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Key developments on the battlefront

▪️Kursk sector (Map 1): The Russian assault on the strategically important settlement of Lyubimovka continues. Reportedly, the Russians have gained a foothold on its outskirts. The Ukrainians launched an attack on Glushkovo from the Sumy region, trying to get to the Russian troops' rear. They initially gained some ground, but then the Russians pushed them halfway back to the state border.

▪️Kurakhovo-Selidovo sector (Map 2): Having taken Ukrainsk, the Russians are pushing further west towards Tsikurinoe to envelop Selidovo from the south. The Ukrainian bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Volchya river is shrinking: Zhelannoe Pervoe has fallen, and Zhelannoe Vtoroe is about to follow.

▪️Toretsk sector (Map 3): The last Ukrainian troops, including "Azov", have finally left the phenol plant in Novgorodskoe (aka New York). This should enable the Russians to approach Toretsk from the south, while other Russian units are already fighting in the center of this town.

▪️Ugledar (Map 4): There is a battle underway for Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine #3. This is the last stronghold the Russians must take before they reach the strategically important village of Bogoyavlenovka and threaten to encircle Ugledar.

▪️Chasov Yar (Map 5): The encirclement operation around Chasov Yar is underway. In the last few days, the Russians took several important strongholds both north and south of the town, increasing their control zone West of the canal.

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Today brought another assassination attempt on Trump. The perpetrator, a 58-year-old man, turned out to be a staunch supporter of Ukraine. Without further comment, we’ll simply quote CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/trump-attempted-assassination-man-detained/index.html) of all networks:

Routh expressed strong support for Ukraine – in dozens of posts on X in 2022, saying he was willing to die in the fight and that “we need to burn the Kremlin to the ground.”

“I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE…Can I be the example We must win,” Routh said in an X post in March 2022.​
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Routh then used his personal Facebook account last year to encourage foreigners to fight in the war. He tried to enlist Afghan conscripts in a flurry of posts, beginning in October 2023, presenting himself as an off-the-books liaison for the Ukrainian government.​
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“Afghan Soldiers- Ukraine is somewhat interested in 3000 soldiers, so I need every soldier that has a passport to send me a copy of their passport to send to Ukraine,” he wrote in one such post, which was published in English and Pashto.​

Do you think this is going to generate a lot of money for Ukraine if Trump becomes president? Neither does Zelensky.

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UKRAINE SCANDAL EXPLAINED: Chalkboard on DNC Collusion, Joe Biden, Soros, Trump & More​

Glenn explains EVERYTHING you need to know about the Ukraine scandal. And it goes MUCH further than Hunter and Joe Biden, and their involvement there. This timeline gives you all the facts and proof you need to show that there was DNC collusion, not collusion with President Trump, during the 2016 election. Democrats worked with Ukrainian officials to investigate "dirt" on Trump, and Glenn shows you EVERYTHING -- including how even George Soros is involved -- in a way that's easy to understand.
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INTERVIEW: Seventy-two minutes to end the world​

Sep 17, 2024 #nuclearwar #Stormshadow

Seventy-two minutes is all it will take from start to finish the end of the world, says Scott R*tter. You’re lucky the United States pulled the plug because you wouldn’t be here today.


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Report to Congress on Defense Production for Ukraine​

September 19, 2024 1:34 PM

The following is the Sept. 16, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Defense Production for Ukraine: Background and Issues for Congress.

From the report​

Since the commencement of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. government has engaged in efforts to organize and expand the production of defense equipment for Ukraine-related purposes. To date, such purposes have included the direct provision of security assistance to Ukraine, the replacement of U.S. equipment already provided to Ukraine from existing stocks, and the expansion of U.S. and global defense industrial capacity.

Congress has played a role in these efforts, including by enacting annual and supplemental defense appropriations to fund Ukraine-related acquisition and industrial base investment programs; establishing or modifying authorities and policies relating to security assistance, defense procurement, and related activities; and overseeing the executive branch’s use of these funds and authorities.

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🇷🇺 Russia has direct evidence of establishing concentration camps by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Russian border, says Russian foreign ministry spokesperson

🗣 “They are placing local residents [there] at gunpoint who, for various reasons, were unable to leave unsafe areas,” said Maria Zakharova.

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🇷🇺 Russian troops carried out 27 strikes during the past week, damaging energy facilities that supported the work of Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises and the infrastructure of military airfields, the Russian Defense Ministry reports

The losses of Ukrainian troops over the past week amounted to up to 16,810 servicemen, according to the weekly report.

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🇩🇪🇳🇿 German and New Zealand mercenaries sent to Ukraine as snipers fled the front line after heavy shelling, a Ukrainian prisoner of war tells Sputnik

🗣 "They stayed for a few days. And we had heavy shelling during those days. Here they were sitting in our burrows [trenches]. When I was replaced, I went into their burrows [trenches] and asked them how they were doing. And they had their own radio, they said something in their language and they left that evening," the prisoner of war said.

