Drunk disaster, your sensibility is akin a fur of a dog.
Stop thinking that you have a live here, poor looser.
Your fancies only are good to pressure you to think about yourself. Stop thinking you must not recognize your errors and be a real man.
You must return from you the best you can.
You have sixty a half and you are a clown. Why’ Because you can’t love you, sob, why?, because you feel inside that you are a sob.
Think right, get aside your temporal desires and focus on your feeling: what do you really desire to feel in your destiny?

Posted by: Pete | Sep 22 2024 22:15 utc | 103

SIMPLICIUS Ѱ
@simpatico771
⚡️It’s interesting how many missed this enormous admission from WaPo’s latest article. So much for “Black Sea Fleet defeated” narratives🥴:
Much has been made of Ukraine’s impressive success in sinking or crippling a chunk of Putin’s Black Sea Fleet. But with a couple of exceptions, the Chatham House study said, the ships destroyed or disabled were “very old or limited” vessels. The Russian navy “has lost none of its blue-water combat capability,” the paper concluded, and Moscow’s “global power projection capabilities are undiminished.”

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1837965543367647668
Image of the headlines at the link. I haven’t bothered to go direct to source, but the WaPo headine reads “The Losing Strategy of Underestimating Russia”

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:30 utc | 105

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 22 2024 22:32 utc | 106
Don’t feed the fucking trolls. It makes it hard for b to clean them up.
…………
@all
STOP feeding the trolls!!!
Posted by: b | Sep 22 2024 15:45 utc | 16

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:36 utc | 107

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 22 2024 22:32 utc | 106
I guess that one wasn’t so bad, it just when people start replying to trolls, there can be a lot of following comments that also need cleaning up.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:40 utc | 109

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 21:50 utc | 96
Half my ancestors arrived from Ireland nearly 200 years ago when the Brits were doing their divide-and-conquer, starve and enslave program. And oddly there was a mix of Catholics and Protestants who eventually learned to stop fighting, for reasons unknown.
The answer to the counterpunch question depends… Like Donbass proposes, sometimes you just have to wait until the bodies of your foe, float on by, without you lifting a hand. Sometimes when the delicate balance arrives between life and death, you can give it a nudge. Yet, sometimes the insult is so deep that even time cannot salve the wound. Ask anyone in China if they have an opinion about the Rape of Nanjing or ask a Korean woman what it means to provide comfort to a Japanese man.
Only the gods can completely check their emotions, and only if they want to.

Posted by: kupkee | Sep 22 2024 22:45 utc | 111

and this is for all.
You can live with mental addictions for a time, but that is a dream. Your personality, even not been your real I-ness, is doing things that it are shaming its rightness and its I-ness.
You have inside of you the light of the intelligence. Use your thinking to make your destiny, because the things you are not conscious awake, you gonna lose in your death.
Learn when you are here, awake. the experience is for you to know who are you. If you miss it, there is no heaven to save you: all the bad feelings that you desire are waiting you. If you are not a moral human, how do you call the others “clown”?
I recommend one year to get out of your MoA addiction. MoA gonna live and you are not his substance.
You can live without this curse: don’t you have the last light in your chest? Use it.
Please, let the trolls go.
YOU are not.

Posted by: Pete | Sep 22 2024 22:48 utc | 113

An amazing post with the appropriate title
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/20/the-madness-of-antony-blinken/
Is it possible that behind the shining face of the consumerism, lgbt rights and the talk about individual freedoms is a dark mind of a suicidal cult.
To me it seems to be impossible that a supposed revenge of these high positioned Jews whose families were victim of pogroms 150 years ago are the real reasons for this war. It is a too simple explanation. Blinken and Nuland serve some other, even more powerfull entity.
Why would the US put its fate ibto the hands of ex Ukrainian ir ex Polish Jews.

Posted by: vargas | Sep 22 2024 22:50 utc | 115

kupkee | Sep 22 2024 22:45 utc | 111
We certainly all have emotions. I for one would like to have a panel of red buttons with the name of a city on each button. London, Tel Aviv, Gay Paree, Brussels, Washington, New York ect, ect. Plus a red button for zapping trolls.
A couple of things Putin said in interviews in answer to questions – “Emotions must be put aside when making decisions”, and – “I am nobodies friend. I am the president of the Russian Federation”.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:56 utc | 117

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:56 utc | 117
Fair, enough. Putin is unique and in a unique position. Russia and the rest of the World, so far, have been fortunate indeed to have such a steady hand and rational thinker.

Posted by: kupkee | Sep 22 2024 23:10 utc | 119

BREAKING: UGLEDAR ON THE VERGE OF CAPTURE!
Posted by: HERMIUS | Sep 22 2024 23:01 utc | 118
Wouldn’t surprise me that it happened with a massive surrender.
That or heavy fight, they have no clean road to use and bet on not getting shot in the back while doing 10 km’s + cross country… not anybody’s first choice.

Posted by: Newbie | Sep 22 2024 23:15 utc | 121

@Neofeudalfuture | Sep 22 2024 15:29 utc | 15
I agree that the very low altitude drones are a significant threat. I believe that they are controlled through ovedhead satellites and they emit vertically upward. So they could be detected by high ltitude surveilance drones from the video stream signal they transmit. Of course they can use spread spectrum links to hide below the ambient radiation noise. It is always possible that the US has developed a 3D mP of the deploynent area and the mao is used as virtual reality to fly the dronea, Ofherwise Russia can target the satellite support aystem or the satellites themselves.
The positive aspect to those attacks is that it gives Russia, China anc Iran the opportunity to develop countermeasures and review fheir policies regarding the security of their warehouses before the conflict further escalates.

