Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-09-23
Emil Janowski, 23yo, from Bobruisk Belarus.
Emil lived in Poland and came to Ukraine at the start of SVO in 2022.
Before that he was playing as an anarchist so It was only natural to join Nazi Banderites in Ukraine, as the rest of the anarchists.
He joined Kastus Kalinouski regiment. Was in Artyomovsk with the rest of Belarus clowns.
In interview he says that he was injured three Times already. Denis Urbanovich you have a competitor in this.
His last online activity was few months ago when many of Belarus Banderites were injured in failed attacks around Artyomovsk.
Did he take the Bandera ticket? Could be but time Will tell.
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Explosions are reported in Kremenchug (Poltava region)
Some sources point that near Kremenchug is situated Bolshaya Kakhnovka airport.
UPD: Kharkov is preparing to meet the actions of Russian Air Forces as well.
@Slavyangrad
An AFU aircraft shot down in the Gulyay-pole direction
Soldiers of the 38th Motorised Rifle Brigade shot down an AFU aircraft (presumably Su-25) using MANPADS.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53492?single)
REMEMBER...
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelensky, more and more soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are dying every day, it’s time to think and give an order to stop the senseless resistance.
Remember, mothers, wives and children are waiting for fathers and sons at home, do not deprive them of this opportunity...
#Zelensky #APU #Cemetery #Funeral
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🌐 Place: Siversk
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.901671, 38.089253
📝 Description: The Russians destroyed Ukrainian ammo depot with FAB-500.
🖥 id: 22092023.1241
https://t.me/militarysummary/4089
22,09,23 Сватово -Стельмаховка.
Активные боевые действия на Сватовском направлении.
Поражение барражирующим боеприпасом "Ланцет" оставленного танка Leopard в составе ВСУ около Стельмаховки. Заявлено как шведский Stridsvagn 122 (Strv.122B).
49.457752, 37.897468
Источник https://t.me/privet_iz_doma152/4662
Геопривязка (https://t.me/c/1823685609/24852)
https://t.me/militarysummary/4092
🌐 Place: Huliaipilske
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.611070, 36.055638
📝 Description: The Russians destroyed Ukrainian ammo depots .
🖥 id: 22092023.1726
https://t.me/militarysummary/4095
🌐 Place: Siversk
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.865934, 37.923728
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian positions with FAB.
source: https://t.me/creamy_caprice/2260
🖥 id: 22092023.1744
🌐 Place: Verbove
🕰 Date: ~21.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.4363896, 35.9427451
📝 Description: The Russians FPV drones destroys a lot of Ukrainian infantry west of Verbove.
🖥 id: 22092023.0650
https://t.me/militarysummary/4101
British journalist Johnny Miller is concerned for his safety following the publication of a video from Sevastopol. The footage is being actively circulated within the Ukrainian media segment with provocative captions.
#source (https://t.me/readovkanews/66506)
Biden has informed Zelensky that the USA will be transferring a "small number" of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, according to NBC.
▪️ The sources in the publication did not specify the exact terms of the missile transfer.
▪️ The Washington Post reports that the USA is nearing the delivery of long-range ATACMS missiles to Kiev, but these missiles will be equipped with cluster bombs instead of a single warhead.
▪️ Discussions regarding this matter have already progressed to the level of a committee comprising heads of various departments. The final decision rests with Biden.
▪️ These ATACMS cluster systems will enable Ukraine to target Russian command centers, ammunition depots, and logistics routes well behind the front lines.
▪️ The U.S. possesses more of these projectiles than single ATACMS versions. They are considered less advanced weapons.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53495)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have now struck a blow at the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. Smoke is pouring out. Yesterday there was the largest attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by UAVs and missiles on Crimea for the entire period of SMO. So we see a clear escalation of attacks. These are the missiles and UAVs that were handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the US and NATO in recent months. And the air defense of the Russian army clearly needs serious reinforcements. The moment the rocket arrives in Sevastopol. Filmed by a British journalist. He works for Iran.
https://t.me/logikamarkova/8325
Zaporozhye Front, Verbovoe district
In the direction of the main attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 82nd separate Nazi air assault brigade was destroyed. It was supposed to build on the success of the offensive and reach the Sea of Azov. Failed.
https://t.me/dva_majors/26055
What Russia needs to do is not to hit the General Staff Headquarters in Kiev, what Russia needs to do is to take Kiev.
