Translated from Rybar:
Against the background of the "counteroffensive" in the Kherson direction, which takes place mainly in the Telegram, censorship has been increased for Ukrainian journalists. All war correspondents were recalled from the front, in addition, they were given "recommendations", which are in the nature of requirements.

These are the directives:

▪️Journalists are forbidden to evaluate the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

▪️Only the military leadership reports on the course of hostilities, that is, you cannot rely on information from ordinary military personnel or field commanders

▪️It is forbidden to interpret the military situation in an alternative way from the official one

▪️Your own predictions are prohibited

▪️Only officials of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report on all military actions, their consequences and results

Such an approach should hide the failed results of the “counteroffensive” and prevent the demoralization of both the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and ordinary Ukrainians.

That, allegedly, is an oil leak on the "North stream 1" pipeline engine.
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Destruction of the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Partizanskoye, Nikolaev direction.

Control over Blagodatny allows the Russian army to expand the geography of its attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Mykolaiv region.

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Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant
Kiev’s General Staff also says there are no Russian troops inside at the Zaporozhye facility

The Ukrainian military publicly admitted striking the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in an official General Staff briefing on Friday. Previously, Kiev had claimed that Russian forces used the plant as a military base; now it says all troops have relocated due to the visit by IAEA inspectors.

“In the areas of the settlements of Kherson and Energodar, accurate strikes by our troops destroyed three enemy artillery systems, as well as an ammunition depot and up to a company of personnel,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the daily briefing.

The military also claimed that, due to the arrival of the IAEA inspection team, the Russian “occupiers removed all military equipment from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. About 100 units moved to the plant ‘Atom Energomash’ and the rest were dispersed in the nearest settlements.”

Energodar and the Zaporozhye facility have been under Russian control since early March, and functioned without problems until drone and artillery attacks began in July. Kiev has argued that the shelling was a false-flag operation by Moscow to make Ukraine look bad, but also that Russia was using the plant as a base for heavy artillery and equipment.

Moscow has consistently denied the accusations, saying that only lightly armed guards were deployed at the facility to ensure its security. On Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Ukrainian claims that Moscow was using the facility to attack Ukrainian positions “with long-range artillery systems” were “blatant lies.”

“I state with confidence that we do not have heavy weapons at the territory of the nuclear power stations and in adjacent neighborhoods,” Shoigu said at a meeting in Moscow, adding that he hoped the IAEA inspectors would testify to this as well.

Shoigu also said there have been 29 attacks against the Zaporozhye facility since July 18, involving 120 artillery projectiles and 16 kamikaze drones.

The IAEA mission arrived at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Thursday, led by agency chief Rafael Grossi personally. Grossi said the IAEA planned to have a “continued presence” on the site. As the IAEA team was en route, a group of Ukrainian commandos used boats to land in Energodar and attempted to storm the power plant. Their goal, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, was to use the IAEA inspectors as “human shields.” However, Russian troops destroyed both the initial strike group and its reinforcements.

◾Western media reports on the visit of the Nuclear Security Team to Zaporozhye Nuclear plant.

◾The “physical integrity” of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in south-eastern Ukraine has been “violated”, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.

◾“It is obvious that the plant and physical integrity of the plant has been violated several times,” Grossi told reporters.

◾Grossi insisted he and his team had seen “everything I request to see”, but he conceded he was not able to talk to any of the Russian soldiers who have commandeered the plant’s crisis centre as their headquarters.

◾The IAEA is there to stay for as long as it is needed. We are not leaving. We’re not going anywhere,” Grossi said. “For those who may have intentions on the plant, knowing that international inspectors are there, witnessing and informing immediately what is happening, has an inherently very important stabilising effect.”

⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (September 3, 2022)

Part 2 (read Part 1)

◽️ Despite the presence of IAEA representatives at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Kiev regime made another attempt to capture this facility.

💥 On September 2, at about 11.00 PM (Moscow time), two groups of a total of 42 cutters and motor boats with over 250 servicemen from special operation forces and foreign mercenaries on board made an attempt to disembark at the shore of Kakhovka reservoir near Energodar and Dneproprudnoye.

💥 The manpower was attacked by 4 Su-30 and 2 Ka-52 helicopters of Russian Aerospace Forces that has resulted in the elimination of 20 cutters and boats.
The rest of the vessels turned back and headed towards the Ukrainian coast.

💥 Russian artillery, including Malka high-capacity howitzers, launched an attack at the Ukrainian part of the shore near Vysshetarasovka and Chervonodneprovka where the rest of the manpower had disembarked.

◽️ According to available information, the unsuccessful provocation of Ukrainian nationalists has resulted in the elimination of 47 militants, including 10 foreign mercenaries, as well as in wounding 23.

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Do you remember the map, provided by OSInt expert Rybar of the Ukrainian "breakthrough" recently and our comments on it? Here we come again. Situation for 11:00 on the 3 of September.
Three pontoon bridges that were supplying the Ukrainian foothold are destroyed. All area is under heavy fire from land and air. Aviation is using 500 kg bombs. Nevertheless, Ukrainian side continues to gather reserves on the other side of the Inhulets river and are trying to bring those reinforcements into action.

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are putting out fire on their own burning positions.

Over the past month, 174 brigade and battalion command posts have been hit in Ukraine, and 601 pieces of heavy weapons and artillery systems, mostly of Western manufacture, have been destroyed, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on September 2.
19 aircraft, six helicopters and 188 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down, 226 HIMARS rockets were intercepted. The attempt of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction continues, but the enemy suffers significant losses. Experts believe that the Ukrainian leadership put everything on the offensive near Kherson, since it does not even have a ghostly chance in other directions.

Strike directions
Over the past two weeks, the Russian Armed Forces, together with units of the people's militia of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, have taken control of a large defense center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) in the village of Peski, Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call at the Defense Ministry.

Near Donetsk, the echeloned and engineered defense of the nationalists was hacked. During the retreat, the Ukrainian army left a large number of weapons and wounded. Russian military doctors provided qualified medical assistance to all the victims.

On the Kherson-Nikolaev direction in the area of Aleksandrovka, our troops reached the administrative border of the Nikolaev region. Blagodatnoye settlement was liberated. An attempt to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih and other directions continues, the enemy suffers significant losses, the minister emphasized.

Some Ukrainian channels were spreading disinformation that Shoigu has been "suspended"... Don't thing so.
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Putin explains Ukraine operation goals
Russia is trying to end the war Ukraine waged on its own citizens after the 2014 coup, Vladimir Putin says

Moscow seeks to end the conflict in Ukraine, which began in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup, as well as prevent the emergence of an “anti-Russian enclave” in its territory, Vladimir Putin has said. The Russian president made the remarks on Thursday during an open class held for Russian schoolchildren called the “Important Talk.”

“Everyone believes that some kind of aggression on the part of Russia is happening today. No one understands or knows that after the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, the people of Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea – a significant part of them, in any case – did not want to recognize the outcome of this coup,” Putin said.

New post-Maidan Ukrainian leaders began a war on their own citizens and “have been waging it for eight years,” he went on. “And our goal, our mission, the mission of our soldiers, of the Donbass militias, is to end this war, to protect people and, of course, Russia itself,” the president explained.

An anti-Russian enclave is being created in the territory of present-day Ukraine, which is threatening our country.

Putin also touched upon the state of and approach to school education in Ukraine, telling schoolchildren about what Russia’s Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov witnessed during his recent visit to Donetsk and other territories liberated during the ongoing conflict. The president admitted that the minister’s account shocked him and he “was sitting with his mouth wide open” during Kravtsov’s report.

They didn’t even know that Ukraine and Russia were part of a single state – the Soviet Union. They just don’t know it. That’s how they were taught.


“[Ukrainian] schoolchildren did not know the Crimea bridge exists, they thought it was a fake,” Putin said, referring to the Kerch road and railway bridge erected between mainland Russia and the peninsula following the 2014 reunification.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

Some basic and important things that are worth reminding. Some people consider them obvious, some people do not understand and/or accept them at all.
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