Good that Russia is reinforcing Kupiansk. Very VERY bad that they are using the 3rd Corps (symbol = upside down pyramid with a circle) that was meant to defend the Donetsk Front. There are 30K fresh troops on the border MUCH closer to Kupiansk then Donetsk. A VERY serious fuck up, IMO. We will soon see...

I hate to say it , but I HAVE to say it. Moving the new 3rd Corps from the Donetsk Front towards Kupiansk is an incredibly idiotic move. The... how can I put this nicely... stupid motherfuckers who ordered this have left the city of Donetsk seriously undermanned and virtually unguarded. There are still AT LEAST 20,000 ukrop troops on the Donetsk Front between Alexandrovka and Yasynuvataya. The 15,000 man 3rd Corps was meant for the Donetsk Front. It should have been here months ago, just got here in the last few days, and is now being sent to Kupiansk, 200 Km away. There are 30,000 fresh troops along the Russian border in the Kharkov region that and were meant for the Kharkov theater. Kupiansk is 50 Km from the Russian border, so WHY TF are 3rd Corps moving 200 Km and leaving Donetsk unguarded???

If ukrops even partially enter Donetsk, it will be a strategic game changer. To risk even the slightest possibility of a ukrop offensive into Donetsk is a level of incompetence that borders on treachery, if indeed that is not exactly what it is. I am in Donetsk, and will stay here. I am not scared, but I am pissed. I hope these fucking idiots know what they are doing more than they appear to. I hope I am wrong. We will soon see...

The question is not whether Russia will defeat Ukraine and their nazi masters. Russian victory is the only possible outcome. The question is at what cost? How many good people will die because of some 5 star idiot's mistakes. THAT is the question.

THIS is WTF I'm talking about.

I do not say that Russia will lose the war. That is simply impossible. But these are bullshit excuses. The Russians were smashed in the Kharkov area because of strategic mistakes and failures of the Russian Army General Staff.
their stupidity is beyond imagination and excuse. And thousands of innocent people will die because of it.

Not only have they been shamefully defeated, their idiocy continues - They have moved the 15,000 man 3rd Corps from Donetsk to Izium, which leaves Donetsk almost defenseless. If ukrops now advance on Donetsk, even get a small foothold inside the city, it will be a blunder of strategic proportions.

I am in Donetsk. I got back from Moscow yesterday. There is a serious shortage of motor fuel (propane and gasoline) and drinking water in the city. Ukrop shelling is heavy and continuous. Our home is in Petrovsky District, less than 10 Km from the front lines in Mari'inka. We have been staying for the last few months in a friend's apartment in the city center, about 20 Km from the ukrop frontline positions, about an hour's drive by tank. I do not think they can make it to the city center, but taking Donetsk is the ukrop's main strategic objective, and even if they get a small foothold inside the city, they will have tens of thousands of civilian human shields and can create another Mariupol scenario.

The question is not whether Russia will liberate Ukraine, that is a given, the question is how many soldiers and civilians will have to pay with their lives in the process for the fuckups of the General Staff. It looks now like the answer will be "Too many."

Я не говорю, что Россия проиграет войну. Это просто невозможно. Но это бредовые отговорки. Русские были разбиты в районе Харькова из-за стратегических ошибок и неудач Генерального штаба русской армии. Их глупость за гранью воображения и оправдания. И из-за этого погибнут тысячи невинных людей.

Мало того, что они потерпели позорное поражение, их идиотизм продолжается - они перебросили 15-тысячный 3-й корпус из Донецка в Изюм, оставив Донецк практически беззащитным. Если укропы сейчас наступят на Донецк, пусть даже небольшой плацдарм внутри города, это будет грубая ошибка стратегического масштаба.

Я в Донецке. Вчера вернулся из Москвы. В городе остро ощущается нехватка моторного топлива (пропан и бензин) и питьевой воды. Обстрел Укропа сильный и непрерывный. Наш дом находится в Петровском районе, менее чем в 10 км от линии фронта в Марьинке. Последние несколько месяцев живем в квартире у друга в центре города, примерно в 20 км от передовых позиций укропов, примерно в часе езды на танке. Не думаю, что они смогут пробиться в центр города, но взять Донецк - главная стратегическая задача укропа, и даже если они закрепятся внутри города, то у них будут десятки тысяч гражданских живых щитов, и они смогут создать еще один Мариуполь сценарий.

Вопрос не в том, освободит ли Россия Украину, это данность, вопрос в том, сколько солдат и мирных жителей заплатят при этом своими жизнями за долбоебов Генштаба. Теперь похоже, что ответ будет "Слишком много".

#YURI Here we give you quite bitter and sarcastic comment of Yury Podolyaka:

It turns out that it was not a defeat at Kharkov, but a "cunning plan”?

“The official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the situation in the Kharkiv direction: “In order to achieve the objectives of the SMO, it was decided to regroup troops in the areas of Balakleya and Izyum to increase efforts in the Donetsk direction. Within three days, an operation was carried out to curtail and transfer the Izyumsko-Balakleya group of troops to the territory of the DPR.

