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That isn't reverse engineering. That is disassembly and identifying parts. A first step.
Now figure out how it works, is programmed and then assemble your own version. That is reverse engineering.
#4
In WW2 the Allies considered a swap: German optics for Allied scarce raw materials (tungsten, rubber, etc.) ...then woke up and decided helping the Nazis was a Bad Idea™. Just because you have samples doesn't mean you can duplicate it in quantity.
As claimed the members of the Russian volunteer corps crossed the border and entered into a Russian village. They shooted videos and pictures and returned back in Ukraine.#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/7ZrTCiqZzg
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[An Nahar] The presidents of China and Belarus joined Wednesday in urging a cease-fire and negotiations to bring about a political settlement to the Ukraine conflict.
The joint call came in a meeting in Beijing between Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
That amounted to an endorsement of a Chinese 12-point peace proposal issued Friday that calls for the territorial integrity of all countries to be respected. The proposal does not say what would happen to the regions Russia has occupied since the invasion or give details on how the grinding of the peace processor should proceed, and has failed to gain much support.
"The core of China's stance is to call for peace and encourage talks ... and for the legitimate security concerns of all countries to be respected," Xi was quoted as saying by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
In a clear reference to the U.S. and its allies, he added, "Relevant countries should stop politicizing and using the world economy as their tool, and take measures that truly advance a cease-fire and stop to war and resolve the crisis peacefully."
Belarus "fully agrees with and supports China's position and proposals on a political solution to the Ukraine crisis, which is of great significance to resolving the crisis," CCTV quoted Lukashenko as saying.
China has long had a close relationship with Lukashenko, and following their talks, the two leaders oversaw the signing of a raft of cooperation agreements in areas ranging from agriculture to customs enforcement and sports.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the Belarussian leader's trip also illustrates the depth of Beijing's ties to Russian leader Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and his allies.
China says it is a neutral party in the conflict and has maintained contacts with the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has cautiously welcomed Beijing's involvement, but said success would depend on actions not words.
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[Korrespondent] 22:39 Russia's unsuccessful attack on Ugledar revealed the conceptual problems of its army, which largely operates according to old patterns, but, unlike the Soviet armed forces, does not have a multi-million strength. Read more in the material Cemetery of Russian tanks .
21:57 The Bakhmut fortress stands despite the desperate attempts of the Russian army to take it at any cost. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine says that the situation in the city is "difficult and tense." About what is happening - in the material Battle for Bakhmut .
21:48 Zelensky said that he had held an energy meeting today: "This winter is over. It was very difficult, and every Ukrainian felt this difficulty without exaggeration. But still, we were able to provide Ukraine with energy and heat. Yes, the threat to the energy system remains. But and the work for the sake of the energy system continues. We have fixed the current tasks - in order to finish this heating season normally. And we have already begun to prepare for the next season."
21:33 A meeting between Lukashenka and Xi Jinping took place in Beijing. The negotiations were one-on-one and lasted four hours. The Belarusian leader's visit to China came amid growing tensions between the US and China in recent weeks, including Washington's concerns that Beijing is considering sending the Russian army lethal weapons. For more details, see the article What Lukashenka and the Head of China Discussed .
21:06 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are currently shooting down about 80% of Russian missiles, and in some cases even more, said the commander of the Joint Forces Sergei Naev. At the same time, he added that the enemy is also changing tactics and methods of using air attack weapons. According to Naev, Ukraine conducts a thorough analysis after each strike to ensure that the air defense resilience is at the highest level.
20:29 The Russians launched a missile attack on civilian and critical infrastructure in the Kremenchug region, information about the victims and destruction is being specified, said the head of the Poltava OVA Dmitry Lunin.
19:57 The Biden administration sees "no evidence" that Putin is ready for serious peace talks on Ukraine, Blinken said. "On the contrary, all the evidence suggests otherwise," the US Secretary of State stressed.
19:11 In the Lugansk region, the summer-autumn 2022 harvest is massively spoiled, as the Russian occupation "administration" completely blocks all local farmers from selling grain both on the domestic and foreign markets, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. Also, local "authorities" unofficially banned all local bakeries from accepting grain from local farmers.
18:38 Germany will increase ammunition production and repair capacity to support Ukraine, Scholz said: "We will provide advanced ammunition production - both for weapons that we supply ourselves, and for those that come from classic stocks available in Eastern Europe."
18:32 The Ministry of Defense has published summary tables of the average level of pay for military personnel since March 2023.
18:09 A Russian A-50 aircraft at the Machulishchi airfield in Belarus was attacked by two DJI UAVs converted to kamikaze drones, the ByPol group reported. According to satellite imagery, the plane received two significant damage. In particular, a key element was damaged - a three-coordinate radar station, namely a locator. The second damage, most likely, is located in the area of the location of the radome of the satellite radio link antenna, in the front part near the nose compartment.
17:51 The New York Times writes that the largest tank battle of this war took place near Ugledar, and Russia "staggeringly lost" it. The publication notes that the Russian army not only failed to capture Ugledar, but also made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks at the beginning of the war: the advancing columns were ambushed. A three-week battle on the plain has led to the fact that the Russians have lost more than 130 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the fields are literally strewn with corpses and fragments of destroyed equipment.
17:36 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, reported explosions in the occupied Pologi, Zaporozhye region, as well as at the Melitopol airfield.
17:34 Two organizations from Geneva have been working for several months to lay the foundation for new negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, according to the Swiss TV channel RTS. According to him, outside official channels and under conditions of confidentiality, international relations experts and mediation specialists from the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre) and the Center for Security Policy (GCSP) maintain contacts with Kiev and Moscow.
The names of the negotiators have not been released, but GCSP director Thomas Greminger said they are senior experts with access to the presidential administrations of both countries. Journalists suggest that these may be former officials, politicians or the military.
17:17 Russia is fueling social unrest in Moldova. President Maia Sandu officially accuses the Kremlin of plotting a coup. For more details, see What's Happening in Moldova .
16:53 Provocations on the border with Moldova are not ruled out, but there is no critical threat, Russian forces in the occupied Transnistria are not enough to open a second front, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the OK Pivden. She added that, purely geographically, the Russian forces cannot receive support in this area.
16:24 The European Commission proposes to significantly increase the production of ammunition in order to meet the needs of Ukraine and its own, Spiegel writes, citing sources. At the first stage, they want to increase supplies to Ukraine, compensating countries for these expenses with payments from the EU. Further, they plan to carry out a joint purchase of 155-mm ammunition, and at the third stage - to ensure a long-term increase in European ammunition production capacities.
The document with the relevant proposals has already been handed over to the ambassadors of the EU countries. Brussels believes that peacetime in Europe is over and it is necessary to radically change our approaches to the defense sector.
15:58 Serbs who were recruited to fight in Ukraine "will be arrested when they return to Serbia and will be within the reach of our institutions," President Aleksandar Vucic said.
15:47 France this year will significantly increase the volume of orders for 155-mm shells for Caesar howitzers, which are supplied to Ukraine, said Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
15:31 The Russians hit Chernobaevka from artillery, a one-year-old child was wounded, Kherson OVA reported.
15:16 Russia has lost more soldiers in the war against Ukraine than in all armed conflicts since 1945 - after the end of World War II, the US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has calculated. According to the organization, the total losses of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in killed and wounded range from 200 to 250 thousand people. This figure includes the Russian army, mercenaries from various PMCs, DPR and LPR militants.
15:08 The Russians shelled the village of Zmievka, Kherson region - a local resident and a volunteer from Krivoy Rog were injured, the OVA reported.
15:04 The EU is shifting its focus from the adoption of new sanctions against Russia to the enforcement and strengthening of existing ones, writes Politico. Diplomats from about ten EU countries told the publication that sanctions against any remaining sectors would hit the bloc more than Russia.
14:59 Russian carriers still operate 467 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, up from the 544 they used a year ago, according to Cirium. Russian airlines after the ban on flights to the United States and Western European countries increased the number of flights to Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
14:56 Russia supplies China with large volumes of nuclear fuel for a fast neutron reactor located on Changbiao Island. It can produce plutonium needed to develop nuclear warheads, according to Bloomberg. According to US intelligence, if the reactor starts up this year, then China will be able to quadruple its stockpiles of nuclear weapons within 12 years, which will allow the country to catch up in nuclear potential with the United States and Russia.
