Larry C Johnson • Andrei Martyanov • Brian Berletic • The Duran

The Ukrainian offensive near Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north is failing. That explains why Ukrainian President Zelensky imposed restrictions the other day on what news western correspondents could report from the front. In fact, many of these reporters were pulled from the front lines. Do you think Ukraine would do that if they were pounding the hell out of the Russians and forcing the Russians to retreat? No. The west would be flooded with videos of triumphant Ukrainian troops celebrating victory.

Instead of celebrations, there are videos surfacing showing Ukrainian losses in the aftermath of their failed attempt to capture the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (aka NPP).

[Note: The video below shows an RF soldier inspecting the battlefield and counting the dead Ukrainians, as well as their identity. The true voice is distorted for security reasons.]

IAEA Chief Inspector Grossi confirmed today that the IAEA remains on scene at the NPP:

Six representatives of the IAEA continue the mission at the Zaporizhia NPP.

Meanwhile, the western press is debunking Ukraine’s claim that Russia is shelling the NPP. How so? By reporting what Ukraine itself is admitting:

At the close of today’s battle, the situation in the Nikolaevsko-Krivoy Rog is dire for Ukrainian forces.

▪️By the end of the fourth day of the Ukrainian offensive against Kherson, the RF Armed Forces successfully repelled the offensive in all sectors, restoring the front line near Posad-Pokrovsky and Olgino. The most fierce battles unfolded on the Andreevsky sector of the front.

▪️Despite the destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Berezhuvate and the disabling of a large warehouse with weapons and ammunition in Belaya Krinitsa, Ukrainian commanders continued to transfer equipment and personnel to the bridgehead on the southern coast.

▪️Reinforcements were driven across the open steppe through a narrow corridor at Sukhoi Stavka and Kostromka to the Davydov Brod-Novaya Kakhovka highway. The Ukrainian Armed Forces succeeded in occupying the ghost village of Bezimenne, west of Karlomarksovskoye, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried unsuccessfully to take by storm.

▪️Russian Su-34s and Su-24s, as well as cannon and rocket artillery guns, disabled the pontoon crossings of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Andreevka and began to methodically destroy the enemy forces trapped in the fire bag. The forces in Bezimenne were destroyed.

▪️At the same time, from the side of Blagodatovka, the RF Armed Forces crossed Ingulets and crossed to the northern coast, breaking through the defensive lines in the village of Ternovka and capturing a bridgehead.

The reality of the Kherson front is irrefutable. The Kiev offensive was poorly planned and inadequate in its basic elements. (See New Atlas analysis on this, below). The rest is just p.r. for Western consumption.

The news from Kherson and, in the north, Kharkov is equally grim for Ukraine:

3rd counteroffensive attempt of the AFU in Kherson oblast, with basically same deplorable results. Dozens of ambulances seen on Ukrainian side going back and forth, transporting multiple wounded to the hospitals. Some battles are still underway with results yet unclear.

Ukrainian attack north of Kharkov, units that broke through partly destroyed, partly taken prisoners with their commanding officers.

Donbass: a definintive breach of the 2nd line of defense near Peski now confirmed. The fortified area between Peski and Pervomayskoye, that, as Yuri says, holds the key to the whole front, have been taken by the 11th Militia Regiment of the DPR.

The capture of Peski by Russian forces means that Russia will have an open road to the Dnieper River to the west. This does not mean that Ukraine will cease its efforts to re-take the Zaporhyzhia NPP. But it does mean Ukraine can no longer paint Russia as the villain. The IAEA inspectors on scene at the plant are voluntary human shields. If Ukraine kills or wounds any of those inspectors it is likely to force a change in the UN position towards the Russian Special Military Operation.

Once the full scale of Ukrainian losses in their counter offensive becomes widely known, the political divisions within the Zelensky government are likely to grow. There is a video online in Ukrainian with a Ukrianian General stating that Ukrainian losses are “hundreds of thousands.” This is a fact that will not remain hidden and will add to the turmoil swirling around Zelensky. How long will the Ukrainian people continue to support a policy where their husbands and sons are being used as cannon fodder? That is a critical indicator to monitor during September.

Credible sources follow

THE DURAN
CHRIS CRISTOFOROU • ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Botched Kherson counteroffensive. Zaporozhye NPP Hollywood raid. Part 1
The Duran: Episode 1370

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September 2, 2022

THE NEW ATLAS
BRIAN BERLETIC

Kherson Offensive: What Went Wrong?

