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[REGNUM] American-made weapons that were left behind in Afghanistan are being sold, including to Russia and China. This was stated by former President of the United States Donald Trump at the annual conference of conservative circles of the US Republican Party.
He confirmed his words with information from publications, from which it follows that the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) is in second place in the world in arms sales.
“They are selling off all the great, brand new gear we gave them. Apache helicopters, which are the best in the world. They gave one to Russia, one to China,” Trump said.
He expressed fears that in the Russian Federation and China, American military aircraft could be dismantled to make similar ones, " because they are actually very smart."
According to Trump's calculations, 700,000 small arms and 70,000 military equipment provided by the United States should be in Afghanistan. Most of the weapons were brand new, the former American leader stressed.
As REGNUM reported , Trump also said that he could resolve the Ukrainian conflict within 24 hours if he is elected head of state in 2024. The politician assured that the confrontation between Kiev and Moscow would never have turned into an armed conflict if he had led the United States.
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Russia and China were not in the intended client base, but simply represent hidden add-ons. Think "Gain of Function" if you will, as it might relate to gun-running and regime change.
Trump's comment at the convention was a teaser. He knows the purpose and origins of the AFG weapons project.
[Unz] On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded. Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.
We want to emphasize that the officials from the OSCE were operating in their professional capacity gathering first-hand evidence of shelling in the area. What their data shows is that Ukrainian Forces were bombing and killing their own people. This has all been documented and has not been challenged.
So, the question we must all ask ourselves is this: Is the bombardment and slaughter of one’s own people an ’act of war’?
We think it is. And if we are right, then we must logically assume that the war began before the Russian invasion (which was launched a full week later) We must also assume that Russia’s alleged "unprovoked aggression" was not unprovoked at all but was the appropriate humanitarian response to the deliberate killing of civilians. In order to argue that the Russian invasion was ’not provoked’, we would have to say that firing over 4,000 artillery shells into towns and neighborhoods where women and children live, is not a provocation? Who will defend that point of view?
No one, because it’s absurd. The killing of civilians in the Donbas was a clear provocation, a provocation that was aimed at goading Russia into a war. And —as we said earlier— the OSCE had monitors on the ground who provided full documentation of the shelling as it took place, which is as close to ironclad, eyewitness testimony as you’re going to get.
This, of course, is a major break with the "official narrative" which identifies Russia as the perpetrator of hostilities. But, as we’ve shown, that simply isn’t the case. The official narrative is wrong. Even so, it might not surprise you to know that most of the mainstream media completely omitted any coverage of the OSCE’s fact-finding activities in east Ukraine. The one exception to was Reuters that published a deliberately opaque account published on February 18 titled "Russia voices alarm over sharp increase of Donbass shelling". Here’s an excerpt:....
And here’s something else that is typically excluded in the media’s selective coverage. Before Putin sent his tanks across the border into Ukraine, he invoked United Nations Article 51 which provides a legal justification for military intervention. Of course, the United States has done this numerous times to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy to its numerous military interventions. But, in this case, you can see where the so-called Responsibility To Protect (R2P) could actually be justified, after all, by most estimates, the Ukrainian army has killed over 14,000 ethnic Russians since the US-backed coup 8 years ago. If ever there was a situation in which a defensive military operation could be justified, this was it. But that still doesn’t fully explain why Putin invoked UN Article 51. For that, we turn to former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who explained it like this:....
Longish article...Not so sure about Unz, but I'll hear the author out.
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We must also assume that Russia’s alleged "unprovoked aggression" was not unprovoked at all but was the appropriate humanitarian response to the deliberate killing of civilians
Bollocks. The build up on the Russian side took months. The invasion was a fait accompli long before the shelling. And pointing out that Ukraine is not a good actor isn't exactly a ground breaking observation. They suck, but for now we like them better than the other guys.
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I like Russians, but once again their government has led them into the darkness. I'm okay with us providing Ukraine with weapons because it's good to work out all the bugs and I hope they are submitting constant bug reports for us to make improvements. We also get to see Russian stuff in action. Worth the price of admission.
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Not so sure about Unz, but I'll hear the author out.
He begins with a lie and continues lying. VOA Feb 17,2022: The OSCE reported more violations around Luhansk than Donetsk during the past two days, but even so, longtime observers say the shelling in and around Donetsk is the most intense they have seen in years.
On Friday the pro-Moscow separatist leaders, who are seen by Ukraine as puppets of the Kremlin, ordered a mass evacuation of civilians in posted videos, saying the Ukrainian army was planning an attack — an accusation vehemently denied by Kyiv.
According to the metadata of the videos, analyzed by experts, the broadcasts were prerecorded two days before, suggesting the evacuation, renewed shelling and other events, including an inexplicable car bombing, in Donbas are being orchestrated by the Kremlin, say Ukrainian officials, Western leaders and independent observers.
They accuse Moscow of building up a pretext for launching an offensive on Ukraine. Kremlin officials deny this, with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russian diplomats accusing Western leaders of “hysteria” and “alarmism.” Saturday, Russian authorities claimed a shell, allegedly fired by Ukraine, exploded on Russian territory near a house in the village of Mityakinskaya in the southern Rostov region.
Western intelligence officials say the evacuation and mobilization orders and intensifying artillery and mortar fire, which they blame on the Russian separatists, are consistent with warnings that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made at a midweek presentation to the United Nations Security Council, where he accused Moscow of preparing ‘false flag’ operations that could be blamed on Kyiv but are in fact ordered by the Kremlin and conducted by its own forces or proxies.
Old Soviet and Nazi trick of generating pretext for invasion.
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NB I have not commented 319 times ! Not even close!
Is this normal or a glitch?
I wonder why the Ukrainians just shell women, children (were there any baby milk factories also?). For no reason. Just to hit a peaceful people minding their everyday lives..
By the time this story was written (if not pre-written by the KGB) there were Russian soldiers and mercs inside Ukraine, in the so called, People;s Republics".
The shelling and shooting was mutual. There was a war going on that many in the world decided to ignore.
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In the meantime, there's this on OSCE's homepage:
"KYIV, 16 January 2023 –The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani, completed his visit to Kyiv today.
During his visit, Chairman Osmani observed first-hand the terrible toll Russia’s senseless and unjustified war continues to have on the people of Ukraine and called on the Russian Federation to immediately end the aggression."
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NB I have not commented 319 times ! Not even close!
Just guessing, but has anyone else used either your nym or your IP with a different nym, Amaros? Or it might indeed be a bug in the program. Fred rolls his own code, which means the important stuff is better than store-bought, but the unimportant stuff drops down the urgency list.
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I had a look at OSCE's reports from that period, and didn't find anything to support this claim.
Just the opposite. The Russians were the aggressors 80-90% of the time. Before Feb 24, the OSCE stived for neutrality and didn't assign blame. But if you look at their cease fire violation reports, it was obvious there the vast majority of shells landed. An example Table of ceasefire violations as of 20 February 2022
[HumanEvents] Documents recently obtained by Human Events show that Alexander Vindman has been pitching the government of Ukraine to obtain lucrative defense contracts. In August 2022, Vindman, operating as CEO of Trident Support, pitched a deck on a Ukraine Weapons Systems Sustainment Center to address problems with Ukraine's weapons management, namely readiness, repair, and maintenance.
Vindman proposed that for $12 million in initial funding, his company Trident Support would bring support closer to the front lines by providing a logistical midpoint from which equipment could be distributed.
The idea behind the proposal is that Trident Support would be a middle-man between NATO weapons and Ukrainian forces, teaching the latter how to operate and repair the equipment, while taking an exorbitant fee from Ukraine to do it. Ace says he wants to be paid in bearclaw pastries
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[LB] One civilian died in Sumy Oblast, one in Kharkiv Oblast, two more died in Donetsk Oblast and one in Kherson Oblast.
by Sergey Albul
In the past day, March 3, the invaders shelled 8 regions, 5 civilians were killed.
This is reported by regional state administrations.
Sumy : during the day yesterday, the Russians shelled 6 territorial communities of the region: Shalyginska, Krasnopilska, Bilopolska, Esmanska, Glukhivska, Yunakivska. 121 approaches were recorded - from mortars, artillery, anti-aircraft guns, from unmanned aerial vehicles (VOGs), from tanks and ATGMs. Unfortunately, there is destruction and casualties.
Shalyginsk community: a local resident died as a result of shelling. A power line was damaged in the settlement. As a result of mortar shelling in the village. 3 residential buildings were damaged in Hodyno.
Esmansk community: a private residential building was damaged as a result of shelling. Also, the enemy fired on the territory of the community with an anti-aircraft gun - 20 hits and a mortar - another 20 hits. Krasnopilsk community: an enemy UAV dropped 4 ammunition (VOG type) in different villages of the community; enemy fire from ATGM 120 mm (launch of 2 rockets). Also, from the territory of the Russian Federation, artillery fire was carried out.
Bilopolsk community: there was tank shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation, mortar shelling, barrel artillery shelling, and 8 self-propelled artillery attacks were also recorded.
Yunakivska hromada: shelling from self-propelled guns and mortar shelling were recorded.
Zaporizhzhya : during the past day, the occupiers shelled the civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Malinivka, Novoandriivka, Novodanilivka, Gulyaipole, Mali Shcherbaki, Zaliznychne, Biloghirya, Vesnyanka, Olhivske, Mala Tokmachka, Charivne, Shcherbaki, Kamianske, Stepove.
18 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling. The consequences are clarified.
Dnipropetrovsk region : the Marganets community came under artillery fire at night. Nikopol in the morning. There is destruction.
In Nikopol, a private enterprise, 4 houses were damaged, and a power line was cut. Two outbuildings were mutilated. One of them got busy. Firefighters have already extinguished the fire.
The consequences of the attacks are being clarified. Rescuers are inspecting the territories targeted by the Russian army. People were not injured.
Yesterday afternoon, the enemy fired more than 100 shells from heavy artillery and MLRS on Nikopol region. It flew to Marganetska and Myrivska communities. No victims, but there is destruction.
The Marganets community got the most. There, a social institution, 17 private houses, 12 farm buildings, a car, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged.
Kharkiv region : this morning in the village Teahouse of the Vovchan community of the Chuguyiv district. A 37-year-old civilian blew himself up on a stretcher when he was going to the river to fish. He died as a result of his injuries.
Yesterday, in the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of about 10 settlements, among them — Strelecha, Staritsa, Vovchansk, Budarki, and Ambarne.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling of populated areas near the contact line. In particular, these are Dvorichna, Kupyansk, Krokhmalne.
Yesterday afternoon, shelling was carried out on the village of Dvorichny in the Kupyan district.
Also yesterday there was shelling of Kupyansk. At least 9 residential buildings were damaged, outbuildings and a garage were destroyed.
There is a hit in the roof of the boiler room of the NKP of the Kupyan Medical Association. No casualties.
As a result of shelling in Vovchansk yesterday evening, a private residential building was damaged.
At night in the village A 52-year-old civilian man was wounded in Berestov, Kupyan district, as a result of enemy shelling
Luhansk region : the Russians carried out unsuccessful offensive actions near Kreminnaya and Belogorivka on Kupyansk and Lymansk.
They carried out artillery fire on Makiivka, Nevsky, Kreminnaya, Dibrova and Bilogorivka.
In order to speed up the exchange of passports for Russian ones, the invaders organized on-site receptions of documents from citizens. They drive around populated areas, walk in yards, checking the presence of documents of the Russian Federation.
The situation in the region remains difficult.
Donetsk region : during the day — 37 shellings from Grad anti-aircraft missiles, artillery, mortars, tanks, S-300 air defense system, air strike (missile type not established),
The residential sectors of Druzhkivka, Kurakhove, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Krasnohorivka, Velyka Novosilka settlement, village were shelled. Severne, village Krasnohorivka, village Maksimilianivka, Lastochkine village, village Druzhba, village Zoryanye, Solovyove village, Komyshivka village, village Thinly, in the town of Avdiivka, the Russians fired at the residential sector and PJSC "AKHZ", a depot, in the village of Kurakhivka, near the railway station.
14 objects were damaged (8 residential buildings, including 2 high-rise buildings; a school, a dispensary, a cafe, a railway carriage, an outbuilding, a building of a psychoneurological boarding school.
In Donetsk region: 2 dead per day.
