Despite my pessimism about the current situation, I agree with Alexander Mercouris that the increasingly belligerent and hysterical outbursts from Kuleba and Podolyak (even by their standards) probably do reflect growing political concern in Kiev. The potential 'physical removal' of Kolomoisky only adds evidence to this case, as he is one of the only figures within Ukraine who could pose a threat to the Zelensky gang. They perhaps understand that their most difficult months lie ahead.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️It is reported that the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance in the Novoegorovka area in the Svatovsky direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦Zaporozhye Front, Rabotino/Verbove. 09/02 20:45, front-line bird reports.

Having penetrated our defenses in this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing all their forces in order to seize the bridgehead in the settlement. Willow. So far, they have only one road to the outskirts of the village, which is located in a lowland and can be seen even from the villager himself. One trench, through which they drive everyone. 200's are left right there, stepping over the corpses, the rest of the groups are trying to put pressure on this area.

Our artillery is working closely on the approaches to the trench and directly into it. A large number of forces and means were used to destroy the enemy precisely in it, since there he can be caught completely defenseless.

Two Majors

📌 A group of pensioners (Ages 66, 67, 62, 71, and 75) received mobilisation subpoenas in the city of Dnipro today. This was reported in local media telegrams and other social groups today. All men had previously fought in the Soviet Army.

This comes after civil authorities in Kiev are actively seeking to extend mobilisation from ages 16-70.

Articles from the past.

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Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
Reuters

Profile: Ukraine's ultra-nationalist Right Sector
BBC

Far-right Extremism as a Threat to Ukrainian Democracy
Freedom House

Ukraine’s far-right menace
Politco

There’s One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin
Foreign Policy

Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
The Nation

Ukrainian Court Penalizes News Outlet for Calling Far-Right Group ‘Neo-Nazi’
Human Rights Watch

Ukraine’s Far-Right Forces See An Opportunity In Russia’s Invasion Threat To Grow Their Violent Movement
Buzzfeed

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All before the intervention. It's a tad funny how rapidly and drastically the meaning of "journalistic integrity" changes, no?

@Slavyangrad

As mentioned before by us, the Ukrainian labour force is in chaos. With the government taking many out of the labour force for conscription and forced labour, the economy cannot function anymore.

Strana made another comprehensive analysis of the situation. While there are many vacancies which companies cannot fill in, wage growth doesn't happen. Not even that, only 56% of Ukrainians are received the full wages they are entitled to. There is nothing to pay people with.

There is an irrisory number of people registered as unemployed. This is because men are afraid of being caught by the military enlistment kidnappers and sent to the front once they register. Even with millions of women fleeing the country to abroad, only 28% of those registered as unemployed are men. Also being officially registered as unemployed is pointless: you can get as much as the minimum wage (circa 168 euro) per month.

Ukrainian authorities paint a rosy picture where the economy is "recovering" and more and more vacancies are available, but this is mainly due to more and more staff being forcibly mobilized or fleeing the country. In order to fight this and guarantee their staff will be able to work, companies are turning to solutions such as hiring people who are more than 60 years old.

Third, many people can't register as unemployed as they were never employed. More and more Ukrainians work in the grey market, so to not pay taxes and to not appear on any sort of registers that can be used to forcibly mobilize people. Almost 20% of Ukraine's labour force work unofficially already.

This is a very dystopic picture, so one might think that Ukraine is about to collapse and we don't need to do anything. In fact Ukraine completely ceased to exist as a functional country, but continues to be propped by continuous cash transfers, that already exceeded the country's pre war GDP, from western countries. Those can just print money out of thin air, send to Ukraine and make their own population pay the costs through devaluation and inflation.

@Slavyangrad

The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation deployed the newly formed 25th Combined Arms Army due to the transfer of the 41st Combined Arms Army (Group O) to the Zaporozhye region.

t.me/zoka200

🍁🍂 Autumn 🍁🍂

🇷🇺MRLS Salvo — Liman direction

Reflecting on August 2023 in the SVO:

Russia has effectively taken back the momentum with its strikes across the Limansky-Kupyansky front. Though none of these attacks were intended to be breakthroughs, they have put the VSU in a more precarious position as the crucial month of September comes.

However, frustration must also be acknowledged in that it seems Russia can absolutely deal a knock-out blow, but continues to hold back. Time will tell why and if this is the correct choice.

The VSU ends it summer in an objective failure in its disastrous counteroffensive in Zaporozhye and Bakhmut. It gained little both diplomatically, PR and strategically this summer despite throwing everything it could to make it happen. A couple strikes against the Kerch bridge aren’t going to change anything. As the fall begins, the question in the air is can they continue to wage war as they have.

As we head into the fall, we stand at perhaps a coming climax of the SVO or another season of Russia bleeding the VSU white.

⚡️⚡️⚡️Beautiful shots of a working T-72 B3M tank during the attack on the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Marinka!
The crew of the tank drove through the line of contact and drove into the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where they struck with tank shots directly at the fortified areas of the enemy, that not a single "pig" could raise its head from the horror movie it saw !!!
After our crew worked on fortifying the enemy area, he began to roll back, where the enemy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to inflict fire damage with RPG-7 shots, but he failed, the enemy turned out to be oblique or not trained 🤣💩
The crew, after returning to the starting line, loaded up the ammo (shells) and repeated the departure a second time, but from the line of contact!⚡️⚡️⚡️