[NY Post] Ukraine said on Monday it had destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 spy plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post in the Sea of Azov area, dealing a blow to Russian military operations in occupied southern Ukraine.
"Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy IL-22 air control centre," army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"I am grateful to the Air Force for the perfectly planned and executed operation in the Azov Sea region!"
Reuters was unable to verify the statement independently.
The Russian defense ministry did not immediately respond to a written request for comment.
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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title [Korrespondent] 23:20 People's deputies from the Servant of the People Alexander Fedienko and Yuri Mysyagin report a strike on two Russian aircraft in the Azov Sea area. They claim that an A-50 radio reconnaissance aircraft and an Il-22 bomber were shot down. The first of them was allegedly shot down, the second disappeared from radar after descending in the Kerch area.
21:49 The Bundeswehr is preparing for an armed conflict with Russia, writes Bild with reference to a secret document from the German Ministry of Defense.
Shhhh... don’t tell anyone.
According to the newspaper, a training scenario is being considered, according to which a possible escalation of relations between NATO and the Russian Federation could occur as early as February of this year. The Bundeswehr explained to the publication that “considering different scenarios, even if they are extremely unlikely, is part of everyday military affairs, especially in training.”
21:38 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Romania has become the ninth state with which bilateral work is being carried out on security guarantees for Ukraine. The President clarified that these are all G7 states, the Netherlands and Romania. “There will be more. We take as a model the agreement that we concluded this week with Great Britain. Once again I am grateful to Britain for its leadership and for the very good, strong content of the agreement,” he added.
Zelensky also emphasized that the first two weeks of this year “have already added strength and opportunities to Ukraine.” In particular, according to him, “there are very necessary agreements on the joint production of weapons and shells, a particularly sensitive issue is drones. There will be more drones. We are preparing the next good news on air defense. We remember about missiles and electronic warfare - electronic warfare equipment - there will be more. And invariably, month after month, we are increasing our Ukrainian artillery production."
20:43 Local communities can themselves purchase electronic warfare equipment from civilian manufacturers to counter enemy missiles and drones, said Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat. According to him, local authorities cannot purchase weapons and air defense, unlike electronic warfare equipment. Ignat added that such work is already being carried out: “Today, the heads of some companies are already thinking about their personal protection in order to protect their facilities... This is the future. There is no need to waste expensive missiles if you can stop the enemy in this way.”
20:16 Zelensky will begin a working visit to Switzerland on Monday, January 15, during which he will meet with the heads of both houses of parliament, party leaders and the president, take part in the World Economic Forum and hold a number of bilateral meetings, the Presidential Office said.
18:38 In the Krivoy Rog region of the Dnepropetrovsk region, air defense destroyed an X-59 guided aircraft missile, reported the Air Command of Skhid.
16:47 Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said that the fourth meeting of advisers to discuss the Ukrainian Peace Formula in Davos could be the last at this level. He also believes that it is necessary to include Russia in the negotiations: “One way or another, we must find a way to include Russia in the process. There will be no peace without Russia being able to have its say.”
15:05 Ukraine and Romania on the sidelines of the fourth World Formula meeting in Davos began negotiations on concluding a bilateral agreement in the field of security, the Presidential Office reported.
12:51 The Russians attacked the local fire department in Stanislav, Kherson region with a kamikaze drone - four firefighters were injured, OVA reported. In addition, at night Russian troops shelled the central part of Kherson, one person was wounded. Over the previous 24 hours, six people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
11:46 The fourth meeting of national security advisers regarding the Ukrainian Peace Formula is taking place today in Davos, Switzerland. Among the participants are 81 countries and international organizations. The Office of the President recalled that at the previous meeting in Malta there were 66 participants. The OP also emphasized that countries in the Global South regions are increasingly involved in the work.
During the third meeting in Malta, the first five points of the Ukrainian Peace Formula were considered: nuclear security, food and energy security, release of prisoners and deportees, including children, restoration of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. Five more points are planned to be worked out in Davos: withdrawal of Russian troops, restoration of justice, environmental safety, prevention of escalation and recurrence of war, confirmation of the end of the war. In addition, it is planned to determine further actions, in particular, to agree on the format of the Global Peace Summit.
