Losses among the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv region, as well as in the Mykolaiv-Krivoy Rog direction for five days, from September 6 to 10, amounted to over four thousand killed soldiers and more than eight thousand wounded. This happened after the strikes of Russian troops.
According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of nine settlements, including Kupyansk and Boldyrevka, were hit near Kharkov over the past day. More than 250 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, as well as 12 armored vehicles and 17 vehicles. The installation of a multiple launch rocket system was also hit.
In the area of Nikolaev, in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the deployment point of units of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, about 100 servicemen were killed.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the crew of the Mi-35 attack helicopter of the Russian Armed Forces thwarted an attempt by the AFU fighters to bridge the Oskol River in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region. In addition, the deputy head of the new administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov said that Kherson is completely safe. Before that, the People’s Militia of the DPR reported that over the past day, the Ukrainian troops lost up to 40 personnel, and two more armored personnel carriers.
The crew of the Mi-35 attack helicopter of the Russian Armed Forces thwarted an attempt by the AFU fighters to bridge the Oskol River in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The ministry told about the actions of Major Sergei Bondarchuk and Senior Lieutenant Maxim Igolnikov. Since September 5, they have been providing air support to a group of motorized infantry. The latter were engaged in the task of disrupting the counteroffensive of Ukrainian formations in the Kupyansk direction. As a result, the crew flew 5-6 sorties a day, and two of them at night.
While performing the task, they found an enemy who was trying to secretly bring a river crossing near the Ukrainian settlement of Senkovo. After they reported on the enemy’s actions and assessed the situation, the crew inflicted a fire defeat on the enemy, using means of aviation destruction. As a result, plans to advance the AFU into the depth of defense were thwarted.
Prior to that, the deputy head of the new administration of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, said that “everything is stable in the Kherson direction, everything is favorable”. According to him, Kherson is completely safe. In his telegram channel, Stremousov promised subscribers that “the fate of the Indians will not befall us” and that “we will be preserved for the sake of the future of our generations”.
Before that, the People’s Militia of the DPR reported that over the past day, the Ukrainian troops lost up to 40 personnel, and two more armored personnel carriers. Before that, the head of the republic Denis Pushilin announced the destruction of the AFU command post, which was located in the village of Dobropole. He added that the enemy’s equipment was smashed in the Uglegorsk direction.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that all the cities in the Kharkiv direction will return to the control of Russian troops. Earlier, the new local administrations reported that evacuation from Kupyansk, Izyum, Balakleya and other settlements had begun due to the fighting. The Defense Ministry said that from Balakleya and Raisins, the troops were regrouped to the Donetsk direction in order to achieve the stated goals of the special operation.
“It was forced out of the military strategy,” Kadyrov stressed, expressing the opinion that “there is also a plus in this.”
According to him, he personally guarantees “that all these cities will be returned back, our people are already there.” Kadyrov also said that “another 10,000 fighters are ready to leave for these regions.”
“We will reach Odessa in the near future,” Kadyrov assured.
The publication Publico writes that Portugal refused to issue “golden visas” to all citizens of the Russian Federation who requested them after the start of the special operation in Ukraine. According to the newspaper, since the end of February, when the country’s authorities suspended consideration of applications for the issuance of such visas for Russians, 10 relevant requests were received until August – for obtaining a residence permit in exchange for investments.
According to the publication, all requests were rejected. It is also reported that the country’s authorities are discussing the possibility of revoking the “golden visas” already issued to Russians earlier.
Over the past 10 years, Russian citizens have received over 430 “golden visas” to Portugal, while the total volume of their investments exceeded 277 million euros.
Uzbekistan is ready to replace Istanbul as a transit hub for Russian travelers. This was stated by the Consul General of the Republic in Yekaterinburg Abdusalom Khatamov. He suggested that the main bet should be placed on travelers from the Ural Federal District.
