Slavyansk, Now.

It is not going to have electricity, period. Strikes on Kiev, Krivoy Rog et al continue this very minute. Massive. 

Meanwhile, the weirdo who knows shit about real war and masturbates to drones, continues to shake the air not understanding what sustainment is and how it works. Mostly platitudes and, yes, "let's create another command". 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed a major Army convention Wednesday amid a leadership shake-up in the military’s largest branch, discussing the Pentagon’s approach to autonomous systems and calling for Congress to pass a massive defense budget. Speaking for more than an hour, he defended his 20 percent cut to general officers at the Pentagon and once again called on Congress to pass President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget. ... Hegseth shared the need to form a combatant command, called Autonomous Warfare Command, that will focus on developing drones and robotics. He argued the organization, which will be led by a four-star general, should have been established years ago. “We’re going to use rank to drive change with the right people in those positions, but not just legacy formations and commands, which have gathered over time and haven’t led to battlefield efficacy. In this case, we need this kind of authority yesterday,” the Defense secretary told Owen West, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit who moderated the panel. 

Difficult to explain to him that the US Army will never be able to fight on the modern battlefield with serious opponent--it is an obsolete force which lost legacy systems and didn't get new ones. It is not just the Army, it is procurement system based on shoddy military academe, destroyed industrial base, panic fear in a face of serious casualties, and political system which is utterly corrupt. As Oriental proverb states--you may repeat the word baklava 100 times, it will not get any sweeter in your mouth. In related news, just yesterday Russian forces unleashed at least 25 2M22 Zircons at 404, 12 of those delivered "presents" to Kiev alone.  Of course, Iskanders and Geraniums also flew in. How's that "hypersonic weapon" program going, Mr. Hegseth, eh? 

To My Patrons. Patreon Shift.

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Continuation Of The Energy Truce ...

... because Donny said so. So, Russians struck at all thermal power stations of Kiev. 

You see, this is from today. All of Kiev and oblast are largely without electricity. Russia can do it all day ... I mean all year long non-stop. Sustainment, you know, the real one. 

Garland and Yours Truly ...

 ... live in 50 minutes. Larry and I also recorded conversation today--it will come out later. 

Many Grandiose Statements ...

 ... from Warsaw. Trump's La-La Land. 

Three Tankers In One Day ...

 ... yesterday. 

Mines do their job. They will continue to do their job. Even green drug-addict tries to introduce common sense. 

Correct. The impact of 404 attacks on Russia's refineries is grossly exaggerated by khohols and the whores from Western media to maintain the narrative that Russia is losing. But that's what they do--lie. They, together with Pentagon and CIA, still cannot wrap their brains around what they are witnessing on the battlefield. But then again--it is a fine American military tradition to "learn" from losers and then try to hide own inefficiency and down right incompetence behind propaganda. 

Poles only now begin to learn what sustainment, lack thereof that is, is: 

WARSAW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Deliveries of some US weapons systems to Poland are set to be delayed, including interceptors for the Patriot air defense system, Polish army operational commander General Ireneusz Nowak said on Monday. Reuters reported in April that US officials had informed some European counterparts that some previously contracted weapons deliveries were likely to be delayed as the Iran war draws on weapons stocks.

I am not making these things up, I merely report situation and largely from Western sources in order not to be accused of bias. 

"At this point it looks like we are going to be affected as well. That’s very visible in the area of PAC-3 MSE Patriot missiles, they’re going to be delayed for sure,” Nowak told a panel at the Warsaw Security Forum. “In general there’s going to be impact and there are going to be... additional delays to the deliveries scheduled already or being under the contract already.”

Welcome to the world of virtual capabilities. Yet, NATO's Nazi animals perfected torture of POWs and putting explosive collars around their necks with GPS. Per "energy truce", as Mr. Peskov stated today: Kremlin will inform when there is something to say on this matter. All these hysterias about "naive Putin" or "Russia was played" are really nauseating. 

A Strangely Coherent ...

 ... statement from DJT. Dmitry Orlov's algorithm.