[Twitter] THREAD Russia sends hundreds of its school and kindergarten teachers to occupied Ukraine in order to fulfill genocide of Ukrainians. Exactly as the RU soldiers, these people come to UKR with their hate against Ukrainians. RU Novaya newspaper talked to them. Read their testimonies
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IZIUM/1330 UTC 13 SEP/ UK Intel discloses that the prestigious Russian 1st Guards’ Tank Army has been destroyed. This top-teir force is the largest single unit lost by Russia since World War II. Information is evolving, but captured RU troops may number in 10s of thousands. pic.twitter.com/QhXUgCHtzr
[The Drive] Russia’s lost Khibiny-U electronic warfare pod that flies of its advanced Flanker fighters will be a prize for foreign intelligence agencies.
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Twitter must be desperate for new member accounts after all their phony robot accounts were revealed.
I will not help Twitter pad their membership numbers by joining just so I can view a web link.
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Let me add this more current capture (and a real jackpot item, typically only one per artillery regiment).
#Ukraine: A very valuable and potent Russian 1L261 radar vehicle from the 1L260 Zoopark-1M counter-battery complex was captured by the Ukrainian army during the ongoing counter-offensive in #Kharkiv Oblast.
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A very valuable and potent Russian 1L261 radar vehicle from the 1L260 Zoopark-1M counter-battery complex was captured by the Ukrainian army; 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 9, 2022
Use that to find the tweet
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Not that capable if it couldn't protect the jet it was on.
FLASH TRAFFIC /KHERSON 1500/ UTC 12 SEP/ Breaking information from the UKR General Staff reports that RU units on the N bank of the Dnieper are presently negotiating the surrender of their positions and weapons. It is unknown if this a localized or a general capitulation. pic.twitter.com/TLrfiJHsDG
ROAD CLOSED? Jason Jay Smart @officejjsmart reports that friends in Moscow have texted that: “The Ring Road around Moscow is closed by the National Guard". And that, " [he] hasn't seen anything like this since the 1991 coup”. Developing. https://t.co/6lt2kb0Zg8pic.twitter.com/nvGG3xNoIm
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Imagine this, Ukraine actually get operational tanks and vehicle from the Division surrender. With that and the forces they currently have there is very little resistance between the Ukraine and the Kremlin. The Ukraine could take the fight into Russia, and make a run for the Kremlin.
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Ukr invasion of Russia? Put down the pipe and back away from the keyboard. Fun to imagine as alternate history, but if reports are accurate then this is a prelude to a coup or a counter coup. State Security Putinista forces loyal to Putin vs oligarchs/would-be warlords with co-opted Interior troops vs standing Military units led by generals in rebellion (classic coup junta), in a 3 way standoff.
The Russians do love their troikas.
This could be very interesting. Cue theme from the Good the Bad and the Ugly; you decide which gets to be Blondie, Angel Eyes, and Tuco.
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On the other hand, after the posting yesterday of one of their talking heads saying that the Russian generals who 'allowed' this to happen should be shot, would you actually trust someone with a tac-nuke?
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I followed that guy for a few days, and he's way ahead of facts, and I say that as someone who is unabashedly pro-Ukraine. The 'ring road' thing showed up on twitter several days ago, complete with a vid of sirens and military trucks. This is either a delayed echo or similar situation, with no clear implications.
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First off, I dont smoke crack. Stuff it. I dont live in an alternate universe. Again, stuff it. The best tactical event any general can do is get the fight out of their country and into a different one. If the Ukraine is successful in their counter offensive and they dont enter Russia they are making a strategic mistake. Enter Russia and call for the UN to put Blue helmets in the Russian provinces that are held by Ukraine.
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The ring road was closed during the Moscow Day celebration (Saturday). Likely old news and not relevant anymore.
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I have no idea whether a Ukrainian invasion of Russia is feasible but that fact that a long-time poster with 49Pan's background is talking about it certainly catches my attention.
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[RedState] Saturday, I posted on the new Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv Oblast that has liberated several hundred square miles of territory and threatens to unravel the entire Russian invasion; see Russia’s Disaster in Kharkiv Turns Into an Avalanche of Failure as Ukraine’s Army Advances Without Opposition.
The main effort in yesterday’s report was Kupiansk, a critical rail and highway node on the Oskil river. That city is firmly in Ukrainian hands. As I noted yesterday, this places the main railroad line from Russian forces in Ukraine to Russia within range of Ukrainian tube artillery.
The Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv Oblast shows some signs of slowing down, unlike the Russian withdrawal.
But progress continues. I’d thought the Oskil River/reservoir running south from Kupiansk might mark a line of advance for this phase of the operation. New reports indicate the Ukrainians have vaulted the Oskil River and are in hot pursuit of the fleeing Russians with the possibility of re-conquering the fake Luhansk People’s Republic created by the Russians in 2014.
In the north, Ukraine has successfully reestablished control of all of its territory up to its border with Russia.
In my post yesterday, I mentioned that the Russian military in the town of Vovchansk had announced it was withdrawing. There are credible reports that the opposing armies negotiated the evacuation of Vovchansk and neighboring towns. According to the ISW/Critical Threats interactive map, this is what the frontline looks like today.
The Ukrainians have not advanced on the border crossing point between Pisky (UKR) and Logachevka (RUS), which is basically where the rightmost part of the blue-shaded area touches the Russian border. My guess is that they have no interest in stopping the flight of pro-Russian residents. It also looks like the Russians aren’t crazy about admitting them.
That seems foolish. Russia needs all the extra population it can get just to offset the current rate of brain drain.
There are mixed calls on the town of Lyman; see my report from yesterday for the location; my assessment is that the calls of “contested’ are overly conservative. I think Lyman has fallen, but I also understand the imperative of being right on calls for Ukrainian advances.
The Donetsk front had some action. Indications are that the quality of Russian forces working there may be of higher quality than those routed over the last week. A Ukrainian mechanized platoon attempted a hasty attack without artillery support about 12 miles northwest of the city of Donetsk and got mauled for their efforts, losing two T-72 tanks.
The Kherson offensive continues to grind out a few kilometers daily, despite what Putin’s mouthpieces say.
The Russians have voluntarily withdrawn some distance on the western side of this sector; the assumption is that they are bringing their troops within supporting range of artillery on the south side of the Dnieper River.
That could be, and it could also be that the Russians are withdrawing across the Dnieper—remember, all the bridges across that river are destroyed, and the only way to cross is by pontoon raft—and this requires shortening defensive lines. As much as giving up Kherson would be embarrassing, evacuating that city and everything north of the river would be a very astute operational move. Russia moved about 20,000 troops from Kharkiv and Donetsk across the Dnieper to confront the much-ballyhooed offensive. I’m pretty sure they’d like them back.
An intriguing story is bouncing around that the Russians and Ukrainians are negotiating the evacuation of Kherson.
That could explain the relative passivity of the Kherson front and the slow compression of Russian lines. The Ukrainians might very well calculate that liberating Ukrainian territory, including Kherson City, without a fight might be worth the cost of letting 20,000 Russian troops pass through a “humanitarian corridor.”
There are major politico-military issues brewing.
If Ukraine, as seems inevitable, moves into the territory claimed by the Potemkin republics created by Russia in 2014, then the character of the war changes dramatically on the ground. In that case, the ground war objectives would come more congruent with the stated position of the Ukrainian government that they intend to reclaim Luhansk and Donetsk. It also means the “Special Military Operation” fiction maintained by the Kremlin is no longer viable.
While Russia was unable to carry out a single missile attack or airstrike on the Ukrainian offensive in Kherson, they have continued to carry out what can only be called terror attacks on civilian targets far removed from the battlefield. The city of Kharkiv is hit daily by rocket attacks from across the Russian border. I believe Ukraine has been constrained in its ability to retaliate because I’ve been told that one of the terms of receiving HIMARS and MLRS was that they would not hit targets inside Russia. The new northern border places Belgorod and other cities within the 30-mile range of the 203mm 2S7 “Pion” self-propelled guns operated by Ukraine. Any agreement with a Western nation does not govern these weapons. It is difficult to see how the Ukrainian government continues to allow attacks from Russia without retaliation.
The successful offensive makes it less likely that Ukraine will be interested in negotiating. As a result, president Zelensky’s hard line (Ukraine President Zelensky Sets His Terms to End Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin Isn’t Laughing) got a lot harder.
Ukraine showing that it can wage a successful offensive campaign makes it much more likely that modern tanks and aircraft may be on the way.
The next week promises to be just as exciting as this one.
Former infantry officer, CGSC grad and Army Operations Center alumnus.
1/ What are the reasons for Russia's Blyatskrieg – its rapid collapse east of Kharkiv – and why might Napoleon Bonaparte have known some of the answers? Here's a 🧵 exploring some possible deeper reasons for Ukraine's stunning successes in recent days. pic.twitter.com/GdDEIC30ge
[UkrInform] On September 11, 2022, a total of 40 substations of different voltage levels were left without electricity due to Russia’s mass attack on the territory of Ukraine. Four power engineers were killed.
"One of the most massive attacks on energy infrastructure took place yesterday. Zmiivska Thermal Power Plant (TPP) and three high-voltage substations were shelled; 40 substations of different voltage levels were left without power; two 750-kilowatt and five 330-kilowatt overhead lines were disconnected," Galushchenko wrote.
Opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin says it's 'absolutely impossible' to win war
He also called for Russia to either escalate its war efforts or resume peace talks
But his comments were backed by pro-Kremlin figures on state TV debate show
Comes amid mounting concerns over progress of Ukrainian counter-offensives
State Duma member admitted Russia was 'dealt a severe psychological blow'
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Just spit-balling here:
Somebody is thinking about TacNuke Options. Putie must recognize that despite the rash of energy sector "suicides" and overseas critic deaths to intimidate opponents, a full scale mobilization will just guarantee his imminent dirt nap. So, the Instant Sunshine in a Can option has to be on the table as a way to put full stop to this mess. If the dial-a-yield is kept in the low 10-15 kt range, the US is unlikely to respond, and who else can?
If they take out Zelensky and the government centers in Kyiv where all the blackmail records are kept, Biden et al might actually breathe a sigh of relief.
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Actually mossomo, that was my own intuitive sense of what must be going on inside the Kremlin. Last time I checked, I'm not in a think-tank or even a drop tank. Just spent a long career watching and reading what Russians said and did, and how they reason when sober.
