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I don't mind our older systems in storage going, which is most of what we have sent. They cost taxpayer money to store and even more to destroy. It is actually cost effective to give them away.
What I want looked at is the 3rd party orders for ammo and weapons that have ended up in the hands of terrorists or the contractors paid for "economic or humanitarian" aid. That is where shit seems to go missing and I bet Biden and his corrupt pals are taking a chunk out of. That is a priority the new Republican congress should look at.
But with the old swamp guard still in charge... don't hold your breath.
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Taking Improved HAWK SAMs out of storage and giving them to the Ukrainians make a lot more sense. Lots of them, great for cruise missiles flying in a straight line and already paid off vs. $2-6 million for a Patriot missile.
#UPDATE Russia's defence minister on Wednesday proposed increasing the number of combat personnel in Russia's army, embroiled in a Ukraine offensive, to 1.5 million troops as well as increasing the age limit for military service. pic.twitter.com/VWpSondPbS
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500-700K is the estimate. Russia only has about 2-2.5 million men of draftable age. Say 600k gone to other countries, 300k in the military already, so in theory, this is doable. But we have already seen Russia scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel already and I'm not sure they could scare up more than an additional 500k for service.
If they do this, these men will be not at home working and generating taxes and will not be marrying and making babies. Russia is already in a death spiral demographically speaking and the economy is taking hits. Pulling this many men may fix the short term problems, but it will only kill Russia faster.
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Given that China is already in negative population growth, and possibly has been for a decade or more, if they take Siberia will they be able to hold it?
#1
I thought the plan was for the Russians to ship all the oil that Europe needed at discounted rates. Sounds like instead there is less oil now available to the West so other oil producers will jack up their prices due to demand. Be a shame if third parties were to sheep dip Russian products just to increase their margins
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[LB] The Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions were also shelled.
by Iryna Lysohor
In the morning, the Russians shelled the Chernihiv region, shelling continues in the Kherson region along the right bank of the Dnieper
The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopil Oblasts, as well as in Poltava Oblast, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast and Kyiv Oblast.
In Chernihiv Oblast, there were five shellings in the Novgorod-Siversky district from artillery, self-propelled guns and mortars over the past day. No victims. The power line was damaged, three villages were without electricity. In the morning, there was shelling near the outskirts of the village of Mikhalchyna Sloboda, Novgorod-Siversky district. Without victims and destruction, it is said in the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In the Sumy region, mortar shelling was carried out tonight in the town of Seredino-Buda, Shostky district, the roof of one non-residential building was damaged, and power lines were cut. Information about the victims is being clarified. Yesterday evening – artillery bombardment of Znob-Novgorod community of Shostkinsky district. As a result of the shelling, the workshop of the agricultural lyceum caught fire, three cars, a tractor and a bus were damaged. Information about the victims is being clarified.
Over the past 24 hours, there were 83 strikes, the communities of Velikopysariv, Krasnopil, Myropil, Yunakiv, Khotyn and Shalygin were attacked.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Novoandriyivka, Olhivske, Mali Shcherbaki, Chervone, Stepove, Plavni, Orihiv, Dorozhnyanka, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Zaliznychne, Novodanilivka, Novomykolaivka, Biloghirya, Timyrivka, Kam' Yanskoe There is destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by the Russians. Details are being clarified.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, there was unrest again in the Nikopol district, the Russians shelled Myrivska and Pokrovsk communities with heavy artillery. There were no casualties. In the Pokrovsk community, a dozen private houses and farm buildings, two gas furnaces and a power line were damaged. In Myrivska hromada, the consequences of the shelling are being clarified.
In the Kharkiv region, the enemy continues shelling the civilian population of the region in the border areas. Last day, the cities of Kupyansk and Vovchansk and the villages of the Vovchan community were under fire from the occupiers. Previously, there were no casualties. As a result of shelling, a fire broke out in a residential building in the village of Dvorichna in the Kupyan district. This night, in the Izyum district, a civilian industrial facility in Andriivka was fired upon, and a large-scale fire broke out. Previously - without victims.
In the Luhansk region, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Stelmakhivka and Chervonopivka. On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of Novoselivskyi, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Chervonopivka, and Dibrova.
Hospitals of the occupiers in the region are overcrowded - there are not enough beds, things, medical personnel, three more civilian hospitals have been transferred to the needs of militants. Due to significant losses, the invaders continue to repurpose hospitals into military hospitals.
In the Donetsk region , the town of Gostre was shelled at night, power grids were damaged. Mryinka, Bakhmut, and Vugledar were shelled constantly. Last night – a rocket attack on Kostyantynivka. Private houses and a hotel were damaged. Shelling of positions and outskirts of settlements along the line of hostilities in Ocheretynsk and Toretsk communities.
Active offensive actions in the area of the villages of Krasnohorivka, Kamianka, Vesele, as well as in the Nevelsky area. The situation is tense, but under control in the Ozoryanivka, Kurdyumivka, New York area; enemy assaults in the area of the villages of Severnye, Pivdenne, Shumiv, Druzhba, Magdalinivka, Diliivka and the town of Zalizne. In one day in Donetsk region: three dead, five wounded.
In the Mykolaiv region yesterday, during the day, the enemy carried out artillery strikes on the water area of the Ochakiv community. There are no casualties. Also yesterday evening enemy strikes were carried out on the settlements of the Kutsurub community. There are no casualties. The consequences of damage are being clarified.
In the Kherson region, the enemy continues to shell settlements along the right bank of the Dnipro River. Areas of populated areas were affected by fire: Dudchany, Mylove, Chornobayivka, Antonivka, Mykilske, Tokarivka. There are destructions of residential buildings.
