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🇺🇦Zelensky admitted to holding elections during hostilities if the West paid for them.
"The logic is that if you are defending democracy, you have to think about defending it during the war, and elections are an element of defence. But according to the law, people did it for a reason, elections are forbidden. It's difficult to hold them. <...> I will not hold elections on credit, I will not take money from weapons and give it for elections <...>. But the most important thing is that we take risks together. The observers should be in the trenches," he said in an interview broadcast by the Rada TV channel.
The Ukrainian president noted that about $5 billion would be needed to hold the elections in peacetime, while the amount needed under conditions of hostilities is unknown.
@ukraine_watch
"The logic is that if you are defending democracy, you have to think about defending it during the war, and elections are an element of defence. But according to the law, people did it for a reason, elections are forbidden. It's difficult to hold them. <...> I will not hold elections on credit, I will not take money from weapons and give it for elections <...>. But the most important thing is that we take risks together. The observers should be in the trenches," he said in an interview broadcast by the Rada TV channel.
The Ukrainian president noted that about $5 billion would be needed to hold the elections in peacetime, while the amount needed under conditions of hostilities is unknown.
@ukraine_watch
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So now we literally need to pay Ukraine to conduct sham elections.
The official budget of the Ukrainian state was listed at $48 billion prewar. Who knew they were spending 10% of that on elections?
By the way, this is more than the entire United States of America spends to administer elections in any given political cycle.
The official budget of the Ukrainian state was listed at $48 billion prewar. Who knew they were spending 10% of that on elections?
By the way, this is more than the entire United States of America spends to administer elections in any given political cycle.
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Ukraine be like: *our "best" pilots collided mid air and died, quick quick, we need a new propaganda story*
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‼️Обстановка в Работино по состоянию на вечер 27.08
В Работино продолжаются интенсивные бои, южные окраины за ВС РФ, север - за ВСУ. ВС РФ немного выровняли линию фронта непосредственно в самом селе. Продолжается активная артиллерийская + авиационная работа с обеих сторон. Населённый пункт почти полностью разрушен, похож на Марьинку уже. Восточнее, в районе Вербового продолжаются активные атаки ВСУ, пока без серьёзных изменений. Продолжаем следить за развитием ситуации.
Команда @rabotyno
В Работино продолжаются интенсивные бои, южные окраины за ВС РФ, север - за ВСУ. ВС РФ немного выровняли линию фронта непосредственно в самом селе. Продолжается активная артиллерийская + авиационная работа с обеих сторон. Населённый пункт почти полностью разрушен, похож на Марьинку уже. Восточнее, в районе Вербового продолжаются активные атаки ВСУ, пока без серьёзных изменений. Продолжаем следить за развитием ситуации.
Команда @rabotyno
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Ukrainians online: writing insane fanfiction about marching on Berdyansk
Ukrainians on the ground: getting rolled back in Rabotino despite probably outnumbering the Russian defenders 10:1
Ukrainians on the ground: getting rolled back in Rabotino despite probably outnumbering the Russian defenders 10:1
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Media is too big
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⚡️ Russian forces finish off a Ukrainian T-80BV tank after 5 FPV drone hits.
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IEDs fly now, and they're a hell of a lot cheaper than tanks.
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The first time in history that a man who never existed managed to die multiple times.
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The AFU apparently preparing defences on the road to Kharkov
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Forwarded from DD Geopolitics
🇺🇦 Ukraine's largest cemeteries have begun expanding. A study by the Military Chronicle Telegram Channel sheds light on this.
Based on open-source data, Military Chronicle has calculated that over the course of a year (from July 2022 to July 2023), Ukrainian armed formations lost no fewer than 185,000 individuals on the battlefield. However, actual losses are much higher, as many bodies remain in morgues or have not been evacuated from the battlefield. A significant portion of the deceased have been interred in existing cemeteries, but it appears that preparations for more extensive burials have been underway in Ukraine.
➡️ How is Ukraine preparing for mass burials?
