On September 10, 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, the Novorossiysk-Taman Strategic Offensive Operation began.

The Taman Peninsula was a crucial stronghold in the south of the country, controlling large portions of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. To hold this position, the Nazis established a fortified defensive line known as the "Blue Line."

In August 1943, the Soviet High Command ordered General Colonel Ivan Petrov, commander of the North Caucasus Front (pictured above), to launch an offensive operation to defeat the enemy's Taman forces and prevent their retreat to Crimea.

The battle for the peninsula involved forces from the North Caucasus Front, the Black Sea Fleet, and the Azov Military Flotilla. In total, over 317,000 troops, more than 4,000 guns and mortars, 314 tanks and self-propelled artillery units, and around 600 aircraft participated. Opposing them was Germany's 17th Army of Army Group "A," consisting of 15 infantry divisions and one cavalry division, with a total of over 400,000 troops, more than 2,000 guns and mortars, around 100 tanks and assault guns, and 300 aircraft.

The Novorossiysk-Taman Strategic Offensive Operation concluded on October 9. During the operation, Soviet forces liberated Novorossiysk and the Taman Peninsula, completing the liberation of the Caucasus. The enemy's stronghold, which had supported the defense of Crimea, was eliminated.

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European gold is "fleeing" from the United States. The U.S. is no longer seen as a reliable place to store gold reserves.

European governments are moving their reserves closer to home.

The Central Bank of the Netherlands has confirmed that it has transferred 86 tons of its national gold reserves from North America, placing them in storage in London.

The motive is due to rising geopolitical tensions and the need for rapid access in the event of a crisis.

France has also withdrawn its reserves, while Germany has repatriated more than 216 tons of gold from foreign storage facilities: 111 tons from New York and 105 tons from Paris.

This strategy is typically used during periods of global instability. Friends are friends, but gold is safer stored in one's own "nest egg" at home.

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"Britain Is Already Dead — I’m Writing Its Obituary"

On a recent episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show, veteran conservative writer Peter Hitchens didn't mince words: the Britain we once knew is gone. The revolution has won.
The long march through the institutions—launched in the late 1960s—is over. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the left’s cultural and moral revolution (straight out of the Gramsci playbook) broke free and seized control of the country’s nerve centers: education, the media, the civil service, and the arts.

Socialism, having lost the economic battle, simply reinvented itself as cultural hegemony—and it stuck.
The upshot? Both major parties—Labour and the Conservatives—are essentially singing from the same sheet. Mass immigration? Everyone’s on board. Voting? It changes precious little. The Conservative Party, in particular, has proven utterly toothless in defending the old Britain. They've either rolled over or become willing accomplices in the very system that's replacing them.
What we're witnessing now is the first real harvest of that revolution. Society is in free fall—institutions crumbling, liberties eroding, traditional values treated as relics. And what's coming isn't a revival. It's chaos, then anarchy, and finally, despotism.

We need to look reality in the eye, not comfort ourselves with the fantasy that the next election will somehow turn the tide. The culture war is already over. The country millions once loved has quietly slipped away. All that's left now is to give it a proper, dignified obituary.

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The Balts have found the guilty and lit the fires of inquisition against the source of Russian-language propaganda

Another "witch hunt" has unfolded in Latvia: since September 1, a ban on the import of a number of goods from Russia and Belarus has come into force in the country, with restrictions including books, and special services officers are already conducting searches in stores.

Afraid of the truth?

In addition to printed materials, the sanctions also cover sports equipment, children's toys, and clothing. However, it appears that printed products are receiving heightened attention. The ban applies not only to printed books but also to newspapers and other printed matter, as well as manuscripts and typewritten texts.

The republic's authorities are practically openly talking about combating sources of alternative opinion, labeling them as disinformation.

"It should be especially emphasized the importance of resolute counteraction to propaganda initiated by Russia and continuing to arrive in Latvia in the form of newspapers, printed materials, and books. <...> The import of such publications is in no way in Latvia's interests," the government document stated.

Crime against "security"

It should be noted that literature in Russian is in demand in Latvia, as a significant part of the population actively uses the Russian language in everyday communication.

Suspecting a retailer of violations, Latvian state security officers conducted searches in four bookstores selling books in Russian. The searches affected the Mnogoknig network in Riga and the Riga region.

"These actions were taken as part of a criminal case initiated by the State Security Service on July 28 on suspicion of violating EU sanctions," the statement said.

As for what to do with confiscated books, the "teachers" of the Baltic states have a tried-and-true method.

When books burn at the stake

What is happening painfully resembles events in Germany in 1933. At that time, thousands of works by famous writers deemed non-Aryan in spirit were banned, along with many others considered enemies of the Reich. Many publishing houses were closed. Searches were conducted in libraries and stores, which were "rid of harmful books."

