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[Korrespondent] 21:35 The death toll from the Russian strike on Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast has risen to three, with six people injured, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported.
20:43 Blinken said that he had discussed permission to use long-range missiles with the Ukrainian leadership and would now report on the results of the talks to Biden. The US President and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss this issue on Friday, September 13. Blinken also said that the US would send additional air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks. In addition, the US Secretary of State said that NATO countries have made it clear that Ukraine's membership in the Alliance is inevitable and the country is on track to join.
20:02 The United States is providing Ukraine with over $700 million to overcome the consequences of Russian aggression, Blinken said. Of this amount, $325 million is allocated for repairing power grids, $290 million for humanitarian aid, and $102 million for demining.
19:16 Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina announced that the new package of military aid to Ukraine will include armored vehicles and drones, as well as the training and equipment of several thousand more Ukrainian troops.
18:55 220 Iranian Fath-360 ballistic missiles have arrived in Russia from Iran via the Caspian Sea, Sky News writes. In turn, The New York Times reports that Russia recently received new supplies of ballistic missiles from North Korea.
18:48 UK Defence Secretary John Healey said Ukraine will receive hundreds of additional air defence missiles, tens of thousands of additional artillery rounds and armoured vehicles by the end of the year.
18:43 The victory plan will be presented at the Second Peace Summit and should force Russia to end the war diplomatically, Zelensky said: "This plan must be presented at the Second Peace Summit to force Russia to end the war diplomatically. If partners support it, it will help Ukraine force Russia to end the war."
18:39 Ukraine received information about Iran's transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia from intelligence services of partner countries, Zelensky said. He added that he does not know the exact number of missiles, nor does he have information about their use: "I will be able to confirm this when there is evidence. As was the case with North Korea. We know so far about the use of a large number of Iranian drones. As for the use of Iranian missiles, there are no other details yet."
18:35 The SBU has announced suspicion against Russian Lieutenant General Konstantin Stepanishchev, deputy commander of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation, who planned a "blitzkrieg" to capture Kharkov.
18:32 The British government said it would provide £242 million ($315 million) to Ukraine for urgent humanitarian, energy and stabilisation needs, as well as to support reform, recovery and reconstruction. The funds will be provided over 2024-2025.
London will also provide $484 million in loan guarantees through the World Bank by the end of the year. The funds will be used to fund vital public services, including schools and hospitals, civil servants’ salaries and pensions. This is the second part of a total of $3 billion in loan guarantees that the UK pledged at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London last year.
18:14 Zelensky said that he knows nothing about Scholz's "peace plan" and doubts that it even exists: "There can be no plans for us without Ukraine. I'm not even sure that such a plan exists."
17:56 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, after announcing new Western sanctions against the country for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, said that no deliveries had allegedly taken place: "Once again, the US and EU are acting on faulty intelligence and flawed logic - Iran did not supply ballistic missiles to Russia. Period. Those who support sanctions should ask themselves: how can Iran produce and allegedly sell sophisticated weapons? Sanctions are not a solution, they are part of the problem."
17:39 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting in Kyiv with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. The key topics of the conversation were humanitarian demining, post-war reconstruction and restoration of energy facilities. Croatia announced the 11th package of military aid to Ukraine today.
16:57 The Russian army fired a Tornado-S at Konstantinopol in the Velikonovoselkovskaya community of the Donetsk region - two people were killed, two were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
16:18 Russians fired at rescuers during the evacuation of civilians in the Volnovakha district of Donetsk region, the State Emergency Service reported. Two rescuers from Zaporizhia and Kherson regions were wounded, two armored vehicles were damaged.
15:50 Russia has committed at least 137 thousand war crimes in Ukraine, Zelensky said.
15:43 Lithuania is providing 10 million euros to finance Ukraine's long-range capabilities, in particular for the production of the Palyanitsa drone missile, Rustem Umerov said at the opening of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian Defense Industry Business Forum in Kiev.
15:39 Britain is allocating 30 million pounds to support Ukraine's energy sector, Shmyhal said after a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lemmy.