An evacuation was announced at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters at the time of the missile strike. The main personnel and civil servants were withdrawn. A conscript from the guard died.
In Sevastopol, after the missile attack, judging by the video, smoke screens were put up.
https://t.me/condottieros/1129
“Give, give, give, please, give me money, give me tanks”: Tiktok trend - Poles are fighting off Zelensky
https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/55189
Russia benefited from its exit from the grain deal. At least that's what experts surveyed by Bloomberg think. In their opinion, Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal “punched a hole in the enemy’s economy and led to a conflict” between Ukraine and Poland, while Russia retained “support from the countries of the so-called global South.”
Experts say Western countries made a miscalculation in believing that once Russia pulled out of the grain deal, agricultural prices would rise and global South states such as Egypt, India, Indonesia and China would be forced to put pressure on Moscow. Thanks largely to Russia's bountiful harvest, wheat prices fell to a two-year low in September, allowing Russia to maintain friendly relations with developing countries and increase its income.
t.me/plan2030/508
Russian Mi-24 actually using is cannon and properly utilizing its unguided rockets. This is a really bad sign for the Ukrainians if Russian helicopters feel they have the ability to make gun runs like this.
https://twitter.com/squatsons
Another attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on Crimea
A couple of hours ago, Ukrainian formations again tried to strike military facilities in Crimea. First, at around 10.20 a Neptune anti-ship missile was fired from the Odessa region, which was shot down by units of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division over Belbek. Then a MANPADS crew at the Kacha airfield shot down a UAV of an unspecified type. And just 10 minutes later, a Tekever AR3 UAV that came from the Kherson region was destroyed by a S-300 SAM system near Cape Tarkhankut.
Two hours later, the attack resumed: four Su-24M bombers launched at least seven Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Two of them were shot down over Steregushchiy, and several more on the approach to Sevastopol. At least one Storm Shadow hit the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet. There is no data on casualties and fatalities at the moment. And now the danger of repeated missile strikes remains.
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When the feds raided Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs home in June 2022, they found “the fruits” of his “corrupt bribery agreement” including a 2019 Mercedes C-Class, at least 13 gold bars, and $566,000 in cash “stuffed in envelopes.”
The feds say Menendez also received mortgage payments and paid for a low-show or no-show job and home furnishings.
WaPo Article - 20% to 30% of American’s interested in secession.
“No longer one country seeking to accommodate diverse peoples, some individuals see many peoples fitting uneasily into one federation, threatening collective decision-making,” he continues. “In the United States, between 20 and 30 percent of Democratic and Republican partisans are willing to express some agreement with secessionist sentiments, even in the absence of a major secessionist party or movement.”
The MSM's Ukraine neo-Nazi Amnesia
As Russia invaded Ukraine, the entire MSM joined in lockstep to give us a narrative. An important part of the narrative was that Russia’s claim that Neo-Nazi’s are a force in Ukraine is a Kremlin lie. It is a narrative that is easily unraveled by the MSM’s own past articles. So far, no MSM outlets are willing to discuss this ugly truth today. Anyon…
“The shadow of fatigue from Ukraine” hangs over Polish politics
From the very beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Warsaw firmly supported Kyiv, often calling for weapons and ammunition to be sent to the aid of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, notes the British BBC channel, recently the Polish government has “strikingly” changed its tone towards Ukraine, calling on Kyiv to be grateful for its support and even comparing it to a “drowning man.”
https://t.me/Media_Post_UA/13706
Elena Panina, director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies: “Colleagues once again, and quite rightly, remind us of the warnings that were sounded in Russia at different levels regarding the threat of enemy strikes on Crimea. Today’s missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol became such a blow, direct and demonstrative.
