September 3 - About 70,000 people, according to the police (100,000 according to the organisers), gathered in Wenceslas Square in central Prague for an anti-government rally.

The participants' demands were: aid for the population amid the energy crisis; liberation of industry from dependence on supranational corporations; conclusion of direct agreements with the suppliers of energy resources, primarily with Russia; the country's military neutrality; and the resignation of the cabinet in case their demands are not met. Prime Minister Fiala has already claimed that the action was allegedly organised by "pro-Russian forces".

Six in 10 British factories may close due to rising electricity prices, Bloomberg reports. According to the agency, nearly half of manufacturers have had their electricity bills rise by more than 100% in the past year.

Education in the USA is so harsh that you can't even imagine!

In response to the student's statement that there are only two genders in the world, a man and a woman, the teacher said that the the government differs. I don't care if this is nonsense.

It seems that the United States is preparing humanity for life together with aliens who are neither male nor female.

They say this student was expelled from school.

Oh, I've googled a little and found this article. That video was recorded in 2019. The incident happened in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For me it doesn't matter where and when it happened, it's just awful (I believe only 2 genders exist). Thank you for your comments.

The EU has set up a "hub" for the wounded and sick evacuated from Ukraine. It is located near the Polish city of Rzeszów.

"The number of wounded in Ukraine is growing every day," EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarčič said at the hub's opening.

By "surprising coincidence", the creation of a "logistics hub" to distribute severely wounded AFU soldiers to hospitals in the Eurozone coincided with Zelenski's "counter-offensive" in the Kherson region.

It is no longer a secret to anyone that the number of wounded soldiers has exceeded the capacity of Ukrainian hospitals, so now Western countries have urgently launched this kind of programme, in an attempt to somehow remedy the situation.

This is a report by French television. The narrator tells of a boy who salutes every time a military truck passes.

But what a bummer, two girls have also been caught in the footage...

Hot meals for residents of Donbass. Volunteers of the “Food of Life” travel daily to places where people need help. Let the menu be simple, soup, porridge and bread, but volunteers distribute more than 100,000 hot meals a month.

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An Australian artist will paint over his mural calling for peace on a city street in Melbourne, at the request of the Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Miroshnichenko. This was reported by the 9News TV channel on Monday.

A mural depicting soldiers of the Russian and Ukrainian armies hugging each other in friendship appeared in Melbourne on September 3. According to its creator Peter Seaton, the painting, which "called for peaceful negotiations as a way to avoid nuclear catastrophe", will be painted over and he himself "deeply apologises to the Ukrainian people".

Earlier, the Australian artist's drawing sparked outrage from the Ukrainian ambassador, who on his Twitter page called it "extremely offensive to all Ukrainians" and expressed disappointment that the mural "appeared without consultation with the Ukrainian community". According to the diplomat, the image "should be destroyed immediately".

"The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is drafting plans to suspend operations of its particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider, due to the energy crisis in Europe", reports Serge Claudet, CERN’s energy coordinator, to The Wall Street Journal newspaper. Who could ever imagine in his right mind that a huge scientific object could be stopped due to the rise of electricity prices.

The official account of the national U.S. Libertarian Party retweets memes comparing the president of Ukraine to Adolf Hitler.

The Libertarian Party is the largest political party among "the third parties" in the USA.

Ghost of Kiev decided to take a break from piloting his plane... The worst thing is that Ukrainians believe in this bullshit

Artyom Bardin, military 'commandant' of Berdyansk, was seriously injured in a terrorist attack after terrorists blew up his car.

"As a result of the car bombing, the city commandant has been hospitalized in a serious condition. Doctors are providing him with the necessary medical assistance," said Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the Zaporozhye regional administration.

According to Bardin himself, the attack was carried out by "Ukrainian terrorists" in order to intimidate civilians in the city.

The Washington Post has published an article in which wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine talk about heavy losses during the counteroffensive in the Kherson area.

According to them, the Russians use all available means against them. For every 3 Ukrainian shells there are 20 Russian shells, and the losses in personnel are 5 to 1. In addition, the settlements reported captured by the AFU command are not named, and the authorities do not allow media to enter areas of the front lines.

The percentage of the territory of Ukrainian regions under Russian control at the moment:

Luhansk region - 100%
Kherson region - 94.3%
Zaporozhye region - 72.49%
Donetsk region - 60.29%
Kharkov region - 33.15%
Nikolaev region - 4.83%.

Fighting is taking place in 6 out of 25 regions of Ukraine.

A British TV show offered its viewers a spin wheel game, where one of the prizes was the TV company paying the winner's energy bills. One of the winners called the prize "fantastic" and said it was "a real relief".

Do you think it's a nice gesture, or rather making a mockery of the British people having to pay for their government's dumb politics?

Look at the Ukrainian gunners preparing the Excalibur shell for the M777 artillery piece, which Britain kindly presented to them and even taught them how to fire it. The projectile is highly accurate, corrected by GPS, so there can be no miss. It is also fabulously expensive, so it is used only for important purposes.

They work slowly. They are in such a hurry that they even find time to shoot a video. Obviously, the planned target is outdoors, and will not run away anywhere. And in war, only a civilian target cannot escape.

So where are they shooting, and with another shell, which is clearly not enough to defeat a fortified military target? Is it not for ZNPP?

"These are beautiful! Learn, Ukrainians, not to launder money - but to build". A Ukrainian wanders near a new hospital in Mariupol, unable to contain his delight. It is very significant in the context of recent statements that the Russians saw asphalt in Ukraine for the first time.