15:36 The Wall Street Journal writes that the West demands a "Plan B" from Ukraine with realistic war goals. According to the newspaper, Ukraine has been told that a complete victory over Russia will require hundreds of billions of dollars that the West cannot provide, so partner countries want to see a convincing plan for 2025 that could be presented to their voters tired of the war so that Kiev would continue to receive weapons and aid. The question of what can be considered a victory and what will be needed to achieve it is one of the main topics of the visit to Kiev by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lemmy, the newspaper writes.
14:58 Latvia has announced a new package of military aid to Ukraine, which will include, in particular, armored personnel carriers, Shmyhal said. Latvia will also support Ukraine with energy equipment, provide solar panels to hospitals, and help restore the Chernihiv region.
14:44 Pokrovsk and several other settlements of the Pokrovsk community of Donetsk region were left without water and gas as a result of constant shelling, the city military administration reported.
14:35 In the Kamensky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of an enemy attack, two people have already been wounded and one has been killed, there is destruction at one of the enterprises, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
14:29 Turkish President Recep Erdogan, in his video address to the participants of the Crimean Platform, said that Crimea should return to Ukraine in accordance with international law. He stressed that the annexation of Crimea, which Turkey opposed from the first day, further aggravated the suffering of the Crimean Tatars, who survived the deportation 80 years ago.
13:37 Kiev would like India to "moderate" possible talks with Moscow, said Ukrainian Ambassador to New Delhi Oleksandr Polischuk. According to him, India should play a more active role in ending the war in Ukraine if it wants to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. According to the diplomat, Ukraine has offered India to hold a second Peace Summit by November 2024, but it is not yet clear whether New Delhi will agree.
13:18 Russians shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast again - one person was killed and five were wounded, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported. Thus, today there are already three dead and five wounded in the city.
13:09 According to the World Bank, about $35 billion will be needed to clear the entire territory of Ukraine of mines. Overall, Ukraine loses $11.2 billion annually due to mined territories, according to a study by the Tony Blair Institute, conducted jointly with the Ministry of Economy. Chernihiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions have lost more than 20% of their GDP. Local budgets of these regions are losing more than $1.1 billion in taxes due to mined territories.
12:50 Peskov said that the decision to strike deep into Russian territory with ATACMS missiles has probably already been made, and they are trying to formalize it through the media. Russia's response to strikes deep into its territory "will be appropriate," Peskov added. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the involvement of the United States and European countries in the conflict is direct, and "the SVO itself is a response to possible strikes deep into Russia." Peskov also said that Biden's call to Putin could not put an end to the war, but the end could be put by "the United States' abandonment of the policy of using Ukraine as an expendable material in an attempt to suppress Russia."
12:46 Zelensky took part in the opening ceremony of the national memorial dedicated to the tragedy of the Crimean Tatar people, and expressed confidence that "certainly" a similar memorial will appear in Crimea. "We are confident that Crimea will be free. This is our common goal, and the whole world is together with Ukraine in this fight today... We are not just fighting for the return of Crimea - we are fighting for the restoration of justice, for the opportunity for every Crimean to return home, to their Crimea, free from Russia and fear," the president emphasized.
12:37 The Russian army shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast with cannon artillery, killing two people, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported. Another two people were killed in Gornyak.
12:33 Russians attacked the Kamensky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region - one person died, there are casualties, reported the head of the OVA Sergey Lysak.
12:21 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lemmy have arrived in Kyiv. They will meet with Zelensky, the State Department website reports.
12:15 At night, two schoolchildren aged 13 and 14 set fire to a Russian Mi-8 helicopter at the Noyabrsk airport in the Tyumen region, local Telegram channels write. The teenagers were promised 5 million rubles (about 55 thousand dollars) for the arson; they received the task on Telegram. The boys poured a flammable substance on the helicopter, lit a cigarette and threw it away, after which the helicopter exploded and burned completely. After this, the schoolchildren fled the scene, but received severe burns, so they sought medical help. In a conversation with law enforcement officers, they admitted that shortly before this, they also set fire to a cell phone tower, for which they received 30 thousand rubles (328 dollars).
11:54 China will continue to advance its vision of ending the Russian-Ukrainian war and will try to convince most countries in the world to support its proposal for a political settlement, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting in St. Petersburg with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu. "China will continue to work to form a balanced, objective and rational point of view on the Ukrainian issue in the international community in order to achieve international consensus and create the necessary conditions for a rapid end to hostilities," Wang Yi emphasized.
