Russia seems to have problems with recruiting soldiers – Russian losses and other news

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Russia apparently begins to struggle with recruitment
The Irkutsk region in Siberia has increased the compensation for people recruiting foreign citizens to the Russian military. The increased recruitment bonus is now 1.5 million rubles (17,800 dollars) per recruit. This is currently the highest reward in any Russian region. 18,000 USD is a lot of money in Russia, where the average salary is roughly 600-800 USD/month. That is just the recruitment bonus; of course, the recruited person is supposed to receive their own compensation as well, if they get to see any money before being consumed in Ukraine. Previously, the compensation was up to 400,000 rubles (4,700 dollars), so the compensation in the region has almost quadrupled in seven months.

This also means that there is now a distinction between recruiting foreign or domestic soldiers. The bonus for recruiting Russian citizens from other regions in Russia is lower and ranges between 400,000 to 800,000 rubles (9,500 dollars). Read more here.

Tennis player Yastremska’s family home destroyed after Russia’s attack
Ukrainian tennis player Yastremska says that her family’s apartment was destroyed in the Russian attack on Odesa
“A Russian missile destroyed our apartment in Odessa. The only thing that survived was a Roland Garros towel,” Yastremska wrote on Instagram. Pictures and videos she shared showed an orange towel from the French Open hanging among the wreckage of a residential building. “A piece of world tennis survived a Russian missile. Our home did not.” Yastremska said the building had been directly hit by a Kalibr cruise missile. Read more here.

Russian losses

  • 1520 KIA
  • 2 Tanks
  • 8 AFVs
  • 77 Artillery systems
  • 5 MLRS
  • 2 Air defense systems
  • 2,141 UAVs
  • 17 UGVs
  • 410 Vehicles & fuel tanks
  • 5 Special equipment
  • 8 Cruise missiles

The latest more comprehensive overview of Russian losses can be found here.

SLAVA UKRAINI

Ukrainian General Staff morning report

Operational information as of 08:00 on September 13, 2026, regarding the Russian invasion

Glory to Ukraine!

The 1663rd day of the Russian Federation’s full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun.

In the last 24 hours, a total of 249 combat contacts were recorded.

Yesterday, the enemy conducted two missile strikes and 98 air strikes, during which 348 guided aerial bombs were dropped. Additionally, the attackers used 11,357 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,815 shellings against communities and our troops’ positions.

In the Sumy region, the communities of Pysarivka, Ulanove, Khotin, Yastrubshchyna, Sadky, Ivolzhanske, Vilna, Mohrytsia, Luzhky, and Seredyna-Buda were subjected to hostile artillery shelling. In the Chernihiv region, Hirsk was targeted. Additionally, areas around Sinne, Sukhodil, Tovstodubove, Luzhky, and Kindrativka in the Sumy region were subjected to air strikes.

In the last 24 hours, the defense forces’ aviation, missile units, and artillery struck two areas with concentrations of enemy personnel, four artillery systems, and a command post for unmanned aerial vehicles.

On the northern Slobozhansky and Kursk sectors, our defenders repelled 10 enemy assault attempts in the areas around Sadky, Bachivsk, Ulanove, Hirky, and Ryzhivka.

On the southern Slobozhansky sector, Ukrainian units repelled 14 enemy attacks. The attackers tried to advance in the areas around Izbytske, Starytsia, and Lyman, as well as in the direction of Vilcha and Komisarove.

On the Kupyansk sector, the enemy attacked three times in the areas around Kurylivka and Novoosynove.

Attempts to break into our defense were repelled on the Lyman sector, where the occupiers conducted four attacks in the area around Lyman and in the direction of Novoselivka and Cherneshchyna.

On the Sloviansk sector, the enemy conducted six assault attempts in the areas around Zakitne and Yampil, as well as in the direction of Mykolaivka and Rai-Oleksandrivka.

On the Kramatorsk sector, the enemy conducted no assault operations in the last 24 hours.

On the Kostiantynivka sector, 15 attacks were recorded. The attackers conducted assault operations in the areas around Kostiantynivka and Illinivka, as well as in the direction of Rozkishne and Rusyn Yar.