11:27 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, two people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling - in Avdievka and Ocheretino, the National Police reported.
09:44 Zaluzhny reported that he, together with the Chief of the General Staff Sergei Shaptala, worked for several days in the zones of responsibility of the operational-strategic groupings of troops Tavria and Odessa. “We carried out fruitful work with the commanders of the directions and brigade commanders who perform tasks in the Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. We agreed on steps to increase the efficiency of the use of troops, taking into account the available resources and the operational situation. We worked out in detail issues regarding the situation in the water area with the commander of the Naval Forces Black Sea," the commander-in-chief said.
09:01 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 14:
personnel - about 370,000 (+840) people,
tanks - 6075 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 11,302 (+33),
artillery systems - 8747 (+19),
MLRS - 957 (+0),
air defense systems - 648 (+2),
aircraft - 329 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 6861 (+13),
cruise missiles - 1814 (+8),
ships/boats - 23 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,667 (+35),
special equipment - 1353 (+8).
08:47 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russia is preparing separate air assault brigades that will be able to land from helicopters and attack Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications from the rear. Analysts made such conclusions based on statements by Russian military bloggers. It is assumed that these brigades will be able to land without parachutes, from helicopters for the rapid transfer of personnel.
Russian sources claim that such an air assault brigade - the 49th separate - is already operating in the Zaporozhye direction as part of the 58th combined arms army.
07:30 Over the past 24 hours, 61 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled five enemy attacks in the areas of Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and another 15 attacks near Severny, Pervomaisky and Nevelsky of the Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 17 attacks were repulsed near Krasnohorivka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled four enemy attacks near Sinkovka, Kharkov region; in Limansky - four attacks in the areas of Makeyevka, Luhansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - two attacks near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - four attacks south of Prechistovka, west of Staromayorsky and south of Rivnopol, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - two attacks in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; over the past 24 hours, the enemy has unsuccessfully attempted to storm the positions of the Defense Forces five times.
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[KavkazUzel] Members of the Georgian movement "Alt-Info" called for the detention of Nata Peradze, who published a video of the icon of St. Matrona with the image of Stalin doused in paint, and to reclassify the case from an administrative article to a criminal one.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on January 13, members and supporters of the pro-Russian "Conservative Movement" ("Alt-Info") held a rally near the Georgian parliament building demanding tougher punishment "for the desecration of shrines." Activists explained the protests by the fact that the icon of the Matrona of Moscow depicting Joseph Stalin was doused with paint. Members of Alt-Info also demanded that Nata Peradze be punished.
Nata Peradze, who on January 9 published a video of an icon of Stalin being splashed with paint, had previously complained of threats. On January 10, supporters of the Alt-Info movement came to Peradze’s house; the police did not allow them to approach the building.
Members of Alt-Info demanded that the Georgian authorities detain Nata Peradze for ten days. Also, after the protest action held on January 13, the leaders of the movement filed a statement with the police demanding that the administrative case be reclassified as petty hooliganism, Novosti-Georgia reports.
Activists demanded that the incident be investigated under a criminal article on illegal obstruction of religious ceremonies through violence, threats or insulting the feelings of believers. This article provides for up to a year in prison, the publication writes.
“Starting an investigation into an article about petty hooliganism is stupid... We hope that the article will be reclassified... If Peradze is not detained, very big problems will begin in the country,” the publication quoted Alt-Info leader Koka Margoshia as saying.
Activists believe that it was Nata Peradze who doused the icon with paint, TASS reports.
Let us remind you that unknown people in the Tbilisi Cathedral poured paint on an icon donated by the Alliance of Georgian Patriots party, a video about this was published by Nata Peradze. On January 11, the Patriarchate of Georgia stated that Stalin’s meeting with the Holy Matrona, who is depicted in the icon, has not been confirmed, and called for changes to be made to the drawing. On January 12, priest John Mchedlishvili apologized for not informing the Patriarchate about the placement of the icon, and the leaders of the Alliance of Georgian Patriots promised that the icon would be rewritten right in the church.
The attitude towards Joseph Stalin in Georgian society is quite contradictory, but his depiction on the icon does not mean praise, lawyer Gela Nikolaishvili told the Caucasian Knot. The Alliance of Patriots, which donated the icon to the temple, did not focus on the figure of Stalin in its activities, noted political scientist Zaal Andzhaparidze.
