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« Reply #150 on: September 14, 2022, 12:34:03 pm »
The moment Russian TV accidentally revealed catastrophic losses: State media war correspondent slips, saying: 'we're losing a huge number of people...er...we're having great successes!'

By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE
13 September 2022

Russia's state media war correspondent has accidentally revealed the scale of their losses in Ukraine, admitting a 'huge number of people' have died.

Alexander Sladkov was speaking to the Kremlin-run Rossiya 1 news channel from the Donbas where he let slip how effective Ukraine's counter-offensive has been, despite Putin claiming it is part of a tactical reorganisation by his army.

The reporter then quickly corrected himself after appearing to remember who he was speaking to, and told the propaganda channel that Russia is having 'great successes', without being able to name them.

Sladkov said, using a boxing analogy: 'People here [in the Donbas] are waiting for us to get started.

'For us to hit them so hard that they end up on their backsides. That's to say, a knockout! It's very difficult to win on points.

'We're losing a huge number of people, we have wounded... we're having... great successes!

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11206191/Russian-war-correspondent-accidentally-reveals-catastrophic-losses-Ukraine-state-TV.html

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« Reply #151 on: September 14, 2022, 12:49:17 pm »
After initially breaking through the Russian frontlines at the town of Balakliya, Ukrainian armoured and mechanised brigades did not stop to consolidate their gains, but instead drove rapidly throughout the next two days and nights, deep into Russian-occupied territory.

This is how it's done, people.  This type of initiative is not found in a Soviet system where the only role of mid and low level officers is to wait for orders from division and army level commanders.
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« Reply #152 on: September 14, 2022, 12:50:31 pm »
Zelensky visits latest liberated city as hope of victory spreads across Ukraine... while dismayed Russia propagandists call on Putin to admit 'serious defeat'

By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE
14 September 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky has helped raised the Ukrainian flag over the newly-recaptured Russian stronghold of Izyum as he celebrates a stunning counter-attack that routed Putin's forces in the north of the country.

The Ukrainian president took part in a minute of silence for fallen soldiers before congratulating those still fighting on their victory. He then raising the flag in triumph over the city - which previously served as the launchpad for the Putin's mission to seize the entire Donbas region.

'Ukraine is taking back its own,' a military spokesman said, as a growing hope of overall victory against Putin's forces begins to spread across the country in the wake of Russia's most-recent battlefield humiliation.

The scale of the unfolding military disaster is so great that not even the Kremlin's sock-puppet propagandists are trying to disguise it, instead telling viewers on Monday night of a 'serious defeat' while considering - for the first time - the prospect of total defeat in Ukraine.

Karen Shakhnazarov, a film-maker and Kremlin loyalist, told viewers of Vladimir Solovyov's nightly show that Russia is now in a 'very difficult situation' against a 'strong adversary' - adding that Moscow's armed forces 'were not ready' for what he finally admitted is a 'war' and not a 'special military operation'.

'This war can only end with the defeat of one of the sides,' he said. 'For us, this defeat may prove fatal... it may lead to the disintegration of the country.'

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11210639/Ukraine-war-Zelensky-speaks-victory-Russian-propagandists-admit-defeat.html

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« Reply #153 on: September 14, 2022, 12:52:07 pm »
The moment Russian TV accidentally revealed catastrophic losses: State media war correspondent slips, saying: 'we're losing a huge number of people...er...we're having great successes!'

I saw a Russian media clip a couple of days ago where one commentator accidentally let it slip, calling this conflict a "war".  Not sure if that commentator has been arrested yet.
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« Reply #154 on: September 14, 2022, 12:54:01 pm »
Karen Shakhnazarov, a film-maker and Kremlin loyalist, told viewers of Vladimir Solovyov's nightly show that Russia is now in a 'very difficult situation' against a 'strong adversary' - adding that Moscow's armed forces 'were not ready' for what he finally admitted is a 'war' and not a 'special military operation'.

'This war can only end with the defeat of one of the sides,' he said. 'For us, this defeat may prove fatal... it may lead to the disintegration of the country.'

That might be the clip I saw.
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« Reply #155 on: September 14, 2022, 12:57:38 pm »
Russian troops 'leaving southern city of Melitopol'

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Russian troops have been pulling out from Melitopol, the second largest city in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, the city's pre-occupation mayor has said.

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram that the Russian troops were heading toward Moscow-annexed Crimea.

He said columns of military vehicles were seen at a checkpoint in Chonhar, a village on the boundary between the Crimean peninsula and the Ukrainian mainland.

Mr Fedorov's claim could not immediately be verified. Melitopol has been occupied by Russian forces since early March, and is some distance from the main Ukrainian advance in the Kharkiv region.

