🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Situation on the Konstantinovka & Druzhkovka directions, Donetsk Oblast:

Over the last few weeks, Russian forces continued their offensive operations in the Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka areas, although their primary focus has shifted away from capturing the rest of Konstantinovka to advancing on the flanks.

In the west, after the initial breakthrough towards Druzhkovka from the southwest, Russian forces began expanding the width of their breach, pushing eastwards through the treelines onto the tactical heights, and further towards the gullies west of Nikolaypolye. Attacks are also taking place towards the village of Raiskoe.

To the east, the Russians cleared a number of advanced Ukrainian strongpoints west of Stepanovka and expanded their zone of infiltration further north into the forested gullies. Additionally, after capturing the village of Rozkoshnoe, Russian assault groups advanced further northwest and captured the eastern part of Nikolaypolye, which has allowed them to launch assault operations on the treelines to the north. Ukrainian forces cleared out some of the earlier Russian infiltrations in the nearby forested gullies.

To the northeast, Russian forces established control over most of the remaining fields west of Konstantinovka and expanded their zone of infiltration into the western part of Alexeyevo-Druzhkovka. Some DRGs even managed to reach the nearby village of Kondratovka, on approach to Druzhkovka. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continue to periodically enter the northwestern parts of Konstantinovka, where clashes occasionally occur with Russian soldiers. Russian infiltrators continue to approach southeastern Alexeyevo-Druzhkovka from the direction of Konstantinovka.

Further northeast, after capturing the village of Molocharka, the Russians improved their positions to the north, west, and northwest, infiltrating the villages of Stenky and Izhevka. From there, Russian DRGs began infiltrating the village of Kurtovka, while ordinary assault groups expanded their zone of infiltration to the outskirts of Popasnoe.

To the east, Russian forces continued slowly clearing out the remnants of the salient west of Chasov Yar, improving their positions in and around the villages of Chervonoe and Nikolaevka. Other assault groups captured some new positions along the railway line and re-entered the eastern part of Verolyubovka, threatening to physically encircle the remaining Ukrainian formations still present west of Chasov Yar.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Situation on the Dobropolye direction, Donetsk Oblast:

Over the last two weeks, Russian forces continued their assault operations in the Dobropolye direction, making new advances and deepening their DRG infiltrations.

In the northeast, Russian forces recaptured most of Kucherov Yar along with the positions in the forests to the south, allowing them to begin infiltrating north towards the village of Vesyoloe. Other assault groups continued infiltrations towards Zolotoi Kolodez and into Rubezhnoe, while DRGs were detected operating along the railway line northwest of Rubezhnoe.

To the southwest, Russian forces improved their positions along the railway lines west of Novy Donbass and continued attacking Ukrainian positions in the fields to the south. Other Russian assault groups continued infiltrating the northeastern part of Dobropolye, while DRGs are infiltrating north to the outskirts of Belozyorskoe and west to Svyatogorovka. Ukrainian forces are actively counterattacking in Dobropolye, trying to clear the city from Russian infiltrators.

To the south, Russian forces cleared the remaining parts of Shevchenko and began assault operations on Matyashevo. Other assault groups continued fighting for Belitskoe, Chernigovka (Krasnoyarskoye), Krasnopodolye and Dobropolye village. Russian DRGs were also detected in the vicinity of Nadiya, while fighting continued for the treelines northeast of Mirnoe. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces cleared some positions south of Gulevo from earlier Russian infiltrations, while Russian forces continued assault operations west along the southern bank of the Grishinka River.

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🇩🇪🗳 Germany: Saxony-Anhalt regional elections today

Early trends suggest turnout could set a new record for Eastern Germany (excl. Berlin). The current high-water mark is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's 79% in 1998, when the state election coincided with the national parliament election.

🔗 Europe Elects

🛢 Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz averaged 6.7 million barrels per day in the seven days through Thursday, nearly 60% below prewar levels, according to the NYT, despite U.S. military protection helping maintain oil flow.

🔗 Faytuks Network

🇩🇪🗳 AfD stands won 44% of the vote according to an exit-poll.

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🇩🇪🗳 Even if Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW alliance doesn’t enter the Parliament, AfD will be short of just one seat for the absolute majority needed to govern the region.

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🇺🇸 🇦🇫 🇦🇫 Gen. Christopher Donahue, one of the U.S. Army’s most combat-experienced commanders, retired after a 16-month struggle to preserve his career amid Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s purge of senior officers.

