Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A symbolic cold snap is expected in Moscow on Epiphany. This was announced on January 12 by weather forecaster Yevgeny Tishkovets.
"On Sunday, a slight minus and then the weather will clear up. On Epiphany, there will be a symbolic cold snap: 0…-5 at night, around 0 during the day," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Tishkovets noted that there will be no serious frosts or snowfalls until the end of January.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, 2024 was the warmest year in the entire 245-year history of observations in Moscow. According to the Moscow State University Meteorological Observatory, only in January and May were the temperatures lower than usual, while in the other ten months the figures were higher than average.
On January 11, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand warned of dangerous and unfavorable weather phenomena that are expected in six districts of Russia due to abnormally warm weather. Among such phenomena, he named heavy precipitation and wind, wet snow, rain and ice.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was recorded off the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea. This was reported on January 12 on the website of the European Mediterranean Seismological Center.
It is noted that the earthquake occurred at 17:49 Moscow time in the Black Sea, 75 km southeast of Kerch and 60 km south of Taman. The source was at a depth of 45 km.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 occurred in Sochi on the night of January 11. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a depth of 5 km. As a result of the seismic event, no one died or was injured, and no appeals were received from the population.
Another earthquake in Sochi occurred on the evening of January 11. According to the head of the city's seismic service, Elena Karpovich, it was a repeat of the morning earthquake - in approximately the same place at a depth of 5 km.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [EADaily] In Los Angeles, where powerful fires are currently raging, real estate belonging to high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel has been destroyed, the Military Observer Telegram channel reported, citing sources.
"According to Ukrainian resources, during the large-scale fires in Los Angeles, eight mansions belonging to high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel burned down. The total value of this real estate reaches $90 million, and it was purchased with money that the West allocated as part of financial assistance to Kyiv after the start of the war," writes TK.
As reported by EADaily, California Governor Gavin Newsom has mobilized 400 National Guard troops to help combat the worsening wildfire crisis in Los Angeles County. This was reported by Yahoo, citing Fox News 11.
The National Guard is tasked with controlling traffic, protecting critical infrastructure and supporting law enforcement and first responders as fires continue to devastate the region. Adds Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Putin sent fire tornadoes.
Everything. Everything that was stolen by backbreaking labor...
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.49 Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely rebuff the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting effective fire damage on them, exhausting them along the entire front line. In total, 124 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of this day. This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday, January 12.
The Russian invaders carried out 28 air strikes, using 36 KAB, two missile strikes, using two missiles. In addition, the Russians used 985 kamikaze drones to destroy and carried out about five thousand attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
21.57 A private house caught fire in Zaporizhia due to a drone attack, two people were injured. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Ivan Fedorov on Sunday, January 12.
20.57 By the evening of January 12, Russian troops shelled Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the enemy strike, a civilian was killed. This was reported by the press service of the OVA on Sunday, January 12.
16.39 In Donetsk Oblast, Russian occupiers shelled Kramatorsk. No information about casualties was received. This was reported by the head of the Kramatorsk Military State Administration, Oleksandr Goncharenko, on Sunday, January 12.
15.33 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out another high-precision air strike on the command post of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation, located in the city of Novogrodovka in the Donetsk region. This was reported by the General Staff on Sunday, January 12.
14.30 The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a high-precision strike on the command post of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation, located in the city of Novogrodovka in the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region. This was reported by the General Staff.
13.52 Russian troops are trying to bypass Pokrovsk and Mirnograd from the south, fighting is underway in the suburbs. This was reported by Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the Khortitsa operational-strategic group of troops.
13.11 Russian aviation carried out an airstrike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region, where elderly people were staying. This was reported by the press officer of the military commandant's office in the Kursk region, Alexey Dmitrashkovsky, on the air of a telethon. A woman received a lacerated wound to her hand. As of the morning of January 12, this woman had died.
12:35 Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the Khortitsa operational-strategic group of troops, stated that active urban battles are currently taking place in Chasovy Yar, Ukrainian troops are having success, but the Russians are advancing.
12:10 Aerial reconnaissance aircraft of the Gjurza unit of the 28th Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign recorded another violation of the rules of war by the Russian military. This was reported in the Telegram of the 28th Brigade. The disguised enemy was spotted during movement and reconnaissance and sabotage activities. It is noted that in this way the enemy infantry is trying to distract attention and disguise themselves. However, they are given away by the same clothes, behavior, and sometimes even weapons.
