Kherson accepted - Kherson handed over

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In Kharkov, they dismantled and sent a bust of Pushkin for responsible storage. After the war, it can become part of the exposition dedicated to the Ukrainian national liberation movement, whose activists proposed to dismantle this bust before the 1917 revolution. Who waits will wait, and the news confirm this:

• General Surovikin suggested passing Kherson. Shoigu agreed.
• The deputy head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremuosov died - supposedly in an accident.
• Relatives of the mobilized Voronezh residents said they were going to the Lugansk region to rescue them from the front. Close mobilized chicken arrived in Valuyki.
• A 21-year-old Astrakhan was arrested on charges of Gosizmen.
• According to Bloomberg, the Russian rich are concerned about the strengthening of Prigozhin.
• Putin signed a decree on the spiritual primacy over the material.
• “Important stories” found the villa and forest lands in Spain, with which the Kiriyenko family owns a dummy face.

Crossing, crossing! The coast is left -handed, right -hand coast

The commander of the united grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, reported to the Minister of Defense Shoigu (whom he calls the “comrade”) about the successes of the Russian army: it destroys Ukrainian technology, successfully holds to attempts to the enemy’s advance to the Luhansk region and comes in the Donetsk region ( full text ). Going to successes in the Kherson region, Surovikin proposed to allocate troops from the right bank of the Dnieper - and Shoigu agreed . This was justified by stories about the inevitable undermining of the dam of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station and the concern for the precious lives of Russian troops. Surovikin’s report was shown on TV, a little later the general’s wise decision to surrender Kherson approved Prigozhin and Kadyrov.

In Ukraine, a statement about the departure of Russia with the Right Board was accepted skeptically: the head of the Office of Zelensky Andrei Ermak wrote : “Someone thinks that it is very cunning”, the adviser to the head of the president’s office Mikhail Podolyak does not believe that the Russians will pass Kherson without a fight, the head of the administration of the Nikolaev region, Vitaliy Kim believes that “if the Russians are saying something, then do it on the contrary.” The press attache of the South of the Ukrainian Army Natalya Gumenyuk claims that the statements of leaving the right bank may be a deception-she recalled that the Russians built defense borders near Kherson, and their combat units remain in positions. The American Institute for the Study of the War writes that the battle for Kherson has not yet been completed, but the Russian army began a retreat.

According to unconfirmed reports, Ukrainian troops entered Snigirevka, Nikolaev region and, possibly, took the village of Pravdino 30 km west of Kherson. The Ukrainian military, however, does not say anything about this, and the deputy head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremuzov, assured his subscribers on Wednesday in the morning that the Ukrainian attack on Snigirevka was receded. A few hours after that, the occupation authorities reported that the stalk died in an accident, and Putin awarded him the Order of Courage posthumously. Sources of Medusa, close to the Kremlin’s political bloc, claim that a few days ago, Russian pro -government media was recommended to quote the stupor.

If Russia really leaves the right bank of the Dnieper, about half of the territories captured by the Russian Federation from the beginning of the war will be under the control of the Ukrainian army. What military importance will this departure will have, the Ukrainian military expert Sergei Grabsky (spoiler: Ukraine receives full control over its Black Sea coast, and Russia forgets about plans to capture Nikolaev and Odessa). About how Russia fell into a hopeless position on the right bank of the Dnieper, about the difficulties of building defense on the left bank and the likelihood of creating “fortresses” from Kherson, Kakhovka or Berislava, it is told here .

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia's departure from Kherson is a certificate of successful support of Ukraine with an alliance. The Minister of Defense of Great Britain promised that in winter his country would increase assistance to Ukraine.

A few hours before the television set of Surovikin and Shoigu, the Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova once again said that Russia was ready for negotiations with Ukraine. The Kremlin, according to rumors , expect that the abandonment of Kherson in Kiev will be perceived as an invitation to negotiations. Here, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak once again explains the Ukrainian attitude to conversations with Moscow: Ukraine believes that a meaningful dialogue with Russia is possible only after the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory, the payment of reparations and punishment of military criminals, and Russia does not strive for agreements about the world, but to establish a truce that will allow it to buy weapons in Iran and the DPR. Start a new offensive. Kyiv - predictably - is not interested in this.

Other military news

On the night of the attack of the Dnieper Dnieper Dnieper , there was a large fire in warehouses, there were wounded; At night, the Russian army fired from the Grad Nikopol district, and in the evening on Wednesday the Russians struck in the area of the village of Lovovatka Krivorozhsky district - presumably, cassette ammunition.