14:51 The Kiev city military administration clarified that it was not a balloon, but an enemy UAV that was shot down in the sky over the capital today.
14:48 Lukashenka and Xi Jinping discussed the war in Ukraine at the talks in Beijing, Chinese TV reports. The Chinese leader said that it is necessary to "adhere to the position of a political settlement, abandon the Cold War mentality and respect the legitimate interests of all countries." Lukashenka noted in response that Minsk fully supports the position and proposals of China on a political solution to the crisis.
14:13 In the occupied Kadiyivka, Lugansk region, an explosion occurred at a factory that the Russians use as a military base, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians tried to hide trucks with ammunition there.
14:04 The Russians intend to hold pseudo-elections in the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, in particular in Melitopol, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the so-called "vice-governor" of the Zaporozhye region, Sergei Tolmachev, has already been given appropriate instructions for preparation. And one of the collaborators, Galina Katyushchenko, was appointed by the Russian CEC as the "head of the central election commission" in the Melitopol region.
In addition, representatives of Russian political parties, including the Liberal Democratic Party and United Russia, are already gathering in the region to carry out propaganda work.
13:57 Ukraine is strictly committed to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and refutes fake information from the Russian Foreign Ministry about Kiev's alleged preparation of a "provocation using radioactive substances," said Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
13:41 An unidentified air object was recorded in Kiev today during an air raid. According to preliminary data, it was a small ball launched from the northern direction towards the capital. At the moment, the object does not pose a threat, measures have been taken to eliminate it, said Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA.
13:38 The EU delegation will not support the statement following the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers in India if it does not contain a condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine, Reuters reports citing its own source. Separately, Borrell said that the success of the meeting in New Delhi will be measured by what it can do about the war in Ukraine and its consequences: "This war must be condemned. I hope, I am sure that the diplomatic potential of India will be used to make Russia understand that this war must end."
Russia, in turn, said it was using the meeting to tell the world "who is responsible for the political and economic crisis the world is in." The main G20 meetings will be held on Thursday, March 2.
13:27 The rotation of the IAEA expert group at the Zaporizhia NPP is delayed by more than three weeks, the agency's director general Rafael Grossi said. He expressed hope that this week the rotation will finally take place. Grossi also said that the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir, from which water enters the cooling pond at the ZNPP, has stabilized in recent weeks.
13:24 Russia uses experienced Wagner PMC mercenaries in Bakhmut with experience in fighting in Syria, Libya, and other hot spots, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding positions, preventing the enemy from encircling the city, said Sergei Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces. "We are inflicting huge losses. What we are now gaining from the enemy is that we do not allow him to systematically break through our defenses, we do not allow him to quickly go to the rear, we do not allow him to surround our troops," he added.
13:20 Ukrainian troops destroy enemy equipment almost daily in the area of the Kinburn Spit, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. Over the past 24 hours alone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed four boats, five pieces of equipment and two pieces of heavy artillery on the Kinburn Spit.
12:58 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the prevention of an attempt by Kiev to conduct a "massive drone attack on Crimean facilities. Allegedly, six UAVs were shot down by air defense systems, and four more were disabled by electronic warfare equipment.
12:25 Kuleba said that on March 1, "Putin suffered the fifth big defeat since the day of the full-scale invasion - Ukraine defeated his winter terror." The Foreign Minister also listed the first four defeats of the Russian Federation during this time:
The first defeat was when, from the first minutes of the offensive, we did not allow Putin to paralyze us with fear.
The second is when we thwarted the Russian blitzkrieg plan. Ukraine did not fall in three days, or seven, or a month, or a year.
We inflicted the third defeat on the Russian Federation on the diplomatic front: a global coalition for Ukraine, resolutions, isolation, flows of weapons, sanctions, energy, financial and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
The fourth defeat is the loss by Russia of a large number of occupied territories of Ukraine due to effective actions and counter-offensives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the rest of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
11:44 Lukashenka said at a meeting with Xi Jinping that Belarus supports the Chinese "peace plan".
11:38 There has been no shortage of power in the energy system of Ukraine for 18 days and so far it is not predicted. The country's electricity demand is fully covered by the production capacity of power plants and a small amount of imports from Europe, Ukrenergo said. The situation remains difficult only in the front-line regions: as a result of Russian shelling, there are damages in the main networks in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as in the networks of distribution system operators in the Donetsk and Kherson regions.
11:33 The government of Moldova called the accusations of the Russian Foreign Ministry against Ukraine, which is allegedly preparing "provocations" near the unrecognized Transnistria using "radioactive substances", as lies. "The states are monitoring the situation and do not confirm the information disseminated by the Russian side," the statement says.
10:55 In the Lugansk region, Russians have begun to use Lancet kamikaze drones more often, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. "We are already working with our international friends to obtain equipment that will make it impossible for these enemy UAVs to operate smoothly," he added.
Gaidai also said that the Russian army is trying to attack Belogorovka and in the Kremenskoye direction (Nevskoye and Makeevka), continues to shell de-occupied settlements along the front line.
10:52 Podolyak said that Ukraine does not strike on the territory of Russia: "Ukraine is waging a defensive war in order to de-occupy all its territories. This is an axiom. Processes of panic and disintegration are growing in the Russian Federation, a manifestation of which is an increase in internal attacks by unidentified aircraft on infrastructure ".
10:38 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the "provocation" allegedly being prepared by Kiev with the use of radioactive materials could occur near Pridnestrovie, "around which tension is being escalated."
10:23 The transfer of Chinese drones to Russia will violate international law, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. She recalled that as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China has a special responsibility: "This means that China cannot send drones to an aggressor, a state, a president waging a war of aggression that violates international law."
10:14 British intelligence is noticing that Russia has begun launching Shahed drones from the Bryansk region, while it used to do so from the Krasnodar Territory, across the Sea of Azov. Analysts say the second launch pad will give the Russians a different axis of attack closer to Kyiv. This is likely to reduce the time spent in the air over the territory of Ukraine and will be an attempt to further stretch the Ukrainian air defense.
The decrease in the rate of UAV attacks indicates that Russia has exhausted its current supply and is likely to try to replenish it, according to intelligence.
09:43 In Mariupol, in order to strengthen control over communication and prevent the transfer of information to Ukraine, the Russians informed the "budgetary" workers about the mandatory tapping of phones. To do this, everyone is required to provide their personal phones for the installation of a special program, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. Also, the occupying "authorities" reported on the installation of equipment to control Internet traffic. At the same time, the number of patrols on the streets has increased, and sources report another wave of sweeps and searches with the involvement of the National Guard.
09:18 The Russians fired at Chuguev in the Kharkiv region in the morning - two people were injured, including a 13-year-old child, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:56 According to the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of March 1, the Russians attacked Ukraine from the northern direction with shock drones of the Shahed type: all four drones were destroyed.
08:49 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, five people were killed, seven were injured. In the Kharkiv region, one dead, in the Donetsk region - three dead, four wounded, according to the IVA.
08:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Russia can use Lukashenka's visit to China to achieve several of its goals, including circumventing the sanctions regime and promoting the narrative that Moscow is supposedly ready for peace talks.
08:39 In January, Russia received $18.5 billion from oil and gas exports, which is 40% less than a year earlier, according to the International Energy Agency. The IEA expects that this decline in oil and gas revenues "will be sharper in the coming months and even worse in the medium term."
08:18 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 1.
personnel - about 149,890 (+650) people liquidated,
tanks - 3395 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 6638 (+8),
artillery systems - 2393 (+10),
MLRS - 479 (+1),
air defense systems - 247 (+0),
aircraft - 300 (+0),
helicopters - 288 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2055 (+4),
cruise missiles - 873 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5257 (+5),
special equipment - 230 (+0).
08:14 Over the past day, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 85 enemy attacks in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Miner directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary . According to the General Staff, for the umpteenth time, the evacuation of certain categories of citizens from the Crimea is recorded. Recently, Russian servicemen stationed in Perevalnoye have been sending their families to Russia.