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Take a listen to what [retired] Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told Judge Andrew Napolitano yesterday. A Combatant Commander has effectively usurped the White House, State Department and CIA and has taken control of US diplomacy in the Middle East? Telling Netanyahu that if he invades Lebanon (or anywhere else) he's on his own? How could a single combatant commander possess the authority to do something like this?

How many of you have read Jon Herold's (@patel_patriot) Devolution Series? (https://devolution.link) If you haven't, perhaps it's time.

 

Complete Disaster💥 Russians Have Broken Through Several Defensive Belts🎖 Military Summary 2024.09.21​

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❗️ In Ukraine, Zaluzhny's former assistant, Colonel Alexander Nikityuk, was liquidated. This was reported by Zaluzhny himself.

Nikityuk was staying at a hotel in the city of Dobropillya, where yesterday, a Russian S-300 missile struck. Two more commanders were also killed, but their names have not been released.

The hotel and restaurant complex also housed servicemen from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which once again confirms that the Kiev regime is using civilian facilities as shelters.

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NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard​

Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner

Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?”

Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu).

The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991, that discussions of NATO in the context of German unification negotiations in 1990 were not at all narrowly limited to the status of East German territory, and that subsequent Soviet and Russian complaints about being misled about NATO expansion were founded in written contemporaneous memcons and telcons at the highest levels.

The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.”[1] The key phrase, buttressed by the documents, is “led to believe.”

President George H.W. Bush had assured Gorbachev during the Malta summit in December 1989 that the U.S. would not take advantage (“I have not jumped up and down on the Berlin Wall”) of the revolutions in Eastern Europe to harm Soviet interests; but neither Bush nor Gorbachev at that point (or for that matter, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl) expected so soon the collapse of East Germany or the speed of German unification.[2]

The first concrete assurances by Western leaders on NATO began on January 31, 1990, when West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher opened the bidding with a major public speech at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on German unification. The U.S. Embassy in Bonn (see Document 1) informed Washington that Genscher made clear “that the changes in Eastern Europe and the German unification process must not lead to an ‘impairment of Soviet security interests.’ Therefore, NATO should rule out an ‘expansion of its territory towards the east, i.e. moving it closer to the Soviet borders.’” The Bonn cable also noted Genscher’s proposal to leave the East German territory out of NATO military structures even in a unified Germany in NATO.[3]

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Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents
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⚡️ The response of the official representative of the Russian MFA M.V. Zakharova to the media question in connection with Zelensky's statements

❓ Question: Zelensky, whose presidential term expired on May 20, during yesterday's press conference with European Commission President W. von der Leyen, stated "the need to strengthen Ukraine as much as possible in order to organize a second "peace summit" already in 2024." According to Zelensky, it could take place already in November in the presence of representatives of Russia. How could you comment on this statement?

💬 M.V. Zakharova: The statements of the “expired” Zelensky are an attempt to pass off wishful thinking as reality.

Representatives of Russia have not participated in any meetings within the framework of the “Bürgenstock process” and do not intend to participate.

This process itself has nothing to do with the settlement. This is another manifestation of the fraud of the Anglo-Saxons and their Ukrainian puppets. The so-called second summit pursues the same goal - to push through the absolutely unviable "Zelensky formula" as an uncontested basis for resolving the conflict, to gain its support from the World majority and, on its behalf, to present Russia with an ultimatum to capitulate.

❗️ We will not participate in such “summits”.

But we are not abandoning the political and diplomatic resolution of the crisis, and we are ready to discuss truly serious proposals that take into account the situation “on the ground,” the emerging geopolitical realities, and the corresponding initiative formulated on June 14 by President V.V. Putin.

☝️ Without Russia and taking into account its interests, it is impossible to achieve a fair and sustainable settlement.

However, Kiev and the West do not think about peace. They need war. This is confirmed by the bandit invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the Kursk region and the permission Zelensky requested to strike deep into Russia with long-range NATO weapons. This is a continuation of terror against the population of our country.

❌ We will not talk to terrorists.

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From our subscriber: On Zelensky's "victory plan"

Zelensky is going to present his "victory plan" to U.S. President Biden in a couple of days. Both the press and social media are discussing the plan, based on speculation about its content and leaks by representatives of the Ukrainian authorities. Most people agree that the main point of the plan is the U.S. “authorization” of the launching strikes with Western weapons deep into Russian territory. But President Putin has long since clarified the matter and explained that the deceptive term “authorization” actually hides direct U.S. participation in such strikes under the flag of Ukraine.