10.54 On the morning of January 12, Russian occupiers dropped explosives from a drone on residents of Kherson, there are wounded. This was reported by the Kherson OVA. As a result of the attack by drones of Russian occupiers, a 57-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man were wounded.
10.21 Russian troops penetrated the battle formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Liman direction of the front.
This was stated by the Operational-Strategic Group of Forces Khortitsa. It is noted that in the Liman direction, the enemy's assault groups attacked Ukrainian positions in the areas of the settlements of Kopanka, Novoegorovka, Grekovka, Kolodets, Makeyevka, Terny and in the Serebryansky forest.
9.53 The Defense Forces shot down 60 drones with which Russian troops attacked Ukraine since the evening of January 11, another 34 enemy UAV simulators were lost without negative consequences. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8.51 The situation on the front remains difficult. The enemy, using its advantage in manpower and equipment, constantly attacks Ukrainian positions. A total of 184 combat clashes have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
8.20 Russian troops fired heavy artillery and sent kamikaze drones at Nikopol and the Krivoy Rog district at night. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Sergey Lysak. The shelling hit an enterprise. The enemy also hit the Zelenodolsk community in Krivoy Rog with an FPV drone. Damaged infrastructure
7.52 The occupiers lost another 1,750 soldiers in Ukraine in one day. The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 12, 2025 amount to about 808,250 people. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7.23 In the temporarily occupied Luhansk, the fake Academy of Culture and Arts of Matusovsky plans to send its students to practice in Russia, mainly to the so-called rehabilitation centers for the military. This was reported by the Center for National Resistance (CNS)
05.00 Russian troops have advanced in Toretsk, Orekhovo-Vasilovka, Yasenov and Zeleny. Enemy advances are also being recorded near Vozdvizhenka, Nadezhdinka, Lisovka, Soleny and Velyka Novosyolka in Donetsk Oblast, the DeepState project reports.
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[Korrespondent] Since the beginning of the day, there have been 75 clashes on the front.
In the operational zone in Kursk region, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled two attacks by Russian invaders within 24 hours, and three more attacks are ongoing.
Russian invaders continue to storm the positions of Ukrainian defenders. The Ukrainian Defense Forces are inflicting significant losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment. In total, 75 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day. This was noted in the General Staff report on Sunday, January 12.
Border settlements continue to suffer from shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation, including Studenok, Bachevsk in the Sumy region; Medvedevka, Timonovichi in the Chernihiv region.
Near the settlements of Volchansk and Kazachya Lopan in the Kharkov direction, since the beginning of the day, the enemy has twice attempted to break through the defensive lines of our defenders.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy carried out six assault actions near Petropavlovka and Peschanoye. Three combat clashes ended, three more are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked seven times near the settlements of Kopanki, Sheykovka, Pervomayskoye, Makeyevka, Terny and Zarechnoye. Three enemy attacks remained unfinished.
The defense forces repelled eight Russian attacks near Belaya Gora, Chasovy Yar and Stupochki in the Kramatorsk direction. Four enemy attacks are still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked nine times near the settlements of Toretsk, Belaya Gora and Shcherbinovka. The clashes continue.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 33 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Zelenoe, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Udachnoye, Kotlino, Novovasilovka, Serebryanoye, Petrovpavlovka, Shevchenko, Dachnoye. The defense forces are holding back the enemy's onslaught and have repelled 22 attacks, 11 clashes are still ongoing. The enemy's losses are being clarified.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the occupiers once attacked the positions of our troops near Constantinople. The enemy dropped three UABs on Novopol.
Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has not carried out any active operations in the Orekhov, Gulyai-Polye and Pridneprovsk directions.
In the operational zone in Kursk region, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled two attacks by Russian invaders during the day, three more attacks are ongoing. The enemy carried out more than 220 shellings and carried out four airstrikes.
While in other areas of the front the situation has not undergone any significant changes.
Let us recall that the Defense Forces recently struck the command post of the 810th separate marine brigade of the Russian Armed Forces near the village of Belaya in the Kursk region.
Let us recall that the Russians lost another 1,750 soldiers in Ukraine in one day. The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 12, 2025 amount to about 808,250 people.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of an AFU motorised infantry brigade close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops, an artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
The Zapad Group of Forces liberated Kalinovo (Kharkov region) as a result of the successful offensive.
Russian units hit manpower and materiel of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade near Zagryzovo, Zapadnoye, Zagoruykovka, Dvurechnaya of the Kharkov region, Ivanovka and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic)
The AFU losses amounted to up to 410 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, six artillery guns, and two Anklav electronic warfare stations. Two ammunition depots have been wiped out.
