Zaporizhia NPP disconnected from the energy system of Ukraine
Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged the last communication line connecting Zaporizhzhya NPP with the energy system of Ukraine

SIMFEROPOL, October 8 - RIA Novosti. The Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged the last communication line connecting the Zaporozhye NPP with the energy system of Ukraine, said the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia", a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Volodymyr Rogov.
"Last night, as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, the last high-voltage power line connecting the nuclear power plant with the Ukrainian energy system was damaged and turned off," the source said.
In particular, according to him, the power line Dneprovskaya with a capacity of 750 kV was damaged.
In addition, Rogov said that the station automatically switched to the operation of diesel generators. He stated that Ukraine "deliberately interrupted the last power line and strikes at the thermal power plant in Energodar in order to prevent the launch of nuclear power units."
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the left bank of the Dnieper near the town of Energodar. This is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe in terms of the number of units and installed capacity - the station has six units with a capacity of 1 gigawatt each. Since March, it has been under the protection of the Russian military. The Ukrainian military continues to regularly shell Energodar and the territory of the facility adjacent to the city.

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MELITOPOL, October 7 - RIA Novosti. Foreign experts of the IAEA, located at the Zaporozhye NPP, are in control of the situation and know who is shelling the plant area, but they do not comment publicly, Yevhen Balitsky, Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"The fact that they are at the station shows that they know the situation for sure, and this is already quite a positive moment for us. I am sure that they still report this to their management, although they do not want to do it publicly ", Balitsky said.

The head of the region noted that IAEA experts today comment on the situation purely from a professional point of view and constantly explain that they do not interfere in politics. "They officially do not want to confirm where from the "arrivals" are coming (although they know very well that they are flying from the Ukrainian side)," he said.

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Address of the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov:

“Today I will take part in the work of the Government Commission to clarify the causes of what happened on the Crimean bridge and eliminate the consequences of the emergency. Measures will be developed to eliminate damage and restore the destroyed. Work will begin immediately after the end of the actions of the investigating authorities.

I want to assure the Crimeans that the Republic of Crimea is fully provided with fuel and food. We have more than a month's worth of fuel, and more than two months' worth of food. There are no risks in this part, as well as reasons for excitement.

We in Crimea experienced more difficult times. Therefore, I ask everyone to be patient, to maintain restraint and calmness. The situation is under control. Together we will overcome everything, there is no doubt about it.”
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Translated from a popular channel Colonel Cassad

Concerning the burning questions "What is next"? I won't write anything new.

1. Recognize the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence as terrorist organizations. Any member of these organizations should be considered and evaluated at the level of an ordinary ISIS fighter with all the consequences.

2. Expand the powers of the special services to combat Ukrainian terrorism. It is necessary to strengthen the Special Operation regime in the front-line territories. Complacency on this scale must be banished from real life. It looks ridiculous.

3. Intensify attacks on infrastructure facilities - facilities of the Ukrainian energy system, ground infrastructure of underground gas storage facilities, dams, bridges, etc.

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Translated from Aleksandr Khodakovskii (blogger and a frontline battalion commander)

I always tell my officers: if you give an order, you shouldn't think that it will definitely be carried out, you need to control it. Moreover, if, being a foreman of a company during military service, I was guided by the rule: I ordered - I received a report on the implementation - I checked, - now I have changed the approach: I ordered - I checked how they started to execute - checked, how they continued - accepted the final result .... Why is that? Then the tasks were simple, sort of like swipe from the fence to lunch, but now the tasks, on the non-fulfillment or fulfilment of which people's lives depend, and it is simply impossible to rely on the responsibility of a large team - someone will definitely fail.

But control requires energy consumption, its own discipline ... It is much easier to resort to a commanding tone, nail the audience with peremptory formulations, threaten with punishment for non-performance - and forget. "So that everything is done! What? Questions? What other questions? Perform!" - a general's cap on his head, in a car and on a plane ...