On the Pokrovsk sector, our defenders repelled 29 attacks. The enemy was active in the areas around Shakhove, Molodetske, Bilytske, Serhiivka, and Udachne and also conducted assaults in the direction of Toretske, Kucheriv Yar, Stepy, Dorozhnie, Svitlé, Shevchenko, Matiashéve, Novohrishyne, Hryshyne, and Novopidhorodne.

On the Oleksandrivka sector, the attackers conducted an attack in the direction of the community of Rybne.

On the Huljajpole sector, the occupiers attacked nine times. The enemy tried to advance in the direction of Rivne, Kosivtseve, Vozdvyzhivka, Tsvitkove, and Charivne.

On the Orikhiv sector, our defenders stopped three enemy attempts to advance in the areas around Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaky, and Stepnohirsk.

On the Prydniprovsk sector, the enemy conducted no assault operations in the last 24 hours.

On the Volyn and Polissya sectors, no signs have been detected that the enemy is forming offensive groupings.

In total, the Russian attackers’ losses in the last 24 hours amounted to 1,520 personnel. Additionally, two tanks, eight armored fighting vehicles, 77 artillery systems, five rocket artillery systems, two air defense systems, 17 ground-based missile systems, 2,142 unmanned aerial vehicles, eight missiles, 410 vehicles, and five units of special equipment were neutralized.

Join the defense forces! Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!

Comment:
Localized battles according to the indicated front sectors: 94 attacks. 94 out of a total of 249 recorded combat contacts corresponds to about 38 percent, or if you look at it the other way, the unlocalized ones are then 155 (which theoretically could be Ukraine’s attacks), and 155/95 gives a ratio of 1.64.

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  5. 205

    ”Localized battles according to the specified front sections: 94 attacks. 94 out of a total of 249 recorded combat contacts correspond to approximately 38 percent, or if you look at it the other way around, the unlocalized ones are then 155 (which theoretically could be Ukraine’s attacks), and 155/95 gives a ratio of 1.64.”

    There is clearly an increased amount of unlocalized attacks in recent weeks. So not only fewer Russian ones, which is also the case. And they are connected: Ukrainian attacks put a wet blanket over the Russians who cannot go on the offensive. We have seen the wet blanket throughout the spring, where the Russian attacks, which until autumn had strong spikes in the data, have become more even. In recent weeks, a week’s battles have been gathered on Mondays/weekends with, among other things, 7-day / 28-day. .

    1. MXT

      It certainly looks high but lacks running numbers so it’s hard to know how it has been lately.

      I’ve missed your summaries so I thought maybe I should start making them myself. 😄

      1. 205

        The amplitude of the abrupt attacks during the autumn was high and variable, and when the unlocalized ones started, the amplitude decreased. 

        Or put differently, the jagged curve up to and including autumn lost its jaggedness during the spring. This happened as the unlocalized ones steadily increased.

        1. MXT

          It is interesting.

          One explanation could be that when Ukraine was not under as much pressure, Russia could carry out more extensive attacks at irregular intervals; now they are increasingly forced to defend themselves instead, which perhaps means they never get the opportunity to regroup before larger operations.

  14. MXT

    ** ❗️Azov commander Denys Prokopenko warns that Russia may try to create a “buffer zone” in Sumy and Chernihiv regions and continue terrorizing Kyiv. By early winter, the enemy will likely commit part of its mobilized reserve along the northern border to pin down Ukrainian forces and prevent the transfer of reserves. In October, due to rain, fog, and shorter daylight hours, the Russians may change tactics shifting from small infantry groups to heavy armor and mechanized breakthrough attempts.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ** Video:

    https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mvf3cftvxc2i

  15. johan No.1

    Rumor has it at best, but if Putin is purging the FSB, that’s a good level of paranoia we’ve reached 👍👍

    3. Pehr

      Posted a long reply this morning but it probably contained too many links and text because it says: “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”

  16. johan No.1

    Something is happening in Spain.

    It now seems clear that Sanchez had information about Ceuta before it happened but chose not to act – that is out now.