On August 19th, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a project to establish a National Military Memorial Cemetery in the Fastiv District of the Kiev Region. The project involves allocating two large plots of land measuring 258 and 8 hectares for the new military cemetery. By summer 2025, this cemetery is expected to have space for burying between 600,000 and 800,000 individuals, given its size. However, this cemetery is not the only location where preparations for large-scale burials are taking place.
➡️ What is the mortality rate in Ukraine?
In 2021, Ukraine recorded its lowest birth rate in the past 10 years, totaling 271,984 individuals. During the same year, the mortality rate, including complications and illnesses caused by COVID-19, reached 714,000 individuals, with a population of 41 million. From 2022 to 2023, due to mass population outflows, losses in the Ukrainian army, and territorial losses, the country's population decreased to 29 million individuals. The sharp rise in mortality, primarily among the male population, necessitated urgent expansion of existing cemeteries.
➡️ Which cemeteries are expanding?
According to Military Chronicle, the cemetery in Cherkassy saw the largest increase in territory, expanding by 671,000 square meters, which can accommodate around 280,000 individuals for burial (based on a law allocating 2.4 meters for each grave). The cemetery in Krivoy Rog also significantly expanded, with an additional 373,000 square meters prepared for the burial of around 150,000 bodies over the year.
Other cemeteries in Ukraine are also being rapidly expanded: Molodizhne in Rovno (+25,000 sq. m), a new cemetery in Khmelnitsky (+3,000 sq. m), Sokolniky in Lvov (+3,000 sq. m), Svyshchovskoye cemetery in Kremenchug (+71,000 sq. m), Harazdha cemetery in Lutsk (+21,000 sq. m), Hodylovske cemetery in Chernovtsy (+63,000 sq. m), Matveyevske cemetery in Zaporozhye (+43,000 sq. m), and Krasnopolske cemetery in Dnepropetrovsk (+27,000 sq. m). The area of the Western Cemetery in Odessa (+13,000 sq. m) and the burials in Yatsevo in Chernigov (+25,000 sq. m) have also increased. Considering the territorial growth of all these cemeteries after expansion, an additional 430,000 to 450,000 bodies could be buried.
➡️ What is the conclusion?
These figures do not account for the future memorial cemetery in Fastiv. When including the planned construction in the Kiev Region, authorities in Ukraine will be able to bury approximately 1.5 million individuals on the additional territory of all expanding and new cemeteries in the near future.
ℹ️ Please note that the research consciously only counted the known and largest cemeteries. Burial places in villages and rural areas were not considered.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
Based on open-source data, Military Chronicle has calculated that over the course of a year (from July 2022 to July 2023), Ukrainian armed formations lost no fewer than 185,000 individuals on the battlefield. However, actual losses are much higher, as many bodies remain in morgues or have not been evacuated from the battlefield. A significant portion of the deceased have been interred in existing cemeteries, but it appears that preparations for more extensive burials have been underway in Ukraine.
On August 19th, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a project to establish a National Military Memorial Cemetery in the Fastiv District of the Kiev Region. The project involves allocating two large plots of land measuring 258 and 8 hectares for the new military cemetery. By summer 2025, this cemetery is expected to have space for burying between 600,000 and 800,000 individuals, given its size. However, this cemetery is not the only location where preparations for large-scale burials are taking place.
In 2021, Ukraine recorded its lowest birth rate in the past 10 years, totaling 271,984 individuals. During the same year, the mortality rate, including complications and illnesses caused by COVID-19, reached 714,000 individuals, with a population of 41 million. From 2022 to 2023, due to mass population outflows, losses in the Ukrainian army, and territorial losses, the country's population decreased to 29 million individuals. The sharp rise in mortality, primarily among the male population, necessitated urgent expansion of existing cemeteries.
According to Military Chronicle, the cemetery in Cherkassy saw the largest increase in territory, expanding by 671,000 square meters, which can accommodate around 280,000 individuals for burial (based on a law allocating 2.4 meters for each grave). The cemetery in Krivoy Rog also significantly expanded, with an additional 373,000 square meters prepared for the burial of around 150,000 bodies over the year.