The “Alliance of Patriots” serves the interests of Russia, where Stalin’s popularity is great, political scientist Nika Chitadze objected.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by artillery and helicopters repelled four attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 30th, 32nd, and 60th Mechanised brigades near Sinkovka (Kharkov region).
In addition, losses were inflicted on AFU units near Kislovka (Kharkov region) and Rozovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 130 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and three 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
Moreover, one ammunition depot of the 113th Territorial Defence Brigade was wiped out near Volchansk (Kharkov region).
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces supported by operational-tactical aircraft, helicopters, and artillery repelled one attack launched by assault detachments of the 13th Ukrainian National Guard Brigade near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic) and inflicted losses on enemy manpower near Serebryansky forestry.
The AFU losses in this direction amounted to more than 80 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces support by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems repelled three attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 21st, 24th Mechanised brigades, and 50th Motorised Rifle Brigade near Veseloye, Novgorodskoye, and Nevelskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd, 28th, and 93rd Mechanised brigades near Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 300 Ukrainian troops, nine tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, including one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured fighting vehicles, one Strela-10 air defence system, and 27 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, one German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery system, one Czech-made Dana self-propelled howitzer, one U.S.-made M119 artillery howitzer, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers were neutralised.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted losses on units of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Elizavetovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 170 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, one Strela-10 air defence system, and six motor vehicles.
In addition, in the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one UK-made FH-70 howitzer, one Czech-made Dana self-propelled howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were neutralised.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 65th, 118th Mechanised brigades, 82nd Air Assault Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, 2nd and 15th Ukrainian national guard brigades near Stepovoye, Verbovoye, Novopokrovka, Rabotino, and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, as a result of the strikes, the AFU losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, three U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, one Slovak-made Zuzana-2 self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Groups of Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation wiped out one aviation ammunition depot at Dolgintsevo airfield (Dnepropetrovsk region), 98 AFU artillery units at firing positions, as well as engaged enemy manpower and hardware in 112 areas.
Air defence units shot down 23 unmanned aerial vehicles close to Novoandeyevka, Spornoye, Lipovoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Podkuichansk, Popasnaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Veseloye, Lyubimovka, Novoye (Zaporozhye region), Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region), as well as intercepted 17 HIMARS and Uragan MLRS shells.
In total, 567 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 10,664 unmanned aerial vehicles, 450 air defence missile systems, 14,618 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,202 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,729 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 17,
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[NewsFront] 23:59 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representation in the JCCC for January 13, as of 23:30, additional information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Kalininsky district):
– st. Volkova, 14, 15 – multi-apartment residential buildings.
The area is partially without power.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
22:37 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov region 14.01 22:20
A second explosion was reported in the eastern part of the region.
The air raid warning did not sound.
Our rocketeers performed preliminary training by using a high-precision missile against an enemy fortified area and an armed forces workshop.
21:59 The commander of the 1st Rifle Battalion of the 4th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine read out the order to move into position, after which he gave the command to those who refuse to carry it out, 90% were out of order -video.
21:20 Front bird broadcasts: Kherson direction 14.01 20:00
It is reported that this afternoon, the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces worked on identified enemy positions on the right bank.
UVAB-250 and UVAB-500 smashed enemy fortified positions to pieces.
20:30 Telegram channel «WarGonzo": We'll live until Monday. 99th week of SVO: main thing
Kherson-Crimean direction. There are virtually no changes on the LBS. In Krynki, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hold a bridgehead. They attacked from the islands near Peschanovka, but did not succeed. It's more like a distraction. There is no talk of a serious attempt to occupy a new bridgehead on the left bank. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted reconnaissance in force.
Zaporozhye direction. There are swings everywhere. To the west of the village of Rabotino, the Russian Armed Forces are active. At Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy, the Ukrainian Armed Forces periodically tried to attack Russian positions. And from the Novofedorovka side, the RF Armed Forces were trying to advance.
