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

[Magnolia]

The Saker put up a video on Sept 6 -------- Excellent round-table with Pepe Escobar, Gonzalo Lira and Andrei Martyanov

It is 2 hours, interesting, and rather entertaining considering the seriousness of the topics:

• Ukraine SMO military and economic situation
• Asia-Pacific countries emerging as new center of world economy
• Various possible futures for Ukraine after SMO
• Inability of collective west to understand geo-politics and prior military experiences
• Towards the end they discuss influences of western financial institutions/"think" tanks, some "leadership" personalities, managerial/military incompetence, the impact of immigration when SHTF, Saudi Arabia, and collapse of petro-dollar.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

'So, Zelensky is a "good profit" after all.'

Published on Sep 6, 2022 (1:18)

 

[XPan]

50 countries provide weapons to Ukraine

Alina Lipp, the german-russian reporter who now lives in Donesk and reports from the war in Ukraine, wrote/quoted A. Rudenko on her Telegram Channel "Neues aus Russland" following:

German self-propelled howitzer 2000 SAU at work near the town of Izyum [refering to a video clip in the post] . 50 countries now support Ukraine with weapons "This is the third world war." writes the author of the post, journalist Rudenko.

He goes on to write, "As Alexander III said, "Russia has only two allies - its army and navy," and it is these allies that we should protect and provide them with everything they need as soon as possible. This war is a long war. And then we will either become them (the West), or we will simply cease to exist as a country."

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Немецкие САУ PzH2000 в районе Изюма. Украине вооружением помогают 50 стран. Это третья мировая где вся эта погань встала против нас

Как говорил Александр III «у России есть только два союзника- её армия и флот» и вот этих союзников нам стоит беречь и в кратчайшие сроки обеспечить всем. Эта война надолго. И тут или мы их, или нас просто, как страны не станет.

А.Руденко

 

[PabloAngello]

Is USA sending a message?

It will be the second test launch of the country's nuclear defenses in less than a month. The last occurred on August 16

U.S. Military Announces Test Launch Of ICBM, Notifies Russia

The U.S. military will test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on September 7, the Pentagon says, adding that Russia has been notified.

www.rferl.org

 

[thorbiorn]

Truly, though, women are not really fit and able to engage in warfare/combat. That's a genetic fact.

By the way, Amazons (female warriors) existed in a few areas and times, but these are rather exceptions, kind of confirming the rule of genetic facts, I hope so

I will agree that there are genetics, but there are variations, and there are individual circumstances too. There were women in the USSR during WWII, who had lost family and friends, or who wanted to be with their man and entered as soldiers in one capacity or another. Most of them probably were not actually fighting weapons in hand, but there were certainly no lack of exceptions.
In the Wiki about Soviet women in World War II, one finds:

There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war,[1] which is roughly 5 percent of total military personnel.[2] The number of women in the Soviet military in 1943 was 348,309, 473,040 in 1944, and then 463,503 in 1945.[3] Of the medical personnel in the Red Army, 40% of paramedics, 43% of surgeons, 46% of doctors, 57% of medical assistants, and 100% of nurses were women.[4] Nearly 200,000 were decorated and 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Union's highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, among which some served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles.[5][6]

At first, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, thousands of women who volunteered were turned away. However, after massive losses in the face of Operation Barbarossa, attitudes had to be changed, ensuring a greater role for women who wanted to fight. In the early stages of the war, the fastest route to advancement in the military for women was service in medical and auxiliary units.

In the Wiki there was about the Red Army Airforce

For Soviet women aviators, instrumental to this change was Marina Raskova, a famous Soviet aviator, occasionally referred to as the "Russian Amelia Earhart". Raskova became famous as both a pilot and a navigator in the 1930s. She was the first woman to become a navigator in the Red Air Force in 1933. A year later she started teaching at the Zhukovsky Air Academy, also a first for a woman. When World War II broke out, there were numerous women who had training as pilots and many immediately volunteered. While there were no formal restrictions on women serving in combat roles, their applications tended to be blocked, run through red tape, etc. for as long as possible in order to discourage them from seeing combat. Raskova is credited with using her personal connections with Joseph Stalin to convince the military to form three combat regiments for women. Not only would the women be pilots, but the support staff and engineers for these regiments were women.Although all three regiments had been planned to have women exclusively, only the 588th would remain an all-women regiment. The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions.[7] These regiments with strength of almost a hundred airwomen, flew a combined total of more than 30,000 combat sorties, produced at least twenty Heroes of the Soviet Union, and included two fighter aces. This military unit was initially called Aviation Group 122 while the three regiments received training. After their training, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:

And infantry:

The Soviet Union deployed women as snipers and in a variety of infantry roles. Between 1941 and 1945, a total of 2,484 soviet female snipers were functioning in this role, of whom about 500 survived the war.[8][9] Their combined tally of kill claims is at least 11,000.[10] The most famous snipers during the war included Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Roza Shanina.

