Putin instructed the former chief of staff of PMC Wagner Andrei Troshev to form volunteer units for the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service reported. The issues of combat training of “volunteers” will be supervised by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.
According to media reports, Troshev was the chief of staff of the Wagner PMC in Syria, participated in the war in Afghanistan and the Second Chechen War. Ukraine imposed sanctions against Troshev in February 2023 for his active participation in the war.
10:38 The Russians shelled the center of Kherson, two workers of the utility company were wounded. As a result of the shelling, the utility workers' car was damaged, and windows in neighboring houses were broken, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Over the past 24 hours, three people were killed and five more were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:16 Ukrainian media report, citing sources in the SBU, that a drone attack on a substation in the Kursk region was carried out by the Security Service. Important military facilities of the Russian Federation were connected to the affected substation, among other things. The moment the drones hit the substation was caught on video .
09:57 The morning missile strike on Nikolaev hit a transport infrastructure facility, which Russia has been attacking for the second day in a row, said city mayor Alexander Senkevich. “The attack occurred before the siren went off. This week there have already been three such attacks - first there were explosions, and then the sirens sounded. The type of missiles used to attack is not yet known, but it is known that after them great destruction occurs and a fire starts ", he said.
09:34 The IAEA General Conference approved a resolution on the immediate return of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the full control of Ukraine. The resolution on nuclear safety in Ukraine was supported by 69 countries. Among other things, the document calls on Russia to immediately withdraw all military and other unauthorized personnel from the Zaporizhia NPP and return the plant to the full control of the competent authorities of Ukraine.
08:48 The US House of Representatives voted to allocate $300 million to support Ukraine. The money was removed from the US defense budget proposal and was voted on separately. In addition, the House of Representatives passed an $826 billion defense spending bill.
08:15 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 29:
personnel - about 277,660 (+340) people,
tanks - 4687 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 8972 (+10),
artillery systems - 6409 (+34),
MLRS - 794 (+1),
air defense systems - 536 (+1),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4991 (+34),
cruise missiles - 1529 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8836 (+21),
special equipment - 930 (+1).
07:46 In the morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on Nikolaev, hitting an infrastructure facility on the outskirts of the city, said the head of the OBA Vitaly Kim.
07:29 Over the past 24 hours, 21 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled an enemy attack in the Belogorivka area of the Lugansk region; on Avdeevsky - in the area south of Avdeevka and in the Nevelsky area of the Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the Urozhainy district of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Chervonoye district of the Zaporozhye region. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions.
06:58 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense allegedly destroyed 11 Ukrainian UAVs at night, one of them over the territory of the Kaluga region and ten over the Kursk region.
05:12 Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt said that a “Ukrainian drone” dropped two explosive devices on a substation, cutting off power to five settlements and a hospital.
02:10 From October 1, a shutdown may occur in the United States - a temporary cessation of government work due to the fact that Congress was unable to pass budget bills for the next fiscal year. If this happens, such a pause in work will negatively affect the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, said Pentagon spokesman Sabrina Singh.
“There will be uniformed military personnel who will come to perform their duties, but in the event of a shutdown, most of the civilian personnel will be on leave. For example, civilian personnel involved in training Ukrainian pilots for English language training. This may affect training,” she explained.
Singh noted that the language courses "started today, but no one can say how long they will last." Basic pilot training will begin upon completion of the language courses.
00:17 The weapons that Ukraine receives from Western partners are used properly, and not a single case of them falling into the wrong hands has been recorded, said US State Department Speaker Matthew Miller. He assured that the United States has introduced strict control mechanisms not only over military, but also financial and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
[KavkazUzel] The investigation refused five times to consider the statement of a resident of the village of Novorozhdestvenskaya, Viktor Krasnoborodko, about torture, during which the security forces obtained from a pensioner a confession of beating his stepson, but they managed to obtain a new review of the actions of the security forces, human rights activists reported. Krasnoborodko was arrested, his case was sent to court, his family does not believe in his guilt and calls the case falsified.
As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, a resident of the village of Novorozhdestvenskaya, Viktor Krasnoborodko, complained about torture by security forces who demanded that he confess to beating his stepson, the man himself told human rights activists.
The case of 60-year-old pensioner Viktor Krasnoborodko, who, under torture, incriminated himself in the murder of his 38-year-old stepson Andrei, is being considered in the Tikhoretsk city court. The security forces put forward a version according to which the pensioner beat the young man to death “due to hostile relations.” The article on causing grievous bodily harm (Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), under which the case was opened, after the death of the stepson in the hospital, was reclassified as an article on murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), human rights activists reported.
Currently, Krasnoborodko is being held in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Armavir, a representative of the “Team Against Torture”* told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent . He said that according to the statement of Krasnoborodko, a pensioner The police hung me up with a crowbar and beat me with a stun gun and electric shock. “His internal organs were not damaged, but the expert revealed that he had injuries “in the form of bruises in the area of the upper extremities, the right lower extremity, abrasions in the area of the upper extremities, wounds in the area of the left upper extremity, abrasions in the area of the lower extremities.” C 7 until October 21, 2022, Krasnoborodko was on sick leave issued by an orthopedic traumatologist. A statement was written, however, no criminal case was opened against the police who tortured the pensioner. Moreover, the police, who, according to Krasnoborodko, beat him, helped in the investigation of the criminal case against him. The investigator who verified the use of violence and the investigator who investigated the death of Krasnoborodko’s stepson were in neighboring offices,”
He noted that Krasnoborodko’s application is now being considered again. “Based on the results of the inspection against the police, the investigator issued illegal refusals to initiate a criminal case five times. Currently, the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case has been canceled, an additional investigation is being carried out. The investigation department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory is keeping the progress and results of the investigation of the crime report under control,” the representative of the human rights organization emphasized.
The criminal case against Viktor Krasnoborodko is in court, he said. “He is accused of murdering his stepson under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Six people were recognized as victims in the case - Krasnoborodko’s wife Galina and daughters, among whom Alevtina, it was she who found our organization and contacted us. Krasnoborodko filed a petition to consider the case with the participation of jury trial. There were several court hearings at which they could not recruit the required number of jurors. That is, now the consideration of the criminal case is at the stage of jury selection. The next hearing is scheduled for October 10. Krasnoborodko has a lawyer by agreement, who is handling his case in court. The committee in is not involved in this criminal case, we are only dealing with issues related to the torture of Viktor Krasnoborodko,” said a representative of the organization.
Viktor Krasnoborodko’s daughter Alevtina, who turned to human rights activists, does not believe in her father’s guilt. “My father is a strict and fair person. There were six children in our family. Five girls and one boy - my half-brother on my mother’s side, Andrei. We all grew up and were brought up together in love and respect for each other. Everyone in the family is hardworking and friendly. We have a farm and we all worked. Dad taught Andrei men's affairs, they went fishing together. Andrei helped his parents with the housework. Dad treated us all the same. He didn't have that: family - not family. We were all for his relatives. Therefore, not a single member of our family believes in the investigation’s version that he could have beaten Andrei to death,” Alevtina Krasnoborodko told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
According to her, the investigation's version looks extremely doubtful - her brother was a strong and athletic man, and there was never any hostile relationship between father and brother. “How could an almost 60-year-old man, a pensioner, beat a 38-year-old strong, muscular, athletic man like my brother like that? It’s unlikely that one person could have dealt with him, he would have always fought back. I can say for sure that those materials The criminal case that I saw was completely falsified, starting from the time of the crime and ending with the video recordings that we presented, but the investigators distorted everything and presented it as it was beneficial for them,” says Alevtina Krasnoborodko.
The mother of the deceased and the wife of the accused, Galina Krasnoborodko, said that she was experiencing triple grief - from the death of her son, from the unfounded accusation of this against her husband, and from the fact that her husband was subjected to terrible torture. “Andrei’s death is a terrible grief for our entire family. I can’t imagine what the investigators could have come up with and for this they tortured my husband so that he would incriminate himself. The real criminals are at large and this injustice makes our common family grief even greater,” - she told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot"
She said that her son was found in serious condition by her husband on August 28, 2022. “My husband worked as a security guard, and during the day he was engaged in agriculture. We have a house number 78 on Kommunisticheskaya Street, we gave it to Andrey, we also have a farm there. We live next to each other across the street. We constantly went to each other. He came to eat with us, we to him. And so Victor was walking home after work at about 9 o'clock in the morning and on the way he stopped by to help with the housework at Andrey's, as usual. The video footage shows how he comes in and exactly 47 seconds later comes out and starts calling. He called me and said immediately come, then called the police and an ambulance, as I later found out. I ran quickly, there was no face on him. I went into the room with him and saw Andrei on the sofa. The left side of his head was broken, he was unconscious. There was a pool of blood under him,” Galina said.
The woman said that her son “he spent a month in a coma in the hospital under machines.” “My husband and I went every day. A month later, my son woke up and even smiled at us. How could he smile at Viktor Nikolaevich if he had beaten him like that? He even began to eat, but spoke weakly and quietly. One day I stayed with him and began to ask tell me the names of those who beat him and he told me two names,” noted Galina.
According to her, Andrei “sometimes communicated with these acquaintances out of the kindness of his soul,” but the men “were fans of drinking and dealt with drugs.” Galina emphasized that one of the men was jealous due to her son’s meetings with the woman he liked. “I immediately thought that the motive could be jealousy towards her. As soon as I heard these names from my son, I immediately ran to the police and began to ask the district police officer to come and interview my son, but I was refused. The police officer said that he did not have time for this ", she said.
However, on September 19, security forces began to extort a confession from her husband. “Under torture, he wrote a confession and they opened a criminal case under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. And on November 5, his son died. He died without being questioned by the police,” said Galina Krasnoborodko.
Viktor Krasnoborodko was arrested on February 15, Galina said. She noted that she goes to court hearings to meet her husband. “We go to court as a family. My husband has aged a lot and lost weight. I see that morally, from injustice and from the grief associated with Andrei’s death, he has completely given up. But we try to support him and say that we love and believe him that the truth will prevail,” says Galina Krasnoborodko.
She noted that the family, with the support of human rights activists, intends to fight for his release. However, the family fears for his health, since Viktor Krasnoborodko has high blood pressure and a heart condition.
