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2023-02-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: February 13th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:00 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today: “We heard reports from the commanders of the directions, the commander-in-chief, intelligence leaders. Protection of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the south of our country, Odessa and the region. Constant attention is paid to the supply of weapons, shells and everything that gives our warriors strength and stamina."
The President also reported on a number of telephone conversations and noted that Ukrainian diplomacy now has a clear task - "to go to all regions of the world where our position is still insufficiently represented, to make Ukraine and Ukrainian interests understandable to all those states and peoples with whom we have So far there are no stable ties.
22:41 The Russians opened the floodgates near the machine room of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which is why local residents have no water in the wells in some places, Kakhovka Mayor Vladimir Kovalenko said: "The lower part of the Dnieper is flooding, and the upper part, as local residents estimate, "The height of the water fall reaches two meters. Today, not everyone has water in the well, because the groundwater level has dropped significantly, there are problems much further, to the Zaporozhye region. There is an ecological danger of the destruction of fish stocks."
22:29 Zelensky said that he had the first conversation with the elected President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides: "Thanked for the unwavering support of Cyprus to Ukraine, for humanitarian assistance within the UN. We appreciate the support of Ukraine on our way to the EU."
21:23 Tehran has sent Moscow six types of multi-purpose drones that are capable of returning to base after being hit. More details - in the material Now "mohadzhery" .
21:11 The Canadian Foreign Ministry also called on the citizens of the country to immediately leave Belarus due to the risk of arbitrary application of local laws and war in Ukraine.
20:48 The head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Geusgen, spoke out against any "red lines" in providing military assistance to Ukraine. In his opinion, one should be guided solely by military necessity - therefore, the supply of fighter aircraft cannot be ruled out.
20:41 Zelensky signed a decree according to which a military man with the rank of lieutenant general or vice admiral can be appointed as the first deputy defense minister.
19:59 Moscow considers it inexpedient to extend the grain deal if sanctions affecting its agricultural exports are not lifted from Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said. According to him, the grain initiative is "carried out unfairly" due to sanctions against Russian agricultural exports. The Russian Foreign Ministry also once again complained that Ukrainian grain is allegedly exported mainly to developed countries.
19:50 Reznikov said that on Friday, February 10, he held a meeting of the working group on the creation of an anti-corruption advisory body under the Ministry of Defense. Activists, experts and public organizations have already joined the working group, including, in particular, Bigus Info, the Center for Defense Strategies, Demsokira, Stop Corruption, the NABU Public Control Council, VO Automaidan and others.
19:04 Zaluzhny said that on the eve of the meeting in the Ramstein format, he had a telephone conversation with the Supreme Commander of the Allied NATO Armed Forces in Europe and the Commander of the US Armed Forces in Europe, Christopher Cavoli: "We discussed the supply of international military assistance to Ukraine and the training of our units on the territory of partner countries . Shared assessments of the operational situation on the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war and plans for further actions."
"Ukraine's victory will mean not only the liberation of its territories, but also the creation of such conditions and such Armed Forces that will never allow the Russians to attack our state in the future," the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stressed.
19:01 Poland is disappointed with the draft of the tenth package of EU sanctions against Russia, said Polish Ambassador to the European Union Andrzej Sadosz. According to him, it does not provide for sanctions against Rosatom, there is no ban on the import of Russian diamonds and the exclusion of Gazprom from the Upstream Emission Reduction system, which provides for trading in emission certificates for hydrocarbon production.
18:56 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the capture of Krasnaya Gora near Bakhmut, however, the speaker of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Cherevaty, said in a comment to CNN that this is not true and that fighting continues there.
18:53 Mobilized Russian servicemen from units belonging to the 1st Army Corps of the Southern Military District are increasingly refusing to go on the offensive. Therefore, the mobilized men from the Donetsk region are removed from the second and third lines and sent to the training grounds. There they train for two weeks and are formed into assault units for offensive operations in the Avdiivka direction, the State Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:46 Reznikov announced the personnel and structural renewal of the Ministry of Defense after the scandal surrounding the purchase of food for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The minister said that he had submitted a list of new deputies for approval.
18:17 Financial Times writes, citing sources, about an acute shortage of ammunition in Ukraine. The intelligence of one of the NATO countries reported that the Ukrainian army spends 5,000 shells per day - so many small countries buy in a year. At the same time, the Russian army is estimated to spend four times more. Stoltenberg said that Ukraine's current rate of ammunition consumption is "many times higher than our current rate of production."
17:54 Russia now does not have the strength to lay a land corridor through Odessa to Transnistria and encircle Ukraine from the back, although there is still such a plan, said NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana. At the same time, he recalled the Kremlin’s attempts to undermine the situation in Moldova from within, in order to prevent its European integration and undermine the leadership of President Maia Sandu: “I want to say to Moldovan, Georgian friends: you can count on us, don’t let yourself be intimidated. strength."
17:45 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere: "Thanked for the new defense package, which will strengthen us on earth, in the sky and at sea. I am also grateful for the weighty five-year assistance package that is being prepared for approval in Norway. We discussed our further cooperation."
17:17 After Ukraine's victory, NATO allies will be able to become a party to agreements on providing security guarantees to Kiev, Stoltenberg said: "I will not speculate exactly how they can be formulated, but I say that any agreements where NATO allies can provide any guarantees to Ukraine are absolutely possible, and this may be part of the overall solution for Ukraine to secure against further Russian attacks."
At the same time, the Secretary General stressed that "before securing the future of Ukraine, we must help them win this war." According to him, Ukraine needs to be strengthened and re-equipped according to NATO standards to such an extent that it is able to withstand further aggression.
16:49 The French Foreign Ministry called on the citizens of their country to immediately leave Belarus in connection with the hostilities in Ukraine.
16:36 The offensive of the Russian military near Vuhledar has bogged down, but the White House predicts more bloody battles for Donbass in the spring. About what is known at the moment - in the material "The Great Offensive" of the Russians .
16:11 Putin, six months before the war, from August 2021, began to move around the country more often not by plane, but by a special armored train, the Dossier Center reports. This is due to privacy and security considerations, since it is impossible to track the movement of the train, as it happens with aircraft using various services. At the same time, an armored train built specifically for it is visually indistinguishable from standard Russian Railways trains. The train schedule in Russia is specially adjusted so that Putin can travel at maximum speed without stopping.
15:46 In Poland, the exercises of Ukrainian tankers on Leopard 2 also began, Radio Liberty reported and showed the first footage.
15:12 The Russians have already assigned two "deputies" to the Gauleiter of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, from Chelyabinsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, local residents refuse to cooperate with the Russians even for the sake of "prestigious" positions, and the Kremlin bosses do not trust local collaborators and control them from all sides.
15:05 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi criticized the current Prime Minister George Meloni for meeting with Zelensky and accused Ukraine of allegedly "attacking the Donbass." He also called for an end to support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In response, Meloni's office stressed that Italy would continue to firmly support Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, in turn, recalled how Berlusconi once kissed the hands of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, demonstrating loyalty. Now, he says, Berlusconi is trying to "kiss Putin's hands, which are up to the elbows in blood."
14:59 The Russian army is expanding the training ground near Voronezh and has built a tent camp for the mobilized near the village of Postoyalyye Dvory in the Kursk region, Radio Liberty reports. At the Pogonovo training ground, work began on January 25, and the camp was built between January 28 and February 7. Satellite images from Planet clearly show the pace of construction.
14:43 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived in Minsk and said that he would present Budapest's position on the need for peace talks on Ukraine. "Obviously, many will attack me because of the visit, but our position is clear: the channels of communication must be kept open," he said.
14:27 Stoltenberg said that NATO defense ministers will discuss the acceleration of military supplies to Ukraine on February 14-15. He added that the meeting will also discuss the supply of military aircraft to Kyiv. However, according to him, the priority now is not planes, but the already promised weapons, including armored vehicles.
The NATO Secretary General noted that a new Russian offensive in Ukraine has already begun.
13:49 More than 150 officials from different countries will come to Munich for this year's security conference, Russia will not be represented, said the head of the conference, Christoph Heusgen. Ukraine will be represented by Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and more than 20 parliamentarians.
Heusgen emphasized that Russia was not invited this year, as well as the "right" deputies of the German Bundestag from the Alternative for Germany party. In addition, the head of the conference called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "the mouthpiece of Putin and the Kremlin." According to him, the forum could not allow the event to be used for propaganda: "We have been intensively watching in recent months and weeks what is happening. Putin has not deviated one iota from his line in his statements. He denies the right to existence of an independent Ukraine.. "There are indications that traces of the MH17 crash lead to the Kremlin."
