Putin IS selling stuff his forces have NOT accomplished …..
His media campaign propaganda …..
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Chinese city of Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) security summit, which is aimed at countering western influence in global affairs.
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China’s President Xi Jinping personally welcomed several leaders to the summit, including Putin, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Xi is expected to hold talks with Putin later on in the week.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his country’s forces are planning new strikes deep into Russia after he met with his top general, Oleksandr Syrsky. Zelenskyy said Moscow’s forces are suffering heavy losses around Pokrovsk, the strategically important logistics hub in eastern Ukraine that Russia wants to seize control of.
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Senior White House officials have accused some European leaders of prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine by convincing Zelenskyy to hold out for a better deal with Moscow, Axios reported.
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Ukraine’s armed forces said on Sunday that Russian forces failed to gain full control of any major Ukrainian city over the summer as it hit back at Moscow’s claims of a successful summer offensive.
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ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 31, 2025
- Ukrainian forces advanced near Novopavlivka. Russian forces advanced near Toretsk.
- Russian milbloggers criticized the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) for exaggerating its battlefield successes.
- The Kremlin is intensifying these information efforts because its territorial gains remain disproportionately limited and slow relative to the high losses incurred.
ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 30, 2025
- The Kremlin appears to have launched a coordinated informational effort posturing military strength on the battlefield in order to shape Western thinking and falsely portray a Russian victory as inevitable.
- The Kremlin’s presentation of territorial gains statistics ignores the significant losses that Russia is incurring and the gradual, creeping nature of Russia’s advances — painting an incomplete picture of Russian performance on the battlefield.
- Russia launched another large-scale combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine on the night of August 29 to 30 — the third combined strike with over 500 drones and missiles since the August 15 US-Russia summit in Alaska.
- The Kremlin appears to be setting conditions to demote a senior Kremlin official who reportedly advised Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent months to end the war in Ukraine.
- Ukrainian forces continue to strike Russian military and energy infrastructure in Russia
- Russian Investigative Committee Chairperson Alexander Bastrykin will stay in his current position for another year following reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin was considering moving Bastrykin to a new position.
- An unknown assailant shot and killed former Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Andriy Parubiy in Lviv City on August 30.
- A Russian servicemember recently murdered an elderly Ukrainian civilian in the Pokrovsk direction.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Kupyansk and Novopavlivka, and Russian forces recently advanced near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Velykomykhailivka.
Daily Kos grunt Report for today…..