[Newsweek] Moldovan authorities have rejected reports of a mass "protest" in the capital city of Chișinău. They again accuse Moscow of attempting to "destabilize" the former Soviet state.
Footage of crowds gathered in Chișinău on Sunday was reported as significant anti-government protests by Russian state media. There have been several demonstrations in recent weeks in the Moldovan capital, supported by the pro-Kremlin Shor Party.
But Andrei Spinu, secretary-general for the Moldovan presidential office, wrote on Telegram on Sunday that "what happened today in the center of the capital is not a protest. "We have to say bluntly, it was yet another failed attempt by Russia to destabilize Moldova," Spinu added.
On Sunday, Moldova's police said officers had made several arrests of people who had been promised financial rewards to organize "mass disorder" and destabilize the capital, according to the Associated Press. Further arrests were separately made for "questionable behavior" and carrying prohibited items, the outlet reported on Sunday. The protests were believed to have been orchestrated by the pro-Kremlin Shor Party.
Four bomb threats were also called in on Sunday. The police said they were an "ongoing part of the destabilization measures" against Moldova's government.
On Friday, White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said that "Russian actors, some with current ties to Russian intelligence, are seeking to stage and use protests in Moldova as a basis to foment a manufactured insurrection against the Moldovan government.
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Weeks ago Ukrainians massing at border with the intent to invade to secure large stockpiles of various ordnance. Western area pro West and east area pro Russian. Georgia has miles long lines waiting to go to Russia because of instability there. Looks like a divide and conquer effort by someone like V. Nuland.
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A large, very bright explosion 100 miles South-Southeast of Moscow in an area where miniature nuclear warheads are being developed is leading people to believe an accidental explosion of a miniature nuclear warhead occured in that area.
Also, the Wagner group head has begun discussions with Chechen military leadership of a "post-Putin government".
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Hero Matsiievskyi Executed for Saying "Glory to Ukraine!" Was Moldovan Citizen
Local outlets in Chernihiv Oblast that posted news about the funeral of Oleksandr Matsiievskyi in February highlighted that he was born in Chișinău and had lived in Moldova for the first 28 years of his life until 2008, when he moved together with his wife and their son to Nizhyn.
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[LB] People died in Donetsk region and Kherson region.
by Iryna Gamalii
During the day of March 11, the Russian army shelled eight regions of Ukraine. This is stated in OVA's summary of the situation in the regions of Ukraine as of the morning of March 12.
In the Chernihiv region, the enemy shelled the Novgorod-Siversky district twice during the day with mortars and VOG. There are no casualties or damage.
In the Sumy region yesterday, during the day, the Russians shelled the territories of Bilopolska and Velikopysarovska communities. 11 hits and seven machine gun rounds were recorded. There are no losses and destructions.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the aggressors shelled the infrastructure in the area of Zaporizhzhia, Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Novodanilivka, Biloghirya, Olgivske, Mala Tokmachka, Poltavka, Malynivka, Chervone, Charivne, Novoandriivka, Kamianske. There is destruction of housing and infrastructure facilities.
In the Kharkiv region, in the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy conducted mortar and artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Chervona Zorya, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Kolodyazne, Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk and Kamianka. In the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses, carrying out artillery fire in the districts of Dvorichny, Hryanikyvka, Masyutivka, Kislivka, and Pishchany. As a result of yesterday's morning shelling, two private residential buildings were damaged in the village of Zapadne, Kupyan District. No casualties.
In the Luhansk region, Russian troops maintained a substantial presence in the border areas yesterday in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions. The Russians unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses, carrying out artillery shelling of populated areas along the battle line, including Novoselivsky, Nevsky, Kuzmyny, Bilogorivka, Dibrova, and Stelmakhivka.
In the Donetsk region, on Sunday morning, the invaders carried out heavy shelling of the residential quarters of Avdievka. At night, there was intense enemy shelling of Maryinka, the villages of Georgiyivka and Pobyeda. Also at night, the Russians carried out a missile attack on the Lyman. According to preliminary data, the enemy used the S-300, the information about the victims and damage is being clarified.
During the day, the Russian army shelled populated areas of Donetsk region 48 times with artillery, 220mm BM-27 "Uragan" and 122mm BM-21 "Grad"artillery rockets, carried out an air strike, fired mortars, tanks, and S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Kurakhove, Kostyantynivka, Bakhmut, Avdievka, Lyman, the villages of Lastochkine, Ivanopillia, Mykolaivka, Khromove, Maksimilianivka, Karlivka, Tonenka, Vremiivka, Novobakhmutivka, and Severne were under fire.
A total of 27 residential buildings were damaged, including 18 high-rise buildings, the premises of a tube dispensary, an ambulance, two shops, a warehouse, a gas station, two civilian cars, a railway track, two power lines, a garage, a workshop of the Avdiiv Coke Chemical Plant, and an Employment Center. In Donetsk region, two civilians were killed and four were wounded in one day.
In the Mykolaiv region on Sunday night, the enemy fired artillery at Ochakov. Private houses and high-rise buildings were damaged. There are no casualties.
In the Kherson region , the Russian invaders are carrying out intensive shelling of a number of settlements, including Novodmytrivka, Mykhailivka, Dudchany, Zmiivka, Vesele, Ivanivka, Antonivka, Bilozerka, Dniprovske, Respublykanets, Chervyn Mayak, Novosilka, Odradokamyanka, Olhivka, Tyaginka, Poniativka, Romashkovo and Kherson. Over the past day, the enemy launched 29 artillery attacks, firing 156 rounds from heavy artillery and 122mm BM-21 "Grads".
In Kherson, as a result of an enemy attack on Mykolaiv highway, three people were killed and three others were injured. A Russian projectile also hit the enterprise where a utility vehicle was parked. Five buses were damaged. Another 67 people were evacuated from the territory of the Kherson region liberated from the Russians.
We will remind you that over the past day, the Armed Forces repelled 92 attacks by Russians in Donetsk region. The enemy will continue to advance in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv, Marin, and Shakhtar directions.
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[Korrespondent] 22:37 Partisans of the ATESH movement announced that they had blown up the railway line between the villages of Abrikosovka and Radensk in the occupied Kherson region.
21:56 In Moldova, a pro-Russian network created to destabilize the country has been exposed, police chief Viorel Cernautanu said. He said that the operation took place on March 11, the suspects arrived in the country from Russia "with a very specific task." After the raids, 25 people were interrogated and seven were arrested.
20:31 In less than one week - for the period from March 6 - and only in one Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Defense Forces managed to destroy more than 1,100 enemy soldiers, Zelensky said: "These are irretrievable losses of Russia, losses right there, near Bakhmut. Plus, how at least 1,500 sanitary enemy losses are injuries that are incompatible for them with the continuation of the fighting. Plus, dozens of enemy equipment were destroyed. Plus, more than ten Russian ammunition depots were burned."
20:28 Zelensky commented on the decision to stop renting the premises of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra for the monks of the UOC-MP: "There is a movement to strengthen our spiritual independence. The society sees this. And I see the approval of the Ukrainians of these steps of ours - absolutely legal. And we will continue our movement We will not allow a terrorist state to have any opportunity to manipulate the spirituality of our people, destroy Ukrainian shrines - our laurels - or steal any valuables from them."
20:15 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today he awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Alexander Matsievsky: "To a soldier. A man who will be known to all Ukrainians. A man who will be remembered forever. For his courage, for his confidence - in Ukraine - and for his "Glory to Ukraine!".
20:12 India, after discussions with the United States and the G7 countries, decided to stick to $60 price ceilings for Russian oil, Bloomberg reports.
19:47 The SBU finally confirmed the identity of the Ukrainian soldier, whom the Russians shot after the words "Glory to Ukraine!". Investigators established that he was a sniper of the 163rd battalion of the 119th separate brigade of the Chernihiv Oblast Troops Oleksandr Matsiyevsky. He was called up for military service in March 2022, and since the end of December he was considered missing near the village of Krasnaya Gora, Donetsk region. According to the SBU, Matsievsky was shot on December 30, 2022, his body was returned home in February 2023.
18:56 Czech President Petr Pavel will visit Ukraine in April, his press secretary said following Pavel's first conversation with Zelensky.
18:38 About ten citizens of Estonia are fighting on the side of the Russian Federation and about the same number on the side of Ukraine, said Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur. According to the minister, upon arrival home, the Estonians who helped Russia will face criminal punishment, since "participation in the war on the side of the aggressor is punishable in Estonia."
18:29 Ukraine has started the second sowing campaign during the war - the first 16,000 hectares of grain have been sown, Shmyhal said. He added that the government is working to continue the grain initiative and expand the transshipment of the Danube ports, the passage of the Ukrainian-Polish border for agricultural products has already been simplified.
18:07 The Defense Council of the Kherson region decided to cancel the "dry law" for one month and help restore the region's economy, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. From March 15, the sale of alcoholic beverages is allowed at wholesale, retail and restaurant facilities from 10:00 to 15:00. The sale of alcohol to military and law enforcement officials remains prohibited.
16:20 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with Czech President Petr Pavel: "I informed about the situation at the front, our security needs. We talked about Ukraine's movement to the European Union. We agreed to continue to actively cooperate."
15:23 Three pro-Russian politicians were arrested in Estonia, one of whom recently traveled to the occupied Donetsk and Mariupol. They were convicted under Article 235 of the Penal Code (creating or maintaining relations with a foreign state for the purpose of committing a crime). The decision can still be appealed to the Tallinn District Court.
On the night of March 10, the security police detained three men on suspicion of creating links against Estonia. Two of them - the leader of the Koos movement Aivo Peterson and Dmitry Rootsi - are Estonian citizens, another one - Andrey Andronov - is a Russian citizen with a permanent residence permit in Estonia. Peterson, in his statements, has repeatedly supported the actions of the Russian Federation, and recently visited the occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular, Donetsk and Mariupol. There he recorded several videos, where he hinted that Russia "is not worth messing with."
15:11 In the Lugansk region, the Russians are constantly experimenting with battle tactics, said the head of the OVA Sergey Gaidai: "Kremennaya, Belogorovka, Svatovo ... What is happening there is an attempt not just to storm our positions head-on. The Russians are experimenting. they go heavy, up to 10-12 units, then three infantry fighting vehicles go, and infantry goes between them, or the tank stands in the depths of the forest and just shoots positions, or sometimes they just launch three companies to assault. Russians have become much more.
13:35 In an interview with Bild, Kuleba called publications about a "pro-Ukrainian group", allegedly involved in sabotage on Nord Stream, a coordinated action: "When three newspapers publish articles on the same topic for two days, this is a coordinated action."
