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[Korrespondent] 22:41 Zaluzhny inherited $1 million from an American of Ukrainian origin Grigory Stepants, after which he transferred all this money to the needs of the Ukrainian army, writes The New York Times, citing the Stepantsov family. This was confirmed by the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the request of the UP.
22:36 Yermak said that Ukraine will have everything to return its territories and counter-offensive: "And the tankers will be happy, and the artillerymen, and soon the pilots."
22:02 The Security Policy Commission of the National Council of Switzerland (lower house of parliament) adopted a parliamentary initiative providing for permission to re-export Swiss weapons from third countries to Ukraine.
21:58 British volunteers Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed while attempting a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar, the British Foreign Office said.
21:26 Flashmobs of stars, protests and numerous diplomatic negotiations did work. Ukraine will receive Leopard 2 tanks and not only them. About how this can change the course of the war - in the material Let the leopards out .
21:23 Washington has nothing to announce yet about the possibility of supplying Abrams tanks to Ukraine, said Pentagon Speaker Patrick Ryder. According to him, the United States will train the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the use of American M1 Abrams tanks if they are delivered.
20:32 Zelensky said that he had spoken with Macron: "Thanked for the breakthrough decision to provide light tanks and for further strengthening the defense capability of Ukraine, in particular, with advanced air defense systems. We also discussed diplomatic steps to end the war. He emphasized separately that there is no place for athletes from Russia at the Paris Olympics.
20:26 The Netherlands wants to buy 18 Leopard 2 tanks from Germany and transfer them to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
20:02 Politico writes that the Biden administration is considering sending 30-50 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
19:55 Norway is considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with up to eight Leopard 2 tanks out of 36 available to it, writes Dagens Næringsliv.
19:47 Scholz decided to transfer Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine , writes Spiegel. We are talking about at least a tank company - this is from 10 to 14 vehicles. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive a version of the Leopard 2A6 tanks.
19:22 On the morning of Tuesday, January 24, the dismissal of several high-ranking officials at once was officially announced: in the President's Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Prosecutor General's Office and among the heads of regions. The media write that this is only the beginning of high-profile resignations, sources talk about the upcoming dismissal of other officials. All this was preceded by a series of corruption scandals. Read more in the material Personnel purges .
19:20 Mobilization in Ukraine began on February 24 last year and continues, there are no waves of mobilization, said the head of the personnel department of the headquarters of the Ground Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Gorbach. According to him, now the Armed Forces need specialists both for new types of weapons provided by partners, and to make up for losses. First of all, personnel are mobilized for certain accounting and military specialties.
19:03 In Mariupol today, at about 18:00, a blow was struck at the barracks of the invaders, in which more than 200 people of "Caucasian appearance" were based, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. The place of impact was closed by military occupiers, many ambulances and "Ministry of Emergency Situations" arrived.
18:24 In Sevastopol, since January 20, the Russian military commissariats have been assigned the task of making up for the losses of the Russian Federation in the war at the expense of local civilians from the units of the Black Sea Fleet. All civilian workers are required to fill out forms, where they indicate information about the military rank in the reserve and the presence of a driver's license, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:10 Atomic scientists from the University of Chicago moved the hands on the "Doomsday Clock" ten seconds closer to "nuclear midnight". Now, according to scientists, there are 90 seconds left before the “point of the nuclear apocalypse”. The war of Russia against Ukraine, Moscow's nuclear threats, climate threats, technological development and biological threats (coronavirus) led to the change of time. Previously, clock hands never showed less than 100 seconds before midnight.
18:00 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the agency's experts, together with Ukrainian personnel, examined the Ukrainian nuclear power plants for the presence of weapons and did not find them. Earlier, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the Ukrainian army was allegedly stockpiling weapons and ammunition on the territory of nuclear power plants.
17:46 Bloomberg writes that already on Wednesday, January 25, Germany may give Poland permission to re-export its Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
17:39 At the eighth meeting in the Ramstein format, 12 countries agreed to transfer about 100 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, ABC News reports citing sources. In addition to Poland and Finland, which have publicly agreed to transfer part of their Leopard 2, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark are ready to contribute. However, in order for the tank coalition to continue discussing this issue, the consent of Germany is necessary.
17:36 Finland will contribute to the tank coalition, President Sauli Niinoste said during a visit to Kiev: "Taking one tank here, one there is not enough. There must be a powerful unit in Europe. We are discussing the possibility of building such a unit and we are considering different options from Finland". In addition, according to him, Finland can conduct exercises of the Ukrainian military on Leopard tanks.
At the same time, the president of the Scandinavian country noted that in the context of the transfer of tanks to Ukraine, one should take into account the significant border of Finland with Russia and the fact that Finland is not yet a member of NATO: "This should always be borne in mind when we think about how be our role. But it will be constructive, and we will contribute to the creation of this unit."
17:05 The United States may announce the transfer of Abrams tanks to Ukraine this week, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing sources among officials. According to them, we are talking about a "significant number" of tanks.
16:57 Ukraine was never going to attack Belarus, but it also did not offer to conclude a non-aggression pact, Zelensky said: "We were not going to and are not going to attack Belarus. And this is the main signal from the entire Ukrainian people to the Belarusian people. It is important for us that Belarus has not lost its independence and, despite any influence of anyone, has not entered into this completely shameful war... Everything that Ukraine officially proposes, you hear it all.I can confirm once again: we are not going to attack Belarus and are not We have such intentions.
16:34 Biden is ready to transfer ten Abrams tanks to Ukraine to put pressure on Germany so that she transfers Leopard 2 to Kiev, Sky News Arabia reports, citing a Pentagon representative.
4:30 pm The West is urging Ukraine to turn its attention from the fight for Bakhmut to the upcoming offensive in the south, CNN reports, citing US and Ukrainian officials. Analysts note that for almost six months the defenders have been "toe-to-toe" with the Russians in the Bakhmut direction, and as a result of intense shelling, the city is almost completely destroyed. Instead of a grueling battle for Bakhmut, Ukraine is offered to switch to mechanized maneuver warfare using tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, which will soon be transferred.
16:16 Poland has asked Germany for permission to transfer 14 Leopard 2 tanks of the A4 modification to Ukraine, Reuters reports citing a source in the German Defense Ministry. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw intends to ask the EU for compensation for the tanks: "The European Union must compensate us for these costs, and I hope that this will happen. This will be another test of goodwill."
16:12 Pushilin said that due to significant damage, "there is no expediency" to restore housing in Soledar.
16:08 Russian media write with reference to the "authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye region that a car belonging to a local businesswoman exploded in Berdyansk, previously, she was in the car. According to Ukrainian publics, this is probably about the ex-deputy of the city council from the Opposition Platform for Life Valentina Mamai. The car exploded on Rudenko Street, where the Berdyansk Animal Welfare Service is located, which is led by a collaborator. Mamai collaborated with the invaders almost from the first day of the invasion, giving them family members of veterans and ATO/JFO fighters. According to preliminary information, she and two other passengers of the car were hospitalized after the explosion.
15:46 The Russians fired artillery at the village of Liptsy in the Kharkiv region today - two people were injured. They also fired mortars and artillery at the settlement of Strelechie - there were no casualties there, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
15:21 Finnish President Sauli Niinoste is visiting Kiev - he has already met with Zelensky.
15:17 German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said at a PACE meeting that Berlin is not against the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine, but advocates an increase in the coalition of such suppliers: "I admit: Ukraine needs more support. But not only from my country, but from of all countries. Therefore, we call for tanks to be provided by a large group of countries."
14:51 Erdogan has taken on a negotiating mission to release civilian Ukrainians whom Russia is holding on its territory, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. According to him, there are currently no methods for rescuing civilians from Russian captivity, but Ukraine wants to return everyone whom the Russian Federation has abducted since 2014.
Ukraine has practically no information about where they are, in what place, in what condition. If Russia has not filed any charges against them, then according to International Humanitarian Law, it must return them.
14:27 Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the type of aircraft that will probably be provided to Ukraine has already been determined: "Our military pilots traveled to the United States, funds were allocated for the training of our pilots ... That is, the aviation theme has never left agenda. The type of aircraft that is likely to be provided to Ukraine, and the corresponding time frame for the training of personnel, have already been actually determined."
14:23 According to UN estimates, 17.6 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 45% are women, 23% are children, and 15% are people with special needs. 27% of the total number of needs are catastrophic, 8% of people have an emergency level of needs, 52% have a severe level of needs.
