Pushkin's bust demolished in central Kiev, local media report

That's awesome. Start burning books publicly and we are having a blast...so to speak


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A joke from the command of the 59th Brigade of the AFU.

About 50-80 people have already died in this ditch near Nikolayev, but the genius leadership continues to put them there, like cattle, under our artillery.

This is a reference to what some comrades tell us, that the AFU has only geniuses in the General Staff, and that NATO has super brains with IQs of ~900.

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Traffic police officers will start detaining evaders - number plates will be recorded in the "Potok" system

The State Traffic Police will be detaining evasive drivers as well - license numbers of vehicles that failed to appear at the military enlistment office will be entered into the "Potok" identification system. According to media reports, the software will identify the evader's car, so traffic police officers will stop the car and take the owner to a police station or commissariat.

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Reporting on Kherson:

The enemy took no active action in either direction.

The enemy continued to look for weaknesses in our defenses using DRGs.

The enemy was harassing artillery and mortar fire on our positions.

In the morning up to two platoons moved to our positions from the area of Davydov Brod. It was timely detected and stopped by barrage fire, after which it scattered to the forest belts (who survived).

The Russian Air Forces and Artillery are doing an excellent job against the enemy in the Andreevsky and Nikolayevsky directions. The Cub UAV strike drones are actively engaged.

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While Russian forces continue massive strikes on the enemy's energy and military infrastructure, the Kiev regime is preparing for new attacks in the south and north.

A strike force of some 35-40,000 troops has been formed near the Kremenna-Svatove line. The same picture is seen in the south of Zaporizhzhya. There are reports of the release of Dnieper water at the hydroelectric power plant cascades. The Kakhovka dam is a possible target here. In addition, the enemy has not abandoned plans for a tactical landing near Energodar and an attempt to seize the Zaporizhzhya power plant.

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Lithuania has proposed introducing ration cards for families with children due to record price rises.

Presidential advisor Irena Segalovičienė (pictured) came up with such an initiative:

"A measure could be discussed so that each child in a family would be given a card to receive a monthly amount allocated for food."

She added that food prices in Lithuania have gone up by more than 30 percent, which is the highest rate in the EU.

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👆👆👆Food stamps?! In the 21st century...

Personal opinion, not of Slavyangrad.

I will say simply. Shut the valves. Period. Entire Europe is against us. We have no obligation to have any scruple towards them. They want us broken. Maybe they will succeed (doubt it) but we will bring them with us in that case. They are going down either way. I didn't have an impression that the ruling establishments of some strong European countries are entirely aware of the seriousness of the situation. Ukraine will fall, with or without their help. Why? Because, if it does not fall, tomorrow, that will be a NATO country with nuclear weapons on its territory, and all this will be for nothing. And you think they won't use it? The principle of nuclear deterrence is based on guaranteed mutual destruction. But not if one side fire first, with precision and fast. Missiles flying from Ukraine are a much bigger threat than missiles from the US. That's why Russia won't withdraw. Some obviously don't grasp it or are simply not an adequate selection for the places they are sitting in this game. The Caribbean crisis is a fairy tale compared to this.

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Thoughts on the SMO, the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and the events after Crimea (by Visionaire)—PART I (1/2)

After six months of steady Russian advances on Ukraine, in September, Ukraine managed to pull off its expected counter-offensive operation. Its goal was to push the allied forces out of occupied areas all along the front. Now, a month later, let us review the situation on the ground from a combined political, economic, and military perspective, in order to assess the situation as we are moving towards the winter season.

By the end of August, the allied forces had captured approximately 20% of Ukrainian territory, including major cities such as Kherson (290k), Melitopol (150k), Berdyansk (110k), Mariupol (450k), Severdonetsk (100k), Lysychansk (100k), Izium (50k). Huge parts of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Kharkiv oblasts came under Russian control. These areas comprise a significant part of Ukraine’s economy, since we are talking about human resources, major industrial sites, ports, logistic hubs, mineral deposits, and so on. Those rapid gains brought euphoria to the Allies as the special military operation was moving forward without much hindrance. But with the rapid territorial expansion new problems would soon arise. The frontline would eventually span a more than a thousand-kilometer line, which the limited Russian military grouping would not be able to defend.

From the beginning of the conflict it became obvious that Russian hopes of a quick victory over Ukraine were impossible, partly due to a lack of commitment and tactical/strategic blunders and miscalculations, but mostly due to the West’s position on the Ukrainian crisis. We first witnessed this after the failed diplomatic efforts in Constantinople, where some basic agreement was made but never implemented by Ukraine since the backers of the Kiev regime found it unacceptable. Zelensky was told to prepare for total war and was promised virtually unlimited support, financially and militarily. By the time Mariupol fell in May, it was obvious that if Ukraine wasn’t immediately assisted, it would fall and a decisive victory for Russia would be possible. At this point, we notice a huge increase in military equipment supplied to Ukraine, inflows of mercenaries and specialists from NATO countries as well as multiple waves of mobilization.

