The beginning of mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin divided men and women who did not support the war, but subject to call, into two groups: some are hiding in every possible way or even leave the country, while others do nothing to avoid the presentation of the agenda, and having received it, dutifully go to the military commissariat to go from there to kill and die. From the outside, this behavior seems completely crazy, but this is only at first glance.

"The fears of the president are no different from the fears of Maria Petrovna from the village of Gadyukino" Alexandra Arkhipov , anthropologist The fears of Putin (through the eyes of the Martian anthropologist). I propose to look at Putin’s little speech today with an unusual perspective. Everyone usually looks at her as a political science forecast of the future, which is understandable. And I suggest looking at it as a list of fears that are present in the head of the president. Fear No. 1.

"And there, you see, and will resolve" I lived in one of the cities of the Samara region, worked as a history teacher. I do not want to name my name, because in Russia a wife with a child remains. Thoughts about emigration first appeared in 2016, when the authorities of the region took away from my family a summer cottage for the construction of an elite cottage village, paying meant compensation.

Vladimir Putin signed agreements under which Russia will annex the captured territories of Ukraine. The Russian Federation will include the self-proclaimed DPR, LPR, as well as parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. On the part of the annexed territories, the agreements were signed by Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Vladimir Saldo and Evgeniy Balitsky, respectively. What Putin said Before signing the agreements, Putin made an address in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin.

In Zaporozhye, they fired a column with civilian people, standing at the entrance from the Ukrainian side to the territory occupied by Russian troops. By the evening of Friday, it is known about 30 dead, two of them children. 88 people were injured. The parties accuse each other of shelling. The head of the Ukrainian administration of Zaporozhye, Alexander Old woman, wrote that Russian troops hit the column.

What's happened Ukrainian troops surrounded a large Russian group near Liman in the Donetsk region, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports with reference to the “famous Russian military correspondent”. According to ISW, Ukrainians broke through the Russian defense 10 kilometers north of the estuary, in the area of ​​the village of Stavka. They cut the road Torskoye - Drobyshevo, which was the latest opportunity for the Russian group for supply and departure.

On September 30, Ukraine will apply for an accelerated entry of the country to NATO. This was stated by President Vladimir Zelensky. “De facto we have already gone our way to NATO. Today, Ukraine is applying to do this de jure. <...> in an accelerated manner, ”Zelensky said.