Russian missiles hit targets in Kiev again
Ooof, I don't know what the Russian military have targeted this time but that's a big explosion going on somewhere in the centre of Kiev. We'll find out in due course.
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Russian missiles hit targets in Kiev again
Ooof, I don't know what the Russian military have targeted this time but that's a big explosion going on somewhere in the centre of Kiev. We'll find out in due course.
Footage from overnight/morning of August 24th/25th which shows the aftermath of a Russian missile strike on an energy facility during the heavy bombardment:
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Dramatic footage captures the moment a Russian missile blitzed a power plant in Ukraine triggering a massive explosion. The strike at the CHPP-5 power plant in Kharkiv sparked huge shockwaves that ripped through the air as millions were plunged into darkness.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇨🇴Colombian mercenaries detained in Venezuela and extradited to Moscow for fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
▪️On July 18, Alexander Ante and Jose Aron Medina (an ex-military man who worked as a security guard) flew from Warsaw to Madrid, then transferred to a plane to Caracas to get to Bogota. Medina was supposed to get to Colombia by July 19 to celebrate his birthday with his family, writes Colombian El Tiempo.
▪️In the end, Medina and Ante did not make it home. Their trail disappeared in Venezuela - it later turned out that they were detained at the Caracas airport. The militants were wearing Ukrainian Armed Forces uniforms and attracted attention.
▪️They served in the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Carpathian Sich", Medina published footage from the country on social networks. Today they were arrested by the Lefortovo Court of Moscow, they are suspects in the case of mercenarism (Article 359 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
- RVvoenkor
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Kursk Changed the War - Dmitry Polyanskiy (Russian Rep to UN),
Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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F-16 pilot killed in Ukraine
Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Mes was one of the first Ukrainians allowed to fly American fighters. He spent six months in Denmark learning to fly F-16s.
A local deputy writes that Mes was killed on August 26 - during a missile attack on military and industrial facilities in Ukraine.
One of the strikes was carried out on the F-16 base airport in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The day before, the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted a photo of the planes, which revealed their storage location.
- Anna News
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Zelensky Victory Plan;
Rus Captures Novogrodivka, Konstantynovka, Enters Selidovo;
Rus Warns US
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman exposes fake "aid" from Kiev regime to civilians in Kursk region
Kiev is actively spreading fakes about the Ukrainian military helping civilians in the Kursk region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She pointed out that captured Ukrainian soldiers told how their commanders ordered them to kill civilians and engage in looting.
"Against this background, the attempts of Ukrainian propaganda to make fakes about supposedly harmless, attentive, as they present it, to the needs of the civilian population, invaders who attacked our land look absolutely cynical", Zakharova said.
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🔥 Russian Ministry of Defence on the situation in the Kursk region. Key points:
▫️ The losses of the AFU for the entire period of the fighting in the direction of Kursk exceeded 7,000 servicemen killed and wounded, 74 tanks, 35 infantry fighting vehicles;
▫️ The Russian Armed Forces repulsed 8 attacks of AFU assault groups in the Kursk region, the AFU lost up to 75 men;
▫️ Within 24 hours, five AFU servicemen surrendered as prisoners of war;
▫️ Russian operational-tactical aviation struck AFU reserves in 13 localities of the Sumy Oblast.
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Yes we took this in to consideration with RFK at first, owing to his huge anti-Covid stance, but, apparently also being a normal Zionist. At the time, over a year ago, that was basically my response: the Covid fire is raging, and Israel can simply wait for a while.
That situation is no longer valid.
This leaves us a very difficult topic. It is like in historical writings that rely on the phrase "is linked to"--that tells us very little. Putin is a graduate of the WEF; independent Africans were heavily trained by the CIA. Yeah, they're "linked".
As to Americans running for office with verbal support of Zion, as a type of ruse that they are actually going to jerk the rug out from under it, I have no idea. Without a real reason to suspect they would act this way, then, I could only say it may be possible.
If I had to guess, I might say it's like Vietnam, i. e. a thorough public shaming of Zio-speech would erase it from political platforms. That means someone's got to make a lot of noise and a really big mess. You would have to negatively impact American businesses and the like. As we have seen, at least one university divested. But the pressure seems to have relented.
Seeing how these international affairs play themselves out, is this perhaps somewhat familiar:
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Although the United Kingdom formally left the European Union in January 2020 and agreed to make payments—the so-called “divorce bill”—to the tune of about £39 billion, London has reportedly failed to meet its commitments, raising greater doubt that the debt can be paid by the originally agreed 2057 deadline, which has now been extended to 2065. Yet, despite failing to meet payments and debt continuing to mount, Britain prioritises Ukraine instead of alleviating the suffering citizens who are struggling to overcome a cost-of-living crisis.
