[ToloNews] The Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has said that Moscow is interested in participating in the TAPI project.
In an interview with Russia 24 TV, Kabulov said that ensuring the security of TAPI in Afghanistan is one of the most important matters of the gas pipeline project.
"If requested by the project’s partners, including Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistain and India, Russia will join the project. The president of Russia has shown his readiness to cooperate in this project a few years ago, and we are interested in cooperation in the Asian economic sector. The key question about this project is security in the territory of Afghanistan, and this project can raise the economic status of Afghanistan," Kabulov said.
The First Deputy Prime Minister’s office said in a statement that the Islamic Emirate guarantees the security of major projects, including TAPI.
According to the statement, there is now security and opportunity for the implementation of infrastructure projects.
"Afghanistan is a country that needs to grow and stand on its own, and we are in dire need of countries’ support, and we can provide them with all the facilities," said Zabiullah Mujahid, the front man of the Islamic Emirate.
"TAPI is one of the most significant economic projects for our country, and its implementation will not only improve political dialogue and regional cooperation but also supply the necessary gas energy, enable the mining of the nation's gas reserves, and will create jobs," said Abdurrahman Habib, a spokesperson for the ministry of economy.
He said the project will create over 10,000 jobs during its implementation.
Analysts said that an international agreement is necessary, particularly Asian Development Bank and its member nations, to allow more countries to join the TAPI project.
"I think the inclusion of new countries in this project is too late and requires global agreement and understanding, notably the Asian Development Bank, in addition to the member nations, to come to an understanding about this," said Azerakhsh Hafezi, an economic affairs analyst.
The TAPI project is designed to pass through Afghanistan and Pakistain before reaching India from Turkmenistan. Afghanistan will make more than $400 million a year from the implementation of the project.
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[ColonelCassad] Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
The scenario of the Central African Republic and Mali is being repeated. The new authorities of Burkina Faso against the backdrop of massive anti-French demonstrations demanded that France withdraw its troops from the country. We are talking about the withdrawal of the French special forces battalion, which provided the power positions of France in Burkina Faso. It is obvious that after their withdrawal, they will be occupied locally by the Wagner PMC, as was already the case in the Central African Republic and Mali.
BURKINA FASO URGES FRANCE TO WITHDRAW TROOPS
Burkina Faso has demanded an "expeditious" withdrawal of French troops from its territory, writes Le Figaro. According to the sources of the publication, the French are given a month for this. It is this period that is laid down in the agreement between the two countries dated December 17, 2018. “This is not a break in relations with France. The notification concerns only agreements on military cooperation,” the authorities of Burkina Faso said.
France is a former metropolis whose position in Burkina Faso has been contested for months. There are demonstrations that demand the withdrawal of French troops from the country. At the moment, a contingent of almost 400 French special forces is stationed there.
At the same time, at the end of September, a putsch occurred in Burkina Faso, and a transitional government came to power. The transitional president promised that the "struggle for sovereignty" had begun and relations with some states would be reviewed.
Last week, Paris sent its secretary of state there, who said: "France does not impose anything, it is ready to create a common future." But the new authorities intend to diversify their partnerships.
Among the alleged new partners, the authorities regularly mention Russia, the author of the article notes. “Russia is the smart choice in this dynamic” and “we believe our partnership needs to be strengthened,” Prime Minister Burkina Faso said after meeting with Russian Ambassador Alexei Saltykov. And in early December, he secretly visited Moscow.
Last summer, authorities in neighboring Mali ordered French troops to leave the country they had been in for nine years. Several sources report that at the same time, the Russian PMC Wagner was invited to Mali, although this information is denied there.
Now France is thinking about redeploying forces from Burkina Faso to neighboring Niger, where there are already about 2,000 French soldiers, writes Le Figaro, citing its sources.
The collapse of the French neo-colonial empire continues. We are waiting for the start of events in Niger in 2023 and the contestation of French control over uranium mines.
[Politico] Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a major procurement scandal that has rocked the country’s political establishment.
Shapovalov, who oversaw logistical support for the army, tendered his resignation following a scandal involving the purchase of military rations at inflated prices.
In his resignation letter, the minister asked to be dismissed in order “not to pose a threat to the stable supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of a campaign of accusations related to the purchase of food services.”
An exposé from the Ukrainian news website ZN.UA revealed last week that the defense ministry purchased overpriced food supplies for its troops. For instance, the ministry bought eggs at 17 hryvnias per piece, while the average price of an egg in Kyiv is around 7 hryvnias. According to ZN.UA, a contract for food procurement for soldiers in 2023 amounted to 13.16 billion hryvnias (€328 million).
On Monday, a statement from Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov dismissed the inflated prices as a “technical error” by the contractor, claiming that it “made a mistake while transferring data from one table to another.”
The minister labeled the news report as “nothing but manipulations” and announced a security service inquiry to find out who leaked details of the contract. However, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine had announced it was investigating the catering contract before journalists published their investigation.
These revelations come as a severe blow as Kyiv’s officials have been trying to show that the nation is improving its record on corruption in a bid to make headway in the EU’s accession process.
Other senior figures from the Ukrainian government resigned or were dismissed this week. On Tuesday, Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin dismissed his deputy Oleksiy Symonenko after he took a vacation in Spain in late 2022.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also dismissed Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of his office, although no official reason has been given. Ukrainian media reported last week that Tymoshenko was in conflict with other officials including his superior Andriy Yermak.
Deputy Infrastructure Minister Vasyl Lozynskiy was also recently fired amid allegations related to the public purchase of electricity generators.
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And four oblast governors replaced yesterday - shortly after that tragic helicopter accident
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Could this mean that the war is going well enough that Ukraine can turn at least some of its attention to other things? Or does this mean the threat of Europe turning away from the fight has become a serious concern?
