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❗️❗️❗️ Germany: Special forces broke into the apartment of pro-Russian peaceful activists and wounded one of them!

Yesterday, Sunday, Max Schlund and Yelena Kolbasnikova led a procession for peace in Cologne. The cortege, which, on the eve of the action, caused a huge resonance in the media, riddled with hatred and Russophobia. The regional media and local politics in Cologne openly suppressed any peace efforts. Even the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, joined this cannonade of hatred!

On Monday morning, a special police group broke into the apartment of Max and Elena. During the assault, Max was seriously wounded.

Both peace activists are accused of violating the Military Weapons Control Act. The purpose of this simple manoeuvre is to discredit and criminalize the supply of humanitarian aid to the Donbass. Max and Elena have supported this humanitarian aid for many years. Several trucks with clothes, medicines, walkers and other humanitarian goods have already been sent to Donbass.

❗️In any case, these two peace activists will not be intimidated by new arbitrariness. On 09.09 in Berlin and 07.10 in Ramstein, demonstrations have already been announced critically evaluating the military policy of the ruling parties.

https://www.t-online.de/region/koeln/id_100228556/koeln-razzia-bei-elena-kolbasnikova-nach-russen-korso-.html
Source: Alina Lipp

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Yelena is a great street fighter from Cologne (Germany)
Fight against Russophobie.
I have met her a many times at Demos.
Airbase Ramstein „Ami go Home“
Aachen „Selenzky gets the Karlsprize“
and of course in Cologne, where she lives.
By the way, she is Ukraine citizen .
Last Sunday, 20.08’23 she organized a Car Korso in Cologne.
Because Ukrainiens celebrated yet again their culture with Azow flags and Bandera bullshit on streets.
Look what „good old Germany“ , mother of democracy, have done to her ….
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Destruction of Ukrainian boats in the Black Sea

🔻At around 4 am on August 22, a boat with a landing group of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine was destroyed by a Kh-31 guided missile from a Su-30SM aircraft of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet.

It is noteworthy in this situation that the craft was located 38 km west of Cape Tarkhankut. The fact that the landing force got so far from the Ukrainian coast indicates preparations for possible operations in the Crimea.

🔻After a couple of hours, the onboard armament of the MiG-29 fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed another Willard-type boat supplied by the American government for the needs of the Ukrainian fleet.

Willard was discovered 40 km east of Snake Island. What was he doing there? Apparently, the Ukrainian boat was transporting personnel to one of the oil rigs, which, apparently, is used for the needs of the GUR.

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Translated from Rybar
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Footage of the detection and destruction by a Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft in the Black Sea, east of Zmeiny/Snake Island, of a US-made high-speed military boat Willard Sea Force with a landing group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on board.

▫️ The high-speed surface target actively maneuverer, tried to evade fighter fire, but was successfully hit by an aircraft cannon.

Translated from Russian MOD
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The Ukrainian authorities completely banned foreign journalists from being on the front line due to the failure of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

According to the Swiss publication Le Temps, the exception is correspondents who have written permission from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.

It is noted that the directive to restrict access to the front line came into force without prior warning.

Presumably, such measures are associated, among other things, with a high level of losses among Ukrainian personnel.

Translated from MediaPost
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In Kiev, the construction of a new military cemetery with an area of ​​266 hectares has begun. In the spring, on the whole, the construction of a 100-hectare cemetery with a capacity of 250,000 people was completed, and the reburial of the bodies began.
With the construction of a new cemetery, it became possible to bury about 600 thousand more people.

The new cemetery is 7 hectares larger than the historic Arlington military cemetery in the US.

Estimates confirming the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the level of 1 million people are being confirmed with each new step taken by Ukraine.

Translated from Militarist
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All Ukrainians should be prepared for mobilization. Minister of Defence of Ukraine Reznikov said that looking at veterans, every Ukrainian should understand that tomorrow he will be in their place.

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Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova:

I can reassure them: everything will come back. And Western Europe will, unfortunately, bleed from domestic terrorism. Because if the official authorities consider terrorism to be the norm, it will become it at their home.

So Maria Zakharova commented to Izvestia on the statement of German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbeck and her Estonian counterpart that attacks on civilian objects in Moscow by Ukrainian drones are completely legal.

"These are what the West calls 'sponsors of terrorism,'" the diplomat noted.