The Foreign Minister also said that he intends to discuss this topic with his German colleague Annalena Burbock: "I look forward to talking about this, as well as other issues. Annalena Burbock commented on this, and I agree with her. We must wait for the conclusions of the official investigation, because what is happening now is a kind of labeling."
12:49 The German government does not sign contracts with the industry for the production of ammunition for Ukraine, Kuleba said in an interview with Bild: "We sat down with Ukrainian representatives and the German armed industry, and the German industry in my presence demanded one thing from the German government: signed contracts. Therefore, The problem is with the government."
The head of the Foreign Ministry also said that Ukraine will not receive fighter jets from the West in the near future: “I do not expect the delivery of fighter jets to take place in the near future, because this is a very difficult task in terms of logistics and technology. Therefore, we advise you to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western aircraft now, so that when a decision is made on the provision of aircraft, not to waste time and many months on training.
12:27 In order to reduce the number of Russian shelling of the right-bank Kherson region, the Defense Forces of Ukraine are trying to push the Russian army back at least 20 km from the water's edge, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. According to her, the Ukrainian military is constantly destroying the firing positions of the Russians, but the invaders often deploy new ones among the houses of local residents in the temporarily occupied territories.
Gumenyuk also noted that the Russians are deliberately shelling civilian infrastructure in the temporarily occupied territories in order to blame the UAF for the attack and intimidate people.
11:20 British intelligence notes that Russia continues to suffer extremely heavy losses in the war against Ukraine, but these losses vary greatly by region of the country. So, they are almost invisible in Moscow and St. Petersburg, while in many eastern regions the mortality rate as a percentage of the population is 30 or more times higher than in the capital of the Russian Federation. Ethnic minorities suffer the most. Thus, in Astrakhan, about 75% of the victims are Kazakh and Tatar minorities.
10:38 A massive missile attack on March 9 had as one of its goals the search for Patriot air defense installations, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. So, at first, the Russians launched kamikaze drones, firing at certain objects and distracting Ukrainian air defense. This was followed by a massive strike of missiles of various bases, which had already been used. Behind them - drones already to check the results of the strikes. And finally, a new wave of missiles, including Kinzhal, which the Ukrainian air defense forces cannot yet shoot down.
"It is clear that the enemy used such tactics in order to attribute at least some victories to themselves. And to test our readiness to respond to them. Such preliminary information that Ukraine was already equipped with Patriot systems played a significant role in this. And they tried to see if this is really the case," Gumenyuk explained.
09:45 This month, the Rada plans to make changes to the state budget-2023, increasing military spending by more than 500 billion hryvnias. This is the largest increase in the budget in the history of Ukraine, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
09:19 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Konstantinovka and Thin), four more were injured. In the Kherson region, three people were killed and three wounded, according to the IVA.
09:11 The "authorities" of the occupied Nova Kakhovka said that Ukrainian troops allegedly launched a massive artillery strike on the Sokol microdistrict in the morning.
08:49 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 12.
personnel - 159,090 (+1090) people liquidated,
tanks - 3466 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 6769 (+7),
artillery systems - 2487 (+4),
MLRS - 493 (+0),
air defense systems - 259 (+2),
aircraft - 304 (+0),
helicopters - 289 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2108 (+0),
cruise missiles - 907 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5348 (+4),
special equipment - 242 (+0).
08:36 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Miner directions. Over the past day, the defense forces have repulsed 92 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning report .
05:27 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Putin has lost control over the Russian information space. In addition, now there is an internal confrontation between key representatives of the inner circle of the head of the Kremlin.
Analysts drew attention to the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who confirmed that the Kremlin does not yet centrally control the information space of the Russian Federation, and that Putin probably cannot influence this. In particular, Zakharova said that the Kremlin cannot repeat the Stalinist approach to creating a modern analogue of the Soviet Information Bureau for centralized control over the internal information space of Russia because of the struggle between the Kremlin elites.
ISW also notes that after the battle for Bakhmut, Prigozhin is going to turn the Wagner group into a tough ideological elite military organization and start a new wave of recruitment. Recently, PMC Wagner has been expanding recruiting centers throughout Russia, including those focused on recruiting young people.
Russia has, in past 150 days of Battle for Bakhmat, advanced about 16 miles. So that averages about 600 ft per day. In that time they have lost about 30k soldiers or about 200 per day.
That's gaining about 3' for every soldier lost.
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^^ This is a knife fight, not a tour of I-10 during rush hour.
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The Thunder Run to Baghdad set a record for yards gained on the ground, but they were not assaulting into prepared positions. A better metric for comparison would be WW1 trench warfare, but with better artillery spotting.
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[RIA] Here's a good philosophical question: why do Americans keep telling political and other lies, not just about Russia or China, but for any reason within the country? And it's very, very rare to get a hand like it just happened in Florida.
The story there was this: all Democrats, and especially their media, are simply obliged to collectively attack Republican opponents with more and more attacks. They tried to do this with the governor of the state Ron DeSantis , and they should not have tried - a real candidate for the presidency of the United States in the next election. They accused him of cleaning school libraries in his staff, almost burning books, videos and other teaching aids, thus clamping down on freedom, planting their own, undemocratic ideology and other conservative obscurantism.
What he did in response: gathered a big press conference, asked to remove minors from the hall. And he launched on the big screen footage taken from textbooks from those same libraries. Here the cameras had to be stopped, the social networks could not publish these materials either. Because in the frame there was sexual education of minors, very detailed and clearly suitable for articles about pornography and others. "These are the materials we cleaned up, and some of them after they were imposed on schoolchildren," the governor said. The lies about the pogrom of libraries subsided instantly.
But this is a rare case. More often it happens the other way around, and we have been seeing this for years (and not only from the United States) using the example of what they say about Russia. And then the philosopher Rod Dreyer, who has now moved to Budapest, asked himself the question: why? Why did the authorities and the media in the United States lie always and on a huge scale when it started? And what will happen next?
The fact is that an acquaintance from the United States came to visit him and saw with amazement that Hungary and the politics there have nothing to do with what liberal Washington and their media say about this country with human rights activists and other foundations. And then the conversation from Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban switched to generalizations. Dreyer, in his column, began to cite the already accumulated research on this topic (yes, about lies and about failures because of it).
Of the good answers: they lie because they are sincere. "I'm talking about the fact that they are so enamored with their own ideas that they simply do not see facts, events and people that would not confirm what these liars choose to believe."
And when it started... Here is a quote from a book about how, after the strikes on New York on September 11, 2001, the great diplomat Richard Holbrook, nicknamed Tank (or Bulldozer), thought about how bin Laden manages to spread his ideas around the world without even having at hand own TV channel, and what to do, how to resist it? And Holbrooke proposed the creation of an agency at the White House that would be equal in authority to the Pentagon , the State Department , the CIA and the Department of Justice combined, and which would impose on the whole world the reading of reality that the United States needs. That is, start a global propaganda war.
You will say that she went before. But the technology and scale were different: before there was no Internet. The emergence of such an alliance gave rise to an alliance of Democrats with a "big figure" (and this made Holbrook's super-department unnecessary). And if at first it was only an ideological struggle with an external adversary, then later the informal alliance of the authorities and the rulers of the Internet began to control how Americans should think about politics, society, the outside world.
And they fail, Dreyer says. Although they don't pay for failures. For example, Victoria Nuland, the developer of the strategy for the Ukrainian conflict. After all, before that she was a key adviser to Vice President Richard Cheney in 2003-2005, that is, she developed a strategy in Iraq . Failed - along with America . She was never punished.
Why wasn't she? And all for the same reason: these people have lost the ability to perceive any reality that contradicts the picture of the world that they still stubbornly plant everywhere. That is, officially admitting a failure is impossible.
We add that many people still perceive reality, but do not know what to do with it, and are waiting for someone to give the command: everything failed, from tomorrow we are working honestly.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Maxim Sokolov
[RIA] Communist historiography loved the sonorous names inherited from the rhetoric of the Civil War. For example, "Young Soviet Republic in the fiery ring of fronts."
Now geopolitical terms are more in vogue: "Indirect actions on the enemy's periphery", as well as "Creating an arc of instability." And for rhetoric, all these actions that hit Russia on the map with the index finger are called the struggle for democracy on the territory of the former USSR . Without democracy today nowhere.
The intensification of peripheral actions began a year and a half before the official start of the current Ukrainian campaign. It began at the end of the summer of 2020 in Belarus , where, after the presidential elections, which expectedly renewed Lukashenka's mandate, with the active participation of Poland, there was a hush-up that lasted about six months. Lukashenka showed himself to be anti-Yanukovych, that is, he inexorably firmly defended his post, proceeding from the fact that concessions to the revolutionaries are disastrous - and the attack was repulsed, the opposition fled to Poland.
A new struggle for democracy has unfolded not in the northwest, but in the southeast. At the very beginning of 2022, Kazakhstan flared up , where the eastern specificity was revealed, that is, the great cruelty of the fighters. Alma-Ata was directly terrorized. The response was a pacifying special operation by the CSTO, which neither freedom fighters nor their Western sympathizers expected.
And a year later, relations with Kazakhstan have difficulties, the United States puts pressure on President Tokayev with all their might, wanting to make this country completely unfriendly to Russia. Tokayev maneuvers painfully, but, in any case, the complete victory of democracy, that is, the final inclusion of Kazakhstan in the American sphere of influence, has not yet happened.
Finally, at the beginning of this year, two more post-Soviet states, Moldova and Georgia, were placed on the altar of democracy .
Moldovan President Maia Sandu resolutely abandoned the previous policy of flirting with Russia and firmly stood on the European path, seeing as her goal the Anschluss of Moldova by Romania . Which could not but affect relations with Transnistria (and Gagauzia ).
Sandu is working to unfreeze the armed confrontation between Chisinau and Tiraspol, reasonably counting on the help of Kyiv, which has long professed the principle "the worse, the better." The recent bombing attempts on the leadership of the PMR (in the past, serving as a sufficient casus belli) now fit into European integration. As well as the tightening of the regime, the persecution of the opposition. Without this, there is no real democracy.
Finally, in Georgia, the government’s attempt to adopt a law on the registration of foreign agents (generally copied from the American one, but, unlike the original source, much less draconian) led to traditional Georgian fun - the storming of the parliament by the peaceful public with Molotov cocktails, pogroms on Rustaveli Avenue, etc. Everything, as we have loved since the era of democratic perestroika.
It is not known whether it was even worth starting a story with foreign agents, not being ready to, if necessary, give a tough rebuff in the style of Lukashenka. After all, it was clear that the clients of the American embassy would react accordingly, since there is a tradition, and a stable one. Now the situation is unpleasantly reminiscent of the Kiev Maidan of 2013-2014: the authorities are indecisive, make concessions, and generosity, instead of softening hearts, only inflames and hardens them -
"Here the eater became, and even bitterer than the pepper
of the villain's appearance.
