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[RIA] The Russian law on the inadmissibility of LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender reassignment has been adopted, and it’s a trifle to figure out what kind of propaganda it is, how it works and by whom. Here is a fresh and rather typical story from the USA, where many people are also dissatisfied with this propaganda.
The story is this: an article was published in the once prestigious New England Medical Journal, it was furiously responded to by a physician, Professor Neil Kurtzman from Texas with a forty-year track record in medicine, and the American Thinker magazine comments on this discussion with clear approval of the position of the Texas professor. The professor writes about the same thing - how evil propaganda of transgenderism comes from inside his beloved profession with a bright prospect of mass sex change. And he adds: after all, once this journal from New England (northeast USA) was the standard for medical science.
And today... A typical trinity is published in this magazine - one doctor, one student and one lawyer. Which explain: all talk about how to deal with transgender people is an uncompromising battle between enlightened characters and illiterate deniers of science, in this battle there should be no discussion, but there should be a quick repeal of all laws that interfere with the surgical and chemical treatment of patients.
Here we are talking about gender reassignment, including surgical. And besides, about the fact that the legislation in the United States should come into full compliance with the Russian one, but according to the principle "on the contrary": no talk and especially no actions that interfere with the very change of sex. For these purposes, a lawyer was also involved with two doctors.
And here we should be primarily interested in the statements of Professor Kurtzman about what this trinity and others like it are doing. The fact is that he and the author of American Thinker, who assists him, are very good at sorting out the very propaganda.
First. They remind you what it is all about. Transgenderism, also known as dysmorphism, is when it is very unpleasant for a man to be a man, he is uncomfortable in his own, physically quite healthy body. The same with a woman. In reserved times, psychiatrists helped such people. And then the idea gained strength that it was necessary to help in other ways.
Here you can add a long story about how the global battles are going on at the site of the World Health Organization in order to remove something from the category of diseases and put it in a completely different category, but in general it is known what WHO is and how things are done there are being made.
Second. Professor Kurtzman and his supporting publication make an obvious point: the expert community believes that the only opinion that should count is the opinion of experts. Which at the same time do not want to understand that there are things that lie outside their expertise. And they believe that some other people who are afraid of "treatment" leading to irreversible consequences should not be listened to, because they "deny science." Even if they are parents of teenagers who are prescribed a sex change. So the doctor knows better.
And here the conversation begins about how in American medicine - just like in education, and politics - there was a seizure of territories by supporters of this, leftist thinking. Scientific centers are listed where the need for a sex change is no longer discussed (for example, Yale University ), medical centers (Boston Children's Hospital). Note that all of these are Democratic territories, and Professor Kurtzman, who lives in Texas, is a clear Republican.
It is not surprising that in this case, the activists of surgery with chemistry are representatives of the medical profession. This, after all, is, apparently, about the largest (by turnover of funds) sector of the economy. You can count in different ways, but some counting systems show that the medical business has left behind both oil and gas and the military-industrial complex, while doctors merge with the state much more closely than the military-industrial complex.
After all, both sex change operations and chemical exposure in such cases are all money, and huge ones. Especially if up to 20-30% of teenagers want to do this on themselves. Under the influence of propaganda in US universities, higher percentages of those thinking about it, at least theoretically, were recorded.
But let's not forget that money is not always the main motivating factor. It happens that professional ecstasy turns out to be stronger: I am a god, I can turn a man into a woman and vice versa, even 30-40 years ago they did not seriously think about this, and here all sorts of deniers of science get under their feet. Yes, we have long turned this science in our favor, and let those who are dissatisfied go to Texas.
Volodin spoke about the recognition of LGBT marriages in the United States
There are many examples of what science can look like if you work with it well. Here is another material, in the same American Thinker . An infamous Canadian statistical study from 2021 found that drivers who refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus were more likely to get into an accident.
No, what did you think - it's not a trifle. The researchers were given access to 11 million 270 thousand 763 protocols, from which it follows: 16% of the unvaccinated are responsible for 25% of collisions on the roads. Fact? Fact. True, it must be added to this that at that moment a purely political story thundered in Canada , when truck drivers refused vaccinations, staged demonstrations and shook the foundations.
And then figure it out for yourself, who and how gave the medical researchers the relevant statistics, how good it is and what happened to people: maybe the unvaccinated were more worried about driving? Or, perhaps, there are some other factors that you decided not to take into account? Suppose some regularly ate cucumbers, while others did not.
The result of such stories is: if earlier in the same USA, Canada and not only there, anti-vaxxers were a marginal community, now their ranks have increased significantly. Because people don't really like this kind of "science."
And yet people don't like it when "science" makes gender reassignment almost obligatory, without taking into account the ridiculous opinions of all kinds of parents of underage victims of medical enthusiasts.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the reports that the Wagner PMC will soon also be located in Burkina Faso. Well, as long as they leave Upper Volta alone..
1. This is a process of further disintegration of the French neo-colonial empire, which the Russian Federation contributes to the best of its ability. The case when the rhetoric of the Russian authorities about decolonization quite coincides with practice. Former French colonies, one by one, are sailing away from Macron.
2. After the Central African Republic and Mali, Burkina Faso has long been asking for a way out of the French sphere of influence. It is no coincidence that France has sharply attended to the strengthening of its positions in Niger, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.
3. After Burkina Faso, the turn of Côte d'Ivoire and Niger will come. The first is the possibility of access to the Atlantic Ocean (by the way, China is considering the possibility of creating a full-fledged naval base on the territory of neighboring Guinea, which greatly worries Washington). Well, Niger, first of all, uranium mines are of great importance for the French nuclear program.
4. It is important to note that Russia spends very modest resources on all these activities in West Africa, while at the same time acquiring various strategic benefits, along the way weakening one of the major US satellites, which is losing in a matter of months the influence it had in this region for decades .
5. Therefore, these operations in West Africa certainly need to be continued (if necessary, in cooperation with the Chinese), but of course not to the detriment of the NVO in Ukraine and other theaters of operations.
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[LB] Sumy, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia regions were also shelled.
by Iryna Lysohor
A relatively calm night passed in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopil regions, Poltava region, Mykolaiv region, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr region, Chernihiv region, Kyiv region, Cherkasy region.
In the Sumy region yesterday, during the day, the enemy shelled the border with various types of weapons. There were a total of 20 arrivals in Znob-Novgorodsk, Seredino-Budsk and Shalyginsk communities. There were no casualties or damage, says the summary from OVA.