A former employee of the security service of the President of Chechnya, Ayub Tuntuyev, was subjected to torture by security forces in the colony, the ECHR said and awarded Tuntuyev’s heiress compensation of 12.5 thousand euros.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on May 15, 2008, the Supreme Court of Chechnya sentenced Ayub Tuntuyev, a former member of the security service of the President of Chechnya, to 24 years in prison in the case of a terrorist attack in 2005. On March 12, 2019, Tuntuev, who was supposed to be released in 2030, was found dead in the medical unit of a colony in the Vladimir region. Before this, in August 2018, the defense filed a complaint with the ECHR about pressure on Tuntuev and torture, while the prisoner himself never spoke about the desire to commit suicide, but reported threats against him.
CCTV recordings and an examination of Ayub Tuntuev’s body did not confirm his family’s version of death after being beaten in the colony, the Investigative Committee said. The prisoner's lawyer indicated that the version of Tuntuev's suicide is "absolutely unacceptable."
The European Court of Human Rights recognized Ayub Tuntuev as a victim of torture and ordered the Russian authorities to pay his heiress Hedi Rasueva 12.5 thousand euros, according to a decision published on September 28 on the ECHR website.
Having considered the complaint filed in August 2018, the court concluded that on May 17, 2016, Tuntuev was beaten on the kidneys, chest and head on the territory of a colony in the Vladimir region and threatened with sexual violence and poisoning by “two men in civilian clothes” in order to force him to confess . “Later that same day, and again on May 20, 2016, the applicant was threatened by [security forces] officers who demanded that he waive his right to a lawyer and remain silent about the ill-treatment,” the publication says.
Let us recall that on August 2, 2017, the court recognized Tuntuev as a participant in the attack on Pskov paratroopers in 2000, and his term of imprisonment was increased by 11 months. The convict did not agree with this sentence either.
On June 11, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law on non-execution of ECHR decisions made after March 15 of the same year. On September 16, 2022, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR stated that it retains competence to consider applications directed against Russia, provided that they were filed before that day.
The court in Khasavyurt suspended the trial of Eduard Ataev while the prosecutor's office considered the activist's complaint about the actions of security forces during his arrest, the lawyer said.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters* in Makhachkala, Eduard Ataev, was arrested on charges of possession of an explosive device and drugs. Atayev claims that the grenade and drugs were planted on him, and connects the persecution with his civic and political position and opposition to corruption schemes. The quality of the examination of the grenade found during the search of Ataev raised questions among the defense.
There are signs of falsification in the materials of the case of Eduard Atayev, the defense said in February. In Dagestan, fabrication of criminal cases against critics of the government is practiced, journalist Idris Yusupov pointed out.
The Khasavyurt District Court suspended the consideration of the case of Eduard Ataev, said the lawyer of the accused, Israfil Gadadov. According to him, the judge suspended the process while the prosecutor’s office considered Atayev’s statement about the actions of the security forces during his arrest, Kavkaz.Realii reported on September 28.
In court, Atayev stated that during his arrest, security forces put a bag over his head, wrapped it with tape, and then forcibly put objects that looked like a pistol handle and a grenade into his hands, the publication writes.
The case file for Eduard Ataev on the Khasavyurt District Court website was updated on September 11. It says that the last meeting in the case took place on September 11, the date of the next meeting is not indicated.
Let us recall that Eduard Ataev held single pickets in Makhachkala with calls, in particular, to stop corruption in the Khasavyurt region. On January 25, 2022, he was detained at a protest against natural resource extraction in the village of Endirei. A report was drawn up against him under Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (disobedience to law enforcement officers), but the court did not consider the materials and returned them back due to violations committed during the preparation.
Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN)
[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (24–29 September 2023)
In the period from 24 to 29 September 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out nine group strikes by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles.
The strikes hit ammunition depots, military-technical hardware of the AFU, saboteurs' training sites, and accommodation points for Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries.
As a result of the strikes, the control centre of the International Legion formation, two large arsenals with weapons and ammunition were destroyed, and the supply of foreign-made weapons and logistical support for Ukrainian troops operating in Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions were disrupted.
In Donetsk direction, during the week the enemy continued to attempt offensive actions close to Artemovsk, Avdeevka, and Marinka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Over the past week, units of the Yug Group of Forces have repelled 31 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area.
As a result of the fighting, the enemy lost more than 1,760 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, 40 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, as well as 70 motor vehicles.
In counter-battery warfare, 13 field artillery pieces and two 122mm BM021 Grad multiple rocket launchers were neutralised.
In addition, ground-attack aircraft destroyed two ammunition depots near Zvanovka and Zarya (Donetsk People's Republic).
In order to make up for the significant losses of manpower during the failed assaults on Kleshcheyevka and Andreevka (Donetsk People's Republic), the AFU command was forced to redeploy units of the 33rd, 67th and 110th Mechanised Brigades from other directions.
In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian troops continue to conduct active defence, during which they repelled eight attacks launched by assault groups of the 65th Mechanised and 71st Jaeger Brigades of the AFU close to Vebovoye and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region) during the past week.
In the areas of Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhov, and Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region), the 21st, 23rd, and 118th Mechanised Brigades of the AFU defeated clusters of enemy manpower and hardware.
During the fighting, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 330 Ukrainian troops, 32 armoured fighting vehicles, 38 motor vehicles, and 25 field artillery pieces.
