[MSN] The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday said sabotage was behind an explosion at a military depot in the Dzhankoy region of Crimea, the RIA news agency reported.
The ministry said damage was done to civilian facilities — including power lines, power plants, railway tracks and residential buildings — but said no one was hurt in the incident on Tuesday morning.
"The necessary measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of sabotage," it said.
The ministry had earlier said that fire was the cause of the blast, at around 6:15 a.m. local time (0315 GMT/UTC) in the village of Mayskoye, causing ammunition to detonate.
Images posted on social media showed large fireballs erupting at the site and clouds of black smoke rising.
Plumes of black smoke were also seen later on Tuesday at a Russian military airbase near the settlement of Gvardeyskoye in occupied Crimea, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported.
Earlier this month, major damage at a Crimean military airfield drew international attention. Russia attributed that explosion to ammunition detonating. Some experts argued that an attack was more likely, judging by available satellite imagery of the damage. Ukraine did not claim responsibility but did seek to cast doubt on Russia's version of events.
Commentary by Russian military logger identified as Kotenok. Questions by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin in bold.
[ColonelCassad] - APU is hitting the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, threatening a "second Chernobyl". How high is the probability of a nuclear catastrophe and what could be its scale?
- A catastrophe is more than likely in 3 cases - a direct hit on the reactor as a result of targeted missile strikes on the reactor block, the failure of the station's mechanisms, which will lead to abnormal operation of the reactor and a possible catastrophe, as well as as a result of strikes on the nuclear waste storage site .
Depending on the type of damage to the plant, the damage radius will depend - in the event of a reactor explosion as a result of a missile hit, the damage radius will affect several regions of Ukraine. In the case of local contamination as a result of damage to containers with radioactive elements in an open area, the radius of damage will be tens of kilometers.
In any case, all these scenarios can definitely be interpreted as scenarios of a nuclear catastrophe, which the United States and Britain are now manipulating with the hands of Ukraine.
- The West is increasing pressure on Russia, blaming the Russians in advance for any incident that may occur at the ZNPP. What threatens the situation if Russia decides to create a demilitarized zone around the station?
- In this case, the West is deliberately trying to blackmail with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe in order to force Russia to bend and force it to make some concessions, such as transferring the ZNPP under international control or even under the control of Ukraine. Obviously, these are unacceptable options for Russia, but the West, cultivating fear of the nuclear threat, is trying to force it to make such concessions.
The West will certainly turn a blind eye to any actions of Ukraine, even if Zelensky’s gang shoots directly at the ZNPP from the other side of the Dnieper online.
- The media is discussing the topic of shifting the referendum in the DPR, in Kherson and in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. If such a decision is made, to what extent will it meet the interests of Russia?
- Referendums in the DPR and LPR are tied to the completion of the liberation of the territories of Donbass. Accordingly, they will pass as quickly as our army can liberate the territory of the DPR. We have already coped with the task of liberating the LPR.
In the case of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the timing of referendums depends on the ability of the CAA of the regions to establish the structure of state power and ensure the work of election commissions. Therefore, referendums in the LDNR and other liberated regions can be held separately. In my opinion, the sooner their accession to Russia is fixed, the better - this will ensure the irreversibility of their withdrawal from Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian side continues to use Haimars, sometimes successfully. Is there a universal "cure" for this type of MLRS? What is the set of measures that should be taken to completely eliminate this threat?
- At the moment, our air defense systems partially shoot down missiles of this complex, but during mass launches they periodically break through our defenses and cause some damage.
How to deal with it? More carefully disguise our headquarters and logistics infrastructure, deal with the dispersal of warehouses. To reduce the effectiveness of strikes against warehouses, it is necessary to improve the operation of air defense systems against missiles of these complexes, plus to hunt for them and methodically destroy them.
There is no recipe for a quick victory here - long and painstaking work is needed to minimize the effectiveness of this weapon system and improve work to counter them and their subsequent destruction.
- In my personal opinion, specialists in anti-terror and special operations are urgently needed in the NVO zone. The experience of the same Igor Girkin could be useful. In this regard, was it worth it to detain him at the entrance to the Kherson region, and what generally caused such a decision and its advertising in the media?
- From my point of view, any person who willingly wants to go to fight the Nazis in Ukraine should get such an opportunity, because now there is no more important task for the country than the destruction of the Nazi regime in Ukraine and its sponsors.
I don’t know all the reasons for this story, but I repeat, if a person wants to go to war, he should be provided with such an opportunity. This is especially important in conditions when the emphasis is on the contract-volunteer format of warfare, and not on the mobilization one.
— Western sources write that Russia has ordered at least 1,000 UAVs from Iran. How realistic are these numbers, and how could the supply of Iranian drones affect the course of hostilities?
- Officially, this information has not yet been confirmed. Regarding 1000 UAVs, obviously, they mean their production for some time. Obviously, here we are not talking about a one-time purchase of 1000 cars, especially since in the Russian Federation there simply aren’t so many operators for new cars.
Therefore, if the UAVs are really purchased, then they will be delivered in parts, as the calculations are produced and trained. Taking into account the well-known quality of Iranian drones, they will become a serious help for our gunners, supplementing, for example, well-performing drones of the Orlan-10 type and other rarer specimens.
- In a few weeks, the transition of hostilities from the spring-summer to the autumn-winter period will begin. How will the seasonal factor affect the confrontation in specific sectors of the front?
- In mid-autumn, offensive operations will be limited by worsening weather and autumn thaws. On the other hand, the descent of the "green" will make it difficult for both sides to hide from artillery, which is somewhat more beneficial for us, since we have an advantage in artillery, and it will become more difficult for the enemy to hold positions outside the cities. However, this will create many difficulties for us.
It can be expected that in October-November the intensity of hostilities in some directions will decrease and tendencies towards positioning will prevail, although, for example, this is unlikely to interfere with the assault on large settlements, as the example of the assault on the same Mariupol or Volnovakha showed.
#1
....And here's where it gets touchy: if the Ukranians are actually getting these guys in an encirclement, they'd be perfectly justified in wiping them out - but their Western sponsors will cut off the ammo and supplies before they let them do that, and the Russians will flatly lose their sh!t, possibly up to and including WMD level.
Given the mastery of PR that the Ukranians have shown so far, I wonder if anybody's considered the possibility of letting them surrender and then letting them walk back to Russian lines. Take every single weapon, take their names and pictures, give 'em all an MRE (or whatever their equivalent is) and point them towards the nearest Russian unit.
#4
The three bridge crossings are heavily damage so not even trucks can get across. You can still walk over them, but the fact vehicles can't cuts off all supply for the troops. As fast as the Russians are building pontoon bridges, the Ukrainians are blowing them up.
Give it a couple weeks if nothing changes and the Russians will have eaten all of their food supplies and will either start streaming back across the river as a "goodwill gesture" or will start surrendering.
#8
With the bridges damaged, the Russian likely cannot supply an offensive action. But I would be surprised if the Ukrainians can mount sufficient offense to take Kherson and push the Russians back across the Dnipro.
[NYPOST] Ukraine said Monday that it successfully struck the headquarters of the Wagner Group, the elite Russian paramilitary organization fighting on behalf of the Kremlin — just days after photos posted online mistakenly revealed the location.
Ukrainian governor of Luhansk Serhiy Hayday announced the country’s forces struck the group’s main operation in the eastern city of Popasna, according to the BBC.
Pro-Kremlin war reports also acknowledged the attack.
Details about the strike were not immediately clear, including how many died in the attack and the extent of the damage it caused.
Ukraine was able to locate the headquarters after a Russian propagandist, Sergei Sreda, accidentally revealed its location in photos posted to Telegram on Aug. 8, Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported.
The video showed a street sign with the address of a nearby bomb shelter, which allowed Kyiv to figure out the location.
The shadowy Wagner group was also used by Russia in the 2014 Crimea war, and has been seen in Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic, according to the BBC.
Members of the group have repeatedly tried to assassinate Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, according to multiple reports.
The group is believed to be behind some of the world’s worst atrocities, and was linked in 2021 to widespread rapes and robberies of civilians in the Central African Republic.