The Munich Security Conference will be held February 17-19.
13:35 According to the UN, since the start of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, more than 21 million tons of agricultural products have been exported from the ports of Ukraine, almost half of this volume is corn. Among the recipients of cargo in the first place are China (4.2 million tons), Spain (3.8 million), Turkey (2.4 million), the Netherlands (1.2 million) and Egypt (724.7 thousand tons).
13:16 Training of Ukrainian tank crews to operate the Leopard 2 has started in Germany, the German Defense Ministry has reported. They should be completed by the end of the first quarter - simultaneously with the transfer of 14 Leopard 2А6 tanks to Kyiv.
12:47 On the Luhansk front, massive round-the-clock attacks by Russians are expected in the coming days, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. Now, according to him, the hottest spots are in Belogorovka and in the Kremennaya area. In particular, today at about four in the morning the Russians attacked Belogorovka from all sides, but the Ukrainian forces repelled the offensive. The same situation occurred in the Kremensk direction: the enemy attacked with a large number of personnel, but after a military clash with the Ukrainian defense forces, he retreated. The situation in the Svatovsky direction is stable.
12:26 Telegram channels close to PMC Wagner have published a video of supposedly another execution of a mercenary who surrendered to Ukrainian captivity . The man introduces himself as Dmitry Yakushchenko from Crimea and says that he fought in the PMC, but supported Ukraine. The first part of the video was recorded in Ukrainian captivity. Yakushchenko is then shown lying on the floor in the room. There he says that he woke up in this room after being hit on the head and now he will be judged. Afterwards, a retouched video shows him allegedly being killed with a sledgehammer. The public suggests that Yakushchenko could have been exchanged in December, after which he again fell into the hands of the Wagnerites.
11:57 Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that Russia plans to carry out a coup d'état in the country, including through opposition protests and with the involvement of people with military training, as well as citizens of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro. According to her, they plan to attack government buildings and change power in the republic.
Sandu recalled that there were already such attempts last autumn, but thanks to the prompt intervention of the Moldovan authorities, they were unsuccessful. "Documents received from our Ukrainian partners indicate the locations and logistical aspects of organizing this subversive activity," Sandu added.
11:39 The EU is preparing sanctions against four Russian banks, including Alfa Bank, as well as 130 organizations and individuals, Politico reports, citing sources.
11:18 Electricity consumption in Ukraine on Monday, February 13, is gradually growing, but there is no shortage of power yet, Ukrenergo reported. This is due, among other things, to generation from renewable energy sources and electricity imports from Slovakia. Consumption limits in the region have not been set to date, measurements of actual consumption are carried out in accordance with the schedule.
At the same time, due to the damaged network infrastructure in Odessa, there are hourly outage schedules. In Kyiv, Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr regions and Kiev, as consumption increases, it is also possible to apply shutdowns in accordance with schedules to avoid the risk of equipment overload.
10:46 Reznikov said that he left for the next meeting in the Ramstein format, which will be held in Brussels on Tuesday, February 14. He listed the main items on the agenda of the ninth meeting:
- protection of the Ukrainian sky, including by attracting an aviation platform,
- the development of a "tank coalition",
- formation of a margin of safety for ammunition,
- training programs for Ukrainian soldiers,
- support stability - logistics, maintenance, repair, practical implementation of the "military Schengen".
10:21 British intelligence reports, citing images from open sources, that as of February 7, Russia has further strengthened defenses in the central part of the Zaporozhye region, including near Tarasovka. In addition, as of January 8, the Russian Federation installed defense fortifications between the cities of Vasilyevka and Orekhov, Zaporozhye region.
Analysts note that while Russia has focused its operational efforts on the central Donbas, it remains concerned about protecting the outermost sections of its extended front line. After all, a significant breakthrough by Ukrainian troops in the Zaporozhye region would cast doubt on the viability of the Russian land bridge connecting the Rostov region and Crimea, and Ukraine's success in Lugansk would further undermine Russia's proclaimed military goal - "liberation of Donbass." Deciding which of these threats to prioritize is likely one of the biggest dilemmas for Russian operational planners, the intelligence said.