In Zaporizhzhya , during the past day, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Orihiv, Chervone, Malynivka, Novodanilivka, Temyrivka, Stepove, Kamianske, Mali Shcherbaki, Zaliznychne, Dorozhnyanka, Novoandriivka, Mala Tokmachka, Noaomikolaivka, Biloghirya, Olgivske, Transfiguration, Plavni. Ten reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by the Russians. Details regarding the consequences are being clarified.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians fired five times during the night in the Nikopol district. We kissed in the Nikopol, Marganets and Chervonogrigoriv communities. A 59-year-old man was injured in Nikopol, medical assistance was provided. Five private houses, several farm buildings and a gymnasium were damaged in the city. There were no casualties in Marganetska and Chervonogrihorivska communities. The consequences of the attacks are still being investigated.
In the Luhansk region, attacks by Russian occupiers in the districts of Stelmakhivka and Serebryansk forestry. In the Kupyansk direction, the districts of Nevsky, Novoselivsky, and Stelmakhivka were hit by fire from the Russians. On the Lymanskyi direction, the enemy shelled Makiivka, Ploshanka, Dibrova and Chervonopivka. The situation in the region is tense.
In the Donetsk region, during the day, there were active military operations near Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Constant shelling of critical infrastructure facilities of the Kurakhiv community. The situation in the region remains difficult, but power supply and communications are gradually being restored. Over the past day: one dead, one wounded.
The occupiers fired artillery strikes in the border areas of the Kharkiv region , with no casualties. A 32-year-old employee of the State Emergency Service was blown up by a mine in the Chuguyiv district, hospitalized in a serious condition.
In the Mykolaiv region, the enemy struck the water area of the Ochakiv community with anti-aircraft missiles last day. There are no casualties.
In the Kherson region, the enemy continues to shell settlements along the right bank of the Dnipro River. According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, the areas of the settlements of Kozatske, Tyaginka, Mykilske, Dniprovske, Respublikanets, Novokairy, Charivne, Olhivka and Kherson were affected by fire.
Last day, the Russian invaders attacked the Naval District of Kherson with anti-aircraft guns and artillery. A 36-year-old man who was in the car died on the spot. A 70-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with an injury. The occupiers also shelled the suburb of Kherson, the village of Stepanivka, with a mortar. Shells hit the headquarters of humanitarian aid. One woman died from her injuries, two more people are in the hospital. The enemy strike damaged the building of the school, hospital and church.
In total, three people were killed and six were wounded in the Kherson region last day due to enemy shelling. In addition, the Russian army struck the Kherson geriatric center in the village of Stepanivka.
In the building of the center, the gates were destroyed, the windows and doors were broken, and there was damage to the roof and the porch. There are no dead or injured.
Work continues to restore normal life to the liberated territory. Road clearing works are ongoing.
The National Police explosives experts examined eight hectares of territory, recovered 377 explosive objects, and destroyed three. Pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service examined 10 hectares of territory, removed and neutralized 169 explosive objects.
We will remind, according to the General Staff, the Russians are withdrawing part of the units from Kakhovka and Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region. According to Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the OC "South", deliberately demonstrative moves by the enemy regarding the alleged withdrawal from a certain territory may contain some traps.
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[Korrespondent] 22:47 Zelensky said that although FIFA blocked his appeal for display at the stadium before the final game in Qatar, it was distributed by the best Ukrainian football players and thousands of world media: "We are already preparing a special summit this winter. Summit for the sake of peace. For our country and for any other people who can succumb to the same aggression, the same terror that Russia has brought to our land."
22:38 Ukrainian authorities support Republicans' call for greater "transparency and accountability" of US assistance to Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said in an interview with ABC TV channel: "We are working with Congress on a very strong bipartisan basis, not only regarding reports that we have already received. We already have a number of systems in place. The NATO system for security assistance, as well as a full report on budgetary support."
22:24 Zelensky told the details of today's Stavka meeting in an evening video message. In particular, according to him, the participants examined the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in great detail: “The Bakhmut direction is the key one. We keep the city, although the occupiers are doing everything so that not a single whole wall remains there. we are gradually reducing the potential of the occupiers. Minus the warehouses, minus the logistics of the Russian army."
The President also noted that air defense is a constant priority of the Headquarters, and once again called on partners to help fully protect the sky: “By providing us with modern air defense systems in sufficient quantities faster, you can deprive the terrorist state of the main instrument of terror. This will be one of the most powerful steps which will hasten the end of the aggression. Russia will have to take the path of ending the aggression when it can no longer take the path of missile strikes."
Also, according to Zelensky, the situation on the border was discussed in detail at Headquarters: “Protecting the border with both Russia and Belarus is also a constant priority. We are preparing for all possible defense scenarios. will not help, like all other sick ideas in this war against Ukraine and Ukrainians."
21:42 The head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky predicts a significant shortage of electricity on December 18 and 19 due to lower temperatures. According to him, all power units of nuclear power plants operating in the controlled territory have already resumed operation, however, there are restrictions on networks that cannot give out a certain part of their power due to the consequences of rocket attacks. “I think that in the near future we will be able to see the full capacity of three nuclear power plants in the network. In one or two days, we will be able to further increase the volume of generation that is available to our consumers,” Kudritsky said.
21:14 The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Vadim Skibitsky, said in an interview with Spiegel that Putin postponed the start of the invasion of Ukraine three times - the last time it happened in mid-February: "The FSB insisted on starting the offensive, they were convinced that they had prepared enough for the invasion. They invested huge resources and pushed the head of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Gerasimov to attack." Finally, according to him, Gerasimov came under pressure and approved the start of the offensive.
19:49 Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the presidential press service reports. The members of the Stavka paid special attention to the situation in Belarus. Information was heard about the current number and armament of enemy military groups. The commanders noted the readiness of the defense forces to respond to any development of events.
19:31 It will take two to three weeks to resume generation in Ukraine after missile strikes - provided that there are no new shellings, Dmitry Sakharuk, Executive Director of DTEK, said. According to him, two stations of the company were seriously damaged.
"Now we are talking in the context of this winter. So, we can stabilize the system only by maximum recovery to the level that allows the generation to work. For this, if there are no attacks, it will take two to three weeks, and the generation will return to the volume that is now possible," Sakharuk explained. As for a full recovery, this is possible only after the victory, and it will take years, he added.
19:16 The commander of the British armed forces, Tony Radakin, said in an interview with The Telegraph that he should make his contacts with his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov more regular. He said that he maintains contacts with Gerasimov, despite the deterioration of British-Russian relations: “I would like this communication to be even more regular. I would like contacts with the Russian Federation to be even stronger, even if it will be difficult conversations. These are ongoing relationship".
Radakin added that he agreed with Gerasimov not to disclose the details of their negotiations, and the Russian general adheres to this.