"The Russian government has found Wagner and other private military companies to be useful as a way to extend its influence overseas without the visibility and intrusiveness of state military forces," according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
The group was reportedly founded by Dmitry Utkin, a former special forces colonel and veteran of the two wars in Chechnya. Wagner is believed to be owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch known as "Putin’s cook" because his restaurants and catering companies have hosted lavish dinner parties for the president’s inner circle.
In 2016, the US Office of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Prigozhin for "having materially assisted, sponsored or provided financial, material or technological support ... in support of bigwigs of the Russian Federation."
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[LB] The occupiers hit 18 settlements in Donetsk region
In Donetsk region, enemy troops targeted residential buildings, a wheat field, and an electrical substation.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to law enforcement officers, the police documented 33 shellings during the day. There are casualties among the civilian population.
"The cities of Avdiivka and Bakhmut were subjected to massive shelling - six hits each. The occupiers also hit the cities of Bilytske, Kostyantynivka, Maryinka, Mykolayivka, Sloviansk, Soledar, the villages of Dachne, Elizavetivka, Novomykhailivka, Komar, Kurdyumivka, Opytne of Avdiivska TG, Opytne Bakhmut district, Pidhorodne, Pryshyb, Shakhtarske," the press service of the ministry said in a statement.
Russian troops carried out airstrikes, and also hit with 9M-723 Iskander-M missiles, Grad anti-aircraft missiles, artillery and tanks.
"A total of 54 objects were destroyed and damaged - 29 residential buildings, warehouses, two fields, farm premises, a hangar, a dispensary, and vehicles," the Ministry of Internal Affairs added in the message.
The police worked at the landing sites and collected evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian Federation. Criminal proceedings were opened under Art. 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
We will remind you that the day before yesterday in Avdiivka, the Russians fired at the journalists of "Ukrainian Witness". The victims say that they were fired at by enemy artillery, because before that, the soldier accompanying the film crew heard the sound of the quadcopter.
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[Korrespondent] 23:34 Employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have access to Ukrainian prisoners of war and are trying to control the situation with prisoners in Yelenovka, Alexander Vlasenko, the ICRC representative in Ukraine, told Suspilny. According to him, the specialists visited the Ukrainian prisoners twice, but did not have the opportunity to talk with them one on one: “We have access to some people and had access. We really were in Yelenovka twice. After the prisoners of war were moved there, it was Literally 2-3 days after their transportation to Yelenevka". At the same time, Vlasenko noted that the visit was short and did not fully meet the requirements of the ICRC - the purpose of the visit was simply to bring drinking water there.
23:21 Zelensky, in an evening video message, called for new tough sanctions against Russia, Rosatom and the entire nuclear industry of the Russian Federation due to the situation at the ZNPP: "Any radiation incident at the Zaporizhzhya NPP can be a blow to the EU countries, Turkey, and Georgia , and to countries from more distant regions. It all depends only on the direction and strength of the wind. If a catastrophe occurs due to the actions of Russia, the consequences may hit those who are still silent ... The world has struggled for many decades to properly control all actions with nuclear materials and radiation safety. And if the world does not have enough strength and determination now to protect one nuclear plant, then this means that the world will lose. "
22:39 The next meeting of the "court" in the cases of five foreigners who fought on the side of Ukraine in the Donbass will be held in October, Russian media write. Earlier today it was reported that three of them face the death penalty.
22:10 In Russia, they can shout as much as they like that the Western sanctions imposed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine do not work, but statistics show the opposite. The war in Ukraine set the Russian economy back four years in just one quarter, writes Bloomberg. And this is already the path of one of the longest recessions in history. More details - in the material The occupier is getting poorer .
21:39 An analysis of the situation at the Belarusian airfield Zyabrovka proves that the likelihood of rocket attacks on the territory of Ukraine "not only remains, but it seems that preparations are underway for a massive missile strike in the coming weeks," writes Belaruski Gayun. According to the monitoring group, this is also evidenced by the fact that since the last massive shelling - on July 28 - not a single rocket has been fired from the territory of Belarus towards Ukraine.
Currently, there are from 10 to 14 S-400 Triumph air defense systems, three KASTA-2E2 and 48Ya6 Podlet radars, and two Pantsir air defense systems at the airfield. There is also an ammunition depot with at least 15-60 missiles for the S-300/400 air defense system. In addition, it was confirmed that Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are delivering missiles for the S-400 to the Gomel airport, from where they are being transported to Zyabrovka.
Belarusian Gayun recalled that on August 11, flashes were seen and explosions were heard in the area of the Zyabrovka airfield. Subsequently, thanks to the Belarusians and Maxar satellite images, it turned out that a T-72 tank was destroyed that night. According to investigators, there are dead.
20:53 Shoigu and Guterres discussed the conditions for the safe operation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Russian media write. The parties also discussed the UN initiatives regarding the procedure for simplifying the export of Russian food products and fertilizers.
20:47 The UN is ready to facilitate the trip of IAEA experts to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant through Kiev, if the Russian and Ukrainian authorities agree to this, the Secretary General's office said.
20:12 Since the beginning of this day, the Russian invaders have tried to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region and made several assaults in other directions. In particular, the invaders unsuccessfully tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops in the direction of Cossack Lopan - Uda, the General Staff reports in the evening report.
20:05 In the Kharkiv region, evacuation is underway from Lozovaya and Barvenkovo, which are located in the south of the region and which the Russian army may try to capture, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said on the air of the telethon. At the same time, he added that a mandatory evacuation from the region is not yet planned.
19:36 Shortly after the news of the attack on Wagner's headquarters in Popasna, several independent investigative journalists recalled Prigozhin's addiction to hoaxes and urged to be critical of such information. About what happened - in the material Impact on Wagner's headquarters in Popasna .
19:31 Another five foreigners who fought for Ukraine were announced "charges", they will be "tried" by the "supreme court of the DPR", Russian media write. Matthias Gustavsson (Sweden), Vekoslav Prebeg (Croatia) and John Harding (UK) are "tried" for "participation in hostilities and training to seize power by force", Andrew Hill (UK) for "participation in hostilities", and Dylan Gila (Britain) - for "recruiting mercenaries". The first three face the death penalty.
19:18 Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber arrived in Ukraine - he is the ambassador of the UNITED24 program and will raise funds to help our country. Zelensky met with him and Andriy Shevchenko, who is also a UNITED24 ambassador.
19:14 Podolyak told how many strikes on civilian targets were inflicted by the Russians: "What type of war is the Russian Federation waging? The statistics are inexorable. Since the beginning of full-scale aggression, Russia has dealt 22,000 strikes on civilian targets. And only 300 strikes on military ones. 73 times less. "Special operation"? Demilitarization? No. Banal destruction of infrastructure and terror against the population."
19:00 Zelensky, by his decree, created the Advisory Council on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Crimea as a consultative and advisory body under the President of Ukraine.
18:53 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that there has been no gas in the city for three weeks already, and the invaders will not have time to fix the gas supply system and start the heating season on time: "As for the heating season, it's almost a disaster. 95% of heating in Melitopol is gas. Already "There is no gas in the city for three weeks. We understand that until part of the Zaporozhye region is de-occupied, gas will not appear. Most likely, the city of Melitopol will be without gas, because it takes time to repair and restore these systems."
18:46 Latvia donated four helicopters to Ukraine, the country's Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks said. According to him, two Mi-17 and two Mi-2 helicopters were delivered to the Ukrainian Air Force partially disassembled. Before delivery, the helicopters were painted, and one Mi-17 was overhauled. The Ukrainian Air Force will start using them after the assembly is completed.
18:19 In the Kherson region near the village of Geroiskoe, a teacher was blown up by a mine, her son was injured during the explosion, said the current head of the Chulakovskaya territorial community Alexander Musienko.
18:07 The Russian military seized the Energodar branch of the Vasilievsky department of the State Institution Zaporozhye Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (laboratory center), which has a staff of 33 people. According to the mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov, the workers refused to cooperate with the occupiers and will not go to work tomorrow.