Mykolayiv Oblast : yesterday, during the day, the enemy made artillery and mortar attacks on the water area and the coast of the Ochakiv community. In the afternoon, artillery shelling was recorded outside the settlement of the Kutsurub community. There are no casualties.
Kherson region : the occupiers attack Kherson region again. There are dead and wounded civilians due to enemy strikes. Russians fired at a tractor driver near the village of Tomarine, Beryslav district. The 33-year-old victim was taken to the nearest medical facility by the military. However, the doctors could not do anything, they declared death.
Also, the enemy once again attacked the village of Kozatske, Kakhovsky district. Two people were injured, and now medics are providing them with the necessary assistance.
In Kherson, a fragment of an enemy projectile injured an employee of one of the enterprises. The 48-year-old woman was at her workplace when the shelling began. The victim was hospitalized.
During the day, the enemy fired 69 rounds (435 shells), including 4 (26 shells) in the city of Kherson: mortars – 30, anti-aircraft guns – 6, artillery – 27, tank – 4, UAV – 2.
In the city of Kherson, the enemy hit the residential quarters of the city, private and multi-apartment buildings, the territory of KP "Khersonelectrotrans".
In one day in the region: one person died, 10 were injured.
80 people were evacuated from the de-occupied territories of the Kherson region.
We will remind you that the Armed Forces eliminated 820 occupiers during the day . In addition, 4 tanks, 10 BBM, 12 artillery systems and one aircraft were destroyed.
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[Korrespondent] 23:06 Ukraine, together with partners, is developing a mechanism for reparations, which will have four elements, Shmygal said: an international register of losses; compensation commission, which will consider claims for damages; the compensation fund from which the reimbursement will come; mechanism for the execution of decisions taken by the Compensation Commission. According to the prime minister, the confiscated Russian assets can be used to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
23:00 Prosecutors General of the countries belonging to the Joint Investigation Group signed an agreement on the establishment in The Hague of the International Center for the Investigation of Crimes of Aggression of Russia, which will start operating in the summer of 2023. The document was endorsed after the coordinating meeting of the JIT prosecutors, which took place during the international conference in Lviv, said Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin.
22:09 The prosecutor's office is investigating 171 cases of sexual violence against Ukrainians by the Russian military, Olena Zelenska said during a panel discussion at a conference in Lviv: "Behind this figure, there are not only women - there are 39 men among the victims, 13 are minors, among them - a boy. We know about these cases only because these people found the strength to speak. How much they suffer in silence, especially in the occupied territories, we do not know."
"This is their conscious psychological and physical weapon against the Ukrainians," the first lady emphasized.
21:35 Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins is confident that Western partners will start deliveries of fighter jets to Ukraine, and it's only a matter of time: "If we had fighter jets, we would also give them away. The supply of combat aircraft is only a matter of time. I don't I see reasons why the West should not supply fighters. If Ukrainians need fighters, they should get them."
20:46 Ukraine is finishing the heating season with a surplus of power and with sufficient reserves of gas and coal, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said. According to him, since October last year, Russia has carried out 31 air attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, of which 14 were massive missile strikes and 17 were attacks by groups of kamikaze drones. However, the Ukrainian power engineers managed to keep the energy system intact, "the collapse that the enemy so hoped for did not happen."
20:08 Russians this afternoon hit with an Iskander-K missile at one of the territorial communities of the Zaporozhye region. The blast wave and debris damaged the facades, windows and roofs of neighboring houses, there were no casualties, the regional prosecutor's office said.
19:36 The German concern Rheinmetall wants to buy 96 Leopard 1 tanks from the Swiss defense company Ruag to be sent to Ukraine, Tages-Anzeiger reports. According to a Ruag representative, the Rheinmetall concern expressed a desire to buy combat vehicles and made it clear that they would be delivered to Ukraine after repairs. The Ruag representative discussed this issue with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, but was refused.
18:15 The Russians shelled the village of Lvovo in the Tyaginsky community of the Kherson region, one person died, the OVA reported.
18:13 The Dutch prosecutor's office has opened 45 criminal investigations against companies and individuals suspected of circumventing sanctions against Russia, RTL News reports. Of the 45 criminal investigations, 29 are related to violations of import and export regulations, the rest are related to violations of financial sanctions.
18:11 In Zaporozhye, during the analysis of rubble in a five-story residential building hit by a Russian missile on March 2, they took out the body of another deceased, the State Emergency Service reported. In total, the bodies of 11 dead have now been released, of which one is a child.
18:08 For the first time since January, the movement of vehicles in large columns has resumed in Mariupol. So, in the morning, 28 military vehicles drove in the direction of Mangush-Berdyansk, accompanied by six civilian cars, most of them are manpower, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. During the day, the movement of at least 16 tanks, more than 20 trucks with ammunition and manpower was also recorded. Among the tanks that drove through Mariupol today, new T80s, 72 modifications of 2020, were noticed.
17:57 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he was in touch with the commanders in the morning: "The front is the first priority. I will especially note the soldiers defending Bakhmut. In particular, the soldiers of the 56th separate motorized infantry brigade, the 67th and 93rd mechanized brigades and the 77th separate airmobile brigade".
16:59 Ukraine will receive from the UK twice as many Challenger 2 tanks as promised, Ukrainian Ambassador to London Vadym Prystaiko said in an interview with Radio Liberty. According to him, Ukraine requested 14 Challenger 2 tanks from Britain, but after Zelensky's visit, it turned out that their number would double.
16:33 Energoatom published an infographic of Russian strikes on Ukrainian electric power facilities during the year. Most of the strikes on the energy system were inflicted in October 2022.
16:21 Work on anti-Russian sanctions should continue until "enough has been done," MEP Roberta Metsola said at a briefing in Lviv: "We have done unprecedented work, adopted many packages, but there are still gaps that are being abused. We can still move on. The sanctions are working."
According to her, the next sanctions against the Russian Federation should concern, in particular, Russian diamonds and members of the State Duma close to Putin, as well as Russian companies that are still present on the European market.
16:08 The Chief of Defense Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces, Wayne Eyre, arrived in Ukraine, Zaluzhny said: "We had a frank conversation. I informed my colleague in detail about the operational situation at the front. He paid special attention to the Eastern direction. We discussed the supply of military assistance - weapons and ammunition."
15:29 Russia has sharply increased imports of chips from Turkey and the UAE after the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, writes Bloomberg, citing a senior European diplomat. According to the source, Russian imports have largely returned to pre-war 2020 levels. An analysis of trade data suggests that modern chips and integrated circuits produced in the EU and other countries are supplied to Russia through countries such as Turkey, Kazakhstan, and the United Arab Emirates. Such goods can be used for both peaceful and military purposes. The diplomat noted that deliveries from China to Russia also increased.
14:32 Bakhmut remains a priority target for Russia, but the experience of the Armed Forces of Ukraine allows us to rebuild the defense and continue to resist, even if this requires destroying infrastructure, such as bridges, said Sergei Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces.
According to Cherevaty, the generals' trips to Bakhmut in recent days are a clear marker that Ukrainian forces will fight for every inch of their land. He stressed that the situation around Bakhmut is difficult, but controlled.
Earlier this week, Bakhmut was visited twice by the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces Alexander Syrsky, as well as the commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Khorenko.
13:55 In the morning, the Russians hit the Nikopol region several times from heavy artillery and MLRS. In the Krasnogrigoryevsk community, two people died, residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged. A hotel in Nikopol was damaged, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
13:17 Saudi Arabia has sent three planes of humanitarian aid to Ukraine as part of the previously announced $100 million program, the Office of the President said. The cargo contains, in particular, 135 powerful generators, warm blankets, hygiene products. They will be distributed across six regions to respond to the urgent needs of thousands of people.
12:23 Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has lost more than 200 thousand of its soldiers in Ukraine, more than 1800 officers were killed or wounded. The Russian Federation also lost more than 2,000 main battle tanks, said Christopher Cavoli, Commander-in-Chief of NATO Allied Forces in Europe. He also said that the Russian army produces more than 23 thousand artillery shells per day.
11:25 Zelensky met with the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Lviv. "Ukraine seeks to complete the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission as soon as possible and start negotiations on joining the EU this year," the President stressed.
10:36 In the Belgorod region on the morning of March 3, a drone attacked a substation of the Transneft-Druzhba oil pipeline, the Baza telegram channel reports. According to preliminary data from the source, the drone arrived from Ukraine and was equipped with an improvised explosive device. The blow fell on an empty tank. Four people were evacuated from the scene of the incident, no one was injured.
10:20 British intelligence reports that Ukraine has deployed its elite units to Bakhmut. Analysts say the Ukrainian-held salient has proven vulnerable to Russian attacks from three directions as the Wagnerites and the regular army push further into the northern outskirts of the city. At the same time, supply routes for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city are becoming more and more limited.
In the past 36 hours, two key bridges in Bakhmut have been destroyed, including a vital bridge connecting the city to the last main supply route from Bakhmut to the town of Chasov Yar, intelligence said.
09:58 The German concern Rheinmetall wants to build a tank plant in Ukraine. According to the head of the concern Armin Papperger, the cost of the enterprise could be about 200 million euros. The plant will be able to produce up to 400 main battle tanks of the KF51 Panther type - this is a new vehicle that Rheinmetall introduced in the summer of 2022.
09:27 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person died, ten were injured. In the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded during shelling, another was blown up by a trip wire and died. In the Donetsk region, two people died - in Maximilianovka and Seversk, according to regional military administrations.
09:19 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are probably preparing a controlled withdrawal from the "particularly difficult sectors" of Bakhmut.
09:12 The number of victims of the Russian strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye on March 2 increased to ten, including one child, the State Emergency Service reported. Search and rescue operations have been going on for two days.
08:54 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 4.
personnel - about 152,190 (+820) people liquidated,
tanks - 3409 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 6683 (+10),
artillery systems - 2414 (+12),
MLRS - 487 (+3),
air defense systems - 247 (+0),
aircraft - 302 (+1),
helicopters - 289 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2066 (+5),
cruise missiles - 873 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5289 (+8),
special equipment - 230 (+0).
08:26 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 150 enemy attacks on them, the General Staff said in the morning report . In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to surround the city of Bakhmut. Over the past day, numerous attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Dubovo-Vasilyevka, Bogdanovka, Bakhmut and Ivanovskoye.
In Simferopol, the Russian occupation authorities, fearing the activation of the pro-Ukrainian movement, create the so-called "voluntary squads." In addition to patrolling the city, one of their tasks should be to identify spotters and saboteurs.
08:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Shoigu's alleged trip "to the zone of the special operation", where he "inspected the Russian grouping of troops Vostok", heard the report of the commander of the group, Colonel-General Rustam Muradov.
02:48 Ukraine has asked the EU to supply 250,000 artillery shells every month to advance Ukrainian troops on the battlefield, the Financial Times writes, citing Reznikov's letter to colleagues from 27 EU member states. In it, he notes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine produce only a fifth of the required number of shells due to a lack of ammunition. On average, this is 110 thousand 155 mm shells, while Russia uses four times as many. Reznikov said that for the successful completion of combat missions, the minimum requirement is at least 60% of the total ammunition load, namely 356,400 shells per month.
00:26 Head of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola announced that she had arrived in Kiev and met with Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk. Metsola stressed that Ukraine will definitely become a member of the EU and promised to strengthen cooperation.
00:13 The United States will prosecute Russian war criminals, Attorney General Merrick Garland said during his visit to Ukraine. Until recently, U.S. jurisdiction over war crimes was limited, he said, but Congress passed changes to the law that would allow prosecuting potential war criminals identified in the U.S. from anywhere in the world. "This means that in the coming years and decades, Russian war criminals in our country should know that they will end up in court, war criminals will not find refuge in the United States," the prosecutor general stressed.
MARCH, 3RD
Catching up with yesterday, when badanov was otherwise occupied.
23:22 US Attorney General Merrick Garland paid an unannounced visit to Lviv at the invitation of the Ukrainian Attorney General. According to the US Department of Justice, Garland in Ukraine "had several meetings and confirmed our determination to hold Russia accountable for the crimes committed in the course of its unjust and unprovoked invasion against a sovereign neighbor."
23:13 Biden and Scholz met at the White House and promised to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
22:54 The Chinese authorities are angry with Russia due to the fact that information about the negotiations on the supply of weapons was in the public space, writes The Economist, citing its own sources. Beijing did not want the dissemination of such information to destroy the image of China as a "neutral intermediary" and also harm relations with Europe and the United States.