  The New Atlas / 4 Sep 2022
Ukraine’s “Kherson Offensive” has been downgraded from an actual offensive back into the long-range stand-off fighting that has favored Russia. What went wrong? Between a correlation of forces favoring Russia and poor planning, what was a politically-motivated offensive had been doomed before it was launched.

"Kherson Offensive" Downgraded to "Slow Grind" - Russian Ops in Ukraine, Sept. 04, 2022

The New Atlas / 4 Sep 2022
Brian Berletic

Scott Ritter - About the shelling of the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye

Djuki San / Aug 20, 2022
Russia would be shelling itself in Zaporozhye, as the Russian military has been keeping the nuclear plant under its control since March 2022.

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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Keeping What Matters In Focus.
BY ANDREI MARTYANOV (Strategy analyst, author and Russian military expert)

Many already noted that "elite" forces of VSU (Ukrainian army MI6 and SAS "trained", that is) undertook yet another attempt to kill themselves by means of attacking Zaporozhie NPP and kill they did. 

Russia’s defense ministry has confirmed that Ukraine has made yet another attempt to take over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant late on Friday, revealing some details of Kiev’s operation, which failed. Over 40 motor boats, divided into two groups and carrying over 250 Ukrainian special operations troops and foreign mercenaries, tried to land on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir not far from Energodar, host city of the nuclear power plant, a ministry statement said on Saturday. The attackers were quickly spotted and struck by Russia’s Su-30 jets and Ka-52 attack helicopters. Those strikes sunk some 20 boats, while the rest turned around and retreated. The remaining Ukrainian troops were than targeted by the Russian artillery as they tried getting ashore in the Ukrainian-controlled territory, the ministry said. According to Moscow, the failed attack on the nuclear power plant saw 47 Ukrainian service personnel killed, including ten foreign mercenaries, with at least 20 others wounded.

But this was totally expected and everyone knows Einstein's definition of insanity. But behind those numbers of killed and sheer incompetence of West's "top" which is de facto in control of the Kiev regime, one MUST NOT ignore one simple fact, which receives merely a Pro-forma treatment, while in reality being a stunning revelation. 

In this case, the opinion of the head of Military-Civilian Administration of liberated part of Zaporozhie Oblast Vladimir Rogov is key. He states, correctly, that suicidal missions of VSU (in Russian) are tied to the upcoming meeting of the so called NATO's Rammstein Group on Ukraine on the 8th of September, and serves a PR purpose in order to convince puppet masters that VSU still can fight. And here is the issue, there is nothing sensational, on the surface, in what Rogov states--the regime in Kiev is suicidal and, as I stated in my latest video, I take this promoted in Western media conflict between Zaluzhny and Zelensky with a grain of salt. I will elaborate later why I do so--it has everything to do with Zaluzhny and VSU, not with the mad clown. On the surface, there is nothing sensational, but in reality--it is startling and very disturbing. 

Rammstein Format is effectively a Pentagon-driven affair and here is where we come to this startling part. If Pentagon, which is a premier United States military outfit, its military "brain", so to speak, needs convincing from the Kiev regime in the ability of the Kiev regime to conduct "offensive operations", while de facto having US (and British) military driving the planning of one VSU disaster after another, while also providing a whole "package" of ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Recon) to Kiev, which is a definition of being involved directly in the Command and Control of VSU, it all means:

1. Not only the fact of Pentagon and Western intel services being fully aware of what is going on at the front, but that Rammstein Format is nothing more than a fig leaf covering, see below...

2. Two things simultaneously: attempts to ensure a gravy train of "free" money continuing to run, while simultaneously doing everything possible to make sure that it stops due to the main reason for it (VSU and "aid" to Ukraine) expiring with an increasing speed. 

3. That, inevitably, confirms not only a bi-polar dysfunction in the Pentagon, but also its sheer incompetence, especially when one considers the fact that it needs "convincing" from the VSU, when anyone with serious military background saw the defeat of Kiev Regime from the git go. 