Other cemeteries in Ukraine are also being rapidly expanded: Molodizhne in Rovno (+25,000 sq. m), a new cemetery in Khmelnitsky (+3,000 sq. m), Sokolniky in Lvov (+3,000 sq. m), Svyshchovskoye cemetery in Kremenchug (+71,000 sq. m), Harazdha cemetery in Lutsk (+21,000 sq. m), Hodylovske cemetery in Chernovtsy (+63,000 sq. m), Matveyevske cemetery in Zaporozhye (+43,000 sq. m), and Krasnopolske cemetery in Dnepropetrovsk (+27,000 sq. m). The area of the Western Cemetery in Odessa (+13,000 sq. m) and the burials in Yatsevo in Chernigov (+25,000 sq. m) have also increased. Considering the territorial growth of all these cemeteries after expansion, an additional 430,000 to 450,000 bodies could be buried.
These figures do not account for the future memorial cemetery in Fastiv. When including the planned construction in the Kiev Region, authorities in Ukraine will be able to bury approximately 1.5 million individuals on the additional territory of all expanding and new cemeteries in the near future.
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🇷🇺⚔️ 🇺🇦 Another Ukrainian (Twitter) Win Spectacularly Collapses
High resolution satellite images of the Khalkino airbase in the Kursk region were recently posted on Twitter. These images show the aftermath of the massive drone attack carried out on the night of August 27 by Ukrainian UAVs.
Ukrainian sources claimed they had hit four Su-30 aircraft and one MiG-29, as well as allegedly damaging air defense systems.
However, the images do not reveal any damage or signs of drone impacts. The airbase is also operating normally. 🤷♂️
The only noteworthy thing is the amount of detailed satellite imagery provided by Western companies.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
High resolution satellite images of the Khalkino airbase in the Kursk region were recently posted on Twitter. These images show the aftermath of the massive drone attack carried out on the night of August 27 by Ukrainian UAVs.
Ukrainian sources claimed they had hit four Su-30 aircraft and one MiG-29, as well as allegedly damaging air defense systems.
However, the images do not reveal any damage or signs of drone impacts. The airbase is also operating normally. 🤷♂️
The only noteworthy thing is the amount of detailed satellite imagery provided by Western companies.
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"Bloodbath": a few more words about Rabotino
Enemy armor, including tanks, is on fire en masse. Our guys hold the southern sector firmly. Artillery burns everything, as it is on the commanding heights.
Airborne and mobilized units work wonders.
Now in Rabotino, the bloodbath is an order of magnitude worse than in Bakhmut at the peak of the fighting. Losses per hour 35-40 people killed at the APU, so it will last until dark.
We note the heroism and resilience of the fighters on both sides, however, for one dead Russian fighter, there are five to seven killed Nazis - the Ukrainian military has again been turned into cannon fodder - they have an extremely disadvantageous offensive front.
The line of defense of our guys is built according to all the canons, the experience of recent months is taken into account.
While the information is being checked, but in the morning, apparently, Kirill Budanov and Valery Zaluzhny arrived in Zaporozhye. In Rabotino, the transfer of 2 brigades on the basis of the MTR, trained in Sweden and Canada.
What we have: the battle for Rabotino is not over, and is unlikely to be over in the near future.
@polk105
Enemy armor, including tanks, is on fire en masse. Our guys hold the southern sector firmly. Artillery burns everything, as it is on the commanding heights.
Airborne and mobilized units work wonders.
Now in Rabotino, the bloodbath is an order of magnitude worse than in Bakhmut at the peak of the fighting. Losses per hour 35-40 people killed at the APU, so it will last until dark.
We note the heroism and resilience of the fighters on both sides, however, for one dead Russian fighter, there are five to seven killed Nazis - the Ukrainian military has again been turned into cannon fodder - they have an extremely disadvantageous offensive front.