Good for evil, a spoiled heart -
Oh, he won't forgive!"
This is despite the fact that the ruling "Georgian Dream" was not at all about signing a new Treaty of St. George with Russia, -
"Such and such a king, in such and such a year, handed over his people to Russia."
The dream was much more modest and particularistic: to stay away from a big dump, not to let yourself be drawn into the war and, pursuing a policy of "ours and yours, we will sing and dance," to extract profit from neutrality. And in the First and Second World Wars, European neutrals did not exactly this?
Yes, and the policy of Yanukovych, Nazarbayev-Tokayev, numerous Moldovan leaders, for the time being, and Lukashenka came down to the same thing. Neutral multi-vector or "affectionate calves suck two queens". Everyone wanted to be Switzerland.
Russia, seeing that the real alternative to the crafty neutral is an open enemy like the Baltic republics, preferred the first option. But, besides Russia, there were also democratic forces of good who rejected such double-dealing and wanted to build Russia's neighbors, at least, according to the Baltic model. Because neutrality is immoral.
After all, the transformation of former neutrals into open enemies means for enemy Russia the complication of economic relations with the rest of the world and the need to keep troops on the border. Which makes her position worse and brings benefits and pleasantness to the forces of good. A blow to the soft underbelly.
So Georgia is another attempt to teach the neutrals a lesson and force them to obey the will of the only ruler, but hardly the last. There are two more countries in the Transcaucasus, there are four more countries in Central Asia , and everywhere there are American embassies and all kinds of NGOs.
Everyone wonders who will be taught next that neutrality is immoral.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 19:59 Near the village of Ocheretino (DPR)eliminatedmilitant of the 106th battalion, sniper Alexei Boyko. 19:55 Evacuation of the next 300th ukrovoyak in one of the directions, which was lucky enough to survive -video
19:38 A direct hit in the head of a machine gunner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who was preparing to fire -video
A sniper shot at Ukrainian positions from our fighter. Judging by the uniform, it looks like a special forces machine gunner has been destroyed.
19:18 Investigators in the forest area of Chelburdy found cache of weapons and ammunition
A local resident of the village of Chelburdy organized a cache in the forest, in which investigators found 12 AKMS-47 assault rifles, two grenade launchers, a fragment of active tank armor with plastic explosive, as well as a machine gun belt and 537 cartridges of 7.62 mm caliber.
The suspect claims that he found the ammunition at a local range, where they were left by militants of the Kyiv regime. At the moment, signs of a crime are being established against the owner of the hiding place.
Measures to detect and suppress the illegal circulation of weapons continue.
19:10 The evacuation of the wounded of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk failed due to an error in tactics: details -video
Since March 1, units of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade, as well as the 1st mechanized battalion of the 67th Mechanized Brigade cannot safely evacuate from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
According to the Military Chronicle, after the blowing up of the railway bridge across the Bakhmutka River, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to evacuate troops along a makeshift embankment.
An impromptu crossing of bricks and construction debris from the left to the right bank of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) appeared after the retreating units of the Ukrainian forces blew up the railway bridge near the mining equipment plant and the autodrome in the north of the city.
The embankment, used instead of a full-fledged pontoon crossing, is gradually washed away by water from the river and collapses under artillery strikes, which makes its use unsafe. This complicates the supply of the APU grouping, since loaded cars cannot overcome the crossing.
Because of this, ammunition and equipment have to be broken up into many small batches and gradually transported through Bakhmutka. At the same time, it is impossible to conduct a long column at a time: the more people and equipment accumulate at the crossing, the higher the risk of falling under artillery fire.
It is also impossible to take out the wounded from Artemovsk on heavy tracked vehicles through this area: most of the medical armored personnel carriers were lost in the area from Khromov to Popovsky Forest when trying to take out heavy weapons and the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The evacuation of the wounded with fire support from the wheeled BTR-3 and BTR-4 is also difficult: the descent to the crossing at high speed is impossible due to steep cliffs and the need to slow down. When stopping and parking, the equipment is detected by drone operators, after which artillery and mortars begin to work along the crossing.
18:28 Ukrainians "decommunized» signs in Antarctica.
At the station "Akademik Vernadsky" (until 1996 it belonged to Britain), the signs with the distance to the settlements were painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, while Kirovograd was changed to Kropyvnytskyi, and the transliteration of Vinnitsa and Odessa was also "derussified".
In addition, Mariupol, which joined Russia as part of the DPR, and Bucha were added to the city markers. They were painted in the red and black colors of the flag used by nationalists, including the Right Sector.
17:25 Vivi Valenche - typical French mercenary on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: signs of the SS, the numbers 88 (used by neo-Nazis as a replacement for the greeting "Heil Hitler" on the letter), the sign "black sun", popular with the terrorists of "Azov.
17:07 Our channel has a video from one of the Western humanitarian aid storage points in Zaporozhye. A person behind the scenes makes a product review and offers a potential buyer to take out any goods from the warehouse for a certain price -video
For example, the author estimates a pack of deficient thyroxine for the treatment of endocrinological diseases at 1,000 hryvnias. He also shows boxes of baby food and bags of peas, adding without hesitation that they can also be negotiated in bulk.
Theft itself, followed by the sale of foreign humanitarian aid in Ukraine, began long before the SVO, and in 2022 there were several scandals when goods supplied for free distribution to the population ended up on the shelves of Ukrainian stores. In principle, there is nothing surprising in such things.
However, there is still one point: for all the numerous promises in Kyiv, in fact, they did not even try to fight against the plundering of import supplies. A year later, this is still widespread, to the point that videos with commercial offers are recorded directly from warehouses.
There is only one explanation for this: schemes for the sale of Western humanitarian aid have too many beneficiaries, especially in the highest echelons of Ukrainian power. No one intends to personally refuse such a feeder and fight with oneself there.
16:52 And now an exclusive from the Kupyansky direction -video
In the direction of Gryanikovka, a platoon of Ukrainian nationalists advanced towards the positions of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the RF Armed Forces. They were noticed in a timely manner, and a tank began to work on them, and then Maviks with VOGs. After that, the sworn brothers went to those, but 125mm land mines and VOGs had already flown over them. As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses of both killed in action and wounded in action.
16:11 Response to provocations Nazis.
On the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, billboards with the US flag and the inscription “We will help Ukraine find real occupiers”, as well as “Belarus remembers” and shots of the Great Patriotic War, including the liberation of Kiev, appeared on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
Posters were posted at several checkpoints at once.
15:09 Highlights new Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian troops stopped the actions of five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kupyansk direction;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 220 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed three sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the DPR and the Zaporozhye region;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed over 50 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a 122mm D-30 howitzer in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;
During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down two Mi-8 helicopters, sevenHIMARS and 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS shells, destroyed one drone;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine located on the territory of the Ukrenergochermet enterprise near the city of Zaporozhye;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day lost a 122mm self-propelled artillery installation "Gvozdika" in the Kherson direction.
15:06 In Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions shot down two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
15:05 In the Zaporozhye regiondestroyedammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Ukrenergochermet enterprise - Ministry of Defense.
14:44 Artillerymen from the O group mixed with the ground the supporter of Ukrainian nationalists -video
14:16 “Let's go, let's go! Let's!" Will the British mercenary get an iPhone and tiramisu? —video
One of the British mercenaries, who were taken prisoner by our fighters and then transferred to the neighboring side during the exchange, returned to Ukraine again.
Aslin and his compatriot Pinner were taken prisoner in Mariupol along with Ukrainian Nazi fighters. Then a trial took place that sentenced the British to capital punishment. Then foreign mercenaries, along with the leaders of the Ukronazis, were exchanged for Medvedchuk. After that, they took Abramovich to London on a business jet, fed tiramisu on the way and gave him a new iPhone.
Aiden Aslin again joined the Foreign Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and takes part in the battles. Apparently, he wants to get another iPhone and enjoy tiramisu.
Another argument to prevent them from being captured and exchanged in the future.
14:00 Zaporozhye Front: footage of the combat work of Russian tankers to destroy the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
The Nazis hid in the private sector in one of the settlements of the Zaporozhye region.
But this did not help them - everyone went by express to Bandera.
Firing is corrected by the UAV operator.
13:34 Air raid alert announced in Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine
12:29 War near Kherson: Drone + rocket of the 205th brigade = destruction of the flag and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the tower -video
Frames from our warriors-subscribers:
“The enemy installed technical equipment on a tower in Novoberislav, which was detected by a drone. The equipment was destroyed by precise fire, ”the fighters say.
12:28 Explosions in controlled AFU Konstantinovka DPR.
In the morning, a blow was also struck at Slavyansk. Railroad track damaged.
12:09 This is how the future Leopard driver is instructed before being sent to Bakhmut -video
The military commander beats up a mobilized man who does not burn with the desire to burn in the Leopard. And this is in the order of things in the Ukrainian army. People are driven to slaughter like cattle.
11:59 In the Donetsk direction, the detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot their own mobilized - because they decided to surrender -video
11:33 Implementing operational information police officerscheckedone of the garages in the city of Melitopol. During the inspection, law enforcement officers found and seized from illegal circulation two RPG-18 hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers and 15 VOG fragmentation grenades.
Now this fact is being checked, the issue of initiating a criminal case under article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal trafficking in weapons and ammunition” is being decided. The sanctions of this article involve punishment in the form of imprisonment from 3 to 5 years.
11:17 In Ukraine, representatives of various law enforcement agencies are already openly in conflict. The superiority is created on the side of the Vushniks, who are better armed and have combat experience -video
It is very likely that soon the anger at the rear rats will result in a real military coup in Ukraine.
10:41 The Nazis will evict the monks of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra forcibly with the help of the security forces.
The Nazis S-14 and the Kraken will be attracted as an "asset". These are the most repulsed scumbags and Satanists. The issue of the physical eviction of the monks from the Lavra was PERSONALLY sanctioned by Zelensky.
10:40 American resources report that during a recent attack on Kyiv, Kinzhal missiles were amazed control center with NATO officers, among whom there are dead and wounded.
10:37 Someone threw a grenade into the toilet of the Kyiv shopping and entertainment center "HIT Mall". This time there were no explosions and no casualties.video
The people were escorted out and the police arrived. Who and why threw the ammunition in the toilet remains a mystery.
But at least once a week, such situations occur in different parts of Ukraine. And they will continue to happen.
10:36 Consequences of uncontrolled appeals with weapons in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which eventually ends up in the hands of anyone, even children.