14:02 Peskov said that the supply of German tanks to Ukraine "does not bode well for the future of relations" between the Russian Federation and Germany. According to him, "relations are already at a rather low point, and there is no any substantive dialogue with Germany and other countries of the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance."
13:28 The SBU reported suspicions to the commander of the 52nd heavy bomber aviation regiment of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, Colonel Oleg Timoshin, who is responsible for missile attacks, including attacks on a high-rise building in Dnipro and a shopping center in Kremenchug. His orders led to the death of 88 Ukrainians and the injury of 240, the SBU noted.
13:05 CNN got access to a Ukrainian intelligence report on the tactics and effectiveness of Russian mercenaries from PMC Wagner. The document says that they have extremely strict discipline and do not count losses, which is why they achieve success. According to intelligence, the Wagnerites pose a serious threat at close range, because assault groups do not retreat without a team. For retreat they face execution or painful death.
Tens of thousands of recruited convicts are often used in the first wave of attacks, and they suffer the most losses - up to 80%. They are followed by more experienced fighters. If the Wagner PMC forces manage to get into position, artillery support allows them to dig trenches and gain a foothold. However, according to intercepts, coordination between the Wagnerites and the Russian military is often lacking.
12:58 The Russians fired on Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, four people were injured, including two children, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
12:29 Russia will soon activate the use of airborne troops, in February-March there will be active hostilities in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, there is also a possibility of a second attempt by the occupiers to enter Ukrainian territory across the border in the Kupyansk direction, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate said in an interview with Ukrinform Ministry of Defense Vadim Skibitsky.
He also noted that today the threat and, in general, the rhetoric of the use of nuclear weapons is not as relevant as it was in early autumn. This was facilitated, in particular, by the measures of the international community on nuclear safety.
11:54 Germany has received an official request from Poland to re-export Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Reuters reports citing Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.
In turn, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Berlin has not yet decided on the transfer of tanks to Ukraine.
11:33 Lukashenko said that he was offered to conclude a non-aggression pact with Ukraine. At the same time, he claims that Ukraine “continues to train militants and extremists”: “I don’t know why the Ukrainians do this. On the one hand, they ask us not to fight with Ukraine in any case, so that our troops don’t move there. Pact they propose to conclude a non-aggression. But on the other hand, they prepare this explosive mixture and arm them. Poland, Lithuania are generally crazy. Why do they need this? It's incomprehensible."
11:29 Some Chinese state-owned companies are supporting Russia in the war with Ukraine, Bloomberg writes, citing sources. According to the publication, the Biden administration expressed "serious concern" to Beijing, raised this issue in the negotiations and finds out whether the Chinese authorities know about the participation of state-owned companies in helping the Russian Federation. Beijing has also been warned of the consequences.
According to informed sources, we are talking about non-lethal military assistance to circumvent sanctions. The aid was described as "conscious assistance to Russia in its military operations." Relations between Moscow and Beijing are now very close, sources say, and China is doing more than ever to help Russia. However, Beijing has so far refused to supply weapons.
11:12 Stoltenberg expressed confidence that Western countries will soon reach an agreement on the supply of tanks to Ukraine.
11:09 In the Kherson region over the past day, one person was killed due to Russian shelling, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
10:56 Electricity consumption in Ukraine on January 24 remains at the level of the previous day. Electricity production increased slightly, and the capacity deficit remains significant, Ukrenergo said. All oblenergos have been notified of daily consumption limits.
10:33 The Russians have reduced the number of attacks on Belogorivka, Luhansk region, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. In his opinion, this may be due to the fact that the invaders sent their main forces to capture Soledar. Meanwhile, fighting continues near Svatovo and Kremennaya - there the enemy throws regular military men into battle in order to only keep these settlements.
10:28 British intelligence notes that disagreements in the top military leadership of the Russian Federation continue, and one of the signs of this is the likely dismissal of Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky from the post of one of the key operational commanders of Russian troops in Ukraine.
Teplinskiy was an officer on the ground regarding the successful withdrawal of Russian troops from the west of the Dnieper in November 2022, and he has been recognized in Russia as a capable and pragmatic commander, analysts say. Now it is unclear whether Teplinskiy will retain his additional powers as head of the Russian airborne troops. There is a real possibility that the debate over the tasks given to the Airborne Forces contributed to his dismissal: the Airborne Forces were often used to hold positions traditionally assigned to motorized infantry.
According to intelligence, disagreements in the top military leadership of the Russian Federation are also connected with the fact that the head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, is trying to impose his personal power over the campaign.
10:17 Attorney General Andrei Kostin signed an order to dismiss his deputy Alexei Simonenko, who went on a ten-day vacation to Spain during the war.
09:55 Reznikov supported the request of his deputy Vyacheslav Shapovalov to resign after the scandal with the purchase of food for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Shapovalov was responsible for the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and asked to be fired "so as not to pose a threat to the stable supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of a campaign of accusations related to the purchase of food services." At the same time, the department continues to insist that the accusations are "groundless and unfounded."
09:32 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin issued a "decree" on the appointment of Oleg Morgun as the "head of administration" of Mariupol instead of Konstantin Ivashchenko. Morgun previously headed the Novoazovsky district in the "DNR".
09:25 Ukrainian troops are gradually advancing towards Kremennaya in the east of the Lugansk region. This operation, most likely, is a preparatory stage for the spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes Politico, citing a senior Pentagon official. According to American analysts, the capture of Kremennaya will open the way for the Ukrainian army to advance on Severodonetsk and Lysichansk.
09:14 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three civilians were killed - in Novopokrovsky, Paraskoveevka and Chasovoy Yar. Three more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:11 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that three Russian attack helicopters Ka-52 were destroyed in the eastern direction in half an hour of anti-aircraft combat tonight.
08:58 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) confirms Ukrainian intelligence data that Russian troops are preparing for an offensive operation in the spring or early summer of 2023. Analysts also write that Russia continues to deepen military and economic relations with Iran.
08:39 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 24th.
personnel - about 122,170 (+690) people liquidated,
tanks - 3152 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 6284 (+8),
artillery systems - 2148 (+2),
MLRS - 448 (+1),
air defense systems - 220 (+0),
aircraft - 289 (+2),
helicopters - 281 (+4),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1897 (+3),
cruise missiles - 749 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4944 (+8),
special equipment - 194 (+1)
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08:31 The enemy continues to advance in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, despite numerous losses on their part. In the Kupyansk direction, he conducted unsuccessful offensive operations, all enemy attacks were repelled. In the Limansky, Novopavlovsky, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions, the enemy is on the defensive, the General Staff said in the morning report .
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of settlements: Chervonopopovka, Luhansk region; Belogorovka, Razdolovka, Salt, Krasnaya Gora, Bakhmut, Kleshcheevka, Novobakhmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Vodiane, Marinka, Donetsk region.
According to the General Staff, within ten days in some settlements of the Luhansk region there has been a decrease in the number of enemy personnel. In addition, it has become a practice that the majority of mobilized Russian military personnel are sent to the front line, while professional military personnel are trying by all means to remain in the rear. It also became known that the Russian occupation administration of Luhansk is evacuating the families of servicemen of the 2nd Army Corps of the RF Armed Forces from the city to Russia.
02:41 The German concern Rheinmetall could transfer 29 Leopard 2A4 tanks to Kiev by April or May, another 22 of these by the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024, as well as 88 Leopard 1 (but when is unknown). A total of 139 tanks - provided that the German government gives permission for this, writes RND with reference to the press secretary of the concern.
00:49 Next week, representatives of a number of countries will gather to promote the idea of creating a special tribunal for the crime of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Kuleba said: "Many events are happening privately on the diplomatic track that bring us closer to the creation of a tribunal. One of them will take place on the next week. In one place will gather a group of countries that will be very active in promoting the idea of a special tribunal. When the event takes place, we will tell you separately about it. " The Minister assured that it is not about "symbols", but about effective and concrete steps.
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[RIA] "The position of Germany is unacceptable... I'm trying to weigh the words, but I'll say it straight. Ukraine and Europe will win this war - with or without Germany. However, it depends on Germany whether they want to join the mission to end the barbarism of Russia or are going to sit back hands, dooming yourself to be on the wrong side of history."