The line of defense of our guys is built according to all the canons, the experience of recent months is taken into account.
While the information is being checked, but in the morning, apparently, Kirill Budanov and Valery Zaluzhny arrived in Zaporozhye. In Rabotino, the transfer of 2 brigades on the basis of the MTR, trained in Sweden and Canada.
What we have: the battle for Rabotino is not over, and is unlikely to be over in the near future.
@polk105
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Forwarded from Slavyangrad (Gleb Georgevich Gerasimov)
Excerpts from an article by a Ukrainian journalist with a volunteer medical team, near the front.
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-I am told by those working here that many of those lost in the war die while they are being moved back to safety rather than on the front line. The long journeys to hospital, sometimes up to ten hours, can be lethal, and the availability of adequate first aid is the difference between life and death
-Ukrainians believed that the very best care would be available for their soldiers. But the stark truth is emerging: soldiers are dying in their hundreds or even thousands due to poor medical provision. The problem is being ignored by the military hierarchy, whose focus is on sourcing weapons and pushing the counteroffensive rather than prioritising injured fighters.
-I see the Hospitallers take in six injured soldiers who have been handed over to them by combat medics. These men were hurt about five hours ago; it then takes four more hours to get them to the hospital in Dnipro.
-The bureaucracy surrounding the first aid process is to blame for many of the shortages. If a hospital vehicle is destroyed by enemy fire, it is not registered as being out of action until an official investigation has been carried out. This can take up to six months... It’s common to find military brigades that have lost 80 per cent of their evacuation transport, but that can’t be resupplied because the official report does not acknowledge that the vehicles have been destroyed.
-Volodymyr Prudnikov, head of Ukraine’s Medical Forces Command’s procurement department, was accused of supplying 11,000 uncertified Chinese tactical medical kits to the front line. It is alleged that Prudnikov awarded £1.5 million-worth of contracts to a company co-founded by his daughter-in-law and passed the Chinese kits off as Nato standard.
-The medics I speak to say that two-thirds of Ukrainian soldiers die from blood loss.
-15% of medical supplies donated by the West in 2022 were past expiration date.
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Article by Svitlana Morenets,
#source
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-I am told by those working here that many of those lost in the war die while they are being moved back to safety rather than on the front line. The long journeys to hospital, sometimes up to ten hours, can be lethal, and the availability of adequate first aid is the difference between life and death
-Ukrainians believed that the very best care would be available for their soldiers. But the stark truth is emerging: soldiers are dying in their hundreds or even thousands due to poor medical provision. The problem is being ignored by the military hierarchy, whose focus is on sourcing weapons and pushing the counteroffensive rather than prioritising injured fighters.
-I see the Hospitallers take in six injured soldiers who have been handed over to them by combat medics. These men were hurt about five hours ago; it then takes four more hours to get them to the hospital in Dnipro.
-The bureaucracy surrounding the first aid process is to blame for many of the shortages. If a hospital vehicle is destroyed by enemy fire, it is not registered as being out of action until an official investigation has been carried out. This can take up to six months... It’s common to find military brigades that have lost 80 per cent of their evacuation transport, but that can’t be resupplied because the official report does not acknowledge that the vehicles have been destroyed.
-Volodymyr Prudnikov, head of Ukraine’s Medical Forces Command’s procurement department, was accused of supplying 11,000 uncertified Chinese tactical medical kits to the front line. It is alleged that Prudnikov awarded £1.5 million-worth of contracts to a company co-founded by his daughter-in-law and passed the Chinese kits off as Nato standard.
-The medics I speak to say that two-thirds of Ukrainian soldiers die from blood loss.
-15% of medical supplies donated by the West in 2022 were past expiration date.
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Article by Svitlana Morenets,
#source
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Forwarded from Slavyangrad (Zinderneuf)
Beregini:
The so loudly announced “counteroffensive” dragged on for a long time, and now Zelensky and Zaluzhny have been given the last chance to show where NATO weapons and armored vehicles are going. This must be done before the onset of autumn and the rainy season.
