Wednesday, 6 September 2023

Russian air defenses shoot down fixed-wing drone above Bryansk Region

Russian air defenses shoot down fixed-wing drone above Bryansk Region

Russian air defenses shoot down fixed-wing drone above Bryansk Region





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Ukrainian troops attempted to attack facilities in Russia with a fixed-wing drone, but it was shot down by Russian air defenses above the western Russian Bryansk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Wednesday.







"At around 11:40 p.m. Moscow time on September 5, the Kiev regime’s attempt to carry out a terrorist attack by a fixed-wing UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation was foiled," the ministry said.


"The unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Bryansk Region by air defense units on duty," it said.



Russia says its forces repulsed four Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk People’s Republic



Russian forces repelled four attacks by Ukrainian assault units in the Donetsk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily bulletin of the special military operation.


Here are the details of this and other combat actions that happened over the past day, according to the bulletin.



Donetsk area



The four attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the Donetsk area were repelled by units of the Battlegroup South, which acted in coordination with aircraft and artillery, and engaged the enemy near the settlements of Kleshcheyevka and Veseloye.


"The Ukrainian army lost up to 225 troops, who were either killed or wounded," the ministry said.


Apart from that, a drone control center was wiped out near the settlement of Pervomaiskoye in the DPR. Ukrainian forces also lost two armored vehicles, nine motor vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system and a Grad multiple launch rocket system.



Zaporozhye area



Russian forces repelled two attacks by Ukrainian troops near the settlement of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye Region.


"In the Zaporozhye area, aircraft, artillery and heavy weapons of the Russian battlegroups repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian army’s 47th mechanized brigade near the settlement of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye Region during the day," the ministry said.


A munitions depot of the Ukrainian 46th airborne brigade was wiped out near the settlement of Orekhovo in the Zaporozhye Region.


"Up to 170 Ukrainian troops were neutralized, three US-made M777 artillery systems and an M119 howitzer, a German-made Panzerhaubitze-2000 self-propelled artillery system, a UK-made FH-70 gun, a D-20 and a D-30 howitzers were destroyed," the ministry said.



Kupyansk area



Russia’s Battlegroup West neutralized up to 50 Ukrainian troops.


"In the Kupyansk area, the aviation and artillery of the Battlegroup West hit the enemy manpower and weapons near the settlements of Sinkovka, Peschanoye and Berestovoye in the Kharkov Region, and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Up to 50 Ukrainian troops were neutralized, two motor vehicles and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed," the ministry said.



Krasny Liman area



Ukrainian forces lost up to 70 personnel and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery in the Krasny Liman area.


"Three attacks by assault units of Ukraine’s 63rd, 67th Mechanized brigades were repelled near settlements of Torskoye in the DPR and Chervonaya Dibrova in the LPR by coordinated actions of Battlegroup Center, strikes of army aviation and fire from artillery and heavy flamethrower systems. The enemy lost over 70 personnel, 3 armored vehicles, a Polish-made Krab artillery system and a D-20 howitzer," the ministry said.


South of the Donetsk People’s Republic "In the south of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the battlegroup East delivered fire on two clusters of Ukrainian manpower and equipment near the localities of Ugledar and Makarovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.


Near Urozhainoye in the DPR, a Ukrainian subversive group was stopped. The enemy suffered roughly 175 casualties and lost four vehicles and two howitzers.



Kherson area



Russian forces have eliminated up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kherson area, including two sabotage and reconnaissance groups.


"In the Kherson area, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, including two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups, two motor vehicles and two D-30 howitzers were taken out as a result of fire strikes during the past day," the ministry said.


The Russian Armed Forces hit a Ukrainian brigade command posts near Ugledar and Razdolovka in the DPR.


"Strikes were inflicted on command posts of Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized brigade near the city of Ugledar and 8th Mountain assault brigade near the settlement of Razdolovka in the DPR," the ministry said.


Russian aviation, artillery and rocket forces hit enemy personnel and vehicles in 132 areas.