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« Reply #156 on: September 14, 2022, 01:06:09 pm »
Kremlin TV Airs Call for Russia to Admit ‘Serious Defeat’

https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-tv-airs-call-russia-164208089.html

Brutal realizations have been raining upon the Kremlin’s top propagandists—and when it rains, it pours. The same pundits who used to threaten NATO countries with nuclear strikes are begrudgingly acknowledging that Russia’s Armed Forces have suffered a series of humiliating setbacks in Ukraine.

Appearing on Russia’s NTV show The Meeting Place on Monday, policy analyst Viktor Olevich surmised: “Unfortunately, the situation is difficult. Can we say that the Russian forces moved closer to meeting the goals and carrying out the tasks set by the president at the beginning of the special operation—or did they get further away? Obviously, we’re now further away.”

Bogdan Bezpalko, member of the Council for Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, was even more outspoken. “For two months, Ukrainian Armed Forces and military equipment have been massing in that area, all Telegram channels have been writing about it. Where was our damn reconnaissance? All of their heads should be laying on Putin’s desk, hacked off at the base... Of course, this is a tactical defeat. I hope it will be very sobering.”

On Monday’s broadcast of The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov likewise dispensed a large dose of brutal honesty. “I urge everyone not to panic in the face of a defeat we’ve suffered in the Kharkiv region, and we have to acknowledge it,” he said. “A defeat has some meaning when you acknowledge it and draw new conclusions. And if you don’t acknowledge it, all you get is another defeat, perhaps even more devastating. This is a very difficult situation and we have to recognize that we’re battling a very powerful adversary.”

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« Reply #157 on: September 14, 2022, 01:27:18 pm »
This is how it's done, people.  This type of initiative is not found in a Soviet system where the only role of mid and low level officers is to wait for orders from division and army level commanders.
Basically, it is a blitzkrieg.
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« Reply #158 on: September 14, 2022, 05:58:23 pm »
Putin's limousine is 'hit by loud bang' in possible 'attack' – but Russian leader is left unharmed – according to anti-Kremlin sources who revealed health scares… and also claim 'he has ordered gymnast lover to have an abortion'

By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE
14 September 2022

Vladimir Putin's car was 'attacked' in what may have been an assassination attempt amid the Ukraine war, according to an unconfirmed claim.

His limousine was hit by a 'loud bang' on its 'left front wheel followed by heavy smoke', it is alleged.

The car drove to safety with Putin unharmed but there have been multiple arrests from his security service - while other bodyguards have vanished - amid claims that secret information about the 69-year-old ruler's movements was compromised, says General SVR Telegram channel.

General SVR is a Russian Telegram channel which regularly posts alleged insider information about Putin and the Kremlin.

While some are sceptical of General SVR, others say it is one of the few prominent anti-Putin channels in Russia that provides an insight into the true goings-on at the Kremlin.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11212515/Putins-limousine-hit-loud-bang-possible-attack.html

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« Reply #159 on: September 14, 2022, 06:19:10 pm »
Putin rejected Ukraine peace deal struck by aide as war began: report

By Snejana Farberov
September 14, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin scrapped a peace deal with Ukraine that had been negotiated by his top envoy at the start of the war, and instead forged ahead with the bloody invasion to conquer more of the neighboring country’s territory, a new report claims.

The Ukrainian-born envoy, Dmitry Kozak, told the Russian president at the early stages of the conflict that he believed the provisional agreement he had hammered out with Kyiv would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO — and remove the need for Moscow to pursue a large-scale occupation of Ukraine, according to three people close to the Kremlin speaking exclusively to Reuters.

Putin, 69, had repeatedly claimed before the war that NATO was creeping closer to Russia’s borders by accepting new members from Eastern Europe, and that the alliance was preparing to bring Ukraine into the fold as well. Putin publicly said the prospect of Ukraine’s membership in NATO represented an existential threat to Russia, forcing him to react.

But, despite earlier backing the peace talks, Putin made it clear when presented with Kozak’s deal that the concessions negotiated by his trusted deputy chief of staff did not go far enough, the sources said. He expanded his objectives to include annexing portions of Ukrainian territory.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-struck-by-aide-as-war-began/

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« Reply #160 on: September 14, 2022, 07:12:59 pm »
The Ukrainian-born envoy, Dmitry Kozak, told the Russian president at the early stages of the conflict that he believed the provisional agreement he had hammered out with Kyiv would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO — and remove the need for Moscow to pursue a large-scale occupation of Ukraine, according to three people close to the Kremlin speaking exclusively to Reuters.

Talk about ironic!

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« Reply #161 on: September 14, 2022, 07:23:08 pm »
Putin's limousine is 'hit by loud bang' in possible 'attack' – but Russian leader is left unharmed – according to anti-Kremlin sources who revealed health scares… and also claim 'he has ordered gymnast lover to have an abortion'



Not so sure of this.  Seems an assassination attempt of the Russian leader would be garnishing more media coverage, no matter how extensive the news black out there.
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« Reply #162 on: September 14, 2022, 07:26:22 pm »
Not so sure of this.  Seems an assassination attempt of the Russian leader would be garnishing more media coverage, no matter how extensive the news black out there.

