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Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday. Vuhledar, a town Ukrainian forces fought tooth and nail to keep, is the latest urban settlement to fall to the Russians as the war stretches deep into its third year and the Ukrainian army is gradually being pushed backward in the eastern Donetsk province. The tactical significance of the town, situated at the confluence of two major roads, is two-fold. Dominant heights and proximity to railway lines offer Moscow...

Russian military sources have claimed the deployment of a super-powerful bomb on the Ukrainian city of Vovchansk. According to russian media, the bomb is believed to be the ODAB-9000 vacuum bomb, also referred to as the Father of Kuzka or the Father of all bombs. This weapon is reportedly the most powerful non-nuclear munition in the world, with an explosive power equivalent to 44,000 kg of TNT. The ODAB-9000 is a thermobaric weapon, meaning it utilizes oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense explosion and blast wave, causing widespread destruction over a large area. If true, this would...

Who will break first? Russia and Ukraine are engulfed in a difficult battle where both sides are in need of a lot of replacements at the front. Russia's mechanized forces and its firepower advantage are causing a lot of problems. In turn, Ukraine is mobilizing more and more of its population to reinforce frontline units. Meanwhile, western reports mention that Russia is suffering from a shortage of military equipment, and that the Russian Armed Forces could collapse at any moment. 0:00 Introduction 4:31 Russian Manpower 13:41 Ukrainian Manpower 22:08 Russian Equipment 25:17 Ukrainian Equipment 36:25 Repair battalions

Biden just said there will be NO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES given to the areas pummeled by Hurricane Helene WTF? There’s practically ZERO federal support to begin with! WHAT IS GOING ON? The US government prioritizes foreign entities over their own citizens. President Joe Biden and his handlers have pledged over $17 BILLION to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel in the past week alone. Meanwhile, Joe Biden has already gone on record to tell American hurricane victims that they should not expect any additional resources from the federal government. “We’ve given everything that we have,” Biden unsympathetically said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky abruptly...

India’s Modi has tried to play peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine. But reports that Ukraine is using Indian shells could complicate those efforts. Visiting Moscow in early July, Modi described Russia as New Delhi’s “trusted ally” and “all-weather friend”, referring to the decades-old strategic collaboration between the two nations. Yet, less than three months later, that relationship is being tested, especially after reports that Kyiv has accessed Indian ammunition and is using it in the Russia-Ukraine war. Indian shells, bought by Italy and the Czech Republic, have been routed to Ukraine. The report follows a series of battlefront images that...

Ammunition availability can make all the difference in a war, but only if it makes it to the troops on the front, rather than being destroyed in storage. Over the course of several days, Ukraine recently succeeded in striking two Russian GRAU arsenals deep in Russian territory and a separate depot and storage facility, causing massive destruction and destroying thousands or tens of thousands of tonnes of Russian munitions. In this episode I ask how long-range drones were able to destroy what were meant to be, in many cases, hardened targets, why the bases may have suffered the damage they...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Sunday blasted the Biden administration for not defining “what victory means in Ukraine” and said that a future Trump administration would end the war “with a negotiated settlement.” “We hope that when that time comes, there is more leverage on the Ukrainian side than on the Russian side. That really is the goal here, in my mind. And I think that’s what [former President] Donald Trump is trying to say,” Rubio said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” Following her meeting with Zelenskyy on Thursday, Harris said there are “some in my...

Two and a half years since the war began, we’ve finally come to the point where most of the Mockingbird Media is ready to call it quits, and openly admit the obvious: Russian Federation troops are winning the war.Even in their cheerleading for Kiev, they have to admit that ‘if Ukraine and its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing.’The Economist reported:“A measure of Ukraine’s declining fortunes is Russia’s advance in the east, particularly around the city of Pokrovsk.[…] Ukraine is also struggling off the battlefield. Russia has destroyed so...

PART 1 (posted yesterday)PART 2 (below, starting at 33:46 minutes into the video)Mercouris: "I have to say this, but as of this moment, it seems to me as if two of Ukraine's best brigades, the 92nd and the 46th, have been sacrificed to no military purpose. It seems, if one believes what the 46th brigade are saying, for only one purpose, which is to maintain President Zelensky's prestige intact while he goes to the United States." That is the terrible situation in Vuhledar.A little further north, in southwestern Donbas, in a number of areas, the Russians are trying to break...

Israel-Lebanon- First 10 minutes of video10:29 Ukraine video portion beginsPresident Biden and President Zelensky meet today/tomorrow.Mercouris believes that Zelensky has "massively overplayed his hand," (As Zelensky addresses UN Security Council, UN General Assembly).Series of articles in MSM, including one in Bloomberg, which say American officials have seen Zelensky's 'Victory Plan' and are unimpressed by it. Nothing new in his plan - it's been described as more of a 'wish list' rather than a 'plan'. The Pentagon (spokesmen) and Admiral Kirby at US National Security Coucil both reaffirm U.S. policy that the prohibition against using America's long range missiles against Russia...

Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman has chillingly warned the surprise change to Russia's nuclear weapons doctrine was intended to send a "signal" to the West. On Wednesday, Putin warned Russia could respond to conventional missile strikes with nuclear weapons, effectively lowering the threshold for a strike and putting the world on a path toward nuclear war. The Russian leader also indicated that Moscow would treat any attack backed by a nuclear-armed country as a coordinated assault. That means if the Kremlin deems a Ukrainian assault on Russian soil using US, French, or British missiles to represent a "critical threat" to Russia’s...

Harvest Time🔥Airfield With F-16 Destroyed By Kinzhals💥Battle In Vuhledar⚔️

BERLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - NATO plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from front lines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. The future scenario for medical evacuations will differ from allies' experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of NATO's logistics command, told Reuters in an interview. In a conflict with Russia, Western militaries would likely be faced with a much larger war zone, a higher number of injured troops and at least...

Reports from Russian media, including Vzglyad, claim that at least two Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets were ambushed while attempting to take off from Starokostiantyniv airport in western Ukraine. Allegedly, this attack was executed by a Russian Mikoyan MiG-31 supersonic interceptor. These reports, dated September 26 of this year, concern the recent Russian assault on the airport in western Ukraine. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense’s daily report for September 26 does not mention such an incident. Most Russian media reference the Voenno Delo [Military Business] Telegram channel, which is a Russian source. This account offers no additional details on the...

U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Russia is likely to retaliate with greater force against the United States and its coalition partners, possibly with lethal attacks, if they agree to give the Ukrainians permission to employ U.S., British and French-supplied long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia, U.S. officials said. The intelligence assessment, which has not been previously reported, also plays down the effect that the long-range missiles will have on the course of the conflict because the Ukrainians currently have limited numbers of the weapons and it is unclear how many more, if any, the Western allies might provide. The...

Today I heard that a Ukrainian airbase, and a good number of F16s, have been destroyed by the Russians. That's Zelinksy's winning hand while talking about his Victory Plan to Biden. That tells Joe, just keep on dishing out the billions of hard-earned American taxpayer cash to a loser. So in celebration of this bizarre event -- the chance occurrence that these planes would be destroyed on the day Zelinsky is talking to Joe -- I'm posting Count Vlad's video of THOR. The video really showcases the count's guitar playing. If you like the music, please subscribe.

WORLD WAR III UPDATE: The globalist left moved the world closer to nuclear war on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with officials on Wednesday and announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine. Putin lowered the threshold regarding Russian strategic forces’ use of nukes. In a televised address to Russia’s Security Council, Putin said nuclear doctrine has been effectively revised in light of recent developments. Putin warned NATO in his message to top Russian leaders after meetings on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin: “The updated version of the document proposes that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear weapons state but with the participation...

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The United States plans to announce more than $8 billion worth of military assistance for Ukraine on Thursday during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to Washington, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday. President Joe Biden's administration has been engaged in urgent discussions with Congress to allow it to use up $5.6 billion in military aid for Ukraine before Sept. 30 - the end of the federal fiscal year - when the authority was set to expire.Congress has approved nearly $175 billion of aid and military assistance for Ukraine and allied nations in the 2-1/2 years...

The United States plans to announce more than $8 billion worth of military assistance for Ukraine on Thursday during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to Washington, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

NATO is developing mass evacuation and rescue plans in case of a future war with Russia, a senior general has declared. Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of NATO's logistics command, confirmed this week the security bloc is working to ensure it has the operational capability to extract large numbers of wounded troops from the front lines. What's more, Russia's air force and its vaunted rocket and missile stockpiles mean that medical evacuations via aircraft would be too risky - a factor that could force NATO's troops to operate 'hospital trains' to extract the wounded en masse. 'The challenge will be...