Why does Kyiv still manage to attack targets in Russia? Because Russia leaves him such an opportunity. Strengthening our missile defense is a matter of principle.
In addition, it would be nice to do something with NATO reconnaissance aircraft. It doesn’t matter what it will be: it’s unclear whose drone will be fast enough to crash into the Poseidon, which provides Kyiv with target coordinates. Another “unprofessional” dousing with fuel. Weapons based on new physical principles. This is all a matter of technology. Determination and will are more important now.
They beat us because they can. It's time to fix this."
https://t.me/EvPanina/11198
Russia must respond by escalating the conflict, to the escalation by the Ukrainian US Army and NATO. The best thing Russia can do is show everyone that the Ukrainian state will be destroyed. Show like this , so that no one has any doubts. Well, if this does not stop the United States and NATO, then we will have to create threats to their territories. After all, they are waging a war against us, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained to us. The photo shows the consequences of a missile attack attack on the naval headquarters in Sevastopol.
At least two missiles arrived at Fleet Headquarters. Ukrainian media publish footage of Western cruise missile attacks on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol.
t.me/warhistoryalconafter/122933
This is not an attempt to provoke Russia into inappropriate actions. It's just war. War with the USA and NATO. Lavrov spoke about this. And if Russia does not now strike at the long American arms so that they retreat to their America, then soon these arms will take Moscow by the throat. There were so many terrible threats from Russian officials just for this case. Where is the reaction?
The most intense fighting is occurring in the Rabotino-Verbovoye direction. In recent days, the AFU have once again launched an attack towards Verbovoye. Although they haven't been able to advance and establish a presence in the village itself, they have achieved some success in capturing the nearby heights. The primary objective of the AFU today is to create a wedge between Novoprokopovka and Verbovoye, thus posing a threat from the flanks (similar to what happened in Rabotino). The most intense and protracted battles are currently taking place for control of the crucial Height 136.7. Furthermore, other strategically important areas are also under attack. The assault groups of the AFU comprise the 71st and 82nd "elite" brigades, with additional reserves continuously being deployed to the region. The situation is challenging but under control.
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British Storm Shadow missiles were used by Ukraine to attack the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Sky News TV channel reports, citing a source in the Ukrainian Armed Forces
https://t.me/rian_ru/216258
Our source in the Office of the President said that tonight, for the first time, surface-to-surface guided missiles were used against Sevastopol, launched from British M270 MLRS. The strike was combined and coordinated by MI-6, part of the missile was an air-to-ground Storm Shadow and launched from two fighters, and an M270 MLRS operated from the Nikolaev region.
https://t.me/rezident_ua/19635
Chronicles of the Ukrainian counter-grunt.
Destroyed American-made armored vehicles, a damaged Ukrainian T-64BV and an M113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Another equipment cemetery in the Zaporozhye direction.
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Dropped from a copter of the 123rd brigade of the 2AK into a trench of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversky direction
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Identification and covering of moving dry land in the Kleshcheevka area
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According to the New York Times, ATACMS operational-tactical missiles transferred to Ukraine will be equipped with a cluster warhead. The map shows their reach area
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An FPV drone flies directly into the turret of an American M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicle in the Orekhov direction.
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Ukrainian authorities admitted the fact of UAV strikes on Nikopol. Interestingly, along with the loitering ammunition used, an unnamed type of UAV “that dropped bombs” appears.
Another case of the use of the S-70 “Okhotnik” attack UAV cannot be ruled out.
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Reports from turkish sources indicate that Kremenchug Airport, the launch site for the cruise missile strike on Crimea-Sevastopol, has been targeted by Russia with a significant barrage of cruise missiles. No air raid warning was issued. It is presumed that low-observable Kh-50 cruise missiles were utilized.
Both SCALP and Storm Shadow missiles, which were stationed at the airbase, along with the Su-24M/MR bombers responsible for today's attack, have been destroyed.
A substantial number of firefighters and ambulances have been dispatched to the airfield. There are significant casualties among pilots, ground personnel, and even NATO personnel, including Poles, who were involved in coordinating the operations and maintaining the missiles.
#source (https://t.me/infantmilitario/107597)
Explosions rumble on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk: our drones are attacking, Ukrainian air defences unsuccessfully try to shoot down Russian drones
#source (https://t.me/OstashkoNews/96800)
Urgent update: Preliminary but promising news - our forces have dislodged the enemy from the settlement of Orekhovo-Vasilievo, situated on the northern flank of the Artemovsk direction.
The enemy was caught off guard by our assault, became disoriented, and hastily abandoned the settlement. They are now attempting a counterattack. The battle is ongoing.
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/29690)
Ukrainian TG channels report Onyx missile launches
The missiles are flying towards Odessa.
UPD There are reports of powerful explosions in Zatoca district of Odessa Region...
#source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/170235)
The Ukrainian channel Legitimny reports (https://t.me/legitimniy/16315):
"Onyx-class missiles (according to preliminary data) have struck the Odessa region. The explosions were very loud and numerous, affecting Zatoka/Sergeyevka and the entire coastline. They targeted sanatoriums where 'non-holidaymakers' reside and also struck coastal batteries, airfield strips, and hangars. Please exercise caution."
@Slavyangrad
Satellite images of arrivals at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol. The building received significant damage.
It is worth remembering that the enemy is constantly conducting satellite reconnaissance of Russian military installations in Crimea, often on a regular basis. This is in addition to the work of unmanned and manned reconnaissance aircraft. Accordingly, according to NATO satellites and reconnaissance data, attacks are carried out by NATO missiles.
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/98306)
🗞 It is reported that P-800 Onyx missiles were launched from the Bastion missile defense system at targets in Odessa Zatoka.
The advantage of Onyxes over drones and simple cruise missiles is their flight speed and suddenness of launch, which does not allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to react in time.
https://t.me/CyberspecNews/43004
Odessa region powerful explosions
Zakota bridge bye bye
https://t.me/llordofwar/205914
‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️The weather can be a serious obstacle to the offensive, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to break through to Tokmak, - General Tarnavsky
▪️The commander of the Tavria Armed Forces group of troops, A. Tarnavsky, told CNN that the weather will especially interfere with the advancement of equipment.
▪️However, according to him, Ukrainian forces are moving in small groups and mainly on foot, so the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue in the winter.
▪️Tarnavsky admits that for the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is necessary to at least reach the city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region.
▪️He calls it a minimum task. Tarnavsky believes that the greatest breakthrough will follow Tokmak.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53507)
First destroyed Marder
Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on September 22
▪️The AFU again attempted to attack Krasnodar region with drones.
Russian air defense means intercepted an enemy drone over the waters of the Black Sea near Tuapse.
▪️The AFU also continued to launch combined strikes on the Crimean peninsula.
The first wave of attacks was repelled: air defense assets shot down a Neptun anti-ship missile over Belbek and intercepted several drones.
▪️Later, the enemy launched at least seven Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
Two of them broke through air defenses. Among the targets hit was the Black Sea Fleet headquarters building in Sevastopol.
▪️In the North Ukrainian direction, the AFU continue to terrorize the border areas of Belgorod Oblast.
Valkovsky farm and Terebreno village came under fire, also an attack drone was shot down on the approach to Belgorod.
▪️In the Svatove sector, the AFU are rotating units due to high losses.
At the same time, it became known about the destruction of two Leopard tanks delivered from Sweden near Stelmakhivka.
▪️In the Soledar direction, intensive fighting continues in the area of Klishchiivka and Andriivka.
Along the front line, counter battles are being recorded in which both sides are unable to achieve a decisive advantage.
