In one of the craziest batshit speeches Putin has ever made, he now claims the "collective west is afraid of our philosophy and that's why they try to assassinate our philosophers".
In other bat-shit gems:
* The rule-based order the West wants to impose is nonsense
* Russophobia is in fact racism
* The West wants our resources so they want us to be a colony
"The West made whole nations dependent on narcotics and organized hunts of people as if they're animals"
"The US is the only country that used nuclear weapons twice. By the way (hint hint), they created a precedent"
"The anglo-saxons are not content with sanctions, they went on to conduct subversion operations", said the guy whose subversion unit 29155 has been roaming Europe since 2008, poisoning and blowing up people and infrastructure.
"The US have in fact occupied Germany, South Korea and Japan"
"but you can't feed people with banknotes" (? never tried, but good to know)
"The USA want to trick or blackmail everyone, they lie like Goebbels".
Maroon 5 - here's a new track idea.
"We don't want anyone telling our kids there are other genders than (m/f) sexes. We don't want Parent 1 and Parent 2. Have they gone mad?"
No topic left behind.
And it happened: Putin just quoted fascist philosopher Ilyin.
"The world has entered a phase of revolutionary transformation. It will never be like before"
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And this is already confirmed also by Russian militant channels ("Whatever promises there were to send us reinforcements never materialized". So Lyman is in Ukrainian hands.
Center of town in Ukrainian hands, multiple Russian reports.
Not sure what happened to all 4k ++ Russian forces surrounded in Lyman, but this video from one of the entry roads from this morning suggests many of them were destroyed by artillery while trying to leave the town:
Russia says at least 5 HIMARS rockets hit Kherson's administrative building cluster, with video showing serious damage to the district court building.
Russian state media must make difficult decisions on whether to admit/report on the surge of Ukraine strikes at targets in occupied territories. So far they opt to publicize (hard to hide anyway) but represent the strikes as if targeting civilian infrastructure.
Russian media report the target was (among others) Kirill Stremnousov, deputy head of the the Kremlin-imposed occupation authority. Not surprisingly, he was also an anti-vaccination and anti-mask activist, and had been variously an extreme-right and extreme left figure.
Ex-convict and human turd-beetle Prigozhin, who sued @bellingcat in normal court (and lost) and in kangaroo Russian court (and won) over us reporting he runs and funds the Wagner PMC, here on video recruiting Russian convicts for his "own private PMC" Wagner.
22 yrs of negative selection invariably led to a country where the more brazenly you lie, the more shamelessly you steal, and the more cruelly you kill, the higher you climb on the social ladder. Nothing exemplifies this better than billionaire Prigozhin & his trillionnaire boss.
My Wagner source: "Hi, by the end of the week Ukraine will no longer exist"
I asked him for an update. Will keep you informed.
He says it's all because of corruption and incompetence in the army ("the mercenaries were scammed of their pay"). But is again very optimistic, says each government corporation and oligarch are told to set up their own PMC for "new stage in October".
"Izyum has been surrendered...and this sadly is not the end"
Desperation steadily seeping in and replacing the "small setback but let's not despair" mood of yesterday.
I don't recommend playing the "Situation is dire" game on RU war/mercenary telegram channels, the hangover will be pretty bad.
It's at moments like this that I pity those who don't speak Russian.