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Founder and co-host of Telegraph Ukraine podcast dies aged 32.

David Knowles, the founder and co-host of the Telegraph's Ukraine: The Latest podcast has passed away aged 32, the Telegraph said on Sept. 9.

Liliane Bivings, the Kyiv Independent's business editor, described his passing as "a huge loss for all of us."

"David was a crucial part of keeping the world informed about Ukraine. He was a great journalist, but more importantly a great person who was a joy to be around," Bivings said.

Sad loss 🕯️

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The SBU detained two more collaborators in Kharkiv and Kherson regions, who worked for the occupiers

One of them is a former official of Kupyansk City Council, who after the capture of the city, voluntarily joined the occupation administration.

The collaborator was put in charge of reconstruction of buildings for the benefit of the occupiers. He "quartered" enemy personnel and equipped their warehouses with ammunition.

After the liberation of the city, he fled to Kharkiv and hid until the SBU detained him.

Another enemy accomplice is a Kherson resident. After the capture of the city, she got a job at the pseudo- "electoral office" and went to the homes of residents, agitating them to support the fake referendum.

After the liberation of the region, she tried to "lie low" to avoid justice, but the SBU detained her.

They are charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

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Netherlands Greenlights Kyiv to Hit Russia, Calls for All to Lift Weapon Restrictions

The Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that Ukraine can strike anywhere in Russia using weapons provided by his country. As far as his government was concerned Ukraine can use any Dutch provided weapons for self-defense in accordance with international law.
He also clarified that the permission to strike Russia directly also applies to the F-16 fighters that the Netherlands will provide to Ukraine and called on other Western countries to lift restrictions on the use of weapons they supply to Ukraine.

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Trump refuses to say he wants Ukrainian victory

The fate of Ukraine's defense against Russia and the future of U.S. support for Kyiv was subject at the presidential debate last evening.
Trump refused to say that he wanted Ukraine to win the war. "I think it's the U.S. best interest to get this war finished and just get it done, negotiate a deal," he said.
"I want to get this war settled," Trump said, adding that if he were president, Putin wouldn’t have lost thousands of troops in Ukraine.
Harris, in response, accused Trump of giving up on Ukraine.
"The reason that Donald Trump says that this war would be over within 24 hours is because he would just give it up, and that's not who we are as Americans," she said.
The United States is currently one of the primary sources of weapons and financial assistance to Ukraine. The forthcoming presidential election has the potential to alter the outcome of the war.

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Erdogan Says Crimea ‘Must Return to Ukraine’ For Just End to War

“Our support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence remains unwavering. The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law,” Erdogan said.
“We sincerely wish for the war to end with a just and lasting peace, based on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence,” he added.
Erdogan restated that ensuring the safety and well-being of the Crimean Tatars is one of Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, adding that Crimean Tatars have the right to live free, safe, and peaceful lives in their homeland.

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President Zelenskyy: Ukraine does not sell its land and does not abandon its people.

During the Fourth Summit of the Crimean Platform in Kyiv, he stressed that Ukraine will return all occupied territories and all its citizens.

"We will not leave anything and no one in captivity. I would like all our citizens in Ukraine, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, to hear this – no matter where you are and no matter how difficult it is for you. It's part of our morality. Ukraine does not trade its land and does not abandon its people."

Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine knows, remembers and fights for each of the Crimean prisoners of Russia, for all civilians and military, adults and children who are in captivity or temporary occupation.

He called on the states of the region, in particular the Muslim societies of Turkey and Azerbaijan, to show leadership and help resist injustice and bullying. Zelenskyy also asked the countries working on the implementation of the Peace Formula to convince partners who have so far refrained from working together.

"True peace should have no alternatives. No frozen occupations! No people abandoned in captivity! No repressions forgotten and therefore seemingly forgiven by the world."

The attendees observed a moment of silence in memory of all Ukrainian men and women who were killed during the war, died in captivity, occupation, or during deportation.

🇺🇦 Operational information as of 08.00 on September 11, 2024 regarding the Russian invasion

❗️ The main summary:

🔵 During the past day, 131 combat clashes were recorded.

🔥 Over the past day, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces made ten strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and OVT, hit the control post, eight artillery systems, an electronic warfare device and one other important object of the Russian invaders.

🔵 In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy continued its assault. Four combat clashes took place here in the Vovchansk and Hlyboky areas.

🔵 There were 13 enemy attacks in the Kupian direction. The defense forces stopped the enemy's assault near Synkivka, Hlushkivka, Lozova and Petropavlivka.

🔵 In the Lymansky direction, our troops repelled 20 assaults by the occupiers in the areas of Druzhelyubivka, Tverdokhlibovo, Nevsky, Makiivka, Novosadovo, and Torsky.

🔵 In the Siverskyi direction, the Defense Forces repelled nine attacks near Ivano-Daryivka, Spirny, Verkhnyokamyansky and Vyimka.

🔵 In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian soldiers stopped five attempts by the enemy to break through our defenses in the areas of Chasovoy Yar, Kalynyvka, and Ivanivsk.

🔵 In the direction of Toretsk, the enemy, with the support of aviation, carried out nine attacks. He concentrated his efforts in the districts of Dachnoy, Toretsk and Nelipivka.

🔵 In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 32 attacks. The enemy concentrated its efforts in the areas of Novooleksandrivka, Vozdvizhenka, Svyridonivka, Grodivka, Ivanivka, Novogrodivka, Mykhailivka, and Marynivka.

