Putin dismisses rumors of a new mobilization in Russia as “absolute nonsense” while simultaneously threatening massive attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector. The statement came during a press conference after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan. This was roughly how it sounded from him during the first half of 2022 before he mobilized over 300,000 reservists in September, so his statement is completely meaningless and can almost rather be interpreted as a mobilization coming. Read more here.
According to a post, a factory “Proton-PM” in Perm caught fire. Proton-PM is one of the leading companies in the Russian rocket and space industry and apparently specializes in the production of liquid-fuel rocket engines as well as components for the aviation and space industry. It is still unclear why it started burning, but it sounds like a suitable target otherwise for Ukraine. Link to the post.
The Kremlin has mentioned a three-way meeting between Trump, Putin, and XI at the APEC meeting in November. One might wonder what the three are supposed to cook up. Article here.
On September 2nd, Russian schools are to hold lessons dedicated to Corporal Alexander Vlasenkov who died in Ukraine and was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Russia by Vladimir Putin. That he fled to the front line because he had ended up in the police register for pedophilia and had large debts he wanted to avoid will probably not be mentioned. Read more here.
Zelenskyy has warned civil aviation in Russia. Not because there is an active intention to attack it but because the airspace is now unsafe due to all the drones. Putin, the vile little clown, calls it terrorism even though Russia already forced Ukraine to completely shut down its civil aviation when the war started. That the whole world simply doesn’t just burst out laughing at Putin’s nonsense and tell him to shut up is incomprehensible. Read more here.
Russian losses
- 1390 KWIA
- 4 Tanks
- 6 AFVs
- 62 Artillery systems
- 2 MLRS
- 1 Air defense system
- 1969 UAVs
- 12 UGVs
- 383 Vehicles & Fuel tanks
- 2 Special equipment
- 10 Cruise missiles
Ukrainian General Staff morning report
Operational information as of 08:00 on September 2, 2026, regarding the Russian invasion
Glory to Ukraine!
The 1652nd day of the Russian Federation’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.
During the last day, a total of 213 combat contacts were recorded. Yesterday, the enemy carried out one missile strike and 93 air strikes, during which 313 guided aerial bombs were dropped. In addition, the attackers used 11,511 kamikaze drones and conducted 2,969 shellings against communities and our troops’ positions, of which 57 were with rocket artillery.
In the Sumy region, among others, the communities of Korenok, Sopych, Tovstodubove, Neskuchne, Ulanove, Yunakivka, and Volfyne were subjected to hostile artillery shelling. Additionally, the areas around Tovstodubove, Vilna Sloboda, Khotin, and Khrapivshchyna were subjected to air strikes.
During the last day, the defense forces’ aviation, missile units, and artillery struck 10 areas with concentrations of enemy personnel, six command posts for unmanned aerial vehicles, five artillery pieces, and another important enemy target.
On the northern Slobozhansky and Kursk sectors, our defenders repelled six enemy assault attempts during the last day.
On the southern Slobozhansky sector, Ukrainian units repelled seven enemy attacks. The attackers tried to advance towards the communities of Volokhivka, Khatnie, and Bochkove as well as in the areas around Vovchanski Khutory and Starytsia.
On the Kupyansk sector, the enemy attacked six times towards the communities of Radkivka, Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, Kurylivka, Dovhenke, and Kivsharivka.
Attempts to break into our defense were repelled on the Lyman sector, where the occupiers conducted nine attacks towards the communities of Novoosynove, Drobysheve, Cherneshchyna, Olhivka, Lyman, and Dibrova.
On the Slovyansk sector, the enemy conducted three assault attempts towards the communities of Ozerne and Mykolaivka as well as in the area around Kryva Luka.
On the Kramatorsk sector, the occupiers conducted one attack towards Yurkivka.
On the Kostyantynivka sector, 28 attacks were recorded. The attackers conducted assault operations in the areas around Kostyantynivka, Illinivka, Novoselivka, Stepanivka, and Sofiivka as well as towards Novopavlivka and Vilne.