Twenty-one HIMARS and Uragan rockets fired by Ukrainian troops were intercepted by Russian air defense systems and 33 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian electronic warfare systems.


"Air defense systems intercepted 21 HIMARS and Uragan rockets," the ministry said.


Also, 33 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were jammed and destroyed by electronic warfare systems near the settlements of Topolevka, Zaliman and Krasnorechenskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic; Berestovoye, Petrovskoye, Semigorye and Veseloye in the Donetsk People’s Republic; Kharkovo, Romanovskoye, Mirnoye and Ocheretovatoye in the Zaporozhye Region; and Golaya Pristan and Novaya Mayachka in the Kherson Region.














































































































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Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Russian Missiles Unleash 'Instant Karma' on Ukrainian Tank

Russian Missiles Unleash 'Instant Karma' on Ukrainian Tank

Russian Missiles Unleash 'Instant Karma' on Ukrainian Tank











Earlier in June, Ukraine launched its overhyped counteroffensive promising to turn the tide on the battlefield. During three months Kiev has lost over 66,000 soldiers and achieved almost nothing.







Russia's Ministry of Defense has published footage that shows the destruction of a Ukrainian tank with guided missiles. The armored machine started shelling Russian positions and immediately became the target itself, with Russian troops blasting it with a rocket in mere seconds.


The Ministry of Defense called this episode "Instant Karma" on its official Telegram channel.



Kremlin clarifies Putin’s comments on gas pipeline attacks



In his speech on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was speaking about Kiev’s attempted attacks on Russian ships that are protecting gas pipelines in the Black Sea, not the pipelines themselves, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has clarified.


Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, the Kremlin official said that the media had wrongfully interpreted the president’s words and that he did not mention any direct attacks or attempted strikes on the Blue Stream and Turkish Stream pipelines.


“The president spoke about attacks on the ships that guard these pipelines,” Peskov said, adding that all of these attacks have been successfully repelled.


The clarification comes after Vladimir Putin stated during a press conference on Monday that ships protecting Russian pipelines transporting natural gas to Türkiye were under constant attack by submarine drones that were being launched from Ukrainian Black Sea ports.


The Russian Defense Ministry reported in May that it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on the Ivan Khurs – a vessel that guards the two pipelines. The incident involved three unmanned speedboats, which were destroyed 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Türkiye’s Bosporus Strait, the ministry said.


Putin noted that such attacks – as well as Kiev’s continued use of Black Sea humanitarian corridors for military purposes – were one of the reasons Russia terminated its participation in the so-called Black Sea Initiative.


The treaty was supposed to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain to developing countries in exchange for lifting sanctions on Russian agricultural products. However, Moscow indefinitely abandoned the agreement in mid-July, claiming that the West had failed to uphold its end of the bargain and had lied about the humanitarian goals of the deal. Putin stated on Monday that the latest data indicated most of the grain ended up in wealthy countries, particularly in the EU, and only 3% of the shipments reached the poorest nations in the world.


Nevertheless, Putin stated that Russia would consider returning to the deal if the West were to fulfill its obligations and lift sanctions on Russian fertilizer and other agricultural products.


Putin has also vowed Moscow will continue exporting food and fertilizer in an effort to improve and stabilize the global agricultural industry, adding that Moscow is also already in talks with Qatar and Türkiye about sending Russian grain for processing for the subsequent delivery of flour to developing countries.



































































































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Monday, 4 September 2023

Putin And Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations

Putin And Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations

Putin And Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations





Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023 (Sputnik photo by Mikhail Tereshchenko via AP).






Deeper and more entrenched divisions over Russia's war in Ukraine risk derailing progress on issues such as food security, debt distress and global cooperation on climate change when the world's most powerful nations meet this weekend in New Delhi.







The hardened stance on the war has prevented agreement on even a single communique at the 20 or so ministerial meetings of the G20 during India's presidency this year, leaving it to the leaders to find a way around, if possible.


But China will be represented by Premier Li Qiang, not President Xi Jinping, while Russia has confirmed President Vladimir Putin's absence, suggesting that neither nation is likely to join any consensus.