Switzerland 2022: Warm up the apartment above the norm - sit on the bunks

For deliberately warming up an apartment above the established norm of +19, the Swiss will be imprisoned for three years:

The Swiss, who this winter will keep the temperature in their homes above 19 degrees, thereby violating government directives due to lack of gas, face a fine and imprisonment for up to three years, the press secretary of the Department of Economics (DEF) Marcus Spurndli confirmed to the newspaper Blick on Tuesday.

According to the newspaper, in case of intentional violation of the orders, a prison term is threatened. In other cases, the result may be a fine.

We live in an interesting time...

While Russia was slowly advancing against dug in Ukrainian forces, the US and NATO provided Ukraine with billions of dollars of military equipment, including the equivalent of several armored divisions of heavy equipment (tanks, armored fighting vehicles, artillery, and support vehicles), along with extensive operational training on this equipment at military installations outside Ukraine. In short, while Russia was busy destroying the Ukrainian military on the battlefield, Ukraine was busy reconstituting that army, replacing destroyed units with fresh forces that were extremely well equipped, well trained, and well led.
The second phase of the conflict saw Russia destroy the old Ukrainian army. In its stead, Russia faced mobilized territorial and national units, supported by reconstituted NATO-trained forces. But the bulk of the NATO trained forces were held in reserve.
These are the forces that have been committed in the current phase of fighting—a new third phase. Russia finds itself in a full-fledged proxy war with NATO, facing a NATO-style military force that is being logistically sustained by NATO, trained by NATO, provided with NATO intelligence, and working in harmony with NATO military planners.
What this means is that the current Ukrainian counteroffensive should not be viewed as an extension of the phase two battle, but rather the initiation of a new third phase which is not a Ukrainian-Russian conflict, but a NATO-Russian conflict.
The Ukrainian battleplan has “Made in Brussels” stamped all over it. The force composition was determined by NATO, as was the timing of the attacks and the direction of the attacks. NATO intelligence carefully located seams in the Russian defenses, and identified critical command and control, logistics, and reserve concentration nodes that were targeted by Ukrainian artillery which operates on a fire control plan created by NATO.
The tactics used by Ukraine appear to be completely new. Probing attacks are launched to force the Russians to reveal their defensive fires, which are then suppressed by Ukrainian counterbattery fires directed by drones and/or counterbattery radars. Then highly mobile Ukrainian forces rapidly advance through identified seams in the Russian defense, driving deep into largely unprotected territory. These main columns are supported by raids carried out by vehicle mounted troops which strike Russian rear area positions, further disrupting any Russian response.
In short, the Ukrainian army that Russia is facing in Kherson and around Kharkov is unlike any Ukrainian opponent it has previously faced. Advantage, Ukraine.
Russia, however, is a capable military opponent. The potential for a Ukrainian counteroffensive has been known for some time. To think that Russia has been taken completely unawares is to be dismissive of the professionalism of the Russian armed forces.
But there are some operational realities that accrue when Russia has self-limited itself to a forces structure of around 200,000 men, especially when fighting on a battlefield as large as the one that exists in Ukraine. Ther are simply not enough forces to go around, and as a result, Russia has deployed forces in low-priority sectors more thinly than would be otherwise advisable. These forces occupy strongpoints that are designed to cover the gaps between strongpoints with firepower. The Russians have also identified forces who would reinforce these thinly held areas of the front as required.
It is possible to have a situation where Russia anticipated the potential for a concerted Ukrainian counterattack, and yet was still taken by surprise at the combination of new factors that presented themselves once this attack materialized. The speed of the Ukrainian advance was unexpected, as were the tactics used by Ukraine. The level of operational planning support and intelligence provided by NATO in support of this counterattack likewise appeared to have taken the Russians by surprise.
But the Russian army is extremely adaptive.

They have shown a willingness to save lives by giving up territory, allowing the Ukrainians to expend resources and capability without conducting a decisive engagement with Russian troops. Where required, Russan troops matched the audacity and courage of the Ukrainian forces with their own courage-laced tenacity, holding out in an effort to delay the Ukrainian advance while other Russian forces redeployed.
At the end of the day, it appears that Ukraine with exhaust its carefully gathered reserve forces before the bulk of Russia’s response engages. The Kherson e=offensive appears to have stalled, and whether by design or accident, the Kharkov offensive is shaping up to become a trap for the Ukrainian forces committed, who find themselves in danger of being cut off and destroyed.
At the end of the day, this counteroffensive will end in a strategic Ukrainian defeat. Russia will restore the front to its original positions and be able to resume offensive operations. The Ukrainians, meanwhile, will have squandered their reserves, limiting their ability to respond to a new Russian advance.
This doesn’t mean the war is over. Ukraine continues to receive billions of dollars of military assistance, and currently has tens of thousands of troops undergoing extensive training in NATO nations. There will be a fourth phase, and a fifth phase…as many phases as necessary before Ukraine either exhausts its will to fight and die, or NATO exhausts its ability to continue supplying the Ukrainian military. I said back in April that the decision by the US to provide billions of dollars of military assistance was ‘a game changer.”
What we are witnessing in Ukraine today is how this money has changed the game. The result is more dead Ukrainian and Russian forces, more dead civilians, and more destroyed equipment.
But the end game remains the same—Russia will win. Its just that the cost for extending this war has become much higher for all parties involved.
Scott Ritter