Polish-Made Tanks Lead Ukrainian Assault in Russia’s Kursk Region
As the Ukrainian offensive unfolds in the Russian Kursk region, the involvement of Polish-manufactured tanks has come to light, with significant impacts on Russian defenses.
The 22nd Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade has been at the forefront of the attack, utilizing PT-91 Twardy tanks, which have a history of being manufactured in Poland.
Retired General Waldemar Skrzypczak, former commander of the Polish Land Forces, noted the sufficiency of the equipment for the operation, reflecting confidence in the effectiveness of these tanks on this front. It was only after a week into the offensive that Ukraine eased its information blackout, allowing the emergence of photos and videos from the early days of the operation, revealing PT-91 tanks leading the charge. These tanks, long familiar within Poland, have contributed to considerable Russian casualties, drawing attention not just in Poland but also in Russia, where their presence has been exploited by Russian propaganda to allege the involvement of Polish mercenaries.
Military officials have described the PT-91 Twardy as an excellent machine for combat and expressed their lack of surprise that these tanks are part of the 22nd Brigade’s arsenal. General Skrzypczak emphasized the brigade’s preference for homogeneous equipment to streamline training, command, and logistics.
Polish-made PT-91 Twardy main battle tank operated by the Ukrainian 22nd Mechanized Brigade participating in the Kursk operation. pic.twitter.com/w4gcuslw9q
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The ongoing use of these tanks by the brigade, which received them back in 2023 and has since experienced heavy combat, including during last year’s unsuccessful Zaporizhzhia offensive, underscores their sustained operational readiness. Despite previous losses, these Polish machines have been maintained, repaired, and kept combat-ready with the assistance of Polish industry.
“They continuously maintain, repair, and fix them because they don’t have many options and strive to keep these tanks always combat-ready, and they do this with the help of the Polish industry,” explains General Skrzypczak.
The PT-91 Twardy, a significant upgrade over the Soviet-era T-72, features enhancements like the Polish Drawa fire control system, maintaining its reputation on the Ukrainian front despite newer tanks like the Leopards and Abrams entering service. General Skrzypczak acknowledges that while it may no longer be top of its class, the PT-91 remains a valuable asset in current operations, where it performs reliably at a higher level of technical readiness. This efficiency is crucial as these raiding units need to ensure their return from operations.
The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region shows no signs of abating, with fresh reports on Monday morning indicating the potential expansion of attacks to the Belgorod region of Russia as well.
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Ukraine kept its plans for an incursion in Russia’s Kursk Region secret, the deputy spokesman for the German government has said. Wolfgang Buchner claimed on Monday that none of Kiev’s backers had been informed in advance about Ukraine’s plan to attack Russian territory.
“There is contradictory and sometimes deliberately distorted information about the operation, which was apparently prepared very secretly and without feedback,”Buchner said at a press briefing.
He did not condemn or otherwise appraise the situation, saying only that “everything so far looks like a spatially limited operation.”However, he noted that details were still unclear and therefore “it would be unwise to make a public statement.”
Buchner said Berlin would be in close contact with “all partners, including the government in Kiev” in relation to the incursion.
When asked whether Ukraine was using weapons supplied by Germany in the operation, Buchner said Berlin did not have sufficient information to comment. However, a spokesman for the German Defense Ministry separately clarified that there was nothing stopping Kiev from using the weapons supplied by Germany on Russian soil.
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“International law stipulates that a defending state may also defend itself on the territory of the attacker… There are no obstacles whatsoever and Ukraine is free to choose its options,” he stated.
The same position was set out by Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) chairman Lars Klingbeil, who defended Ukraine’s “right to defend itself”by encroaching on Russian territory using Western-supplied weapons.
“That is what is happening right now, it is part of a war. You can find that brutal, we all want peace, but we are also consciously saying that Ukraine must be able to defend itself,” he asserted. He noted, however, that Kiev’s reasons for the incursion remain unclear.
“We will certainly hear more in the next few days whether it is about getting Russia to the negotiating table quickly, as some suspect, or whether it is about causing unrest on the Russian side,” the politician stated.
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Kiev’s incursion in Kursk Region, which was launched on August 6, is its largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022. The Russian military earlier reported that the advance by Kiev’s forces into the country’s territory has been halted.
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Detransitioner Sues Planned Parenthood for Giving her Testosterone After 30-Minute Visit
HUDSON, New York (LifeSiteNews) – While best known for abortion, Planned Parenthood is also deeply invested in the gender “transition” business, and its diversification has recently gained it a lawsuit from a young autistic woman it gave testosterone after a mere half-hour of consultation.
On August 7, The Free Press published the story of Cristina Hineman, who upon turning 18 in November 2021 went to a New York Planned Parenthood location to obtain the testosterone therapy she sought without the consent of her parents.
She had been dealing with a variety of issues, including self-harm, depression, anxiety, and autism, many of which were exacerbated by the social isolation of the COVID-19 lockdowns, and recalls being turned on to the possibility that gender was at the source from YouTube videos that led her to conclude, “trans includes all the things I’ve been feeling — my discomfort with my chest, my discomfort with being called ‘young woman,’ not being sure of who I was or what I wanted to be.”
After completing a consent form, answering a few questions, and going over “expected changes” from the hormone – a process taking less than 30 minutes – Hineman was given a prescription for testosterone gel. But after a year of hormone therapy as well as removal of her healthy breasts at age 19, Hineman regrets her transition.
“I was brainwashed,” she said. “A lot of people say that adults should be able to do whatever they want. But if you have mental illness that’s clouding your view, or you’re so misinformed about what gender dysphoria even means, then you cannot consent to such invasive treatments.”
Hineman says she remains left-of-center and in favor of legal abortion, but she is suing Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the PP staffers behind her consultation and prescription, the therapists who encouraged her transition, and the surgeon who performed her double mastectomy for negligence and failure to obtain informed consent.
“There’s a real belief among these plaintiffs and lawyers that this is the great medical scandal of our times,” said attorney Jordan Campbell, who is representing Hineman.
“Treatment without a competent evaluation shouldn’t be foisted on you whether you’re 15 or 30,” added attorney Kevin Keller, who is donating his expertise on other similar lawsuits across America. “Vulnerability is the issue. If there’s no comprehensive screening in place before a medical intervention that’s going to have permanent effects,” that’s a breach of duty, he argues.
A significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide — and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion that “transitioning” is the best solution.
“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with a 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
While Planned Parenthood is best known as the nation’s largest abortion chain, it is also deeply involved in the LGBT movement. It advertises itself as a “safe and welcoming place to get transgender/nonbinary hormone therapy (sic),” including estrogen, anti-androgen, testosterone, and puberty blockers.
According to the abortion giant’s most recent annual report, 45 of its affiliates offered so-called “gender-affirming hormone therapy” in 2022. Its previous report said 30 affiliates participated in 69 medical studies, an unspecified number of which involved so-called “care” to reinforce gender dysphoria.