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Russia gets its first drones from Iran as the two nations strengthen ties
Russia has picked up the first batch of Iranian drones for its war in Ukraine but the Russians have run into technical problems in the initial tests of the unmanned aircraft, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Facing a protracted war in Ukraine and a wall of Western sanctions, Russia is turning to Iran to bolster its military and keep its economy afloat, as both countries’ interests converge. Barred from importing Western technology and with China wary of openly breaching U.S. sanctions, Russia has sought out drones from Iran to fill a major gap in its arsenal, as the Russian military has failed to develop combat drones able to strike targets behind enemy lines. Russian cargo planes loaded up Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days this month at an Iranian airfield and then ferried the drones to Russia, three U.S. officials told NBC News. The delivery is part of Russian plans to import “hundreds” of drones from Iran, the officials said.
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Russia Recruiting Homeless People to Join Army Amid Shortage of Volunteers
Authorities in St. Petersburg have tried to get homeless people to enlist as military recruits for the war in Ukraine, as Russian forces reel from huge troop losses, local media reported. The homelessness charity Nochlezhka said that employees from the Frunzensky district administration in Russia's second city had visited a shelter on August 17. A Nochlezhka representative told the Ukrainian news outlet Bumaga that officials tried to talk to those staying at the shelter and leave leaflets containing information about contract services. The duty officer at the shelter did not allow this and asked the officials to talk to the management before they ended up leaving. Tatyana Bazhenova, a spokesperson for the charity, said that it cannot help facilitate military recruitment for those who use its shelters. "We have always been out of religion and out of politics, so we can't help in this matter," she told Bumaga. Later, district representatives reportedly tried to contact the charity again by email to give information about distributing military service leaflets to the homeless. Local news outlet Rotunda said on its Telegram channel that the district confirmed its representatives had visited the shelter but this was not ordered by management. Rather, it was an initiative by certain officials whose goal was "to convey information about contract service to everyone possible," Routes reported.
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Russia Loses 25 Tanks, 37 Armored Vehicles in a Single Day: Ukraine
Ukraine has said that Russia lost 25 tanks and 37 armored vehicles in a single day as it gave its latest estimates of Russian losses. On Saturday, the Ukrainian armed forces said on its Facebook page that Russia had lost an additional 25 tanks, taking the total number of such vehicles reportedly destroyed since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24 to 2,034. In its daily update, Ukraine also said that Russia now had lost a total of 4,403 combat armored machines, with 37 destroyed on a single day. "The opponent suffered the biggest losses in the Donetsk and Kryvyi Rih directions," its Facebook statement said, referring to the center and east of the country.
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Russia’s Unfounded Claims of Secret U.S. Bioweapons Linger On and On
The United States secretly manufactured biological weapons in Ukraine. It trained birds to carry viruses into Russia. It created COVID-19. It operated laboratories in Nigeria that engineered this year’s outbreak of monkeypox. Of the many falsehoods that the Kremlin has spread since the war in Ukraine began more than six months ago, some of the most outlandish and yet enduring have been those accusing the United States of operating clandestine biological research programs to wreak havoc around the globe.The United States and others have dismissed the accusations as preposterous, and Russia has offered no proof. Yet the claims continue to circulate. Backed at times by China’s diplomats and state media, they have ebbed and flowed in international news reports, fueling conspiracy theories that linger online.
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Ukraine's energy secretary warns nuclear plant offline: 'World is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster'
Ukraine's Minister of Energy warned Monday that the "world is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster" after heavy shelling brought down Europe’s largest nuclear plant’s last transmission line.
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Kremlin Denies Biden's Softening on Russia Despite Terrorist Label Refusal
The Kremlin said that President Joe Biden's refusal to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism "can hardly be a reason" to believe that the United States has softened on Russia overall. In July, a U.S. Senate resolution called on Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to designate the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. On Monday, Biden told reporters he wouldn't make the designation, and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated the position on Tuesday, saying at a briefing that the president was concerned about "unintended consequences."
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Russia is buying 'millions of rockets and artillery' from North Korea for its Ukraine invasion: US
Moscow's military "continues to suffer from severe supply shortages."
With few trade partners and an empty armory, the Kremlin is being forced to turn to North Korea to stock up on vital supplies to fuel its ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a recently declassified U.S. intelligence report. A U.S. official told ABC News that Russia's Ministry of Defense was "in the process" of buying "millions of rockets and artillery shells" from the so-called Hermit Kingdom and that the purchases were an indication Moscow's military "continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions." The official added that the intelligence community assessed it would likely become part of a pattern, with Russia seeking "to purchase additional North Korean military equipment going forward." (Neither country has yet responded to the report.)
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Putin Claims Russia Has Weathered the Ukraine War – And He’s Not Entirely Wrong
President Vladimir Putin is publicly defending what has become for his country a quagmire in Ukraine, insisting Russia has lost nothing as a result of his devastating decision to invade six months ago. Speaking Wednesday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, where he also planned to observe ongoing military exercises with China, Putin in his prepared remarks offered a selective account of his country’s strength and blasted Western sanctions imposed due to his unprovoked invasion as a threat to the world. He omitted any explicit reference to Ukraine except to laud Russia’s work in helping to ensure grain exports “despite all the complicated developments taking place” there.