21:09 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukrainian heroes give their lives every day to stop Russian aggression, "and therefore the world has a clear moral obligation to our soldiers, to each and every one who is now in battle and who defends freedom. This duty is restore justice and hold the terrorist state and its leadership accountable."
19:46 Blinken announced a new $400 million military aid package to Ukraine. It will include HIMARS and howitzer ammunition, Bradley BPM ammunition, tank bridge layers, maintenance, training and support.
19:42 Gauleiter of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky signed a "decree" according to which Melitopol "officially" became the "capital of the Zaporozhye region." In addition to it, Berdyansk and Energodar were named "cities of regional significance".
19:35 Russian troops continue to storm Bakhmut, Donetsk region. Now they have switched from encircling the settlement to directly squeezing our defenders out of the city. About what is known about the situation in the city - in the material New tactics of the Russian army in Bakhmut .
18:58 Ukraine will strengthen the protection of electricity distribution systems and generation facilities from enemy drone and missile attacks, Shmyhal said. According to him, the relevant projects have already been developed and will be implemented before the next heating season. The security of power plants is also being strengthened - they already have air defense and missile defense systems installed.
18:50 In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian army does not leave attempts to surround the city of Bakhmut. During the day, the Defense Forces repelled numerous attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Dubovo-Vasilyevka and Bakhmut of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in an evening report .
18:29 Information from Russian propagandists about the events in the Bryansk region on March 2 has radically diverged. At first they said that some "Ukrainian saboteurs" fired at a car, and then a school bus, either they took hostages or not. No photo or video evidence of the incident has been provided. Only the next day the FSB gave birth to an extremely controversial video. More details in the material Propaganda of the Russian Federation about Bryansk .
18:01 The EU will soon transfer 5,700 solar panels to Ukraine, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
17:45 The Russians fired at the village in the morning. Starikovo, Shostka district, Sumy region, one person died, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
17:33 Zelensky announced that he had met with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Wopke Hukstra and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Urmas Reinsalu. We discussed the creation in The Hague of the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine and the further buildup of sanctions pressure on Russia.
17:28 Ukraine spends 10,000 hryvnias per month on the maintenance of one Russian prisoner, Deputy Minister of Justice Olena Vysotskaya said: "If we talk about the more or less normally calculated cost of keeping a prisoner in a camp in 2022, taking into account the provision of the camp, with taxes, salaries , utility costs - this amount is about 10 thousand hryvnia per prisoner per month.
17:23 The sky over Kiev is currently protected thanks to an extensive system of various types of air defense, which are dispersed in certain places in the Kiev region, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Naev. In addition, according to him, these air defense forces and means make a constant maneuver on the ground so that the enemy does not figure out exactly where they are located. The entire system is constantly maintained in combat readiness.
16:42 Ukraine will receive a $170 million grant from Japan. The corresponding agreement was signed by Japanese Ambassador Matsuda Kuninori and Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. The funds will be used for mine clearance, dismantling, restoration of infrastructure and agriculture.
16:15 The upper house of the German parliament - the Bundesrat, which unites representatives of all 16 federal German states - unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine on the occasion of the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The document requires Russia to withdraw its troops from the entire territory of Ukraine and hold the leadership and military of the Russian Federation accountable for numerous war crimes committed during the full-scale invasion.
In addition, the Bundesrat supports further EU sanctions against Russia, increased military assistance to Ukraine and promoting its accession to the European Union.
15:51 In the sky over the occupied Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region, Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, the command of the Air Force reported.
15:28 In the village of Zmievka, Beryslavsky district, Kherson region, an investigative and task force of the police, which was on its way to a call, as well as volunteers from Kryvyi Rih, who were going to evacuate a pensioner and were carrying humanitarian aid, came under enemy fire. As a result, three civilians and two police officers were injured, the regional police said.
15:07 Zelensky and Latvian President Egils Levits signed a joint declaration confirming Latvia's support for full-fledged European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine.
14:59 In the village of Solontsi, Kherson region, during the repair of the electrical network, three employees of the distribution zone were blown up by a mine - one died on the spot, another had his legs torn off, he is in a very serious condition, Oleshkovsky mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk said.
14:53 Commander of the Eastern Group of Forces Alexander Syrsky arrived in Bakhmut, the command of the Ground Forces reported. In Bakhmut, he listened to commanders' reports on the state of affairs in subordinate units, got acquainted with the problematic issues of increasing the defense capability of Ukrainian units on the front line.
14:44 Unprepared mobilized from the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation as part of the regiment 1439 of the first and second battalions were sent on February 28 to storm the Avdievsky fortified area near Donetsk: the entire regiment was practically destroyed - several people were injured, the rest died, but are listed as missing, Radio Liberty reports, citing stories relatives.
14:37 In Russian Krasnodar, an explosion occurred on the territory of a flight school. Russian telegram channels report that local residents heard a loud explosion, after which a fire broke out on the territory of the aviation school. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation announced a "fire in the field."
14:35 Six Su-34 fighter-bombers disappeared from the military airfield in Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. This happened after a fire in the airfield area, which local residents observed on the evening of February 28, Radio Liberty reports, citing satellite images.
14:28 The SBU detained another rector of the temple of the UOC (MP), who was collecting intelligence for the FSB on the defense of the Sumy region.
14:22 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that yesterday's "murders" in the Bryansk region "were committed with NATO weapons," "in this regard, the question arises of qualifying these states as accomplices in such crimes and sponsors of terrorism." Meanwhile, the media, analyzing the video published by the FSB about the incident , came to the conclusion that it contains many inconsistencies and raises more questions than answers.
14:15 "Desktop" exercises were held at the US military base in Germany with the participation of American generals and Ukrainian commanders, writes The New York Times. According to the publication, this is part of the preparation of Ukraine for the upcoming counteroffensive. During the exercise, several strategies were worked out, taking into account all the risks and benefits. The commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, after one of the rounds of such a military simulation, praised the "phenomenal" adaptation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and added that the American side would help to adapt even better.
13:48 The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to the aggravation of problems within Russia itself, said Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. According to him, the events in the Bryansk region are evidence that the people of Russia "are starting to wake up against Putin's bloody dictatorship."
Yusov also noted that Lukashenka is not taking new steps now - he is "reviving those activities, close interaction and orientation towards China, which were before 2014." In his opinion, Russia is now unable to satisfy all the needs of Lukashenka on its own.
13:30 Germany is asking Switzerland to sell some of its mothballed Leopard 2 tanks to it, the Swiss government said. This will replace the tanks that Germany and other EU countries have supplied to Ukraine.
13:12 President of Latvia Egils Levits and his wife Andra Levite are on a visit to Ukraine. Together with Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenskaya, they honored the memory of Ukrainian soldiers who fell during the Russian-Ukrainian war in Lviv. Also, during a working trip to the Lviv region, the President of Ukraine visited one of the hospitals where wounded Ukrainian defenders, who fought, in particular, in the Bakhmut direction, are being treated.
12:59 Prigozhin recorded a video that allegedly proves that Bakhmut is surrounded by Russian troops. In fact, the video was recorded not in Bakhmut, as the head of the PMC Wagner claims, but in the village of Paraskoveevka, the capture of which the Russian Federation announced on February 20, the Center for National Resistance under the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. They also recalled that in January, Prigozhin gave out a photo from a cave near Vladimirovka for the salt mines of Soledar, where the fighting was then going on.
12:35 Ukraine and Moldova have no agreements on a military operation in Transnistria, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Oleg Serebrian said: "This is a fully justified sovereign right of Ukraine to deploy its troops where it sees fit, or where it is considered or there is evidence that some kind of threat hangs over them, but this in no way means that Ukraine is preparing military operations, or that there is an agreement between Chisinau and Kiev to start a military operation in Transnistria."
12:19 Kuleba said that he discussed with Blinken on the phone the creation of a special tribunal to investigate the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The head of the State Department informed the Ukrainian minister about his discussions at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries in New Delhi.
12:07 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians have changed tactics around Bakhmut: temporarily reduced efforts to encircle the city from the southwest and northeast, and probably instead focus on forcing Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the city , concentrating on the northeast offensive. According to analysts, the Russians are likely to pressure the defense forces in Bakhmut to retreat through the T0504 highway. This should reduce the efforts of Russian forces to encircle the city.
However, the double encirclement of Bakhmut will require additional manpower and equipment, and Russian troops will try to avoid further losses associated with a potential encirclement, ISW experts say.
Meanwhile, Prigozhin once again stated that the fighters of the Wagner PMC "practically surrounded" Bakhmut.
11:56 In the Kherson region, near the village of Tomarino, Beryslav region, the Russians fired on a tractor driver, he died. Also, the enemy again attacked the village of Kazatskoye, Kakhovka district - two people were injured. Another person was wounded in Kherson: a fragment of an enemy shell injured an employee of one of the enterprises.
11:38 The International Committee of the Red Cross provides occupants in the village of Mangush, Mariupol district, with humanitarian aid, in particular equipment, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, the equipment was handed over to the so-called "children's department", which facilitates the deportation and abduction of Ukrainian children. Also, humanitarian aid from the ICRC was received by the occupational "department of social protection of the population", which is involved in the forced passportization of Ukrainian citizens, and the territorial "center of social services".
11:35 Russia is now not capable of producing A-50 radar aircraft, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: “There were about ten different modifications of such aircraft in total. Another thing is not how many of them there are, but the ability to produce them. tasks, as of today, the degraded industry of the Russian Federation is not capable.
11:29 Ukraine returned the bodies of another 17 fallen defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
11:27 The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, called Angela Merkel responsible for the war in Ukraine because of the blocking of her entry into NATO. She recalled that in 2008 NATO had many supporters of the early admission of Ukraine, but Germany and France opposed because of Russia's position.
11:01 The death toll as a result of yesterday's rocket attack on a five-story residential building in Zaporozhye has grown to five, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. Ten people are still considered missing, eight injured. Rescue work continues.
10:58 Ukraine uses Olkha-M guided missiles on the battlefield, which have a longer range than HIMARS missiles. Ukrainian missiles have a warhead weighing 220 kg and fly at a distance of up to 110 km. The plans are to increase the range to 150 km, said Ivan Vinnik, the first deputy head of the National Association of the Military-Industrial Complex of Ukraine.
10:44 A Russian pilot who bombed civilian targets in the Kharkiv region received 12 years in prison, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The convict is a deputy commander of a unit of the 6th Army of the Russian Aerospace Forces. In March last year, he dropped eight bombs near the Kharkov TV tower. As a result, the plane was shot down, and the pilot was detained.
10:39 Zaluzhny's adviser, General Viktor Nazarov, said in an interview with Spiegel that negotiations with Russia would be possible if the Armed Forces of Ukraine recapture some of the occupied territories - primarily the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions: "These are regions that have access to the Sea of Azov and border on Crimea. Russia "will lose the land corridor. Crimea itself will also be under threat. The north of the Luhansk region is also important. A counteroffensive there will complicate control over the occupied territories of Donbass. The war will move to the borders of the Russian Federation. The Russians are trying to prevent this with all their might."
10:33 There has been no power shortage in the energy system of Ukraine for 20 consecutive days and so far it is not predicted. Consumption is fully provided by electricity from Ukrainian generation and insignificant imports, Ukrenergo reported.
10:16 EU countries have agreed on a plan for the rapid transfer of scarce artillery ammunition to Ukraine, writes the Financial Times, citing sources. According to the publication, this is a matter of "days, weeks, not months."
10:07 Danilov, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, expressed confidence that Beijing would not supply weapons to Moscow: “Why would China side with Russia and supply it with weapons? To get huge problems, to fall under certain restrictions? Of course, China he won't do it, he doesn't need it from the word "absolutely". It is Russia's great desire to involve China and other countries to which it is trying to extend its influence."
According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the neutral position taken by Beijing is absolutely correct and balanced in this case. "Of course, we would very much like help to be on our side, but we must understand the complexity of historical processes," he added.
09:52 In the fall, Russia mobilized not 300,000 military, as officially stated, but more than half a million, according to the opposition Russian edition of Mediazona. The journalists analyzed the number of marriages that the Russian mobilized concluded according to the accelerated procedure for painting - according to the agenda. According to these data, the number of mobilized is at least 520 thousand people.