Also, last day, the Russian occupiers again attacked the center of Kherson, the building of Kherson OVA was badly damaged. There are no casualties.
On the territory of the temporarily occupied Lyubimivska community, intensive shelling of the community's settlements by the occupying forces became more frequent. There is damage to residential buildings and utility rooms, there are no victims among the population.
A residential building was destroyed by enemy shelling in the Novokakhovsk community. The settlements of Kozatske and Vesele are under constant shelling. Humanitarian aid is being brought in, another evacuation is planned.
Work continues to restore normal life to the liberated part of the Kherson region. A totl of 149 basic and four mobile mobile communication stations are in operation. Work on clearing the roads and removing explosive objects is ongoing. Residents of communities in the Kherson region are constantly provided with humanitarian aid.
We will remind, over the past day units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Chervonpopivka and Serebryanske of the Luhansk region and Verkhnyokamianske, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Opytne, Kurdyumivka, Krasnohorivka and Maryinka of the Donetsk region.
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[Korrespondent] 22:47 CNN writes that the United States plans to transfer Patriot complexes to Ukraine in the next military aid package.
21:43 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today, on the way to the front line, he passed Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka: "Cities, villages next to them, which are now literally fighting for their lives. Look at what kind of offensive Russia has - what it leaves there where he brings his flag... Scorched earth, destroyed life... Pain, ruins and graves - this is the so-called "Russian world". This is what our heroes stop. And so that this movement is - so that there is our border, so that we return Ukrainian flag to cities and villages in the south and east of our state - there is Bakhmut, there is a fortress, there are our heroic defenders.
20:41 The state of the power system in Kiev practically did not change during the day - almost the entire city, about 1.1 million users, was turned off during the day, YASNO CEO Serhiy Kovalenko said: "We don't even count on approaching the schedule. % less than required.
20:34 Russia plans to conclude an agreement with Iran, under which it will receive kamikaze drones, and Iran will receive advanced military components, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said: "Iran has become one of Russia's main military partners ... In exchange for the supply of more than 300 of kamikaze drones, Russia is now determined to provide Iran with advanced military components, undermining both Middle East and international security."
20:26 President of Finland Sauli Niiniste approved the 11th package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 28.8 million euros.
19:47 Bakhmut is the hottest point of the front. The occupiers have been trying to break through the defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a month now, but they are regularly defeated on the outskirts of the city. During his visit to the Donetsk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bakhmut and met with the military who are holding the defense and presented them with state awards. Details about the visit - in the material The hottest spot .
19:21 The United States in a new military aid package will give Ukraine electronic equipment that can turn unguided airborne munitions into "smart bombs" with high-precision guidance, CNN reports.
19:18 Shmygal warned of new Russian attacks: "Russian terrorists will do everything to leave Ukrainians without electricity by the New Year. It is important for them that Christmas and New Year in Ukraine pass in the dark. Therefore, we must prepare for new attacks."
19:16 The border with Belarus is maximally strengthened in terms of defense, spokesman for the State Border Service Andrei Demchenko said: "The situation along the border with Belarus and in the border area remains under control. We are not recording any direct mass movement or a sharp increase in military equipment or living forces near the border."
19:12 Ukraine received 500 million Canadian dollars (about 367 million US dollars) from Canada, Shmyhal said. This is another tranche under the loan agreement between the two countries for a total amount of 1.95 billion Canadian dollars. The funds were raised from the sale of Ukrainian sovereign bonds and entered Ukraine through a special account administered by the IMF.
18:37 Ukraine received 200 million euros of credit funds from the Netherlands through the IMF administrative account mechanism. The loan was granted on preferential terms, the Finance Ministry said.
17:49 The leadership of the Russian Federation has no consensus on whether to launch a new large-scale offensive against Ukraine this winter, writes The New York Times, citing representatives of the US State Department. Debate on this matter continues in the Kremlin. According to the publication, some high-ranking Russian officials insist on the need for a new offensive, while others doubt that the Russian Federation has the resources for this.
16:57 Ukraine has become the state of the year according to the British magazine The Economist. "Our country of 2022 can only be Ukraine," the editors stressed.
16:53 Russia has started using a new model of Iranian drones - it is smaller in size compared to the old Shahed-136, Yuri Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. According to him, we are talking about the Shahed-131 model, which in the Russian Federation is labeled as Geranium-1.
16:49 Russia is transferring tanks, trucks and personnel of the RF Armed Forces to the south of Belarus from the Belarusian training grounds in the northern and central parts of the country, where they were stationed, the monitoring group of Belarus Gayun reports.
16:41 Reznikov announced next year "gifts" in the form of military assistance from partners. The Minister assured that the assistance would be systemic and monthly. "The American military-industrial complex is already working. That is, one of the key topics of each Ramstein is the launch of the capacities of manufacturing countries that support Ukraine in this war," the minister said. In addition, orders have already been placed in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and other countries.
"Orders have already been placed, and their production facilities are already working to supply Ukraine. And I will say frankly, without revealing big secrets: next year many contracts have already been signed to supply us with the necessary weapons and ammunition," Reznikov announced.
16:05 The drone attack on December 19 was the largest since the beginning of the war, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said: "They have ground reconnaissance, intelligence, space, they are laying routes where, obviously, there are weak points of Ukrainian air defense."
16:02 The state budget of Ukraine received grant funds in the amount of $2 billion from the World Bank trust fund, the Ministry of Finance announced. This is the second tranche of a grant totaling $4.5 billion. The funds are provided by the United States to ensure sustainable governance in Ukraine and will be used to provide pensions and salaries to civil protection workers, as well as to pay for medical services under the medical guarantee program.