The AFU Command is currently withdrawing the 47th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU from the area of Rabotino (Zaporozhye region) to the rear area due to the fact that servicemen are refusing to carry out combat tasks because of the losses they have suffered.
In South Donetsk direction, Russian units repelled four attacks launched by units of the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade in the vicinity of Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region), during the aforementioned period.
In addition, air strikes and artillery fire struck clusters of AFU manpower and hardware.
During the week, the enemy's losses totalled over 750 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, 37 motor vehicles, and 15 field artillery pieces.
Also, two AFU sabotage and reconnaissance groups were neutralised near Marfopol (Zaporozhye region).
In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces used air strikes and artillery fire to hit the manpower and hardware of the 25th Airborne, 14th, 43rd, and 92nd Mechanised Brigades of the AFU near Sin'kovka, Peschanoye, Cherneshchina, and Novolyubovka (Khar'kov region).
In this direction, the enemy has lost over 210 Ukrainian troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, as well as 13 field artillery pieces.
In addition, four ammunition depots of the AFU were destroyed near Berestovoye, Kislovka, and Ogurtsovo (Kharkov region).
In Krasny Liman direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces using the 12th Special Forces Brigade, the 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades made unsuccessful attempts to regain lost positions near Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry.
As a result of competent action by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, air strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flamethrowers, 12 enemy attacks were repelled.
Ukrainian Armed Forces losses for the week amounted to more than 360 Ukrainian troops, 20 armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, as well as 12 guns.
In Kherson direction, the main efforts were focused on preventing the enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from landing on the islands and the left bank of the Dnepr. As part of this task, three AFU sabotage and reconnaissance groups were disabled.
Up to 250 Ukrainian servicemen, 16 armoured fighting vehicles and 42 motor vehicles were destroyed during the week.
Seven field artillery pieces were hit during the counter-battery warfare.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed five warplanes of the Ukrainian Air Force in a week.
One Ukrainian Su-25 ground-attack aircraft was shot down near Toretskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two Mig-29 fighter jets of the Ukrainian Air Force have been destroyed at the Dolgintsevo airfield, Dnepropetrovsk region.
In addition, on the night of 29 September, two more Mig-29 fighter jets delivered from Poland and upgraded to use Western missile weapons were eliminated at the Kulbakino airfield, Nikolayev region.
One Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was also shot down by means of air defence near Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, air defence systems shot down 33 HIMARS and Olkha MLRS projectiles, one JDAM guided aerial bomb, and four U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles during the week.
In addition, 185 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down and overwhelmed by electronic warfare systems.
In total, 482 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,252 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defence missile systems, 12,210 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,157 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,584 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,590 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09.29.2023 to 00:00 09.30.2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 10 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Unit.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
Residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
Areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Korsun, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out four attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlovka there were five artillery attacks from MLRS and 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky there was one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 36 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 16 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
21:55 Ukrainian Telegram channels report that Geraniums are flying towards the Odessa region.
21:30 Was repulsed an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through the railway from Andreevka, having suffered heavy losses, the Ukrainian Armed Forces rolled back.
21:25 Daring raid of the “Brave”: at night ours have taken/captured a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants near Kremennaya
In the darkness, fighters from group “O” crept up to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and broke into their trenches. The militants were taken by surprise, two tried to resist, but were immediately destroyed. The rest were taken prisoner. The wounded were provided with medical assistance.
20:45 247 Airborne Regiment continues to work on the Ukrainian infantry near Verbovoy -video.
20:20 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have nothing today it didn't work out along the railway in Kleschi. A large number of losses and a lot of destroyed equipment.
19:35 Ukrainian DRG knocked out from the territory of the Bryansk region. Further searches are underway to destroy them.
No serious actions were taken by the enemy.
19:05 Special forces together with artillery of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division covers assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhov area.
18:25 247 Airborne Regiment beats attacks of assault groups near Verbovoy.
18:00 Northeast of the village of Kurdyumovkaare coming fighting along the railway. Without changes.
17:25 Ukrainian DRG consisting of about 50 people tried to enter the territory of the Russian Federation in the area of the village of Lugovoy, Bryansk region. There is a battle going on with our troops.
According to our information, some roads in the Novozybkovsky district of the region are blocked. A general collection has been announced for law enforcement agencies.
16:50 Shelling enemy from T-72B3M with PDO
Russian tank crews sent a video of their work from closed firing positions in the Kherson direction.
The mighty 3OF26 rounds delight the Ukrainian Armed Forces every day, flying into their fortifications, air defense systems and habitats.
16:00 Tokmok under fire from Ukrainian Armed Forces militants
Today, throughout the day, the Nazis struck the city of Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region at least twice with MLRS.
Russian air defense worked on multiple launch rocket system rounds flying at a peaceful city.
Information about casualties and damage is being clarified.
15:30 Wereboy:
The artillery of the Russian Armed Forces is working against a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces. The situation is stable.
15:00 Battles near Verbovoy: personnel destroyed NATO equipment by the enemy
Ukrainian Armed Forces militants continue to share footage of damaged NATO equipment in the Zaporozhye direction. You can see a large number of everything from infantry fighting vehicles to the vaunted Challenger 2, which eventually turned into scrap metal.
