""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

Lavrov:Globalization pursued its sole goal of ensuring the interests, first of all, of the United States and its satellites. Now we can talk about it directly.

Well, Rybar, who is very accurate in presenting data has shown the map of that notorious Ukrainian offensive.

You don't have to be a military expert to understand how bad Ukrainian positions are. That is a consequence of a military action taken for the political reasons. Offensive at any cost, just to demonstrate activity to the Western masters. It was stressed out in the statement from the Russian MOD, that this offensive was started under the orders of Zelensky and also, there were some indication that it was opposed by the Ukrainian military command.
#TransFormator

When one picture replaces hundred words...
From our Chinese comrades.

Details of the landing of the Ukrainian landing at the Zaporizhzhye NPP from the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Ministry of Defense provides details of the landing of the Ukrainian landing in the area of Zaporizhzhya NPP:

“Today, at about 6:00 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops landed in seven boats on the coast of the Kakhov reservoir 3 km northeast of the Zaporizhzhya NPP and attempted to seize the power plant.

Measures have been taken to destroy the enemy, including the use of army aviation.

In addition, from 8.00 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been artillery shelling of the meeting place of the IAEA mission in the area of Vasilievka and Zaporizhzhya NPP. Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit.

The provocation of the Kiev regime is aimed at disrupting the arrival of the IAEA working group at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, ”the Ministry of Defense emphasized.


Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1662013334

The Ministry of Defense released new data on the situation at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, where today the Kiev regime made an attempt to provoke a major provocation to disrupt the arrival of the IAEA working group at the ZAES:

Ukrainian artillery is firing at the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP and the meeting place of the IAEA mission with Russian specialists in the area of Vasilievka. Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit of the Zaporizhzhya NPP.

In addition, at 6:20 Moscow time on the coast of the Kakhov reservoir, three kilometers northeast of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the Kiev regime landed two sabotage groups of the Armed Forces with a total of up to 60 people on seven high-speed motor boats.

The saboteurs were blocked by the units of the Federal Guard, which guarded the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, and approached them for strengthening by the units of the Russian armed forces.

Currently, the destruction of the sabotage group of the Armed Forces with the involvement of army aviation helicopters is underway.

Around 7.00 Moscow time, units of the Russian armed forces stopped the attempt to land in a few kilometers from the Zaporizhzhya NPP of the two self-propelled barges from Nikopol.

As a result of the fire strike of the Russian armed forces, two self-propelled barges with tactical landing groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were sunk.

Yesterday, on August 31, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked with the three “Kamikaze drones” the territory of the nuclear power plant. All unmanned aerial vehicles were neutralized by Russian air defense systems on the approach to the station. Two of them fell on the roof of the training center. There are no victims and no destruction.


Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1662016836

After yesterday's suicidal break through the steppes of the Kherson region from the Suhoi Stavok to Bruskovka, it seemed to us that this was a single case of tactical madness in the ranks of the Armed Forces.

But looking at the morning attempt to land in Energodar, when the entire contingent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is on the alert expecting the provocations and shelling during the the IAEA visit, it seems that the madness struck the command staff of the Armed Forces as a whole.

Most likely, the cumulative effect of its own propaganda, which tells about "fear, horror and annoyance in the camp of orcs," is triggered.

In any case, this explanation is much more reasonable and logical than the “kill your own so that others are afraid” approach.

Translated from Rybar

It is alleged that in this video from Energodar, Ka-52 helicopters of the RF Armed Forces are sent to destroy the landed Ukrainian landing.

Translated from wingsofwar

The Ukrainian landing group near the Zaporizhzhya NPP was liquidated, the head of the VGA of the Zaporizhzhya region Balitsky said.

Russia expects objectivity from the IAEA mission at the ZAES, contrary to the efforts of those who want to prevent this, Sergey Lavrov said on the Russia 24 television channel.