On the Pokrovsk sector, our defenders repelled 25 attacks. The enemy was active towards the communities of Novyi Donbas, Serhiivka, Novopidhorodnie, and Novopavlivka as well as in the areas around Udachne, Muravka, Molodetske, and Horikhove.
On the Oleksandrivka sector, the Russian attackers conducted no active offensive operations.
On the Huljajpole sector, the occupiers attacked our defenders’ positions 13 times. The enemy tried to advance towards the communities of Vozdvyzhivka, Rizdvianka, Verkhnia Tersa, and Charivne.
On the Orikhiv sector, our defenders stopped two enemy attempts to advance towards Pavlivka.
On the Prydniprovsk sector, the enemy conducted no assault operations during the last day.
On the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs have been detected that the enemy is forming offensive force groupings.
In total, the Russian attackers’ losses during the last day amounted to 1,390 personnel. In addition, four tanks, six armored fighting vehicles, 62 artillery systems, two rocket artillery systems, one air defense system, 12 ground-based missile systems, 1,969 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 vehicles, and two units of special equipment were neutralized.
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SLAVA UKRAINI
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“That the whole world doesn’t simply just burst out laughing at Putin’s stupidity and tell him to shut up is incomprehensible.” – that’s the best thing anyone has written this year! Hats off MXT!
Thank you! 🥰
Good morning and thank you MXT for the usual good summary.
Yes, Putin’s statements are both transparent and predictable.
He has been lying since before the war started, his credibility is zero.
I think it has long since crossed the line into becoming ridiculous.
He doesn’t speak out as often himself now, but of course he is behind all the lies that the other spokespersons, both official and in the media, spread.
I don’t understand why more isn’t written about it and why Europe’s leaders don’t dare to say it out loud more often. There are some, of course, but it needs to be repeated more often and by more people.
“❗️During the night, Ukrainian military forces shot down 141 ENEMY TARGETS Shot down / launched:
▪️ 0/2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
▪️ 0/2 Kh-59/69 air-launched cruise missiles;”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mujbqikxg227
MTX, good post and your final comment is top-notch Johan. Absolutely wonderful!
Finally, one can say that Germany has spoken out regarding the drones at Leipzig airport.
Decisive action from the government in the middle of the election campaign with the press conference last night and the national security council meeting today. Good to be clear about where Sweden stands.
Then I do think that it is not enough to just summon the Russian ambassador and protest, but diplomacy has its course.
At least it is good that both the church in Västerås and the house construction at the Muskö base seem to be handled in a way that will not please the Russians; hopefully that decision will be made before the election.
Yes, it is good that people are starting to dare to raise the tone.
Because it is really time to raise the level by at least a couple of steps towards Russia. Both in communication and in action, otherwise they will just continue to escalate.
Thank you, I forgot to write that, so thank you!
** ❗️🇺🇦 There is a confrontation between SBU and GUR in Kyiv – the police have blocked Shumskoho Street in the Dnipro district of the capital, — “UP”. Sources say that three GUR members were wounded. “A special police operation is underway” at the scene.
This is somehow connected with the disappearance of the deputy commander for combat work of GUR unit “RVC” Stepan Kaplunov, the publication adds. **
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mujjrzisb22g
** Ireland foreign minister dodges question over Russian-owned alumina plant.
Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina, owned by Russian company Rusal, exports overwhelmingly to Russia, with the material reportedly being found in weapons used against Ukraine. **
https://kyivindependent.com/ireland-foreign-minister-dodges-question-over-russian-alumina-plant/
Gotta love Kallas! 👍
** ‘State-sponsored terrorism’ — EU’s Kallas blasts Russia over Leipzig hybrid attack.
“It is clear that it has all the hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism,” Kaja Kallas said of what Germany called a Russian hybrid attack at Leipzig Airport. **
https://kyivindependent.com/eus-kallas-calls-russia-leipzig-hybrid-attack-state-sponsored-terrorism/