14:35 Telegram channel “Fisherman“:
In the southwestern part of the Black Sea, suspicious NATO intelligence activity is again observed: an American RQ-4B UAV and a British RC-135 aircraft are circling in the same area north of the Bosphorus.
Also, a little to the south, the Turkish ATR-72 base patrol aircraft of the Turkish Navy monitors the surface space. Before this, two American MQ-9A Reaper drones were in this zone all night.
Such NATO activity in the Black Sea, as a rule, is observed when ships of the Black Sea Fleet are there. And this is usually accompanied by attempts to attack them with unmanned boats: NATO intelligence directs BECs and evaluates the results.
13:55 Situation at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR: the enemy is trying to work from a distance, but he does not have the strength to break through
Soldiers of the Vostok battalion report on the situation on this sector of the front:
“The war at the site has returned to its usual course - everyone is working from a distance. Consumption is average, without strain, but soon there will be a thaw - a chord is needed. It feels like our enemy hasn’t yet accumulated the strength for a chord, which means we’ll have to, so as not to waste Indian summer?”
13:20 Khersonskaya region:
Information about the redeployment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the banks of the Dnieper (currently in the second echelon) has been received for the last 10 days. The enemy is dragging two brigades of naval infantry, setting up headquarters and control points. Radio networks have been ready and tested since the summer. Engineers conducted reconnaissance of the islands to guide the pontoons.
The enemy's plan: to strike with the main forces at Novaya Kakhovka and rush to Perekop, cutting off our units in the southwestern part of the Kherson region.
13:00 RF Armed Forces destroy Armed Forces of Ukraine near the railway in Kleshcheevki. There are successes. The Ukrainians are retreating.
12:25 Chronicle of special military operation: events of September 28, 2023.
Russian troops continue to carry out attacks on military targets in Ukraine.
In the area of Bogdanovka, Kirovograd region, an arsenal of ammunition of enemy ground forces was destroyed.
A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group attempted to penetrate the Staroselye area of the Belgorod region.
As a result of the battle, the attack was repelled: the enemy suffered losses and was forced to retreat.
In Serebryansky forest, west of Kremennaya, Russian units continue to put pressure on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of successful actions, several enemy strongholds were captured.
There, an agreement was reached on a temporary cessation of hostilities in order to evacuate the dead from the “gray zone.”
Despite this, the Ukrainian Armed Forces violated the truce by opening fire on Russian evacuation teams.
In the Vrem'evsky sector, fighting resumed in the plantings west of Staromayorsky and east of Urozhayny.
Two Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks were repelled near Priyutny: the enemy suffered losses and retreated.
In the Orekhovsky sector, intense fighting continues at the Rabotino-Verbovoe line.
The enemy launched an attack on Russian positions near Novoprokopovka, but retreated, losing several armored vehicles.
In the Kherson direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrating forces and trying to gain a foothold on the islands in the Dnieper delta.
Russian units foiled another attempt to land troops on Aleshkinsky Island.
11:50 Northeast of Priyutnoye the Russian Armed Forces have successes in the advance.
11:25 Personnel bomb attack on the locations of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the Krasnolimansk direction
The bombers of the “Center” group were working. The adjustment was carried out from a reconnaissance drone.
10:50 RF Ministry of Defense: On September 29, at about 9.45 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
10:25 Russian Aerospace Forces destroy bridges across the Oskol River at the front near Kupyansk
The pilots launched a series of strikes with high-precision X-38 air-to-surface missiles on three road bridges through which the enemy supplies its group of troops on the left bank of the Oskol River near the border of the Kharkov region and Donbass -video.
10:00 RF Ministry of Defense: on the night of September 29 of this year. An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
Eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by duty air defense systems, one of them over the territory of the Kaluga region and 10 over the Kursk region.
09:27 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 09/28/2023 to 00:00 09/29/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 16 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of two civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk.
Four residential buildings in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities, were damaged.
The areas of two settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kyiv, Petrovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out six attacks from 155mm artillery.
At Gorlovka there were 10 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
A total of 55 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 32 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
09:26 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- in the village of Aleshki 14 rounds;
-- in the village of Peschanovka five rounds;
-- in the village of Kazachi Lagerys 10 rounds;
-- in the village of Krynki eight rounds;
-- Four rounds in the village of Vinogradovo;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kazachi Lagery, Krynki settlement, Dnepryan settlement, Aleshki settlement, Podstepnoe settlement firing a total of 32 rounds from barrel artillery.
As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Alyoshki, one civilian received injuries incompatible with life.
08:09 Summary on the morning of September 29, 2023
With the onset of darkness, the Russian Armed Forces launched attacks on enemy targets with artillery, missiles and Geranium UAVs. Explosions were heard in Kherson, Sumy and Kharkov regions, in Nikolaev the arrival of an Iskander OTRK missile and our kamikaze drones was reported, and enemy targets were also hit in Slavyansk and Konstantinovka.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy is concentrating forces for the predicted landing operation, trying to increase its presence on the islands in the floodplain of the river. Dnieper.
In particular, a command post for the Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade will be deployed in the rear (the brigade was restored after its almost complete destruction and capture during the liberation of Mariupol).
Engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out reconnaissance of the islands and channels of the Dnieper, specifying the locations of possible pontoon crossings. Enemy intelligence compiles lists of priority targets for their simultaneous destruction in the event of the start of an operation; satellite reconnaissance of Russian units’ targets in the Kherson region and Crimea is being actively conducted, which indicates the likelihood of Nazi actions on a wide front to stretch our forces, preparation for the destruction of military command and control facilities and communications centers of various law enforcement agencies, incl. NATO missiles.
On the Zaporozhye Front near Novoprokopovka, the enemy tried to break through under cover of fire and artillery. Despite the total number of enemy forces along the entire Zaporozhye front of 60,000 to 70,000 thousand people, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to effectively use their full potential: more than half of the personnel have recently been mobilized and are not trained, and NATO equipment (mechanical drivers trained in the West is running out) requires repairs, because it is not new.
However, the enemy skillfully uses elements of decentralization of the control and supply system, which allows him to resolve logistics issues faster than ours. Drones are actively involved, a significant number of MLRS are reported, incl. a relatively new model (“Alder”), as well as the already familiar HIMARS.
Heavy fighting continues near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka south of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). Ours are holding positions near the railway, the villages have been wiped off the face of the earth. The enemy infantry units of the Russian Armed Forces are being hit by artillery trying to gain a foothold in the ruins, as evidenced by objective control footage.
West of Kremennaya, near the Torsky salient, the Russian Armed Forces expanded the zone of control, but these battles are of local significance, and there is no talk of a large-scale offensive operation.
Yesterday it was reported that the enemy’s DRG tried to break through the border in Staroselye in the Belgorod region, but was unsuccessful. During the day in the Belgorod region the following were fired upon: an industrial enterprise in Shebekino, settlement. Terebreno, Krasnoyaruzhsky district, a UAV was shot down in the Belgorod region (three in total per day).
In the morning in the Kursk region in the settlement. Belaya, Belovsky district, an enemy drone dropped two explosive devices on a substation - five villages and a hospital were without power. During the night, 10 UAVs were destroyed over the Kursk region, one over the Kaluga region. Two UAVs were shot down over the Bryansk region in one day. In the DPR, two civilians were wounded by Nazi fire.
08:08 Frontline summary for the morning of 09/29/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the western outskirts of the village of Rabotino. In turn, Ukrainian troops, supported by artillery, continued offensive operations on Novoprokopovka and Verbovoye. It seems that their command is ignoring the threat from the flanks. The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Orekhov, Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka are under attack. Ukrainian artillery fired at Russian artillery in Tokmak, Kopany, Il'chenkovo and Novopokrovka.In the Ugledarsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces continued successful counterattacks north of Priyutnoye. There are tactical successes. After artillery preparation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to advance in the direction of Zabetnoye Zhelanie. It didn't work out. Their units in Urozhainy and Staromayorsky were under fire. Russian in Priyutnoye, Staroml'ynovka, Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky.
On the Donetsk front – another assault by the Russian Armed Forces in Mar'inka. Attacks on Pervomayskoe resumed. The Russian Aerospace Forces dealt a powerful blow to Avdeevka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to break through bypassing Kurdyumovka through the railway track directly to Zelenopol. No promotion. Russian troops contracted at Andreevka, Kleshcheevka and in the direction of Grigorovka. LBS has not changed. Everywhere there are heights behind the APU.
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[REGNUM] Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, September 29, 2023, 08:00 - IA Regnum. The head of the Zaporozhye public movement “We are together with Russia,” Vladimir Rogov , told RIA Novosti that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave rise to a phenomenon - soldiers began to voluntarily surrender.
Rogov claims that Kyiv militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are moving in groups towards Russian positions, especially actively in the Orekhovsk direction of the Zaporozhye front.
“These are attackers who voluntarily go over to the peaceful side. This is a phenomenon of the Ukrainian counter-offensive,” the social activist explained.
Every day, from two to five Ukrainian soldiers surrender.
According to Vladimir Rogov, this happens for several reasons: the enemy’s morale is at zero, the understanding comes that they will not succeed, and there is also no motivation to die “for Zelensky’s gang.”
As Regnum reported , since mid-summer, about 10 thousand military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have used the special open frequency 149.200 “Volga” and surrendered.
When surrendering on the Svatovo-Kremennaya direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers brought with them a box of ammunition, as well as three Western-made machine guns.
The Russian military received information from a Ukrainian officer who voluntarily surrendered as a prisoner about spotters who were secretly directing Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery attacks on residential areas in the DPR.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday, the press service of the North Atlantic Alliance announced the transfer of two E-3A long-range radar detection aircraft to the Siauliai airbase. One of the Sentris has already flown from the Turkish base of Konya, and the second is likely to arrive soon.
The news was accompanied by standard language about the threat from Russia and the need to increase NATO capabilities on the Baltic flank. 150 service personnel will also be sent to Siauliai.
Indeed, the deployment of two E-3As in Lithuania will significantly expand the detection radius of Russian aviation and air defense in the northwestern part of the Russian Federation, as well as in Belarus. This is despite the fact that the Italian G-550 AWACS aircraft is already stationed in Siauliai.
This looks especially interesting against the background of the increasingly frequent flights of strategic aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces from Olenya to strike Ukraine. Their appearance in Lithuania makes it easier to monitor the bombers of the aerospace forces.