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[RIA] The capture of Soledar by Russian troops and a series of small but important victories in the western direction put our strategic opponents in front of an existential choice: either to surrender or get involved in a war against Russia to the point of complete destruction in earnest, without hiding behind excuses like "we are fighting here, we are not fighting here, Ukraine is here we help, and here we wrap the fish." The choice is yours, of course.
Individual humanitarians still allow themselves to whimper. “By sending tanks to Ukraine, we can turn Europe into one big radioactive grave,” mourns Peter Hitchens in the British Daily Mail . “Why did Britain sign up for this at all?” However, it is the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
Britain sends tanks to Ukraine. The Czech Republic sends tanks to Ukraine. The US is loudly saying that it is about to send tanks to Ukraine. And only Germany is still trying to resist. “As for the Leopard tanks, we cannot yet say when the decision will be made and what it will be,” Boris Pistorius, the newly appointed Minister of Defense of the country, has just mumbled on the sidelines of the meeting in Ramstein.
For this conciliatory position, the alliance allies gave Olaf Scholz a demonstrative flogging. The Baltic limitrophes spoke out in the sense that Germany should not hide behind other NATO members . American General Wesley Clark , who killed the Vietnamese and Yugoslavs , said that Ukraine should immediately be given all possible heavy weapons: "Putin <...> is planning a new offensive. <...> Ten tanks? Ukraine needs three hundred, five hundred tanks."
Finally, the wounds of the German chancellor were sprinkled with salt by the British partners. "Insecure, unimaginative leaders like Olaf Scholz are being swept away by a wave of general disgust," said Guardian columnist Simon Tisdall. Members of the alliance demonstrate high relations to us, of course.
What caused the hysteria in the ranks of our opponents? Firstly, the fear of the steady advance of Russian troops and the inevitable defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Secondly, by the realization of the sad fact that they are running out of not only 155mm shells, but also fighting Ukrainians, and a new one is unlikely to help here - the sixth or seventh already in a row? - mobilization in Ukraine.
This means that NATO countries must either capitulate or get involved in the Ukrainian conflict in an adult way. The same Simon Tisdall suggests that Europe "fight with everything it has, even with the risk that the national armies of European countries will be directly involved in the conflict."
Notice that there is not a single mention of the NATO bloc here - only national armies. The fact is that in the United States today they are doing everything to blur and blurt out the fifth article of the Charter of the alliance, if only to ensure themselves the opportunity to avoid direct confrontation with Russia and steer the conflict from across the ocean, drinking mojitos by the pool, while European cannon fodder will die where something near Kupyansk.
The British Guardian tells Washington how to elegantly evade responsibility. Let the “national armies” of European countries invade Ukraine, then the White House will not have to save NATO allies.
Translated into Russian, this means that the Anglo-Saxons have already fought to the last Ukrainian and are now planning to fight to the last European. Indeed, why feel sorry for them?
However, it is difficult to imagine a German burgher or a French bourgeois who suddenly, for some reason, goes to the Eastern Front to defend Ukrainian independence. The population there, of course, is pretty fooled by propaganda, but still shedding blood for Zelensky is a completely unconventional way of suicide. Europe is not yet ready for this.
Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon elites are pushing away the annoying mantras about helping the Ukrainians, and openly saying that the Europeans should do away with Russia. "The Russian Empire must die," Ann Applebaum, a well-known American journalist and prominent expert on the Gulag, recently formulated .
Thank you for your frankness, we already, in general, understand everything. The bottom line here is that Ukrainian independence as a trophy of Europeans, of course, is not of interest. But if you convince them that we are talking about the defeat and plunder of Russia, then it will be a completely different matter. On the ruins of the Soviet Union, the EU elites feasted for a decade. The crumbs from the geopolitical pie that Brussels shared with Washington were also given to ordinary people.
Up until 1991, the European Union was not a very wealthy and not very confident entity on the map. Since the 90s, he has gone up. Old Europe ruthlessly milked the post-Soviet borderlands and squeezed all the juice out of the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. They relied on a shock economy, degradation, depopulation, and for their own there was a strong euro, strong economic growth, cheap loans and all the delights of consumerism.
Now this feast of the winners has ended - abruptly and mercilessly. The only hope to renew it is the robbery of Russia. To do this, she must be defeated on the battlefield. This is the carrot that their Anglo-Saxon friends hang in front of the Europeans. For themselves, they have chosen the role of managing the conflict, but the citizens of the EU will have to experience this conflict in their own skin.
A separate carrot is reserved for Poland , Washington's favorite wife in the European harem. Citizens there are invited to die in order to return the Eastern Kresy, the western regions of Ukraine, to the country.
However, with the open intervention of the European military in the conflict in Ukraine, the risk of a nuclear strike immediately arises. How to deal with it? The population of both the US and Europe is not alien to the natural human fear of nuclear war. Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the States even risk voicing this fear publicly. It is he who slows down the flywheel of the conflict.
Simon Tisdall suggests European cannon fodder not to be afraid. All the same, they say, "military escalation is inevitable." Why is it inevitable? But because the West supplies weapons to Ukraine and plans to supply even more advanced ones: tanks, air defense systems, aircraft. The idea of "closing the sky over Ukraine" constantly pops up. That is, Washington itself stirs up the conflict, and then, as if mocking its allies, shrugged it off: you see, they say, escalation is inevitable, go to the front. And as for the fifth article - as they say, "we'll see."
Striking, of course, is the cynicism of these figures, who, sitting in their comfortable offices, program the Europeans for war and make no secret of the fact that they are leaving them to certain death. "Let's not let fear influence our decisions," Ann Applebaum tries . "The less we show our fear, the more we will scare Putin."
