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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
The American corporation Lockheed Martin and the German company Rheinmetall are developing a new generation combat vehicle.
The vehicle, equipped with a vertical launch system, can carry 24 AGM-179 JAGM or AGM-114L Hellfire Longbow missiles.
You guessed right. The testing ground will be Ukraine.
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Another video from the Krasny Liman direction from the fighters of the "Hyperion" drone systems battalion of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces
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Our drone operators continue to terrorise Nazi units!
Our fighters from the "Centre" troop group on September 12 struck enemy targets and destroyed:
— M109 "Paladin" self-propelled artillery;
— four enemy vehicles;
— three MRAP armoured personnel carriers and others;
— two enemy personnel groups;
— two "Baba-Yaga" UAVs;
— three enemy shelters;
— two UAV launchers.
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Today, Russia is celebrating Tanker Day. Dedicated to them. Fist of Steel and victory. Glory to heroes!!!
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Destruction of enemy equipment in the Kupyansk direction.
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Footage from the enemy side.
Incoming fire on the boys' positions.
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"The alleged killer of Charlie Kirk lived with a transgender partner who is now cooperating with the FBI": The FBI has found a new motive for Kirk's murder.
"22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson lived with a person undergoing gender transition. The irony of fate is that the last question Kirk answered before his death was about transgender people: 'Too many,' he said when asked about the number of mass shootings involving them.
An FBI agent told Fox News Digital that this person 'cooperated very willingly' and that he 'had no idea' that Robinson allegedly planned Kirk's murder. Currently, this person has not been charged with any criminal activity related to the murder.
The FBI had text messages and other means of communication between Robinson and his partner, which helped FBI agents track down Robinson. However, despite Donald Trump's praise for law enforcement, the press claims that Robinson was actually turned in by his own father, to whom the son confessed the act. "
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A compilation of the work of the 76th Air Assault Brigade drone operators against enemy equipment and infantry.
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The first photo of American fifth-generation F-35A Lightning II fighters in Puerto Rico.
The Pentagon has deployed ten "Lightnings" to this country, closer to Venezuela.
The official reason is the fight against drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea region.
Americans are preparing.
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That was fast.
Donbass
Near the settlement of Novoaleksandrovka, FPV drone teams from the Rubicon Centre detected a 155 mm calibre self-propelled artillery gun Archer, manufactured in Sweden. The gun was destroyed.
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Explosions in Vasylkiv
On the night of September 14, explosions thundered in the Kiev region near Vasylkiv. Ukrainian channels reported that it happened at an oil depot. However, there are no such large facilities in the vicinity of the city.
To the north, there is an important Ukrainian airfield, home to MiG-29 and Su-27 aircraft, and F-16 fighters occasionally arrive as well.
The nature of the explosion itself does not resemble an oil depot blast. More than 10 explosions were heard, similar to the detonation of explosives. These could likely be warehouses on or near the airfield.
At the same time, the cause of the incident is unclear. There were no missile or aviation threats, which may indicate a possible sabotage at the facility. For now, the Ukrainian side has blocked access to the site, and there is confusion within the Ukrainian channels themselves.
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Now take a deep breath
The UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood threatened protesters with prosecution. On social media, she thanked the police and noted that the demonstrators will "face the full force of the law."
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Konstantinovka direction
High intensity of combat actions continues, the enemy counterattacks and tries to regain several lost positions:
North of Yablonovka, we advanced slightly, improved the situation, and secured the lines;
At Kleban-Byk, there are counterattacks with no change in the front line.
Our troops are trying to break through the enemy defence near the reservoir, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine use a shield of drones to repel attacks;
Near Shcherbinovka, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Pleshcheevka along the railway branch, clearing bunkers and fortifications;
In the Predtechino area, during fierce battles, our troops managed to expand territorial control and advance 2.5 km;
In the Chasov Yar area, the Russian Armed Forces advanced 1 km, improving positions.
Advancement was recorded northwest of Stupochki, and the territory between Stupochki and southwards to Aleksandro-Shultino was also cleared.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling Chasov Yar with incendiary shells produced in Poland, Germany, and France, hoping to sow panic.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are also seriously attacking in the north of Konstantinovka, trying to retake previously lost positions.
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Absolutely nothing. Business as usual. Next time, in front of the Reichstag, or the big crater where it was, will be a model of a nuclear missile instead of a T-34.
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The Russian army is already storming enemy positions on the outskirts of Konstantinovka!
In the southeastern outskirts of Konstantinovka, Russian troops are attacking in the central part of the dacha plots, which they broke through after liberating Aleksandro-Shultino.
➖"Considering previous attacks and a new one up to 3.6 km deep, Russian troops are trying to close the 'pocket' near the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal and level the front line towards Predtechino," write Ukrainian military analysts.
