Most Ukrainian men of military age should be ready to fight - Defense Minister Reznikov

"This is a war. And no matter how much we want to, we suffer losses, and these losses can be irretrievable or sanitary, and sometimes such that a person remains alive, but cannot return to duty.This means that the General Staff and the entire security and defence sector must be able to attract reserves, replenish the ranks from the mobilization reserve.

Unfortunately, men here, in a state of war, in their age parameters, the vast majority should be ready to fight, not even to be called up, but to fight."

While Russia is still living in a paradigm of a split reality, when in Moscow people are celebrating the Day of the City with tremendous fireworks and somewhere a "Special Military Operation" is taking place; Ukraine is turning towards not just a war, but a total war. Women of a number of specialities will be required to register with the Conscription offices as well.
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Heroes' wives
An amazing photo exhibition opened in Samara. The Women's Council of the Second Guards Army came up with the idea of creating photographic portraits of the wives of servicemen from the Samara Region. “People who look at our photographs will have the opportunity to walk along the edge of the lives of military wives, to understand what it means to raise children without fatherly attention, what it means to live far from relatives, to cope with household troubles and problems on their own. But we can handle it, we are strong. And I am sure that only true love can withstand everything, and not only that. In us, the women of Russia, an incredible energy is genetically inherent, which wakes up in difficult moments. It has awakened in us today, and we are ready to share it in order to unite and support our army, our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin," said Ekaterina Kolotovkina, chairman of the Women's Council of the 2nd Guards Army, at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

The authorities of the Zaporozhye region announced the shutdown of the sixth power unit of ZNPP

SIMFEROPOL, September 11 - RIA Novosti. The last power unit that worked at the Zaporozhye NPP was stopped, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the new military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, told RIA Novosti.
"For the last few days, the only working power unit - the sixth one - has been operating at minimum power. At night it was stopped at 3:45. Now it does not generate electricity," he said.

According to the representative of the CAA, the constantly changing mode of operation of reactors and turbines can lead to an accident.
In this case, the shutdown mode, as stated, allows you to restart the power unit.
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. Ukrainian troops regularly carry out artillery strikes on Energodar and in the vicinity of the station.

This situation, albeit temporarily, reduces the risks of accidents at the station.
But with the onset of cold weather, the lost capacity of the ZNPP will lead to a deficit in the energy balance of Ukraine. Plus, the export of electricity to the EU will also have to be forgotten.
Therefore, this status quo will not last forever. Either they will have to agree on the distribution of flows from the station, or new shelling will begin. In the conditions of gas shortage, Ukraine without Zaporizhzhye NPP will freeze in winter.
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Rare and unique footage. A Russian drone spotted a Ukrainian attack aircraft flying up to our positions in the Kherson direction in the sky and recorded its destruction.

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Translated from very competent source - Alexandr Khodakovsky - military field commander and blogger.

Information about the signs of preparing an offensive in the Kharkov direction came from various sources - this was not a surprise. How it was evaluated, how they reacted to it, how they managed to prepare and whether they were preparing - this is another question. But my observations show that no effective response system has developed, when, upon receipt of signals, some rollers begin to spin, everything starts to move and the resource, whatever it may be, is brought to maximum readiness.

Russian troops are fighting at the front, LDNR corps are fighting, which are subordinate to the RF Ministry of Defence, and are, in fact, part of the Russian army - but units that are not directly subordinate to the RF Ministry of Defence are also fighting. These are the Internal Troops of the LDNR, various special forces - there are quite a lot of them and they are well trained. But due to different departmental affiliations, friction arises when the curators of the "alternative army" do not agree with the army's approaches and bend their own line, and the army in retaliation squeezes resources - our battalion, for example, has not received ammunition from the army for more than three weeks and lives only for reserves.

One can, of course, say that it is necessary to drive everyone under one head - and the problem will end - but no: army approaches are often so specific that there is no great desire to dump everyone in one fire and burn them. We got around the difficulties caused by the upper discrepancies, the strengthening of horizontal ties on the ground, and it worked - but not always, unfortunately. The "alternative army" - let me call it that - retained its human resources, although the intensity of its "exploitation" was very high - just a different approach. In some army brigades there are fewer storm troopers than in our battalion, but they have equipment and artillery, which is used at seven percent efficiency, but which they stubbornly refuse to share.

Now we have received information that in the Ugledar direction the enemy is preparing a shock fist and is going to launch an offensive in the direction of Vladimirovka - Fine. It will happen soon - the enemy is inspired. How will we meet him? Will the army change its approach and make every effort to prevent the enemy from achieving another success? I, with my three mortars and the remnants of the ammo, of course, will give battle....

To put it short - failure at Izyum was caused not by the lack of intelligence data, but by the mistakes in the decision making process...
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"Counteroffensive, but at what cost?"

The French TV channel "France 2" showed a hospital in Kramatorsk, where a large number of wounded Ukrainian soldiers are brought.

It is noteworthy that the report was released in the second part of the final news program. The first part was entirely devoted to the accession of Charles III to the throne.

In turn, Reuters connects Ukraine's counteroffensive with its attempts to maintain Western support on the eve of winter and the energy crisis in Europe.

"Kiev is under pressure to demonstrate progress before the onset of winter, amid threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop all energy supplies to Europe," the agency writes.

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Car columns with Ukrainian number-plates on the Belgorod-Korocha highway right now

According to Ukrainian propaganda, residents of Volchansk and other settlements in the north of the Kharkiv region are happy for the arrival of Ukrainian “liberators”. But for some reason the cars go in a completely different direction.

Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov, together with Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Andrey Turchak and State Duma Deputy Artem Turov, inspected the border checkpoints on the border with the Kharkov Region, from where 13,000 refugees left in 3 days.

It looks like people, escaping from Ukrainian "liberation" are receiving at least a minimal assistance.
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The enemy is preparing a counteroffensive in the DPR
11.09.2022
For the second day in a row, it is reported that the enemy is accumulating forces in the area of Ugledar and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) for a new offensive.

Trains with personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are arriving in Krasnoarmeysk, 50 km from Donetsk.

In the Ugledar region, Russian forces have not had any advances for a long time, the enemy has created a powerful fortified area here with long-term concreted firing points and minefields.

In addition, the enemy began to remove minefields in this direction, preparing passages for a counterattack.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine also stepped up reconnaissance from the air.

An offensive is expected in the Ugoldar direction - Vladimirovka - Sladkoie. The alleged goal is the cutting of the Mariupol-Donetsk highway.

On this sector of the front are the forces of the People's Militia and the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR, as well as the infantry of the Southern Military District.

Attack on the warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ugledar direction

Artillerymen of the 40th Separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet destroyed an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern outskirts of the village of Prechistovka, located on the front line west of Ugledar.

The footage shows the arrival of two missiles: at the site of impact of the second, a powerful explosion occurs with a huge cloud of smoke, which indicates the detonation of ammunition. The blow was allegedly delivered from the MLRS.

Over the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been moving equipment and reinforcements to the front line, as well as removing their own minefields. All this is happening as part of the preparations for an offensive by Ugledar.

Well, that is a stage for the next Ukrainian strike. It is obvious for military professionals (and not only them) where the Ukrainian offensive will happen and with what objectives. We soon will see, whether Russian MOD has learned and made adjustments to their modus operandi.
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In Chechnya, the formation of three new battalions of 560 people each and a special regiment of 1.5 thousand fighters was completed.

3180 trained professionals are ready to perform any combat missions. A drill review of military units and equipment was conducted by Ramzan Kadyrov the day before.

Quite recently, obviously overexcited from the successes on the Kharkov front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to regain control of Peski, a village near Donetsk recaptured from them by the NM DPR.

How this attempt ended can be seen in the video provided to the @wargonzo project by the Somali Battalion.

On several tanks and armored vehicles, the Armed Forces cheerfully entered Peski. And after a while they also cheerfully came out, but not all of them. Some retreated on all fours.

Reaction after watching the video (with sound) - What was it?
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Glow after Russian strikes in the Kharkov region.

According to local sources, a thermal power plant in Zmiev was hit.

Also, strikes were recorded at Kharkiv CHPP-5, which is one of the largest combined heat and power plants in Ukraine.

Russian missiles were also launched from the Caspian Sea.

Here is a video posted by a resident of Kazakhstan's Aktau.

Over the past few minutes, there have also been reports of water supply being cut off in several districts of Dnipropetrovsk, in the Poltava region, in the Kharkiv region.

Trains started to stop in Ukraine.

There is no electricity in at least 135 settlement in Sumy Oblast, leader of region says.