🔵 In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the districts of Georgiyivka, Ukranian, and Krasnohorivka. In total, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our troops in this direction 29 times.

🔵 In the Vremivsk direction, the occupiers launched two attacks on our positions in the direction of Vugledar.

🔵 In the Orykhiv direction, one skirmish took place near Maly Shcherbaki, which was unsuccessful for the enemy.

🔵 Losses of positions and territories were not allowed in the Dnieper direction. Ukrainian soldiers successfully repelled seven attacks by Russian invaders.

We will win in unity! ✊
Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

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This one is well worth reading. Expenses going up while oil profits go off a cliff.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38990

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The amount of military assistance provided by the DPRK to Russia is incomparable with other allies of the occupiers. The fact that the country is helping Russia with ammunition is a critical problem, Kyrylo Budanov said at the 20th annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES)

“They supply huge volumes of artillery ammunition, which is critical. The fact that they are supplying ballistic missiles is unpleasant for us, but it is not the same volume. But as for the ammunition, it is critical for us,” said the head of the DIU.

In addition, he said that the Russians have increased the production of aircraft bombs several times, which poses a problem for the front line.

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Footage of GBU-39 bomb strike on a building with Russian personnel in the Kursk region, - Khorne Group

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Good morning Resisters everywhere. The hurricane precipitation has finally passed and it's blue skies and sunny. 66⁰

I am happy to report I am not old enough to remember that far back.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/remember-remember/58155/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/when-will-it-end/58171/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-has-a-real-problem/58147/

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

and pressure on the oil industry intensifies, it’s just getting worse and winter is coming to make it much worse still.
My advice to Ukraine is never for one minute let up on these oil infrastructure sites - it’s Russia’s Achilles heel and its effects are both immediate and long term. It’s one weakness that can massively contribute to Russian’s ultimate demise. Winter can magnify the damage beyond repair. Use it.

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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!

From the Unnamed Military Analyst
UKRAINE’S ANTI-OIL STRATEGY IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR RUSSIA

A drone here, a drone there, then drones are everywhere, hitting key refining equipment that shuts down entire refineries. The latest has been the huge Moscow operation.
The Russians denied it was damaged but recent video revealed literally hundreds of tankers lined up on freeways, apparently ordered there to take away the refined product stuck on site and the crude they couldn’t move.
It’s not however as simple a strategy as causing inconvenience.
Russia has a unique problem with oil production that only a small area of Alaska has to deal with in anything like a comparable way. Winter, harsh super-deep freeze winters like nowhere else on Earth oil is drilled.
These winters mean that oil extraction can never stop, the pipelines must always flow, the wellheads must never close down. In negative temperatures most of us cannot imagine, keeping the machines pumping and the oil moving under pressure to stop it from freezing or becoming excessively viscous and causing blockages is critical.
Back in 1989 Russian oil exports collapsed and the industry was left to rot. Vast swathes of the arctic oil industry ground to a stop and within months it was permanently unusable. It took 30 years to restore the pre-89 level of production.
And Russia couldn’t have done it alone any more than it did in the 1980’s. Thousands of western technicians and billions in western investment was needed to put it back into viable use. Russians didn’t have the supporting industry or the technology or the human technical experience to carry out such a major industrial redevelopment. And they still don’t.
Every time a refinery closes down, every time a storage depot is lost, means Russia can’t pump crude oil.
In the past it gained exemptions from OPEC+ from production cuts because of its ‘winter factor’. Russia gained hugely from this, seeing prices rise for no cuts on its part and cashed in handsomely for no effort. It didn’t once cut production.
Then came the attack on Ukraine and the loss of overseas markets.
America ramped up production and is now the largest oil producer by a factor of almost two, at twice the output of Saudi Arabia. There is no oil shortage in the wider world. American production rates have totally undermined OPEC price gauging. The price of oil is around $72pb which is barely sustainable for some of the Middle East economies- Iran is struggling with it as is Iraq and Kuwait. Russia is in an even worse situation with sanctioned prices and restrictions on its tanker fleet.
Every oil refinery hit by a drone is forcing Russia to cut production at the well heads. It has nowhere to store the oil it drills and nowhere sufficient to refine it. Production cuts have had to be made - estimated now to have reached over 1 million barrels per day at the start of this year and likely to have doubled by now. With limited shipping to export the crude, more cuts are essential. It became so much of an issue Russia declared oil production information a state secret in May.
And Ukraine knows the worst is yet to come.
A wave of drone strikes against refineries in early winter will force yet more capacity cuts in the dead cold. That will mean permanent and likely irretrievable closures. Oil wells closed in winter will likely be permanently ruined and require re-drilling. Tens of thousands of kilometres of pipelines will need repairs and inspections once oil stops moving. Wellheads will become unrecoverable.
This is what Ukraine’s war on the refineries and the storage sites means. As they attack the export terminals and the transport pipelines to those terminals, the grip on Russian oil exports tightens. Production itself is constrained and expensive. And Russia has no answers.
It is so dependent on oil for its income it faces an economic existential crisis down the road. Western companies won’t want to be burned again once peace comes. It is risking its current and future generations' prosperity. As drone attacks continue...
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russians claim Ukraine targets bomber base near Finland for 2 consecutive days

Two drones were reportedly shot down near Olenya air base today, and three more yesterday. russians mistakenly fired on a civilian aircraft, thinking it was a drone.

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