Women frequently served as medics and communication personnel, as well – in small numbers – as machine gunners, political officers, tank drivers, and in other parts of the infantry. Manshuk Mametova was a machine gunner from Kazakhstan and was the first Asian woman to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Mariya Oktyabrskaya

Before I complete the above sentence, read the Wiki Mariya Oktyabrskaya because it shows her motivation:

When the eastern front of World War II opened, Mariya was evacuated to Tomsk in Siberia. While living in Tomsk, she learned that her husband had been killed fighting the forces of Nazi Germany near Kiev in August 1941. The news took two years to reach her. The news angered her greatly, and she became determined to fight the Germans to avenge her husband's death. She sold all of her possessions to donate a tank to the Red Army. She requested the tank, a T-34 medium tank,[3] be named "Fighting Girlfriend" ("Боевая подруга") and that she be allowed to drive it. The State Defense Committee agreed to this.

By this time, Oktyabrskaya was 38 years old. She enrolled in a five-month tank training program immediately after the donation. This was unusual: usually tank crews were rushed straight to the front line with minimal training. After completing her training, she was posted to the 26th Guards Tank Brigade, part of the 2nd Guards Tank Corps, in September 1943 as a driver and mechanic. She named her tank "Fighting Girlfriend", emblazoning these words on the turret of the T-34. Many of her fellow tankers saw her as a publicity stunt and a joke, but this attitude changed when Oktyabrskaya began fighting in Smolensk.[2]

No spoilers, so continuing with Wiki from before and completing the sentence:

and Aleksandra Samusenko were tank drivers. Tatyana Kostyrina had over 120 kills and commanded an infantry battalion in 1943 following the death of her commander.[11] Before its dissolution in 1944, the 1st Separate Women's Volunteer Rifle Brigade deployed thousands of women in a variety of combat roles.

Women crewed the majority of the anti-aircraft batteries employed in Stalingrad. Some batteries, including the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, also engaged in ground combat.

In response to the high casualties suffered by male soldiers, Stalin allowed planning which would replace men with women in second lines of defense, such as anti-aircraft guns and medical aid.

I looked up the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment:

The 1077th Anti-aircraft Regiment (Russian: 1077-й зенитный артиллерийский полк, 1077-y zenitnyy artilleriyskiy polk) under Colonel Raiynin, was a unit of the Stalingrad Corps Region of the Soviet Air Defence Forces which fought during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942.[1] The Stalingrad Corps Region was part of the Stalingrad Military District and later subordinated to the Stalingrad Front during the battle for the city. The regiment, like many of the anti-aircraft units, was made up almost entirely of teenage female volunteers who were barely out of high school. They are most known for their bravery in the defense of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), when they engaged an advancing Panzer unit by setting their guns to the lowest elevation and firing them directly at the advancing tanks.

Apparently if the last men standing are women, there is no guarantee they will give up without a fight, just like those in the 1077th Anti-aircraft Regiment.

 

[Adobe]

Chrystia Freeland has a 'legitimate shot' at top NATO job, expert says​

"NATO sources say the deputy PM is in the 'middle of the pack' of strong candidates — if she wants the job"​

"At least four different sources — in Ottawa, Washington and Brussels, where NATO is headquartered — say Freeland's name has been tossed around for several months in international defence and security circles as a potential successor to the current secretary general, former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, who has been in the job since 2014."

Article below:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrystia-freeland-nato-1.6575239

 

[Laura]

50 countries provide weapons to Ukraine

Alina Lipp, the german-russian reporter who now lives in Donesk and reports from the war in Ukraine, wrote/quoted A. Rudenko on her Telegram Channel "Neues aus Russland" following:

Won't be much use if there are no Ukrainians left to use the weapons.

 

[f1esk]

Won't be much use if there are no Ukrainians left to use the weapons.

There is an idea that the United States will not stop at the Ukrainian, then meat from eastern Europe and even more mercenaries will be used.