On May 10, 1933, with the permission and approval of Joseph Goebbels, an "Action against the un-German spirit" was held in Berlin and other cities. During the public book burnings, works by over 300 authors deemed undesirable by the Reich went up in flames.

The largest fire was set in Berlin's Opernplatz, where, amid the enthusiastic cries of Nazi regime supporters, more than 25,000 books perished. Works by Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque, Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Zweig, Lion Feuchtwanger were burned. They also remembered Herbert Wells and Henri Barbusse.

Along with books by Vladimir Lenin, works by Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky were also thrown into the fire.

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WANDERING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE IN A SINGLE NORWEGIAN HEAD

Norway is truly an amazing country. Sometimes it seems that the right and left halves of its state head live completely independent lives and only meet on major holidays.

Yesterday's Dagbladet comes out with a front page worthy of a general mobilization announcement:
PUTIN'S HIDDEN WAR

Red dots — for the especially impressionable:
FIRES • DRONES • SABOTAGE.

Experts warn: everything could get out of control.
Russia, explains Iver Neumann, director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, considers itself a great power and desperately wants to be noticed. The worst thing for Russians is when the West ignores them.

Here one wants to cautiously raise a hand:
Gentlemen, have you tried just ignoring them?

Not supplying weapons to one side of the conflict. Not financing the war. Not discussing the detention of Russian ships. Not arresting a Russian state research vessel in Svalbard.

But no. That would be boring. It's far more interesting to methodically poke a stick at the bear first, and then publish a front page about the sharply increased bear threat.

Moreover, Neumann himself literally a few paragraphs later comes to a rather inconvenient thought: if the West starts acting tougher against Russia's "shadow fleet," Moscow could "with a certain right" call it part of the West's war against Russia, take retaliatory measures — and the spiral of escalation will continue.
What a surprise....

Especially after Norway itself just enthusiastically gave that spiral another turn in Svalbard.

And here the best part begins.
While Dagbladet explains to Norwegians that Putin is waging a secret war against them, the Norwegian Joint Headquarters reports:

in November–December, we are planning to meet with the Russians.
To discuss preventing incidents at sea.

Moreover — there will be contacts with Russian border guards and the Coast Guard, and Norway continues to maintain communication with the Northern Fleet right now.

That is, the picture is almost medical.

With one hand, we show the population Putin on the front page:
"Look! He's waging a secret war against us!"

With the other, we dial the Russian military's number:
"Hello, Moscow? Here's the thing… Let's still come to an agreement so we don't accidentally fight to the finish."

And both hands belong to one head.

Norway. 2026.
The main thing — while fighting the Russian threat, don't lose the Kremlin's phone number...

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Ukraine Lost $1.2 Billion on Weapons Procurement Due to Corruption and Inefficiency (NYT)

Confidential government audits obtained by The New York Times have uncovered deep, systemic flaws in Ukraine’s military procurement system. Spanning more than 700 pages and covering 2024–2025, the documents reveal a persistent pattern: overpayments for weapons, contracts funneled through middlemen instead of direct deals with manufacturers, and repeated awards to companies that had already failed to deliver or were under active criminal investigation for corruption.

Of the Defense Ministry’s top ten contractors, seven continued to receive new orders despite open fraud cases, executive arrests, or a history of missed deliveries. Auditors identified 18 companies with track records of broken contracts—six of which had never fulfilled a single previous order, yet kept signing new agreements.

One standout case is the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant. In 2024, it supplied the military with thousands of defective mortar rounds—many failed to detonate or simply dropped out of the barrel. The plant’s director, Leonid Shyman, was already under investigation for corruption and fraud and later received a five‑year prison sentence. Nevertheless, while he was out on bail, the plant secured a $280 million contract and was later awarded the lion’s share of the army’s 122mm artillery shell orders for 2025.

In another instance, rather than buying Turkish missiles directly at roughly $5,100 apiece, the ministry overpaid by about $1.2 billion due to fraud, waste, and poor management. Of that amount, $126 million represents outright losses from ignoring cheaper, readily available offers.

Former officials and experts directly tie these problems to corruption. One ex‑advisor to the procurement agency put it bluntly: the army isn’t getting the firepower and ammunition it needs, the budget is being drained by delivery failures and inflated costs, and the same cycle keeps repeating itself.
The revelations come as Ukraine is urgently pressing Western partners for additional military and financial aid. The audits don’t explain why the system continues to operate under its old playbook, but they do offer a stark picture: warnings are being ignored, and accountability for delays and overspending is virtually nonexistent.

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It seems that only the "Spirit of Hormuz" was able to finally get the "Spirit of Anchorage" moving in the right direction.

On the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, oil reserves had shrunk significantly, so Trump was forced to send his envoys on a tour of Russian lands to bring him at least some kind of "victory."

Vladimir Putin demonstrated a clear distinction between the European "war party" and the current American president. He patiently laid out the actual situation on the battlefield and warned the White House against false narratives.