** Ukraine thwarts FSB plot against Russian opposition figure Stepan Kaplunov, source says.
The FSB aimed to attack a Russian opposition figure that had come to Kyiv for Ukraine’s independence day **
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prevents-fsb-plot-against-russian-opposition-figure/
** Fire Erupts at Russian Rocket Engine Plant in Perm
In brief: A fire broke out at Proton-PM, a major Russian rocket-engine manufacturer in Perm. The plant produces engines for Proton and Angara rockets and is part of the state-run Roscosmos space corporation. No casualties were reported. **
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83552
** Russian Drone Hits Apartment Building in Central Kyiv on Seventh Straight Day of Attacks
In brief: A Russian drone struck a residential building in central Kyiv, injuring four people, as the capital came under another daytime attack on Wednesday. Multiple explosions were reported across the city, with fires and damage reported in Kyiv and the surrounding region. **
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83554
Sabotage wave in Germany now, apparently more has happened.
Consistently mediocre quality so probably the gangs and clans that have lent out personnel by the hour.
More is happening than I can keep up with now.
Besides the highest pace in Ukraine.
Ceuta is being handled catastrophically by Sanchez, forbidding citizens to demonstrate. If he continues like this, he will probably be gone soon – incomprehensible.
Merz is probably safe but they should respond to RU harder.
The rest of Europe should prepare for terrorism/hybrid war pronto – at least.
Release UA in the Baltic Sea as soon as possible
** 👀🇺🇦 Tanchik Droid 12.7 is a Ukrainian ground-based reconnaissance and strike robotic system, based on developments by Overland Defense and DevDroid, whose combat module supports artificial intelligence functions. ** Video:
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mujpoxdrmk2d
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“A cancelled concert is also a concert” -Ulf Lundell
It’s important to look positively at life’s setbacks. I believe Putte will get more practice in that skill in the near future.
There will probably be a very high voter turnout this year.
Hope for the right voter turnout only. Clan votes might possibly be bad for those of us who are not in the clan.*
*End of domestic political fuss from my side (I hope)
Did you see that all the holding companies’ shares in RU plummeted?
UA is conducting good economic warfare right now, excellent.
Somewhere the oligarchs have had enough too, 200 billion with Belgium would help a lot 😐
UA MUST get drones over the Baltic Sea NOW.
If they are released there before RU gets more underway in the escalation, this could probably end with a bang.
RU fleet, supplies, and air.
JFDI
Absolutely, just the fact that they threaten with terrible revenge if anyone disturbs them in the Baltic Sea shows that they have something planned.
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Yes Maggan, of course it is so, but there is a large group of couch potatoes who have never cared but who have fled from Islamism.
They are voting this year because they are starting to become worried.
Good if that is the case!
Hope you are right.
Insert flattery:
You always do, no:1. It would be fun if your election analyses are as accurate as your Ukraine analyses.
End flattery, return to criticize mode.
🤣🤣🤣✊✊
S leaks to V, MP, and Nyans. First to those who think S’s politics are not left enough, but then to those who think V and MP are not good. Difficult for S to solve this, so the election result will probably be worse.
M leaks to SD and others in the same way, those who want more or less SD.
V and MP have courted voters in new hunting grounds who have not voted before, and the large group of “couch voters” who are immigrants and have never cared. They have worked and Swedish politics is for us. Now in this election, they are starting to get a little worried because they see the same tendencies as in their home countries before fleeing to Sweden.
L seems to be catching up, which is good, Mona is needed.
The Örebro party will surely get in, and Allard will wreak havoc on everyone for four years, absolutely no other parliamentary party is safe there and no one likes him, but he probably stands to the right of the center as politics has developed, even though he is an old left party member?
His mandate probably tips the scales in favor of the Tidö Alliance?
We might get a municipality like Malmö with some party that has a slightly different view on politics than we are used to, and then this can be studied over a term to see if it gets better or worse; the people of Malmö get the politics they vote for, and we live in a democracy.
My two cents.
Apparently the M&M plan that has been given the green light.
Swarm Russian airports.
I need to get this off my chest about Ceuta.
It happened a month ago and I posted a long post if you remember, Russian influence operation, hybrid war with migration flows and all that.