Posted by: Richard L | Sep 22 2024 23:18 utc | 123

So the Uk better hope the Russians cannot track that sole sub on patrol. It is target A1+ at present. And it better hope the USN cannot track it either…
Posted by: marcjf | Sep 22 2024 21:08 utc | 89
I read a week or so ago, I think in the Mail, that all our attack submarines are in port. These are the ones that accompany our Trident submarines. This leading to a situation where the protecting submarine is USN.
As to the Tridents my understanding is that the missile itself is leased from the US with stock rotation out of Norfolk, whilst the warheads are British stored/fitted on the Clyde.

Posted by: JohninMK | Sep 22 2024 23:20 utc | 125

Richard L | Sep 22 2024 23:18 utc | 123
The Nato strikes we are seeing now a cruise missile rather than drones. I an guessing the navigation is something like that of a modernized Storm shadow/Scalp incorporating what Nato has learned throughout the SMO, Air defence, radar ect.
To both plot a course through defenses and perhaps improved stealth from Russian eyes.
The Brits likely have a three month window before Russia has got its own readings on the missile and countered it.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 23:27 utc | 127

The Mind Software or mental pie of our narcissistic masters is a fusion of the Book of Deuteronomy and Roman imperial ideology
Posted by: Simon | Sep 22 2024 23:34 utc | 128
Scientifically applied physiological operations.
Goering puts it far simpler than the the old classics on how easy it is to control the peasants minds.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 23:38 utc | 129

Another big Intel drop from DS. Very pro RFA, second day in a row. This time, not even a modicum of UFA gains to mitigate the bad news (for UFA).
https://deepstatemap.live/en#7/48.5275192/36.4636230
Summary of changes, in order of importance (my interpretation):
1. Vuhledar, substantial advances on each side of the city, putting it in immediate peril. And I mean immediate. Not the stuff we’ve been hearing for a month. But close. Combination of real, recent, changes along with admitting previous advances (dropping the cope).
a. Large advance to the north of the Prechystivka-Pavlivka road line. Most of this is conversion of gray to red, which generally means admitting previous advances, giving up the cope (overly wide gray zones don’t make sense). But there’s also some movement of the grey itself (i.e. real advance). Maybe 4:1 dropping the cope, versus new advance.
b. Small, but extremely interesting and strategic movement from Pavlivka along the E505 (if that’s the number) to Vuhledar/Kostianivka. Only a 0.5 km advance, but right on an access road. And the gray now covers the connection of the north supply road (out of Bohiavlkenka) and the E505.
At this point, it is only a km from this red finger to the SW corner of Vuhledar. And the gray is a quarter klick away. Very threatening to the city.
c. On the SE side, a large advance from Mykilske towards the SE corner of Vuhledar. Looks mostly like new advance, little bit of cope giving up (too fat gray zone), but mostly new…and substantial movement of the new gray zone.
At this point, the red is actually covering all the dachas to the SE of Vuhledar. Per Google maps, not part of the legal territory of Vuhledar, and on the wrong (for the RFA) side of the E505…but still kissing cousins to the city itself. And most concerning the gray is in Vuhledar. Yes…in the city itself! The orcs are in the castle! The sentinels are in the hovercraft. (Matrix refernce). This is another reason, why the town is in immediate peril.
To add insult to injury, 100% of the pretty green (counterattack advance) of UFA to the SE of Vuhledar is now gone. Poor DS.
d. If that’s not enough, a substantial loss of fields to the E of Vodiane. To include the slag heap of the #1 coal mine, overlooking Vuhledar. Looks like a real recent advance, not a cope concession of old too-fat gray.
2. In the Ukrainsk area (maybe we will have to start calling it the Tsukuryne area soon), couple of interesting advances.
a. To the north, small but important extension of the northern finger that is threating (not immediately but medium soon), the south of Selydove AND the north of Tsukuryne.
b. To the south, small but important advance threatening Tsukuryne from the east and Hirnyk from the north.
c. DS still not giving up the ghost on Ukrainsk itself. Has a slag heap and about 10% of the town in gray still. But looks like a deep pocket and kind of cope-y. Think he just hesitates to concede the town. (Have to think he is under some political pressure…doesn’t want to lose his cyber gig and get sent to zee Eastern Front!) This is sort of a dime, I’m waiting to drop.
3. NY/Toretsk area: Continued gains, along with some cope concession.
a. In the pocket between the two towns, DS finally converted gray to red. Large territory. But, looks like a 100% cope concession, not an actual new RFA advance. No movement of the gray, just color change. Also that pocket never made sense given how deep it was and all the water features restricting supply to it. This also loses DS the last connection to the 2014 purple line (albeit a point border). But still some symbolism lost.
b. Small advance in Toretsk, taking the slag heap to the S of the prison. Converted gray to red, but gray border also moved correspondingly, so maybe a real advance.
c. Note that DS still shows the blue counterattack gain in Nelipivka and northern New York. But I’m hearing more and more burbling that the line has moved further north. And I don’t mean the cheerleader types like Ayden or Rybar (who have a huge record of “reporting early”, but people I trust like DPA and Willy who cite the evidence that RFA may even be north of Nelipivka by now.) This is sort of a dime I expect to drop soon. Even though it’s not a too wide gray zone. Just an advance that DS may be a little slow to admit.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 22 2024 23:18 utc | 124
So the Uk better hope the Russians cannot track that sole sub on patrol. It is target A1+ at present. And it better hope the USN cannot track it either…
Posted by: marcjf | Sep 22 2024 21:08 utc | 89
I read a week or so ago, I think in the Mail, that all our attack submarines are in port. These are the ones that accompany our Trident submarines. This leading to a situation where the protecting submarine is USN.
As to the Tridents my understanding is that the missile itself is leased from the US with stock rotation out of Norfolk, whilst the warheads are British stored/fitted on the Clyde.
What is the problem about?
It is a lie.
What is the true.
The true is that Rusia has left behind the psychological complex of being, during the 90’s, a mess.
The true is that thanks to that courageous and temperate humans, the humans are doing their mess and not are doing an inevitable problem.
The true is that anyone wants to die, because all of us gonna be in the hell.

