HerrLöscha 🇺🇦🇪🇺

Schauen Sie sich ruhig um. Aber machen Sie bitte das Licht aus, wenn Sie wieder gehen!

[HerrLöscha 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @_langweilig]

Zwischen meinen Tweets darf man ruhig auch mal ein Buch lesen. Ich meld mich dann schon.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇩🇪 Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil at G20:

“Russia bears responsibility for ending this war, and Russia alone bears that responsibility, not Russia and Ukraine.

Signal of receiving Russian finance minister at G20 is one I find irritating.

We cannot simply return to normality.

I would actually have liked there to be clarity from American side that he's not received here like a normal guest.

This is a regime that's been waging a brutal war of aggression against Ukraine for 5 years, in violation of international law.

People die every day, and we have just seen another escalation of attacks.

Sometimes, when Russian finance minister is in the room, I take opportunity to deliver my political messages.

But I do not see any normalization or easing of the situation at all.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russia planned a breakthrough for spring 2026. It lost more than 200,000 troops across spring and summer, ran no successful mechanized assault, and gained almost no new ground.

Ukrainian forces liberated 745 square kilometers and 26 settlements in the south — United24. 1/

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: Russia’s second batch of Rassvet satellites appears to have failed to reach intended operational altitudes, marking another setback in Moscow’s efforts to rapidly develop a Russian analogue to Starlink.

Russia is likely rushing to launch Rassvet satellites to compensate for the loss of Starlink connectivity over Ukraine.

Russia will likely continue struggling to establish an analogous version of the Starlink constellation unless it dramatically increases the number of successful Rassvet satellite launches.

Ukrainian strikes against Rassvet satellite production and launch sites threaten to further degrade Russia’s ability to establish a successful constellation on a timeline Russia deems acceptable.

Other Key Takeaways:

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to remain in favor of conducting covert mobilization following Russia’s September 18-20 State Duma elections and appears committed to sustaining his existing force generation mechanism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met separately with People’s Republic of China (PRC) President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 31 ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Russian officials continue to implicitly threaten NATO in the Arctic as part of its rhetorical efforts to deter NATO defensive and cohesion measures in the region.

US, Ukrainian, and Russian officials appear to be resuming limited bilateral negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Sumy, Borova, and Slovyansk directions and the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area, and Russian forces recently advanced in the Slovyansk direction and Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area.

Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Belgorod Oblast, including Ozon (Wildberries’ main competitor) marketplaces, on the night of August 30 to 31.

Russia launched one Kh-59 cruise missile and 121 drones against Ukraine overnight.

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

Russia continues hitting Kyiv with everything they have for the third night in a row. Primary targets: food logistics and other critical infrastructure keeping three-million-ppl Ukraine‘s capital alive for the fifth year of the full-scale war. Russia aims making Kyiv a dead city.

[Dietmar Pichler @DietmarPichler1]

About the video: please share:

"AI-fabricated video of crying Ukrainian conscript goes viral again" @inved_Europa

https://t.co/vAtpJj9J42

[Dietmar Pichler @DietmarPichler1]

This is deeply disturbing: Retired General and former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn just shared a long-debunked, AI-generated fake video about a crying forced conscript in Ukraine. Flynn attended RT's 10th anniversary dinner in 2015, sitting close to Vladimir Putin. 🧵

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Apparently, it was somehow done by some unknown force firing missiles at Ukraine on the daily basis.

My bet is the Martians, I guess.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 28, 2026: Ukrainian forces struck a Russian strategic bomber at the Engels-2 Airbase in Saratov Oblast, demonstrating Ukraine’s ability to strike heavily defended targets in Russia’s rear.

Other Key Takeaways:

Russian budgetary challenges resulting from its costly war effort, Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign, international sanctions, and economic mismanagement are manifesting in concrete operational problems.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) will likely expand its access to Russians’ personal and medical information ahead of rumored involuntary reserve call-ups after the September 20 State Duma elections.

Russian forces conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch as part of the Kremlin’s nuclear saber-rattling to project military strength.

Russia is portraying its Starlink-jamming electronic warfare (EW) system as a breakthrough capability as part of its cognitive warfare effort to dissuade the United States from granting Ukraine access to Starlink over Russian territory.

Ukrainian forces made limited tactical advances in the Kostyantynivka direction.

Ukrainian forces are conducting repeat strikes against Russian oil refineries to keep them offline. Russia launched 164 drones against Ukraine overnight. (1/2)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Sikorski: The West spent decades trying not to humiliate Russia and to make it a responsible stakeholder.