The diplomat noted that there are already direct flights from three Ural cities to four Uzbek airports. The issue of opening direct flights between Nizhnevartovsk and Fergana is currently being actively discussed. Uzbekistan is interested in increasing the flow of tourists.
In addition, Tashkent expects to provide jobs to citizens of Uzbekistan on the territory of the Ural Federal District. Special programs are being developed for this purpose. Future migrants are taught the Russian language and working specialties at the request of the employer at home. All this is at the expense of the budget of Uzbekistan. Now more than 215 thousand citizens of the neighboring country work in the territory of the Ural Federal District.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that Ukraine “defends the European world order,” and everyone in Europe knows this.
Berbok arrived in Kiev on Saturday. She herself called her visit “a signal of continued support for Ukraine.”
According to Berbock, with her visit she wants to send a signal against war fatigue in German society, on which, as she believes, Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting. According to the minister, Putin is confident that “he can split German society with lies,” as well as “blackmail it with energy supplies.”
Later it was reported that readers of the German edition of Die Welt criticized Berbok because of her visit to Kiev and suggested that she stay there.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke in favor of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Zaporozhye NPP area.
He posted the corresponding entry on Twitter.
According to him, the situation around the NPP causes him “serious concern.”
“To ensure the safety and security of nuclear facilities, we support President Zelensky in calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the area,” he wrote.
Earlier, Macron had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
The NPP is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, after the start of a special operation on the territory of Ukraine, it is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Military formations of Ukraine regularly shell the territory of the NPP. Following the results of the last visit to the ES, the IAEA delegation did not name the perpetrators of the shelling, only calling for them to stop.
Four more vessels received permission to leave Ukrainian ports. The corresponding decision was made at the joint coordination center in Istanbul. In total, 92.5 thousand tons of food will be exported this time.
The cargo ship Oris Sofi will carry 6 thousand tons of sunflower oil from Odessa to Lebanon and Turkey. The S-Brilliant vessel will depart from Chernomorsk to the Netherlands with 40.2 tons of rapeseed. And Ahmet Can – to Turkey with 2.8 thousand tons of wheat bran. Also, the Win Sino cargo ship will deliver 43.5 thousand tons of sunflower oil from the Yuzhny port to India.
Together with them, those ships whose departure was delayed due to weather conditions will go to sea. They will go to Greece and Turkey and carry sunflower oil and corn.
At the moment, 2.5 million tons of food have been exported from Ukraine.
113 flights were completed. The task of the UN is to increase the volume of exports to 5 million tons per month.
“Attempts to launch a preemptive strike on the DPRK will end in disaster”
North Korea has officially declared itself a nuclear power, and Kim Jong-un said that the nuclear status of the DPRK is now “irreversible”, and talk of denuclearization stops. The expert told us what Pyongyang’s latest statements mean for South Korea, the United States and Russia.
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Western observers say that Pyongyang seems to be preparing to resume nuclear tests for the first time since 2017, after Kim Jong-un’s historic summits with then-US Presidents Donald Trump and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in in 2018 failed to convince North Korea to abandon the development of weapons of mass destruction.
The nuclear policy of the DPRK was discussed at the session of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea. On this issue, a member of the Presidium of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Deputy Park Chong Cheon, made a report.
The speaker stated the need to fix in law the state’s policy regarding the nuclear armed forces in order for this “core of state defensive power” to responsibly fulfill its important mission: “And for our state, which has been subjected to the constant nuclear threat of the American imperialists, the continuous build-up and strengthening of the nuclear armed forces in response to This threat is the best mark and the greatest duty of our people to the revolution and the future.”
The party leader who spoke stressed that the law on the state’s policy regarding the nuclear armed forces will serve as a powerful legal guarantee that will further strengthen the status of the DPRK as a country with nuclear weapons.
According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, the Supreme People’s Assembly (the country’s parliament) adopted a new law to replace the 2013 law, which for the first time outlined the country’s nuclear status.