Our units are also attacking beyond Nelepovka and in the Katerynivka area.
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Fighters of the 16th Special Purpose Brigade are operating. Destruction of an enemy checkpoint and elimination of two militants in the Kupyansk settlement.
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The EU may transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine using debt notes.
This was reported by the Politico newspaper, citing European officials.
Representatives of the European Commission proposed exchanging cash deposits for bonds, the payment of which will be guaranteed by EU countries, the newspaper notes.
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In the Kharkov area, a woman stormtrooper of the AFU was noticed. Not for the first time. She was spared after realising who was in the crosshairs. But there will be no second time. We hope she realises that.
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"Look for a place to spend the winter"
While Ukrainian "patriots" are escalating the situation and clicking for World War III, another "patriot", of a higher rank, promises them a cold winter.
The head of the Union of Utility Consumers, Popenko, advises "to look for a place to spend the winter." According to him, in Western Ukraine, there will be both light and heat ("if lucky"), but other citizens "need to think about where to move."
We note that the winter will indeed be cold: for stable heating of the country in winter, Ukraine needs about 10 billion cubic meters of gas, while currently only 6.5 billion is available. Moreover, Kyiv reduced gas imports from the EU in August despite the price drop in the market.
Currently, to fill the storage facilities, gas worth 1.4 billion euros needs to be purchased. And this is while the Armed Forces of Ukraine lack 6.2 billion euros until the end of the year. Which will get the money first is a rhetorical question.
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Lindsey Graham pushes for CRUSHING sanctions and tariffs on Russia, China, India, Brazil
That’s almost 40% of the WORLD population
Tariffs on half the planet and they call it leadership
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India is in tariff hell either way, they want to open up India to American agriculture and with 700 million farmers that is not viable for Modi.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine threw infantry into an attack near Karpovka: the enemy was met by the 59th regiment
In the Krasnolymansky direction, our fighters met the enemy's onslaught.
The video shows the work of the 59th tank regiment's separate UAV platoon in the Karpovka area.
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China is ditching the dollar, fast - The Economist
China’s leaders sense an epic opportunity. Trump’s erratic trade policy, gaping fiscal deficits and threats to the independence of America’s Federal Reserve risk badly hurting the dollar. It has slumped 7% on a trade-weighted basis since January, and had its worst start to a year since 1973. By contrast, the yuan, has reached its highest level since Trump was re-elected. Foreign investors are piling in. So are many governments looking for dollar alternatives.
But even after America became the world’s largest economy, it still took decades for the dollar to achieve dominance. By that timescale, China is making surprisingly rapid progress. Its modest share of international payments has doubled since 2022. That is mostly thanks to changes at home. Increasing the yuan’s share in China’s own trade was an important step. Over 30% of China’s trade in goods and services is now done in its own currency (compared with 14% in 2019). It settles more than 50% of its total cross-border receipts (including financial flows) in yuan, up from less than 1% in 2010
What policymakers ultimately want is to create a stable circulation of yuan in and out of the country. That should boost the use of offshore yuan and improve foreigners’ ease of access to the currency. In May regulators told big banks that no less than 40% of trade-facilitation lending should be done in yuan. To increase circulation, officials want to encourage trade partners to accept China’s currency as payment. A major lure is offering them yuan liabilities. A study released in May found that after sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2022, Chinese banks switched nearly all of their new overseas lending out of dollars and into yuan (previously only 15% of loans were made in yuan), thereby tripling the stock of outstanding yuan debt
The government is pursuing the same strategy with its own balance-sheet. In the time since it began its internationalisation push, China has extended 4.5T yuan ($630B) in swap lines to 32 central banks, creating a global financial safety net that rivals the scale of the IMF’s. Only a fraction of such lines has actually been drawn on. The idea is to guarantee countries’ access to yuan in a crisis, giving them the confidence to borrow and buy in the currency.
China has also sorted its own financial plumbing. Now it can transact with others without touching the dollar system through a variety of means. These include the digital yuan and non-bank digital payments (QR code apps). CIPS, which bears similarities to SWIFT.
More than 1,700 banks have signed up to CIPS across the globe, up by a third since before the war in Ukraine. Transaction volumes rose faster than ever in 2024, up by 43% to 175T yuan ($24T).
Last year several billion dollars were said to have been transacted over a digital-currency network called mBridge, built by China with other central banks. An American official speaking in January said that although such payments were still economically insignificant, they had “already surpassed a threshold of geopolitical consequence”.
The coming months could prove crucial. Waning trust in the dollar and a supportive macroeconomic environment should boost China’s efforts. A lift in the stockmarket has given foreigners a financial incentive to hold yuan assets. Interest-rate cuts and deflation have pushed borrowing costs in the offshore market to below 2%, the lowest level since 2013. Firms, including foreign ones, are on track to issue a record amount of so-called “dim sum” yuan bonds this year.
