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🎨 Children drawing scouts - the winners of the "Working GUR" creative competition received prizes from Kyrylo Budanov

👥 115 children took part in the annual competition of children's creativity dedicated to the Day of Military Intelligence of Ukraine, 2024.

👉 The jury chose the best among their 135 creative works - drawings, paintings, appliqués, modeling clay, embroideries, mosaics.

🤝 The prize-winners and participants were presented with commemorative gifts, thanks and certificates, signed by the head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov.

☑️ The painting of the boy Tymofiy "Modern eyes of intelligence" and the drawing of the boy Makar "The wise will rule over the stars" were recognized as the best among the works.

▫️ The drawings of the girl Kira "Shark Shadow", the girl Oleksadra "FPV drones", the boy Roman "Reconnaissance" and the boy Oleksandr "Working GUR" were also noted.

☝️ All drawings and creative works inspire and give strength to scouts to continue the fight for the free future of Ukraine!
🫡 Thank you, children!
🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!

- GUR

Wow! What a talent some children show! The fighter with the owl on his back is made only of scraps of paper (third line, second from left side).

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russian producers doubled their port wine production in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, Roskachestvo reports.

The organization attributes the growth in port production to the return of consumer interest in fortified wines. According to Roskachestvo, the overall volume of fortified (liqueur) wine production in January-June of this year grew in russia by 73.3%, to 7.1 million liters, compared to the first half of 2023. The share of port wines in the total volume of fortified wine production now stands at 35%. The weight of this category increased by 6% over the period under study.

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ETERNAL MEMORY

The last video with good man Joker. Rest in peace brother.
“If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go” - Major Michael Davis O'Donnell, January 1, 1970, Dak To, Vietnam.

Останнє відео з Джокером. Спочивай з миром, брате

«Якщо ви можете, збережіть для них місце всередині вас і збережіть один погляд назад, коли ви їдете туди, куди вони більше не можуть потрапити» - майор Майкл Девіс О'Доннелл, 1 січня 1970, Дак То, В'єтнам.
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⚡️EU, Armenia begin talks on liberalization of visa restrictions.

The European Union and Armenia formally began discussions on Sept. 9 on a visa-free regime between the two parties.

Armenia, who has long been close with Russia, is now seeking to distance itself after repeatedly accusing Moscow of being an unreliable partner.

⚡️ Update: Russia claims downing over 140 Ukrainian drones.

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that 144 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight on Sept. 10. The highest number of drones – 72 – was reportedly downed over Bryansk Oblast, followed by Moscow Oblast (20) and Kursk Oblast (14).

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that emergency services are responding to a fire on the 11th and 12th floors of a residential building in Ramenskoye in Moscow Oblast.

⚡️'Massive' drone attack on multiple Russian regions continues overnight on Sept. 10.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed that over a dozen drones had been shot down over Moscow Oblast en route to the capital.

Sobyanin reported that emergency services are responding to a fire on the 11th and 12th floors of a residential building in the town of Ramenskoye, following an attack. The town is located 46 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

Drone debris was also found near Zhukovsky International Airport, some 36 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of central Moscow.

⚡️'Massive' drone attack on multiple Russian regions ongoing, explosions reported, officials claim.

Ukraine launched a "massive drone attack" on Russia's Bryansk Oblast, Governor Alexander Bogomaz claimed on Telegram overnight on Sept. 10. Air raid alerts were also activated in at least nine different oblasts, various Russian officials reported.

Videos of purported explosions heard over Bryansk Oblast were posted on social media by local residents around 12:30 a.m. local time.

Later in the night, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also claimed that three drones had been shot down over Moscow Oblast en route to the capital.

⚡️'Massive' drone attack over Russia's Bryansk Oblast ongoing, governor claims.

Russian air defenses are currently attempting to repel a "massive drone attack" over Bryansk Oblast, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said at 12:20 a.m. local time.

The Kyiv Independent cannot verify the claim, and Ukraine has not yet commented on the alleged attack.

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⚡️ Russian tankers reject Danish pilots, increasing oil spill risks, Bloomberg reports.

Tankers of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" transporting oil through Denmark's unsafe shipping straits are more frequently refusing to use pilots' service, increasing the risk of an oil spill off the Danish coast, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 10.

Good morning Resisters. 49⁰ here right now. 3rd day of fall weather

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

DRAMATIC UKRAINIAN COUNTER ATTACK

Ukrainian forces became trapped in a chemical factory at New York, pinned in by the Russian advance.
The situation arose in the first place because the Russians had captured the high central ground south of the town and the Ukrainians had just the low lying residential districts to the north that surrounded the chemical factory. The Russians launched a pincer attack around the factory overwhelming the Ukrainians in the residential area and forced them out.
The Ukrainians managed to fortify the chemical plant making it incredibly difficult for the Russians to attack it with the resources they had to hand.
In short the chemical plant is a veritable fortress of bunkers, steel and concrete, with many geographical features around it that make attacking it difficult.
Even just bombing and shelling it would take weeks and masses of resources.
Ukraine is in no mood to go through another siege like the one at the Azovstahl at the start of the war. Relieving the plant and restoring their positions was granted to the Special Purpose 12th Azov Brigade. These are unquestionably some of the ‘hardest’ battle trained troops in the army. They were there at Mariupol in 2022.
The plan was to restore a line of communication and supply with the plant and drive the Russians back enough to properly reconnect it with Ukrainian forces.
It was vital the Russians didn’t know the Azov were coming. For maximum impact they needed to deploy secretly and this was achieved in short order. The brigade relished the chance to take revenge on the invaders in such a scenario.
The Azov Brigade launched their attack with complete surprise - overwhelming the Russians with men, drones and artillery. The speed of their assault and the accuracy of their artillery crippled the Russian forces as they lost any sense of control over their situation.
The result was a major victory for the Azov Brigade, retaking the north of the city and firmly reconnecting the fortified Ukrainian positions in the Chemical plant.
This action not only retains a vital defence point but greatly assists the defence of Toretsk to the north by relieving pressure from the New York direction.
It also seems that it’s another important counter to the Russian efforts to push forward - the salient offensive is now appearing to have stalled.  It’s also a major morale boost for Ukraine proving they still have the ability to return to the offensive when they have the plan and the forces to do so. Russian mobilised forces are no match for surprises and experienced soldiers.
Elsewhere the Russians have tried to make small inroads at Vovchansk and failed.
There is fighting on the Vuhledar front that hasn’t gone well for the Russians so far.
The central front is still a hotbed of conflict as the Russians persistently try to breakthrough using drones, artillery and aerial bombs.
Russian attacks east of the Oskil River further north have resumed but have been resisted.

‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Ukraine has created its own guided bomb based on the French AASM hammer.

It has GPS guidance. Ukraine hopes to put them into mass production. @ukrainejournal

UPDATE
Reports coming in that Z-blogger and russian serviceman connected to committing war crimes in Ukraine, Egor Guzenko - call sign Thirtheenth - has been detained. Recently he uploaded lots of video's criticizing the russian command and called people in the Kremlin traitors.

Tea or window? 🤣

No sympathy for the monster who beheaded a Ukrainian soldier!!

Stay tuned for the next update 🤭
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🧐🇷🇺Luxury and ponies: how Putin's sons, whom he hides, live

The dictator skillfully hid the existence of his eldest daughters - Kateryna Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova - for many years, and similarly kept the secret about the birth of children from Alina Kabaeva. However, after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, everything hidden became known.

The dictator's sons from the former Olympic champion in kabaeva gymnastics lead a life of isolation under constant guard and hardly see their parents.

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WILL KURSK CHANGE ANYTHING?

The Russians have now only 21 days to eradicate the Kursk salient - that’s the timeline Putin gave them. The Pokrovsk and other directional battles continue but Ukrainian resistance has stiffened considerably and the Russians are struggling.
The requirement they have themselves to eradicate Kursk by October 1st, if they fail would be internationally embarrassing but little more. Russians themselves seem numb to the whole scenario.
Ukraine is pining its hopes on the fact that Kursk will force redeployments from the centre to make Kursk happen for Russia. That would relieve pressure so much and give them some breathing space.
Yet so far there’s no sign of it happening.
More and more I’m hearing multiple reasons for the Kursk offensive and this latest one is now the one most often cited. It was always designed to get Russia to disengage elsewhere.
These multiple rationales for Kursk tell you it really didn’t have any real strategic objective and was an opportunistic effort to see what it could achieve. As of yet it hasn’t realistically achieved anything except land.
The Russians have created deadlines in the past to get things done. And blown past them without even pretending they had them in the first place. Why is this going to be any different?
Weather is the real enemy of the Russian advance and they know it. It cannot continue at any pace in mud. That’s what is really pushing them and that’s why they haven’t lost interest in the central front. What they have lost is the means of making it to Pokrovsk this year. And for that we should all be grateful. Russian manpower and equipment losses have exceeded their expectations and only Ukraine inflicting terrible losses on the enemy is the way to stop them.
Long may it continue.

The Analyst