The media were quick to reject the government’s strong reaction and tried to calm the masses. Now they are completely silent, nothing about the citizens in Ceuta living under an acute security situation that is dangerous for them. It was apparently more important to downplay it.
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What has happened since then?
Sanchez has confirmed RU, “right-wing extremists” and Israel are behind it.
The police and other officials in Spain have confirmed – Morocco was behind it, Sanchez knew about it three days before.
Now up to 10,000 remain in Ceuta causing havoc and since nothing is happening, the police, football teams, provinces, cities and all kinds of groups have started supporting Ceuta. Large demonstration today.
What does Sanchez do – yes, a ban on demonstrations is declared, it is illegal to support Ceuta.
In Ceuta, the police initially opposed the citizens who took to the streets but support is starting to spread, the fire brigade joined the citizens, the police have partly joined, the provincial government is completely on the citizens’ side and so on. Everyone there is in the same boat, right?
Sanchez is stuck in some kind of mess of – refugees, fleeing from war and all that which every Spaniard obviously understands is wrong since it is Morocco. Amnesty and all NGOs act as if these are refugees fleeing war, the rhetoric they use in what they publish. They refer to laws where minors must be taken into the system but at the same time it is the same as we had, if you say you are a minor you are one and there are countless pictures/videos of obviously adults.
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This is completely INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me, Sanchez is thus on the way to face a vote of no confidence and he is in a coalition where everyone is against him now – he will fall.
WHY has he not in a month just thrown out those who entered, if he can deploy police and military against citizens in Ceuta or in Spain so they do not demonstrate, he could have done that against those who entered the enclave, right?
An active choice has been made, a month is a long time to solve a problem.
Now it is likely for him (I guess) to move all 10,000 from Ceuta to the Spanish mainland instead and if he does that he probably won’t last long in his position – we’ll see what he comes up with.
Why does he instead go against Italy, his own citizens, call everyone racists and so on. There is now a dispute between Spain and the EU that harms the country.
He is stuck in something and in the group he moves in this behavior is obviously right but HOW is it possible – you sacrifice Ceuta for some bigger thing and when the country’s citizens protest you want to ban it?
I don’t believe for a second that Sanchez is pro-Russian, yes he is politically dependent on the far left/far right who both are pro-Russian but this is just ridiculous what he is doing – a weak leader in good times who cannot make simple decisions but messes things up so much that the government will fall.
We saw it with Kier Starmer too, now Burnham seems better.
The same in Ireland and it is far from over there.
Yes, you are right MXT, Putin continues because he is allowed to continue.
And “continue” is no small matter either, torture, rape of children who are murdered, ethnic cleansing and all that.
All his cards have been examined but as long as he is allowed to keep going and mess with his state terrorism against us, he continues.
For a long time, Europe’s leaders were afraid, quite sure of it, not about war but about Putin’s subversive activities against them as individuals.
Now we are past that but Germany writing a strong letter is a bit weak – Taurus would have been good.
Or another brigade into Lithuania.
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Then WE MUST support Ukraine now, we will need them quite soon anyway to blunt RU’s escalation against us and then the smartest thing is to have made them in a good mood beforehand.
SBU and GUR have had a small firefight in Kiev.
Wonder what was behind it.
Zelensky has demanded that they lay their cards on the table to the media so the whole country knows what was going on, good.
High pitch towards the Baltics now from RU.
“anti-Russian terror in the countries”.
Does it sound familiar?
One has heard that before, about Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, etc., all of which Russia terrorizes and has terrorized and plans to terrorize.
Likewise, Putin’s confirmation through denial of the mobilization.
Soon they will accuse the West or Ukraine of preparing sabotage in the Baltic Sea.
Another thing that is frightening is the planned meeting between Putin, Trump, and Xi. I fear that what comes out of that meeting will not be good for Europe or Ukraine.
Will they possibly roll out a world map and take out the ruler, like Sykes and Picot?
In a perfect world, Xi and Trump would put Putin against the wall and force him to end the war, but unfortunately, I don’t think that will happen. Xi wants world domination and free trade, Putin wants the Soviet Union, and Trump wants gold, a Nobel Prize, and his name on this and that.