It is good that not everyone is affected by such a disease of incomprehension and unwillingness to understand. For the most part, these are not military people deformed by the system, but civilian leaders who perceived the need to form and complete mobilized units as a personal matter. This also includes responsible business, which buys tens of thousands of missing armour and helmets with its own money ... Not everything is so bad - there is hope.

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More from Aleksandr Khodakovskii (blogger and a frontline battalion commander)

Do I have any complaints about them? Only gratitude! They show us our weaknesses, they teach us to quickly respond to challenges, to fight, in the end ... And most importantly - wow, how they motivate .... The jaws are still playing, and the marks from the nails on the palms have not yet disappeared ... As one person said, and I will paraphrase him: what you get is not your achievement, but is our flaws. Let's work on it, brothers.

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Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel.
The talking head of the Head of the Office of President Yermak, Misha Podolyak, decided to hype, but did not realize that by doing so he gave the Russians an excellent trump card to form the message: “the terrorist attack was the work of Zelensky and his circle, they don’t even hide it.”

We think the purpose of Podolyak's publication is to warm up the panic case in the Russian Federation and raise the stakes.

Is it possible that such a terrorist act is forcing Putin to officially declare war on Ukraine? Forced to make massive strikes? Forced to send the entire army to Ukraine? For what? What is the purpose?

The closer the winter, the more they will raise rates. We expect catastrophes and tragedies. We repeat, Ukraine is just a tool of the game, which means that it and its people will suffer the most (we think the directors don’t give a damn about this).

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Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel.
Colleagues, the Office of the President does not even realize that now the entire Russian society will welcome the strikes of its army against infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.

We advise Ukrainians to get ready, as Bankova (Ukrainian Presidential Office) has greatly increased stakes, and ordinary people will suffer. So stock up.

It seems they have decided not even to hide the fact that the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge is the work of the Ukrainian special services.

The publication in Ukrainska Pravda (supervised by the oligarch Fiala, Soros's man), leaks that the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge was the work of the SBU.
You must understand that no one would put such an insider's leak without approval from the leadership of the media.

Anyone who is now happy with the increase in stakes from the Ukrainian “patriotic cheer” side, we would advise you to go to the shops and buy everything you need, and take your families out of the country, as the political elite and Zelensky’s circle did. After all, it will only get worse.

Colleagues, already all Ukrainian state structures involved have ran to catch the hype on a terrorist act, not even realizing what they are doing is foolish.

The playbook was composed and delivered quickly, but seemingly everyone in the Ukrainian public sector in pursuit of hype, they simply forgot that you can’t even give a hint that this was the work of Ukraine, and they almost directly write that they blew it up.

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Translated from RIA Novosti TG channel:
Ukrainian troops are complaining about disruptions in the Starlink satellite communications system owned by American billionaire Musk, the Financial Times writes, citing sources.

A senior Ukrainian government official told the publication that some of these outages resulted in "catastrophic" loss of communications and caused panic.

Problems with the operation of the devices were serious in the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, they were also observed in the Kharkiv region and during the activities of Ukrainian troops against the troops of the DPR and LPR.
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Interruptions in working of the Starlink equipment in Ukraine may be related to the field tests of the "Tirada" electronic warfare systems, designed to suppress enemy satellite communication lines, which as conducted this week.
Translated from Rybar
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In continuation of the search for answers

"Patience, patience and more patience." Adjutant General Kuropatkin, commander of the Russian army in the war with Japan, liked to say so. And then the fall of Port Arthur, Mukden and Tsushima. As a result - the first Russian revolution.

The authorities in Russia must be clearly aware that the absence of retribution breeds impunity. If calls for "strategic patience" and further "regroupings" continue, claims against politicians will be added to the criticism of the military.

In the case of the Crimean bridge (and this is, without exaggeration, a symbol of the state), the answer should be instant. And then after the second series, more deliberate. The initial reaction should be soon. Otherwise, the system will start to crumble.

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Translated from Rybar
On Frunzenskaya Embankment (Russian MOD), they nevertheless decided to respond to the numerous problems that had come to light with the material and technical support of the personnel.

Deputy Defence Minister Viktor Goremykin said that the Russian Armed Forces "have everything necessary to provide every serviceman in full." He also called "unnecessary and premature" the plans of the regional authorities to cancel festive events in support of the armed forces.

And the main thing here is not that what Goremykin said is absolutely untrue: after all, if there are no difficulties, then for whom since the spring do volunteers buy quadcopters, medicine and other necessary goods, up to shovels?

And it’s not that the initiatives to cancel New Year’s fireworks come from a society that does not want to celebrate during heavy hostilities on its own territory.

And the fact that even after 8 months of all possible mistakes in the defence department they continue to stubbornly deny any problems that are already obvious even to people who are completely far from the army. Without drawing absolutely any conclusions and without changing approaches to work in the information field.

There is, however, one nuance: it is no longer possible to replace reality with slides and beautiful reports. And you will have to answer for the result.

However, they say that some organizational decisions have been made. There is such a persistent rumour going around the corridors of Frunzenskaya Embankment: everyone is waiting for the end of the month.

And if such rumours are confirmed (to be honest, we don’t really believe in such things), then it will be even easier for the new team: after such strong reputational losses, it will be very easy to come up with trump cards.

It is enough just to start telling the truth and talking to the society.

Believe me, society will perceive this extremely positively.


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Translated from MIG

Several generations of officials, including those in the army, lived by the principle "initiative is punishable" (in a rougher form - "excites the initiator").

Only a few desperate people from other services, such as the founders/commanders of the Group or Lysyuk with Vityaz, retreated from this dogma and gave a result that has already gone down in history. And what do you now want with such approaches?

And yes, the “clown” Zelensky (the sad news is that he is not a clown at all) has a completely different principle. It was not Ukraine who came up with it, but it was smart enough to listen to advisers from advanced countries, and not pretend to be something that you really are not. They work not for slides, reports and presentations, but for the result. They work very dynamically, creatively, without looking back at hopelessly outdated instructions.

Our future - and it will certainly be, despite everything - in people who are creative, hot, smart. And young. It is clear that any state apparatus is a system and rules. But the system must be a living organism, not a dead set of ancient regulations.
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URGENT: The timing of the restoration of traffic on the railway section of the Crimean bridge has been announced

The efficiency of the section of the Crimean bridge will be restored by 20:00 Moscow time, the Ministry of Transport said after the inspection.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia conducted an initial assessment of the infrastructure for passing trains.

Trains from Sevastopol and Simferopol to St. Petersburg and Moscow are planned to be sent today according to the schedule, the carrier reports.
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In Ukrainian Postal Service, stamps with the Crimean bridge were prepared in advance in order to announce the release of the corresponding postage stamp on the day of the sabotage.
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Translated from Maria Zaharova

Poland, through former Foreign Minister Sikorski, thanked the United States for blowing up the gas pipeline. Estonian Foreign Minister Reinsalu congratulated the Ukrainian special forces on the operation against the Crimean bridge.

Murders, sabotage, destruction, provocations and staging - the criminal logic bound the NATO regimes with mutual responsibility.
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The government of the Russian Federation is waiting for a report from the commission, established on October 8 to find out the causes of the accident and eliminate the consequences of damage to the Crimean bridge.

The order notes that the government commission must report to the government of the Russian Federation on the work done, while the deadlines for the report are not indicated in the document.

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In China, they routinely "withdraw from circulation" those officials who have failed in their duties.

We don’t know if such methods have negative sides and side effects, but it looks very cool and if such a practice could be introduced in Russia, it would be a solution for most problems.

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Now it's official:

"Sergey Surovikin has been appointed commander of the joint group of troops in the area of the special military operation."

Army General Surovikin graduated from the Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School. In 2017 and 2019, he was commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria. Then Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces. Hero of Russia. As of June 2022, he commanded the Southern Group of Russian troops in Ukraine. He led the successful encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Gorsky and Zolote (LPR).
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The condition of the undamaged part of the roadway allows the launch of car traffic on the Crimean bridge after 16:00 today in one lane in reverse mode, said Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Savelyev.

Previously we have already written, that the railway section will be fully operational since today 20:00 as well.
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