In turn, Shoigu welcomed the “six-point consensus” proposed by China and Brazil and expressed satisfaction with the “broad recognition of this consensus by the international community.”
11:39 Murmansk Region Governor Andrey Chibis announced a UAV attack, which is why two airports were closed - Murmansk and Apatity. Russian publics write that two drones were shot down in the Murmansk Region near the village of Vysoky. Preliminary, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to attack the Olenya airfield. The distance from the highest point of the Ukrainian border to Russian Murmansk is more than 1,800 km.
10:42 Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held their first and possibly last debate before the US presidential election in November. The candidates repeatedly accused each other of lying. A separate section of the discussion was Russia's war against Ukraine. Read more in the article Ukraine and a Lot of Name-Calling .
09:37 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced that he has arrived in Kyiv, where he will meet with Zelensky. The Crimean Platform summit will be held in Kyiv today. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is also expected to visit.
09:25 In the Kherson region, 13 people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. In addition, today a resident of Veletenske, who came under fire on September 9, sought medical assistance.
09:06 In Donetsk Oblast, on September 10, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Gnatovka. Three more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:43 Air defense destroyed 20 out of 25 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. Another five enemy drones were lost on Ukrainian territory, no information about casualties or damage was received. In addition, during the night attack, Russia used one Iskander-M ballistic missile, two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles and six Kh-31P anti-radar missiles. Air defense operated in the Kyiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 11:
personnel - about 628,930 (+1140) people,
tanks - 8642 (+2),
combat armored vehicles - 16,938 (+13),
artillery systems - 17,936 (+56),
MLRS - 1182 (+2),
air defense systems - 943 (+1),
aircraft - 368 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,990 (+57),
cruise missiles - 2591 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,388 (+58),
special equipment - 3059 (+6).
07:48 On the evening of September 10, Russians struck Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
05:57 US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris criticized her opponent Donald Trump's call to establish friendly ties with Putin during the debate. She said that Trump "would have given up in 24 hours" and "Putin would be sitting in Kiev" and looking further towards Europe. "We need to understand the importance of NATO and what we are doing to support Ukraine. Otherwise, Putin would already be sitting in Kiev thinking about how to attack Poland. You think you are friends with a dictator, but he would eat you for lunch," Harris said.
Trump, in turn, avoided answering the question of whether he wants Ukraine to win: "I want the war to end. I want to save lives because people are dying in the millions. Billions of money are being spent on this war by America. They are not asking Europe for money in this amount." He also once again emphasized that he "knows well" both Zelensky and Putin. "And if I win the election, I will talk to one president, I will talk to the other, and the war will end," Trump assured.
01:14 The White House is "right now" working on lifting US restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range weapons in the war against Russia, Biden said in response to a question from journalists. The Times writes that part of the US administration already supports such a decision.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 92nd Air Assault Brigade and 36th Naval Infantry Brigade of the AFU near Malye Prokhody and Grafskoye (Kharkov region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 180 troops and three motor vehicles. One ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 44th, 116th Mechanised brigades of the AFU, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Kolesnikovka, Vishnyovoye (Kharkov region), and Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 460 troops, one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, two 122mm BNM-21 Grad and one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launchers, a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, a U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzer, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, a 152mm D-20 gun, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer. An Anklav-N electronic warfare station and four field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces engaged the 72nd Mechanised Brigade and 79th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU near Yelisavetovka and Katerinovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by enemy assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 655 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, a U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, a UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, a U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzer, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, three 152mm D-20 guns, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and a U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on manpower and materiel of the 150th Mechanised Brigade, 68th Jaeger Brigade, 142nd, 144th Infantry brigades of the AFU, 12th and 14th National Guard brigades near Dzerzhinsk, Petrovka, Pokrovsk, Marinovka, Tsukurino, and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk People's Republic). Three counter-attacks launched by the AFU units were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 510 troops, two armoured personnel carriers, a Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and a 100mm Rapira gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and 118th Territorial Defence Brigade near Dobrovolye and Novodonetskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). One counterattack launched by an enemy assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 110 troops, a tank, five motor vehicles, Polish-made 155mm Krab and U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery systems. One field ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 31st Mechanised Brigade, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 39th Coastal Defence Brigade near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region), Sadovoye, and Tyaginka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 troops, 14 motor vehicles, a U.S.-made MLRS launcher, and a UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer. An Anklav-N electronic warfare station and two field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces destroyed a Khortitsa Operational-Strategic Group's forward command post, an ammunition depot, and engaged AFU clusters of manpower and materiel in 144 areas.
