Open Thread, one article, a very promising new blog and trolls/bots

@Saker, some music to accompany Trolls and Elves :
Grieg – Trolltog (March of the Trolls) Op. 54 No.3 – Grzegorz Niemczuk – Bechstein Concert Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRpDFlw2GM
Elfentanz (Edvard Grieg) aus: Lyrische Stücke Op. 12 No. 4 – Rolf Bürgermeister/Klavier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8dHpE2zrNs

Grieg, not coincidentally, put it to music perfectly!

Russia finally targeting Ukrainian electrical infrastructure. Numerous blackouts now in major cities.

Re/ Power plants:

Today I read that Ukraine started pushing electricity from Khmelnytskyi NPP to Poland. And Zelensky had the gall to say that they are working on figuring out how to send electricity from Zaporizhzhia NPP to Poland as well.

Well, I guess Russians have ideas about that. xD Now that they blew up fossil PP, Ukrainians will have no choice but to run their NPP at full power and spend all of their nuclear electricity on Ukraine. There will be nothing left for Poland. In fact, it’s possible that without ZNPP they won’t have enough electricity at all, so will HAVE to play nice with ZNPP. If the Russians can make ZNPP be the marginal producer of electricity for Ukraine (probably possible?), then they basically put a noose around Ukraine. :)

Well played! (If my interpretation is correct.)

Military Chroncile:
09/12/2022 BREAKING NEWS: Russia starts an all-out war in Ukraine with the destruction of a thermal power plant! Map of hostilities – Yuriy Podolyaka (17 videos)

Attacks were made on Kharkiv CHP-5 and Zmievskaya CHP in the Kharkiv region, Pavlograd CHP-3 in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kremenchug CHP in the Poltava region. Launches were carried out from the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas. ️

The surge and abrupt energy shortage led to a lack of generating capacity. The transfer of additional capacities along the energy rings of 750 kV and 330 kV power lines did not lead to the elimination of problems in the network.
Due to the drop in frequency at substations, protection began to work, first turning off large consumers, and then entire regions. The collapse of the energy system spread to the networks of Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Odessa regions.
Immediately, two Ukrainian nuclear power plants – Khmelnytsky and Yuzhnoukrainskaya began shutting down power units due to the inability to transfer the generated electricity to the grid. We hope the strikes continue.

The situation in the Donetsk-Zaporozhye direction .
The Ukrainian command is pulling up reserves in the Ugledar direction. An echelon with 150 units of military equipment arrived at the station in Pokrovsky , and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to dismantle their own minefields on the outskirts of Ugledar .

The transfer of troops, along with other actions, indicates plans to prepare an offensive in the Ugledar direction. His goal may be to rush to Volnovakha in order to create a foothold for advancement in several directions.
The concentration of enemy forces in the area of ​​Krasnogorovka near Donetsk was also noticed. In recent days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have repeatedly launched unsuccessful counterattacks on the village of Peski on the outskirts of the DPR capital, but this time they may attempt to strike from Avdiivka.

The situation in the Kharkov direction :

1. The enemy continued to occupy empty villages in the north of the Kharkov region. He will probably need another 1-2 days for this, at least to indicate his presence. After that, he will begin to equip positions already near the border with the Russian Federation. In the occupied territories, a regime of terror will naturally be deployed.

2. The front is stabilizing along Oskol for now. The enemy was not allowed to create a full-fledged bridgehead there, the eastern part of Kupyansk is held by our troops. To the north of Kupyansk, the front will probably stabilize in the area of ​​Dvurechnoye.

3. In light of the pulling up of the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the north of the Kharkiv region, one can expect an intensification of attacks on Russian military and civilian targets in the south of the Belgorod region. This is especially true for n.p. Shebekino and Valuyki. Potential attacks should not be underestimated. We can also expect an increase in the border activity of the DRG.

4. The troops withdrawn from the Izyum ledge will certainly need to be replenished and re-equipped. Due to the fact that the bridge over the Oskol remained under control (the men who held the front on the Seversky Donets and those who covered the bridge near Oskol from the north were heroes), they were able to withdraw most of the equipment, but the losses in materiel are still significant

Today, a reinforcement of the AFU grouping in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) was deployed through Konstantinovka . Along Sobornosti Street and further along the Konstantinovka-Ivanovskoye-Bakhmut highway, 27 infantry fighting vehicles with troops on armor and one convoy of trucks with personnel passed.
Reports about the accumulation of Ukrainian tanks in Olkhovatka were not confirmed. Although it is possible that they simply spread out over the landings, in any case, ours are looking for them.

The enemy throws tanks to storm the Krasny Liman : “Tanks are coming at us. The enemy is advancing from Zakatnoye along the river. We hold on. There is heavy fire on the city. We would have a couple of “Night Hunters,” Semyon Pegov conveys the words of the fighters.
Volunteers Bars-16 – detachment “Kuban” and fighters of the LPR for several days continue to repel a strong onslaught of an enemy superior in manpower and equipment. Our gunners help them a lot in this, pressing the enemy to the ground and preventing them from crossing the river. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot yet cross the river. If they can establish crossings for vehicles from Raygorodok, it will be difficult for ours. But so far, the allied forces do not allow them to do this, ”commissioner Anna Dolgaryova reported in the afternoon.

“SMO is over”

I hope that is true LW. Now it’s WAR.
And if we are all honest with ourselves we’ll admit we knew this would have to be, from the first two weeks of the SMO.
Know thine enemy.

Biden’s Yurp is going for Green and Financial blackouts, no Kalibr’s needed.
Now Yurp can see what blackouts really mean, in 404. Maybe Germany’s Green FM Baerbock is still right now in Kiev to witness?

And the timing – this is NATO’s third 9/11 !
The first by the Establishment”s BAE/Saudia, followed by Obama’s Banghazi, now RF gives a lesson – Establishment – suck it up!

“See, US/NATO/Ze’s mafias didn’t understand gentlemanly gestures. Putin sacrificed his own people to show grace and mercy towards Ukrainians, whom he sees as brothers and sisters… SMO is over.”

Martyanov made excellent point in his today’s video that the villagers remaining in taken areas were largely Ukie sympathizers.. most vulnerable Russians already evacuated or they understood the extreme risk of staying..

This huge PsyOp will be Pyrrhic ephemeral victory, at catastrophic cost in lives, and even the salient should be a meatgrinder once they allow enough to fill it and grind it. It is brilliant gambit to draw out so many thousands dug-in in the cities, and bleed NATO “mercs” too.

I think both brotherhood phase and SMO are over. At this point the 30-60% (??) remaining Ukie sympathizers cannot be allowed to serve as sea in which NATO swims. The severing of electricity is huge. No juice = no water can be pumped / no majority electric trains = no urban life possible for many, getting them to evacuate in either direction according to loyalty. Huge population movements afoot and simplification of war. SMO should be reclassified soon to a declaration of war too.. very interesting times ahead.

Btw, it wouldn’t take 1,000 missiles. The shut gas pipes and stopped oil will alone blacken much of Europe. It will be a dark and turbulent autumn indeed, with strange fruit hanging off lampposts, as with Il Duce

@ Russian Bear on September 11, 2022 · at 10:30 pm EST/EDT

Lone Wolf: According to ASB Military News Bear Bombers are Bombing!
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Thanks for the heads up.

I saw it earlier, but I take all of Telegram with a load of salt.

I always wait until the news have been confirmed by another source.

If the news are true, we are entering a higher level in the confrontation, and the Russians decided to up the ante.

It was about time.
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Lone Wolf