09:13 British intelligence notes that, despite the war, Russian companies carry their products to major international arms exhibitions, but there is no evidence that the Russian army uses these developments in Ukraine. In particular, at a recent event, the Arena-E Active Protection System (APS) was presented, designed to increase the survivability of armored vehicles. However, there is no evidence of such systems being installed on Russia's own vehicles in Ukraine, where it has lost more than 5,000 armored vehicles.
Intelligence believes that this is due to the inability of Russian industry to produce high-tech systems on the required scale, and this problem is exacerbated by international sanctions.
08:49 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Velyka Novoselka), five more were injured. In with. Podoli, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region, one person died. In the Kherson region, one person died and 17 were injured, according to the IVA.
08:33 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 3.
personnel - about 151,370 (+765) people liquidated,
tanks - 3405 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 6673 (+15),
artillery systems - 2402 (+4),
MLRS - 484 (+4),
air defense systems - 247 (+0),
aircraft - 301 (+1),
helicopters - 289 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2061 (+3),
cruise missiles - 873 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5281 (+17),
special equipment - 230 (+0).
08:20 Over the past day, in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Shakhtyorsky directions, the Defense Forces repelled more than 85 attacks by Russians, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
In the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, since the beginning of February, Russian mercenaries began to actively take away cars from residents who did not receive Russian passports. And in the village of Boevoye, Kherson region, the majority of residents refused to transfer their private plots to the balance of the local occupation administration, so as of March 1, about 200 people were taken out of this village in an unknown direction to carry out so-called filtration measures, and Russians will be quartered in their houses. mercenaries.
08:04 Elimination of the consequences of a missile strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye has been going on for more than a day, as of 7:00 am, rescuers have unblocked the bodies of two more dead residents of the house, the State Emergency Service reported.
07:48 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the incident with the alleged "Ukrainian saboteurs" in the Bryansk region caused dissatisfaction with the Kremlin's actions among Russian bloggers and the ultra-nationalist community, who hoped that after that Russia would officially declare war on Ukraine. But the Kremlin cannot satisfy all the demands of ultra-nationalists and fully support its own false rhetoric that Russia is waging an "existential war" in Ukraine, analysts say.
02:41 In Kherson, they found about 20 torture chambers, where the Russian invaders kept the residents of the temporarily captured city. The system of these prisons was funded from Russia at the state level , said Wayne Jordash, a British lawyer who leads the Mobile Justice Team, which is helping the Ukrainian authorities investigate the crimes of Russians in Kherson. According to Jordash, the Russian military was responsible for some prisons, and the FSB was responsible for others. Also, civilians took part in the management of torture facilities - both collaborators from Kherson and visitors from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
02:22 As part of a new military aid package, the United States will transfer $400 million worth of weapons, ammunition and equipment to Ukraine, Reuters reports citing sources. The new package is expected to contain more guided multiple rocket launchers (GMLRS) for HIMARS launchers, ammunition for Bradley combat vehicles, and bridge layers for armored vehicles.
01:49 Russian troops and military equipment must leave the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, and control over the strategic facility must be returned to Ukraine, according to a statement from the European Union, published after the OSCE meeting.
01:04 Danilov said that on the issue of the liberation of Crimea, Ukraine can no longer be guided by the strategy adopted by the leadership of the state in 2021: "Given the circumstances that are happening today on the territory of our country, we must definitely consider this strategy, make it appropriate changes, vote for these changes at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, and after that the president must either issue a new decree or make changes to the adopted strategy.
00:37 Russians in the battles for Bakhmut lose seven times more military than the Ukrainian Defense Forces, said NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov: "Yes, it's difficult and difficult, but keep in mind that our guys and girls send hundreds of them there every day where they should go, given that they broke in here to kill us. Now we are killing them."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:42 The Russian army destroys reinforcements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region -video. 21:00 Artillery and aviation of the Wagners are working at the meat processing plant in Bakhmut, increasing the products produced there, where the bastion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is now located -video.
20:57 Arrival of the Lancet to 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika. The crew just flew off, but the armor is relatively alive. This self-propelled gun hit Donetsk, by the way -video.
20:10 North-Donetsk direction —video
"Lancet" works on purpose. In the reticle of the self-propelled guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- One Ukrianian howitzer, which worked in peaceful areas of Donetsk
19:37 Accurate work of the fighters of group V from a heavy flamethrower system (TOS) on enemy positions -video
Volumetric explosions of TOS do not leave a chance for the Ukrainians.
18:50 Fight in the forest near Kremennaya: the Samara Legion unwound the vaunted Ukrainian landing -video
Stormtroopers from the group "Brave" secretly approached the positions of the ukroboeviks. A battle ensued, during which one of our soldiers received a through wound in the arm. After the harness, he remained in the ranks and continued to attack the enemy with weapons.
As a result, everyone who tried to resist our fighters was killed. Only one Ukrainian had the prudence to surrender. In the video, he crawls out of the trench with a damaged brush.
17:42 Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the Special Operation -video
17:15 While some Ukrainian lay down their lives in batches for Zelya, others are trying to cash in by cutting down and selling forest in Transcarpathia -video
16:40 Journalists from CNN admitted that the Bryansk region was attacked by Nazis associated with the Ukrainian battalion "Azov" -video
16:05 In the Avdievka direction, the fighters of the DPR OBTF "Cascade" using the Lancet strike UAV destroyed the calculation and damaged the towed 155mm howitzer M777 of Ukrainian neo-Nazis -video
15:59 Repeat air alarm in a number of regions of Ukraine
15:18 Masterful shot: our sniper destroyed a Ukrainian terrorist -video
A sniper from the 132nd Brigade of the Donetsk Army Corps discovered the militant and hit him with the first shot.
14:54 Destruction of a platoon stronghold in the Zaporozhye direction -video
14:20 Large scale aerial alarm in Ukraine.
13:54 The Ministry of Defense announces destruction of three more Mi-8 helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. One of the cars was shot down by our VKS in the area of the settlement. Suvorovo of the Donetsk People's Republic, the second one next to Pokrovsky of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The third enemy helicopter was destroyed by Russian air defense crews in the area of Novoselovka, Zaporozhye region.
13:49 The main thing from the newthe briefing of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian troops destroyed up to 70 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the US-made M777 artillery system in the Kherson direction;
Russian troops continued to advance in the Donetsk direction;
Over 90 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction were destroyed during the day by the active actions of the units of the "Western" group of forces;
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions per day amounted to more than 80 soldiers, a tank and two 152mm D-20 howitzers;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, two howitzers and three American M777 artillery systems in the Donetsk direction during the day.
12:28 The combat work of UAV operators of the Russian troops to destroy the Ukrainians in one of the directions -video
11:37 Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" sent to Ukraine another batch of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died in battles with Wagner operators -video
10:44 In the battles near Bakhmut, Wagner operators eliminated another legionnaire from Georgia. Narmania was destroyed.
09:55 A Ukrainian informant was detained in the Kherson region -video
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he transmitted data on the location of Russian troops to Kyiv.
09:54 The enemy continues to run -video
Ukrainians, under the onslaught of Russian units, continue to leave their positions,
09:11 Nazi gang during the attack on the Bryansk region: militants showed frames
"The head of the RDK Kapustin - Nikitin previously showed his certificate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, it is clear that the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region was carried out precisely by the military intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This organization is long overdue to be declared a terrorist organization," writes political scientist S. Markov.
09:02 Professional Banderists flee from the fort (fortress) Bakhmutrastalkivaet and leaving the wounded, and the doctors disappeared somewhere.
08:59 Foreign mercenaries, confirmation of liquidation which were this week:
Andrew Peters (USA);
Giorgi Narmania (Georgia);
Amil Sultanov (Azerbaijan).
08:38 British Financial Times published interview with neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin (Denis Nikitin), one of the participants in the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region. Nikitin says the raid was coordinated with Ukrainian authorities. Otherwise, according to him, the group simply would not have reached the Russian border.
He said there were about 45 people involved in the raid.
Previously, the Ukrainian authorities lied about the fact that the incident had nothing to do with them, and that these were internal Russian processes that foreshadowed a civil war in Russia.
08:23 Soldiers of the volunteer detachment "Nevsky" perform tasks in the zone of the NMD in the Donbass -video
"Near Donetsk, powerful bombing and artillery strikes are being carried out on enemy positions. The fighters of the Nevsky detachment raise the copter, because, in turn, they notice movement along the front line of the enemy," the journalist reports.
The fighters calculate the whereabouts of the Ukrainian nationalists and destroy it.
Together with the military, Hieromonk Konstantin is on the front line. According to the clergyman, before joining the church, he worked as an anesthesiologist. He received additional training in tactical medicine and joined a volunteer squad. As the priest noted, the detachment has a very good spiritual and fraternal atmosphere.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:37 Rocket strike with a Krasnopol high-precision projectile on the headframe of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya-1 mine in Ugledarvideo. 21:58 The work of TOS-1A "Solntsepyok" in the Ugledar direction -video.
21:54 To the hottest sector of the front near Donetsk: help to the fighters storming Avdievka -video.
21:51 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are wandering from Bakhmut, having captured the most valuable thing - toilet seats should not go to Russian barbarians -video.
21:40 Destruction of the Armed Forces equipment with the help of the calculation of the anti-tank systems of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the dropping of the FOG from the UAV in the area of the settlement. Avdievka. —video.
21:02 The work of BMPT Terminator in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya -video.
20:34 Shoigu held a meeting on the special operation at the headquarters of the joint group. We discussed the organization of continuous provision of troops with weapons, equipment and ammunition, paid special attention to the organization of combat training of reserve units -video.
20:16 An ATGM crew of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade hits a Ukrainian vehicle to the left of Dvurechnoye in the Kupyansky direction -video.
20:12 "Crawl here, crawl here." The capture of two VSUshnikov by Russian soldiers -video.
20:06 The operation of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system in the basement with rats -video.
19:48 "Every hour in Bakhmut now is like hell," -declared Deputy commander of the Nazi battalion "Freedom" of the National Guard.
19:42 "Pride for your brother! That he did so, he was not at a loss."
The elder brothers of 11-year-old Fyodor, who, despite being wounded, saved two girls from the artillery attack of Ukrainian terrorists, from the NVO zone said hello to him -video.
19:34 Opening and quick covering by artillery of the Ukrainian opornik in the Ugledao direction -video.
19:32 The Russian Aerospace Forces are working on the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the mines near Ugledar -video.
19:30 UAV Orion / Pacer in the Ugledar direction. They work a lot and often, but the video with them is catastrophically small, so they remain in the shadows in the media plan -video.
19:28 On the Avdiyivka front, the Lancet of the Kaskad OBTF attacked the American Three Axes right at the time of the fire on Donetsk -video.
18:53 Footage from the Kherson region demonstrates the combat work of the Eleron-7 UAV of the National Guard unit -video.
18:40 Work on the destruction of evil spirits with the help of the heavy flamethrower system "Solntsepek" -video.
18:35 The work of tankers to destroy the enemy in the stronghold -video.
18:34 Report from the north-eastern districts of Bakhmut. It is noted that among the Ukrainian soldiers there are many untrained and even those who have not served urgently before. Apparently, the consequence of the fact that the good parts of Syrsky and Zaluzhny were taken out of there, and the meat, which is not a pity, was left in order to play for time and slow down the advance of the Russian troops -video.
18:31 Kremennaya. The Russian Army (130th Separate Rifle Brigade, 90 Tank Division) "helps" the Ukrainians prepare wood for coffins, in which they will go to the hut -video.
18:27 A living hell: Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering unprecedented losses in an attempt to keep Artemivsk —video.
18:16 In the area of Melitopol in the Zaporozhye region, the videoconferencing is also actively working. White stripes appear many and often. Photofrom our subscribers.
18:14 Russian tanks in the Swatov direction. In the middle is the tank counterpart of the Kuzmich T-72AV.
17:31 Correction of fire in Marinka —video.
17:30 Assault on Bakhmut through the eyes of the enemy: still alive militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine filming urban battles -video.
17:28 Zaporozhye direction, Orekhovvideo.
17:25 As a result of the fire impact, the enemy left the stronghold, which allowed the assault groups to move forward -video.
15:35 Russian Aerospace Forces are destroying the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka, supporting the offensive -video.
14:30 Rare burning of a Ukrainian tank by the first sighting from 122mm BM-21 rocket artillery "Grad" -video.