However, previously, constantly on duty E-3As from other air bases, such as Geilenkirchen, were quite enough for this. The fact that they were placed near the borders of the Russian Federation may mean that the Alliance is preparing for some important events in this direction.
https://t.me/rybar/52491 - zinc
One of the clear consequences of the activities of Gorbachev and Yeltsin in surrendering positions in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the USSR.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Photos of the memorial can be seen at the link
[ColonelCassad] A monument was unveiled at the site of the deaths of Prigozhin
... Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Wagner PMC until he died in an airplancd crash in August, in case anyone here has forgotten...
and Utkin.
... Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, Wagner PMC co-founder and military commander, who died in the same plane crash.
Also today, Putin met with “Sedy”, who now runs the Redut PMC, where some of the Wagner fighters went.
They promised to resolve all issues regarding social guarantees and security. Now "Redut" and "Volunteer Corps" are working with the Russian Defense Ministry. They are the ones who have now appeared in the Artemovsk area and will take part in upcoming operations. Putin today once again transparently made it clear that he has no complaints about the rank and file of PMCs and they, as before, are considered on an equal basis with the military, including in matters of guarantees.
Some of the Wagners signed individual contracts with the Russian Guard. The core of the PMC still operates in Belarus and Africa, separately from the Russian Defense Ministry. This group is commanded by "Lotos", who commanded the assault on Soledar, and also participated in the planning of the Battle of Artyomovsk. In Africa, Wagner PMC is most active in the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali. There is currently no official confirmation that the Wagner PMC has been transferred to Niger.
[Daily Mail, where America get its news] These things do unfortunately happen, from time to time.
The supersonic SU-35, which is one of the Kremlin's most advanced aircraft, burst into flames over the city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Pro-war channels in the country acknowledged that a warplane was destroyed by a Russian S-300 air defence system, with the pilot believed to have been killed in the process.
Video which purports to show the incident was released today, showing an orange glow and flash in the sky which could be the moment the plane explodes on impact with the missile.
The incident - if confirmed - represents a new setback for Vladimir Putin whose forces have been hit by a succession of strikes by Ukraine, including the loss of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet one week ago.
[RT] Ukraine deserves complete accession to the EU and will not accept any substitute proposed by incumbent member states who envision a tiered system of candidates. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal reiterated Kiev’s position in an interview published by Politico on Thursday.
"We want to be a fully-fledged member because Ukraine today is the unique country across the world that has paid such a huge price for its will to become a European Union member," the senior official told the outlet.
Earlier this month, a report commissioned by France and Germany recommended breaking down the EU’s expansion process into more phases to "ensure a merit-based approach and to manage potential conflicts." A four-tiered system ranking nations from "inner circle" down to a "European Political Community" was proposed.
Eight nations and the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo currently have active talks with the EU about possible accession. National leaders will discuss enlargement and reform plans during a summit in Granada, Spain next week.
EU Commission prepares to open Ukraine membership talks — Bloomberg
Shmygal emphasized that Ukraine is not aiming for a lower-tier status and anticipates full membership within two years. In explaining what sets Ukraine apart, he pointed to the significant and widespread public support for EU accession among its population. I want to be 25 again
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[FoxNews] The appointment of former Yevgeny Prigozhin ally Andrei Troshev to a key position in the invasion effort signals a rekindled relationship between Russia and the Wagner Group
Russian President Vladimir Putin has selected a former Wagner Group aide to coordinate volunteer soldiers in Ukraine.
The Kremlin announced the appointment of Andrei Troshev, a former aide to Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a Friday statement.
Putin told Troshev, in remarks released by the Kremlin, that his job is to "deal with forming volunteer units that could perform various combat tasks, primarily in the zone of the special military operation," a reference to the war in Ukraine.
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[Regnum] The Russian government submitted to the State Duma a draft federal budget for 2024–2026, its main priorities being social support for the most vulnerable categories of citizens, strengthening the country's defense capability and integration of new regions, the government press service reported on September 29.
“The bill on the federal budget for 2024 and for the planning period of 2025 and 2026 has been sent to the State Duma for consideration. The order to introduce it was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin,” the press service said in a statement.
The budget is compiled on the basis of a basic forecast of the socio-economic development of Russia, which assumes annual growth of the Russian economy of over 2% and is reduced to a deficit of 0.9 to 1.6 trillion rubles per year.
Budget revenues in 2024 should amount to 35 trillion rubles, in 2025 - 33.5 trillion rubles, in 2026 - 34.1 trillion rubles. Expenditures, according to the draft budget, will reach 36.6 trillion rubles in 2024, 34.4 trillion rubles in 2025, and 35.6 trillion rubles in 2026. Compared to the three-year budget 2023-25, both revenues and expenditures for 2024-25 have been revised upward.
When determining budget priorities, the government proceeded from the need to fulfill social obligations, as well as solve the tasks set by the president, the press service noted. Based on this, the main priorities of the new budget were social support for the most vulnerable categories of citizens, strengthening Russia’s defense capability, integration of regions that returned to the country in 2022, technological development of Russia and expansion of the country’s infrastructure.