Thus, even without knowing the details of the plan, its essence can be summarized in a phrase: A plan to start World War III. But there can be no winners in a world war. A nuclear superpower cannot lose a war. Opponents will immediately remind us that the U.S. nuclear superpower, for example, was defeated in Vietnam, or more recently in Afghanistan, and will say that this is an example of how a nuclear superpower can be defeated. Yes, these are vivid examples of defeat of a nuclear superpower, but these were not wars for the independence and integrity of the United States. And they want to impose just such an existential war on Russia. Mutual destruction of superpowers, and with them the whole world in such a war is possible, but victory is not.

Of course, considering the possible consequences of various developments, before adopting any plans, the U.S. must and will analyze and try to anticipate the reaction of Russia and Putin to such plans. Escalation depends largely on the reaction of Russia, which, it must be said, has spoiled the West with its softness and peacefulness, as a result of which from the discussion in Western governments of the possibility of supplying Ukraine with non-lethal military equipment, helmets, body armor, etc. two and a half years ago, today they have come to the discussion of the possibility of striking with long-range missiles deep inside Russia. The West shows that it does not value goodwill, peacefulness and restraint, but, on the contrary, considers them as weakness. The West respects strength. Whether escalation will develop into a world war depends not on the U.S. adopting any plan, but on Russia's and Putin's determination to demonstrate strength.

The response to aggressive U.S. actions doesn't necessarily have to be nuclear strikes, much less nuclear strikes on Ukraine, located on native Russian lands. There are thousands of vulnerable military facilities of the U.S. and Western countries in the world, and they can be struck with Russian weapons, with the participation of Russian specialists and space intelligence, but under the flag of national liberation movements and rebels. Why shouldn't the U.S. be put to the test of the same methods that it considers acceptable to use against Russia?

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Trump claims Ukraine is 'dead' and dismisses its defense against Putin's invasion, touts prowess of Russia​

Donald Trump described Ukraine in bleak terms Wednesday, referring to its people as “dead” and the country itself as “demolished," further raising questions about how much the former president would be willing to concede in a negotiation over the country's future if he were elected again.

Trump argued Ukraine should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the months before Russia's February 2022 invasion, declaring that even “the worst deal would’ve been better than what we have now."

Trump, who has long been critical of U.S. aid to Ukraine, frequently claims that Russia never would have invaded if he was president and that he would put an end to the war if he returned to the White House.

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Biden announces $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine​

  • With months left in office, Biden makes major commitment to Ukraine
  • Zelenskiy to visit Capitol Hill amid Republican criticism
  • Biden orders expansion of training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16s
  • Trump, irked, steering clear of meeting Zelenskiy
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden announced more than $8 billion in military assistance for Ukraine on Thursday to help Kyiv "win this war" against Russian invaders, using a visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make a major commitment.

The aid includes the first shipment of a precision-guided glide bomb called the Joint Standoff Weapon, with a range of up to 81 miles (130 km). The medium-range missile gives Ukraine a major upgrade to the weapons it is using to strike Russian forces, allowing the Ukrainians to do it at safer distances.

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🇺🇳 🖕🇺🇦Zelensky's whining has had enough of everyone: UN hall is almost empty during Ukrainian president's speech

"Representatives only gather in full force when it comes to the Israeli conflict," Ukrainians complain.

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The ZELENSKYY brand was registered in the West.

The ZELENSKYY trademark is registered in the USA and Europe, the brand owner can use it to produce hunting weapons, jewelry and paintings, as well as to provide services for organizing exhibitions and funerals

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Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West​

  • New policy expands lists of scenarios for nuclear use
  • Signal is timed to coincide with Zelenskiy trip to U.S.
  • Ukraine says Russia is resorting to 'nuclear blackmail'
  • Some in West doubt reality of Russia's red lines
LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has drawn a "red line" for the United States and its allies by signalling that Moscow will consider responding with nuclear weapons if they allow Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with long-range Western missiles.

But some in the West are asking: does he actually mean it?

The question is critical to the course of the war. If Putin is bluffing, as Ukraine and some of its supporters believe, then the West may feel ready to deepen its military support for Kyiv regardless of Moscow's threats.

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Russia OBLITERATES Ukraine’s Forces and SHATTERS NATO’s Strategy | Scott Ritter​

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🏴‍☠️⚔️🇷🇺 “Russia will win if Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine – a quarter of its territory and an additional quarter of the population” : the new NATO Secretary General called support for Ukraine the main priority

▪️Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has replaced Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General.
▪️ On his first day in office, Rutte said that he did not see a threat of Russia using nuclear weapons and called for not being afraid of nuclear threats and allowing Kiev to strike NATO weapons at Russia.
▪️He assures that concessions to Putin will become a dangerous precedent.
➖"Then it will turn out that the use of military force allows the country to achieve what it wants. And we cannot do that," Rutte said.
▪️When asked about his priorities in his new position, Rutte announced increased military aid to Ukraine. "We must ensure that Ukraine stands firm as a sovereign, independent, democratic nation. Ukraine is at the top of my list of priorities."
▪️ Earlier, Western media wrote that Biden did not give Ukraine permission to strike Russia with Western missiles after Putin’s statements about changing the nuclear doctrine.