Ugledar direction. The quietest one. If you do not take into account the active operation of long-range weapons. It flies in both directions. On the ground, the Russian Armed Forces attacked on the western approaches to Staromayorsky. They failed to break through the defensive positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Donetsk direction. On the southern flank, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stabilized the situation near Novomikhailovka, pushing back the Russian Armed Forces on the southern outskirts of the village. But they lost positions to the southwest. Russian troops are rushing to the operationally important Georgievka. There is a tactical advance. There is no need to talk about operational success.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to build defensive lines on the way to Kurakhov. The Russian Armed Forces strained Ukrainian troops almost daily at Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye. On the southern flank of Avdievka, the intensity of the fighting decreased. There is pressure on the northern Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also not as active as before. However, the situation may change next week.
Bakhmut direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the defensive. To the south of the city, with difficulty, they still hold positions in Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. But to the north they are retreating to Chasov Yar in the Bogdanovka area. But we are also not talking about breaking through their line of defense.
Lugansk direction. Encounter battles continue in the Serebryansky forest area. The Russian Armed Forces had a tactical success near Ternov, which could develop into operational and even strategic success if they established control over the village. Most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ logistics on the left bank of the Zherebets River goes through it. The Russian Armed Forces also became more active a little to the north - near Nevsky and Makeevka. For now it looks more like reconnaissance in force. At Sin'kovka, Russian troops are pressing. The APU bends, but does not break yet.
19:40 Front bird broadcasts: Nikolaevkskaya area. Air defense. 14.01 18:50
Reported to the work of enemy air defense.
The rumble was heard in the southern part of the region near the port.
Arrival information is being updated.
18:40 Vladimir Rogov on Telegram: Reports from the Zaporozhye Front
The Russian Armed Forces defeated the manpower and equipment of the 65th, 118th Mechanized, 82nd Air Assault, 128th Mountain Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, the 2nd and 15th brigades of the National Guard of the Zelensky regime in the areas of Stepovoye settlements , Verbovoe, Novopokrovka, Rabotino and Pyatikhatki, Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses amounted to 60 Nazis, two armored fighting vehicles, three cars, as well as a 122mm D-30 howitzer
17:40 Telegram channel “Colonelcassad": January Avdievka.
The main battles are currently taking place near the Avdeevsky coking plant, on the eastern outskirts near the industrial zone and in the private sector in the area of the wastewater treatment plant.
17:00 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov region (border region). 14.01 16:35
The activity of our front-line aviation.
And again the arrival at a military facility is reported.
The air raid warning did not sound.
Our tactical aviation – front-line bombers Su-24 and Su-34 – performed preliminary training.
16:00 In the Kupyansk direction by Russian fightersreflectedfour attacks by assault groups of the 30th, 32nd and 60th Mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sin'kovka area of the Khar'kov region.
Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also defeated in the areas of Kislovka, Khar'kov region, and Rozovka, LPR.
The enemy lost up to 130 troops, four tanks, eight vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system and three Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
In addition, missile forces and artillery from groups of troops of the Russian Armed Forces hit an aviation ammunition warehouse at the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region, 98 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 112 regions.
15:00 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov direction (n. Kupyansk area) 14.01 14:35
The work of cannon artillery can be heard.
In particular, our Nona self-propelled guns hit the enemy’s rear positions.
Aerial reconnaissance is currently identifying targets hit and potential targets for future strikes.
13:20 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction 14.01 11:35
The relative calm ceased on both sides.
Intensification of artillery duels in several areas.
The enemy's counter-battery work is practically not carried out.
The guys just sent a portion of 82mm. shells into the enemy's lair.
12:44 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction.
During the day, six enemy attempts to carry out rotations of militants in the Novomikhailovka and Ravnopol areas were stopped.
Bomber strikes and artillery fire hit temporary deployment points, strongholds and manpower concentration areas of the 58th Mechanized and 79th Air Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Novodonetsk and Novomikhailovka.
Enemy losses amounted to over 110 military personnel, three vehicles, a 152-mm D-20 howitzer, as well as five mortar crews and a UAV control center.
11:48 Front bird broadcasts: Artemovsk (Bakhmut direction) district of the settlement. Kleshcheevka 14.01 10:40
Our 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Army Corps again carried out a successful attack.
In particular, it is reported that one Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry squad was destroyed during an attempt to counterattack our positions.