On the territory of the Zaporozhye region, which is controlled by Ukraine, children were injured by a grenade explosion. In one of the private houses in the village of Novoivanovka, as a result of the detonation of an explosive object, two boys received injuries of varying severity.
Children on the street found and brought home an unknown elongated cylindrical object. During the game, he detonated.
10:06 The level of coherence of the Ukrainian units goes off scale -video
We didn’t have time to reach the line of contact when we were blown up by our own mine
09:26 Readers from Kharkov identified one of the "combs" that go around the discos of the first capital and catch guys for slaughter.
One of the jackals is called Aleksey, he is a neo-Nazi, ultras, a fan of the Kharkov Metalist
This scum is afraid to get to the front, so it is engaged in trapping young people. Now those who received a summons from him can think about how to thank Bandera
09:15 Helicopters of Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation —video
09:02 Air raid alert announced in Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions
08:05 One 152mm "Msta-S" destroyed a whole convoy of nationalists, it carried reinforcements, ammunition and medicines. How this was done, the correspondent of "Zvezda" was told by the commander of that same gun -video
“Right now, attack aircraft have entered the underground communications of the Artemovsky Metal Processing Plant (AZOM) and are making their way into the mine,” the report says.
It is specified that the battles are taking place at a depth of up to 320 meters.
On March 10, it became known that the "Wagners" broke through to the "Artyomovsk Metal Processing Plant" from the north, entrenched themselves and launched an attack deep into the territory of a huge enterprise with dense industrial buildings and a network of underground utilities that go underground for dozens of floors.
It should be noted that Russian servicemen continue to drive the enemy out of Artemovsk. Fierce fighting is already going on in the city center. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying with all their might to hold the offensive, suffering serious losses.
Earlier it was reported that Kyiv is preparing to surrender the city. Some units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already left Artemovsk. Ukrainian troops are building a new line of defense in Chasovoy Yar.
#1
The USA right wing that prefers Russia is as little "American" as a Russian is. How this happened is hard to figure out, but, this power lust attracts a lot of USA right wing males in particular:
#2
China has re named far eastern Russian cities with their old Chinese names and now look at this "post war Russia divide" on Chinese state TV. Russia's ally is working hard, but, not to help the losers in Russia:
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/12/2023 to 00:00 03/13/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 15 facts of firing by the VFU. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 12 attacks from the Himars MLRS and 300mm BM-30 Smerch, AGM-88 HARM, 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 155mm. By releasing 64 units of various ammunition.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Budennovsky, Kalininsky, Leninsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a woman, in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. A total of 15 housing constructions were damaged in Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kalininsky, Leninsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, as well as four civil infrastructure facilities. In previous 24 hours, 16 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
22:05 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for March 12, receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of artillery aattack of VFU cities of the Republic: Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): - st. Stepanenko, 24 - apartment building. Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
22:02 Vushnik for some reason complains that the command is threatening the fighters for the wrong word -video.
21:29 Ukrainian TG-channel "Resident" is divided disappointing insider for the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
“Our source in the OP said that there may not be a counteroffensive near Bakhmut, heavy rains are promised at the end of next week. And Zaluzhny opposes, in principle, the implementation of Syrsky's plan. The Commander-in-Chief believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may lose all reserves if they launch an attack on March 14-15, we will not have enough time to encircle the Russian army and our equipment will get bogged down in the mud.”
21:10 Heavy machine gun "Cliff" confirms its harsh temper on the Zaporizhzhya Front -video.
The stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in a private house, came to the attention of the fighters of the "Crimea" battalion. Several times, enemy vehicles drove up to the building and, probably, brought up the BC.
In order to deprive the Ukrainian militants of their vehicles and inflict damage on manpower, our guys used a 12.7mm NSV machine gun.
This weapon, developed in the late 1960s in Tula, proved to be excellent in combat and even received a nickname. "Cliff Ivanovich" is able to hit lightly armored military equipment at long distances. In our case, the distance to the enemy is 1 km.
21:02 Destroyed American armored car International MaxxPro, delivered to the nationalists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:00 Report from the asphalt plant in Bakhmut -video.
20:57 A short story of a wounded Wagnerian -video.
20:54 Artillery of the NM LPR is working in the Bakhmut direction -video.
20:52 The drone of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet dropped the drone on the vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ugledar -video.
20:28 The evacuation of the wounded of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artyomovsk failed due to an error in tactics: details -video.
Since March 1, units of the 93rd mechanized brigade, the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade, as well as the 1st mechanized battalion of the 67th Mechanized Brigade cannot safely evacuate from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). According to the Military Chronicle, after the blowing up of the railway bridge across the Bakhmutka River, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to evacuate troops along a makeshift embankment.
An impromptu crossing of bricks and construction debris from the left to the right bank of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) appeared after the retreating units of the Ukrainian forces blew up the railway bridge near the mining equipment plant and the autodrome in the north of the city. The embankment, used instead of a full-fledged pontoon crossing, is gradually washed away by water from the river and collapses under artillery strikes, which makes its use unsafe. This complicates the supply of the APU grouping, since loaded cars cannot overcome the crossing.
Because of this, ammunition and equipment have to be broken up into many small batches and gradually transported through Bakhmutka. At the same time, it is impossible to conduct a long column at a time: the more people and equipment accumulate at the crossing, the higher the risk of falling under artillery fire.
It is also impossible to take out the wounded from Artemovsk on heavy tracked vehicles through this area: most of the medical armored personnel carriers were lost in the area from Khromov to Popovsky Forest when trying to take out heavy weapons and the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The evacuation of the wounded with fire support from the wheeled BTR-3 and BTR-4 is also difficult: the descent to the crossing at high speed is impossible due to steep cliffs and the need to slow down. When stopping and parking, the equipment is detected by drone operators, after which artillery and mortars begin to work along the crossing.
19:45 Consequences of the artillery attack of the city of Perevalsk (LPR) by armed formations of Ukraine
As of 17.30, as a result of the artillery aattack of the settlement. Perevalsk using HIMARS MLRS (the enemy fired one M30A1 GMLRS missile), three civilians were killed, including a 17-year-old teenager, and seven people were injured, including two children. Damaged "Alchevsk bus station-1", two gas stations, a grocery store, five cars.
19:25 The Russian Army took a number of oporniks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya -video.
The jet drone is above the Kremennoe forest. The units of the Russian Army - and specifically the fighters of the Western Military District, together with the heroes from the Airborne Forces, undertook a number of offensive actions on the Kremennaya-Svatovo line, as a result of which we managed to achieve local successes in this direction.
19:24 The enemy mines positions behind him, not only with warheads, but also with himself -video.
19:18 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka by Ukrainian militants.
19:12 War near Kherson: airborne drone with a grenade against a military officer with an electromagnetic gun -video.
Soldiers of the Airborne Forces tell about positional battles:
“Today I flew to a neighboring village with a gift, the distance is almost 5 km. I found an interesting target - UAZ APU (earlier lost by ours when leaving Kherson), on the left everything was trampled under their feet. On the descent, immediately after pressing the reset, they blocked me with a gun, but because of the dropped grenade, they immediately let me go, hid, apparently.
I flew on the "sport", they again wanted to shoot me, but the signal was restored, it was already at the limit of the gun. In short, lucky. Therefore, the video of the explosion from the second drone hanging 3.5 km from the point.
19:10 Izvestia reports on the work of the Lancet-3 kamikaze UAV operators. It was this drone that hit the position of the 155mm M777 howitzer -video.
19:06 When you want to eat, then a shooting battle, where your brothers participate in the background, is not a hindrance -video.
18:32 Artillery attacks summary for March 11, 2023.
The enemy fired at Donetsk from the following directions:
Areas of Donetsk that came under shelling: Kyiv, Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky.
Consequences of shelling:
- Kuibyshevsky district: st. Yugoslavskaya, 24 - father and son died: man, born in 1989. and a boy born in 2015, according to preliminary data, a woman was injured; st. Yugoslav - a motor transport company was damaged.
— Kyiv district: st. Krupskaya, 51, 62, 65 - private houses were damaged
18:13 Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) may end up in another"cauldron", as it was in Debaltseve in the DPR in 2015, said the commander of one of the Ukrainian units Denis Yaroslavsky.
18:04 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the Ukrainian opornik and ammunition depot in the Zaporozhye region -video.
17:15 Battle for Bakhmut situation as of 17.00 March 12, 2023
- In the north-west of Bakhmut, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC, after the first unsuccessful attempt to attack the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Orekhovo-Vasilevka, broke through the defenses of Ukrainian formations through the fields south of the village.
As the sources of the Military Chronicle @milchronicles suggest, the settlement itself consists of four well-fortified strongholds. At the moment, confident control has been established over two, the cleanup is underway on the third and fourth. Near the village cemetery, 30 people from the 30 OMBR and 116 Troop Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed.
- APU unsuccessfully trying to recapture the lost territories. Ukrainian formations suffer losses due to difficulties with the evacuation of the wounded, the lack of reconnaissance and logistics support, and insufficiently intensive fire support - mortar and artillery crews have a limit on the consumption of ammo.
At the same time, several attacks have already been carried out by forces of the 1st detachment of special forces of the 71st Jaeger brigade, with the support of a tank platoon of the 4th detachment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the fighting, the "Wagnerites" destroyed two tanks, and only one 71st Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost about 120 people killed and wounded in two days.
Now the Ukrainian formations have retreated to the Golubovka area, the seriously wounded are being transported to Slavyansk and Liman. From Minkovka, Golubovka and Privolye, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are artillery aattack the Wagner offensive areas with artillery and mortars.
- In the south-west of Bakhmut, PMC assault detachments approached close to the highway to Konstantinovka. The attack on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is taking place on the sections of the Konstantinovka-Krasnoe and Krasnoe-Bakhmut roads. To support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a mortar battery was transferred to Konstantinovka from Slavyansk.
Also, Russian units advanced slightly in the Budenovsky district in the south of Bakhmut, improving their tactical position and leveling the front line.
Advancement to the northwest along the Slavyanskaya highway allows expanding the buffer zone near Bakhmut and securing the flanks from counterattacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration has accumulated large reserves, which, under certain circumstances, can be thrown into battle to tie down Russian fighters.
- In addition, movement in this direction creates the prospect of a further offensive in two directions: to encircle the Seversk agglomeration, which, together with the activation of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division in Serebryansky forestry, is very logical, and also to bypass the large fortified area in Chasov Yar.
The city is located on the dominant heights relative to the areas from which the "Wagnerites" are now advancing. A frontal attack is extremely dangerous due to the terrain, and an attack on Chasov Yar will be like attacking Ugledar from the lowlands.