18:17 The enemy is trying to restore the lost position in the Liman direction; on Zaporizhzhya - restores the railway infrastructure to improve logistics. It focuses its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. It is conducting defense in other areas, concentrating efforts on deterring the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the General Staff said in an evening summary.
According to the General Staff, in the Lugansk region, the invaders are mobilizing. In particular, from December 5, the military commissariats sent out registration cards to all enterprises in the region. The situation is similar in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region: in Gorlovka, employees of public utilities are subject to mobilization.
17:25 In Mariupol, the invaders staged a global search event - several military brigades are looking for deserters with weapons who disappeared during transportation through the city. According to the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko, according to sources, the deserters are among the prisoners, so the group poses a particular danger.
17:19 The Russians began to withdraw some units from the Dnieper in the area of Kakhovka and Novaya Kakhovka, as well as move their units along the left bank of the Kherson region. It is not yet clear whether this is a rotation or a withdrawal of troops, said Yury Sobolevsky, deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council. He also said that in recent weeks, Russians have been trying not to accumulate personnel in one location - now they are settled in small groups, often in residential buildings. "They are trying to minimize their losses from the constant strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It often happened that they flew into the building, where there were several hundred invaders," Sobolevsky explained.
17:13 In the very center of Melitopol, the Russians have been placing concrete cones for the second day. In all likelihood, this is how they are already preparing for street fighting, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, "dragon's teeth" are placed closer to civilians - among the main streets and residential areas.
Fedorov also said that the Russians have begun a new round of terror - they are keeping residents who want to leave the occupation during the forced "New Year holidays." So, for a week from the occupied territories of four regions - Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk - in Zaporozhye, the invaders released only 174 people. And starting from December 15, and for three days now, not a single person has been released from the occupation.
Filtration has also increased on alternative evacuation routes. Previously, it was possible to leave the occupation through the Donetsk region or Crimea towards Georgia or Estonia and Latvia. However, cases have become more frequent when Russians turn Ukrainian cars back on the border between Russia and European countries. According to Fedorov, the invaders are so afraid of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that they are holding all civilians hostage as human shields.
17:05 European Parliament President Roberta Metsola called for additional financial and military support to Ukraine: "This war must be urgently stopped. And Ukraine must win this war. This means more weapons for Ukraine, more financial and humanitarian assistance, more practical solidarity and more sanctions against Russia".
15:17 The military operation to liberate Crimea has not yet begun, but readiness has already arisen in the thoughts of Ukrainians, Zelensky said in an interview with French TV channels TF1 and LCI: "The operation itself has not yet begun. When it starts, you will definitely hear it. I believe that "The reconquest of Crimea began in the minds of people, and this is very important. In our inner desire, in the unity of attitude towards this. Not just in words, Crimea is Ukraine. We must be ready and go. No one will give Crimea away just like that. The reconquest always begins with society : with desire and readiness. I believe that there is a beginning."
15:13 Information about the retreat of the Russians from the Kherson region may be a trap, said the head of the joint press center of the defense forces of the Tauride direction Yevgeny Yerin: "According to our information, on the left bank of the Dnieper, the Russians are constantly redeploying troops from several settlements. However, talking about them retreat is still early, since the enemy’s statements about the retreat can be an information trap to force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to act according to their rules.We are dealing with a very insidious enemy, therefore, only after a specific assessment of the situation and actions of the enemy will we decide whether the Russians are really retreating from a number of settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper.
14:45 Russia is not yet ready for a new large-scale offensive, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense, said: “Today, neither the formation of strike groups nor their constriction at the borders is observed. And I can emphasize once again: to the development of different scenarios, in particular from the Belarusian direction , the Ukrainian Defense Forces are ready. There will be no surprises."
14:22 Zelensky, in an interview with French TV channels TF1 and LCI, called ridiculous the threats from some Russian officials regarding the supply of Patriot systems to Ukraine. The president also confirmed that he was personally negotiating with Biden on the transfer of Patriot to Ukraine: "The process is underway, I am personally involved in this. In principle, this is very necessary for us ... For me, this is important - this is my relationship with President Biden." Zelensky added that he "looks at this issue with great positiveness."
The President emphasized that one should not be afraid of Russia's reaction due to the possible transfer of Patriot to Ukraine: "It is too late for Russia to be afraid ... We are not afraid of them and were not afraid."
13:59 Zelensky was supposed to address the world before the final of the football championship in Qatar, but FIFA blocked the display of the appeal, although Qatar supported the idea, Arakhamia said. The Ukrainian president proposes to the world the Peace Formula - "a set of efforts that can return peace to different peoples." To this end, Ukraine proposes to convene the Formula Peace Global Summit this winter.
13:37 Ukrnenergo has denied another Russian fakes about the alleged "resumption of exports" of electricity from Ukraine. In particular, this time it was the publication of a fake letter from the head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky to the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy. "The authors of the fake are in such a hurry that they apply on behalf of the "board of directors" of Ukrenergo. Although the Ukrainian system operator has only a supervisory board and a board. The Russian grid operator, from which Ukraine disconnected forever on February 24," the "Board of Directors" is emphasized. Ukrainian company.
12:54 Residents of Belgorod reported 12 explosions over the city. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that an air defense system had worked over the city and the region. Four victims are known.
12:23 The Russians launched another blow to the center of Kherson: three people were injured, one of them is in serious condition, the President's Office reported.
11:28 Over the past day, the Russians fired at the territory of the Kherson region 54 times: three people were killed, six were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
11:25 As of December 18, all nuclear power plants in Ukraine, except Zaporozhye, reached their planned capacity. The volumes of electricity consumption increased compared to the previous day, which affected the deficit indicators in the system. The reason is both damage to energy infrastructure facilities during a missile strike and a seasonal drop in temperature, Ukrenergo said.
10:49 Pope Francis called what is happening in Ukraine a world war: "I do not see an end in the short term, because this is a world war ... Several parties are already involved in the war. It is global in nature ... There are many interests."
10:22 Commander of the Ground Forces Alexander Syrsky said in an interview with The Economist that Russia should not be underestimated, and mobilization in the Russian Federation worked: "Fairly well-trained soldiers now appear en masse along the entire eastern front line, some come from the Russian outback, including from the eastern regions and from the Urals. This causes concern."
Syrsky noted that the Russians, under the new commander Sergei Surovikin, have changed tactics: they attack in small, well-coordinated foot units. At the same time, the enemy has high losses, but, according to Syrsky, this "has never been the highest priority for Russia."