The Yug Group of Forces liberated Yantarnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of active offensive.
Russian units engaged formations of three mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade, a mountain assault brigade, an infantry brigade, an air assault brigade, an airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a naval infantry brigade close to Minkovka, Mayskoye, Markovo, Verolubovka, Fyodorovka, Ulakly, Dachnoye, Zvanovka, Seversk, and Belogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 250 troops, four Kozak armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
Two ammunition depots have been wiped out.
The Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of eight mechanised brigades, an infantry brigade of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defence brigade, a national guard brigade, and a national police brigade near Krasnoarmeysk, Slavyanka, Petrovka, Alekseyevka, Dzerzhinsk, Dimitrov, Novopavlovka, Udachnoye, Ukrainka, Zverevo, and Belitskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 450 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, a U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, a Turkish-made Cobra II armoured fighting vehicle as well as three motor vehicles, and seven artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the AFU defences. Russian troops hit formations of two mechanised brigades, an air assault brigade of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defence brigade near Bogatyr, Konstantinopol, Razliv, Vremevka, and Velikaya Novoselka.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 190 troops, a tank, seven motor vehicles, four artillery guns including a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of the two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a national guard brigade close to Antonovka, Pridneprovskoye, Ponyatovka (Kherson region) and Novoandreyevka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 60 troops, five motor vehicles, a field artillery gun, and a Plastun electronic reconnaissance station. An ammunition depot was wiped out.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the infrastructure of military airfields as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 139 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 55 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,132 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,492 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,465 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,179 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of a tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, and two territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Viktorovka, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, and Sverdlikovo. Five enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-tacticl and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Viktorovka, Guyevo, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovy, Nikolsky, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
During the day, the AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops, a tank, four infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured personnel carriers, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, a U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery system, seven mortars, an electronic warfare station, and an armoured recovery vehicle.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 51,200 troops, 297 tanks, 228 infantry fighting vehicles, 166 armoured personnel carriers, 1,533 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,449 motor vehicles, 354 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 92 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 15 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 21:35 In the Kursk direction, a grenade launcher and an FPV operator hit a NATO armored vehicle, –video. 21:30 Telegram channel “Pushilin D.V.”
Today, as a result of enemy aggression in the DPR two people died, four injured.
In addition to the bus driver, a man died in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka when an explosive device was dropped from a UAV at the public transport stop "Mercury Plant" (personal information is being established).
In the Central City District of Gorlovka, a woman born in 1939 received moderate injuries as a result of the enemy using barrel artillery; a woman born in 1984 and a man born in 1962 were also injured when explosive objects were dropped from UAVs onto cars.
In Kurakhovo, as a result of shelling, a man born in 1986 received moderate injuries.
The victims are provided with qualified medical care.
Two residential buildings were damaged, as well as four civil infrastructure facilities (the administration of the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, a public utility, a power line) and six cars in the Central City and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out more than 20 armed attacks. They used 155mm barrel artillery and attack UAVs.
20:25 The infantry of the 42nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered losses due to poor coordination with command.
Thanks to radio interception and objective monitoring, it became known that Ukrainian militants from the 42nd Brigade were moving to their positions in the Dzerzhinsk area, however, due to ignorance of the route to the positions and the successful fire impact of the Russian Armed Forces, some militants were wounded while moving.
19:35 Investigative Committee of Russia:
Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians in the Kherson, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, as well as the Donetsk People's Republic
– According to the executive bodies of the Donetsk People's Republic, as a result of the dropping of an explosive device from a UAV in the settlement of the N. A. Izotov mine, a bus driver was killed, in addition, as a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression, two civilians of Gorlovka were wounded.
– Also, as a result of an FPV drone attack in Stara Zburyevka, Kherson region, a civilian was killed and a man was injured.
– As a result of the strike on the Karachevsky district of the Bryansk region, a woman was killed and another local resident was wounded.
– In the village of Golovchino in the Belgorod region, a woman was injured as a result of a drone attack.
18:51 Drone operators of the North group of forces destroyed the Starlink satellite communications terminal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the Khar'kov region, –video.
17:53 Su-35S fighters reliably cover the crews of bombers, attack aircraft, and army aviation helicopters, which destroy armored vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region, – Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:01 DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Recorded UAV attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:
16:05 – Gorlovka (Central City District): kamikaze UAV;
16:36 Fighters of the 34th Mountain Brigade of the Southern Military District in the Kursk border area continue to attack military equipment and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, covering them with fire, –video.