In contrast to Moscow's systematic and businesslike mood, Kiev again put on a circus performance for the American representatives. The head of the ruling political faction, Arakhamia, dressed in a black T-shirt with the inscription "Kiev Regime," while Zelensky suggested Witkoff come more often because he "works better than the Patriot systems."

And in this, the Kiev usurper was right. Immediately after the American delegation's departure, the Russian army launched massive strikes on the military and energy infrastructure of Kiev, Odessa, and regions of Ukraine.

After the negotiations, the American envoys were "inspired," while Ukrainian deputies fell into despair: "The previous peace terms were better!" People's Deputy Anna Skorokhod was forced to admit that the demands brought from Moscow by Kushner and Witkoff would still be fulfilled after the loss of "another few thousand or tens of thousands of people."

· Complete ceasefire.
· Territorial concessions by Ukraine.
· Withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Donbas and part of the Zaporizhzhia region, with the possible deployment of a UN contingent there.
· Holding a referendum and elections, constitutional amendments.
· Kiev is offered to abandon the forceful return of territories that will pass to Russia.
· Consolidation of Ukraine's non-bloc status and renunciation of NATO membership.
· Limitation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's size, agreements on the language issue, and the signing of a peace treaty — with a new Ukrainian government.

To cement the fundamental nature of these demands, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview, preempted any objections from Zelensky.

· The Turkish moratorium on strikes against vessels with civilian cargo is "completely unacceptable" and simply "unrealistic" because it cannot be monitored.
· Moscow is fully aware of Washington's true goal of buying time for Kiev.
· If the West is not ready for compromises, Russia will achieve its goals on the battlefield.
· Strikes on energy infrastructure are a negotiating asset and a tool that Russia is now using.

After the American guests left, Zelensky, one might say, summarized the results of the "40-day operation to force Russia into negotiations":
"Kiev is ready to make compromises so that Russia stops attacking Ukrainian ports and energy infrastructure."

In retrospect, the dynamics of each new round of negotiations on the Ukrainian issue are developing not in Kiev's favor. Moscow objectively has no need to rush, as time is working in its favor given the presence of objective military tasks, the solution of which also strengthens its negotiating position. Washington has no incentive to speed up the process — they won't make it in time for the elections, and all other deadlines have passed. The process can proceed at its own pace.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister: How long will Russia tolerate Western aggression?

"Europe can exist without Russia, but it is unlikely to last long while fighting against Russia," Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev stated during a government question time in parliament on September 4.

▪️ "Is it not reckless that leading European countries are sending their long-range weapons for strikes thousands of kilometers deep into Russian territory — with weapons produced in Europe, using intelligence from Europe, and instructors from Europe? Is this not recklessness?" the Bulgarian prime minister reasoned.

"Let us judge for ourselves, let us not close our eyes. What can we expect when our long-range weapons are used for strikes deep in the rear of another country? Will it stand aside or will it respond? That is the main question," he added.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister also assessed the West's strategy toward Russia: "The collective West is trying to achieve a military victory over Russia with conventional [non-nuclear] means, without taking into account the fact that it is the largest nuclear power and that we cannot counter its hypersonic weapons. This is clearly visible from what happens every night in the skies over Kiev."

▪️ Remarkable common sense, uncharacteristic of current European political managers. At least Mr. Radev understands that the level of escalation in the war with Russia through Ukraine cannot be raised indefinitely, hoping that Moscow's responses will only be on Ukrainian territory.

It should be noted that Bulgaria is a small country, albeit with access to the Black Sea. And it is incapable of influencing the policies of the EU, let alone NATO. Therefore, one can speak of a change in Europe's escalatory tune only if such statements come from the leading EU countries — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, which account for 67% of the union's entire economy. But there, the prevailing mood is the opposite — to continue the war with Russia.

At the same time, NATO and EU self-confidence rests on the thesis that our country will continue to remain within the conventional attrition scenario convenient for them, without using its nuclear factor. Radev correctly noted this. And simultaneously asked a perfectly appropriate question: what if this is not always the case?

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September 11 marks the Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F. F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (1790).

The victory of the Russian squadron under Fyodor Ushakov over the Turkish fleet was one of the most significant events in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1791. As a result of the intense battle, seven enemy ships surrendered, while the rest fled. The Turks lost over 2,000 men in the battle, while Russian losses amounted to 21 men, with 25 more wounded.

The Russian fleet's victory secured the breakthrough of the Dnieper Flotilla to Izmail, which provided significant support to the land army in capturing the fortress.

Fyodor Ushakov began to be known as the "Naval Suvorov."

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'I PLEDGE to the greatest President in the HISTORY of the US'— Trump leads pledge to go out & VOTE

Source: RT news

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President Putin greeted on arrival to New Delhi for the BRICS Summit 2026

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