13:38 Department of Defense summary of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/04/2023)
In the Kupyansk direction, the active actions of the units of the "Western" group of troops, with the support of army aviation and artillery, defeated the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Gryanikovka, Timkovka and Tabaevka of the Kharkov region.
During the day, over 90 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank and six vehicles were destroyed in this direction.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the group of troops (forces) "Center" hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonopopovka and Kuzmino of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Enemy losses in this area per day amounted to 150 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, five armored fighting vehicles and a Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
In the Donetsk direction, during the continuation of the active operations of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, up to 490 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and wounded per day, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, nine cars, two 152mm howitzers "Msta- B", three 122mm D-30 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 gun, as well as one US-made M777 artillery system.
In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, operational-tactical aviation and artillery of the Vostok group of forces inflicted a complex defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vodiane, Vuhledar, Novopol of the Donetsk People's Republic, Shcherbaki and Kamenskoye of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day in these areas, the enemy’s losses amounted to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks, and two 122mm D-20 howitzers.
In the Kherson direction, over 70 Ukrainian servicemen, 20 vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system, and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed as a result of enemy fire damage in a day.
In the area of the settlement of Druzhkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, a missile guidance radar of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian air forces in the areas of Suvorovo, Donetsk People's Republic, and Pokrovskoye, Dnepropetrovsk region, during the day. A Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by means of air defense in the area of the settlement of Novoselivka, Zaporozhye region.
In addition, 12 rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were shot down during the day, and 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Petrovka, Velyky Vyselok of the Kharkiv region, Stelmakhivka, Golikovo, Zhytlovka, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Staromlinovka, Kremenets , Sands of the Donetsk People's Republic, Malaya Kardashinka and Novaya Zburyevka, Kherson region.
13:19 Fight in the forest near Kremennaya: the Samara Legion unwound the vaunted Ukrainian landing -video.
13:14 Russian fighters occupied the armory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artyomovsk area -video.
12:59 ATGM Russian troops fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction -video.
12:57 Ukrainian formations made another attack on Donetsk using drones.
The ammunition was dropped from UAV to one of the markets in the Kirovsky district of the city. Two people were injured.
12:24 Two people received injured as a result of the drop of ammunition from a UAV in the west of Donetsk. Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the building of the local administration in the settlement. Staromikhaylovka.
11:36 The work of the artillery crew of one of the units of the Airborne Forces -video.
10:58 A UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the village of Staromikhaylovka in the DPR.
Ammunition was dropped on the village from an aircraft, the DPR JCCC reported. There is no information about the victims.
10:05 Front summary on the morning of 03/04/2023
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting assault operations in the city of Maryinka.
South of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army hit Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka. The Russians fired on Chasov Yar and the city itself. PMC "Wagner" advanced from Ivangrad in the south, from Podgorodny in the northeast and from Yagodny in the north of Bakhmut. To the west, fierce fighting near Khromovoe.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again tried to advance towards Belogorovka. North-west - towards Yampolevka and Ternov. APU counterattacked in the Krasnopopovka area. And the Russian troops were conducting offensive operations on Makeevka.
09:53 Footage of the combat work of the crews of MANPADS of the Airborne Troops in the NVO zone -video
Crews of Verba anti-aircraft missile systems are dispersed along the entire line of contact.
At any second, experienced anti-aircraft gunners are ready to destroy any target in the air, from a small quadrocopter to airplanes and helicopters.
09:52 Calculation of ATGM "Fagot" gutted the militants' supporter in the Donetsk direction -video
Mobilized fighters as part of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps shattered the enemy stronghold from the Fagot ATGM.
According to the fighter with the call sign "Bot", the guys "burn firing points, pillboxes, lightly armored and heavily armored vehicles."
09:49 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from March 3 to March 4, 2023
Russian gunners worked on targets in Sobki, Bachevsk, Starikovo, Pavlovka and Belokopytovo in the Sumy region, as well as in Strelechya, Volchansk, Budarki and Ambarny in the Kharkov region.
In the Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces hit the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dvurechnaya, Kupyansk, Krakhmalny, Makeevka, Nevsky and Kolodezy.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, Russian troops attacked enemy positions in Seversk, Razdolovka, Fedorovka, Vasyukovka, Bakhmut, Predtechino, Dyleevka, Toretsk and Kirovo.
Ukrainian formations fired at Ozaryanovka, Kleshcheevka, Kurdyumovka and Maiorsk.
In the Donetsk direction, artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces hit targets in Avdeevka, Vodyany, Pobeda and Berdychi.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine again attacked the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian forces worked on accumulations of enemy manpower in Ugledar, Novomikhailovka, Bolshaya Novoselka, Vremyevka and Zeleny Pole.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces hit targets in Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Gulyaipolsky and Charivny, as well as in Nikopol and Marganets on the northern bank of the Dnieper.
On the southern sector of the front, Russian troops attacked the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson and its environs, as well as in Ochakiv, Mykolaiv region.
09:15 Per day on the territory of the DPR injured five civilians – Headquarters TerO DNR
Over the past 24 hours, from 00:00 on March 3 to 00:00 on March 4, as a result of artillery attack of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, five civilians were injured.
09:05 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the Russian grouping of troops "Vostok" in the South-Donetsk direction in the NVO zone -video
The minister heard a report by the commander of the group, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov and headquarters officers on the current situation and actions of the troops. He paid special attention to the organization of comprehensive support for the troops of the group, as well as the work of medical and rear units.
Shoigu thanked the military personnel performing their tasks in the special operation zone and presented state awards: the Order of Courage, the St. George Cross insignia and the medals For Courage.
08:39 RPG-16 (GRAU - 6G9) hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher used by Pskov paratroopers in the Kremennaya area -video
The RPG-16 grenade launcher and the PG-16V round for it were adopted by the USSR Airborne Forces in 1970. As sighting devices, a removable optical sight PGO-16 with a magnification of 2.7x or a built-in mechanical sight is used. To improve the accuracy and convenience of firing, there are removable bipods. Sighting range - 800 meters.
The RPG-16 was very popular with the troops during the war in Afghanistan, where, thanks to its good accuracy and long range, it proved to be the best.
In the 1980s, the RPG-7D began to enter service with the Airborne Forces, replacing the RPG-16 in the troops.
Cases of the use of RPG-16s during local conflicts of the 1990s in the post-Soviet space were also noted.
08:14 Donetsk People's Republic, Russia. There is a powerful offensive in the Avdeevsky direction.
08:11 Maryinka. The work of the heavy flamethrower system "Solntsepek" from the channel Tankers of the Southern Military District -video
08:08 "Cool guys don't turn around to work MLRS "Kupyanskoe direction.
08:05 Summary on the morning of March 4, 2023
The Russian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction are working from rocket and cannon artillery at enemy positions. In some areas, the enemy is attempting counteroffensive actions.
On the Artyomovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, Wagner PMCs are advancing northwest of the city in the Khromovo region, heavy fighting is going on in the city itself, but our fighters continue their successful offensive. Fighting continues southwest of the city.
In the DPR region of Yenakiyevo, the Su-34 of the Russian Aerospace Forces fell. The pilots ejected, but first they took the plane away from the settlements.
In the Belgorod region, border settlements are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the DPR, under enemy artillery attacks, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Staromikhaylovka, Andreevka, Khartsyzsk, Nikolskoye.
In the LPR, the enemy shelled Svatovo and Kremennaya.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:30 Russian militaryshowvacated positions near Kremennaya
20:30 During holding special military operation, army aviation helicopter crews continue to carry out tasks to destroy armored vehicles and military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, escort military columns, deliver troops and military cargo, and provide air support. All flights take place at extremely low altitude.
Mi-35 is one of the main strike forces of army aviation. Pilots call the helicopter a flying infantry fighting vehicle. Depending on the tasks performed, the Mi-35 can be equipped with anti-tank guided missiles, unguided missiles and small arms.
Pilots often use unguided rockets from the pitch-up mode. It is performed for firing unguided air missiles at targets at a great distance. Rockets fly along a hinged trajectory for several kilometers into the distance. For the enemy, this maneuver is extremely sudden.
20:27 Destruction of platoon strong point in the Zaporozhye direction
20:27 An air alert was announced on Friday in six regions in the north and east of Ukraine, including in the capital region, data show online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
19:40 During the attack on the villages in the Bryansk region, in addition to the boy, one man received a gunshot wound
The man received assistance, regional authorities told RIA Novosti. At the moment, it is known about two dead and two injured as a result of the attack by Ukrainian militants.
18:35 Artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces destroyed positions of Ukrainian nationalists in the Artemovsk direction
18:35 Personnel retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Berkhovka in the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction
17:41 Another Ukrainian soldier from the 35th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated in the part of the territory of the DPR occupied by the Kyiv regime
17:40 Soldier from the 110th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain son his company commander and chief sergeant of the battalion, accusing them of disregard for the personnel. They issue criminal orders that result in heavy casualties in the unit.
16:50 Personnel combat work of the special forces of the Central Military District with anti-drone guns in the zone of the special military operation
During combat work at the forefront, special forces groups of the Central Military District are calculating the location of the drones of Ukrainian nationalists, who are conducting reconnaissance of our positions and adjusting artillery fire.
The servicemen use radio-electronic guns on drones, violate the drone’s control system and land it. Disabled vehicles are taken by scouts to be dismantled for spare parts or destroyed.
16:49 APU fighter tells that the front line is ruled mainly by sergeants and ordinary privates, there are almost no officers, because most of them do not understand anything in military affairs
15:37 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
-- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a defeat on the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar;
-- The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 100 soldiers;
-- Russian troops destroyed up to 210 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
-- More than 200 Ukrainian soldiers, three infantry fighting vehicles and one howitzer of the enemy were destroyed in the Krasnolimansky direction during the day;
--The RF Armed Forces destroyed a mobile communication center of the 110th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area in the DPR;
-- Russian troops destroyed up to 60 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
-- Russian air defense systems destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones and shot down a HIMARS MLRS shell in a day.
-- Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions for the day amounted to more than 70 military;
-- Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft in the DPR.
14:34 FSB published footage from yesterday's attack by Russian neo-Nazis in the Bryansk region
14:34 Blows of rocket artillery of the RF Armed Forces in concentrations of Ukrainian infantry
13:54 Personnel sorties of MiG-31 fighters
The crews of the MiG-31 aircraft perform air patrol tasks in a given area of the NVO zone.
The flight crew makes sorties, providing cover for troops and facilities from enemy air attacks and air reconnaissance.
When air targets are detected, the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces carry out guidance and launch missiles to destroy the enemy.
13:54 On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) site, assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" continue to successfully eject APU from their positions
12:56 Bridge to Artyomovskoe (Khromov) from Artemovsk destroyed. This means that now the Armed Forces of Ukraine can only run to Krasnoye under shelling, and then from Krasnoye, also under shelling.
12:54 Ukrovoin from the 93rd brigade showed under what conditions are wounded soldiers treated
11:50 Regular frames combat work of Russian artillery in one of the directions, including incendiary ammunition
11:50 Ukrovoin filmed the moment of arrival of the Russian projectile in his shelter
10:35 In the Kherson region detained Ukrainian informant. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he transmitted data on the location of Russian troops to Kyiv.
10:35 Destruction of a pickup truck with Ukrainian servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction. Russian Armed Forces tankers tracked down and blew up the car.
09:37 Personnel sorties of MiG-31 fighters. The crews of the MiG-31 aircraft perform air patrol tasks in a given area of the NVO zone.
The flight crew makes sorties, providing cover for troops and objects from enemy air attacks and air reconnaissance. When air targets are detected, the crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces carry out guidance and launch missiles to destroy the enemy.
09:14 Ukrainian militants, under pressure from Russian units,continueleave their positions. Video 18+ contains profanity.
08:55 Attack UAV "Lancet" OBTF DPR "Cascade"destroyed another 122mm D-30 howitzer of the armed formations of Ukraine.
08:17152mm Msta-S crews beat at a stronghold with a communication center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
07:07 Job of combat helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the front.
Army aviation helicopter crews continue to carry out tasks to destroy armored vehicles and military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, escort military columns, deliver troops and military cargo, and provide air support.
06:55 Russian sappers coped with the task to the fullest cleaning territory of Azovmash from the mines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov reported from the scene.