17:38 In the Donbas near Shakhtyorsk, the deputy head of the Civic Chamber of the Altai Territory and the head of the local union of veterans of Afghanistan Yevgeny Novikov died. As reported in the regional OP, he disappeared after the shelling on July 10, but his remains were found only now. For a month, only his own sister was looking for him.
17:14 Since the start of the grain corridor, 22 ships have passed through it, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Yury Vaskov said. According to him, during these two weeks, 16 ships left Ukrainian ports, which will deliver Ukrainian agricultural products to nine countries of the world, at the same time, six ships have already entered Ukrainian ports for loading. "By the end of the month, we plan to attract at least ten more vessels to Ukrainian ports to load with Ukrainian agricultural products," he added.
16:45 One of the victims died in the hospital after today's shelling of the Saltovsky district of Kharkov. According to the OVA, a total of nine people were injured as a result of shelling on 15 August.
16:37 In the Crimean Shchelkino, a DJ was arrested for ten days for having staged a song and a video clip for Dike Pole by Ukrainian rapper YARMAK on the order of one of the visitors. The complaint against the young man was that the video shows the symbols of Azov and that the video sequence ends with the words Slava ZSU , reports Krym.Realii.
16:24 The FSB of the Russian Federation announced that an explosion of an oil pipeline allegedly being prepared by "Ukrainian special services" was prevented in the Volgograd region. The organization of the sabotage was allegedly led by a Russian, participating in the battles in Ukraine as part of the Uragan national battalion, and a citizen of Ukraine from Azov. Two Russians tried to blow up the pipe, "they offered armed resistance and were neutralized."
15:45 The first ship chartered by the UN World Food Program left Pot Yuzhny for Ethiopia on Sunday, August 14, the head of the Odesa OVA, Maxim Marchenko, said.
15:17 The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the UN, the EU, the European Council, the OSCE, the parliaments and governments of the IAEA member states with a call to impose sanctions against the entire Russian nuclear industry, in particular against the state corporation Rosatom, its management and members of enterprises and organizations. In addition, the parliamentarians demand the organization and dispatch of a joint security mission of the UN and the IAEA to the ZNPP.
14:51 The number of victims of the tragedy in Zatoka has increased to three, two more people were hospitalized after a mine blast on the beach, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk.
14:26 Rada supported the extension of martial law for 90 days - until November 21, 2022. Also, the parliament supported the extension of the general mobilization period , MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
14:24 After the Ukrainian strike on the Wagner PMC base in Popasna, more than 100 Wagnerites from the leadership could have been destroyed, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
14:15 The number of victims of the morning shelling of Saltovka has increased to seven, said the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
14:11 Apple demanded that Rutube remove the content of Russian state media from its application within two weeks, otherwise the application will be removed from the store. To this, Rutube said that they would not impose restrictions on the distribution of Russian media, as this violates the rights of the Russian-speaking population.
14:00 Ukraine expects to receive another $12-16 billion from Western partners by the end of the year, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine: “We now have expectations of approximately $26 billion, perhaps more. It depends on the success negotiations, up to 30 billion maybe. This is from the beginning of the war in negotiations. We have already received 14 billion, that is, by the end of the year we can get another 12 to 16 billion." According to the minister, Ukraine's monthly financial need is still $5 billion.
13:47 Belarusian border guards bring migrants to the wall on the border with Poland and help them enter the EU by creating holes in the barrier with the help of special professional tools. As the press secretary of the Polish Border Service Anna Michalska said in an interview with PAP, the detained migrants themselves told the Polish border guards about such a scheme.
13:33 The occupiers are trying to motivate Russian officials who agree to work in Ukraine with large payments, including in hryvnias, the GUR MOU reports. According to the decision of the Belgorod administration, employees of the mayor's office, heads and employees of municipal institutions during their possible work in the "DNR" and "LNR" are promised to be paid a double salary in rubles.
In addition, expenses related to business trips and other needs are compensated from the city budget, as well as allowances are introduced for daily allowances in foreign currency (Ukrainian hryvnias are meant). Promises to increase payments are connected with the categorical unwillingness of Russian officials to go to Ukraine.
12:57 Podolyak addressed the Red Cross: "All prisoners of war, including the defenders of Azovstal, are combatants who legally defended their country. Therefore, the "Mariupol cells" are an official war crime of Russia. It's time for the ICRC and its president, Peter Maurer, to finally remember your purpose and think about your reputation."
12:50 New Zealand will send 120 instructors to train the Ukrainian military in Britain, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said: "New Zealand has made it clear that we will continue to respond to Ukraine's call for practical support as soldiers defend their homeland and people from Russia's unjustified invasion We know that one of the highest priorities for Ukraine right now is the training of its soldiers, and New Zealand is proud to stand in solidarity with a number of other countries to answer this call."
12:31 In the Chernihiv region, the enemy fired twice at the territory of the Novgorod-Seversk community in the morning, the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus said. The neighborhoods of the villages of Kamenskaya Sloboda and Pushkari were under shelling. There is damage to civilian buildings, previously without casualties.
12:28 Zelensky dismissed the heads of the SBU departments in Kyiv, Lviv and Ternopil regions.
12:26 During the war, 313 potential participants of 23 DRGs were detained in the capital, Ivan Vyhovsky, head of the Kiev National Police Main Directorate, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine: "Of course, not all the facts were confirmed, but these 313 people who were registered were transferred SBU". According to him, ten operational groups are currently working in Kyiv to identify the DRG.
12:11 Klitschko explained in an interview to Babel why get out of the transport during an air raid alert: “These are rules written in blood. In Nikolaev, they got to a stop, many people died, many were injured. These rules are in order to avoid a tragedy [... ] Therefore, they went out, dispersed, or, optimally, ran to the bomb shelter or shelter and waited out the air raid alert." The mayor stressed that this decision of the city's Defense Council - on the recommendation of the military.
Klitschko added that it would be ideal if Kyiv began to build bomb shelters near every transport stop: "But let's be frank, this is impossible to do. We live in special conditions, and we cannot do a lot instantly. We are now talking about building bomb shelters or premises dual use. But the city has no money."
12:07 SBU exposed Russian criminal authorities who tried to join the volunteer battalions of Kiev. One of the detainees turned out to be a citizen of the Russian Federation, who was on the NSDC sanctions list as a criminal authority involved in serious crimes. In this regard, he was banned from entering Ukraine.
11:52 This morning, the Russians fired on the Saltovsky district of Kharkov. As a result of the strike near a public transport stop, two people were injured, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. Also, in the Saltovsky district, a nine-story building was fired upon, at one more address a shell hit the yard. In total, as a result of the morning shelling, five Kharkiv residents were injured, all of them were hospitalized.
11:39 After blowing up bridges in the Kherson region, the local "leadership" flees to Melitopol. At the same time, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that the Russian military in Melitopol was taking their families out of the city.
11:03 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced the first fact of a reverse deportation from Russia. According to him, from Russian Pskov, where Mariupol residents have become a problem for local authorities, they are being returned home. On Saturday, August 13, 60 Mariupol residents were “voluntarily” loaded into two trailer cars and sent to Rostov-on-Don, where they would be met by the “DPR” authorities and taken home. Most of these people do not have surviving housing in the city.
10:41 In the Sumy region, Russians this morning fired at two communities in the Shostka region. The outskirts of the city of Seredina-Buda and one of the villages of the Shalygin community fell under the blows, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
10:14 Most of the military command of the Russians left Kherson, Yuri Sobolevsky, the first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, said on the air of the telethon. He confirmed that Ukrainian artillery destroyed all bridge crossings across the Dnieper, so today the Russians do not have a single logistical route to support the military group. All main roads are under the fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and it is impossible to cross the Antonovsky bridge even on foot.
09:37 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had successfully worked on the enemy headquarters of the Wagner PMC in Popasna, which was pointed out by a Russian propagandist in his post on social networks.