That means the two-day summit from September 9 will be dominated by the West and its allies. The G20 leaders who will attend include U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Bin Salman and Japan's Fumio Kishida.


A failed summit would expose the limits of cooperation between Western and non-Western powers, and prompt countries to double down on the groups they are more comfortable with, analysts said.


To tackle global threats "breaking off into Western and non-Western blocs isn't what you want," said Michael Kugelman, the director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington.


Failing to forge a consensus will also hurt the diplomatic credentials of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is using the presidency to bolster New Delhi's position as economic powerhouse and a leader of the global south.


"If the leaders' summit is a flop, New Delhi and especially Modi will have suffered a major diplomatic, and political, setback," Kugelman said.


India, which has not condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will have to either convince the bloc to agree to a joint statement - the so-called Leaders Declaration - or allow its presidency to be the first to end without such a communique since 2008.


"The positions have hardened since the Bali Summit," a senior Indian government official told Reuters, referring to the 2022 summit held in Indonesia. "Russia and China have toughened their position since then, a consensus would be very hard."



LAST MINUTE


In Bali, Indonesian President Joko Widodo clinched a last minute joint statement from the bloc. India is hoping that the leaders can again work something out at the last minute, another government official said.


The Bali Leaders' Declaration said "most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy."


It also said that "there were other views and different assessments of the situation and sanctions."


Another Indian official said that in Bali, "Russia and China were more flexible." But as the war completes 18 months, countries "are not agreeing even to the language used in the Bali Declaration".


Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who will come in place of Putin, have already drawn battlelines.


Trudeau, while confirming that he will travel to India for the meeting in a call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that he was disappointed that the Ukrainian president was not invited.


"As you know, we will be speaking up strongly for you, and we will continue to make sure that the world is standing with Ukraine," Trudeau said in the call with Zelenskiy.


Lavrov said last week Russia will block the final declaration of the G20 summit unless it reflects Moscow's position on Kyiv and other crises. Diplomats said any acceptance of Moscow's stance was highly improbable, and the summit would most likely end up issuing a non-binding or partial communique.



CHINA PUSHING BRICS?


Last month, the BRICS group of nations, where China is the heavyweight, added half a dozen more countries to the bloc in a push to reshuffle a world order it sees as outdated.


"Xi’s absence may be Beijing’s attempt to put a nail in the G20’s coffin, only weeks after expanding the BRICS organization which is more aligned with China’s world view," said David Boling, director at consulting firm Eurasia Group.


India is a member of BRICS, along with Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa, and had some concerns about the bloc's expansion earlier. But at the summit in Johannesburg last month, it joined a consensus on the criteria for new entrants.


In its G20 presidency, India has sought to relegate the differences over Ukraine to the background and pushed for resolution on climate change, debt for vulnerable countries, rules around cryptocurrencies and multilateral bank reforms.


New Delhi has also attempted to break an impasse over a deal that allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea, but Russia is unlikely to budge from its opposition to the plan, Indian officials said.


Over the year, there has been little progress on debt restructuring talks and a minimum global corporate tax, but India has been able to gain support from the U.S. and the IMF for over-arching global regulations on cryptocurrencies.


A G20 committee under former Indian bureaucrat N.K. Singh and economist Larry Summers, a former U.S. treasury secretary, has also proposed increasing lending by multilateral banks to developing countries. The proposal has not been agreed on yet.


Climate change goals had also divided developed and developing countries in July meetings of the group and officials said the positions are not likely to change at the summit.


































































































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NATO member contradicts Ukraine drone claim

NATO member contradicts Ukraine drone claim

NATO member contradicts Ukraine drone claim





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Russian drones that were used over the weekend to strike targets in Ukraine did not pose any military threat to Romania’s territory, the country’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday.







The statement comes after Oleg Nikolenko, a representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, claimed on Facebook that several Russian drones had fallen and detonated on the territory of Romania.