Russia joined the G7, signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act and built ties with the EU. We all tried. Moscow turned us all down, The Economist. 1/

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

“The question is no longer whether Russia is probing NATO. It is whether NATO understands that it is being probed, and what signal it intends to send to prevent grey-zone actions from turning into full-fledged confrontation.”
“The uncomfortable truth is that Europe must accept greater risk in the short term to avoid far more serious dangers in the future. Our objective cannot be merely to avoid escalation. It is to convince Mr Putin and his people that escalation will get them nowhere, and that we are willing to sacrifice more than money to stand up for ourselves.”
Sobering words from @radeksikorski

[Andy Schneider @AndySch64494719]

So ist es.

Man kann buchstäblich durch die Ozonschicht hindurch an Putins Geldbeutel gelangen.
Es trifft den Schlächter selbst. Gut so

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

This sounds very likely. But the key question is whether he indicated any hardening of the 🇺🇸 position if Putin 🇷🇺 pursued his efforts at escalation. On the balance I fear that he did not. And then Putin 🇷🇺 will just press on. https://t.co/duYF3B3Z1h

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Seit viereinhalb Jahren zerstört Russland Lagerhallen in der Ukraine.
Gleich nach Schulen, Kindergarten, Krankenhäusern, Wohngebieten & ganzen Großstädten.

Und kaum schießt die Ukraine zurück, labeln deutschen Medien die fortwährenden russischen Angriffe instinktiv als „Rache“.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

If this is good behaviour, what would bad look like?

[Vasyl Khymynets @VKhymynets]

Wenn hier als "Rache" geschrieben wird, so ist es kein Journalismus, sondern Propaganda.
Wenn sich @ntvde als Medium und kein Propaganda-Verein versteht, so müsste es wissen, was der russische Barbar in der Ukraine seit 2014 bzw. seit dem 24.02.22 anrichtet.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Stubb: Russian thinking still lives in “Russkiy Mir,” greater Russia and empire. I hope Putin gets honest reports and understands he will not win this war.

Ukraine has already won it de facto. That is why Russia should stop the killing.

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[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Putin and his mouthpieces also claimed Russia wasn’t going to attack Ukraine.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

MORE: The nature of the Russian threat that the US is reportedly attempting to deter in 2026 is significantly different from the threat of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late 2021. 🧵(1/3)

ISW has collected no specific indicators that Russia is preparing to conduct a large-scale invasion of the Baltic states, and ISW has observed no evidence of a similar large-scale buildup in the Russian border area with the Baltic states.

Estonian and Latvian officials noted that their assessment of Russian threats has not changed, suggesting that Baltic states have also not observed a buildup of Russian forces on their borders.

Russia could, however, conduct strikes against targets in Baltic states or a limited land incursion with a small force. This sort of attack would not necessarily require a large, visible military buildup and so would not generate the type of indicators that analysts observed in 2021. It remains unclear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed or approved that Russian forces conduct any operations, but Ratcliffe’s visit is noteworthy and itself suggests that the US has indications that Russia is preparing for an act of aggression sooner than simply within “the next few years.”

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow suggests that Russia may be preparing to conduct an act of aggression against a NATO member in the relatively near term to invalidate NATO’s Article 5. A near-term Russian attack is highly unlikely to involve a full-scale conventional invasion of a NATO state.

The nature of the Russian threat that the US is reportedly attempting to deter in 2026 is significantly different from the threat of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late 2021.

The Kremlin continues to deflect Western concerns and deny any intention of conducting aggression against NATO, but these statements are part of a larger effort to create ambiguity and to degrade the alliance’s resolve to counter Russian threats.

Baltic state officials and government-affiliated analysts emphasized that NATO should take the Russian threat seriously but that their immediate threat assessment has not changed.

Russia may conduct air, missile, or drone strikes or a limited incursion against one or more Baltic states to test and seek to break NATO’s resolve to invoke and respond under Article 5.

Several unidentified drones entered Moldovan airspace on the night of August 26 to 27, demonstrating that the Kremlin continues to accept the risk that Russia’s war against Ukraine can cause damage to other states, including Moldova and NATO states bordering Ukraine.

Other Key Takeaways ⬇️

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

‚The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit.
…
U.S. officials are concerned that Putin, squeezed in Ukraine and under pressure at home, could launch an assault ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale land incursion, likely on a Baltic nation, the Journal reported.‘