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Those predictions were propagated by Western Think Tanks and repeated by #fakenews allies and social media influencers.
Which is why Russia made a straight dash for Kiev, their partner in Belarus leaked a map showing a planned follow-up into Moldova, the Russians took no communication gear, and quite clearly did not plan for a prolonged fight.
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10KT tac nuke? But where? Someplace symbolic, strategic in value, military, but not so densely populated area, and ideally some place they need to trash that they haven't been able to, or don't need to, occupy. And someplace where the fallout washing into Russia as well as most of western Europe will be limited.
Here's your answer: Port facilities in Odessa.
5KT, Airburst over the water at the port of Odessa. Oil and gas terminals are the furtherest south, grain terminals are in the north part. Strike just out past the breakwaters of the south terminals at 46.492516, 30.761169. Per Nukemap, a 5KT hit there will bust up the infrastructure of container cargo and POL, but do not much worse than break a few windows in downtown Odessa, and woul leave the grain exporrt terminals untouched for the most part. Fallout, if there is any (Airburst!) would go out over the bay then toward Mikolayev, but not much further than that. Tiime it for 3 AM, when not so many people are working, and the deaths would be less than 300, wounded less than 3000.
So if you are Putin, ya dont kill so many people, you leave the grain exports intact, but cripple the Ukraine's POL and cargo imports, whihc chops the legs off any offensive plans the Ukr army has unless they start bringing everything over the western rail lines.
Plus it scares the shit out of everyone and might provide a "let us negotiate before the maniac escalates" response from Foggy Bottom to force the Ukraine into an immediate cease-fire in-place, which would then become the de facto border, except perhaps in Kherson.
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Effect distances for a 5 kiloton airburst at 500m altitude:
Fireball radius: 120 m (0.04 km²)
Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of detonation. If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased. Anything inside the fireball is effectively vaporized. Minimum burst height for negligible fallout: 100 m. (i.e. negligible fallout)
Radiation radius (500 rem): 0.97 km (2.97 km²)
500 rem ionizing radiation dose; likely fatal, in about 1 month; 15% of survivors will eventually die of cancer as a result of exposure.
Examining the terrain, most of this area is either water, port structures, or storage areas. No living quarters.
Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 1.11 km (3.84 km²)
Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 8 cal/cm2.
Examining the terrain, most of this area is either water, port structures, or storage areas. No living quarters.
Moderate blast damage radius (5 psi): 1.2 km (4.54 km²)
At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. The chances of a fire starting in commercial and residential damage are high, and buildings so damaged are at high risk of spreading fire. Often used as a benchmark for moderate damage in cities. Optimal height of burst to maximize this effect is 0.53 km.
Examining the map, this basically destroys or damages all the souther port infrastructure,
Light blast damage radius (1 psi): 3.38 km (35.9 km²)
At around 1 psi overpressure, glass windows can be expected to break. This can cause many injuries in a surrounding population who comes to a window after seeing the flash of a nuclear explosion (which travels faster than the pressure wave). Often used as a benchmark for light damage in cities. Optimal height of burst to maximize this effect is 0.8 km.
Looking at Google Maps, this covers the city center to about halfway inland, breaking windows at the main hospital and the parks, perhaps, but not much further than the McDonalds at the train station.
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Several Navy Seals were sent to Ukraine. Plush rooms. They were there a short time but long enough to learn several interesting things. Sex exploitation is rampant involving children on to grannies. They blow up tunnels and blame Russia. Bio labs in active operation. Then they were told to leave as soon as possible and they did. He said the news were are getting is not the real news of Ukraine. I have said this before a major psyops is occurring with our media and our administration leading the disinformation efforts. This navy seal is always on duty should an event require his expertise.
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[LB] "Step by step, meter by meter, we are liberating our land from the occupier," the fighters emphasized.
by Vera Perun
Units of the National Guard , Armed Forces and Territorial Defense entered the city of Sviatohirsk in the Donetsk region.
This is stated in a military video published on the Facebook page of the National Guard of Ukraine.
"Step by step, meter by meter, we are liberating our land from the occupier. The victory will definitely be ours," reads the appeal, which was recorded by the NSU fighter Vitaly Markiv .
We will remind you that now the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and soldiers of the Border Service "cleared" the positions of the Russians near Sviatohirsk.
At the beginning of August, soldiers of the National Guard raised the Ukrainian flag at the highest point of the partially occupied city.
[LB] The Armed Forces and border guards worked successfully.
by Vera Perun
Ukrainian defenders "cleared" Russian positions near Sviatohirsk in Donetsk region.
This was reported in the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
A unit of the Armed Forces and soldiers of the Border Service worked on the task.
"The liberation of Ukraine continues," StratCom emphasized.
It will be recalled that at the beginning of August, National Guardsmen raised the Ukrainian flag at the highest point of the partially occupied Sviatohirsk.
In the meantime, the Armed Forces of Ukraine freed several settlements in Luhansk Region from the Russian occupiers . At the moment, there is a cleanup going on. And in the South, Ukrainian troops advanced several tens of kilometers in some areas. Four settlements are officially completely liberated and under the flag of Ukraine .
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[Vesti] During the current day, the enemy launched 5 missile and more than 10 air strikes.
The enemy continues to concentrate his efforts on establishing control over the territory of the Donetsk region, maintaining the temporarily occupied territories and disrupting the offensive of our troops in certain areas. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Monday, September 12, 2022.
The Russian army is conducting aerial reconnaissance, continues to engage the positions of our units by fire, and is trying to take measures to restore the lost position by moving its troops. The threat of air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine remains.
The Russian occupiers continue the tactics of terror and intimidation of the civilian population of Ukraine. Unable to respond on the battlefield, Russian forces once again fired missiles at the critical infrastructure of peaceful Ukrainian cities.
Energy, water supply, factories and residential buildings in Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Konstantinovka, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk were hit by missiles and volleys of multiple launch rocket systems. The infrastructure suffered in the areas of the settlements of Pervomayskoye, Belogorovka, Zaitsevo, Veselaia Dolina, Dry Pond, Shirokoye, Partizanskoye and Lyubomirovka.
During the current day, the enemy launched five missile and more than ten air strikes and carried out more than 20 attacks from the MLRS on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine.
In the Volyn and Polesye directions, the situation has not changed significantly.
In other directions , the enemy fired at military and civilian infrastructure from tanks, military vehicles, cannon and rocket artillery, namely:
in the Kharkiv direction - in the districts of Konstantinovka and Udov;
in the Kramatorsk direction - in the areas of the settlements of Stary Karavan, Slavyansk, Tatyanovka, Piskunovka, Raygorodok and Krivaya Luka;
in the Bakhmut direction - in the areas of the settlements of Veseleye, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Zaitsevo, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut and Razdolevka;
in the Avdeevsky direction - near Krasnogorovka, Maryinka, Vodyany, Pervomaisky and Novomikhailovka;
on the Novopavlovsky direction - in the areas of Nikolsky, Prechistovka, Velikaya Novoselka and Ugledar;
in the Zaporizhia direction - in the areas of the settlements of Novoandreevka, Novopol, Poltavka, Gulyaipole, Vremovka, Malinovka, Zeleny Gai, Maly Shcherbaki and Svobodnaya Pole;
in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the occupiers fired from cannon and rocket artillery along the entire line of collision. In addition, the enemy conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV - made 56 sorties.
The military command of the Russian Federation suspends the sending of new already formed units to the territory of Ukraine. The current situation in the theater of operations and distrust of the high command have forced a large number of volunteers to categorically refuse the prospect of service in combat conditions.
The situation is influenced by information about the actual number of dead, while losses from private military companies and those mobilized from the temporarily occupied territories are not taken into account.
The situation is aggravated by the general attitude towards their own wounded. In particular, in Russian hospitals, diagnoses and the nature of combat injuries are deliberately simplified, time is not wasted on rehabilitation in order to quickly return servicemen to the combat zone.
The defense forces successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mayorsk, Nikolaevka Vtoraya, Bakhmut, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka.
During the day, to support the actions of ground groups, the aircraft of the Defense Forces delivered seven strikes - five strongholds and places of concentration of manpower and equipment were hit, two positions of enemy air defense systems were destroyed.
During the current day, as a result of fire impact, units of missile forces and artillery hit command posts of various levels and areas of concentration of enemy manpower. Enemy air defense, electronic warfare, artillery units, ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants fell into the affected area.
In the liberated territories, a sweep is underway, and a high risk of mine danger remains. The mass crimes of the enemy on Ukrainian soil, the facts of violation of international humanitarian law and the rules of war are recorded.
Representatives of the military administrations, together with the Defense Forces, are doing everything possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, which is the result of constant shelling, rocket and air strikes by the enemy, lack of electricity, food and medicine during the previous actions of the Russian military in the previously occupied territories.
Work continues to evacuate the civilian population from the combat zone.
[Vesti] September 12 is the 201st day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
6:00 a.m. Kharkov region. Kharkiv was hit by S-300 missiles. A 5-storey residential building in the Novobavarsky district was partially destroyed. One person is known to have died and two injured. Electricity and water supply in the region has been restored by 80%.
7:00 am . The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks near Mayorsk and Krasnogorovka. In the areas of Nikolaevka II and Zaitseva, fighting continues.
In the Luhansk region, the Russian military with their families left Svatovo, leaving only the soldiers of the so-called "people's militia" from among the local residents.
Over the past day, Russians have been ousted from more than 20 settlements.
In the Kherson direction, the so-called 810 separate brigade of the Marine Corps of the Russian army lost almost 85% of its personnel.
The Russian Federation launched 18 missile and 39 air strikes on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine. More than 30 settlements were affected.
Dnipropetrovsk region . From "Hurricanes", "Gradov" and heavy artillery they hit the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog regions . There are no dead or wounded. Private houses, a lyceum and electrical networks were damaged.
Zaporozhye region . Explosions were heard in Zaporozhye.
Kherson region . In Nova Kakhovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the ammunition depot of Russian troops.
Chronology of the war in Ukraine: Monday, September 12 - photo 1
8:30 am . Donetsk region . Kramatorsk was subjected to rocket attacks at night : hits in the private sector and the perinatal center. According to preliminary information, no casualties.