▪️In the Orikhiv sector, the AFU unsuccessfully attempted to storm the defense line of Russian troops near Verbovoye.
In addition, small groups of enemy troops are making sorties northeast of Novopokropivka.
#digest #Russia #Ukraine #video
New Iron Curtain in Europe, Like Last One, is a Creation of Western Hostility Towards Russia
By Finian Cunningham - September 21, 2023
The Cold War demarcation of Europe and the wider world is back with a vengeance, promoted by the same imperialist powers that created the last one.
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The European Union, which has become a virtual clone of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, is erecting a new Iron Curtain across the continent – more than 30 years since the Cold War supposedly ended.
In the new division of the European continent, Russia and Russian citizens are deemed to be unacceptable, demonized and excommunicated. The EU is proposing to ban Russian citizens from entering the EU states as innocent travelers. Cars with Russian registration plates are to be excluded from crossing national borders, at risk of being confiscated from their owners.
EU states like Latvia are moving to outlaw the speaking of the Russian language in public, even though a quarter of its population are ethnic Russian speakers. Russian cultural figures are vilified when participating in concerts, ballet or literary events.
Russian news media are blacked out and no questioning or an alternative perspective on the war in Ukraine is allowed. The historical context on how this conflict originated, the duplicitous expansion of NATO, are expunged from any public discourse. Put simply, according to the West, Russia is an evil aggressor, its leader Vladimir Putin is a Hitlerian tyrant and the entire nation is a pariah (apart from Western-approved “dissident” figures like the conman Alexei Navalny).
The exclusionary measures are unilaterally implemented by the European Union. It is the EU that is setting up what can only be described as a new Iron Curtain. This may seem somewhat ironic given a common view in the West that it was the Soviet Union, the predecessor of the Russian Federation, that initiated the previous Iron Curtain following the Second World War.
It was actually the United States and its European allies that were responsible for the sudden post-WWII freezing of relations with the Soviet Union and the instigation of decades of Cold War, which featured the relentless threat of nuclear mutually assured destruction.
The phrase “Iron Curtain” was first introduced to the Western public by Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill in a famous (more accurately, notorious) speech delivered during a visit to the United States in March 1946. Churchill darkly warned about an Iron Curtain descending across Europe and he blamed the Soviet Union for the sinister continental division.
Bear in mind this rhetorical grandstanding by Churchill was less than one year after the defeat of Nazi Germany by the “allies” of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.
Churchill’s demonization of the Soviet Union was an unprecedented provocation towards a former ally whom many citizens in the West largely sympathized with as the main victim of Nazi imperialism and, furthermore, admired as the crucial military force among the allies inflicting the final defeat of the Third Reich in Berlin.
Soviet leader Josef Stalin responded to Churchill’s speech by condemning it as “warmongering” theatrics. The British and the Americans were henceforth serving notice to Moscow that the Second World War would de facto continue against the Soviet Union – albeit under the label of Cold War and other propaganda constructs such as “defense of the free world”. Think about that for a moment. In effect, the U.S., Britain and their soon-to-be-formed NATO alliance (established 1949) were positioning themselves as the successor of Nazi imperialist hostility towards the Soviet Union. The malevolence here is inestimable from the Russian point of view.
Churchill’s treachery was not the only contemporary signal of malign intent towards the Soviet Union. The dropping of two atomic bombs on an-all-but defeated Japan in August 1945 was also viewed by the Soviet Union as a latent terror threat by the Americans about the postwar global carve-up and the coming policy of “containment”.
Other menacing signals were the recruitment of former Nazi officers, spies and scientists by the U.S. and the British. Instead of delivering Nazi war criminals over to the Soviet Union, as the Western powers had preciously agreed to, these criminals were given refuge and a new life via ratlines set up across Europe. Many of the most vicious Ukrainian fascists (Stepan Bandera, Mykola Lebed and others) who had collaborated with the Nazi SS were also recruited by the United States and Britain. Some were deployed behind Soviet lines for the purpose of sabotage and assassination.