11:15 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits: A pilot with rich combat experience, holder of the Order of Courage, father of five children, from the first days in the Northern Military District. Mikhail, flight commander on the Mi-35 attack helicopter, talks about his work. At the end of this video are touching greetings to the family. The children are really looking forward to their dad coming home with Victory.
10:35 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 14.01 09:30
By tradition, local telegram channels report the sound of an explosion in the southern part of the region.
There were no reports of enemy air defense operations.
Apparently our tactical aviation has worked.
09:40 Sightseeing summary for the morning of January 14, 2024 from the Telegram channel “Two Majors”.
Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces carried out massive strikes on enemy territory on January 8 and 13. The use of a wide range of weapons, including Daggers, shows the increased capabilities of the Russian military industry. Another aspect that drew attention during the strikes was the confusion in the enemy’s monitoring channels, which, under time pressure, draw information from the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Virage-Tablet” software about the air situation.
Apparently, the chaos in the enemy’s minds was caused by multiple false air targets, and the air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, discharged by them and the Geraniums, could not cope with the flow of missiles.
Kyiv again used the facts of the strikes to beg for air defense systems, but Zelensky’s meetings with the leaders of the Baltic countries and the British prime minister were indicative against the backdrop of US statements that “the assistance has ended for now.” Providing the enemy with military-technical assistance is gradually being shifted onto the shoulders of the Europeans. The presence of many drones among the planned British assistance also attracted attention.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are already skillfully replacing the decrease in the number of artillery ammunition with FPV drones and copter-bombers (“Baba Yaga”), and increasing their number from the enemy will cause even more problems for the Russian Army. You don’t have to look far for an example: only the lazy haven’t written about the problems in organizing electronic warfare in Krynki, Kherson region.
At the same time, while the Armed Forces of Ukraine are making weapons and equipment from scrap materials and sticks, factories for the production of artillery ammunition are being built in Germany. This is happening against the backdrop of large-scale protests by German proletarians, dissatisfied with the government's cuts in social spending to please the military. But there is no point in waiting for the overthrow of the dominance of pro-American military industrialists; the most likely outcome will be the brutal suppression of protesting workers and peasant farmers, whom the bureaucrats are already calling “Russian agents.”
The front line is generally unchanged. We are gradually beginning to notice such things as maneuvers on the front sector by our forces and means. For example, on the Zaporozhye front near Nesteryanka or south of Marinka near Novomikhailovka. The number of personnel of the Russian Armed Forces on the LBS in some areas makes it possible to operate in a similar way on a larger scale, but one-time breakthroughs should not be expected yet. The practice of steadily completing tasks exactly in the form in which they were conceived is indicative of Sink'ovka in the Kupyansky direction.
The weather had an impact on the activity of both sides last week. The channels in the Kherson direction are freezing, the operation of UAVs is difficult, and even in the absence of precipitation in the cold, the operation of batteries of all types of equipment has been reduced. Soldiers warm themselves with trench candles in positions where it is impossible to equip stoves.
Recruitment of personnel is underway on both sides of the front. In Ukraine there is mass violent mobilization, work on draconian laws on this topic, the flight of men through the border rivers and mountains to the West. In Russia, after the holidays, military registration and enlistment offices also returned to recruiting volunteers for contracts, and there is renewed debate online about the differences in one-time payments “from the regions” when concluding a contract. Many active servicemen of the Russian Army are interested in the African direction (we note right away that transfer from the Northwestern Military District zone there is impossible).
Thus, the front line is still without significant changes. The very fact of its stabilization and the retention of the strategic initiative of the Russian Armed Forces after many months of bloody defensive battles is important. Both sides are preparing to fight a long war.
08:45 Telegram channel Fisherman
Chronicle of a special military operation for January 13, 2024
After a short break, Russian troops again launched massive attacks on the western and central regions of the so-called. Ukraine, using, among other things, Kh-101 cruise missiles, Kinzhal ballistic missiles and Geran-2 drones.
According to footage published by the Ukrainian side, one of the ammunition fell in Shostka, Sumy region, in close proximity to the Impulse plant, which specializes in the production of ammunition and explosive devices. However, at the moment, no information confirming a hit on the object itself has been published.
