Translated from MIG:

Circus: German President Steinmeier spent an hour in a bomb shelter in Chernihiv during his last visit to Ukraine.

The piquancy of the situation lies in the fact that there was no air-rocket raid on Ukraine at that time, the "alarm" was turned on by the local authorities just for the entourage.

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Translated from Militarist:

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced the delivery of two additional MARS MLRS and four howitzers (apparently PzH2000) to Ukraine, as well as the continuation of the supply of air defence systems.

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Translated from Mediasolt:
A projection appeared on the Barcelona City Hall:
“Donbass did it in eight years. Why has Catalonia failed in so many years?”

Interesting question. It must be said that the last attempt of Catalonia to secede from Spain in 2017 was unsuccessful.

However, the comparison is not entirely correct. Donbass did not become a new independent state, but returned to its native harbour, to Russia.

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Rishi Sunak commits to Ukraine … but Kyiv still dreams of Boris Johnson
from Politico
Sunak’s first call with a foreign leader was with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Tuesday night, to tell him that the U.K.’s support will remain “as strong as ever under his premiership,” according to a readout from Downing Street. Zelenskyy in turn said the conversation had been “excellent,” signalling the U.K.’s “full support in the face of Russian aggression.”

The new prime minister, however, is yet to set out his plans for Britain’s defence budget, with next week’s all-important fiscal statement likely to signal the start of a long program of spending cuts as he tries to restore confidence in the U.K. public finances.

Sunak had already signed off one boost to U.K. defense spending before he resigned as Johnson’s chancellor in July. But throughout the summer he refused to endorse his leadership rival Liz Truss’ pledge to further up the budget, to 3 percent of GDP by 2030 — a figure endorsed by Wallace — arguing he did not want to set “arbitrary targets.” Tory MPs who pressed him again this week to commit to the 3 percent target said he refused to do so.

“That shows he’s going to put what, in his mind, is the security of the country’s finances before building up the armed forces — at a moment of war in Europe and looming tensions in the Pacific,” said Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank.

Speculation around the defence budget has fuelled whispers of concern in Kyiv, where senior officials are publicly calling for closer ties with Britain.

Earlier in the year allies of Johnson — at the height of a feud between the two men — pushed rumours that Sunak was less committed to the war than his former boss. In April the Sunday Times suggested Sunak believed a deal would one day have to be done with Russian President Vladimir Putin — though Sunak has never made any such suggestion in public.

Zelenskyy congratulated Sunak on Tuesday, and said he was “ready to continue strengthening the Ukrainian-British strategic partnership together.”

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Russia’s Recruiting Afghan Commandos
(according to the Foreign Policy, we are not sure that it is true...)
Abandoned special forces veterans are getting job offers for a very different kind of battlefield.

Members of Afghanistan’s elite National Army Commando Corps, who were abandoned by the United States and Western allies when the country fell to the Taliban last year, say they are being contacted with offers to join the Russian military to fight in Ukraine. Multiple Afghan military and security sources say the U.S.-trained light infantry force, which fought alongside U.S. and other allied special forces for almost 20 years, could make the difference Russia needs on the Ukrainian battlefield.

Serious channel MIG confirmed, that it may be true, but the initiative is coming not from Russian officials, but from Wagner PMC.
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🔹 Russia’s Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu makes a report:

‘Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief, in accordance with the training plan, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are having a command and control training under your supervision. The Armed Forces will train to deliver a massive nuclear strike by strategic offensive forces in response to an enemy’s nuclear strike. The training procedure will be reported by the Chief of the General Staff General of the Army Valery Gerasimov’.

🔹 Chief of the General Staff General of the Army Valery Gerasimov makes a report:

‘Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the following forces are involved in the training: the Yars mobile ground missile system of the Strategic Missile Forces, strategic missile submarine of the Northern Fleet ‘Tula’, and two Tu-95ms strategic bombers‘.

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Yars ICBM launched in strategic deterrence forces exercises

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Sineva ballistic missile launched by the nuclear ballistic submarine (SSBN) ‘Tula’ (Northern Fleet) in strategic deterrence forces exercises

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Strategic deterrence
forces exercises

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🇺🇦The Ukrainian military are towing the M-46 gun. This is one of the weapons, transferred by Croatia, previously such were used by the Yugoslavian army.

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Blinken declared the end of the post-Cold War era and the "central role of the United States" in defining the new world order.

He pointed to the joint work of the US with other countries to support Ukraine in order to achieve a "strategic defeat" of Russia, as well as multilateral cooperation to compete with China.

"If the United States of America is not involved in the great work of organizing peace, then either someone else will do it and probably in a way that will affect our interests and values, or no one will do anything, and then a vacuum will form, which tends to be filled with bad things," Blinken said.

He announced this during his speech at the Bloomberg conference in Washington.
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🇺🇸 Stand-up comedian Jimmy Dore spoke about the " rules based international order"

"We (the USA) do not follow any rules:

When we (the US) invaded Afghanistan, having occupied it for 20 years, we did not follow any "rules-based" order.
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"Senator Rennick is the only politician in Federal Parliament of Australia who is telling the truth about what’s happened and who’s responsible for everything that’s happened in Ukraine," — comment from an Australian viewer.

The initial comment to that video is: "Senator Rennick is on the side of Russia".
However, it should read like: "Senator Rennick is on the side of Truth."

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