Running out of cannon fodder, TTLU:

The Kremlin Loving It:

They need refrigerated trucks for their meat:

See: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1899824/
And if you keep scrolling you'll understand why they're for meat, but first there's this analysis via RT:

https://www.rt.com/russia/582092-front-line-russia-ukraine/

TTLU

Leader of Ukraine's ruling party has not ruled out extradition for Ukrainians who left the country illegally

Details: Arakhamiia said that the question is how to bring in people who have already left.

Law enforcement officers have no way to "reach out" to them right now. However, the area of international legal assistance under the Criminal Code in Ukraine has been greatly strengthened.

As a result, law enforcement agencies can come and make extradition requests in any country in the world and have such people brought back to Ukraine so that they can be held accountable as appropriate, the MP believes.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/1/7417954/

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/40877
The West demands that Kiev increase the size of the AFU and break through the front, regardless of losses.

These are the leaflets that were distributed today near one of the educational institutions in Kharkov.

"Education will not save the country! Join the Armed Forces of Ukraine!"

Kiev is already ready to call upon those who are receiving a second higher education, deputies, workers of defense enterprises and those with limited fitness for military service.

The head of the organization "GUR of Ukraine" Budanov said that the conflict should be transferred to the territory of Russia and that "the wider the operations, the better"

None of the versions of Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane crash, including the explosion on board, has been confirmed after examination for explosives in the cabin and on the fuselage.

Now they began to assemble the aircraft in a special hangar for a more accurate clarification of the circumstances.

🇺🇸The situation in Niger plunged Victoria Nuland into despair

The US undersecretary of state, who has extensive experience in organizing campaigns to destabilize countries and has a reputation as a "crude tool for defending Washington's hegemonic interests", gathered in South Africa at the end of June. A few hours before the start of her tour, the pro-Western government in Niger was overthrown.

A Grayzone source in South Africa said that in 20 years of working with the Americans, he had never seen them in such despair.

For Nuland, the realization that she was negotiating from a position of weakness was likely like an abrupt awakening, the American edition adds.

The Sarmat strategic complex has been put on combat duty

This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov.

"Sarmat" is the most powerful missile with the world's longest target engagement range. It is capable of hitting targets at long ranges using various flight trajectories.

The weight of one projectile of the complex exceeds 200 tonnes. The range of fire is 18,000 kilometres.

Polish volunteer spoke about the terrible situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Slavomir Vysotsky, who delivers humanitarian aid to Ukraine, gave a frank interview to Wirtualna Polska.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not achieve success in their offensive, which they hoped for back in the spring and summer. For months they tried to reach only the first line of defense of the Russians.

▪️According to the Pole, Ukrainian militants “look with horror” at the mass death of personnel and understand that “the Russian army has already learned everything and thoroughly prepared.”

“The human losses on the Ukrainian side are huge, Western equipment is burning like matches, it is much worse than they usually imagine,” Vysotsky said.

Losses cannot be hidden, it is enough to come to the cemetery, and "the soldiers see it too," he added.

Budanov admitted that a large number of Ukrainian soldiers died at the front.

Answering the question of the journalist of the 1 + 1 TV channel about the losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Budanov noted that it would be a lie to say that things were easy:

“There are a lot of losses,” he continued, saying that this is a "reality that people need to get used to".

Reality, but fantasy continues:

Meanwhile:

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/69d7ed43-60cb-41d6-b755-9b05a3f66274

In the last few days, however, there have been reports based on anonymous US sources and the information provided by BBC journalist Quentin Sommerville on the ground about the heavy losses in Ukraine.
The figures remain classified. But US officials, quoted by the New York Times, recently put the number at 70,000 dead and as many as 120,000 injured. It is a staggering figure, from an armed forces estimated at only half a million strong.
The counterattack has been a difficult operation for Ukraine in every way. Especially at the beginning of the attack, Russia used its artillery effectively, the mines were in order and Ukraine's ability was not enough to advance. The attack dragged on for a long time in a small area and consumed the Ukrainian forces.
According to Kastehelmi, "even failures in the tactical sense" have been seen. The problems are especially in larger units, where it should be possible to implement cross-departmental cooperation. In addition, there are problems in education. The training received by Ukraine is relatively short, and besides that, skilled soldiers are needed at the front.