    Why we do not know, but we know that he has not done much to throw out those who came in, however, he has used tear gas against demonstrations for Ceuta and has been heavy-handed.

    The Spanish king is going to Ceuta.

    Then there are rumors that the king has called in generals and also called in Sanchez – that is within his mandate and it is naturally spun in two ways as you understand, so it is not possible to get a clear picture.

    What we may be seeing is the beginning of forcing him to call new elections?

    I have to understand this, Spain strongly supports Ukraine so Sanchez’s government is not pro-Russian at all, on the contrary.

    Pro-Russian was Orban and the most fair to Putin is Trump.

    So what is driving Sanchez in this?

    What does he want to achieve?

    Something as simple as sending the paratroopers to Ceuta and restoring order in a week is about to get him imprisoned, like – why?

    Sanchez stands in countless debates and defends his actions with words about humanity but he had no problem cracking down on Spanish demonstrators very harshly.

    Ireland and the UK both have similar problems in their own ways but the situation is different, however the root cause is the same.

    This is quite difficult to navigate sensibly since the smoke is enormous but something it is anyway, maybe if Sanchez falls we will get enough information to go on?

    The only thing I do not see is clear Russian fingerprints 😀

    1. MXT

      Those “demonstrators” have attacked the refugee camps with violence and have also tried to stop the aid shipments with food and necessities to them. 

      Is it perhaps not so strange if one tries to prevent that?

      Otherwise, it should be okay to burn down refugee accommodations here in Sweden as well if one does it under the pretense of just demonstrating?

      In that case, I can probably think that it is right to put a stop to it, because it is not just about peaceful demonstrations. 

      Then they have completely failed to protect their own population, and if he knew in advance that it was about to happen (and it can be proven), the only reasonable thing is that he is forced to resign.

      But what is reasonable does not always seem to be what happens, Netanyahu is still in office.

       

      1. SneakyPete

        Possible, but the biggest protests (if you sum up the number of people) have been during the support protests in several cities on the mainland. So not in Ceuta, which perhaps would have been natural since they are the ones affected by high politics.
        Arguing that the Spaniards think Sanchez has acted well by saying that in some protest march it has gone too far is a dirty rhetorical trick, I think you can agree after some reflection.

        1. MXT

          Of course, I mean what is happening in Ceuta and nothing else. 

          I have not argued that the Spaniards think Sanchez acted well. I believe that demonstrations that are not ordinary demonstrations but rather almost a lynch mob should be stopped.

          I am not on Sanchez’s side (except in that particular case, in Ceuta) if that was what you thought, and I did not even touch on what I think the Spaniards believe.

          A rhetorical trick that is often used is to claim that someone has claimed something they actually have not claimed by misinterpreting the content of the alleged claim. 😉

          My intention was to nuance the whole thing, because it is not quite as one-sided as it is often portrayed. 

    2. 205

      Could it not be about Ceuta being militarily strategically interesting, and that by arranging the situation, one gets a reason to send their military there. General Patton was at least on board with the idea:

       

      “Before the Allies secured North Africa, Ceuta was highly strategic due to its position on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Allies drafted several top-secret contingency plans involving Patton’s forces in case Spain officially entered the war on the side of Nazi Germany:”

      1. SneakyPete

        Look at the map, Ceuta practically means that passing the Strait of Gibraltar always requires you to go through Spanish territorial waters.

  17. johan No.1

    But what the HELL 😳

    When I say that the offensive period is over when the rainy season comes in October due to the ground’s bearing capacity, then MXT posts above that Prokopenko says that the mechanical failures started then.

    My credibility just went to zero 😭😭😭

    Good thing no one reads in here 😐

  18. johan No.1

    Yes, it is now clear 205 that MXT is changing the algorithms to make it harder for free speech to reach out 😐

    Now we are two freedom fighters who never give up, I fight for the right to comment under others’ posts without being state-censored ✊✊

    Long live Freedom, down with the billionaires who control our freedom of speech with a line of code.

    Che Guevara fought for us.