The simultaneous advance to the north with successes in the south of Bakhmut and south-west of the city fetters the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one area, which, given the shortage of ammunition among Ukrainian artillerymen, allows us to build on success.
17:01 Ukrainians (although the speaker is clearly a mercenary, the greeting is in Arabic. “Peace be upon you and the mercy of God and His blessing.”) wanted to go to Bakhmut, but their convoy was bombed by VKS with cast iron -video.
16:27 Another 64 demi-season slides delivered by volunteers All for Victory to recipients -video.
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16:22 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed how Russian calculations of the MLRS inflict artillery strikes on the disguised positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
16:19 Curious artifacts from the headquarters and location of the BARS-23 volunteer unit.
1. Creativity of local Kukryniksy. 2. A rather rare landing version of the "Boot" (SPG-9). 3. Eight-bit prefix in working condition. By God, the last time I saw this was 30 years ago. 4. Permanent sentry and bait for snipers. 5. Intelligible instruction in a room of solitary reflections. Kombat is watching you!
15:35 According to preliminary information, as a result of the artillery aattack of the Alchevsk AS-1 bus station in the city of Perevalsk perished three civilians, and nine people were injured of varying severity.
Additional information is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:30 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/12/2023)
– In the Kupyansky direction, artillery fire from the “Western” group of troops during the day hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Masyutovka, Dvurechnaya, Pershotravneve of the Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Sinkovka, Liman Pervy and Berestovoe of the Kharkiv region, the actions of five sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped. Enemy losses in this area per day amounted to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and four vehicles.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the active actions of units, attacks by assault and army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Center" group of troops hit the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Ploschanka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Terny, Yampolovka and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic .
During the day, up to 100 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, four pickup trucks, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in this direction.
- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the active actions of units with the support of the artillery of the "Southern" group of forces, more than 220 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armored combat vehicles, seven vehicles, as well as a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in a day.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, artillery fire from the Vostok group of forces hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar, Prechistovka and Zolotaya Niva of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Also, in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Levadne and Marfopol of the Zaporozhye region, the actions of three sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped. During the day, over 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four vehicles and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in these areas.
- In the Kherson direction, during the counter-battery fight, the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery installation was destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated the 81st Artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and equipment in 157 districts in a day.
- In the areas of the settlements of Krasny Liman and Drobyshevo of the Donetsk People's Republic, the command posts of the 111th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit. In the area of the city of Zaporozhye, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located on the territory of the Ukrenergochermet enterprise, was destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down two Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force in the areas of the settlements of Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region and Dvurechnaya in the Kharkov region. In addition, seven HIMARS and 220mm Uragan multiple rocket launchers were intercepted during the day, and a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed near the village of Chervony Mayak, Kherson region.
- In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 400 aircraft, 220 helicopters, 3,385 unmanned aerial vehicles, 411 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,275 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,055 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,326 field artillery guns and mortars, and also 8,879 units of special military vehicles.
14:40 Training of the arrived replenishment in firing small arms in conditions close to combat -video.
All conditions and safety requirements are met.
14:35 Avdeevskiy section situation according to condition at 14.00 March 12, 2023.
- To the north of Avdiivka, Russian units attacked the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnohorivka. As a result of intense fighting, the RF Armed Forces entered the village and entrenched themselves on the eastern outskirts. Now clashes continue in the central and western regions.
Despite the existing information about the complete control over Krasnohorivka, the settlement has not yet been liberated, a cleansing is underway. At the same time, the Ukrainian command transferred units of the 1st Presidential Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine to the area of the village to assist the defending forces.
- In addition, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces, after establishing control over Vesely, moved south along the dam and came close to the village of Kamenka, south of Novoselovka II.
Tactical success in this area and potential control over Krasnohorivka and Kamenka would allow the Avdeevsky fortified area to be physically encircled and advance further towards the railway near Petrovsky.
A group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the suburbs of Donetsk passes through the railway line. Cutting this logistic hub will significantly reduce the capabilities of Ukrainian formations in Avdievka and create the prospect of squeezing the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the settlement.
13:59 At the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) section of the ukrovoyak, while trying to evacuate, he came under fire from Russian artillery -video.
13:55 Today is our vernissage opens a sad picture about the actual Ukrainian arithmetic of losses. The solution presented by the student to the demographic task set before him is disappointing. On the other hand, this solution is not the only one - there is always an option to stop the war and save people.
13:53 Ukropchik says that during the evacuation of a wounded APU soldier, one of the evacuation team “tripled” himself —video.
13:52 The Kozak-2 armored car destroyed by a precise hit by Russian artillery in one of the directions -video.
13:50 "Continuous Hail": Russian calculations of the MLRS launched an artillery strike on the camouflaged positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
- In one of the directions, as a result of aerial reconnaissance, UAV crews revealed the camouflaged positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and transmitted information to the artillery command post. After that, the calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" advanced to combat positions, from where they launched an artillery strike on targets. Having completed the fire mission, the gunners promptly
13:45 The latest T-90M "Breakthrough" in the battles near Svatovo -video.
Having received information from intelligence, the crew of a Russian ZVO tank covered an enemy observation post.
13:17 The work of the heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka -video.
12:29 Russian tankers spoke about the use of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks in the direction of Kupyansk -video.
This tank managed to establish itself as the best during the special operation.
“We are 100% confident in this tank,” says the tanker, nicknamed “Azer”.
Characteristics - weight 48 tons; power - 1130 l. With.; speed up to 70 km/h; power reserve - 550 km; crew - 3 people.
“We are ready to meet with Western tanks,” says the driver with the call sign “Big”.
How will they be destroyed? Russian tankers will talk about this in a report.
11:51 Morning hit of AFU in Donetsk fell on the Budenovsky and Kalininsky districts. The enemy was hit from the MLRS. Several residential buildings were destroyed by direct hits, and two civilians are known to be wounded.
11:25 The result of artillery attack by Ukrainian artillerymen of the city of Donetsk -video.
11:24 A short report about the T-90M "Breakthrough" -video.
11:21 Bakhmut will fall, everything is on the verge, we are depressed. The infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a consumable,” the Ukrainian military told the truth about the
massacrevideo.
11:17 I cannot get out of my head the phrase I heard yesterday from a Wagner PMC fighter. And before his death, his mortally wounded comrade told him: “Crush the bastards to the end!” —video.
10:47 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants.
10:45 Battle for Artemovsk - the main thing for the past day (for the morning of 12.03)
- According to so far unverified information, at night PMC "Wagner" entered the settlement. Orekhovo-Vasilevka and went to the outskirts of the settlement located a little northeast. Zaliznyanskoye.
Thus, there is a clear vector of movement around Seversk and, and this is the most important thing, to break through the second and main line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (which was built since the summer) along the watershed between the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk and Bakhmut-Soledar agglomerations.
- In fact, Orekhovo-Vasilevka is already a fortified area of ??this very line, and taking it under control is a very serious application. Well, as I said a little higher, a new threat to Seversk.
Also yesterday, information came that parts of the "Wagners" physically entered the track from Artemovsk, through Khromovo to Chasov Yar. In Artemovsk itself, a new liberation strategy is also already evident.
Apparently, having realistically assessed the threat from the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred here, which are just waiting to hit the flank and rear of the strike groups closing ticks from the north and south, the command of the Wagner PMC abandoned this plan.
- Wagner operators continued their offensive in the center, and after their assault detachments entered the AZOM plant from the north, another part of the attackers (the one that crossed the Bakhmutovka River yesterday) are trying to enter the southern parts of this enterprise and thus take the defenders into pincers. So far, the offensive here is developing successfully.
- Well, also yesterday there were attacks of Wagner operators from the south on a wide front from Chasovoy Yar to the southern outskirts of the city. There is a partial advance between Ivanovsky and the former Airplane stele. And all this not only brought new threats to the enemy, but also seriously complicated an already bleak logistics situation for him.
10:43 Our guys continue to dismantle the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction -video.
10:10 This morning Ukrainian militants inflicted a massive artillery strike on the Sokol microdistrict in Nova Kakhovka, a woman died, houses, shops and power lines were destroyed - the city administration.
10:09 The center of Donetsk is again under Nazi artillery aattack -video.
10:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/12/2023
- On the Donetsk front, Russian troops were conducting offensive operations in the main sectors. Another attack on Novomikhailovka, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold a defensive ledge. In Marinka, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations within the city limits. They also attacked the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka on the ground.
Another attempt to establish control over Nevelskoye. To Pervomaisky, Russian troops sought to break through from the direction of Sand and Vodyany. They also conducted assault operations in the direction of the North. On the part of Experienced - an attack on the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka. This is from the south. And from the north - an attack on Kamenka.
- To the south-west of Bakhmut, PMC "Wagner" advanced in the direction of Stupochki. The attack on the Ivanovo Armed Forces of Ukraine was repulsed. On the southern outskirts of Bakhmut, with the support of artillery, Wagner operators are advancing from the side of Experienced and Ivangrad. The Ukrainian garrison holds the line.
- To the north-west of the city, Wagner operators advanced in the Khromovoye area and near Bogdanovka. And to the west of Soledar - towards Privolye along the M-03 highway to Slavyansk. With the support of artillery, Wagner PMC also conducted assault operations near Zheleznyansky.
And to the north of Soledar - attacked towards Fedorovka. The "musicians" attacked Veseloye from the side of Donetsk Belogorovka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance towards the Disputed. Russian artillery hit Aleksandro-Shultin, Konstantinovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Minkovka and Vasyukovka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Ozaryanovka and Kurdyumovka.
- In the Luhansk direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Shipilovka conducted offensive operations in the Serebryansky forest area. There is a promotion. But the attacks in the direction of Terny, Nevsky and Makeevka did not bring success.
09:47 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from March 11 to March 12, 2023
Russian military personnel worked on the accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belopolye and Velykopisarevka, Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces hit targets in the settlements of Krasnoe Pervoe, Ogurtsovo and Chervonaya Zorya.
In the Starobelsky direction, Russian troops attacked enemy positions in Peschanoe, Stelmahovka, Nevsky, Kislovka, Krakhmalny, Dvurechnaya and Novoselovsky.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut, Ivanovsky, New York, as well as Belaya Gora, Razdolovka and Vasyukovka.
The enemy fired on Yagodnoe and Dubovo-Vasilevka in response.
In the Donetsk direction, enemy positions were hit in Kurakhovo, Vodyany, Georgievka, Avdeevka, Berdychi, Pervomaisky and Thin.
Ukrainian formations once again shelled Donetsk and its environs.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian forces worked on the concentrations of Ukrainian army manpower in Vugledar, Zolotoy Niva and Novomikhailovka.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Gulyaipole, Malinovka and Belogorye, as well as in Marganets on the northern bank of the Dnieper.