15:23 As a result of an explosion on a gas pipeline in Russian Chuvashia, a damaged section of the pipe through which gas supplies to Europe are blocked, regional authorities reported.
14:58 In Mariupol, the location of the Russian military on the territory of the MMK them. Ilyich, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. Mariupol resistance reports sabotage. In particular, all the property looted by the occupiers is on fire.
14:26 At the meeting between Putin and Lukashenko, "nothing critical" happened for Ukraine, Kuleba said: "The meeting between Putin and Lukashenko is another dance in their performance. According to the information that we have now, no then critical decisions. According to the minister, Putin continues to persuade Lukashenka to maximally assist the activities of the Russian armed forces.
According to Kuleba, another meeting of the two dictators is planned soon. "Whatever they agree on, Ukraine is ready for it," the Foreign Minister assured.
14:01 On the night of December 20, the Russians fired on the oil and gas infrastructure of the Naftogaz group. The missiles hit one of the facilities in the Kharkiv region, the company said. A large-scale fire broke out at the site, and its liquidation is currently ongoing. There were no casualties.
13:53 Borrell said he had met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdullahian and stressed the need for an immediate end to Russia's military support and internal repression in Iran.
13:49 Ukraine is preparing for official steps to prove Russia's illegal presence in the UN Security Council, Kuleba said: "Russia has been poisoning the UN for many years, this is not a secret for anyone. Just as it poisons all the international organizations that Russia is a member of. takes the seat of a permanent member of the UN Security Council without proper legal grounds as a result of an openly fraudulent scheme that took place 31 years ago. Ukraine is now preparing for official steps that will prove the illegal presence of Russia in the UN Security Council and launch a political process that should lead to the deprivation of this seat. .
The minister also accused the UN of being inactive in sending a mission to study Russia's use of Iranian drones: "Even when Russia was just starting to use Iranian "mopeds" for terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure, Ukraine and partners appealed to the UN to send a mission of experts to study of the use of Iranian drones by Russia. This is not just a mission, the fact is that the supply of Iranian-made drones to Russia violates the UN Security Council resolution of 2015, fixing the nuclear agreement with Iran."
13:30 The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, Mariusz Kaminsky, said that he was informed about the dismissal of the deputy head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Dmitry Bondar, for presenting a gift, which subsequently exploded in the office of the head of the Polish police. According to him, criminal proceedings on this case have also been opened in Ukraine.
13:27 Freedom TV channel showed footage with Zelensky in Bakhmut.
13:00 In the Kiev region, the situation with electricity remains critical: without electricity - 80% of the region. The most difficult situation in Buchansky, Vyshgorodsky, Obukhovsky and partially Fastovsky districts is more than 30 communities, said Aleksey Kuleba, head of the OVA.
12:57 Putin in the Kremlin presented the "acting heads" of the "DPR" and "LPR" Pushilin and Pasechnik with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the highest degree, the "acting heads" of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions Balitsky and Saldo - the third degree.
12:51 Zelensky's press secretary Sergei Nikiforov confirmed his trip to Bakhmut: "He visited the front lines, awarded the fighters with distinctions and valuable gifts. The president has already left Bakhmut."
12:38 Zelensky arrived on an unannounced visit to Bakhmut , Freedom TV reported.
12:19 On the morning of December 20, a significant shortage of power in the energy system remains, Ukrenergo reported. Less than half of the needs are provided in the capital, the priority is the supply of critical infrastructure. It is expected that today it will be possible to turn on certain equipment that will increase the level of power supply reliability, reduce the power shortage in the capital's energy center and connect more consumers.
12:13 In the process of exchanging prisoners, the Russians divide people into "grades," said Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Thus, position No. 1 in the anti-rating, according to him, is forcibly mobilized from the temporarily occupied territories. "And all the rest - an extremely difficult process begins. It is clear that officers are in high demand. As well as people with certain knowledge and skills. Many other things that we will not voice, so as not to harm. But the simpler the person for the rashists , the less interest in him," Yusov noted.
11:44 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the shelling of Shebekino. According to him, there is a wounded man, the power supply is broken, the shells hit the warehouses on the territory of the industrial zone. Local publics write that shells hit TPPs and electrical substations.
10:58 The military threat from Belarus is gradually growing - there are already enough Russian troops there to carry out tactical actions, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Naev said: "The level of military threat is gradually growing, but we are also taking adequate measures. In addition, the General Staff The Armed Forces of Ukraine provide for a significant increase in groupings in the event of a significant increase in forces and means from the opposite side.
According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the constant take-offs of Russian aviation from the territory of Belarus occur to clarify targets on the territory of Ukraine, intended for launching missile strikes.
10:30 British intelligence believes that Putin's recent visit to the Joint Headquarters of the troops involved in Ukraine, where he met with a number of high-ranking military officers, was supposed to demonstrate collective responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine. According to analysts, the Kremlin thus sought to relieve Putin of responsibility for the military failures of the Russian army in Ukraine, the high death rate and the growing public dissatisfaction with the mobilization. Also, the footage from this meeting, probably, should have dispelled rumors about the resignation of the head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov.
10:28 US Congress has submitted a $1.7 trillion government funding bill providing $44.9 billion in additional emergency assistance to Ukraine and NATO allies, writes Reuters. The leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives are aimed at passing the bill and sending it to Biden before the end of the week in order to prevent disruptions in the work of the government.
