Time for the surrounding countries to invade Russia! :D (JOKE)
ISW Key Takeaways
Russian military leadership has likely failed to set information conditions for the potential defeat of the Russian grouping in Lyman, despite increasingly concerned discourse among Russian milbloggers regarding the potential for a Ukrainian envelopment of Lyman.
The Kremlin could temporarily postpone announcing the annexation of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory to better prepare the Russian information space and administrative organization, although September 30 remains the most likely date for some kind of annexation announcement.
Russian authorities continue to send newly-mobilized and undertrained recruits to directly reinforce severely degraded remnants of various units, including units that were previously considered to be Russia’s premier conventional fighting forces.
Ukrainian forces likely continued to make significant gains around Lyman on September 28, advancing from the north along the Zelena Dolyna-Kolodiazi arc and from the southeast around Yampil.
Ukrainian military officials largely maintained operational silence regarding specific Ukrainian actions in Kherson Oblast on September 28 but stated that Ukrainian troops are continuing positional battles in unspecified locations to consolidate and improve their positions along the Southern Axis.
Russian forces continued unsuccessful ground attacks in Donetsk Oblast.
Russian military recruitment officials are openly contradicting the Kremlin’s publicly-stated guidelines for mobilization to meet quota requirements even as Kremlin propaganda is attempting to change the public perception of partial mobilization.
Russian authorities are beginning to restrict movement of Russian citizens into Russian border regions to cope with hundreds of thousands of Russian men attempting to flee the country.
+++
⚡️The Times: Russia likely bombed Nord Stream pipeline with an underwater drone.
People under Russian occupation cut off from internet, mobile connection
(kyivindependent.com/tech/russia-descends-iron-curtain-over-occupied-land-cuts-people-off-internet)
Ukraine war latest: Kremlin’s proxies in occupied territories ask to join Russia as Ukraine makes progress in Donetsk Oblast (kyivindependent.com/national/ukraine-war-latest-kremlins-proxies-in-occupied-territories-ask-to-join-russia-as-ukraine-makes-progress-in-donetsk-oblast)
After claiming a nearly 100% support rate in illegal annexation votes, proxy leaders in Moscow-held territories of Ukraine asked to formally join Russia on Sept. 28.
⚡️Ukraine receives 500 million euros in budget support from EU.
🔎 German intelligence services had been passing on secret information about Russian troops to Ukraine for months
The decision to start transferring intelligence to Ukraine was made in the third month of the war. At the same time, Germany was conducting a legal study on the admissibility of passing this information to Ukraine so as not to become a party to the conflict.
💡The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania asks its citizens to leave Russia as soon as possible
Earlier, Bulgaria and the United States made similar appeals.
❕The Ukrainian military in the south have already detected A total of more than 30 Shahed-136 drones. 22 of them were shot down, and only 10 have achieved hits, but not all have been effective — Nataliia Humeniuk, Head of the Joint Coordination Press Centre of the South Defence Force
🇫🇮 The government of Finland will significantly limit the right of Russian citizens to enter the country as tourists or when traveling to other parts of the Schengen area. Tomorrow, it plans to pass a resolution to this effect. Also, later this week, the Finnish authorities are to consider the fence on the border with Russia. It is said in the statement of Finland’s government.
More high personnel losses - it's almost the new normal.
(the ducklings have grown a lot in just 4 days!)