Off-Topic
He must be joking? Right?
“US President Donald Trump is continuing with his method of renaming large bodies of water, reports AFP. After renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario – to the American Gulf and the American Lake – Trump has now found his third candidate to rename: the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman, he writes on Truth Social. Trump’s proposed new name: ‘Trump Strait.’ ‘That would make it ‘hotter’ than ever before,’ he writes.”
https://omni.se/a/L4LMw1
Aaah, you get a stomach ache
I maintain, the man is a media genius. So many column inches of news as well as “living rent free” in people’s heads. Is there anyone else on earth who has been more talked about?
*Possibly no:1?
He is like a parody of himself sometimes, that fool
Sanchez is not incomprehensible if you look further back, the pattern becomes clear. He is a narcissist with his hands smeared with jam from a variety of jars he shouldn’t have stuck his fingers into.
A narcissist works in such a way that either you are with him or you are against him, and then you are fair game. Lying, manipulating, and smearing others is just the beginning.
He won the last election by holding it right in the middle of the holidays and has clung to power by buying support from fringe parties in a way that wouldn’t have worked in Northern Europe. Tip: google it… you will choke on your cheap beer…
Another favorite is when Venezuela’s vice president (now president) stops at Barajas despite an arrest warrant to unload an unknown amount of suitcases with dirty money for Sanchez’s friends…
In short, he is used to getting away with most things by looking innocent and being able to talk his way through it all. And of course, there are no reasonable political alternatives in Spain.
guess where, where they build up capability
we are on it, good good
”Russian ship seized in Svalbard
30 min
Olivia Viklund
Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian ship in the port of Barentsburg in Svalbard, reports Aftenposten.
The seizure was made following a request from the Ukrainian state company Naftogaz, which produces oil and gas.
“This is another important step towards restoring justice for Russia’s illegal seizure of Naftogaz assets in Crimea,” says Naftogaz acting CEO Sergj Fedorenko in a press release.”
https://www.svd.se/a/wA9Gmd/senaste-nytt
Go Norway!
Hats off to Norway
Good good
There is a military ban in Svalbard, so it has probably been handled calmly. I wonder what the Russians say about this? The Northern fleet will probably show itself, hopefully at a proper distance.
But very good of Norway🇧🇻
Same as in Åland? Only Russian military allowed. Doubt that the Russians don’t have what they need militarily on both islands.
If things go badly, the Russians might try to forcibly free the crew, passengers, and the ship. A good litmus test of how the Russians are thinking. Norway is completely alone up there. It could end in any way. A very interesting situation.
”Both the national and military intelligence services in Denmark are sounding the alarm about advanced sabotage plans from Russia in our western neighboring country, writes Berlingske.
According to the authorities, Russia has for a long time been spying on a number of important Danish operations connected to the country’s arms support to Ukraine. The intelligence gathering has been carried out by ordinary Danish citizens recruited online to take pictures or videos of sensitive facilities.
– This is not a warning that this might come to Denmark one day. We are already seeing the planning, very concretely, says Emil Græsholm, head of counterintelligence at PET, Denmark’s equivalent of Säpo.
According to Græsholm, the authorities do not yet know what Russia might do with the information, but in light of what has happened in similar incidents in Italy and Bulgaria, he mentions arson as a possibility.”
https://omni.se/a/rrXrOa
A parody, the police do a better job with the demonstrations for Ceuta than those who stormed Ceuta.
The world is crazy
Well, now you have reason to defend Svalbard, that’s a bit strange
” Trump Just Invited Putin To Miami While Declaring Economic War On Canada. This Is Not A Coincidence.
The polling says his fight with Canada is political suicide and he’s doing it for ONE man.”
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/trump-just-invited-putin-to-miami
Good morning!
1320 KWIA
1 AFV
69 Artillery systems
4 MLRS
2 Air defense systems
1 Aircraft
1 Helicopter
1875 UAVs
12 UGVs
435 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
3 Special equipment
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