In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia launched rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct full-scale invasion. APU repulse the enemy
- They say that this is a photo of the damaged side of the TU-22M3
as you can see in the photo - the damage is not particularly significant
in an hour they will restore (c) Nikolaevsky Vanek 
from the airfield «Soltsy» the rest of the boards were evacuated in an unknown direction
Smoking is injurious to health!
- Her name is Sofia. She will forever be 6 years old. On August 19, she was killed by a Russian rocket in Chernihiv.
Her father defends Ukraine on the front line, and her mother is now in the hospital due to injuries. 
- Telegraph:
China Helps Arm Russia With Helicopters, Drones, Optical Sights And Important Metals Used In The Defense Industry.
Russian firms, including sanctioned companies producing rocket launchers, armored vehicles and strategic bombers, received tens of thousands of shipments from China in the first quarter of this year.
One company claiming to be a wholesaler of children's toys, Shantou Honghu Plastics, sent 1,000 drones to Russia.
Another company, Hems999, has delivered two helicopters, and Tianjin Huarong Aviation has donated four Airbus helicopters to Russia since the start of the war.
Chinese firms have also supplied optical sights to more than 50 Russian companies from the beginning of 2022 to the first quarter of this year.
Imports of these products almost doubled to $2.5 million last year compared to the previous year.
Many Russian factories were supplied with titanium plates and rods used in the aviation and rocket industries.
Some Chinese firms even have offices in Moscow or company websites in Russian and make little effort to hide their military ties by posting photos of fighter jets and warships on their homepages.
Well, we continue to buy up on aliexpress to support the Chinese economy. 
- Financial Times:
The United States does not produce tactical ballistic missiles in quantities that, if transferred to Ukraine, could turn the tide on the battlefield in favor of Kyiv.
There are calls in Kyiv and Washington to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons against the background of the "slow advance of the counteroffensive."
FT notes that Washington is unlikely to be able to provide Kyiv with lethal weapons in the same quantities as now, next year. 
- The New York Times:
The possibility of Trump winning the presidential election and returning to the White House is the subject of closed discussions between European governments.
Western Europeans, especially in Germany, are horrified by the prospect that, during his previous term, Trump threatened to withdraw from NATO, withdrew aid to Ukraine, and ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Germany.
If Trump returns to power, he could endanger NATO by creating an existential problem for Europe. 
- Germany’s Welt:
To win the war with Russia, Ukraine needs to mobilize 3 million people.
The population of Ukraine exceeds 30 million, so the total strength of the Armed Forces can reach 3 million.
10 percent is the percentage of mobilization that Israel carried out in 1947-48 and thus preserved its state.
With such numbers, Ukraine can win and liberate its territory the old fashioned way: in a war of attrition, like most European wars of independence. 
- Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force:
Ukrainian pilots already have experience in operating the F-16.
Ukraine held joint exercises with pilots of these fighters.
The Ukrainian side prepares runways. 
- Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel Evgeny KornIichuk said that the Ukrainian authorities are again considering the possibility of suspending the simplified visa regime with Israel due to the large number of refusals to Ukrainians to enter the Jewish state. 
- President of Ukraine Zelensky and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte near the RNLAF F-16 at the military air base in Eindhoven, the Netherlands 
- The result of the Ukrainian strike on the Russian air base Soltsy
Russian bomber Tu-22M3 was destroyed. 
- Zelensky:
Ф16. Breakthrough arrangement. Details from today. They will be in the Ukrainian sky. Thanks Netherlands! Thanks Mark! Thanks to everyone who helps!
We will win! 
- Fighter F-16 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF).
Ukraine will receive 42 F-16 fighters from the Netherlands. 
- Denmark will also transfer part of its F-16 fighters to Ukraine together with the Netherlands. 
Denmark to give Ukraine 19 F-16 fighters.
The first 6 Danish F-16s will arrive in Ukraine from Denmark closer to the new year out of a total of 19 aircraft.
- Ukraine will receive 61 F-16 fighters from the Netherlands and Denmark. 
- Zelensky:
Russia has already used more than 6,500 missiles and more than 3,500 kamikaze UAVs against Ukraine. 
- Deliveries of Danish F-16s to Ukraine:
6 times closer to 2024
8 times in 2024
5 in a year 
- Features of Ukraine's future F-16 fleet with Dutch and Danish F-16AM/BM (Block 20 MLU):
AN/APG-66 (V2) fire control radar (FCR) with a range of 150 km.
Wide range of missiles, including AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and any laser- or GPS-guided bombs. 
- Some Russian sources claim that the Ukrainian army liberated Robotino in the Zaporozhye region after violent clashes.
Reports claim that Ukraine controls the central part of the village. 
- Danish Defense Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen:
Ukraine will be able to use the F-16 only on its territory.
We surrender weapons on condition that they will be used to expel the enemy from the territory of Ukraine. And no further. 
- An Iranian military delegation headed by the commander of the Ground Forces arrived in Moscow to discuss issues of cooperation.
But we do not supply martyrs. 
- Prime Minister of Sweden Kristersson:
Sweden cannot yet share Gripen fighters with Ukraine. 
- Representative of the Ukrainian Air Force Ignat:
Ukraine needs 128 fighters to gain superiority in the sky.
We need more than 100 aircraft to disperse them to different airfields so that they respond to different challenges and strike at different targets. 
- Turkish President Erdogan on Niger and possible ECOWAS intervention:
We will focus on how to play our key role.
I do not agree with the ECOWAS decision on military intervention in Niger. 
- It is reported about the impact of the Ukrainian quadrocopterabout the Russian airbase Shaikovka in the Kaluga region.
Tu-22M3 bombers are based at the base.
It is reported that the attack failed. 
- The US State Department called on its citizens to leave Belarus immediately.
