Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

Some events for yesterday afternoon/evening:

Рамзай
I talked to a woman from Izyum. Her sister stayed in the city, which is now under the control of the AFU. Her husband is paralyzed. This story gave me chills! After the Ukrainian Armed Forces arrived [in the city], all hell broke loose. Total searches, horrible looting, murders. The "Westerners" (residents of western Ukraine) came in. [They] say directly that "you are all Russian scums and 'Ivans' to us here. There will be no mercy for you. You lived with the Russians for three months soul to soul, so you're all traitors and now you're nobody!"
They are taking everything they like - TVs, smartphones, appliances, food. They arrested a lot of people and took them away. A few people were just shot on the spot, those who tried to stop the looting. They say that anyone who tries to pay with rubles in the stores will be shot immediately. [People] asked where they could get hryvnias - the answer was, 'Suck us! Now it will be your main job!"
The "vigilantes" appeared - those [Ukrainian patriots] who were sitting in these towns and waiting for the coming of the AFU. Now they are blatantly retaliate with those who they just don't like. They just accuse people of cooperating with the Russians and take them away. Most likely for execution. The city is just paralyzed with terror.
"Now we're nobody at all!" [She] cries.

/ From myself: this is the result of the withdrawal of Russian troops. And this is not the first time this has happened. Remember Bucha, Irpen, etc. It happened near Kharkov in the spring, too. Now the same thing is happening there again. How could this be allowed to happen several times? Just betray and abandon a population that was waiting for you and believed you?
Meanwhile in Moscow there was a celebration and fireworks for the city day, Moscow was having fun at a concert to a song by freak Sergei Shnurov, where he sings about how he had a dream about Moscow burning down, Kremlin, Putin burning down, [Ksenia] Sobchak, all the police, etc. It's just kind of surreal. /

Mash
Russian and Ukrainian teachers who taught according to the Russian program were detained on the territory of Kharkiv region. Each of them faces a real sentence. This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister of the country Iryna Vereshchuk.
Russian citizens, who came on a business trip, become defendants under the article of law "Violation of the laws and customs of war" (up to 12 years), and Ukrainians who agreed to teach according to Russian standards, will be convicted of collaborationism (up to 15 years). Vereshchuk also stated that Russian teachers will not be considered prisoners for exchange.

Политджойстик/Politjoystic
It is not known how many Russians were arrested by the SBU in the territories we left behind in the Kharkiv region. They were teachers, construction workers, doctors, energy workers, road workers and humanitarian workers. And there were a lot of them there. The troops came out in an organized way. But it's different with civilians. They have no warning system, no transportation, no understanding of whether it is dangerous or not to stay.
We must know what is with them, how many of them were there, how many of them came back to Russia, how many are missing. We should publicize this data and involve international humanitarian organizations and rescue them. These are our compatriots who believed in the idea, but did not hold a gun in their hands.

/ From myself: does this look like a "brilliantly planned regrouping of troops in advance," as the Russian Defense Ministry claimed after 3 days of complete silence after the actual withdrawal from the region?

Russian politicians continue to spit in face: now their main thesis is that all the teachers arrested by Ukrainian punitive forces in the territories of the Kharkov region left by the Russian military are not Russian teachers, and neither are the rest of the people. This means that we can sleep in peace and not feel remorse. Since all the people we left there are now Ukrainians again, it means they deserved it, whatever the Ukrainian retaliation machine does to them now.
I repeat, this is Russia's official position. "Freed and protected." There are simply no words. I have a sense of deja vu again.
Even Russian public opinion leaders which are related to politics and the armed forces are outraged by such a move. /

Анатолий Шарий
[Ukrainian troops show] one of the depots with weapons abandoned as a result of "controlled regrouping.
Shariy writes: But this is dust, whereas the abandoned armored vehicles raise questions of this nature: they were assigned to someone, how could the military units explain their loss?

/ From myself: Interestingly, over the past few days, Russian bloggers and military correspondents have been blatantly accusing Shariy of working for the SBU, spreading fakes, disinformation, and psychological operations.
At the same time, Ukrainians accuse him of working for the Kremlin. Shariy is the first to report on the surrender of cities by Russian troops, the advance of the AFU, and the situation in abandoned cities occupied by the Ukrainian army, but all these Russian war correspondents write on their channels that he is brazenly lying, but a few hours later or the next day are forced to admit the same thing that Shariy first claimed.
The only thing is that he does it in a somewhat emotional manner and in darker tones. However, I can understand it, since it is primarily a worry about abandoned people who are now suddenly not interested in Russia. /

Colonelcassad
Consequences of one of the shelling of Avdeevka (near Donetsk).