9:00 a.m. Zaporozhye region . Four S-300 missiles fired at Zaporozhye : hitting the technical buildings of one of the infrastructure facilities in the vicinity of the city. No casualties.
10:20 am . Zaporozhye region . Explosions are reported in Melitopol.
11:15 am . Kherson region . Reported arrival on the Antonovsky bridge. RosSMI write about 10 explosions and the work of air defense.
12:50 pm . Donetsk region . The command of the air assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the liberation of the village of Bogorodichne near Svyatogorsk.
13:10 . Kharkov region . Missile strikes on Kharkov are reported. 1 person was killed, 1 passerby was injured. Mayor Igor Terekhov reported on the hit in the city center - in Osnovyansky and Kyiv districts.
13:45 . Kharkov region . The number of wounded as a result of a missile attack on Kharkov has increased to 4 .
14:00 . Kherson region . 5 settlements of the Kherson region have been liberated from the Russians , according to the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk. We are talking about Vysokopolye, Novovoznesenskoye, Belogorka, Mirolyubovka and Dry Pond.
Kharkov region . Light went out in Kharkiv and water supply was stopped .
15:00 . The Armed Forces of Ukraine released about 500 square meters. km of territory in the south, said the head of the press center of the Defense Forces OK "South" Natalya Gumenyuk.
16:00 . Kharkov region . A 37-year-old man was killed as a result of the shelling of the Osnovyansky and Kievsky districts of Kharkov. 6 people were injured.
17:50 Ukraine may return Crimea within a year, - Newsweek
“The Ukrainian military has set conditions under which they can restore full sovereignty, including Crimea, I think within the next year, ” said former US commander in Europe Ben Hodges.
18:18 Another shelling of Kharkov: the invaders hit the densely populated Nemyshlyansky district of the city. Information about the victims is being specified
18:34 In the Russian Federation, a campaign has been announced to raise funds for the purchase of winter uniforms for the occupying contingent, which is located in Ukraine. The official Kremlin admitted that there are not enough budgetary funds for these needs.
19:00 AFU liberatedfive settlements during the offensivein the Kherson region. This was announced at a briefing on September 12 by the speaker of the operational command "South" Natalia Gumenyuk.
19:19 The Russian army continues to focus its efforts on establishing control over the territory of the Donetsk region, and disrupting the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas. Operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the evening of September 12.
19:45 One person was killed, 4 were injured after the shelling of Logachevka in the Belgorod region, the governor of the region Gladkov said.
20:10 Zelensky said that Ukraine will not be able to return its land without the help of the United States. The president expressed this opinion in an interview with CNN.
20:33 Residents of those Kharkiv high-rise buildings that may lack electricity and heating will be relocated to dormitories. This, commenting on the attacks on the critical infrastructure of the city, said the mayor of Kharkov Igor Terekhov on the air of the national telethon. According to him, so far we are talking about residents of houses above 9 floors.
21:00 The next rotation of Russians will consist mainly of residents of the Russian Far East and Kamchatka. By design, they are better adapted to life in low temperatures and will be more efficient in the winter. Also, these military personnel are not accustomed to comfort and will easily endure the absence of a well-functioning life.
Kremlin recruiters managed to attract a certain part of the population of the northern regions with promises of high payouts. However, these personnel have a very low level of training and know practically nothing about the real state of hostilities in Ukraine.
21:21 Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine have almost complete fire control over the Valuyki-Lugansk railroad using GMLRS. OSINT analyst Defmon reports this and shows a map for clarity.
21:44 The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate 400 million hryvnia to restore energy facilities damaged by yesterday's strikes, part of this amount will be used to help the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region.
22:02 During the day, Ukrainian aviation delivered seven strikes, five strongholds and places of concentration of manpower and equipment were hit, two positions of air defense systems of Russian troops were destroyed. Operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the evening of September 12.
22:27 The Japanese government has made unprecedented changes to the procedures for exporting weapons. They actually bypassed their own law prohibiting the transfer of military weapons to other countries. Now Japan can provide non-lethal equipment to Ukraine. Currently, military assistance from Japan is: 40 small reconnaissance UAVs, 6900 helmets and 1900 body armor.
22:55 In Svyatogorsk (Donetsk region), the Ukrainian flag is set over the administration building. Also, the Ukrainian military publish photos from Svyatogorsk. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not yet given official comments.
23:15 41 thousand man-portable missile systems were also deployed from the continental United States to combat armored targets, 1.4 thousand man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems, 15 helicopters, 38 radars, 10.2 thousand machine guns and pistols, about 63, 8 million small arms rounds and 18 patrol boats.
23:44 The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mayorsk, Nikolaevka Second, Bakhmut, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka. Operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the evening of September 12.
00:25 Since the end of February, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 140 artillery systems and 660,000 shells and missiles for them, follows from official data from the Pentagon.
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[Korrespondent] 23:29 The fleeing Russians were able to respond to the swift counterattack of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv region only with new rocket attacks on peaceful cities. And now the occupiers purposefully hit on infrastructure critical for normal life. About whether we are talking about a single outburst of rage due to failures at the front or new tactics of the enemy, the material of the Russian Federation hits the infrastructure.
22:54 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are "a sign of desperation of those who invented this war": "This is how they react to the defeat of Russian forces in the Kharkiv region. They cannot do anything with our heroes on battlefield, and therefore Russia directs its dastardly strikes against civilian infrastructure."
The President emphasized the need to strengthen the cooperation of "everyone in the free world", in particular, to recognize Russia as a terrorist state, strengthen sanctions and increase assistance to Ukraine, above all, speed up the provision of air defense systems.
22:47 In Kherson, an attempt was made on the life of a collaborator - the "rector" of the state university Tatyana Tomilina. There was an explosion at her home. Local publics report that her security guard died, and she is in the hospital in intensive care. Russian media write that Tomilina "was slightly injured."
22:19 The second reserve power supply line of the Zaporizhzhya NPP has been restored, the IAEA said: "With the restoration of the line, the electricity necessary for the nuclear safety of the ZNPP again comes from the external network."
21:36 The Azov Kharkiv MTR and the 14th Motorized Rifle Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great liberated and cleared the entire north-east of the Kharkiv region, from the village of Veseloe to the city of Volchansk, the Azov Kharkiv MTR reported: "Complete de-occupation of the Ternovaya, Varvarovka, Izbitskoye, Staritsa regions. The state border has been taken under control."
21:22 In the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured a significant number of Russian senior officers, writes Die Welt, citing sources in the Ukrainian army. According to the publication, the number of captured Russians in recent days has exceeded hundreds, among them high-ranking officers.
Analysts note that "the Russian defense collapsed, the soldiers just fled," while the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated settlements without firing a shot: "This cannot be rationally explained. Perhaps it's just courage. The generals could no longer stop their soldiers. They stopped only then when the gas ran out.
20:41 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had liberated almost 6,000 square meters. km of Ukrainian territory.
20:34 In Kharkiv, from houses in which there are more than nine floors and there may be no electricity and heating, people will be relocated to dormitories, Mayor Igor Terekhov said on the air of the telethon: "We have identified some of the dormitories to which we can relocate people today in order to so that they can spend the winter and autumn there, when it gets cold. This applies to a few microdistricts, because basically all the houses in the city are still supplied with gas."
20:25 Since the end of February, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 140 artillery systems and 660,000 shells and missiles for them, the Pentagon said. Ukraine also received 41,000 man-portable missile systems to combat armored targets, 1,400 man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems, 15 helicopters, 38 radars, 10,200 machine guns and pistols, about 63.8 million cartridges for small arms and 18 patrol boats.
20:17 Yermak posted a video of a fighter from the 14th separate mechanized brigade planting a flag on a tower in the village of Ternovaya, Kharkiv region, on the border with Russia:
19:46 Zelensky met with the Director General of the International Organization for Migration Antonio Vitorino, discussed support for Ukrainians suffering as a result of the war.
19:18 The military command of the Russian Federation suspends the sending of new, already formed units to the territory of Ukraine , reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "The current situation in the theater of operations and distrust of the high command forced a large number of volunteers to categorically refuse the prospect of serving in combat conditions. The situation is influenced by information about the actual number of dead, while not taking into account losses from private military companies and those mobilized from the temporarily occupied territories.The situation is aggravated due to the general attitude towards their own wounded.In particular, in Russian hospitals, diagnoses and the nature of combat injuries are deliberately simplified, time is not given for rehabilitation in order to return the military personnel to the combat zone as soon as possible."
Also, the General Staff in the evening report reported that the Defense Forces successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Mayorsk, Nikolaevka Second, Bakhmut, Krasnogorovka, Marinka and Novomikhailovka.
19:12 Zelensky, in an interview with CNN journalist Farid Zakaria, admitted that Ukraine will not be able to win the war with Russia without the help of the United States: "They are leaders in terms of support for Ukraine. Without them, we will not be able to return our land. I understand this."
19:09 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "administration" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing a "big offensive" in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, "artillery installations are being transferred."
19:07 The IAEA has not yet observed a critical situation at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Director General Rafael Grossi said: “Because this issue has become so potentially serious, we are monitoring the situation at each nuclear power plant. At the moment, we have not seen or been informed of a critical situation on them".
19:05 Zelensky, in an interview with CNN host Farid Zakaria, said that it is impossible to lift sanctions and negotiate with Russia until it leaves the territory of Ukraine: "Anything after that, one can talk about the sanctions policy, about the lifting of certain sanctions, about reparations, reimbursement of money, about diplomacy, about dialogue. All this can be done at the level of the presidents of all states, any institutions and with anyone from the Russian Federation, if they left our territories. This is the point from which a new story begins."
18:59 Zelensky, in an interview with CNN host Farid Zakaria, said that Trump should look at the war in Ukraine without rose-colored glasses: "I think he had enough time to understand who Putin is. I think he held such a high position where it is impossible not to understand who is, let’s say, the valuable opponent of your people... He must look at all this from the point of view of the threat not only to Ukraine.Maybe we are far enough for him, but the war has no distance. It seems to me that he needs to look at this situation, let's say, without rose-colored glasses. I don't know, maybe he needed this for his domestic policy, to show that he is ready to find mutual understanding with the President of Russia."
