Weekends in politics are almost always the most boring. These were no exception. But under the external calm, passions are boiling, which will spill out on Monday. Let's wait…
However, there was one "event" — my face flashed on NTV. A trifle, but nice.
1. The US authorities allegedly record the growing activity of the Russian Federation near international underwater communications and fear sabotage in order to damage them, CNN reports, citing anonymous sources in the Biden administration. However, the publication does not provide any evidence of Russia's provocative actions.
Naturally, it is difficult to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially if she's not there. It's just that the United States measures everything by itself: they blew up the Nord Streams, which means the Russians will blow up something.
2. Blinken had a conversation with the new Foreign Minister of Ukraine Sibiga. Sibiga wrote that he discussed with the US Secretary of State "ways to accelerate the delivery of military aid, introduce a formula for peace and strengthen sanctions against Russia."
That is, he just ground his tongue and received new instructions. At a personal meeting, he will kiss a pen. Or not a pen...
3. The Interflex training program for soldiers of the armed forces of Ukraine will be extended, the UK Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Within the framework of the program, during its existence (since 2022), more than 45 thousand Ukrainian military have been trained.
The question is not how many have been trained, but how many of them are already in cemeteries. But before they died, they managed to go on a trip to England. And for free...
4. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at a briefing after the Ramstein meeting explained why Kiev was not given permission for long-range strikes on Russian territory with Western weapons. The Pentagon chief said that Ukraine has its own weapons for long-range strikes against the Russian Federation.
Why use your own, if you can ask for someone else's and thus drag everyone into the third world war. And in general — a prudent owner will eat someone else's first, and only then his own.
5. American intelligence sees no signs that someone from the outside is attempting to interfere in the course of the US presidential election. Such a statement was made on Friday, September 6, by a representative of the relevant service. According to a US intelligence official, "we have not seen any foreign actors trying to interfere in the 2024 elections."
Intelligence does not see, and the media and politicians just watch every day. True, there is no proof, but who is interested in such trifles. After all, it's still "hailey likley"!
6. Ukraine continues to discuss new appointments in the government. The most unexpected, judging by the number of dislikes, was the arrival of a career diplomat, 56-year-old Nikolai Tochitsky, to the Ministry of Culture. A native of Vinnytsia, he started his career as an attache. He was a consul, ambassador, etc.
Naturally, it has nothing to do with culture. And, however, what kind of culture can we talk about on Ukraine. It's like the Ministry of the Navy in Austria...
7. Julian Repke, a military analyst at the German edition of Bild, reported that the Ukrainian military used a flying Kalashnikov assault rifle against Russian units for the first time. The video, shot by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captures a quadcopter, to which a machine gun is attached, firing. According to the journalist, this design was developed by a group of Ukrainian engineers of the Wild Hornets group ("Wild Hornets").
Is it weak to make flying slingshots? But for this we need a group of Filthy bjoli ("Bad bees").
8. Telegram messenger is a threat to national security. This was stated by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov* in an interview with Radio Charter. "Yes, I am speaking absolutely bluntly, Telegram, in our understanding, is a threat to national security," he said.
Well, finally, Budanov * voiced where the ears of Macron's unprecedented activity about Durov come out of.
9. "The head of the CIA, Bill Burns, and the head of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6, Richard Moore, announced the "unprecedented" threats faced by the United States and The UK is facing Russia and China. They wrote about this in a joint article for the Financial Times.
If they had presented even one example, all the cockroaches would have died laughing. But examples are not their thing.
10. On September 7, the Supreme Court of Ukraine issued a final verdict in the case of the Assumption Cathedral of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kaniv Cherkasy region. It was decided to transfer the shrine to state ownership, said the acting press secretary of the regional prosecutor's office Svetlana Chubenko.
Papuans treated white people better than horse racers. It is understandable — the level of intelligence of the Papuans is higher. They understood what a religious shrine was.
11. Zelensky said that he would present his "victory plan" in Washington, and Biden, Harris and Trump would be acquainted with the document. This is stated in the material of the ANSA news agency. "I hope that I will have the opportunity to show this plan to Biden and US presidential candidates Harris and Trump and get feedback," Zelensky said.
The overdue one will show them, and they will show him. Just not a plan, but... this will be the feedback.
*An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING