[Rusvesna] The sounds of small arms firing pierced the early morning hours in Dokuchaevsk Thursday morning, according to data supplied in a post on the Russian language Russkaya Vesna (Russian Spring) website.
According to an official announcement by the Donetsk People's Republic ministry of defense, Ukrainian forces used BMP-2s 30mm autocannon, firing about 30 rounds.
There was no specified target nor reports of killed or wounded. The announcement said that the Ukrainian simply fired on the area.
The announcement also said that the area had been quiet for the entire day previously.
Videos posted with the Russkaya Vesna article show detonations from small arms as well as from heavier caliber weapons.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Russian President and the Chechen authorities are responsible for the assassination attempts on the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov in Sweden and other critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, according to the report of the Intelligence and Situation Center of the European Union, the conclusions of which were voiced by journalists.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote , a court in Sweden on January 11 recognized Russian citizens Ruslan Mamaev and Elmira Shapiaeva as participants in the attack on a blogger from Chechnya Tumso Abdurakhmanov and sentenced them to ten and eight years of imprisonment, respectively. The accused were sentenced to the terms requested by the prosecutor.
The court recognized the criticism of the Chechen authorities by the blogger as the motive for the crime, but the role of the Chechen authorities was not studied in detail.
The findings from the report of the Intelligence and Situation Center of the European Union regarding the attempt on the life of Tumso Abdurakhmanov in Sweden were reported by the Swedish public television SVT, which published this material on its website today. The Swedish security service SEPO concluded that the attempt on the blogger and other critics of Kadyrov was ordered in Chechnya, the article says.
At the same time, it quotes the words of the Minister of Press and Information of the republic, Akhmed Dudayev, who did not want to answer the reporters' questions.
"To be honest, I don’t understand why you think that I should somehow comment on the activities of these countless Internet heroes. We have neither the time nor the desire to react to this person or someone like that," Dudayev replied.
In addition, the report describes how Russia and Chechnya have developed their tools for illegal executions, mentions in this connection the special unit of the National Guard SOBR "Terek". It also states that attempts on the life of Tumso and other Chechen bloggers would not have been possible if President Putin had objected to them.
However, in a letter signed by "President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin," the presidential press service replied to Swedish television that "it has nothing to do with the murders of these people in European countries," the article says.
Recall that in June this year, a Chechen blogger living in Austria, Said-Khusein Magomadov, was tried to blow up in the city of Bregenz, according to the police. Two natives of Chechnya were detained in connection with the attempted murder case.
The blogger is sure that the Chechen authorities are behind the assassination attempt.
On July 4, 2020, in a suburb of the Austrian capital, a native of Chechnya, Mamikhan Umarov (Anzor from Vienna), was shot dead, who in his videos openly criticized and insulted Ramzan Kadyrov and his parents using profanity. And this is by no means the only example of the realization of threats against the political opponents of the head of Chechnya who fled abroad, says the statement of the "Caucasian Knot" " The Murders of Kadyrov's Critics in the European Union."
In 2016, Ramzan Kadyrov voiced threats against compatriots living abroad. "We have data for each of you, and we know who you are ... We know where you are writing from, and you are all in our hands. And therefore, do not harm yourself," "words of the head of Chechnya.
Direct Translation via Google Translate By Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The coup d'état announced by Zelensky on December 1 did not take place.
Announced by Lyashko on December 1, the introduction of martial law did not take place.
The announced fall offensive of the RF Armed Forces against Ukraine has not yet begun.
It never happened, and now again.
Instead, Zelenskiy said today that in order to achieve peace in Donbas, he needs to negotiate directly with Russia.
As already noted more than once, they will not negotiate with Zelensky - it makes sense to discuss Ukraine only with the United States and its European satellites. Zelensky's level is Pushilin and Pasechnik.
The fact that Zelensky does not want to communicate with them will not change this fact. The Kremlin has made it clear today that the position of the Russian Federation is the same - Russia is not a party to the conflict and in order to achieve peace, it is necessary to negotiate with the DPR and LPR.
