The Ukrainian offensive near Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north is failing. That explains why Ukrainian President Zelensky imposed restrictions the other day on what news western correspondents could report from the front. In fact, many of these reporters were pulled from the front lines. Do you think Ukraine would do that if they were pounding the hell out of the Russians and forcing the Russians to retreat? No. The west would be flooded with videos of triumphant Ukrainian troops celebrating victory.
Instead of celebrations, there are videos surfacing showing Ukrainian losses in the aftermath of their failed attempt to capture the Zaporhyzhia Nuclear Power Plant (aka NPP).
IAEA Chief Inspector Grossi confirmed today that the IAEA remains on scene at the NPP:
Six representatives of the IAEA continue the mission at the Zaporizhia NPP.
Meanwhile, the western press is debunking Ukraine’s claim that Russia is shelling the NPP. How so? By reporting what Ukraine itself is admitting:
At the close of today’s battle, the situation in the Nikolaevsko-Krivoy Rog is dire for Ukrainian forces.
▪️By the end of the fourth day of the Ukrainian offensive against Kherson, the RF Armed Forces successfully repelled the offensive in all sectors, restoring the front line near Posad-Pokrovsky and Olgino. The most fierce battles unfolded on the Andreevsky sector of the front.
▪️Despite the destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Berezhuvate and the disabling of a large warehouse with weapons and ammunition in Belaya Krinitsa, Ukrainian commanders continued to transfer equipment and personnel to the bridgehead on the southern coast.
▪️Reinforcements were driven across the open steppe through a narrow corridor at Sukhoi Stavka and Kostromka to the Davydov Brod-Novaya Kakhovka highway. The Ukrainian Armed Forces succeeded in occupying the ghost village of Bezimenne, west of Karlomarksovskoye, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried unsuccessfully to take by storm.
▪️Russian Su-34s and Su-24s, as well as cannon and rocket artillery guns, disabled the pontoon crossings of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Andreevka and began to methodically destroy the enemy forces trapped in the fire bag. The forces in Bezimenne were destroyed.
▪️At the same time, from the side of Blagodatovka, the RF Armed Forces crossed Ingulets and crossed to the northern coast, breaking through the defensive lines in the village of Ternovka and capturing a bridgehead.
The news from Kherson and, in the north, Kharkov is equally grim for Ukraine:
3rd counteroffensive attempt of the AFU in Kherson oblast, with basically same deplorable results. Dozens of ambulances seen on Ukrainian side going back and forth, transporting multiple wounded to the hospitals. Some battles are still underway with results yet unclear.
Ukrainian attack north of Kharkov, units that broke through partly destroyed, partly taken prisoners with their commanding officers.
Donbass: a definintive breach of the 2nd line of defense near Peski now confirmed. The fortified area between Peski and Pervomayskoye, that, as Yuri says, holds the key to the whole front, have been taken by the 11th Militia Regiment of the DPR.
The capture of Peski by Russian forces means that Russia will have an open road to the Dnieper River to the west. This does not mean that Ukraine will cease its efforts to re-take the Zaporhyzhia NPP. But it does mean Ukraine can no longer paint Russia as the villain. The IAEA inspectors on scene at the plant are voluntary human shields. If Ukraine kills or wounds any of those inspectors it is likely to force a change in the UN position towards the Russian Special Military Operation.
Once the full scale of Ukrainian losses in their counter offensive becomes widely known, the political divisions within the Zelensky government are likely to grow. There is a video online in Ukrainian with a Ukrianian General stating that Ukrainian losses are “hundreds of thousands.” This is a fact that will not remain hidden and will add to the turmoil swirling around Zelensky. How long will the Ukrainian people continue to support a policy where their husbands and sons are being used as cannon fodder? That is a critical indicator to monitor during September.
Thanks for the update Larry. I am amazed in perpetuity by our other MIC (Media Industrial Complex)–and how they can spew such bogus propaganda. I guess the Narrative supersedes truth and reputation. I would be embarrassed if I were a journalist and collaborated with such BS. How many times has Russia run out of ammo?! 🙂
Decision makers who persist on a failed policy after stark and obvious evidence of that failed policy can only be one thing – psychopathically insane.