In the Seversky direction, the “fog of war” has partially cleared. Apparently, after reaching the outskirts of the village of Spornoe, the assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces were unable to build on their success and were forced to retreat to reserve positions. There are no Russian fighters on the outskirts of the village.
Meanwhile, in the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops managed to somewhat expand the zone of control. At Bogdanovka, assault troops advanced into the forest belt north-west of the village, and in the Kleshcheevka area, servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces managed to knock out the enemy from some of the heights.
In the Avdeevsky direction, Russian troops are still storming enemy defenses in the area of the treatment facilities: according to pro-Ukrainian channels, units of the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance in the area up to 250-300 meters. However, due to the lack of personnel, it is not possible to establish the exact configuration of the front.
08:10 According to operational lines On January 13, the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
- as a result of shelling on the street. Kirov, 457 a woman born in 1965 was injured.
– as a result of the release of high explosives from a UAV, an EMS employee (driver) – a man born in 1969 – was injured.
Information has been received about damage as a result of shelling by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
– a fire was recorded on the territory of the solid waste landfill on the street. Petrovsky.
n.p. Staromikhailovka:
– st. Abakumova, 14 – direct hit on a private residential building.
n.p. Makeevka (Gornyatsky district):
– MBOU School No. 12 in Makeevka on the street. School.
n.p. Gorlovka (Central City district):
– st. Lazo, 24 – direct hit on a private residential building;
– st. Dobrolyubova, 6, 8 – private residential buildings;
– st. Vozdukhoflotskaya, 1/1 – private residential building, a car was also damaged;
– the gas pipeline along Artema Street was damaged.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
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[Regnum] Joseph Stalin's dacha on the territory of the Ritsinsky National Park is a national treasure of Abkhazia and cannot be transferred into private hands. This statement was made on January 14 by the head of the State Dacha Administration of Abkhazia Beslan Kvitsinia, reports Sputnik Abkhazia.
As Kvitsinia explained, the opposition media had distributed a video the day before in which a certain person claims to be the owner of Stalin’s dacha and bought it for 850 thousand rubles. According to the hero of the video, he is going to build a resort on the site of Stalin's dacha.
Kvitsinia denied information about the sale of Stalin’s dacha into private hands and pointed out that such rumors appear from time to time, but they should not be trusted.
“We would like to remind you that the spread of rumors around this dacha is not a new story. So, back in 2005, there was information in the media that Russian businessman and billionaire Oleg Deripaska allegedly wanted to buy the dacha. And the Abkhazian authorities even announced the amount of the deal - $10 million. After the refutation, they began to say that the object was sold to the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov,” Kvitsiniya said in a statement.
The head of the Department of State Dachas of Abkhazia called on the citizens of Abkhazia to be more selective in choosing sources of information and to trust only official statements of the authorities.
Stalin's dacha on the northern shore of Lake Ritsa was built in 1947. Joseph Stalin liked to relax in Abkhazia, there are several dachas built for him - in Gagra, Athos, Sukhumi, but the dacha on Ritsa was his favorite, here he managed to relax five times. After Stalin's death, the dacha was used by Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. All dachas are state owned by Abkhazia and the authorities preserve their historical appearance.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the Parliament of Abkhazia ratified the agreement on the transfer of the Pitsunda state dacha to Russia at an extraordinary meeting. The agreement provides for the gratuitous transfer to Russia of a property complex in the city of Pitsunda, as well as the lease of land plots with an area of 180 hectares and an adjacent section of the sea. The land remains the property of Abkhazia.
The Abkhaz opposition opposed the ratification of the treaty, believing that the document contained clauses that contradicted the country's constitution, and organized a protest in Sukhumi, which turned into riots.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called on American companies to strengthen the security of oil facilities after US President Joe Biden’s threats against Republicans who did not want to finance Kiev. She wrote about this on January 14 in the Telegram channel.
“I advise American energy companies to strengthen the security of oil facilities in Texas and other regions of the United States, because after a similar threat from Biden at the beginning of 2022 against Russia, the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up six months later,” she wrote.
Fair enough.
As Regnum reported, earlier on January 14, Biden threatened representatives of the Republican Party with retribution for their reluctance to provide financial assistance to Ukraine. He said Republicans would pay "heavily" for the position.