The militants used the plant's bomb shelters as their fortress, but were forced out by the Russian military. Now, thanks to the careful work of sappers of the RF Armed Forces, who took part in cleaning up the "Ukrainian gifts", it is now absolutely safe here.
Soon some workshops will start working at the plant and production will be launched. This will open up new opportunities for the city and help bring life back to the territory of Azovmash.
06:33 Report about work of Russian 203mm self-propelled guns "Malka" in the NVO zone.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The air defense system worked over Donetsk when we went to Shakhtyorsk, to the temporary accommodation center for refugees. In recent days, air defense has been reliably protecting us from enemy projectiles. For the ninth spring, the sounds of war have been trying to be combined with the singing of birds.
The soldiers of the assault units and rescuers of the DPR brought 73 people from the battle-covered Artyomovsk to the temporary accommodation center. Refugees gathered to meet with us.
In the front row, a man sits on a chair, holding crutches tightly in his hands. His name is Nikolai, he is from the Artyomovsky district. He barely holds back tears and does not want to communicate with us, but still decides to talk.
"On January 14, at about 4:30 in the morning, Wagner fighters came to us. We were evacuated. Very good guys, even among peaceful people there are few of them. The guys were very respectful, ” says Nikolai. “I couldn’t walk fast on crutches, but I had to leave quickly, the shelling began, they carried me on a stretcher for 15 kilometers. Many thanks to them for this. May God keep them all alive!"
Until January, Nikolai lived in Stupki, a microdistrict in the north of Artyomovsk. Stupki recently came under the control of Russian units. There are no windows in Nikolai's house, the roof is also damaged by shell fragments, but the house itself is still standing. None of the relatives were hurt. This is what pleases most of all against the backdrop of ongoing events.
Suddenly someone pats me on the back: “Can I tell you something?” He introduces himself as Igor, also from Artyomovsk. He says that he is no longer afraid of anything, because there is nothing more terrible than what he has already seen in his native land. Ukrainian shells hit his house twice.
"The German fascists did not do such things as they did with us! We are constantly under fire, it was impossible to leave the yard, they were fired upon by snipers," says Igor. "Where I lived, there were practically no Ukrainian battalions, there were foreign mercenaries. I personally heard them speak English as they ran from one side to the other. We had no communication, no water, they did not give us anything - we lived like homeless people in basements.
I personally will say that Ukraine is a hole. And I can tell Zelensky: Russia will come for you too."
Since April, all the inhabitants of Artyomovsk have been sitting without electricity and water. From July until the middle of winter, they received humanitarian assistance. She was brought by Ukrainian social activists. Then they stopped helping.
At the temporary accommodation center for refugees, we met Vladik. At the age of 13, he helped his father chop wood so that his mother could cook food on a fire. Vladik remembers well how they left Artyomovsk with the whole family.
"We walked through the fields. The military from Russia helped us. And the Ukrainian military shelled the village. They drove people out of the village. The children were taken by force. They were hunting for children. If found, they were thrown into a car and taken to the territory of Ukraine. And men were also caught and immediately sent to the front," said Vlad and was so moved that he went to hug his younger sister Kira. Surprisingly, that seven-year-old turned out to be a very sociable child.
“I remember that the military came to us ... They gave us time to get together. And then there was a big trip. We walked through the fields, through the forest, crossed the river and climbed the mountain," says little Kira, grabbing my hand. I hugged her, and hugged her for a long time. She said that the Russian military gave her a soft toy, showed her bracelets, which her mother helped her to make ... And then she told about her dream.
"I want to see my grandfather. He lives in Snizhne (a city on the territory of the DPR). Grandpas are important
Nearby stood the parents of Kira and Vladik - Elena and Sergey Vyacheslavsky. They looked like a happy married couple. They said that from the very beginning they did not want to go to Ukraine. We wanted to go to Russia. And they waited. We waited and waited. Sergei said that the Ukrainian military were looking for him and his entire family. They had an order to take out women and children.
"We hid in a nearby basement, because the Ukrainians knew our basement well. There was only one situation. When I was chopping firewood, guys drove up in a pickup truck. By the last name they ask my wife and children. I named another. He said that they had already been evacuated, and gave a different address. And our boys were already there. They (the Ukrainian military) probably did not dare to go there," Sergey smiles.
"Guys, calm down! Russia has arrived! These are Russians!”
"The first words we heard. And you know ... it became good right away. Reliable and easy! No, it wasn't particularly scary. I was sure that the boys would protect. Guys, thank you very much! he says as if the boys can hear him . Guys, you are really brave. If necessary, I will join your ranks. And without question. I serve Russia! Guys!
But first of all, all the men gathered here want a normal life. Send kids to school, wives to work. Old people want to believe that in Russia they are under reliable protection and will soon begin to receive pensions. Even for me, who has lived all my life in Donetsk, it is difficult to understand where these rescued from Artemivsk have so much love for life. They smile and joke. And I want to take their example.
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[REGNUM] Neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin, the very head of the terrorists who shot civilians in the Bryansk region, turned out to be from a well-known Jewish family. His grandfather is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a famous circus director. The mother abandoned her son a long time ago and even wrote him out of the apartment so that the VSUshnik would not even have thoughts of returning to the family. The relatives of Kapustin told about this to journalists of IA REGNUM.
On March 2, a group of Ukrainian militants invaded the territory of the Bryansk region. A child was wounded and two civilians who were taking the children to school were killed. At first, dozens of saboteurs from the Armed Forces of Ukraine were reported, but in reality it turned out to be only a small group of terrorists from the so-called “Russian Volunteer Corps” (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
Almost all the participants in the terrorist attack were identified by photographs - to brag, they themselves posted the pictures on the telegram channel of their organization. Among the attackers are Aleksey Ogurtsov , who calls himself Oswald Lemakh, former actor Kirill Kanakhin , former FSB officer Ilya Bogdanov , who is wanted for desertion in the Russian Federation, and Aleksey Kozhemyakin, whose head is decorated with tattoos with a swastika and other symbols of Nazism, and who is wanted in the Russian Federation for extremism and vandalism. Their leader's name is Denis Kapustin , aka Denis Nikitin, aka White Rex.
DOSSIER
Kapustin was born in Moscow on March 6, 1984. Even at a young age, at about 17 years old, he moved to Germany with his mother, where he settled in the urban district of Horweiler, near Cologne. Journalists from the German publication Der Spiegel found out that the Kapustin family emigrated to Germany as Jewish refugees, and a couple of months after the move, the young man received a residence permit.
In Cologne, Kapustin joined a group of radical fans of the local team, with whom many years later he would arrange a massacre after the Cologne-Schalke-04 match. In 2014, Kapustin will even be prosecuted for participating in this fight, but the future leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) will not receive real court terms. But he will be taken into account by German law enforcement officers as one of the most dangerous Nazis.
After moving to Germany, Kapustin did not forget about his homeland and often traveled to Russia, because here he had a successful business. In 2008, he launched the White Rex clothing brand, which became popular with far-right "guys" from Russia and Europe. Accumulating right-wing radical youth around him, Kapustin has been organizing martial arts tournaments in different cities of Russia since 2011. The funds received went to the "prosperity" of nationalist groups, both Russian and European, with which Kapustin maintained close contacts in the 1910s.
Somewhere since the end of 2016, Denis Kapustin settled in Ukraine. In Germany, he was deprived of his residence permit, but the mother of the terrorist still lives in the same apartment building in Horweiler. Even in Ukraine, the future extremist from the Russian Volunteer Corps (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) had problems with the law. The aforementioned publication Der Spiegel reported that in October 2018, Kapustin was detained for the manufacture and sale of amphetamine on an industrial scale, but was soon released for unknown reasons.
In 2022, in Ukraine, with the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Volunteer Corps was created (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), which is officially a combat unit of the Ukrainian army. In the same 2022, in an interview with Oleg Kashin (an individual recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), which can still be found on YouTube, Kapustin demonstrates the military ID of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also says that “war should not concern those who do not take in hands weapons, I will never shoot at such. Russian children are not to blame for anything, I won’t shoot at them either .” On March 2, Kapustin's detachment shot civilians, killed two unarmed people and wounded the boy Fedya, who saved two schoolgirls.
MOTHER REFUSED, AND GRANDFATHER HIMSELF WOULD HAVE SHOT
Five-story building in Perovo. Here, Kapustin's mother still owns an apartment, which is now being rented. In Moscow, the best friend of Kapustina's mother, with whom REGNUM journalists managed to talk, deals with family affairs. The woman asked not to be named because she is afraid of bullying in social networks and at work. Let's just say that she and her entire family, right up to her grandfather, are People's Artists of Russia, whose name can be discredited by friendship with the Kapustin family. For convenience, in the article we will call her Elena .
Elena noted that Kapustin's mother did not share his views and abandoned her son for a long time, the last straw was Denis's non-attendance at the funeral of his own father. Mother now lives in Germany, and she has not contacted Elena for several weeks, although they used to call up regularly.
"Mother does not know where Denis is for many years. She does not know that he joined some kind of detachment, and, I am sure, does not know that he staged a terrorist attack on the territory of Russia. I tried to call her, but for some reason she does not answer. Right now, a trial is underway to extract Denis Kapustin from a Moscow apartment. He lost contact with his family a long time ago and didn’t even come to his father’s funeral last year," said Elena.
Elena also said that her mother does not understand his Nazi beliefs, given that Kapustin himself is from a Jewish family.
"His grandfather fought in the Great Patriotic War, and after that he was the chief director of the Sochi circus for almost 20 years, where he worked with Mstislav Zapashny. Grandfather's name is Karpmansky Efim Aronovich . Unfortunately, he died," Elena continues.
The residents of the house on Zeleny Prospekt did not even know that their former neighbor and the terrorist whose detachment shot civilians near Bryansk were one and the same person.
"Grandfather would have shot him if he were alive," says a resident of the house.
The neighbors also remembered that seven years ago the police came to their entrance just because of Denis Kapustin, what the future terrorist was guilty of then, they do not know, they only remember the fact itself.
It turned out that in 2015, Kapustin was suspected of setting fire to a light car in a neighboring yard. The car belonged to a young guy who refused to give the reason for the arson to a REGNUM journalist .
It’s hard to believe, but it’s a fact: a neo-Nazi from a Jewish family, supported by the Ukrainian authorities, shot Russian civilians, who were defended by his grandfather in the battles of the Great Patriotic War.
March 4, 2023
Valery Lomovitsky
From from regnum.ru
The scale of events should not mislead anyone. The tactical attack of one Ukrainian sabotage group on a village with a population of 180 people was of strategic importance for the Kyiv regime. More precisely, the organizers of the terrorist attack set three ambitious goals. Did they manage to solve at least one of them?
The invasion of a group of Ukrainian militants into the Bryansk region may not seem like such an important event. Its real scale was seriously exaggerated by those bloggers and journalists who wrote about it in the first hours after the invasion based on rumors.
We wrote, we recall that it was about a large sabotage and reconnaissance group that entered the village and took dozens of hostages - that is, such a reincarnation of the events in Budyonnovsk or (considering that there were many children among the hostages) even Beslan.
However, in reality, everything turned out to be much simpler - a group of Ukrainian terrorists entered the village, fired at civilians (killing two people), organized a photo shoot in front of the medical assistant's station, scattered mines around and fled back across the border, which is literally a kilometer from the village - two through the forest.
RESISTANCE TO ATTRITION
At the same time, the event should not be underestimated. Partly because an attack was carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation. During it, two Russians were killed, several more people were injured (including children who were shot at by terrorists, as well as law enforcers who blew up a mine during the cleansing).
But not only for this reason, but also because the Kiev regime, with the help of this attack, wanted to change the course of the special military operation, which was unsuccessful for it.
The fact is that the Russian leadership, according to a number of experts, has taken a course towards conducting so-called military operations of attrition. That is, in fact, to exhaust Ukraine, destroy its economic potential and the personnel of the armed forces (in particular, near Artyomovsk, where the Kiev regime is constantly forced to send more and more units to the practically surrounded city along completely shot through supply routes).
Another goal of attrition battles is to deprive the enemy of the mobilization potential. Failures at the front motivate Ukrainians to emigrate and convey to them the idea of the futility of resistance. Today, Russia is winning such a battle.
The process of mobilization of new fighters in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is going on with numerous scandals (people are literally kidnapped on the streets). The Ukrainian economy this year, according to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva , will need $40-48 billion in borrowing just to sustain itself.