No, this is not said by Zelensky and not by the former Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin , Melnyk. This is a quote from an interview with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to Wnp.pl. There are many more attacks against Germany:
"The Germans fell into a trap that they set for themselves. For many years they were engaged in a policy of rapprochement with Russia. They hoped that they would be able to appease the Russian bear with generous contracts. This policy failed, and it is still difficult for the Germans to admit their mistake. The slogan of Wandel durch Handel ("Change through trade." - Approx. ed.) Has become synonymous with an epoch-making mistake. I constantly urge Olaf Scholz to take decisive action. Germany is a powerful state both economically and militarily. <...>
The war is here and now. The Ukrainian defenders of Europe need tanks right now. Do the Germans want to keep them in warehouses until Russia defeats Ukraine and knocks on the gates of Berlin?
Morawiecki not only scares Germany, but also promises to save Europe from the Russians:
"We will build a "smaller coalition" of states that are ready to transfer part of their modern equipment, modern tanks to the warring Ukraine. We will not passively watch Ukraine bleed. The Ukrainian people are fighting for our freedom. Sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine is a question Polish and European state interests. We will not allow Russia to capture Kiev and then set fire to all of Europe."
What happens? On behalf of Europe, the leader of Poland speaks, reproaching the Germans for indecision, which may lead to the fact that Russian tanks will be near Berlin. But in addition to reproaches, Morawiecki says that he will win this war anyway - not Poland, but Europe will win. And Germany will be on the wrong side of history, or even internationally isolated, according to Poland's deputy foreign minister.
The point here is not at all in tanks: the Poles have long been putting pressure on the Germans in every possible way, and for a variety of reasons without them.
The apotheosis of the claims was the official demand for 1.3 trillion euros in reparations for damage caused during the Second World War - absolutely provocative, given the fact that a third of the current territory of Poland is former German lands transferred to it by Stalin. What is Warsaw trying to achieve and why is it behaving this way?
Usually, the Polish arrogance is explained by the support of the Anglo-Saxons: the Poles, they say, feel the support of Washington and London , therefore they behave so defiantly.
It is beneficial for the Anglo-Saxons to use Warsaw to put pressure on Berlin in order to prevent unequivocal German (and even German-French) leadership in Europe, and the Poles sincerely believe that they can become one of the main pillars of the European Union - at least one of the four key powers. The Ukrainian conflict gives them an excellent reason for this: not only the EU , but the West as a whole needs Poland as a territory for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and Europe's strategic gap with Russia makes Poland the main shield in the way of Russian expansion.
This is what the Poles are trying to sell to the West, but something else is more important to understand the role of Poland. The trouble with the Poles is that they want to take someone else's place in the eyes of the Germans - the place of Russia. Although in fact Poland is the former Ukraine, that is, a part of the world alien to Europeans (and Ukraine is the future Poland, in other words, what the Europeans want to make of the Independent).
Poles' claims to European leadership are ridiculous: since the time of Charlemagne (since the 9th century), Europe has been a German home. Yes, there are also other peoples in it - primarily Romanesque - but they all revolve around the Germanic tribes (which include the Franks, that is, the French). The Slavs inhabiting Eastern Europe have never been and will never be perceived by the Germans as full-fledged Europeans, that is, as their own: at best, they can be baptized into their faith, at worst, simply assimilated. But in any case, they must be subordinated to the real - Western - Europe : no independent and even less Russian-oriented existence is unacceptable.
Poles are the closest relatives of Russians: by blood, but not by historical path. By choosing the Catholic faith, the Poles linked themselves with German Europe, remaining ethnically alien to it, but more or less understandable and generally within their orbit. It was Poland that was for Europe and the Germans the main eastern neighbor, the embodiment of Slavism (but not Orthodoxy), behind which loomed incomprehensible Muscovites-schismatics with their Tartaria.
So it was until the 17th century, while Poland, in union with the semi-Russian principality of Lithuania, owned a considerable part of the Western Russian lands. If in 1612 the Poles had held on to the Moscow throne and Russia had disappeared, Poland would have remained the main Slavic power for Europe, with which they would have fought and which, sooner or later, would have been subjugated to their influence.
But then the Russians appeared on the European arena, who first took Kyiv from the Poles, and then went to the Baltic. Petrovsky's "window to Europe" became a death sentence for an already decrepit Poland - it was in the Baltic states that the Russians united with the Germans. Russia has its own Germans, the Baltics. And now for Europe the main Slavs have already become not the Poles, but the Russians.
In 1760, the Russians took Berlin - yes, along with the southern Germans, the Austrians, but there was no place left for any Poland in Europe. It was divided between the Russians and the Germans for a century and a half. And only the death of two empires, German and Russian, gave the Poles a chance to revive their state.
Could it be successful? It is not known, because the Poles immediately tried to restore the situation of the 16th-17th centuries, that is, to become the main eastern state for Europe. And for this they relied on the isolation of the USSR , on the constant confrontation between Europe and Russia, without thinking that they themselves would become its first victim. However, they fell even earlier - in 1939, when the Germans decided to liquidate the Polish state, and the Russians agreed to partition it in order to return their historical lands.
But even this experience taught Poland nothing. The state, restored in 1944, did not regain the eastern lands (populated mainly by Ukrainians and Belarusians), but in return received more than generous compensation in the form of a huge piece of German lands - parts of Prussia , Pomerania and Silesia. At the same time, the new Poland ended up in Moscow's orbit - in the socialist camp, in which it behaved like one of the most disobedient.
The collapse of the Eastern bloc and the collapse of the USSR brought Poland back to Europe, but even there the Poles soon became rebels defending intolerant values and their own independence. At the same time, they remained true to the interwar times, again relying on playing off Europe and Russia. And in 2013, with the beginning of the active phase of the struggle for Ukraine, Poland decided that its finest hour had come.
And if she succeeds in wresting the Square from the hands of Moscow , then she can become the most important country in Europe. Though not equal to Germany, but at least it will again be the main eastern pillar of Europe, the center of the alliance of the countries of the Baltic-Black Sea belt and a shield from the Muscovites.
That is, in Warsaw they want to return the 16th century - both for themselves and for Russia. The task is ambitious, but why spread rot on the Germans ahead of time, without waiting for the defeat of Russia? Why these trillion claims? To humiliate Berlin? And what will happen if Europe, on behalf of which Poland speaks, loses Ukraine to Russia? What will this mean for Warsaw? Even if, during the collapse of Ukraine, she gets a piece of Nezalezhnaya, will this strengthen her position in the confrontation with Germany?
Does Warsaw really believe that they can, if not outplay the Franco-German alliance in determining the future of Europe and its politics, then become a full-fledged part of it? Hopes for Anglo-Saxon help in this struggle are ridiculous: Washington and London can use Warsaw in intra-European games, but they will never place their main bet on it.
Therefore, the only situation in which the Polish strategy would seem justified is a war, a long and exhausting conflict between Europe and Russia. The longer it lasts in the form of a real war for Ukraine, the more attention will be paid to Poland by the powers, both European and Anglo-Saxon. But what will happen "at six o'clock in the evening after the war" when attempts to grow a "new Poland" out of Ukraine fail? It is better for Warsaw not to think about this.
Since there is simply no chance that the window to Europe cut by Peter I will be boarded up forever: sooner or later it will open again. This means that the Poles will not again become the main Slavic people for the Germans - this place will again be occupied by the Russians. And the situation will return not to the beginning of the 17th century, but to the 18th century. This is not about a new division of Poland, but about the fact that at the next round of the restoration of German-Russian relations, it will simply be pushed aside - into a dark corner of history.
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I'm not a military guy; and I know a lot of you are. So please humor me. Are a limited number of very modern tanks going to make a big difference in Ukraine?
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#3 I'm not a military guy; and I know a lot of you are. So please humor me. Are a limited number of very modern tanks going to make a big difference in Ukraine?
If they are used the way the Russian would use them, then no, they won't make a lot of difference.
If they are used the way NATO/US doctrine says they should be used, it will be a Sunday drive to Moskva.
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So everything about this war has demonstrated that tanks should not be used in this war. Our new plan is to send in a bunch of tanks to be operated by Ukrainians still on their learners permits. The mastermind of this grand strategy is Miley, the genius behind our Afghan withdrawal. Lindsey Graham is big proponent of this excellent plan. I feel sort of pessimistic.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:48 Calculations of the 203mm self-propelled guns "Malka" of the 2nd battery of the 1st self-propelled artillery battalion of the 17th Brigade of the 3rd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces are firing at enemy targets in the Ugledar direction -video 20:39 "We work quickly, clearly and for sure" -video
Crews of 152mm self-propelled guns "Msta-S" of the Central Military District continue to cover the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Artillerymen use the "roaming gun" tactic to give the enemy no chance of returning fire.