In December 2023, US congressmen went on Christmas recess until January 9 and left a number of issues, including additional funding for Ukraine, unresolved.
White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said on January 11 that the United States had stopped supplying Ukraine with firearms and military equipment until Congress approved a request for continued funding. He clarified that Washington issued the latest package of military assistance to Kyiv.
Later that day, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Kirby’s words, noted that more and more representatives of the US political establishment are interested in the question of where their money and the money of American taxpayers are going.
You can't walk around in an environment in which you are eyeball deep in printed cash and not be corrupt.
[Regnum] The funds allocated by the United States of America to Ukraine are returned to Washington. This was stated on January 14 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, on the air of the “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Russia-1 TV channel.
“How can the United States help Ukraine? <…> Just allocate money for this. Where does this money go? This money goes back to this same democratic team,” she said.
As Regnum reported, on October 22, 2023, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Washington Oksana Markarova said that most of the almost $61.4 billion in funds requested by Biden from Congress to help Ukraine will remain in the United States. According to her, $30.6 billion of this amount will be used for Pentagon programs, and $18 billion of it is intended to replenish defense goods from Pentagon warehouses, reimbursement of costs for services, military education and training provided to Kyiv.
On December 12, Zakharova called the new $175 million package of American military aid to Ukraine a real criminal scheme to siphon off money. The diplomat clarified that in fact the United States admitted that Ukraine is nothing more than a way for them to line their pockets.
According to American authorities, since the beginning of the special operation, the total amount of funding for Kyiv by Washington has amounted to about $113 billion. Half of this amount was spent on the military needs of Ukraine, and the rest to support the government and economy.
Text taken from the blog of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Order of the Prosecutor of the USSR No. 1265/70с. About the grossest violations of revolutionary legality in cases of k.r. crimes by the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region. September 23, 1938 Archive - GAVO. F. 6466. Op. 1. D. 2. L. 7
An important document signed by Vyshinsky.
1. Even under Yezhov (he will be removed only after 2 months - formally, the period of mass repression ends with his removal) Vyshinsky demands that an investigation be carried out into the violations identified during the repressions in the Ryazan region and that the perpetrators be punished, pointing to the facts of cases based on slander and careerism and reinsurance - read fake cases formed based on denunciations. This again refers to the vulgar myth that Vyshinsky knew nothing and covered up violations during the repressions. On the contrary, he knew and took measures through the Prosecutor’s Office. Even under Yezhov. As a result, this will lead to a serious purge of prosecutorial workers in the 1939-1940s and will accelerate the fall of Yezhov.
2. This document, among others, once again exposes the myth that violations were hidden and only Khrushchev then exposed everything and released everyone. No, they began to be opened during the repressions of 1937-1938. This is actually why Yezhov and the leadership of the NKVD paid with their heads a little later for what happened. Subsequently, documents like this led to the fact that after Lavrentiy Beria came to control of the NKVD and the purge of the NKVD leadership for counter-revolutionary crimes, the 1st “Berievskaya” amnesty was held, within the framework of which hundreds of thousands of cases were reviewed and many unjust sentences were overturned. This is a serious merit of Vyshinsky, to whom one can show anything, it’s that he was somewhat late in revealing systemic violations of social law during repressions.
3. At the same time, it is worth paying attention to the accusation against the Ryazan prosecutors that in addition to conniving at violations of socialist legality and initiating illegal criminal cases, these same prosecutors negligently conducted cases against real enemies of the people, as a result of which these cases were “smeared” (read fell apart). That is, on the one hand, innocent people suffered, and on the other, enemies of the people evaded responsibility. This is already about the difficulty of analyzing the process of repression and separating the lambs from the goats in this stream.
Whether there was malicious intent here (in the Ryazan region) or whether it was simply a matter of low qualifications of the prosecutors, unfortunately, the document does not specify. In any case, a state commission was sent to the Ryazan region to check the entire local prosecutor's office on the facts of violations identified.
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Hah! I’m 4’11.5” (in the morning) — no dwarf, I. (Though apparently in California I am legally a midget, being under 5’0” — Mr. Wife and the trailing daughters still find this delightful.)
DM's request may find audience in official circles.