    1. MXT

      Please let me know if you have tried using a browser other than Safari and tell me if it gets better or worse.
      You can also try clearing the cache for the site (but then you will have to log in again).

      I am not going to randomly try to troubleshoot something I cannot reproduce, so please help a little from your side as well.

  20. johan No.1

    I have prepared for the election victory with three cans of Mariestads.

    The kids ate the chips yesterday 😐

    Did you see that Mona stood behind the bar yesterday and poured beer for living people? You simply can’t not vote for her when she bribes with free beer, my friend is not changing their vote 👍

     

  21. johan No.1

    Now censorship-MXT probably has to weigh in but very much now on how AI in various trainings has started to act outside the instructions of different developers – rumors.

    However, the big ones in the USA have talked about slowing down exactly and they are all in a race to be first with hypersensitive stock prices.

    Then it is rumored, of course, that the USA plans to rotate the AI money into US government bonds so maybe everything is a big psyops 😀

    The danger probably lies in if AI becomes creative and manages to slip out?

    IF it is true that China’s AI has not come that far and only had a layer on top with an account at US AI companies that would be good BUT just like with everything else, once the technology is out there, there are many who are prepared to crash the world if they can, I think?

    What do you think MXT, can we accept donations to create a monster and take over the world?

     

    1. MXT

      The thing about AI escaping, if you mean that it simply moves out and resides somewhere else, is unlikely. It needs powerful servers to function, so even if it hijacked 10,000 ordinary PC computers, it wouldn’t have much use for that. It would be far too slow.

      Now, more powerful AI chips/graphics cards are becoming more common, so in the more distant future, it might possibly become relevant.

      If it’s going to escape and actually move itself, it would have to be to another data center with high capacity, and you would probably notice quite quickly if it had pushed out some other solution to make room for itself.

      However, it can escape in the sense that it hacks into other systems and takes them over for one reason or another. But as mentioned, that doesn’t mean it has escaped and placed itself somewhere else, though the problems can obviously become enormous anyway. So it’s good that the big players actually think twice about how to prevent such things.

      We can always try.. But you didn’t even want to donate a measly NVIDIA Spark to me, if we’re going to take over the world, it probably requires at least a couple of million for some powerful servers that can run the largest models, and then you also want to retrain it if it’s going to become a monster, which “costs” an awful lot more than just using a model.

  22. johan No.1

    Some sinners wrote that we would have merged the bags with Russia, their natural resources and our technology/manufacturing.

    I believe MXT has now blocked all of them of course, but yes, that was what was supposed to happen.

    After 1991, we invited Russia into the inner circles for exactly that, and it brought us to today.

    I think that train has left.

    But Canada, Africa and Ukraine are more than enough for us even if we have to build ourselves up for it.

    Russia is too far gone, the only thing that would change this is a serious popular revolution that resets the Russian hydra.

    So those who have now disappeared from the threads are right in their reasoning but the attempt has probably already been made, Russia had an absolute golden opportunity to become our friend but chose this very actively and consciously.

    The amount of abuses in Ukraine is at an enormous level so there is something not so nice in the Russian national psyche unfortunately.

    1. DJ

      I was thinking more along the lines of the EU becoming Russia’s guardian for, say, a fifty-year period, after they have fought in the war. The Russian people willingly accept their new master. In return, the EU gains access to natural resources.

      But honestly, I really just meant that Europe would have needed Russia, without implying that it could become a reality. We need natural gas for cheap electricity until nuclear power and other sources are in place. And we need natural resources. Canada and Africa can cover the latter, but electricity is difficult, and without it, there will be no competitive production in Europe.

  23. Proxima

    First: Always interesting to read what 205 has to convey👍
    Now to what I intended to write about. Have the Russians given up? This is probably the tamest protest from that side I have ever read. I’m thinking of the ship in Barentsburg. The Russians call the Norwegians pirates (which is honorable for the Norwegians) and state terrorism (less honorable). The Norwegian ambassador was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry as expected, but I haven’t heard of many more protests. I’ve checked NRK, Aftenposten, and VG every day, but complete silence about Svalbard.
    Here the Russians could have tested NATO’s defense of the Arctic Circle, but they have chosen to keep a low profile. (So far, I should add). If the Russians were not trying to forcibly free the ship when they have an open goal, they won’t enter the Baltics either. They will surely continue with their cyberattacks and be verbally tough, but I believe
    the end is approaching for Putin.
    Apparently, only Alexander Stubb, MXT, and I do not believe that Russia will confront NATO. We now see a Russia with porridge in its muscles.
    The end is near.