On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces delivered strikes against the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dudchany, Antonovka, Republican, Belozerka, Olgovka, Ivanovka, Tyaginka, Tokarevka, Kherson and Ochakovo.
09:23 Our 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" burned the disguised positions of militants -video
Thanks to the work of UAV operators, camouflaged enemy positions were revealed. Our gunners received the coordinates and hit the enemy with rockets from the Grad MLRS.
09:11 When 152mm Hyacinths-S bloom: Russian artillerymen use 152mm self-propelled guns as "roaming" guns -video
Artillery crews of 152mm self-propelled guns "Hyacinth-S" Otvazhny strike at firing points and fortified positions of the armed forces of Ukraine.
The servicemen use the tactics of "roaming" guns - within a minute they make 5-6 shots at a target, after which they change firing positions.
Fire correction is carried out by reconnaissance groups of the Central Military District with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles.
09:07 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 03/11/2023 to 00:00 03/12/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 16 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 11 attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery, a shock UAV.
On Gorlovsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 60 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of four settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Staromikhaylovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians, incl. child born in 2015, in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. #ChildrenNotTarget
A civilian was wounded - a man, in Staromikhailivka.
4 housing constructions were damaged in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and Oleksandrivka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
In the previous day, 34 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:11 "Brave" break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: tanks and infantry smash the positions of the enemy -video
- Russian troops are conducting an active offensive on the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya.
- Ukrainian military analysts calculated the exact position on the map from the recently published video of the assault by the soldiers of the Central Military District on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
“The reason for the change in the tactical situation in the area of Ploshchanka was a successful Russian attack supported by 3 tanks with video confirmation.
Again, we note their role in the assaults and covering the actions of the infantry in the conditions of landings and fields on fairly flat terrain.
- The Russian troops are actively using the tactics of attacking waves, massive artillery preparation and tank strikes in order to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Intense fighting, the fighting at Svatovo-Kremennaya continues, the Russians are constantly attacking. Local battles are going from Ploschanka to Dubrava, ”Kyiv military analysts report in a recent report.
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[REGNUM] Last year, 70 monuments to Soviet soldiers were demolished in Latvia. A running flywheel is difficult to stop, and the fighters against the "occupation legacy" now need new facilities on which they can vent their hatred. Since the monuments to Soviet soldiers ended, it was the turn of the monuments to other "occupation figures". In particular, it was decided to remove the monument to the great poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin from its former place in Riga.
ADEPT OF "RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM"
The demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers was a moral blow to the Russian community in Latvia. The Russian Latvians, already demoralized, tried to protest, to protect the monuments dear to them, but the forces turned out to be too unequal. And after the majestic memorial complex to the Liberators was demolished in Riga in August last year, the main sacred place for the Russians of Latvia moved to Kronvalda Park, where there is a monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Pushkin will not be touched, people thought. People were wrong...
The monument to Pushkin appeared in the capital of Latvia already in modern times.
This monument by the sculptor Alexander Taratynov was erected in Riga in August 2009, on the occasion of the 210th anniversary of the poet's birth. The initiative was carried out with the support of the Riga organization "House of Moscow" (forced closed last year) and the Pushkin Society of Latvia.
“The great Russian poet Pushkin is the bearer of the ideas of freedom, justice and democracy. I hope these ideas will come to life, and such a friendship will reign between Russia and Latvia that no one can break ,” said Russian Ambassador to Latvia Alexander Veshnyakov at the monument installation ceremony .
A number of representatives of the Latvian intelligentsia then signed a collective appeal in which they spoke out against the installation of the monument in the Kronvalda park. Then they were not listened to, and since then this monument, located in the center of Riga, has been the object of hatred of local nationalists who consider Pushkin a "Russian chauvinist."
In recent years, the monument has been attacked several times by vandals - they sawed off the cane held by the bronze Pushkin, doused it with paint and threw flowers brought by the poet's admirers into a nearby canal. In 2020, Latvian professor Sandra Veinberga said that the monument to Pushkin had no place in Riga, since, they say, in his life he had nothing to do with this city.
And last fall, a petition appeared in the public space, which was prepared by a Latvian named Moritss Nils Mengelsonos . He called for "cleansing the public space of Riga of the last remaining symbols of Russian imperialism." According to Mengelsonos, the Russian embassy uses the monument to Pushkin "as a tool of soft power and propaganda." The author of the petition accused Pushkin of always being a chauvinist and imperialist.
“In his works, Pushkin supported the attack of the Russian Empire on the Caucasus and the genocide of its inhabitants. Ukraine, as well as the Baltic countries, which at that time were part of the Russian Empire, he called in his works "little Russia". Is there a need for a monument to such a person in the center of Riga? I call on the Riga City Council to dismantle and remove the monument to Alexander Pushkin and liberate Riga from the remnants of imperialism, as is now happening in many cities of Ukraine ,” Mengelsonos urged.
Mengelsonos found a sufficient number of supporters who began to sign the petition, and, in the end, she got to the leadership of the Riga self-government.
In early March, Natalia Abola, a deputy of the Moscow City Council from the Honor to Serve Riga party, announced that Vice Mayor Linda Ozola (deputy bloc Code for Riga) asked to include the issue of objects “glorifying the totalitarian regime” on the agenda and adopt the decision to dismantle them or move them to "publicly inaccessible closed spaces" . The leadership of the Duma included monuments to the world-famous Soviet scientist, a native of Riga, Mstislav Keldysh, the Russian military leader Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly (his ancestors lived in Riga) and, finally, the "cult personality of Russian imperialism" Alexander Pushkin.
By posting this message, Abola scolded the Russian voter for the passivity shown by him in the summer of 2020 during the municipal elections in Riga.
“You don’t need to tell me that your electoral vote means nothing: the apathy of Russian voters in the elections to the Riga City Council led to the fact that Pushkin became a “cult personality of Russian imperialism,” the deputy noted.
The information posted by her aroused the indignation of representatives of the local Russian community, but the launched process was already underway.
On March 5, the Riga Municipal Council for Monuments issued a recommendation: for now, Barclay should be left in the same place, Keldysh should be dismantled, and Pushkin should be moved to another place, out of sight, to the courtyard of the Ave Sol concert hall.
This decision still needs to be approved at a general meeting of the Riga City Council, but Abola has no doubts that the process will pass without much difficulty.
“WHAT MANY LATVIANS THINK BUT ARE AFRAID TO SAY OUT LOUD”
The poetess Liana Langa , who is an ardent supporter of the "de-Russification" of Latvia and the complete exclusion of the Russian language and culture from all spheres of state life, explained the position of the Latvian nationalists on Pushkin.
"Signs of Russian imperial politics, such as monuments to Alexander Pushkin, which mark the territories of cultural influence of Russian “soft power”, keeping them in the status of a temporary hybrid occupation, are not needed in Latvia. This was also understood in Ukraine, so the monuments to Alexander Pushkin were dismantled there. Objectively, Alexander Pushkin has no historical connection with Latvia, except for the fact that Anna Kern once lived in Latvia," Langa said.
However, in Latvia there were many people who disagreed with this position. Pushkin's fans organized a flash mob in social networks - they began to post their favorite poems from his legacy on their pages in large numbers. Moreover, which is typical, among the protesters there were quite a few Latvians who were indignant at the attitude towards the great poet that the authorities of Riga demonstrate.
Their opinion was expressed by the actor Gundars Āboliņš . He ironically wrote on the social network: “In order to stay on the “progressive wave”, I propose to demolish the building of the Latvian Opera House, as it was built during the time of the Russian Empire and therefore reminds of its inhuman greatness!”
Following this, Abolins mentioned a long list of outstanding buildings and entire streets built during the time of the Russian Empire. All this, according to the logic of the fighters against hybrid aggression and Russia's "soft power," should be demolished.
“It should also be announced that Lacplesis is no longer an epic of the Latvian people, because it was composed by an officer of the Russian army Andrejs Pumpurs ,” Abolins adds. He also urged to “explain” one of the “fathers” of the Latvian national awakening, folklorist and writer Krišjānis Barons – after all, he lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg for a long time, at one time he worked in the Russian Ministry of Public Education.
In support of Abolins, a well-known businessman in the country, politician, ex-deputy prime minister, head of the parliamentary party "Latvia in the first place" Ainars Shlesers vigorously spoke out . “Thanks to Gundars Abolins for the courage to say what many Latvians think but are afraid to say out loud. They are afraid that the so-called “patriots” of Latvia will call them traitors, Kremlinists and Putinists ,” Slesers wrote on the social network. And he also posted a video on which he reads in Russian: “Lukomorye has a green oak ...”
"HANDS OFF!"
Ainars Slesers addressed directly to the mayor of Riga, Martins Stakis :
“Dear Mr. Stakis, will the demolition of the monument to Pushkin in Riga really change something for the benefit of the people of Riga? Do you definitely have no other priorities in Riga, except to demolish the monument to Pushkin? I urge you to deal with really important problems for the city, and not divert attention from your failures by demolishing the monument to the poet Pushkin.
It should be noted that these days the mayor of Riga was engaged in a really very important, from his point of view, business: he took part in the opening ceremony of a gay club that opened its doors to lovers of same-sex love on Aristida Briana Street.
“Here you can feel safe - no one will judge you, will not tell you how to lead, whom to love, with whom to be together,” the mayor of Riga said at the opening of the institution, promising that he would “look here again” ...
Influential businessman Valdis Kalnozols (a former member of parliament who repeatedly appeared on the lists of Latvian millionaires, a man known for his harsh criticism of the authorities) tried to defend Pushkin from attacks, appealing to the fashionable tolerance in the West.
"If people know at least a little history, then the monument to Pushkin is more a symbol of modern racial tolerance than something hated. Pushkin's great-grandfather Abram Gannibal was a Russian military engineer of African origin," Kalnozols recalled.
In turn, the well-known journalist Sandris Tochs spoke briefly: “Hands off the monument to Pushkin!”
Opponents of the transfer of the monument announced a rally in his defense. Some, however, immediately began to express skepticism: they say that nothing depends on us, if they want to remove the monument, they will. Such skeptics are rebuffed.
“Dear friends… I’ll try to be a little more gentle… Maybe it’s enough to be clever about external management in Latvia, about the fact that Pushkin is doomed, that everything is useless, and other garbage… Perhaps this is one of the last chances to defend not only a monument to the poet, but also your future life. March 12, at 13.00. Town Hall Square," writes, for example, blogger Alexei Gulenko .
The authorities in Riga obviously did not expect such active opposition - they hesitated.