Colonelcassad
Explosion in Nikolaevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Рыбарь
Local sources reported an attempt on the life of Tatyana Tomilina, the rector of Kherson State University. According to preliminary reports, her security guard was killed, the woman herself is in intensive care.
During the Special Military Operation, Tatyana Tomilina was one of the first to support the reintegration of the region into the Russian Federation.

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Information from Ukrainian telegram channels:

Резидент
* Four days before the start of the counterattack in the Izyum direction, our source reported on the AFU's plans and that the attack on Kherson was a tactical move. The whole problem of Russian intelligence and government agencies is that they do not read Telegrams, and information reaches the top officials in doses. In Ukraine, Zelensky and Yermak read Telegram, which the President has openly stated to journalists, which makes it not always possible for functionaries to manipulate information.

Резидент
* Our source in the president's office said that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky on successes in fighting for Liman, which is beyond the Seversky Donets River. Near the village of Zakotne, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to cross the shallow river and transfer equipment to reach Yampol, encircle and storm Liman from the east. The goal of the AFU is to obtain a bridgehead on the other bank of the Seversky Donets in order to develop an offensive towards Kreminna in the Luhansk region.

And here is another example of a model democracy:

"Our source in the Office of the President said that Andrey Yermak took full control of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and now all processes will go under the dictation of the Office of the President."
 
Latest from Alastair Crook :


Doing ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Keep Europe in ‘Intervention Lockstep’ (paraphrasing Jaroslav Zajiček, Czech Coreper Ambassador)


"...Separately, but as part of the collective West’s financial war on Russia, the G7 finance ministers have agreed to proceed with a plan to cap the price of Russian oil exports. This initiative would not replace G7 countries’, or the EU’s separate embargoes on Russian oil, but would be supplemental

Since over 90% of the world’s ships are insured through London-based insurers like Lloyds of London, U.S. and EU officials expect the initiative to impact Russian energy revenues massively. The cap would be actuated through the “comprehensive prohibition of (insurance) services” that would be permitted only where the cargoes are purchased at, or below a price, that will be set by a “broad coalition of countries”.

This scheme essentially is the brainchild of U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen: “This price cap is one of the most powerful tools we have to fight inflation and protect workers and businesses in the United States and globally from future price spikes caused by global disruptions.”

In Yellen’s vision, the price would be set above the price level that Russia requires to balance its national budget (and thus incentivise Russia to continue to pump oil); yet be below the price required to keep western economies thriving – and low enough deeply to cut into Russia’s oil revenues, thereby weakening its economy, and its war effort.

But it won’t work. Russia can easily replace Western insurance. The two main paths are self-insurance (you reserve part of your revenues in a fund to pay claims if needed), and captive insurance (you set up your own insurance companies with participation by affected parties). Shakespeare actually described it in The Merchant of Venice in 1598.

Simply put, Russia can easily get insurance on other markets not participating in the boycott including Dubai, India, and China – along with Russia itself. So, insurance will not serve as an effective weapon against Russia, and the price cap will fail.

In essence, Russia has both effectively won the military war in Ukraine, and the global financial sanctions war (though both are far from over). The longer the denial continues, the more Europe will be hurt economically. That is obvious; and also obvious is that it will be ugly this winter in Europe"

"....In any event, the EU is built as a steamroller steadily crushing flat the path towards more central control; more news management; more citizen surveillance. The acquis, the ECJ, and the bureaucracy simply grind forwards in unstoppable momentum: Reverse gear was never included. In fact, the architecture has almost no provision for reversal, except by invoking Article 50 – quitting the Union, and that intentionally has been made unbearably painful.

So, expect the EU leaders dogmatically to persist with transforming the EU into a Soviet-style command economy. And even to seek more powers, the more the economy weakens. The EU is sanguine that public protests can, and will be, repressed forcibly (possibly with the army on the streets). Protests have begun. However, it is only September, and the haze of summer still lingers on … winter beckons, yet somehow seems a distance away.