Translated from IZ.RU
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BRICS Currency Could Become Game Changer For Dollar-Dominated Financial System

While more and more countries seek to break away from the international banking system focused on the US dollar, creating a common BRICS currency is likely to top the agenda of the South African summit and spark many discussions and hopes. RT correspondent Donald Courter explains.

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Muammar Gaddafi at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in 2009:

«...Perhaps tomorrow there will be fish flu, because capitalist companies produce viruses to produce and sell vaccines. This is a very shameful and bad ethics. Vaccinations and medicines should not be sold."

Who needs it, very quickly drew attention to these words of the Libyan leader. A year and a half later, a colour revolution was organized in Libya, and Gaddafi was killed.

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🇲🇩 Another opinion poll is being discussed in Moldova on the attitude of citizens to the prospects of joining NATO: more than 60% of respondents are against joining the alliance and only 28% would support such an idea

The study was conducted by the NGO Institute for European Politics and Reforms (IPRE), which receives Western grants and cooperates with EU structures.

🔻At the same time, the head of the Moldovan mission to NATO and the country's ambassador to Belgium, Viorel Cibotaru, claims .html) that the negative attitude of the population towards the alliance is the result of a “hybrid war waged by the Russian Federation”.

According to the diplomat, the Moldovan authorities need to launch an ideological campaign to change the attitude towards NATO among citizens. The ruling PAS party is already fulfilling this mandate and stubbornly criticizes the neutrality provision of the Constitution.

🔻Despite the negative attitude of the population towards NATO, the Moldovan authorities are strengthening cooperation with the alliance, carrying out a consistent militarization of the country and increasing the military budget in an unfavourable economic situation.

However, the Maia Sandu administration is doing everything contrary to public opinion: the citizens of Moldova, for example, do not support leaving the CIS, but this does not stop official Chisinau from breaking any ties with Russia.

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You can't say it better

Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova Veronica Dragalin: "If things in Moldova "do not end well", I can always leave for the USA."

She further clarified her thought to the silent audience: she has an American passport, and this is her advantage over other prosecutors.

Sandu's regime is all like this: everyone with foreign passports and plans to leave after the country's complete failure.

Translated from Maria Zakharova
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Polackistan admitted to losing 10,000 active military personnel. The real number, was more than 54000, a year ago: https://youtu.be/bzSB-gGRnrc

Footage from the centre of Donetsk, which has been under shelling by the Armed Forces since morning.

Translated from RIA Novosti
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Sorry: F-16 Fighter Jets Won’t Win The Ukraine War
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by Daniel L. Davis is a Senior Fellow for Defense Priorities and a former Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army who deployed into combat zones four times. He is the author of “The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America.”

It’s not that the F-16 is a bad platform or that it wouldn’t perform ably. It is a solid piece of offensive weaponry. But there are too few of them, too few Ukrainian pilots who can master the F-16 in the near term, too many logistical and tactical shortcomings, and Russia’s countermeasures to the Fighting Falcon are too effective.
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Changing the Game
Early in the war, there was the delivery of Stinger air defense missiles, Javelin anti-tank missiles, and tactical drone systems. Then came the contribution of the 155mm howitzers M777, which the Ukrainian Minister of Defense called a “game changer.”

Then the “game changer” of HIMARS rocket launchers was introduced, then the IRIS-T air defense system, the “game changer” Challenger 2 tanks from the U.K., “game changer” Leopard 2 tanks from Germany, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Stryker Fighting Vehicles from the United States, and “game changer” Patriot Air Defense Systems. Yet none of them, individually or collectively, have produced a game-changing effect. The acquisition of F-16s will be no different.

First, the F-16 has been operating for over a half-century, initially entering service in 1979. The versions that will be made available to Ukraine will not be the newest, most modernized versions, but among the oldest. The Dutch, for example, will donate the very F-16 aircraft they had already designated as obsolete and began phasing them out (before upgrading to F-35s).

Second, aside from the considerable pilot training issues, the F-16 requires significant infrastructure support, highly trained maintenance personnel, substantial maintenance after each combat flight (for which large inventories of spare parts must be on hand), and the construction of special runways. All of these requirements have long lead times to produce and are costly to maintain.

Third, the F-16 is a solid aircraft but can only reach its full potential when operating as part of an integrated air and air defense system. Further, and perhaps most critically, it is vulnerability to Russian air defense systems, such as the S-300 or S-400, and would be at a disadvantage in air-to-air combat against Russia’s SU-35 fighters.