“The most important importance of legislating a policy on nuclear weapons is to draw an irrevocable line so that there is no opportunity to bargain over our nuclear weapons,” Kim Jong-un said in his speech, adding that the DPRK will never lay down its arms, even if the country is faced with 100 years of sanctions.
The 2013 law stipulated that North Korea could use nuclear weapons to repel an invasion or attack from a hostile nuclear state and launch retaliatory strikes. The new law goes beyond this and allows for pre-emptive nuclear strikes in the event of an imminent attack using weapons of mass destruction or against the “strategic goals” of the country, including its leadership.
As noted by Western media, here you can see an obvious reference to the South Korean strategy of the “chain of murders”, which requires pre-emptive strikes on the nuclear infrastructure and control system of the DPRK in case of suspicion of an imminent attack.
The new law also prohibits any exchange of nuclear weapons or technology with other countries and is aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear war, KCNA reports.
For their part, Western analysts believe that Kim Jong-un’s goal is to achieve international recognition of the DPRK’s status as a “responsible nuclear state”.
Earlier, the Joe Biden administration offered Pyongyang to hold talks, and South Korean President Yun Seok-yel said that his country would provide huge economic assistance if the DPRK agreed to give up its arsenal. Seoul on Thursday offered Pyongyang to hold talks on reuniting families separated by the Korean War of 1950–1953. However, the DPRK rejected these initiatives, saying that the US and its allies are pursuing “hostile policies” such as sanctions and military exercises that undermine their peacefulness.
“The law on nuclear armed forces adopted in the DPRK is the official formalization of a long-existing reality,” comments political scientist-Korean scholar Alexander Zhebin. “As you know, in the preamble of the constitution of the DPRK, back in 2012, there was a mention that this country considers itself a nuclear power. To the nexta year later, a law was adopted to strengthen this status. So the current step is, first of all, North Korea’s response to the South Korean president’s repeated statements that South Korea could launch a preemptive or preemptive strike against the North if Seoul considers that Pyongyang is preparing an attack.
Even the Americans have come to terms with the fact that the DPRK is a nuclear power. US officials continue to talk about denuclearization, but in practical actions Washington proceeds from this reality. Influential experts of the American “thought factory” are now working on how to move from the ultimate task of denuclearization of the DPRK to the intermediate stage of its arms control. North KOREA,Of course, it has made great progress, especially in rocket science, and has an arsenal of missiles of various ranges. Americans understand that in the current situation in the world (first of all, the existing American threat to North Korea), it is pointless to talk about denuclearization at this stage. We must try to at least slow down the growth of North Korean missile and nuclear weapons.
I will return to the fact that this step by North Korea, we can say, was provoked by the actions of the South Korean-American side. Firstly, the current President of South Korea has repeatedly stated the possibility of a pre-emptive strike against the DPRK. Secondly, American-South Korean maneuvers are being conducted in South Korea, and not only those that are much written about in the press. Much less well-known are the exercises in which the decapitation of the DPRK is specially practiced, that is, the destruction of its political and military leadership. Such actions should destroy the decision-making centers, the main command posts with surgical precision.
Naturally, Pyongyang is forced to react to this. The statement that the DPRK may be the first to use nuclear weapons is actually a mirror response to the threats of the South Korean side to launch a preemptive strike against North Korea, its nuclear and missile bases, and destroy its top leadership.
In principle, this situation is extremely dangerous. Even American analysts themselves in recent publications have called on South Korea to abandon the concept of a preemptive strike, paying attention to the dangers and unpredictability of the situation that such a concept can create. Naturally, the North Koreans are forced to react to such concepts and practical elaboration of the implementation of such plans. This is where such a law and some of its clauses came from, which make it clear to South Korea that its attempts to launch a preemptive strike against the DPRK will end in disaster for the South.