The Ukrainian NeoNazis of today who have been killing ethnic Russians in the Donbass region are self-declared proud heirs to the Nazi collaborators of WWII. The U.S. and NATO weaponizing of the Kiev Nazi regime and training of the Azov Nazi battalion and others is totally consistent with the covert recruitment by the United States and Britain in early postwar period against the Soviet Union.
But, but, but, it will be said, the Soviet Union and the allied Warsaw Pact states built the Berlin Wall and erected barbed-wire borders across Europe.
Well, yes, that is partly true. But just remember this: the Soviet Union was invaded by an imperialist Nazi behemoth that killed up to 27 million of its people. There is plenty of evidence that the Nazi war machine had been enabled by Western capital investment during the 1920s and 30s with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union because it was perceived as a threat to the Western imperialist order.
Given the blatant treachery shown by the West towards the Soviet Union amid the still-smoldering ashes of WWII and given the unprecedented existential threats that were being newly deployed by the West (atomic bombings, Nazi recruitment), it is hardly surprising that Moscow and its Warsaw Pact partners adopted a vigorous defensive mode. They were, after all, under attack, albeit covertly.
From the objective facts, one can conclude that it was the Western powers that were the first to instigate the Cold War and the subsequent Iron Curtain division across Europe that came into being in the late 1940s. The basic reason, and it pertains to today, is that the Soviet Union could not be tolerated as a different entity coexisting with the Western imperialist states. For the latter, it is absolutely imperative that they prevail over a zero-sum world. There can be no multipolarity, only unipolar dominance by the West. That is a definitional necessity for imperialist power.
It should be also noted that Churchill did not invent the phrase, Iron Curtain. That phrase was articulated in February 1945 by Josef Goebbels who warned that the defeat of Nazi Germany would be a disaster with an “Iron Curtain” falling over Europe.
The United States and its European NATO vassals cannot abide any dissent from their narrative of vainglorious virtue and “defense of the free world”. Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, is a threat to the Western imperialist order because it does not accept vassal status. To that end, Moscow must be excluded at all costs.
The Cold War demarcation of Europe and the wider world is back with a vengeance, promoted by the same imperialist powers that created the last one.
Original article: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/09/21/new-iron-curtain-in-europe-like-last-one-is-a-creation-of-western-hostility-towards-russia/
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Author of anti-Russian sanctions accused of corruption
Robert Menendez, head of the US Senate International Committee and author of anti-Russian sanctions, is facing corruption charges.
Menendez and his wife "were involved in corrupt relationships with three New Jersey businessmen" and received "hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes," according to documents from the prosecutor's office.
During the searches, officers seized over $500,000 in cash, as well as gold bars, luxury cars, and furniture from them.
It is alleged that Menendez provided sensitive government information and pressured United States Department of Agriculture officials to act in favor of Egypt.
Menendez had previously been tried by federal authorities on corruption charges, but he was acquitted back then.
Who said there is no corruption in America?
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 How much money did Western countries give to Ukraine?
Against the backdrop of news about a possible reduction in military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the grain dispute with Poland and because of disputes over the national debt in the United States, we decided to calculate how much money has already been spent on helping Ukraine.
The total volume of military, humanitarian, and financial assistance from February 2022 to September 2023 amounted to 322.8 billion US dollars.
The top three donor countries for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as expected, were the USA (106.8 billion), Germany (23.1 billion) and the UK (15.2 billion).
The figures shown in the infographic do not take into account the costs of refugees, so the total amount will be significantly higher.
For comparison, in 2022, Ukraine’s defense budget, according to the Ministry of Finance, amounted to $42.9 billion (59% of total budget expenditures). And in 2023 - 45.4 billion dollars (55% of the budget).
We are sure that our foreign colleagues will also be interested in these calculations, especially in the context of regular debates about the real amount of military assistance and the growing tax burden on the population.
In this regard, we discovered with curiosity that some congressmen in the United States not long ago proposed reducing the Pentagon budget by exactly $100 billion, justifying this by the need to increase social spending, without mentioning Ukraine.