10:08 Ukraine will receive more than 10,000 Starlinks in the near future, writes Bloomberg. The new batch will be used to stabilize the connection in critical situations. “SpaceX and Musk are quick to respond to issues and help us. Musk has assured us that he will continue to support Ukraine. When we had a massive outage, I wrote to him that day and he responded immediately and has already taken several steps. He understands the situation,” - said the Minister of Digital Information Mikhail Fedorov, adding that he spoke directly with Musk.
09:57 The IMF has approved a four-month program of financing Ukraine by donor countries. According to the fund, in 2023 Ukraine will need from 40 to 57 billion dollars of external financing to maintain economic stability in the conditions of war. Kyiv under the program committed to take measures to increase tax revenues, revitalize the domestic debt market and reform the financial sector. The program itself does not provide for the allocation of funds, but should facilitate their attraction from external sources.
09:32 The Russians over the past day fired at the territory of the Kherson region 42 times: two people were killed, three were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
09:23 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three civilians were killed - two in Bakhmut and one in Zhelezny. Five more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:01 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 20.
personnel - about 99,230 (+430) people liquidated,
tanks - 2995 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 5974 (+5),
artillery systems - 1960 (+7),
MLRS - 410 (+0),
air defense systems - 212 (+0),
aircraft - 281 (+0),
helicopters - 266 (+2),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1680 (+23),
cruise missiles - 653 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4599 (+7),
special equipment - 177 (+2).
08:34 The enemy continues to focus its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. He is trying to restore the lost position on Limansky and is defending in other directions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Chervonopopovka and Serebryanskoye in the Luhansk region and Verkhnekamenskoye, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Opytnoye, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka and Maryinka in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in a morning report .
08:21 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that during his trip to Minsk, Putin failed to influence Lukashenka and force him to go to war with Ukraine. According to analysts, the participation of Belarus in the war against Ukraine remains unlikely. The fact that Putin seems to have accepted Lukashenka's theses without convincing him to indirectly correct them confirms this assessment, experts say.
ISW also draws attention to the fact that Putin and Lukashenko refrained from publicly discussing the Russian "special operation" in Ukraine, focusing on the Western threat to Belarus.
04:24 Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood, in his speech at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the 2015 resolution on the nuclear agreement with Iran, expressed disappointment that the UN has not launched an investigation into the use of Iranian drones by the Russian Federation: "We regret, that the UN has not taken steps to conduct a normal investigation into this violation. We are disappointed that the secretariat, apparently succumbing to Russian threats, has not fulfilled the mandate given to it by the Security Council to conduct an investigation."
03:56 The United States will closely monitor whether Belarus will provide additional assistance to the Kremlin in the war with Ukraine, and if this happens, new sanctions may be imposed against Minsk, State Department Speaker Ned Price said. He stressed that Washington will remain in contact with Kyiv on issues related to the role of Belarus in the Russian war.
Price also commented on Putin's statement that Russia will not "absorb" any state: "The height of the irony is the fact that this phrase came from the lips of the leader of a country that is right now trying to forcibly absorb another of its peaceful neighbors."
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Somehow we seem to let Putin do what he pleases, not only invading what should have been his closest ally, but saber rattling, threatening escalation if he does not get his way, and otherwise behaving like a malevolent spoiled brat.
Why not give him a taste of his own medicine?
Not by going on a Russian killing spree or dping evo; tjoms. but by suggesting escalations of our own.
We don't want to harm Russian people, but we do think Russia should pay some at least symbolic price for its horrible behavior.
How about we destroy the Kremlin? We could warn everyone who lives near it that sooner or later it will disappear, so that they can move away until that happens.
Or maybe we could hint we decided we are fed up with the hateful Nazi regime in Cuba, and want to annex it.
We would use only modern drones to eliminate Nazis so innocent people would not be harmed.
After all if Putin can wreck a neighboring country most of whose inhabitants want nothing to do with him. wey should we help out the enslaved Cuban people get rid of their Nazi oppressors?
It would be a shame for all those ancient cars to get junked though. We don't have to mean any of these things, but why let Putin have all the fun of scaring everyone about escalation?
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today is day 301 of the war
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[RIA Novosti] Sabah: Ukraine doomed itself to defeat by choosing the West led by the United States
The decision of the Kiev authorities to go along with the West and oppose Russia will be a disaster for the Ukrainian people, columnist Mehmet Barlas writes in an article for Sabah. Link is in Russian
"Ukraine will disappear from the face of the earth, following a pro-Western clown," he said.
According to Barlas, the situation with the Kyiv regime has become instructive, showing what happens when you rely on "false heroes" in the face of Washington and Brussels.
“Some seemingly innocent political decisions can have serious consequences. For example, the people of Ukraine said: “Let's laugh.” And the West began to pour money and weapons into them. However, now the Ukrainian people have no electricity, no water, no heating. Everything is destroyed," the journalist explained.
A similar fate could await Turkey , the author emphasized. He recalled how world powers tried to do everything possible to push Ankara against Moscow, but they failed to achieve their goal.
"Erdogan and Putin have managed to establish relations based on mutual respect, so Turkey has removed its role as a NATO outpost against Russia," the observer summed up.
Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to liberate Donbass from Kiev nationalists. Putin called its task the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.
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I don’t think the Ukrainian politicians that are making decisions for their country are thinking about national defeat or victory. Their calculus is more on the lines of is Sauron George Soros happy with me and what is the balance of my Swiss account?
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Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:18 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction have lost:
- killed and wounded - more than 40 people, including - 13 people killed as a result of the defeat of the place of concentration of personnel of the 25th Air Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of n. p. Zarechnoe.