07:09 The State Duma of the Russian Federation has amended the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses on liability "for discrediting participants in a special operation" - now there will be a maximum punishment of up to 15 years in prison and up to 5 million rubles in a fine, speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
02:40 China spends billions of dollars to spread pro-Russian propaganda, said James Rubin, coordinator of the Center for Global Engagement at the US State Department. At the same time, he added that Beijing operates on a global scale and spends even more than Moscow for these purposes.
01:12 The United States has not found any evidence that Western weapons are being used by Ukraine for other purposes. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine effectively use them on the battlefield, said Pentagon Assistant Celeste Wallander. Another Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, said that there were no reports of missing weapons from Ukraine, and it was not in the interests of Ukrainians to get rid of them.
00:55 In the Poltava region, according to preliminary data, up to five enemy UAVs were shot down, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin.
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[RIA] An amazing thing happened in Germany - the top of the most popular politicians was suddenly headed by the newly appointed Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius. This is an unprecedented thing for a country weighed down by such a terrible historical memory.
For decades, the Germans remembered the Bundeswehr only when another sex scandal flared up there. In 2019, for example, a lieutenant colonel commanding a communications battalion stationed near Berlin announced that he was now Anastasia and went to post his photos on social networks, luring sexual partners. The command reprimanded him, the lieutenant colonel went to court, the journalists got excited. The public wondered: is it right to pour hundreds of millions of euros into such an army?
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius makes a statement in front of the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, venue of the Munich Security Conference
Accordingly, the Minister of Defense of Germany has always modestly shied away somewhere on the periphery of the information field. But suddenly Pistorius happened. The new minister has already managed to take a picture in the Leopard tank and promised to send these combat vehicles to Ukraine. He just said that the joint exercises of the Bundeswehr with the American and Polish units should "send a clear signal to Putin: <...> NATO is by no means as weak as it seemed to him."
Pistorius constantly demands money from the government, declares that the notorious two percent of GDP as spending on defense is not enough, and has already planned where he will spend the hundred billion euros that the Bundestag allocated to the army last year. His program includes the debureaucratization of the Bundeswehr (the minister complains that sometimes it takes as many as twelve instances to make a decision), increasing the productivity of the military-industrial complex and increasing the size of the German army.
At the height of the Cold War, more than half a million people served in the ranks of the Bundeswehr. Today, that figure has dropped to 180,000. With such crazy budgets that Berlin allocates, the Germans have every chance to return to their previous numbers, thus creating the strongest and most technically equipped army in Europe. Who will it be directed against? Naturally, against Russia, no one hides this.
Surprisingly, Pistorius is by no means some kind of "hawk", he is not a military man at all. Having served on conscription in 1980, he has since worked as a lawyer, then was the burgomaster of his native Osnabrück. And it fell to this gray little man to "liberate Germany from the specter of historical guilt" - that is, to do what the Americans and the British had long demanded of Berlin.
It is simply unbelievable that this daring militarization is taking place in a country that the Russians have saved and revived many times. First, they were freed from Hitler, at the end of the war they were saved from the British, who planned the complete fragmentation and destruction of Germany, and finally, they allowed the FRG and the GDR to peacefully reunite. And now - in gratitude, so to speak - Berlin is planning another "Drang nach Osten".
It is very symbolic that the advanced Ukrainian detachments of the Bundeswehr are completely decorated with Nazi tattoos and do not hesitate to imitate the SS. Obviously, the German elites sincerely like this coven, they themselves would take part in it with pleasure, they are just a little shy for now.
German politicians love the same Pistorius for the frankness with which he formulates the anti-Russian aggressive policy of Berlin. "People like his directness," Alexander Miller, a spokesman for the ruling Free Democratic Party, compliments . As you can see, some in the German establishment are still shy to completely copy Hitler, but the Minister of Defense has already completely freed himself from the chimera called conscience.
Exactly the same liberation from the "ghosts of guilt" is in full swing today in Japan. Contrary to their own constitution, they recently adopted a national security doctrine that allows them to "hit" opponents. Among the opponents - quite predictably - are China, North Korea and Russia. In essence, Japan is abandoning the commitments it made after World War II and wants to fight again. More than three hundred billion dollars have been allocated from the budget for the army - that is, the Land of the Rising Sun will spend the most on its "defense" in the world, except for the USA and China.
The Japanese plan to buy Tomahawks from the United States, while they themselves will produce hypersonic missiles, and the entire range of these winged monsters will be placed in Hokkaido, near the sea border with Russia. Their plans are to resolve the "Kuril issue" by force.
In the past, Japanese and German leaders were marked in history by the most heinous war crimes. Their innocent victims are countless. Nevertheless, the American masters are hard at work pushing precisely these countries into the UN Security Council. At the same time, the Germans have already been supplied with American nuclear weapons, and as for Japan, it is hinted that it "itself" can suddenly produce it.
The anti-Russian symbiosis of Tokyo and Berlin repeats one to one the configuration of the countries of the fascist "axis" sharpened in the 1930s against the USSR. Today, Rome is also being heavily dragged into this company - so that there are absolutely no differences.
The Italians regularly slashed defense spending, but last year the far-right George Meloni came to power and promised to nearly double it, to the notorious 2 percent of GDP.
Naturally, the "axis" is being hammered together under the strict supervision of Washington. Plans are already ripening there to throw their army against China, and leave the Europeans to their fate, spitting on the fifth article of the NATO Charter. Let the European vassals fight Russia and not rely on the American nuclear umbrella. Ukraine is somehow coping, which means they will succeed too.
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[RIA] Maybe America won't fall apart tomorrow and eat itself out of internal hatred, but it's trying very hard to make sure that's exactly what happens. And if so, then America should once again learn from the principle "on the contrary", in other words, you should never do what they do to themselves there.
The story is this: cartoonist Scott Adams, who since 1989 every day (yes, every day) has been drawing his Dilbert, published simultaneously in hundreds of newspapers in the United States and abroad, has been "cancelled." The theme of the cartoons has nothing to do with our conversation, they are all, in essence, about one thing - about the idiot boss, his tortured subordinate Dilbert, and also about the talking dog participating in their communication.
And now the satirist has become the hero of a scandal, which turned out to be almost the main event in the country (as if the United States has no other problems). He stated on his video channel that the country's black population has turned into a hate group, that there is no cure for this, and that whites just need to stay away from blacks.
Then we have a visual aid for learning what people's "cancellation culture" is. Here is the perfect denunciation piece from The Washington Post . From it we learn that Adams has been fascinated by conspiracy theories and other extremist ideas for several years. That he supported Donald Trump . Is this the end of the nightmare? No, the limit is this: Adams also said that Americans are being brainwashed to force them to support Ukraine.
Next - just a classic. When a talented and popular person is "cancelled", it is imperative to explain that in fact he is a nobody and his talents are a fiction. So they explain to us that Adams became bad at drawing, and when he was "cancelled", no one was upset.
In general, you don’t need to do this with opponents if you don’t want to lose the respect of normal people. Collective bullying is a weapon of disrespectful rubbish.
And at the same time, we once again find out what the "lie factory" of the Democrats is: it turns out that only USA Today - it is 300 newspapers and other resources throughout the country - and a couple more corporations of approximately the same scale participated in the persecution.
And now about the classic (for "human abolition") article of the verdict - about racism. The fact is that Adams responded to a real sensation - a recent survey by the sociological service of Rasmussen. Blacks were interviewed by asking them a tricky question, literally: being white is okay? Although it is possible and so: is it normal when a person is white? Another variant of the translation: white - is it normal? 53 percent agree with this statement, 26 percent believe that there is nothing normal and good in whites. The rest are indecisive. Yes, and another 76 percent of those surveyed admit that there is: blacks can be racist too. They know what they are talking about.
Fifty-three percent - is the glass almost exactly half full or empty? But in any case, only half of the Negroes have not even kind, but neutrally benevolent feelings towards other Americans. And in general, this is a catastrophe of the nation. Well, when the thoroughly racist Black Lives Matter movement participated in the Democrats' takeover of power in 2020 (and it all happened through pogroms and unmotivated beatings of whites), Adams' advice to "stay away from them" is very appropriate.