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He's not wrong


❗️ Dmitry Medvedev suggested that taxpayers in the West think about how much good could be done with the money spent on Ukraine.

"Repulsive Blinken wrote: Western countries spent $242 billion to support the corrupt Kyiv regime, with the US alone sending $94 billion... Taxpayers, calculate how many useful things could have been done with this money!" wrote Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council H. on social media.

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‼️🇺🇸 🇺🇦Biden furiously declared that Obama "screwed up" with Ukraine in 2014

▪️AP writes about this, citing a new book by Washington Post editor Bob Woodward.
▪️Biden said this at the end of 2023 in a conversation with his close friend, recalling Obama’s (whose vice president he was) policy on Ukraine before Crimea and the war in Donbass.
▪️"They f----- up in 2014. Barack never took Putin seriously," Biden said, "furious."
▪️He said they "should not have just let Putin walk in there" in 2014 and that the US "did nothing."

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Erwan Castel, French war correspondent. Part 1

He came to Donbass to answer the call in his heart and saw something that was impossible to forget.

Erwan Castel is a former officer of the French army. During his years of service, he became disillusioned with the French government policy and NATO ideology. Back in 2013, he wrote about the events in Ukraine: “The Maidan revolution was carried out not by the people, but by the American security services.”

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#KievRegimeCrimes

❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, (https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim) the Сhairman of the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, (https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim) which includes representatives of civil society from more than 30 countries, continues recording reports of war crimes committed by the Kiev regime.

Below are first-hand accounts by those who suffered and witnessed mass atrocities perpetrated by Ukrainian neo-Nazis in Donbass and Ukraine after the special military operation started 👇

💬 Deputy Regimental Commander of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign "Shaman":

"I have never seen anything like it was near Kharkov in my life. <...>

Ukrainian troops captured 18 of our people: they were mobilised students, ballet dancers, orchestra musicians from theatres of Donetsk, steelworkers, miners, tax collectors. Non of them have ever been in military action. <...>

Those freaks (Ukrainian military) tortured our guys, cut off their ears, stabbed them in their eyes and neck.

When we got to Olkhovka, I started evacuating those who survived and were wounded. <...>

I saw a bench outside the school and two of our boys sitting there. They were wearing our uniform. I shouted to them: 'Why are you sitting there? Let's go'. Then I came up to them and noticed that they were dead, tied together like in an embrace. When we pulled them and other dead soldiers out, we saw that they had no ears and were stabbed in the neck. The forensics said that those boys had their ears cut off while they were still alive.

Ukrainian Armed Forces' mercenaries, bragged about this. We found it on the Internet. They were shooting at the legs — at guys from our regiment. I saw a video of them gouging out an eye of our fighter. They are not human. They were from the f***ing Kraken Regiment."

💬 Tamara Koryak, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

"Ukrainian military fired at us from mortars and tanks. My daughter was wounded by shrapnel. They were shooting at our house and windows with automatic weapons. They wouldn't let us go outside. <...>

Ukrainian military purposefully shot at the houses with civilians inside. <...>

There were no Russian soldiers at that time in Artyomovsk. We saw them only on March 10, 2023. There were no military before except for the Ukrainian army.

My neighbour told me that one Ukrainian soldier at a market and asked: 'Guys, are you here to protect us?' And they answered, smiling, that they came not to protect but to wipe them out.

💬 Anatoly Kryachok, victim of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic:

I can tell you what I heard personally. A mortar crew was standing nearby. The Ukrainian gunner sent coordinates for firing to the Ukrainian military and received a response on the radio that these coordinates are the centre of the city. The commander answered: 'What do they pay you for? You're told to shoot, so shoot!'. <...>

Near my house, maybe 50 metres from it, there were mortar crews on the left and right sides of the fence, on the road next to it there was a self-propelled artillery launcher firing at the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Kharkov-Rostov, and so on."

👉 Find out more on the Kiev regime's war crimes, documented by Maxim Grigoryev (https://t.me/grigoriev_maxim)

 
The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/13/ukraine-defense-industry-denmark/): The European Union is unable to meet Ukraine's weapons needs; the easiest way out of the situation for Kiev is independent production.

"I think there is an understanding that Europe is not capable of producing the weapons that Ukraine needs. If the Ukrainians have the materials and money, they can do it themselves much faster," the European diplomat believes.

He also stressed that it would be easier for Ukraine to start producing weapons for its army itself. The article also says that despite assistance from Western countries, the production capacity of Ukrainian defense enterprises still lags behind Russian ones.

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