So, it is a combination of a corruption, military incompetence and impotence which has been paraded time after time by the majority of the US military (former and present) through their media appearances and articles which confirm now a complete decomposition of the America's top brass most of who wouldn't be allowed to command a battalion in serious armed forces. Even WSJ had to publish a piece by General Mark Kimmitt who, discussing logistics, concludes yesterday:

Yet Mr. Zelensky must recognize that diminishing resupplies would have a disastrous effect on his army, not merely for battlefield operations but for the message of declining outside support it would send to the people of Ukraine. Beginning the diplomatic resolution would be distasteful, and perhaps seen as defeatist, but as there is little chance of climbing out of the current morass, it may be better to negotiate now than later.In modern high-intensity warfare, logistics is the Achilles’ heel. Good training, great tactics and brave soldiers are critical, but without weapons, food and fuel, armies grind to a halt. That may be what is happening as the battlefield becomes static and a breakthrough looks unlikely.The military often talks about the ability to see things clearly and comprehensively. Looking into a future of protracted war, diminishing high-tech systems and mounting casualties, Mr. Zelensky and NATO must face up to tough decisions before those decisions are forced on them.

What Kimmitt is saying is what I and many others started saying in March--VSU is done while the combined West simply has NO industrial and military-technological capacity to supply VSU with anything which will make any difference in Russia's SMO. Kimmitt proposes "negotiations" with Russia. I think it is too late for that and at the table is not Ukraine, whose fate is sealed, it is the combined West as we know it today--the entity which Russia has completely written off and that brings us to Russia's ultimatum. Recall, December 2021. 

Remember, I drill this idea in for a long time: only powerful issue ultimatums. Weak cannot issue ultimatums which mean anything. 

1. Russia did issue ultimatum to the combined West. Drafts of the framework for new security agreement between Russia and the West (NATO) are but a small part of a larger ultimatum. Albeit this ultimatum also is articulated through statements of the high level Russia's Foreign Ministry people, such as statement by the Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko. 

 

Washington's crazies didn't get the message. Well, they surely have gotten it now and are desperate, especially when their bluff has been called, including exposing their military impotence--they are good only for PR and fighting third world paramilitaries. 

 

Meanwhile, Russia, which as we all know--Pentagon and CIA with MI6 tell us--is about to run out of personnel and ammo, holds Vostok-2022 maneuvers.

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Well, here is India's take:

Enjoy, if you will.

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WESTERN DISINFORMATION FOLLOWS / ANGLO-AMERICANS, AS USUAL, LEAD THE CHARGE INTO THE BIG LIE. AS A RULE, ASSUME THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU SEE HERE AND WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE.

Ukraine forces begin to retake territory in Kherson as part of counter-offensive

The Telegraph / 5 SEP 2022

On Ukraine's counter-offensive in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons: "Ukraine has inflicted serious damage on a range of river crossings with the aim of restricting Russian logistical support." He continued: "As of today, the Ukrainian army are engaging with Russian forces using both artillery and ground-level operations. They are making real gains but understandably, as we have seen elsewhere in this conflict, the fighting is close and hard and Ukraine are suffering losses associated with an attacking force." Watch as Ukrainian soldiers celebrate the start of their retaking of Kherson.

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Alexander Vindman * breaks down Ukraine's counteroffensive operation

CNN Aug 30, 2022
* Vindman is the notorious warmonger about Ukraine, and professional Russiagater.

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HIMARS: How it's changing Ukraine's fight against Russia

CBS Sunday Morning / Sep 4, 2022

Since the United States provided Ukraine with 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (or HIMARS), the launchers are changing the face of battle, becoming a key weapon in Ukraine's counteroffensive against invading Russian forces. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin visits the Lockheed Martin plant where the highly-effective precision rocket launchers are built; and a test range where HIMARS crews are trained to "shoot and scoot."

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EXCLUSIVE: Zelenskyy to David Muir: 'Russians using Zaporzhzhia as nuclear weapon'

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Sep 4, 2022
ABC News
The president of Ukraine spoke to ABC’s David Muir in Kyiv about the current state of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
(Note: Muir is in Kiev, like many other Western "celebrities", for his obligatory career-enhancing photo-op with Zelensky, who is demonstrably one of the least trustworthy people on the planet. Everything Muir reports is a lie, coming from a basically pseudo-informed man who simply transmits to his clueless audience the approved narrative about world affairs the US ruling elites want to disseminate, and Zelensky is plainly a puppet of Washington, doing Washington's bidding at the cost of his nation's and many people's destruction.)

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