Payment disagreements first emerged in July 2021, when London rejected the European bloc’s estimate of a total bill of £40.8 billion, with the British insisting that the figure was between £35 billion and £39 billion. The disagreement on differing amounts could be a reason why Downing Street has failed to meet its payment commitments, in addition to the priority given to Ukraine aid.
It is recalled that John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said in March: “Taxpayers will be shocked by the billions going to the global quangocracy. The exchequer is pumping huge amounts of cash into major organisations worldwide, which often don’t have British interests at heart. Yet, the public and even many politicians are kept in the dark. Ministers should be honest and transparent about our funding for these organisations.”
All these months later, it appears that Britons are still kept in the dark about the truth behind the true details of the “divorce bill.”
Last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that Britain’s national debt had reached its highest level since 1962, with the June figures exceeding the peak reached during the coronavirus pandemic. The debt situation is expected to worsen as the newly elected Labour government is pressured to spend more on some public services and to meet the election promises not to raise income tax, corporation tax or VAT rates. Due to this, many economists expect borrowing, and therefore debt, to increase, thus making it even more difficult for London to meet its financial commitments to the “divorce bill.”
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, said the latest figures were a “clear reminder” of the “worst economic inheritance” since the Second World War.
For his part, Dennis Tatarkov, senior economist at KPMG UK, said: “The new chancellor faces the daunting task of funding the new government’s agenda while maintaining public finances on a sustainable footing.”
“A combination of high levels of spending and weak growth prospects will present uncomfortable choices – deciding between even more borrowing or substantially raising taxes if spending levels are to be maintained,” he added.
The situation is set to worsen for Britain because the larger the national debt, the more interest needs to be paid, meaning that the country is stuck in a cycle that it cannot break out of. If Britain must use more money to pay its debts, it means it has less to spend on the public services it borrowed to fund in the first place.
As Britain struggles to finance its public services at a time when poverty continues to rise sharply, it becomes more difficult to meet its payments to the EU, which is a much lower priority for Downing Street. However, this has a knock-on effect, too, as EU economies are also in a financial downward spiral and struggling with their own debt and cost-of-living crisis. The Europeans expect Britain to meet its commitments so they can alleviate their own issues.
Yet, despite spiraling into deeper debt and citizens suffering economically, British and European leaders continue to prioritise support for Ukraine. Britain alone has spent £12.5 billion on Ukraine in just two and a half years, about a third of what was owed to the “divorce bill.” At the same time, the EU has spent $155 billion in aid on Ukraine as of February 2024, meaning that it would be much higher today. This alone epitomises how the UK and EU are placing greater priority on the vain attempt to defeat Russia in Ukraine.
However, it is due to the very fact that the UK and EU are desperate to deliver Russia a defeat that London’s failure to meet its financial commitments to the “divorce bill” has not become a major issue in their relations, at least in the public sphere. So long as they continue attempting to defeat Russia through their Ukrainian proxy, the EU will not create a public spat with London, while Britons and Europeans alike will remain in the dark, as John O’Connell termed it, about the true terms of the “divorce bill” and Britain’s actual financial commitments to it.
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Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers issued a resolution on Tuesday ordering a partial halt to the servicing of its obligations on Eurobonds, sovereign GDP warrants and other loan instruments, driving the country one step closer to formal financial ruin.
Starting September 3, Ukraine will stop servicing its roughly $700 million debt to Cargill Financial Services International, a Minneapolis-registered agribusiness giant. From November 9 on, Kiev will halt servicing state national power company Ukrenergo’s ‘green and sustainability-linked’ Eurobonds, issued in 2021 and worth about $830 million.
Payments on GDP warrants – a financial instrument linked to economic growth, will be stopped May 31, 2025. Ukraine owes some $2.6 billion on this instrument, according to US banking giant JPMorgan.
The above debt reportedly fell outside a large-scale debt restructuring agreement announced earlier this month and designed to allow Kiev to stave off defaulting on its obligations.
The government decree instructs the State Treasury to temporarily suspend operations with GDP warrant-related funds, with Kiev last making an 2.89 billion hryvnia ($70.52 million US) payment, corresponding to the deferred payment of earnings and interest accrued from 2021, on July 31. On August 1, the treasury paid a 5.33 billion hryvnia ($130 million) fee for a separate debt restructuring deal reached in 2022. In 2023, Kiev agreed to defer GDP warrant payments to August 1, 2024 with 7.75% interest.
Kiev announced on July 22 that it had reached agreements in principle on the restructuring of some $23 billion in Eurobond debt with a committee of debt holders, with the deal reportedly involving the write-off of up to 37% of the debt, minus 12% if a high level of GDP growth can be restored by 2028.