The embassy noted that the governments of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering the possibility of closing the borders with Belarus. 
- VaPo:
The US plans to use the winter lull at the front to replenish stocks of weapons in Ukraine.
The Pentagon plans to increase the production of ammunition in the hope of reducing the intensity of hostilities. 
- Head of the Bundestag Defense Committee Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann:
We have enough Taurus cruise missiles. We can give you a part. They are ready to use. 
- A photo of a Russian R-500 (9M728) cruise missile shortly before it hit the building of the Drama Theater in Chernihiv on Saturday. 
- Zelensky:
Swedish BMP CV90 will be produced in Ukraine. 
- Zelensky:
Greece to train Ukrainian F-16 pilots.
- US approves mass sale of Apache to Poland
US Approves Sale of 96 AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopters for $12 Billion.
The sale also includes:
1,844 x Hellfire
460 x JAGM
508 x MANPADS "Stinger"
7650 x APKWS-II 
- Satellite image of the destroyed Russian Tu-22M3 bomber after Ukraine's strike on the Soltsy airfield, Novgorod region, 18.08.2023 
- Bloomberg:
Switzerland to Investigate Failed Attempt to Sell Leopard 1 Tanks to Ukraine.
The state company Ruag wanted to transfer non-working equipment to the German concern Rheinmetall for a significant amount, which was intended to repair tanks and send them to Ukraine, but the Swiss government stopped the deal because it violates the country's neutrality. 
- Several reports claim that a Chinese Navy submarine (rumored to be a Type 093 Shang-class nuclear submarine) has suffered a serious accident off the Taiwan Strait.
Further reports state that the entire crew was killed.
There is no official announcement yet. 
- Forbes:
Ukraine wants to receive JASSM cruise missiles for F-16 from the US.
F-16 fighters "are not yet compatible with Storm Shadow or SCALP missiles, but are compatible with JASSM."
By linking the F-16 with JASSM, Ukraine will be able to double its forces. 
- Peskov has not appeared in public for the third week, – Russian media.
Putin's press secretary disappeared from the public field after an interview with TNYT, where he said that "our presidential elections – it is not a real democracy, but a costly bureaucracy. 
- Love and burned Russian technology.
Wedding photos of Kiev residents now look something like this 
- The radish is already at the front.
He lit up in the photo with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko, who arrived at one of the sectors of the front. 
- Who are they fighting with?
There was a similar story here recently, here's another sketch to continue. In the imaginary world of wool - they are not at war with us, they are reflecting on that war. 
- GMO mosquitoes 
- From Kyiv three days before I will not work in Moscow City on the Independence Day of Ukraine 
- On September 24, mobilization will be announced in Russia
On the website of the State Council of Adygea there was a message about a ban on the departure of men of military age outside the region without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office. The message was later deleted. 
- Mediazona: For "financing extremism" most often punished were "Jehovah's Witnesses", adherents of the A.U.E. and "Citizens of the USSR"
"Mediazona" conducted a study on how and for what actions in Russia they are prosecuted under articles on "financing extremism"; (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Incomplete 2023 broke records for the number of extremism financing cases brought to courts, but political cases are not the most popular.
According to this article, the most actively persecuted:
"Jehovah's Witnesses" (93 people);
supporters of "A.U.E." (21 people);
of people whom the security forces classify as the movement of "citizens of the USSR" (12 people);
nationalists (9 people);
Muslims (9 people);
Number of FBK supporters (5 people). 
- Ukrainians are turning into Germans 
- It looks like the authorities are making a censored YouTube scrapper mirror instead of completely blocking it 
- Reading press releases correctly 
- Contractors who are in short supply and marketing
Plot 1x2 meters, you can build a fence and a monument 
- An insidious blow to the rear was dealt to the advancing bots. 8 screenshots, all comments in a row, uncensored. Post advertising graves. 
- The story of a family that lost a loved one after the Russian strike on Chernihiv. In total, 7 people died, more than 140 were injured 
- Head Svetlana Shelar was fired from a kindergarten in the Stavropol village of Donskaya Balka after a denunciation of the Mash publication, employees and parents: she did not support the war with Ukraine
«The lady is from Ukraine and, according to her parents, she mentioned a couple of times that her children were fighting on the side of the Square, – publicly denounced Mash. – And from herself there were threats to small children if something happened to her sons on the front line. You can find the logic yourself, we could not.
Several statements have already been written against the woman. One of them — from the former boilermaker of the kindergarten. He carried humanitarian aid to the front, and Svetlana broke the contract with him and hired her husband. Another one, but already to the prosecutor's office, was written by the widow of a former kindergarten worker who died in the SVO. Because Svetlana mocked her with phrases like: “It’s good that they killed him, he went there to kill my children.”
About uvState Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein announced the woman's deception. “The outrageous story with the head of the kindergarten from Stavropol, who was publicly convicted of supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been resolved. After the personal intervention of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory, Vladimir Vladimirov — Head of Kindergarten "Lastochka" from the village of Donskaya Balka was fired from her job. Her activities — security forces are also checking now. Head of the region — took control of the situation. If it turns out that local officials covered her — they will not be greeted!», – he wrote. 
- The anti-war work "Thoughts of a Child Under Fire" appeared in Moscow; BFMTH artist. 
- Banners dedicated to the war in Ukraine were cut in the Amur Region 
Unidentified persons defaced Z-banners at the entrance to the Amurselmash park in Belogorsk.
According to the local channel "Belogorsk Z INFO", the administration of the park has already written statements to the police, and also announced a reward of 25 thousand rubles for the extradition of activists. 
- F-16 meme 
- "It's never too late to buy dollars" 
- The Iron Curtain begins with embassies in unfriendly countries 
- Well, a little about the moon 