10:17 The main task of the enemy near Bakhmut is to break through the defense system, find weaknesses, enter the operational space and try to go to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, said Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of the defense of Bakhmut achieve two main goals: "The enemy cannot enter the operational space, is not able to continue to carry out a strategic offensive operation, and suffers huge daily losses."
10:13 In the Kharkiv region, in the village of Grakovo, Chuguevsky district, an employee of the State Emergency Service was blown up by a mine, he was hospitalized in a serious condition, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
10:09 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.
09:42 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 18. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Liman and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 98,280 (+590) people liquidated,
tanks - 2987 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 5963 (+5),
artillery systems - 1948 (+1),
MLRS - 410 (+0),
air defense systems - 211 (+0),
aircraft - 281 (+0),
helicopters - 264 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1649 (+1),
cruise missiles - 653 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4579 (+2),
special equipment - 174 (+0).
08:24 The enemy is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Limansky and is concentrating efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by Russian invaders in areas of more than 15 settlements. Among them are Stelmahovka and Serebryanskoye forestry in the Lugansk region and Verkhnekamenskoye, Vyemka, Veseloye, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Experienced, Pervomayskoye, Nevelskoye and Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in a morning report .
According to the General Staff, the command of the Russian troops plans to introduce a round-the-clock curfew in the settlements of the Zaporozhye region. So, in Chernigovka, restrictions will be introduced from December 25, in Berdyansk - from December 30 to January 3.
06:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes about the split between the "DNR" and PMC Wagner. So, Pushilin was sharply criticized by Russian military bloggers after he announced the participation of the "DPR" army in the battles near Bakhmut. Analysts believe that the role of Prigozhin's mercenaries in operations around Bakhmut is likely to continue to split the various factions in the Russian military, as well as discredit the Kremlin's puppets of the "DNR" and the militants they command.
The ISW also notes that the Kremlin is trying to whitewash Putin by participating in "meaningless events" such as the grand opening of a turkey farm or a refurbished highway to show that he is a leader who is close to the people. In addition, the Kremlin is trying to portray Putin as a competent military leader and to rehabilitate the image of the Russian Defense Ministry by covering the President's meeting with the Joint Headquarters of the Russian Armed Forces.
04:07 Shoigu visited the Southern Military District and inspected the grouping of troops in the "special operation" zone, Russian media reported.
03:11 The Ministry of Defense of Britain confirmed that, as part of the aid package, London provided the Armed Forces with Brimstone 2 precision-guided missiles. "This assistance played a decisive role in deterring the Russian offensive," the ministry added.
01:50 The Russians initially planned to reach Kiev from the border in 18 hours. However, the occupiers failed to fulfill the planned plan, writes The New York Times in its investigation. According to the published schedule of the invaders , the first cars were supposed to leave Belarus and arrive near Kiev earlier than the Russian command determined.
01:32 The New York Times writes that Zelensky imposed sanctions against Medvedchuk in early 2021 and closed pro-Russian TV channels, which disappointed Putin. The publication, in particular, notes that with such a step by Zelensky, "the hopes of the Kremlin were broken."
The NYT writes that Putin showed his frustration during a lengthy meeting at his Sochi residence with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in October 2021. In particular, according to the publication, "when it came to Ukraine, Putin flared up with rage." Bennett noted that Zelensky was interested in a face-to-face meeting with Putin, to which Putin replied: "I have nothing to discuss with this man ... What kind of a Jew is he? He is an accomplice of Nazism."
00:51 The Russian attack on Ukraine, and especially the failure of the Kremlin's original plan, has caused concern among Chinese leader Xi Jinping, CIA chief William Burns said: "I don't think any other foreign leader paid such attention to this war and poor military results Russia than Xi Jinping when he thinks about his own ambitions in Taiwan and elsewhere."
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[RIA] Recently, the British think tank, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also known as Chatham House, published an article by the director of its Russia and Eurasia program, James Nixey. In it, he writes that even a Ukrainian victory on the battlefield will not help the West defeat Russia. This, in his opinion, can be achieved in only one way - by destroying something called the "imperial idea" in the Russian mind.
“The imperial itch is so deep in Russians that it needs to be eradicated not only from the Russian arsenal, but also from the intentions and moods of the elites and the common people. This will be difficult to achieve, because many believe in this idea with religious fervor – even the Russian Orthodox Church justifies Russian "imperialism" with messianism," the author writes.
No, it didn't seem to you: a subject of the former mistress of the seas blames other people for imperial ambitions. Yes, this is done by the representative of the nation that gave world literature a manifesto of colonialism called "The White Man's Burden."
There are many examples of how London diligently dragged this very burden on the way to building an "empire on which the sun never sets," abundantly flavoring the route with blood, there are many: this is the Great Famine in Ireland , and the first concentration camps in the history - for the Boers in South Africa , and the persecution of an entire people with opium in China, and the slave trade by Africans (here, of course, the British were not alone - all of Europe tried , which is why we now have to kneel).
Separately, it is worth mentioning India. Its plunder by Britain is a fairly well-known fact, but the mistress of the seas was famous for more than one robbery. It was here that the British actively used such a thing as the "devil's wind": the rebellious sepoys were tied to the muzzle of a cannon, and then fired from it so that the cannonball or buckshot would pass through the body. And these were not isolated cases - subjects of Queen Victoria put such executions on stream.
But let's leave history to historians - in the past of many peoples there are pages that seem monstrous to today's reader (although they can hardly be woven into volumes as heavy as those of the United Kingdom). Decades ago, Britain lost its colonies, but it still has not got rid of colonial thinking. However, it is worth noting that this, as with the slave trade, applies to the entire West.
Britain, the US and Europe after the Cold War proclaimed themselves masters of the globe. They invented more sophisticated ways to enrich themselves at the expense of others, changing the mechanism, but retaining the essence. The well-being of Western civilization has been built for centuries at the expense of the exploitation of other peoples, reinforcing in the heads of its representatives the idea of their own exclusivity.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the last argument in its favor, because the West had no equal opponents in terms of ideas in terms of strength.
And then he rushed to change the world in his image and likeness. London, Washington, Paris and other European capitals came to the conclusion that they have the right to determine the right side of history, the correctness and incorrectness of views, thoughts, preferences. The need to export Western democracy has become an axiom: only what they consider good is good. And the only bad thing is that they condemn.
Under this banner, the bombing of Yugoslavia , the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq , the "Arab Spring", the NATO operation in Libya took place . At the same time, the West preferred not to notice the extermination of civilians in the DPR and LPR.
But, as the further development of events showed, the "civilized world" turned out to be wrong. Nowhere did he manage to achieve the stated goals, and their actions were less and less consistent with the epithet "civilized".