Air defence units shot down six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, nine French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 57 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 642 airplanes and 283 helicopters, 31,398 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 air defence missile systems, 17,986 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,452 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 14,438 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 25,899 units of support motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation and artillery fire repelled an enemy counter-attack towards Apanasovka, as well as thwarted the enemy's attempts to launch attacks in the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Borki, and Fanaseyevka.
As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops killed and wounded and ten AFU servicemen were taken prisoner; two tanks, an armoured fighting vehicle, and six motor vehicles were destroyed.
Air strikes, artillery fire, and actions of the troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware clusters of the 22nd, 41st, 61st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st Presidential Brigade, 1004th Security and Service Brigade, 103rd and 129th brigades near Borki, Byakhovo, Guyevo, Vichnyovka, Daryino, Zeleny Shliyakh, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Martynovka, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Obukhovka, Orlovka, Snagost, and Uspenovka.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes at concentration areas in Sumy region of foreign mercenaries and reserves of the 22nd, 41st, and 54th mechanised brigades, 80th, 82nd Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1st Presidential Brigade, 101st, 103rd, 106th, 107th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Akhtyrka, Belopolye, Bititsa, Glukhov, Semyonovka, Stepanovka, Sumy, Svessa, Peschanoye, Pavlovka, Pustogorod, Radyanskoye, Rossoshi, Raki, and Yampol.
In the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops and 13 armoured vehicles, including three tanks, three armoured personnel carriers, seven armoured fighting vehicles, an artillery gun, two MLRS launchers, and 19 motor vehicles.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 12,200 troops, 96 tanks, 42 infantry fighting vehicles, 77 armoured personnel carriers, 656 armoured fighting vehicles, 401 motor vehicles, 90 artillery guns, 26 MLRS launchers, including seven of HIMARS and five of MLRS, eight SAM launchers, two transport-loading vehicles, 22 electronic warfare stations and seven counter-battery radars, two air defence radars, eight engineering vehicles, including two counterobstacle vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/11/2024 to 00:00 09/12/2024.
A total of 37 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information has been received about the death of a civilian.
DAMAGED:
One vehicle,
One residential building,
Three civil infrastructure facilities,
Two Russian Emergencies Ministry tanker trucks.
Four artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 33 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 106 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:35 Around 19:30 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.
20:46 Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces near Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye –map.
20:10 Selidovo – Lesovka.
Consequences military operations in the Selidovo area. A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces places the Red Banner on a residential building in the settlement of Lesovka, confirming confident control of the settlement. The Russian Armed Forces advance 2.5 km towards Ukrainsk.
19:52 Dzerzhinsk.
Positional military actions in the Gorlovka area. A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces came under fire from a Ukrainian drone in the center of Dzerzhinsk near a bread factory. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing from the correctional facility to 500 meters in a westerly direction.
19:17 The crew of the Mi-28NM carried out a strike on armored vehicles and a concentration of manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
According to intelligence reports, the targets were destroyed.
18:53 The enemy continues to slowly roll back from Nevel'skoy. In the event of the loss of the Perviy Zhelannovo, the situation for those who do not have time to retreat may become critical –map.
18:14 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 11, 2024) –video.
17:50 Naval infantry of the 155th Brigade of the Pacific Fleet during the counteroffensive in the Kursk region destroyed near the village of Gordeevka, a group of Ukrainian soldiers from the 22nd Mechanized Brigade.
17:11 Around 15.20 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region by air defense systems on duty.
16:48 Aerial reconnaissance of the Russian Armed Forces was discovered the Ukrainian Armed Forces' airborne assault force was deployed in the area of the settlement of Petrovpavlovka in the Kupyansk direction, where FABs were immediately dispatched.
16:22 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
South Donetsk direction: liberation of Vodyanoye and storming of forest belts in the Pobeda area
– In the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops, after recently consolidating along the T-05-24 highway, crossed the road and have been storming Vodyanoye for the past few days.