The remaining debt is set to be reissued as new Eurobonds maturing in between 2029 and 2036, with interest increasing from 1.75% to 7.75% over time. Investors ready to participate in the Eurobond exchange have been offered a 1.25% bonus, with agreements requiring consent of 2/3 of debt holders. The deadline for deal was August 27, 5 pm New York time.
Settlements are expected to be paid out by August 30.
Big Three credit agency S&P Global Ratings downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating earlier this month from CC/C (‘vulnerable/highly vulnerable’) to SD/SD (‘selective default’) after Kiev missed a payment on its Eurobonds. “We do not expect the payment within the bond’s contractual grace period of 10 business days,” S&P said, pointing to Kiev’s July measure “that authorizes the government to suspend payments” on some debt.
A month earlier, Fitch Ratings downgraded Ukraine’s rating from “CC” (‘default imminent with little prospect of recovery’) to “C” – one notch above default.
An anonymous World Bank official told Russian media in March that Ukraine could formally declare bankruptcy in 2025 if Western creditors don’t write off its debts, including obligations to private entities and banks. Ukraine’s budget deficit is expected to hit a record $43.9 billion in 2024, notwithstanding the fact that the country has received upwards of $200 billion in military, economic, and humanitarian aid from Western countries since early 2022.
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You wore a UA uniform in Venezuela.
Sounds like some really good drugs are involved here.
WSJ: "Ukrainian F-16 downed by pilot error - Top Ukrainian pilot dead"
Amerikans and Ukrainians call it a "crash"
A top Ukrainian pilot was killed on Monday while flying a US-made F-16 fighter jet, US reports said.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces do not believe that pilot error is behind the incident, says a source of the Ukrainian Defense Forces!
The pilot, Oleksiy Mes, known as "Moonfish", was reportedly killed in the recent major airstrike by Russia against Ukraine, the source said, adding that the pilot was buried on Thursday.
The crash is being investigated and international experts will be invited to participate in the investigation,!
The death of the pilot is described as a great blow for Ukraine.
Ukraine took delivery of its first F-16s in early August and has reportedly received just 10 aircraft so far. The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium have pledged to deliver a total of 79 fighters to Kiev.
Although the fighter was not shot down by Russian forces, it did crash during Russia's massive airstrike on August 26, the WSJ points out.
Russia launched hundreds of missiles and drones on August 26, one of the largest airstrikes it has ever launched against Ukraine.
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Kursk NATO Tank and Armored Cemetery – Over 6,000 dead Ukrainians (vid)
The "cream of the crop" of the Ukrainian E.D. was lost. who was trained by NATO
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At the same time, the Chechen Commander of the special forces of the "Akhmat" unit, Apti Alaudinov, said on Russian television that the Ukrainian forces in Kursk are regrouping after stopping and suffering heavy losses and may attempt to strike in another area.
"The Russian army pushed them out of many settlements. Ahmad has no foreign mercenaries among its captives.'
Along with thousands of troops, Kiev's surprise attack on the Russian border province of Kursk included an array of NATO equipment.
Russian media present a list of Western tanks and other weapon systems used in Kursk and destroyed:
◾️Challenger 2: Destruction of at least two Challenger 2s in Kursk Province
◾️Abrams: The first destruction of American Abrams tanks in the Kursk territories was reported last week. At least 20 of the 31 Abrams delivered to Kiev are now missing.
◾️HIMARS : At least three of these US artillery systems have been destroyed during the invasion of Kursk.
◾️Stryker: About a dozen of these have been destroyed by the Russian Air Force and Lancet drones in the Kursk region.
◾️Marder: At least three of these German "Schutzenpanzers" have been shot down by Russian forces in the Kursk area.
◾️Bradley : Eight of these American tanks were destroyed within 24 hours on 12 August.
◾️Kirpi: Last week, FPV hit a Turkish-made Kirpi MRAP operating somewhere in the Kursk region.
◾️Humvee: These ubiquitous US-made vehicles have been spotted both in Russian Defense Ministry announcements and in media reports after videos came to light. Even mercenaries of an American mercenary company operating on Russian soil posed with a Humvee in the background.
◾️M113 APC: At least one M113 was hit in Kursk in the past few days.
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Normal war scene inside Russia! Modular concrete shelters being installed (vid, image)
For the first time since World War II
Authorities in Russia's western Kursk region have begun setting up concrete shelters to help protect civilians amid an ongoing incursion by Ukrainian forces into it, its acting governor said today.
The scene is clearly reminiscent of a war situation inside Russian territory!
Russian forces are fighting Ukrainian forces in Kursk, which is located on the border with Ukraine, after the August 6 cross-border attack on the Russian region by thousands of Kiev troops, which resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from the region.