 

[thorbiorn]

The jokes about the IAEA from before the visit to the ZNPP, that they would see nothing and hear nothing, were not too far off.

In their NUCLEAR SAFETY, SECURITY AND SAFEGUARDS IN UKRAINE, 2nd Summary Report by the Director General 28 April – 5 September 2022, they mention shelling 52 times and have pictures without daring to establish where the shelling came from.

From Pepe Escobar originally from Eurasia & Multipolarity

The IAEA has gone to the dark side

The IAEA has published a report (https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/22/09/ukraine-2ndsummaryreport_sept2022.pdf) "Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine". It provides an overview of all nuclear facilities on Ukrainian territory, with the bulk of the report devoted to the Zaporizhzhya NPP.

The report is very revealing. Right from the joint photo of IAEA director general Rafael Grossi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who ordered the shelling of the ZNPP.

The facts of the shelling and damage are specified in the report - but it is not specified who is shelling the nuclear power plant after all. The IAEA officials did not have enough courage and objectivity to do so. The document presents the facts of the shelling as reports from the Ukrainian side, and the unsophisticated reader may have the impression that the plant is being shelled by Russian troops, who at the same time are guarding it.

A few quotes from the report:

"Recommendation 1: The IAEA recommends an immediate cessation of shelling at and around the site to avoid any further damage to the plant and its associated facilities, for the safety of operating personnel and to maintain physical integrity to ensure safe operation. This requires the agreement of all relevant parties to establish a nuclear safety zone around the ZNPP".

"Recommendation 2: The IAEA recommends that the physical protection system should be operated as designed and licensed and that continuous operation of safety and security systems as well as the operability of systems and equipment at ZNPP should be ensured. This requires the removal of vehicles from areas that could interfere with the operation of safety systems and equipment".

"The IAEA believes that the presence of senior technical staff from Rosatom could interfere with normal lines of operational command or authority and create potential friction when it comes to decision-making. Energoatom's operating crews at the plant have the ability to rotate three shifts a day, but the situation [the presence of Rosatom specialists] has had a negative impact on [Ukrainian] personnel.

Thus, the IAEA's policy on ZNPP is clear: expel Russian troops and Rosatom specialists from the NPP territory, return the plant under the control of Ukraine and, possibly, some international forces.

In such a scenario, the option of a man-made nuclear catastrophe at this plant will become a reality.

The example with the above-mentioned IAEA report demonstrates once again that virtually all international institutions have gradually come under Western control. Only the UN Security Council remains independent so far at the expense of the veto power of two of its permanent members, Russia and China.

Reading the above reminded me of a video about the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine:

How the OSCE helped Nazi battalions [10 mins]

"The OSCE works for stability, peace and democracy, through political dialogue about shared values and through practical work." [Website (What we do)]

Reminder, the OSCE mission to Donbass left early in the piece (Telegram: Contact @inessaschannel on March 1, 2022. There was not a lot of time to collect their infrastructure.

Investigation by war correspondent A. Sladkov (Сладков +).

The above link has a translation of a Russian video and is very revealing. Clear links between the OSCE information gathering operation and the UAF are shown. It was published in April, and since then more has come to light that only confirms. If you want to do a search for OSCE in Russian, it is spelled "ОБСЕ"
So if Russia leaves the ZNPP and the OSCE types come in, they will not guarantee much but the support for the NATO efforts in Ukraine. The UAF will be on the ZNPP, shoot from there and the OSCE will say nothing, but if Russia retaliates, they will know from where the fire came.

 

[youlik]

Another nasty Ukrainian provocation did not go according to the script

September 8, 15:40
Military operation in Ukraine
Russian Defense Ministry: Russian military helped a journalist from Italy who was blown up by a Ukrainian mine

The military department said that the incident with the Italian journalist who blew up on a mine was a provocation of the special services of Ukraine, they wanted to blame Russia for his death
MOSCOW, September 8. /tass/. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) organized a provocation to blow up Italian journalist Mattia Sorbi on a mine in the Kherson region in order to blame the Russian Federation for his death. The Russian military found the foreigner, gave him first aid and took him to the hospital. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

According to the military department, on August 29, with the beginning of the AFU counteroffensive in the Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog direction, Mattia Sorbi, accompanied by two people dressed in military uniforms of the AFU, went to the advanced positions of the Ukrainian troops. They showed the journalist the direction of movement, hiding that the road shown to him at the contact line was mined by the APU.