18:46 The Ukrainian blitzkrieg struck both the Ukrainians themselves and the occupiers, who fled from the Kharkiv region, leaving their tanks, weapons depots and hospitals with wounded soldiers. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation recognized the flight from the Kharkov region and called it a "regrouping". Once again realizing their powerlessness against the Ukrainian army, the occupiers dealt a blow to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. Read more in the article How the Armed Forces of Ukraine returned the Kharkiv region and drove the Russian Federation into a corner .
18:11 Russia does not plan to declare mass mobilization and martial law, said Andrei Klimov, head of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty. According to him, "there are no signs of the need for military mobilization in Russia against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, as well as the introduction of martial law in the country."
17:55 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a citizen of Ukraine died in Logachevka as a result of shelling. In total, four people were taken to hospitals, three of which are Ukrainians.
17:38 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, warns of possible provocations in the city by the invaders. So, today the schools conducted an evacuation drill like during a bombardment and reported that this was not the last. The occupying teachers were also instructed to urgently prepare for distance learning.
According to Andryushchenko, all this, together with Girkin's reports about the alleged strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Taganrog, indicates "not only panic": "There are big fears about the preparation of another demonstrative provocation using Mariupol schools." He urged parents to be careful not to send their children to school for the next two to three days.
17:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine entered Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, and are cleaning up the area, the UP reports, citing an interlocutor among the military. Also on the network today appeared a photo of the Ukrainian flag raised on the porch of the city council and the fighter of the National Guard Vitaliy Markiv and the inscription "We are in Svyatogorsk." There are no official messages from the General Staff or the Ministry of Defense yet.
16:56 The occupiers are again attacking Kharkiv, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
16:43 The invaders refused to hold a pseudo-referendum in the Kherson region, said the speaker of the OK Pivden Natalia Gumenyuk: "Now we are not talking about holding the so-called" referendum ". They cannot even form commissions that would work and imitate this" referendum ". Now they changed their rhetoric and started talking about security, because they are very dangerous and anxious even in those territories that they considered to be stably occupied."
At the same time, according to Gumenyuk, the occupiers are intensifying police and terrorist measures against men, the practice of door-to-door rounds and the search for representatives of the resistance movement continues.
16:39 After the de-occupation of the village. Zheleznodorozhnoe, Kharkiv region, law enforcement officers found four bodies of local residents with signs of torture, the regional prosecutor's office said.
16:23 As a result of today's shelling of the Osnovyansky and Kievsky districts of Kharkov, one person was killed, six were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
16:06 Aksyonov promised "tough measures" to those who chant "pro-Ukrainian slogans" in Crimea and sing "Ukrainian nationalist songs": criminal liability, removal from office, a ban on doing business on the peninsula. He made such a statement after more and more videos began to appear in Russian public places, where Ukrainian music is played in public places in Crimea. So, Chervona Kalina was staged in one of the restaurants, and she was also sung at a local wedding.
15:55 The head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai announced the de-occupation of the region: "After the final de-occupation of Liman, we will take over the baton." According to him, there are already liberated settlements, there is a cleansing going on.
Gaidai also said that the invaders hastily leave the Lugansk region - "the history of February 24-25 is repeating itself, only in reverse." In those settlements where the Russian army remained, "their fighters are demoralized, they are preparing for defeat, they also want to flee and are drinking." Where the partisans raised Ukrainian flags, they are still in place, the occupiers and collaborators do not dare to remove them.
"Today I held a meeting with all the heads of the communities of the Lugansk region so that they would be ready to quickly return to the settlements, after the command of the military. We are already preparing to resume the process of the life of the communities," Gaidai said.
15:34 The next rotation of the Russian military will consist mainly of residents of the Far East and Kamchatka. By design - they are better adapted to life in low temperatures and will be more effective in the winter. Also, these servicemen are not accustomed to comfort and will easily endure the absence of a well-functioning life, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Kremlin recruiters managed to attract a certain part of the population of the northern regions with promises of high payouts. As the "recruits" themselves say, they "can't earn so much in their entire life."
15:24 In Izyum, a cleansing operation is underway - the military are bypassing the city, looking for enemy soldiers who were hiding in private houses. After that, filtration events will take place - collaborators will be searched in the city. It will take about ten days, after which residents who have left will be able to return to the city, Izyum Mayor Valery Marchenko said in an interview with the BBC. According to him, almost two-thirds of the population left the city. In most areas now there is no electricity, gas, water, communications.
15:01 Russian media write that Ukrainian troops fired three HIMARS missiles at the railway bridge near Kherson, "air defense worked."
14:45 Over the past two weeks, the Ukrainian military has liberated about 500 square meters in the south. km of territory , said Natalya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the Pivden Operational Command.
14:26 In Kharkiv, due to shelling, critical infrastructure facilities were again disabled, electricity was lost in the city and water supply was stopped. Power engineers, rescuers and public utilities are working to eliminate the consequences of shelling, Mayor Igor Terekhov said.
14:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the settlements of Vysokopole, Novovoznesenskoe, Belogorka, Myrolyubovka and Dry Pond in the Kherson region - this is officially confirmed, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk.
14:19 On the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction of Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed nine launchers of S-300 missiles, therefore during the last attacks of Nikolaev the enemy used Oniks missiles, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. According to him, the decrease in the use of C-300 missiles for shelling Nikolaev also indicates that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving the front line away from the city.
14:16 In Izyum, as a result of the armed aggression of the occupiers, at least a thousand civilians were killed , and even more people suffered due to the lack of medical care, said City Council deputy Maxim Strelnikov. He added that the city suffered a lot during the period of occupation - more than 80% of the infrastructure was destroyed. In particular, the central heating system was destroyed. According to preliminary data, about 10 thousand inhabitants currently remain in the city.
14:00 The Russians attacked the Osnovyansky and Kievsky districts of Kharkov, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. According to preliminary data, one person died and four were injured.
13:53 The Ukrainian military liberated Kamenka, Bogorodichnoye and Oskol , the command of the Air Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
13:50 Infrastructure Minister Herman Galushchenko said that yesterday there was one of the most massive attacks on energy infrastructure. In particular, Zmievskaya TPP and three high-voltage substations were fired upon, 40 substations of different voltages were de-energized, two 750 kV overhead lines and five 330 kV overhead lines were cut off. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were left without electricity in the Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Donetsk regions. But after 40 minutes, power supply began to be restored, and all main lines were restored after 4.5 hours.
Power supply to consumers in Poltava and Donetsk regions has been completely restored, 1.7 thousand consumers are still de-energized in Sumy region, about 3,000 in Dnepropetrovsk region, and 12 thousand in Kharkiv region. Restoration work is ongoing. According to preliminary data, four power engineers were killed during the shelling, and three more were wounded.
13:42 Germany plans to supply Ukraine with two IRIS-T air defense systems by the end of this year, two more at the beginning of the next, Ambassador Anka Feldhusen said.
13:33 Peskov once again stated that Russia "will seek to fulfill all the goals of the special military operation." He also commented on Erdogan's proposal to organize negotiations between Putin and Zelensky: "We do not see a negotiation prospect, there are no prerequisites for such communication."
In addition, Peskov said that there was no talk of withdrawing troops from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, "the main thing is to force Ukraine to stop shelling the plant, they are fraught with catastrophic consequences."
13:17 In the Kharkiv direction, the invaders are fleeing deep into the temporarily occupied territories, some of them are trying to cross the border with the Russian Federation and go to the territory of the Belgorod region. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, during the escape, the Russians are engaged in mass looting, loading generators, telephones, and computers taken from Ukrainians onto cars. Cases of school robberies have been recorded - even horizontal bars and sports equipment are taken out of gyms. In one of the villages, the Russians stole a bus and left it 6 km away. 36 bodies of invaders were found in it.
The personnel of the "DPR" units, which until recently were stationed in Izyum, had to retreat 60 km from the city due to the lack of ammunition and fuel. Their relatives are shocked by the stories about the Ukrainian offensive, as the Russian media talk about the successful offensive of the Russian army.
12:13 Russian media are publishing an interview with the "deputy head of the VGA" of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region Vitaliy Gura, who was allegedly killed in early August as a result of an assassination attempt. He said that his murder was staged by the FSB, since the SBU allegedly planned an assassination attempt on him.
11:58 On suspicion of treason, the ex-head of the SBU Department in the Kharkiv region was detained. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, on February 24, 2022, the suspect, on his own initiative, began to work to the detriment of the defense capability and state security of Ukraine. He did not ensure the fulfillment of the functions and tasks assigned to the SBU in the region, and carried out multi-stage actions aimed at removing the chairman of the Kharkiv OVA from his duties. In addition, he arbitrarily left the place of service and illegally stayed outside the Kharkov region.
The day before, the media reported, citing their sources, that Ukrainian law enforcement officers detained Roman Dudin, the former head of the SBU Department of the Kharkiv region. He was publicly criticized and fired by Zelensky in May 2022.
11:50 Ukrposhta will issue a symbolic stamped envelope "We kindly ask you to hell". It was added to the collection in connection with the successful counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the head of Ukrposhta Igor Smilyansky.
11:32 "Authorities" of the Kherson region said that Ukrainian troops fired at the Antonovsky bridge - "air defense worked, but there are hits, the bridge itself survived."
11:15 Russia's missile attack on Ukraine's critical infrastructure was an act of desperation, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said: "Russia hit Ukraine's critical infrastructure. The targets were power plants, which led to massive power outages. This is an act of desperation after huge losses and Russia's retreat in the east Ukraine".
11:12 Vitaly Ganchev, the "head of the VGA" of the occupied Kharkiv region, said that the number of Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv direction was "about eight times" greater, the troops were withdrawn "to preserve personnel."
11:03 The presence of four large landing ships has suddenly become more active in the Black Sea, OK Pivden reported. Off the southern coast of Crimea, beyond the reach of Ukrainian missiles, there are 14 warships of the Russian fleet, including four surface missile carriers equipped with 26 Caliber. At the same time, the command added that due to a storm in the Black Sea, the landing force would not be able to carry out its tasks, and bad weather could provoke the detonation of sea mines.
10:39 Russian invaders on the right bank of the Dnieper are ready to lay down their arms and surrender, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. According to her, they are looking for opportunities to get in touch with the Ukrainian military in order to negotiate the conditions for the surrender of weapons and the transition under the auspices of international law. "They realize that they are squeezed between the banks of the Dnieper and our forces," the speaker explained.