Despite this, the United States and its allies continue to consider their point of view the only true one and impose it on the whole world - what is this, Mr. Nixie, if not a manifestation of imperial ideas? And this behavior is manifested not only in politics, but also in other areas. How else to explain all the new letters in the LGBTQ+ acronym?
This is increasingly slipping into surreal and buffoonery - through the efforts of the liberal-democratic camp, the hackneyed meme about the gender "Apache combat helicopter" will soon become a reality. And they carry this banner to places where it is not expected at all - to societies where religion and traditions play a much more prominent role.
In this respect, the West turns into a kind of Mr. Smith from The Matrix - everything he touches, he wants to make himself. In this regard, another analogy suggests itself: the program that was designed to protect the matrix itself eventually turned into a virus, not to say - into a tumor.
At the same time, what Nixie is trying to pass off as imperial thinking is nothing more than an attempt to protect himself from this onslaught. Russia did not become part of the Western world after the collapse of the USSR , it turned out to be too different from it in an ideological sense to abandon its cultural heritage. And too big and rich for the US, Britain and their allies to ignore.
Of course, imperial thinking must be fought. This is exactly what Russia is doing in challenging the unipolar world. This is a very difficult path, but in this confrontation Russia comprehends itself and tries to formulate its vision of the future - it almost lost this right after the collapse of the USSR. Of course, this understanding will not happen quickly, but the process has already begun, and it will not be possible to stop it.
In April 2014, armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings in Eastern Ukraine and declared:
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)
Luhansk People's Republic (LPR)
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Brits calling Russians imperialists. That's some kind of irony for you.
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"armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings in Eastern"
AKA ukr citizens (former) of russian ethnicity that were denied self determination, denied their democracy... ukrainian ethno-russians that refused to accept the coup that toppled the democratically elected ukr govt to be replaced by a neo-nazi enabling junta that is hell bent on ethno-russian prejudice, hatred, bigotry, and pogroms to change their ethno-russian demographics.
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[KavkazUzel] Some of the Volga Germans who suffered from deportation during Stalin's time, after returning to Russia, found their homes occupied and settled in other territories, members of the German community in the village of Verkhniy Eruslan, Volgograd Region, said. Now the descendants of the deportees are working to study those events and restore historical memory.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in October 2021, the descendants of the repressed said that even 80 years after the deportation of the Volga Germans from Volgograd, the question of the validity of the actions of the Soviet authorities remains open.
The Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans was liquidated in the second month after the invasion of the German troops in the USSR. On August 28, 1941, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region. Under this decree, about a million people were deported to Kazakhstan, Siberia and Central Asia, others were mobilized into labor armies. The deported and mobilized Germans died en masse from exhaustion, disease, and unbearable working and living conditions.
On December 13, 1955, a decree was issued by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the removal of legal restrictions from Soviet Germans who had been in a special settlement since 1941. This date is celebrated by Russian Germans as the moment of the end of the repressions and the beginning of their return to their homeland. There are four German communities and three Evangelical Lutheran centers with two branches in the Volgograd region. According to the 2010 census, more than 17,000 Volga Germans live in the region. One of the German communities is located in the village of Verkhniy Yeruslan, Staropoltavsky District, where on December 17 a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" visited.
Anatoly Zyakin, chairman of the church council of the Lutheran community in the village of Verkhniy Yeruslan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the anniversary of the decree on lifting restrictions on Soviet Germans was "not celebrated in any special way ." the date is August 28, 1941 [beginning of deportation],” he said.
According to Zyakin, the village began to be called Upper Yeruslan after the Germans were evicted from these places, in 1942, and before that it was called Gnadentau (translated from German - “Blessed Dew”). It also had other names - Dewy and Dog Kolonok. The last option was connected just with the eviction of the Germans.
"When the Germans left the village, the inhabitants of Staraya Poltavka, which is located four kilometers away, for a long time heard the howl of abandoned dogs coming from Gnadentau. If other animals left, then the dogs remained," Anatoly Zyakin said.
Anatoly Zyakin told the history of the village in the museum of the community, which is located not far from the church in the pre-revolutionary pastor's house. The Gnadentau colony was founded by German colonists in 1860, who arrived on the banks of the Yeruslan River from the "mother" colonies they had previously founded on the right bank of the Volga - in the modern Zhirnovsky and Kamyshinsky districts of the Volgograd region. Before the revolution, more than 2,300 people lived in Gnadentau.
In the museum of the community, Anatoly Zyakin showed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the household items of the colonists, the reconstruction of their home decoration. In 1898, at the expense of parishioners gathered over 16 years, a cathedral church was built in Gnadentau for a thousand places in the neo-Gothic architectural style. Its parishioners were colonists from six colonies: Wesemiller, Friedenberg, Kahn, Morgenthau, Blumenfeld and Gnadentau. Before the revolution, the number of parishioners of the church reached 13 thousand people.
During the anti-religious campaign in the USSR, the church stopped its work: in 1929 the bells were removed, five years later pastor Johann Schileng was arrested. And since 1938, a granary was equipped in the church, and the parishioners moved to an illegal position - they secretly prayed in private apartments.
"We are conducting historical research. If possible, we turn to archival documents. Now they are becoming available. The Sarepta community is helping. They gave us a book of Germans from our colonies deported in 1941. There is also information about the deportation of Germans from Gnadentau. Names and the railway station are indicated, where the eviction started. But the information here is incomplete," Anatoly said, showing the book.
The head of the local community showed the correspondent the interiors of the church. Despite the fact that restoration work is still ongoing, services are held here. 21 years ago a Lutheran community was registered in the village, now it has 15 members. On holidays, up to 40 parishioners come to the church from neighboring villages.
"The fact that grain was stored in the church was the reason that it survived: it was constantly repaired, not allowed to collapse. Even elements of the interior decoration were preserved," said Anatoly Zyakin.
According to him, the church is gradually being restored with the help of the community and at the expense of sponsors: the roof is being repaired, doors and windows are being inserted, the lost floors and the crossroads of the altar are being reconstructed, as well as the original staircase leading to the choirs and the belfry. Other renovations are underway here as well.
"The pastor of the community Andrey Pautov made a great contribution to the restoration of the church. The building of the former parochial school, which is located opposite the church, is also being restored. Now services are held there in the winter, a museum has been opened, and a church kitchen is located," said Anatoly Zyakin.
In the courtyard of the church, Anatoly Zyakin showed the correspondent a monument to the victims of the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941. "This is perhaps the only such monument in the Volgograd region. It was erected last year, on September 26. Assistance was provided by a philanthropist from Germany, Lydia Miller. Her relatives were deported from Gnadentau in 1941. She gave us seven bells, a belfry. A commemorative sign is also mounted on the wall of the pastor's house," he said. During these words, the belfry began to ring, informing the district of the onset of noon Moscow time.
