The Russian Ministry of Defense assured that the Russian army is not retreating from the Kharkiv region, but is regrouping to the occupied part of the Donetsk region "to step up efforts in the Donetsk direction" in order to achieve the goal of a special military operation to liberate Donbas. The Russians said that during this operation a series of "disgusting and demonstrative events were carried out with the indication of the real actions of the troops".

The Russians circulated such a statement in order not to admit that the Ukrainian army carried out a successful offensive and liberated more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region, and allegedly they themselves decided within three days to curtail and organize the transfer of troops to the occupied Donbas.

Anonymous pro-Kremlin telegram channels began to work proactively, assuring that Ukraine would launch messages that the Russians had tortured civilians in the occupied Kharkiv region. Like, the Ukrainian authorities will do everything to show the whole world the massacres of civilians, and thus stop the decline in support from Western countries.

As of September 9, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired and took control of more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region. Now there is a demining of the territories, after which they will announce the losses among the locals.

According to the head of the Investigative Department of the Kharkiv Region Police, Serhii Bolvinov, the first facts of Russian atrocities have already been recorded in the dismissed settlements. In particular, in the village of Hrakove in the Chuhuiv region, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces sacked in September after half a year of occupation, the police exhumed the bodies of two non-local men killed in March. They have gunshot wounds and signs of torture on their bodies.

“There are two more places in this village, they will be examined after demining,” Bolvinov said.

We remind you that the Kremlin did not take the blame for the massacres in Bucha, where 1,137 people died at the hands of the Russian army in the Bucha region, 461 people died directly in the city of Bucha. Instead, Russian propaganda declared that all the materials from Bucha “are not true and are provocative” and came up with more than ten fakes in the style of alleged Russians “did not kill” civilians as this is the work of the “Ukrainian artillery”, which “looks like a planned media campaign”, they said that mass graves with bodies were made by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and that the corpses on the streets were not really corpses.

 This thesis is spread by the Russian media with reference to a study published on the Bloomberg website. In fact, in an article about how skyrocketing electricity bills will affect entrepreneurs in the absence of state support, not a word mentions that the crisis was provoked by anti-Russian sanctions.

On the contrary, the author of the article, Julian Harris, notes that there is such a risk, six out of 10 British manufacturers are in danger of decline due to high electricity prices. The article notes that in order to avoid a crisis, the government should announce a wider support package. "The new government needs emergency action", said Stephen Phipson, CEO of MakeUK.

Russian propagandists love to find international economic articles that talk about hard times for European businesses due to high utility bills and lead to the fact that this would not have happened if it were not for anti-Russian sanctions. They say that the West suffers more from these sanctions than Russia, so it is enough to introduce them, make friends with Russia and get low bills for electricity and gas.

At the same time, the Russian media are silent about the fact that sanctions against Russia will be lifted if it retreats from the territory of Ukraine and does not kill the civilian population and destroy cities and villages.