1/ An exchange of fire in the occupied Ukrainian village of Urzuf, in which several Russian soldiers and bystanders were reportedly killed, is said to have been started by drunken Chechen soldiers fighting drunken convict soldiers.
2/ According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which quotes an apparently leaked report, "drunken criminals of the Ministry of Defence, assigned to a military unit based in Chechnya, and an equally drunken military policeman confronted each other with weapons."
3/ It reports that the incident took place in the morning of 12 August at the Miami Club in Urzuf, near Mariupol.
4/ "Soldiers from unit 71718 [70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment from Shali, Chechnya] were resting there, mostly former prisoners who had signed liberation contracts with the Ministry of Defence ...
5/ "Two companies sat next to each other. The first, natives of the southern regions. The second, fellow soldiers from the company attached to [the Chechen battalion] Akhmat. According to testimony, the latter drank a bottle of whiskey for three.
6/ "At the establishment's closing time (around 4 a.m.), a conflict broke out between the guests in uniform – Sergei Alikhanov, 25, a resident of the Kaliningrad region, who had been convicted of theft, and Sadrutdin Akayev, 30, a native of Dagestan, ...
7/ ... a military policeman (formerly of Buynaksk, military unit 63354 [136th Motorized Rifle Brigade]). In the fight the convicts were more convincing. But this was not the end of the conflict.
8/ "The denouement was a street scene during which Akayev opened fire with an AK-74. Alikhanov was killed on the spot. A fellow soldier from his company, fellow countryman and also convicted for theft, 26-year-old Vladimir Yevseenko (pictured), tried to stand up for Sergei.
9/ "He tried to kick the automatic rifle with his foot, but was wounded in the thigh, shin and arm. Akayev continued firing indiscriminately at everything he saw.
10/ "At the sound of the automatic rifle fire, the emergency response team of unit 71718 came running, and Akayev opened fire on the team as well. As a result, the shooter was killed.
11/ "Two medical teams travelled to the scene and found two men dead and one wounded man was taken to a local hospital in a state of alcoholic intoxication." /end
1/ A Russian who repeatedly raped his teenage stepdaughter over a period of two years has escaped justice by enlisting to fight in Ukraine. He is only one of a number of Russian rapists and pedophiles who has been able to enlist to avoid going to trial for their crimes. ⬇️
2/ 37-year-old Vladimir Bikbaev was detained in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on suspicion of repeatedly raping his stepdaughter, who was under 14 years old. She complained that he had regularly raped her since 2023 and had threatened to kill her.
3/ Bikbaev was charged with rape earlier this month. However, he was offered the chance to avoid a trial if he agreed to sign a military contract to go and fight in Ukraine. He duly accepted.
1/ Russia's failure to make anything more than grinding incremental progress in Ukraine is causing discontent in the Russian warblogger community. One warblogger blames incompetent and dishonest 'butcher commanders' who have killed their entire units three or four times over. ⬇️
2/ Telegram warblogger 'Ramzai' writes that the ratio of losses between Russian and Ukrainian forces "has gradually leveled out due to the massive use of all types of drones by the Ukrainians, [with] 2-3 UAVs for every one of our soldiers."
3/ "Moreover, half of our enemy's losses are caused by our Aerospace Forces' operations in the enemy's rear. The situation is less rosy along the line of contact.
1/ Russian soldiers in Ukraine are having to drink from muddy puddles due to the ubiquitous presence of Ukrainian drones making it impossible to reliably supply them with clean water. ⬇️
2/ Commenting on the situation, the 'Reserve Group' Telegram channel writes:
3/ "Overall, the water situation for soldiers on the front lines remains unchanged: they have to drink whatever they can find in the nearest forest. The logistics issue here is quite clear, and there's little that can be done to change it." /end
1/ One of Ukraine's most-feared innovations is the Jonik magnetic-influence fuze, which is used to create proximity-activated booby traps. A Russian source describes in detail how it functions, warning: "do not move, do not touch, do not approach." ⬇️
2/ Writing on the Russian social media network VK, 'Warrior' describes how Ukraine uses Jonik fuzes against Russian soldiers:
3/ "Despite the fact that many fighters have heard about mined backpacks, first aid kits, drones and various IEDs, which detonate when picked up or approached, there are still frequent cases when another unpleasant incident occurs – a fighter shows interest in another object,…
1/ South Korean workers arrested in Georgia and subsequently deported from the US have been giving more accounts of their experiences. The deportation of over 300 workers has caused political uproar in South Korea and prompted a human rights investigation into their ordeal. ⬇️
2/ The BBC has interviewed three of those arrested. Cheol-yong, a software engineer, says the unarmed workers were held at gunpoint by federal agents.
"Some people tried to explain that they were not criminals, but some agents pointed guns at their chests.
3/ "Have you ever seen a red laser coming out of a gun? It was so shocking that some of the staff members trembled in fear."
Another worker, Mr. A, says that armed agents suddenly burst into his office, handcuffed him, chained his waist and ankles, and put him in a vehicle.
1/ Questions to ask to annoy Russian soldiers, according to the 'Tears of Autumn' Telegram channel: ⬇️
🔺 Why haven't you been in the army since 2014?
🔺 Why have you been in the army since 2014, but still haven't won against the Ukies?
🔺 Why haven't you been in the army since 2022?
🔺 Why are you in the rear in the army?
🔺 Why are you in combat, but not in a trench?
🔺 Why are you in a trench, but so clean?
🔺 Why aren't you wounded?
🔺 Why are you wounded, but not seriously?
🔺 Why aren't you dead?
🔺 Why are you dead, but didn't die heroically?
🔺 Why did you die heroically, but now your wife is using you for "PR"?