09:26 Six more ships received permission to export grain from the ports of Ukraine. In particular, the Joint Coordinating Center allowed six ships that arrived for verification to pass through the maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea. Two of these vessels - MV Kafkam Etler and MV Zelek Star - have already been inspected in the Sea of Marmara and can go to Chornomorsk, Odessa region, for loading. On August 16, the inspection of the remaining four vessels is scheduled - MV Great Arsenal, MV Zumrut Ana, MV Ocean S, MV Kubrosliy. Subject to a successful check, they will also go to Chernomorsk.
09:22 British intelligence believes that Russia is probably at an "advanced stage" of planning "referendums" in the occupied territories, although it is not clear whether the final decision on holding a "vote" has already been made. Analysts note that the Kremlin is likely to view the military's failure to completely occupy the Donetsk region as a failure in achieving its maximalist goals in Ukraine.
09:18 In Nikolaev, as a result of shelling, an educational institution and a hotel in the vicinity of the city were damaged, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. It was also fired upon. Wide, as a result of which agricultural buildings in households were damaged, there were no victims.
09:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of August 15. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk direction.
personnel - about 43,750 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1876 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 4141 (+15),
artillery systems - 985 (+5),
MLRS - 261 (+0),
air defense systems - 136 (+0),
aircraft - 233 (+0),
helicopters - 195 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 787 (+3),
cruise missiles - 187 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3044 (+5),
special equipment - 92 (+1).
09:13 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russians fired at two districts at night - Sinelnikovsky and Nikopol. In Nikopol, warehouses, workshops and the administrative premises of an industrial enterprise were destroyed, there were no dead or wounded. An energy infrastructure enterprise was damaged in the Pokrovskaya community, and a social infrastructure facility was destroyed in the Sinelnikovsky district. One Russian X-59 missile was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
09:08 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "main administration council" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, proposed to declare a regime of silence around the ZNPP.
09:04 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged every resident of the city to prepare warm home clothes and blankets for the winter. In an interview with Babel, he noted that the temperature in the houses would probably be several degrees below the norm: "The norm is 21 degrees, and maybe 19 or 18."
According to Klitschko, the Cabinet of Ministers assured the city authorities that there will be gas for the population and that it will not rise in price: “This is an expectation. But we do not exclude that there may be terrorist attacks, attacks on gas pumping stations. We also take this scenario into account. We have purchased generators, fuel for these generators.First of all, they will go to hospitals, kindergartens and schools, we will do everything possible and impossible that depends on us to keep the houses warm... If there are power outages, we have generators. there will be no heating or gas, we have reserves of fuel oil. For some time we will be able to function autonomously. But this is a fairly short period of time that is needed to solve the problem."
08:57 This night, the enemy launched intense missile attacks on Kharkov and the region. In particular, more than ten missiles were fired from Russian Belgorod, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkov OVA. In Kharkov, rockets hit the Slobodsky district, the building of the enterprise was damaged, there were no casualties.
In Merefa, an infrastructure facility and an industrial building were damaged, another rocket hit Chuguev, details are being investigated. During the day, the invaders continued shelling Kharkiv, Chuguev, Bogodukhovsky and Izyumsky districts of the region, three local residents were injured.
Meanwhile, the Belgorod channels report that at night there was an unsuccessful rocket launch near the village of Veselaia Lopan. The rocket fell into the village, windows were broken in many houses, there are preliminary victims.
08:51 The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) identified six main geographical groups of Russian troops and other Russian-controlled forces.
08:33 Russians at night fired at two microdistricts of Slavyansk of Donetsk region, including the center with high-rise buildings, there were no victims, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:11 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, three civilians were killed - in Bakhmut, Soledar and Maryinka. Another 13 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:40 On the Slavic, Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the Ukrainian military held back enemy assaults, the enemy retreated. In particular, the Russian troops fought offensive battles in the direction of Peskov and Pervomaisky, but were not successful, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
06:43 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Moscow has concentrated on advancing its troops around Bakhmut and, possibly, to Seversk, while simultaneously trying to use the activity of the forces of the "DNR" to seize territories that they have not been able to take since 2014 on Avdeevsky direction. The high concentration of volunteer battalions around Izyum and Slovyansk indicates that the area is not in the Russian focus and may be vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattacks.
At present, the invaders and Ukrainian defenders are actively fighting in the following directions: the city of Kharkiv and the north-eastern part of the Kharkiv region along the Izyum-Slavyansk line; Seversko-Lisichansky district; Bakhmut; area of cities Avdeevka-Donetsk; Southern Ukraine.
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Ukrainian political scientist Kornilov says the quiet part aloud.
[RIA] In a decent society, it is not customary to seriously quote and even more so analyze the words of "the main cat of Bayun of Ukrainian propaganda" Aleksey Arestovich. He lies without a twinge of conscience on a constant basis and, most amazingly, does not even hide it. But the statement made by him in a recent interview with his colleague Dmitry Gordon cannot be ignored. Since the propagandist quite officially referred to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov at his personal request and instruction.
We are talking about the passage in which Reznikov described a meeting with his Western colleagues at the NATO Ramstein airbase in Germany. This must be quoted verbatim: "They all shook hands on Ramstein - everyone!" And said: "Please finish off the reptile!" The Swedes added: "For Poltava!" The French added: "For Borodino!" And so on, and so on, and so on... The Germans were silent, but winked." It must be assumed that the Germans, with their wink, asked for revenge "for Stalingrad." But they are too shy to say it out loud.
In fact, the statement is significant and important. We had no doubt that the collective West, through the hands of the Ukrainians, whom it does not feel sorry for at all, is trying to weaken Russia, to take revenge on us for all its previous defeats and historical insults. It doesn't matter how fair they are or not. In the end, in all the examples given without exception (both Borodino , Poltava , not named, but implied Stalingrad) our ancestors fought and defeated the invaders who invaded our state.
And the Europeans dream of revenge for all their defeats. Again, we have no doubt about it. However, the West has so far not directly stated this, covering up its true aspirations with chatter about "defending democracy" and about some "European values" that none of them can properly formulate. The words of Arestovich/Reznikov confirm our correctness: the West, in their announced next crusade against Russia, is driven by political Russophobia and historical revanchism.
As we can see, several days have passed, and Reznikov does not refute the words of his guarantor, which actually confirms what was said. The West, on the other hand, pretends that no one has said anything of the kind. Not a single European or American media responded in any way to this important recognition of the true nature of the actions of the collective West against Russia. Although they generally like to quote Arestovich's stories about "Russian defeats" and even noticed the interview itself. But the citation of their own defense ministers, explaining the true essence of the anti-Russian campaign, for some reason did not arouse any interest in the European media.
But in vain, in these words - the recognition of tectonic processes of rethinking the future of Europe and those very notorious "European values." In these words is an acknowledgment that the wheel of history takes the continent back to dark times. After all, Europe experienced all this in the 20-30s of the last century. Only Russophobia then flourished under the brand of anti-communism, that's the whole difference.
Especially meaningful look "winks" from the representatives of Germany. One could write off this transparent allusion to the plane of jokes from Gordon and Arestovich. But you and I have heard statements by German politicians about the actual refusal to recognize historical guilt before the peoples of Russia. Otherwise, it is difficult to interpret the speech of Chancellor Olaf Scholz before the Bundestag on February 27 this year.
In it, Scholz solemnly announced the change of eras, accusing the Russian authorities of trying to "turn back the clock and return to the 19th century, to the struggle between the major powers." As if there was no such struggle in the next century. But there seems to be a nostalgia in Berlin for the 20th century and for the time that preceded "the reconciliation between Russians and Germans after World War II" (which Scholz also mentioned when recalling "a bygone era"). It is no coincidence that a number of German and Russian media interpreted this speech precisely as an official refusal to recognize Germany's historical guilt.
And it is certainly not accidental that analytical articles are now appearing in a number of Western liberal media, with visible pleasure fixing the "birth of a new Germany." The ideological mouthpiece of Western liberals, The Economist magazine, made this the main topic of its latest issue, telling readers: "Thanks to Vladimir Putin , the most important country in Europe has woken up."
To describe their emotions, the authors did not even hesitate to use the speech of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, in which he justified the aggressive, aggressive wars of his country in the 1930s and 40s (again, not an accidental analogy). The Economist writes that Germany could now turn into a "nightmare for Russia" - "a stronger, bolder, more determined leader of a more united Europe." And he concludes, so that no one has any doubts about the position of the magazine itself: "Germany badly needed this push."
Probably, someone will be surprised, but almost the same, word for word, British publications wrote about the Italian fascists and German Nazis a century ago. The Daily Mail newspaper, its founder and owner, the first Viscount Rothermer,
...the title was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. All four holders of the title have served as chairman of Daily Mail since...
especially tried then. He did not disdain to personally sign the article under the heading "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" in January 1934, saluting the British and German Nazis. Moreover, initially he explained his love for the Nazis precisely by the desire to stop the offensive in Europe of "Bolshevism", which was associatedin Britain with the Russians.
A fair association, since the Bolsheviks overthrew the Mensheviks during the Russian Revolution period, though by that point he must also have objected to Stalinism.
To do this, the Daily Mail, together with the secret services, went on to create one of the most resonant fakes of the 20th century - the fabrication of the so-called Zinoviev letter, which overthrew the first Labor government in Britain. It was only later, having closely converged with Hitler, Lord Rothermer switched the aggression of his press mainly to the Jews.
Pretty much everyone — Communists and Socialists, Fascists, aristocrats, nationalists, trade unionists — inveighed against the Jews. They were accused of being backward dwellers of ghettos, too-modern rootless cosmopolitans, Christ-killers, Communists, bloody-handed landlords and bankers, and Elders of Zion scheming to take over the world. The Stalinists of Russia’s Soviet Union were as guilty as everyone else, adding Stalin’s very personal Doctors’ Plot (дело врачей for our Russian-speaking visitors) to the rest of the list in 1951.
Needless to say, the Rothermer family
...the Harmsworth family, actually. The Rothermer title may at some point pass to a cadet branch with a different name or go out of existence altogether, if the Harmsworths don’t produce enough descendants, but do go on...
still owns the Daily Mail, which is still one of the most circulated newspapers in Britain, continuing to do the same thing!
Like 90 years ago, the British press continues to praise the "change of eras" in Germany. As then, she openly calls on the "German eagle" to pounce on Russia. Quite in the spirit of the century-old Daily Mail, The Economist expresses the hope that a "new Germany" will enter into a "conflict over the future of the continent" because it is "Germany's opportunity to regain its place at the heart of Europe." Pay attention to this "return". After all, the hint is no less transparent than the wink of the Germans in Ramstein about "revenge for Stalingrad."
The historian and writer Nikolai Starikov also drew attention to this, pointing to the cover of this issue of The Economist, on which a German eagle hatches from an egg. Starikov remarked: "So far, this is the Bundes Eagle of modern Germany. But it’s not really about him. The eagle of the Third Reich is visible behind him." According to him, in the conditions of the economic and social crisis aggravating in Ger0many, the British use this magazine to make it clear to the Germans: "But everything can be completely different. Only at the beginning a new Germany will appear."
The historian drew a direct parallel with a similar British instigation of Hitler to "build a new order" with an obligatory initial condition - an attack on the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the same historical parallels were drawn by the neighbors of Germany, who are alarmed by the strengthening of the culprit of the two world wars. The popular Dutch site GeenStijl, for example, observed: "The call for a stronger, bolder Germany as the undisputed leader of a more united Europe in the face of the Red Peril does not merit a prize for originality." The allusion is no less transparent than the allusion to Stalingrad expressed in Ramstein by representatives of the German Ministry of Defense .
Yes, the West is driven by political and historical Russophobia. which is becoming more and more open. If in that very speech of Scholz on February 27 he was still trying to tell that Europe is not going to fight with the Russian people, seeing its enemy solely in the face of our government, now in Germany, even according to the local press, the image of a Russian person is actively cultivated as an eternal enemy. The current discussion on how to deprive Russian citizens of the opportunity to move around the EU countries once again confirms that the West has gradually begun to discard the verbal husk called "European values", which it is still trying to hide behind by inertia. If the trend continues, soon the Germans will not just hint at Stalingrad. Why be ashamed?
And Europe is again following the same rake, naively believing that this time it will be possible to attack Russia in a united front, without fighting among themselves, and finally defeat it ("finish off the vermin", according to the participants of "Ramstein"). It is no coincidence that the Wall Street Journal is already openly raving about the idea of the collapse of our state, calling this process "decolonization." How can you not draw parallels with Nazi Germany again! After all, it was under this sauce that the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, approved the creation of the Vlasov center "Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia."
As you can see, leaders and eras are changing, and the West is still dreaming of the destruction of Russia as a state. Since the time of Poltava, Borodino, Stalingrad, little has changed in this sense. But it would be enough for them to leaf through the pages of history textbooks to understand two elementary truths: a) Russia always wins anyway; b) attempts to defeat Russia turn into terrible tragedies for those who start it.
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"We've given the Bear the odd poke,
But... Stalingrad? Surely you joke?
Take -- bitte! -- our Right,
Without even a fight!
Most sincerely,
The Woke Deutsches Volk"
Idiots. The west has the same fear about Russia now as it did in the early 1980s. They are aggressive. Want to keep their invasion corridors secure (which they were in the 1980s, they just couldn't have one in Poland going free) and have nukes.
Other than that most people don't give 3 shits about the greying geriatric bear.
#7
But I just love their total ZFG ranting 'journalism'. There's no PC lawyerspeak or circumlocutory narrative about what is decent and good and how to protect it.
Just a lot of 'Aleksey Arestovich
is a son of a dirty bitch.
Don't believe a thing he says!
He lies all the time.
Wait... does this rhyme?
Wow! Let's take it to press!'
Most Europeans probably don't remember what went on in Poltava or Borodino. Stalingrad still rings a bell but few would want to have it happened the other way round.
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Do they remember the crushing of the Hungarians, Poles, and Czechs by you know who?
#11
East Berlin 1953, Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, Warsaw 1981... all well remembered.
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Mr. Wife and I stood witness with the crowd in Prague’s Charles Square (Karlovo náměstí) that night in 1991 when they waited to see if the Soviet tanks were going to come over the border. Václav Havel was president then — his spine was well-tempered steel.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:59 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a number of statements:
- In Kurakhovka DPR, Ukrainian nationalists mined two road bridges;
- The militants equipped a strong point and an ammunition depot in the school of Donetsk Artemovsk, placed artillery and MLRS nearby;
— Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the approaches to a kindergarten in the Donetsk city of Avdievka;
— A total of 56 foreign ships from 14 states remain blocked in the ports of Ukraine;
— During the day, more than 25,000 people were evacuated to Russia from Ukraine and from the Donbass.
20:50 Ukraine continues to shell Energodar and the territory adjacent to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. According to a TASS correspondent, because of the shelling, the grass in the area around the station caught fire. 19:57 Today in Melitopol arrived humanitarian cargo necessary for the operation of the energy system of the Zaporozhye region.
A total of 16 trucks delivered from Kursk 90 tons of transformer oil, wires, cable joints and IT equipment, which will be required for the preparation of the region and the operation of energy facilities in the autumn-winter period.
19:57 More and more residents of the Zaporozhye region are applying for Russian citizenship.
To date, more than 30,000 applications with a full package of documents are being processed by specialists of passportization points.
At this stage, we continue to work out mechanisms for resolving particular cases in which citizens have a delay in the procedure for issuing and collecting documents for issuing a passport.
Now there are twelve points for receiving documents for issuing a passport in the largest settlements of the region in the region: three in Melitopol, two in Berdyansk, in Akimovka, Azov, Tokmak, Mikhailovka, Dneprorudny, Enogdar and Kamenka.
18:51 Russian helicopters continue to strike at the positions of Ukrainian troops, supporting the offensive of the allied forces, reports RIA Novosti correspondent.
The front line linking Seversk, Artemovsk and Soledar has been turned by the Ukrainian military into a powerful fortified area with a large amount of air defense, so Russian pilots have to fly extremely low so as not to be shot down.
18:00 Ukrainian troops are shelling Energodar, explosions have been recorded in the city and the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, local authorities report.