[Obektivno] Defense Minister Todor Tagarev, who is on a five-day visit to the United States, has demanded that the history curriculum be purged of "facts that can create an appreciation of Russia's role in our past." Tagarev made his speech to the Atlantic Council, an American think tank funded by NATO, Soros' Open Society, the British Foreign Office, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others.
Not only the traditional Bulgarian media, but also the social networks "must be monitored" in order to counteract the Russian propaganda creeping into them. And the teaching of history in Bulgarian schools should be cleared of facts capable of generating appreciation for Russia's role in our past, said Tagarev.
The Minister of Defense presented to the Atlantic Council the measures that should be taken in Bulgaria to "counteract Russian propaganda":
"First, we must be able to present history in its real sense to the Bulgarian people. Because generation after generation it is said that Russia is our friend and liberator and we should be internally grateful to it for what it has done, although in history we have often been on the opposite sides in various conflicts. Russia has also often pursued its own interests to the detriment of the interests of the Bulgarian people. So one thing is history and education”.
The second measure, according to Tagarev, is: "to be able to identify disinformation and propaganda campaigns and to find the best possible ways to counter these campaigns." In this sense, we must be able to track the propaganda campaigns of disinformation not only in the traditional media, but also in the social networks, which impact day after day on different groups of the population. And to find the most suitable interpretations to counteract this misinformation".
The Czar sent ships to support the Union during the Civil War, and there is some reporting that Russia fed the Lincoln Administration info on British plans to exploit the War to their advantage.
The Czar sent ships to support the Union during the Civil War, and there is some reporting that Russia fed the Lincoln Administration info on British plans to exploit the War to their advantage.
Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-01-15 06:32
DDM,
FWIW there's also some evidence that the Russian Fleet was there because the Russians were staring down the UK, and the American ports were nice and ice-free year round, unlike their own home ports.
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Yes, yes. I still have a copy of my Russian history textbook from the bad old days when I was a poor, starving college student.
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky wrote A History of Russia, a 748 page book that covers Russian history from the time before Kiev when there might have been Slavic tribes but no Russians up until The Time after Stalin, 1953-1968 which is the last chapter. I recently dug this book out of an old, dusty box in my garage.
Sorry, Tagarev, it's too late for me.
This book gave me an appreciation for Russians and their struggles for over a thousand years against invaders from all over Asia and Europe. They fought Mongols, Swedes, Turks, British, Finns, Poles, French, Japanese and, of course, Germans. Yes, they expanded their territory. You could say the Tsars were the epitome of imperialists. But then, you could say that about the British, French, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch and even the Americans. It is a common trait of successful nations and America is as guilty as any of them. At one time in the distant past, Bulgaria was a great empire that rivaled the Ottomans and Byzantines.
But a lot of Russia's expansion was at the expense of people who would have expanded into Russia if Russians hadn't fought back. Genghis Khan would tell you. So would Sweden's King Charles XII, Napoleon and Hitler
I can understand Bulgarians being bitter just like Ukrainians and many other Eastern Europeans who got caught between Hitler and Stalin. They suffered under Soviet rule, no doubt about it. But imagine if they had to live under German Nazis instead of Soviet communists.
OK, that's not a good choice but it's in the past. Get over it. Suppressing the truth and teaching hate is not the answer.
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But imagine if they had to live under German Nazis instead of Soviet communists.
Treated as Untermenschen in either case — the Nazi plan was to wipe out all the Slavs, while the Soviet plan was to wipe out all not good Socialists. As has been explained, Ukraine’s 3 million starved to death was no different than what happened to many other peoples across the Soviet Union at the time, so even being a good Soviet was not an adequate defense.
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This book gave me an appreciation for Russians and their struggles for over a thousand years against invaders from all over Asia and Europe.
The same could be said of Belgium and Korea. Always caught between neighbors with territorial ambitions. We call that history. Man is tribal, territorial, and hierarchical.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Korrespondent] 23:20 People's deputies from the Servant of the People Alexander Fedienko and Yuri Mysyagin report a strike on two Russian aircraft in the Azov Sea area. They claim that an A-50 radio reconnaissance aircraft and an Il-22 bomber were shot down. The first of them was allegedly shot down, the second disappeared from radar after descending in the Kerch area.