So far, however, the opposite has been observed. Trying to confront Russia, NATO allies do their best to hide behind each other's backs, pushing the poorest and most stupid to the front lines. First pushed out to fight the Ukrainians. Now they are running out, and Poles are being pushed to replace them. The Poles are resisting and trying to recruit those Ukrainians who fled to Europe to the front.
The Baltic limitrophes are hiding behind the backs of the Poles. The Germans are sitting behind the backs of the Baltic states. In the rear, the French are waiting for the Germans, followed by the Italians, Spaniards and tutti quanti. Cowardly vassals are generously rewarded with kicks from the boots of Uncle Sam, who is freely spread out in a deck chair on the other side of the Atlantic.
And what caused all this fuss? Yes, fear, of course. Our strategic opponents in horror are pushing each other under a possible response from Russia and are frantically trying to participate in the conflict without running into retribution.
For the Europeans, even two deterrent factors work here: not only Russian nuclear weapons, but also an impressive historical memory. Do not count how many of their ancestors, who went to conquer and plunder Russia, rest today in our vast expanses. As Pushkin noted, there will be enough space for new conquerors - "among coffins that are not alien to them," so to speak.
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Thanks, badanov, for sharing this prime grade reporting from RIA Novosti. I give it a 3.5 on the Juche Meter -- it lost points for no "boiling in seas of fire".
The accuracy of machine translation is challenged by idiomatic phrasing. Google generally provides a colloquial rendition rather than a more formalized structure.
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^ As in: "Ukraine is here we help, and here we wrap the fish."
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My favorite is the Russian "to grass someone" which is an idiom for tattling on them to the cops. Ran into that several times in some translated Russian to American Fantasy novels... It took some time to figure out what it meant from context.
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[RIA Novosti] During the special operation in Ukraine, Russian troops are confronted by almost the entire West, there has never been such a level of fighting in the modern history of the country, Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said in an interview with AiF.
"Modern Russia has never known such a level and intensity of hostilities. Our country and its Armed Forces today are opposed by almost the entire collective West," the general said. Just a Special Military Operation™ of a couple days weeks' duration, Da?
According to him, in order to stabilize the situation, protect new territories and carry out offensive operations in Russia, a partial mobilization was carried out. Such events, Gerasimov noted, had not been since the Great Patriotic War.
He stressed that now the General Staff is taking the necessary measures to achieve the goals of the special operation set by the president. The department also ensures the security of Russia, taking into account existing military threats.
On January 11, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, commander of a group of forces in the special military operation zone.
Since February 24, a special operation has been taking place in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." According to the president, the ultimate goal is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself.
At the same time, the head of state has repeatedly stressed that Moscow is ready for negotiations, since it seeks not to spin the flywheel of the Ukrainian conflict, but to end it. Western countries, in turn, are constantly talking about the need to continue hostilities, pumping up the Kyiv authorities with weapons and training the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on their territory.
The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that the supply of weapons only prolongs the conflict, and the transport of weapons becomes a legitimate target for the Russian army.
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You'd think with all the Cold War bogeyman hype of Spetsnaz operating behind the lines there would be more 'accidents' in lands west of the Ukraine.
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Attacking another country is not a tactical maneuver, it's a declaration of war.
Oh, you mean like blowing up their natural gas pipeline?
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"Attacking another country is not a tactical maneuver, it's a declaration of war."
How tactical is a foreign state sponsored coup?
And when certain segments of the population don't accept said coup, when those populations don't give up there right to self-representation and democracy, are the persuasive terror attacks and shelling tactical too?
What about Linsey Graham and J.McCain pre-war pep talks to azov... What about the special force training of the ukr national guards (aka neo-nazis) in 2014 (and beyond) in anticipation and preparation of the future nato war vs soviet legacy / putins russia - tactical?
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 19:15 Each projectile is right on target: the use of the Krasnopol high-precision munition by marine artillerymen in the special operation zone -video
Crews of 152mm howitzers "Msta-B" of the artillery units of the marines of the Pacific Fleet continue to destroy strongholds, firepower and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of a special military operation.
The artillerymen of the Pacific Fleet use the Krasnopol corrected ammunition, which is equipped with a semi-active laser homing head. On the descending part of the trajectory, the head searches for a target illuminated by a laser designator. Guaranteed hitting the target with a deviation of no more than a few meters is provided, regardless of the firing range.
18:34 The situation in Donetsk-Zaporozhye direction as of 18.00 January 23, 2023
In the Zaporozhye sector, Russian units pushed out the forces of the 3rd battalion of the 65th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the village of Kamenskoye. However, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces have not yet entered Kamenskoye, as the Ukrainian artillery is working hard on it. At the moment, the settlement is in the "gray zone".
At the Orekhovsky section, the Armed Forces of Ukraine regrouped and were able to hold the Malye Shcherbaki - Shcherbaki - Novoandreevka - Novodanilovka line. Active counter-battery struggle continues along the front line.
The offensive on a wide front is complicated by the remote mining of M73 cluster munitions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces conduct local attacks on Ukrainian borders, pointing artillery at firing positions.
At the same time, the Ukrainian command expects the resumption of the assault on both the Orekhovsky and Pologovsky sectors. A total of 18 people were deployed to the advanced positions at the Belogorye-Charivnoye line to reinforce the 103rd Battalion of the 108th Troop Regiment.
In the vicinity of Tavriysky, artillery crews of the 44th brigade were deployed, one launcher of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS was moved to Orekhov, and additional crews of 155mm M777 howitzers arrived at the front lines of the 65th brigade.