Moscow’s response to the growing aggressiveness of the West has been non-existent until recently. The lack of strategic foresight was not obvious until it was too late. The Allied forces continued the offensive during summer, making slow and steady gains. Meanwhile, Ukraine was able to hold the line while preparing reserves, and ammunition stockpiles, training new units and reinforcing decimated ones, getting accustomed to western weapons, and studying the fronts in preparation for their assault. The lack of targeting logistics and energy infrastructure allowed Ukraine to get ready without any serious issues, despite widespread corruption, economic decline, and low morale brought by defeat after defeat on the battlefield. Kiev’s lifeline had been established and Moscow did nothing to hinder it, for reasons we will delve into deeper at another time.

(continued in the next post)

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Thoughts on the SMO, the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and the events after Crimea (by Visionaire)—PART I (2/2)

Long story short, after a relatively quiet August, Ukraine attacked on the Kharkiv front with forces numerically superior both in terms of manpower and equipment. Despite their obsolete and costly tactics, the impossibility for Russia to hold the frontline against the opponent was evident.

Allied forces withdrew in an orderly manner, suffering minimal casualties and equipment losses. The truth of this statement can be found on the Ukrainian and western propaganda channels, where there were just few posts with visual confirmation of destroyed/captured personnel and equipment. It has become a habit for the information warriors on Kiev’s side to post every dead Russian, every prisoner, every vehicle, and even small arms captured, and trust me, they are but a minuscule portion of the relevant footage we have seen from the Russian side.

Still, with the backing of West’s media giants, the field of information warfare is definitely dominated by pro-Ukraine elements. It was rather easy to portray minor tactical victories of minimal strategic importance (with the exception of Izium maybe) as grand victories. But in reality, PR victories are just helping people to cope, create consent or gain more external support, things that rarely shape the conditions on the battlefield.

A good example would be Lyman, a town of around 20 thousand people which was under siege for three weeks. The way I read the facts, three weeks of demilitarization and denazification was a good price for it. Territories can and usually tend to change hands a lot of times during conflicts, but dead men can’t fight, blown ammunition can’t kill, and destroyed armor can’t be replaced on a whim.

Remember, all this stuff required to wage war is finite, and with the growing strain on Ukraine’s and the West’s industries, things are only bound to get worse. At some point we should make an estimate of how much money and lethal aid has been poured into the Ukrainian black hole, and if the payback was proportional. But we already know the answer to this last question, don’t we?

In the next parts, we are going to look into the way Moscow handled the situation, the critical events that shaped and forced the special military operation to evolve, and its prospects.

(continued tomorrow)

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The Biden administration says it is reviewing relations with Saudi Arabia because of Saudi's agreement with Russia to cut oil production under OPEC +, which was a very serious blow to both the United States and the Biden administration.

The US Congress is already discussing with might and main the possibility of depriving Saudi Arabia of the status of an ally of the United States, stopping the supply of new weapons and even withdrawing troops.
It is important to understand that Saudi Arabia has problems with the Democrats. In the event that the Republicans come to power, everything can change, since the royal house of Saud has always been closely associated with the Republican establishment.

But if you look at what we have now, it can be noted that the Russian Federation, by its actions, has achieved the fact that one of the most indestructible "alliances" in the Persian Gulf, which has existed for decades, has cracked.
This is to the question of how rapidly the recently familiar and unshakable world order is being transformed. Russia is certainly not an observer here, but one of the actors of the ongoing changes. The United States, trying to maintain the old world order, is increasingly watching how it flows like sand through clenched fingers.

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SLG OSINT Unit (TJ) comments on the Russian strikes Against Ukrainian targets over the past several days:

I would like to emphasize and elaborate the point made about civilian casualties. The level of accuracy of the strikes proved Russia's level of sophisticated weaponry in that the missiles fired were in some cases from warships in the Black sea, which is 833km away from Kiev.

This is critical in the assessment, as one degree or even minutes of a degree out over that distance would result in the missile missing the target by kilometres, never mind metres off target.

https://t.iss.one/Slavyangrad/13574

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@Rybar Comments on the Need for Escalation of Strikes

We saw the answer this afternoon from the announcements of new air defence equipment deliveries to Ukraine. The German IRIS-T has already arrived (https://t.iss.one/rybar/40064) and NASAMS is expected soon.

So, while the Ukrainian command has not had time to qualitatively reinforce the air defences, it is time to move on to priority targets, such as the 750kV substations which we discussed in detail with RT (https://t.iss.one/rybar/40035) earlier.

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