Nature will eliminate these idiots and the human race will continue to improve if there is a God, and if God prevents them from destroying the human race.
Guns, not Nature, will eliminate these people, and since there’s no God only strong honest people will make any change for the better. But don’t hold your breath…
So horrible how the Kiev regime is sacrificing soldiers just so it can’t have a worse position at the negotiating table. I’m praying some sensible Ukrainians depose Elensky ASAP.
Larry… Brilliant. One of the best summations I have read during this entire conflict. I have been getting tidbits the last few days, but you put all that in perspective. What do you hear about the 3 bridges South of Kherson. I know the road surfaces have HIMAR made holes in them, the structures, being Soviet were built for impact. Are the roads operable again…?
Here’s Telegram Channel I find very informative.
https://t.me/s/boris_rozhin
The waiting game. The Russian telegram channels have lots of pictures of the dead Ukrainians — a fair number of them are middle aged. The Russian analyst says they are inexperienced and make firing mistakes also he described them as fueled with elixir ie drugs and clinging to unimportant positions. The analysis here is they are told to do this when another wave is coming. No air force to speak of. As Larry has said many times where are the videos of the piles of Russian dead? I am so disgusted with the US MSM and our Pentagon’s lies that I hope Russia wins big time.
MEANWHILE
A report in Zerohedge made by some US General that Russian has suffered so many KIA etc that it is recruiting from Russian jails. Sound familiar?
Lies are lies but cut and paste from reported Ukie Nazi facts is plain nuts.
Vietnam, Syria, Afghanistan and coming soon the block buster, UKRAINE.
Germany, the first Government to collapse in October. Or maybe France!
When Mr Winter has gone in 2023, he just might take the EU & NATO with him💀
So another intelligence failure (actually multiple) on the part of the west. Again.
Also, very nice and generous for the Ukrainians to create their own Cauldron for the Russians in which to die.
Great commentary as always. The video of Ukrainian dead at the ZNPP is now widely regarded as a fake. What tortuous logic would compel the Ukrainians to do this unclear. Possibly to try and portray the failed attack as entirely fabricated by the Russians?
Utter madness and delusional
No blood, no wounds, no artillery impact visible, but corpses with very healthy skincolor. Something does not add up.
Yes
We know by now what bodies of soldiers killed in combat look like.
So what’s going on, clearly a fake video pretending to be a fake Russian video.
An attempt to portray the failed assault as Russian fabrication?
The guy sprawled on his back over the tree roots clearly has a hole in his torso about where the liver is. If you pause, you can see it. The troops may have been killed by Russian 5.45mm AK rounds. Small entry hole (.22 caliber), but much internal damage due to high velocity and bullet destabilizing and tumbling in human tissue. Also, they may have been killed just minutes before the video was taken, so still have some life -like coloration to their skin.
Sorry. Grim topic. Pretty sure that if the video was faked/staged whoever did it would have gone to the minor effort of adding some tomato paste or something to make it look more realistically gruesome if deemed necessary to reflect combat induced wounds. Bullet wounds don’t always leave bodies in an obviously mutilated condition. Artillery is another matter.
Possibly
But thanks to the public gratitude of the IAEA inspectors to the Russians for foiling the assault any need to portray it as a fabrication is now redundant
Valuable practical information for me to add — they look dead to my unpracticed eye I studied them and decided it was bullets. But I don’t know a lot apparently the concussion and heat of the blast kills them too (other videos).
You mean the watch didn’t convince you ?
MI6 and CIA not Ukranians.
Sorry, yes
I stand corrected
What’s up with the US dollars shown right at the end of the video? Propaganda or real? Pretty stupid of Ukrainian troops or mercs to be carrying around wads of US greenbacks while on a hazardous mission. Just serves to prove a point to Russians. Even reminds me to feel bad about those tax dollars I have to pay.
And where would you leave the money? In the barracks? Best way to get robbed.
In the bank? You just say to your commander/buddies “Just wait a few days while I pop over to Kiev and deposit this.” OK buddy, go ahead 🙂
Good point, but there are other ways to pay these guys. Why do they need to be paid by the US at all if they are motivated to save Ukraine from Russia?