In the Pologovsky sector, units of the 102nd Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are equipping firing positions and strongholds in Chervonoye and Malinovka.
At the Vremievsky sector, servicemen of the RF Armed Forces conducted reconnaissance in force at the position of the 231st Battalion of the 128th Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Vremyevka.
To strengthen the defense, crews of the 43rd Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were transferred to Bolshaya Novoselka, and observation posts were equipped at the turn of Bolshaya Novoselka - Novoselka.
17:35 "The guys are working well": the combat work of the crews of the MLRS 300mm "Tornado-G" of the Southern Military District in the special operation zone -video
Calculations "Tornado-G" destroy command posts, warehouses with weapons, ammunition and fuel and lubricants, and also conduct counter-battery combat with enemy artillery located at a great distance.
The maximum efficiency and accuracy of volleys is provided by fire adjustment with the help of unmanned aircraft and advanced artillery reconnaissance detachments.
16:25 "Mortar 120mm 2B11 works well, we shoot clearly": training of mortars of the Central Military District in the rear areas of the special operation -video
Crews of 120mm mortars of the Central Military District are practicing the skills of quickly and effectively hitting enemy targets in the NVO zone.
Mortarmen perform the deployment of guns in combat positions, carry out orientation, aiming and firing from closed firing positions.
Soldiers learn to use the tactics of "roaming mortars" - a quick change of firing positions located near the enemy. After hitting the targets, the mortar crews of the Central Military District leave their positions and take cover in dugouts.
16:23 Ukrainian snipers, who had placed their positions in the attic of a civilian house, were discovered by Russian servicemen, and fire was immediately opened on them. Ukram had to urgently retreat - video
15:19 Odessa: now militants in ambulances are capturing men and dragging them to the slaughterhouse The Kiev regime sent an entire army for an urgent forceful burial of cannon fodder -video
15:01 Drones of the DPR fighters hit the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with precise strikes -video
The strike UAV operators of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps worked with a bang: successfully dropped bombs made two fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with one KIA and another one was wounded.
Mavic drones are still in dire need of the front for reconnaissance, fire adjustment and bombing.
14:56 Footage of the defeat of the Ukrainian oporniks by the airborne troops in the forest near Kremennaya -video
The paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division suppressed firing points with fire from the BTR-82A, 40mm grenade launcher AGS-17 and 120mm Nona self-propelled guns, after which the assault groups broke into the trenches, where they destroyed the remnants of the militants or took them prisoner. Some of the lucky ones managed to escape, leaving their wounded and dead.
The work of the 76th Pskov Guards Division on one of the hottest sectors of the front.
14:30 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (23.01.2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, the artillery of the Western Military District inflicted fire damage on the accumulations of manpower of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Berestovoe, Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoe, Luhansk People's Republic. More than 40 Ukrainian servicemen and one car were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire from the Central Military District and the Airborne Forces inflicted defeat on units of the 80th and 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Serebryansky forestry area. Enemy losses amounted to up to 70 servicemen, four armored combat vehicles and two US-made AN/TPQ-37 and AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radars.
In the Donetsk direction, volunteers of assault detachments, with fire support from operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Southern Military District, liberated the settlement of Krasnopolye of the Donetsk People's Republic. Over 60 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, two 152mm towed artillery Msta-B and 122mm towed artillery D-30 howitzers, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar were destroyed in this direction in a day.
In the Zaporizhia direction, as a result of a complex fire engagement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the troops of the Eastern Military District, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, as well as a combat vehicle of the 122mm Grad multiple launch rocket system were destroyed in a day.
In the Dnieper direction, high-precision ground-based weapons inflicted a defeat on the temporary deployment point of a unit of the 107th Rocket Artillery Brigade near the village of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region. As a result of the impact on the opened firing position, the launcher of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, along with the crew, and two vehicles were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 24 hours defeated 63 artillery units in firing positions, as well as manpower and military equipment in 97 districts.
During the day, air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya in the Luhansk People's Republic and Zhovtneve in the Kharkiv region. Also, 14 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers were intercepted in the areas of the city of Donetsk, the settlements of Avdeevka, Pilipchatino of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Chervonopopovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 376 aircraft, 203 helicopters, 2934 unmanned aerial vehicles, 401 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7607 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 987 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,893 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 8,153 units of special military vehicles.
14:13 Soledar direction situation as of 13.00 January 23, 2023
In the Soledar sector, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC, after the liberation of the village of Krasnopolye, are moving in the direction of Razdolovka to the north of Soledar and Blagodatny in the west.
Units of the 10th Guards Brigade, reinforced by two armored vehicles, made an unsuccessful attempt to storm the Russian positions at the Razdolovka-Stryapovka line. The offensive was thwarted by artillery fire.
Members of the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report that the main reason for the loss of Soledar is the error of the command during the transfer and replacement of personnel of the 128th brigade.
According to the operational group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, over the past two weeks, the total losses of the entire Ukrainian garrison in Soledar and its environs alone amounted to more than 2,000 people killed and wounded.
In the northeast of Bakhmut, Russian troops are fighting in the vicinity of Krasnaya Gora, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to hold a defensive line. Ukrainian artillery fires on the offensive areas of the RF Armed Forces.
Cannon and rocket artillery guns, including national-made Alder-M MLRS with a range of up to 130 km, as well as a large number of armored vehicles, were supplied to the Ukrainian formations in this sector.
However, at the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a significant shortage of ammunition, which makes it impossible to conduct a massive shelling. One crew cannot use more than five shells per day.
An impromptu RAV warehouse was organized in Paraskovievka, where additional shells, thermal imagers, ultrashort-wave radio stations and batteries were delivered the day before.