“During a massive attack by Russia in the area of the Izmail port, Russian ‘shaheds’ fell and detonated on the territory of Romania tonight,” Nikolenko wrote, citing sources within the Ukrainian Border Guard.


Nikolenko provided an unverified picture purported to depict the event and said that the alleged incident proved that “Russian missile terror” threatens not only Ukraine, but also neighboring NATO member states. To counter this, he insisted that Kiev’s Western backers should provide Ukraine with additional modern anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems, as well as aviation.


Romania’s Defense Ministry, however, said that it “firmly denies the information circulating in the public space with regard to a so-called situation [that] occurred during the night of 3-4 September, when Russian drones would have fallen on Romania’s national territory.”


While the ministry said it condemned the attacks on Ukraine, it stressed that “at no time did the means of attack employed by the Russian Federation pose direct military threats to our national territory or Romania’s territorial waters.”


Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that its forces had successfully conducted a drone strike on an oil depot and facilities used to refuel Ukrainian military vehicles in the port of Reni, on the left bank of the Danube River.


“The objective of the strike was achieved. All designated targets have been hit,” the ministry said in a statement, noting that the Russian military had also destroyed two Ukrainian ammunition depots and one drone command center in the southeastern region of Dnepropetrovsk and a Kiev-controlled part of the Kherson region.





























































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Menlu RI - ASEAN Harus Ambil Keputusan Berani

Menlu RI - ASEAN Harus Ambil Keputusan Berani

Menlu RI - ASEAN Harus Ambil Keputusan Berani





Meteri Luar Negeri RI, Retno Marsudi saat membuka rapat ASEAN Coordinating Council di Sekretariat ASEAN, Jakarta pada Senin, 4 September 2023/Ist






Menteri Luar Negeri Indonesia Retno Marsudi mengatakan bahwa ASEAN harus siap mengambil keputusan dan tidak membiarkan perbedaan menghalangi negara-negara anggotanya untuk melangkah maju.







“Kita harus siap mengambil keputusan yang berani dan kita tidak boleh membiarkan perbedaan menghalangi kita untuk maju,” kata Menlu Retno dalam pembukaan Pertemuan ke-34 Dewan Koordinasi ASEAN (34th ACC) di Jakarta, Senin.


Dewan Koordinasi ASEAN (ACC) bertanggung jawab mengawasi pengembangan dan pelaksanaan dokumen seperti yang ditugaskan oleh pemimpin Perhimpunan Bangsa-Bangsa Asia Tenggara (ASEAN).


Dokumen tersebut harus meminta masukan dan persetujuan lintas pilar dari tiga Dewan Komunitas ASEAN, yaitu Dewan Masyarakat Politik Keamanan ASEAN (APSC), Dewan Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (AEC), dan Dewan Masyarakat Sosial Budaya ASEAN (ASCC) sebelum diserahkan pada pemimpin ASEAN untuk disahkan dalam KTT ASEAN.


KTT ke-43 ASEAN yang diketuai oleh Indonesia mengambil tema “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth”. Tema tersebut bermakna bahwa Indonesia ingin ASEAN menjadi relevan dan penting serta menjadi pusat pertumbuhan ekonomi.


Selanjutnya, Menlu Retno mengatakan bahwa sangat penting bagi ACC untuk bisa merekomendasikan langkah-langkah terbaik yang harus diputuskan oleh para pemimpin ASEAN.


“Dalam KTT ini kita akan mengambil banyak keputusan penting yang akan menentukan masa depan ASEAN sebagai sebuah komunitas dan institusi,” ujar Retno.


Hal tersebut mencakup langkah untuk mempercepat proses pengambilan keputusan dalam krisis dan situasi darurat serta langkah untuk memperkuat kapasitas ASEAN dalam menanggapi tantangan yang muncul di kawasan.


Menlu Retno menambahkan bahwa ASEAN sedang berada di persimpangan jalan, dan kredibilitas serta relevansi ASEAN sedang dipertaruhkan.


“Bisa atau tidaknya ASEAN maju atau tidak sepenuhnya bergantung pada kita," tegas Retno.


















































































































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