10:09 The Ministry of Defense reported that Denmark transferred to Ukraine all of its CAESAR self-propelled howitzers.
09:27 Speaker OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk admits that the next time the Russian Federation may launch a massive missile attack on Ukraine on the anniversary of the February 24 invasion. According to her, the Russians have recently been delivering such strikes once every two weeks, and the last one was on February 10th.
09:22 In the evening of February 12, at least three loud explosions sounded in the Mariupol region, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. It is known about getting into the premises of school No. 3 in the village. Nikolsk, where the Russians were stationed. The Russians themselves, an hour later, said that they allegedly shot down the Tochka U missile, but this is not true. After the explosions, the sounds of detonation were heard for some time.
Meanwhile, compulsory passportization of children began in the Mariupol region: all students in the 9th and 11th grades are forced to obtain a Russian passport, threatening that without it they will not be issued a certificate. Students of the 9th grade can get a passport only if their parents already have a Russian passport.
09:13 Ukrzaliznytsia reported damage to the railway track as a result of shelling in the Kherson region, which is why train No. 102/101 Kiev-Kherson will temporarily follow to Nikolaev. From there, passengers will be delivered to Kherson by bus shuttles. Passengers from Kherson, who are waiting for a flight in the Kiev direction, will also be transported by buses to Nikolaev. The road repair is already in progress.
09:02 American astronaut Scott Kelly called on Elon Musk to return full access to the Starlink Internet to Ukraine. Musk replied that this type of communication is the main one for the Ukrainian military at the front, where other communications are completely destroyed, but he will not allow an escalation that could lead to a third world war.
08:57 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed, another was injured, the OVA reported.
08:53 Russian occupiers in Berdyansk dispersed pensioners standing in line for payments near the post office with shots, the city military administration reported. The GVA recalled that the occupiers banned the hryvnia, so local residents are forced to receive assistance in rubles. Since there is no well-functioning system in the temporarily occupied territories, people have to stand in lines for days to receive payments or pay for services.
Pensioners, in order to receive 10 thousand rubles, occupied a queue from midnight on February 11. In the morning there was a crush, and people broke down the door of the post office. As a result, the so-called "police" arrived and began to disperse the pensioners with shots in the air.
08:46 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person died - in the Clock Yar. Another person in the region was injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:34 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 13.
- personnel - about 138,340 (+560) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3283 (+3),
- armored combat vehicles - 6492 (+4),
- artillery systems - 2290 (+3),
- MLRS - 465 (+0),
- air defense systems - 234 (+0),
- aircraft - 296 (+0),
- helicopters - 286 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2007 (+0),
- cruise missiles - 857 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5150 (+2),
- special equipment - 217 (+2).
08:23 The Russians are suffering significant losses, especially in manpower, but they continue to attempt an offensive in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary . Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Gryanikovka, Kharkiv region; Kremennaya and Belogorovka, Luhansk region; Vyemka, Fedorovka, Vasyukovka, Bakhmut, Ivanovskoye and Klescheevka in Donetsk region and Zheleznodorozhnoe in Zaporozhye region.
About 200 servicemen of the National Guard arrived in the Kherson region to strengthen counter-sabotage measures. They were settled on the territory of the Chaika recreation center in Lazurny, and for the safety of the occupiers, the movement of local residents in the village was limited.
Due to the poor provision of winter uniforms, the number of Russian servicemen with frostbite has increased significantly since January. So, in medical institutions of Gorlovka, Donetsk region, the number of patients with such a diagnosis reaches 30% of all wounded.
07:40 The US Embassy in Russia appealed to American citizens to leave the territory of the Russian Federation and not to go there because of the risk of unlawful detentions, persecution and terrorism, and also given the limited ability of diplomats to provide assistance.
06:26 Russia probably completely lost the elite 155th Marine Brigade in the battles near Ugledar, Politico reports citing Alexei Dmitrashkovsky, a representative of the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction. The brigade from Vladivostok was defeated, including the command staff.
"The 155th brigade has already had to be understaffed three times already. The first time - after Irpen and Bucha, the second time - after the defeat near Donetsk. And now almost the entire brigade has been destroyed near Ugledar," Dmitrashkovsky is quoted as saying. According to him, 150-300 Russian marines were killed in this direction every day, and about 130 units of enemy equipment, including 36 tanks, were destroyed in a week.
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