Zelenskiy can continue to publicly honor the Nazis; this will not bring him any closer to the desired increase in the status of negotiations.
Along the way, the Russian Foreign Ministry, as expected, gave a shock to "friend Recep", stating that Russia was not interested in Erdogan's mediation in the Ukrainian issue. Instead, Erdogan was offered to influence Kiev to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements.
Turkey today also opposed the introduction of sanctions against Russia. Friend Recep continues to pursue an extremely opportunistic policy, wagging between the two camps.
It is also worth noting another remarkable gem from NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg:
NATO considers the idea that Russia may have its own sphere of influence , since its neighbors are sovereign states, is unacceptable , said the secretary general of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg. He also stated that he did not want to return to the world,where "big countries could impose restrictions on small ones."
"The question itself already reflects the fact that should alert us and which is unacceptable - that Russia has a sphere of influence," Stoltenberg said during a press conference, answering the question about the possible admission of Ukraine to NATO and how this might affect relations with Russia.
According to him, this means that Russia is "trying to restore acceptance that it has the right to control its neighbors."
"And this is a world we don't want to return to, a world in which big countries could impose restrictions on what sovereign independent countries could do," Stoltenberg said.
He recalled that he himself comes from a small "country on the border with Russia (Norway)."
"I am very glad that our NATO allies have never respected Russia's right to establish its sphere of influence in the north and that Norway, as a small independent country, should or should not do," the head of the alliance said.
Stoltenberg added that Russia "does not have the right to veto or vote on this issue," and also "cannot try to establish its own sphere of interest."
Of course, as they think in Washington and Brussels, the US and NATO may have a sphere of influence. Therefore, for example, there are no questions about the French sphere of influence in West Africa. Or the American sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Or the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 in Latin America. It's different.
Because these are not Russian, but free and democratic spheres of influence, which are approved by "civilized countries." Russia cannot have spheres of influence in principle, because, unlike the unique and exclusive United States, Russia is a unique, but not exclusive country to have such spheres of influence.
He was also touched by the message about unwillingness to return to a world where large countries impose restrictions on small ones.
Of course, while such approaches are pressing in the heads of the Brussels characters, the degree of the Cold War will continue to rise, and the threat of a nuclear conflict will continue to grow along with the unfolding race of nuclear missile and hypersonic weapons.
For it is quite understandable desire of Washington and Brussels to live in the old way, but it will not be so - the world has entered a period of transformation of the previous world order and the issue of redistribution of spheres of influence is one of the most pressing issues of international politics, even if someone continues to pretend that all this is in past. This is the present and future of the modern world order.
Of course, as they think in Washington and Brussels, the US and NATO may have a sphere of influence. Therefore, for example, there are no questions about the French sphere of influence in West Africa. Or the American sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Or the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 in Latin America. It's different.
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This harks back to Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky's plead to the west in the 1990s that Russia should have south Asia as its sphere of influence, while the USA has Latin America.
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The notion that the Russian-speaking regions east of the Dniester River are somehow not part of Russia's sphere of interest is ludicrous. That's like saying Brownsville is a casualty of 'Yankee imperialism.'
[NYPOST] The Kremlin said Wednesday it could not reduce the number of Russian forces along the country’s border with Ukraine because the Kiev government is carrying out its own military buildup.
"Russia cannot take any measures to de-escalate," front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds. "We have seen the messages that more than 120,000 [Ukrainian] troops have been deployed to the conflict zone. This raises our fears that sentiments [in Ukraine] in favor of a military solution to the Donbass problem could prevail."
Earlier Wednesday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of moving 125,000 troops — which she described as "half of the entire Ukrainian army" — to the eastern Donbass region of the country, where government forces have been fighting Russia-backed separatists since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.
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[NYPOST] The Kremlin said Wednesday it could not reduce the number of Russian forces along the country’s border with Ukraine because the Kiev government is carrying out its own military buildup.
