Ukrainian officials accused of stealing trainloads of aid

"Ukrainian officials in the eastern Zaporozhye Region are being investigated for allegedly
stealing massive amounts of humanitarian aid sent to them. They are accused of looting hundreds of freight cars’ worth of goods. The raids targeted the Kiev-appointed administration and members of the city council, according to the SBU and NABU. The agencies also reported confiscating what they believe to be narcotics and illegal firearms while searching the premises." RT

Ukraine Outraged Turkey Opened Straits For Russian Ship Carrying S-300 SystemUkraine Outraged Turkey Opened Straits For Russian Ship Carrying S-300 System

"Ukraine has voiced its anger with Turkey over allegedly allowing a Russian cargo ship
through the Bosphorus Strait laden with weapons days ago, summoning the Turkish ambassador to lodge a formal complaint.  

The Ukrainian foreign ministry complained that a Russian "warship" was allowed passage in violation of the Montreux Convention - as the diplomatic note verbalized to Turkey 's ambassador to Ukraine Yagmur Ahmet Guldere said." ZH

Ukraine targets possible IAEA route to Zaporozhye

"Ukrainian forces are shelling a route that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
inspection mission could take to reach the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant this week." RT

US Embassy Anti-Air Defenses Activated Over Baghdad As Death Toll Rises In Night Of Chaos

 "The American embassy in Baghdad has reportedly engaged inbound rocket attacks with its
air defense system, the C-RAM which protects aerial threats against the Green Zone. Some reports suggest the streets have finally grown calmer in the early morning hours (local time), but this is after an evening and overnight death toll of at least 15, including unconfirmed reports of police casualties. AFP citing local medical sources also says some 350 protesters were injured. " ZH

Turkey Says Greek Missiles Locked On Its F-16s Over Mediterranean

"Greece’s Russian-made S-300 air defense systems stationed on the island of Crete locked
onto Turkish fighter jets as they crossed international airspace over the Mediterranean, Turkish ’s Defense Ministry claimed, amid mounting tensions between the two NATO states." ZH

Zelensky promises to recapture Donbass

"Zelensky said in his daily evening address on Sunday that Ukraine will recapture Donbass,
which is now almost fully seized by Russian forces. 

“We have not forgotten and will not forget any of our cities and any of our people,” he said. " RT

Iraq Presidential Palace Stormed, U.S. Embassy Helicopter Evacuation

"The Iraq presidential palace was stormed by angry protestors on Monday, while the U.S.

Embassy was evacuated by helicopter in a scene reminiscent of the last days of South Vietnam.

Initial reports are that the helicopters were ordered in and the staff ordered out when rioters breached the Zone. I also saw a report that one person had been shot and killed, but no clue whether they were American, American staff, or a rioter.

That’s pretty much all we know so far about the situation at the embassy.

This marks the Biden Administration’s second humiliating bugout from an Islamic country in just over a year. 13 Americans were killed in Kabul during Biden’s botched retreat from Afghanistan on August 17. Untold hundreds of Americans and thousands of our allies remain stranded there." PJM

Russia manages to transport S-300 missiles through Bosporus from its bases in Syria

"Russia has managed to transfer missiles for the S-300 air defense complex through the
Bosporus to the Black Sea from its bases in Syria.

It is noted that Turkey has closed the Bosporus to warships, so Russia cannot transfer its warships from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

The merchant ship Sparta II crossed the strait.

Sparta II's destination was Novorossiysk, a Russian port and major naval base near the Kerch Bridge. Naval News writes that the S-300 missiles should strengthen the Russian "defense" near Kerch or in other areas." UkrainianNews

CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Intelligence Assets Around the World

"Top American counterintelligence officials sent a memo that warned every CIA station
around the world about a troubling number of intelligence assets who had been killed, disappeared, or captured in recent years. The memo actually gave a specific number of agents — a highly unusual inclusion but one that demonstrates the seriousness of the situation......The large number of compromised informants in recent years also demonstrated the growing prowess of other countries in employing innovations like biometric scans, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and hacking tools to track the movements of C.I.A. officers in order to discover their sources." PJMedia

 

 

 

Ukrainian drone downed over nuclear plant

"Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian drone that was apparently on a mission to strike the
Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Russian military said on Monday.