If special compensation in cash bills is necessary to get them to fight, then why not pay in Euros or Ukrainian bills or some other currency that is more ubiquitous in that part of the world? Why leave a clear trail back to the US? The sloppiness is offensive.
Thank you, Larry. Another excellent synthesis of the situation. Jacques Baud’s interview is maybe a nice add on here – a summery of six month, role of our excellent media, or, shall we say, stenographers….etc etc.
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/jacques-baud-operation-z/
That is an excellent article .
Thanks for posting it .
A former Ukranian general, Sergey Krivonos, ex deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, admitted in an interview on the Ukranian Media Network that “hundreds of thousands” of Ukranians have been killed already and that the reasons for this wasteless sacrifice will soon haunt the Ukranian government. The Ukranian people will want answers. This was reported by TASS.
The video of the dead soldiers feels and looks like it was staged (poorly)
Not a single one of the dead show signs of a violent and bloody death.
Completely agree. No blood, none of the disheveled look those killed in battle have. Camera pauses over “Blackwater” emblems. Faces covered or obscured in most shots.
Here’s what Texas Bentley said about the “aftermath” at ZNPP:
“Ukrainian units of information and psychological operations (IPSO) filmed a staged video about the corpses of the Ukrainian landing in Energodar and began to scatter it as offered news on Russian Telegram channels. Surely, tomorrow all the Ukrainian media will refute it and accuse the Russians that it was they who filmed the fake.
To make it easier to refute, here the “corpses” are all pink, and they supposedly took a lot of money for the task, and most importantly – the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate, USSR) commander’s watch of the supposedly “Russian” operator.
In short, it won’t work, the Nazis. You can not work on refutations, everything is so clear.”
https://t.me/TXDPR/1839
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-ukrainian-counteroffensive-was-destined-to-fail-today-it-did-so.html
Mandatory reading on the failed counter-offensive.
“Mandatory reading on the failed counter-offensive.”
Not mandatory since the practice is very popular, but useful in the sense of illustrating attempted evaluation without understanding purposes, thereby relying on assumptions of purpose upon which to communicate/embroider belief.
Yes- that video has a 99% of being a fake. However, the failed Uk ‘spec oops’ attack appears to be real.
“DOES DAMAGE CONTROL”
This suggests that they have been sucessful in this endeavour instead of being involved in attempts which cannot fully be evaluated at this time.
“COUNTER ATTACK FALTERS”
This is a wiser editing of a previous headline namely “UKRAINE’S WESTERN BACKED GAMBLE TO CAPTURE ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT BACKFIRES”.
“That explains why Ukrainian President Zelensky imposed restrictions the other day on what news western correspondents could report from the front.”
Assiging significances by ommission is a tool in obfuscation of other significances.
The restrictions are not limited to “western correspondents” or restricted to the agency of “Ukrainian President Zelensky”; they include but are not limited to, practices of the “Ukrainian Armed Forces” who are presently refusing to report officially on these endeavours or ackowledge their agreement to these endeavours prior to implementation, whilst some remember the old Soviet observation that 100 people make the laws and 100 million find a way round them.
Other actors who de jure, but not wholly de facto, are included in the “Ukrainian Armed Forces” appear presently to be pondering whether to implement their opinions through various options.
Such appear to be presently included in the outcomes of the efforts of various sorceror’s apprentices.
This is an inteview, that desribes the financial motivation of the ukr officer core to push the troops placed under them into the killing fields:
https://t.me/c/1773937275/5598
How in Ukraine they make money on dead AFU servicemen. Volunteer Osker and his interlocutor:
– The military commissariats have pulled off a scheme – military salaries do not come directly from the treasury, but first go to them, and they distribute the salaries themselves at their own discretion. This reminds me of the situation with combatants, who now certify wills in Ukraine.
– The combatants take the “object of earnings” to the front line, and as if by “coincidence” the person immediately comes under fire and is killed. Then the soldier is filed as missing (even if there is a body). In this case, money is allocated for the soldier for another 3 months. This money is the subject of the embezzlement.
– Officers (many of them are former MIA and SBU officers) read out the combat order “today’s number”, and should be read out 3-4 days before departure.