"The purpose of the provocation of the Ukrainian special services was to wait for the death of a journalist as a result of fire from Russian defensive positions or the detonation of a taxi on a mine for subsequent accusations of Russia in the murder of Mattia Sorbi and a wide resonance in the Western media," the Russian Defense Ministry said.

During the further movement on the road, the car with the journalist was blown up by a Ukrainian mine. The taxi driver was killed on the spot, and Mattia Sorbi was seriously injured. "Having seen the explosion of a civilian car on a mine, Russian servicemen, despite heavy fire from Ukrainian positions, moved forward and pulled Mattia Sorbi out of the burning car. On the spot, Russian servicemen provided him with first aid, carried him to a safe place and provided emergency delivery of the seriously wounded journalist to a medical facility," the military department reported.

Currently, Mattia Sorbi, who was admitted to the intensive care unit with multiple shrapnel wounds, is receiving the necessary qualified medical care. His health condition is stable.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/15695599?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Очередная паскудная украинская провокация пошла не по сценарию

 

[youlik]

I've already sort of posted about Mariupol, and this is no less a long-suffering Volnovakha. They said that they didn't seem to be going to rebuild this city, but look at this... The man in the video says that only one construction team from Rostov has to hand over 2 five-storey houses by mid-October.

Volnovakha. A new house in 3 months is a reality.

voenhronika.ru - Военная хроника

Meanwhile, in Mariupol, blocks of new and beautiful houses have already been built

voenhronika.ru - Военная хроника

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Про Мариуполь я уже вроде выкладывал, а это не менее многострадальная Волноваха. Говорили, что вроде не собирались восстанавливать этот город, а смотрите ка...Человек на видео говорит, что только одна бригада строителей из Ростова должна сдать 2 пятиэтажных дома к середине октября.

 

[Search]

I found the petition, it is a petition against this law 4142. ( Law "project", i dont know how to explain correctly. It was adopted by Parliament of Ukraine, yesterday, it has to be signed by the president)
Here it is the link
There are 25000 voices is needed, it is only for ukrainian citizents. 4000/25000 right now, we will see, how it will goes.

Here's another petition about the same thing.
7000/25000. It was filed a little earlier. 58 days left to collect the necessary amount of voice.

 

[Adobe]

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/.

"Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday said the West is using Ukraine to execute a corruption scheme where huge funds that are allocated for the supply of weapons to Kiev are then divided among Western companies."

"The West, according to the spokeswoman, does care about how many weapons they have left for themselves, and possibly about how much money will be spent on this."

"Human resources have not reached the limit, not German, but Ukrainian," Zakharova said. "They don’t care how many people will die there."

"It's out there somewhere. These are Slavs, and we know what role historically the Slavs were assigned in the West," she said."

Article:

MFA says West executes corruption scheme with weapons supplies to Ukraine

Maria Zakharova said that the West did care about how many weapons they had left for themselves, and possibly about how much money would be spent on this

tass.com

 

[Search]

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament) has voted to adopt the law 4142 yesterday
, it is about "total vactination" as far as i see it.
It is matter of time when it would be sign in by The president. They were trying to do this almost a year ago.
I want to share a link for petition against it and it looks like it was deleted from youtube, i didnt copy the link . It was approximately half an hour ago available.

Nevertheless, I wil try to translate some part of this law later in when i will be free.

I checked the web about the 4142 Law in Ukraine. It is called The Law on the public health system.

There are plenty of misinformation. I have few sources which looks more accurate and more closer to the truth, that I will share later on.

As far as I understand it, in a short way, looks like this :

1) People in Ukraine have to had 11 vaccines instead of 6;

2) Most likely you will be banned/fired from work if you are not vaccinated because you may "make harm" to the one who got vaccine, yours children wont be able to study even if it the study is online;

3) The minestry of health would have much more power; to make quarantine measures, to apply quarantine, to decide whi is spreading some viruses, etc.;

4) yours belongings, like a car, smartphone, some of your property may be confiscated according to that, that it may be infected, without of an explanation how it would be done according to the law;

5) it would be really hard for you to move without vaccines;

Ah, 6) The ukrainian people will no longer use asbestos;

Et cetera.

The thing is the government try to apply this law during military state in Ukraine.
And a lot of stuff is banned according to that, e.g. rallies.

 

[Persej]

This music video became unlisted, because... Russia.