Anatoly's maternal family was deported in September 1941. Grandfather Yegor Yegorovich Kolb and grandmother Erna Fedorovna Mezer before the war lived in the Saratov region, in the village of Chkalovo (colony Laub).
"At the time of the deportation, my grandmother was 18 years old. Her mother died when her daughter was 3 years old. Father Fedor Fedorovich raised three children alone. He was a carpenter.
"We succeeded. We were deported very quickly. It was possible to take with us only the minimum necessary things and documents. This year, according to my grandmother, there was an excellent harvest of vegetables. So the cellars remained full and unclaimed," Anatoly Zyakin said.
According to him, the deported Germans from the Laub colony were brought to the Krasny Kut railway station on lorries. There they waited for the train for several days, and then the repressed were seated in cold wagons, in which cattle had previously been transported. "The whole grandmother's family was scattered in different places. It is not clear why. Brother Vilya ended up in Dzhesgaskan, Sasha - in Krasnoyarsk. Father Fyodor Fedorovich ended up in Siberia. Where [specifically] is unknown, and he died there," Anatoly said.
Anatoly's grandmother ended up in the village of Ladyzhenka, Akmola region of Kazakhstan. According to her, the deported Germans were "very much helped by the local Kazakhs": they sheltered the newcomers, gave them wool, felt mats, and warm clothes.
"There is little information about grandfather. We know that he was also deported to Ladyzhenka, where he and his grandmother got married. Before that, he went through the Labor Army. The Kazakhs respected him because he quickly learned to speak their language. In Kazakhstan, he worked as a shepherd. seven children were born with my grandfather. My mother Emma was the eldest (born in 1944). She always remembered how difficult her childhood was," Anatoly Zyakin said.
In 1958 the family returned to Russia. But they were not allowed into Laub, as their house had been occupied for a long time. They settled in the village of Gnadentau, which after the war became known as Upper Eruslan. Other relatives of Anatoly's family had already settled here earlier.
"As a child, the windows of my room overlooked the church. For me, the church was always a special fairy-tale place. I witnessed prayers that sometimes took place in my grandmother’s apartment. All this left an imprint on my worldview," said Anatoly Zyakin.
In the 1990s, during the mass resettlement of Volga Germans to Germany, Zyakina's grandmother, Erna Fedorovna Kolb, also left with her two sons.
"But after some time she returned to Russia: she wanted to die and be buried here. Two of her sons live in Upper Eruslan with their children and grandchildren," Anatoly Zyakin said.
Lidia Damzen, a member of the Lutheran community in the village of Upper Yeruslan , also told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the story of her family. Her ancestors - the Miller family - lived in Gnadentau. During the deportation, Lilia's parents were children. By that time, his father's mother had already died, and he lived with his stepmother and seven brothers and sisters.
"They were sent to the Altai Territory in September 1941. Mom (Mina Miller) was also sent with her parents to the Altai Territory. In October, he (Eval Miller) turned 16 years old, and already in February he was taken to the Trudarmia. Arkhangelsk - in March. Nobody saw him (grandfather) anymore. He disappeared without a trace. Dad was in the Labor Army in the mines of Nizhny Tagil. In 1947 he returned to the Altai Territory. And in 1951 he and his mother signed. It was such a strong horror (father) did not tell. In their camp (Trudarmiya) they were not treated cruelly. But it was difficult to endure all this. The main thing is that he returned healthy," said Lydia Damzen.
The woman recounted the memories of her father, according to which the deported residents from Gnadentau were taken on carts to the Gmelinka station, and from there they were sent by rail to Altai. Lydia's mother's father was a foreman and, when the deportation began, he was with the brigade in the field. His daughter Mina followed him on foot into the fields.
"She (mother) recalled what mountains of wheat lay in the fields. It was pure gold. The harvest in the fields was then rich. They left everything - at home, cattle. They were helped. They were told - do not stay here for a long time, you will leave home soon. For some time they lived with the hope of returning. At first they changed things for food. And when they realized that they were there for a long time, they began to settle down, get a job,"- said Lydia Damzen.
The woman noted that her family did not express resentment at the authorities for the deportation and the deprivation and suffering associated with it.
"Everything was by the will of God. Relatives were believers. With the help of God they survived. Little was said about it then. At that time, it was forbidden to think about God, about deportation, about abandoned property. Life was re-arranged - both in Altai and here after returning. Before being sent home, my parents wrote a waiver of property. They came here, they were settled in temporary apartments. They said that for a year, for three. I went to first grade here," said Lydia Damzen.
Recall that the deportations of Balkars, Chechens, Ingush and other Caucasian peoples carried out in Soviet times were justified by myths about mass betrayal and desertion of their representatives.
Under Stalin, mass arrests and executions were carried out on ethnic grounds, entire peoples were declared "hostile", says the "Caucasian Knot" report "10 myths about Stalin's role in the Great Patriotic War."
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] strong>18:06 Pskov paratroopers pushed back the army of Kyiv by more than 2 kilometers over the past week on the Svatovsky section of the front in Donbass, a serviceman with the call sign "Parker 13" said -video 18:03 The commander of the special unit in the Zaporozhye direction said that the fighters immediately react to the appearance of the DRG, do not allow the enemy to go on the offensive -video
17:18 Battles near Soledar: the Russian army destroyed the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
Reconnaissance using a thermal imager found an enemy unit and aimed artillery.
16:26 Russian infantry, with the support of aviation and artillery, is pushing the army of Kyiv in different sectors of the front in the Svatovsky direction in the Donbass, one of the Russian servicemen with the call sign "Rain" who performs tasks in this direction told RIA Novosti -video
15:39 Soldiers of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR eliminated the “banderovozka” from ATGMs -video
15:27 Destroyed Ukrainians and their equipment in Donbass -video
15:21 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progressholdingspecial military operation on the territory of Ukraine (18.12.2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored personnel carrier and two vehicles were destroyed as a result of fire damage in the area of the settlement of Kislovka, Kharkiv region.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction in the area of the settlement of Stelmakhovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, as a result of a fire raid by Russian artillery, enemy reserves were defeated. In addition, preemptive fire on assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thwarted enemy attempts to conduct reconnaissance in force in the direction of the settlements of Golikovo and Kremennaya of the Luhansk People's Republic.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction per day amounted to 60 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, one tank and two pickup trucks.
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the offensive actions of Russian units, the settlement of Yakovlevka of the Donetsk People's Republic was taken under control. At present, its cleansing from the remnants of Ukrainian troops is being completed.