The drone was shot down by small arms fire and fell on the roof of one of the buildings at the nuclear site, the Russian Defense Ministry said during a daily briefing. The building in question serves as storage for nuclear fuel and waste, it said. The crash didn’t cause any significant damage." RT

Global Markets Tumble As Central Bankers Plan To Push World Into Coordinated Recession

"Market sentiment has only deteriorated after Friday's sharp post-Powell/ECB dump, and

investors started the week with the bear market rally in tatters after the world’s biggest central banks huddled around a simple message in Jackson Hole this weekend: they are ready to fight runaway inflation with higher interest rates, even if it does some damage. 

Powell quashed the idea of an early dovish Fed pivot (ensuring a much more forceful one later once all EMs fully blow up on the back of the soaring USD) and also said on Friday that the road ahead will “bring some pain to households and businesses” in the US, an “unfortunate cost of bringing down inflation” while ECB's Isabel Schnabel said she and her colleagues had “little choice” but to continue tightening even if Europe’s economy tips into recession." ZeroHedge

Russian who burned passport in Bulgaria over Ukraine war wins appeal against extradition

"A court in Bulgaria has today stopped the extradition of a Russian who burned his passport in protest at Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Alexey Alchin won his appeal against being sent back to Russia on what he claims are trumped-up tax evasion charges." EuroNews

Rewriting History, Putin Pitches Russia as Defender of an Expanding Motherland

"Putin pitched Moscow as a defender of its historical motherland on a crusade to protect
Russians and Russian speakers from “genocide” as he justified the dramatic decision to recognize the independence of pro-Russian separatsts in Eastern Ukraine late on Monday.

In an hour-long emotional, and occasionally angry, address to the nation, Putin outlined his interpretation of Ukrainian history and what he sees as persecution of Russians in the Donbas, concluding that he was left with no choice but to recognize the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.

“The West acts as if there are no horrors and no genocide, to which almost four million people are being subjected,” Putin said in the closing remarks of his address, speaking from behind a desk in his office.

“How long can this tragedy continue? How much longer can we stomach it?”

“They are fighting for their basic rights — to live on their own land, to speak their own language, to preserve their culture and traditions,” he added, in reference to the Donbas residents." MT

China Answers Sen. Blackburn Visit By Buzzing Taiwan With 4 Nuclear-Capable Bombers

"Beijing has issued its response to anti-China hawk Sen. Marsha Blackburn visiting Taiwan on Thursday and Friday. It began with at least 35 PLA jets buzzing the island's airspace on Friday, including 8 Chinese Navy vessels patrolling off the island.

....Thomlinson reported "China sends four nuclear-capable bombers near Taiwan one day after Sen. Marsha Blackburn met Taiwan’s president in Taipei." ZeroHedge

Deadly Clashes In Tripoli May Signal Imminent Libyan Civil War

"Though Libya has been a disaster ever since Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama teamed up with NATO to facilitate regime change in 2011, the last two years have been relatively calm. That calm ended as combatants fired small arms, heavy machine guns, mortars and other heavy weapons. Explosions occurred in various sectors of Tripoli -- the country's capital -- and smoke drifted across the skyline.  

Two groups are contending for rule over Libya : The Government of National Unity (GNU), which is led by Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, and a rival group led by Fathi Bashagha, the former interior minister. Bashagha has the support of Libya 's eastern parliament, which is based in Tobruk. In essence, this is a battle of two rival prime ministers and two rival governments...... fighting broke out when a convoy of Bashagha-backing militia was challenged by GNU forces. ... militia forces seemed to be closing in on the city from three directions. A witness says one of the convoys was 300 vehicles strong, but had turned back toward its Misrata base.........In Tripoli, the house of the commander of the an-Nawasi group, Mustafa Kaddoura, who supports Fathi Bashagha, was blown up. " ZH