🇷🇺 Brief summary of Putin's address on 09/21/22:

1) Partial mobilization has been announced: first of all, those who served in the RF Armed Forces have combat experience, etc. + those who are in the reserve. Mobilization activities start today

2) Mobilized receive the status of contractors and the corresponding salary

3) Russia will do everything possible to hold referendums in the liberated territories for their entry into the Russian Federation (LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions)

4) Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons and any other means of mass destruction in case of a threat to territorial integrity. “This is not a bluff,” according to Putin.

🇷🇺⚡Russian TV channels are now showing an interview with Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.

He said that "Russia is at war with the collective West," since Ukraine itself "has long since run out of weapons."

The referendums.

Classic poker.

All-in.

Putin is calling the US/NATO bluff.

Right after the Samarkand Spirit.

And right before the arrival of General Winter.

No wonder they are petrified.

Putin is going for the kill.

Killin' em softly is over.

❗️Sergei Shoigu underlined the main goals of mobilization

The line of contact in the special operation zone is more than 1,000 km, it must be controlled, the Minister of Defense said.

“All this must be consolidated, these territories must be controlled. Mobilized measures are needed first of all for this.”

"⚡️Defence Minister Shoigu Breaks Down Military Mobilization

📍300,000 reservists will be called up - roughly 1% of the mobilisation resource available
📍70 military and 200+ civilian satellites, entire NATO alliance, working in the interests of Kiev
📍Ukraine mobilised nearly 300,000 people - but has lost almost half its army
📍Def Min says Russia has lost 5,937 personnel since start of operation
📍Conscription will not impact students - only those within reserve army or with required expertise or experience"

--RT

🇷🇺❗️Current conscripts will not be sent to the Special Operation zone, Shoigu said

Military service is compulsory in Russia, for men who turn 18 years of age. This group is not experienced enough to be mobilized.

Partial mobilization will apply to A) those in the reserve B) have combat experience C) have the military specialty required by the army. D) there is no talk and will not be about mobilization of recent conscripts and students.

A total of 300,000 reservists will be called up.

Official Special Operation losses:
Ukraine - 61, 207
Russia - 5,937

Figures do not include DPR/LPR militia, Rosgvardia (Russian national guard) or private military contractors.

T.me/Inessaschannel

According to Wagner, Zelensky, afraid for the security of his cocaine stash, has ordered a massive regrouping of the UAF so they can blow a decisive strike on Russian forces before the reserves arrive, and mobilization and acceleration for the training of Ukrainian forces is taking place across the entire country, even in Kyyyyyyyyyyyiv itself.

◾Nine-year-old girl Iman Ali from Latakia (Syria) sent her teddy bear to orphans from Donetsk, which was presented to her by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

◾Last year, young Iman wrote a letter to the Russian leader thanking him for the help given to her country.

◾In response, the president gave her a large teddy bear, a doll and a toy dove as a symbol of peace. Now the president's gift has gone to the Donbass, because the local children, according to the Syrian child, now need it more than she does.

🇱🇻🇷🇺 Latvia will support mobilization in the Russian Federation in a peculiar way

For security reasons, Latvia will not issue humanitarian visas to Russian citizens who avoid mobilization, the Foreign Minister reports.

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https://youtu.be/lnycA51zGU4?t=874

"Vladimir Putin must leave Ukraine and pay “proper recompense” for his invasion before he can ever return to the international fold", the Prime Minister has said.

Liz Truss made the comment ahead of launching an update to the integrated review of defence and foreign policy to counteract the threat of authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-vladimir-putin-ukraine-prime-minister-russia-b1026979.html

Some initial thoughts on Russia’s partial mobilization:

First and foremost, this represents a new phase in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, namely the fact that Russia is fighting the NATO alliance as opposed to just Ukraine.

To respond to this threat, Russia is creating a new reality of its own, namely to transition from a fight that had Russia working with allies and operating on foreign soil, to Russia defending the motherland. The partial mobilization is being conducted in parallel with political referendums that will see the Donbas and other Ukrainian territory be absorbed into the Russian federation.

This absorption will fundamentally alter the legal foundations of the conflict. While the referendums currently being considered only impact lands under current Russian occupation, Putin spoke of the need to free all of “Novo Rossiya” from the yoke of Ukrainian tyranny.

I believe the absorption of Ukrainian territory will be expanded at some point to include Odessa and Kharkov.

The mobilization of 300,000 men, as well as the announced goal of bringing all other units up to the standards of the Russian army, will not happen overnight. Russia will be forming new units, and this takes time.

I believe we will see a strategic pause while Russia completes its partial mobilization. This pause will be marked by heavy fighting as Ukraine will seek to disrupt the referendums and alter the geography of the battlefield. But once Russia consolidates the new territory politically, and accrues the necessary military capacity, I believe we are looking at the physical destruction of the Ukrainian nation as the endgame for this conflict.

I also believe there is nothing NATO can do to alter this reality.

More to follow.

No decisions on changing special operation’s status, imposing martial law — Kremlin

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin backed a proposal by the Defense Ministry and the General Staff on a nationwide partial mobilization and signed the relevant decree
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⚡BREAKING NEWS⚡

Over 75 Ukrainian soldiers KILLED and 9 units of military equipment DESTROYED by Russian strike in Artyomovsk, Donetsk region, 12 Ukrainian ammo and weapons warehouses DESTROYED by Russian strikes in Kharkov, East Ukraine, and Ukrainian artillery DAMAGES water pipe pumping to 5th power unit of Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, South Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry.

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