In the areas of the settlements of Podgorodnoye, Kleshchievka, Kurdyumovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to regain lost positions by counterattacks. As a result of artillery strikes and the actions of Russian assault groups, counterattacks were repelled. The enemy suffered losses and was driven back to their original positions. More than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed.
In the South-Donetsk direction, accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Shevchenko and Dorozhnyanka, Zaporozhye region. In the area of the settlement of Vremevka of the Donetsk People's Republic, an enemy repair and evacuation group was destroyed by artillery fire and active actions of Russian troops.
Three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Vladimirovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Novoselivka of the Zaporozhye region. The losses of the enemy in this direction per day amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, an armored combat vehicle, a tank tractor and two pickup trucks.
Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command post of the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the settlement of Krasny Liman of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as 109 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 144 districts.
In the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, a position was opened and a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar was destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle in the area of the settlement of Yelenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and also intercepted nine rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the areas of the settlements of Chaplinka in the Kherson region, Artemovsk, Yenakiyevo of the Donetsk People's Republic, Popasnaya, Beloye of the Luhansk People's Republic .
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 344 aircraft, 184 helicopters, 2,676 unmanned aerial vehicles, 398 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,149 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 931 multiple rocket launcher systems, 3,691 field artillery and mortars, as well as 7,650 units of special military vehicles.
15:11 The Russian Armed Forces tookCONTROLYakovlevka in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.
14:25 First-person footage of the work of the Russian special forces in the Dvurechensky direction -video
13:42 The RF Armed Forces are successfully advancing in Maryinka -video
The units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to make significant progress in the Maryinsky direction.
More than 80% of the settlement is under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been thrown back to the west.
13:38 Air raid alert announced in the Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv regions of Ukraine and in the Kyiv-controlled areas of the Zaporozhye region - the official resource for alerting.
13:36 Another denazified Ukrainian pickup truck with Ukrainian Aryans -video
12:32 Special Forces of the "Brave" throw off New Year's gifts on the positions of Ukrainian terrorists -video
10:55 RF Armed Forces are constantly working on Ukronazi positions, not letting them raise their heads -video
10:30 In Opytny near Bakhmut (Artemivsk), the purge from Ukrofascists continues -video
10:12 "Lancet" hits a Ukrainian tank -video
The crew at the last moment saw loitering ammunition rushing towards them.
09:37 An effective link between the work of UAV operators and artillerymen of the allied forces in the destruction of Ukrainians in the Bakhmutsky (Artyomovsky) sector -video
09:06 Night firing of the 238th Artillery Brigade from the Grad MLRS in the Svatovsky direction -video
08:10122mm BM-21 Grad of the Southern District covered the place of concentration of the enemy -video
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:15 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for December 18, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk: Kuibyshevsky district:- on the street. Presses, 27 wounded woman born in 1950 Kalininsky district:- During the shelling of the 6th Corps of the DoKTMO, two patients of the medical institution were injured, unfortunately one of the victims died.
As of 23:00, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on December 18, 2022 is five people (one dead, four injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:Kyiv district:— Donbass-Arena stadium;
- RSC "Olympic";
- Palace of Youth "Youth";
— 10 German Titov Ave. — multi-apartment residential building; a car fire was also recorded;
- Liberation of Donbass Ave., 12 "a" - an apartment building.
Shelling in 18:10: — boiler room No. 245 SE "Donbassteploenergo" on the street. Artem;
— administrative building on Mira Ave.;
— hostels 2 and 9 DonNTU;
- st. Artema, 137 - apartment building;
— Vatutina Ave., 37, 41, 42, 44, 46 — apartment buildings;
- st. Lyubavina, 26 - a private residential building; - damaged tram power line and public transport stop on the street. Chelyuskintsev.
Shelling in 20:14:
- st. 50 years of the USSR, 99
- a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Gorky, 158 - apartment building;
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 148 - apartment building.
Kalininsky district:- a direct hit was recorded in building No. 6, buildings No. 5, 7 and 8 of the DoKTMO Hospital named after. Kalinin on Ilyich Ave.
Budenovsky district:- the production facilities of the tobacco factory were damaged.
Kuibyshevsky district:- st. Presses, 12, 16, 27 - private residential buildings.n.p. Makeevka (Kirovskiy district):- st. Putevaya, 41 - a private residential building;
- st. Semashko, 5 - a direct hit in a private residential building; completely destroyed;
- st. Semashko, 13 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive. @online_dnr_sckk
23:05 The second patient, wounded during the shelling of the Donetsk hospital, died
21:20 Mom of a 9-year-old girl who recently had surgery, ran away with a child in the basement when the Donetsk hospital came under Ukrainian shelling.
21:16 As a result of the examination of the damaged buildings of the hospital. Kalinin no hotbeds of burning were found. Information about the victims and the extent of damage is being specified. According to preliminary data, it is known about one seriously injured, there are moderately injured. We are not talking about the evacuation of patients outside the buildings, they are transferred to the surviving wards.
21:16 Information was received about the fire of building No. 2 of the hospital. Kalinin and evacuation of patients.
18:10 Fixing the consequences of shelling Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk 12/18/2022
Military experts of the DPR JCCC confirmed fact of shelling of the Kyiv and Voroshilovsky regions, as well as clarified the direction of firing and the weapons used.
The enemy fired from the MLRS from their positions located in the area of the settlement. Lastochkino, using missiles produced and transferred by NATO countries.
The area of responsibility of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade (commander - Colonel Kurash Yevgeny Yuryevich, head of artillery - Lieutenant Colonel Tsiganyuk Dmitry Vasilyevich).
Fixed damage at 9 addresses:
- MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 18 of Donetsk" and MDOU of additional education for children "House of Children's Creativity" on Blvd. school;
— glazing of the bowl of the stadium "Donbass-Arena" on the street. Chelyuskintsev;
— park area, playground on the territory of the hotel complex "Victoria";
-- st. 50th Anniversary of the USSR, 168 - apartment building, glazing, facade damaged;
- blvd. School, 13 - apartment building, glazing damaged;
— Mira Ave., 23, apartment building, glazing damaged;
- st. Lyubavina, 22, 23, 24 - private residential buildings, damaged roof, glazing, facade, outbuildings.
17:13 The center of Donetsk was subjected to artillery strikes by Kyiv for the second time in an hour
Two dozen rockets were fired at the Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts. Information about the destruction and casualties among the population at this moment was not received.
16:43 According to eyewitnesses, the glazing at the Donbass Arena fell down. Arrivals near RSK "Olympic", DM "Yunost", exhibition center, museum of local lore, on the street. Embankment and etc. Mira. There are fires. Details are being specified.
