🇳🇪 Images shared by witnesses (Kanazi, West of the capital) indicate that Niamey is on lockdown and that entry and exit are not permitted.

Vehicles are being held up while they wait for the situation in the capital to develop.

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🇳🇪 From one source, what is happening in Niger is an attempt at a violent coup d’état, not a rebellion limited to the demands of desperate soldiers.

It appears that the junta has lost control over part of the army
Many units are on their way to the capital, which will take time, and the final outcome could change before they arrive

General Tiani, chairman of the military council, and a group of presidential guards loyal to him are barricaded inside the presidential palace and are attempting to repel the coup plotters

The coup plotters control most of the strategic axis and sites in the capital, including the airport.

Other reports suggest that they are negotiating with the Russians (i assume they want them to not try to protect the power in place) and are preparing to launch a major offensive on the presidential palace if the general refuses to surrender.

The Nigerien government has lost control over a significant portion of the army

Both sides (loyalists and mutineers) are contacting various units to try to get them to join their side by asking them to return to the capital

One notable detail: National Gendarmerie does not seem to be responding and is not leaving its barracks for a reason that remains unknown at this time

It’s somewhat of a race against time to rally the bulk of the troops to one side or the other, even though the situation could be resolved before the units arrive in the capital

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Missile War Monitor: petrol queues in Russia, purchase limits in Ukraine's supermarkets

Petrol was on sale at fewer than a third of Russian filling stations this month, and the Ukrainian supermarket chain ATB began capping purchases on August 28 due to Russian drone attacks.

Ukraine has launched a total of 21 strikes against Russia’s oil refineries in August. Russia has retaliated by trying to systematically destroy Ukraine’s retail infrastructure, which has started to empty the shelves. The largest store operators announced on August 28 they are freezing pay and cancelling bonuses.

The 48 hours to Saturday morning Ukraine hit a Magnit hypermarket outside Moscow, a first for the chain, along with three retail and e-commerce warehouses in Rostov region.

Russia cut power to more than 300,000 people in Nikolaev, burned 125 tonnes of grain on lorries outside Izmail, and destroyed a Fozzy hypermarket at Vishnnyovoe. As this series has tracked since the campaign against the civilian economy began, the conflict has moved from a war of attrition to a total war after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine it had opened a “Pandora’s box” by targeting Russian retail assets.

On August 28 drones hit the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl, about 700 km from Ukrainian territory, where the general staff confirmed a fire and said the extent of damage was still being assessed. It was the eighth strike on that plant this year. Perm lost about 74% of its capacity to a strike on August 21, its second this year; NORSI at Nizhny Novgorod went down on August 26; and with Volgograd already offline every major Lukoil refinery in Russia stopped processing.

In Ukraine, From August 28 ATB began limiting customers to six units or six kilogrammes of a given product per receipt, nationwide and online, on eggs, canned fish and meat, oils, vinegar, starch, grains, pasta, cereals, salt, baking soda, sugar and dry groceries. This is not rationing and should not be reported as such. ATB's own explanation is that individual customers were buying in bulk to resell, stripping shelves locally, on top of the damage to its warehouses. Its representative said flatly that "there is no shortage of products in the stores". Silpo has introduced no comparable limits and has told customers not to panic.

Supermarket chain the Fozzy Group, which runs Silpo, Fora, Fozzy and Thrash!, said on August 28 that ten of its distribution centres had been damaged in August alone, that a Silpo supermarket in Krivoy Rog had been destroyed, and that it was freezing hiring, cancelling the autumn salary review and Q3 and Q4 bonuses, and suspending voluntary medical insurance from October 1.

Fozzy's own hypermarket and production facilities at Vishnyovoe, on the western edge of Kyiv, were hit on August 28. The store halted operations with the scale of damage still being assessed and nobody was hurt. It was part of a wider night: Kiev regional head Tymur Tkachenko counted 14 warehouse premises damaged across five districts, along with 16 private houses, three apartment blocks and 16 vehicles. One warehouse held the stock of the bookshop Readeat and the publisher Vivat, which suspended shipments.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/missile-war-monitor-petrol-queues-in-russia-purchase-limits-in-ukraine-s-supermarkets-464347/