Posted by: Pete | Sep 22 2024 23:57 utc | 131

Re: Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 22 2024 23:18 utc | 124
I would like to see the month-by-month on the percentage of Ukrainian territory gained so far this year – with the current result for September included.
I often hear Alexander Mercouris (for instance) commenting on how far the Russians are going and how they sure going ” much faster “ than anyone expected!
Of that I am sceptical – to say the least – they don’t seem to be doing that fast at all!
*As for Kursk – the territory taken by Ukraine in Kursk should be considered (while occupied by the UAF) to be an extension of Ukraine when calculating percentages – given that, I understand the Ukrainians actually had a net territorial gain in August – is that correct?

Posted by: Julian | Sep 23 2024 0:01 utc | 133

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦September 22, 2024. Key updates:
▪️ Summary from the Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian Armed Forces continued their advance into enemy defenses, inflicted damage, and repelled 19 counterattacks; AFU lost up to 1,790 military personnel;
▪️ A 36D6 detection and tracking radar was destroyed, and strikes were carried out on energy facilities supporting Ukraine’s defense industry, airfields, and UAV production workshops, according to the Ministry of Defense;
▪️ Air defense shot down 6 Hammer bombs, 6 HIMARS projectiles, two S-200 anti-aircraft missiles converted for ground-target use, and 106 drones, reported the Russian Ministry of Defense;
▪️ The “North” group continues offensive actions in the Kursk Oblast, repelling attacks and attempts to breach the border, and inflicted damage on AFU reserves in Sumy Oblast, stated the Russian Ministry of Defense;
▪️ In the Kursk direction, AFU lost more than 380 military personnel, two tanks, and nine armored vehicles in the last 24 hours, according to Russian forces;
▪️ U.S. President Biden and the Prime Ministers of India, Japan, and Australia, after their meeting, called for the need to establish long-term peace in Ukraine but failed to mention Russia in their joint statement;
▪️ The Associated Press reported that Zelensky will begin his U.S. visit with a tour of an ammunition plant for the AFU in the city where Biden was born, though this has not been officially confirmed.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:06 utc | 135

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for September 21-22, 2024
Russian troops hit enemy targets in the Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.
Ukrainian forces attacked the Crimean peninsula over the course of two days, and also hit ammunition depots in the Krasnodar Territory and Tver Region.
In the Kursk region, fierce battles continue in the Glushkovsky district , where the Russian Armed Forces are preventing the enemy from advancing. In the Korenevsky and Sudzhansky districts , attacks are being carried out on Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment and strongholds in forest belts.
In the Liman direction, Russian troops liberated Nevskoye, advancing west almost four kilometers and breaking the enemy’s defenses in the area of ​​the Zhuravka ravine.
In the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces liberated Nelepovka and landed troops in the center of Leonidovka. In addition, there are successes on the approaches to the central part of the urban development of Dzerzhinsk.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops liberated Krutoy Yar, advancing in the direction of Krasny Yar and Nikolaevka.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces liberated Ostroe, advancing towards the Selidovo penal colony, engaging in battles for it.
In the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops are advancing northwest of Ugledar in the Prechistovka area and in the direction of Zolotaya Niva.
In the Vremyevsk direction, the configuration of the front in the Makarovka area has been clarified, where Russian sappers blew up the southern bridge at the entrance to the village.

rybar

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:16 utc | 137

I would like to see the month-by-month on the percentage of Ukrainian territory gained so far this year – with the current result for September included.
Posted by: Julian | Sep 23 2024 0:01 utc | 133
#########
Why do you have no interest in the losses in equipment and manpower, neither of which are easily replaceable?
Is it because your Nazi pals are getting rag-dolled by the Russian military?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:20 utc | 139

” ” Why do you have no interest in the losses in equipment and manpower, neither of which are easily replaceable?
Is it because your Nazi pals are getting rag-dolled by the Russian military?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:20 utc | 139 ”
For reference, you’re own comment just a few comments above. You have to be A.I. as your self awareness is non-existent.
” Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:06 utc | 135 ”