As Regnum reported earlier, on September 28, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the restoration of economic activity in the country is proceeding at a faster pace than previously predicted. At the end of the year, the growth of gross domestic product may exceed 2.5%, Mishustin noted.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on earlier reports about an increase in federal budget spending on defense from 3.9% in 2023 to 6% in 2024, said that such an increase is necessary, since Russia lives in a state of hybrid war unleashed against her by the West.
[RT] Soaring energy prices have boosted Russia’s revenues, while the US is facing major economic threats due to its attempt to transition to clean energy, former President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday.
Addressing supporters at Drake Enterprises, a non-union auto parts manufacturer near Detroit, Trump condemned the administration of President Joe Biden for its policies on electric vehicles (EV) and clean energy, branding them a danger to the US auto industry. The shift to EV will kill jobs at America’s biggest carmakers and eventually make them obsolete, Trump warned.
"For auto workers, Biden’s transition to electric is a transition to hell," the former president declared. "A transition to unemployment."
According to Trump, the US was "more energy-independent" than Russia and China during his tenure as president, while now "we are begging countries to give us gasoline."
"We are going to lose our country," Trump warned, arguing that Moscow has "made a fortune" and continues to benefit from high oil prices.
[RMXnews] Fewer Europeans fully back the continued financial and humanitarian support of Ukraine by the European Union than at the start of the conflict, the latest Eurobarometer data revealed.
The collection of pan-European public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the bloc showed support is waning among EU citizens for the conflict in their own backyard, which continues to show few signs of easing.
In April last year, a majority of Europeans said they "totally agreed" with opening the borders for Ukrainian refugees, providing humanitarian aid to those who remained in the war-torn country, and imposing economic sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine two months prior.
However, a mood check in August 2023 shows none of these efforts now have the total support of a majority of EU citizens.
Those who fully approve of providing humanitarian support to people affected by the war have dropped from 64 percent in April last year to 47 percent. Support for welcoming Ukrainian refugees into the European Union has decreased from 55 percent to 36 percent, while unequivocal support for the continuation of economic sanctions against Moscow has dropped from 55 percent to 46 percent.
Similarly, just 26 percent of Europeans now totally agree with the European Union providing financial support to Ukraine, down from 42 percent, and less than a quarter (24 percent) totally agree with the supply of military equipment to Kyiv.
It is important to note that all of the above categories, with the exception of supplying military equipment, still garner a majority of support when factoring in those who opted for "tend to agree" in the survey, but the latest polling shows an undeniable slide in unequivocal support for a conflict that has now been raging for more than 18 months without a solution.
Ukraine was dealt a heavy blow earlier this month when Poland, one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies in the conflict against Russia, announced it would no longer be supplying weapons to its neighbor and would instead be focusing on stockpiling its own national defenses.
And it isn’t just in Europe where fatigue is starting to set in among the electorate. A recent SSRS poll commissioned by CNN revealed that a majority of Americans believe that Washington D.C. should withdraw financial support to Kyiv.
A total of 55 percent of respondents said that the U.S. Congress should not authorize further funding for Ukraine and 51 percent of those polled said that NATO’s largest contributor had already done enough to help the country.
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Of course, 90% of EU/USA population are against unrestricted emingration - doesn't helps them any, does it?
[RT] A point-of-view online video purportedly shows Russian drone strikes on a Swedish variant of the German Leopard 2A5 main battle tank, the Stridsvagn 122. Ukraine was given ten of them and has reportedly lost at least two.
The footage shows two separate attacks on a stranded tank in the same location, both using a VT-40 quadcopter kamikaze drone. The video was published on Thursday by a Telegram channel promoting the UAV.
Swedish media reported last week that its government had delivered ten Stridsvagn 122 tanks to the Ukrainian military, delivering on a commitment announced in February. The batch accounts for roughly 10% of the country’s tank fleet.
For some reason I've remembered a porn film I saw long ago (possibly the first porn film I ever saw) "The girl from Sweden".
Was it as boring as the first one I saw? I have no memory of it except it was laughably bad.
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[Regnum] Russia has harmed the United States by exploiting its own stupidity. Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, admitted this.
At the same time, the officer noted that no one wants to admit the truth, because it is easier to continue spending money on the “war.”
“Russia harmed us through our own stupidity,” McGregor wrote on social media.
As Regnum reported , the line of defense of the Russian military turned out to be stronger than Western experts expected, so the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is proceeding at a slow pace. So says the Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces, Admiral Tony Radakin.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, “put all his eggs in one basket” and is now paying for it. He used all means and weapons in the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but was not successful. Writer and journalist Juma Buklib thinks so.
McGregor stated that the Russian army would blow up American Abrams tanks transferred to Ukraine with air strikes. He is confident that the Abrams will be destroyed as soon as they are within the range of Russian strike systems.
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I'm totally unconvinced funding Ukraine is of any value to the USA whatsoever.
Nothing the media pushes has changed my opinion.
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I don't think this country has ever recovered yet from squandering blood and treasure in Vietnam. You might think we're rich but with $32 trillion in debt I think we're really on the verge of bankruptcy. I just had to pay my quarterly estimated tax and it hurt. Don't tell me I'm rich.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Also today, Putin met with “Sedy”, who now runs the Redut PMC, where some of the Wagner fighters went.