The maximum efficiency of combat work is ensured by the introduction of modern information exchange technologies through secure electronic tablets.
Forward spotters and UAV operators transmit target coordinates directly to the battery commander's map.
The well-coordinated and effective actions of the artillerymen of the Central Military District prevent the transfer of enemy reserves and support the offensive actions of Russian troops in all directions.
20:36 Shooting from over the horizon: a tank destroys armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya —video
The tankers fired on the only road along which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being supplied on one of the sectors of the front on the Kremennaya-Svatovo line. Every time an enemy rides on it, they risk getting hit by a projectile.
This time such a fate befell the Ukrainian MTLB along with its entire crew. With the second high-explosive fragmentation shell, the tank stops the car, then finishes it off with the next one.
Later, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to pull back the armored personnel carrier that had turned into a sieve.
19:52 Russian units continue to advance on all fronts, denazifying all Ukrainians who refuse to raise their hands -video
19:51 Russian gunners convey fiery greetings to all Ukrainian fascists from Cheburashka -video
19:49 The combat work of the Russian mortar crew to destroy the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
19:46 Local businesswoman received shell shock after blowing up a car in Berdyansk.
Previously, the power of an improvised explosive device was up to 200 grams of TNT. The ambulance took the victim to the hospital.
18:50 According to information from our source from Kherson, yesterday there wasinflictedartillery strike, as a result of which the AN/TPQ radar station was destroyed, four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of, two were injured of varying severity.
18:46 Merciless close trench battle. Our fighter in the course of the battle eliminates Bandera at point-blank range -video
17:58 Hunting for the enemy near Svatovo-Kremennaya: reconnaissance and gunners destroy armored vehicles and infantry.
Artillerymen of the Russian 1st Tank Army covered the armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was transporting militants for rotation in the Novoselovsky area. The survivors fled, leaving the wounded behind.
17:36 DPR special forces and artillerymen destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass -video
Artillery of the 9th Regiment, while adjusting the scouts of the 1st separate special forces battalion, hit the armored vehicles and manpower of the enemy.
17:01 In Berdyansk, a car belonging to a local businesswoman exploded; previously, she was in the car, the authorities of the region report.
16:24 Balance: Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly shell the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region
“Unfortunately, this non-targeted artillery attack of the left bank from the right bank by wandering mortar groups [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] is carried out literally regularly,” he said.
16:10 Russia has enough weapons, since the beginning of the year, the army has been supplied with the most demanded types - thousands of units, Medvedev said at a meeting in Izhevsk.
15:50 All over Ukraine announced air alert.
15:10 The full version of the battle between the Terminator and the Brave tank against the advancing forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya — video
Our tank under the cover of the BMPT "Terminator" destroyed the attacking group of infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the BMP.
The advance of the attacking group was discovered in the forest by scouts using unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Russian crew of the Terminator tank support combat vehicle advanced to meet the militants and opened fire on the attackers.
Tankers bypassed the enemy from the flank and attacked the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the battle, enemy infantry fighting vehicles and a tank were destroyed, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses, and the survivors fled.
14:41 Tough shots: assault on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video
Our aerial drones quietly approached the fortifications, crawled under the barbed wire and blocked the APU militants in their own dugout, the military commander said.
After a quick fight, one Ukrainian militant stepped forward and was shot at point-blank range.
As a result, three were taken prisoner, two were destroyed. Drones of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR were operating.
14:34 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (24.01.2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery of the Western Military District inflicted fire damage on units of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Timkovka and Berestovoe in the Kharkov region.
More than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored fighting vehicle and a car were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire from the Central Military District inflicted a defeat on units of the 80th and 95th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Over 30 Ukrainian servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, an M-777 artillery system and two US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radars were destroyed.
Offensive operations of units of the Southern Military District continued in the Donetsk direction. Army aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated the units of the 25th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ????the settlement of Seversk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The total losses of the enemy amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, two pickup trucks, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle and a 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In the Zaporozhye direction, as a result of artillery fire and active operations of units of the Eastern Military District, more than 25 Ukrainian servicemen of the 108th territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Prechistovka and Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, two 152mm howitzers D-20 and 122mm D-30, and three cars.
In the Kherson direction in the area of the settlement of Antonovka, Kherson region, artillery of the Airborne Forces destroyed a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the command post of the 57th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the warehouse of missile and artillery weapons in the areas of the settlements of Artemovsk and Novoukrainka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, the 64th Artillery subdivisions were defeated at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 102 districts.
Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the settlement of Peski-Radkovsky, Kharkiv region, destroyed a self-propelled firing system of the Ukrainian Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system.
Ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by means of air defense in the areas of the settlements of Novochervonoe, Zolotarevka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Nikolskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chubarevka, Ternovatoe, Mikhailovka of the Zaporozhye region, Krynki, Vasylivka, Novaya Kakhovka and Knyaz-Grygorovka of the Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 376 aircraft, 203 helicopters, 2,944 unmanned aerial vehicles, 402 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7614 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 988 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,898 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8,159 units of special military vehicles.
14:14 Combat work of 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews to destroy ukrofascists in one of the directions - video
13:36 Bone in the throat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: our gunners continue successfully to hit the enemy.
Russian howitzers at the forefront - a bone in the throat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy has no chance!
12:34 An effective link between the work of UAV operators and gunners in the destruction of Ukrainians in the Avdiivka direction - video
12:18 A blown up dill pickup truck on a TM-62 anti-tank mine in one of the directions - video
12:03 Ukrainian nationalists sent reserves of an entire convoy to the Svatovo-Kremennaya front - video
Our reconnaissance spotted at the entrance, and artillery greeted the arrivals safely.
11:40Ukrainians leaving mine Everybody. Territories abandoned by non-humans seem to turn into glades with mushrooms, although mines are everywhere instead of mushrooms.
Who do you think goes first towards the enemy before the offensive?
That's right, they are sappers. Their task is to remove the minefields for the passage of attack aircraft, and after the guys knock out the enemy, they also have to clear the territory from deadly gifts.
11:06 Terrible frames from Gorlovka: the Ukrainians hit houses and schools
As a result of Nazi aggression in the center of Gorlovka, school No. 55 was damaged, trolleys were destroyed, and tram tracks along Lenin Avenue were broken. The Moloko supermarket, located near the damaged school, is closed.
Rounds exploded in the area of Lvovskaya Street and Dimitrova Boulevard.
The photo also shows a house on Dimitrova Boulevard. The heating system and the gas pipeline were broken, a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded.
In the photo - apartment No. 5 of the house on Dimitrova Boulevard (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka) after a direct hit by a shell of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Damaged interfloor slab and interior partitions.
Wounded a civilian A. Yu. I. 12/07/1950
10:54 The center of Gorlovka was attacked. Broken school. Night report News Front from the Central City District, once again under Nazi fire.
10:25 Moral and psychological condition Ukrainians before being sent to the Soledar area.
Shooting at civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk was much easier than running into Wagner fighters, so smearing the snot of the future missing person is understandable.
10:15 Russian crew of the combat support vehicletanks "Terminator" in the NVO zone opened fire on the advancing nationalists.
As a result of the battle, the enemy infantry fighting vehicles and the tank were destroyed, the militants suffered losses and fled.
10:13 In the Zaporozhye direction, our artillerymen continue to work on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine day and night, supporting the advancement of assault groups - video
09:45 The column of forced distribution of subpoenas continues, Krivoy Rog is in touch - video
09:31 Combat work of the Russian T-90M "Breakthrough" tank to destroy Ukrainian soldiers during the assault on the settlement Marinka - video
08:39 Self-propelled installation "Brave" crushes Ukrainian positions on the Kremennaya-Svatovo line - video
152mm "MSTA-S" fires from different firing lines, using the tactics of "wandering guns". Forward spotters and UAV operators transmit the coordinates of the target to the battery commander, who gives the command to destroy it. An effective defeat of the enemy prevents the transfer of enemy reserves.
08:15 Summary on the morning of January 24, 2023
At the line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Artemovsk (Bakhmut)-Soledar-Seversk continues to collapse: after the capture of Soledar and the village of Sol, PMC Wagner is moving towards Seversk with heavy fighting.
To the north of Artemovsk, our forces are fighting near the settlement. Red mountain. In the city itself, fighting is fighting on the southern outskirts. South of Artemovsk "Wagner" is advancing on the settlement. Red from Kleshcheevka. The task is the operational environment of the city.