Mayor Stakis suddenly declared that now the most important issue for the self-government of the capital is the adoption of the budget for this year, and not the dismantling of monuments. Stakis stressed that "monuments that glorified the occupation within the city have already been dismantled" , and decisions on other monuments "will not be made quickly or under the influence of emotions."
The mayor added that the municipal council for monuments is an advisory body, mostly composed of experts, not local government deputies, and is authorized to make only “ recommendatory decisions.”
Stakis promised that the Duma would still weigh "all arguments and opinions" . The mayor added: “The self-government will take into account that opinions on the transfer of monuments differed, there was no consensus. Therefore, the discussion on this issue has not ended, but only begun.
So there is some possibility that the monument to Pushkin will still be left in its original place. Well, if the monument is really left alone, it will be the first victory for the fighters against legalized vandalism in Latvia in a long time ...
Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] For those who don't know what an FPV drone is.
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We have every chance to miss the "fpv-revolution" in military affairs, and then make a helpless gesture, looking for the guilty and pointing fingers at each other. But fortunately, we have a civil society and volunteers, I think we will first stretch out at the expense of their energy, and then they will move the heavy gears of the state machine to spin in the right direction.
By the way, not a fictional story. A young officer asks his superiors to send fighters to train fpv pilots. The senior authorities blink their eyes and ask, why study there? Still, it’s simple, show on the spot where and where to press the buttons and don’t be distracted by trifles, that is, training.
https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10981 - zinc
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Older Edda once again writes ( https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10981) about the lack of understanding by military officials of the importance of UAVs and FPV drones. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, the understanding of the importance of drones is still very superficial - especially when it comes to staff members from lieutenant colonel and above.
At the very least, the Russian Federation managed to bring to the level of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief the importance of unmanned aircraft as such for the front. Understood, accepted.
And then it began.
Now the troops - in the person of performers, operators and persons who have to solve problems on the ground - are faced with the inflexible stupidity of individual commanders. It is difficult to characterize such an approach in another way.
In the Dnepr grouping, it came to the point that from the higher headquarters they set the task of reporting in writing on the number of takeoffs of quadrocopters for accounting. We, really, do not know what this is connected with, but under the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Teplinsky, there was no such absurdity.
In the Kherson direction, the copter - delivered by volunteers (!) - is perceived as know-how and a means of video and photo fixation of the front edge. It comes to the point of absurdity: it is necessary to film the position of the enemy, who is deploying a gun in the direction of our troops, report to the higher headquarters and wait for the command to return fire. During this time, according to our observation posts, the enemy not only has time to work out, but also to turn off the gun and get out of the firing position.
Are you talking about FPV drones?
Until military officials learn that any drone is, first of all, a consumable that must be used in accordance with military skill, ingenuity and expediency as decided by commanders on the ground - about any training on FPV drones or the mass purchase of commercial drones for the troops through the Russian Ministry of Defense is out of the question.
Everything rests on public initiatives - and even then on the principle of "not thanks, but in spite of."
Somehow, on one of the broadcasts, the idea was already voiced: it’s time to deploy robotics classes in schools so that young people from an early age learn to assemble drones and fly them. It's time to hold centralized drone piloting competitions - within the same DOSAAF clubs and military-patriotic events of the Yunarmiya.
Disassembly/assembly of the AK-74 is, of course, cool. But in the current realities, piloting drones - and treating the drone as a modern analogue of the AK-74 - should become a normal, adequate skill.
(с) @rybar
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In FPV flying ( https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10981 ) the most important thing is to develop stable drone control skills. The difficulty lies in the fact that, unlike the "mavic", electronics do not help you. The position of the quadrocopter in space is controlled only by the operator with his fingers. And I feel it is as difficult as flying a helicopter.
It took me 2 months to fly in the simulator for 2 hours every day for my first FPV flight. And even after such preparation, you will certainly crash your first drone against the wall. It happens to all pilots without exception.
So if we want to see an armada of fpv drones in 2 months, then now we need to massively purchase TBS Tango 2 remote controls (25 thousand apiece), install LiftOFF simulators on computers and put capable young guys behind cars.
Even if the government buys a million FPV drones tomorrow, we simply won't have pilots to fly them. This problem must be solved now. Little finance is needed for this. Pilot training classes can be opened in any room where there is Internet and electricity. So what are we waiting for? The question is rather rhetorical.
(c) Alexander Kharchenko
https://t.me/bayraktar1070 - zinc
It's hard to disagree here.More FPV drones needed. Multiple. This applies to both the supply of troops. and their production in the country.
Further deployment of public and private pilot training schools is needed. Ideally, if based on DOSAAF.
The time between receiving information from the drone and opening fire on the identified target should be as short as possible.
It is necessary to intensively introduce tactics to counter enemy FPV drones.
In the second half of the 20s, FPV drones will already be part of the UAV swarm system on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine will only accelerate this process.
The state is now making serious efforts to increase production and training, but the situation requires even greater volumes and intensity of work.
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I watch a few yachting videos. They need the small drones to make their shows but the ocean is much more demanding then land as salt water will end it's usable life quickly. Perhaps the last month of training for drone operators should be on a bouncing ship offshore...
Commentary supplied from the linked article by Russian financial reporter Pavel Komarovsky
[DTFRULIFE] On Friday, there was a loud "pop" in the financial markets: the 16th largest US bank suddenly burst - and the bankruptcy itself became the second largest in history among American commercial banks. In this article, we take a look at what happened and how it could affect all of us.
Laura Izurieta, head of risk at Silicon Valley Bank, prudently resigned from the bank back in April 2022, and they couldn’t find a person for her position for almost a year (coincidence? I don’t think!)
HOW IT ALL BEGAN: A BANK FOR THE GEEKY ZUCKERBRINS
For 40 years back (in 1983) a bank appeared in California that made a bet on startups - it decided to serve mainly big-headed guys who created new promising businesses and raised a lot of money from venture investors.
Given that the business took place exactly in Silicon Valley, and the bank was called Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), this business model turned out to be extremely successful. After all, Silicon Valley has become a real cradle for fast-growing technology companies, which for the next few decades rowed money literally with a shovel (and some of it, of course, put it in the bank).
They say that Bob Medearis came up with the idea to drink Silicon Valley Bank while playing poker with another co-founder of the bank, Bill Biggerstaff. They had a good all-in, I must say!
In 2020-2021, the technology industry in the United States experienced another boom: under the slogan of combating covid, unprecedentedly huge amounts of money were thrown into the financial system, and a significant part of it went precisely to finance “fashionable” fast-growing tech companies. The Nasdaq-100 index has almost doubled in these two years, and startups raced to conduct initial public offerings (IPOs) and raise money directly from venture capital investors on an industrial scale.
Not surprisingly, the business of SVB, which serves all these tech start-ups, also grew by leaps and bounds. Its customer deposits more than tripled during this period (as did the bank's share price) to reach roughly $200 billion by early 2022, making Silicon Valley Bank the 16th largest bank in the US (and second in California).
As they say - nothing foreshadowed trouble ...
Any bank, of course, is happy when they bring a lot of money to it. But with big bucks comes a big responsibility: you have to decide where to invest them so that they earn a nice profit in the pocket of the owners of this bank. And this is where it gets interesting!
WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?
The classic business model of any bank is to collect more deposits at a lower rate, and distribute this money to reliable companies in the form of loans at a higher rate. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, this turned out to be a little problematic: most of your startups from Silicon Valley do not look much like "safe businesses" (the guys there mostly have beautiful pictures with the promise of explosive revenue growth in the future - and not stable cash flows and strong collateral ). And they didn’t have much of a shortage of money: as I wrote above, in 2020–2021. except that investors didn’t line up in a queue to fill such startups with loot literally in bags.
Therefore, SVB decided that the money would be logical to invest in the stock market. No, of course, they did not go to buy Tesla shares with leverage - that would be too much. But to buy reliable bonds from the US government (US Treasuries), or mortgage-backed debt securities with suitable collateral in the form of real estate - why not?
And now let's remember what yield reliable dollar bonds gave during that period:
The yield of US government bonds as a percentage (vertical scale) depending on their maturity (horizontal scale) in 2020-2021 (source https://www.researchgate.net /figure/US-Treasury-Securities-Yield-Curve-Mar-2020-Jan-2021_fig1_348559338 )
The US Federal Reserve then drowned the interest rate to almost zero (in the name of saving the economy from covid horrors), so placing money in reliable US Treasuries on the horizon of a year or two brought about zero profitability.
So the bankers from Silicon Valley Bank thought that by investing at 0% you won’t earn much for bread and butter (and they still have to pay all current expenses: salaries to employees, office rent, and so on). The solution was simple - the bankers simply dumped the lion's share of available funds into longer bonds with a maturity of 5-10 years (mostly mortgages), which at that time had a yield slightly above 1.5% per annum. Despite the fact that they paid almost no profitability to their clients on attracted deposits - a good margin, right?
HOW RISING RATES KILLED BONDS
Any financier knows that when you buy long bonds, you take on the risk of rising interest rates. If you bought a long bond during a period of low rates, and then rates skyrocketed, then, in Tommy's terms from the movie Snatch, "You are PROPER HOSED."
Why is this happening? Invisible hand of the market, ept! Follow the logic: suppose a company issues a $100 par value bond with a 1% coupon (which was the market level at the time), maturing in 50 years, and you buy it. A year later, the market level of rates increased, and now it is customary to lend to such companies already at 2% per annum.
Can you sell your bond to someone for $100? Of course not - you will not find such fools (why would someone invest at 1% when the market already gives 2% with a similar reliability?). But for a conditional $50, such a bond will be bought from you without any problems: after all, then a coupon of $1 per year will just give a yield of 2% on the “current market value” of the paper at $50 (the exact numbers will not be exactly the same, but these are the details - you understand the logic.
In fact, this is exactly what happened in 2022: the head of the US Federal Reserve got a little crazy from the explosive growth of inflation, and at a record pace raised the interest rate from about zero to almost 5% (at the moment).
Surprise: the stock market has been bleeding non-stop for the whole of 2022 precisely because of the sharp increase in the Fed rate
It is clear that in this situation, the bond portfolio of Silicon Valley Bank “sad”: by the 4th quarter of 2022, it showed a drawdown from 9 to 17%, which already, as it were, exceeded the size of the bank’s own capital (that is, the difference between existing assets and liabilities to contributors).
Run on a bank: why it is sometimes important to be first in line, and not last netinterest.co/p/the-demise-of-silicon-valley-bank ). And there is even logic in this: because of the growth in rates, the bonds, as it were, sink not forever, but temporarily. If you hold them until maturity, then they will recover over time and everything will be ok.
But this logic only works if the bank has "the ability to wait." And here is the time to remember that most of the deposits in Silicon Valley Bank are the so-called “demand deposits”, which can be withdrawn at any time. Oops...