– Units of the Russian Armed Forces entered the village and after two days of fighting liberated the settlement. Later, footage of the raising of flags in the center and on the outskirts of the settlement was published.
– The enemy is consolidating its positions in the plantings and surrounding areas of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine No. 3, preparing it for defense. According to some reports, Russian troops have also taken control of the industrial zone of the Stroydetal plant and the adjacent dachas.
- To the south, the stormtroopers hoisted a flag on the privateer of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine No. 1. In the video, the fighters were standing at full height, so the presence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the nearby waste heap is unlikely. At the moment, the territory of the mine complex is being cleared and infantry groups are being consolidated at the achieved lines.
- At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces are attacking from Pavlovka to the north, bypassing Ugledar from the flank. The advance group managed to cross the Kashgalach River on motorcycles, where it came under fire from Ukrainian formations. At the moment, the outcome of the battle is unknown.
- North of Konstantinovka in the Pobeda area there are also significant successes. During the assault of a column of armored vehicles on forest plantations to the west of the village, a landing party was landed, which consolidated itself in the nearest forest belt.
15:51 An attempt by the Kyiv regime to seize the Russian jack-up drilling rig "Krym-2" in the Black Sea was stopped.
To seize the Russian drilling rig, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine sent a naval landing force of fourteen American Willard "Sea Force" boats with servicemen of the special operations forces of the Ukrainian Navy.
During the battle, the Black Sea Fleet and Russian servicemen carrying out the task of guarding and defending the drilling rig sank eight naval boats and destroyed up to eighty Ukrainian special operations forces servicemen.
Six more Ukrainian boats retreated without even attempting to pick up the wounded Ukrainian servicemen remaining in the water.
The latest “media operation” of the Kyiv regime in the Black Sea, timed to coincide with the arrival of high-ranking representatives of the United States and European countries in Ukraine on September 11, was drowned in blood and took the lives of many dozens of Ukrainian servicemen.
14:44 Crews of T-90M "Proryv" tanks of Ulyanovsk paratroopers destroyed a strong point with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel on the right bank of the Dnieper. After working on the targets, the tank crews change positions to prevent return fire.
14:24 Army aviation crews on Ka-52M helicopters carried out a strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and armored vehicles in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
13:42 Today 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces knocked out the enemy from the settlement of Lesovka in the Pokrovsky direction.
13:17 In the Murmansk regionshot down2 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs that attempted to break through to the Olenya strategic aviation airfield.
12:49 Kherson direction.
Russian Aerospace Forces struck with several FAB-500 aerial bombs from the UPMK a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment. Su-34Ms were used. Operational control confirms the target has been hit and enemy forces have been eliminated.
12:18 Between 10:00 and 10:15 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Kursk region and one UAV was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region.
11:51 Offensive of the Russian Armed Forces –map.
- Offensive in Kursk region. Several settlements have been liberated. The enemy's defense in this area has fallen apart rather quickly. We are waiting for the continuation.
- An offensive in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. Ukrainsk has effectively found itself in semi-encirclement. In the city itself, fighting continues on the eastern and south-eastern outskirts.
11:11 Footage with the defeat of a Ukrainian tank in the Pokrovsk direction. The 2nd Army drone operators are working.
10:38 A powerful explosion south of Krivoy Rog, in the area of the village of Radushnoye.
BK Scattering struck an air defense launcher, pre-S-300 VSU.
10:14 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs, two of which were shot down over the territory of the Oryol region and one each over the territories of the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
09:44 Vishnevka is ours! The 56th Airborne Regiment destroyed and captured the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, having freed village of Kursk region
- The Crimean landing cleared 3 settlements from the enemy, destroying and capturing the occupiers who had settled there. In the video, our troops are tying up Ukrainians who surrendered after the battle at their positions.
– First, the Airborne Forces fighters drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Komarovka, then from Vishnevka and then from 10th October in the Korenevsky district of the Kursk region!
09:28 Russian 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane" demolished enemy position
Calculation of the Uragan MLRS of the Center group of forces destroyed Command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction.
The artillerymen fired a salvo of 220mm rockets at the enemy at a distance of more than 25 kilometers.