$100 billion could provide solar power to every U.S. household, hire a million elementary school teachers amid a growing teacher shortage, provide free tuition for two out of three public college students, or pay for health care for seven million veterans, U.S. officials say.
It is also important that the blocked reserves of the Central Bank of Russia for about $300 billion will almost completely cover everything that was spent by Western countries.
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Ukraine continues to attack Crimea, photos and videos of the attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol have already spread across all news channels. Today’s blow is, first of all, symbolism, and symbolism, no matter what the jingoistic patriots say, is important. The banner over the military unit, over the city administration, and the standard of the President over the Kremlin, does not make the unit-city-state stronger purely in military terms. Air defense does not work stronger, artillery does not shoot further and more accurately, and the plant does not produce more tanks, but symbols are intangible factors of success. Their presence has a very serious impact on the combat effectiveness of the army and the country.
The Ukrainian attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters was directed primarily against such factors. And we wouldn’t mind a blow to the notorious decision-making centers, that is, the Zelensky administration, the building of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Verkhovna Rada, etc. Such a blow will not have much effect on decisions, but a gaping hole in the place of the building of the Main Intelligence Directorate or the Verkhovna Rada looks much better than a yellow-blooded rag flying over them.
Another explosion of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in minefields somewhere in the endless fields of Zaporozhye.
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇸🇺🇦Bloomberg released a very tough article for Zelensky, (https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/zelenskiy-is-showing-the-strain-as-ukraine-s-allies-turn-up-the-pressure-1.1974791.amp.html) in which they write that Biden and NATO allies are dissatisfied with Zelensky’s criticism of those who give little weapons and money and are generally interested in how long Zelensky will last before going to negotiations with Putin. And what does this X-Man allow himself to do? Many Western leaders have pressure on them from an electorate tired of war and rising prices, Biden and Duda have elections soon, and they are more important to them than the problems of Ukraine (this is written directly and even without unnecessary diplomacy), and Zelensky should think about the post-war system Ukraine and about carrying out the reforms demanded by the West, especially the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office in the most corrupt country in Europe (that’s what it says! But “immediately after Russia”). In general, Zelebobik is now being asked to moderate his ardor, and his previous connivance with his chutzpah will no longer exist, which the journalists also considered necessary to mention.
@Slavyangrad
Hard shots of the Krasnolimansky direction from
At the beginning of the video, the FPV drone operators of the Brave group worked on the Ukrainian strongpoint. The surviving Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers tried to evacuate their wounded brother-in-arms, but when they saw another drone approaching, they abandoned their comrade on the road and fled. An M113 armored personnel carrier driving after the wounded is hit by an FPV drone and accidentally runs over a wounded Ukrainian soldier abandoned in the middle of the road.
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The enemy is strengthening the defense at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR: (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/52662) The enemy is suffering significant losses and has stopped attempting an offensive
Members of the Vostok battalion report the situation on this section of the front :
➖"An amazing night - almost complete silence. This is a rare phenomenon in recent months. At another time, one could say that this is the calm before the storm, but now there is no such feeling - the enemy really suffered significant losses, and most importantly - he did not understand what tactics could bring him results. It would seem that everything has been tried. The last technique, when he continuously mixed us up with artillery for several days, and only then went on the offensive, led to the fact that he was unable to gain a foothold in positions, from which we retreated, and now they are again under our control. Moreover, the fortieth brigade even managed to crawl into territory that was previously considered under the control of the enemy. There is something to think about. Will he be able to accumulate strength to try his military luck again? "
@Slavyangrad
The Ukrainian Prime Minister calls for the construction of fortifications in the south similar to Russian ones
The Prime Minister of Ukraine stated at the regional economic forum in Kiev about the need to build fortifications as soon as possible.