In Bakhmut, assault detachments of the Wagner PMC advanced in the Myasokombinat and Zabakhmutka districts, and also occupied a residential area on the southern outskirts from the Experimental side.
The withdrawal of the 60th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues from the Druzhkovka station due to the losses incurred. Strongholds and positions are occupied by members of the 93rd brigade, which arrived to replace.
In the south-west of Kleshcheevka, the "Wagnerites" entrenched themselves to the north and north-west of the village and are advancing towards Krasnoye (Ivanovsky), establishing control over four strongholds and three firing positions. The capture of Red will allow taking Bakhmut into the operational environment.
The Ukrainian command formed a separate tactical group on the basis of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have occupied the areas southwest and west of Kleshcheevka and are preparing to launch a counteroffensive to regain control over the lost territories.
13:06 The long arm of artillery: crews of 152mm self-propelled howitzers 2S3 "Acacia" of the artillery unit of the Southern Military District destroy objects and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video
Artillerymen of the Southern Military District, supporting the actions of motorized rifle and tank units, strike at enemy fortifications, accumulations of manpower and columns of military equipment of Ukrainian militants.
Reconnaissance of enemy positions and adjustment of the accuracy of the fire of combat vehicles was carried out by UAV crews.
12:27 Footage of the work of our artillery on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction (For Cheburashka) - video
11:57 As of January 23, 2023 on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation freed Mesopotamia and Krasnopolyevka.
11:45 Starobilsk direction situation as of 11.00 January 23, 2023
In the Kupyansko-Svatovsky sector, the enemy is conducting reconnaissance of the positions of the RF Armed Forces with the help of small UAVs and sabotage groups located at the forefront.
In Novoselovsky, Ukrainian formations take up positions near the railway station. The continuation of the attack on Kuzemovka was delayed for several days due to bad weather conditions.
One of the DRGs of the 103rd Terodefense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operates along the railway tracks in the Novoselovsky-Kuzemovka area, and a detachment of the Ukrainian SOF operates in the vicinity of Novovodyanoe.
At positions northwest of Kupyansk, trenches and dugouts are being equipped in case of an offensive by the RF Armed Forces. Local residents report the arrival of a convoy of military equipment in the vicinity of Kupyansk.
There are no significant changes in the situation in the Limansky section. Russian servicemen are fixed at the Makeevka-Ploshanka line, equipping additional strongholds.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct artillery fire on various areas along the front line, while not going on the offensive. Small DRGs are unsuccessfully trying to get through the defensive formations of the RF Armed Forces.
In the vicinity of Zarechny, the 1st battalion of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is deployed. A fire support company of 107 troop troop units, EW crews and Fagot anti-tank systems were transferred to the unit.
10:50 The 3rd Brigade of the DPR covered a group of Ukrainian militants - video
The UAV operator of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps, during reconnaissance, discovered the movement of a group of Ukrainian militants. Artillery fire was opened on the identified target, as a result of which the enemy suffered heavy losses.
09:34 Breaking through the enemy’s defenses: the combat work of T-90M tank crews to destroy objects and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the special operation zone — video
The tankers of the Southern Military District carried out a fire defeat of the accumulation of enemy manpower and military equipment, frustrating the plan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack the positions of the RF Armed Forces.
Crews of modern T-90M "Proryv" tanks advance to the line of opening fire, suppress firing points and change position using the terrain and natural shelters. Tankers successfully hit targets that are at a considerable distance and out of line of sight. According to the coordinates obtained with the help of the UAV, observation posts, ammunition depots, as well as foreign military equipment on the right bank of the Dnieper are being destroyed.
Tank crews quickly master modern technology, act boldly and skillfully, showing heroism, courage and courage.
09:02 A cache of Ukrainian militants with 306 kg of explosives was found in the LPR - video
Russian security forces discovered another cache of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kudryashovka in the LPR. The cache contained shells for heavy artillery and 306 kg of explosives, retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko said.
The investigation established that the ammunition and explosives were kept by a citizen of Ukraine, who at the time of the start of the special operation served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stationed in the vicinity of Kudryashovka.
08:05 Summary on the morning of January 23, 2023
The Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction drove the enemy out of the settlement. Kamenskoe, in the evening there were still reports of fighting near the village. There are active operations in the direction of Orekhov and Gulyaipol, our troops are fixed on the occupied lines.
Rocket troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces defeated the command post of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Lezhino near Zaporozhye.
In the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, PMC "Wagner" is developing success from the positions of the recently occupied Kleshcheevka (located southwest of the city) in order to quickly encircle the city.
On the Kherson direction - artillery duels.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansko-Svatovsky sector are concentrating reinforcements in the direction of the settlement. Novoselovskoe.
On the Zaporozhye sector of the front, the enemy is gathering reinforcements against the backdrop of the advance of our troops.
Near the border with Belarus (eight km), in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted military exercises using heavy armored vehicles and a battery of self-propelled guns in order to work out the containment of Russian troops entering from Belarus.
In the Belgorod region, the village of Vyazovoe, Krasnoyaruzhsky district, came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no one was injured. At night, our air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the LPR: Zolote, Starobelsk, Fomovka, three houses were destroyed.
The enemy fired 56 shells at the civilian population of the DPR, Donetsk, Gorlovka, Panteleimonovka, Kashtanovye , Mineralnoe, Staromikhaylovka, Ilovaisk were under fire.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 01/23/2023 to 00:00 01/24/2023
Over the past day Representationreported about 18 facts of firing by the VFU.
-- In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired five rounds from 155mm artillery.
-- On Gorlovsky nine artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
-- On Yasinovatsky four artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 120 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic : the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Gorlovka (Central city, Nikitovsky districts), Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Kashtanovoe.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of 7 civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and the Central City district of Horlivka.