A number of distracting and demonstration events were held with the designation of the actual actions of the troops. In order to prevent damage to the troops of the Russian Federation, powerful air, artillery and missile strikes were inflicted on the enemy.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than two thousand Ukrainian and foreign fighters, as well as over 100 armored vehicles and artillery pieces in three days.

#YURI comment. Smart people told me yesterday, Yur, that you are spreading panic, this is not a defeat, this is all a very cunning plan. And I didn't believe, and in vain.

That is, if I understand what has been said correctly, and I can't HELP BUT BELIEVE the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, right? It turns out that everything that happened from September 7 to September 10 was just a very cunning plan to withdraw the Russian army from Balakleya, Izyum and Kupyansk. It is a pity that hundreds of thousands of people who trusted us were not informed about this plan, and the Kharkov Administration, apparently was also not privy to the details of this plan, and therefore it had to escape last night from Kupyansk, as they say “with only pants they wore”, and the Russian army, as I understand it, in full accordance with the plan, left a large amount of fuel and munitions, which is now taken over (as I should understand) in accordance with the same plan, the APU uses for its intended purpose against us”.

Did I miss anything? Did I understand everything correctly in Konashenkov's message?

But in 1942, the Sovinformburo was more honest (from June 25, 1942): "June 25, in the Kharkov direction, our troops fought the advancing enemy troops. After hard fighting, our units left Kupyansk."

PS By the way, if I were the MoD of the Russia, I would have already started preparing a speech for Gen. Konashenkov about the plan of the abandonment of the north-eastern parts of the Kharkov region (it will have to be done soon).

PP.S. And the residents of Kherson asked me very much that when the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation begins to put into effect a plan for the planned withdrawal of its troops from Kherson to Donbass (naturally "to achieve its goals"), let the Ministry of Defense take the trouble of warning them about it, well, at least a couple of days in advance. That's all I can say about the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation regarding the situation in the Kharkov direction.

Well, brothers and sisters. Are you depressed? Shouted? Have a fight? Lost in spirit?
I get it, I agree, it's been a tough day. Very difficult, and go, not the last. And I also read your letters.

But now it has probably become clearer, clearer to you, what it was like for our grandfathers and grandmothers in the Great Patriotic War. What they felt, what they experienced. How they suffered. What was it like then to live, fight, believe in victory, against all odds.

How many days have they had like today? For four years of war? That's it.

Everything has ever been. What one person can overcome, another can overcome. And we are capable. It will be difficult, I already wrote this today. Very difficult in places. But we don't really have a choice.

More precisely, it is simple: either give up or fight. And this is not only the choice of the country, politicians. This is a personal choice for each of us.

https://t.me/rybar/38580

Ukraine Announces ‘Filtration’ of Citizens

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) announced that it had begun conducting a “filtration” of civilians in Balakleya, the town in Kharkov Region reportedly taken by forces of the Kiev government.

“The purpose of the measures is to prevent the subversive activities of the Russians and their allies,” the SBI saidon social media. “The time of reckoning has come.”

Ukraine had charged the town’s mayor with treason in April, accusing him of collaborating with Russian troops and helping them distribute humanitarian aid. 

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Life in Donetsk...

A market in Donetsk was shelled today. Look at the reaction of the two men on the far left. The just walk around the rubble and continue their conversation, as if nothing happened. Donetsk people have balls of steel. Or maybe they are just used to being shelled. Or both.

By @vrogov:

They are at war with us, and we are conducting NWO.

We are blown up and shot, but we do not hit the GUR and the SBU.

The enemy is at the gates, and here "everything is going according to plan" ... According to NATO's plan!

It's time to end this approach. Otherwise, we will be crushed and destroyed.

The enemy makes no distinction between the liberated territories and the rest of Russia. In the global confrontation, the weak are beaten and finished off. This is an existential war. Both for the West and for us.

The time for half-measures has passed. It's time to fight in earnest.

I hope they hear us.

Vladimir Rogov

@russianhead

Reports of ukrops taking Donetsk airport are pure bullshit. Maybe I will go there myself tomorrow...

@Boris_Rozhin (ColonelCassad) reports:

1—There are reports from the field that the enemy continues to amass infantry (including foreign mercenaries) and equipment near Ugledar. It is possible that in the next 24 hours or later it will launch an offensive near Pavlovka, Yegorovka and Nikolskyy.

2—In the next week, in addition to developing and consolidating the success of the breakthrough at Balakleya, the enemy is likely to try to take to other directions—Kherson and Krivoy Rog, Ugledar and possibly Artemivsk—on an emotional high, counting on the loss of our spirits.

3—The Nazis report that they have seized Balakleya's interim police officer, as well as several teachers in Kupiansk and Balakleya.

4—Wagner PMC and the 3rd Brigade of the DNR army tonight took the town of Majorskoye near Gorlovka.

Finally video proof that the Ukrainian claims of advancement in the area of the Donetsk airport are fake.