In addition, during the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to:
- six units of automotive and combat armored vehicles;
- two unmanned aerial vehicles;
In addition, one warehouse of missile and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit by high-precision weapons. 21:17 Russian drone "Forpost-RU" hit on the accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass
The defeat of the transport and the object is carried out using guided bombs.
Artillery guns of the 152mm towed 2S36 "Hyacinth-B" type regularly work on planned targets along the line of contact in the Zaporozhye direction.
The mobilized gunners are not afraid of the enemy and are always ready to bring down a hail of shells on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:03122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS of the RF Armed Forces destroy enemy strongholds in the Zaporozhye direction
18:12 During the fire strikestruckthe place of concentration of personnel of the 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Zarechnoe. According to the information received, it is known about the destruction of 13 militants.
17:16 Russian artillery strikes howitzer M777 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Soledar.
The accuracy of the hit is amazing - the enemy is completely destroyed. Corrected a quadrocopter with a thermal imaging camera.
16:09 Destroyed major of the Ukrainian police
It became known that Serhiy Makarov, Major of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, died from injuries received in the Kherson region. He was blown up by a cascade of mines and ammunition on 7 December.
In total, as a result of this explosion, seven Ukrainian policemen were killed, including the chief of police for the Cherkasy region, Colonel Mikhail Kuratchenko.
14:55 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
◾️The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk sector;
◾️More than 100 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the DPR due to the continued offensive of Russian troops in the Donetsk direction;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the points of temporary deployment of units of the 61st and 72nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
◾️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted fire damage on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy lost up to 50 soldiers;
◾️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Donetsk People's Republic shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter;
◾️Russian air defense destroyed five Ukrainian drones in a day;
◾️Air defense of the Russian Federation shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian-made counter-battery radar in the DPR.
14:00 An air raid alert has been announced in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, according to the data of the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Development.
13:00 There is shelling of the Shebekinsky urban district of the Belgorod region, according to preliminary data, there is one victim - a man with fractures of the bones of the forearm, the authorities of the Belgorod region report.
“As a result of the shelling, the power supply was disrupted. One third of the city's inhabitants remain without electricity. There is also a hit of shells in warehouses on the territory of the industrial zone,” Governor Gladkov said.
11:58 Mortarmen fall asleep enemy with 120 mm mines
Fighters use mortars to strike militants in open areas and in shelters, their command and observation posts and military equipment.
10:52 Some boiler rooms in Kyiv are switched off one by one due to problems with power supply, said the head of the city military administration, Sergei Popko.
09:10 Front-line summary for the morning of December 20, 2022:
In the direction of Kherson, Russian artillery launched massive attacks on the regional center. Also under fire were the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kizomys, Kamyshany and Sadovoe.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit Plavny, Maly Shcherbak, Novoandreevka and Krasnoe.
Russian troops attacked again in the area of Novomikhailovka and Pobeda. Fierce fighting in Marinka. The Russian army is moving with difficulty, but within the city limits. Another attempt to attack the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka. Artillery hits Avdiivka.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, are shelling Donetsk and Yasinovataya. To the south of Artemovsk, PMC "Wagner" conducted assault operations near Kleshcheevka. On the eastern outskirts of the city itself, oncoming battles continue. To the northeast, PMC "Wagner" attacks in the Podgorodny area. And south of Soledar, he is trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk.
In the Seversk sector, Russian troops attacked in the direction of Verkhnekamenskoe. It's east of the city.
In the Lugansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance in the Belogorovka area. To the north, they attacked at Krasnopopovka, as well as towards Makeevka and Stelmahovka.
08:10 In Kharkiv region at night amazed infrastructural object.
In the Kharkov region, Russian shells worked at night. Which exactly is not completely clear, since the characteristic sounds of Geraniums were not reported. After that, a serious fire started.
Most likely, a tank farm or a fuel depot is on fire. What exactly is unknown, the local authorities preferred to remain silent. The fire is still blazing at the site.
08:08 Crews of tanks T-90M "Breakthrough" of the Central Military Districtare engagedcombat training in the special operation zone.
A batch of modern upgraded T-90M "Proryv" tanks entered service with the tank formation of the Central Military District. Tank crews improve their skills in fire training and combat vehicle control. Instructors train military personnel taking into account modern combat experience.
Tankers practice shooting at targets from standard tank weapons of various positions.
Adjustment of fire is carried out with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles. The servicemen have only positive emotions from the upgraded tank.
“There is a surveillance system, a thermal imager, the Kord tower rotates. I can watch the enemy, I can switch to the gunner, I can shoot from the cannon for the commander,” says the commander of a tank platoon about the capabilities of the tank.
After the completion of combat coordination, tank crews will begin to perform tasks as part of the grouping of Brave subunits. Video: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
08:02 In places 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS: calculations of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS" from mobilized military personnel destroyenemy in the NVO zone.
The UAV detected an enemy position and gave the coordinates of the target to the crew of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS.
Artillerymen of the Southern Military District advanced to the line of opening fire, aimed and destroyed enemy strongholds and area targets.
Combat crews are formed from mobilized servicemen who have completed a full course of training.
Direct evidence of the successful training of our servicemen is the destroyed enemy positions. Video: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
07:21 The Russian Armed Forces continue offensive operations in the area of the settlement. Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the enemy is drawing up reserves.
In the Donetsk direction, the battle for Maryinka continues.
Fighting continues in the Kremennaya-Svatovo sector near the settlement. Ploshchanka and Krasnopopovka.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Kursk region. Pankov and n.p. Guevo.