11 housing constructions were damaged in Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Central City districts of Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.
AT previous 14 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU during the day.
23:10 A civilian was injured as a result of an APU strike on Horlivka, the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, said.
"The house at the address: Dimitrova Boulevard, 39, damaged as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression. A civilian from Gorlovka was wounded at this address," he wrote in Telegram.
In addition, as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the heating system and the gas pipeline were damaged in the house.
21:15 Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spreads rumors about the decision to leave Bakhmut
According to the Welders, rumors about the withdrawal from Bakhmut are being spread on the task of the Ukrainian command in order to prevent a mass shameful flight in the event of a large-scale offensive. After all, the day before, a wave of discontent arose in the ranks of the Ukrainian military, due to the exit from the city of a column of headquarters equipment of the command of the tactical group, which led the entire defense in this area.
The "fake plan for an organized withdrawal from Bakhmut" should convince the Ukrainian fighters of the planned nature of the actions in order to avoid heavy losses, as was the case in Soledar.
20:54 VFU wounded a civilian during the artillery attack of the 103rd quarter in Yasinovataya
20:19 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 23, received additional information about casualties among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
- on Lenin Ave., 60 "a", a man born in 1950 was wounded.
Received additional information on damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka:
Central city area:
- damage to the building of the MBOU "School No. 55 in Gorlovka" was recorded;
- damage to the building of the Moloko Supermarket was recorded.
Nikitovsky district:
- st. Kondratenko, 181, 183 - private residential buildings.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
19:53 A civilian was injured as a result of the artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops,reportedmayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
“As a result of the artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka from the positions of Ukrainian terrorists, a civilian A.Yu.I., born on 07.12.1950, was wounded. Currently, the man is receiving qualified medical assistance, ”Prikhodko wrote on his Telegram channel.
19:52 At 19.10 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops fired eight NATO-caliber 155-millimeter rounds at Yasinovataya, reports on Monday representation of Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:26 Updated information, as a result of the artillery attack of the Petrovsky district, men born in 1964, 1966, 1969 and 1990 were injured.
19:11 Kramatorsk —arrivals on Ukrainian positions in the area of the industrial zone.
17:46 January 22 in the Kremennaya area by Russian troops destroyed another "cyborg" from the Donetsk airport, an ideological Banderist, a former deputy of the Sumy Regional Council Eduard Pinchuk.
16:13 APU militants fired upon from the M142 HIMARS MLRS to the Mikhailovskaya electrical substation.
15:00 VFU attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was wounded.
14:33 Accumulations of manpower of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by fire in the Kupyansk direction - RF Ministry of Defense
The forces of these enemy units were hit by artillery of the Western Military District troops in the areas of Dvurechnaya, Berestovoye, Kharkov region and Novoselovsky LPR. Also in the daily briefing of the military department, it was announced that:
- In the Krasnolimansky direction in the area of Serebryansky forestry, artillery fire from the troops of the Central Military District hit accumulations of manpower of the 80th and 95th Airborne Infantry Battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- In the Zaporozhye direction, the troops of the Air Defense Forces inflicted a complex fire defeat on enemy units;
- In the Dnieper direction in the Marganets region of the Dnepropetrovsk region, ground-based high-precision weapons inflicted a defeat on the temporary deployment point of a unit of the 107th rocket artillery brigade. Upon impact, a firing position was opened and a US-made MLRS HIMARS launcher was destroyed;
- During the day, among the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the equipment there are also three US-made counter-battery radar stations - two AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-37 (Krasnolimansk, Donetsk directions), two 122mm D-30 and 152mm Msta-B howitzers (Donetsk direction) and BM MLRS 122mm "Grad" (Zaporozhye direction).
14:27 At 13:40, another artillery attack of the Petrovsky district was recorded from the VFU. From n.p. Ilyinka fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm.
14:14 Ukrainian troops fired three rounds with a caliber of 155 mm in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, reported at the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
13:19 Offensive of our troops in the forest near Kremennaya. Opponents are occupied. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 30 people killed and captured.
12:44 Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Golmovsky in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing eight rounds of NATO caliber 155 mm, reported at the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
12:43 Ukrainian troops fired five rounds with a caliber of 155mm at Panteleymonovka in the DPR, reported at the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
12:15 Denis Pushilin's main statements:
Russian units are advancing on almost all sections of the line of contact in the DPR;
Important heights around Kleshcheevka south of Artemovsk are almost completely occupied by Russian forces;
The Ukrainian security forces destroyed Soledar, there were practically no whole buildings and structures left in the city;
The Artyomsol enterprise in Soledar will be restored.
12:03 Starobilsk direction: situation as of 11:00 January 23, 2023
In the Kupyansko-Svatovsky sector, the enemy is conducting reconnaissance of the positions of the RF Armed Forces with the help of small UAVs and sabotage groups located at the forefront.
In Novoselovsky, Ukrainian formations take up positions near the railway station. The continuation of the attack on Kuzemovka was delayed for several days due to bad weather conditions.
One of the DRGs of the 103rd Terodefense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operates along the railway tracks in the Novoselovsky-Kuzemovka area, and a detachment of the Ukrainian SOF operates in the vicinity of Novovodyanoe.
At positions northwest of Kupyansk, trenches and dugouts are being equipped in case of an offensive by the RF Armed Forces. Local residents report the arrival of a convoy of military equipment in the vicinity of Kupyansk.
There are no significant changes in the situation in the Limansky section. Russian servicemen are fixed at the Makeevka-Ploshanka line, equipping additional strongholds.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct artillery fire on various areas along the front line, while not going on the offensive. Small DRGs are unsuccessfully trying to get through the defensive formations of the RF Armed Forces.