On the Svatovo-Kremennoye front, our positional troops also use the Solntsepek TOS on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the Zaporozhye direction - fighting on the Orekhovsky sector of the front.
To the west of the Pavlovka-Ugledar direction, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting reconnaissance in force in the Vremyevka area.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 120 rounds of ammunition in the DPR, Donetsk, Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Gorlovka, Nikitovsky districts, Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya, Kashtanovoe were under fire. 7 civilians were wounded.
In the Belgorod region, near the village of Kazinka, Valuysky urban district, our air defense shot down an enemy missile. Opposite the region, in the Sumy region of Ukraine, new artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are noted
In the Kursk region, the village of Volfino in the Glushkovsky district was shelled.
In Kyiv, the enemy is building fortifications. On the territory of Ukraine, an active phase of mobilization is underway, men are detained and taken to the military registration and enlistment offices directly from the streets of cities without checking documents.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 01/24/2023 to 00:00 01/25/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 14 facts of firing by the VFU.
-- In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired five rounds from 155mm artillery.
-- On Gorlovsky six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
-- On Ilovaisky two artillery attacks from the Himars MLRS.
-- On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 66 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts), Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Aleksandrovka, Vladimirovka, Ilovaisk.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in Aleksandrovka.
Wounds of varying severity were received by five civilians in Ilovaisk and previously liberated Vladimirovka.
A total of 14 housing constructions were damaged in the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Vladimirovka and Aleksandrovka, as well as two2 civil infrastructure facilities.
At the previous 24 hours, 18 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
22:05 The attack on Zaporozhye continues: "Hyacinths" are working on the equipment and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
The offensive operation has slowed down in a number of sectors of the front, the enemy's defenses are being broken into with large calibers.
Scouts on the front line identify the accumulation of forces and enemy firing points.
Over the front line, quadrocopters work around the clock.
Reconnaissance provides the coordinates of artillery that strikes at targets.
21:55 Frontline summary January 24:
In the Zaporizhia direction (Fig. 1) and near Donetsk, without any special changes. Ours are firing artillery at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, positional battles continue.
Near Artyomovsk (Fig. 2), Wagner PMC fighters are advancing towards Ivanovsky, where the road to Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka passes, supplying the Bakhmut group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. For the same purpose, they attack in the Predtechino area. Fighting continues in the Paraskoveevka area. The capture of Ivanovsky and the establishment of control over the supply route significantly brings the operational encirclement of Artemovsk closer.
In the area of Nova Kakhovka, our military stopped an attempt to force the Dnieper, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to about 100 people.
The front “breathed” in the Ugledar direction (Fig. 3) - in a number of sectors the enemy’s defenses were crushed, there was a struggle to cover Vugledar. According to information from the field, our troops received an order to move to the West. They note that the current offensive operation takes into account the previous experience of battles, the command does not see the expediency of taking a settlement head on.. Also near Donetsk, the battles for Maryinka, attacks on Pervomaiskoye and Novobakhmutovka continue. According to the latest data, ours took Vodiane.
I want to say that the current initiative actions of our army on different sectors of the front are greatly disorienting the enemy. Kyiv does not know at what point in time and exactly where our army will go on the offensive, and this introduces additional confusion in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The main thing is to use these opportunities and realize the advantage.
APU attacked Gorlovka. There are hits on the school, residential buildings. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. For the third night in a row, strikes have been made on Ilovaisk, deep in the rear of the DPR. The Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped an explosive device from a drone in the village of Gornal, Kursk region. Two wounded. In Berdyansk, another terrorist attack - the car of a local businesswoman was blown up. So far no details.
Ours destroyed the Ukrainian air defense system Buk-M1 in the area of the settlement. Peski-Radkovskie Kharkiv region.
It is restless in Kyiv. At the request of the United States, personnel changes took place, which affected both the Cabinet of Ministers, regional administrations, and the office of the president. I think that the epic with tanks is moving towards its logical conclusion - deliveries. At the same time, the head of the German Defense Ministry, at a meeting with the NATO Secretary General, said that the alliance should not become a party to the conflict in Ukraine.
To which Stoltenberg replied that Germany's decision on tanks would soon follow, and all countries that have these tanks can prepare them for transfer to Ukraine. The Czech Republic, however, has already been christened - said that they need tanks to ensure their own country's security. The German concern Rheinmetall reported that it was ready to deliver 139 tanks to Ukraine: 29 by April-May 2023, 22 tanks by the end of 2023-beginning of 2024. Today, American journalists reported.
The army of Belarus officially opened warehouses for long-term storage of military equipment and began to get vehicles from there for combat coordination of the armies of Belarus and Russia. Ukraine is nervous and offers to sign a non-aggression pact.
As for our weapons, Medvedev continued his series of trips to defense enterprises. He visited Izhevsk, held a meeting at the plant of the Kalashnikov concern and said that deliveries to the RF Armed Forces of reconnaissance and attack drones and loitering ammunition for the needs of the Northern Military District are increasing. That's good. All this is very necessary for our front.
20:42 Attack near Donetsk: BMPs of the 5th Brigade support the advance in Maryinka with fire -video
The advance of the assault groups in Marinka is supported by the fire of armored vehicles and artillery. Including light armored vehicles, incl. BMP-2 destroying enemy manpower
19:40 Zaporozhye direction:
Kamenskoye - no progress. The enemy from the dominant height conducts artillery shelling
Pubic - success, cleaned up, soon the Russian Armed Forces will go further, reinforcements are coming for further action.
Small Shcherbaki and Shcherbaki - the enemy dug in well. Field commanders (lieutenants) - act competently, send the Armed Forces to Valhalla , little by little. The UAV operates in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:37 Operation of the Ka-52 attack helicopter. Ugledar direction, where our offensive is now going on -video
18:43 The situation in the Donetsk-Zaporozhye direction along condition at 17.00 January 24, 2023
At the Orekhovsky sector, units of the 58th Combined Arms Army tried to storm the Novoandreevka-Novodanilovka line, but the offensive failed, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attack. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation returned to their original lines.
Additional NLAW ATGM launchers and AGS-17 mounted grenade launchers were delivered to the area of Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka, where units of the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Special Forces Regiment "Gepard" of the National Guard of Ukraine are located.
On the Pologovsky site, Russian servicemen began to advance in the direction of Gulyai-Polye. According to some reports, the Russian Armed Forces squeezed out Ukrainian formations from several strongholds at the Malinovka-Chervonoe line.
Anti-aircraft missiles for MANPADS and aiming devices were delivered to the forward positions of the 253rd battalion of the 129th troop brigade in Belogorye and Lugovskoye.
Artillerymen of the Russian Armed Forces are conducting massive fire on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Novoselka-Bolshaya Novoselka line in the Vremyevsky sector.
In the Ugledar sector, soldiers of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet and the 7th operational-combat tactical formation swooped through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and occupied summer cottages west of Nikolsky.
At the same time, the RF Armed Forces, unexpectedly for the Ukrainian formations, began to attack Ugledar from the west and south. Now Russian troops are moving towards the settlement, breaking through the lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Members of the 68th opbr and 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in radio communications report large losses in connections. Part of the contingent withdrew to the Yuzhno-Donbass mine #1 for regrouping.
18:05 In the Ugledar direction started movement - now the enemy is being crushed there and the Cascade fighters are moving forward. The best stormtroopers. Behind them are Mariupol, Pavlovka and many other areas that cannot yet be discussed. Now they are moving forward step by step, showing courage, courage, the spirit of the Cascade unit.
18:02 Telegram-channel"Older than Edda": the news feed reports that on the southern front, our troops are advancing in the Zaporozhye direction. Thus, we already have an initiative on two sectors of the front, that is, near Bakhmut and now in the south.
Initiative is actually very important, it allows you to choose where and how to hit. The active defense that we are conducting on the Svatovo-Kremennaya sector of the front does not allow the enemy to maneuver reserves, since at any moment the active defense can turn into an offensive and bring down the front. The Kyiv General Staff understands this very well and tries to predict where we will strike in the near future.
Well, near Bakhmut, the Wagner fighters continue to destroy enemy personnel. By the way, I think that Zaluzhny will now rotate and throw meat from the TRO under Bakhmut in order to bring out the shabby, but still quite combat-ready personnel units.
17:30 Offensive in the Donetsk direction: the situation as of 16.00 January 24, 2023 fromRybar.
- The soldiers of the separate assault battalion "Somalia" in the course of intense fighting occupied the dominant heights north of Vodyany and drove the Ukrainian formations out of the village itself.