08:47 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 11.09.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. The battles in this direction are mainly positional in nature. No significant changes in LBS.
- Donetsk Front. In Konstantinovka and Krasnogorovka, the cleansing of the remaining Ukrainian forces continues, and it can already be said that both settlements have been liberated.
Fighting continues in Selidovo and Grodovka, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to transfer reserves, which hinder the advance of Russian troops. However, the initiative in this area still remains on the side of the Russian Armed Forces.
Fighting continues on the approaches to Ukrainsk and Gornyak, with Russian troops seeking to semi-encircle Ukrainsk. There is an advance of Russian troops in Dzerzhinsk.
- Chasovoyarsk direction. No significant changes in LBS. Fighting continues in the eastern part of the city and on the flanks, where Russian troops continue to try to improve their positions.
- Khar'kov Front. Fighting continues in Volchansk and in the Glubokoe area. No progress on either side.
- Kursk Region. The Russian Armed Forces have launched a local offensive in a number of areas, including in the Korenevsky District. There is progress, but statements about the liberation of certain settlements require confirmation.
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been active in the Sudzhansky District, where frequent movements of columns with equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian troops have been recorded. No new attempts to break through the border have been reported.
08:00 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for September 10, 2024
– Russian troops carried out a series of UAV and missile strikes on various objects in enemy-controlled territory. The targets were military facilities and repair facilities of Ukrainian formations.– The enemy has again launched about 150 UAVs at the territory of the Russian Federation. Air defense systems intercepted 144 UAVs in eight regions, in Ramenskoye one civilian was killed and three were injured.
– In the Kursk region, Russian troops launched a local counteroffensive in the Korenevsky district, engaging several settlements and, according to preliminary information, liberating Gordeyevka and Vnezapnoye.
– In the Artemovsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced west of Zheleznodorozhny (Zaliznyansky), dislodging the enemy from several forest belts east of the M-03 (E40) highway.
– In the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction, Russian assault aircraft liberated another part of Kirovo (Pivnichnoye) and advanced on the eastern outskirts of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).
– The successes of the Russian Armed Forces are also being recorded in the South Donetsk direction. In the Georgievka-Pobeda area, several forest belts and at least one stronghold in a dried-up reservoir have come under the control of Russian troops.
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The Russians used to be experts at crossing rivers. Their skill has atrophied since WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union, but they still have damn good equipment. And in all honesty I would be suspect of the US's ability to ford a river under fire. It just isn't a skill that has been needed since 1990.
After lots of pontoon losses, the Russians will learn and then they will put them up faster then they can be destroyed. I think Ukraine missed the window to bag the units trapped behind the river. Been too long.
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[Regnum] The UK authorities have approved Ukraine's strikes deep into Russia with long-range Storm Shadow missiles. The Guardian newspaper wrote about this on September 11.
“Sources in the British government said that a decision had already been made to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles against targets in Russia,” the article stated.
It is claimed that there will be no public announcement about this at the meeting between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday, September 12.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, permission for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles to strike deep into Russia would involve the US and Great Britain in a full-scale war, said British politician and Heritage Party leader David Kurten. He called for preventing such a development.
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter believes that Ukraine could cease to exist if the Kiev regime attempts to strike at Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Ukrainian militants are using weapons supplied by their allies to strike Russia even without official permission from the West. At the end of August, the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have repeatedly used American ATACMS missiles and French-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike Russia. This cannot be done without Western satellites and guidance systems, Miroshnik specified.
In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that it is impossible to strike Russian territory with long-range precision weapons without space reconnaissance assets. Representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance countries, speaking about such a possibility, must be aware of what they are dealing with, the head of state emphasized.
New deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine are fraught with uncontrolled escalation, the West does not yet understand this, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at a briefing on September 11.
"The West apparently doesn't care anymore what will happen to Ukraine and Ukrainians. But it probably hasn't dawned on them yet that this is fraught with an uncontrollable escalation," she said.
On September 10, at another meeting in the Ramstein format in Germany, the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on NATO countries to increase supplies of air defense systems and long-range missiles. He added that there are enough air defense systems in the world, and Western allies need to be more active with Ukraine in this area.