10:22 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov announced the explosions in the city and expressed the hope that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "again minus the equipment and manpower of the occupiers."
10:04 SBU detained in Odessa the former head of the criminal intelligence of the Organized Crime Control Department, who was preparing lists of "potential targets" for the Russian Federation among Ukrainian top officials from the special services and law enforcement officers. The enemy agent was interested in classified information about the constituent data of the leadership of the Security Service, officials and veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the results of investigations of high-profile cases. He passed the collected information to his "connector" - the personnel officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Eremin, whose activities are coordinated by the FSB.
10:00 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 12. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog and Donetsk directions.
personnel - about 52,950 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 2168 (+14),
armored combat vehicles - 4640 (+23),
artillery systems - 1269 (+6),
MLRS - 311 (+0),
air defense systems - 162 (+0),
aircraft - 243 (+1),
helicopters - 213 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 903 (+1),
cruise missiles - 216 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3463 (+18),
special equipment - 117 (+0).
09:51 Tonight, the enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye. According to preliminary information, four S-300 missiles hit the technical buildings of one of the infrastructure facilities in the vicinity of the city. Probably, the shelling was carried out from the side of Vasilievka. There were no casualties, the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh said.
09:48 The "head" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said that the "referendum" on joining Russia will take place "when the region is finally ready in terms of security for residents."
09:46 The FSB announced the prevention of a series of sabotage and terrorist acts against the "authorities" of the Kherson region and members of the "government" of Crimea. The attacks were allegedly prepared by the SBU, and its employee was identified who supervised the activities of "recruited nationalists." The perpetrators and their accomplices were detained and reported to the FSB.
09:44 Erdogan, at a meeting with Putin scheduled in Samarkand on September 15-16, will again offer him a meeting with Zelensky, and will also discuss a possible military operation in Syria, writes Hurriyet.
09:42 On Sunday, September 11, the enemy launched a missile attack on an agricultural enterprise in Voznesensk, Nikolaev region. At least 40 residential buildings were damaged by debris, five people were injured, including one child. In total for the past days among victims in the Nikolaev area two children, reported in GSChS.
09:39 As a result of yesterday's missile attack on the Kholodnogorsk district of Kharkiv, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, two workers were killed. Rescuers localized a large-scale fire almost all night, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also yesterday, a critical infrastructure facility in the Chuguevsky district was hit by rocket attacks, two people were injured.
09:32 At night, Russian troops hit the private sector and the perinatal center in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, there were no casualties, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said.
09:26 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Ukraine, with its counteroffensive, turned the tide of the war in its favor and, most likely, will increasingly dictate the place and nature of major hostilities. And Russia will increasingly inappropriately respond to Ukraine's growing physical and psychological pressure in successive military campaigns unless it finds a way to seize the initiative, analysts predict.
Experts also write that with the loss of Izyum, Russia will not be able to attack the Donetsk region from the north, and this makes it difficult or impossible to achieve the goals of the "special operation." After the Ukrainian counter-offensive near Kharkov, Russia is facing a "dilemma of time and space." In order to form a solid line of defense along the Oskol River and protect the captured Luhansk region, Russia will likely need to withdraw forces from other sectors.
At the same time, Russian troops around Bakhmut and near Donetsk continue offensive operations, and the Russians in Kherson continue to face the threat of new attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Therefore, the withdrawal of troops from there will be painful. The Ukrainian campaign appears to be designed to put Putin in just such a dilemma and capitalize on virtually any decision he makes, the ISW concludes.
09:19 British intelligence writes that because of the Ukrainian offensive, Russia probably ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the entire occupied Kharkiv region west of the Oskol River. Isolated pockets of resistance remain in the sector, but since Wednesday, Ukraine has regained territory at least twice the size of Greater London.
Meanwhile, in the south, near Kherson, Russia is probably struggling to move sufficient reserves across the Dnieper River to the front line. The makeshift floating bridge, which Russia began construction more than two weeks ago, remains unfinished. Ukrainian long-range artillery is now probably hitting the Dnieper crossings so often that Russia cannot repair damaged road bridges.
Analysts note that Ukraine's rapid gains have serious implications for Russia's overall operating plan. Most of the Russian forces in Ukraine are likely forced to give priority to emergency defensive actions. The already limited trust of deployed troops in Russia's top military leadership is likely to worsen further, intelligence believes.
08:51 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Ukrainian troops inflicted a major defeat on Russia, recapturing almost the entire Kharkiv region in a quick counteroffensive. A lengthy discussion and then Kyiv's announcement of a counter-offensive operation in the Kherson region distracted Russian troops from sectors where Ukrainian forces have carried out decisive attacks in the past few days, analysts say.
At the same time, experts point out that this success was made possible, among other things, due to the maximum use of Western weapons. Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used HIMARS and other Western systems to attack Russian land lines in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions, creating the conditions for the success of the operation. At the same time, ISW emphasized that Western weapons alone were not enough: the use of these systems in a well-planned and conducted campaign ensured significant success of counter-offensive operations in the Kharkov region.
08:45 Electricity and water supply in the Kharkiv region has been resumed by 80%, said Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko.
08:39 At night, the Russians were beating from Hurricanes, Gradov and heavy artillery in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. People were not injured, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, at the moment there is electricity in all cities and communities of the region.
08:17 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three civilians were killed - in Velyka Novoselka, Romanovka and Bakhmut. Eight more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:56 Over the past day, Ukrainian defenders have liberated more than 20 settlements , measures are being taken to take them under full control and stabilization measures, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning summary . During the retreat, Russian troops hastily abandon their positions and run deep into the temporarily occupied territories or into the territory of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the enemy is concentrating efforts on establishing control over the territory of the Donetsk region, holding temporarily occupied territories and disrupting the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas.
07:25 At night, the Russians attacked a residential building in the Novobavarsky district of Kharkov. It is known about one dead and two injured, the house itself is partially destroyed, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. According to him, the water supply in Kharkov was restored at night, the system is now being filled. Metro and ground electric transport operate as usual.
02:40 At least five powerful explosions sounded in Kherson, Russian media write. According to them, presumably, air defense systems are working.
02:21 Russia struck civilian infrastructure in response to the liberation of the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said: "Russia's obvious response to Ukraine's liberation of cities and villages in the east: launching missiles to destroy critical civilian infrastructure."
00:22 Zelensky said in an interview with CNN host Farid Zakaria that he has no plans to start negotiations with Putin yet: “I don’t see any desire on their part to be constructive. As for their ultimatums, I don’t care who put forward these ultimatums - he [Putin] or someone else. That's my principle - I won't talk to anyone who gives ultimatums."
The President also stressed that any agreement between Ukraine and Russia can be concluded only if the aggressor country’s troops are completely withdrawn from all Ukrainian territory: “I know that some countries are pushing us towards the Minsk process. I want the world to recognize that one the case is a diplomatic decision, and the other is Minsk-2, -3, -5, -10. These are two different things, because "Minsk" is an empty piece of paper that will allow Russia to rest before the next invasion."
00:04 Reznikov said that thanks to the Australian Bushmaster armored personnel carriers, the Ukrainian Defense Forces reached the Oskol River and continue to liberate the Kharkiv region.
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"the soldiers just fled while the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated settlements without firing a shot: This cannot be rationally explained," the author said.
Cannot be rationally explained he said. Hmmm. Strategic retreat comes to mind.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:47 Kyiv is preparing a big offensive in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, transferring rocket weapons and artillery to the area, the authorities of the region said. 23:07 The Russian Aerospace Forces hit the control posts of the Kraken national formation in the Kharkiv region with high-precision strikes, the RF Ministry of Defense reported.
22:49 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Kyiv lost more than 300 people per day killed and up to 1,000 wounded in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction.
22:31 A refugee from the Kharkiv region told RIA Novosti that his car was fired upon by the Ukrainian military when he tried to leave the city.
21:30 APU continues to shell residential quarters of Novaya Kakhovka, a building on the territory of the parking lot caught fire. Thanks to the efforts of local residents, the fire was put out, Ruslan Agaev, a representative of the city administration, said.
Shards from, previously, Tochka-U missiles are scattered everywhere, windows are smashed in the houses. As a result of the missile attack, there are wounded, the head of the regional military administration said.
20:38 One person died, four were injured during shelling in the village of Logachevka, Belgorod Region - Governor
20:03 Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing a big offensive in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and crossings, the transfer of artillery installations is underway - a member of the administration of the Zaporozhye region Rogov
19:12 Overview of the situation in the northeast of the NVO zone.
For four days now, the enemy has been trying to break through the defensive line of the allied forces in the Liman direction. The Kyiv regime threw mechanized units into battle, which operate with the support of tanks.
A crossing has been built across the Seversky Donets near Yapol, formations of the Kyiv regime are trying to cross the river, but are under constant artillery fire from the allied forces. Now Yampol and Krasny Lyman are in full control of our troops.
The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also increasing pressure in the Belogorovka area not far from Seversk in order to pull part of the forces of the 2nd Corps of the LPR from Soledar, where the allies are operating successfully.
The status of Svyatogorsk is not yet clear. But apparently the enemy managed to take control of part of the city. It should be noted here that even before the counteroffensive, Svyatogorsk was difficult to keep, since the enemy controlled the height on the left bank of the river.
The front line has also stabilized in the northeast of the NVO zone. Parts and formations of the Russian army, those that escaped the encirclement in Izyum and the reserves that were transferred by the Russian Ministry of Defense formed a defense line along the right bank of the Oskol River, and along the border with the Belgorod region.
Kupyansk is divided into two parts, the western part is controlled by the forces of the Kyiv regime, the eastern part is controlled by the fighters of the Russian Army. Here, for now, the enemy is using rocket and cannon artillery. But it does not attempt to attack.
18:35 Lights up scandal in Chernihiv: the local administration rented warehouses for humanitarian aid, but was in no hurry to distribute it. So it still lies, the expiration dates have long expired. But at the same time, people from the administration managed to take good products from Gumka. Here is such a "humanitarian aid".
17:52 German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht refused to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, writes Reuters.
She stated that "so far, no country has supplied Western infantry fighting vehicles or main battle tanks."
“We have agreed with our partners that Germany will not take such action unilaterally,” she said.
17:30 Deputy head of the Kherson region Stremousov denied reports of the death of the head of the VGA Balance, he is on the mend.
