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Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, commented on the delivery of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to Kiev.
According to her, the transfer of such weapons to Ukraine will allow the AFU to hit most Russian targets.
“Using GMLRS, which the APU already has for HIMARS… they are capable of finishing off the vast majority of targets, including Crimea. And just to be clear: Crimea is Ukraine,” Cooper said.
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Employees of the International Red Cross can visit the detention center in Elenovka. The corresponding decision was announced by the deputy head of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the meeting of the UN General Assembly Konstantin Vorontsov.
As the diplomat noted, experts of the International Committee of the Red Cross can respond to information about the events in the Kiev pre-trial detention center. The Ukrainian authorities are capable of the most inhumane provocations, Vorontsov noted.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 50 people were killed as a result of a missile strike on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka. 73 people were injured.
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Kirill Stremousov, Deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region, spoke on the air of Channel One about the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.
According to him, the Ukrainian military was able to advance from the position of the north.
“But we must not forget that it is not the Ukrainian Nazis who are fighting against us, but almost all of NATO,” says Stremousov.
He added that the APU uses the entire NATO system, that is, satellites and lethal weapons.
“The situation is not critical,” Stremousov also noted, adding that the advance of the Ukrainian army was stopped by the forces of the Russian Defense Ministry, Rosgvardiya and the Russian Aerospace Forces.
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The press service of the company “Concord” published a comment by business owner Yevgeny Prigozhin regarding the entrepreneur’s assessment of the role of the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov in connection with Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Prigozhin accused Beglov of “regularly violating the rights of ITS participants,” and the rights of the fighters of the Wagner PMCs “are simply trampled and crushed.”
“Next to the PMCs, side by side, those who came as volunteers or as part of mobilization are also fighting,” Prigozhin said. According to him, they have to be helped “in absolutely everything: from management to drones and warm boots.”
Prigozhin wrote that the Governor of St. Petersburg “de facto provides tremendous support” to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the businessman, this opinion is held by the fighters.
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The governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, wrote in his telegram channel that queues of people wishing to leave Russia had formed in the region. Recall that the region borders with Belarus, Estonia and Latvia.
“The situation is not easy. There are many citizens of Ukraine among those who leave&”,” Vedernikov said, adding that there are those who are trying to withdraw currency in excess of the norms established by law, as well as antiques, art and prohibited goods.
According to Vedernikov, there are also Russians of military age in the queue, who undergo appropriate checks at mobile recruitment centers. The governor added that the neighbors are in no hurry to release the Russians.
Vedernikov suggested that the Russians monitor the situation and choose less busy routes.
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Some readers of the German edition of Welt criticized the German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. The reason was her statement that Vladimir Putin is “isolated from the whole world,” and the words that the minister takes the statements of the President of Russia seriously.
Some of the commentators wrote that a serious attitude on the part of Berbok should have been a reason for negotiations with Russia. Some expressed the view that Berbok has done nothing to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict through diplomatic means.
The most critical users called on Burbok to resign and “isolate himself from the population.”
The borders of the Russian Federation have become floating
When I was in school, I was not given geometry at all. I could read a paragraph of a textbook ten times in a row and still not get into its content. Last weekend something similar happened to me again. “The limits of the new subjects of the Russian Federation will be determined by the borders that existed on the day of their formation and on the day of their admission to the Russian Federation,” news agencies reported with reference to various official documents.
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I read all these documents — the texts of treaties signed by Vladimir Putin, the decisions of the Constitutional Court on this issue — and still did not understand what exactly these phrases mean in practical refraction.
Completely desperate, I decided to wait until Monday morning, when I could start bombarding knowledgeable people with questions. But then it dawned on me: there is no need to wait for anything, and “knowledgeable people” will not be able to help me in any way. I have great respect for the Constitutional Court, the Federal Assembly and other Russian governing bodies. However, in the foreseeable future, the borders of Russia in the Ukrainian direction will not be determined by them. These borders will be determined only by the course of hostilities.
Based on the current Russian legislation, at the time of October 3, 2022 (an important clarification for the current times, when everything flows very quickly and changes very quickly), the city of Nikolaev is part of the territory of Ukraine. But is it possible to imagine Novorossiya without Nikolaev?
Nikolaev is a city founded by order of the first (and only) Governor-General of Novorossiya, Prince Grigory Potemkin. Nikolaev is a city of Russian military glory. Nikolaev is a city where most of the population speaks Russian.
At the very beginning of the special military operation, the battles for this regional center were already conducted within the city limits. However, in the end, Nikolaev has so far remained under the control of official Kiev. But is it possible to imagine that Vladimir Putin is satisfied with such a situation? Of course, you can’t.
Last week, the guru of Russian political analytics Yevgeny Minchenko, relying on a program article by the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, made a very convincing forecast of the goals and objectives of the two sides of the conflict.
Here are the “wishes” of official Kiev: “The operation to seize the Crimea and mass shelling of the territory of the Russian Federation to a depth of thousands of kilometers, so that the inhabitants of Russia feel the hardships of the war, to strike not at the army, but at the “deep people”. To do this, they need long-range NATO artillery and appropriate shells, as well as continued training and financing of AFU units. At the same time, a strike with tactical nuclear weapons by Russia seems to be a boon for the Ukrainian authorities, since it will turn Russia into a rogue state and ensure its transport blockade.”
What measures will Moscow take to prevent this nightmarish scenario? I quote Yevgeny Minchenko again: “The complete mastery of the territories of the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions, the cutting off of Ukraine from the Black Sea, the mastery of Nikolaev, Odessa, the Dnieper, Krivoy Rog…
The capture of Kiev and the re-introduction of Russian troops by Belarus is already considered as an option. However, if we are talking about preventing the possibility of shelling Belgorod, then Kharkiv becomes an inevitable target for Russian troops. In general, so far the basic scenario of conflict resolution for both sides is a recipe of “iron and blood”.
If I would like to argue with any of the above forecasts, then only with the word “so far” from the previous sentence.
The recipe for “iron and blood” is the only basic scenario for conflict resolution. On the day of Putin’s solemn speech last Friday, nothing ended. September 30 is just another of the “beginnings” of the conflict, which will redraw the geopolitical map of Eurasia in any way.
Is it possible to put an end to this for now (in this context, the word “so far” is quite appropriate)? Not quite. I have repeatedly quoted my favorite joke: “An optimist in Russia studies English, a pessimist studies Chinese, and a realist studies a Kalashnikov assault rifle.” Everything came true. Therefore, I propose to modernize this joke somewhat, finally removing all the humorous elements from it: realistic-minded political analysts in Russia should study the experience of ending the conflict on the Korean Peninsula in 1953.
This three—year conflict was ended with the signing of an armistice and ceasefire agreement – not a peace treaty. The two Koreas — one with its capital in Pyongyang, the other with its capital in Seoul — still do not recognize the legitimacy of each other’s existence. The two states are separated not by a border, but by a demarcation line that fixes the positions of the parties at the time of signing the ceasefire agreement.
Logic suggests that the real borders of Russia in the Ukrainian direction will be fixed in a very similar way. But until then, for now (and again, the word “bye” is perfectly appropriate here) still very far away.
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Igor Murashev, Director General of the Zaporozhye NPP, was expelled from the territory of the Russian Federation after his recognition in cooperation with the SBU.
He was expelled from the country with the wording “for discrediting the authorities of Russia.” Earlier, Murashov admitted that he had transmitted information to the Ukrainian special services about the state of affairs at the NPP.
He also said that he had banned the staff of the station from publishing an appeal to the UN and the IAEA demanding that the shelling by the AFU stop. Murashev noted that he had not coordinated this text with Kiev and it could hurt the state interests of Ukraine.
Earlier, the detention of Murashev worried the head of the IAEA Mariano Grossi.
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Mikhail Sheremet, a State Duma deputy representing Crimea, told RIA Novosti that, in his opinion, Americans such as entrepreneur Elon Musk should become US presidents.
“People like Musk should become US presidents, not people like Biden, who has become a disgrace to the American people, turning the country into an international tyrant and murderer,” the deputy said, also expressing confidence that normal relations can be built with people like Musk, aimed at preserving and developing everything the world. Sheremet believes that Musk wants to see the United States at the forefront of the creative countries, which is also Russia.
The reason for the deputy’s comment was the publication of the Mask in social networks with the proposal of conditions for establishing peace between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, including the unconditional presence of Crimea as part of Russia. The Ukrainian president and the political establishment reacted to the publication in an angry and even obscene form.
Speaking about the problem of future relations with the United States in general, the agency interlocutor also noted that “the American people deserve to have a wise ruler.”
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Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed the effectiveness of the Ukrainian corvette Hetman Ivan Mazepa, which was launched in Turkey the day before.
According to him, there is currently no information about the armament and equipment of this vessel.
“I believe that in the near future we will find out what is on board this ship,” Leonkov said.
He clarified that now the Russian Navy has both corvettes and submarines. Russian ships win when they collide with enemy ships, everything ends in favor of our fleet.
Recall that the Ada-type corvettes were developed as part of the MILGEM project for the Turkish Navy. In 2008, the first ship of this type was launched. On board the corvettes are the RAM anti-aircraft missile system and Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