15:52 On the territory of arable land between Kholodnaya Balka and Velikaya Balka, exercises of mortar and grenade launcher crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are underway.
In addition, the complex of the off-road club "Vietnam" near the Khadzhibey estuary is used to train military personnel of the 35th Brigade. There, landings on an unequipped coast from inflatable boats are being practiced.
Ukrainian military personnel are stationed on the territory of civilian infrastructure facilities, primarily in schools in Nerubaysky and Velikaya Balka.
In addition, after an extreme strike on Ukrainian facilities in Veliky Dalnik, the reserve command post for the grouping of heterogeneous forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was moved to the territory of the military equipment fleet and the former Symphony communications center in the Zhovtnevoy Revolution.
15:52 In Russia began serial production of self-propelled guns 120mm mortar "Magnolia" and 120mm self propelled mortar/howitzer "Phlox"'
🔹The Research and Production Concern Uralvagonzavod told about the start of serial production of the latest 120-mm self-propelled guns "Flox" and "Magnolia", which were created by the company's specialists as part of the development work "Sketch".
🔸The Magnolia self-propelled gun, designed for operation in the Arctic region, uses a modernized fighting compartment of the 120mm 2S31 Vena self-propelled gun mounted on the chassis of a DT-10MP two-link tracked armored transporter
🔸Carried gun ammunition - at least 80 shells.
🔸The maximum firing range is up to 10 km, the rate of fire is up to 10 rounds per minute. Crew four.
🔹In turn, the 120-mm automated gun "Phlox" is made on the armored wheeled chassis "Ural-VV" (6x6).
🔸Ammunition is 60 shells with a range of up to 10 km.
🔸The mass of the combat vehicle is 20 tons, the crew is four. On the roof of the armored cabin is a remote-controlled combat module with a 12.7-mm Kord machine gun.
🔸Protection against guided weapons is provided by a system for detecting laser radiation and jamming.
14:47 The Verkhovna Rada extended martial law for 90 days, until November 23.
14:47 Wreckage of the British missile "Brimstone", which the Ukrainian army yesterday launched on the city of Enerhodar, Zaporizhia region. As a result, one local resident was killed, another was injured.
14:47 In the Zaporozhye region, more than 30,000 people have applied for Russian passports, the head of the CAA said.
14:04 Vacationers in the Odessa region blown upon mine. In the resort village of Zatoka, a mine exploded, as a result of which two people were killed and two more were injured. Having mined the sea off the coast, the Kyiv regime continues to put its citizens in mortal danger.
14:04 Russian troops involve multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 Grand and self-propelled guns 152mm gun MSTA and 122mm gun Acacia for striking at enemy positions.
14:03 Russian video conferencing destroy enemy positions with precision munitions
Presumably, light multi-purpose guided missiles are used for strikes - LMUR
🔹The light multi-purpose guided missile has a mass of 105 kg, a length of 1945 mm, and a body diameter of 200 mm.
🔹The range of the rocket is 14.5 kilometers, the flight speed is 230 meters per second, the flight altitude is from 100 to 600 meters.
🔹The missile is controlled using AS-UAV equipment,
🔹It allows you to communicate with the rocket at a distance of up to 50 kilometers and has a bandwidth of 5.4 Mbps, sufficient for real-time video transmission.
14:03 Ukraine destroy sown artillery. Ukrainian artillerymen successfully hit the 2S7 203mm Pion self-propelled weapon, but there is a nuance.
12:50 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
▪️In the Dnepropetrovsk region, high-precision air-launched missiles of the Russian Federation disabled two traction electrical substations;
▪️The RF Armed Forces killed more than 100 and wounded more than 50 mercenaries from Poland and Germany near Zolochev with high-precision weapons;
▪️Russian artillery destroyed up to 70 percent of one of the battalions of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
▪️Russian Aerospace Forces killed more than 250 nationalists with precision weapons in the DPR;
▪️As a result of the strike of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 160 nationalists;
▪️The RF Armed Forces destroyed a missile and artillery depot in the Nikolaev region, three ammunition depots and two fuel depots near Kharkov.
12:04 Demonstrated for the first time at Army-2022armored car "Tiger"with a UAV detection and destruction module. The machine is equipped with a radar station and four machine guns, the firing range is one km.
12:04 In the suburbs opened international military-technical forum "Army-2022". A total of 72 states confirmed the participation of their official military delegations in the forum events.
12:05 Ukraine is losing its last professionals. One of the best Ukrainian military pilots, Captain Anton Listopad, died at the front.
11:05 Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraineride under fire by artillery of the RF Armed Forces. Presumably, the armored personnel carrier was hit with a 152mm gun.
10:32 Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, proposed raising the draft age for Ukrainians to 70 years, that is, calling on pensioners as well.
09:46 A colorful character, American Kent McLellan, nicknamed "Boneface", who was lucky to return to the United States,complainedjournalists that Vladimir Zelensky sent mercenaries to die.
He also said that for the transfer to Ukraine after the coup in 2014, the CIA brought him together with the right people.
09:27 At the June NATO summit, Ukraine held talks with British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, at which plans to destroy the Crimean bridge were discussed, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said.
09:21 Ukrainian militants continue their escape from positions.
07:30 The authorities of the Zaporozhye region proposed to declare a silence regime around the nuclear power plant.
"The UN leadership and the head of EU diplomacy should not declare about demilitarization, but about the introduction of a regime of silence, and also provide for not just sanctions for its violation, but the most severe sanctions for shelling nuclear power plants," Vladimir Rogov said.
07:02 military personnel special forces of the Russian Guard in the Kherson region.
06:09 Kyiv's statements about counteroffensives on Kherson are as empty as the promises voiced over the past eight years to allegedly liberate Donbass and Crimea - Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Kirill Stremousov
05:02 The Russian army attacked targets near Nikolaev. At least five missiles were fired from the Kherson region and hit enemy targets.
04:38 A series of powerful strikes against targets in Kharkiv and the region. 10 explosions thundered in different areas
0:23 Two civilians in Odessa died as a result of an explosion on VSUshnyh naval mines.
#1
Looks like some more denazification occurring in Ukraine, Crimea this time again. Kerch bridge still backed up, now more Russians are volunteering to exit Ukraine, good for them:
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:44 Basurin said that 80 percent of Maryinka is under the control of the DPR militia. 23:33 As a result of the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one of the buildings of the Nikitovsky correctional colony caught fire at the address: st. Picturesque, 1 (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
“The Ministry of Emergency Situations eliminates the fire. No casualties,” said Ivan Prikhodko.
23:27 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 15, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Kuibyshevsky district:
- a man born in 1976 was wounded as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Lepestok".
As of 22:00 on August 15, there are already registered in the Republic 44 cases undermining civilians, incl. two children, on PFM mines "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
n.p. Gorlovka, microdistrict "Solnechny":
Died:
- girl born in 2000
- woman born in 1951
Wounded:
- women born in 1963.1969 The personal data of another victim is being established.
As of 10:30 p.m., the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on 15 August 2022 was 13 (seven killed, six injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Melitopolskaya, 72 - a private residential building;
— Kobzar Ave., 37 — a private residential building, completely destroyed.
Settlement Gorlovka:
- st. Poletaeva, 140 - a private residential building;
- st. Kondratenko, 191, 231 - private residential buildings;
- st. Mazikovykh, 7 - Kindergarten No. 91;
- st. Karbysheva, 53 - a fire in the garage was recorded.
- st. Bohuna, 33 - apartment building.
n.p. Makeevka:
Sverdlov village:
- st. Svyatogorskaya, 1 - a private residential building.
Chervonogvardeisky district:
- st. Davydenko, 131, 172, 174 - apartment buildings;
- st. Truskavetskaya, 29 - apartment building;
As of today, as of 22:30, the enemy fired 343 rounds of various types, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
21:34 Results of the day in the DPR:
- As a result of the shelling in Donetsk, four people were killed, in Gorlovka, two women were injured.
-Ukrainian militants fired at a fire truck of the Ministry of Emergency Situations during the supply of water.