In the vicinity of Zarechny, the 1st battalion of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is deployed. A fire support company of 107 troop troop units, EW crews and Fagot anti-tank systems were transferred to the unit.
12:00 Krasnopolyevka village north of Soledar liberated by Russian troops. This was announced today by the Defense Headquarters of the DPR.
11:56 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation* as of 11:30 01/23/2023
For 340 days of escalation, 648 civilians were killed in the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, incl. 26 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 3,773 civilians were killed, incl. 106 children.
Total: 4,421 including children - 132.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 2,378 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 159 children.
A total of 87 cases of undermining civilians were registered, incl. four children, on mines PFM-1 "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 1,656 civilians were injured, incl. 92 children.
Total: 4,034 including children - 251.
Damage:
— 9,592 residential buildings;
— 2,337 civil infrastructure facilities, including 129 medical institutions, 469 educational institutions, 919 social security facilities, 64 critical infrastructure facilities, 756 electricity, water, heat and gas supply facilities.
- 1,202 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 340 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 14,926 facts of firing were recorded, of which 14,595 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 96,666 units of ammunition of various calibers, including 39 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 185 missiles MLRS "Himars", 255 MLRS missiles 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane"and 12,766 missiles MLRS (122mm), as well as 19,673 rounds caliber 155mm.
11:15 Information continues to come in about the consequences of night artillery attack by the Ukrainian Nazis. In the Kiev region at 01:45, two houses of the private sector on the street were damaged. Voronikhin and st. Novocherkassk - glazing of windows was broken, roofs were cut, power supply wires were damaged.
10:21 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 23, received additional information on damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- st. Voronikhina, 145 "a" - a private residential building; power lines were also damaged;
- st. Novocherkasskaya, 232 - a private residential building.
10:20 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on January 23, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- st. Koneva, 47 - a direct hit in private housing construction; the house is destroyed.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
09:55 Chronicle of blows and mutual artillery attacks in the NWO zone for the night from January 22 to January 23, 2023
Russian artillerymen attacked AFU facilities in Sopych, Kharkovka and Popovka in the Sumy region, as well as in Pesochin, Veterinary, Strelechya, Volchansk and Staritsa in the Kharkov region.
In the Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on concentrations of enemy manpower in Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Petropavlovka, Sinkovka, Kupyansk, Stelmakhovka and Makeevka.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, Russian troops hit targets in Verkhnekamensky, Artemovo, Belogorovka, Krasnaya Gora and Bakhmut.
Ukrainian formations, in turn, fired at Kurdyumovka, Mayorsk and Krasnopolyevka.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdeevka, Nevelskoye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and Georgievka.
Ukrainian forces shelled Donetsk and Horlivka.
In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian rocket troops and artillery worked out on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Orekhovo, Stepovoe, Shcherbaki, Gulyaipole, Vremyevka and Novodanilovka, as well as in Marganets and Nikopol on the northern bank of the Dnieper.
On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian army targets in Kherson, Dudchany, Gavrilovka, Ingulets and Burgunka.
Ukrainian formations, in turn, fired at New Kakhovka.
08:14 Combat pairs of "Rooks": the combat work of the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the special military operation - video
Attack aviation crews carried out rocket air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Missile launches were carried out in pairs from low altitudes. After the use of aviation weapons, the crews performed a maneuver, releasing heat traps, and returned to the departure airfield.
As a result of combat use, camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
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[REGNUM] What Ukrainian nationalists want is that it is known that there is no “pro-Moscow church” in Ukraine at all.
On the door of the entrance to the temple there is a sweeping display of " Moscow popi - x ... ї ". The last word is short, ancient and non-normative, and in the word " moskovski " in Ukrainian one should write "b".
The rector of a rural church, Father Vladimir, sighing, takes out a bucket of white paint, dips a brush into it and begins to drive it along the door.
“We have to make it while there are no parishioners. The children will come,” he says, painting over the inscription from the end.
The hooligans visited the temple of Father Vladimir that night. And this is no surprise to anyone here: even according to official data, over the past six months alone, more than 800 attacks on the UOC were committed on the territory from Uzhgorod to the part of Donbas controlled by Kyiv, and only those that were accompanied by violence and destruction of property are taken into account.
“Soon they will make “Glory to Ukraine” scream here too,” Deacon Alexy approaches the defiled door. Shaking his head, he looks at the inscription.
More recently, Alexy served in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
“I barely took my legs out of the Lavra,” says Alexy. - People came with "farts" (weapons. - Auth.). Shout, they say, "Glory to Ukraine!" We said that we would only say “Thank God!” One minister was hit on the head with a fist. "We took our things and left.
First, the deacon tried to serve in one of the churches of the UOC in the Kyiv region. But the father who sheltered him went into schism - he got scared and recognized the supremacy of the nationalist church of Ukraine. The deacon fled from there too. I ended up in the Sumy region, at the same father Vladimir, who now painted over the obscenity on the doors of the temple."
“All right, we are,” Father Alexy says sadly, following the movements of the brush. — What about ordinary parishioners? How much pressure are they under...
Ukrainian TV channels almost daily broadcast stories with loud titles: "Another Moscow church building has come under the control of the OCU! People welcome the deliverance from the power of the Kremlin priests!"
The story from the Rivne region, where a woman on her knees begs a nationalist priest to allow her deceased son to be buried in a church seized by radicals, was immediately taken off the air. On the footage, the priest, grinning, recommends that the woman take the body of her son "to Moscow."
