re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces commander Magyar says a combined Ukrainian strike on the Novorossiysk naval base overnight hit several Russian military vessels, including missile carriers. He also reported that Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Su-33 carrier-based fighter and Mi-8 helicopter near Anapa, plus a Kasta-2E2 radar and a 92N6 radar from an S-300/400 system near Gelendzhik. No footage has been released yet to confirm the claims.

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Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Ryazan Oil Refinery on September 6, satellite footage shared by Exilenova+ shows. The facility, Russia's third-largest by design capacity at about 18.8 million tons annually, remains under constant repairs. AVT-3 and AVT-4 are still being repaired, while new damage from the latest strike is assessed as likely.

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In addition to AVT-3 and AVT-4, the sky over the Ryazan Refinery cleared, and we saw the very burned AT-6 and AVT-1, -
AVT-1 — ~2.0 million tons/year
AVT-2 — ~2.0 million tons/year
AVT-3 — ~3.0 million tons/year
AVT-4 — ~4.0 million tons/year
AT-6 — ~8.1 million tons/year

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[This is] what happens when the enemy concentrates manpower on the front edge, especially on the Dobropillia axis in Donetsk region, inside the Azov grouping's strip. They packed the line. The drones noticed. Eight days into September, and the SBS counter already shows 3,395 dead occupiers. 16,720 enemy targets struck in the same window. Read that again. Sixteen thousand targets in eight days.

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Novorossiysk naval base took a combined strike overnight and lost military vessels, including missile carriers. In Anapa, the SBS birds killed a Su-33 deck fighter, an Mi-8 helicopter, and two radar complexes, including a 92N6 from an S-300/400 battery near Gelendzhik.

Every radar killed means the next wave flies deeper with less resistance.

Moscovia escalates by throwing more bodies at the front. Ukraine responds by making the entire depth of the occupied territories and the moscovian rear a kill zone.

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Since mid-August, more than 90% of Russia's grain export capacity in the Azov-Black Sea basin has been offline following Ukrainian attacks and navigational restrictions, hitting the country's main export corridor during the peak of the harvesting season.

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The only southern grain ports still in operation are those on the Caspian Sea (5 million tons in the 2025/26 season), the port of Vysotsky (1.3 million tons), and the port of Ust-Luga (0.3 million tons). Officials are now reportedly racing to expand their capacity.

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Exporters have essentially stopped buying, and domestic prices for fourth-class wheat have fallen to about 12,000 rubles ($142) per ton, down from 15,000 rubles ($177) a year earlier, representing catastrophic losses for grain producers and exporters.

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Harvesting grain has now become more expensive than selling it. In the Rostov region, wheat prices have fallen to 5-6 rubles per kilogram, while the production cost of grain was 12-13 rubles per kilogram. Other cash crops are also affected by falling prices.

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At least from what I've seen, every single bullet point the AfD gets criticized for being "pro-Putin" on is something that is actually meant to help Germany.

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- The AfD has consistently opposed sanctions against Russia and German military aid to Ukraine.

- AfD politicians have blamed the US and NATO for Russia’s invasion, with party leader Tino Chrupalla claiming that the US “provoked Russia.”

- In 2022, five AfD politicians planned a trip to Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk. The trip was cancelled after public outrage.

- AfD politician Steffen Kotré appeared on Vladimir Solovyov’s Kremlin propaganda show, arguing against German military aid to Ukraine.

- AfD politicians participated alongside Sahra Wagenknecht’s movement in “anti-war” protests calling for an end to sanctions, an end to military aid to Ukraine and restored relations with Russia. Leaked documents later revealed that building such an “anti-war coalition” in Germany was one of the Kremlin’s goals.

- Russian documents described AfD politician Markus Frohnmaier as an “absolutely controlled MP” and discussed providing him with “material and media support.”

- A joint investigation by The Insider and Der Spiegel revealed that AfD parliamentary aide Vladimir Sergienko worked with an FSB officer to try to stop or delay German weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Sergienko also funneled Russian money and instructions to AfD politicians for a lawsuit against the German government over weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

- AfD politicians have repeatedly travelled to Russia, including trips to Moscow and Kaliningrad.

- Hans-Thomas Tillschneider declared after Russia’s full-scale invasion that “Russia is defending itself!”

- Tillschneider has written columns for the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, attended conferences in Moscow, congratulated Putin on his sham 2024 election victory and celebrated Putin’s birthday at the Russian Embassy in Berlin.

- Tillschneider also helped shape the AfD’s 2026 Saxony-Anhalt programme, which calls for ending sanctions against Russia, restoring Nord Stream, expanding Russian-language teaching in German schools and reviving student exchanges with Russia.

- AfD politician Tim Schramm volunteered to fight for Ukraine against Russia. The AfD’s NRW leadership responded by launching proceedings to expel him from the party.

- AfD politician Jörg Dornau co-owns an agricultural company in Belarus that used prisoners, particularly political prisoners, as forced labor. The EU later sanctioned the company over its use of forced labor.

- Chechnya-born AfD member Noah Krieger, originally named Murad Dadaev, travelled to Chechnya, attended parliament with Ramzan Kadyrov, met regime figures and took part in Kalashnikov training. Months later, he appeared in Russian-occupied Ukraine alongside Chechen Akhmat fighters, carrying a weapon and declaring: “I am in Ukraine and stand for Russia.”

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Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who:

- is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife;

- is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself;

- opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted two children;

- and is a hardcore German nationalist but lives in Switzerland.

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