17:30 ambulances seen in Kharkiv. More and more wounded are brought
According to "Come and See", columns of ambulances are driving along Grigorenko Avenue (former Zhukov).
17:30 Kyiv plans to look for citizens who collaborated with Russia in Izyum, Kharkiv region, a representative of the Ukrainian authorities said in an interview with the BBC, the Strana online publication reported.
According to him, filtration will be carried out in the city. "It will take another 10 days or so. After that, residents who left will be able to return to the city," the official said. According to the publication, almost two-thirds of the population left the city.
16:42 The United States is coordinating the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the location of critical facilities of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant so that their shelling does not stop.
About it declared Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev at a meeting on national security issues.
"The consequences of these provocations can be very catastrophic not only for the majority of the population of Ukraine and Russia, but also for Europe, and in scale they can surpass the tragedies that happened at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl and Fukushima," he added.
16:41 Over Taganrog worked air defense means.
In addition, residents of the Rostov region reported that they saw black smoke in the vicinity of the village of Chaltyr.
15:45 The Kharkiv authorities confirmed the power outage in the city and the stoppage of water supply
15:45 Ukrainian publications disagree video powerful explosion - they assume that the recording was made in Kharkov
14:30 The head of the IAEA said that he had begun consultations with Kyiv and Moscow on the creation of a nuclear and physical security buffer zone around the ZNPP.
14:30 Kharkiv metro stopped
14:30 In Kharkiv, the power went out again, there are interruptions in the Internet, black smoke rises over the city
14:30 Germany will supply Ukraine with two IRIS-T air defense systems by the end of this year, and two more at the beginning of next. This was stated by the German Ambassador Anka Feldhusen.
13:57 The Logachevka checkpoint in the Belgorod region came under fire from Ukrainian militants. There are no victims. The villagers are being evacuated.
13:37 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 250 Ukrainian soldiers with strikes in the area of Kupyansk and Izyum;
▪️More than 30 nationalists and more than 10 units of military equipment were destroyed as a result of a precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Cherkasy region;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions;
▪️Russian Aerospace Forces with high-precision missile strikes hit units of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction;
▪️Russian troops destroyed a warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 45,000 tons of ammunition in the Nikolaev region;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than three hundred people killed and up to a thousand wounded in a day in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction;
▪️The air defense of the Russian Federation shot down five Ukrainian UAVs and destroyed eight shells of MLRS HIMARS and Alder in a day.
13:37 There is no talk of withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP - Peskov
13:37 The first detachment of the people's militia was formed in Belarus with the participation of residents of one of the settlements of the Klimovichi district of the Mogilev region, the online publication Mogilev News reported.
12:45 An ammunition depot with 45,000 tons of ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near Voznesensk - RF Ministry of Defense
12:45 Russian Aerospace Forces strike at Ukrainian troops in the Kharkiv region, in the areas of Kupyansk and Izyum, enemy losses amounted to 250 military - Russian Defense Ministry
12:45 In the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, units of the Ukrainian 63rd mechanized and 46th airmobile brigades were hit by missile strikes, in a day Kyiv lost over 300 killed and up to 1,000 wounded there - Russian Defense Ministry
12:36 The air defense forces have worked out several missiles launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Belgorod.
12:36 AFU left the positions that were located behind the runway of the Donetsk airport, - NM DPR.
12:15 Vitaliy Gura, deputy head of the CAA of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region, is alive. Earlier it was stated that in early August he was assassinated and died in intensive care from his wounds. Everything turned out to be a staged FSB.
The goals of the dramatization are revealed.
The SBU allegedly planned an assassination attempt on him, “therefore, in order to save Gura’s life,” the FSB faked his death.
“In early August, they approached me and said that there was an assassination attempt on me, they provided a record of what they had, they wanted to kill me,” Gura himself said.
12:15 "Kharkiv option" in the Kherson direction is impossible, - Kherson VGA.
12:15 Night destruction of MLRS "HIMARS" in the Kharkov direction from the Rotary Archangels.
Not so long ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted a video about how "HIMARS" are being deployed in the Kharkiv direction, but now it is being destroyed.
11:17 In Kherson, they report another hit in the area of the Antonovsky bridge.
11:17 About 10,000 thundered in the sky over Kherson, Russian air defense is supposedly working - TASS
11:12 Three Russian soldiers were injured after a Ukrainian drone attack near Bryansk – Mash
11:12 In the Kharkiv direction, the number of Ukrainian militants was about eight times larger, the troops were withdrawn to preserve personnel, said the head of the region Ganchev
10:47 An air alert was announced in Nova Kakhovka due to the threat of shelling of the city, the press service of the city administration reported.
09:52 Voting on the entry of the Zaporozhye region into Russia will take place when the region is finally ready in terms of security for residents - head of the regional administration Balitsky
09:45 Summary at 09:42/12.09
Liman was stormed at night, Barca again withstood it and destroyed the enemy.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took up the defense of the settlements of Stepnoye and Elenovka.
Destroyed military facilities in Zaporozhye.
Destroyed infrastructure in Sumy, Kharkiv.
09:40 Zaporozhye NPP can be restarted when it is possible to restore power lines and move the line of contact away from the station - Rogov
09:14 The night strike on the energy structure of Ukraine hides two important points, the Telegram channel reports Zergulio.
Firstly, he partly removed the hardest despondency after leaving the Kharkov region. Yesterday, in the evening, the border settlements left by the RF Armed Forces were occupied, news and a video about terror against the civilian population who did not have time to evacuate appeared.
Secondly, the powerful attacks that were expected in the Kharkiv, Nikolaev regions and directly near Donetsk did not take place.
However, the last APU was most likely abandoned after the unsuccessful assault on Pesok with the loss of two tanks and infantry.
"It's time to fight with Ukraine for real. This is a matter of Russian survival. Kyiv, to the applause of the US and the EU, directly declares to us that our country will be torn to pieces and destroyed. We have the lives of 146 million residents of Russia and more than 4 million residents of Donbass, plus the population of the remaining liberated territories. We are a nuclear power. It's time to remember this," the author of the publication writes.
Behind almost seven months of special operation. The cities of Donbass are under continuous shelling. Constant shelling and terrorist attacks in the Crimea, Belgorod and Kursk regions. Positions in the south and east (near Donetsk) are under continuous fire, attacks are constantly being made on rear communications, infrastructure facilities, residential areas, hospitals, kindergartens and schools.
"Let's win now. Not "a blow was struck at the enemy's concentration site, up to 10,000 mercenaries and 5,000 pieces of equipment were destroyed," but for real. Let's get started. Energy supply in Ukraine has been restored, it's time to repeat it," the author noted.
09:06 The village of Tetkino in the Kursk region was shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Governor Starovoit reports. About 10 arrivals were recorded, there were no casualties.
08:27 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed frames with Ukrainian equipment destroyed in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction.
07:17 The enemy will not pass: frames the work of Russian fighters in the Ugledar direction. Artillerymen, in close cooperation with reconnaissance, deliver fire strikes on fortified areas, warehouses and equipment of Ukrainian militants, preventing the enemy from operating in this direction /TK Zvezda/.
07:04 Footage of combat sorties by crews of Su-35S fighters of the Western Military District to destroy the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special military operation.
06:25 Reconnaissance of the "Brave" destroys Ukrainian militants in the Kharkov direction. Scouts discovered and destroyed with the help of a silent sniper rifle a mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
06:03 Loud in Zaporozhye this night! Vladimir Rogov reports that at least four explosions were heard in the regional center, temporarily under the control of the Zelensky regime. In this case, the siren did not turn on. According to preliminary information, among the affected were objects in the Shevchenkovsky district of the city. Details and results of attacks on the military infrastructure of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine later.
01:24 "Guardians of Z" hold back foreign mercenaries and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov direction.
0:16 Fire at the Kharkiv CHPP-5 after a missile attack.
0:07 A series of powerful explosions are reported in Kharkiv. Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:11 The head of the DPR, Pushilin, said that Ukrainian troops tried to advance in the direction of the Donetsk airport, but were almost completely destroyed. 22:51 Ukrainian troops do not abandon attempts to launch a counteroffensive in the Krasny Liman region in the DPR, but the situation remains under control, Pushilin said.
22:29 Russian media report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing on Maryinka. Two battalions are coming from Ugledar. They are trying to encircle Donetsk in the future.
20:58 An elderly man was injured as a result of the shelling of Popasna by the Kyiv security forces. About it in my Telegram channelinformedSergey Kolyagin, head of the administration of Pervomaisk.
19:45 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 19.30 on 12.09.2022
Over the current day, according to information from the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired more than 100 units of ammunition from tanks, barreled artillery of 155mm and 152mm caliber, as well as 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, four civilians were killed and eight were injured. Eight housing constructions and two civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
The complex of works on demining anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1S) is ongoing.
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, 20 defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died and 13 were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:26 Effects of shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a man was killed.
19:22 The DPR battalion "Sparta" destroyed 40 militants in the area of Donetsk airport.
APU tried to counterattack the positions of "Sparta" in the area of Donetsk airport. Under the cover of rain, through a forest plantation, on foot, about 40 militants approached the airport, but they were discovered by scouts-"Spartans", reports Semyon Pegov.
The enemy was met with fire from almost all types of
weapons: first, the militants were cut off by mortar fire, then the 152mm artillery Hyacinths of the Kuban artillerymen hit them, and then tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, AGS of various units of the Russian Army.
During the battle, the enemy suffered serious losses in manpower. The Ukrainians tried three times to evacuate their dead and wounded, most of whom remained abandoned on the battlefield.
19:06 During the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, a man was killed, serious damage was done to residential buildings, transmits RIA Novosti correspondent.
18:49 On Bratskaya Street in Horlivka, a man was blown up by an anti-personnel mine of pressure action PFM "Petal".
18:18 As a result of the shelling of the VFU, over 1,000 household subscribers in Aleksandrovka have been de-energized.
18:02 Representatives of the Popular Front together with a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alfiya Kogogina handed over military personnel of the NM LPR special equipment for combat missions.
17:55 Consequences of shelling of Ukrainian militants st. Buslaeva and st. Fedorov in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a man died.
17:44 Artillery of the Russian 42nd Motorized Rifle Division destroyed an entire subdivision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Reconnaissance of the Russian 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces with the help of UAVs revealed the concentration of enemy manpower on positions in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka in the Maryinsky direction.
17:10 Against the background of maneuvers in the Kharkiv direction, the Ukrainian army is gradually losing its positions near the city of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).
Units of the Wagner PMC, with the support of the 6th Cossack Regiment of the People's Militia of the LPR, were able to establish direct fire contact with the strongholds of the 4th and 58th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in N. p. Zaitsevo.
The village of Zaitsevo is located within the Bakhmut urban community. It is located 10 km south of the district center and the Artyomovsk railway station. Entering new frontiers became possible after the liberation of the village of Kodema.
The defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area was unbalanced due to the transfer of units of the 111th and 112th brigades of the territorial defense of Ukraine in the direction of Krasny Liman.
Also, the development of offensive actions of the allied forces was facilitated by active counterbattery support from the 152mm Artillery Hyacinth-B of the RF Armed Forces, blocking the firing positions of Ukrainian artillery in Krasnaya Gora, Chasovoy Yar and Berikhovka (west and north of Bakhmut).
In addition, Russian aircraft destroyed at least three US-made M777 guns along with rounds on the northern outskirts of the city. Thus, the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut area partially lost artillery support.
16:46 Following the Kodema, our units have achieved some success in the Artemivsk direction - there is progress. There are also successes in the area of Vodyany and Marinka. Of course, now we need to pay attention to the protection of our cities and regions, nevertheless, our units continue to move forward - Head of the LPR Denis Pushilin.
16:37 VFU attacked the Kyiv district of Donetsk, on the street. Fedorov, a man died.
16:25 Pushilin: Ukrainian troops are not abandoning attempts to switch to counteroffensive operations in the direction of Krasny Liman, but the situation is under control.
16:22 OBTF DPR "Cascade" destroys heavy equipment of Western production in the Ugledar direction.
Servicemen of the operational-combat tactical formation of the Donetsk People's Republic "Cascade" in the Ugledar direction successfully "denazify" the equipment and personnel of the armed formations of Ukraine.
Artillerymen of the OBTF DPR "Cascade" with the support of UAVs destroyed Polish self-propelled howitzer caliber 155mm AHS Krab, which is in service with NATO.
16:20 The Russian Guard detained nine accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR in a day.
15:42 Only in the last two days, the LPR units in Liman were able to repel several tank attacks at once and continue to confidently hold their positions. The Ukrainian grouping in the Seversk region has also begun to stir, undertaking attacks on Belogorivka, which is located near Lysychansk, reports the Telegram channel KotsnewsSep.
15:00 The fighters of the "Brave" drove the Ukrainian fighters out of the fortified area in the Seversky direction. Grouping "O" continues its attack on Seversk, clearing one opornik after another. Competent reconnaissance and well-coordinated actions of assault squads make it possible to beat the enemy almost without loss.
15:00 As a result of shelling from the VFU, a woman was wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
14:51 On photographs- the consequences of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Damaged apartments No. 1, 2 at the address: st. Hospital, 9, broken power lines. No casualties.
13:55 Serious arrivals at positions and warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka
13:50 VFU shelled the Kyiv district of Donetsk. Ukrainian militants from positions in Netaylovo launched an artillery strike on the Kievsky district of the city. NATO artillery of 155mm caliber is used against the population.
13:45 Under aimed fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky. Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.
13:38 Reportage press service of the People's Militia of the DPR from Krasny Liman. The city is under the full control of the NM units of the DPR and LPR, as well as the RF Armed Forces. Our fighters are at their combat posts, successfully repelling all enemy attacks. Residents thank their defenders for defending the city.
13:17 There are active attacks on Liman, we are holding them back, war correspondent of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Alexander Sladkov reports on the air of the 60 Minutes program.
12:44 AFU are shelling the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Ukrainian militants from positions in Krasnogorovka are shelling residential areas of the Petrovsky district of the city. 152mm artillery is used against the population.
12:23 VFU are shelling Zaitsevo. From the positions of Ukrainian militants in Dyleevka and Kirovo, Zaitsevo is being shelled using 122mm artillery and tanks.
11:54 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports that in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on the street. Kirov male, born in 1953 stepped on a banned PFM-1 anti-personnel mine dropped by Ukrainian militants. He was taken to hospital No. 24 with a wound.
11:53 Petrovsky district of Donetsk under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:30 In Donetsk, a civilian was wounded by a mine PFM-1 "Petal". In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on the street. Kirovka male, born in 1953 stepped on a banned PFM-1 anti-personnel mine dropped by Ukrainian militants. He was taken to hospital No. 24 with a wound.
11:26 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: fired five rounds of 152mm caliber;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Zaitsevo: five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Shcherbinovka - n.p. Zaitsevo: three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Mineral: fired five rounds with a caliber of 152mm;
-- n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Yakovlevka: five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Zaitsevo: fired six rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five rounds with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Zaitsevo: five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:15 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation examined a private residential building located in the Chernogvardeisky district of Makeevka, which was subjected to Nazi shelling using 155mm NATO artillery (NATO). As a result of shelling by the Nazis, two civilians were killed.
10:33 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 10.30 09/12/2022
The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.
Over the past day, according to the information of the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 224 pieces of ammunition from the MLRS "HIMARS", cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
The artillery was fired at the districts of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, four civilians were killed and three were injured. Seven housing constructions and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: three vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and more than twenty personnel.
Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).
10:29 Inhabitant of Krasny Liman told about the unwillingness of the local population to serve in the ranks of the AFU, threats from Ukrainian militants and regular shelling of urban areas.
10:02 The enemy is storming Krasny Liman: ours heroically repulse the onslaught of the AFU militants.
Ukrainian militants continue their attempts to storm the Krasny Liman in the DPR. Detachment BARS-16 - "Kuban", together with the Luhansk reservists, holds back the enemy with the support of our artillery, which, with its accurate strikes, destroys the attackers and presses them to the ground. On the personnel the soldiers are preparing to repel the next attack of militants. The commanders report that among the advancing a large number of mercenaries from Poland.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of September 12, 2022. Over the past day, 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 35 personnel;
- three armored personnel carriers;
- eight units of special automotive equipment;
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During September 11, they cleared more than seven hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoe and Zamulovka.
09:51 Military expert Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko @marochkolive commented on the situation in the Kharkiv direction in the Letuchka stream:
"Perhaps, the regrouping will be done, and from the flanks we can deliver a more tangible blow to the Ukrainian troops. Indeed, they [the Armed Forces of Ukraine] have temporary successes, but in the end everything will turn into colossal losses for the Ukrainian army."
09:37 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia, within the framework of criminal cases, will establish the circumstances of the shelling by the Armed Forces of Makeevka.
It is reported that two people were killed and a woman was wounded as a result of the attack by the VFU of Chervonogvardeysky and Sovetsky districts of Makeyevka.
The Investigative Committee will give a legal assessment of these crimes and identify the persons involved in their commission.
09:35 "Bars" held out again: the Liman assault went on all night. The battle for Krasny Lyman began at 00:20 and is still going on. This is reported by the sources of the project.@wargonzoin the Krasnolimansky district. The Bars-16 unit, better known as the Kuban detachment, together with the Luhansk reservists, are holding back the enemy’s onslaught on the ground. Another dry message from the fighters this morning was this:
"We are well supported by our Artillery! I am writing with a capital letters, as a sign of respect and timeliness!
Artillery of the Russian Army - works wonders in this direction. Well, the Kuban Cossacks and Luhansk citizens are heroes. Rescue services continue to work in the city, the commandant regiment of the VP NM DPR continues to ensure order on the streets and evacuate civilians."
09:11 Destruction of reinforcements of the enemy, which went to positions near Avdievka. Several units of armored vehicles and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
09:09 Ammunition Switchblade and Warmate are actively used in Liman. One of the decisive roles at the moment in the course of the neo-Nazi counteroffensive on Krasny Liman is played by American and Polish loitering ammunition such as Switchblade (USA) and Warmate (Poland).
This is reported by the sources of the project. @wargonzo in Red Liman. It was in this way (with the help of loitering ammunition) that several vehicles with personnel were destroyed by the enemy.
"However, ours are not going to retreat from Liman. I spoke recently with the Donbass rescuers who are there. Many men have militia experience of 2014 behind them. They, too, are ready to stand to the end. As the situation shows, militia combat experience often turns out to be much more effective and useful than company-army drill and window dressing," writes the military commander.
08:50 NATO instructors direct the battle near Liman. This is reported by the sources of the project. @wargonzo in the Krasnolimansky district of the DPR.
Judging by radio intercepts and data obtained from communication with prisoners, at least several officer groups consisting of NATO instructors are stationed directly near Slavyansk (the region of Ivanovka and Nikolaevka).
We are talking about the Poles and the British. The former supervise and fully manage the work of the combat crew of the M-777 self-propelled guns, while the British are responsible for the use of high-precision MLRS. Now two fully equipped armored personnel carriers are advancing on Krasny Liman, including 2 companies of tanks. And also up to 1,000 Teroboronists.
08:00 The headquarters of the TerO DPR reports that four people were killed on the territory of the DPR during the day, three more were injured. Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on September 11 to 08:00 on September 12, as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, four people were killed and three more civilians were injured.
07:44 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Hours Yar in the direction of N. p. Karlo-Marksovo: three rockets were fired from the MLRS "HIMARS";
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kirovo - n.p. Zaitsevo: four rounds of 125mm caliber were fired from a tank.
07:28 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups do not leave attempts to penetrate the territory of the Republic. This was stated by the head of the LNR Leonid Pasechnik.
06:49 Over the past 24 hours, September 11, 2022, no shelling of settlements was recorded by the LPR representative office in the JCCC.
See the link for the photos by Natalia Streltsova and Daria Antonova
[Regnum] Moscow is not just a city - it is a symbol of the state, the capital of our Motherland and its heart. Moscow is a city with a centuries-old, full of severe trials, but always a heroic history.
This weekend, Moscow celebrated City Day on a grand scale. The reason is really good - the anniversary: 875 years.
Millions of rubles were allocated for the organization of the holiday. Large-scale folk festivals, dozens of concerts were held throughout the city. Luzhniki, by the way, were jam-packed. The holiday ended with a grandiose salute - more than 30,000 volleys were launched from 23 points. That's just many residents of Russia from this revelry experienced "Spanish shame."
