Translated from Oleg Tzarev:

I talked to a representative of one analytical center. He is sure that there will be a military coup in Ukraine in the autumn, and that a military junta headed by Zaluzhny will rule Ukraine in the fall.

I think he's wrong again. The last time he lost a bet to me was when Zelensky won the election. After the first round of elections, when Zelensky went to the second round, my partner in the dispute continued to insist that Zelensky would not win. I offered to double the stakes. They shook hands. I still haven't received the prize.

Well, no kidding, in fact, Zaluzhny has the same rating as Zelensky, but a small anti-rating. Therefore, Zaluzhny has every chance to win the next election. Zelensky will always be remembered that he knew that the war would begin and hid it from the population. And Danilov's words that Zelensky categorically never made compromises with Russia, over time, will not look like a plus to Zelensky, but a minus. After all, because of his position, the war began. Nevertheless, I think that the situation in Ukraine is being overly dramatized again. I've been hearing the same thing from the same people for eight years: that Ukraine will definitely not survive this winter. I think that the three billion dollars a month that the West gives Ukraine will be enough for now. Of course, it will not be a comfortable life. Rather, just poor. But there will be no revolution yet.
The argument that if Zelensky starts shooting Zaluzhny, then Zaluzhny will give an order and Zelensky will be taken out of the President's Office, I accept. But Zelensky is not a fool and he will not take off Zaluzhny in the forehead, and the Americans will not give him.
We should not forget who is the moderator of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Real moderators do not need an illegitimate change of power in Ukraine.

During the twenty years of the war between North and South Vietnam, the government changed eight times in South Vietnam. The Americans changed their leaders in order to reset the negative from the incessant terrible war. There is no doubt that they will act the same way in Ukraine. The new manager will start from scratch with a high rating. But for this, the rating of the previous head must fall. And until the fall, Zelensky's rating will not fall for sure.

Zelensky's rating would definitely fall during peace negotiations. Zelensky's team has trapped itself by raising the stakes so much that no one in Ukraine will accept negotiations now. In Ukraine, the majority is still confident that Ukraine is winning. Negotiations will be perceived as a betrayal and an attempt to steal victory from Ukraine.

This is a trap, because without negotiations Zelensky is doomed to military and economic defeat. He receives electricity because Russia does not disconnect Ukraine from the NPP. Exports grain from Odessa by permission of Russia. Even in the office, he is sitting alive because Russia does not hit Kiev. But Zelensky still cannot start peace negotiations. Even if the UK and the US allowed it.

To start negotiations, we need some kind of major defeat of Ukraine. For example, the capture of Nikolaev and Odessa by the Russian Army, or simultaneously Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov. A major defeat will be a cold shower for Ukrainian society. The changed public opinion will allow peace negotiations to begin. But after the negotiations, which in any case will consolidate the defeat and will be perceived by society as a defeat, it will be necessary to change the head of Ukraine. That's when Zaluzhny will be needed.
Taking into account the slow pace of the offensive of our troops, autumn is a very optimistic period. Zelensky will not leave without a major military defeat. So in any case, the outcome of the confrontation will be decided at the front. No one will give us gifts like the fall of the Zelensky regime and the military coup in Kiev.

The Civil-Military Administration of the Kherson region reported that this morning in Kherson, during a small-arms battle, the enemy's reconnaissance sabotage group was eliminated.

🏗 Footage of road bridge construction that connects liberated settlements across Seversky Donets River in Lugansk People's Republic. The construction of the bridge was carried out by a logistics unit of the Central Military District troops.

▫️During the retreat, nationalists blew up a reinforced concrete road bridge across Seversky Donets River. Russian servicemen of the Central Military District promptly erected a temporary pontoon-bridge crossing. The work to erect the bridge was complicated by continuous artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but the task set for the Russian servicemen was completed on time.

@mod_russia_en

Somebody is blowing up bridges, while somebody is building them up.
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Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on August 29, 2022 from Rybar

▪️The Russian Armed Forces launched several missile strikes on the location of the Kraken nationalist battalion in the vicinity of the Kharkiv regional council building.

▪️Artillery duels continue in Zaporizhzhia Region: Russian forces hit enemy emplacements in Nikopol, Marhanets’ and Chervonohryhorivka in response to shelling of Zaporizhzhia NPP and Energodar.

▪️In the Kryvyi Rih-Mykolaiv direction, Ukrainian units attempted a massive offensive in several sections of the front.

▪️In the Vysokopillya sector, the AFU attacked Ol’hyne and Vysokopillya, attempting to block the Russian Armed Forces in the populated areas, but Russian heavy artillery fire disrupted the Ukrainian troops’ plans.

▪️In the Andriivka sector, the AFU managed to break through the DPR People’s Militia defences, advance several kilometres towards the village of Sukhyi Stavok and occupy the locality. At the same time, the AFU advanced towards Lozove with at least 10 military vehicles.

▪️In the Snihurivka direction the enemy attempted to counterattack in the direction of Blahodatne but retreated after suffering losses in personnel and equipment.

▪️The AFU launched an offensive from the Posad-Pokrovs'ke direction, but the Russian Armed Forces managed to discern the Ukrainian troops' plan and covered them with artillery. The AFU lost several Su-25 attack aircraft, more than five IFVs, and about five tanks.

