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Ian Fleming

, author of the

James Bond

novels, said

that if something happens once it is chance, twice it is coincidence and three times it is enemy action.

A Russian Su-25 fighter jet crashed while taking off from Crimea

on September 11.

Since then they have crashed a MiG31, a Su-32 a week ago in Krasnodar and this Sunday a Su-30 crashed into a block of flats in the Russian city of Irkutsk.

There are already 64 Russian combat aircraft shot down by Ukraine or in accidents

, another negative record in modern war history that shows the immense damage that this conflict is causing in what was previously considered the second largest Army in the world.

Today has not been a good day for the Russians either in heaven or on earth.

Partisan activity returned with a vengeance in the occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhia.

In Kherson, the first capital conquered by the Russians during the first days of the war,

several Russian soldiers died when their vehicle exploded in the center of the city

.

In the Zaporizhia region, more specifically in the city of Energodar, the same one where the nuclear power plant is located, the Alisa hotel where many Russian soldiers sleep, was blown up without knowing if it was a bomb and how many soldiers they died.

Russian military channels are increasingly pessimistic about the fate of the city of Kherson and its garrison.

For most, an orderly withdrawal seems inevitable.

The problem is that it is not easy to leave a territory without taking casualties and leaving behind a large amount of heavy weaponry.

An effort must be made to confuse the enemy, to make him think that everything is the same and that no one is withdrawing from their positions when in fact they are.

If something goes wrong and the Ukraine takes advantage of it,

the Russian lines may panic and lead to a

worse rout than the recent one on the northern front.

Civilians recruited by Putin a few weeks ago throughout Russia have already joined his service.

In a long video, about 27 minutes long, a large group of newly mobilized, with their faces covered,

shows their indignation at the total lack of training they have received

, the poor quality of the weapons received and the inflated prices of the equipment they They had to pay for themselves, despite being assured that the helmet and bulletproof vest were paid for by the local government of

Sergey Sobyanin

, mayor of Moscow, since these soldiers belong to the 15th motorized regiment based in the Russian capital.

They say they were taken to the Soloti base in the Belgorod border region, where they were left in tents, but did not receive a single hour of training.

"They told us that they didn't expect anything from us

," confesses one of the recruits to the camera.

"There are people here who can't even carry 15 kilos of weight, when backpacks and weapons weigh up to 25 kilos," says another about the physical condition of some mobilized.

Of course, they also complain about not having received a single ruble.

In its energy war against Ukrainian civilians,

Vladimir Putin

's army today launched 40 Kaliber missiles and 16 drones against nine attacked regions, again with many shot down by anti-aircraft defense.

Russia has destroyed 90% of Ukraine's wind installations, as well as 50% of its solar plants.

In the capital, Kiev,

an alarm kept Kievites in their shelters for about three to four hours

during the night from Saturday to Sunday, which did not prevent thousands of people from filling the restaurants in the center of Kiev on Sunday at noon, as if war were something far away.

It is the strange day to day in this city, in which when night falls its streets look like those of London in 1940.

We have been seeing strange diplomatic movements from Moscow for several days.

Two days ago it was

Sergei Lavrov

, Russian Foreign Minister, who spoke with US Secretary of State

Antony Blinken

.

Today Russian Defense Minister

Sergeii Shoigu

picked up the phone to speak with his British counterpart Ben Wallace.

The object of the discussion, according to the Russian media, was to warn the United Kingdom of Ukraine's intention to escalate the conflict, a theory that Wallace rejected

"in a climate of respect"

, in addition to reiterating that neither Ukraine nor any of the the countries that support the Kiev government want to "escalate the war".

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