Seoul is now receiving a lot of modern American weapons, increasing military spending. Western propaganda is very fond of saying that the DPRK has some kind of huge army, but for some reason they avoid mentioning that South Korea is among the top ten countries in the world in terms of military spending. These expenses are approaching the expenses of such powers as France or Japan. In recent years, they have been steadily growing and will reach more than $46 billion in 2023. This is a huge amount that exceeds the entire state budget of the DPRK.
The Republic of Korea is one of the largest buyers of American weapons and a major exporter of its own weapons. As you know, it is going to supply tanks, self-propelled howitzers and fighters to Poland. You can guess where all this technology will end its existence: most likely, on the territory of Ukraine.
Therefore, North Korea is reacting to all these military preparations, demonstrating its readiness to defend itself in full compliance with the right to self-defense, which is enshrined in the UN Charter.
Naturally, Pyongyang is not going to threaten China or Russia. These are countries that have traditionally had friendly relations with the DPRK.
Unfortunately, there was a period when Beijing and Moscow were under the illusion that by voting in the UN Security Council for resolutions condemning the nuclear program and especially the DPRK missile program, it could be demonstrated that this body is united in matters related to ensuring international peace and security. But the situation in Ukraine has shown that ourhopes for some kind of interaction, partnership with the United States turned out to be illusory. By voting for resolutions on the DPRK, in particular, for banning the use of its labor force abroad, we actually shot ourselves in the foot, depriving ourselves of qualified and disciplined labor, which our Far East and other regions really needed.
The North Koreans have also repeatedly drawn attention to the obvious injustice of the UN Security Council ban on the DPRK launching satellites and flatly refused to comply with the relevant resolutions. The ban on the DPRK launching any missiles using ballistic technologies was also absolutely meaningless. This ban was actually equivalent to the DPRK’s ban on having missiles. And what is ina country without missiles in the modern world? It’s just an unarmed state. This ban looks especially odious now in light of the fact that the United States has lifted all restrictions on South Korea’s missile program. It is already launching satellites, and plans to put the station into lunar orbit. In these circumstances, the DPRK’s ban on launching satellites seems to be some kind of odious anachronism.
Unfortunately, we and the Chinese voted for these resolutions. And what is the result? Has the goal for which they were taken been achieved? No. North Korea continues its nuclear and missile programs, despite the most severe economic sanctions, which we also had a hand in adopting.
However, in a difficult moment for us, the DPRK, unlike many of our so-called “partners” and even allies, turned out to be one of the few countries that supported Russia’s position on Ukraine and voted against anti-Russian resolutions at the UN.
So the situation is as follows: at this moment, North Korea is a nuclear state (and this is enshrined in the constitution), it is not going to give up nuclear weapons in the modern international situation, but at the same time, the DPRK has repeatedly stated that it does not plan to use these weapons to attack. This is a means of self-defense in the face of the fact that there is almost a 29,000-strong American military contingent south of the 38th parallel. Few people in our countryHe knows that South Korea has the largest American military base outside the continental United States. This is a whole microstate, on the territory of which it is possible to place over 40 thousand American soldiers.
These are the facts. It is the policy pursued by the United States for decades to change the regime in the DPRK, and most importantly, the practical actions of the United States in order to achieve this goal that force this country to take all measures to ensure its security.
Statements by European countries criticizing Tehran’s position are aimed at the failure of negotiations on the nuclear deal. This was stated by the speaker of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani Chafi
This is how he reacted to the statements of representatives of Britain, France and Germany, who “took a step” towards Israel, which does not need successful negotiations. Statements by European countries lead them away from a fruitful course, Chafi complained.
“If this approach continues, they will be responsible for the consequences,” the Iranian diplomat warned.
At the same time, Chafi stressed that Iran is still ready to conclude an agreement. Moreover, it can be done fairly quickly if there is the necessary will and refusal of foreign policy pressure.
The Iranian diplomat’s remark was caused by a joint statement of the three countries, in which they called Tehran’s position on the nuclear program inconsistent with its obligations and threatening the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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