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

Pope Francis is latest subject of Ukraine’s fiery judgment

 ".....Pope Francis, addressing a congregation in the Vatican, mentionegd the death of Darya

Dugina, whose life was cut tragically short by a car bombing. ....But before uttering the name of the deceased Russian woman, the Pope acknowledged the innocent victims on both sides of the conflict......

“Whether they are Ukrainians or Russians … I think of so much cruelty, of the many innocents who are paying for the madness, the madness of all sides because war is madness,” Pope Francis told his flock. “I think of the poor girl (Darya Dugina) who was blown up by a bomb under her car seat in Moscow. The innocent pay for the war.”.....Ukraine’s Vatican ambassador Andrey Yurash politicized the Pope’s words, saying it was impossible to call Dugina “innocent” when she – together with her prominent father, the political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin – advocated on behalf of Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine. " RT

Russian soldier defects, tells CBS News he and his comrades were "lied to," and soon realized Ukraine "war was wrong"

"Paratrooper Pavel Filatyev told Patta that he was so disgusted with the war that he defected
and decided to tell his story — despite it putting him at great personal risk.....

Patta asked the Russian soldier if he felt deceived.

"I know that we have been tricked for many years, and everything shown on [Russian] state TV has nothing to do with reality," he said. "Every person in Russia knows this. We have been lied to for many years and, unfortunately, now the same thing is happening in the war." CBS

Britain braces for a surge in energy prices as the war in Ukraine further stretches markets

"Energy prices paid by most British households are set to rise 80 percent this fall, the latest
economic blow to European consumers and businesses as the war in Ukraine stretches already tight markets for energy." WashingtonPost

Artillery hits Zaporozhye nuclear dump

"Four artillery projectiles fired from Ukrainian positions struck the fuel storage site of the
Zaporozhye nuclear power plant." RT

Russia responds to Zuckerberg’s FBI revelations

"The FBI and other US security agencies secretly control American social media giants,
Russia’s foreign ministry press director has alleged. The high-level official cited a recent interview by Mark Zuckerberg, in which the Facebook CEO supposedly acknowledged such influence. 

On Friday, spokesperson Maria Zakharova published a post on her Telegram channel devoted to Zuckerberg’s recent appearance on The Joe Rogan podcast. According to the Russian diplomat, Facebook’s first-in-command recounted how FBI operatives had visited him ahead of the 2020 US presidential elections, which ended in victory for Joe Biden, asking him to suppress stories revolving around the “unseemly contents” of Hunter Biden’s laptop on his platforms." RT