Today in the morning the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region was shelled.
In the LPR, two artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Novoselovka and Svatovo from the HIMARS MLRS.
In the DPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are again shelling the center of Donetsk, incl. hospital them. Kalinin.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:05 Subdivisions of PMC "Wagner" continue to move towards the settlement. Kleshcheevka - the next complex defense center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Bakhmut
The complexity of its assault is due to:
- height difference;
- a developed system of strongholds around the village;
- readiness of the territory of the settlement itself for a long defense.
In Kleshcheevka, communication passages were dug between the houses, the area was mined, fortifications and long-term firing points were created, anti-tank hedgehogs and other engineering barriers were put up on the streets.
Of particular difficulty is a large stronghold northwest of Kleshcheevka. It is located on a hill, and both the territory of the village itself and its surroundings to the southeast, located in a lowland, are well shot from it. In addition, the stronghold is covered by a reservoir from the northern part of the settlement.
Therefore, despite the relatively small size of Kleshcheevka, one should not expect that its assault will be a cakewalk.
But the fighters of PMC "Wagner" are ready for this.
19:35 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian militants firedthree3 rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
19:16 Under the aimed fire of Ukrainian militants, the village of the mine named after. Gagarin (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). Strong breaks are heard by the whole village. Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.
18:47 Makeevka and Yasinovataya were shelled by Ukrainian militants. three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired in the direction of Makiivka, 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired at Yasinovataya Armed Forces of Ukraine, the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
18:15 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on December 20, 2022.
17:41 Donetsk and Mayorsk are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian militants fired eight rounds of 155mm caliber in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, five rounds of 122mm caliber were fired at Mayorsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
17:00 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces destroyed personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, M777 howitzer and an ammunition depot in Soledar.
16:25 Mobilized artillerymen from Kabardino-Balkaria smash Ukrainians.
Guns of the 152mm towed 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" type of the RF Armed Forces regularly work on planned targets along the line of contact in the Zaporozhye direction. Russian gunners are not afraid of the enemy and are always ready to bring down a hail of rounds on the heads of Ukrainian nationalists.
15:24 Shelling Kalininsky district of Donetsk.
Ukrainian militants continue to terrorize the civilian population of Donbass. Tonight they attacked the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. As a result of this shelling, a residential sector, a medical university, a hospital and a student cafe were damaged.
14:49 Ukronazis fired at the Michurinsky penal colony (Nikitovsky district of Horlivka). Outbuildings damaged. No casualties. This was reported by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.
14:28 Ukrainian militants fired on Chestnut in the DPR. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three rounds with a caliber of 152mm, according to the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
14:18 Ukrainian militants fired 11 rounds of 155mm caliber in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
14:05 Fixation of consequences of shelling of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk on 12/19/2022.
13:43 Soledar direction situation as of 13.00 on December 20, 2022:
In the vicinity of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), fierce fighting continues on the outskirts of the city, as well as in the area of ??Opytny and Kleshcheevka.
In the Artyomovsky sector, Russian assault detachments squeezed out Ukrainian formations from the outskirts of Kleshcheevka. One of the companies of the 53rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left in full strength for Novodmitrovka to regroup.
In Artemovsk itself, Wagner PMC fighters moved south along Fyodor Maksimenko Street, occupying two blocks near the gas station. At the same time, assault squads are pushing through the defenses from the side of the waste sorting plant.
Fighting continues on Shkolnaya Street in Experienced Ukrainian militants hold positions in a residential area. Russian artillery is conducting massive fire on the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In this area, forces of the 28th, 53rd and 63rd separate mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing huge problems with ammunition and manpower. Deliveries and rotation are complicated by the constant fire of the RF Armed Forces.
In the direction of Soledar, Ukrainian formations will spread information about the complete loss of Yakovlivka and the beginning of the advance of the "Wagnerites" in the direction of Soledar and Razdolovka.
In the vicinity of the gas compressor station (GCS) near Disputed, fighting continues for control of an important stronghold. The cleansing of Spornoye and the GKS is complicated by the presence of underground communications used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in defense.
13:16 Artillery supports infantry offensive in the Marinka area.
12:52 AFU resumed shelling of Donetsk - Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin.
12:38 Ukrainian militants fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm in the Kyiv region of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
12:11 Fighters from 15 BARS with an accurate hit covered enemy equipment in the Chervonopopovka area.
12:00 Servicemen of the 16th Armored Troops support the offensive of the main forces of the 2nd Army Corps in the Seversk direction.Video: NM DNR.
11:48 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Maiorsk: five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Maiorsk: five rockets fired from MLRS;
— n.p. Troitskoye: fired eight mines in 120mm caliber.
11:12 The Gorlovka-Yasinovataya highway in the DPR, along which traffic was previously restricted due to the massive shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is open - the mayor of Gorlovka.
11:09 Kyiv district of Donetsk under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian militants fired three rounds of 155mm caliber, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
11:07 Mayor of Donetsk published photo consequences of the shelling of the Kalinin region. Kindergarten No. 405.
10:57 Ukrainian troops fired 13 rounds at Gorlovka and Kashtanovy, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
“Fixed shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: 10:35 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Chestnut: fired three rounds of 122mm caliber; 10.50 - Dzerzhinsk settlement - Gorlovka settlement (Nikitovsky district): 10 rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired, ”the ministry said in a message on its Telegram channel.
10:32 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on December 20, 2022.