Hegseth reportedly targeted him over the Afghanistan withdrawal despite evidence clearing him of responsibility for the Abbey Gate bombing, saying, “I don’t care.”

Despite strong backing from senior military leaders, Hegseth blocked him from leading European Command or becoming Army chief, instead downgrading his role.

He retired on August 27 after his last major backer, Army Chief Gen. Randy George, was also fired by Hegseth.

Source: NYT

https://archive.ph/4Ntdz

📎 Clash Report

♀️ 🇺🇸 📈 Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August.

Women accounted for 158,000 — or around 98% — of the 162,000 jobs added in the month, according to a CNBC analysis of data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

⚡️ Compared with 12 months ago, the BLS found that the level of employed women has grown by more than 870,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis. The male gender has lost nearly 1.5 million employed workers over the same timeframe.

Healthcare, considered the engine of labor market growth for more than a year, continued adding positions in August. Upwards of four out of every five workers in the industry are women.

The local government and education sector roared back to life in August, accounting for 42,000 jobs — or about a fourth of the total net gain. Women hold close to three-quarters of positions related to education, training and libraries.

With Friday's report, the gap between the number of jobs held by women compared with men climbed to levels never before seen, according to Laura Ullrich, director of economic research at the Indeed Hiring Lab.

"You could look at it and say, 'Yay, women,'" Ullrich said. But, "I don't think it's necessarily a positive story for women overall."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/jobs-report-women-payrolls.html

📎 LayoffHedge

♂️ 🇺🇸 📉 Male employment (labor force participation rate) has gotten worse pretty much every year since WW2. That's about 70+ consecutive years of decline.

2008 was bad and it has continued to get worse, the problems of economic stagnation were only masked by ZIRP zero-percent interest rates.

📎 Fugitive Caesar

👨‍💻 🇺🇸 📊 There is an employment recession in the US Information sector.

The Information industry shed -23,000 jobs in August, bringing employment down to 2.75 million, its lowest since the 2020 pandemic.

The Information sector includes software publishing, data processing and computing infrastructure, web search, telecom, broadcasting, publishing, and other information services.

Excluding 2020, this is the lowest reading since April 2015.

Since the November 2022 peak, Information employment has contracted -270,000, or -12%.

By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis and its aftermath, employment in this industry also fell -12%, or -350,000 jobs.

AI is increasingly replacing skilled human labor across parts of the Information sector.

📎 KobeissiLetter

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Germany, 1320/2660 electoral districts counted:

Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election

AfD (ESN): 49.0% (+28.2)
CDU (EPP): 16.2% (-20.9)
SPD (S&D): 8.1% (-0.3)
LINKE (LEFT): 7.8% (-3.2)
GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 7.2% (+1.3)
BSW (NI): 5.1% (new)
FDP (RE): 2.5% (-3.9)
FW (RE): 1.1% (-2.0)
Tierschutz (LEFT): 1.0% (-0.4)
Tierallianz (*): 0.6% (+0.1)
Garten (*): 0.5% (-0.3)
Volt (Greens/EFA): 0.3% (new)
PARTEI (*): 0.3% (-0.4)
PdF (RE): 0.2% (new)
Basis (*): 0.1% (-1.4)

+/- vs. Last election

➤ europeelects.eu/germany

📎 Europe Elects

📖 🇩🇪 🗳 If the AfD end up at 43% today as the polls suggest, then they would be outperforming even the Nazi Party in the state of Anhalt at the peak of their electoral success in 1932.

📝 v. Stormberg: Anhalt was a very small part of current-day Saxony-Anhalt. A better comparison is adding the Weimar electoral districts of Magdeburg and Merseburg together, which gives 43,2% for the NSDAP in July 1932. Meaning AfD probably still outpreformed them today.

📎 Ikon

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 The AfD won decisively in all age groups, except for one: 70+.

In that age group the AfD and CDU received 31% of the votes each.

📎 EuroCon

🗳 🇩🇪 🚷 AfD is popular because Germans have been replaced.

Germanys % Germans dropped from 98% in 1950 to 72% in 2026.

People vote for AfD because of immigration.

📎 swenstone

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Strongest party in each German state. Based on August 2026 polls.

🔵 AfD (far right)
⚫️ CDU/CSU (centre-right)
🔴 SPD (centre-left)
🟢 Greens

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