– Ukrainian officers are afraid and threaten Osker because of his activities. A volunteer’s interlocutor admits that Osker could be killed.
-Osker is preparing information requests to many EU embassies.
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
I am sorry, I do not speak ukr.
Remember – ukraine first and foremost is a failed state, deeply corrupt, without a moral compass for a decade now – in a state of bankruptcy and chaos more so, than ever before. Wolf eat wolf. Everything is a shell game there.
I believe, there is a conscious effort towards depopulation going on, so property can be snatched up for pennyes on the dollar after the end of festivities.
The following is an interview about the financial motivation of the ukr officer core to literally sacrifice their enlisted in the killing fields:
https://t.me/c/1773937275/5598
How in Ukraine they make money on dead AFU servicemen. Volunteer Osker and his interlocutor:
– The military commissariats have pulled off a scheme – military salaries do not come directly from the treasury, but first go to them, and they distribute the salaries themselves at their own discretion. This reminds me of the situation with combatants, who now certify wills in Ukraine.
– The combatants take the “object of earnings” to the front line, and as if by “coincidence” the person immediately comes under fire and is killed. Then the soldier is filed as missing (even if there is a body). In this case, money is allocated for the soldier for another 3 months. This money is the subject of the embezzlement.
– Officers (many of them are former MIA and SBU officers) read out the combat order “today’s number”, and should be read out 3-4 days before departure.
– Ukrainian officers are afraid and threaten Osker because of his activities. A volunteer’s interlocutor admits that Osker could be killed.
-Osker is preparing information requests to many EU embassies.
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Sorry, I do not speak ukr.
Remember, ukraine first and foremost is a failed state, predominantly used to launder resources – without a moral compass for at least decade. Everything ongoing is a shellgame – including the war.
I weep for those lost souls.
If this is a double post, please, mod, delete one of them. Thanx.
Anyone who had the slighest understanding of military affairs knew from the first couple of weeks that Ukraine had no chance in this offensive. The “tell” was the news of the 30 mile convoy north of Kyiv
Given anything remotely approaching an equal correlation of forces that should have been suicidal. Russia should have suffered tens of thousands of casualties from artillery alone. The fact that it didnt proved that Russia had total supremacy in air and artillery .. which means any offensive move against Russia would be a catastrophic failure.
Look at the Kherson position. It is basically a Russian military pimple on the West side of the Dneiper with no strategic depth. Given an equal correlation of forces, that is a completely untenable position. It would be a massacre waiting to happen. The fact that the opposite happened tells you the gig is up, and Ukraine should sue for peace, no matter what the outcome
Is ther God or somebody to stop this. It’s a terrible sight to see so many young men dead on the field. They are sons too. Please stop this. Put the US, UK and and Ukraine on trial. American hands are dripping in blood.
Beyond the feint to Kyiv, is Russia supplying any more assistance to Donbass forces than Ukraine receives from the West?
Another good link/discussion is at “Big Serge”
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-russo-ukrainian-war
An excellent, broad review of SMO to this point. A number of excellent operational/planning observations applied to both sides.
JeffX
Jeffx,
Read the link. It is a very good synopsis of the action from day 1 to current, IMHO. Great analysis. Thank you.
Should be kept in mind when supposed experts with long military careers spout idiotic fantasies (more often just plain willful lies) about 777s and HIMARS being game changers or SF training partisans that will turn the tide of the war and, of course, an impending rout of Russia by a UKR counter offensive.
My primary concern is what the West will do now that the much vaunted offensive has failed. Once the propaganda cannot support the false hope – another week or two at most – does the West escalate? What does that look like? Bringing in NATO from Poland? The Baltics? Then what? WW3? Some manufactured crisis of massive proportions to distract from the failure to stop the Russians?
I do not have an iota of confidence that our government is sane enough to avoid the utter destruction of the USA and its NATO allies. In fact, sometimes I think that the destruction would be by design, or at least desired enough (great reset, etc.) that it is self-fulfilling in some twisted subconscious way.
Thank you for sharing. It is a good article.