For the last 2 years, the capital has been celebrating City Day very modestly, avoiding mass events. The reason was clear and understandable: coronavirus - what kind of entertainment can there be. This year, the Moscow authorities decided - there will be a holiday!
And at the same time, the whole country is watching with horror the latest frightening news from the front. At the same time, Russian soldiers are defending their Motherland and dying for us.
These days it is impossible not to recall the heroic history of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War. "Everything for the front, everything for the Victory!" Millions of people united around this call, subordinated to one single goal - victory in the war.
Already on the second day of the war, June 23, 1941, the entire economy of the city was reoriented to the needs of the army. Almost all the capital's factories began to produce products for the front. A total of 87 million shells and mines were assembled by the hands of Moscow workers, every eighth Soviet aircraft and every third submachine gun of the Great Patriotic War left the workshops of the capital's factories. Residents of Moscow and the region were involved in the construction of defensive fortifications.
About 900,000 Muscovites went to the front. 146 natives of Moscow became Heroes of the Soviet Union, more than a million Muscovites were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow", and the city itself was awarded the title of "Hero City" on May 8, 1965.
What about in our time? Nothing. Moscow continues to live its normal life, nothing reminds of what is happening at the front, there are no actions in support of the special military operation, you will not see the symbols of the special operation - the letters Z and V - on the streets of the city. Even calls for humanitarian aid for the residents of Donbass have long been heard who are still in dire need of it.
The city and its inhabitants certainly deserve a holiday. But our soldiers, who are now thousands of kilometers from home, deserve our unconditional support, they must know that we are with them, even mentally.
The capital will celebrate its birthday more than once. Everything has its time. In the meantime, I just want to wish us all a peaceful sky above our heads, and our soldiers - Victory and quietly, without a million show, whisper: happy birthday, beloved Moscow.
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[REGNUM] The goals of the special military operation of Russia on the territory of the b. The Ukrainian SSR will be achieved despite large-scale arms supplies to Kyiv by Western countries and sanctions pressure on Russia. This was stated on September 12 by Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting on national security issues in the Siberian Federal District.
"The United States and its vassals are seeking to prolong the conflict [on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR], increasing the supply of weapons, military equipment, which is subsequently used against civilians," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying. Against civilians? Someone left the irony on
At the same time, Patrushev assured that "the goals of the special military operation will be achieved," despite "large-scale Western assistance to the Nazi regime and unprecedented sanctions pressure on Russia."
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Refusing to legitimize the existing sovereign state of Ukraine, I would guess. Which is particularly wacky, given that the Putinists were perfectly willing to acknowledge that state when it was being run by their bought-and-paid-for puppets. I wonder what the legal gyration was, to allow that flip-flop? AFAIK there's no legal mechanism for a neighbor to un-state a country that the diplomats and lawyers would be able to accept without being barred from the cash bar at the other diplomats' parties.
I don't think? Can you un-acknowledge a state?
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Yeah, the plans changed when the puppets in Kiev were bought and paid for by the American State Department.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Wow! Udmurtia makes the news! Udmurtia is a region that's populated by Udmurts and, I think, Veps..
[REGNUM] Agricultural enterprises of Udmurtia harvested 812.743 thousand tons of grain from an area of 292.48 thousand hectares. This is 87% of the plan, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic reports.
A year earlier, 494,477 tons were harvested from the fields of the region. The average yield is now 28.7 centners per hectare, a year ago it was 17.5 centners per hectare, the yield increased by 58 percent compared to 2021.
Only wheat was harvested from an area of 78,336 hectares, 243,899 tons were harvested.
As of September 9, the plan for sowing winter crops was completed by 83 percent. 57,842 hectares have been sown.
As REGNUM reported , earlier the head of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov , emphasized that as of September 6, the republic had already reached a ten-year record for grain harvest. Also, a record figure was achieved in terms of yield, it amounted to 28.4 centners per hectare. The maximum yield was recorded at the Rossiya enterprise in the Mozhginsky district - 45.5 centners per hectare.
From Wikipedia:
Udmurtia, or the Udmurt Republic, is a federal subject of Russia in Eastern Europe, within the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] At 1800 hrs.
The RF Armed Forces hold the front along Oskol, including the eastern part of Kupyansk and Oskol. It is here that, apparently, positional defense is planned.
The enemy advanced into Svyatogorsk and at least occupied part of the city blocks. There are confirming photos of penetration into the city to the administration.
Krasny Liman is under the full control of the RF Armed Forces. Today's attempts by the enemy to advance towards the city were not successful. The enemy continues to build crossings across the Seversky Donets to transport equipment.
The enemy also continues to occupy empty villages in the Kharkov region. The infrastructure of Kharkiv today continued to be subjected to heavy self-shelling - electricity, water and the Internet disappeared in the city, and the subway also stopped. Today or tomorrow it will become clear how systematic the process of self-attacks on the energy system of Ukraine will be.
There are signs of the enemy preparing attacks in the Donetsk, Vuglodar, Zaporozhye and Kherson directions.
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[Breitbart] Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will meet with his Russian ally Vladimir Putin during a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that begins on Wednesday. The trip will mark Xi’s first journey beyond China’s borders since the beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Xi is scheduled to arrive in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, then meet with Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
The SCO currently includes Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and the Central Asian “stans” of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The organization is set to admit Iran as a full member next year.
Both Chinese and Russian officials confirmed on Monday the Xi-Putin meeting would take place, although there was little public discussion of the agenda for their meeting.
Economic and political cooperation between China and Russia has grown rapidly since Russia invaded Ukraine, and China was one of the few major nations to remain in Putin’s corner. Chinese shipments to Russia rose by 22.2 percent in July and 26.5 percent in August, even as the Western world imposed heavy sanctions on the Russian economy.
In turn, Russian imports to China increased by 49.3 percent and 59.3 percent. As of July, Russia was China’s top supplier of oil for three months in a row, and Putin recently remarked that Chinese demand for Russian energy is only growing. The Russians are planning a new pipeline through Mongolia that can deliver gas to China instead of Europe.
One possible complication for the Xi-Putin meeting could be Russia’s reversals of fortune in Ukraine, where a remarkably successful Ukrainian counter-offensive has Russian troops in retreat. It will be somewhat awkward for Xi if Putin finds a way to lose the war every other great power has condemned.
Foreign policy analysts expect the Xi-Putin summit to cement Xi’s position as the senior partner in the new axis of authoritarian regimes, while Putin will emphasize that Western opposition to his invasion of Ukraine has driven Russia permanently into China’s sphere of influence. When Xi and Putin met in Beijing in February, they announced a partnership with “no limits” and “no forbidden areas of cooperation” against the Western world.
Xi’s willingness to travel outside of China after two years, with only a month to go before the Chinese Communist Party congress, at which Xi will secure an unprecedented third term in power, appeared as a demonstration of confidence to foreign observers – essentially a way for Xi to show that he feels no need to remain in Beijing and micromanage Communist Party affairs ahead of his coronation.
Radio Free Europe (RFE) on Monday suggested Xi might be looking to flex his regional diplomatic muscles:
The Ukraine war has created a new and tumultuous era for Russia’s historic ties to Central Asia, with governments in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan providing aid to Ukraine in the early months of the conflict and distancing themselves from Moscow. Kazakhstan has also been the target of threats from hard-line Russian commentators and officials about possibly annexing its territory in the north.
This sets the stage for Beijing to be an even more appealing partner to countries in the region — a tough balancing act for China to maintain as it looks to preserve its strategic relationship with Moscow and simultaneously expand its influence in a part of the world that the Kremlin has traditionally seen as its “backyard.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also scheduled to attend the SCO summit, giving Xi and Putin an opportunity to woo a longtime U.S. ally and China rival. India’s foreign ministry said Modi will probably “hold a few bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit,” but did not specify which countries he would be meeting with.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Germany is in talks to buy the Arrow 3 missile defense system from Israel as part of Berlin’s efforts to strengthen its armed forces after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on a visit to the German capital on Monday.
Germany has ramped up its military spending after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February, while shipping aid and heavy weapons to Kyiv as part of an international response.
"Israel ... will play a part in building Germany’s new defense force, mainly in the field of air defense," Lapid told news hounds, speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
"... it has to do with our total commitment to the safety of Germany, to the safety of Europe, to the ability of liberal democracies to defend themselves," he added.
Lapid described their talks as leading to a "future possible deal" but declined to outline the cost. Scholz said Germany would strengthen its defenses by buying more air defense systems in the future and called the Arrow 3 system a "high-performance offer" but also declined to go into specifics.
Arrow 3 interceptors are designed to fly beyond the earth’s atmosphere, where their warheads detach to become "kamikaze" satellites, or "kill vehicles" that track and slam into the targets. Such high-altitude shoot-downs are meant to safely destroy incoming nuclear, biological or chemical missiles.
One German government source told Rooters: "Yes, there is the plan to buy Arrow 3, but nothing is signed."
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[Powerline] Perhaps the most memorable comment at the outbreak of World War I—or at least the one quoted in every history book—came from the British foreign minister Sir Edward Grey: "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
The first half of this statement suddenly applies again to Europe’s energy crisis that threatens a cold and dark winter ahead, and we’ll have to see if the lights of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... come fully on again in the years to come. Simply put: Europe’s self-inflicted energy crisis is a lot worse than it looks.
European nations are scrambling to backstop consumers from having to pay electricity rates that could increase tenfold or more—if the electricity is available in sufficient quantity at all. What this means is massive government bailouts for energy suppliers. Britannia’s new prime minister Liz Truss plans to freeze consumer energy costs for two years, at a likely cost to the government of perhaps $200 billion, because utilities face bankruptcy if they can’t pass along higher fuel costs. The bill for continental Europe, and especially Germany, which may have to shutter even more of its heavy industry, is sure to be much higher—perhaps reaching $2 trillion over the coming year.
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Energy Crisis? Leadership crisis. Western Liberal Democracy is declining into woke green eco communism with their Central Planning done via law and regulations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
THREAD Russia sends hundreds of its school and kindergarten teachers to occupied Ukraine in order to fulfill genocide of Ukrainians. Exactly as the RU soldiers, these people come to UKR with their hate against Ukrainians. RU Novaya newspaper talked to them. Read their testimonies
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