Posted by: Moonie | Sep 23 2024 0:27 utc | 141

133, Julian:
1. War Mapper does month by month statistics. See here:
https://x.com/War_Mapper/status/1830691518551564730/photo/1
There are other sources, but the info is similar and I just follow War Mapper since I know he’ll update every month.
2. The changes remain small (largest month was last month, mislabeled on the photo). It is still only .06% of the country and looks quite small on a map of the entire country. For context, 60 kmsq is .01%. That’s a good number to remember and gives a scale of reference. [And this is taking the Kursk incursion out of the conversation or else the net for AUG would be negative for RFA.]
3. All that said, the rate of advance, within UKR, while definitely still slow, does seem to be trending up. Just look at the pattern.
4. SEP is on track to be similar to AUG, at another .06% month. Maybe bigger. (Different source–if you care, I’ll pull up the video, but it’s a pro-UKR source and thoughtful.) That comment was made before a couple recent days of large concessions on the DS map (this guy was using DS map, not War Mapper as his source…very similar, but not identical). So, while month is not done yet, I would expect something equal or slightly better than the AUG24 month. Maybe 400+ kmsq. Maybe .07%. Of course, that depends on lines not stalling for the last week, but just extrapolating the partial month. Which is probably reasonable. There are some more pockets set to close, so if anything end of SEP may outperform. Maybe even like a .08%.
P.s. None of the above was meant to be argumentative. You asked a question, so I responded to try to help you. FWIW, I have been very negative on the cheerleader types (overdramatizing tiny changes) and the “muh attrition copers”. And I have no way of knowing if the recent positive second derivitive of territory will continue (the acceleration, that is). But I have to be honest, both ways. And it is at least mildy encouraging for the pro RFA crowd.

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 23 2024 0:49 utc | 143

Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 0:52 utc | 144
Yep. MBS and dad swinging to Russia China pretty much ended the original CIA business model of War of Terror.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 23 2024 0:55 utc | 145

re: Paul Damascene | Sep 22 2024 22:40 utc | 108
Thank you for your reply. My concerns are that Biden is mentally unstable and angry, and the neocons are determined to have their wars with Russia, Iran, and China, and they are very far down that road.
Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 23:27 utc | 127 has just noted that the strikes I mentioned are not being carried out by drones but by an updated/improved version of the Storm Shadow.
Doesn’t this cross the red line of “not hitting Russia with missiles” that Putin said would constitute NATO entering the war, and the Russian Ambassador told the UNSC that a state of war would exist if this happened?

Posted by: Perimetr | Sep 23 2024 1:01 utc | 147

LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 0:06 utc | 135
Sky news Australia has a number of short vids on the recent QUAD meet.
I was going to link in the open thread, but haven’t, and don’t feel motivated.
It’s just more of the same at it’s core.
Australia is a bitch on heat, eager to take it doggie style from the U$ (being the yapping chihuahua it is).
India, seeing what’s on the Kazan agenda for BRICS, is playing hard to get…. And as it should.
Modi and Erdogan both. Don’t have to like them, but they are doing the hard work to keep their country’s interests paramount.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 1:02 utc | 149

Perimetr | Sep 23 2024 1:01 utc | 147
From the start,the shorter range Neptunes that were used to hit a few things, the brits and Americans were saying they are Ukie designed and manufactured. An indigenous Ukie missile. I assume parts will have no western markings on them.
I have no idea which way Russia will go with them, perhaps wait until their spooks get hold of rock solid documentation that they are designed and manufactured in the west, but whatever, its pretty much a matter of waiting for Russia to decide the response.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 23 2024 1:07 utc | 151

re: Peter AU1 | Sep 23 2024 1:07 utc | 151
Thank you

Posted by: Perimetr | Sep 23 2024 1:12 utc | 153

Sarmat failure
Plot twist. The cheap Russians had stolen and installed some of the same chips from the batch of Exploding Pagers. And Bhamm!

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 1:22 utc | 155

Everyone, please try to remember that Putin could destroy all of Ukraine in 1 week and has had that capability for over a year.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 22 2024 20:24 utc | 79

Are you referring to waging war in a non-nuclear fashion? If you are, you are gravely mistaken. The RF’s inability to soundly defeat the AFU after 2.5 years of standard warfare should be sending a major wake-up call to all Russians.
What just happened here?
https://nypost.com/2024/09/22/world-news/ukrainian-drones-take-out-russian-ammo-depots-in-huge-explosion/

Zero Hedge reports that overnight, there were “several more successful strikes on Russian ammo depots” well inside Russia. These strikes are planned and carried out by the US and NATO. Only with the help of US aerial and satellite reconnaissance can the targets- and the paths to the targets – be selected.
Posted by: Perimetr | Sep 22 2024 14:03 utc | 3

It is mind-boggling that Putin et al. tolerate this.

Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Sep 23 2024 1:42 utc | 157

@Pete #99
The article is very infornative. I have been asking myself for the last years why there are still bridges crossing the Dnieper. I realize that the Russians have similar questions. I see that the Russian military have to wage a war with one arm tied in their back. To gheir credit, it’s difficult for Putin and the Russian generals to balance the needs of war, economy and politics in this unstable world.
However one sometimes has to break down a big problem in small pieces. For instance the Surovikin plan to attack Kiev by crossing from Belarus and closing the Polish supply routes might have ended that war much sooner but the plan was not adopted.