In Western countries (which seem to be supposed to give this money), the positions of those who oppose an increase in assistance to Ukraine, and generally oppose sponsoring the Kyiv regime as such, are strengthening.
And not only in Europe (which is not particularly eager to supply Ukraine with new tanks), but also in the United States. The share of Republicans in favor of more active support for Kiev fell from 49% in March 2022 to 17% in January 2023, and Democrats from 38% to 23% over the same period.
Moreover, anti-Ukrainian sentiments are on the rise among the elites. Right-wing Republicans (who advocate redirecting foreign policy spending to address domestic political problems) and left-wing Democrats (who oppose excessive escalation) are demanding a review of the aid program for Kyiv. And due to the specifics of American domestic politics, it is possible that these sentiments will become a political trend in the summer / autumn - when the funds allocated to Kiev by the previous Congress are used up, and when the real election campaign begins in the United States.
Kyiv needs to break this trend - and it is trying to do it, including through provocations in the Bryansk region. Which, according to its organizers, was supposed to solve three problems.
SPLIT GAME
The first is a psychological attack on Russian society.
"The incident in the Bryansk region, as well as the chaotic drone strikes are elements of the psychological warfare carried out by Kiev, pursuing, first of all, information and propaganda goals," Russian political scientist Anton Khashchenko explains to REGNUM news agency.
And this is not only about an attempt to intimidate residents of the regions of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions (which border on the territory still controlled by Ukraine). It is rather about introducing a split between the passionate part of society and the authorities, experts believe.
"The goal, the main one, is to influence Russian society in order to demotivate that part of it that is commonly called “turbopatriots”, to introduce them into an altered state so that they criticize the authorities because of their “inability” to prevent such acts. In part, this happened - in social networks," explains the director of the Center for Political Information Aleksey Mukhin to REGNUM news agency.
Turbopatriots are a media active part of the patriotic society, constantly demanding tougher and faster implementation of the NWO. Not all of them understand or agree with the strategy chosen by the Russian leadership to deplete the enemy. Attacks by the Kiev regime, like the one in Bryansk, not only convince the "turbopatriots" of the correctness of their point of view, but also allow us to believe that these attacks are evidence of the weakness of the political and military leaders of the Russian Federation.
"In fact, this is an attempt to redirect the negative to the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the country," Khashchenko believes.
This is by no means only about discrediting the SVO - the Kiev regime is working within the framework of the general Western information mainstream, which is trying to provoke a change of power in Russia by force.
"Through liberal attitudes, power cannot be changed. But accusations of softness, inability to conduct military operations, as well as insufficient patriotism and betrayal of national interests, are a blow to the foundations on which trust in the state rests," continues Khashchenko .
WHERE THEY WENT
In Kyiv, they hope that the Russian authorities, in an attempt to prove their strength, will resort to some kind of large-scale response to the provocation in Bryansk - and here lies the second task of the Ukrainian regime.
On March 3, President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with members of the Russian Security Council, dedicated, in his words, to measures for the anti-terrorist protection of objects that are under the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies.
However, many experts believe that the only way to protect Russian territories from the infiltration of Ukrainian DRGs (sabotage and reconnaissance groups) is to take control of the border area. That is, to put it simply, we need to abandon the tactics of attrition and carry out a large-scale offensive as soon as possible in the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
In fact, Russia is being pushed into full-scale military operations in a predetermined place and in an unfavorable period. This is not only about thaw, which will impede the movement of equipment, but also about the need for Ukraine to launch an offensive in the spring or early summer of this year. According to experts, such a task was set for Kyiv as a condition for continuing assistance.
Accordingly, the Ukrainian regime wants to weaken the Russian troops as much as possible so that its offensive is as successful as possible, while the interest of the Russian troops is precisely in the destruction of the Ukrainian army on the march, after which a window may open for our offensive actions.
"RUSSIANS AGAINST RUSSIANS"
Finally, the third task is to demonstrate to the West the prospect of victory over Russia. Naturally, here we are not talking about the strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (which everyone understands perfectly), but about the strength of the opponents of the special operation among the Russians themselves. The goal is to demonstrate that a part of our society allegedly supports Ukraine, and not only the part that left the country after the start of the NWO. Like, there are those who remained, and allegedly ready to fight for Kyiv and the West with weapons in their hands.
That is why the sabotage was carried out by the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a group of neo-Nazis and opponents of the Russian state who entered the service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That is why the Kiev regime positioned them precisely as Russian resistance forces. “A movement of Russian anti-fascist militias is unfolding in the Russian Federation , ” Alexey Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, wrote on the social network (the author’s spelling is preserved. - Note IA REGNUM ). And adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak called them simply “partisans”. Both statements are outright lies or trolling.
According to Kommersant, one of the previously identified participants in the attack - Denis Nikitin, aka Kapustin and White Rex, is known in European neo-Nazi, and by no means "anti-fascist" circles. Another likely person involved, Kirill Kanakhin (Rodonsky), uses the call sign Solar Cross - “Solar Cross”, that is, a swastika, notes RT. It looks absurd not only to call Nazi militants anti-fascists, but also the term "partisans". The RDK is officially listed as a regular unit as part of the International Legion of Terodefense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, created a year ago by order of Volodymyr Zelensky .
DID YOU MANAGE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS
If the first task was partially successful (there was indeed a wave of negativity in social networks), and it is too early to judge the results of the second (Moscow has not yet announced its response to the provocation), then the third, apparently, failed.
Not because this “corps” is, in fact, a unit of mercenaries serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the head of this corps showed his Ukrainian military ID to the camera). Western media wrote about the corps just like a division of Russians, and The New York Times even called them "partisans." But at the same time, none of the mainstream Western media has written that these “partisans” have at least some influence inside Russia. Rather, on the contrary, their insignificance and small number were emphasized.
Virtually all mainstream media have written that these “partisans” are made up primarily of “far-right” activists—understandably, since Western correspondents are largely made up of left-wingers who fear the rise of right-wing sentiment in Europe. At one time, Western liberal journalists have already written that Ukraine (in particular, the Nazi structure "Azov", recognized as extremist, terrorist and banned in Russia) has become a kind of training camp for all European far-right - and it is not surprising that the Russian "probationers » they treat at least without any sympathy or sympathy.
Thus, today the Ukrainian provocation can rather be considered unsuccessful. However, this does not mean that Kyiv will not try to repeat it - after all, it has no other options for salvation.
Commentary in italics by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Dmitry Olshansky about the Bryansk terrorists
"It is quite obvious that if last summer the "brothers" from" Azov ", all these Radishes and Kalinas would have hung on construction cranes and trees in Mariupol for several weeks, gradually decomposing, then now there are no raids in Bryansk the region wouldn't exist.Why wouldn't it?
Yes, by a strange coincidence.
Ukrainian nationalists really like it when they are given security guarantees and then sent home, and they really don’t like it when they are hanged in public, and they know that no one will help them, neither Erdogan nor Abramovich.
But we are not like that.
We are kind.
Ah, I forgot.
But now we have Medvedchuk."
I will comment
I do not quite agree with Olshansky. They should not have been hanged. But in no case should they be released. Especially with such a large number of other Ukrainian prisoners for the exchange fund.
I watched interviews with investigators who were collecting evidence of their crimes. Whole volumes were collected there. And the undoubted attitude of the majority of Azov to the Nazis. One swastika on the bodies is worth something, even if you do not take into account the photo and video evidence.
And Abramovich took the Azov people on his plane, treated them to tiramisu and presented them with smartphones
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[ColonelCassad] The less time remains before the announced and pre-advertised spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the more questions arise about what kind of know-how Zaluzhny and his headquarters are going to use to achieve the announced ambitious goal - inflicting a strategic defeat on the Russian army.
Undoubtedly, the group, which is now undergoing further formation and combat coordination in the rear areas of Ukraine and at the training grounds of Western countries, is going to be powerful. This is at least a third of the entire ground grouping available to the Armed Forces of Ukraine - about thirty infantry, airborne, airborne assault and mountain assault brigades. At least six tank brigades. At least six artillery brigades. As well as parts of the "special forces" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the "National Guard".
The total strength of the strike force can reach 140-160 thousand people. It consists of at least 400 tanks, at least 350 guns, up to 100 MLRS, of which at least 30 high-precision systems "Hymars", "Mars" and their other Western counterparts. It is obvious that under this offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received a sufficient amount of ammunition, spare parts and fuel and lubricants.
According to the rules of military science, these forces will most likely be divided into two strike groups, each of which will have its own task. One blow will be the main one, and the second will be an auxiliary and distracting one. At the same time, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be ready to transfer forces from any direction to where success is most manifested, as was the case with the September offensive near Kharkov, which began as an auxiliary, but as it developed, it became the main one.
What will the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bet on in the upcoming offensive?
Of course, it will try to achieve tactical surprise in the choice of strike sites and a decisive superiority - not less than seven to one in these areas.
The second task that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to achieve in the very first hours of the offensive is to defeat Russian headquarters, combat control systems, communications, as well as destroy ammunition depots and fuel and lubricants at the maximum depth achievable for their weapons - up to 80 km, causing paralysis combat control and chaos in the rear. For this, high-precision MLRS, as well as kamikaze drones, the deliveries of which to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now in full swing, will be involved.
The success of solving this problem directly depends on how much intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, based on the technical capabilities of American intelligence and intelligence of NATO countries, will be able to open the military infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces in the offensive zone. Now the Americans and NATO have thrown all their efforts into identifying such objects. NATO intelligence activity along our borders, has reached its maximum and it would be correct to consider that the entire military infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces in the front line has been opened and marked on the staff maps of Ukrainians.
Experts believe that the recent decrease in strikes by high-precision systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russian headquarters and control centers is due not so much to the fact that the Ukrainians cannot detect them, but to the fact that they are not specifically attacking them now in order to reach them at the start of the offensive. maximum surprise and maximum damage.
The third task that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to solve to ensure the success of the offensive is the task of isolating the areas where the Ukrainian troops will advance. The goal is to prevent the transfer of reserves, the supply of fuel and lubricants, ammunition to these areas and the organized withdrawal of troops. These tasks have been practiced by the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in different sectors of our defense over the past weeks with varying degrees of success.
At the same time, it is quite obvious that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to use our own know-how against us - an artillery offensive, which will create the maximum concentration of artillery in the direction of strikes. But, inferior to us in the number of artillery, the Armed Forces of Ukraine rely on the high accuracy of Western systems and the use of the latest means of controlling artillery fire.
In general, one of the main stakes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the upcoming offensive is the hope for the “digitization” of new groups and the conduct of a network-centric war, which should give the Ukrainians the main superiority over the enemy.
By providing an advantage in reconnaissance, detection of the enemy, the speed of striking him and the accuracy of defeat. Over the past few months, the brigades assigned to the rear to complete and form strike groups have been receiving the latest American digital combat control systems and learning how to use them.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine considers its top priority to break through the first line of defense as quickly as possible, where, according to Ukrainian generals and their NATO advisers, the most battle-hardened and experienced Russian units are stationed. Inflicting maximum damage on them, as well as preventing their organized retreat to the second line of defense, where there are poorly trained regiments, which do not have enough military equipment and heavy weapons, formed from “mobilized” soldiers, who, in the event of a breakthrough in their positions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will hardly whether they will be able to offer serious resistance if units of the “first line” cannot withdraw here.
Therefore, most likely, the offensive will not be conducted according to the usual pattern of this war - the slow "gnawing" of the defense, but according to American standards - maximum fire superiority and ramming strikes on,
American advisers are rushing the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the offensive as much as possible, while there is still a critical imbalance in the RF Armed Forces between well-equipped equipment, weapons and trained personnel, units, and a large number of "fortified" regiments, many of which do not have not only their own artillery and tanks, but even vehicles for their normal supply. Whose command staff has no combat experience and mainly consists of the same "reservists", many of whom did not serve in the army and are graduates of military departments of universities. The combat value of such regiments is conditional and, in defense against a well-trained and equipped enemy, they have almost no chance.
Undoubtedly, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is preparing for the offensive and an ace in the hole. Experts believe that this may well be the massive use of strike drones, and especially kamikaze drones, with the help of which the Ukrainian command will try to inflict maximum damage on Russian artillery and military equipment in positions, hunt for rear transport columns and moving troops on the roads. It is also impossible to exclude a massive UAV attack on objects in Russia to a depth of 800-1000 km. We have been observing attempts to probe our air defense system over the past weeks.