And what is racism? Racism (ask its main theorists - the British) - is when they say that some racial group is genetically superior to others, or vice versa. Our cartoonist said nothing of the sort.
The tragedy of America, of course, is not only that it has become a victim of a “cancellation culture,” but also that it has failed to integrate an entire racial community into a common national fabric. It was impossible to do this, bombarding all blacks with privileges and just money, not to mention verbal enthusiasm about them. From this, they began to hate the whites even more and believe that they owe them everything for life. And this lesson concerns not only people of some skin color, but also any social groups. But here is a story with a clear Ukrainian accent, the end of which is yet to come.
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[KavkazUzel] The realities of Chechnya do not allow us to consider the video message of Idris Arsamikov as proof that he is safe, and his case is quite typical for dissidents who left Chechnya, but then decided to come there on personal matters, human rights activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 16 it became known that 28-year-old Idris Arsamikov, who had returned from the Netherlands to Russia, was detained at Moscow's Domodedovo airport and handed over to Chechen law enforcers. Arsamikov was taken to Chechnya, where he is in mortal danger, human rights activists suggested, and on February 21 they turned to the UN about the fate of the young man. On February 27, ten international and Russian human rights organizations issued a joint statement calling on the Russian authorities to release Idris Arsamikov.
On the evening of February 17, a video was posted on social networks , in which Idris Arsamikov stated that he was at home in Chechnya and intended to go to Ukraine to participate in a special operation, and also asked human rights activists to "leave him behind." The video recording was made under duress, as the detention of Arsamikov caused a great public outcry, human rights activists considered.
ARSAMIKOV'S VIDEO REFUSING HELP ONLY CONFIRMS THE DANGER TO HIM
The words of Idris Arsamikov in the video cannot be considered a refusal to help human rights activists, said Alexandra Miroshnikova, spokeswoman for the SOS Crisis Group.
"Formally, the video is not an official refusal of legal assistance. From the point of view of the law, we need Arsamikov's official refusal, which we did not receive," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
A person can declare that he is safe, but at the same time his life may be in danger, lawyer Galina Tarasova pointed out.
“Against the will and desire of a person, a lawyer cannot carry out activities to protect his rights. But one should take into account the specifics of certain situations. With regard to Chechnya, there are many cases when people reported violations of human rights and crimes, and then videos appeared with their apologies or denials. And there was reason to believe that people were forced to make these apologies or denials. Sometimes there is a video in which a person claims that he is safe and does not need help, but his whereabouts are unknown and the circumstances in which he disappeared from the field view of relatives and the public, indicate that he may be forcibly detained somewhere," she told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
PUBLICITY IN SUCH STORIES HELPS WHEN THE KREMLIN PAYS ATTENTION TO IT. OTHERWISE, THE CHECHEN AUTHORITIES ARE DOING WHAT THEY PLANNED
Lawyers and human rights activists can be involved in such situations, Tarasova is sure.
"If after such a video recording a person disappears, a crime is committed against him or there are grounds to believe that he became a victim of a crime, then during the investigation the video recording can be subjected to psychological research to find out if the recorded statements were made by a person under the influence of violence, coercion," said the lawyer.
The video recording of Arsamikov, in which he says that he is safe, shows just the opposite, says Svetlana Gannushkina, chairwoman of the Civic Assistance Committee.
"Of course, there is a threat to the health and life of Arsamikov. Of course, he recorded the video under pressure. He is now in danger. Without a doubt. We hope that publicity will help. But publicity in such stories helps when the Kremlin pays attention to it. In such In most cases, stories end successfully. And if not, then the Chechen authorities do what they have planned," she said.
Idris Arsamikov left Russia in 2018 after being detained, beaten and electrocuted on suspicion of homosexuality. According to human rights activists, he is not wanted.and no criminal cases were brought against him. According to the orientation signed by the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shelkovsky district, the security forces motivate the detention of Arsamikov with a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale.
The orientation "suddenly appeared," although the statement that became the basis for initiating the case was written back in December 2021, when Arsamikov was in the Netherlands, the SOS Crisis Group indicated. Arsamikov was detained and tortured three times after he returned to Chechnya in the spring of 2022 for his father's funeral. And he could not return to the Netherlands, as his documents were taken from him, human rights activists found out.
ARSAMIKOV'S CASE FITS INTO THE TREND OF PERSECUTION OF DISSIDENTS IN CHECHNYA
The case of Idris Arsamikov is not isolated and typical for Chechnya, but the time when the man decided to come to Chechnya gave it a special resonance, Miroshnikova noted.
“The situation when Chechens who left [dissenters] return to the funeral of their relatives, due to the illness of someone from the family, is typical and common. Sometimes they are repeatedly detained and tortured again, but, as a rule, our clients still succeed again leave Chechnya and go back to a new country of residence. Unfortunately, Idris chose the worst time for such risky adventures. 2022 greatly complicated the situation in Russia and Chechnya, repression intensified, and getting out of the region became more difficult," explained a spokeswoman for Krisisnaya SK SOS groups.
Svetlana Gannushkina* agrees with this assessment. “For the security forces of Chechnya, all people who left the republic for one reason or another related to the policy of the leadership are important. Border guards once admitted to us that they report every native of Chechnya who once left the republic, but then ended up in Russia. The Chechen authorities want to use every such case to show the rest "how not to behave. Whether it be a representative of the LGBT community or a political opponent," she stressed.
Gannushkina admits that Arsamikov may no longer be found. “Remember the story of Bakaev, who disappeared? The Chechen authorities at first denied everything, then Ramzan Kadyrov somehow spoke about him and said, they say, what do you want from us, his relatives dealt with him. Unfortunately, there is a possibility that Arsamikov will not be found But I very much hope that it will still be possible to help this person, ”said Gannushkina.
On August 8, 2017, 26-year-old native of Grozny Zelimkhan Bakaev went missing, and on September 24 of the same year, a video was made public in which Bakaev announced that he was in Germany. However, his acquaintances and human rights activists considered the video staged, drawing attention to Zelimkhan's unnatural behavior, Russian-made furniture and an energy drink that was not sold in Germany. In November 2020, human rights activists reported that Bakaev's fate remained unknown, although Ramzan Kadyrov indirectly confirmed that he had been killed.
There is no information about any influential relatives of Arsamikov involved in his detention, Alexandra Miroshnikova pointed out. Also, according to her, there is no evidence that Arsamikov, while in the Netherlands, was active in social networks. “After emigrating and obtaining official status abroad, our wards become relatively independent and turn to us only in case of force majeure,” she explained.
About how people with non-traditional sexual orientation live in Chechnya, and how the fate of some of them after the start of mass roundups, a homosexual from Chechnya, who left the country, told the "Caucasian Knot" in an interview "They will kill, not their own, then strangers": gay about life in Chechnya and flight from Russia."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:31 Head of the Poltava region of Ukraine declared on the defeat of a critical infrastructure facility in the Kremenchug region 21:27 Ukrainian media report about blow up in the area of the city of Kremenchug in the Poltava region, as well as in the Sumy region in the central part of Ukraine, where an air raid alert was announced earlier
20:19 Air map anxiety in Ukraine at the moment
19:57 Beat your own so that strangers are afraid
In Dnipro, the National Police of Ukraine detained a gang of Nazis who robbed and beat the locals.
It is reported that during the detention of Bandera's followers, a huge amount of weapons, ammunition and explosives were found.
Now seven gangsters face up to 15 years in prison.
I am glad that the press services of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine understand that the “fascist swastika” is bad (a blurred symbol on the chest of one of the detainees).
At the same time, the symbol of the German 3rd SS Panzer Division “Dead Head” was considered acceptable by the Ukrainian security forces.
18:41 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia investigate the fact of attracting minors by the nationalist formations of Ukraine to participate in hostilities
It is reported that Ukrainian nationalist units located on the line of contact began to recruit children to participate in hostilities.
So, in the Artemovsk region, the arrival of a bus with young people under the age of 18 was noted. The use of minors in hostilities is contrary to international law prohibiting the involvement of children in armed conflicts.