Bloomberg: By March 2022, SVB had accumulated almost $130 billion in demand deposits - and by the end of the year, $50 billion of them the smartest clients preferred to take. The systematic outflow of such deposits from the bank began in mid-2022. And there is no malicious intent on the part of Silicon Valley Bank customers: the tech industry began to decline, it was no longer easy to attract new investors' money, so many companies began to actively “eat up” the previously accumulated reserves.
But for SVB, this felt like a gradual activation of a time bomb: after all, deposits on demand had to be reimbursed from the most liquid assets, which meant that more and more strongly sagging long-term bonds remained on the balance sheet. And the faster the outflow of deposits became, the clearer it became that simply “sitting out to maturity” in these bonds would not work - sooner or later they would have to be sold at a loss in order to receive funds to return money to customers right now.
Actually, this is exactly what happened, and in 2023 the bank had to start selling these ill-fated long bonds at a loss - and then it suddenly became very clear to everyone that “the king is naked”, and in fact there will not be enough money for everyone. Venture start-ups from Silicon Valley began vying to call each other and advise urgently to remove all the loot from Silicon Valley Bank. But it was already too late ...
IN FINANCE, THIS PHENOMENON IS CALLED A "BANK RUN", AND IT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS, YES
It turns out that here the concentration of SVB in one sector played a cruel joke on the bank: if they had many small retail clients, they might have passed. But since IT startups in the Valley communicate very closely with each other, there was a full run on the bank, when everyone tries to get their money out early (because the last one in this line may not get anything).
Well, and a logical result - on March 10, banking regulators in the United States began, de facto, the bankruptcy procedure for SVB.
BANKRUPTCY OF THE LARGEST BANK IN CALIFORNIA: NOT PLEASANT
All operations with the bank were instantly suspended - for a huge number of start-ups from the Valley, this was a real shock (many of them used Silicon Valley Bank as the only place to store funds raised from investors).
Andrey Doronichev (former Google Product Director and one of the heroes of Dudya's special project about Silicon Valley) shares his feelings from the position of a startup The
American deposit insurance system FDIC promises to start paying out affected depositors next week - while the insured amount is $ 250 thousand per deposit. But this is only a part of the funds, in the region of 15% of the total amount of deposits. What will happen to the rest of the contributors is still unclear.
The worst case is if the case ends in a full-fledged bankruptcy, with the gradual sale of all assets and the division of the resulting pile of money among everyone to whom the bank owes. This process will most likely not be quick - but, nevertheless, investors should eventually receive the principal amount invested back (I think at least 80% - but it will be possible to say for sure only on the basis of detailed up-to-date financial statements).
A good scenario assumes that someone big will buy the whole bank and close the hole in the balance sheet with their own funds, getting a working business in return (which was estimated quite well by the market a year ago).
It is clear that US regulators will do their best to drown for a "good" scenario - so that all the people around them get what is due to them, calm down, and the negative effects on the mood prevailing among financiers are limited. But even in the worst-case scenario, so far it looks like the bankruptcy of a bank even of this size is unlikely to cause the beginning of the collapse of the entire financial system according to the domino principle (and this, of course, in such situations, everyone fears the most).
IT HURTS THE MOST, IT SEEMS, AS USUAL, HIT THE CRYPTANS
In Silicon Valley Bank, not only classic IT entrepreneurs kept money, but also cryptans. In particular, the company Circle, which manages one of the largest USDC stablecoins, also kept part of the reserves for this token there. So, in the wake of such news, USDC cheerfully depegged on the night from Friday to Saturday (disconnected from $1) and is currently being traded in different places for about 90% of the face value.
Why at the moment everyone in a panic gets rid of USDC and dropped the price a lot - this is understandable; but let's try to figure out what situation we are in in terms of the fundamental indicators of the security of this stablecoin. (Disclaimer: The author of this article has money in USDC, so I'm being a bit biased here - keep that in mind!)
According to the latest data from the Circle website, as of March 9, total reserves were an impressive $43.5 billion, of which 75% ( $ 32.4 billion) accounted for a short public debt of the United States - about these funds, pah-pah, you don’t seem to worry about it. But $ 11 billion lay in bank accounts, and according to Circle on Twitter, $ 3.3 billion managed to end up in Silicon Valley Bank.
If you count it "on the forehead", the funds blocked in SVB accounts make up 7.5% of reserves - which is a lot. But at the same time, as we discussed above, it is hardly worth considering this money as “completely missing”. If we assume that at least 80% of the bank's liabilities are adequately backed by assets, then the real "hole" in Circle's balance sheet can be only ~1.5%, which already does not look so threatening. Taking into account the fact that now reliable short US Treasuries bring 5% per annum, it is possible to recoup this amount purely from interest income in four months.
True, if everyone rushes en masse to exchange their USDC for real cash directly in Circle, then this “little hole” may begin to grow ... And the last one who comes for such an exchange will already get a donut hole - in fact, because the outcome and these same raids on banks take place (and Circle in this case acts as a kind of crypto-bank).
Is it likely? I am not here to give advice and predictions - but I can share my personal opinion: it seems to me that with the beginning of the next working week (when interbank transfers and other things start working again), arbitrageurs should quickly return the USDC peg to $1 (albeit not ideally, but a deviation should be reduced from 10% to at least 1-2%). At the same time, we should expect a significant reduction in USDC capitalization due to the work of arbitrageurs (who will buy tokens at $0.9 and exchange them in Circle for a real crunchy dollar).
So one of the main questions here is whether Circle will have enough patience and infrastructural capabilities to sit out the first wave of outflow of funds, and how much they will be able to draw a clear and transparent picture for cryptans regarding “what is with the reserves now and what is the plan for the future.”
Worst case scenario for USDC crypto holders here could look something like this: Circle says “sorry, there’s a hole in the balance, so we are suspending the USDC to dollar exchange – until we figure out how to fairly share the rest of the reserves among everyone. Based on our calculations above, this in itself will not mean that all the money in USDC is lost (Circle has a lot of real assets), but all arbitrage mechanisms will break down at the moment - and USDC quotes will go even much lower than $0.9.
In general, we'll see. It is not an investment recommendation, but personally I still bet on a moderately positive scenario for USDC - and I’m getting ready on Monday-Tuesday, if quotes again approach $1, to slowly diversify my “crypto pillow” away from USDC. But, of course, I could be wrong.
PS: I foresee a lot of gloating in the comments on the topic that “Tether was branded for unreliability, but USDC ended up well!” Well, here we must also take into account that we now know about the problems of USDC precisely because of the greater transparency of this token. If Tether got into the same situation, we would most likely simply not even know about it now (and, accordingly, it’s not a fact that the situation inside the reserves is now much better).
UPD: As they say, “our shooter has ripened everywhere”: Elon Musk writes that he is open to the idea of buying Silicon Valley Bank.
The situation with the bankruptcy of the American bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is being closely monitored by specialists from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bloomberg writes about this on March 12.
As the representative of the international organization clarified to the publication, the development of the situation with SVB is being closely monitored, potential financial risks from the collapse of the bank are being assessed.
In addition, the IMF representative indicated that the organization retained absolute confidence in the representatives of the US authorities, as well as in the appropriate steps that Washington, without any doubt, will take to resolve the situation.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the US Congress hopes to receive a statement from the White House administration regarding the situation with the bankrupt Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) before the opening of trading on Monday morning, March 13.
The American authorities are not considering the possibility of buying out the bankrupt Silicon Valley Bank, by analogy with the practice of the financial crisis of 2008, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview with CBS News.
"During the financial crisis, some investors and owners of large systemic banks were saved <...> government reforms do not suggest that we will do it again <...> At the same time, we are worried about depositors and are focused on trying to satisfy them needs," the minister said.
According to her, now the task of the authorities is to prevent a chain reaction due to the collapse of the Californian company.
“The American economy relies on a sound and strong banking system that can meet the credit needs of households and organizations. So when a bank, especially one like Silicon Valley Bank, with billions of dollars in deposits, collapses, it is a concern,” she stressed.
Yesterday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported that regulators in the state of California closed Silicon Valley Bank, the largest bank to collapse in the US since the last financial crisis. The FDIC transferred all insured deposits from the SVB to a separate entity it created, the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara.
SVB specialized in working with Silicon Valley startups. On March 8, the bank announced the sale of virtually all of its securities and suffered an after-tax loss of $1.8 billion.
On Sunday afternoon, the American online publication Axios reported that the Joe Biden administration is facing a banking crisis if it does not work out a plan to rescue SVB depositors by Monday.
#4
The beltway model: Privatize gains, socialize losses.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/13/2023 6:37 Comments ||
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#5
a lot of the SVB webpages are still up
they make interesting reading for example, the one on SVB careers,
says,
Work Where Innovation Happens
Silicon Valley is where our story began, but it is not where our impact ends. Our reach expands around the globe to meet the needs of the evolving innovation economy. Learn more and explore our opportunities worldwide.
https://www.svb.com/careers/global-careers
Posted by: lord garth ||
03/13/2023 7:31 Comments ||
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#6
Looks like everybody who had deposits at SVB and Signature Bank will eventually get their money.
But everybody who, as of Friday close, owned stock in SVB Financial Group and Signature Bank of New York is losing everything. Likewise any holders of bonds issued by those companies.
Posted by: lord garth ||
03/13/2023 7:49 Comments ||
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#7
^^^ Republic Bank shares are crashing hard at 74% loss so far. As said in the above comment, deposits are being guaranteed at a couple of banks but bank stock values are not being guaranteed by the Biden admin so hell may still break loose.
#12
This current banking crisis is a result of the absurdly low interest rates foisted on us by the Federal Reserve for the last several years. When it allowed / forced interest rates to rise, banks like SVB found themselves with a lot of Treasury paper purchased months ago, which paid minimal interest rates, hence the papers' value had plunged. SVB was cashing in this paper last week to raise cash for withdrawals and sustaining impossibly heavy losses.
#13
The current banking situation can be compared to 1933. When FDR was inaugurated 4 Mar 1933, 37 US states had already closed all their banks due to bank runs. Within a few days all US banks were closed while the FDIC and other measures were taken and enough confidence in banks was generated to allow most banks to re-open over the next month. My parents heard stories their parents told them about the 1933 bank failures & passed the stories on to me. Later in 1933 various banks & cities printed and passed their own currencies aka "depression scrip" to make up for lack of ready cash and for massive shortfalls in their tax receipts.
#16
#6 LG got it right. This was a bailout of those depositors who all happen to be bigtime Dem donors. This was a bailout of both bank and depositor, so we done up'd the shit from 2008. Whoop!
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