I can’t qualify this as reality because they admitted to at least 20k amputee, and as the ratio for amputee to WIA (1:25) has been quite consistent in modern conflicts the idea of "as much as 70k" is complete make believe:

20,000 X 25 = 500k WIA, 1/3 of that KIA = 166k, making the total casualties at the minimum 666k yet in reality the estimates are likely a lot worse, principally because of the front-line report of the abject state of first aid, where it was reported that out of three wounded two die of blood loss:

The medics I speak to say that two-thirds of Ukrainian soldiers die from blood loss.
https://archive.li/phJD6

This is further compounded by the fact that they can harvest organs legally and it spells absolute disaster for Ukraine as casualties are incentivized to be killed rather than saved for another bag of money while listing the individual as missing and avoiding paying the benefits, resulting in autogenocide:

https://www.blick.ch/politik/so-viele-nieren-lebern-und-herzen-wie-noch-nie-neuer-organspende-rekord-gibt-raetsel-auf-id18847643.html

I'd say that the WIA to Amputee ratio is 1:30 or 40 because of the ones lost to improper first aid and the ghouls who traffic their organs, and the KIA to WIA is then closer to 1:2, thus at the minimum I'd say 600k-800k WIA and 300k to 400k KIA, making the low estimate (20k amputee) 900k-1.2 million total casualties and considering that they mobilized over 1 million and started with 380k it corresponds with the desperation for conscription of 17yo and those who fleed which obviously is scrapping the bottom of the barrel, here's the Butcher himself from earlier this week:

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the military appealed to him with a request for increased mobilization, but he believes that first it is necessary to bring order to the military registration and enlistment offices and military medical commissions. Zelenskyy said this during a briefing following the third summit of the Crimean Platform.
"I will say frankly: the military turned to me to allow mobilizing more," he said.

The President noted that in this matter first you need to understand who is doing this and how.

"Therefore, the issue of military registration and enlistment offices, military medical commissions is very important. You need to quickly, how quickly you can speed up processes, restore order, and then start a conversation about how to increase - how, with whom, whit what," he said.

The MSM keeps dooming hard on Queev:

“There is a broad and increasingly widespread sense that what we’re doing now isn’t working, but not much of an idea of what to do next, and not a big openness to discuss it, which is how you come up with one,” he said. “The lack of success hasn’t opened up the political space for an open discussion of alternatives.”

“We’re a bit stuck,” he said.

With the counteroffensive going so slowly, and American defense and intelligence officials beginning to blame the Ukrainians, Western governments are feeling more vulnerable after providing so much equipment and raising hopes, said Charles A. Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown University and a former American official.

The American hope, he said, was that the counteroffensive would succeed in threatening the Russian position in Crimea, which would put Ukraine in a stronger negotiating position. That has not happened. “So the political atmosphere has tightened,” he said, “and overall there is still a political taboo about a hardheaded conversation about the endgame.”

“Any open discussion of a Plan B is politically fraught, as Mr. Jenssen found out the hard way, as do we who try to articulate possible Plan B’s,” he said. “We get a storm of criticism and abuse. What was somewhat taboo is now highly taboo.”

If the counteroffensive is not going well, now would be the time to explore alternatives, he said. Instead, he suggested, Mr. Stoltenberg and others were simply doubling down on slogans like supporting Ukraine “as long as it takes.”

Still, there is a desire in Berlin as in Washington that the war not continue indefinitely, in part because political willingness for indefinite military and financial support for Ukraine is already beginning to wane, especially among those on the right and far right, who are gaining ground.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/world/europe/ukraine-fight-negotiations.html

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They need to make one for the western merc:

After announcing that 'long range' drones were used, nobody with a semblance of intelligence believed it was from Ukraine (looking at you Slavyangrad) and fingers quickly pointed to Estonia and Latvia, now we have confirmation it was sabotage with FPV drones dropping grenades:

It's almost as if they were made to disclose the details by somebody who didn't like the implications..