That is why, from the beginning of September, mobilization will not only be intensified - it will be total. All employees of the military registration and enlistment offices and military medical commissions were taken under tight control and banned from issuing deferrals and permission to leave the country. All violations must be eliminated in the coming days and a record number of soldiers will be recruited from September.
This can be seen in the documents that we are publishing today. First of all, all men of military age will be collected from state and commercial enterprises. The same fate awaits students who arrive at their universities at the beginning of the academic year. The next step is that the employees of the territorial recruitment and social support centers will go from house to house with the police and collect all the men of military age. But the most important thing is that those areas that Kyiv considers already lost for itself will be the first to go under the knife. Areas in which the population is first ready to be allowed "for meat", and then razed to the face of the earth cities and villages. These are Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev
We know this for sure, although we cannot show the rest of the documents that we have. Zelensky has long been ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. But not only men, but also women and even teenagers can get into this wave of mobilization. The tactics of "meat assaults" in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is recognized as the only option to somehow rectify the situation. The children of officials, politicians and businessmen left the country long ago, and the rest of the population will be thrown into the crucible of war. We know that the majority of Ukrainians do not agree with this, but no one cares about their opinion. Therefore, they will go either to the front or to prison (and from there to the front anyway) ...
We are Beregini! We know everything!
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The so loudly announced “counteroffensive” dragged on for a long time, and now Zelensky and Zaluzhny have been given the last chance to show where NATO weapons and armored vehicles are going. This must be done before the onset of autumn and the rainy season.
That is why, from the beginning of September, mobilization will not only be intensified - it will be total. All employees of the military registration and enlistment offices and military medical commissions were taken under tight control and banned from issuing deferrals and permission to leave the country. All violations must be eliminated in the coming days and a record number of soldiers will be recruited from September.
This can be seen in the documents that we are publishing today. First of all, all men of military age will be collected from state and commercial enterprises. The same fate awaits students who arrive at their universities at the beginning of the academic year. The next step is that the employees of the territorial recruitment and social support centers will go from house to house with the police and collect all the men of military age. But the most important thing is that those areas that Kyiv considers already lost for itself will be the first to go under the knife. Areas in which the population is first ready to be allowed "for meat", and then razed to the face of the earth cities and villages. These are Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev
We know this for sure, although we cannot show the rest of the documents that we have. Zelensky has long been ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. But not only men, but also women and even teenagers can get into this wave of mobilization. The tactics of "meat assaults" in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is recognized as the only option to somehow rectify the situation. The children of officials, politicians and businessmen left the country long ago, and the rest of the population will be thrown into the crucible of war. We know that the majority of Ukrainians do not agree with this, but no one cares about their opinion. Therefore, they will go either to the front or to prison (and from there to the front anyway) ...
We are Beregini! We know everything!
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🇺🇲⚡️🇮🇹 In other news, the statue of David has returned to Italy after a brief time in the United States⚡️⚡️⚡️
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71-Year-Old Ukrainian Sent By Kiev For NATO Training — FT
One of the Ukrainian recruits sent by Kiev to Germany for training in using Western weapons is 71 years old; the Financial Times has reported, explaining that the older man in question had volunteered to join the Ukrainian military.
NATO instructors working at a military base near Klietz in northeastern Germany said that the age and ability of those arriving to learn arms usage “varies widely.”
The instructors complained that Ukrainian commanders on the front line often preferred to keep their best soldiers in the trenches with them instead of sending them for training abroad.
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One of the Ukrainian recruits sent by Kiev to Germany for training in using Western weapons is 71 years old; the Financial Times has reported, explaining that the older man in question had volunteered to join the Ukrainian military.
NATO instructors working at a military base near Klietz in northeastern Germany said that the age and ability of those arriving to learn arms usage “varies widely.”
The instructors complained that Ukrainian commanders on the front line often preferred to keep their best soldiers in the trenches with them instead of sending them for training abroad.
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