In the Donetsk region, Russia is trying to conduct an offensive in three directions at once, there is no news from the Luhansk region-it is except that Putin’s spokeswoman went to Lugansk to share “achievements” with the local press.

Russian troops began to dig trenches in the north of Crimea: near the checkpoint "Dzhankoy" and at the city of Armenian at the Perekop Isthmus. British military intelligence notes that the repair of the Crimean bridge is delayed - it may well that until September next year it will not return to normal functioning. Radio Free Asia reports with reference to anonymous North Korean sources that Russia ordered from North Korea sewing a winter military uniform, which violates the sanctions of the UN, for the introduction of which Russia voted.

The head of the corresponding department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Belousov tells about the investigation of war crimes committed in Ukraine in Ukraine - 44 thousand such crimes have already been registered. The largest number of them is associated with the shelling of civilian objects, after which there are torture, cruelty, illegal imprisonment.

From the history of the war: The New York Times publishes large material proving that the help that Prigozhin trolls and Russian hackers provided Trump in the 2016 elections, could be a service that President Trump had to respond to the adoption of the Russian plan for control of the east of Ukraine. The scheme was attended by the former consultant of Yanukovych and Trump adviser Paul Manafort, as well as Konstantin Kilimnik, related to the Russian special services. Here is the retelling of this article.

War: View from Russia

The native mobilized, who fell on the front line in the Luhansk region, seriously engaged in their salvation. The wives of the mobilized Voronezh residents, whom the governor promised to return their husbands to the military unit in the Valoiki of the Belgorod Region, did not achieve anything in this military unit and are now going to go to Starobelsk in the Luhansk region: according to the latest data, it is there that their husbands are sitting in the military prosecutor's office. In Valuyki, dozens of wives of the mobilized from the Kursk region arrived : there they demand in the military prosecutor’s office so that their husbands would allow him to leave the battles zone. According to one of the women, her husband and another 150 people are sitting without water, food and ammunition in a village where they managed to flee from shelling. Others say that the officers who fled from the advanced mobilized call deserters, draw crosses on their foreheads and threaten to shoot them.

There are stories of wives who are trying to save their husbands before they got to the front: someone manages to protect her husband from going to the military enlistment office, for someone- here are a few stories . “Fontanka” publishes the story of a 38-year-old Petersburger, who was mobilized, despite the fact that his parents are disabled, and now they are teaching the shooter, despite astigmatism. In the military registration and enlistment office, where he was called by SMSKA, he recorded a conversation with the employee: he explains that everyone can pick up and who try to dodge, thereby arrange “demonstrative courts”.

Read about how they feel in the conditions of mobilization, read here . “Medusa” told a very difficult story - about a transgender troops from Khabarovsk, who also has a Ukrainian boyfriend (now she is being examined in a mental hospital - naturally, in the male department).

The State Duma made another attempt to protect from the mobilization of large fathers. Previously, the bill recognizing three children of three children did not support “United Russia”, and now a new one has been introduced , according to which fathers of four children under the age of 18 are not subject to mobilization (now - up to 16). Whether it will be accepted is unclear.

All applicants to the military units mobilized distribute the brochure of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Techniques and methods for neutralizing the fascist (neo -Nazi) information psychological impact" - you can admire this document here .

The Investigative Committee of Russia was confirmed by the death of a 20-year-old Soldier Soldier Denis Taskaev in the Belgorod region. He was accidentally shot by a colleague-sector, taking him in the dark for the Ukrainian saboteur.

The war gave rise to a new type of family conflicts in Russia: fathers who did not take any participation in the upbringing of sons and did not pay alimony, after the death of these sons in Ukraine, willingly receive their share of the “grave”, and mothers have to deprive them of this wealth through court - this is a typical story .

The Bloomberg agency writes with reference to its sources that Russian officials and rich are very concerned about the growth of Prigozhin and Kadyrov, their threats to the Kremlin who do not support the war and the clear unwillingness (or inability) to protect “their own”. At the same time, the rich themselves and officials themselves are not eager to support the leaders of culture opposing the war, whom the State Duma chairman Volodin once again publicly mixed with mud .