- In Mariupol, after a long downtime, treatment facilities resumed work.
-Deputy Chairman of the Civic Chamber (OP) of the Altai Territory Yevgeny Novikov died in the Donbass.
- The Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court began hearings on the case of the five mercenaries.
-Donetsk Local Lore has signed an agreement on cooperation with the museums of Kherson and St. Petersburg.
19:33 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 19.30 on 15.08.2022
Over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 180 rounds from barreled artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of six settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, five civilians were killed and two were injured. Thirty-four residential buildings and five civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and four were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:14 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Golmovsky: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
18:59 In the divisions of the People's Militia continues special training of military intelligence officers.
18:52 Consequences of today's shelling by Ukrainian military in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. 1 site, st. Zuevskaya, 25.
18:49 Attack helicopters attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine supporting the offensive of the allied forces in the DPR
The front line linking Seversk, Artemovsk and Soledar has been turned by the Ukrainian military into a powerful fortified area with a large amount of air defense, so our pilots have to fly extremely low so as not to be shot down, RIAN reports.
18:46 Municipal vehicles from the Perm Territory arrived in Severodonetsk: tractors with attachments, a backhoe loader, welding machines, trucks with loader cranes and a sewer washing machine.
18:29 Servicemen of the 9th regiment of the NM DPR are moving forward.
Every day, the military personnel of the NM DPR push the enemy further and further, occupying new positions in the Avdievka direction, which until recently belonged to Ukrainian nationalists and capturing trophies that will serve as the defenders of the republic. So, for example, retreating Ukrainian militants abandoned several Western-made armored vehicles, which were practically not damaged.
17:52 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Maryinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shots were fired from a tank;
— n.p. Marinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Maryinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 17 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
16:50 Today, August 15, the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic begins consideration of the case of British citizens John Harding, Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy, as well as Swedish and Croatian citizens Matthias Gustavsson and Vekoslav Prebeg, who took part in the hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. If found guilty, they could face the death penalty.
16:42 As a result of the armed aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded.
Boiler room No. 22 was damaged.
As a result of a direct hit by an enemy shell, a house on the street was damaged. Tokarev, 27 in the village of Zaitsevo. Luckily, no one was hurt.
In the village of mines. N. A. Izotov damaged the house and cut the roof along Ordzhonikidze Street, 2/2.
16:38 One of the episodes Storm Sand. Artillery covers the advance of our assault units and strikes at the positions and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Observation and adjustment of fire is carried out by Mavic-3 quadrocopters, provided to our units by the humanitarian organization VECHE. During the assault on this settlement, the fighters of the 11th Regiment and the assault battalion "Somalia" of the DPR army once again proved themselves excellent.
16:30 JCCC DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): four rounds fired with a caliber of 155mm
— n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): nine rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): four rounds fired with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yasnoye: seven each 152mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): seven rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Vasilievka: three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Leninsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Marinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): five rounds fired caliber 122mm;
— n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Zaytsevo (southern): 15 rounds fired with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Netailovo - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:46 Assault on the fortified area Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk: Footage of the advance of the reconnaissance company in Maryinka.
Scouts with the help of UAVs move forward, accurately striking enemy positions. Ukrainian militants are trying to stay on the defensive line, but the drone operator reveals their pockets of resistance, after which intelligence destroys the enemy /corr. iz.ru Denis Kulaga/.
15:46 At the US and British embassies on the squares of the DPR and LPR there is an action against the use of prohibited rounds filled with PFM-1 “Petal” mines, which Ukrainian nationalists scatter on the streets of Donbass.
Civilians suffer from these mines: old people, children. The Russians want to draw the attention of the collective West to the problem. The streets and parks in Donetsk, Lysichansk, Popasnaya, Yasinovataya and other regions are covered with ammunition.
15:19 All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) reporter Andrei Rudenko reports that fighting is going on along the entire line of Donbass. In many areas, the divisions have real success.
In the Ugledar direction, the Mining Division, together with the OBTF (a separate battalion-tactical formation), managed to advance to the city itself, knocking out the enemy from their positions. For a long time, the front stood still in this direction. There were only art duels.
In the Donetsk direction, there is movement in several directions at once.
On the western outskirts of Donetsk, assault operations are underway in the city of Marinka, which is closely adjacent to the capital of the republic. It was from there that all these years fire was fired on the peaceful streets of Donetsk.
As a result of the clear actions of the NM of the DPR of the 61st OPBR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost up to 60 percent of the personnel killed and wounded, the rest are demoralized. The commander of one of the battalions with the call sign Mongol was destroyed.
In busy on the eve of n. The settlement of Peski is being cleaned up and a bridgehead is being prepared for a further offensive towards Vodyanoye and Karlovka. When the village of Vodyane is taken, the Ukrainians in Avdievka will find themselves in a semicircle.
For the complete encirclement of the Kyiv group from Gorlovka, assault operations are underway in the n. N. New York and Zaitsevo (the part that still remains for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the village has been divided into two parts for all the years).
With successful actions in this direction, Avdievka will fall into the operational environment.
In the Slavic direction, there are battles for Artyomovsk and Soledar.
In Soledar, the fighters of the NM of the LPR established control over the territory of the Knauf-Gypsum plant and entrenched themselves in the eastern part of the city. There is a development of the offensive deep into the city.
PMC Wagner drove the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the village of Vershiny south of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and went to the village of Zaitsevo, where a large fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located.
“Zelensky, realizing that they could lose combat-ready units in the Donbass, ordered Zaluzny to withdraw combat units from the first line of defense, replacing them with those mobilized from all over Ukraine. Plus, almost the entire officer corps was taken out of the combat zone. Unprepared, yesterday's civilians are thrown, not sparing, for slaughter. At the same time, most of these people are crushed by their own artillery, which works from afar and covers these territories with squares to slow down the advance of the allied forces.
15:04 Donetsk airport. Special Forces of the NM DPR breaks into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition to the battles for Peski in the Avdievka direction, the NM DPR is conducting difficult battles for the territory adjacent to the Donetsk airport.
The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dug in behind the runway. Here, in eight years, the enemy built a complex of engineering defensive structures in this area. He was involved in a network of underground utilities, and now it is actively used.
An officer of the 1st Battalion of the Special Forces of the NM DPR with the call sign "Mulya" told the situation, reports wargonzo.
14:54 Aleksey Kulemzin reports the death of two men in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk.
During the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, a man, born in 1976, was killed. on st. Bashkirskaya, 134. Therefore, the glazing and roof were damaged.
On st. Tumanyan, 18a (nursery-kindergarten No. 221) 14 window blocks were damaged.
On st. Slovakskaya, 27a (nursery garden No. 351) 20 window blocks and a soft roof were damaged.
On st. Mirgorodskaya, 24, 31 damaged glazing, roofing, fence.
On st. Lugovoi, 18 damaged garage, car, roofing, glazing, power line.
In the Petrovsky district, a man born in 1964 died from a shell explosion. in a private house on the street. Pilots, 3.
14:51 Consequences of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, where on the street. Leninabadskaya, a woman died.
14:25 The DPR JCCC reports that their operational lines for August 15 continue to receive additional information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:
- a woman born in 1954 died.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- a woman born in 1943 died.
Additional information is also received about damage as a result of shelling of the cities of the Republic by the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Donetsk:
Kyiv district:
- st. Novorossiysk - a fire was recorded.
Kirovsky district:
- electrical networks were damaged, the movement of cars on tram routes No. 5, 8, 16 was suspended.
n.p. Makeevka, Chervonogvardeisky district:
- st. Tolyatti, 11 - a private residential building.
13:14 Due to the shelling of the village of the mine. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the street. Sedova, 44 a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded. An ambulance left for the scene.
13:13 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports that as a result of massive shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, electric networks were damaged by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In this regard, the movement of cars on tram routes No. 5, 8, 16 has been suspended. Employees of the energy supply company are making every effort to eliminate the consequences of the accident.
12:23 Consequences of yesterday shelling by Armed Forces of Ukraine Kievsky district of Donetsk.