The Investigative Committee of Russia will establish the circumstances of the incident, the actions of all those involved will be given a legal assessment.
17:29 Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR continue demining the territory of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from anti-personnel mines "Petal"
On March 1, sappers destroyed more than 40 anti-personnel mines. Work will continue.
16:48 In Ukraine, gaining resonance the theme of the closure of the French hypermarkets "Auchan" and "Metro", which remained to work in Russia
Bandera Mosiychuk tells subscribers that Zelensky-linked owners of the ATB and Epicenter retail chains are lobbying to drive the French out of Ukraine in order to raise prices.
16:32 Last few days applied numerous artillery and mortar strikes on positions of the Armed Forces in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions. For example, over 100 attacks were recorded in Sumy yesterday. From the field they report: "We are hitting the border territories and deep into 30 km."
Not only Grads are working, there is something else.
Very often, reconnaissance UAVs began to fly into the territory of the regions, which in turn correct the fire. Ukraine is not very good with air defense in those areas, so many birds return unharmed.
Our grouping of troops in those places (on our territories) is being strengthened by the withdrawal of reserves, mobilized and other military units from the Republic of Belarus.
15:35 Peskov about the incident with posting Ukrainian flag in RUDN University: this is the flag of the regime that supports nationalists and with which we are at war
15:10 Loboda, with low social responsibility, posted a post on her Instagram where a little girl repeats the gesture (throat cutting) and the words from her song “In Ukrainian” -video
Does anyone else have doubts that the terrorist entity should be destroyed?
Similar representatives of the most ancient profession and members of the PU sect, inciting hatred and serving a gang of drug addicts and Nazis, should be sent for life to perform socially useful work.
14:44 Highlights new Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
The RF Armed Forces destroyed three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction in the LPR and the Kharkov region;
Russian troops destroyed up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen and two Akatsia self-propelled howitzers in the direction of Kherson;
Russian troops destroyed up to 190 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction per day amounted to 90 soldiers;
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted to 80 soldiers per day;
In the DPR, the Russian military hit the point of temporary deployment of a nationalist formation;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a fire defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar and Nikolsky in the DPR;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 110th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ocheretino region in the DPR;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 150 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction during the day;
Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
13:36 Police officers continue to reveal caches of weapons and ammunition in the Kherson region -video
- Two caches were found in the Chaplynsky district: near the village of Ivanova, 14 artillery ammunition and 12 tank shells were seized from the cache, and on the outskirts of the village of Krasnaya Polyana, a Vladimirov heavy machine gun, a grenade launcher and nine rounds for it were found. All ammunition was destroyed by an overhead charge.
- in the Kalanchanksky district in a forest plantation, a cache was found with a night vision sight, a Saiga carbine, two UZRGM-2 grenades, a khaki raincoat and 419 rounds of ammunition.
13:33 Ticks shrink around the Artemov group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
At night, Russian forces attacked militants on the Chasov Yar-Khromovo highway.
In addition, the "Wagnerites" crowded out the Bandera on the Ivanovskoye-Stupochka line. They had success.
There is a significant advance of Russian forces in the area of garages, the Mariupol cemetery.
13:30 PMC "Wagner" soldiers demonstrate the destroyed American 155-mm M777 howitzer somewhere near Bakhmut -video
12:37 In Kyiv and the regionannouncedair alert.
12:24 Yesterday in the area of n.p. Coastal (Kherson region) 122mm was destroyed by artillery strike. 122mm SAU 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of 5 people and ammunition
11:31 Tonight in the area of N. p. Dniprovske (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which three units were destroyed. 152mm. howitzers 2S3 "Acacia" with ammunition, two units. vehicles, 15 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went to the Bandera, eight were seriously injured
11:29 Despite all the loud statements about the so-called "decommunization", Ukrainians continue to use the weapons of more developed civilizations. In the Ugledarsky direction, the gunners of the OBTF DNR "Kaskad" with the support of a UAV disabled a multi-purpose tractor, on which Bandera fans installed an anti-aircraft gun ZU-23 -video
11:28Ukrainians brought minors to the Artemovsk region to assist in the conduct of hostilities. A military expert, retired lieutenant colonel Andriy Marochko reported this to LuhanskInformTsentr, citing his own sources.
10:26 The deputy commander of the battalion of the 58th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot in Bakhmut by an SUV donated by volunteers -video
A drunken boss opened "friendly fire" on a vehicle that was being driven around the city by his drunken subordinates.
09:39 Near Artemovsk February 22 liquidated militant of the punitive battalion "Freedom" Alexander Shamunov.
09:31 "Mobilization in Ukraine is proceeding normally" (c) Danilov -video
09:30 Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation -video
09:28 Soldiers of the Russian assault detachment "Black Mamba" demonstrate the next captured positions of the Ukrainians -video
08:43 Air raid alert announced in Zaporozhye, Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy regions of Ukraine.
Explosions are reported in Kharkov.
08:10 "Breakthrough" vehicles: the combat work of the crews of the T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks of the Central Military District at the forefront in the special operation zone -video
The crews of the modernized T-90M "Breakthrough" of the tank formation of the Central Military District strike at the water crossing, manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The coordinates of the camouflaged targets of Ukrainian nationalists are transmitted to tank crews by reconnaissance groups. Adjustment of fire is carried out from drones.
Thanks to the skillful actions of the military personnel on the "Breakthroughs", gaps are created into which the motorized rifle units of the Central Military District are wedged.
Crews with combat experience improved the skills of fire training and control of the T-90M "Breakthrough" combat vehicle in the rear areas of the special operation
#1
This is about all Russia does good. They suck at economics, they suck at justice and a society of any decency with any freedom, they suck at modern combat, they are good at harming women, old men and kids:
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1631347067191795723
#2
Here's another example. The ISIS wannbe nation isn't really great at mass murder, they fail a whole lot at killing innocents. Thank God Russia is a wannbe instead of a killer like ISIS or Hitler's Germany:
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/01/2023 to 00:00 03/02/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 30 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 13 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 14 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attack from the MLRS. On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery. Having fired 178 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central city districts), Panteleimonovka, Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka , Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of two civilians in Aleksandrovka and the previously liberated Vladimirovka.
A total of 13 housing constructions were damaged in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka and Yasynuvata, as well as 2 civil infrastructure facilities.
Previously 22 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
21:16 Footage of the destruction of the BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the fighters of the Wagner PMC in the battles for the private sector in the south of Artemivsk -video
Tight battles in the building continue
21:14 Battles through the eyes of the landing force: the Black Mamba assault detachment is attacking the enemy’s strongholds on the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya —video
The "Dentist" group is attacking at the Makeyevka-Ploschanka-beam Zhuravka section.
Our fighters with silent firing devices advance after the processing of artillery, as can be seen from the broken into pieces and fallen parts of trees.
20:52 It is reported from Artyomovsk that a powerful storm Khromovo
The significance of this village for the Artyomovsk group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical: Khromovo is located on the last road along which the Nazis are supplied.
20:17 Belgorod direction —video
Zemlyanka village, Volchanskaya urban community, Chuguevsky district, Kharkiv region
The Armed Forces of Ukraine expelled their fellow citizens from private households and settled in the area bordering the Belgorod region.
The enemy was identified by means of reconnaissance, covered with fire.
The combat work of special forces and intelligence officers continues every day.
19:59 Offensive near Kremennaya: militants flee from their positions, leaving the bodies of those killed during the retreat -video
During the fighting, the Ivanovo landing force also destroyed foreign fighters. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to take their 200th due to the rapid advance of our troops. As a result, the corpse of a militant from the Middle East was found at the positions taken.
The front is very dense, the battles are constantly going on at a distance of a couple of hundred to several tens of meters, reports the military correspondent rt.com Zhdanov.
The road we are going along was a watershed a couple of weeks ago: on the one hand, our Airborne Forces, on the other, a hodgepodge of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In battles, foreign mercenaries are ground.
The machine gun of the Armed Forces of Ukraine started working - ours immediately answered from the ACS. The landing force has no shortage of weapons. While automatic bursts were heard from the other side (the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried in vain to shoot down our copter), the guys showed an anti-drone gun and an enemy Mavic that it had burned.
18:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are under constant fire from the RF Armed Forces -video
17:56 Russian artillery crushes Ukrainian militants in the Artyomovsk direction -video
17:49 Our snipers send "good" bullets to the enemy -video
16:03 An effective link between the work of Russian UAV operators and artillerymen to destroy ukrofascists in one of the directions -video
15:34 Another 300-strong Ukrainian soldier who met with Russian artillery in the area of the settlement. Krasnogorovka -video
14:40 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation (01.03.2023)
In the Kupyansk direction, assault and army aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Western" group of troops hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya and Sinkovka of the Kharkov region.
In addition, three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe in the Luhansk People's Republic and Timkovka in the Kharkov region. Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to 90 Ukrainian servicemen, three pickup trucks, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, active actions of units and artillery fire of the "Center" group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Chervonopopovka of the Luhansk People's Republic and Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. During the day, over 150 Ukrainian servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, as well as 152mm Msta-B and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in this direction.
Up to 190 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 16 vehicles, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in the course of active operations by units and artillery fire from the Southern Group of Forces in the Donetsk direction.
In addition, an ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanized Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Ocheretino, and a fuel storage base of the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit near the settlement of Novoselivka of the First Donetsk People's Republic.
In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, the artillery of the Vostok group of forces inflicted fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar, Nikolskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonoe, Novodanilovka and Shcherbaki of the Zaporozhye region. Enemy losses per day in these areas amounted to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, four armored combat vehicles and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of artillery fire, up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles, and two 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers were destroyed per day.
In addition, the ammunition depot of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the village of Aleksandrovka, Kherson region.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated 97 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, as well as manpower and equipment in 173 districts in a day.
In the area of the settlement of Shchurovo of the Donetsk People's Republic, a point of temporary deployment of militants of a nationalist formation was hit.
Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the settlement of Druzhkovka in the Donetsk People's Republic shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in an air battle.
During the day, 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense means in the areas of the settlements of Novaya Zburyevka, Holaya Pristan, Kherson region, Semenovka, Zaporizhia region, and Kremennaya, Rubizhne, Krasnorechenskoe, Luhansk People's Republic, Novoandreevka, Donetsk People's Republic, and Lyman, Second Kharkiv region.
In addition, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a massive drone attack on the objects of the Crimean peninsula was prevented. Six Ukrainian strike unmanned vehicles were shot down by air defense systems. Four more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were put out of action by means of electronic warfare. There were no casualties or destruction on earth.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 391 aircraft, 211 helicopters, 3,281 unmanned aerial vehicles, 406 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,086 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,045 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,240 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8,621 units of special military vehicles.
13:40 Another footage of the combat work of Russian artillery in one of the directions, including incendiary ammunition -video
13:39 Ukrainian troops continue to suffer heavy losses near Bakhmut (Artemovsk) -video
13:38 Soldiers of the “Crimea” battalion fought their way out of the ambush arranged by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region -video
The military provided rare footage of the battle and the evacuation of a civilian, whom they rescued from artillery attack in the village of Kamenskoye (2:49).
Everything was filmed on an action camera mounted on the helmet of one of the fighters of the "Baghdad" detachment under the command of the commander with the call sign "Bond".
12:30 Fierce fighting in Artemovsk: footage from the city -video
There are very few people on the streets, Ukrainian armored vehicles rush through the streets, cannonade is heard every ten seconds.
12:29 Night destruction of enemy hidden positions and observation posts -video
12:28 The Russian military is ironing the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from mortars in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya -video
The correspondent of @anna_news visited the positions of mortar crews of the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces.
The tasks of local fighters include the destruction of enemy warehouses and mortar crews, escort of assault groups of Russian troops and smoke on the front line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive.
"The enemy often works in response. But we are constantly in hiding and, thank God, so far everything is fine with us," says the fighter with the call sign Antip.
11:46 Kherson direction -video
205th Separate Cossack Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District
The Dnieper River has become a frontier through which rounds fly daily, ours and the enemy's.
On the first video - the destruction of enemy positions
On the second video - fragments of a rocket 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
10:40 AFU fired at New Kakhovka - as a result, a civilian died -video
Ukrainian militants dealt another blow to Novaya Kakhovka. In the market area, several civilians were injured, one person died.
10:37 Tankers of the 9th Brigade continue to mix the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the ground -video
Tankers of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps smashed the enemy's opposing team to shreds, enlisting the support of the UAV.
10:09 Airborne units have made friends with the Boomerang FPV kamikaze drones and are actively using them in the NVO zone -video
The crew of the Boomerang UAV consists of an operator using special VR glasses and his assistant, who launches the drone and tracks the flight direction on the map.
The FPV drone has its advantages over conventional UAVs: operator-friendly orientation in space, the ability to easily follow a route or pursue a moving target at speeds up to 170 kph, and also resistance to attacks by anti-drone guns.
09:42 Crews of 2S19 Msta-S 152mm self-propelled howitzers and 152mm 2S5 Giacint-S cannons of artillery units of the Central Military District prevent the enemy from transferring their reserves, and also help our infantry move deep into the front —video
09:38 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from February 28 to March 1, 2023
At night, Russian kamikaze drones hit targets in Kremenchug, Poltava region. Local residents also reported about UAVs in the Kyiv region.
The Russian troops worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Timonovichi, Yelino and Baranovka of the Chernihiv region, as well as in Rozhkovichi, Volfino and Gorki of the Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in Gatishche, Veterinary, Strelechya and Chuguev.
In the Starobelsk direction, Russian troops worked on the concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nevsky, Makeevka and Tabaevka.
In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) direction, Russian missile troops and artillery hit the places of concentration of Ukrainian units in Bakhmut, Krasny and New York.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Avdeevka, Nevelskoye and Krasnogorovka.
In turn, Ukrainian formations from cannon artillery fired at residential buildings and civilian facilities in Donetsk.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian troops worked on targets in Ugledar, Prechistovka and Bolshaya Novoselka.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Gulyaipole, Novoandreevka and Orekhovka.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian artillery worked on firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikopol and Marganets.
On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces hit enemy concentrations in Kherson, Antonovka and Zelenovka.
09:09 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC informs about 22 facts of firing by the VFU per day
The enemy fired from MLRS, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 110 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.
Under the fire of the VFU were: Mironovsky, Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Donetsk.
08:29 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/01/2023
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, with the support of artillery, continued the assault operations of the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka. They attack both within the city limits and on the southern and northern outskirts of the city. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with fire support, are also attacking Pervomaiskoye. Moreover, from the side of the Sand and from the Water. There is progress in the second of these areas.
From the region of Opytny and Spartak, Russian troops are trying to push through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern approaches to Avdievka. Artillery is actively working on this fortified area. Also under artillery attack is Novomikhailovka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye, Netaylovo, Lastochkino and New York. The Ukrainian army struck at Donetsk, Gorlovka and Mayorsk.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are artillery attack Ozaryanovka and Kleshcheevka. Rocket attack on Mironovsky. This is a deep rear. The Russian army fired on Ivanopol, Konstantinovka, Stupochki, Ivanovsky and Bakhmut. The city itself is taken in a semicircle. PMC "Wagner" advanced in the south from Ivangrad. Also, Wagner operators established control over new areas in the eastern part of Bakhmut.
In the northeast, they pushed through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Podgorodny, and from the north - from Yagodny. But the most critical position of Ukrainian troops is in the northwest. There PMC "Wagner" made a breakthrough to Bogdanovka. Thus, all supply lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut are under fire control. Wagner operators also attack in the direction of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka. To the north of Soledar, they are trying to break through to Rozdolovka. A little to the east - to Vesely.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops again tried to attack Belogorovka. To the northwest, they continued their offensive operations towards Yampolevka, Ternov, Nevsky and Makeevka. APU repelled the attacks.
08:24 Several fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stormed near Kremennaya during the offensive -video
The 4th Brigade of the 2nd Army Corps of the RF Ministry of Defense, the airborne troops and the Akhmat special forces destroyed a unit of the National Guard, one turned out to be smarter and surrendered. His name is Eugene, he will now live and will definitely return to his family. This is the main thing, writes R. Kadyrov.