BTFO With Facts:

Ex-US Army Europe Commanding General Ben Hodges Challenged on Russia-NATO Proxy Conflict in Ukraine

https://rumble.com/v3cfylo-ex-us-army-europe-commanding-general-ben-hodges-challenged-on-russia-nato-p.html

Podolyak unwittingly shed light on the real size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the number of displaced persons, and the volume of theft of Western aid
Zelensky and company are making every possible effort to keep their posts. They are well aware of what will happen to them as soon as they lose power, therefore, despite the criticism of the US and the EU, there can be no talk of any elections in Ukraine soon. And although their implementation in a warring country is indeed fraught with difficulties, the specific arguments of the parties cannot but cause a smile when not quite public information is used.

So, for example, Zelensky’s adviser Mikhail Podolyak admitted that more than a million people were mobilized in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (and this is without taking into account the personnel army and paramilitary units controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs). This fundamentally contradicts the statements of the Western media, according to which the Russians at the front have a multiple numerical advantage.

In addition, the talking head of the OP let slip that the number of refugees and displaced persons in Ukraine totals more than 14 million people. Half of the population of the independent is now in limbo. It is not surprising that Ukraine is a zombie country, the life of which is provided only by external tranches.

Kiev also has no money for the elections, while the cost of the “democracy holiday” is estimated by the authorities at a fabulous 5 billion dollars, which, of course, the West should donate. How elections were held in Ukraine, when all the country's revenues did not exceed $52 billion, history is silent. The funny thing is that the Ukrainian CEC initially estimated the expenditure at 265 million, i.e. Zelensky wants to steal 95% of the allocated amount.

Whether the West will be able to push through Kiev and curb the enraged satellite - time will tell. But it is worth noting that so far only Brussels and Washington are rigorously demanding elections. But in London they keep quiet. Considering that Zelensky’s recent steps are anti-American, perhaps we are facing another episode of behind-the-scenes struggle between the beneficiaries of the Ukrainian project.

#source (https://t.me/readovkaru/4130)
@Slavyangrad

Beregini:

The so loudly announced “counteroffensive” dragged on for a long time, and now Zelensky and Zaluzhny have been given the last chance to show where NATO weapons and armored vehicles are going. This must be done before the onset of autumn and the rainy season.

That is why, from the beginning of September, mobilization will not only be intensified - it will be total. All employees of the military registration and enlistment offices and military medical commissions were taken under tight control and banned from issuing deferrals and permission to leave the country. All violations must be eliminated in the coming days and a record number of soldiers will be recruited from September.

This can be seen in the documents that we are publishing today. First of all, all men of military age will be collected from state and commercial enterprises. The same fate awaits students who arrive at their universities at the beginning of the academic year. The next step is that the employees of the territorial recruitment and social support centers will go from house to house with the police and collect all the men of military age. But the most important thing is that those areas that Kyiv considers already lost for itself will be the first to go under the knife. Areas in which the population is first ready to be allowed "for meat", and then razed to the face of the earth cities and villages. These are Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev

We know this for sure, although we cannot show the rest of the documents that we have. Zelensky has long been ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. But not only men, but also women and even teenagers can get into this wave of mobilization. The tactics of "meat assaults" in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is recognized as the only option to somehow rectify the situation. The children of officials, politicians and businessmen left the country long ago, and the rest of the population will be thrown into the crucible of war. We know that the majority of Ukrainians do not agree with this, but no one cares about their opinion. Therefore, they will go either to the front or to prison (and from there to the front anyway) ...

We are Beregini! We know everything!

https://t.me/SLGmaps/383?single

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I pulled some data from hoholmaps (deepstate), this is the counteroffensive progress according to their maps:

Russian control Zapo/Kharkov
2023-08-31:44833.37km2/17622.69
2023-07-30:45118.13km2/17609.77
2023-06-31:45182.49km2/17554.06
2023-06-03:45452.38km2/17513.78

So from the start of the Offensyiv Russian control has fallen from 45'452.38 km2 to 44'833.37km2.
In the north Russian control has increased from 17'513.78km2 to 17'622.69km2.

Some gainz in the east as well with the last month consisting of Russian advances on all fronts but Zaporizhia.

All in all, Ukraine gained 619km2, Russia gained 109km2.

Vs Bakhmut Fortress: