⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (September 13, 2022)

◽️ Russian Aerospace Forces, missile troops and artillery launch massive fire attacks at the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) at all operational directions.

💥 High-precision attacks laucnhed by Russian Aerospace Forces have resulted in the neutralisation of provisional bases of the units from 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near Slavyansk and Konstantinovka, 115th Mechanised Brigade near Artyomovsk and 53rd Mechanised Brigade near Kurdyumovka.

◽️ Moreover, the list of neutralised targets includes the units from 35th Marine Brigade near Bereznegovatoye, 57th Mechanised Infantry Brigade near Murakhovka (Nikolayev region), 128th Mountain Assault Brigade near Balabino (Zaporozhye region), as well as from 14th Mechanised Brigade near Kharkov.

💥 The attacks have resulted in 800 casualties among Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries.

💥 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 12 command posts near Serebryanka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka, Vesyoloye, Soledar, Zaytsevo and Pavlovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Uspenovka and Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region), Shirokoye, Kiselyovka and Novogrigorovka (Nikolayev region), as well as 47 artillery units, 152 AFU manpower and military equipment concentration areas.

◽️ The list of the destroyed targets includes 5 missile, artillery armament and munitions depots near Pavlovka and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region), Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic), Velikoye Artakovo and Olenovka (Nikolayev region).

💥 Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has destroyed 1 Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Ochakov (Nikolayev region).

💥 Air defence means have shot down 6 unmanned aerial vehicles near Barvinki and Petrovka (Kherson region), Kiselyovka (Nikolayev region), Kamenskoye, Zaliznichnoye (Zaporozhye region), as well as near Vladimirovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

◽️ In addition, 7 rocket-propelled projectiles have been destroyed in air near Novaya Kakhovka and Kiselyovka (Kherson region).

📊 In total, 293 aircraft and 154 helicopters, 1,944 unmanned aerial vehicles, 374 air defence missile systems, 4,900 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 834 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,385 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,506 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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❗️Putin said that "Russia hasn't even started yet." I have a big request said Solovyov: let's get started. We all need to think a little together. We have two lives in one country. Most residents of the Russian Federation have heard that a special operation is underway, but they believe that it is “somewhere out there” and does not particularly affect their lives in any way. Given the excellent work of the Russian government, which manages to level the problems in the economy.

There is a second life, which is “everything for the front, everything for victory”, which plows from morning till night, which worries. <...> I understand your righteous anger and your resentment! Take a weapon and go to defend the Motherland from the Nazis. Stand shoulder to shoulder with the military from Lugansk and Donetsk. We are really at war with NATO. And here the political leadership decides how to do and what to do.

SolovyovLive

TV debate about current tactics of Russia helping people in Donbass region and dealing with Nazis in Ukraine.

Russia and China share the understanding that a unipolar world has become impossible and that a “new reality” is coming, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
“We believe - in unison with our Chinese comrades - that the existence of a unipolar world is impossible,” Peskov told journalists on Tuesday.
https://www.rt.com/news/562709-china-unipolar-world-peskov/

It is very indicative in a way - Russian MOD has become humble buyer of foreign military equipment. They need to admit (and, thanks God - they did) that it is a Result that really matters; not a pride and vanity. It took about two month (may be more) to accept a simple truth - if you can not produce it in sufficient quantity - just go and buy it. Iran - is a beautiful country with a millenia long history. I ❤️ Iran (Persia).
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For several days now, passions have been running high among us and disputes have been going on around the unexpected success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, as a result of which our units left most of the territories liberated in this region: what was it, who is to blame and what to do?
The statement of our Ministry of Defence that “a decision was made to regroup the Russian troops” and “for this purpose an operation was carried out to curtail and organize the transfer of a group of troops” does not reassure - everyone remembers the heavy battles for the cities we have now abandoned, and the fate of our military citizens who supported our Ukraine, now remaining in these territories, cannot but excite the Russian society.
In principle, it is clear that the main reason is the underestimation of the enemy, and we are talking about both the capabilities and potential of Ukraine, and the degree of Western involvement in the conflict. And this applies not only to the specific Kharkov situation, but also to the entire course of conflict, during which we initially act in fewer numbers than the enemy and tried to maintain "moral superiority" principle.
Therefore, the voices are sounding louder that it is time to stop the special military operation and move on to a full-fledged war, with the mobilization of everybody and everything, because otherwise we cannot win, as well as the demands to punish those responsible for the current retreat, which they are trying to present almost as "catastrophe at the front." There are already talks about “agreement” and “betrayal at the top”, that is, everything that we remember well from the events of 2014-15, and, more importantly, from the history of the Russo-Japanese and World War I.
But despite the fact that our military opponents are undoubtedly engaged in the dispersal of defeatism, all-pervasiveness and panic, now you can not be afraid of a repetition of the scenario of 1915-17 - when during the war the Russian state was defeated from the inside under the idea of "stupidity or betrayal" at the top (it was understood that there were both, that is, the power is both weak and betrays). Trust in Vladimir Putin remains at a very high level, which was shown by the last local elections.
And the existing mistrust of society towards a part of the elite, which they are trying to inflate to hatred for the elite as such, although it is an important factor in our life, still cannot be decisive. And even more so, it is not capable of developing into a denial of the institutions of power and the state as such. Because the understanding of the problems, weaknesses and even inborn defects in our current system does not overshadow the main thing - the unity of the people in the name of achieving victory. Victory over your own delusions, illusions and mistakes.
Yes, because our main goal is not even the return of Ukraine to the Russian world, not the liquidation of the Western project of Ukraine as anti-Russia - everything is clear with this. Our main goal is to build a sovereign, strong and fair Russia. Which is not equal to the Russian Federation either in the territorial or in the conceptual sense.
After the catastrophe of 1991, we tried to build a state on part of the territory of the Russian world, but at first we were engaged in primitive Europeanization, that is, copying Western institutions and laws to enter the "golden billion", and then we wanted to build our own West at home. Independent, but generally the same as the sample. It did not work out.
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However, the mobilisation in Russia is not needed and would be a step in a wrong direction. It certainly would cause popular unrest and protests. Massive mobilisation will cause disorganisation in the fragile country's economy and economic collapse. Untrained troops would carry heavy losses, and that is what collective West wants Russia to do. That's exactly why Putin is opposing mass mobilisation (what is clearly expressed by the Kremlin speakers). Ukraine can not win over Russia, but the internal unrest may.

The Victory will come, though on the way to it there will be many more blows and defeats - because nothing is given just like that and you have to pay for everything. To pay for 1991, for the devastation and failures of the 1990s, for the illusions of the 2000s... For a ruined great country and the conviction that we can build a new Russia without restoring the unity of the Russian world and in peace with the West, without striving for truth and justice as the foundations of Russian life.
All of us - and the president much more than others - are all aware of the weaknesses and even vices of our current state system and elite, of the "weakest links" on which many things are being hold together. But we also know that we, as a people, have a strong side - the ability to mobilize, to serve wholeheartedly and honestly, to go towards the goal, regardless of any obstacles. It is thanks to these qualities that our country, the largest and one of the most powerful in the world, has arisen - and thanks to them it has risen from the ashes more than once.
Now we have got rid of illusions and are renewing ourselves and our country. And we all know that there is no such force that could interfere with us, except for ourselves, our own disbelief in ourselves and conflicts among ourselves. But if we understand and remember this, then we will not allow it, and we will certainly win. And in Ukraine, and the West - and ourselves.
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The Kremlin does not discuss the issue of full or partial mobilization of those liable for military service in the Russian Federation. This was announced by the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov.

“At the moment, no, this is out of the question,” he answered the journalist’s question about whether the issue of full or partial mobilization is being considered in Russia.

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