On the same day, Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said that the priority of US military support will remain providing Ukraine with air defense systems for a long time. He emphasized that the United States is aimed at satisfying not only Kiev's immediate needs, but also its long-term ones.
Russia has repeatedly called on Western countries to refrain from providing military aid to the Kiev regime. As President Vladimir Putin emphasized in March, no weapons can change the course of the special operation.
Text by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin;
[ColonelCassad] Expert of the Center for Military-Political Journalism, author of the Telegram channel @boris_rozhin Boris Rozhin
While the United States has either allowed, or has not allowed, or is about to allow the use of long-range missiles on Russian territory, it is high time to speculate on what options there may be. From my point of view, this is a strategic inevitability caused by the West's desire to turn the tide of the war in Ukraine, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces are inexorably losing territory, personnel, and equipment. Having consistently gone through all the stages of the escalation track, the United States and NATO have come close to the next step, namely, strikes deep into Russia from Ukrainian territory.
Since 2022, I have been confident that everything below the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons can and will be used in Ukraine. The West considers the sovereign policy of the Russian Federation an existential threat to the late Washington world order, and it will try to eliminate this threat by any means necessary. Therefore, the approach to the brink of a nuclear war with direct strikes against Russia fits perfectly into this paradigm. It is important to understand that the enemy is not thinking about how to end the war through negotiations, but about how to win it by military and other means. Not to understand this means being a prisoner of illusions about the enemy's intentions.
The US is confident that Moscow will not use nuclear weapons in this case either, and if so, then there is no reason not to shell Russian territory from Ukrainian territory, causing Russia various damage. Therefore, the question of transferring such missiles (and it is quite possible that they have already been delivered and are awaiting political approval, as was the case with the deliveries of missiles for HIMARS, ATACMS, Storm Shadow) is most likely not worth it, since the missiles are probably already on Ukrainian territory.
Of course, a significant portion of long-range missiles (https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/1367301-ukraina-atacms-rashod) will be shot down, as HIMARS, ATACMS, Storm Shadow, SCALP-EG missiles and so on are shot down. But some percentage may reach their targets, and we must be prepared for this.
We must prepare for these attacks in advance by implementing measures to disperse aircraft, disaggregate ammunition depots, and ensure the security of headquarters and command posts, as was done in the case of the threat from other long-range enemy weapons. Of course, it is necessary to continue to build up the capabilities of operational-tactical and object air defense, including in the context of combating long-range missiles of Western manufacture.
Will these missiles change the overall dynamics of hostilities in Ukraine? No, they will not. Just as the deliveries of the same ATACMS or the deliveries of F-16 aircraft did not change it. Of course, despite any damage that the enemy will try to inflict, the Russian Armed Forces will continue offensive operations in Ukraine, and targets on its territory will be subjected to increasingly powerful fire damage.
[RT] Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has accused German industrial giant Siemens of intentionally delaying the delivery of equipment for the construction of the country's $24 billion Akkuyu nuclear power plant. The facility is set to be the first of its kind in Türkiye, and is being built by Russia’s Rosatom nuclear energy agency.
Speaking to the Anadolu news agency, Bayraktar said Türkiye’s first nuclear power reactor is already more than 90% complete. However, a delay in delivering equipment by Siemens has pushed back the project by several months. The minister claimed that the German company’s decision was taken “with a political attitude on an issue that has no legal basis and is not subject to any international sanctions.”
If Siemens aims to “impose sanctions on Russia, then Türkiye is also seriously affected by this,” Bayraktar added. Ankara has already filed a complaint about the situation “at the highest level,” he stated, insisting that the company should “pay a price” for its behavior.
Bayraktar noted that Siemens is “one of the companies we have been working with for many years,” but that it has “now put us in a difficult situation where we have to seriously question their existence.” In light of the situation, Rosatom has started looking for alternative suppliers and has already placed an order for the necessary equipment in China, the minister added. "Good Luck"
Ankara had previously projected the launch date of the Akkuyu nuclear facility for October 29 to coincide with Türkiye’s Republic Day celebrations. However, the authorities have since warned that this date is likely to change due to the delay in equipment deliveries from Germany.
The Akkuyu NPP is the first nuclear power plant in Türkiye and is set to include four power units with Russian-designed reactors, each capable of producing 1,200 megawatts.
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