What is certain is that with the EU massively supporting demand through widespread bailouts – at a time of already reduced supply and aggravated by command economy type disruptions and shortages – higher inflation is coming, and the Euro will be ‘toast’.

Is there a way out? Perhaps a figure will arise, taking all by surprise. Maybe the Euro crashing and the U.S. November midterm election outcomes will be the catalyst that will allow such a figure to arise and articulate a vision that seems to offer some solution. The solution, after all, is pretty obvious. But first, comes the pain."
 
What do you mean?

Yesterday:



Russia controls 120-140,000 km2 of Ukraine. Of these, they have now given up 2,000 (1.5%)

If Russian MOD and other Telegram pages are to believed. Ukraine lost 4000 troops and 8000 wounded during their little counter offensive.

How victorious.

A week ago I said:




200K + demilitarized, at Christmas around 500K and so on.

Still 300K or so to go after that.

Russia is unlikely to start a new offensive until most of the Ukrainian troops are gone. Until then, it will probably play defensively without taking many risks. This benefits them greatly.



During the Syrian campaign, when IS (Islamic State) recaptured Palmyra during a counter-offensive, these same people told their audience that all was lost. These are not serious people.

Also,

By targeting Ukrainian key infrastructures, the Russians send a message to Ukraine/USA/NATO that it can level the country anytime it wants.

Like Putin said: We haven't started anything serious yet.

Don't get me wrong. But you read far fewer sources about what is happening in Ukraine than I do. Because there is hundreds of times more data in Russian and Ukrainian than what is translated into English and published in the Western press.
This is not the first time the Ministry of Defense/Kremlin has changed rhetoric regarding the goals of their "special military operation.
They had just finished elections in the regions, and this retreat on the Kharkov front was very inappropriate for the ratings. Now the elections are over and they can manipulate words and claims again.
BEFORE the election, they sent their teachers and other workers to the "liberated" territories. Officials and deputies went there, made speeches, talked to the local population and swore that "now we are together forever." But now the elections are over, these territories are lost, people are abandoned to their fate, and we don't have to worry about it anymore.
You can justify all this by saying that "actually our goal is Donbass, so we will leave you behind and go there".

Just think about all those people and what happened to them. Those cities are now completely run by criminals and Nazis. There is no law and no police there. The Ukrainian police never intervene when it comes to the "patriots." Even if they kill people in front of the police. Moreover, the police and the military themselves take part in the Lynch trial.
 
Just think about all those people and what happened to them. Those cities are now completely run by criminals and Nazis. There is no law and no police there. The Ukrainian police never intervene when it comes to the "patriots." Even if they kill people in front of the police. Moreover, the police and the military themselves take part in the Lynch trial

It's a humanitarian tragedy but it will not change the outcome of the war. Russia will win.
 
I think at this point, we just have to wait and see how it plays out. It also seems to me that Russia might be in the process of upping the game now by possibly declaring the situation a war, which would give them more powers to engage, both legally and militarily speaking. Should it be true that Russia hit those power plants (and thereby cutting off electricity to large parts of the country), it might be part of that strategy, to take off the gloves, making it harder for the enemy and thereby possibly advancing faster in their goals, with more and harder engagement against the Ukrainian/NATO forces.
 
Don't get me wrong. But you read far fewer sources about what is happening in Ukraine than I do. Because there is hundreds of times more data in Russian and Ukrainian than what is translated into English and published in the Western press.
This is not the first time the Ministry of Defense/Kremlin has changed rhetoric regarding the goals of their "special military operation.
They had just finished elections in the regions, and this retreat on the Kharkov front was very inappropriate for the ratings. Now the elections are over and they can manipulate words and claims again.
BEFORE the election, they sent their teachers and other workers to the "liberated" territories. Officials and deputies went there, made speeches, talked to the local population and swore that "now we are together forever." But now the elections are over, these territories are lost, people are abandoned to their fate, and we don't have to worry about it anymore.
You can justify all this by saying that "actually our goal is Donbass, so we will leave you behind and go there".