The second version of the plan was from A. Surovikin: to concentrate the shocked kulaks on two directions in Belarus and re-attack on Kiev and along the western border of Ukraine, accompanying the offensive with the complete destruction of the country’s energy 404, Dnieper bridges and border crossings. To all other geopolitical reasons, to dine on this option was hampered by the fluctuations of the Battle of Batka, the inevitable very large losses and the less obviousness of success, unlike plan B. Gerasimov.

Posted by: Richard L | Sep 23 2024 1:58 utc | 159

Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Sep 23 2024 1:42 utc | 157
########
We discussed the ammo dumps on the first page of comments, IIRC.
It’s inconsequential relative to the total daily consumption of shells by Russia.
Btw, it’s Ukraine that has ammo shortages, and its best weapons require rare and expensive munitions.
How can Putin allow this? Kid, it’s war in real life, not some video game.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 2:30 utc | 161

“Bad news folks, Interslava has a post about Sarmat failure. Test silo badly damaged.”
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 23 2024 1:01 utc | 148
Someone else posted that news earlier, but it was called a troll. Remember folks, no bad news is allowed. Or else you are a troll.

Posted by: FormerlyWisco | Sep 23 2024 2:41 utc | 163

“Why would a failed “test” result in a crater? Smacks of impetuousness and lack of strategic thinking as Nordstream.”
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 23 2024 2:46 utc | 164
A lot of the trolls fail to understand the 5D game being played. Remember, low-IQ Israel isn’t the only one who engages of “war by deception”.

Posted by: FormerlyWisco | Sep 23 2024 2:58 utc | 165

Hyper-self-interested parties are the easiest to manipulate. Everyone knows what motivates them, and when to push those buttons.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 23 2024 3:08 utc | 166
Thus the impetus for increasing governing authority – making money becomes easier because governments are so predictable.

Posted by: frithguild | Sep 23 2024 3:24 utc | 167

The wailing and gnashing of the teeth by NAFO mouth breathers always intensifies as Russia nears some significant milestone. Remarkably, just like the histrionics of the captured media. One wonders what they think they accomplish with their pantomime of analysis, their sophistry, other than renew the contempt anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together feels when confronted by their pseudo-logic.
I’m sorry the West fucked up. But all the imbecilic ‘Ukraine can win!’arguments thst can possibly exist amount to naught. A heap of bullshit next to a mountain of corpses and smouldering equipment, papered over and thus concealed for a brief moment by Maerican media dominance. History however is relentless, and the truth is already slowly seeping into the Western populace, like an antidote to a poison long fed, reversing an all too real wormtongue.
Remind me again about how great a victory is Kursk, what with the mighty armored fist amassed now from across Ukraine.. just so much scrap metal and pieces of scorched flesh. Tell me more about the extraordinary privilege, so abused, now about to be snatched away from the Maerican criminals like a weapon taken from the hands of a lunatic. Actually, don’t bother. I read everything, and vanishingly few of you ideological types have anything of worth to contribute. Carry on, it’s wryly amusing at least.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 23 2024 4:36 utc | 169

Re: Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Sep 23 2024 0:56 utc | 146

Quite a catch, I’d say .

So I take it this (celebrating the capture of Ugledar) means you are FIRMLY in the ” territory capture matters” camp Ted?

Posted by: Julian | Sep 23 2024 4:47 utc | 171

RT: 22 Sep, 2024 14:24
Motorcade carrying Russian ambassador hit by explosion
A motorcade carrying Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert Khorev and other diplomats has been hit by an explosion, the country’s mission has said in a statement.
The envoy was traveling alongside a delegation including ambassadors of several other nations.
The delegation had attended a tourism forum hosted by the Trade and Industry Chamber of Islamabad.
Several police officers were injured in the blast after an escort car hit a landmine, the Russian Embassy said.
None of the diplomats were injured, it added.
Pakistani authorities have acknowledged the incident, confirming that all members of the delegation were evacuated safely from the site of the blast. 
“All the ambassadors remained safe in the attack and had been shifted to a safe place before their departure to Islamabad,” Deputy Inspector General of police Mohammad Ali Gandapur told Reuters.
According to police, one officer was killed in the blast and four others were injured.
“The squad that was leading the convoy was hit by a roadside bomb,” Swat district police officer Zahidullah Khan said.
………
BTW. what’s the latest on Imran Khan?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 5:02 utc | 173

“Consult a map.”
Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2024 5:17 utc | 175
You and your silly, over-confidsnt predictions. As if you are the only one who can read a map. Hint: you aren’t.

Posted by: FormerlyWisco | Sep 23 2024 5:25 utc | 175

Why would a failed “test” result in a crater? Smacks of impetuousness and lack of strategic thinking as Nordstream.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 23 2024 2:46 utc | 164
It’s a siloed missile, and blew up in its silo.

Posted by: anonymous | Sep 23 2024 5:46 utc | 177

It is clear that Ukraine is still very strong as they are holding the line. We see almost no discontent in Ukraine or in the West. We see solidarity in the western block as even the pension funds resources of certain countries are being diverted fpor Ukraine.
The population of the west, not to mention Ukraine or Poland was looking forward for this war fit years.
We see that Russia is unable to escalate while the west has many options for escalation.
We also ae the unseen determination in the West and very unform thinking thete.

Posted by: vargas | Sep 23 2024 6:17 utc | 179

“We also ae the unseen determination in the West and very unform thinking thete.”
Reading what you are posting before you press send can make a difference!