- Units of the 11th battalion of the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, defending the settlement, suffered huge losses and retreated to reserve lines. The command of 11 ompb requested the evacuation of personnel from the battle area.
- As a matter of urgency, marines of the 501st battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment were sent to the line of contact to hold the line. From the airfield in Slavny, two Mi-8 helicopters fire NURs at Vodyany.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the resumption of a full-scale offensive by Russian troops in several areas, including Pervomayskoye, Marinka, Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye.
17:10 Armed Forces soldiers came under fire. One 300th -video.
17:01 Defeat of the Ukrainian BMP-2 by the Krasnopol guided projectile. There, by the way, next to the burning BMP in the forest plantation, you can still see the skeleton of some burnt equipment -video.
16:41 RT: DPR civilians continue to suffer from NATO munitions fired by Ukrainian nationalists. This video shows the consequences of artillery attackthe locomotive depot of the rear city of Ilovaisk by American HIMARS. Two employees were injured.
Judging by the found fragments and inspection of the places of arrival, the gunners of the Kyiv regime, presumably, used one of the most deadly modifications of ammunition - M30A1. The M30A1 uses an alternative warhead instead of a cluster warhead. It is completed with 80 thousand tungsten carbide balls.
This projectile is designed to cause maximum harm to civilians. Four of them flew to Ilovaisk. At four in the morning.
16:18 VoenkorKitty: according to my information, they took Vodiane - a settlement west of Donetsk and a couple of kilometers southwest of Avdiivka. Vodyanoye cleared from the enemy, who retreated, gaining a foothold on the hills to the north.
Vodyanoye is part of the large Avdeevsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Stretching like a snake for almost 10 kilometers from east to west, from Spartak to Pervomaisky - Netaylovo, Vodyanoye opens a direct path to Karlovka. Its capture is a step towards taking the Avdiivka fortification in pincers and catching the enemy according to the scenario of Soledar Bakhmut.
True, this requires the best attack aircraft in the world (and this is not a figure of speech) in the form of the Wagner detachments. But so far there is not enough Wagner operators for all directions. And the positions of the enemy are stormed by units of the Donbass infantry, tankers and units of the Special Forces.
16:05 Dmitry Medvedev said that the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex have significantly increased the production of reconnaissance and attack drones, as well as loitering ammunition. According to him, the process is going to intensify further.
16:02 Sumy region - explosions.
15:51 "They are not considered soldiers, but meat" - those mobilized from the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to go to the slaughter, but decided to "defend their rights." It is reported that frames removed a month ago.
15:34 Daniil Bezsonov: the successful advance of our troops continues in the Ugledar direction. The jerk was so coordinated and sharp that it came as a surprise to the enemy. Judging by the radio intercepts, the Ukrainian soldiers on this sector of the front are disoriented and confused. Commanders often do not respond to requests from subordinates due to their flight. A feature, not a bug. 15:21 Evgeny Prigozhin on the strategic meaning of the battles for Bakhmut:
"The task of taking Bakhmut is to destroy the Ukrainian army in the vicinity of the city and prevent any offensive actions in any direction of the front. All of their combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are sent to Bakhmut. And the PMC "Wagner" destroys them, opening up operational opportunities in other areas."
14:40 Exclusive. “Avdievka is already practically ours” – first-hand news from the front line.
A fighter from one of the units in the Avdievka direction tells military commissar Anna Dolgareva about the situation at the front and reveals secret information - Avdievka is almost ours. Russians have been trying to clear Avdievka since the very start of the war. 14:30 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed about 30 military Armed Forces of Ukraine and the M777 system in the Krasnolimansky direction;
- Russian air defense systems shot down ten UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day;
- The RF Armed Forces hit the command post of the 57th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the armaments depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Artemovsk and Novoukrainka in the DPR;
- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than 25 Ukrainian soldiers and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer in the Zaporozhye direction.
14:15 VladlenTatarsky: The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet and the 7th ranger OBTF went forward in the Ugledar direction. Local message:
"On the left flank (the Shaitanovsky forest area) we entered the first line. To the north of Pavlovka and from Nikolsky we went into the dachas, moving slowly. By interception, the enemy had heavy losses, retreated to the mine. Now the enemy is trying to organize a defense and is introducing reserves into battle."
13:58 RT: Very close combat in the Ukrainian trenches. Closer already nowhere. Our fighter emerged victorious from this duel -video.
13:45 Avdievka direction. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were going to carry out a rotation of personnel in positions - but they did not succeed. 122mm BM-21 rocket artillery "Grad" was on their positions faster -video.
13:37 A Russian fighter demonstrates a virtuoso piano playing somewhere in the NVO zone, performing the composition "Forester" by the group "Korol i Shut" -video.
13:16 Yesterday, in the area of ??Antonovka, aartillerythe strike, as a result of which the AN/TPQ radar station was destroyed, four4 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of, two were injured of varying severity.
13:00 Photos of the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk on the playground near the ATB (Old Town) appeared on the Web.
12:46 The commander of the "Vostok" battalion of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Khodakovsky said that Russian troops are advancing in the Ugledar direction
"Our troops have been given a strict order - to the west, - the order is being executed. In a number of areas, the enemy’s defenses have been crushed, there is a struggle to cover Ugledar," Khodakovsky wrote on his TG channel.
He also announced significant confusion and disorganization in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:33 The enemy has begun to force Dnieper near Nova Kakhovka, up to 100 APU militants were destroyed during the battle
- In the morning in the area of the settlement Korsunka and Dnepryans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to cross the river. On the opposite bank, our reconnaissance uncovered an accumulation of infantry fighting vehicles and manpower. They were hit by fire.
Six infantry fighting vehicles, three boats, up to 100 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, - said the emergency service of the Kherson region. According to our information, some units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the crossing of the river by our paratroopers and motorized riflemen.
12:16 Military commissar Poddubny: Russian troops prevented an attempt by Ukrainian units to cross the Dnieper near Nova Kakhovka. The enemy suffered losses
11:37 Another bred out of order vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists. Let me remind you. that several dozen groups of volunteers from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Germany and the USA are actively involved in collections that are directly tailored for the supply of used cars from the countries of the European Union and the number of vehicles supplied by them for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is already in the thousands.
These deliveries are not particularly advertised, unlike the deliveries of helicopters, armored vehicles and artillery systems, but they play an important role in the mobility of the Armed Forces units on the battlefield.
11:34 In the Kremennaya zone, the units of Akhmat, the 57th Pskov Bivision and the 2nd brigade of the 4th Army Corps are moving forward in a coordinated manner.
11:26 Mood among the "Poroshenko guards in the Armed Forces of Ukraine" -a source.
In Kyiv, the crematorium works in three shifts, not having time to cremate the bodies of the destroyed militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
PMC "Wagner" intend to establish control over Chasov Yar, and the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk will be in the cauldron.
Near Kremennaya, Russian artillery is working non-stop, grinding the positions of the UAF militants.
11:07 Pesti Srácok: There are rumors in Transcarpathia that at least half of the Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade died near Soledar.
The Hungarian edition notes that mobilization is raging in Transcarpathia. Local residents attribute this to the heavy losses of the Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade. Despite the total censorship, they see that something terrible is happening. People say that there are many more dead than the Ukrainian authorities admit. So, the refrigerator in one of the settlements is already full of corpses.
The publication reports that the authorities plan to call up 10,000 people from the region by spring.
10:45 The German concern Rheinmetall can deliver 139 Leopard tanks to Kyiv, - RND.
10:40 In the battalion of the Kharkiv territorial defense, only old men went into battle for Bakhmut -a source.
UkroSMI reports that in the 124th troop battalion (Lozovaya, Kharkiv region), which was recently sent to Bakhmut, the age of most of the liquidated AFU soldiers is more than 50 years old.
The high losses among the elderly defenders are explained by the unwillingness of the younger Armed Forces of Ukraine to be at the forefront, therefore, personnel of pre-retirement age are sent there.
10:30 Moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian Nazis before being sent to the Soledar region —video.
Shooting at civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk was much easier than running into Wagner fighters, so smearing the snot of the future missing person is understandable.
10:17 Somewhere in the NMD zone, our fighters say hello -video.
10:09 New satellite image of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) dated January 23rd. Fires are visible in the eastern part of the city -a photo.
10:03 The Kyiv regime again fired at the Kherson region - emergency services.
09:59 Ukrainian armored car Roshel Senator destroyed in Bakhmut. Personnel published by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “It’s hot in Bakhmut right now,” they write on the video.