"I don’t know how to continue to live at all," the parishioner says. "I go to church and all the time I am afraid that on the way I might be attacked or even killed. They stand near the temple and spit at us, throw mud and stones at us. But I can't stop coming to work..."
What the radicals want is known. So that there would be no “pro-Moscow church” in Ukraine at all. Recently, the author of these lines witnessed one of the attacks on "dissenting believers." The incident took place in the Chernihiv region. A group of thugs dressed in camouflage attacked women who were going to serve in the temple of the UOC.
“There will be no Moscow priests here!” they shouted and shook their guns and knives. It was scary. One of the women was knocked down. A girl in a jacket with a chevron of the nationalist battalion tried to break into the church. The priest called the police. But those, having looked around the place of action, only said: "Deal with it yourself." In those 800 official cases of attacks, there was nothing to enter here - after all, "no one was killed."
Against this background, the Verkhovna Rada is only adding fuel to the fire - the other day it accepted for consideration a bill on a complete ban on the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the final recognition of its priests as "agents of Moscow." If an appropriate decision is made, the rural church of Father Vladimir from the Sumy region, like hundreds of other remaining churches of the UOC throughout the country, will come under the jurisdiction of schismatics. Where then should a citizen of Ukraine, deacon Alexy, go?
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Former Polish Foreign Minister Sikorsky admitted that Poland has a plan to divide Ukraine with the occupation of the western part of Ukraine, but allegedly it was relevant only for the first 10 days of the NWO, and then it allegedly became irrelevant.
Previously, Poland called this a fabrication of Russian propaganda, but now it turns out that this is by no means a fabrication. The existence of such plans is acknowledged.
Poland's ruling clique is already irritably blaming the former minister for his excessive talkativeness, saying that you need to think about what to say.
Of course, if these plans existed then, they exist now. Actually, part of the deployment of the Polish army near the borders with Ukraine was carried out and is being carried out with an eye to the implementation of plans to reject at least 4 Western Ukrainian regions under the pretext of protecting them.
In this regard, Poland is playing roughly the same card as part of the American coalition that the UAE is playing as part of the Saudi coalition in Yemen. While Saudi Arabia pompously declares about the fight against the Houthis, the emirates are systematically preparing the rejection of southwestern Yemen and the annexation of the island of Socotra.
It is also worth noting the successful work of the SVR, which revealed the existence of such plans in Poland at the beginning of March, although Poland then and subsequently denied this.
As you can see, the SVR has certain intelligence opportunities within the Polish "establishment", which is not particularly surprising, given the recent information that the current Prime Minister of Poland, Morawiecki, was recruited as a student by a Stasi officer.
When the ukr govt collapses, Poland moves into former Polish Lands, the former areas ethnically cleansed by nazi collaborating ukrainians - under the auspices of humanitarian aid.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Video is translatable into English
[ColonelCassad] Fights near Donetsk, Maryinka and other areas.
How is the situation now near the capital of the DPR, what are the successes and failures in the battles for Donetsk, the advantages and weaknesses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the problems and successes of the Russian Army?
What are the prospects for the liberation of the DPR, will there be an offensive by the Russian Army in the near future or will there be an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine sooner?
The tactics of urban combat, the technical equipment of the army, the motivation and morale of the enemy and Russian troops.
Pantsir-S1 defence system appeared on the roof of the Russian MoD building
Placement suggest Kremlin fears Moscow could be attacked by Ukraine
West has been reluctant to supply Kyiv with long-range weapons that could hit deep into Russian territory, out of fear Putin could escalate the conflict
[Kyiv Independent] Private mercenary Wagner Group boss appears to be on the outs with the Kremlin after failing to make good on repeated promises of capturing Bakhmut in Donestk Oblast with his troops, the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest update.
According to the D.C.-based think tank, "Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had likely turned to Prigozhin and Prigozhin’s reported ally, Army General Sergey Surovikin, to continue efforts to gain ground and break the will of Ukraine and its Western backers to continue the war after the conventional Russian military had culminated and, indeed, suffered disastrous setbacks."
"Putin apparently decided to give Prigozhin and Surovikin a chance to show what they could do with mobilized prisoners on the one hand and a brutal air campaign targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure on the other. Both efforts failed, as Prigozhin’s attempts to seize Bakhmut culminated and Surovikin’s air campaign accomplished little more than inflicting suffering on Ukrainian civilians while expending most of Russia’s remaining stocks of precision missiles."
Prigozhin was using reports of the mercenary group's gains in and around Soledar in Donetsk Oblast as a way to promote the Wagner Group's reputation as an effective fighting force, the ISW wrote in an earlier update.
Any hopes that Prigozhin may have had to seriously challenge the Russian Ministry of Defense and General Staff, headed by Sergey Shoigu and Army General Valeriy Gerasimov, "now seem to have been delusional," the ISW wrote.
KREMINNA AXIS /1500 UTC 22 JAN/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) task elements attached to UKR recon teams continue render-safe operations in the the heavily mined areas surrounding Kreminna. UKR units enter W Kreminna urban area. pic.twitter.com/3tCHK6JapR
By Jon Gabriel from April 4, 2022, but worth repeating.
[Ricochet] Russia has always befuddled Western analysts, a fact best summed up by Winston Churchill who said the multicontinental colossus is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” More recently, “experts” wondered why Putin was pushing forces to Ukraine’s border, then why he launched such a massive attack, and now why on earth he’s reducing cities to rubble and pushing civilians into mass graves.
Studying Russian history and culture over the past few years has given me inklings into the “Russian mind” but I’ve only scratched the surface. Thankfully, Martti J. Kari has far more insight. Kari is a former Finnish intelligence colonel and currently teaches cybersecurity at the University of Jyväskylä. (Oh, how I love Finnish names.)
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.