15:33 Calculations of FPV drones of the Rubicon center continue to destroy military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area – video.
8:11 Army aviation of the 11th Guards Army of the Air Defense Forces strikes area targets of the enemy in the area of responsibility of the "Vostok" group in the South Donetsk direction, –video.
8:07 Calculation of the Strela-10M air defense missile system of the Novorossiysk paratroopersdestroyedThere have been more than 30 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the skies over the Zaporizhia region for a month.
8:02 Kuban artillerymen destroyed American M-119 Ukrainian Armed Forces gun in the area of the village of Ulakly.
A crew of the howitzer artillery battalion of the 238th artillery brigade successfully destroyed an American M-119 gun near the settlement of Ulakly using a 130mm M-46 gun. This operation was carried out to eliminate enemy artillery crews in support of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces group in the Kurakhovsky direction, which significantly strengthened the positions of Russian forces and contributed to further advancement on the front.
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[Regnum] Japanese historian Takeyuki Tanaka has published a book entitled “Alley of Angels,” which tells about the genocide carried out by the Kiev regime against civilians in Donbass from 2014 to 2022.
One of the motives for creating the book was the Japanese government's ignorance of the true reasons for the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine, Tanaka noted.
"Despite the fact that Russia... launched a special military operation to protect the lives and rights of the residents of Donbass, the Japanese government ignored the reason and considered Russia to be an immoral country that unilaterally invaded Ukraine, and Japanese television, newspapers, magazines and scientists all criticized Russia and expressed support and solidarity with the neo-Nazi government of Ukraine," RIA Novosti quotes Tanaka as saying.
As the historian noted, the Japanese authorities, taking the US and European countries as an example, used propaganda to “brainwash” the Japanese, which is why anti-Russian sentiments have increased in the country. According to Tanaka, such actions by Tokyo will only lead to the destruction of relations with Moscow. At the same time, the historian wanted to convey to readers that the culprit of the conflict in Ukraine is the Kiev regime, created by the US as a result of a violent coup d'etat in 2014.
“To this end, I collected as many photographs as possible and addressed the truth about the eight years during which the neo-Nazi regime, a puppet of the United States that glorifies Banderaism, continued to brutally murder fellow Ukrainians,” Tanaka noted.
Currently, according to the agency, the book ranks second in the Japanese segment of Amazon.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in September 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in an interview with the Mongolian newspaper Onodor that the main participants in the 2014 coup in Ukraine were neo-Nazi groups, after which they began to determine the entire course of the country. After the coup, hatred of everything Russian became the official ideology of Ukraine, which led to the subsequent genocide of civilians in Donbass, the Russian leader explained.
At the same time, Putin emphasized that the main reason for the tragic events in Ukraine is the targeted anti-Russian policy of the West, led by the United States, Putin emphasized. For decades, they have been seeking complete control over Ukraine, financing nationalist and anti-Russian organizations, systematically implanting the concept that Russia is allegedly the eternal enemy of Ukraine, the main threat to its existence. In essence, Ukraine has become a bargaining chip in the implementation of the West's geopolitical ambitions, the Russian president continued.
Ukraine would have remained within its 1991 borders if the settlement agreement between the opposition and then-President Viktor Yanukovych had not been disrupted in February 2014, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Ukraine, at the hands of those who came to power through a coup, destroyed its own territorial integrity, he added.
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Possibly the second "actually" cancels out the first? In any case, anyone connected, even indirectly, to Leonhardt and the cantata set [Aryeh Oron's site] is all right with me. Still cue a few up once in a while amongst the hipper modder wowwer stuff.
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[ColonelCassad] About the corps structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Using materials from colleagues Z committee and ZVI Search Engine, we summarized all available information about the new corps system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about the reforms of which we wrote in Military Maps.
The point is this: in addition to various reforms such as reducing taxes for military-industrial complex enterprises, recruiting through impressment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine still reached the finalized corps system.
In 2023, before the counteroffensive, the enemy created two army corps - 9th and 10th. Then they included an average of five brigades, and they were the striking force, which was lost in attempts to advance in the Zaporizhzhya direction. This five brigade structure follows a 1980s Soviet experiment at the height of the Afghanistan intervention, whereby Soviet planners mixed armor and mechanized rifles into the pattern of three for one type and two for the other.