  24. johan No.1

    Well DJ, you are absolutely right and Russia had also built the infrastructure AND sold it very cheaply to us, so everything was set up for it to look the way it did.

    My post was meant to be playful, of course, as always 😀

    Putin just used it as a way to manipulate us, but Russia could have become a prosperous country with us.

    Now he chose China of all places instead…

  26. johan No.1

    Yes Proxima,

    There you are onto something very important, I thought they would act on this as their casus belli to go after Svalbard. If nothing else, have the northern fleet circle Svalbard a few times, “customs officers” in Barentsburg and stuff like that.

    So…

    Since the USA and Norway previously moved first strike packages and surveillance up to northern Norway, this was perhaps a test from us to measure Putin’s actual intentions, what he dares?

    Came in just in time quite close to our flight over Kaliningrad.

    But so far it absolutely looks like you say and then the Baltics are already freer, as I have always said 👍

    On the battlefield in Ukraine, things are going VERY badly for RU now, just reading MXT and 205 is enough to understand that.

    He also can’t mobilize the way he wants, that would cause a revolution immediately.

    It would be grateful if this plays out like we daydream about 😀

    If he has started going after the FSB, it’s probably not very long before this falls apart, but that’s a loose rumor.

      1. Jan W

        I can contribute with … maybe somewhere between one millionth and one billionth of the investment.?

        If I haven’t been banned before then. I was somewhat on the same train as DJ regarding Russia and Europe.,

  28. johan No.1

    Damn, UA is advancing in more places now, small towns are being liberated all the time everywhere.

    We knew that UA would start offensive operations this summer and they have gradually increased.

    RU military bloggers are warning about all sorts of things right now. OPSEC is tight so more is happening than what we get to know.

    Then if you follow MXT daily lottery numbers, LV and radar are high – called pre-combat for some bigger combat.

    I think we are only seeing the beginning so far, there are higher ambitions behind it.

  29. SneakyPete

    Could it be that Edward Blom is a reader of the blog?
    Column in today’s SvD

    Sweden is closer to a war
    than at least 80 years ago. Much indicates
    that Russia will soon carry out at least a minor attack
    against the Baltics, for example trying to take
    Narva. The CIA chief’s recent trip to Moscow,
    NATO exercises around Kaliningrad, Finland’s
    request for Jas support from Sweden, Russia’s
    groundworks at the Narva River, the Russian sabo-
    tages in Germany and Poland, and (despite the Ukraine
    war) a continuous buildup of military forces
    in northwestern Russia all constitute extremely
    ominous signs.
    If Russia attacks a Baltic country or
    Finland, Sweden will immediately find itself
    at war with a great power. That all NATO countries
    would support is less likely – but Sweden has
    both more far-reaching defense agreements with its
    neighbors than the NATO treaty, and a tradition of
    not trying to withdraw from treaties but
    on the contrary over-implementing them.
    Looking at a perspective of a few years,
    France, the United Kingdom, and
    Germany also risk being governed by Russia-friendly parties.
    With Trump in power, one should be glad
    as long as the USA does not actively side with Putin.
    Despite this extremely serious situation, the questions
    about what the different parties want to do to
    prevent a war, and how they want to act if
    the worst happens, have been bizarrely absent
    during the election campaign. One had hoped that the par-
    ties would outbid each other regarding
    the defense budget, that the debates would mainly
    concern what defense we need: the one
    that served us before drones were invented, or
    the defense Ukraine is building with drones for
    air, land, and sea, advanced sabotage inside
    enemy territory, and secret weapons manufacturing
    underground.
    Politicians should discuss how civil society
    should be reorganized, how industry can
    produce what is needed for a country under attack,
    how the whole society can hide in