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Russia preventing access to Ukrainian war prisoners, says UN
“This is all the more worrying since we have documented that prisoners of war in the power of the Russian Federation and held by the Russian Federation’s armed forces or by affiliated armed groups have suffered torture and ill-treatment.” The United Nations announced on Sept. 8 that their mission would visit the prison colony in Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, in the coming days, a place where the Russian invaders committed the mass murder of Ukrainian POWs on July 29, according to the Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on June 6 that more than 2,500 defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal Steelworks were in Russian captivity. According to the Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda, 2,449 defenders surrendered and left Azovstal, the majority of whom were being held in Russian-occupied Olenivka.
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Russia Says It's Pulling Back Forces From Ukraine's Kharkiv Region
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that it is pulling back forces from two areas in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counter offensive has made significant advances in the past week. Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the troops would be regrouped from the Balakliya and Izyum areas to the Donetsk region. Izyum was a major base for Russian forces in the Kharkiv region. Konashenkov said the move is being made “in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate Donbas,’” one of the eastern Ukraine regions that Russia has declared sovereign. The claim of pullback to concentrate on Donetsk is similiar to the justification Russia gave for pulling back its forces from the Kyiv region earlier this year.
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Russia suffers 'stunning' defeat in Kharkiv
As of 48 hours ago, a conservative estimate of the land Ukraine’s military had recaptured from Russian forces in the northeast region surrounding the city of Kharkiv was 2,500 square kilometers. On Monday, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister asserted in a Facebook post that the stretch was closer to 6,000 square kilometers. The abrupt turnaround is not the result of intense fighting but rather the absence of it. The Russians have simply run away, according to military sources in Kyiv, allowing the Ukrainians to roll in at their leisure. According to an order handed down from Moscow to Russian forces in the area in and around Kharkiv, the withdrawal is simply a “regrouping operation.” That phrase is widely viewed as a euphemism for a defeat that has been increasingly difficult to disguise as details of Russia’s moves in recent days have been meticulously documented in the international press and on social media, including among hardline Russian nationalists and military analysts.
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[size=6[Ukraine Stands, Fights, and Wins[/size]
The war in Ukraine is far from over, but the Ukrainians have inflicted an immense loss on the Russians. There is a lesson here for all of us about how to deal with extremism in any form. The Ukrainians, using a combination of ckever strategy, military fortitude, and Western weapon, have routed the Russians from a series of positions around Kharkiv. These were not merely defeats; the Russians were abandoning their posts and leaving behind their equipment even before the Ukrainians could reach them. Apparently, Russian soldiers do not want to die for President Vladimir Putin’s pathetic dream of reestablishing a state that had already perished before some of them were even born.
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Ukraine’s advance in northeast likely turning point in war: Military analysts say
Ukraine’s stunning counteroffensive in its northeast likely marks a turning point in the war and has profound consequences for Russia’s position going forward, according to military analysts. The counteroffensive has seen Russia’s frontline in the Kharkiv region collapse in less than a week, forcing thousands of its troops to retreat as Ukrainian troops have recaptured hundreds of square miles of territory, officials said.The defeat not only removes Russia’s ability to threaten Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, but also likely ends Russia’s ability to mount any major offensives in Ukraine again, the analysts said. It also will have a major knock-on effect on Russia’s capacity to hold its positions on the other fronts around the country. It means in the long-run, the war now favors Ukraine, they said.
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Ukraine piles pressure on retreating Russian troops
Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow's military prestige. As the advance continued, Ukraine’s border guard services said the army took control of Vovchansk — a town just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Russia seized on the first day of the war. Russia acknowledged that it has withdrawn troops from areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in recent days. It was not yet clear if the Ukrainian blitz, which unfolded after months of little discernible movement, could signal a turning point in the nearly seven-month war. But the country's officials were buoyant, releasing footage showing their forces burning Russian flags and inspecting abandoned, charred tanks. In one video, border guards tore down a poster that read, “We are one people with Russia.”
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A Ukrainian soldier helps a wounded fellow soldier on the road in the freed territory in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.
A Ukrainian soldier atop a military vehicle on the road in the freed territory of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.
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Kremlin is Protecting Putin By Admitting Russia's Defeats in Ukraine: ISW
Kremlin officials and state media propagandists are acknowledging recent Russian defeats in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region in a move meant to shield President Vladimir Putin from responsibility, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The U.S. think tank wrote in its September 13 campaign assessment that Kremlin and state media pundits are now "extensively discussing" why Russia is facing losses in Kharkiv. "The Kremlin's acknowledgment of the defeat is part of an effort to mitigate and deflect criticism for such a devastating failure away from Russian President Vladimir Putin and onto the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the uniformed military command," the ISW wrote. Ukraine's surprise counteroffensive in Kharkiv came as attention was focused on another relatively-new push to retake territory in the southern Kherson region, where Russian losses are also being reported.
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Daaaamn! Ukraine basically won this war? I thought Russia would have crushed Ukraine like cock roaches. Well, at least America want have them invading us ad immigrants. They can use the leftover money we sent them to rebuild and feed the poor people who didn't have a pot to piss in before Russia invaded. We are still supporting Jews from WWI and WWII, and those Mexicans crossing our boarder to sell tacos.