Russian everyday life

In Russia, 161 criminal cases of “fakes” about the army are being investigated , more than five thousand administrative protocols on the “discredit” of the army were received in the courts. Here are just some cases:

• Dmitry Korzev, editor -in -chief of Republic, was put on the federal wanted list: he is in Vilnius and does not know details, but RIA Novosti claims that the basis is a criminal case of “fakes”. As part of the criminal case under the same article, former Moscow municipal deputy Elena Filina was arrested in absentia in absentia. She is also abroad.
• The court in Maykop fined the pensioner Elena Sumin for 209 811 rubles in the criminal case of “fakes” - the amount of the fine is equal to her pension for the year. In the care of Sumina are two minor children.
• In relation to the Nizhny Novgorod activist Alexei Onoshkin, a criminal case was instituted on calls for terrorism. Prior to this, Onoshkin was fined 40 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army and forcibly sent for a three -month examination to the psychiatric hospital, citing a video in which he says that the Russian authorities bring him to suicide. After leaving the psychiatric hospital, he had a criminal case of “fakes” and sent to a pre -trial detention center, from where he, at the request of the investigator, was again exiled to a psychiatric hospital. And now a new criminal case.
• In Krasnodar, an activist Andrei Rossiev was a search - a criminal case was opened under articles about “fakes” and the initiation of hatred or enmity via the Internet with the threat of violence. During the search, nothing was seized. Rossiyev was detained and intended to be taken for interrogation to Nizhny Novgorod, because the case was initiated by the investigation department for the Nizhny Novgorod region.

But there are other articles:

• The first verdict was sentenced in connection with the arson of the military enlistment offices: in Udmurtia, the former rural teacher Ilya Farber received 3 years and 2 months of a maximum security colony.
• In Moscow in the case of Gosizmen, a 21-year-old architect from Astrakhan Gleb Verdiyan was sent to Lefortovo in Lefortovo . Prior to that, he left for 10 days of administrative arrest on charges of petty hooliganism. The materials of the case are classified - it is only known that the father of the arrested lives in the city of Yasinovataya near Donetsk. Verdiyan became the youngest accused of Gosizman.
• In Yekaterinburg, the left activist Mikhail Erokhin was arrested for seven days: he was accused of distributing prohibited materials for his house with an anarchist article, which the court in Russia recognized as “extremist”.
• The court in Moscow fined five thousand rubles for violation of migration legislation and decided to deport the Nekolai (Nikolai Lebedev) to Moldova. Nekolai published a video on which the daughter of Mizulina wrote a denunciation: the video was a parody of a video in which the Russian military, lying in the trench, casts towards a grenade flying on him from the Ukrainian drone.
• Today, Navalny must go out after the seventh imprisonment in a schizo - this is the guide for all his schizo, from August 12 to today.
• At the request of Roskomnadzor, the song “Chervona Kalina” was removed from Yandex Music in different performance.

Russian alcohol merchants warn of the exhaustion of champagne and French cognac reserves on the eve of the New Year. Probably, in order to solve this problem, Putin signed a decree on the protection of traditional values: one of them is the priority of the spiritual over material, and the spiritual there are by no means spirits.

Around the world

• Sanctions. According to Financial Times, Uzbekistan asks the European Union to cancel sanctions against Alisher Usmanov, because they do not allow him to invest in the country's economy. The 17-year-old daughter, Evgeny Prigozhin, became the owner of the hotel in the center of St. Petersburg-such a wealth fell to her due to the fact that she was the only one of the whole family did not fall under European and American sanctions. “Important stories” found the villa and forest lands in Spain, with which the family of the first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration owns through a dummy - a classmate of his son Kiriyenko Robert Gondolyan. Also an occasion to fall under sanctions.
• Ukraine. Journalists of the Schemes project discovered Vyacheslav Boguslaev’s apartment and warehouse in Moscow, which he never declared, from the head of the Motor Sich enterprise. Boguslaev is accused of collaboration and complication of Russia. The Ukrainian authorities nationalized more than 50 real estate objects and other property of the prohibited committee of Ukraine.
• USA. According to the results of intermediate elections, the Republicans receive control over the House of Representatives with a slight advantage, and the Senate struggle continues - perhaps control over it will be able to maintain the democrats. Given the difficult economic situation, this is a good result for the Democrats.

Six links

• First World War. The story about the features of the mobilization of the indigenous peoples of Siberia in 1914. Or the story of “Baby riots”, which began along with mobilization and became the preamble of the revolution.
• Poets. The literary critic Valery Shubinsky talks about the literary prototypes of the heroes of the “Golden Key” and convincingly proves that Pinocchio is Gumilyov; Literature historians Leonid Bolshukhin and Maria Alexandrova understand what means of Mayakovsky creates the image of Lenin and come to the conclusion that this is always an anthropomorphic grotesque that makes it possible to criticize Soviet reality.
• Philosophical. An excerpt from the collection of articles of the Slava of the Sky “Heaven in Confusion” (Publishing House of AST), which analyzes the three most common ethical positions of modernity. Or the analysis of Hegelian, modernist and Marxist approaches to social shocks.

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