Strengths of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the future offensive:
- Experienced operational-tactical command. The battalion commanders and brigade commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experienced military leaders who have gone through at least a year of the war, and many have been fighting since 2014-15.
- A well-organized vertical of combat control, based on closed communication systems, digital information exchange systems, combat control. military internet.
- Well-trained, having vast combat experience, the personnel of artillery units, their mass transfer to high-precision NATO artillery systems.
- Intelligence integrated with NATO and the United States, which allows you to quickly receive information about the enemy and just as quickly implement it in digital format.
But, in addition to the strengths, there are also weaknesses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which will not be easy for the command to compensate for:
- Low quality of Ukrainian infantry. The motivation of the majority of Ukrainians mobilized in recent months is extremely low. The number of people among them with service experience is approaching zero. Most, for one and a half - two months of training, receive only initial military training.
- A huge shortage of officers. Especially the junior level - up to and including the company. There are practically no regular officers at this level. Basically, these are mobilized graduates of military departments or veteran sergeants appointed to officer positions.
- The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not have much experience in offensive battles, not counting the September offensive, which would be more correctly called the pursuit of the retreating enemy. There is also no sufficient experience in assaulting and breaking through organized defenses, not counting urban battles and counterattacks.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine are still seriously inferior to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of tanks and artillery. For tanks - at least four times, for artillery - five times.
- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation completely surpass the Armed Forces of Ukraine in combat aviation, high-precision missile weapons. Maintains superiority in strike UAVs and kamikaze drones.
- The overall superiority in the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the size of the Russian grouping decreased from 3 to 1 in September to 1.3 by February.
- The Russian command has serious reserves at its disposal - at least 80,000 people, which, of course, will use them in the event of a threat.
Therefore, despite the huge propaganda of the “victory” of the coming offensive, the Ukrainian military leadership does not have complete confidence in its success. A number of critical success and failure factors are in the zone of uncertainty. So far, the combat grouping has not reached the required combat parameters. Part of the equipment and weapons continue to arrive, the supply of ammunition is in full swing, but they are still not enough to meet all the needs of a large-scale offensive.
The deliveries of Leopard heavy tanks are being delayed, on which a special stake is being placed in the future offensive. Ukraine has not yet received medium-range (up to 500 km) tactical missiles. The level of training of the personnel of the newly formed brigades is assessed as low. And, most likely, some of these uncertainties will remain at least until mid-April.
A separate problem is the answer to the question - will the Armed Forces of Ukraine be able to achieve tactical surprise in the beginning of the offensive. From this directly depends on its further course. Russian intelligence also conducts continuous monitoring and collection of information about the enemy, and underestimating its capabilities can be very costly for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian military command has gained a lot of combat experience and will try not to repeat its past mistakes.
The spring military campaign in Ukraine will be the most important stage of the current "hot phase" of the Russian-American war, as a result of which it will become completely clear whether the United States and its allies will be able to stop the Russian advance and inflict a sensitive military defeat on Russia, or whether they will have to move on to the "plan "B" - look for ways to save the existing Ukrainian regime and start peace talks with Russia. The stakes for both sides are maximum!
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The outgoing week was marked by a sensation: in the Russian segment of Telegram, rumors spread that Serbia was supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime. For several days in a row, the authors of major channels published "evidence" of the arrival of shells in Ukraine, and a flurry of angry comments from indignant Russian patriots fell upon the Serbian leadership.
It all started on February 27, when a video was published of 3,500 Serbian rockets for the Grad MLRS in a warehouse in Bratislava, which were allegedly intended for Nezalezhnaya. The video showed documentation, according to which a Canadian company purchased Serbian shells through a Turkish intermediary. Moreover, if you carefully consider the export permit, you can see an inscription in Serbian, which says: under the terms of the contract, they are intended exclusively for the use of the Turkish defense complex.
Footage from the warehouse quickly spread across the network. Of course, with caustic comments about the "traitor-brothers" supplying weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Representatives of the Serbian arms factory were forced to deny the rumors: Krušik's official statement said that the company had nothing to do with the sale of weapons to the end consumer from Ukraine and was at the center of a scandal due to the unprofessionalism of journalists.
However, a large-scale campaign against the Serbian authorities has already begun on the network. In pursuit of a sensation, information was disseminated from all telegram guns ( https://t.me/balkanossiper/5641) that "Minister of Defense Vukovich" allegedly confirmed the supplies to Ukraine, and Serbia made them under pressure from the EU. At the same time, none of the authors was embarrassed that there was no Minister Vukovich in Serbia. The head of the defense department is called Milos Vucevic, and he did not make such statements.
The non-existent minister is far from the only blunder of hype lovers. Literally the next day after the release of the video from Bratislava, “irrefutable evidence” appeared on the network that Serbian ammunition had already been delivered to Ukraine.
The arrival of Krušik's products in Nezalezhnaya "confirmed" the first image that popped up in the English-language search engine when "rocket" was requested. Moreover, the photo taken by Madeleine Kelly was already used by both the German and Spanish press when designing their news materials in a completely different context.
As for the published documents, it was not only Krušik representatives who raised doubts about their authenticity. Upon closer examination ( https://t.me/balkanossiper/5671 ) the "export permit" revealed that it was issued by the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, although permits for the export of weapons in Serbia are issued by a special government commission. In addition, the document contains a code that completely corresponds to the export of flour to Montenegro.
The Turkish intermediary represented by Arca Savunma Sanayi Ticaret in Serbia also raises many questions. At the legal address of the representative office in Belgrade, nothing was heard about her, and the person to whom she is registered died back in 2021.
Thus, in pursuit of hype, telegram "experts" forgot about the main rule of a journalist - to check the sources and reliability of the information published.
(c) "Balkan Gossip Girl"
https://t.me/rt_special/3131 - zinc
In general, the story is more like the story of the "delivery of tanks to Ukraine by Morocco", which turned out to be a story about how Morocco was actually stolen tanks and delivered to Ukraine.Of course, this does not mean that NATO does not buy Serbian weapons from third countries for clandestine deliveries to Ukraine. But in this case, too many points point to manipulation and falsification.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin in italics
[ColonelCassad] About the situation in the Artemovsk region for the channel of military commissar Yuri Kotenok
1. As of March 2, the situation for the enemy in the Artemovsk area continued to deteriorate. In the north, the fighting is shifting towards Khromovo. Bogdanovka has not yet been taken, the battles are going on nearby. Dubovo-Vasilyevka has not yet been taken. Reports of its control are premature.
2. The battles are shifting strictly to the south from Yagodny and Berkhovka. The enemy left part of the northern quarters of Bakhmut due to the threat of encirclement and, obviously, will defend himself based on the AZOM plant and adjacent quarters, to which our assault groups are approaching from the north and northeast.
Premature reports of complete control of Zabakhmutovka. It has not been completely taken and cleaned up, but the process is underway. The enemy is gradually crushed.
4. In the south, it is not yet possible to reach the plane. The enemy holds positions in the northern part of the Mariupol cemetery and quarters near the road from Krasnoe.
5. Not being able to stabilize the situation in the north of the city and regain control over the highway from Slavyansk, the enemy is trying with all his might to push us back from the Chasov Yar - Krasnoe - Artemovsk highway in order to use it at least at night to supply forces in the city. The transfer of tanks and light armored vehicles to Chasov Yar was noted for counterattack attempts. So far, there are no signs of the withdrawal of the Ukrainian group from Bakhmut. Despite the losses and some demoralization among the parts of the TrO, nevertheless, one cannot speak of collapse and loss of control.
6. The enemy hastily prepares a new defensive line Rai-Aleksandrovka - Chasov Yar - Konstantinovka after the loss of Bakhmut. Now fortification work is being carried out there and reinforcements are being transferred. Both Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka are close enough to our forward positions, and the intensification of hostilities in this direction is predictable even before the end of the battle for Artemovsk.
7. Western sources have been very pessimistic in recent days with a slight hint that Artyomovsk is not worth the losses and costs that the Ukrainian army incurs in trying to keep the city. Nevertheless, in the slogans of Kyiv, Bakhmut continues to be "heroically" defended. The more troops we grind here, the better it will be for other operations in other directions.
[TheGuardian] Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut are facing increasingly strong pressure from Russian forces, according to British military intelligence, with intense fighting taking place in and around the eastern city.
Ukraine is reinforcing the area with elite units, while the regular Russian army and forces of the Russian private military Wagner group have made further advances into Bakhmut’s northern suburbs, the UK Ministry of Defence said in its daily intelligence bulletin on Twitter.
The city’s deputy mayor, Oleksandr Marchenko, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: "There is fighting in the city and there are also street fights, but thanks to the Ukrainian armed forces they still haven’t taken control over the city."
He said of the Russian attack: "Their only goal is killing people and the genocide of the Ukrainian people ... the tactic that the Russians are using is the tactic of parched land. They want to destroy Bakhmut, they want to destroy the city ... and I honestly can’t understand why they’re doing this."
He added: "The city is almost destroyed and there’s not a single building that has remained untouched in this war. There are completely destroyed, districts, buildings and apartment blocks."
Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, a former Nato deputy supreme allied commander for Europe, said if Russia succeeded in taking Bakhmut, it would be a "Pyrrhic victory".
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The reaction doesn't mean it's not true, only that it doesn't fit the narrative.
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It seems Sergei Lavrov is a well educated man. He has to deal with the seemly less educated, Blinken as a current example. Blinken is now worth an estimated $10 million. Worked with Clinton's, Obama, Biden and so goes his story. Certainly he is a Harvard graduate(No C student graduates there) but a pay your way ticket into the elite club($50,000-$60,000 / semester but perhaps more now). On a personal note I know PBS favors Georgetown graduates who seem to harbor a liberal inclination.
Commentary in italics by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Borrell urges to allocate funds from the European Peace Fund for the purchase of 155-mm artillery shells for Ukraine - AFP.
European hypocrites: shells paid for by the Peace Fund.
This is not the world, but some kind of sur. They call white black and everyone believes in it sacredly...
The Peace Fund finances the war... Only these five words immediately make all the other words uttered by politicians in Europe meaningless and make it possible to interpret them exactly the opposite.
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The Estonian paper proposes funding the initiative through “the existing EU framework,” including the European Peace Facility. The EPF is a military aid mechanism stocked with €5 billion between 2021 and 2027 that has already helped disperse €3.6 billion to Ukraine, according to an EU fact sheet.
So there is some basis for the Russian's perspective. Additional details at Defense News
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin;
[C9lonelCassad] “Yes, indeed, on March 2, 2017, at dawn, I arrived near Palmyra and was there along with one high-ranking official from the Syrian administration, who came to thank my fighters for agreeing to recapture Palmyra from the enemy for the second time.
The first to enter Palmyra was Ratibor, the commander of the first assault detachment. I remember his words well, he turned to the official and said: “If you fuck Palmyra again, we won’t beat it off for the third time.” Ratibor led his assault squad several kilometers through the minefields to "height 939", the very famous height that became the key to the "first Palmyra".
This height was on a completely open slope, and the guys climbed to it, absolutely not covered from enemy machine guns. By noon, Ratibor entered it and went to the left along the ridge until he had taken all the main heights by night.
The Syrian troops refused to support us during this assault. In principle, the Syrian army rarely fought, it usually followed in herds in our footsteps when the deed was already done. This is what happened in Palmyra. After we took the power plant and Palmyra airport, I reported this to our command. And the order was given to advance the Syrian troops, they entered the city along the southern road behind the mountain range.
From Palmyra, after some time, we continued to move towards Deir ez-Zor. Syrian troops entered the city when it was actually safe. So it was in all the battles in the Syrian war.
Then for another two weeks they sent me photographs of the equipped positions of those very heights and the “spirits” killed in them. These were burrows and fortresses. It is no coincidence that Palmyra has been so well defended for thousands of years. Its geographical position is very well thought out and inscribed in the terrain.
After Palmyra, we continued to move towards Deir ez-Zor. It was followed by Es-Sukhna, then Esh-Shola, where the heroes Tsurkanu and Zabolotny were later captured in an unequal battle, but these are already other fragments from the history of Wagner PMC (c) Prigozhin
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[Unz] On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded. Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.