In addition to them, there was a reserve corps, where the 5th OTBR was supposed to be the basis, but it did not work out. It was torn apart, which subsequently became commonplace. Now the new reform even bans such practices.
So, the corps.
The 9th Army Corps now, according to information from open sources, consists of three brigades: the 33rd and 47th Separate Motorized Brigade, as well as the 3rd Separate Airborne Brigade. Thus, mirroring to a limited extent the corps structure the Russian Army currently uses.
The 10th Army Corps also consists of three formations: the 116th and 118th Separate Motorized Brigade, and the recently reformed 117th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade.
The 11th Army Corps is the largest for now. It has ten brigades. This is due to the fact that it was previously a reserve corps, and all brigades that were sent for full manning were assigned to it.
The 12th Army Corps is a new corps. There is not even information about who will join it. And it seems that some of the formations of the 11th Army Corps will be transferred to it. This will be logical for the operational manning of the 12th Army Corps.
In addition, there is the 30th Naval Infantry Corps. Its composition has also recently undergone changes. The 150th Separate Motorized Brigade became the 40th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade (OCBR). In addition, it has the 39th Separate Brigade of Defense, which will most likely be created on the basis of the 124th Separate Brigade of TerO. This follows the pattern of Soviet structures for coastal-operational units. It likely is task-organized and temporary.
Separately, TerO consists of local levies and partially trained militia.
The 7th Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces includes all airmobile and airborne assault units. Almost all of them are fighting in various areas, so they have a huge turnover.
In general, the structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has changed radically. If we evaluate it by combat capabilities, the most important improvement is the creation of separate lines of command that are independent of each other.
That is, each corps, or rather the command, can make decisions independently. This simplifies both replenishment, staffing, and the conduct of hostilities, since they do not wait for a decision from Kiev. In conflicts of such intensity, this is a key factor. Brigades by definition normally maneuver, fight, and supply as independent units in the Russian Army.
Separate battalions of UAVs and BEKs deserve special attention. Priority staffing, large financing and PR are important changes in the context of the growing importance of this weapon.
Yet another Russo-Ukrainian war yarn...
[ColonelCassad] On January 9, a group of our infantry fell into a deadly trap.
This is not a loud headline to attract attention, not a poetic exaggeration, but a factual situation.
First, an enemy infantry fighting vehicle drove the group into a small basement with dense fire from an automatic cannon.
Immediately after that, enemy stormtroopers rushed into the building, took control of the exit from the basement and began throwing grenades down.
In total, 17 regular grenades, one chemical and one incendiary flew into a room the size of your bathroom.
Each of the men defending the basement was shell-shocked and poisoned with chemicals several times. Nevertheless, the fighters fought back for several hours.
It is clear that they would inevitably be eaten. With grenades, explosives, thermobars or gas. And there was one magazine of ammunition left for each person. The "Hornet" crew of the "Irishmen" squad and our colleagues from the unit-that-must-not-be-named were busy rescuing the infantry from the mousetrap.
. The armored vehicles were destroyed.
. The drones burned out the enemy assault forces that had straddled the entrance to the basement. We did it carefully, so as not to collapse the building on our guys' heads.
. The fighters climbed out of the basement and got under a machine gun. There was a smart hohol sitting there, he almost tore them to pieces.
. The guys went back down. They called for help on the radio.
We killed the machine gunner and cleared out the infantry around. We tore the fire bag in several places.
As darkness fell, the group jumped out of the church and retreated in battle. We directed them with a drone with the backlight on.
. The group commander received a bunch of shrapnel wounds. Another fighter was seriously injured by the arrival of a Ukrainian kamikaze. He told his comrades to retreat without him and was left bleeding.
The group reached their own.
The drone wounded man died.
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Nothing special, right? Now let's add a plot twist.
I once fought with a stormtrooper whose call sign was "Grandfather". This peculiar and very worthy gentleman and I went through a lot together. Then our paths diverged.
Some time ago, Grandfather signed a contract again.
He was the one who commanded the group defending the basement.
I only found out about this yesterday.
(c) Platon Mamatov
Video: ("Irish Strike Force")
Story: diomeddog (in the photo is Grandfather. This is what Grandfather looked like when we fought together)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Regnum] A symbolic cold snap is expected in Moscow on Epiphany. This was announced on January 12 by weather forecaster Yevgeny Tishkovets.
[EADaily] In Los Angeles, where powerful fires are currently raging, real estate belonging to high-ranking Ukrainian military personnel has been destroyed, the Military Observer Telegram channel reported, citing sources.