Posted by: g wiltek | Sep 23 2024 6:28 utc | 181

RT:
UK urges allies to show ‘nerve’ in supporting Kiev
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has called on NATO members to demonstrate “nerve and guts” in their support for Ukraine, in an apparent call to lift restrictions on the use of Western-supplied weapons for strikes deep inside Russia.
Kiev has received Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles from the UK and US, is only allowed to use them on territories that Kiev claims as its own, such as  Crimea and Donbass.
Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky has been pushing for permission to use the missiles for long-range attacks on internationally recognized Russian territory. Moscow has warned that such a move would turn NATO countries into direct participants in the conflict, and pledged an appropriate response. 
Earlier this month, Lammy and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer traveled to the US and had a “wide-ranging discussion about strategy” with President Joe Biden, but failed to reach an agreement.
While the UK advocates for lifting restrictions on the way Ukraine can use Western weapons, Washington has so far held back on a decision – saying Kiev needs to explicitly state its combat objectives. 
Speaking at a fringe event during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, Lammy acknowledged there is “a very real-time discussion across allies” on how to step up support for Kiev in its conflict with Russia.
“This is a critical time for nerve and guts and patience and for fortitude on behalf of allies who stand with Ukraine,” he said in an apparent reference to Biden’s hesitation.
During the main conference later in the day he reiterated Britain’s unwavering support for Kiev, saying the UK government has committed to providing £3 billion ($3.99 billion) in military aid per year “for as long as it takes.”
Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine would not be able to operate long-range systems without the use of intelligence from NATO satellites and the involvement of “NATO military personnel,” and that such a development would change the essence of the conflict.
He added that Moscow would “make appropriate decisions based on the threats facing us.”

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 6:36 utc | 183

Posted by: Melaleuca | Sep 23 2024 5:51 utc | 179
Ukrainian and NATO military deaths are now at 755,000.
https://t.me/fred33flint/9453
For the benefit of the imbecile persona Nafo troll Vargas, how it works is that dead Ukrainians no longer require a salary or receive a pension. Contrary to your assertions, being dead is not a sign of increased determination. They are not bravely lying on the battlefield trying to stop Russian advances, they are very much dead, never to be seen by their mothers and wives and children again. No re-spawn. Game Over.
Only you Nafo imbecile sees their tragic, needless deaths as a mark of determination. Only your western political paymaster idiots Senator Lindsey Graham, Keir Starmer, David Lammy, John Healey who will cower in bunkers thousands of miles from the frontlines think this duped cats paw is the best money they’ve ever spent. Mainly because it’s not their lives ending and it’s not their money they’re spending.
15,300 Ukrainians and NATO forces have been killed in Kursk since that PR stunt launched a month ago. This number is relatively low, because a lot of the conscripted troops sent there have spent their time running for their lives; a tactic that you famously, hilariously interpreted as a ‘sign of determination to fight the Russians another day’.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Sep 23 2024 7:17 utc | 185

There is a creepy video out regarding CERN. All might not be what it looks like.Has been deleted from YouTube. Can still see it here, I think: https://youtu.be/Yo5AOe_yS9Y
Posted by: g wiltek | Sep 23 2024 6:55 utc | 185

obviously staged:
“I just happened to be filming the dark courtyard outside my window for 20 seconds, in the middle of the night, when robed figures walked up from nowhere to stage a murder in a public space in front of 100 windows.”
Just when evidential footage might be obtained, the filmer go all “Blair Witch Project” (camera waves about in ‘panic’ to prevent worthwhile footage).