I apologize for interjecting something that is not really relevant but I wanted to mention to those who are not familiar with him that books by CJ Hopkins are an entertaining read for anyone who is skeptical of the official narrative on any subject. I only just discovered him thanks to ZeroHedge and have started reading “Consent Factory Essays, Vol. 1 (2016-2017), Trumpocalypse.”
Macron told Putin on 20 Feb. 2022 that: France deliberately kept Ukraine away from the solution enshrined in Minks agreement, according to French transcript of telephone call between the men, Jacques Baud said in interview.
This is one day prior to Russian Federation recognizing independence of two Donbas Republics. Donestk and Lugansk in entirety of these oblasts.
[[The Germans and the French deliberately prevented him [Ze] from implementing the Minsk agreements. The transcript of the telephone conversation of 20 February 2022 between Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin shows that France deliberately kept Ukraine away from the solution.]], Baud said in 1 Sept. 2022 interview.
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/jacques-baud-operation-z/
French transcript at
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe/manifestations-en-ukraine/on-s-en-fout-des-propositions-des-separatistes-quand-emmanuel-macron-telephonait-a-vladimir-poutine-pour-eviter-la-guerre-en-ukraine_5220382.html
Lavrov has stated political leaders to Germany and France had asked Russia to end, back in 2014 and 2015, Donestk and Lugansk referendum votes of independence: as condition for Minsk.
Following start of MOA circa Feb. 24 2022, Lavrov also stated that Nuland’s “f**k the EU” remarks were made to Pyatt in December 2013.
[Just recall how Victoria Nuland defined the EU’s place in Washington’s plans to reformat Ukraine in her conversation with the US Ambassador in Kiev in December 2013, at the height of the Maidan riots. Her prediction came true in its entirety. In security matters, the EU is also blending in with NATO, which, in turn, is making increasingly louder claims about its global ambitions.], Lavrov.
https://thesaker.is/fm-sergey-lavrovs-remarks-at-the-30th-assembly-of-the-council-on-foreign-and-defence-policy/
PS
The US/UK Maidan murdering and violence caused Ukraine’s President Yanukovych to flee country 21 Feb. 2014; arrest warrant issued against him 24 Feb. 2014.
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O que será que aconteceria se Putin fosse norte-americano?
Será que os EUA não precisam, agora, de um líder como ele, para conseguir se recuperar de tantos anos de líderes ruins?
What would happen if Putin were American?
Does the US not need a leader like him now to recover from so many years of bad leaders?
Thank you Larry . All these deaths every day so horrible. Their lives in pain and may be ruined even if survive so Zelenski can get more artillary and planes. But nobody has that much artillary.
My question is with years spent preparing to fight Russia was CIA/Ukraine not expecting to need lots of artillary? Noone notice Russia warehouses megatons artillary? Looks like they expecting something different but im not military.
Tragic end to precious life. Zelensky and the rest of decision makers should be in jail.
Je penses que les Ukrainiens devraient écouter ce que disent leur cœur non ce que veulent les américains et l’OTAN , qui est négocié et met fin à la guerre , il n’est jamais trop tard , je sais que les américains et le président ukrainien vont perdre leur face , mais il épargnereront des vies , et diminuent le taux dess orphelins de la guerre dans ce pays .
Je suis d’accord. C’est une perte de vie inutile.
The defeat of Ukraine is becoming the defeat of the West. Jacques Baud ex otan services Suisses, ONU etc
https://www.thepostil.com/our-latest-interview-with-jacques-baud/
The video showing the dead soldiers is claimed to be fake. It is said that the video was floated by Ukrainians to show Russians as fake.
Very little news (or truth?) in this article–where were the tanks that were destroyed, and how done? Rockets? Stealth bombers?
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-list-russian-weapons-lost-alligator-helicopter-tanks-1739077
Hi, Larry. I’m pretty certain that first video is a fake. At the very least, it doesn’t indicate what it suggests. Just wanted to give you a heads-up, I know you’re a big believer in posting reality. 🙂
thanks. the underlying story is true, however. Ukrainian forces were ambushed.
“The Ukrainian offensive near Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north is failing.”
Well this aged well. I see your next prediction is that the upcoming offensive will also fail too.
This is a good sign for its success.