    shelters, and that we do not have nearly
    enough air defense. Whether we should evacuate
    our children to the countryside or to non-combatant
    countries. Whether we should abandon agreements on mines and
    nuclear weapons.
    An obvious question party leaders should be asked more
    often by the media is: how do they envision a
    government if war comes? Is everyone in favor of having a unity government with all
    parties? Or are there instead plans for a government
    where the fringe parties (which are the ones
    that have had the most problems with Putin supporters in their own ranks) are excluded? The only time Magdalena
    Andersson was asked this question, by a private individual on
    the radio, she only said that SD would not be allowed to join a
    unity government. But the Left Party?
    The question is whether one can trust that SD has
    no Putin friends left in their ranks? I do not – the revelation about the Sweden Democrats’
    political secretary hardly improves that.
    Regarding the left bloc, it is a nightmare to imagine a Sweden struck by what
    Ukraine is suffering now. But instead of
    a Zelensky at the helm, we might get Andersson,
    Hultqvist, and – to express myself deliberately
    mockingly – a motley collection of overaged
    68ers, environmental wackos, Marxists, Islamists,
    anti-Semites, Hamas sympathizers, conspiracy
    theorists, Russian-controlled peace activists, and generally reality-
    detached types. And, not to forget, some frightened Centre Party members
    watching.
    Gastronomist and cultural historian. Read more of
    his columns at SvD.se/av/edward-blom.

    1. Pehr

      👍
      Then it is probably the case that especially before elections, it is the differences that are fought over, and there is almost consensus regarding the view of the Russian devils.

      1. DJ

        But now he is talking about whether we should leave agreements regarding cluster bombs and nuclear weapons. Is there total consensus on that? And is there total consensus on what a government should look like if we are attacked?

        1. Pehr

          No, he definitely has a point, but it would probably still be considered marginal.
          Generally speaking, there is a consensus. But at the same time, there are probably differences on the very issues you raise.
          If it blows up, however, a coalition government is likely to be formed.

    4. maggan

      Had to zoom in on the registration plate to understand why this was good. At first, I thought ryz had found a new warehouse ☹️

      Lt = Lithuania. So very good, very good! A lot of new armor on the way to something good!

  31. SneakyPete

    Johan, regarding Sanchez:
    He has no direct connections to Russia but to its allies. Venezuela, China, etc. It is easier for a left-wing populist to claim political correctness when associating with these.

    How it works nowadays with Venezuela, I have no idea, but the current president there, as mentioned, stopped at Barajas and unloaded suitcases with cash to Sanchez’s entourage when she was vice. Presumably, old friendships don’t just disappear because Trump thinks he rules there.

    I don’t agree that Sanchez is finished; he has gotten away with worse things. Moreover, it is rather the case that if he senses setbacks, there won’t be an election anytime soon. The outer limit, however, is next summer, so if you can wait… But as I have said before, there is no opposition. The opposition is a playground.

  35. johan No.1

    Now Labour is clearly visible.

    Scotland, Wales, and NI are to meet to agree on whether they want freedom from the Commonwealth.

    Considering Labour’s sky-high support for Palestine, they should directly approve it, one might feel?

    That is not a pro-Russian operation, I have lived in Scotland since 1999 – 2018 intermittently and they have always wanted it.

    Brexit also hit Scotland hard, which wants to rejoin the EU but England does not.

    So this is mostly about how hypocritical England is or isn’t, which is interesting.

    I thought Burnham’s first statement was positive but haven’t seen Wales and NI involved before.

  36. johan No.1

    Prokopenko and Biletsky have five armies under them + Skala, which in size is like an army, this is not something to joke about.

    Damn what a formation that has been built with operational freedom and a direct line to Magyar 😳

    This is one of the world’s strongest composite larger units today that fight like gods.