Posted by: retroflecks | Sep 23 2024 7:23 utc | 187

How a zombie lives

“The dynamics are positive.” Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov-about investments in gas generation, a plant in Italy, Pokrovsk and the crisis in the global metallurgical market. Big interview for Forbes
Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov spoke in an interview with Forbes Ukraine about adapting to the war, the risks of losing Pokrovsk, the lack of electricity and plans to build gas stations, the possible increase in Ukrzaliznytsia’s tariffs and the crisis in the global steel market, as well as the shortage of personnel and plans to build a plant in Italy.
In the first half of 2024, the largest Ukrainian company Metinvest increased its profit almost fourfold, and revenue increased by 20%. “The low comparison base helps,” says Yuri Ryzhenkov, the company’s CEO. However, the company faces serious challenges ahead.
In winter, an acute shortage of electricity is expected, UZ plans to raise freight tariffs for metallurgists by 20%, and world iron ore prices are falling. In addition, in 2025-2026, the company must pay creditors more than $600 million. How will Metinvest respond to these challenges?
On adapting to war in 2024
In 2023, your mining and processing plants were operating at 35-40% capacity, and your metallurgical plants were operating at 65-75% capacity. What is the situation in 2024?
Almost nothing has changed for steel plants. Zaporizhstal operates three blast furnaces, which means that the load is up to 75%. Kametstal operates two of its three furnaces – 65%. To increase production, it is necessary to overhaul the furnaces that were repaired on the eve of the invasion. Repair of one furnace-up to $250 million.
Pokrovskaya Coal Group and the Yuzhny GOK joint venture operate at 100% capacity. As of the end of the first half of the year, the consolidated mining and processing plants were loaded by 57% of the pre-war level.
In 2022-2023, we rebuilt the group’s operations and logistics. In 2024, we adapted to the new conditions. It was possible to increase the production of iron ore raw materials at our GOKs due to the opening of the ports of Odessa.
Which markets are your top priorities and whose role has declined?
We were forced to significantly reduce our deliveries to the Persian Gulf region due to the increase in our production costs.
Traditionally, the European Union is a priority market for us. But now in the EU, metallurgists are reducing production, so the demand for our ore has fallen. We had to increase supplies to Asia, primarily to China.
Is the group operating at a profit in 2024?
Thus, in the first half of 2024, the Group’s EBITDA increased by 33% to US $ 650 million compared to the corresponding period last year. Although the dynamics are positive, this is mostly the result of a low comparison base in 2023, when we did not have access to exports by the Black Sea. In general, the result was affected by an increase in electricity and logistics costs in Ukraine, as well as a drop in world prices for basic products.
Against this background, how big a problem is it for you to repay more than $600 million of your debt portfolio in 2025-2026?
The global market is cyclical. In previous years, there were good prices for our products, but now the situation has changed. I hope this fall won’t last long.
Relative to the loan portfolio. So far, we have had enough cash flow to meet all our obligations. We have identified several scenarios for the future. In all these scenarios, we are able to meet our obligations. But now is a time when anything can happen, so we will be in constant dialogue with our creditors. We will find solutions.
We see that lenders of other Ukrainian companies meet us halfway and agree to change the terms of financing even without a large increase in interest rates. But again: so far we have not come to our creditors with such offers and are able to cover all the needs.
About the risk of losing Pokrovsk
In the first two years of the great War, Metinvest invested more than $250 million in the Pokrovskaya Coal Group – more than any other asset. Why didn’t the proximity to the front stop investment?
The coal industry is a constant investment. If you don’t invest, production will plummet. Recovery will take years. After the purchase of the mine, we resumed its normal operation for three years.
How do you assess the risk of losing this asset?
First of all, I’m not a military man, so I can’t assess the risks. I will only note that the mine itself is located west of the city of Pokrovsk and the front line, close to the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region. We believe that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will defend Pokrovsk and stop the Russian invasion.
Our task is to support the armed forces, build fortifications that will help our military to stop the advance. Recently, the Ministry of Defense adopted the first steel underground hospital of our production. Such projects help our military to hold on and still contain the invasion of the enemy.
Secondly, we must ensure the safety of our workers working in the mine. Metinvest evacuates families with children of our employees, provides places in sanatoriums. We encourage our workers to travel from Pokrovsk to the east of the Dnipropetrovsk region to work in shifts. We have started a project to build modular homes in a safe location away from the mine. Miners who are willing to work on a shift basis, but do not have housing, will be able to live there. Ensuring people’s safety is the main thing.
Pokrovskaya Coal Group provides your production with coking coal. Is there a backup plan in case of occupation of Pokrovsk?
We believe …
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Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2024 7:26 utc | 189

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 22 2024 22:40 utc | 109
The worst thing is not the trolls.
The worst thing is realizing their trolls and my prime minister are on the same side.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 23 2024 7:30 utc | 191

Passerby | Sep 23 2024 7:30 utc | 192
At the 109 I was referring to JRL’s comment/reply to troll, rather than the troll he replied to. But as for the trolls being on the same side as our governments. Yep. That’s why I hate em.
The little green Oirish troll thinks I should have compassion for trolls, for those joining our governments in attacking and scorning those our governments have declared the current enemy of choice.
There’s certainly some weirdos on these interwebs though. Even a scorned woman mindset is now one of my groupies it appears.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 23 2024 7:55 utc | 193

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Two Majors #Summary for the Morning of 23 September 2024; 07:00 (GMT+3)⚡️
🔹In the #Kursk region, the AFU is not giving up attempts to break through in the Glushkovsky direction, bringing more and more #NATO equipment into action. Another Leopard was destroyed near the village of #Veseloye. The AFU made an unsuccessful attempt at a counterattack in the direction of #ZelyonyShlyakh – #Lyubimovka, although they had previously been in a deaf defence there, holding back our onslaught from the west. There are battles in the area of the border region of #Nikolayevo-Daryino and #Daryino, which in addition to narrowing the AFU zone of control of the border, will open the approaches to #Selidovo, which the enemy has turned into a logistics hub in our region.
🔹In the #Kupyansk direction, the RFAF are expanding the zone from #Peschanoye to #Kruglyakovka (3 km left from LoC).
🔹In the #Liman section, our troops, having broken into #Nevskoye (south of #Makeyevka, #LPR), formed a front bulge up to 5 km deep.
🔹In the #Toretsk (#Dzerzhinsk) area, the Russian Army rushed into Leonidovka with a swift landing, despite the damaged equipment, the infantry managed to gain a foothold.🎬👇The offensive continues in #Toretsk, and the zone of control around the #Druzhba settlement is expanding.
🔹In the #Pokrovsk direction, #KrutoyYar (the road to #Mirnograd) has been liberated. The Washington Post quotes the commander of a tank unit from the 68th AFU Brigade as saying: ‘Although #Pokrovsk remains under Ukrainian control, it can already be called lost as a logistical hub.’ In the direction of #Kurakhovo, the liberation of the #Ostroye settlement became crucial.
🔹In the #Ugledar direction, the enemy’s resources are worried about the fact that the town is semi-encircled by the Russian Army. They report the approach of Russian units to urban development from the east. The consolidation of our troops in the forest belts north of the river is noted. Kashlagach from Prechistovka to Ugledar at a front of up to 6 km to a depth of up to 3 km. In addition, the territory of the enterprise in the northern part of #Pavlovka north of the Kashlagach River was taken. There is progress in the eastern dachas and further south. The section from the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 Mine to the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 1 Mine with a width of up to 3.43 km has been occupied. Thus, the AFU are left with a corridor up to 7 km wide for withdrawal from the town with only one route to #Bogoyavlenka, to which our troops are making their way from the east (4.5 km left).
🛡In the #Rostov region, at night around midnight in the area of #KamenskShakhtinskoye, air defence units worked on air targets.
💥In #Belgorod region, the town of #Gubkin was attacked by the AFU using a drone. A man and a woman were wounded in the village of #Murom as a result of a drone attack. #Shebekino was shelled. The village of #Cheremoshnoye in Belgorod district came under AFU shelling, 10 civilians were wounded. In Belgorod district, a drone attacked a moving car on the #Chayki – #KrasnyOktyabr section of the motorway, the driver was wounded.
💥In the #DPR, in #Gorlovka, a civilian was killed and five others wounded by an AFU artillery strike. A man born in 1962 was injured when a kamikaze UAV attacked a vehicle. An electric locomotive driver was injured when an explosive object was dropped from an AFU drone. In the village of #Naberezhnoye, Novoazovsky district, a civilian was injured as a result of the detonation of an explosive object.

