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Andrey Kartapolov: There will be no general mobilization in Russia Subject: Military operation in Ukraine The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense spoke about new punishments for crimes during wartimeMilitary operation in Ukraine Russia has decided to tighten responsibility for crimes committed against military service during the period of mobilization or martial law, in wartime. The corresponding package of amendments to the Criminal Code was adopted by the State Duma on September 20 immediately in the second and third readings. Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, told in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAD684eczq8Very incisive commentary and confirmation of the Russian military collapse in the greater Kherson region 83,533 views on YouTube

...The initial assault toward Kherson in the south wasn’t a feint. It was a major strategic thrust that might yet push Russian troops back from the western bank of the Dnieper River. But deftly, the Ukrainians also moved in the Kharkiv region in the northeast while the Russians were asleep there. They didn’t rush the advance; they softened up Russian lines and then, last week, burst through in a devastating assault that put Russia in pell-mell retreat and regained more than 1,100 square miles of territory. ..Vladimir Putin. He is the loser in this latest round, but he is also...

Russian troops are pulling back from key areas in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as Ukrainian soldiers advance, following a major counteroffensive that was launched on Sept. 1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy championed troop success on the front lines in the north and said that some 30 settlements had been "liberated" from Russian occupation during his nightly address Friday. Russia state-owned media outlet Tass announced Saturday that Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said troops would being "regrouped" from areas around Balakliya and Izyum to the Donetsk region, though Fox News Digital could not locate the report, suggesting it may have been...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

A senior Kremlin official has approached Western diplomats and intelligence chiefs in a bid to help end the war in Ukraine, it was alleged last night. The source is said to have claimed that much of Moscow's elite are highly concerned about the trajectory of Russian president Vladimir Putin's invasion into the neighbouring country and are alarmed by the bite of wide-ranging sanctions levied by the West in response. A document, purportedly circulated to Western intelligence agencies and seen by The Mirror, said: 'A representative of Putin's inner-circle sent a signal about the desire to negotiate. .. It is unclear...