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One bit of reporting doing the rounds is that Trump agreed to an energy ceasefire where Russia stops hitting Ukrainian refineries and Ukraine stops hitting Russian refineries. But Ukraine doesn't have any refineries. It had one, which wasn't running at full tilt anywhere, and was shut down on day one of the invasion in February 2022 and hasn't worked since. Russia has hit it a few times and then left it alone. So Trump was pushing for Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries and in return Russia could just do what the hell it wanted. Obviously this has not flown with the Ukrainians. They've now offered a total ceasefire of hitting all energy targets for both sides, but obviously Russia is not interested in that.

When all this is long, long over and Trump is in the ground, Zelensky could make a killing by just publishing a book called Conversations with a Fuckwit: This Guy Gave Me More Grey Hairs Than Putin.

Ukraine has hit three data centres in Russia and, amusingly, Tom's Hardware and some other sites are tracking a significant drop of pro-Russian BS across social media platforms worldwide. 78% of Yandex's cloud network has stopped taking incoming connections.

Trump has announced that Russia has agreed to an energy ceasefire but no information has been passed to Kyiv. Zelensky has informed Ukrainian forces to prepare to hold fire on Russian energy infrastructure. However, three cruise missiles than hit a power plant in Kharkiv, triggering a Ukrainian response.

Multiple Republicans have broken ranks to say they will block any attempt to buy Russian oil, using existing legislation.

Montenegro has kicked out Russian milblogger Rybar, deeming his presence in the country no longer acceptable.

Putin's aircraft was apparently forced to circle Moscow for almost an hour due to ongoing Ukrainian drone strikes before it could land.

At least 20 senior Russian officers were killed in the 26 August missile strike on the Russian 41st Army HQ in Donetsk. 7 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 5 majors, 1 captain and 1 senior lieutenant were KIA.

Ukraine has struck the Ukhta oil refinery in western Siberia, more than 1700km from Ukraine.

The ISW has assessed that Operation Vivaldi has been a total success and has shattered the Russian northern front in Donetsk. They're still try to figure out where the front is, as Russian forces have fragmented during the retreat and it's unclear where the line will be fully reconstituted, on or well behind the Zherebets.

Ukraine has apparently initiated a new targeting strategy for its long-range drones, hitting Yandex's data centre in  Sasovo, Ryazan. The data centre took multiple hits and caught fire, disrupting internet services. If Ukraine starts systematically hitting data centres the way they hit delivery centres, there's not a lot that could be done to stop them.

Ukraine is pushing its logistics disruption mission further into Luhansk Oblast, destroying an entire supply column of 20 vehicles. Some figures putting at over 3,500, and maybe closer to 4,000, supply vehicles were destroyed in the Donetsk-Luhansk border area in recent months.

The Russian Omsk Oil Refinery has taken another serious hit.

Putin has apparently personally ordered the destruction of all the bridges in Kyiv, and in terms of rules of engagement in civilian areas, has reportedly said, "there are no rules."