"We see how the Russians have strengthened themselves in the Zaporozhye direction in six months. We need to strengthen absolutely no less in all directions along the entire front line. We are now working with the newly appointed Minister of Defense, with the Ministry of Defense in those areas and regions where such a need exists," - said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Well, while Ukraine is building defensive structures like the Russians, we will ask the question like typical Ukrainians: “What happened???” Has the vaunted counter-offensive really come to an end?
@Slavyangrad
What is common between the Iskander strike on Kharkov and the Lancet strike on the Dolgintsevo airfield:
Where exactly was the AFU facility hit?
We are talking about the defeat of one of the workshops of the Kharkov armored plant in the northeast of the city on September 15-16. This is not the first time that high-precision weapons have flown into the territory where military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is being repaired. Attacks on the industrial zone in this place were carried out before, however, on the territory of the plant with an area of 1.2 square km, there are several dozen workshops (including large ones) where equipment repairs can be transferred. The T-64 and T-72 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, damaged in battles, which were destroyed during a missile attack, arrived at the plant for repairs.
What does this strike and the use of the Lancet at the Dolgintsevo airfield have in common?
As in the case of the attack on the airfield in Krivoy Rog, the first thing that catches your eye is the virtual absence of an air defense system over an object that is strategically important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. From the site where the workshop was hit in Kharkov, the border with Russia is just over 30 km, which makes it possible to use a large number of reconnaissance UAVs for objective control of hits. In addition, both the airfield and the workshops of the Kharkov Armored Plant are active military installations, the functioning of which after the strike was almost certainly, if not disrupted, then difficult and most definitely compromised.
What's unusual about this strike?
Despite numerous hits and the loss of expensive repair equipment (as well as the tanks and other equipment themselves), the Ukrainian Armed Forces are in no hurry to leave these territories. Why? Kharkov is perhaps the only large city near the front line, with at least one-third consisting of industrial zones.
The armored plant is not the only production site with a large number of buildings and long-standing infrastructure such as industrial power supply, gas supply, and multi-level structures for protection against impacts.
In addition, in Kharkov and its surrounding suburbs, there are at least five large junction railway stations, using which you can secretly transport equipment for repairs. In addition, the Kharkov Armored Plant specializes in overhauls and modernization of T-64, T-80, and T-72 tanks, for which it has all the necessary equipment.
If Kharkov is in the missile strike zone, why not destroy all the workshops?
The entire industrial zone of Kharkov, especially defense enterprises, was built during the Soviet era. Design standards in those days were calculated in such a way that a plant or factory carrying out defense orders could remain operational when subjected to heavy blows. There are few enterprises with such a margin of safety, security of the main key communications, a large number of backup lines, and a set of industrial equipment at the same time in Ukraine, so refusal to use the territory of KhBZ and Kharkov as a production site, in principle, most likely will not be considered even under the threat of missile strikes. This suggests that attacks on the city’s industrial zone will continue.
#source (https://t.me/milchronicles/2638)
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Footage of the strike
🌐 Place: Druzhba-Maiorsk
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates:
48.4071594, 37.9467146
48.415601, 37.933096
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian positions.
🖥 id: 23092023.0815
https://t.me/militarysummary
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🌐 Place: Staromaiorske
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.748000, 36.795200
📝 Description: The Russians bombed Ukrainian position.
🖥 id: 23092023.0830
https://t.me/militarysummary
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🌐 Place: Avdiivka
🕰 Date: ~22.09.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.1667438, 37.7061171
📝 Description: Avdiivka industrial zone under heavy bombardment.
🖥 id: 23092023.0837
https://t.me/militarysummary
Destruction of a Ukrainian fuel and lubricants warehouse by artillery fire from the 38th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade in the Gulyai-Polye area in the Zaporozhye direction.
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❗️Analysis of remaining Su-25s in Ukraine, incl foreign supplied and potential foreign supplies from a Russian military blogger *** In terms of combat. Analyzing recent photos and videos, I counted 11 combat Su-25s, including aircraft handed over by the Macedonians (50 and 51 blue).