The list of Ukrainian prisoners is replenished daily, the attitude towards them is normal: they receive food and the necessary medical care.
Each military APU has a great chance to stay alive and return to their families as soon as possible - this is to stop resistance, lay down their arms and surrender.
08:20 Summary on the morning of March 1, 2023
At night, the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in Ochakovo, Kremenchug, and Kyiv with Geraniums. UAVs were seen in the Sumy and Poltava regions. False air targets were used.
Artillery duels continued in the direction of Sumy-Kursk. The enemy announced 106 arrivals in the Sumy region.
Fighting continues in the Kupyansk direction and on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front.
On the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, PMCs "Wagner" are moving from the settlement. Yagodnoe to the south-west to the settlement Artyomovskoye (former Khromovo), seeking to create a threat to the encirclement of the city. The second line of action to encircle Artemovsk remains at the turn of Ivanovsky (Red)
The Russian Armed Forces are taking active actions in the Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions.
The situation near Ugledar has not changed, heavy fighting is going on.
Artillery duels are going on in the Kherson and Zaporizhia directions. From the Nikolaev region reported on the training of combat swimmers.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday tried to attack UAV objects in the Moscow, Bryansk, Belgorod regions, as well as in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea. The sky was closing in St. Petersburg.
In the Belgorod region, the village of Ustinka, Belgorod region, came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the LPR, Stakhanov was fired from the HIMARS MLRS. Three civilians were injured, eight apartment buildings were damaged.
A total of 110 ammunition was fired at the DPR, Mironovsky, Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Donetsk were under fire. A girl born in 2014 died, 9 civilians were injured.
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[REGNUM] Unmanned attacks in several Russian regions at once, from the Belgorod region and the Krasnodar Territory to the Moscow region, impressed with their mass character. But not performance, military analysts say. The study of each of the "arrivals" shows not only the well-known cunning of the organizers of the attack, but also the weaknesses of Ukrainian UAVs and the strategy for launching them. But Kiev is quickly adapting to the countermeasures our air defense forces are taking, experts warn.
Ukraine does not strike on Russian territory, Mikhail Podolyak , an adviser to the head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on March 1. But the Russian Defense Ministry is confident that the Kiev leadership is behind the raid of kamikaze drones that occurred on the night of February 27-28.
Reports of the most massive drone attack since the beginning of the NMD, we recall, came from the Belgorod Region, the Krasnodar Territory and Adygea, as well as from the Moscow Region. In St. Petersburg, the airport was temporarily closed. A number of media reported that an unknown aircraft was seen in the sky over the city, but the Russian Defense Ministry denied these publications, saying that exercises of air defense forces were held in the region.
The first reports of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) came from Belgorod. Three drones of an unidentified model fell on the streets of the city. At the crash site, PE8 I23A1 plastid explosives were found, retrofitted with striking elements from metal balls.
In Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory), a drone strike fell on the territory of an oil depot, there were no casualties or serious damage. Another device flew past the target and fell in the vicinity of Maykop. According to the wreckage, it was established that in both cases we are talking about Tu-141 Swift reconnaissance drones, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are converting into kamikaze drones.
Another crashed UAV was found in the Kolomensky district of the Moscow region. The UJ 22 Airborne drone manufactured by the Kiev company Ukrjet, one of the largest Ukrainian-made unmanned vehicles, was identified from the wreckage.
Foreign UAVs attacking Russian targets, as a rule, fly in radio silence and along a pre-programmed path, Denis Fedutinov, an unmanned aviation specialist and editor-in-chief of the UAV.ru Internet portal, explained to REGNUM . "The flight takes place at low altitudes, I won’t be surprised if the terrain is also taken into account when laying the route ," the expert added.
But the organizers of the attack did not achieve the actual practical goals, experts believe. During the day, at least six drones of various models were launched towards Russia, and only one of them reached the target, so the attack can be considered a failure. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are failing by their own tactics, which leads to accidents of vehicles, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky told REGNUM news agency .
"Let’s start by looking at each case separately," the source said. "The first case - Belgorod. There, reports of drones appeared at night, because the city is almost on the border, it’s not far to fly. Footage appeared on the Internet showing the flight of drones, which is typical - at an extremely low altitude."
The same can be said about the Tu-141, which tried to hit targets in Maikop and Tuapse. "They came in from the sea and again went at ultra-low altitude to hide from radar. Finally, the drone in the Moscow region again fell, most likely clinging to a tree or a power line tower. Because it flew extremely low. That is, it is obvious that they are trying to protect themselves from air defense systems due to such a simple trick," Mikhailovsky said.
Earlier, the organizers of the Ukrainian UAV attacks "acted very boldly when they sent drones deep into Russian territory," the expert notes.
"They used unusual routes, changing the course of the drones based on their data on the activity of the Russian [system] air defense. Then the Air Defense Forces figured out the tactics and took action. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to adapt - and unsuccessfully," Mikhailovsky believes.
In mid-January, one Tu-141 drone crashed in the Voronezh region. Then, on February 6, there were reports of the fall of two drones of this model at once in the Kaluga region and in Ukraine in the Sumy region, near the border, the expert listed. "In all three cases, the drones fell because they tried to go below the level of the radar and caught on ground obstacles. As you can see, the attempt to deceive the air defense [forces] failed. And on February 27–28, it also failed," the specialist believes.
But one should not relax and assume that Ukraine will voluntarily abandon plans to use drones for strikes in the depths of Russian territory, Mikhailovsky stressed. According to him, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is changing tactics and is trying to find weaknesses in the Russian defense.
"Before, they carried out single launches. Then we switched to doubles: one distracts, and the second attacks, or both attack. They began to act with insurance. The tactics did not pay off. Now they decided to attack at once in a number of directions and very inventively. And straight - in Belgorod, and at a distance - in the Moscow region and over the sea, bypassing the Crimea, which in general became a rather bold decision," the expert admitted.
The Crimean air defense forces should be commended for repelling attacking drones from Sevastopol, Mikhailovsky added.
"Now UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prefer to look for other targets, easier ones. But again, it's an adaptation. They do not ram their foreheads into an obstacle, but try different models, different routes," the expert noted.
"Now their weak point is the need to move at ultra-low altitude, which leads to drone accidents. I would suggest how they will proceed, but I do not want to give them ideas. But they won't stop, that's for sure. Our air defense withstood the first blow, the second, it seems, too. But this is clearly not the end."
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Russian electronic warfare has had a dramatic effect on Ukrainian drone attacks. Three day blitz and nothing to show for it. Whatever the Russians have it works.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
- Is it true that the United States has supported the Azov Battalion with weapons and finances since 2018? the senator asked a Pentagon official.
- You learned this from Chinese sources, but we do not trust Beijing. But we can’t confirm or deny,” the Pentagon spokesman replied.
P.S. As we all understand, the transfer of arrows to "Chinese sources" is just an attempt by the Pentagon to avoid a direct answer. This is how officials say "Yes" when you can't say "Yes" In fact, the Pentagon knows the answer, but refused to answer. In the absence of support for Azov, it cost nothing for the Pentagon to publicly voice it. But the recognition of support for neo-Nazis could go sideways. And you can't lie in the Senate.
Since the founding of the Azov Battalion in 2014, many US media outlets have exposed its potential ties to US authorities. According to a January 2022 Yahoo News article, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been secretly training forces for Ukraine since 2015. ... It was created in 2014 on the initiative and under the supervision of the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov. This Ukrainian unit is known for its extreme neo-Nazi ideology, and there is evidence that they have committed war crimes and terrorist attacks.
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^ The premise of said station article seems to be that a train is harder to track than a plane. I question whether that is true. Russia is a big place with a lot of railroad track. It's not surprising they use trains.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Ukrainska Pravda
Russia has lost a large-scale tank battle for Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, getting ambushed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine — just as it did during the attack when using tank convoys at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Quote: "In the extended battle, both sides sent tanks into the fray, rumbling over dirt roads and manoeuvring around tree lines, with the Russians thrusting forward in columns and the Ukrainians manoeuvring defensively, firing from a distance or from hideouts as Russian convoys came into their sights. In the Peninsular War, the French advanced in massive columns. The Brits formed lines (The Thin Red Line), usually on the high ground,and shot the hell out of the columns. Some people never learn.