12:23 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Netailovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): seven rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): seven rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): eight rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
12:19 On a photo- the consequences of the shelling of Gorlovka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:02 Soledar. The situation at the KNAUF plant on 08/15/22. The KNAUF factory in Soledar and the neighboring streets are under the control of the Russian army. The enemy is intensively bombarding the plant with artillery.ReportsTG channel wargonzo.
11:33 AFU fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Leninabadskaya, a woman died.
11:20 CCC DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): fired six mines with caliber 120mm;
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:00 Maxim Moroz from Chernivtsi believes that the government of Ukraine is simply exterminating the people. VideoNM LNR
10:46 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recalls officers along almost the entire line in Donbas, about thisinformsreporter Rudenko. The mobilized are thrown into the first line, combat brigades are not brought into battle. Subdivisions are transferred to help the "one-day" only with a clear threat of a breakthrough.
"Ukrainian artillery does not spare both their own and ours at the time of the attack. Our boys have even begun to carry out imitation attacks, so that dill artillery covers their own positions. And it rolls and not bad. The day before, near Avdievka, the Ukrainians destroyed a whole company of those mobilized from near Zhytomyr," writes the military commander.
They do not spare their people at all, which is why the tenth round of forced conscription in Ukraine is already underway, Rudenko concluded.
10:06 Consequences of shelling of the village of the Rumyantsev mine in Gorlovka.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of August 15, 2022
Over the past 24 hours, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-up to 40 personnel;
-seven armored personnel carriers;
-three artillery installations;
-two tanks;
-three units of special vehicles;
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During August 14, they cleared more than six hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Shipilovka and Privolye.
The NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, is delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas. Representatives of the Popular Front, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered food packages for residents of the settlement. Golden.
09:55 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: eight rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nevelskoe - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): seven rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
09:43 The Headquarters of the Tero DPR reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the village of Yasnoye, as a result of which a civilian was wounded.
09:42 The officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left their positions near the city of Soledar in the DPR.
“The commanders have shifted their duties to sergeants and privates,” said Andrei Marochko, officer of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that during the offensive of the allied forces in the Soledar area, the Ukrainian 14th Brigade lost more than 2,000 people.
09:25Fights near Avdievka. Unlike the Peski district, the progress here is not so significant. Positional tendencies still dominate and to the north of Avdievka along the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway.
09:03 Assault on the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka. Special Forces of the People's Militia of the DPR leads the offensive with artillery fire support /TK Zvezda/.
08:50 Akhmat special forces soldiers under the leadership of acting commander Akhmed "Combat" Saidarkhanov took up another strategically important position near Seversk (DPR), reported Kadyrov.
08:39 Video confirmation of the progress along Soledar. The plant is already under the control of the allied forces. The city is being cleared. The question of when the militants will roll back to the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka line is a question of the very near future.ReportsRodion Miroshnik.
08:18Ukrainians near Avdievka equipped a position under the bridge. Our artillery destroyed equipment and personnel. Reporter Rudenko reports.
08:05 107 battalion of the DPR army progressing well in Marinka.
Servicemen of the People's Militia, with the support of the allied forces of the Russian Federation, are taking away meter by meter from the Kyiv regime in Maryinka.
The enemy does not leave attempts to regain control over the lost territories using all available means, including BAYRAKTAR TB2 strike unmanned aerial vehicles. One of these devices was recently shot down in the sky in the Maryinsky direction by the air defense forces of the NM of the DPR.
07:49 Artyomovsk was shelled all night long. The APU has heavy losses.
07:40 Burnt Ukrainian equipment and burning grass: how NM LNR opposes enemy on the front line near Yakovlevka.
Aviation is intensively working in the direction. Every 30-40 minutes, the hum of aircraft engines is heard. Artillery destroys enemy equipment, suppresses his artillery and significantly reduces manpower. The horizon is in smoke.
07:12 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: five rounds fired caliber 152mm;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kyiv region): two rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six each 152mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Makeevka: one each 155mm shell was fired.
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): two rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Netailovo - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[REGNUM] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing a special title "Mother Heroine" in the country. The document was published on August 15 on the official Internet portal of legal information.
According to the decree, the title can be awarded to a Russian citizen who has given birth and raised ten or more children who are also citizens of Russia.
That is, indeed, heroic.
When conferring the title of "Mother Heroine", the awarded woman will be paid a one-time monetary incentive in the amount of one million rubles.
That’s apparently only US$ 16,258.398, but it sounded awfully impressive until the calculation was done.
Recall that on June 1, Vladimir Putin supported the idea of reviving the honorary title "Mother Heroine" in Russia during a meeting with large families dedicated to International Children's Day.
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[REGNUM] The state of the economy of the RSFSR
...Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic...
after three years of the World War and two years of the Civil War ruled out the possibility of a successful conflict simultaneously with Japan and Poland, backed by France and England. However, it was also impossible to hope for a favorable outcome of an isolated clash with such a powerful force as Japan. The economic situation of the Soviet Republic was the hardest. The threat of a fuel catastrophe was removed, but the crisis remained and was very serious.
Commentary by president of the Ukrainian Union of Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners, Larisa Shesler.
[ColonelCassad] The lull of the past week was replaced by the fierce shelling of industrial zones in Nikolaev. Explosions sounded again in the YuTZ area, in Zaichevskoye and in the Novozavodskaya area.
The water situation is becoming unbearable, more and more houses and entire neighborhoods are disconnected from the water due to the destruction of networks caused by salt water supplied directly from the estuary.
Against this background, an outburst of indignation was caused by information that Senkevich could not really report on where the 56 million allocated for the restoration of water supply had been spent.
The water conduit, of course, was not restored, water is pumped without purification directly from the estuary, they drilled from a dozen and a half wells, in which the water, according to the head of the city water canal, is just as salty ... but where is the rest of the money? Where, where, in the pockets, who needs it, what do you, as little ones, do not understand?
Oils were also added by the head of the Nikolaev Parks utility company, who reported with a blue eye that they had already stolen (oh, spent) 17 million since the beginning of the year on green spaces, and plan to spend almost the same amount (steal). It's time to mow lawns (or cabbage) in front-line Nikolaev.
Against this background, the intention of the head of the department for culture (!!) to rename Pushkinskaya Street sounded almost imperceptibly.
There is no need for Mykolaiv to have a street with that name. It was through Russian Nikolaev that Pushkin passed on his way to Odessa, it was in Russian Nikolaev that there was a monument to the great Russian poet, and Mykolaiv will have another street named after Gnilosyrov (there really is such a Ukrainian poet). Vasyl Gnilosyrov
After the shelling, the oncoming flow nevertheless became weaker than the flow of those leaving, and Nikolaev becomes even more deserted. Huge unemployment contributes to this - Kim has already admitted that 80 percent of the townspeople have lost their jobs.
Not surprisingly, on the notice boards there are invitations to work as a full-time economist with a salary of 6,500 hryvnias (dirty!), the tax in Ukraine is 19.5 percent (18 - income, and 1.5% - military tax), which means that a person is in the hands will receive 5,230 hryvnias - 8,600 in rubles.
Considering the price of a minibus, which has doubled (up to 14 hryvnias), a person will only have enough for bread and water. However, you can count on the humanitarian aid. It is no longer given to everyone, in the general queue. Not enough for everyone, of course. Only on lists of social services.
But the Baptists turned around with humanitarian aid, evangelicals and other American and European "churches." With packages of cereals and bottles of vegetable oil, they attract new adherents, it is clear that in a time of general poverty, they have new opportunities to spread their influence much more widely than in a well-fed society.
And of course, the explosion of discussions in local publics was caused by the news about the creation of the VGA in Snigirevka and the appointment of Yuri Barbashov from Nikolaev as the head there. He himself is from Nikolaev, many people know him, and everyone understands that Barbashov’s appointment to Snigirevka is a sign that Russia is coming to the Nikolaev region. Forever and ever.
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[MSN] The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday said sabotage was behind an explosion at a military depot in the Dzhankoy region of Crimea, the RIA news agency reported.
[NYPOST] Ukraine said Monday that it successfully struck the headquarters of the 