Just think about all those people and what happened to them. Those cities are now completely run by criminals and Nazis. There is no law and no police there. The Ukrainian police never intervene when it comes to the "patriots." Even if they kill people in front of the police. Moreover, the police and the military themselves take part in the Lynch trial.
Are you safe at the moment? Hang in there! :hug2:
 
Are you safe at the moment? Hang in there! :hug2:
On the whole, yes.
About two hours ago, here started artillery firing again. At first it looked like a few shots were fired from here, but I'm not sure. And then there was some very loud and massive shelling here. I think it's all related to the situation at nuclear power plant in Energodar.
Last night there were 6 series of shots from MLRS in my town and and the surrounding area (for the first 3 series I counted at least 50 exploding shells, a pause of 1-2 minutes and the next series of shots, already 5-7 shells each). Two hours later there were shells again.
And so every night, several times during the night. You just fall asleep and soon wake up to bursts of shells, and during the shelling there are only two thoughts: "where will these shells hit?" and "there are some people left without their homes".
But it happened again this evening, only from howitzers. During the shelling the electricity in our city was cut off for a couple of minutes, after the shelling the water supply was stopped, and we don't know how long it will take. Maybe the pumping station was damaged or some area. There is no water in the whole town.
 
On the whole, yes.
About two hours ago, here started artillery firing again. At first it looked like a few shots were fired from here, but I'm not sure. And then there was some very loud and massive shelling here. I think it's all related to the situation at nuclear power plant in Energodar.
Last night there were 6 series of shots from MLRS in my town and and the surrounding area (for the first 3 series I counted at least 50 exploding shells, a pause of 1-2 minutes and the next series of shots, already 5-7 shells each). Two hours later there were shells again.
And so every night, several times during the night. You just fall asleep and soon wake up to bursts of shells, and during the shelling there are only two thoughts: "where will these shells hit?" and "there are some people left without their homes".
But it happened again this evening, only from howitzers. During the shelling the electricity in our city was cut off for a couple of minutes, after the shelling the water supply was stopped, and we don't know how long it will take. Maybe the pumping station was damaged or some area. There is no water in the whole town.
Can you relocate to Crimea or somewhere where it's more safe?
 
A lot of talk for a country that will stop functioning this winter

The conversation between Scholz and Putin lasted an hour and a half and was devoted to the situation in Ukraine and its consequences, said a representative of the government of the German government.

Scholz urged Putin to find a diplomatic solution as soon as possible based on a ceasefire, the complete withdrawal of Russian troops, and respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine;

Scholz stressed to Putin that any further Russian steps towards annexation would not go unanswered and would not be recognized under any circumstances, and also stated the need to ensure the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant;

Scholz emphasized the important role of the grain deal and appealed to Putin not to discredit the agreement and to continue to fully implement it.
 


As mentioned by Joe and Niall, Russia has to focus on a lot more than just the situation in Ukraine. Azerbaijan has really crossed the line in Armenia, according to Telegram posts the strikes were not even in the disputed territory. Appeals for calm, the situation will hopefully stabilise again.
 
Azerbaijan has really crossed the line in Armenia, according to Telegram posts the strikes were not even in the disputed territory. Appeals for calm, the situation will hopefully stabilise again.

If Azerbaijan makes a real attempt to invade Armenia.... Iran won't sit idle either.

But yes, there are more possible fronts and proxy wars to be watchful of. Russia can only devote itself so much to one front.
 

Russia conducts ‘massive strikes’ in Ukraine​


'Russian forces have unleashed a heavy barrage on the Ukrainian army on all fronts, with Kiev’s casualties amounting to more than 800 in one day, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.'

The Russian Air Force, missile troops and artillery are conducting massive strikes on units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces across all operational areas,” the ministry said."

Article below:

 
State Emergency Service of Ukraine ( SESU) has started a test version of sending alert messages.
The SESU (ДСНС) will be sending test alerts until October 10.

This is on of the articles




Interesting thing here, that one can receive a message on the phone whithout sim-card or the phone have sim card inserted that expired (more-likely). I will make an update on that.
I checked out.
It was without a sim card in the phone actually, wi-fi was turned off.
So, I guess it is about GPS that installed in the smartphones.
I dont know much about, i know that almost all phones may be tracked if it is on, by GPS. I know that police use it in order to find out the location of a stolen phone.
But I wasn't aware that they can send you messages even.
What else can they do, maybe some of you may know more data about it.
 
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