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TLDR: Russia is of course still winning. No change there. The Ukrainians don’t seem to be able to reach the power plant. Interesting theory that Russia may have asked Lloyd Austen about the attack rumors in advance. Ukraine has heavy losses and defenses are crumbling in some areas, moving or retreating in others. Russia took some prisoners, some Ukrainian, one Polish mercenary. The main battle lines are not in Kursk, but other areas where Russia is advancing in Donbas.

Oh, and Russia’s Group Of Forces North (brigade?) quoted Bismark in their update: “Make alliances with anyone, start any kind of war, but never touch the Russians.”

[Miami Rebel]

It’s not that it’s too long to read. It’s that it comes from a discredited shill.

Mercouris by his own admission suffered serious mental illness from 2006 to 2012 culminating with a fiasco with a client that led him to being disbarred as a Barrister. To replace that income, he began offering himself up as an expert on Russia Today, a platform on which he has appeared more than 150 times.

The best way to think of Mercouris is as a mouthpiece for Russia. The proclivity to lie that got him disbarred serves him well in his new capacity.

Here’s the conclusion of the disciplinary finding against him:

Alexander Mercouris engaged in conduct likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession or the administration of justice or otherwise bring the legal profession into disrepute, contrary to section 301(a)(iii) in that you purported in a statement dated 11 December 2009 that you had been detained by bogus police officers and taken to a meeting at the Royal Courts of Justice where a senior law lord tried to bribe you to drop a legal case in return for a payment to you of 50,000 plus payment of your debts and mortgage knowing that this did not happen and dishonestly claiming that it did.

Sanction: Disbarred
Costs: £786.00

Beyond that, he’s been dead effing wrong since the prelude to the invasion.

Here he dismisses the very prospect of an invasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcpJ78J1rHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jacvr7JejU

[Kazan]

No one is more informed on the mess in Ukraine than Alexander.

It's disgraceful that we have Zeepers here attacking him personal because they can't refute the information he's presenting.

[Widget Jr]

Both sides in this war tend to look at their favorite sources, downplay source on the other side, and claim they are "winning". Both sides talk about what they say the other side is or is not talking about, which may or may not be accurate, as if that means anything. Mercouris says Russian sources say Western source are not talking about the Kursk NPP. Googling Kursk nuclear power plant shows Western news is talking about the Kursk NPP.

The big picture of how the war or any individual part of it is going is not "my side is winning / their side is losing". Neither side has claimed victory nor admitted defeat.

Regarding Kursk:

1. The AFU rate of advance is slowing, not stopping.
2. AFU units are digging in, which shows they intend to hold ground.
3. Russia has not mounted its main counter action to the Kursk operation yet.
4. Russia has not driven back or wiped out the AFU out of Kursk. No matter what the Russian information space says, operational AFU units are still in Kursk.

And now for some interesting news. The general in charge of Russian forces in Kursk is Aleksandr Lapin. He was the general in charge of Kherson who failed to stop Ukraine from taking Kherson back. This is a bad omen for Russia.

Should Russia eventually expel the AFU from Kursk, it is going a while.

[Jumper]

There are reports overnight that the Ukrainians managed to target the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant with military weapons and actually damage the facility.

Several of the advance scout fast moving platoon sized elements were sent all over the Kursk area in multiple staggered times/directions in an attempt to reach the plant and cause damage in lieu of actual capture. Two nuke sabotage facility attemps in a 5 day period; multiple attempts in Kursk.

Zelinski and his crew are not going to be safe in England, Italy or the US, after they depart Kiev. They may be gone sooner than anyone realizes with this debacle.

Once the Kursk salient is contained and destroyed, Ukraine is going to get a taste of the gloves coming off by Russia.

August marks yet another decisive moment in the timeline of this war, another historic turning point. Nuclear terrorism.

Some people took issue with the terminology use and dismissed it. The legal framework of this Anti-terror Operation has expanded to Russia naming Zelinski, his advisors and inner circle, and the military officers and soldiers who executed these attacks as terrorists.

The Special Operation has become an Anti-Terrorist Operation. They didn’t take hostage nor capture Bin Laden, and for a long list of officials of Ukraine there is going to be a similar fate.

Russia believes that Ukraine has a dirty bomb where the radioactive materiels were product in the US, made by a process that the US exclusively uses, thus it can be traced.

There are also reports of Polish, English, Romanian, German and other unmentioned NATO country soldiers among the dead and captured which may shed more light. This may compliacate any NATO occupation of eastern Ukraine by military forces from it’s member states.