16:07 VFU wounded two civilians during the shelling of Oleksandrivka, Petrovsky district, Donetsk.
14:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: according to the settlement. Alchevsk with the use of MLRS HIMARS (four missiles).
Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
13:45 Again, the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk came under fire. Ukrainian fascists fired four rounds of 155mm caliber at civilians.
Details are being specified.
12:58 Fighting in the Svatovsky direction: DPR artillerymen hit the positions of Ukrainian militants
Soldiers of the 238th Artillery Brigade of the DPR at any time of the day or night hit enemy positions from 122mm BM-21 "Grad" in the Svatovsky direction. The exact defeat of the set targets is the result of excellent training and well-coordinated work of the combat crew.
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12:01 Kyiv district of Donetsk is again under enemy fire. According to the JCCC, at 11:17 a.m., three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired from the village of Orlovka.
10:16 As a result of the terrorist shelling of the center of Donetsk, the Donbass Arena stadium received further damage. The glazing of a dozen windows was broken.
09:35 Russian units continue to advance on the Bakhmutsky (Artemovsky) sector -video
08:49 Military summary on the morning of December 18
The Russian Armed Forces continue attacking operations in the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) and Avdeevsky directions
Fighting continues in the Svatovo-Kremennaya sector and in Marinka in the Donetsk direction.
During the day, five missile strikes were carried out. The strikes were carried out on targets in Druzhkovka and Kramatorsk, DPR. Two Onyx-type missiles launched from the Crimea in the Odessa region. In addition, more than 10 shellings from the MLRS - on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
Artillery duels do not stop in the Zaporozhye direction.
Two civilians were wounded in the DPR from the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the LPR, fired from the HIMARS RZSO, fired at the settlement. Alchevsk and Shchastya, 3 civilians were killed and five people were injured
The Russian Defense Ministry said that this week's massive strikes used decoys to open air defense positions and use up a significant resource of Ukrainian and Western air defense systems.
08:05 Artemovsk - arena of fierce battles -video
The APU is digging trenches in city blocks, buildings are on fire due to rounds.
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[REGNUM] The Pentagon said they are not looking for a conflict with Russia, but are focused on providing assistance to Kyiv
The United States does not plan to enter into a conflict with Russia, and Washington is not at war with Moscow. This statement was made to journalists by Pentagon press secretary Patrick Ryder , commenting on Moscow's reaction to the possible transfer of Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) to Kiev.
As Ryder explained, the US is not at war with Russia and does not seek conflict with it. According to Ryder, now the Pentagon is focused on issues related to the provision of defense assistance to Ukraine.
Ryder did not comment on the possibility of transferring Patriot complexes to Kyiv, explaining that at the moment he has nothing to say on this matter. In addition, the Pentagon spokesman indicated that Washington would not allow Moscow "to dictate what kind of defense assistance to provide Ukraine."
Earlier , REGNUM reported that US President Joseph Biden may approve the transfer of Patriot air defense systems.
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"[US] is not fighting with Russia and is not looking for conflict with it."
Despite the direct messaging (2017) of US support from L.Graham and J.McCain to the Azov Battalion (trained by usa special forces) in preparation for the battalions future engagement with the Russians.
Commentary by Russian military blogger "Rybar:"
[ColonelCassad] And again about the situation with the wounded and the dead - the analysis of Rybar ( https://t.me/rybar ) and the Military Chronicle
( https://t.me/milchronicles)Despite the obvious problems ( https://t.me/milchronicles /1399) of the Ukrainian health care system due to power outages, the situation is catastrophic and for more prosaic reasons. The situation with the wounded in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical. The most difficult situation is developing in the Soledar direction, where daily losses in the battles for Bakhmut range from 50 to 100 people on average.
And there is no place to store corpses either: they don’t deal with centralized burial, and it’s forbidden to give the bodies to relatives, so as not to excite Ukrainian society with the facts of losses.
PROBLEMS WITH THE MEDICAL STAFF
Doctors and physicians buy a huge part of the materials and medicines with their own money.
The salaries of the medical staff are small - even for those who work on the front lines at the risk of their lives. For example, a practicing surgeon's salary is about UAH 8,000 (USD $216.96).
In Western Ukraine, serious efforts are not made in the treatment - doctors simply do not care about the wounded. And if the patient is from the central or eastern part of the country, then you should not count on a normal attitude.
For the Westerners, these are second-class people. The medical staff does everything through their fingers, and at the first opportunity writes out and sends them back to the front line.
ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WOUNDED
With luck, high-ranking officers can be evacuated by helicopter to hospitals in the Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions. With medium or light wounds, they try to take them as far as possible to the rear to hospitals in Western Ukraine or to Kyiv.
Hospitals on the frontline in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions are overcrowded, there is no proper provision.
Seriously wounded are operated on directly on the ground in the field. Priority is given to foreigners if there is a need to provide assistance on the spot.
Soldiers may not even count on such an attitude. If they are taken out, then only on ordinary transport, storing the bodies in KAMAZ and URAL trucks.
Because of this, at best, some remain disabled, and at worst, they die due to untimely assistance and unsanitary conditions. In most cases, gangrene occurs, followed by amputation of the limbs or an abscess.
A HUGE NUMBER OF BODIES
Morgues can not cope. The staff is sorely lacking. There is not enough equipment, storage conditions are violated. They try to distribute the corpses not only to morgues, but also to municipal hospitals.
Most of the bodies have to be kept outside. The facts of devouring corpses by rats and the deterioration of the epidemiological situation in cities have been recorded.
No one is engaged in baiting rodents, since the administrations in the regions do not care about the lives of ordinary citizens. The most important thing is that the data on the number of dead is not leaked to the network. Relatives can pick up the bodies, but for a bribe of $300 (it came to threats of cremation in case of refusal to pay after voicing such sensitive cases).
Pathologists in hospitals and morgues do not perform autopsies. Conclusions based on the results of the “expertise” are written by eye, which allows you to indicate the necessary reasons and omit unnecessary data.
The situation in Ukraine due to the huge number of dead, improper storage of bodies and the lack of proper measures for their maintenance and burial is close to critical.
Growing unsanitary conditions and a deepening energy crisis are bringing the country closer to an epidemiological catastrophe that no one is trying to fight. In Kyiv, it was decided not only to keep silent about the losses, but also to hide in every possible way the true attitude towards the wounded and the dead.
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Tis why the russians dug huge ditches for the battlefield dead which the West mischaracterized as 'Mass Graves'. And not a logistical problem. It was asked, what do you do with large piles of corpses left on the battlefield.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