▪️After a massive artillery barrage, the AFU, with at least 100 personnel and 20 armoured vehicles, temporarily occupied Pravdyne, but later the village was liberated by Russian forces.

▪️The AFU made an attempt to advance to Oleksandrivka from Lupareve. Having lost three pieces of heavy equipment, Ukrainian units retreated to the starting line.

Ukrainian channel is concerned about the unconfirmed article from Washington Post on the supply of the Iranian UAVs to Russia:
"But this is no longer good. Iran sent the first batch of drones to Russia on August 19 for use in Ukraine. It is reported by The Washington Post.

Previously, the Russians want to hunt HIMARS with the help of drones. And not only."

Hopefully that is true. Apparently, no Iranian authority neither Russian MOD are going to confirm it officially, and they may have reasons for it.
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The EU countries discussed the creation of a mission to train the Ukrainian military even before the start of hostilities, Borrel said.
- News from Sputnik

I would also remind that the notorious Lend-leas from US to Ukraine was introduced to the US Congress on the 19 of January, more than a month before the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine.
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""Let's put it bluntly: even a special military operation is being carried out so that World War III does not happen,"
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with the French TV channel LCI:

"Why? For one simple reason: if Ukraine received support and joined NATO, and then one of the crazy rulers of Ukraine would launch a military operation against Russian territory, for example, against Crimea, it would mean the beginning of the third World War.""

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Former Virginia State Senator, Col. Richard H. Black (ret.) on murder of Dugina

"[...]Just this week, Daria Dugina, the daughter of an activist, a pro-Russian activist, was murdered in Moscow, apparently by a Ukrainian assassin who killed her using a bomb that exploded under her car, ripping her body to pieces and burning her to death. Since the United States has admitted being involved in targeting 13 Russian Generals for assassination in Ukraine, it is possible that the CIA provided the targeting information to go after this young woman.

Apparently, they were actually targeting her father. He’s an established pro-Russian pro-war journalist. And they wanted to show that they have the ability to go right into Moscow and to carry out a mafia style hit. So, they did it. I would not be surprised if the CIA provided the targeting information to go after her. It was just a last-minute switch of automobiles that caused the daughter to die instead of the father."

#Dugina

🎯As always, to the point.
Hear from Scott Ritter - former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector on Ukrainian attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear powerplant.

While some Western countries call for peace, the Pentagon has signed a $182-million deal with an American arms manufacturer to produce advanced surface-to-air missile systems for the Ukrainian military IN LATE 2024.

Guess they plan to continue this war?

https://twitter.com/fiorellaisabelm/status/1564098713819168768?s=21&t=zvrfDPbrdINYxHGt0uPrXw

Translated from Vatfor:

Zaporizhia NPP, like other generating facilities in Russian-controlled parts of Zaporizhia, Kherson and Kharkiv regions, remains part of the Unified Energy System of Ukraine and operates in accordance with Ukrainian dispatching orders.

That is, a dispatcher sitting somewhere in Zaporizhie or Dnepropetrovsk issues the usual commands to ZNPP to work according to the planned schedule, adjust the frequency and flow, issue one or another amount of generation, and so on.

Think about it: after each Ukrainian shelling, when the station is disconnected from the network, the station personnel, at the command of the Ukrainian dispatcher, restarts the reactors, restores generation and gives current to the network, including to Russian-controlled territories: Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk, and so on.

This will continue until the network is physically severed, as in its time between Ukraine and Crimea. Restoring a broken network is long and difficult, and while each side hopes to shift the front line in its favor, the current situation suits everyone.

A defeated column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which tried to advance in the Vysokopole-Potemkino area in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.

T-72 Polish, apparently, with thermal imagers.

More footage of the Ukrainian offensive. Another destroyed Polish tank and whatever else was hiding in the bushes.

Kherson. Ukrainian counteroffensive again.

What possibly could go wrong when a column of armoured vehicles is crossing flat open terrain, while being followed by UAV...

The Battle for Kherson: the situation at the Andreevsky site as of 18.30 on August 31, 2022

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a counteroffensive

▪️After inflicting massive fire damage by barrel and rocket artillery and aircraft on mechanized groups of the AFU, which has been thrown to the southern shore of Ingulets River through the pontoon crossing in Andreevka, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a counteroffensive.

▪️Russian troops counterattack on the accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern outskirts of Sukhoi Stavka and Kostroma. From the Bruskinskoye Ukrainian forces were throw away.

▪️At the same time, fire damage continues to be inflicted on the AFU units in Lozove and Plotnitsky tract. Attempts to establish another crossing are being stopped.

Translated from Rybar

🤡🇩🇪Scholz called anti-Russian sanctions effective

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes (the sanctions of Western states against Russia are effective and correct.

According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin was surprised by the unity of Europe on this issue.

"Western sanctions are effective and correct. They are an important means of increasing pressure on Russia. Because the costs for Moscow are significant. The longer this goes on, the greater the damage to Russia will be.

For me, the exit of Germany (from among the countries supporting the anti-Russian sanctions policy) is impossible. Europe's resolute and united response to this war surprised Putin. He didn't expect this," Scholz said.

He acknowledged that sanctions also affect the German economy, but stressed that a support program was launched for companies that spend large amounts of energy.

According to the Chancellor, the German economy is strong, and the government is trying to help those in need in any way it can.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/kanzler-im-interview-2079762