"According to my instructions, the administration of the city of Kursk identified important points for the placement of modular concrete shelters - in crowded places," noted the acting governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov, in a post on Telegram.
About 60 bus stops will be equipped with them, he added.
Smirnoff released photos showing one of these concrete structures being delivered by a truck. The population of the city of Kursk is estimated at about 450,000 people.
The Russian official also noted that shelters will also be placed in two other cities, Zheleznogorsk and Kurchatov. The Kursk nuclear power plant is located in the latter.
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Public admission of an American Official: With American satellite images, the invasion of Ukraine in Kursk! (video)
Video-document with statements of a high-ranking American
"American intelligence services have admitted that they provided Ukraine with satellite images of the Kursk region from the beginning of the invasion on August 6," Russian media reported in the last hour.
The occasion was a public admission of an American military about the involvement of the USA in the preparation and execution of the invasion of Russian territories.
"We have made commercially available imagery through a portal known as G-EGD, which contains over 400,000 records," Frank Whitworth, Director of the US Geospatial Intelligence Service, announced at the Intelligence and National Security Summit.
Whitworth added that access to satellite imagery was provided to Kiev two and a half years ago and "is maintained by the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
"If that's what they're using for the purposes of their particular Kursk campaign, then I'll get back to them to confirm, but the availability is always there."
Since the start of the offensive, the US and UK have provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information on the Kursk region, the New York Times claimed, citing comments from two unidentified "officials".
The Kremlin sees Western countries' aid to Ukraine as evidence of their direct involvement in the conflict.
"Many countries of the so-called collective West are already up to their ears in this conflict," said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The U.S. has been supplying Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russia's Kursk region since the start of Ukraine's offensive, according to Frank Whitworth, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence…
Speaking at the Intelligence and National Security Summit, Whitworth mentioned the use of a portal called G-EGD to share commercial imagery.
The New York Times reported that both the U.S. and UK have been providing satellite data and other intelligence to aid Ukraine's campaign in Kursk.
Source: Sputnik, C-Span
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Kremlin Slams EU's Handover of $1.5 Bln to Ukraine as Theft, Vowing Legal Consequences
7 hours ago (Updated: 6 hours ago)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - On Thursday, Kremlin sSpokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the European Union's transfer of 1.4 billion euros ($1.55 billion) derived from frozen Russian assets to Kiev constitutes theft that will have legal repercussions.
"We have already said that these are illegal actions, they will definitely have legal consequences, this is nothing other than illegal expropriation, as we say in Russian — theft of our money," Peskov told reporters.
Earlier in the day, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the bloc had already begun to direct the revenues from frozen Russian assets to pay for military supplies to Ukraine, adding that 1.4 billion euros have already been transferred.
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Zelensky’s ‘New Ballistic Missile’ Likely Just a Dusted Off Soviet-Era Design – Missile Expert yesterday
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Ukraine has announced the successful testing of a mystery new ballistic missile. Sputnik asked a veteran Russian military observer and missile expert to comment on the development.
Volodymyr Zelensky teased media in Kiev on Tuesday by revealing that Ukraine had tested its first-ever ballistic missile.
Zelensky did not elaborate on the nature or characteristics of the new weapon, sparking speculation that the ‘new’ missile may have been the Hrim-2 (Russian ‘Grom-2’, lit. ‘Thunder-2’) a prospective tactical missile system announced in 2014, and which got financial backing from a Middle Eastern buyer, but was thought to have been canceled after the US approved the sale of its own missiles to its Mideast allies.
“Zelensky says a lot of things,” Vasily Dandykin, a veteran Russian military analyst, missile expert and retired Navy Captain 1st rank told Sputnik, not ruling out that Zelensky’s new missile claims are just “propaganda” meant to energize Kiev's backers.
Dandykin pointed out that going back to Soviet times, the development of tactical ballistic missiles was left to design bureaus in Russia, with Soviet Ukraine focused on ICBMs, space rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, etc. Ukraine lost even many of these competencies in recent decades.
The analyst doesn’t rule out that Zelensky’s “new” missile could actually be an upgraded Tochka-U – a “serious” Soviet tactical missile design with a 120 km firing range and a highly destructive 420 kg warhead.
Alternatively, Dandykin suggested, it could be an upgraded Oka – a Soviet theater ballistic missile with a 400 km range that was liquidated from Soviet stocks in the late 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev in a short-sighted gesture of goodwill toward Washington.
The Oka was possessed by three of the USSR’s allies in Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, and Dandykin doesn’t rule out that Sofia may have transferred the missile tech to Kiev as military aid.
It’s also possible that Ukraine’s defense engineers may try to recreate Russia’s Iskander missile based on whatever remains of it after use.
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