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Footage from the crash site of the UAV in the suburbs

Eyewitnesses from the Starbeevo microdistrict of Khimki near Moscow share footage of a downed drone — its fragments scattered near a warehouse. It looks like emergency services are already on the scene.

Translated from Readovka
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Ukraine’s Powerful 82nd Brigade Has A Serious Weakness: Its Lightweight Mineclearing Vehicles
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When the powerful brigade finally rolled into action with some of its 14 British-made Challenger 2 tanks, 40 ex-German Marder tracked infantry fighting vehicles and 90 Stryker wheeled IFVs, it immediately began losing vehicles.

This week, the 82nd wrote off at least two of its 20 or so M1132 Engineer Squad Vehicles—mineclearing versions of its 18-ton, eight-wheel Stryker infantry-carriers. The M1132 features a set of hull-mounted minerollers that can detonate buried mines before the vehicle triggers them.

It’s unclear what struck the M1132s and whether the crews survived. It’s possible the vehicle were victims of the same mines their crews were trying to clear. It’s also possible they got caught in artillery barrages or were hunted down by drones. In any event, the 82nd already has lost 10 percent of its mineclearing Strykers.
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The lead unit for the Robotyne assault, the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade, by then had lost at least 25 of its 99 American-made M-2 tracked infantry fighting vehicles. The 82nd Brigade apparently joined the fight in order to bolster the flagging 47th.

It should come as no surprise that the two M1132s are the 82nd’s first confirmed losses. The brigade likely is sending M1132s ahead of its main assault columns in order to clear lanes through Russian minefields around Robotyne. With safe paths through the mines, the 82nd’s Strykers, Marders and Challenger 2s can push deeper into Robotyne, or bypass and cut off the city’s Russian garrison.

It’s vital but dangerous work, especially for the two crew and up to nine sappers who ride in the lightly-armored M1132. Most military mineclearing vehicles are built on heavy, thickly-armored tank hulls—but not the M1132. U.S. firm General Dynamics Land Systems designed the Strkyer to be transportable by air. In other words, light.

That makes it vulnerable to mine blasts, artillery fragments, anti-tank missiles and even heavy machine guns. The same lightness also means the addition of a two-ton set of minerollers significantly burdens an M1132, especially cross-country.
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The Engineer Squad Vehicle’s minerollers “greatly impact ESV mobility,” Thornton wrote in Armor, the Army’s official tank journal. Weighed down as they attempted to complete a breach through enemy defenses, the sappers were easy targets.

There was just one way to keep the engineers alive and safeguard the mineclearing operation—and that was to target a spot along the fortified front line with minimal enemy manning. “When we set conditions for breaching out of contact, the sappers lived,” Thornton wrote.

That’s easier said than done, of course. It’s hard to stage scores of armored vehicles and hundreds of troops without the enemy noticing and shifting forces to meet the attackers.

The alternative to sneaking forward is to push the defenders away from their berms, trenches and bunkers just long enough for the sappers to do their explosive work.
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All that is to say, the 82nd Brigade probably is clearing minefields around Robotyne while under fire. And for the brigade’s lightweight engineering vehicles, that’s extremely dangerous.

Here’s the good news. The United States has pledged 189 Strykers to Ukraine’s war effort—more than enough to replace the 82nd’s losses and equip additional brigades. And if those 189 Strykers run out, no problem: the U.S. Army has hundreds more Strykers in storage.*

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* Well, there is no problem to replace the vehicles, there are lots of them in the storage. But what about Ukrainian soldiers? Who cares. It will continue until the last Ukrainian.
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Ministry of Defence of Russia:

"The third UAV was suppressed by means of electronic warfare and, having lost control, collided with the building of the Moscow City complex under construction"

⭐️The desire of the enemy to damage the buildings of Moscow-City looks very strange from the point of view of propaganda. To be honest, the majority of the population does not identify this complex of buildings with the life of the country, it is not for nothing that there are so many jokes about the workers and residents of this complex.

It is clear that some federal departments (such as the Ministry of Digital Development) are located in the buildings, but they are also exclusively civilian.

The only thing that the enemy uses is the crooked messages of the official departments responsible for defence: in an attempt to overly smooth out all the sharp corners and issue a "stabilizing press release", some messages look very strange, as they diverge from the objective picture.

In general, the Kiev regime has once again shown that it is a terrorist one, and the leadership of the SBU and the GUR should be liquidated.

Translated from Two Majors
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