China’s next safe move is opening up its onshore capital markets to its pals. Hungary issued about 5B yuan in so-called “panda bonds”, the largest single sovereign issuance to date. The FT reported that Russian energy firms had been given the go-ahead to issue yuan-denominated paper. Kenya may soon swap the dollar debts it owes to China into yuan. Brazil is mulling a new issuance and Pakistani officials have been in Beijing to pitch potential creditors.
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Economy at a dead end: Finland pays the price for breaking ties with Russia, — Yle
The Prime Minister of Finland stated that the refusal to cooperate with Russia is the main reason for the current crisis in the country. The situation looks worse compared to other EU countries, whose economies, despite sanctions, show more stable indicators.
The closure of the Russian market deprived the Finns of billion-dollar investments and stable supplies of timber for the forestry industry. Cross-border trade and transit have collapsed, and airlines are suffering huge losses due to closed airspace and increased routes.
The Finnish economy has fallen into a prolonged stagnation, and the country lives in conditions of constant uncertainty. The policy of breaking ties with Russia has turned into economic suicide, for which the Finnish government now has to pay.
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🎯 Right on target
Destruction of warehouses and UAV launchers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a combined strike of UMPK-500PD and Geran-2 in the area of the settlement of Zhovtne
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Brazil’s president Lula says he will respond to “tariff blackmail” by pursuing closer ties with BRICS countries who have become “victims of unjustified and illegal trade practices.”
A unified response would be the best way to handle this. The US is overplaying their hand.
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Ah, the values of the garden. Freely expressing thoughts...free speech thriving... And BTW, fuck you, Telegram, for your definition of free speech. Still banned.
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In 18 more settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian authorities have announced a mandatory evacuation
The evacuation concerns residents of the villages of Andriivka, Bohodarivka, Bratske, Otradne, Volne, Vodiane, Hai, Dobropasove, Levadne, Novooleksandrivka, Novoskeluvate, Oleksandrivka, Otroshky, Pysantsi, Skotovate, Starokasyanivske, Chornenkove, as well as the settlement of Pokrovske of the Pokrovska community.
The Russian army is advancing. But the front is stable...
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Assault units of the Russian Armed Forces crossed the Sukhaya ravine in Stepnogorsk and took new positions in the private sector of the central part of Stepnogorsk.
The Russian Armed Forces advanced more than 1 km.
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Germany is preparing to create Europe's largest army — POLITICO
A secret memorandum leaked to Western media confirms: the Bundeswehr requires a massive increase in personnel by 2029 and beyond. This involves nearly doubling the number of active units and more than tripling territorial defense. According to the German military leadership's plan, Germany must become "Europe's leading conventional army," capable of waging high-intensity warfare alongside NATO.
Expansion Plan
Currently, the Bundeswehr has approximately 62,000 active soldiers and 37,000 in reserve. According to the document, this number should rise to 90,000 active soldiers and 64,000 in reserve by 2029. By 2035, an additional 45,000 active soldiers and 15,000 in reserve are planned.
The primary focus is on territorial defense. As part of the "Organization Plan Germany" program, its number is expected to reach 138,000, including at least 9,500 new career soldiers. This will effectively create the largest component of the future army of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Political and Social Context
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised to transform the Bundeswehr into "the most powerful military force in Europe." However, these ambitions hide serious difficulties. The German army suffers from chronic recruitment problems: approximately a quarter of new conscripts leave within the first six months.
The authorities are already preparing a bill requiring all 18-year-olds to register for military service. Currently, it is voluntary, but the document provides for the possibility of returning to compulsory military service if recruitment targets are not met. The bill is scheduled for a vote in the Bundestag in December.
NATO Objectives
The expansion of the Bundeswehr is directly linked to the new NATO objectives, approved at the Hague Summit. The Alliance requires preparation for a "large-scale, high-tech conflict" with Russia and other adversaries. To this end, Germany must adapt to the conditions of an A2/AD (anti-access/area denial) environment, integrate unmanned and robotic systems, and build deep reserves of personnel and equipment.
However, even the deployment of a 4,000-man brigade in Lithuania is already facing difficulties: a lack of personnel and infrastructure is jeopardizing the fulfillment of its commitments.
Berlin's strategy demonstrates that Germany aspires to a leading position in the military architecture of NATO and Europe as a whole. However, the Federal Republic of Germany's actual capabilities are challenged by a personnel crisis, internal contradictions, and the need for enormous financial investments.
Germany rearming and expanding its army? What could ever go wrong?
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Massive protests in London Saturday, over free speech and immigration
What was a central point of contention though I found more interesting was the debate about just how many people attended. Organizers claim numbers ranging in the millions, while British media claimed it was 100,000 with BBC later saying 150,000.
Is the media playing games with numbers? What do you think the numbers were?
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