10:26 Ukrainian troops fired at the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, firing a total of 17 rounds, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
“Ryby were recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine) in the following directions: 08.30 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Novgorodskoye - the settlement of Shirokaya Balka: three rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired; 08.40 - the settlement of Avdiivka - the settlement of Kashtanovoye: three rounds with a caliber of 122 mm were fired, ”the ministry said in a message on its Telegram channel.
10:08 Enemy inflicted at night, a strike from the MLRS on the residential sector of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. Damaged apartment buildings. Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation fix the crimes on the spot.
09:35 Consequencesstrike on the Kalinin hospital in the center of Donetsk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at a medical institution from the MLRS. The polyclinic building was damaged, there are wounded.
09:34 Ukrainian Mi-8,downed fighters of the DPR in the area of the settlement.
09:33 On photographs Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 - damaged as a result of the shelling of the mine village named after. Gagarin (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) from the positions of Ukrainian militants.
09:21 AFU continues shelling civilian infrastructure - from cannon artillery at 22:55 AFU fired 10 cannon artillery rounds at Hola Pristan, Kherson region - emergency services
09:13 Hit in the Kalinin hospital in Donetsk, he was caught in the lens of an external surveillance camera.
09:00 The success of our troops in the direction of the settlement of Soledar forced the Ukrainian command to transfer additional forces and means to this area from other directions, as well as to use reserves. Andrey Marochko, an officer of the NM LNR, reports this.
The liberation of the settlement of Yakovlevka, located northeast of Soledar, seriously worried the Ukrainian military leaders. A reserve battalion was sent from the settlement of Minkovka to the Soledar region to stop the advance of our units and prevent the capture of the Ukrainian group of troops in a semicircle. Also, part of the Ukrainian assault units deployed in Seversk were redirected to attack the flank of our advancing units.
08:54 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Yasinovataya: fired three rounds with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Wide Beam: three rounds fired with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Chestnut: fired three rounds with a caliber of 122mm.
08:53 In connection with the massive shelling from the side of the VFU, the Gorlovka-Yasinovataya highway is temporarily blocked for traffic.
08:34 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on December 20, 2022
08:24 Russian Armed Forces units near Soledardestroyedinfantry department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:20 For 305 days of escalation on the territory of the DPR, 4392 civilians were killed, incl. 132 children.
08:02122mm BM-21 GRADS RF Armed Forcesdestroyenemy strongholds in the Zaporozhye direction.
Mobilized servicemen-artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces from the 122mm BM-21 "GRAD" installation destroy enemy strongholds in the Zaporozhye direction. Work to defeat the enemy and his points is carried out around the clock. Video: NM DNR.
08:00 During the day, one civilian was wounded on the territory of the DPR - Headquarters of the TerO DPR.
Over the past day, from 08:00 on December 19 to 08:00 on December 20, one civilian was wounded as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
07:23 According to Yasinovataya, Ukrainian militants fired four rounds of 122mm caliber, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
07:05 As a result of shelling from the VFU, the destruction of kindergarten No. 51, located on the street. Pereyaslavskaya (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin).
07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, December 19.
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, two artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Novoselovka and Svatovo with the use of the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (five missiles) and a 155mm artillery gun (one shell).
As a result of shelling in N. p. Svatovo damaged post office.
01:02 Consequences of shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.
0:35 Massed shelling Kalininsky district of Donetsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Kalinin region with rocket artillery. The shell hit a residential building near the hospital campus.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Igor Androsov
[REGNUM] The structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and representatives of local military administrations of Ukraine have launched a large-scale program to identify channels for illegal arms trafficking in Nezalezhnaya. According to official information, the new action is designed to reduce the level of crime throughout the Ukrainian territory controlled by official Kyiv.
Ukrainian authorities are trying to minimize the cases of armed clashes between civilians and representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, according to independent experts, this initiative of official Kyiv is doomed to failure.
The incident that took place a few weeks ago at a gas station in one of the settlements in the Sumy region, local authorities and regional media prefer not to mention. But in vain. Such a story characterizes the general situation in Ukraine in the best possible way.
According to the materials of the investigation, a group of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the site of a gas station did not give way in line to the driver and passengers of a civilian off-road vehicle. As a result of a verbal skirmish, representatives of both sides demonstrated the presence of military weapons. And the Ukrainian military lost - against Kalashnikovs and several grenades, Ukrainian civilians opposed them with two Western-made machine guns. As a result, a truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was damaged, and several soldiers were injured of varying severity.
A more dramatic story happened recently in one of the "sleeping" districts of Kyiv, when the Ukrainian army entered into a confrontation with young people returning from a nightclub. The young people mentioned turned out to be activists of the former “volunteer battalion”, who had lethal weapons with them. Three dead and five wounded soldiers are reported.
“Such cases are not uncommon for today's Ukraine, ” a former senior investigator of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, who wished to remain anonymous , said in a confidential conversation with a REGNUM correspondent. -
"If earlier we recorded only minor offenses with the use of firearms, now we can already say that the danger of "armed chaos" really hangs over our country. This has not been observed here since the "dashing nineties" years. But here's what is surprising: now armed clashes are not in the nature of "showdowns between organized criminal groups", but are acquiring all the signs of a confrontation between the military and civilians. Moreover, representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are clearly losing in this confrontation.”
It looks like it really is. For example, in one of the roadside cafes in the Cherkasy region, tipsy military men threatened the staff with a “demonstrative execution” for allegedly incorrectly calculating the cost of alcohol and snacks. Civilian visitors stood up for the employees of the cafe, who took away the machine guns from the soldiers and retreated in an unknown direction.
There was another truly significant incident, when in the area of the checkpoint near Zhytomyr, unknown persons put up fierce resistance to the territorial defense forces (the structure is subordinate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. - ed.), Destroying the guard post and putting five “patrolmen” to flight.