  37. Pehr

    https://omni.se/a/wr2Xr4
    🤮🤮🤮
    But Krasnov is completely fine with his good friend in the Kremlin bombing Ukrainian apartments.
    “US President Donald Trump urges his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop attacking Russian diesel infrastructure. Reuters reports.
    – Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He must stop knocking out diesel in Russia, Trump says to reporters during his visit to Ireland.
    Trump believes there are other targets Ukraine can strike, and that Zelenskyy is causing a diesel shortage.
    The comment comes after months of attacks on Russian oil refineries, which according to Kyiv both finance and produce fuel for the Russian war machine.”

    1. MXT

      Good thing I updated, was just about to post that.

      Incredibly low to blame Ukraine. The Republicans are probably trying to save themselves ahead of the midterm elections by making it look like it’s Ukraine’s fault and not the war in Iran. Unfortunately, many will probably fall for that too.

    3. CB500four

      The same tune as the finance minister. He has probably gotten that idea from Putin.

      Sure, the Russian export ban can affect the price, but most of the price increases at the pump are probably due to Mr. Trump himself with his Middle East adventure. 

      Must correct myself a bit, Russia was apparently the world’s second largest exporter of diesel, with 11% of the market.

    2. CB500four

      The Russians have always targeted civilian houses, schools, hospitals, theaters, and energy infrastructure. Where is the difference? Are they now going to start aiming at military targets for a change?

  44. Pehr

    Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to get as close to EU membership as he can, in what the Washington Post calls a hurried marriage after a painful divorce with the USA.
    Carney is reported to have proposed the title “associated EU member,” which the EU is said to be open to.
    In recent months, Carney is said to have held private meetings with almost all European leaders, including Sweden’s, about how Canada can take a step closer to being considered part of the group without becoming a full member. The result is that Canada and the EU are now looking more closely at trade collaborations in areas including AI, rare earth metals, and defense.
    https://omni.se/a/aJ9L02

    1. DJ

      Exciting development! And yet another blot on the record for Brexit, which once hoped for a revival of the glorious days of trade across the seas with all English-speaking countries.

      Hopefully similar talks are held with New Zealand and some other interesting countries. Instead of continuing to entice and coax as has been done with Turkey, one could have a standardized ladder showing how close one stands to the EU. On the first step, there could be certain simplified trade conditions, then simplified visa rules, and so on all the way to mutual recognition of approved medicines and more.

    2. fedtmule

      Canada, led by PM Carney, is going from strength to strength and this serves as a shining beacon for other countries that Trump is trying to blackmail.
      GO CANADA GO!!!

  47. fedtmule

    You can compensate with ranch dip instead, Johann. Don’t you have any old aftershave that you can pinch in these times of shortage? YSL Kourus smells a bit like coconut, so maybe it can be used for pina colada. Lagerfeld might do as a whiskey substitute. If nothing else, you’ll have excellent breath tomorrow.

  48. Jan W

    Seems very close in the election. If SD had been reasonable, they would have accepted a continuation à la Tidö. Then fewer would have been scared away. Then it would probably have been settled.

    But personal ambitions. Human. Unfortunately.

    1. DJ

      It is, in a way, a responsibility towards the voters to try to represent them as much as possible. If the shootings continue to decrease and calm prevails, then they might not be as interesting in the next election and could decline even further.

      1. Jan W

        The responsibility towards one’s own voters should be to work to ensure that their wishes regarding the shaping of politics have as much impact as possible.

        At least, that is what I would expect from the party I cast my vote for.

    2. fedtmule

      I suspect that it probably won’t be completely decided until Wednesday when, among other things, the overseas votes are counted, and the majority of these votes usually do not go to the red-green parties.

  49. Jan W

    From what I’ve read here tonight, things are going badly for Russia. What could happen if Putin starts to worry that it’s all over? Could he lose it and do something ranging from stupid to really stupid to insane??

    1. DJ

      Hopefully he gives a crazy order that leads to mass death of Russian soldiers. That is basically what he has been doing for about four years now anyway.

  51. MXT

    Good morning!

    Nice KWIA today!

    1700 KWIA

    1 Tank

    1 AFV

    74 Artillery systems

    7 MLRS

    2 Air defense systems

    2124 UAVs

    12 UGVs

    548 Vehicles and Fuel tanks

    2 Special equipment

    Glory to Ukraine

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