I agree.  It could have been nothing more than a flat tire for all we know.  I posted it mainly because it was sourced from a Russian account, albeit a supposedly anti-Putin Russian account, and more for what it may indicate about the mood of Russia and Russians generally, rather than a precisely factually accurate account.

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« Reply #163 on: September 14, 2022, 07:29:47 pm »
I agree.  It could have been nothing more than a flat tire for all we know.  I posted it mainly because it was sourced from a Russian account, albeit a supposedly anti-Putin Russian account, and more for what it may indicate about the mood of Russia and Russians generally, rather than a precisely factually accurate account.

Sure seems anti-Putin sentiment is building there.  Considering the fall of Communism was only about 30 years ago, I am sure the Russians aren't really ready for another massive interntional geopolitical embarssment.
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« Reply #164 on: September 15, 2022, 12:24:13 am »
Ukraine Update for September 14, 2022

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52626

Russia acknowledges defeat in Kharkiv, ultranationalists start to turn on Putin, Lyman is the new battleground, and unconfirmed reports of Russian troops abandoning Melitopol.

Let’s dig in.

ISW’s takeaways for September 13:

        The Kremlin has recognized its defeat in Kharkiv Oblast, the first defeat Russia has acknowledged in this war. The Kremlin is deflecting blame from Russian President Vladimir Putin and attributing it instead to his military advisors.

        The Kremlin is likely seeking to use the defeat in Kharkiv to facilitate crypto mobilization efforts by intensifying patriotic rhetoric and discussions about fuller mobilization while revisiting a Russian State Duma bill allowing the military to send call-ups for the regular semiannual conscription by mail. Nothing in the Duma bill suggests that Putin is preparing to order general mobilization, and it is far from clear that he could do so quickly in any case.

        The successful Ukrainian counter-offensive around Kharkiv Oblast is prompting Russian servicemen, occupation authorities, and milbloggers to panic.

        Russia’s military failures in Ukraine are likely continuing to weaken Russia’s leverage in the former Soviet Union as Russia appears unwilling to enforce a violated ceasefire it brokered between Armenia and Azerbaijan or to allow Armenia to invoke provisions of the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization in its defense.

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« Reply #165 on: September 15, 2022, 08:10:56 am »
Meme from March. Aged beautifully, muhaha
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
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« Reply #166 on: September 15, 2022, 12:34:34 pm »
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« Reply #167 on: September 15, 2022, 12:38:15 pm »
Ukrainian Armed Forces liberate Kyselivka, only Chornobaivka separates them from Kherson – Kherson Oblast Council

IRYNA BALACHUK  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2022, 22:00


Oleksandr Samoilenko, Head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Kyselivka in Kherson Oblast on 13 September. Now only the village of Chornobaivka stands between the Ukrainian forces and the city of Kherson.

Source: Samoilenko on the 24/7 national newscast

Quote: "The village of Kyselivka was liberated yesterday [13 September], which is situated in the immediate vicinity of the [city of Kherson]. The only village that, as of today, stands between the Ukrainian army and the city of Kherson is the infamous Chornobaivka. But everyone in Ukraine knows that Chornobaivka is where the occupiers meet their death."

Details: Samoilenko also said that the explosions that could be heard on the Karantinnyi Island in Kherson accompanied the "precise strike" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the area where Russian occupying forces were stationed and concentrated.

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« Reply #168 on: September 15, 2022, 12:41:05 pm »
Putin attempts to FLOOD Zelensky's home city with missile strike on reservoir dam, forcing residents to flee their homes, as Russia takes revenge for battlefield defeats

By CHRIS PLEASANCE  and TOM BROWN FOR MAILONLINE
15 September 2022

Evacuations are underway in a major Ukrainian city after Russia hit a dam with eight cruise missiles in its latest 'revenge' attack on civilians as its invasion fails.

Kryvyi Rih, President Zelensky's home city, was inundated with water on Wednesday afternoon and overnight after an attack on the Karachun Dam.

The strikes badly damaged the dam and a nearby pumping station, releasing huge amounts of water into the Inhulets River and causing it to swell.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214435/Russia-strikes-Ukrainian-dam-city-Kryvyi-Rih-latest-revenge-attack.html

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« Reply #169 on: September 15, 2022, 12:46:01 pm »
Calls for Putin's resignation grow in Russia as more politicians and prominent lawyer risk their freedom with public demands for Vladimir to go and war in Ukraine to end

By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE
15 September 2022

A prominent human rights lawyer and local politicians have joined a growing chorus of dissenters calling for Vladimir Putin to resign over the war in Ukraine.

Daniil Berman, who defended the Russian news anchor who held up a protest sign on live TV, has spoken out to say the 'special military operation' in Ukraine 'is [actually] a hot war with a sovereign state that must be stopped'.

He was joined by dozens more politicians from across Russia who have added their names to a petition calling for Putin to go, bringing the total to 67.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214977/Calls-Putins-resignation-grow-Russia-Ukraine-war-failings.html

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« Reply #170 on: September 15, 2022, 12:46:32 pm »
For Ukrainians rooting out Russians in south, patience pays

By Scott Peterson and Oleksandr Naselenko  |  September 13, 2022


The Ukrainian sociologist-turned-guerrilla fighter believes that the liberation of his southern city of Kherson is only a matter of time.

The first city to fall to Russian troops after their February invasion, Kherson has in recent weeks heard the explosive rumble of the Ukrainian military as it slowly advances to end six months of Russian occupation.

Days of street protests that first greeted the Russian presence – and were suppressed with violence – gave way, he says, to carefully calibrated resistance action that has sabotaged Russian military capacity and claimed the lives of some 20 pro-Russian officials, in Kherson and other occupied towns.

“They feel that the walls are watching them,” says the resistance fighter, who asked not to be further identified, for his safety. He says he is on a Russian wanted list, is trained in laying mines and setting explosives, and has moved 25 times since the occupation began.

“From what we hear in the [Russian] intercepts, they are so eager to escape from here,” says the sociologist/fighter.

That is the result of methodical, patient perseverance on the part of the Kherson resistance to undermine the Russian occupation. A key was striking a balance between doing harm to Russian invaders – by creating conditions that will weaken any Russian pushback to the Ukrainian assault – and not inviting severe retaliation.

“For several months we had an order not to touch [Russian troops] at all, to not provoke sanctions against the civilian population,” says the guerrilla.

Those days are over.  .  .

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0913/For-Ukrainians-rooting-out-Russians-in-south-patience-pays
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« Reply #171 on: September 15, 2022, 12:47:32 pm »
Murderers and sex offenders are told they can become war heroes - or be executed for desertion - in footage showing Putin's 'chef' recruiting prisoners to join Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine

By WILL STEWART and TOM BROWN FOR MAILONLINE
15 September 2022

Putin's 'chef' has been filmed offering a pardon to violent criminals and sex offenders locked up in a Russian prison -  if they survive fighting in Ukraine for six months.

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, told prisoners they should take their own lives instead of being captured in Ukraine, holding one grenade for the enemy and one for themselves.

Video shows Prigozhin telling the criminals they can become war heroes or be shot as deserters, as the Kremlin steps up recruitment of inmates after suffering a humiliating defeat against Ukraine's army in the east.

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Source:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11214765/Putins-chef-recruiting-prisoners-join-Wagner-mercenaries-Ukraine.html

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« Reply #172 on: September 15, 2022, 12:52:43 pm »
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As it has in other parts of Ukraine it has occupied, Russia has tried to introduce the Russian ruble as currency in Kherson and impose the Russian language and school curriculum in advance of any attempted referendum.

“Resistance in Kherson is to pay in [Ukrainian] hryvnia, it is to speak Ukrainian, and it is to continue to educate your children online in a Ukrainian school and not send them to a Russian school,” says a journalist with Vgoru called Liza, who asked that only her first name be used.

Constant shelling has made some residents blasé about their own safety, including, Liza says, her grandmother, who lives close to a Russian military base and often hears Ukrainian rockets flying past on the way to their Russian target. She tells her granddaughter she won’t move, “because these sounds make me happy.”

“The liberation of Kherson will be a great victory,” says Liza. “But it will also be a very bitter victory, because the full scale of the crimes committed by the Russians will be revealed to us. People are tortured, people are kidnapped, and most don’t talk about it because people are afraid.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0913/For-Ukrainians-rooting-out-Russians-in-south-patience-pays
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« Reply #173 on: September 15, 2022, 12:58:08 pm »
in footage showing Putin's 'chef' recruiting prisoners to join Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine

Nazi recruiters.
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« Reply #174 on: September 15, 2022, 05:36:11 pm »
Russia continues its war against Ukrainian civilians:


Houses flooded after missiles hit major dam

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Ukrainian officials say as many as eight Russian missiles hit the dam on Wednesday

Russian missiles have hit a reservoir dam near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, officials say.

Residents in some areas were told to evacuate, city head Oleksandr Vilkul said, but he added the situation was under control.

Ukraine said the strike was revenge by Russia for its recent counter-attack.

President Volodymyr Zelensky - who was born in the city - described Russia as a "terrorist state" after the attack on the Karachunivske reservoir.

"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky said in his late night address on Wednesday. "Scoundrels who, having escaped from the battlefield, are trying to do harm from somewhere far away."  .  .  .

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62910245
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"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-