https://t.me/two_majors/32381

Posted by: Down South | Sep 23 2024 8:05 utc | 195

Public protest of the military against the state’s refusal to demobilize, thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are doing so.
Sergey Gnezdilov, a soldier of the 56th Brigade, announced via Facebook that he is going to the SZCh – that is, to go AWOL.
“From today I am going to the SZCh, until a clear term of service is established, or until my 25th birthday, having five years of impeccable military service behind me,” the soldier wrote.
He demands that the authorities introduce demobilization for those who have been in the army for a long time.
“Without a term of service, without a clear right to demobilization, returning to the peaceful rear and listening to society, the volunteer begins to understand that serfdom has not been abolished, and he has been appointed guilty and responsible,” Gnezdilov writes.
According to him, in the Armed Forces of Ukraine “a migration to the rear, to relative safety, is beginning.” He believes that evasion of mobilization is so large-scale because there are no clear terms of service.
He also does not understand why the soldiers on the front lines are not being replaced, although there are “five million people liable for military service” in the country.

https://t.me/MediaKiller2021/14516

Betrayal is brewing. Deserters or heroes, that is the question? A public rebellion by a military man is an alarm bell.
According to our information, he has already been “called”, since he chose the wrong time for blackmail.
His public protest spoils the information background of the US trip to the US. After all, Zelensky will convince sponsors that Ukrainians are ready to die, but here it turns out that even the most motivated soldiers are leaving, and not just like that, but to the SZCh.
We were the first to get inside information about the growth of desertion in the Ukrainian army.
We noted the following reasons that were provoked by Zelensky’s strategy:
1. He threw all the military who believed him – crossed out demobilization.
2. He organized Zemobilization, which turned the people into serfs/slaves.
3. He continued his policy: “hype is more important than strategy”, when they conduct operations for the sake of PR and do not take into account the victims and costs.
They also pointed out that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in for difficult times due to Zelensky’s incorrectly chosen strategy.
According to our information, Bankova has already given instructions to prevent other public attacks in this case. The office workers are very afraid that the military man will be supported in his fight for demobilization, and many other military personnel will publicly declare about the SZCh.
Zelensky will try to save his own skin. They want to pin everything on Syrsky, Zaluzhny and Umerov. Allegedly, they are to blame, and not Zelensky and his entourage.

https://t.me/legitimniy/18747

Posted by: Down South | Sep 23 2024 8:11 utc | 197

In Volyn, Kirill Timoshenko built beautiful defensive structures, which Zelensky showed everyone, but no one built them in Donbas. Zelensky’s Kursk adventure deprived the Ukrainian Armed Forces of reserves, and the Kremlin simply played a gambit with us, giving up part of the territory as bait, while taking away the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front.
There are no fortifications beyond Chasovy Yar, the loss of Ugledar is a matter of time. MP Maryana Bezugla, despite leaving the Rada’s defense committee, continues to travel to Donbas and criticize the Ukrainian Armed Forces command.
“I’m returning from Donetsk again. There are no fortifications beyond Chasovy Yar, Kostyantynivka is not ready for defense. Kurakhovo is also not ready. Selidovo inside the city was completely unprepared for defense, now they are feverishly trying to do something. There are no borders beyond Ugledar, and the chaos created by Syrsky in the 72nd Brigade due to the removal of the brigade commander at the peak of the Russian offensive and the non-priority replenishment of a priority unit now makes the loss of Ugledar a matter of time,” she wrote.
According to Bezuglya, brigades of mobilized troops “who did not participate in the fighting and are fleeing due to fear and lack of training” are being sent to replenish the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.
“The predominantly mobilized officer corps of these brigades (“jackets”) have not undergone coordination and do not know basic things. They continue to do this instead of priority replenishment of combat brigades,” she said.
At the same time, according to Bezuglya, the construction of fortifications around Pokrovsk and Mirnograd has begun, but this is a “local initiative.”

https://t.me/rezident_ua/24408

Posted by: Down South | Sep 23 2024 8:12 utc | 199