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The situation in the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast is "difficult," but Russian troops have not advanced over the past two days, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 2, citing Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.

The eastern front near Pokrovsk has been the scene of fierce fighting for several months and a focal point of Russia's offensive in Donetsk Oblast. The city is an important logistical hub for Ukrainian forces.

Asked whether it was appropriate to launch the Kursk incursion, Zelensky said that Russia had redeployed a "sufficiently large number" of troops from Zaporizhzhia and Kherson sectors to Kursk Oblast.

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The Rosrezerv oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Oblast, burned for 16 days. This is what it looks like on a satellite image after the fire was finally extinguished

The fire damaged more than 30 tanks (each holding 500 cubic meters of fuel). The quality of the photo, taken at 11:22 a.m. local time on Monday, does not allow for a more accurate assessment of the damage. According to local authorities, 49 firefighters were injured during the firefighting effort. @radiosvoboda

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• 1 IRIS-T SLS air defense system.
• 26 “Vector” reconnaissance drones.
• 1 Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicle.
• 6 High Mobility Engineer Excavators.
• 14,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition.
• 10 unmanned surface vessels.
• 55,000 first aid kits.
• 700 MK 556 assault rifles.
• 10 HLR 338 precision rifles.
• 50 CR 308 rifles.

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Burning Russians from landings. The dragon drone is working 😁. The work of the FPV unit of the RUBPAK 108 OBr TrO. Correction of RR 108.

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Investigators have identified dozens of Russian soldiers who where captured during Ukraine's incursion in Russia. The soldiers’ parents said they haven’t received any information from the Russian Defense Ministry about their children’s possible whereabouts.

However, the parents have gotten messages from pro-war activists and bloggers — referring to themselves as “volunteer helpers” — who told the parents not to speak out publicly about the deaths, capture, or disappearances of their loved ones to avoid “playing into” Ukraine’s hands and provoking conflict with the Russian authorities.

One of these “helpers” is an activist named Svetlana Zarutskaya, who runs a chat group for a military unit. She has advised parents “not to talk with Ukes” and to contact the Federal Security Service (FSB) if anybody tries to help them find their sons.

In a conversation recorded by the mother of a missing conscript, Zarutskaya said the following:

There were conscripts stationed on our border in 1941, and our conscripts fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya! When they took their oath, they pledged allegiance to the Motherland. […] The Ukes are pushing the narrative that we’re at fault for posting the conscripts [on the border]. There’s been a major propaganda campaign aimed at turning Russian citizens against their government and against their state. But it’s important to understand: it was the Ukes who crossed our border and took the conscripts captive, and even killed some of them. And we, the Russian army, didn’t cross their borders. We haven’t crossed the new Ukrainian border anywhere.

Some of the missing conscripts’ relatives said they’ve reached out to Russian propagandists for help publicizing their situation but that everyone they contacted was afraid to help [...] Among these figures were

• Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Alexander Kots;
• blogger Semyon Pegov, who runs the popular WarGonzo Telegram channel;
• state media “war correspondent” Yevgeny Poddubny;
• Izvestia correspondent Emil Timashev;
• blogger Yury Podolyak; and reporters for the Yekaterinburg-based state news site Ura.ru.

The Ura.ru employees cited Russia’s law against spreading “disinformation” about the military. Propagandist Anastasia Kashevarova, meanwhile, promised the missing conscripts’ parents that she would help State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliyev compile a prisoner exchange list, but she then went on to blame the conscripts themselves for allowing Ukrainian troops to cross the border:

Serving at the border in a country at war, they were completely relaxed — wearing civilian clothes and with no weapons. Look at the photos and videos of soldiers captured in the SVO (special military operation) zone: those guys are shell-shocked, dirty, and wounded, and it’s clear that they fought to the end. Compare them with the images of those captured in the Kursk region: some of them are wearing slippers, some are in civilian clothing, all of them look clean. [...] Surrendering without a fight, out of negligence, while drunk — it’s [tantamount to] working for the enemy.

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Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday.

The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.

Some hawks among Russia's military analysts have urged Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to "sober up" Russia's enemies in the West.

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At the recent GLOBSEC 2024 Forum in Prague, political leaders from the Baltic Sea states unleashed a barrage of criticism against the U.S. government's handling of its Ukraine war strategy. The most revealing statement came from the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

“I am sorry that the deliveries of F-16s took so long. Personally, I was ready to hand them over to Ukraine from the very beginning of the war. However, there was a long debate about the correctness of this decision,” Frederiksen revealed.

"If we allow Russia to take 20% of Ukraine, [do you believe] Russia will say thank you? My guess is that they will say thank you and move on in Ukraine or other countries, including NATO countries. There is no alternative to Ukraine winning this war,” Frederiksen said. She also added, that “as Europeans, no matter what happens in the US, we should be able to do more on our own” and that “A Europe that is not willing to defend itself is not a Europe.”

This aligns with Estonia's Hanno Pevkur, who framed the issue as one of strategic clarity. 'The question for us is straightforward: Do we want Ukraine to fight, or do we want Ukraine to win? We want Ukraine to win, not just to fight,' Pevkur stated.

These sentiments capture a growing divide between the U.S. and some of its European allies, who feel that Washington’s reluctance to escalate its involvement is prolonging the war and risking Ukrainian lives.

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The frustration expressed by Baltic and Danish leaders is amplified by recent revelations [...] that the Biden administration had rejected a proposal to send American contractors to Ukraine to maintain Western military equipment, including the crucial F-16s. [as] the U.S. National Security Council had considered the deployment of specialists but ultimately declined, deeming it too risky.

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Previously, critics in the U.S., such as retired general and former commanding officer of the U.S. Army Europe Ben Hodges have criticized the U.S. procrastination with training Ukrainian pilots for the F16-s. "It is absurd how long it is taking us to get Ukrainian pilots trained in the F-16s. That is embarrassing to me, how long it has taken," Hodges lamented in a recent interview to The Baltic Sentinel.

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The moment of the Russian ballistic missile attack on the Sports Palace in Kharkiv.

The enemy fired two "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles at a shopping center in the Saltiv district of Kharkiv.

Three Iskander-M type missiles directly hit the Sports Palace building in the Nemyshlyan district, as well as three more S-300/400 type missiles hit the surrounding area

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A drone crashed in the village of Durnikha in the Ramensky urban district of the Moscow region, local residents report

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Photo from the site of the drone crash near a residential building in Ramenskoye urban district of Moscow region

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158 drones shot down over Russian territory tonight , says Defense Ministry

“At night, 46 UAVs were destroyed and intercepted over the Kursk region, 34 over the Bryansk region, 28 over the Voronezh region, 14 over the Belgorod region, 8 over the Ryazan region, 2 over Moscow, 7 over the Moscow region, 5 over the Kaluga region, 4 over the Lipetsk region, 3 over the Tula region, 2 UAVs each over the Tambov and Smolensk regions, and one each over the Oryol, Tver and Ivanovo regions,” the department reports.