Against this background, in the Ukrainian segment of the World Wide Web, pathetic statements by military personnel about the “inability of the state to protect the army from internal enemies” are increasingly heard. “We are waging war against Russia, we come home from Donbass and already here we are faced with armed aggression from the rear of our fellow citizens [an obscene word was used] ,” a certain Ukrainian military man writes in one of the posts on a closed Kiev social network. “ It must be admitted that in the “home war against boors and hooligans”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer defeat after defeat, but everything started so well - before, for the same fellow citizens, we were heroes.”
Subsequently, this message, like many other "defeatist" posts, was removed from Ukrainian sites.
At the same time, local supervisory authorities clearly do not have time to remove messages on the Web that urge Ukrainians to stock up on weapons. “Do not give the weapons you have to the police, ” the corresponding appeal says. “ It will come in handy against potential enemies.” At the same time, the author of the appeal called “enemies” by no means Russians.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] Today is not about events. No change on the Western Front. They shelled the Donbass and Bryansk region, we shelled Ochakov and Kharkov, in Maryinka, as Sladkov proudly reports, the advance was 400 meters.
No change in one word. The changes are more in the media. Where the respected Murz found the positive. I wrote different things. I will modestly keep silent, and just lay out a set of quotes from my beloved author, the Great War, who survived what is described below, plunged into perestroika in order to fix it and prevent it from happening in the future, and then, seeing the fruits of his deeds, including his own, shot himself, preferred otherworldly hell to hell earthly. Moreover, he was already on earth: Murz is the call sign for Russian military correspondent Andrey Morozov.
The author quoted below is Vladislav Leonidovich Kondratev, a Soviet military correspondent from WWII.
On the second night of the march, they turned off the highway for a while, and villages began to come across, untouched by the Germans, alive, with smoke from the chimneys, with trodden paths. In one of them the guys saw a light in the barn and decided to go in for a minute - to smoke a cigarette in the warmth. Konshin opened the door and ... The huge dilapidated shed was packed with the wounded lying on the floor. In the middle is a red-hot furnace. Crimson light came from her and bloody fell on people. At the stove is a woman in military uniform, either a doctor or a paramedic,
and even considered himself ready:
And Konshin really believes that their Separate, and even Special, rifle brigade, almost all of the personnel officers, although exhausted by the road, will ask the Germans. After all, it’s great - in each platoon there are a dozen PCA, about fifteen self-loading SVTs, two anti-tank rifles, each with two "lemons" and one RGD - this is power!
until he faced the realities:
- What, there is no more bread in Russia? We fought, so ...
- Put aside the talk! Konshin thunders. - War! Don't you understand, it's war!
- War... War has nothing to do with it. Why didn’t they put us on allowance in Maloyaroslavets? Also war? There is no order - that's what. The Red Army soldiers begged for potatoes from the women, after the Germans were devastated ... Shame! All balakali: at the front, feeding will be with fat. Where is he, bastard? Half a pot of millet and a piece of bread...
from the lack of grub to what Murz describes:
- It's incomparable, Comrade Commander. Everything is already known. Do you know what strikes in the war?
- What?
“We don’t think much in the war ... Much was at random, at random. Come on, come on! And on this "come on" you will not go far. - After a pause, he adds: - No skill yet. No
Well, and amazing supplies:
Then he goes down to the dugout and asks the battalion commander for binoculars - the company commanders did not have enough of them for the formation, only they were given to the authorities.
until the end of the first offensive:
Five people remained from Pakhomov’s squad - three were killed, four were wounded.
What did I bring all this to? Why did something have to change? Why would it? The jump didn't work. What will happen next. And you can rejoice at the progress of 400 meters, you can read Murz and get hysterical, and this is exactly what many did, although the author wanted to say something else, it seems to me that you can just do your little business.
Times are not chosen, and there is something to eat. There will be no other. And there was, by and large, the memories of the participants in past wars will not let you lie. But the thing is, 50 years will pass after the SVO, and many beautiful books will be written and many heroic films will be made. Whoever wins will shoot. And the new generation will wait for order, supplies, SIBZ and Hindenburgs at the head ...
History is a spiral. And somewhere in Donetsk they will keep the sign "Shelter", and they will talk about the blockade of the city. And the horror and hopelessness will be forgotten, they will leave with the veterans.
Commentary by US medical blogger Dr. Michael Shellenberger
It looks like Russia is keeping track of our interesting revelations, in this case Twitter Files #7.
[ColonelCassad]New files released confirm orchestrated efforts between fraudsters abusing their position to distort and manipulate the information private companies are allowed to share without laws or judiciary approval (to interfere with Americans' constitutionally protected rights, as part of a larger conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election ). Intelligence had secret one-way backchannels to relay orders to BigTech, meaning the FBI was essentially running Twitter by proxy. In other words, it became known that the bureau is directly related to censorship of information that is inconvenient for the US government.
It is also reported that the FBI began developing disinformation tools several years before the events with accusations of Trump colluding with Russia. It turns out a fairly simple plot: FBI agents allegedly infiltrated Big Tech companies and created the most complex mechanism for censoring information that was forbidden to be released. The massive number of “former” FBI agents on Twitter used infiltration to prevent the publication of “Russian disinformation.” The admins were trained on how to respond to it with mass censorship. As a result, everything they wanted to remove was labeled as "Russian disinformation", including the story with Hunter's laptop and much more.
https://t.me/bigshocktheory/28066 - Zinc
Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Free country...human rights...freedom of speech...aha ha ha.
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