When it was over, not only had Russia failed to capture Vuhledar, but it also had made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks earlier in the war: convoys advancing into ambushes."
Details: According to NYT, the charred hulks of Russian armoured vehicles now litter farm fields all about Vuhledar, according to Ukrainian military drone footage – blown up on mines, hit with artillery or obliterated by anti-tank missiles.
Ukraine’s military said Russia had lost at least 130 tanks and armoured personnel carriers in the battle.
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By 'They', does short stuff mean all Americans should be prepared to sacrifice their children for Brandon, Elynskyyyy and Ukraine Country, or does he mean the 'They' Admiral Lavine pronoun?
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that's what the headline said. Then it got censored. WTF?
If I understand the technical piece correctly, the Rantburg code currently treats anything in an article headline after a double quote (“) as an operation rather than simple text, so opening and closing the article deletes all text in the headline after the double quote — no censorship involved.
At any rate, the work around is to replace all double quotes in your headlines with either a standard single quote (‘) or to manually create what looks like a double quote by typing two single quotes (‘’). I personally prefer the single quote route while Fred generally manually types two single quotes to get the double quote effect.
A separate issue, on which I have been silent until now because it clearly only annoys my editor’s eye rather than being something important: in English we pluralize both nouns and names by adding an S without an apostrophe. Using ‘s makes it a possessive, not a plural. Thus sons & daughters means more than one of each, while son’s and daughter’s means something belonging to a single son and a single daughter. Ditto, Dopey Sforza4099s would refer to more than one of him — clones, perhaps, or several unrelated people sharing the same name — while Dopey Sforza4099‘s refers to something belonging to our own anonymous commenter, possibly his temper or his amour propre.
Whew! Thank you for letting me get that off my chest!
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The first two paragraphs in my comment above address the poster’s complaint, Frank G., because he deserves to know that nobody censored his headline. The final two paragraphs are one of my current pet peeves, only incidentally related to this post, but apparently enough pressure has built up for me on the subject that I could no longer leave it unsaid.
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TW, you would be a good coder. Software languages have similar syntax nuances. I should know. I have learned over 13 different computer languages over the years.
BLUF: Until the date of this article, the blogger Donetsk held off blogging about a meeting between government officials and the women/wives of soldiers of the Ukrainian 58th Separate Rifle Brigade, apparently thinking the document was a Russian plant.
The women just wanted to know where their men are and the Ukrainian officials won't give a clear answer. Apparently, the women are too scared to press for information because, from what I read into the situation, they could be denounced as enemies of the state, with all that that entails.
The women searched, apparently physically, everywhere they were sent for some information about their men only to be rebuffed everywhere.
Donetsk also offers to Ukrainian women help in finding information from EPOW rolls.
[DonRF] The video is big, boring and in Ukrainian. Simply and boringly, the public council of the Sumy region in December 2022, discussed with the wives of the military personnel of the 58th motorized infantry brigade, the loss of 700 of its soldiers. Not death or injury, not captivity, namely loss. They were and are not. Dissolved in the expanses of the former Ukraine.
I have already published the document, I will repeat it just in case: A photo of the document is at the link
Both the document and the video are just f ... c. Sorry, but there are no swear words. I stand on this side. They are enemies. But at the same time, rejoicing at the loss (death) of 700 men in only one region is not normal. These are Russian people, although even now they are enemies. And this begging from women for at least some information about their husbands - you can’t comment without swearing.
The video is amazing - it will introduce itself from the fear of women, because if the wife of a missing serviceman talks a lot, she can instantly turn out to be a collaborator and enemy of Ukraine. They applied everywhere, and everywhere they were sent, the only thing that frightened the Ukrainian officials was the threat of their wives to go to Russia to look for their men. At what plainly they didn’t say anything, they promised to sort it out ... once again. And the phrase that the 58th Brigade (3500 people) is no longer there, even before the Bakhmut meat grinder, melted away in the battles of spring and summer to zero, so this is an indicator of what is the real situation on the fronts.
In a word, look and listen and think. I do not call on our side to rejoice, I do not call on that side to go to the barricades, I am not an agent of the FSB/GRU/Putin, not a Russian IPSO, I am a blogger who was thrown off these files on December 15th. The man threw it out. He sent them out in the hope that they would raise a fuss even here, if no one there cares. And I did not publish for a long time, I was afraid to set up a person. Now you can. The person who got all this is already safe. Russian IPSO refers to a military information specialist
And if they don’t care about their own, whether it’s Kyiv and Zelts or local bureaucrats, then I can advise the wives of the missing to write here. There are volunteers I know, and it’s not a secret that the names of the prisoners are here.
I don’t give guarantees, but I do what I can, without demanding anything in return. Because the situation when their dead are buried in a trench is not normal. More precisely, it is abnormal for us, for the authorities of Ukraine, apparently it is good.
Once again, watch the video and listen carefully. Much will become clear. And to the people on the other side, who have not yet been caught and put into service, think hard. Not everyone ends up in Azov, which, according to their wives and mothers, they are looking for and changing.
And then the wife will hear - take a backpack yourself, all by yourself, but unofficially, officially this is bad, officially this is work for the enemy. And DNA will be made for a year, and it’s not a fact that they will do it, they have a queue ...
[IsraelTimes] Warnings broadcast in Belgorod, Voronezh regions near Ukraine, and annexed Crimea; similar cyberattack triggered sirens last week
Russian authorities said Tuesday that several regional television and radio stations that have recently broadcast air raid alerts had been breached by hackers.
The alerts are common across Ukraine, which is routinely targeted by drone and missile attacks, but the impact of fighting within Russia is limited to regions bordering the conflict.
"As a result of hacking of servers of radio stations and TV channels, in some regions of the country, information about the announcement of an air raid alert was broadcast," Russia’s emergencies ministry said in a statement.
"This information is false and does not correspond to reality," it added.
Russian media reported that the alerts had been broadcast in the Belgorod and Voronezh regions bordering Ukraine, near Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
The emergencies ministry said a similar cyberattack last week triggered air raid sirens across Russia.
The hackers targeted only private radio and television stations.
The breaches came shortly after the first anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s decision to send troops into Ukraine in February last year.
Several Russian regions bordering Ukraine have been targeted in attacks that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.
[BBC] Finland has begun constructing a 200km (124 mile) fence on its border with Russia to boost security.
The Border Guard said it will be 3m (10ft) tall with barbed wire on top.
Finland shares the longest European Union border with Russia, at 1,340km (832 miles). At present, Finland's borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences.
Finland decided to build the fence due to a rise in Russians seeking to escape conscription to fight in Ukraine.
The Nordic country also moved closer to joining the Nato alliance on Tuesday. Its parliament started debating a bill to speed up the country's bid, with a vote expected on Wednesday.
Work on the fence at the Imatra border crossing started on Tuesday with forest clearance, while road construction and fence installation are planned to start in March.
Night vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers will be installed in certain sections of the fence.
A 3km pilot project at Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, the Border Guard said.
Finland passed new amendments to its Border Guard Act in July to allow the building of stronger fences. The current wooden fences are mainly to prevent livestock crossing the border.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Finland has sought to strengthen its eastern border. In September, large numbers of Russians started fleeing to Finland after President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine.
WHAT IS NATO AND HOW IS IT HELPING UKRAINE?
Following Russia's invasion on 24 February last year, both Finland and Sweden decided they wanted to join Nato as soon as possible, after being neutral for years.
But Helsinki faces fewer diplomatic hurdles than Stockholm, and the Finnish government wants to move forward even before Finland's general elections in April.
Only Turkey and Hungary have yet to approve the Finnish and Swedish bids to join the defensive bloc.
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Can't today's wall do it all? Frost have something to say about that. Unfortunately, Frost not here.
As Sanna was headed for bed
Her telephone buzzed and glowed red!
Did Putin want booty?
"Just comradely duty!
Be doll and build wall... or you're dead."
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
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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.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[NEWS.YAHOO] Ukrainska Pravda
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