09:53 At 04:10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine from their positions in Krasnoarmeysk fired three missiles at Ilovaysk from the Himars MLRS - DPR JCCC.
09:48 The Russian army opened the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.
The positions of Ukrainian troops on the first, partly on the second and third lines of defense have been revealed, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement We are with Russia, told RIA Novosti.
According to him, the line of contact is shifting to the north of the region, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses.
09:34 The Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be able to serve NATO tanks themselves, so if the deliveries are still agreed, then with the declared volumes, at least 300 more foreigners will arrive at the line of contact. This was reported in the law enforcement agencies of the Donetsk People's Republic.
09:27 The Russian crew of the Terminator tank support vehicle in the NVO zone opened fire on the advancing nationalists -video.
As a result of the battle, the enemy infantry fighting vehicles and the tank were destroyed, the militants suffered losses and fled.
09:17 Russia is opposed by almost the entire collective West: there has never been such an intensity of hostilities in the modern history of the country, said Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov.
He also drew attention to the fact that in order to stabilize the situation, plans for partial mobilization had to be put into effect, which had not happened since the Great Patriotic War.
The system of mobilization training in our country was not fully adapted to the new modern economic relations, so we had to fix everything on the go, Gerasimov added.
09:12 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu replaced the commanders of two military districts - RBC source
Colonel-General Sergei Kuzovlev will lead the Southern Military District, a source familiar with the personnel decision told RBC and confirmed a source close to the Ministry of Defense.
The Western Military District, previously commanded by Sergei Kuzovlev, was headed by a veteran of the special operation in Syria, the first and second Chechen companies, Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov.
08:59 EU to allocate additional €45 million for training Ukrainian military in Poland - Josep Borrell.
08:53 Ukraina.ru: Recently, more and more similar videos- Employees of the military registration and enlistment office threaten the mobilized with weapons.
08:42 US expects to deliver Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine in the coming weeks - Pentagon.
08:37 Locals about how it was in Soledar: “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were standing right from the yard. They covered us like a human shield.” Resident of SoledartellsKateryna Lymarenko, how the UAF in the city used civilians as human shields, as it was in other cities before the liberation.
“Ukrainian troops were standing right out of the yard. They covered us like a human shield. There were houses where people had already left long ago - it was possible to stand there. But they stood precisely in those houses where there were people. <...> They fired back, and arrivals immediately went to our houses. I personally asked: “Guys, please go, at least to another estate” - “Are you *checkmate, are you waiting for Russia, orcs ?!” [Vesushniki answered]."
08:23 Frontline summary on the morning of January 24, 2023
- Under fire were the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Antonovka, Ingulets, Burgunka, Monastyrsky, Dudchany and Gavrilovka (Kherson region). Ukrainian artillery did not show much activity.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with fire support from field guns and MLRS, attacked in the area of Maly Shcherbakov and Novodanilovka. There is little progress. Orekhov, Malaya Tokmachka and Gulyaipole are also under artillery attack.
- On the Donetsk front, Russian troops fired at the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Avdeevka. On the ground, they attacked in the direction of Pervomaisky and Novobakhmutovka.
- To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC conducted assault operations in the Predtechin area in order to reach the section of the H-32 highway that connects the besieged city with Konstantinovka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an artillery strike on Kurdyumovka. Wagner operatorss are also trying to break into the defenses of the Ukrainian garrison on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut. And to the north - in the area of Red Gora. After taking Krasnopolovka, PMC "Wagner" attacked in the direction of Rozdolovka. They are also advancing on Vesyoloye.
- In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops are trying to move towards Stelmakhivka. Encounter battles in Novosyolovsky. The price of success for both parties is control over the section of the road on the H-26 highway and the railway. Both transport arteries go to Svatovo.
08:05 Episode of fighting on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front. The Armed Forces of Ukraine sent reserves in a whole convoy - video
Our reconnaissance spotted the enemy at the entrance and corrected artillery fire from drones, the military commander said.
Once again, the urgent need for Mavic quadcopters is shown on the front lines, which at the very front identify enemy forces, observe them with impunity and adjust the fire to destroy them.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. A REGNUM correspondent visits the repair battalion of the DPR.
“We, like Chinese medicine,” says the deputy chief of the first company of the NM of the DPR with the callsign Severe, “we help equipment to extend its life as much as possible. Our main task is to service the armored vehicle with high quality and in a timely manner, laying in it a margin of safety in advance, so that it fulfills the combat mission and takes the guys out of the battle alive.
Therefore, we check all the important components and assemblies, tighten the tracks, restore the armor and carry out a full maintenance. And if the vehicle arrived to us in a serious condition, then we send it to the main repair battalion, where the tank goes for spare parts or awaits major repairs.
- And what are the main problems of the tanks that come to you?
- Well, most often these are burst pipes, clogged filters. The technique is already quite old, and sometimes this leads to problems with the engine. It happens that the loading mechanism jams, this takes the tank out of combat, sometimes this is fraught with losses. But our tankers are so skilled that they will fight to the last bullet, and they won’t just leave the car like that.
Often Ukrainian tankers will bail if the tank throws a track.. This habit of theirs helped us quickly increase our tank fist. Often there were cases when enemies fled from the encirclement and abandoned all weapons, including armored vehicles.
- What made them abandon tanks, which the Ukrainian army already lacks, and it asks everyone for them ?
- Elementary sloppiness! There were cases when they picked up an absolutely whole tank, which simply ran out of fuel or ammunition. They often abandoned the car with minor breakdowns, especially when they were afraid to get surrounded. Then they left everything and on foot fled from us along the landings.
We approach one of the tanks at the repair site. The vehicle has obviously been in a lot of trouble. Everywhere traces of rust, dents speak of a long military history.
"This is a captured T-64, it burned several times, we took it from the battlefield in a very deplorable state. But our masters repaired it, updated the protection, and now the tank, having received the nickname "Smoked", successfully performs combat missions," said the deputy commander and leads me to another T-64.
The tank's turret is adorned with protection that makes the vehicle look like the Ukrainian Bulat. Sometimes this allows you to mislead the enemy in close combat: he thinks this is his own. True, before the first shot.
Our masters try to "put on their feet" any vehicle. So far, the Russian army is replenishing the fleet with samples of Soviet equipment, but, apparently, we will soon have German Leopards, and maybe American Abrams. True, it is better to fight on Russian ones, but these will come in handy. For the museum.
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Gee I love how the puppet vice goon is so delusional.Last time the T 72 went up against the Abrams... it ended badly for the former. As for the Leopards,I'm sure they'll acquit themselves well also and score lots of T72 flying turrets points too.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] About talk about the operational environment of Artemovsk.
It is still too early to talk about the operational environment of the Artemov group. After taking Kleshcheevka and advancing towards Krasnoe, our heavy artillery began to cover the Chasov Yar - Artemovsk road going through Krasnoe, but it is still possible to drive along the road, although now this is fraught with the risk of coverage. Nevertheless, this is not yet complete fire control, which can be established in the event of successful assault operations in Krasny and further advance to Chasov Yar.
In the case of another road that goes to Artemovsk from the same Chasov Yar, but to the north, it is not yet actively covered by our artillery and is relatively safe for traffic. Now our troops are fighting street battles in Krasnaya Gora and today they have caught hold of Paraskoveevka, establishing control over which will allow them to bring up artillery and begin to cover this road from the northwest, increasing the pressure of assault groups and DRGs in the direction of this road.
Thus, the operational encirclement of the Artemovskaya grouping can be the result of successful operations in these two areas, and even now our troops have come close enough to solving these problems. The enemy command understands this, and even more so understands the Pentagon, therefore, in the past few days, talk has intensified about the need to retreat from Artemovsk, which the Americans are already talking about as inevitable, trying to sweeten the pill of defeat with talk about the unimportance of Artemovsk.
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PS. And yes, we will see Western tanks on the battlefields in the spring. Itis pretty well expected.
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the questions why there are no comments on the topic of reports from NATO and the German Defense Ministry on the topic of tanks, I will repeat myself.
Tanks will give, now or a little later - it's not so important. This is essentially a technical question. In the spring, we will see all this on the Ukrainian theater of operations, except perhaps without the Abrams for now.
Accordingly, it is necessary to prepare for this issue by increasing the supply of armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons to the troops and strengthening potentially dangerous areas where the enemy will try to play the card of Western supplies and forcible mobilization of cannon fodder. It also requires avoiding a situation of numerical disproportion, which raises the question of a second wave of partial mobilization.
