War in Ukraine (08/16/23): The culmination of the summer campaign is fighting in the North and South. Attack on the port of Reni

Both we and the enemy continue to try to impose a strategic initiative on each other. Moreover, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to indirect evidence, threw their main striking forces onto the scales, which they had been saving for two months.

Also, our UAVs successfully attacked the Danube port of Reni again today and disabled it again.

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Ukrainian channel Rezident:

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MI6 transmitted to the Office of the President and the General Staff new intelligence about the preparation of new enemy capabilities to launch Shaheeds that are being collected in Russia. Starting next year, the Russian General Staff plans to launch up to 300 UAVs during one air attack in order to be able to overload the Ukrainian air defense system.

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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (16 August 2023)

▫️ In the Kupyansk direction, the assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces carried out offensive actions in the assigned areas of responsibility and improved the situation along the front line.

▫️ With the support of aviation and artillery fire, 9 attacks by assault groups of the 14th, 32nd, 44th mechanised and 95th Air Assault Brigades of the AFU were repelled close to Novoselovskoye and Stelmakhovka LPR, Olshana and Sinkovka (Kharkov). The enemy losses were up to 85 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 4 pick-up trucks, as well as self-propelled artillery systems: 1 M109 Paladin and 1 Krab guns.

▫️ In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces repelled 5 attacks by AFU near Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye DPR.

▫️ An ammunition depot of the 24th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU was destroyed near the town of Toretsk DPR. The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 250 servicemen, 3 IFVs, 4 vehicles, 1 M777 artillery system, 2 D-20 howitzers, and 1 AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.

▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled an attack by assault groups of the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Kuzmino LPR. Up to 55 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, and 1 D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

▫️ In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted a combined strike on the enemy near Staromayorskoye DPR. The enemy's losses amounted to over 140 servicemen, 2 tanks, 3 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, as well as 1 M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system during the day.

▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian grouping of forces repelled two attacks by assault units of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the AFU close to Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye).

▫️ 2 ammunition depots of the 117th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU close to Kirovo (Zaporozhye) were hit. During the day, the enemy's losses were up to 170 servicemen, 3 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 M777 artillery system.

▫️ Up to 35 servicemen, as well as 5 motor vehicles, were destroyed as a result of fire in Kherson direction during the day.

▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day.

▫️ In addition, an ST-68 radar station for the detection, identification, and tracking of aerial targets was destroyed close to Pervomaiskoye (Nikolayev).

▫️ A command post of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade was eliminated close to Paraskoveyevka DPR.

▫️ Air defence systems have shot down one Su-25 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Novotroitskoye DPR.

▫️ In addition, 4 HIMARS and 2 Uragan projectiles have been intercepted during the day.

▫️ Moreover, 26 UAVs have been downed close to Tavolzhanka, Tokarevka (Kharkov), Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Svatovo LPR, Spornoye, Volnovakha, Gorlovka, and Makeyevka DPR.

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Explosions in the Kharkov region.

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Luna-25 has entered Earth's satellite orbit, and all station systems are functioning normally with stable communication, according to Roscosmos. The station is set to land near the Moon's South Pole on August 21.

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Chongar opened. The cars are already moving. Hurrah!!!
The shortest way to the Crimea.
I ask you not to post videos and photos of the bridge.

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⚡️ In the Karmazinovka area, our troops were able to advance!

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Liquidated Ukrainian DRG while trying to cross the border in the Bryansk region.

The Ukrainian DRG today tried to penetrate into the Bryansk region, five of the six saboteurs were destroyed, the governor said.

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❗️ About the “security ” of ProtonMail Swiss email : https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-data-requests-user-logs/

The company is said to have received about 7,000 requests to disclose user data in 2022. Of these, about 6,000 were⚡️ satisfied...

Zin Note: Yes, these "privacy" based services are anything but. Same goes for telegram. Watch yourselves.

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❗️ India explained the refusal to invite Vladimir Zelensky to the G20 summit

“The G20 should do what it was created to do, and this is the reason for our decision,” the Indian Foreign Minister told reporters in New Delhi.

You watched the Indian feature film "Sent to Delhi".

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During the clash with the Ukrainian DRG in the Bryansk region, a serviceman of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia was killed.

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The commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Syrsky, acknowledged the complication of the situation in the Kupyansk direction, where the Russian military has been advancing in recent weeks.

He stated that most of the day he worked in units "leading the defense on the outskirts of the city."

Syrsky also expressed concern about the possible "blocking, and subsequently the capture of Kupyansk" by Russian troops.

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Briefly about 'privacy' on the internet:

1, E-mail
Unless self-hosted, no E-mail service, no matter what they claim, is private in any way. E-mail was never designed to be private. Even when self-hosted many vulnerabilities exist. I've long discussed that ProtonMail is likely a honeypot. Now, I don't have evidence to that, but some of the claims they make simply aren't true. It's highly suspicious that ProtonMail's website lets you access it through an Onion site, but redirects you to a standard one without notification when setting up an account. So if you're SBU and are planning a terrorist attack, don't use E-mail.

We don't have access to your emails:

They do, no country's authorities would let a service run if they didn't. A logical question also arises, how did you open those 6,000 email accounts then? Even for simple security reasons, they definitely have access to your account and thinking otherwise is naive at best.

We don't log your IP address:

That's impossible. In order for two accounts to communicate, an IP has to be logged and saved. You can easily check this using programmes such as WireShark (comes pre-installed with some Linux distributions).

We don't reveal your information:

That's illegal when ordered to do. Your 5.99$ per month won't save you. Case has been noted when an email was revealed to police simply because a teenager missed classes. Again, this is naive to believe.

2, VPNs
VPNs are glorified proxy servers, which translates to "someone else's computer". Their claims too are often simply not true.

We don't log your IP address:

Again, impossible.

Military grade encryption:

While true, this isn't anything special. The HTTPS encryption has been in use for years and you're likely using it right now to read this.

Hide your traffic:

Not true. Even a simple internet tool will reveal you are using a VPN and tools like WireShark (also free) will reveal every single "handshake" your computer makes, including servers you connect to, regardless of whether or not you use a VPN. Furthermore, the vast majority of VPN providers are owned by a single advertising company. What better way to track someone's internet traffic than to channel it through a single server... If you need a proxy server, just use a proxy server.

Anonymity:
Tell me, how am I anonymous if I enter my credit card details when purchasing your service...?

3, Conclusion
All tools are useful in certain scenarios, but complete internet anonymity/privacy is an excruciating process that isn't worth it for most people and, is practically impossible, unless you never want to use your computer or jump through so many hoops you'll regret having one. Don't believe claims of companies that are currently riding the privacy train. At best it's a way to get your money in exchange for nothing, at worst it's a honeypot.

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I will paste here the most honest E-mail service denoscription I've ever seen from a funnily named E-mail service cock.li:

How can I trust you?

You can't. Cock.li doesn't parse your E-mail to provide you with targeted ads, nor does cock.li read E-mail contents unless it's for a legal court order. However, it is 100% possible for me to read E-mail, and IMAP/SMTP doesn't provide user-side/client-side encryption, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. Any encryption implementation would still technically allow me to read E-mail, too. This was true for Lavabit as well -- while your E-mail was stored encrypted (only if you were a paid member, which most people forget), E-mail could still technically be intercepted while being received / sent (SMTP), or while being read by your mail client (IMAP). For privacy, we recommend encrypting your E-mails using PGP using a mail client add-on like Enigmail, or downloading your mail locally with POP and regularly deleting your mail from our server.

Anyway, so yea...

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