Actually, one of the main tasks of the RF Armed Forces in the coming months is to grind all this stuff and cannon fodder, preventing a breakthrough of the front somewhere in Zaporozhye or in the LPR, while continuing operations to liberate the western Donbass and the north of the Zaporozhye region (with optional operations in northern regions of Ukraine). If this can be done, Russia will come closer to achieving its strategic goals in the war.
Already, Ukraine is experiencing serious problems with the replenishment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the resource of volunteers has already been exhausted. Further losses on an industrial scale will further undermine the demographic potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In this regard, such battles as "Artyomovskaya meat grinder" have long-term consequences.
Vulnerabilities of tanks "Leopard 2A4" https://t.me/boris_rozhin/76223
Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Let's say right away: for a number of completely objective reasons, it is impossible to accurately assess either the cost of a tank or the cost of training crews. The most important of them is that the accounting of the modern army is incredibly complex. In 2021, the average American soldier cost the US $136,000 a year, a small cost by the standards of the country.
How much the equipment removed from storage costs is a rather philosophical question, and the answer to it depends on the point of view. A similar story is with staff training - we doubt that insurance and a relative support program will be included in this amount. In the case of training Ukrainian tank crews, it is even difficult to predict the program: for an American tank crew member, it takes 22 weeks (about six months), for a repairman - about 13 weeks (3 months), and equipment for various combat vehicle systems - from 22 to 34 weeks. The commander needs more time, but there are huge doubts that the Ukrainians will be trained for so long.
According to rough estimates, a two-month course for one Ukrainian tanker will cost $50,000-200,000, including live firing and work with equipment and simulators. The training of 100 crews will cost $100 million. But maybe more - we don't know how many combat firing and operating hours are included, and one real shot from a cannon costs from $1 to $10 thousand, depending on the projectile. So even $100 million can easily turn into a billion, especially considering the retraining of technical staff.
The supply of modern combat vehicles, at least from storage, is a serious expense. Even for fantastically wealthy America, an extra couple of billion in aid is not as easy as it sounds. And we are not talking about aviation - that's where every plane really becomes golden.
PS. Regarding the question raised of the cost of training Ukrainian cannon fodder to drive American tanks. Here it is worth understanding the following things.
1. Training is carried out at the expense of already allocated funds.
2. The money goes to Pentagon defense contractors, it doesn't go to Ukraine.
3. Any corruption component remains an internal affair of the American public-private defense partnership.
4. From the point of view of the total costs of the war in Ukraine, the cost of training cannon fodder is insignificant.
[CNN] The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send US-made Abrams tanks to Ukraine and could make an announcement as soon as this week, according to three US officials familiar with the deliberations.
The timing around the actual delivery of the tanks is still unclear and it normally takes several months to train troops to use the tanks effectively, officials said.
An announcement about the tanks could be part of an attempt to break a diplomatic logjam with Germany, which indicated to the US last week that it would not send its Leopard tanks to Ukraine unless the US also agreed to send its M1 Abrams tanks.
Top national security officials in the administration have been actively considering steps they could take to convince Germany to send the Leopards.
On Friday, at a meeting of western defense leaders in Germany, the US and its allies failed to convince German officials to send the Leopards as part of Berlin’s next round of military assistance to Ukraine. But on Tuesday, the German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said "We are preparing our decision, which will come very soon" on the tanks. Looks like a deal with Germany was worked out, beginning with a company of Leopard 2A6s.
Later on Tuesday German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine after "months of debate."
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Very large convoy this week leaving California to arrive in I suspect Dulles International airport. I suppose pallets of cash sent from National Regan Airport over the years since cold war days for Russia and Obama to Iran as I recall. So one airport tasked to send money and the other bulk items.The convoy is crated for transport so no one knows what equipment is being sent. Just passing on this information. Easy to refute but this information is from good sources. No names to protect the convoy transport information leak.
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The Abrams is rated fairly higher in quality to the German Leopard. The German Panther is rated number 1 tank in the world, higher than the Abrams and the Leopard, but is not going to Ukraine against the Russians
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The Abrams will come out of mothball storage and will most likely be the M1A1 or the M1A2. The US still lists part of it as Top Secret, so parts will have to be stripped off and sanitized for export. On top of that headache, they will have to build out infrastructure for the repair of the tanks in Ukraine as the turbine engine is so different than the diesel the Leopard and Russian tanks use. On top of that Ukrainian mechanics will need to be trained to service the tank as well as new tankers will be trained on a tank that is so much different than their old Soviet ones it will be like a fighter pilot learning to fly a UFO.
So at the earliest we could see Abrams at the front in fall. Leopards will be there sooner as the support and supply network is already in place in Poland and is easy to build slightly forward to Ukraine.
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I'm sure at least a couple of our SSNs have been following it since it hit open water.
It might get a shot off, but there would be no bragging about it on the next port call.
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"We will lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll while we conduct missile drills."
A single frigate? OK, probably more a training cruise/Let's f**k with the Americans than a show of force but GCHQ and the Daily Mail would like you to think of it as one because scary, what with Putin being an unpredictable madman and all.
[NY Times] U.S. officials say the operation may be a signal by Russia that the country and its proxies could carry out more terrorist actions in Europe if nations continue supporting Ukraine.
American and European officials believe that Russian military intelligence officers directed associates of a white supremacist militant group based in Russia
...did they call themselves neo-Nazis or were they just the regular Slavic white supremacists so common in that part of the world?
to carry out a recent letter bomb campaign in Spain whose most prominent targets were the prime minister, the defense minister and foreign diplomats, according to U.S. officials.
Spanish and foreign investigators have been looking into who sent six letter bombs in late November and early December to sites mostly in Madrid, including the official residence of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, which also serves as his office; the American and Ukrainian Embassies; and the Defense Ministry. No one was killed in the attacks, which U.S. officials consider terrorism. An employee of the Ukrainian Embassy was injured when one of the packages exploded.
Investigators in recent weeks have focused on the Russian Imperial Movement, a radical group that has members and associates across Europe and military-style training centers in St. Petersburg, Russia, the officials said. They added that the group, which has been designated a global terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is believed to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies. Important members of the group have been in Spain, and the police there have tracked its ties with far-right Spanish organizations.
U.S. officials say that the Russian officers who directed the campaign appeared intent on keeping European governments off guard and may be testing out proxy groups in the event Moscow decides to escalate a conflict.
The apparent aim of the action was to signal that Russia and its proxies could carry out terrorist strikes across Europe, including in the capitals of member states of NATO, which is helping defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, said the U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities around the investigation. Spain is a member of the alliance and has given military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, as well as diplomatic support.
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There is always a new threat, Fat Bob Thrart2867 — generally several at once. ?While there are a number who deserve to to have the rubble bounced around them, there are none whom I would nuke — unless we happen to have plenty of neutron bombs in storage.
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did they call themselves neo-Nazis or were they just the regular Slavic white supremacists so common in that part of the world?
Slavic but with international contacts and training center. Last week's koran burning in Sweden likely had contacts w/ RIM and done on behalf of the FSU. Executive Summary
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) is an extreme-right, white supremacist militant organization based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 2002, the group promotes ethnic Russian nationalism, advocates the restoration of Russia’s tsarist regime, and seeks to fuel white supremacy extremism in the West. RIM maintains contacts with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups across Europe and the United States. The group has provided paramilitary training to Russian nationals and members of like-minded organizations from other countries at its facilities in St. Petersburg. Members of RIM’s armed wing, the Imperial Legion, have fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and been involved in conflicts in Libya and Syria. In addition to its ultra-nationalist beliefs, RIM is known for its anti-Semitic and anti-Ukrainian views. The U.S. State Department listed RIM as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in April 2020. It is the first white supremacist group to be designated as a SDGT.
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contacts with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups across Europe and the United States. The group has provided paramilitary training to Russian nationals and members of like-minded organizations from other countries at its facilities in St. Petersburg. Members of RIM’s armed wing, the Imperial Legion, have fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and been involved in conflicts in Libya and Syria. In addition to its ultra-nationalist beliefs, RIM is known for its anti-Semitic and anti-Ukrainian views.
Yes, them! Thank you for that link — I’ve wanted something more authoritative than Deutsche Welle for a while. But the Deutsche Welle article, from a few years back, along with others from the the same time period (see for example this, from a group supported by George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation) squarely put the neo-Nazis and White supremacists in the pro-Russia camp from the beginning, along with Russian government acceptance for the movement.
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